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− | {{#set: | + | 😌 ''[[Free_Software_Directory:COVID-19_Response_Team|Keep Calm and Wash Your Hands]]'' 🧼 |
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IRC Freenode nick=David_Hedlund | IRC Freenode nick=David_Hedlund | ||
− | |Member of team=Free Software Directory:Antifeatures | + | |Member of team=Free Software Directory:Antifeatures |
− | |Member of team=Free Software Directory:Backlog Admin Group | + | |Member of team=Free Software Directory:Backlog Admin Group |
− | |Member of team=Free Software Directory:COVID-19 Response Team | + | |Member of team=Free Software Directory:COVID-19 Response Team |
− | |Member of team=Free Software Directory:Free software evaluation | + | |Member of team=Free Software Directory:Free software evaluation |
− | |Member of team=Free Software Directory:Free software replacements | + | |Member of team=Free Software Directory:Free software replacements |
− | |Member of team=Free Software Directory:SPDX Group | + | |Member of team=Free Software Directory:SPDX Group |
|TZ database time zone name=Europe/Stockholm | |TZ database time zone name=Europe/Stockholm | ||
− | }} | + | |User name=David_Hedlund |
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− | |message=I'm usually available as {{# | + | |message=I'm usually available as <code>{{#show: {{FULLPAGENAME}} |?IRC Freenode nick}}</code> on irc.freenode.net in the #fsf channel between 13:00-23:00 in my local time (run <code>TZ="{{#show: {{FULLPAGENAME}} |?TZ database time zone name}}" date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"</code> to see it). |
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+ | [[File:David_Hedlund_and_Richard_Stallman-94%_quality.jpg|thumbnail|350px|right|Me and Richard Stallman together in quarantine during the COVID-19 lock-down in Boston.]] | ||
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+ | ==More== | ||
* MediaWiki data associated with my user account: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Special:Browse/:User:David-20Hedlund | * MediaWiki data associated with my user account: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Special:Browse/:User:David-20Hedlund | ||
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− | | | + | | [https://devel.trisquel.info/davidhedlund devel.trisquel.info] |
| [https://trisquel.info/en/project/issues/search?text=&projects=&assigned=&submitted=David_Hedlund&participant=&status%5B%5D=Open trisquel.info] | | [https://trisquel.info/en/project/issues/search?text=&projects=&assigned=&submitted=David_Hedlund&participant=&status%5B%5D=Open trisquel.info] | ||
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===Wikipedia=== | ===Wikipedia=== | ||
Please don't take Wikipedia to seriously, they are not scientific, for example they say that "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Linux] is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open-source software development and distribution... The Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to describe the operating system, which has led to some controversy.". | Please don't take Wikipedia to seriously, they are not scientific, for example they say that "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Linux] is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open-source software development and distribution... The Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to describe the operating system, which has led to some controversy.". | ||
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I was finally blocked because I could not remember all their editing rules which cover at least a book. I don't mind so much, I used to merge my own MediaWiki articles to Wikipedia. Now I cannot do that any longer, but that does not stop other people to keep doing it for me. | I was finally blocked because I could not remember all their editing rules which cover at least a book. I don't mind so much, I used to merge my own MediaWiki articles to Wikipedia. Now I cannot do that any longer, but that does not stop other people to keep doing it for me. | ||
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====Nonfree software==== | ====Nonfree software==== | ||
− | * radio-browser.info: [https://github.com/segler-alex/radiobrowser/issues/ | + | * radio-browser.info: [https://github.com/segler-alex/radiobrowser-api-rust/issues/50 Create simple server-rendered html endpoints/lists/search without Javascript usage #50 ] |
* sr.se: [https://kundo.se/org/sverigesradio/d/vardet-av-att-anvanda-ogg/#c2828388 Add Opus support] -- Then add them to the Icecast radio directory | * sr.se: [https://kundo.se/org/sverigesradio/d/vardet-av-att-anvanda-ogg/#c2828388 Add Opus support] -- Then add them to the Icecast radio directory | ||
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*** [https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/4622 Sync issues with the Sent directory on IMAP] | *** [https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/4622 Sync issues with the Sent directory on IMAP] | ||
* LMMS: Meta-bug: [https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/5433 VST2 Issues · Issue #5433 · LMMS_lmms] | * LMMS: Meta-bug: [https://github.com/LMMS/lmms/issues/5433 VST2 Issues · Issue #5433 · LMMS_lmms] | ||
+ | * NewPipe: [https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/478 Ability to play downloaded videos #478 ] | ||
* Etar: [https://github.com/Etar-Group/Etar-Calendar/issues/483 Random notification sound] | * Etar: [https://github.com/Etar-Group/Etar-Calendar/issues/483 Random notification sound] | ||
* Enigmail: [https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/858/#9cf9 How do I delete the Enigmail settings] | * Enigmail: [https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/858/#9cf9 How do I delete the Enigmail settings] | ||
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* MusicPiped: [https://github.com/deep-gaurav/MusicPiped/issues/82 Doesn't work with YouTube shelf_id] | * MusicPiped: [https://github.com/deep-gaurav/MusicPiped/issues/82 Doesn't work with YouTube shelf_id] | ||
