Difference between revisions of "User:David Hedlund"

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I'm usually available as David_Hedlund on irc.freenode.net in the #fsf channel between 13:00-23:00 (run TZ="Europe/Stockholm" date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" to see my local time).

libreplanet.org

My real name is David Hedlund. I am an administrator on the Free Software Directory. (verify)

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.

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
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
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 (ZCash 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
LibreOffice				bugs.documentfoundation.org
MediaWiki		(see Wikipedia)		phabricator.wikimedia.org
Tor Browser (IceCat promo)				trac.torproject.org
VLC				trac.videolan.org
Zcash				github.com		forum.z.cash
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				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

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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.

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 personally think that Wikipedia is the most negatively emotional charged forum I've ever participated. I've never experienced so many hateful people on the same forum before, I've even been bullied by their admins on IRC. Wikipedians constantly critic your edits and thank you occasionally.

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 is 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
Gnuzilla	GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser.		GPL, LGPL, MPL
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, BSD, GPLv2 with exception, Artistic
Licenseutils	Put copyright and license notices at the head of source code files	http://sv.gnu.org/p/licenseutils	Other, GPLv3orlater
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/
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

Collections to start

Start Collection:Web browser

Verify

These entries carry extra high importance.

Issues that needs your vote

Firefox: Remove the "Play DRM-controlled content" option from EME-free builds
uBlock Origin: Thunderbird 60 support?

Software	Popular long-term issue	Vote	Type	Submitted
Firefox add-on: Nano Defender	Vote	Adblocker / Defender for Firefox issues mega thread	Unapproved: https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoDefender describes that https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/real-nano-defender/ is not working for the moment.
LMMS	LinuxVST support		Feature	2004
Important Firefox add-ons	Vote on APIs needed by Session Manager, Tab Session Manager, MySessions, Tab Mix Plus and other session managers, so they can be better	Vote	Feature	2005
Firefox	Set a Default Text Size (or Page Zoom Level) in Tools > Options > Content > Default Page Size	Vote	Feature	2005
Thunderbird	Opening or adding .ics files to calendar by double click	Vote	Bug	2006
Thunderbird	global indexing should include Trash folders by default but global search results should not show Trash folder hits by default - 'Include messages in global search' for the Trash folder should be enabled by default.	Vote	Bug	2010
Texinfo	MediaWiki to Texinfo conversion for texinfo	Vote at the bottom of the page	Feature request	2011
GitHub	View list of issues I'm subscribed to, on the website	Add a positive emoji	Feature request	2014
Libreoffice	no keyboard input after opening password protected .ods		Bug	2012
Phabricator	Phabricator should suggest possible duplicates when creating a new task	Add thumbs up	Feature request	2014
MediaWiki	Allow users to be blocked from editing a specific article	Vote	Feature request	2004
MediaWiki	Allow users to restrict who can send them notifications	Vote	Feature request	2017
Tor Browser	Automated rounding of content window dimensions		Feature request	2015
RadioDroid	Suggestion: Make Favorite list exportable/importable		Feature request	2016

Self-submitted

Need more volunteers

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.
GNU IceCat -- I've already asked all GUIX icecat package maintainers to be part of the GNUzilla group
Data copied from Add-on lists
- HTTPS Everywhere: Lots of unresolved bugs
- Zcash: Lots of unresolved bugs

F-Droid apps

DashClock: Lots of unresolved bugs
K-9 Mail: Lots of unresolved bugs

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.

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
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
ARChon Runtime for Chrome	Run Android Apps in Chrome in OS X, GNU/Linux and Windows	https://archon-runtime.github.io/
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
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/

My subpages

Licenses

pages with license name: 0

Guidelines

Contact list

#fsf channel on freenode

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
Donald Robertson: "I am Donald Robertson, the Copyright & Licensing Associate for the Free Software Foundation. "
- Contributions

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 * Firefox: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435583 Add an option to automatically hide icons from the add-on bar]
 * Firefox: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1128316 Add the option to hide/show tabs, as well as keyboard shortcuts to hide/show specific/all tabs]
-* Firefox [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458981 Save Page As has no command line option]
 * Libreoffice: [https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108787 Add a command line configuration option] (declined)
 * MediaWiki: [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165195 Create a MediaWiki package for download which contain basic elements of the English Wikipedia]

Free Software Foundation!