Lots of love from out of Hack42

“I Love Free Software Day” is a nice and positive campaign of FSFE to thank the people that enable Free Software on Valentines day. With many gatherings it is also a good opportunity to get together. In the Netherlands there was a workshop in The Hague and we had a meeting in Arnhem at hackerspace Read more »

Dutch digital identity system crisis

Nederlandse versie Dutch digital identity verification system DigiD has announced the phasing out SMS as second factor. That way they require citizens to install a smartphone app in order to use digital services from the government, municipalities, the health sector and others. These applications only work on iOS and Android phones, with reliance on third Read more »

How the Netherlands group grew in Covid times

Before André and I became coordinators for the Netherlands, we used to have yearly community meetings at both the Dutch T-Dose and the Belgian FOSDEM conferences. In order to build the FSFE NL community, as new coordinators we started having a regular booth at the national Linux user group (NLLGG) that met bi-monthly in Utrecht, Read more »

Dutch Public Money? Public Code! video released!

In my last blogpost I wrote about how we created a Dutch video translation of the Public Money? Public Code! campaign video. Well, you can now watch it yourself, as it has been released! On the 25th of November we held our Netherlands online get-together in which we showed it as a sneak preview, before Read more »

Recording a Public Money! Public Code? video translation

A Dutch translation of the Public Money? Public Code! campaign video is in the works and close to being released. The video was initially released in English and has been translated in many languages already: German, French, Italian, Polish and Russian. And there is an even greater number of subtitles available. Getting a voice-over translation Read more »