* MusicPiped: [https://github.com/deep-gaurav/MusicPiped/issues/43 <nowiki>[Feature Request]</nowiki> Ability to export history/playlist] | * MusicPiped: [https://github.com/deep-gaurav/MusicPiped/issues/43 <nowiki>[Feature Request]</nowiki> Ability to export history/playlist] | ||
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* SkyTube: [https://github.com/ram-on/SkyTube/issues/269 Download video as audio] | * SkyTube: [https://github.com/ram-on/SkyTube/issues/269 Download video as audio] | ||
* CanvasBlocker: [https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/issues/201 Blocked fingerprintings] | * CanvasBlocker: [https://github.com/kkapsner/CanvasBlocker/issues/201 Blocked fingerprintings] | ||
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* DashClock: Lots of unresolved [https://github.com/romannurik/dashclock/issues bugs] | * DashClock: Lots of unresolved [https://github.com/romannurik/dashclock/issues bugs] | ||
* [https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.fsck.k9 K-9 Mail]: Lots of unresolved [https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues bugs] | * [https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.fsck.k9 K-9 Mail]: Lots of unresolved [https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues bugs] | ||
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+ | ==Planned software and releases== | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===FSF Forge=== | ||
+ | * https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Fsf_2019_forge_evaluation | ||
+ | * https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/coming-soon-a-new-site-for-fully-free-collaboration | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Firefox=== | ||
+ | * Project Fission: "Fission is Mozilla's project to implement Firefox site isolation. This introduces a major architecture change in Firefox such that a unique process is allocated for the main web page and for each unique third-party iframe embedded in it, thereby safely sandboxing them and further strengthening Firefox security." - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Project_Fission | ||
+ | ** Check the status 2021: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Project_Fission#Milestones | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Thunderbird=== | ||
+ | Status from https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/about-add-ons#extensions | ||
+ | * MailExtension: The only valid extension type in Thunderbird 74 and later. | ||
+ | * Legacy WebExtensions: Deprecated in Thunderbird 74. | ||
+ | * Legacy Bootstrap Extension: Deprecated in Thunderbird 68. | ||
+ | * Legacy Overlay Extension: Deprecated in Thunderbird 68. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Current releases and release notes: | ||
+ | * Thunderbird 68: https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/68.0/, https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.0/releasenotes/ | ||
+ | ** Add-on support: Add-ons are only supported if add-on authors have adapted them | ||
+ | ** Dictionary support: Only WebExtension dictionaries are supported now. Both addons.mozilla.org and addons.thunderbird.net now provide WebExtension dictionaries. | ||
+ | ** Theme support: Only WebExtension themes are supported now. Both addons.mozilla.org and addons.thunderbird.net now provide WebExtension themes. | ||
+ | * Thunderbird 74 beta 2: https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/74.0b2/, https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/74.0beta/releasenotes/ | ||
+ | ** These notes apply to Thunderbird version 74 beta 2 released February 28, 2020. | ||
+ | ** Thunderbird 74 no longer supports "legacy" extensions. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Release schedule: | ||
+ | * Thunderbird tracks the ESR schedule. Firefox ESR 78.3 is expected to be released in 2020-09-22. - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====GNU/Linux packages==== | ||
+ | * thunderbird | ||
+ | ** Debian: Thunderbird 68.7.0: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=thunderbird | ||
+ | ** Ubuntu: 68.7.0 - https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default§ion=all&arch=any&keywords=thunderbird&searchon=names | ||
+ | * icedove | ||
+ | ** Trisquel: Icedove 68.7.0 | ||
==Missing free software in the ecosystem== | ==Missing free software in the ecosystem== | ||
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F-Droid. | F-Droid. | ||
+ | * Music | ||
+ | ** A SHAZAM clone | ||
+ | ** A free app that functioning like midomi.com -- "You can find songs with midomi and your own voice. Forgot the name of a song? Heard a bit of one on the radio? All you need is your computer's microphone." | ||
* Privacy | * Privacy | ||
** Screenshot blocker | ** Screenshot blocker | ||
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* Bureaucrat: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=&group=bureaucrat&limit=500 | * Bureaucrat: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=&group=bureaucrat&limit=500 | ||
* Administrators: http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=&group=sysop&limit=500 | * Administrators: http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=&group=sysop&limit=500 | ||
− | * [[User:Donaldr3|Donald Robertson]]: "I am Donald Robertson, the Copyright & Licensing Associate for the Free Software Foundation. " | + | * #fsf moderators |
− | ** [[Special:Contributions/Donaldr3|Contributions]] | + | ** [[User:Donaldr3|Donald Robertson]]: "I am Donald Robertson, the Copyright & Licensing Associate for the Free Software Foundation." |
+ | *** [[Special:Contributions/Donaldr3|Contributions]] | ||
+ | ** [[User:Craigt|Craig Topham]] | ||
+ | *** [[Special:Contributions/Craigt|Contributions]] | ||
+ | * [[User:Mmcmahon|Michael McMahon]] - sysadmin | ||
+ | ** [[Special:Contributions/Mmcmahon|Contributions]] | ||
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Revision as of 20:13, 28 September 2020
😌 Keep Calm and Wash Your Hands 🧼
I'm usually available as
David_Hedlund
on irc.freenode.net in the #fsf channel between 13:00-23:00 in my local time (run TZ="Europe/Stockholm" date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"
to see it).
