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PDFreaders recommended by government - and what else we achived
by Léopold Baillard 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

Two weeks have been gone since we launched the PDF Readers fundraising. First, we want to thank everyone who made a donation. Currently, we received 907 EUR (more than 80% of the goal). Thanks to your donation, and you informing your friends about this work, we will reach the 1100 EUR until the 4th of December. What happened beside the fact that 554 administrations fixed the advertisement? Some politicians are already working to fix the advertisment for non-free software European wide and on the Member State level. For example, at the European level, Members of the European Parliament submitted parliamentary questions to the Commission[1] to find out where the Commission does this advertisement; why they do so; if they tested their websites with Free Software PDF readers; and how they plan to solve the problem for the Commission's own website and the websites of other public institutions in the Member States. On the national level, the German Green Party made a statement and submitted 18 questions to the German Federal Government about advertisement of proprietary PDFreader software on German Federal Government's websites (in German)[2]. In addition, the German Government is now recommends to use our text snippet "to open this PDF file, you need a PDF reader. You can download one of the following programs..." in their [3]new migration guide (in German) and highlights that there should be no advertisement for non-free software readers by public authorities. Besides that, since the fundraising started, the number of people supporting our 'Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Institution Websites' [4] has now reached 2579 signatures. Once again, thanks for supporting this campaign and for your funding. Finally, we would like to suggest everyone to turn off Javascript before you go to the donation page [5] . This way, you will avoid to run nonfree Javascript code. We apologise for this inconvenience, which is an issue related with this platform. Moreover, we have asked the platform managers to address this problem, and they agreed to work on this. Links: [1] https://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/parliamentary-questions-eu.en.html [2] http://gruen-digital.de/2012/03/document-freedom-day-kleine-anfrage-zur-wer… [ 3] http://www.cio.bund.de/DE/Architekturen-und-Standards/Migrationsleitfaden-u… [4] http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.html [5] http://www.ulule.com/pdfreaders/] -- Léopold Baillard - FSFE intern in Berlin - E-mail : leobaillard(a)fsfe.org Mobile : + 49 (0) 151 21 40 55 46 GPG : 59C6 1CCA 2343 8DE4 D4FF D96A BC55 4A21 3B90 C658 Support FSFE! http://fsfe.org/support/?leobaillard

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Summary about Karsten's talk "All watched over by machines of loving grace"
by Matthias Kirschner 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

There is a good summary of Karsten's talk: lwn.net/Articles/523537/. I really recommend everyone reading it and please send feedback about it also here. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - FSFE - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator FSFE, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 +49-1577-1780003 Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) Support FSFE! http://fsfe.org/support/?mk

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Science and Information Conference 2013 * 7-9 October 2013, London, UK *
by SETIT 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Appologies if you received multiple copies. Please forward this message to any potential colleagues in the areas of interest Call for Papers Science and Information Conference 2013 7-9 October 2013, London, UK Science and Information Conference 2013 will be held in London, a vibrant and historical city which is home to multiple academic institutions and where visitors can enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment from London Eye to Oxford Street to the ever green London Bridge! The conference will be held over three days, with paper presentations from the international community of authors, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures. SAI Conference aims to be a premier venue for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from Computer Science, Electronics and Communication related areas. Science and Information Conference 2013 is also technically co-sponsored by IEEE CIS UKRI chapter. More informations can be found at this link. Best regards International Liason's Chair of SIC 2013 Mohamed Salim BOUHLEL SETIT, Sfax University, TUNISIA GSM +216 20 20 00 05 ======================================================================================== This email is sent out to all those on the SETIT database. If you want to be removed from this database, please send an email to unsubscribe.setit(a)gmail.com with subject Unsubscribe ========================================================================================

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Good news from German Government about Secure Boot
by Matthias Kirschner 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hi there, good news from the German Government. See: FSFE welcomes German Government's White Paper on "Secure Boot" http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20121120-01.en.html If you think that work is important and you have not yet done so, please become a supporter of FSFE: http://fsfe.org/support/?restrictedboot (it does not cost anything and takes 4 minutes) AND please ask three friends to also do so! Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - FSFE - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator FSFE, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 +49-1577-1780003 Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) Support FSFE! http://fsfe.org/support/?mk

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petition: official currency code for Bitcoin (BTC?)
by Daniel Pocock 18 Nov '12

18 Nov '12

Somebody has started a petition to get an ISO 4217 currency code for Bitcoin recognised by the ISO authorities: http://www.change.org/petitions/six-interbank-clearing-include-a-symbol-for… There is some background info in these forums (and contact details if you want to write a formal submission to the ISO as well as signing the petition): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=123600.msg1327579#msg1327579 It would be interesting to know the FSF Europe position with respect to Bitcoin - can anyone comment? Has there been any initiative in any European country to have Bitcoin recognised or to confirm its legal status?

