Matthias Kirschner

@kirschner
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The @fsfe 's President . Working for #FreeSoftware (also known as #OpenSource), so every individual in our society can self-determined use, study, share, and improve software ➡ #SoftwareFreedom

Author of the book "Ada & #Zangemann - A tale of software, skateboards, and raspberry ice cream".

Public Money? #PublicCode ! #DeviceNeutrality #RouterFreedom #ilovefs #YH4F #REUSE #DigitalRights #TechnicalDistributionOfPower #Democracy

FSFE Profilehttps://fsfe.org/about/kirschner
Personal bloghttps://k7r.eu/blog.html
My book & moviehttps://ada.fsfe.org
Support the FSFEhttps://my.fsfe.org/support
Matthias Kirschner13h ago
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Matthias Kirschner2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerbloom/116023882888980036

I did not know about this amazing resource by Gene Sharp. Big thanks to @JMarkOckerbloom for the pointer!

Matthias Kirschner3d ago

Gene Sharp's "From #Dictatorship to #Democracy" is in my most important books list and I already gifted it many times.

Better get this book now while it is available in your country and read it. Or at least own it to be able to read it when it is not available anymore.

Matthias Kirschner5d ago

RE: https://pan.rent/@tommi/116006472786240587

Great to see this upcoming #ilovefs event 🫶

Show threadMatthias KirschnerFeb 2

@Jostrus25 welcome to the #Fediverse !!

Great to see how enthusiastic you are about #Lichess . Had some background due to
https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20221212-01.en.html with #Stockfish but was not aware that #lichess runs the second largest Online Chess platform (run by a non-profit). Learnt new things about challenges of Online Chess software today. Thanks & all the best to maybe become part of the #Lichess team in future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichess

Thanks to @thibault for founding&maintaining #Lichess #ilovefs

Copyleft-licensed chess engine wins legal case against proprietary counterpart - FSFE

Copyleft ensures that Free Software remains Free. Stockfish filed a lawsuit when ChessBase distributed parts of Stockfish work under a proprietary license,...

FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe
Show threadMatthias KirschnerFeb 2
@fosdem It was an honour to present together with @nicorikken https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/R9Q9ZP-ada-zangemann-bestseller-automation/ and about the painting in the background, a big thank you to @davidrevoy who motivated Nico to contribute so much to Ada & #Zangemann . And thank you to @johas for taking the picture of us.
FOSDEM 2026 - Automating translation of a bestseller to spark children's interest in coding

Matthias KirschnerFeb 2

❤️ Big thank you to @fosdem From "staff" to video team, volunteers taking care about the wardrobe, the food to volunteers cleaning toilets and many more! ♥️

❤️ Thanks to DevRoom organisers, fellow speakers, the booth teams, and all the visitors who contributed with great questions, discussions, and by creating the special #FOSDEM atmosphere of knowing you are not alone working for #softwarefreedom. ❤️ 👏

Show threadMatthias KirschnerFeb 2
There are now two free seats at the board restaurant in ICE11 to Frankfurt. Feel free to join. Happy to buy others who see the message and happen to be on the #fediverse and in the same train joining the table a drink :)
Show threadMatthias KirschnerFeb 2
There are now two free seats at the board restaurant in ICE11 to Frankfurt. Feel free to join. Happy to buy others who see the message and happen to be on the #fediverse and in the same train joining the table a drink :)
Matthias KirschnerFeb 2
One of the parts of #FOSDEM I also always love is meeting other participants you never met before on the train and hear about their experiences at #fosdem. After 1h we started talking about the #Fediverse and #Mastodon and decided to take a picture of this /dev/random table.