Contents
- 1 More
- 2 Free software contributions
- 3 Resume
- 4 Work on the FSD
- 5 Background
- 6 Documentation contributions
- 7 My favorite programs
- 8 Todo
- 9 Collections to start
- 10 Entries that need more info
- 11 Issues that needs your vote
- 12 Need more volunteers
- 13 Planned software and releases
- 14 Missing free software in the ecosystem
- 15 The pages I've submitted
- 16 My subpages
- 17 Licenses
- 18 Guidelines
- 19 Contact list
- 20 Mentorship
More
- MediaWiki data associated with my user account: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Special:Browse/:User:David-20Hedlund
My real name is David Hedlund. I am a bureaucrat and an administrator on the Free Software Directory. (verify) I was an intern with the FSF tech team during the summer in 2018.
Feel free to email me at public@beloved.name, chat with me on IRC, or contact me on my talk page (which will send a copy to my email). I'm also a free software developer.
Top priority: Collection:Electronic identification
Free software contributions
Note that private email conversations, forums that cannot list contributions if not logged in (eg forums.mozillazine.org), and chat logs are excluded here. Copying is permitted, but only if you modify the source.
My Project | Website | Wiki | Source repo | Bug tracker | Mailing-list | Forum |
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devparanoia | savannah.nongnu.org | |||||
GNU Sovix (inactive) | savannah.gnu.org | directory.fsf.org | ||||
Feedback for websites - Freedom (IceCat promo) | GitHub | |||||
WILB - Website Incompatibilities for Libre Browsers (IceCat promo) | GitHub | |||||
Software facility profile | Website | Wiki | Source repo | Bug tracker | Mailing-list | Forum |
Bitnami | community.bitnami.com | |||||
Bitbucket | ||||||
F-Droid (Replicant promo) | gitlab.com/fdroid/ | forum.f-droid.org | ||||
Free Software Directory | directory.fsf.org | directory.fsf.org | directory-discuss@gnu.org | |||
GitHub | See "Source repo" | github.com | github.com | |||
GitLab | ||||||
GNU GNOME | bugzilla.gnome.org | |||||
GNU packages | debbugs.gnu.org | |||||
h-node | h-node.org | h-node.org | ||||
KDE | bugs.kde.org | |||||
Launchpad | bugs.launchpad.net | |||||
Mozilla (Firefox (GNUzilla IceCat), Thunderbird) | addons.mozilla.org (AMO) | wiki.mozilla.org | mozdev.org | bugzilla.mozilla.org | discourse.mozilla-community, support.mozilla.org | |
Savannah | ||||||
SourceForge | ||||||
Major software | Website | Wiki | Source repo | Bug tracker | Mailing-list | Forum |
Bitcoin (anonymous cryptocurrency promo) | bitcoin.it | |||||
Debian (gNewSense promo) | bugs.debian.org | |||||
Libreboot | notabug.org | |||||
LMMS | lmms.io/wiki/ | github.com | lmms.io/lsp/ | |||
Coreboot (Libreboot promo) | coreboot.org | review.coreboot.org | coreboot.org (no search) | |||
GNU IceCat | bug-gnuzilla@gnu.org | |||||
Jami | jami.net | git.jami.net | ||||
LibreOffice | bugs.documentfoundation.org | |||||
MediaWiki | (see Wikipedia) | phabricator.wikimedia.org | ||||
Tor Browser (IceCat promo) | trac.torproject.org | |||||
Monero (contributions planned) | github.com | forum.getmonero.org | ||||
VLC | trac.videolan.org | |||||
Operating systems | Website | Wiki | Source repo | Bug tracker | Mailing-list | Forum |
Arch GNU/Linux | wiki.archlinux.org | |||||
Replicant | redmine.replicant.us | redmine.replicant.us | ||||
Trisquel GNU/Linux | devel.trisquel.info | trisquel.info | ||||
Ubuntu GNU/Linux (Trisquel promo) | bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu | |||||
Misc | Website | Wiki | Source repo | Bug tracker | Mailing-list | Forum |
LibrePlanet | libreplanet.org | libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org | ||||
Wikipedia | wikipedia.org | (see MediaWiki) | ||||
PsychonautWiki | psychonautwiki.org | psychonaut.atlassian.net | ||||
Stack Overflow | stackoverflow.com | |||||
YouTube | youtube.com | github.com | productforums.google.com |
Resume
Free Software Foundation
To Whom it May Concern,
It is my pleasure to recommend David Hedlund, whom I have known for a number of years when I was an employee at the Free Software Foundation (FSF), a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization based in Boston, MA USA. I found David had a great mix of not only being able to work hard and independently, but to also work as a team-player. His knowledge of free software and Internet technologies in general is extremely broad.