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International Conference HMI 2013 : Deadline Extended
by International conference HMI 2013 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Please consider to contribute and encourage your team members and fellow scientists to contribute to the following events. Thanks for forwarding the information on this Call for Submissions to those potentially interested to submit. Extended Deadline HMI 2013 At the request of a number of potential contributors, we have decided to extend the deadline for receipt of papers to be presented to The 1st International Conference Human-Machine Interaction (HMI 2013). This deadline is extended to November 20, 2012. This conference will be held in Indiad, 25 - 27 March 2013. The paper submission is on-line at: . In the other hand the HMI 2013 committees have decided to arrange a "Special poster session for junior researchers" during the days of the conference. If you feel interested, please submit your short paper (1/2 page) at this link http://www.setit.rnu.tn/poster_hmi.html Financial Supports HMI 2013 We are pleased to inform you that all participants from developing or emerging countries will be free for the accomodation fees ( Hotel ). The accompagnits have to paid 10$ by night. A "financial support" of amount 150 $ will be also allocated to 100 of these participants. We annonce also that 20 participants will be given with Special Travel Grant under Research Sponsorship of "ASDF, India" to travel to India for the purpose of presenting their Technical Paper. The criteria used for the allocation of the financial supports are: Country of residence (developing country, country with poor currency...) Occupational status To benifit from these financial supports you are plased to fill in detail this financial support form . The HMI 2013 organization committee examine on a case by case basis all requests and provide a response over 1 week. If you have any questions, don´t hesitate to contact us. To fill the form please clic here http://www.setit.rnu.tn/financial_hmi.html HMI 2013 Committee Honorary Chair Pranav MISTRY MIT Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States General Chairs Mohamed Salim BOUHLEL Higher Institute of Biotechnology University of Sfax, Tunisia KOKULA KRISHNA HARI K. Chief Scientist & Founding President, Techno Forum Group, India Call for papers HMI 2013 International Conference on Human Machine Interaction 2013 25 – 27, March 2013 Hotel Hilton, Chennai, India In association with ASDF (Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties) Chennai Chapter, and SETIT, Sfax University, Tunisia.Human Machine Interaction (HMI), is a main annual research conference aimed at presenting current research being carried out. The idea of the conference is for the scientists, scholars, engineers and students from the Universities all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry.HMI 2013 is co-sponsored by Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties and SETIT, Sfax University, Tunisia and technical co-sponsored by many other universities and institutes. The HMI 2013 conference proceeding will be published in the ASDF Proceedings as one volume, and will be included in the Engineering & Technology Digital Library, and indexed by EBSCO, World Cat, Google Scholar, and sent to be reviewed by Ei Compendex and ISI Proceedings. Selected papers will be recommended to be published in the Journals. Area of Submission Active Vision Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Applications of Perception Artificial Intelligence Brain Machine Interfaces Cognitive Engineering Collaborative Design and Manufacturing Collaboration Technologies and Systems Computer Graphics Computer Vision Cooperative Design Dimensionality Reduction Distributed Intelligent Systems Ergonomics Fuzzy Systems Health Care Human Centered Transportation System Human Factors Human Perception Hybrid Intelligent System Design Image Analysis Intelligent Transportation Knowledge Representation Machine Learning Material Appearance Modeling Medical Imaging Mental Workload Multimedia Multiview Learning Next Generation Network Network Security and Management Ontologies Patient Safety Pattern Recognition Perceptual Factors Physiological Indicators Production Planning and Scheduling Protocol Engineering Semi-Supervised Learning Service-Oriented Computing Simulator Training Systems Integration and Collaboration Systems Safety and Security Team Performance Video Processing Virtual Reality Visualization Topics of interest for HMI is widely declared for the above, but not limited to. Paper Submission ends: 30th October, 2012. For submission instruction visit http://hmi2013.in/pprsubmission.html Best regards Mohamed Salim BOUHLEL General Co-Chair, SETIT 2013 and HMI 2013 Head of Research Unit: Sciences & Technologies of Image and Telecommunications (Sfax University) GSM +216 20 20 00 05 =================================================================================================================================== This email is sent out to all those on the SETIT database. If you want to be removed from this database, please send an email to unsubscribe.setit(a)gmail.com with subject Unsubscribe ===================================================================================================================================

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New Fellowship interview online
by Ana Galan 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Hi, the new fellowship interview is available online: "This month we interviewed Hugo Roy, FSFE’s French Team coordinator and co-founder of Digital Freedoms association. He joined FSFE in 2009, asisting FSFE president Karsten Gerloff. He is member of April and of French Data Network too. " Link to the interview : http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=628 Best regards, Ana -- Ana Galán Herranz Spanish Team, FSFE Berlin http://fsfe.org/support/?anaghz E-mail : anaghz(a)fsfe.org Phone: +49 30 27 59 52 90 Mobile : + 49 (0) 157 352 10 311 GPG : E972 501A 721C 5BA2 D113 D452 6C25 D3F0 B358 4942

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Pacemakers with non-free software have dangerous back doors
by Carsten Agger 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

