Hi everyone, Iām Glenn, the Executive Director of Science & Design, a new public interest non-profit based in the US! Our organization builds and maintains free, open-source software and helps other non-profits do the same.
We have a lot of amazing people on the team, including the cofounder of Riseup.net, the creators of OnionShare and the Snowflake pluggable transport, and many other passionate contributors to this community.
The causes our organization prioritizes are press freedom, activism, LGBTQ+ rights, and accessibility technology.
We hope to learn from this community and be a resource. Weāre looking forward to joining the discussion in this space!
Hi Glenn and welcome,
Can you tell us about some of the open source software that you support
Can I just ask you politely to keep in mind that itsFOSS is about software. Some of the other ācausesā that you mention would be out of place here.
Regards
Neville
Thanks for reaching out to the community. Iād suggest you to rename your profile with your personal name, and interact/discuss with our community personally without needing to promote your organization.
Considering the organization helps build/maintain FOSS, I think this post should not be an issue as an introduction @abhishek.
Looking forward to what your team aims to discuss/contribute to our community!
According to my friend @kovacslt in a privat letter, he will never return to this community. His goal was to put an add in here, and he has done it. Do we ever want to discuss sex issues here? I donāt think so! But I admit, it was a very diplomatic respond of you!
Throw in an add here (IT"SFOSS) with pretense to want to be a part of the community here so then the self promotion is shown and then be gone without contributing.
Welcome, Glenn! Glad to have you and glad to see your support for FOSS. Like you, I am here to learn from and contribute to the FOSS community. There are some great, knowledgeable folks here, some of whom have donated personal time to help me solve a few technical problems. Canāt say enough good about them. You will find this to be a hospitable place ā for the most part. The caveat is that we all share a love of FOSS, but my experience has been that this is not a forum for political beliefs, ideologies and discussions of that sort. I welcome your activism and applaud your concerns for the greater good, but I really hope, for the sake of a Zen and harmonious community, you keep that to yourself moving forward. And if you have any advertising motives and are trying to reach an audience for product, I wish you well, but I donāt think most of us want to read it here. I am not the police force of this forum, and I donāt want to be, so thatās just a little advice ā worth exactly what you paid for it.
At any rate, welcome, and I look forward to reading more about the work youāre doing in the FOSS space.
I do appreciate the passionate feedback. In the spirit of community, Iāve already addressed some of the things and will offer a response to the others.
Yes, I am introducing our new organization to communities we care about. Call it promoting ourselves in the community. Inherently isnāt every engagement an act of self-promotion? Like the profiles on this platform linking to our other accounts.
Regarding our organizationās focus, the common thread in our work is that we believe in free and open-source software. FOSS is a community and a cause. So are press freedoms, activism, LGBTQ+ rights, and a11y tech. We do not exist outside of our political and ideological beliefs.
I understand that not all of our priorities will always overlap with the personal priorities of every individual. But our mission isnāt to convert anyone to anything. Itās to help make a difference for real people facing real risk.
So, thanks for your warm welcome to the community. Weāre looking forward to contributing to the space.