David was and remains a volunteer for the FSF. While David helps the organization in a variety of ways (including constructive and helpful feedback on all aspects of our work), most of my interactions with David were from his great many contributions to the Free Software Directory, a digital catalog of useful free software that runs under free operating systems. The Directory is a complex Wiki-based system for which David contributed data and information to in a variety of different ways. To help his own work, David even went so far as to write his own set of scripts to help organized and scrape data from other sites. His contributions to Directory not only helped the FSF as an organization, but have been used by countless members of the public, including academic researchers, who rely upon the Free Software Directory as a trusted and convenient source of information.
Please feel free to contact me at jgay@gnu.org if you wish to a discuss David's qualifications and experience further. I'd be happy to expand on my recommendation.
Sincerely,
Joshua Gay Former Licensing & Compliance Manager Free Software Foundation
Work on the FSD
"Free Software Directory volunteers are making a concerted effort to add many more IceCat extensions to the FSD. Driving much of this work is David Hedlund, who has curated lists of hundreds of popular add-ons for our community of volunteers to review and hopefully add to the FSD. David's approach is creative. His top tier list is browser add-ons with over one million daily users, his second tier list have between 100k and 999k daily users, and so on. In addition to creating these lists, David has made over a thousand edits and has added many new packages and pages to the FSD over the past few months." - Joshua Gay, Licensing and Compliance Manager, Free Software Foundation, GNU IceCat and the Free Software Directory, 2015-07-08
Notorious contribution to the FSD:
- Started Free_Software_Directory:Antifeatures
- Started FSD:IceCat extensions (proposed)
Memberships
See Free Software Directory:Participate/Project Team for all Free Software Directory projects I'm involved in.
Backlog
I've contacted the author of the *licenseutils* package and asked him to make automated verification possible. Currently there are over 2000 software that we need to verify licenses for on the list below, doing it manually isn't feasible.
Background
When I was 23 years young, I read the biography Free as in Freedom by Dr Richard Stallman (RMS) who is also the founder of the Free Software Foundation, the GNU Project, and the GNU General Public License which all had a great impact on me. I had already I mostly used Debian GNU/Linux at the time that I migrated 100% to GNU/Linux after I read the book and contacted RMS eagerly because I was so happy that his book and the free software movement had helped me to let go of my ego and developed me into a free spirit. Stallman gave a positive response to my emails and since I was fascinated by his political philosophy in free software it didn't take long before I helped him to add political notes to his website, stallman.org. A few years later I decided that I wanted to contribute to the GNU Project, so I wrote GNU Sovix, a website revision system that at its time was quite innovative since its pragmatic code could modify both PostreSQL and MySQL databases. Stallman was my free software consult for GNU Sovix.
Several years later I joined volunteers to improve the free content in Wikipedia and Free Software Directory, and more recently PsychonautWiki. I've been the add-on repository maintainer for GNU IceCat a few years now. I've spent over 10k hours on free software activism and over 10 k to document about entheogens in overall. I've filed hundreds of bug reports.
Documentation contributions
Wikipedia
Please don't take Wikipedia to seriously, they are not scientific, for example they say that "Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open-source software development and distribution... The Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to describe the operating system, which has led to some controversy.".
I was finally blocked because I could not remember all their editing rules which cover at least a book. I don't mind so much, I used to merge my own MediaWiki articles to Wikipedia. Now I cannot do that any longer, but that does not stop other people to keep doing it for me.
- 2013, 47th place English medical editor (total 0.6 Mb): "The Cure Award: In 2013 you were one of the top 300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you so much for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date medical information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do!" - Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Stats/Top English medical editors 2013b
- User data: https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=David%20Hedlund&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia
- Notable contributions: To come...
My favorite programs
Programs that I think are extra useful.
Anki | A spaced repetition flashcard program. | http://ankisrs.net/ | |
ColumnsWizard | Add a custom column, set the default columns settings for any new folder, and show hidden columns in the Conversation Tab and in the search window. | http://micz.it/thunderdbird-addon-columnswizard/ | GPLv3 |
Electrum | A secure, forgiving, lightweight and easy to use Bitcoin client | http://electrum.org/ | GPLv3orlater |
G'MIC | GREYC's Magic for Image Computing | http://gmic.eu | CeCILLv2 |
Icedove | Easy to use e-mail client | https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ | GPLv2orlater, LGPLv2.1orlater |
I2P | Invisible Internet Project | https://geti2p.net/ | PublicDomain, GPLv2 with exception, Artistic, BSD |
Licenseutils | Put copyright and license notices at the head of source code files | http://sv.gnu.org/p/licenseutils | GPLv3orlater, Other |
Matrix-synapse | Synapse: Matrix reference homeserver | https://matrix.org/ | Apache2.0 |
Monero Core | Monero (XMR), after the Esperanto word for money, is a CryptoNight-based cryptocurrency forked from Bytecoin (BCN). | https://getmonero.org/ | BSD 3Clause |
Openbazaar-go | OpenBazaar 2.0 Server Daemon in Go | https://openbazaar.org/ | X11 |
Openbazaar-desktop | OpenBazaar 2.0 Desktop Client (talks to openbazaar-go server daemon) | https://openbazaar.org/ | |
Performous | karaoke game that allows user supplied songs | http://performous.org/ | GPLv2orlater, Other |
Tor Browser | A Firefox ESR-based web browser for use of the TOR network | https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html | GPLv3orlater |
UBlock Origin | A wide-spectrum blocker. Easy on CPU and memory. | https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock | GPLv3orlater |
Youtube-dl | Download YouTube and many other sites' videos | http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ | PublicDomain |
Todo
- Trisquel Tweak Tools
- Alternative to Spotify based on YouTube + Discogs
- Public broadcasting
- EasyCrawler
Directory Friday IRC Meeting
- Add GNU Health to https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page ?
