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Re: [Translators] [off-topic] The Pirate Bay is closed
by Nico Rikken 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

I guess this is better suited for the discussion mailinglist. Thanks for mentioning, especially since the Pirate Bay is real landmark. There are more sides to this story. Just take the view of Peter Sunde [1]. Not to dramatize the issue, but would this not be more similar to Silk Road having been shut down? Copyright laws are quite clear, you might like them to be different, but that is another debate. Then again the Pirate Bay also offered non-copyrighted material, and taking down is quite a severe measure. It's not my call to make, but such a statement might lead to the wrong conclusions about the FSFE for the casual reader. [1] http://blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-forever/ Kind regards, Nico

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What happened to tl-dr.info
by ubsy＠riseup.net 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, I was wondering what happenend to tl-dr.info ? It used to be a site; I think some fellows organized it. They summarized terms of services of webservices like google, facebook, yahoo etc, and presented them in a human readable way. Does anyobody know something of their wereabouts? Many kind regards, Phil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAlSHZEcACgkQ9sA+aqjINv5TxQCfY6SjCqaSu6pU910qsmXGys9p fyUAoNSCEqP7orG6ibyIhfBogVQrbwms =qfAX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Crowdfunded Laprop that respects your freedom
by Tobias Platen 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Recently when I looked at Crowdsupply, I found out about the Librem 15, which is a Free/Libre and Open Source Laptop That Respects Your Essential Freedoms. Tobias Platen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUcfY8AAoJEBQjKS9X2p6qFy4IAJRi9qcomJF3KLGwN/HEqS4i wpokuQhSEw1gCLzjfpxwadBMVY0f2YvHaJW74+O76aS71/L7dkUdd07OtJWFw59J SagpVlOIBlfUnnuX3Nok+ebCSbMs9QssGNIMIUBzDuSa843PcaqW7sdYu8nrbBj9 ez7It6QhJF8YviipKuCfYmX2h2Z+w8yuORDBs26l3J0gycmH4fanRJrAyX1U51n7 n3wcPsa00yiBWj1CW/mQONQe/8FLR+OQlpxpTpziit6mG2b8hZOLHgrXddnnvlLl mEWRDNBnOatk5vl3LpxSEL5HpZNfD6XELFMrG7gNe1BY8oP2I11adqv+3zVoOM4= =hVdG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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FSFE assembly during 31C3
by Erik Albers 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

Dear Fellows and Friends, soon and once again will be Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg [1], from December 27-30. This year, the FSFE will have an assembly [2] and we are happy to invite you and your friends to pass by, get to know us or join our activities. Details are not yet fixed, but you will find updates on the above mentioned wiki-page. BTW: You will find us in the "noisy square" along with other digital civil rights organisations like EDRi, Wauland, WeFixTheNet etc. We are also looking for help by guys like you to give our assembly spirit, live and attraction. If you like to offer a workshop, you like to represent the booth or anything else you have in mind, then please (temporarily) join our FSFE Hamburg-mailinglist or contribute in the pad: https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/assembly31c3 (also easy to use for just putting your idea there) I am looking forward to everyone that I get to know these days, as a visitor or a helper. Any questions? Please, feel free to ask Best regards, Erik [1] http://events.ccc.de/category/31c3/ [2] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_… [3] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly:Noisy_Square [4] https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/hamburg -- Erik Albers | https://fsfe.org/about/albers Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) - Campaigns & Community Free as in Freedom!

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Preview: what FSFE did in 2014
by Matthias Kirschner 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Karsten wrote a preview about what FSFE did in 2014. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/12/01/preview-what-fsfe-did-in-2014/ All the best, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - Vice President FSFE Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) Receive monthly Free Software news (fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html) Your donation enables our work (fsfe.org/donate)

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English GnuPG leaflets available
by Matthias Kirschner 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

In September we layouted and printed a German version of the e-mail self-defense leaflet to distribute at the freedom not fear demonstration in Berlin. We received a lot of positive feedback about the leaflet, and had to order it for the third time already. Volunteers are distributing them before the cinemas (”interested in e-mail encryption like Edward Snowden”) when they show Citizienfour, one cinema even hands them out themselves for every Citizienfour ticket they sell. Today the *English version* arrived in our office, and can now be ordered on <https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html#promo-material>. Other language versions (Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, Greek) will soon be available, too. If you want to help with translations, please write an e-mail to translators(a)fsfeurope.org with Spanish we currently need proofreading https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/emailselfdefense-flyertext *Enable us to distribute it* If you want to support FSFE to produce and send leaflets to activists all over Europe, you can help by donating to FSFE http://fsfe.org/donate or to support us in the long run become a supporting member of FSFE http://fsfe.org/join (If you donate 150€ we cover postage to send out ~10 big promo packs). Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - Vice President FSFE Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) Receive monthly Free Software news (fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html) Your donation enables our work (fsfe.org/donate)

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1&1 / gmx to switch off service it received dfd award for
by chrysn 16 Nov '14

16 Nov '14

hi fellows, some years ago, 1&1 (gmx) received the dfd award for providing open standards infrastructure to the masses[1]. now, it seems they plan to switch it off[1]. not that i'd have recommended gmx to anybody for quite some time, but i'm actively communicating with many people over xmpp who already had gmx addresses and for whom this was an easy start. now given i'm neither a customer of theirs (much less a paying one) nor active in any social media where they could feel like reacting to anything, i see myself a little low on options to act against that. (if it involved only me, i'd take it as a reason to just move to another server, but convincing communication partners is another issue). do you see any way the fellowship could exert some influence? i'm certainly not suggesting actions along the lines of withdrawing the award ("and hand back the cake" -- that'd be childish), but the award has been at least acknowledged in media and press releases ([3], [4], [5]), maybe that could be taken up? best regards chrysn [1] http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120328-01.en.html [2] http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/MultiMessenger-United-Internet-schal… [3] http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Document-Freedom-Award-fuer-1-1-Internet-A… [4] http://blog.1und1.de/2012/03/28/11-internet-ag-erhaelt-document-freedom-awa… [5] http://newsroom.gmx.net/2012/03/30/auszeichnung-fuer-gmx-der-beliebte-multi… -- Most people would leave. Not us. We're Vikings. We have stubbornness issues. -- Hiccup, son of Stoic

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United Nations' policy regarding Free Software?
by Bernhard Reiter 14 Nov '14

14 Nov '14

Does the United Nations organization have a policy regarding Free Software and its mission? And how does this affect the 17 specialisted UN organisations? Does the UN prefer to use and republish improvements with Free Software? I found a general statement of the Secretary General's speech from 2010: http://www.unglobalpulse.org/blog/un-secretary-general-appeals-global-open-… And some documentation from the UNESCO: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002156/215621e.pdf A lot of old links from the UNESCO portal of Free Software seem old. Does somebody know more? Thanks, Bernhard -- FSFE -- Founding Member of the GA blogs.fsfe.org/bernhard Support our work for Free Software: https://fsfe.org/support/?ber

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RMLL/LSM 2015
by Odile Bénassy 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

Hi everybody! Here is an announcement for the next RMLL/LSM in Beauvais (France). The 2015 team would like to take advantage of Beauvais geographical situation as well as its international airport. We especially would like to see people coming from those places where people usually cannot travel very easily because they are situated relatively far from central Europe (Portugal, Eastern Europe, south of Italy etc ..). So you certainly can help a lot to disseminate this announcement!! Additionally, you will find here some advertising material: http://com2015.rmll.info/ Best regards Odile B, for the 2015 RMLL/LSM Team --%< The Libre Software Meeting (in French: Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre, or RMLL) consist in a series of user-friendly and non-commercial lectures, workshops, and debates on Libre Software and its uses. These meetings are held annually in July --each in a new city-- and have already hosted hundreds of lectures and seen thousands of individual participants as well as non-profit organizations. The next Libre Software Meeting will be held from July 4 to July 10, 2015, in Beauvais, Picardy, in the outskirts of Paris. It will be hosted by the Oisux [http://www.oisux.org] Association. The program includes : * lectures with well-known Libre Software community figures and digital technology experts, * debates and lectures transcribed and simultaneously translated in various languages, * testimonies of major migrations to Libre Software and Open Source, from Munich (Germany), Valence (Spain), Argentina and more, * lecturers specialized in the following fields : business & community, society, security, software development, infrastructure, art & culture, health, education, open data, do-it-yourself and open hardware, * activities and interactive workshops organized by members of Libre Software associations, * festive events such as the traditional Freedom Meal, discovery tours of the Picardie region, Free-access Culture shows and Nocturnes with the Free-access Digital Arts Festival. Contact : beauvais2015(a)rmll.info -- Odile Bénassy http://fluidinfo.fr

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RMLL/LSM 2015
by Odile Bénassy 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

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