{"id":3643,"date":"2014-02-14T07:51:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T07:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2014-02-14T07:54:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T07:54:45","slug":"my-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3643","title":{"rendered":"My Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s February 14th, St Valentine&#8217;s Day, a busy day for florists, restaurateurs and people selling greetings cards.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/ilovefs-heart-small-en.png\" alt=\"I love Free Software heart\" width=\"150\" height=\"90\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3646\" \/>I&#8217;m declaring my love here online: I love free software.<\/p>\n<p>If you are unaware what free software is &#8211; and it has far more to do than merely being gratis (<em>think free as in speech, rather than free as in beer. Ed.<\/em>) &#8211; look at the Free Software Foundation&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/philosophy\/free-sw.html\">free software definition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/\">Debian<\/a> GNU\/Linux operating system to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\">Gimp<\/a> graphics package and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libreoffice.org\/\">LibreOffice<\/a> productivity suite, I couldn&#8217;t do without it.<\/p>\n<p>If you love free software too, show your passion too in one of the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Writing an e-mail or letter to contributors expressing how much you like what they are doing.<\/li>\n<li>Sharing your feelings about free software on social networks and microblogs using the hashtag #ilovefs. Or you can write a blog post about your favourite piece of free software.<\/li>\n<li>Buying your favourite contributor a drink. Or buy someone else a drink and while enjoying it, tell her\/him about your favourite free software program.<\/li>\n<li>Giving a contributor a hug (ask for permission first). You might be amazed how many free software developers live in your area!<\/li>\n<li>Helping the <a href=\"https:\/\/fsfe.org\/\">Free Software Foundation Europe<\/a> (FSFE) collecting quotes for its <a href=\"http:\/\/fsfe.org\/campaigns\/ilovefs\/whylovefs\/whylovefs.en.html\">testimonials of people who love free software<\/a>. Ask developers, artists, politicians, or other users to send their quotes to FSFE.<\/li>\n<li>Taking a picture of yourself showing your feelings for free software and posting it online.<\/li>\n<li>Donating to <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.fsfe.org\/DonateToFreeSoftwareProjects\">free software initiatives<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/fsfe.org\/donate\/donate.en.html\">FSFE<\/a> to express your gratitude. They depend on your contribution to continue their work.<\/li>\n<li>Finally you can help spread the love by sharing the <a href=\"http:\/\/fsfe.org\/campaigns\/ilovefs\/artwork\/artwork.en.html\">campaign banners<\/a> by e-mail, (micro)blog or by social media (please use the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ilovefs&amp;src=hash\">#ilovefs<\/a> for this).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s February 14th, St Valentine&#8217;s Day, a busy day for florists, restaurateurs and people selling greetings cards. I&#8217;m declaring my love here online: I love free software. If you are unaware what free software is &#8211; and it has far more to do than merely being gratis (think free as in speech, rather than free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,34,9],"tags":[19,12,35,23],"class_list":["post-3643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-social-media","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-social-media","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}