- Remove "Antifeature" from Free_Software_Directory:Free_software_evaluation#Software_evaluation
Licensing consultation
Consult Donald on these issues:
- Can we add Magnetico - https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico ? If so I'll list it next to Tribler listed in https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:SaaSS
- Omron Blood Pressure Manager: Please distribute your program under a free license
- Why would we recommend platforms like Telegram that's fully proprietary but only its clients are free in https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Free_software_replacements?
Collections to start
Verify
These entries carry extra high importance.
- Android Studio
- ARChon Packager
- ARChon Runtime for Chrome
- Disabilities - https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?search=disability&title=Special%3ASearch
Entries that need more info
IceCatMobile F-Droid package maintainer - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.gnu.icecat/
Issues that needs your vote
- Firefox: Remove the "Play DRM-controlled content" option from EME-free builds
- uBlock Origin: Thunderbird 60 support?
Self-submitted
Nonfree software
- radio-browser.info: Create simple server-rendered html endpoints/lists/search without Javascript usage #50
- sr.se: Add Opus support -- Then add them to the Icecast radio directory
Political issues
- Libreboot
- Firefox language packs
- Tor Browser: "Digital rights management" (DRM) status for Tor Browser for each O
- AVideo: Digital restriction management (DRM) incompatible
- F-Droid, data: Add anti-features for obsoleted programs
- F-Droid, Requests For Packaging: The policy is wrong about giving authors the power to decline inclusion
- Once the prior issue has been fixed do this: F-Droid Requests For Packaging : collection
- androidports/core: clarifying license & source
Page content
- Bitnami MediaWiki: mention dumpBackup.php
- Bitnami MediaWiki: Set different default ports for MySQL to avoid port conflict with packages
- Replace the Linux icon with Wine in the VST database page
Bugs
- Stealth:
- Security
- AppLock: AppLock does not ask for pattern lock at uninstallation
- Jami: [Feature request Privacy settings] -- Important: Add lock screen, screenshot protection, and screenshot notification
- Silence: Feature request - Auto-delete after reading message
- Open-keychain: "Remember until cleared" is forgotten after reboot
- "Playback doesn't pause if headphones disconnect"
- MusicPiped
- RadioDroid (fixed)
- SkyTube
- Security
- Thunderbird Lightning: No color bars showing in calendar categories
- K-9
- LMMS: Meta-bug: VST2 Issues · Issue #5433 · LMMS_lmms
- NewPipe: Ability to play downloaded videos #478
- Etar: Random notification sound
- Enigmail: How do I delete the Enigmail settings
- RadioDroid: Buffer lag
- Trisquel: Names (organization names, brands, etc) faulty replaced with "Trisquel" (permanent follow up issue)
- Icedove: icedove: Keyboard broken for Reply
- Silence: Allow blank messages to be sent
- Free web-based IRC client issues
- IceCat: Free web-based IRC client replacement for Mibbit needed
- Free Software Directory:Free software evaluation: IRC clients
- The Directory: irc://chat.directory.fsf.org/fsf
- HTML5 Video Everywhere!: Doesn't work in YouTube
- addons.mozilla.org: removed add-ons:
- HTTPS Everywhere!: planet.gnu.org
- Disable Battery Warnings: Disable Battery Warnings not found in the menu bar
- F-Droid website: No register page
- LibreJS: Support Chrome
- Iridium: Consider shipping LibreJS with Iridium (Iridium is based on Chrome) -- However, LibreJS must first support Chrome
- Iridium: Proprietary components?
- LibreJS: IceCat 52.0.02: Sync broken
- LibreJS: LibreJS 6.0.13 inserts new lines in text fields (in MediaWiki)
- Radio Browser: Provide redirected destination URLs of the network streams
- RadioDroid: Sync RadioDroid with radio-browser.info (verify) -- Not possible to delete stations must be fixed first
- uBlock Origin: options missing from ublock origin 1.14.4 in firefox android 55.0.2 (works in Firefox for Android 57, but not in IceCatMobile 55)
Feature requests
- Stealth
- PilferShush Jammer: Detect microphone blockers. Turn on passive jammer if it is detected.