One of the better arguments in favour of free software always, everywhere: http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/319508,hacked-terminals-capable-of-causin… -- http://www.modspil.dk https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/

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I Have An Possible Chance To Meet An ARM Senior Manager
by Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Would you have any thing you would like me to talk about? Whatever you want me to discuss is of interest to me. Remember I am hardware newbie. He is one of the 7 chaps from the beginnings of ARM and still employed. I have also asked here: http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2012-October/005795.html (lots of discussion here) http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/pipermail/discussion/2012-October/009897.ht… and on the LibrePlanet discuss ML. -- This sig is a long one and in dev... I'm on StatusNet var identi and Diaspora. http://social.aross.me Please use the address disposable1(a)aross.me in public places. This is part of my spam control. Please add to your contacts and use to contact me "<You first name and your last name>.contacting(a)aross.me". This is future prof. Part of my anti spam plan. If I have not created a <1st&lastname>.contacting(a)aross.me address please bug me. Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/ Decent, recommended by me, non-proprietary, patent free, royalty free, FOSS archive formats: XZ http://tukaani.org/xz/format.html TAR.GZ or TAR.BZ2 (If you must.) PEA http://www.peazip.org/pea-archiving-utility.html A multi platform archiver progam: http://www.peazip.org/ A comparison of formats: http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks.html http://www.peazip.org/peazip-compression-benchmark.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers mp3,acc,wma,rma,ect audio formats are all rubbish! Decent audio formats: Vorbis (lossy) http://www.vorbis.com/ FLAC (lossless) http://flac.sourceforge.net/ Speex (for voice, lossy) http://www.speex.org/ For multimedia containers, I like/love: MKV http://www.matroska.org/ WebM http://www.webmproject.org/ OGG http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ FLAC (Audio only. Use with the FLAC audio format.) Good Video formats: VP8 http://www.webmproject.org/ or H.264 (Not nice legal wise.) Theora http://www.theora.org/ Take you time with encoding. I don't mined waiting for 12hour long ones, hope that's ok with you! Aim for best quality too. Do not think you have to reincode stuff to send it to me. I like my quality even if that means downloading 4GB mpeg 2 yuck but you will hate uploading that. The word “hack, hacker, hacking, hacked, etc” is often misused. It does not mean nasty, evil stuff. Cracker is the word you want. See: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Hacker Stop Software Patents! Proudly using distributions of GNU/Linux. No m$ or bapple! No lock-in, dependence, drm, limits :).

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FSFE smart card and 4096 bit keys?
by Daniel Pocock 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I recently received my card, and reading the document here: http://fellowship.fsfe.org/card.en.html referred me to the instructions here: http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/ch01.html Under s1.1, it suggests the OpenPGP card only has 1024 bit RSA, which many people are now trying to phase out. I personally use 4096 bit RSA for PGP and SSH purposes. As for choosing a card reader, I came across this page: http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/ch02s02.html but it is dated March 2007 - is there any updated advice/suggestions available? I have previously had some correspondence with gooze http://www.gooze.eu/ they are open-source friendly but they have also told me about a year ago that they can only supply cards up to 2048 bit (that is now the minimum accepted by Debian, for example) but would look for 4096 bit cards if there was sufficient interest. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQcW6yAAoJEOm1uwJp1aqDT20P/jAbEz+PVWdv6Hc4xdtW4LLY dLcUdfEaj+4Fnjus+vEMUBn3i4cHdmeNfyAm7d/AOw0FrIod/f3PSdy42LU4D/se qj+inwpiqTKD6YxoPIOWG9nKF9BXiM3u8QdD7KEFoU+TPtxyo/5U4PcOKeZByYgi l/g5zo+m6ql2iJyCSDjkRmh7yzHe36/uZGDzLVAASuBxoyeIdSxSpcS2jr4DWWEI gBjjuPTmj1ybxPjlPZ6pboVLXFJ9bSanR3Kx9lQDCU7wmHbxA1IbggPIStboMKJ8 j0uVw+7ezLlPZn7S94awStQk+M7McSwYufquhiQghN9d7LXMpAdVhWoDXvh6nJ3p uDuNksd2GPfLonxu5UEQjqy9inwgxWq2KzdaFUjZgEFp5G0+eNBbKLRwMzXsTXpV 9uxkHpEAM2OLVXMxzGPOnJvg2rjAVJdrlAk1LPM94T3tAen7//yALXeY+oHx+7tG qjeMki50nmZ9kM0Su+R0/SjuEJaHNnCj63eVlJtcQCQgNgbnFsQ9qnw/rVm40z4v wjoQ+qjG6AJBVWqmQo94XJsQm/mzNzkb/nXdwxUIiCejOJGneBehUsO1IfpY/9j9 wfPugrOJDQmmOvvvdBWF2ulYePN/PCTzO1REgA38tl9eJm4CuKHqXv4czmL448ou 4yJqJgchDDSZLZhlWyIj =xcYy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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