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Deletion of designers@
by Max Mehl 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Dear list members, We have noticed that there has been no activity on this list since a very long time. Therefore, we will delete this mailing list for the time being. However, there is a category on our forum that can be used for discussing Free Software design, and where you can also contribute to designs used for the FSFE: https://community.fsfe.org/c/activities/design/21 You are kindly invited to register and participate there. The forum software also allows you to read with your email client if you prefer that. You are more than welcome to engage in any way. Wishing you all a good time, and hopefully see you around somewhere, somewhen. Best, Max -- Max Mehl - Programme Manager - Free Software Foundation Europe Contact and information: https://fsfe.org/about/mehl | @mxmehl Become a supporter of software freedom: https://fsfe.org/join

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Twitter share pic
by Alexander Sander 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

Hi all, soon we will have 20.000 Followers on Twitter. I was wondering if one of you guys could quickly create a sharepic or gif around this 20k followers, a thank you, celebrating or something like this? Looking forward to your feedback. Best Alex -- Alexander Sander - EU Public Policy Programme Manager Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-157 923 472 12 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join)

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Future of designers@ list
by Max Mehl 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

Dear list members, We've noticed that this list's activity is very low to non-existent. That's a shame because when new people sign up they expect ongoing discussions - and of course it means that Free Software activity in the region or topic it's connected to is low or moved to elsewhere. However, it could also mean that people rotated. The "original" folks moved to different places and topics, and the new folks stayed silent for some reason. So instead of just deleting an this inactive list, we would like to give you the opportunity of forming a new community on this list. For that, we would need list moderators. It prove to be sensible to have 2 people taking over this role which involves: * handling the moderation queue, so sorting out spam, letting in legitimate external mails, and approving new members depending on the policy of the mailing list, * facilitating interesting discussions on the list to get activity started again. Free Software is in the rise - and often also under attack - almost everywhere, so we won't run out of discussion items, * and being the contact point for administrators like me in case of technical problems or any changes. Please let me know by direct mail to me whether you'd be interested in being a moderator for this list. If we won't find at least 2 moderators soon, I'm afraid we will have to close this list (which doesn't mean it cannot be reopened again in the future). But even if this list will be closed eventually, the FSFE still offers many interesting channels for exchange and chat, e.g.: * the discussion@ mailing list [^1] * the Discourse forum [^2] * the various ways to contribute and work together [^3] * and more [^4] If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask me. Enjoy the holiday season! Best, Max [^1]: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion [^2]: https://community.fsfe.org [^3]: https://fsfe.org/contribute [^4]: https://fsfe.org/contact/community -- Max Mehl - Programme Manager - Free Software Foundation Europe Contact and information: https://fsfe.org/about/mehl | @mxmehl Become a supporter of software freedom: https://fsfe.org/join

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Help wanted: simple SVG graphic for merchandise order page
by Reinhard Müller 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

Dear designer team, I need some help with two simple graphics for the web page: we want to add size information for T-shirts and hoodies, and the graphics should explain how it is measured. I have attached a rough sketch of how they should look like. I would be very happy if somebody could make this: * two separate scalable SVG (vector) graphics * all lines in black, background transparent * more beautiful than my sketch ;-) * note the "a" measurement should be right below the armpits * the measurement lines dashed or dotted for clarity * obviously under a free license Please keep me in CC as I'm not subscribed to this mailing list. Thank you very much in advance! Best, -- Reinhard Müller * Financial Team Free Software Foundation Europe

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offering help as videographer/animator
by david 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

Hello fsfe members and FOSS advocates, I‘m David and next to the passion for free and open source software, open knowledge & culture, I‘m also fond of graphics design, animation and filmmaking. I was wondering if there are any projects going on that could need some kind of video or animation for publicity purposes. I‘ll have time most of July, so if there is something interesting going on, I‘d be in! I could do things like: - filming short documentaries about any project going on at the fsfe (or related organizations) - create some explanatory Animations as videos for social media all using free software, naturally. Last year I made a short film only using FOSS tool called OSTKAKTUS: https://vimeo.com/223007602. Also, I created all the animations for this small web documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDxpbExR8Rs I’m looking forward to replies (in English, German or Spanish) Cheers, David