- Headphone indicator: Headset indicator
- MusicPiped: Doesn't work with YouTube shelf_id
- MusicPiped: [Feature Request] Ability to export history/playlist
- SkyTube: Download video as audio
- CanvasBlocker: Blocked fingerprintings
- bookmarks-organizer: Add favicons
- Cookie Autodelete: Document all cookie types and their API status
- Cookie Autodelete: Cookie prompt
- Cookie AutoDelete: Suggested option: Whitelist saved Firefox logins
- Calendar Notification: Volume settings (suggestion)
- DuckDuckGo: Make a "DuckDuckGo as default search engine" add-on
- Etar, sound issues:
- Etar: Loop reminders until dismissed
- Etar: Advanced repeat options needed to schedule all observances
- F-Droid Admin: Decide what to do with the wiki -- admin wanted
- Firefox: Implement the Firefox for Android progress bar
- Firefox: Add an option to automatically hide icons from the add-on bar
- Firefox: Add the option to hide/show tabs, as well as keyboard shortcuts to hide/show specific/all tabs
- Libreoffice: Add a command line configuration option (declined)
- MediaWiki: Create a MediaWiki package for download which contain basic elements of the English Wikipedia
- Popup Blocker (strict): Always show the popup window
- Popup Blocker (strict): Request: Menu on addon button + whitelist/blacklist
- radio-browser: Important: Add option "Do not show broken stations in lists" (the RadioDroid setting)
- radio-browser API: Import 20,000 steams from the Icecast Radio Directory
- radio-browser API: Import the SHOUTcast Radio Directory
- Radiodroid: Feature request: Make it possible to bookmark subcategories ("Country", "Tag", etc), and "By popularity"
- Thunderbird: Add support for WebExtensions
- Thunderbird: Start name day calendars (vote)
- VLC: Network stream recording: Save the stream to segmented files -- streamripper unmaintained since 8 years.
- YouTube: Show full title for deleted videos
Need more volunteers
- RadioBrowser may need more developers to survive
- GNU IceCat -- I've already asked all GUIX icecat package maintainers to be part of the GNUzilla group
- Bad review: https://linuxreviews.org/GNU_IceCat
- Data copied from Add-on lists
Community
- Savannah - I've been waiting for many months since I submitted a new project but it's still not approved. Nobody care to respond when I ask what's going on. This is obviously frustrating.
F-Droid apps
Planned software and releases
FSF Forge
- https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Fsf_2019_forge_evaluation
- https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/coming-soon-a-new-site-for-fully-free-collaboration
Firefox
- Project Fission: "Fission is Mozilla's project to implement Firefox site isolation. This introduces a major architecture change in Firefox such that a unique process is allocated for the main web page and for each unique third-party iframe embedded in it, thereby safely sandboxing them and further strengthening Firefox security." - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Project_Fission
- Check the status 2021: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Project_Fission#Milestones
Thunderbird
Status from https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/about-add-ons#extensions
- MailExtension: The only valid extension type in Thunderbird 74 and later.
- Legacy WebExtensions: Deprecated in Thunderbird 74.
- Legacy Bootstrap Extension: Deprecated in Thunderbird 68.
- Legacy Overlay Extension: Deprecated in Thunderbird 68.
Current releases and release notes:
- Thunderbird 68: https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/68.0/, https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.0/releasenotes/
- Add-on support: Add-ons are only supported if add-on authors have adapted them
- Dictionary support: Only WebExtension dictionaries are supported now. Both addons.mozilla.org and addons.thunderbird.net now provide WebExtension dictionaries.
- Theme support: Only WebExtension themes are supported now. Both addons.mozilla.org and addons.thunderbird.net now provide WebExtension themes.
- Thunderbird 74 beta 2: https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/74.0b2/, https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/74.0beta/releasenotes/
- These notes apply to Thunderbird version 74 beta 2 released February 28, 2020.
- Thunderbird 74 no longer supports "legacy" extensions.
Release schedule:
- Thunderbird tracks the ESR schedule. Firefox ESR 78.3 is expected to be released in 2020-09-22. - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar
GNU/Linux packages
- thunderbird
- icedove
- Trisquel: Icedove 68.7.0
Missing free software in the ecosystem
GNU/Linux
- I2P based web browser. Browsers has to be configured to use I2P for the moment.
- Firefox: Support eepsites (.i2p)
F-Droid
List of _important_ apps that can be found in Google Play but not in F-Droid.
- Music
- A SHAZAM clone
- A free app that functioning like midomi.com -- "You can find songs with midomi and your own voice. Forgot the name of a song? Heard a bit of one on the radio? All you need is your computer's microphone."
- Privacy
- Screenshot blocker
- e-ID's -- This is and will remain the single most important kind of app that should be free because in the future it will be mandatory to wear a mobile phone connected with a identification system to even shop food to survive.
