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Re: List of Free Software projects
by Igor Zubiaurre 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

From: Maelle Costa <maelle(a)fsfe.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:49:32 +0100 Hi! FSFE is creating a list of Free Software projects with contact data and donation details to help people support Free Software. So far, the listš only contains FSFE's associate associations. If you want to add other projects on it, you can either directly edit the wiki or send a mail to FSFE with the name and URL of your project, contact data and donation facilities. Thanks for your contributions, Maëlle ------- 8< -------- Any restriction as to which projects to include? Should all projects hosted in any forge be included? That would be a HUGE list!

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Fellowship Elections, you're running out of time to become a candidate
by Nicolas JEAN 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Hello dear everyone, To become a candidate and be part of FSFE's General Assembly as a fellow, you have to give your candidacy until the 25th of January! This is a very good occasion for you to discover more about the internals of your favourite charity, and become even more implicated with its work. If you don't want to or can't run yourself, why not encourage a fellow friend to do so? We hope to see all your campaigns very soon! Cheers, Nicolas -- Nicolas JEAN - Intern Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfe.org) Is Free Software important to you? Join us! (http://fsfe.org/join)

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New clothes for FSFE -- New website launched
by Matthias Kirschner 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi all, After months of work by FSFE’s Web Team [1] — and in the last weeks especially by Sam Tuke [2] and Nicolas Jean [3]— a new website design has been launched, bringing with it a fresh look, improved infrastructure, and new features. The process began more than a year ago, and several meetings, including a Web Sprint in Berlin last October, were necessary to produce the current version. = New design = The new design aims to be attractive as well as easier to navigate and read. It is solidly based on FSFE’s existing graphical profile – colour schemes, fonts, and layout have been carefully chosen to extend and build upon FSFE’s logo, existing website design, and corporate branding. Every thematic element is based on styles which already exist within FSFE’s media. = New features = - iCal feed [4] of FSFE events and activities - Option to subscribe to FSFE newsletters in multiple languages - Tagging of news and events, allowing dynamic generation of information feeds for specific topics (useful for country pages, and topic home-pages such as ‘EU News’); documentation added [5] - Improved country teams contact page [6], including more information and links to team member profiles - Improved people page [7], including avatars of team members - New meta-data storage and display system for published articles [8] which consistently presents important article information = Coming Soon = Additional features soon to be added: - Home-pages for national FSFE teams, such as the German and British teams, will be launched in the coming days, and shall include country specific news and events feeds with iCal support, team member information, and identi.ca plugin support. - Automated monthly donation options - Fully integrated fellowship and planet websites, including design, structure, and sub-menu integration - Improved support for mobile devices and low resolution screens - Improved Our Work / Projects page = Make your mark – Join the Web Team = FSFE’s Web Team [9] needs help! We need new ideas and suggestions as well as developers, designers [10], and translators [11] to improve fsfe.org even further. - Sign up to the Web Team’s mailing-list [12] to read discussion about current and future changes, and submit your own queries and comments - Submit bugs with the website to the Web issue tracker [13] (you can create a new account, and remember that your usename will end with -guest) - Ask questions in real time in the Web Team’s IRC channel: #fsfe-web <irc://irc.freenode.net/fsfe-web> on freenode Regards, Matthias 1. http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/web/web.en.html 2. http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/ 3. http://blogs.fsfe.org/nicoulas/ 4. http://fsfe.org/events/events.ics 5. http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/web/tagging.en.html 6. http://www.fsfe.org/contact/local.en.html 7. http://www.fsfe.org/about/team.en.html 8. http://www.fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.en.html 9. http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/web/web.en.html 10. http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/designers/designers.en.html 11. http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.en.html 12. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/web 13. https://trac.fsfe.org/fsfe-web -- Matthias Kirschner - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe (fsfe.org) Free Software is important to you? Join today! (fsfe.org/join)

