(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(a)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-sourc…
5. http://ilovefs.org
6. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/banners.html
7. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/unperfekthaus.html
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Hi everyone,
we are currently preparing a major update to PDFReaders.org, adding:
* a more appealing and cleaner "home"-page, with *one
recommendation* for the auto-detected platform
* Free pdf reader recommendations for mobile platforms
* Free pdf browser plugin recommendations
BUT, we need some help with gathering/verifying information, deciding
what to recommend... Please have a look at the current Reader-Overview
[1] and the TODOs there.
Tell us...
* if you know any other Free pdf readers that we haven't listed, yet
(for any platform, but especially OSX and iOS)
* which Android reader you would recommend
* any other ideas you might have!
You can reach us via mail[2] or comment directly in the blog [3].
If you have an account at the fellowship-wiki[4] you can commit changes
to the overview directly.
Thanks for your help!
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Hannes Hauswedell │ German Team █▉█▉█▉ │
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[1] https://wiki.fsfe.org/PDFreaders/todo2012/Overview-Page
[2] feedback((a))pdfreaders(.)org
[3] http://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2012/05/21/pdfreaders-2-0-your-help-is-needed/
[4] https://wiki.fsfe.org/
Dear all,
> As some of you may know, the Flossie 2012 <http://www.flossie.org>conference is happening this weekend. I am running a project called "The
> Record" which will create a video archive of interviews with women
> attending this fab event (there are set to be 180 women in attendance).
>
> http://etherpad.fsfe.org/Tm1nUTnAME
>
> I am inviting fellow fellows to add their questions, which will be put to
> the women during the interview. Just click the link above and write down
> any questions you would like to ask about Women and Floss!
>
> Best,
>
> Anna
>
Hi all,
This month, for our monthly fellowship interview, we talked with Giacomo
Poderi. He has worked as a translator and editor for FSFE, as well as
completing a master’s degree in Philosophy. Currently he’s working on a
Ph.D in sociology, which looks at the user experience in Free Software
Projects, focusing on the turn-based strategy game ‘The Battle for Wesnoth’.
Please read this interview on
http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=590
Thank you,
Alessandro
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Hannes Hauswedell <h2(a)fsfe.org> writes:
> * a more appealing and cleaner "home"-page, with *one
> recommendation* for the auto-detected platform
From: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors(a)iki.fi>
To: discussion(a)fsfeurope.org
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 01:46:32 +0300
+1
The current long list of readers is very confusing.
(I also think that the name pdfreaders.org is bit misleading since it
does not list the most popular pdf reader in the world but I guess
renaming it to free-pdfreaders.org is already too late...)
From: Fioddor
I don't like the idea of a single-product recomendation. FSFE should remain
AND LOOK LIKE neutral.
Neither a transparent auto-detection: people doing a selection for friends,
users surfing the web from their workplace, fast consultation on the go
(mobile set) looking for sw for the home system, ...).
I'd improve the long list turning it into a table with some criteria.
Filtering (e.g javascript) would also be welcome.
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Hello List,
sorry for the delay in working on the leaflet about software patents. We
had a really high workload the last 4 weeks, combined with a high rate
of illness among the members of our team. Therefore, I was not able to
work on this issue.
So, let's start again:
Our leaflet about software patents that we use at the booth, is really
outdated and should be updated. Please help me to update our leaflet. I
opened an Etherpad where I inserted the text of the actual leaflet and
some additional text from my side:
http://policy.etherpad.fsfe.org/7
PW: SWPAT2012
I think, the length that the text on the etherpad has now is
approximately the text length we can use on the leaflet. So, when you
add some text then try to delete some text elsewhere, if possible : )
Thank you very much for you participation and ideas,
best regards,
Erik
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Policy Team [ ]
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Innovation is the point of software freedom: Without innovation, there
would come time when there would be no need for new software, no need
for software developers to be able to alter the code.
On 17 May 2012 12:45, Ciarán O'Riordan <ciaran(a)member.fsf.org> wrote:
>
> I can't do any more on this. Exams coming up.
>
> Whichever intro is used, it should explain how swpats are bad for:
>
> 1. Free software - important for users
> 2. Software freedom - important for developers
>
> 1. Free software is harmed because swpats give an advantage to companies
> with money and lawyers. This category is the least likely to
> spontaneously give freedom to users of their software. Spontaneous
> offers of freedom (and pressure on large companies to also give
> freedom) comes from individuals, academics, hobbyists, and (to a
> lesser extent) SMEs. Anything that helps big companies and harms
> small developers, will reduce the amount of free software in the
> world.
>
> 2. Software freedom is damaged because it becomes illegal to develop or
> distribute certain types of programs.
>
> For FSFE both are important, but users might only see the value of #1,
> and developers might only see the value of #2, so both should be
> explained.
>
> The harms of software patents can also be explained with two other
> categories: 1. They add financial and legal risks to *all* software
> development. 2. They specifically block the development of useful
> software because (a) they block standards and (b) when a software
> package gains a lot of users, *then* it becomes a target for either
> patent trolls wanting money or big software companies wanting to kill
> competition.
>
>
> I think it's also important to ignore innovation. FSFE has no mandate
> to promote innovation. If some reliable studies proved that swpats help
> innovation, or if politicians were convinced that this was true, then
> FSFE saying "Promoting innovation is important" wouldn't be helpful. We
> can leave that work to researchers. FSFE's role is to say "They also
> hurt free software and software freedom, and these are important!".
>
> Some people will see freedom as a tradeable value. (Do I want more
> freedom if it will ruin the economy?) To reassure those people, a
> *minor* mention of not hurting innovation/SMEs/economy/other-stuff is
> worthwhile.
>
> Last comments:
>
> * Avoid words like "oligopolistic" - not everyone knows what exactly
> they are and how they affect software freedom / free software
>
> * Words like "market" are difficult to use right. The software *market*
> is just an incidental aspect of what FSFE cares about.
>
> Hope that helps. This groundhog is now going into hibernation...
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