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How can I help?
by Marcel Globisch 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

Hey, my name is Marcel and I've subscripted this mailinglist. How can I help FSFE? Best regards Marcel

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[Urgent] Share Graphics for Art13
by Matthias Kirschner 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

Next week we want to launch the updated https://savecodeshare.eu website (attached the draft how it will most likely look like). For the launch we will also need some share graphics people can use on social media and on blogs, etc. They should be in the same format (width/lenght) as the PMPC ones: http://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/pmpc/share-general/ Attached you find a draft for the footer of those graphics. We would like to include quotes (see below) from the white paper with the logos of the organisations and create share graphics out of that. Beside that there was the other idea to have a git output (white on black): $ git push origin master To gitlab.com:you/dotfiles.git ! [rejected] master -> master (non-fast-forward) error: failed to push some refs to 'git@gitlab.com:you/dotfiles.git' hint: Your code has been rejected because our filtering technology, mandated by Art 13 of the EU "Copyright Reform", suspected a copyright violation. In case you think that is a mistake please get in contact with your git platform provider. on a share graphic. Other ideas were: - Use it as template for other quotes * ex.: "git push" results in suspected copyright infringement * ex.: VLC player acts up * ex.: Screenshots out of different editors (vim, emacs, yada yada) * Graphics with git, gitlab, other services from paper.... Then "Endangered by new EU legislation. Act now https://savecodeshare.eu" * Cultural Heritage endangered by EU copyright reform? (Software Heritage) * Graphic: Command line output: "$docker pull gitea/gitea:latest - Warning: you might be liable for your users" #savethecode Would anyone of you be able to do that until Tuesday, or latest Wednesday next week? Please tell me asap, else I need to find another solution for this. And yes, feel free to be creative about it. Best Regards, Matthias # Quotes from White Paper for Share graphics “Those kind of laws (the proposal) are destructive to the open source innovation.” Jean-Baptiste Kempf: President _ VideoLAN [1]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/VLC_Icon.svg/68… [2]https://images.videolan.org/images/logoBlue.png “Nowadays almost all companies and individuals in Free and Open Source Software are using version control systems to develop, plan, coordinate, and document their work. The information in those version control systems embodies precious technical and scientific knowledge and humanity cannot afford the risk of losing it.” Roberto Di Cosmo:Founder/CEO _ Software Heritage https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Software-heritage-logo-… “Almost all of our development is based on a web-based version control repository, and such tools play a key role in the processes of open source development and collaboration.” Richard Brown: Chairman _ openSUSE https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openSUSE/artwork/master/Logo/official-log… “If the new copyright directive in any way hinders innovation for the modernization of the (...) public sector then the directive is defective and harmful.” Daniel Melin : Senior Procurement Officer ICT _ Swedish National Procurement Services http://www.inpeople.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Kammarkollegiet-logo.jpg (warning: not labeled with a license for reuse & sharing). “Mozilla’s mission includes the principle that “free and open source software promotes the development of the internet as a public resource.” Many code hosting sites, some run by volunteers, participate in and enrich this ecosystem. For these sites, existing licensing systems, including open licensing, are effective. Requiring them all to create expensive scanning mechanisms and intrusive user monitoring, and deal with the resulting false positives, would establish a prohibitive environment for the development of open source software. This unintended negative consequence underlines just how broad, disproportionate, and dangerous the proposed Article 13 is for the health and vitality of the creative and open internet, and we continue to strongly oppose it.” Raegan MacDonald : Senior EU Policy Manager _ Mozilla https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Mozilla_logo.svg “To what extent KDE is directly impacted by the proposed regulation fully depends on whether the above setup would make us “information society service providers storing and giving access to large amounts of works and other subject-matter uploaded by their users”. If yes, then we would probably need to move most of our infrastructure and organization outside of the EU.” Thomas Pfeiffer: Board Member _ KDE https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/KDE4_logo_preview… “These particular types of software development service or ‘platform’ do not belong in the proposed Copyright Directive. However, as a precautionary necessity, it is important for the European Parliament and Commission to provide legal clarity and reassurance early on in the first stage of the co-regulation procedure.” James Lovegrove: EMEA Public Affairs Director _ Red Hat https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/RedHat.svg/1280px-RedH… “Article 13 creates a high level of uncertainty for the software industry and the free and open source software community, which are drivers of economic growth, jobs, education, innovation, and the democratization of technology. The article should be struck entirely, or at least tailored to exclude software development.” Tal Niv: VP Law and Policy _ GitHub https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/GitHub_logo_2013_… -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join) Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) - Weblog (k7r.eu/blog.html)

