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For our 49th episode of the Software Freedom Podcast we invited Ralf Hersel and did our first cross production with the Podcast “Captain it’s Wednesday” from GNU/Linux.ch. Ralf is part or the FSFE Zurich group and the GNU/Linux.ch, a community driven news page about everything related to Free Software and free society. In this general episode of the SFP Ralf takes us through the many activities the FSFE local group in Zurich has been doing.Support FSFE: https://my.fsfe.org/support

SFP#49: O Captain! Let's talk about the FSFE Zurich group!

For our 49th episode of the Software Freedom Podcast we invited Ralf Hersel and did our first cross production with the Podcast “Captain it’s Wednesday” from GNU/Linux.ch. Ralf is part or the FSFE Zurich group and the GNU/Linux.ch, a community driven news page about everything related to Free Software and free society. In this general episode of the SFP Ralf takes us through the many activities the FSFE local group in Zurich has been doing.

Together with Bonnie Mehring, Ralf Hersel takes us back to the six activities the local group has either organised itself or participated in. He reflects on what went well and what could have gone better as well as where the problems lay and the learnings as a local group organising and participating in events. It is inspiring and amazing to see so much energy coming from a group of volunteers!

But Ralf is not only very busy with the FSFE local group in Zurich. Next to it, he is also an active contributor to the community driven news platform “GNU/Linux.ch”. Over 220 authors contribute to the news page and share their stories. In the Podcast of GNU/Linux.ch, “Captain, it’s Wednesday” over 100 people have been invited to join over the years. This is the first cross-production of the Software Freedom Podcast and you find the episode released by “Captain it’s Wednesday” here.

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Community: FSFE's local groups

FSFE local group Zurich

Lernen wie die Profis (DE only) (Learn like a pro)

FediGov: Federated communication for public authorities

Digitale Gesellschaft Schweiz (DE and FR only)

Digitale Nachhaltigkeit, Matthias Stürmer (DE and FR only)

Das Netzwerk für eine souveräne digitale Schweiz (DE and FR only)

Captain it's Wednesday - Folge 172 - Ralf at Software Freedom Podcast"

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