In France they for some reason like to be free and in control. So the French culture is much supportive towards any free and open approaches to life. This obviously also includes software and technology so in France there exist a large crowd trying to push and promote the use of open source and free software. Like fx. April (Association pour la Promotion et la Recherche en Informatique Libre = Association for the Promotion and Study of Free Computing, see also april.org) and Framasoft (framasoft.org).
French companies have found niches to operate in this technology field, like Bootlin, /e/ (Murena), Linagora and also different events regarding free software are held. One such is the Capitol du Libre held in Toulouse 16.-17. November (also hosting a MiniDebConf) at which the CEO of Bootlin, Michael Opdenacker, are going to give a talk about free software Android mobile applications.He asked on Linkedin for input on applications people use, below is my answer (links and licenses added here for convenience, text limitations on LinkedIn prevented that in original post);
Noticed your talk earlier today, good topic for a general public event.I use free software mobile applications (mostly from F-Droid) whenever I can. License is the prime criteria when I choose an application. My daily drivers are: Aegis – MFA/TOTP (GPL-3.0-only) AntennaPod – audcast/podcast (GPL-3.0-only) Etar – calendar (GPL-3.0-only) Fennec – firefoxy browser (MPL-2.0) K-9 Mail – mail client (to become Thunderbird) (Apache-2.0) KISS Launcher – no fuzz find-what-you-need launcher (no widgets!) (GPL-3.0-only) OpenTracks – fitness tracker (Apache-2.0) OsmAnd – navigation and OSM inspection (GPL-3.0-only) QKSMS (replaced by QUIK SMS, GPL-3.0-only) – no frills texting Vespucci – contribute to OSM (Apache-2.0) yetCalc – math! (BSD-3-clause) Worth mentioning: Binary Eye – QR-code++ scanner Cache Cleaner – reclaim space wasted Commons – contribute to WikiMedia Jami – GNU messaging (that we want to use, but no one is there…) Muzei – wallpaper swapper MyHackerSpace – finding fellow nerds NewPipe – 3rd party video client NextCloud – access the files (want this to be a daily driver) Open Food Facts – know your meal OSMTracker – track for OSM SimpleSSHD – fetch pixs using rsync Sky Map – locate celestial objects Termux – terminal and friends URLCheck – intercept and modify link intents VLC – just video WLED/WLED Native – control those blinkenlights
Noticed your talk earlier today, good topic for a general public event.I use free software mobile applications (mostly from F-Droid) whenever I can. License is the prime criteria when I choose an application.
My daily drivers are:
Worth mentioning:
Update: Jeg mødte Richard i Odense, fik lov at sponsorere FSF og fik en GNU med hjem!
Mikkel & RMS (og GNU)SDU, Odense
Rygterne har lydt noget tid, men nu er det officielt at formand for og stifter af Free Software Foundation, den ideologiske ophavsmand til GNU-projektet og højlydt fortaler for softwarebrugeres frihed og privatliv i den digitale verden, Richard Stallman besøger Danmark med en række åbne og gratis foredrag dette forår.
Det er Stallmans dedikerede arbejde med fri software og GNU-projektet fra starten af 1980’erne, herunder udformning af softwarelicenser som GNU GPL og udviklingsværktøjer som GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) og GNU Emacs, der er grundlaget for en stor del af det der i offentligheden i dag bedst kendes som “open source”. I Stallmans og GNUs terminologi benævnes det dog retteligt “fri software” (på engelsk: “free software”) for at fremhæve at etablering og bevarelse af softwarens, og slutbrugeren af dens, frihed er det egentlige rationale for at give kildekoden fri.
Kernen Linux er frigivet under GNU GPL og er både inspireret af og anvender GNU-projektets arbejde direkte, og er en vigtig del af et komplet GNU-system (også kendt som GNU/Linux eller en “Linux-distribution”).
Stallman kommer på en veritabel Danmarksturne med start i Aalborg mandag d. 6. maj 2019 og ender i København fredag d. 10. maj 2019. Foredragsrækken er arrangeret af innovationsnetværket for IT, InfiniIT, som inkluderer de store IT-universiteter i Danmark.
Den samlede foredragsrække er som følger:
16:00-19:00
16:00-18:00
(ændrede lokationsoplysninger ikke opdaterede her)
Kilder: FSF: Where in the world is Richard Stallman?, InfinIT-arrangementer, IDA-søgning, PROSA-arrangementer
Begivenhederne er også tilføjet den åbne kalender GriCal: grical.org/s/?query=%40DK.
De primære kilder er hovedsageligt på engelsk: