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Article "Software patents should include source code"
by Matthias Kirschner 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Joinup has a summary from discussion about software patents: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/software-patents-should-inc… Next week I will be in a panel discussion with the European Patent Office at Cebit, and I am interested in your opinion about the article. 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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What to use to organise a "weminar"?
by Lucile Fagueyrac 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

Hi, I'm supposed to organise an online workshop next week. I would just like to brodcast what is happening on my screen to up to 15/20 people. I don't even really need video or audio, just a screen broadcast would be enough. So far, my tests of jisti are not very conclusive. People keep telling me to use skype or google hangouts / other proprietary services. Does someone have a better idea? What would you do if you were in my shoes? The viewers are not using Free Software, and are both on Mac and Windows. Thanks! Lucile

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Registration opens for Document Freedom Day 2014
by Sam Tuke 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 = Registration opens for Document Freedom Day 2014 = [Read online: http://documentfreedom.org/registration-2014-opens] Today registration opens for Document Freedom Day 2014 events. This year the campaign day is March 26th, when people who believe in fair access to communications technology and Open Standards will again present, perform, and demonstrate. Event organisers can now register[1] on the re-launched documentfreedom.org website. Promotional packs with all new materials are now available for ordering[2], including multilingual posters and leaflets, fliers, and stickers. New t-shirts are available from the online store[3], and introductory pages providing examples of important standards[4], and the importance of interoperability to Universities[5], have been published. "Last year, 60 inspiring community groups ran events communicating the value of Open Standards around the world" says Sam Tuke, Campaign Manager. "With events already planned in Brazil, Brussels, Venezuela and elsewhere, we're aiming at 75 in 2014". "Greater focus this year has been on fresh materials, new educational leaflets, fliers, cartoons and stickers" says Erik Albers, Community Manager. "By providing new localised materials for our passionate event organisers, we're enabling new ways for them to deliver messages of interoperability". Funding is available for groups organising events or prizes for this year's campaign[6], and the team is aiming to extend it's reach beyond the 30 countries which celebrated Document Freedom last year[7], and looking forward to receiving new registrations over coming days. The campaign is made possible by campaign sponsors Freiheit, and Google[8]. 1. https://documentfreedom.org/how-add-event 2. https://documentfreedom.org/en/promotion-pack 3. https://documentfreedom.org/en/products 4. https://documentfreedom.org/en/open-standards-examples 5. https://documentfreedom.org/en/open-standards-universities 6. https://documentfreedom.org/prize-funding 7. https://documentfreedom.org/news/2013/news-20130419-01.en.html 8. http://documentfreedom.org/en/our-sponsors == About Document Freedom Day == Document Freedom Day (DFD) campaigns to celebrate information accessibility and introduce non-technical audiences to Open Standards. Open Standards are a basic condition for freedom and choice in software; ensuring the freedom to access data, and the freedom to build Free Software to read and write information. Started in 2008, the campaign last year had 54 events worldwide. It will happen on 27th March. http://documentfreedom.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlMQc0wACgkQ1bR1Itj7YQXG4wD8DZrnZFmnliLK5zXpZilUyWQu 3cP2Vmd5jn5KiTRgR2wA/iV/bUTEgHOI/vMcCaez7ZGMxeoEhp2rvguU80xYiI4t =yQ5k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Goal for February 14th: More love reports than bug reports! #ilovefs
by Matthias Kirschner 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

(If you are reading FSFE's newsletters [1] (and you should when you have not yet given me feedback what I could improve ;) ), and you already use one of our banners [2], you can skip this post because I copied and pasted it. Else please continue.) Let us admit it, the Free Software community is often very critical. Wewrite bug reports, tell others how they can improve the software, ask them fornew features, and to not spare with criticism. Sometimes we forget to say "thank you, for all your work". As in the last years, we want to change this, at least for one day. So on Tuesday the 14th of February we will celebrate the "I love Free Software" - Day [3]. Get active, buy your favourite developer a drink or give them a hug (ask forpermission first), write an e-mail/letter [4] expressing your feelings, create nice pictures, donate to a Free Software initiative, use another of our suggestions [5] or be create yourself to show how you appreciate people, working hard to enlarge or defend our freedom. Beside that help us to promote the activity with our banners [6], by e-mail, (micro)blog or in your (distributed?) social networks. New this year is a whole day event in the Unperfekthaus in Essen (Germany) [7] and that all our Fellows automatically get an login(a)ilovefs.org e-mail alias. So let's make sure that on February 14th there are more love reports, than bug reports! All the best, Matthias 1. http://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html 2. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/banners.html 3. http://ilovefs.org 4. http://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2012/01/18/why-i-love-free-and-open-sourc… 5. http://ilovefs.org 6. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/banners.html 7. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/unperfekthaus.html -- Matthias Kirschner - FSFE - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator FSFE, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 +49-1577-1780003 Free Software is important to you? Join today! (fsfe.org/join) Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner)