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Dilma announced new minister of culture --- and the end of the progressive Brazilian free software / internet politics?
by micu 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Hello everybody, the internet policy of the Brazilian government is well-known to be very progressive since Lula became president in 2003 --- at least, when it comes to free software, free culture and overcoming the digital divide [1-8] (sorry: some links only in German :(). But a few days ago, Dilma, the new Brazilian president, announced a new minister of culture. This *could* mean a huge change in the Brazilian copyright policy, or---even worse---an end to the progressive internet and IT policy in Brazil in general: "Dilma announced new minister of culture – and the end of the copyright reform?" <http://www.vgrass.de/?p=611> I guess, we all want to hope the "Open Letter by the Brazilian civil society to President-elect Roussef and Minister of Culture Ana Buarque de Hollanda" (http://www.vgrass.de/?p=638) will be heard. Kind regards, micu PS: Richard Stallman on the Sharing Licence in Brazil: http://www.vgrass.de/?p=543 ================================================================ [1] http://www.archive.org/details/WOS4_14_20h_BrazilTheFreeCultureNation [2] Dissertation von Salvador Millaleo H.: Die Politik der freien libre Open Source Software in Lateinamerika: Zum techno-politischen Regime der Software in Argentinien, Brasilien und Chile. http://bieson.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/volltexte/2010/1687/ [3] http://news.northxsouth.com/2009/05/18/brazil-is-aggressively- expanding-their-telecentro-program-community-free-software-workshops- and-technology-education/ [4] http://www2.mandriva.com/de/news/press/?p=145&s=0 [5] http://waste.informatik.hu- berlin.de/grassmuck/Texts/09-02-25_ILA_Commons.html [6] http://www.netzpolitik.org/2010/npp-092-volker-grassmuck-ueber-brasilien [7] http://dotsub.com/view/40fd8f9c-fcb0-462f-b44c-ca6c38acdd9c [8] http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/track/Society/3592.en.html -- GnuPG: https://www1.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s3418892/micuintus.asc Fingerprint: 1A15 A480 1F8B 07F6 9D12 3426 CEFE 7455 E4CB 4E80 <<</>> http://www.micuintus.de

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Suche ein gemeinnützigen Arbeitsplatz als Webdesign - bitte weiter sagen!!
by Gemeinnuetzige-Arbeit＠Cornelia-Specht.com 26 Dec '10

26 Dec '10

Sehr geehrten Damen und Herren, ich suche einen gemeinnützigen Arbeitsplatz als Webdesign und alles, was dazugehört. Da man in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland absolut keine Rechte hat (soll man ca. 15.000 Euro bezahlen, ja wirklich zu unrecht, nur weil andere nachweisbare Unterlagen nicht lesen können, dafür aber kräftig einen belügen). Man hat nur pflichten für ca. 90 Tage ins Gefängnis zuwandern. Das Haus wird einem unrecht aufgebrochen (ja auch das stimmt), gekaufte Software wird man als Urheberrechtsverletzung bezeichnet und wird sogar dafür bestraft, wenn ca. 20 Personen nicht wissen was richtig und was falsch ist nur weil Sie nicht lesen und schreiben können, wenn Richter und Staatsanwälte nicht wissen was recht und was und unrecht ist, nur Vermutungen aufstellen, die leider nicht stimmen, die Familie wird zerstören (Fehlgeburt), den Nachbarn Unwahrheiten erzählen, die nicht stimmen, wenn die Polizei das Recht hat, einen zu Beleidigung und dies vor dem Richter, wenn die Polizei einen bedrohen darf und dabei nicht bestraft wird. Wenn der Richter nur einen Satz schreiben muss, wenn man Widerspruch / Revision einlegt und somit noch mehr bezahlen soll! Dann ist es wirklich höchste Zeit endgültig zu gehen und zwar für immer!! Darum bin ich am überlegen, den Personalausweis jetzt abzugeben und die Wohnung aufzulösen. Denn so kann es absolut nicht mehr weitergehen, in diesem sehr negativen Rechtsstaat, was die Bundesrepublik Deutschland einem aufzwingt. In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland werden Straftäter am laufenden Band produziert, um somit die Gefängnisse zu befüllen bzw. kostenlose arbeitete Leute dazubekommen für gemeinnützigen Arbeitseinsatz. Man ist nicht arbeitslos gemeldet und auch kein Harz 4 Empfänger! Wenn es doch jemand gibt, auf den Planet Erde, der mir dabei helfen möchte, bitte ich um eine Rückantwort. Sollten Sie eine weitere Person kennen mit einem ähnlichen Fall, wäre es schön mir diese Person zu benennen. Ich suche einen gemeinnützigen Arbeitsplatz als Webdesign in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland der genaue Termin steht noch nicht fest. mfg Cornelia Specht

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Re: Free Software Lausanne Users Group (FSLUG)
by Sebastien Chassot 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Le vendredi 10 décembre 2010 à 15:48 +0100, Antenore Gatta a écrit : > Hi Sebastien, > > first of all thanks a lot for your support, it's much appreciated! > I'll let you have some text to check as soon as we will have something > acceptable. > Don't you mind if I'll send you HTML files? HTML is just fine for me... I probably won't have enough time to translate everything but I'll give some help to start...

