Dear all,
In the spirit of full disclosure, let me start by pointing out that I am CEO
and - along with other employees, some of whom you will also know -
shareholder of Kolab Systems AG (https://kolabsystems.com) and that Kolab
Systems has been the driving force behind Roundcube for the past years.
Kolab Systems has also agreed to help the Roundcube Next team in its aim to
refactor and build the next technology generation.
So I am not neutral.
That said, I genuinely believe it is extremely important for the Free Software
community to get behind Roundcube Next and help us push it forward, as
well as bring others on board with it.
The longer story is here: http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=676
TL;DR, Part I: As a community we *require* technologies that compete with
Google Apps, Office 365 and the likes in features, convenience, UI/UX, yet
provide full control and freedom to users.
TL;DR, Part II: Application Service Providers should get on board with that
push *right now* because otherwise they will find themselves forced into
becoming re-sellers for Office 365 and Google Apps -- and increasingly
unable to compete with their features & networking effects.
Some already understood this, and have joined the Roundcube Next community,
such as cPanel (http://blog.cpanel.com/on-to-the-next/), Tucows, and now also
Fastmail (http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/06/05/fastmail-supports-roundcube-next-develo…).
But there are many more providers using Roundcube today who have not joined,
nor have they contributed in the past. For them it should be obvious to join.
And then there are those that have their own home-brew interfaces (such as
Fastmail) who get the unique opportunity to become part of a new, growing
community that will create a technology that will make them fully competitive
against the "big clouds" in 18 months from now.
Unfortunately, most of them have not realized this yet.
So unless your provider is cPanel, Tucows, Fastmail or Kolab Now, all of who
are part of this already, please encourage them to step up and join the
community to push for Roundcube Next.
Direct link for your convenience:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/roundcube-next--2/x/4658765#/story
Best regards,
Georg
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Georg C. F. Greve <greve(a)fsfeurope.org>
Member of the General Assembly
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Dear Free Software lovers,
Last year on "I love Free Software" day we rocked the internet and
showed the world how important Free Software is for us. Countless people
in social networks and blogs praised various projects or aspects of Free
Software. Our sister organisation initiated the cryptovalentine
activity, and the EFF used this day to declare the importance of Free
Software for digital security. We had comics, poems, pictures... well,
look at the 2015 summary yourself [1]!
This year on February 14th we want to surpass it again: thank more
contributors, bring Free Software in the broad media, reach more people.
But we need your participation to achieve this, and there are lots of
ways to support the campaign.
On the website [2] we have collected some ideas. For us, the best
contribution for this special day are videos and pictures (see gallery
[3]). For example, you at a special location declaiming a poem for Free
Software, filming your FSFE group at a candlelight dinner, creating a
comic or meme or lovely graphic... videos and images are worth thousand
words and we can reach incredibly more people using them.
However, if that's not your kind of thing, feel free to do something
different. Maybe the website gives you some ideas or you can look at the
more detailled wiki page [4] where you also can find information on how
to create a whole different campaign part.
Let's make this an unforgettable day for everyone in the Free Software
community! We are looking forward to see your ideas on February 14th or
earlier. Just drop me a line if you want to share your feedback or have
any question.
Best regards,
Max
P.S.: Please share this mail with your FSFE groups and with friends who
love Free Software as well
[1] https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150303-01.html
[2] http://ilovefs.org
[3] https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.html
[4] https://wiki.fsfe.org/ILoveFS-2016
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Hi,
anybody participating in the European "joinup" communities for Free
Software? I found e.g. the "Open source observatory"
(https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/home) which looks interestin
g.
I haven't digged deeper, but is FSFE participating there?
I would like to hear any experiences and whether it makes sense to
watch/join the "joinup" communities (they are primarily targeted
towards Public Administrations)...
BTW: I'm still looking for a way on how I can support our demand "for
all publicly funded software to be published as Free Software".
Thanks!
- - Henning
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We now have the "There is no cloud, just other people's computers"
design on a t-shirt, too. It is in a nice bordeaux, which according to
our trend scouts, is THE colour to wear in the Free Software Community in
2016.
https://fsfe.org/order/
Thanks to the designer Markus Meier!
All the best,
Matthias
PS: the stickers and postcards can be ordered together with information
about Free Software on http://fsfe.org/promo
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Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany - t +49-30-27595290
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Hi all,
I have seen that there is a Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons and as
I think that one of the core aspects of Free Software is the ability for
decentralizing, I was thinking someone here might have interest in participating.
The concept is very open and it does not need to be a scientific paper. the
Deadline however is quite soon, January 30:
http://p2pvalue.eu/floss4p2p-book-open-call
Best,
Erik
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No one shall ever be forced to use non-free software
Erik Albers | Free Software Foundation Europe
OpenPGP Key-ID: 0x8639DC81
Hi,
I have a licence related questions that I hope somebody here
can awnser.
I want to use a modified version of the zsync [1] code in a different
project (the ownCloud Desktop client). Now the ownCloud
Desktop client is licenced under the GPLv2.
But the original zsync library is licenced under the:
When searching I did find several sources (including
wikipedia [2]) stating that the Artistic Licence V2 is GPL compatible.
However the beta4 differs slightly. To me it looks very similar.
But I'd like to get some opinion from people that are a bit
more into licences.
I already tried to contact the creator several times but no responses.
To make a long questions a bit shorted.
Can somebody tell me if the "The Artistic License Version 2.0beta4,
October 2000"
is GPLv2 compatible?
Thanks in advance!
--Roeland
[1] http://zsync.moria.org.uk/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_License