#TIL that Flounder has a Lemmy community;
@[email protected]
"Community for the @flounder online user group for free software people in Australia, New Zealand, and surrounding areas."
Any software freedom folks in the South Pacific are also welcome to join our Discourse forum;
https://community.iridescent.nz/
Hey @lightweight, in the new year, it could be a worthwhile experiment to set up peer-to-peer federation with Flounder, using the Discourse AP plugin.
@ai6yr
- @lightweight Would be great to focus on this topic in the next monthy meetup... maybe even organise something?
- @digitalprivacy Just checking if you're also interested in setting up an install event down in your area?
NZ-wide Linux install event maybe first weekend of October?
#endof10 #endof10nz #endof10aotearoa #Aotearoa #nz #newzealand #nzoss #Linux #gnuLinux #nztech #freesoftware #librelocal #librelocalnz #librelocalaotearoa #librelocalnewzealand
If you are a software freedom champion with a connection to Aotearoa/ NZ, please consider joining and starting some discussions at this community forum, started by people associated with NZOSS;
https://community.iridescent.nz/
If you already operate a Discourse forum, or another forum that has some level of ActivityPub federation support, please contact us to discuss the possibility of federating our forums in some way.
Alice starts a new room called #room:server.foo on her hobby homeserver.
Bob joins with his account, @bob:otherserver.bla, and adds a local address, which Alice publishes.
A week later, Alice decides she can't be bothered with server.foo and shuts it down.
She rejoins the room with her new matrix account using #nzoss:otherserver.bla.
The experiences of joining and using the room is just the same as if server.foo was still alive, and she'd used #room:server.foo.
Does that make sense?
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Eugh. Forgot that being unemployed loses me access to MS Office.
#NZOSS peops... Is there still two camps fighting it out between #OpenOffice & #LibreOffice? Or has one of them stretched into the lead?
TBH, I'm gonna be really looking for something that can handle more complex Word docs, or #PDFs, without playing absolute havoc with the formatting.
Also tagging #NZTwits for reach, sorry for techie spam 🙃
Maybe Aotearoa needs some kind of civil society tech watchdog, a la EFF. NZOSS and InternetNZ do some of that stuff, but they seem somewhat constrained by their other roles.
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