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Re: Advocacy doesn’t work if you tell someone they’re wrong
by Jelle Hermsen 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 18:01 +0100, Theo Schmidt wrote: > Stephane Ascoet schrieb: > > Jelle Hermsen a écrit : > > > >> I derived this idea from social psychology and I would love to hear what > >> you all think of it. > > Hi, I think you're right. We're facing the same issue while trying to convince people to stop meat consumption. > > OK, hands up for those who love free software and open content, go easy on the > meat, prefer cycling to driving and using trains to planes, and try to use solar > energy rather than fossil or atomic fuels! :-) > > Seriously, I find some of these things go together, but professing to them all > is guaranteed to get labelled as a "do-gooder" ("Gutmensch" in German), not > meant as a compliment! > > Theo Schmidt I agree that it might be a good idea to compartmentalize your ideals, so that you're not spreading them thin. But being a Gutmensch also implies that you're naive and impractical and I think that might be somewhat of a harsh judgment. Take RMS for example. When I take a look at his website (http://stallman.org ) it's hard to miss that he cares about a lot of issues, but I wouldn't say he's naive or impractical, au contraire, mon frère. However, I do believe you raise an important point. Where do we draw the line. Which issues belong to the FSFE and which don't? It's obvious meat consumption doesn't, but what issues surrounding free software and computing in general should we fight for? - Do we care about the low participation of women in floss (I know I do)? - What do we think about the digital divide, in which people (mostly elderly, but don't forget illiterates) miss out on the digital age. Free software could be of great importance here! - And what to say about the need for widespread broadband internet coverage. Children are growing up in rural areas in Europe without access to all the digital goodness we take for granted. Tried to surf or apt-get/yum with a 56k6 modem lately? Just to name a few. I don't say we should care about every single thing and it's very important to keep your focus, but when it comes to caring about other people and good causes in general, I'd rather be a somewhat naive altruistic sissy than a clear headed guy who knows when to tone down. Cheerio, Jelle

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Testing and liability: Free Software saves lives
by Sam Tuke 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

http://bit.ly/9iLCBm (SFLC podcast of Eben Moglen speaking in Scotland) This is old (from July this year) but definitely worth listing to if you haven't already. It provides strong argument from a legal, moral and regulatory perspective in favour of Free Software. They're the kind of arguments that should have an impact on people who are ambivalent or hostile towards Free Software. Thanks, Sam.

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Re: FSFE's 10th birthday - 10. March 2011
by Matthias Kirschner 27 Oct '10

27 Oct '10

Hi there, at the 10th March 2011 FSFE become 10 years old. We would like to celebrate that _with_ you. Therefor we would like to ask you for ideas how we can celebrate it together with you. Just some crazy brain storms: - a website where people can upload their picture and afterwards we generate a big Fellowship logo which we will print out as a poster for future booths. - a virtual IRC get together and see how many people we get together (beforehand aim for a number) - organising some small helium balloons with a messages from you and other Free Software activists about Free Software and start them at several places in Europe. Beside that we would prepare some background material for on our website. This can include some nice quotes from people who are part of FSFE for a longer time, tell some nice stories, add some nice old pictures, include links to existing history materials like http://www.fsfe.org/about/history/doi.en.html and http://www.fsfe.org/about/history/preamble.en.html. So question to you: From whom should we get a quote? Do you know some cool old stories? I am looking forward to your ideas (they do not have to be perfect and can definitely sound a bit crazy in the beginning ;) ). Regards, Matthias -- 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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New Fellowship interview with Leena Simon
by Sam Tuke 26 Oct '10

26 Oct '10

Interviews with FSFE fellows are back! In the first in this new series Chris Woolfrey talks to 'Freedom Not Fear' organiser Leena Simon about dogmatism, surveillance, and why Free Software needs more geeky girls. Full interview: http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=119 Sam.

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UK Jails teen for withholding password
by Sam Tuke 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11479831 "Drage was convicted of failing to disclose an encryption key...[h]e was formally asked to disclose his password but failed to do so, which is an offence under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000" Thanks to Andreas Tolf Tolfsen for bringing this to my attention. Sam.