- F-Droid Data: Mobilt BankID (Sweden): https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/issues/685
- Popup Ad Detector-Detect ad showing outside of app
- Sensors
- External micro-USB (OTG) video camera
- Magnetometer
Requests
- MediaWiki: Web-based AutoWikiBrowser alternative
- Chrome Web Store missing extension License
I've sent this message 16 Aug 2015 to [libreplanet-discuss](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2015-08/msg00030.html), and repeatedly to the FSF, RMS: Chrome Web Store is the official Chrome web browser website for supported exentions. However, it can also be used to install extensions to the free variants of Chrome known as Chromium and Iridium (built on Chromium + improved privacy). Iridium (unstable) can be installed from: https://launchpad.net/~strukturag/+archive/ubuntu/iridium-unstable. Iridiums extension directory is located in ~/.config/iridium/Default/Extensions/. However, Chrome Web Store do not show the license for the extensions which makes it hard to verify which extensions that are free or not. You have to install the extension and manually look into the source code of each files in the extension directory. I suggest that the FSF contact Google (https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/chrome/business/devices/contact.html) and ask them to add "License(s)" to the default text to the extensions in Chrome Web Store so we can build a verified free repository in the FSD. # Response 30 Mar 2017 > DBH: I don't want to burden you, should I ask them myself every 3rd month for example? > RMS: Today I had a discussion about it. Sooner or later, things will start moving.
The pages I've submitted
Description | Homepage | License | |
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ACE UC Sniffer | A simple VoIP corporate directory enumeration tool | http://ucsniff.sourceforge.net/ace.html | GPLv3orlater |
ARChon Packager | ARChon Packager (formerly Chrome APK Packager) is a convenient way to produce Chrome ARChon Custom Runtime packages directly from your phone. | https://github.com/bpear96/ARChon-Packager | GPLv3orlater |
Chromium Embedded Framework | The Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) is a simple framework for embedding Chromium-based browsers in other applications. | https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef | BSD 3Clause |
ColumnsWizard | Add a custom column, set the default columns settings for any new folder, and show hidden columns in the Conversation Tab and in the search window. | http://micz.it/thunderdbird-addon-columnswizard/ | GPLv3 |
Decentraleyes | Protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery. It prevents a lot of requests from reaching networks like Google Hosted Libraries, and serves local files to keep sites from breaking. Complements regular content blockers. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes/ | |
DuckDuckGo (HTML SSL) | This add-on will put the HTML (non-JS / SSL) version of DuckDuckGo in your search bar. | https://duckduckgo.com/html/ | |
DuckDuckGo (Lite SSL) | This add-on will put the Lite (non-JS / SSL) version of DuckDuckGo in your search bar. | ||
DuckDuckGo on TOR | Search with DuckDuckGo using the TOR network without JavaScript | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-on-tor/ | |
EID DSS | The Belgium Federal ICT Department (FedICT) is developing an eID Digital Signature Service under the GNU LGPL 3.0. | https://github.com/Fedict/eid-dss | LGPLv3 |
FoxyProxy Standard | FoxyProxy is an advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox's limited proxying capabilities. For a simpler tool and less advanced configuration options, please use FoxyProxy Basic. | http://getfoxyproxy.org/ | GPLv2 |
FriBID | Free software for Swedish e-id FriBID | http://fribid.se http://www.fribid.se/ | X11 |
G'MIC | GREYC's Magic for Image Computing | http://gmic.eu | CeCILLv2 |
Google search link fix | This extension prevents Google and Yandex search pages from modifying search result links when you click them. This is useful when copying links but it also helps privacy by preventing the search engines from recording your clicks. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-link-fix/ | |
GoogleTranslate | Automatically translate from any language to your language. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/googletranslate/ | |
H264ify | Makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/ | X11 |
Header Tools Lite | Allows to modify the header and the source of messages | http://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/headertoolslite-en.html | GPLv3 |
Historical/PDF Viewer | THIS ADD-ON IS NO LONGER UPDATED PLEASE USE THE BUILT IN PDF VIEWER. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pdfjs/ | Apache2.0 |
IceCat/Awesome Screenshot Plus | Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, blur sensitive info, one-click upload to share. And more! | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/screenshot-capture-annotate/ | |
IceCat/BlockSite | BlockSite is an extension, which automagically blocks websites of your choice. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/32208 | GPLv3 |
IceCat/Bookmarks Checker | Check favorites for broken or bad links. It checks for bad links and displays a report if it finds something. Check for 404 links, timeout links. | https://fvdmedia.userecho.com/list/21650-firefox-extensions/?category=4942 | |
IceCat/CanvasBlocker | Blocks the JS-API for modifying <canvas> to prevent Canvas-Fingerprinting.</canvas> | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker/ | |
IceCat/CompactHeader | Add symbol in header plane to switch between compact and expanded view. Options to switch between one or two lines compact view, which buttons should be displayed in header pane. For Thunderbird 36 and older use version 2.0.9 (see version history) | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/compactheader/ | |
IceCat/Disable WebRTC | WebRTC exposes your internal network IP(s), without user interaction. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/happy-bonobo-disable-webrtc/ | |
