Goal for February 14th: More love reports than bug reports! #ilovefs

[Matthias Kirschner]

(If you are reading FSFE's newsletters [1] (and you should when you
have not yet given me feedback what I could improve ;) ), and you
already use one of our banners [2], you can skip this post because I
copied and pasted it. Else please continue.)

Let us admit it, the Free Software community is often very critical.
Wewrite bug reports, tell others how they can improve the software, ask
them fornew features, and to not spare with criticism. Sometimes we
forget to say "thank you, for all your work". As in the last years, we
want to change this, at least for one day. So on Tuesday the 14th of
February we will celebrate the "I love Free Software" - Day [3].

Get active, buy your favourite developer a drink or give them a hug (ask
forpermission first), write an e-mail/letter [4] expressing your
feelings, create nice pictures, donate to a Free Software initiative,
use another of our suggestions [5] or be create yourself to show how you
appreciate people, working hard to enlarge or defend our freedom.
Beside that help us to promote the activity with our banners [6], by
e-mail, (micro)blog or in your (distributed?) social networks.

New this year is a whole day event in the Unperfekthaus in Essen
(Germany) [7] and that all our Fellows automatically get an
login at ilovefs.org e-mail alias.

So let's make sure that on February 14th there are more love reports,
than bug reports!

All the best,
Matthias

1. http://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html
2. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/banners.html
3. http://ilovefs.org
4. http://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2012/01/18/why-i-love-free-and-open-source-software/
5. http://ilovefs.org
6. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/banners.html
7. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/unperfekthaus.html

[Ben Finney]

Post by Matthias Kirschner
(If you are reading FSFE's newsletters [1] (and you should when you
have not yet given me feedback what I could improve ;) ), and you
already use one of our banners [2], you can skip this post because I
copied and pasted it. Else please continue.)

The copy and paste made for strange spacing; many word pairs are mashed
together.

But that's a bug report. Here's a love report: Thank you for passing on
this idea!

Post by Matthias Kirschner
Get active, buy your favourite developer a drink or give them a hug (ask
forpermission first), write an e-mail/letter [4] expressing your
feelings, create nice pictures, donate to a Free Software initiative,
use another of our suggestions [5] or be create yourself to show how you
appreciate people, working hard to enlarge or defend our freedom.

For those using Debian or derived operating systems, the ?reportbug?
tool has the following option:

-k, --kudos send appreciative email to the maintainer,
rather than filing a bug report

So use the standard system tool for sending a love report! :-)

[Matthias Kirschner]

Hi Ben,

Post by Ben Finney
The copy and paste made for strange spacing; many word pairs are mashed
together.

Sorry about that.

Post by Ben Finney
For those using Debian or derived operating systems, the ?reportbug?
-k, --kudos send appreciative email to the maintainer,
rather than filing a bug report
So use the standard system tool for sending a love report! :-)

Did not know about that. Thanks a lot for the pointer.

Best Regards,
Matthias

[Matthias Kirschner]

Post by Matthias Kirschner
So let's make sure that on February 14th there are more love reports,
than bug reports!

Just a short reminder. In some parts of the world it is already 14th
February. Don't forget about http://ilovefs.org.

Regards,
Matthias

PS: How do you like FSFE's website colors http://fsfe.org today?

[Ben Finney]

Post by Matthias Kirschner
Just a short reminder. In some parts of the world it is already 14th
February. Don't forget about http://ilovefs.org.

I have, using ?reportbug --kudos nameofthepackage?, sent five love
letters already.

It's a surprising amount of fun to put into words why you particularly
love the work someone has done with a piece of free software that
affects your life. I recommend doing it!

Post by Matthias Kirschner
PS: How do you like FSFE's website colors http://fsfe.org today?

Nice. I really like this campaign, and it's a great use of the hype
around this day.

[Martin Gollowitzer]

* Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au> [120214 07:08,

Post by Ben Finney

Post by Matthias Kirschner
Just a short reminder. In some parts of the world it is already 14th
February. Don't forget about http://ilovefs.org.

I have, using ?reportbug --kudos nameofthepackage?, sent five love
letters already.
It's a surprising amount of fun to put into words why you particularly
love the work someone has done with a piece of free software that
affects your life. I recommend doing it!

Same here. It's fun and a really nice way of appreciating the great work
of those people :-)

Thanks,
Martin
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[Matthias Kirschner]

Post by Ben Finney

Post by Matthias Kirschner
Just a short reminder. In some parts of the world it is already 14th
February. Don't forget about http://ilovefs.org.

I have, using ?reportbug --kudos nameofthepackage?, sent five love
letters already.

As a curious man, whom did you send it to? :)

Post by Ben Finney
Nice. I really like this campaign, and it's a great use of the hype
around this day.

I am happy you like it :)

Regards,
Matthias

[Ben Finney]

Post by Matthias Kirschner

Post by Ben Finney
I have, using ?reportbug --kudos nameofthepackage?, sent five love
letters already.

As a curious man, whom did you send it to? :)

To maintainers of five of my beloved packages, of course. A gentleman
doesn't kiss and tell :-)

[Matthias Kirschner]

Thanks to all of you who participated at #ilovefs this year. Thanks to
Max we have a nice summary of what happened:
https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140221-01.html

Best Regards,
Matthias