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Free Software Lausanne Users Group (FSLUG)
by Antenore Gatta 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hi all, I'm one of the co-founder of a new Free Software Users Group in Lausanne, the FSLUG. http://fslug.simbiosi.org/ We are working as much as possible to have something acceptable for the public asap. We would love to have your opinions and advices (if any). These are the main tasks we are working on: 1. FSLUG Internet site. We have a working (really simple) structure, made with HTML and PHP (made with VIM, the Emacs version will come :-) ). None of us is native French neither native English, so we are looking for translators (French native members also). We need content. 2. FSLUX (Free Software and contraction of Lausanne+Linux) We are building a portable Free Software system, based on Trisquel Linux (it uses a blob free kernel and only free software), and in parallel a Linux From Scratch (free as well), both running on qemu with KVM. We will then put the raw image and the qemu executable (also for window$) on a usb key. In this way the system can be used from a normal windows (no reboot needed). The advantages of this are many, but we are not sure it's ethically correct. 3. Events and meetings Before we need to finish the 1st point at least. Do you kindly have any advices? Do you see anything is not in line with the GNU manifesto and the FSF philosophy? Thank you very much Kind regards -- Antenore Gatta www.simbiosi.org

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Conversing with your computer using FS
by Sam Tuke 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

The amazing simon listens project adds new features to interact with your machine through conversations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_RTJsq9m4I http://simon-listens.blogspot.com/ Thanks, Sam.

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Advocacy doesn’t work if you tell someone they’re wrong
by Jelle Hermsen 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

Hi everybody, I recently joined the fellowship and yesterday I wrote a blog post on my new FSFE blog titled: Advocacy doesn’t work if you tell someone they’re wrong (http://blogs.fsfe.org/jelle/2010/10/31/advocacy-doesnt-work-if-you-tell-som… ). Guido suggested I add a paragraph about this idea to the advocacy FAQ. I don't want to do this without hearing what other people think about it, because advocacy touches the core of what we're doing. My post states that it's best to not talk about proprietary software too much when you're trying to advocate free software. Pointing out the problems of the proprietary software somebody uses might actually lead them to dig there heels in, preventing them to be susceptible to any of your good arguments. I derived this idea from social psychology and I would love to hear what you all think of it. Best regards, Jelle

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PDFreaders : stamp out the ads !
by Maelle Costa 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Hi ! As yesterday's PR announced, we are now really contacting the institutions. In the next weeks, we are going to receive a huge anout of work. Lots of us are already contributing a great deal to the campaign, thanks a lot for that. What can be done ? A lot ! You can blog about the campaign, add flattr buttons toward it, make people aware through, donate to pdfreaders' campaign fund, help us sending the letters ... Help us stamp out the ads ! = End non-free advertisement: stamp out the ads! = [permanent URL : http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20101102-01.html] One month, one campaign, one goal: getting rid of non-free software advertisements on public websites. In four weeks, FSFE received reports concerning 2162 European institutions[1] who advertise non-free PDF readers. Apart from the 305 activists who participated to the search, 1500 individuals, 46 businesses and 38 organisations signed our Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites[2]. Now that the hunt is over, it's time to chase up those websites which encourage visitors to jeopardise their freedom. It's time to stamp out the ads! Highly motivated volunteers searched the internet for public websites that advertise non-free software and reported 2162 institutions[3]. Some of them, like Massimo Barbieri and Lucas Bickel individually reported more than 350! Alessandro Albini, Rainer Schmitz, and Pavel Kharitonov also made a remarkable contribution in reporting around 50 institutions each. But the FSFE won't stop with a list of institutions. In the coming weeks, FSFE will send letters to the institutions[4] to draw their attention to their unfair advertising. In the name of the signatories of the petition[5], FSFE will ask the institutions to either remove any recommendation for non-free software from their website, or give a choice of several programs. Wherever you are, whatever time you have, you can contribute to the removal of non-free software adverts on public websites. The amazing work of the ads hunters and our translators[6] has laid a firm foundation for the next phase. Now it is up to you to enable us to get things done. You can make a difference! Help us to translate the letter[7] into missing languages or donate to the PDF readers campaign fund[8] to help cover the 1600 EUR for postage and the extra costs of administration to deliver the messages throughout Europe. Help us stamp out the ads! == About the Free Software Foundation Europe == The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and involved in many global activities. Access to software determines participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study, modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSFE. http://fsfe.org/ 1. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html 2. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html 3. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html 4. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/letter.en.html 5. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html 6. http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.en.html 7. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/letter.en.html 8. http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.en.html Regards -- Maëlle Costa Free Software Foundation Europe - intern im : maelle(a)jabber.fsfe.org

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