Hi
Just sent a message to the fellowship.eu list, with unsubscribe in the
subject header, I received a reply saying it has been held as the
message may have admin commands.
This is what _should_ happen, if this works I will reply here so others
can do the same.
Paul
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Hi,
Considering the CoC, I'm refraining myself from talking too much about a
certain individual.
As there seems to be some confusion as to how Daniel Pocock was able to access
the subscriber emails of this list:
The list is visible to all subscribers here:
https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/roster/discussion
Having list membership visible to all subscribers is common practice, and
virtually all public mailing list are configured to show this information on
request. After all, the mailing list archive is also available, and by
scraping the mailing list archive one would be able to gather a similar list…
However, I'm pretty sure that using this information in the way that Mr.
Pocock did is very much not allowed under EU law. Maybe it's time to let the
legal team handle this transgression and evaluate FSFE's legal options?
Cheers,
Johannes
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Team Austria
Dear all,
it gets ever "funnier". Now I received this confirmation for removal of this list.
(I redacted the hash, obviously)
I suspect it gets created if you click on Daniel's unsubscribe link.
The IP address is not mine.
Michael
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Hi all,
I have a problem: I recorded an interview using Audio Recorder [1] and now I
miss the half of the voice. However, I see a low amplitude in many cases, so I
have hope there is still some audio available. Is anyone here a pro in
Audacity or any other tool and can maybe help me to recover the audio?
That would be amazing.
Best,
Erik
[1] https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/
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Dear all,
"The Free Software community at its best" – that's how 14 February 2019
could be described. Hundreds of posts in blogs and social media,
beautiful custom artwork, handsome pictures and interesting events. And
all that in order to thank Free Software contributors for their
outstanding work to maintain and extend our freedoms.
It took us a while to select a few of the many highlights we saw during
the day. Read our report to get an impression of what happened that day:
https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190329-01.html
I hope you enjoyed this day as much as we did. If you feel that we
forgot some special highlight (which we surely did considering the
amount), please share it with us.
And please remember: Thanking Free Software contributors like
developers, translators, artists or testers is possible throughout the
whole year :)
Best,
Max
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Hello,
in our last press release on the EU Copyright Directive, Alexander
Sander says:
"The exclusion of Free Software code hosting and sharing providers from
this directive is crucial to keep Free Software development in Europe
healthy, solid and alive"
How do we come to this conclusion? We can probably give thanks to
Microsoft for their good lobby work, that they could get an exception
for GitHub (maybe the purchase of GitHub had finally probably something
good):
"Open source software developing and sharing platforms like GitHub
should remain out of scope." [1]
Finally, I don't think this will help us. Other open source platforms,
such as Mastodon instances, have to install upload filters if they don't
want to end up in court. I am not a lawyer and I can't find a section in
the directive that contains the opposite or can dispel my concerns about
this. Can our legal team tell us what does
"Providers of services such as open source software development and
sharing platforms,[...] are also excluded from this definition" [2]
in the "EU Copyright Directive" exactly mean for free and open source
software projects that are not "software development and sharing
platforms"?
Next, Alexander says in our names:
"We call on the European Commission to promote the dissemination of Free
Software filter technologies, including financial support, for instance"
No, I won't do that and I completely disagree! I urge the FSFE to argue
*against* uploadfilters and censorship. Because it doesn't matter if the
censorship machine has an open or a closed license, At the end of the
day uploadfilters serve censorship and censorship has to be abolished.
There's already enough free software being abused for purposes of
oppression and to spy on privacy in the surveillance capitalism, we
don't need another one.
I hope that we will reconsider our goals we shared in this press
release.