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Information needed for PDFreaders
by Maelle Costa 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi ! I've recently posted a new blog entry [1] concerning the legislation about concurrence, and governmental advertising (with aim to have useful material to argue with the public institutions when we will try to make them correct their websites). I've so far only been able to find information for France (which system I know better. If you know anything on this topic for your country, please send me this information ! Another information that could prove to be useful would be the tarification of online advertising in the different countries. Again, if you know something or if you have some time to dedicate to the research, comments will be welcome ! Thanks a lot for your help, Best regards, Maëlle 1. http://blogs.fsfe.org/maelle/?p=60 - -- Maëlle Costa Free Software Foundation Europe - intern im : maelle(a)jabber.fsfe.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMm3VDAAoJEEFrRAVMN3eYs1YH/R1q6gjFAAnvUajGOmBRjsKh LIpafQABLFCSK7SrcjNE5jghMjlvfiOdXmbCb9YyFJ1Erk3Ya5Z6Z5qZQTXzwGf9 iSj9hVVwldiHQ3yDC1okDldZ2Mw0ZK1HeWSs7rqpFdb5RknU8XE5MR0jp6X2oPn/ BY1TclcvSrdUX3DH9vKU18xuMRqpVoWQITHg77OsfpkheFCqpWaMXpok8PV2u2s8 mtU/Un8xRCwNz5AsckfD+HATBfw82UZ8b9fDQlIlYDw/5U8ic64TQhgVzHXyxppl xd4TA8ns4jQVbnbKH3v1yoGzyJUDZQJBJl+8rIsYxxDeiiMQbWclAtWXPKrYgYs= =bQCG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Should the FSF come out in support of Microsoft?
by David Gerard 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

The EFF certainly has! http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09/eff-supports-microsoft-seeking-make-it… - d.

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OpenERP Webclient proprietär
by Matthias Kirschner 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Hi there, Bernhard pointed out on fsfe-de(a)fsfeurope.org that the license from http://www.openerp.com/download/stable/source/openerp-web-5.0.12.tar.gz looks like it is non-free. Here a quick and dirty translation of the message (the party from OpenERP were in English before): The OpenERP web client is distributed under the "OpenERP Public License". It's based on Mozilla Public License (MPL) Version 1.1 with following restrictions: - All names, links and logos of Open ERP must be kept as in original distribution without any changes in all software screens, especially in start-up page and the software header, even if the application source code has been changed or updated or code has been added. You cannot use it for any purpose, e.g. make a version for very small screens (you are not allowed to remove the logos). The company 2007-TODAY Tiny ERP Pvt Ltd is also experimenting: If you need commercial licence to remove this kind of restriction please contact us. This would mean that they think that you are not allowed to use their software commercially, but that you have to buy another license. But in their FAQ they write: . Why add branding restrictions on MPL? These restrictions are only to maintain our trademark and branding. It will not affect in any case product copying, improvements, deploying, etc. We believe that community will not be affected by these few restrictions that's goal is only to recognise editors efforts. Source still opens and free so enjoy. This might be influences by the amount and places of Open ERP's "links" and "logos", but the startup page is definetely bothering. Debian is packaging it also under non-free, see http://git.debian-maintainers.org/?p=open-object/openerp-web.git;a=blob;f=d… Does anyone know more about it? Can someone help to distribute this to more people. For example the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenERP says it is Free Software. Regards, Matthias -- 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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Article in The Urban Times
by Sam Tuke 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Free Society, Freedom of Speech, Free Software: FSCONS 2010 and ‘Freedom Not Fear’ http://www.theurbn.com/2010/09/free-society-freedom-speech-free-software- fscons-2010-freedom-fear/ References FSFE and FSCONS. Written by Chris Woolfrey of the editor's team. Thanks, Sam.

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Re: Discussion Digest, Vol 93, Issue 13
by Sam Tuke 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hugo, On Saturday 18 September 2010 12:00:02 discussion-request(a)fsfeurope.org wrote: > Suggestion: a page about software useful for charities This has been a long term goal of mine. We already have some materials specifically for charities, and discussion going on at web@ may also shortly become relevant to this matter. Thanks, Sam.

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