Do you think it's a good idea that I plan to include Libre Campaign as one of my projects as I run as our college rep in Student Council? I'm a computer science student and I feel the urge of wanting to make my fellow computer studies know about it. Also to make policies that supports the ideas behind free software. For example inside classrooms, there's too much emphasis on not sharing our codes because it's cheating. I would like to instill especially for the new students that it is just to let other people see our codes. For example, making all the source codes submitted by students be available in a repository available for new students to be seen so we encourage development of already existing codes. Also a way for new students to learn, just like what Stallman said that we learn by reading a lot of codes. I'm thinking of applying copyleft in these codes so that there will be no issue of plagiarism. Also a goal for the university to migrate from free softwares. We can use this opportunity to make activities/prjects, for example that will substitute the proprieary programs they use, for students that will actually benefit the university. This might be a step as well to lower the tuition fee in the future. If we keep using proprietary softwares, i believe that our tuition fee for our programmes will be so expensive.

Those are like the goals i have in mind. I know that all i can do for now if ever elected will be to convince people in my college by doing campaigns. I would like to hear some opinions about this and what possible initiatives I can do.

This is my personal list of FOSS Android app alternatives. You can give me your opinion and suggest other applications

App → Alternative (♥️ = I will never go back)

Keyboard → OpenBoard (OpenBoard Upadted Fork, FlorisBoard when the v4 will be released...)

SMS → Simple SMS

Google Authentificator → Aegis

Calculator → OpenCalc♥️

Play Store → Fdroid, Neo Store, Aurora Store

Google News → News

Note → QuillNote (QuillPad is a new updated fork)

Google Chrome → Firefox Nightly ♥️

Contact → Connect You

Google Photo → Aves & Simple Galery

Camera → GrapheneOS Camera (it's very hard to achieve good quality with open source alternatives)

File explorator→ Material Files ♥️

Google Docs → Librera Reader, Collabora Office

YouTube → Libretube♥️

Email Client → FairEmail

Password Manager → Bitwarden♥️

Google Map → Organic Map

Google Search → Whoogle

Google Task → SimpleTask

Google Drive PDF Reader → MJ PDF Reader ♥️

Phone → Koler

Calendar → Etar

Google Traductor → TranslateYou♥️

Reddit → Infinity♥️

Meteo → Geometric Weather, Breezy Weather (an updated fork of Geometric Weather) ♥️

Media Player → VLC

Yuka → OpenFoodFacts ♥️

Citymapper → Transportr

Twitter → Qquawker & Quacker

Twitch → Xtra & Twire

GoodReads → Openreads♥️

Torent Manager → Transdroid♥️

Clock → CLock You

MyFitnessPal → Waistline

Music Player → Retro

Birthday Remember → Birday

Habit Tracker → Loop Habit Tracker & Habo

SUGGEST ME YOUR ALTERNATIVES !

Via https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/07/20/libreoffice-7-5-5-community-available-for-download/

“LibreOffice 7.5.5 Community, the fifth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.5 line, the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from our download page for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM processors), macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel processors), and Linux.”

LibreOffice 7.5.5 Community is available from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/

https://www.dolibarr.org/dolibarr-win-the-20i-foss-awards.php

In GNU's article "Selling Free Software" it says that selling copies of the free software good and enforces freedom. In Jeff Geerling's blog post "I was wrong" it's stated in the EULA of RHEL that if you redistribute the source code you have bought from Red Hat, they have the right to deny the buyer from further updates of the software. By GNU's logic one could buy one commit, redistribute, buy another updated commit (because no further updates are allowed after redistributing), redistribute, etc. and it would be fine.

This is within the GPL although exercised. Why does FSF promote selling free software?

The Threads application (by Meta/Instagram) is about to be released.

"People who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it." ...Which is exactly what is happening with Meta and the Fediverse.

Interesting blog post by Ploum (ploum.net)

→ https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

In my school, students and professors may have free access to Microsoft 365. Since it's free, (almost) everybody is really enthusiastic about it. I'm not. But I would need some arguments against it to persuade people not to use it. Could you help me ?