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Merkel and Hollande to use free software?
by Daniel Pocock 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

If Merkel really wants this to work, somebody should tell her to use free software http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/15/us-germany-france-idUSBREA1E0IG20…

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Free Software "cloud computing"
by Lucile Falgueyrac 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Hi everyone Lately I'm reading lots of things about "open source cloud computing". In press releases of press articles, no one really ever explain what it means, and why it is important. Do you know more about it? Do you have concrete examples? What can be the advantages in term of freedom (could those "clouds" be interoperable for example?) Is there already some standardisation going on? The normal problems of SaaS remain, don't they? Thanks for sharing your insights Lucile -- Lucile Falgueyrac - Free Software Foundation Europe FSFE, Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin XMPP : lucile.falg(a)jabber.fsfe.org Support FSFE! https://fsfe.org/

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Re: Free Software "cloud computing"
by Lucile Falgueyrac 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

On 02/12/2014 03:53 PM, Vicen Rodriguez wrote: > I think "open source cloud computing" is used, at least in most of the > cases, as a short way to say "open source software for building private > and public clouds". OpenStack (http://www.openstack.org/ ) is, maybe, > the main example of that. > Do you think there is any other meaning for that expression? Well, I often see it in the context of pubic bodies, but it fits with your explanation. For example: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/improve-it-security-ep-dema… So it would mean a "private cloud" at the scale of their institutions (European Parliament..) ? Self hosted free software cloud solutions would be more appropriate then.. To answer my own question, I found something about standardisation: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/etsi-open-source-clouds-wor… Lucile -- Lucile Falgueyrac - Free Software Foundation Europe FSFE, Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin XMPP : lucile.falg(a)jabber.fsfe.org Support FSFE! https://fsfe.org/

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Fairphone violating the GPL
by Tobias Platen 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Hello I tried to build a custom kernel for the Fairphone, but I got an error message: make ARC=arm defconfig alps/kernel/arch/arm/Makefile:237: alps/kernel/mediatek/Makefile: No such file or directory make: *** No rule to make target `alps/kernel/mediatek/Makefile'. Stop. It seems that the Fairphone (or its ODM) is violating the GPL. I downloaded the kernel from bit.ly/1g5PXRz. Tobias Platen

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Fwd: Fairphone and the GPL
by Tobias Platen 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fairphone and the GPL Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:42:01 +0000 From: Fairphone <noreply(a)fairphone.zendesk.com> To: tobias(a)platen-software.de The question Fairphone and the GPL has a new answer. (https://fairphone.zendesk.com/hc/communities/public/questions/200789957-Fai…) - Thomas K. the Mediatek sources are missing still but AFAIK the FP-Team is negotiating about making it public with Mediatek... But I would like to et an Update on that as well... There is a Forum for Fairphone development on XDA, seen it? http://forum.xda-developers.com/fairphone The topic is discussed there as well... (https://fairphone.zendesk.com/hc/communities/public/questions/200789957-Fai…) You are receiving this answer notification because you subscribed to updates in "Fairphone and the GPL" If you want to stop these notifications https://fairphone.zendesk.com/hc/questions/200789957/unsubscription/a417115…. -------------------------------- This email is a service from Fairphone I hope they will release the missing sources soon

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About free SaaSS equivalents
by ilias.k.cs＠freemail.gr 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

Hello, Can p2p technologies generally be thought of as free replacements for SaaS ; I'm thinking that one can, in theory, build a Google Docs p2p equivalent that is absolutely free. As it would be peer based, not client-server then-informally speaking-everyone would have access to the same code (the only requirement being that you may connect only to peers that have the same version as you do). Isn't this the way you can provide truly free alternatives just like you do with non-conventional software? I'm asking that question because I haven't seen any campaigns for providing alternatives to SaaSS yet, and I wonder whether there is something wrong with my line of reasoning (too naive?) or I'm just not a good surfer (been a while since someone said surfer, lol) And I know that one can run his own service and be free, but there are cases where having a service without anyone else to be served but yourself doesn't have much point. Thanks, Ilias K.

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