Christian Imhorst
[1]
https://github.blog/2019-02-13-the-eu-copyright-directive-what-happens-from…
[2]
https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Copyright_Final_compromise.…
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Betreff: [FSFE PR][EN] Copyright Directive – EU safeguards Free Software
at the last minute
Datum: 26.03.2019 12:59
Von: press(a)fsfe.org
An: press-release(a)lists.fsfe.org
= Copyright Directive – EU safeguards Free Software at the last minute
=
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190326-01.en.html ]
The European Parliament adopted the controversial Copyright Directive by
348 votes in favour, 274 votes against and 36 abstentions. Today's vote
marks the end of years of debate in the European Union. Heated
discussions about the introduction of upload filters ended up in
protests of tens of thousands people in the streets all across Europe.
In a last minute action back in September 2018, the European Parliament
adopted an amendment and pushed it through the trilogue to at least
protect Free and Open Source Software.
“We are glad we were able to raise awareness and understanding of
what drives software development in Europe nowadays among many
policy makers. The exclusion of Free Software code hosting and
sharing providers from this directive is crucial to keep Free
Software development in Europe healthy, solid and alive. we are
dismayed that the EU missed the opportunity to renew copyright to a
reasonable extent. As upload filters are now introduced, we urge the
European Commission to avoid filtering monopolies by companies this
directive actually intended to regulate. We call on the European
Commission to promote the dissemination of Free Software filter
technologies, including financial support, for instance within the
framework of research programmes Horizon2020 and Horizon Europe.”
says Alexander Sander, Policy Manager of the Free Software
Foundation Europe.
The Free Software Foundation Europe and Open Forum Europe started a
campaign to “ Save Code Share [1] ” in 2017. More than 14.000 people
supported our call with an open letter which requests EU legislators to
preserve the ability to collaboratively build software online in current
EU Copyright Directive proposal.
1: https://savecodeshare.eu/
== About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==
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control technology. Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our
lives; and it is important that this technology empowers rather than
restricts us. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use,
understand, adapt and share software. These rights help support other
fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, press and privacy.
The FSFE helps individuals and organisations to understand how Free
Software contributes to freedom, transparency, and self-determination.
It enhances users' rights by abolishing barriers to Free Software
adoption, encourage people to use and develop Free Software, and
provide resources to enable everyone to further promote Free Software
in Europe.
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Hi,
maybe this is of interest to you:
The Core Infrastructure Fund supports the ‘building block’ technologies,
infrastructures, and communities relied upon by digital security and
circumvention tools strengthening internet freedom, digital security,
and the overall health of the internet.
Common applicants come from the community of developers and organizers
working on open-source projects recognized as critical dependencies of
one or more active platforms or tools strengthening internet freedom and
digital security.
https://www.opentech.fund/funds/core-infrastructure-fund/
Best,
Alex
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Free Software Foundation Europe
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Hello,
I don't know whether this is an issue with the FSFE Web site or some real
news, but I see the following item on the FSFE front page (https://fsfe.org/):
"""
Jonas Öberg joins FSFE as Executive Director
02 March 2019
FSFE has recruited long-time Free Software activist Jonas Öberg to be the
organisation's Executive Director. He joins the organisation's leadership team
on March 1.
"""
I suppose the clue that not everything is as it should be is the URL it links
to:
https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150301-01.en.html
And Karsten Gerloff is quoted as FSFE President in the article itself, which
would surely take us back to 2015.
Meanwhile, Jonas was involved in the FSFE-in-2020 activity I asked about
almost a month ago. I wonder if there is anything still to report about that.
Paul
Hi all,
There is a EU directive which may make it impossible to install custom
software on your radio devices, e.g. routers, mobile phones, or embedded
devices. You can help convince the European Commission to limit the
number of device categories this affects, but the period is ending this
Monday.
It is not hard to participate. I've just published a blog post
summarising the topic (long version here [^1]) and providing basic
arguments that you can reuse:
https://blog.mehl.mx/2019/protect-freedom-on-radio-devices-raise-your-voice…
Please spend a few minutes to make your point by Monday. We need to show
the Commission that there are people who actually care for user freedom
on their devices, and who want to control their technology.
Thanks for raising your voice!
Best,
Max
[^1]: https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/
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