IceCat/Display Quota | This extension will display the current status of your IMAP quota in thunderbird's statusbar and will warn you when you reach a configurable limit... | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/display-quota/ | GPLv3 |
IceCat/Download Manager (S3) | View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar | http://www.s3blog.org/s3download-statusbar.html | |
IceCat/Enhanced Desktop Notifications | Provides enhanced new mail desktop notifications using the notify-send library. | https://alexcabal.com/ | X11 |
IceCat/HackBar | Simple security audit / Penetration test tool. | http://code.google.com/p/hackbar/ | |
IceCat/Hide Menubar | Supports to hide Menu Bar automatically, you can press the ALT key to show it temporarily. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hidemenubar/ | |
IceCat/InFormEnter | InFormEnter adds a small, clickable icon next to every input field in a web form, from where you can select the item to be inserted - no typing required. | http://firefoxer.ru/ | |
IceCat/MM3 Proxy Switch | In the Firefox Browser (and other Mozilla programs) you can per default configure only the setting for one internet connection. With this Proxy Switch you can manage different configurations and simply switch over between these. | http://www.proxy-offline-browser.com/ProxySwitch/ | GPLv3 |
IceCat/OPIE | Import/Export your Firefox extension preferences | http://softwarebychuck.com/opie/opie.html | |
IceCat/Personal Menu (Personal Firefox Button) | Bring back your personal and powerful Firefox Button! | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-menu/ | |
IceCat/Personas Plus | Personas are free, easy-to-install "skins" for Firefox. Personas Plus extends that built-in functionality to give you even more control and easier access to new, popular, and your own favorite Personas. | http://addons.mozilla.org/themes/ | GPLv2 LGPLv2.1 |
IceCat/Privacy Settings | Alter Firefox's built-in privacy settings easily with a toolbar panel. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-settings/ | |
IceCat/Puzzle Bars | Piece together all of your add-on buttons and extras into your browser window in exactly the way you want them! | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/puzzle-toolbars/ | |
IceCat/QrCodeR | Encode selection, links and images to QrCode with right-click. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/qrcoder/ | GPLv3 |
IceCat/Quick Locale Switcher | Allows you to quickly switch to a different language (User Interface, Spell Checker Dictionary and Website content) in your Mozilla application. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/quick-locale-switcher/ | |
IceCat/Rhythmbox Mozilla | This package contains the Rhythmbox Mozilla plugin, which will detect the presence of iTunes when opening iTunes Store URLs in a web page with Firefox. | http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/ | |
IceCat/SmartTemplate4 | SmartTemplate4 offers an easy way to automatically create customized replies by auto-inserting various mail headers. | http://smarttemplate4.mozdev.org/ | GPLv3 |
IceCat/Snap Links Plus | Select a number of links with a rectangle and open them all in new tabs in the same or a new window(s), download them or copy them to the clipboard. You can also lasso checkboxes to quickly check or uncheck them. | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snaplinksplus/ | |
IceCat/Stationery | Extension to mimic Outlook Express Stationery. Allow you to use HTML files as templates for mail. Also allow custom template in replies or forwarded mail! | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/stationery/ | |
IceCat/Strict Pop-up Blocker | Quickly toggle between blocking all pop-up windows and allowing some pop-ups | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/strict-pop-up-blocker/ | |
IceCat/Test Pilot | Test Pilot is a platform for performing controlled tests of new product concepts in Firefox https://testpilot.firefox.com/ | https://testpilot.mozillalabs.com/ | |
IceCat/The Fox, Only Better | Australis, the new Firefox theme, made a great browser look awesome. And now it will also feel awesome using it! | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/the-fox-only-better/ | |
IceCat/Theme Font and Size Changer | Theme Font & Size Changer lets you change the global font size and font family used for the user interface in Firefox. Design your browser with your favorite font. | http://barisderin.com/?p=286 | GPLv3 |
IceCat/Turn Off the Lights | Dims the brightness level of your browser’s background and lets you enjoy watching a video online. No fancy extras, just lightweight, perfect darkness! | https://www.turnoffthelights.com/ | GPLv2 |
IceCat/Wappalyzer | Wappalyzer is a browser extension that uncovers the technologies used on websites. It detects content management systems, eCommerce platforms, web servers, JavaScript frameworks, analytics tools and many more. | https://wappalyzer.com/ | GPLv3 |
IceCat/YesScript | A JavaScript blacklist | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yesscript/ | GPLv3 |
IceCat/YouTube High Definition | By default, YouTube High Definition plays the video in highest resolution automatically for you. | http://barisderin.com/ | LGPLv3 |
Icedove/Addressbooks Synchronizer | Synchronizes selected addressbooks with other instances of thunderbird using ftp/webdav/imap servers | http://www.ggbs.de/extensions | |
... further results |
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Contact list
Contact list
- Bureaucrat: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=&group=bureaucrat&limit=500
- Administrators: http://directory.fsf.org/wiki?title=Special%3AListUsers&username=&group=sysop&limit=500
- #fsf moderators
- Donald Robertson: "I am Donald Robertson, the Copyright & Licensing Associate for the Free Software Foundation."
- Craig Topham
- Michael McMahon - sysadmin
Mentorship
I'm a mentor to Rishibit
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