FreedomSponsors

22/07/2015

We're rebuilding FreedomSponsors with AngularJS and material design. Wanna help?
http://blog.freedomsponsors.org/a-new-technological-direction-for-freedomsponsors/

My intention is for FreedomSponsors to have a really friendly development environment that more people can work on, while also serving as an example of a high quality architecture for a web app. That way, I can help other web developers, and also get more help from the community to build FS because…

17/07/2015

If you're into web development and you have an interest in AngularJS, this 3-post series will definitely be worth reading.

http://blog.freedomsponsors.org/an-awesome-setup-for-your-angularjs-project-13-dicas-do-lampada/

In the past two years I’ve been working a lot with web development and AngularJS.FreedomSponsors is an open source web application that I made before that, so it doesn’t have in it all those cool new things that I have learned.

04/11/2014

You can now sort issues on the search page. Just click the column headers.

https://freedomsponsors.org/search/

Check this out! freedomsponsors.org - Crowdfunding Free Software, one issue at a time.

31/10/2014

This week the FreedomSponsors website was updated and now we support browsers with LibreJS.

GNU LibreJS is a browser plugin that aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard Stallman’s article The JavaScript Trap. Check out the blog to learn more :-)

http://blog.freedomsponsors.org/welcome-librejs-users/

Welcome, LibreJS users! Leave a reply www.simplesharebuttons.comShare on... GNU LibreJS is a browser plugin that aims to address the JavaScript problem described in Richard Stallman’s article The JavaScript Trap. Basically, what is to block the ex*****on of any javascript files that aren’t explicitl…

17/10/2014

Talk about http://olhoneles.org - open source website that shows how Brazilian politicians spend our money. Fantastic. And you can help - just check out their GitHub.
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15/10/2014

This week Latinoware is happening in Foz do Iguaçu. It is a huge conference about all things Free/Open Source Software.
Jon Maddog is here and he talked about Linaro's big project to port 1400 applications to the new ARM processor's architecture - which can only be carried out with the help of a crowd of programmers! Want to learn more? Check out the project's website: http://performance.linaro.org

12/10/2014

Thoughts about free software and money.

http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2014/10/12/free-software-money/

07/10/2014

XWiki is now using FreedomSponsors!
http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing

Xwiki is a Second generation Wiki, or Apllication Wiki.
It can be used as a regular wiki, but you can also use it to build functionality on top of it that makes used of structured data, like a Blog, a Forum, or a Poll application.
Check it out - http://xwiki.org/

XWiki for sharing information

22/08/2014

Contributing to FreedomSponsors has just become easier: we now have short tutorials that walk you through the setup process.
Let me know what you think about it in the comments!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2jmON94sjM&list=PLgMNBa0XaIgd4hpofUDaeyRNKMUlSfZde

On this video series, I explain how to set up a development environment to contribute to FreedomSponsors. This should also be useful in other contexts too (assuming you want to learn more about Python and Django)

19/03/2014

PyLadies, get paid to contribute to Python.
https://wiki.python.org/moin/OPW/2014

What: Earn a $5500 USD stipend while contributing to the CPython interpreter and standard library.When: This is a full-time summer internship lasting from May 19 through August 18.Where: Anywhere! This is a remote internship, with most communication happening on mailing lists, bug trackers, and IRC....

19/03/2014

Bower is on FreedomSponsors, nice!
https://freedomsponsors.org/project/254/bower #/bower

Check this out! freedomsponsors.org - Crowdfunding Free Software, one issue at a time.

12/02/2014

TL;DR: Due to the recent attacks to bitcoin network [1], we had to temporarily disable Bitcoin payments. Please bear with us.

Detailed explanation:

During the last couple of days the Bitcoin network has been under heavy DDoS attacks.
Those attacks forced MtGox (and some other Bitcoin exchange services) to halt bitcoin transactions temporarily while they are working together with core developers to solve the issue.

FreedomSponsors use Blockchain.info's bitcoin RPC API to proccess transactions.
Blockchain.info did not halt transactions but they made some changes to their API behaviour in a preventive effort to avoid being affected by those attacks.
Those changes have broken the code in our side and we're working to sort it out. Until then you won't be able to make any payments using Bitcoin.
You can watch progress on our corresponding issue on Github [2]

We sorry for the inconvenience.
Also, we want you to know that we believe there's no need for anyone to panic.
This whole deal will most likely be resolved soon, and Bitcoin will come out of it even stronger than before :-)

Cheers
Tony Lâmpada - the FreedomSponsors guy

[1] - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238118/Mt._Gox_under_largest_DDoS_attack_as_bitcoin_price_surges
[2] - https://github.com/freedomsponsors/www.freedomsponsors.org/issues/259