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Converting XKCD Bitmap into SVG
by Jann Eike KRUSE 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Hi Designers! I just subscribed to this list, because I'm an FSFE fellow and fairly interested and passably skilled in 2D and 3D designing. While browsing through the archives in order to get a feeling for the activities of this group, I stumbled over the problem that Matthias had with the low-resolution PNG from xkcd and it stroke my interest. [I can't reply directly to that message, because I found the mail in the archive.] I know that this thread is old, but maybe some of you find this interesting still. I wouldn't believe that Inkscape can't trace that bitmap with appropriate accuracy. I realized that it would indeed not work out-of-the box, but it can be done with a trick. [see recipe below] The result is very close to the original, I'd say. Only without pixels. ;) ...attached to this email and here https://owncloud.commonslab.gr/index.php/s/uqpuwXm6wmqqL6m Other than that, I just want to say "Hello!" and that I'm happy to help designing logos, shirts, flyers, stickers or whatever I can, based on my moderate abilities and limited free time. Best greetings, Jann PS: The recipe... For all free software designers here who might run into a similar problem, here's a possible solution: * Scale the image up first (e.g. with GIMP) by an appropriate factor (here 5x-10x works fine) with Sinc (Lancos3) interpolation. * Then run the Inkscape trace-bitmap with a fairly low threshold. * Add some boldness as needed by adjusting the line-width of the path. (You might want to chose rounded joins from the 'Stroke style' tab.) Eventually I "flattened" the image into a path *without* stroke. (They are easier to import into other programs, e.g. blender.org): * Duplicate the path. * Do "Stroke to path" with one of the copies * Make a "Union" of the two copies: (1) the stroke-to-path and (2) the original. * Remove the "stroke" of the path and leave only the "fill". This will result in a single flat path. (With the blackness/boldness you chose previously when adjusting the stroke thickness.)

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Happy I ♥ Free Software Day!
by Heiki Lõhmus 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Dear all, Since it has been the I ♥ Free Software Day for 30 minutes already in our office, I thought it appropriate to wish you all a happy I♥FSD. I am hugely proud of the work each and every one of you has done for FSFE over the past year and I can say that you are the coolest freedom fighters in the world! Have a happy I♥FSD and THANK YOU! (Local coordinators, please pass this message on to your groups, so that all local volunteers can know how awesome every volunteer, intern, and staffer in FSFE is!) Yours truly, -- Heiki Lõhmus Vice President, Translation Coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe repentinus(a)fsfe.org repentinus(a)jabber.fsfe.org

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Migrated mailing list
by Jonas Oberg 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Dear team, this mailing list has just been migrated to a new server. The FSFE has a longterm project to migrate a lot of our older lists to our newest list server. As we do this, we automatically move all the settings, content and other information to the new list server. We also forward all mails that go to the old address, to the new address. This means you should hopefully not have noticed that the list moved. But it's a good habit to update the address used, especially if you have mail filters on your side which rely on the mailing list having a specific address. Here are the relevant changes: . The mailing list address is now designers(a)lists.fsfe.org . The web interface for this list is available here: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/designers . For the list administrators, the list admin interface is here: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/admin/designers/ I hope you have not noticed the move and that the discussions on the list will continue as before, but now on our new mailing list server. Sincerely, -- Jonas Öberg, Executive Director Free Software Foundation Europe | jonas(a)fsfe.org Your donation enables our work (fsfe.org/donate)

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