James Valleroy @jvalleroy@fosstodon.org

I've been interested in the potential of a decentralized CRM for awhile. Now with the uptick in mutual aid projects I'm even more curious.

By decentralized CRM I mean I can share certain personal info with others and they can share info back with me. If we consent to join a group, then other members of the group can see a list of members.

I imagine something like a mutual aid network in which I share my needs and offerings with people I trust.

does that exist?

General board and card game engine? Free software? Self-hostable? Runs over XMPP? Count me in!

A friend asked me to play some rulesets for www.vassalengine.org/ during the holidays.

#vassal
@xmpp

You get annoyed by having to enter your #Mastodon handle each time you want to follow/interact with someone on a "foreign" page?

I got that too, but I've made a little add-on to solve this "problem". 😃

It automatically "redirects" you to your own instance.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mastodon-simplified-federation/?src=external-mastodon

#Firefox #addon #Fediverse

Now all my to-read PDFs, podcast downloads, videos to watch etc. are being dumped into a Samba share folder on my FreedomBox. I can go through them on any PC or Android device at home whenever I have time.

This is working great so far since I didn't leave the house in nearly 20 days. Might have to use a Syncthing folder if I need this stuff over the Internet. Or maybe I'll just connect to the FreedomBox VPN from outside and still use Samba, I don't know.

#toRead #Samba #Syncthing #FreedomBox

I'm trying out #Movim, a web-based cross-platform #XMPP client, on my phone.
Pretty impressed!
https://movim.eu/ #tech

OMG this is really happening!
Try this new interface now.
https://knome.org

Amazon Fires Worker Who Led Coronavirus Strike https://time.com/5813002/amazon-worker-fired-coronavirus-strike/

Mailman3: Call for Translations: https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/115

Check out how easy it is to add 2000GB external storage to Pioneer-FreedomBox-HSK with BAY-HDD/SDD external disk https://olimex.wordpress.com/2020/03/13/bay-hdd-sdd-is-easy-way-to-add-external-storage-to-lime-and-lime2-now-pioneer-freedombox-hsk-can-have-2000gb-external-storage-in-robust-enclosure/ @freedomboxfndn

If you run a #Nextcloud server, consider enabling #2FA and protect against 99.9% of attacks on your users! Learn about the options in our latest blog:
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HOLY FCK (sry for the language)

#srht #sourcehut builds are SO FREAKIN EASY TO DO!

I am in love. ❤️

The FreedomBox Forum is one year old today.

https://discuss.freedombox.org/

#FreedomBox

Nice, #Dino is in buster-backports:

https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/dino-im

This is actually really cool. It means we can follow its development much more closely on a rock-solid #Debian stable system.

While I personally like #Gajim quite a lot, it would be great to have another fully-functional and perhaps more streamlined XMPP client for beginners and #Conversations users. There are still some important features missing, but that will hopefully be fixed in the future.

The http://matrix.org homeserver is suffering problems beyond the extreme overload we've seen over the last week; we're on the case (and meanwhile work on fundamentally fixing performance issues is progressing well). Apologies for the downtime.

wish it didn't take a pandemic for me to have a very close approximation of my best case scenario in capitalist society: full-time work from home with lots of extra time to spend however I want so that I don't feel pressure to be get shit done whenever I get a free hour or two at home.

I am currently writing a list of good #FreeSoftware solutions for #remote #working in the @fsfe wiki:
https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/FreeSoftware4RemoteWorking

I still need to polish the wording but if you already have input for me about what is missing, more sources or any other feedback is very welcome.

Just focus please on software that in particular facilitates remote working not any other usual work-procedures.

#FlattenTheCurve Home Office solution for the Linux Desktop: #X2Go.
https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/113

Copywriters, front-end devs, testers, and content reviewers: Can you help us bring our documentation up-to-date and make it relevant for millions worldwide?

Please join our second #DocsHackathon March 22-30.

This is a totally remote and online event.
https://blog.torproject.org/docshackathon-2020

Due to #Corona, many educational institutes need to conduct their classes online. This is the exact time to inform them about #FreeSoftware solutions.

Try to talk to your community about solutions such as:

- #BigBlueButton for online classes or webinars
- #Jitsi or #NextCloud #Talk for video conferances

See more:
bigbluebutton.org
jitsi.org
nextcloud.com/Talk

#CoronaVirus #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource #webinar #OnlineClasses #NextCloudTalk @nextcloud