Hi All,
Probably too late to put out an email to everyone who might be interested.
Glynn Moody has another good article up regarding the upcoming ACTA
proposals. The European Parliament Committee for Legal Affairs (JURI)
looks likely to submit a positive recommendation for ACTA.
The vote is tomorrow.
Glynn has listed a series of MEPs on the committee along with email
addresses and is recommending people pass on their views - he's also
shown a copy of what he has sent.
If anyone has the time and inclination, the article and further
details here: http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/acta-update-xiv/in…
Glynn is the same person who recently brought the Open Standards
Consultation to my attention a week or so ago.
Thanks
Craig
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Jabber: ce(a)jabber.fsfe.org
FSFE is holding its annual General Assembly in Lisbon this year, and we
would meet the local Free Software community! Please join us on Saturday
April 28th at for a relaxed evening of drinks and conversation.
We will meet at 21:30 at Lisbon metro station Estação Baixa Chiado, exit
Largo do Chiado. From there, we'll move to Galeria Zé dos Bois around
22:00.
Further details and a map are available at the website of our associate
organisation ANSOL: https://ansol.org/fsfega2012meetup
We are looking forward to see you there!
Matthias
PS: You do not live in Lisboa, but want to meet as many FSFE people as
possible in one place? Propose were to held the next GA, help us with
finding a good location and we'll meet :) (Yes, some people might argue,
you can also visit FOSDEM ;) ).
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Hi all,
FSFE's monthly fellowship interview with Bernd Wurst is online:
http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=573
Bern Wurst is a Free Software professional, volunteering for the
Freedroidz project. He describes us his engagement with Free Software,
and its importance for education.
Thank you,
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Free Software Foundation Europe [ ][ ][ ] [http://fsfe.org]
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Hi all!
I would like to notify you that we will have a booth at LinuxTag in
Berlin from May 23 to 26.
It would be great to meet as many of you as possible. We are also
looking for booth volunteers.
It is a four-day event, so we are organising shifts. Your assistance
would help us a lot, even if just for a couple of hours of half a day.
Please refer to me for any question.
Looking forward to meeting you in Berlin!
Alessandro
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Free Software Foundation Europe [ ][ ][ ] [http://fsfe.org]
Assistant to the President | | +49-30-27595290
Your donation powers our work! [http://fsfe.org/donate/]
Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. is a German Verein registered
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Dear discussants,
As you may or may not be aware, we are planning to overhaul the
pdfreaders.org website. As part of the future changes, we are planning
to replace the current table with platform-specific reader
recommendations. Thus, it would be beneficial if you listed the pros
and cons of the free readers you actively use and the criteria we
should consider when evaluating the readers. The reason behind this
request is very simple: Today I had a rather interesting talk with the
leader of Estonian Pirate Party, and we happened to discuss free PDF
readers, and our use cases were just so dramatically different – I use
PDFs for reading only, but for him good annotation system was a must –
that I decided to ask as diverse audience as possible for input.
Thus, could you please tell us why a certain free reader is better
than the alternatives or elaborate on your daily use? Please tell us
what we should consider when we are going to make the final choice on
recommendations.
Thanks.
Some ideas:
-> Existence of a browser plug-in (the idea is from Hannes, I think)
-> Annotation system
Faithfully yours,
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Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild
FSFE Fellow (en) / FSFE ühinglane (et)
<repentinus(a)fsfe.org>
<https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/repentinus>
<http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/>
P.S. There is no need to cc the pdfreaders' mailing list: I am going
to compile all the information, and I will share it with the team when
the discussion on this list is going to draw to a close.
P.P.S. If anyone wants to work on the PDFreaders overhaul (work, not
discuss things), let us know, and we can take you aboard.
What happened on Document Freedom Day 2012? What was it all about? Where did
it happen?
See the final report complete with pictures and statistics:
http://documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120403-01.en.html
Sam.
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Free Software Foundation Europe
IM : samtuke(a)jabber.fsfe.org
Latest UK Free Software news: uk.fsfe.org
Is freedom important to you? Join the fellowship.fsfe.org
Next weekend (20-22) is FSFE's 2012 Web Sprint, this year in Manchester, UK.
Come along and learn about web technologies and contribute to FSFE's websites.
It'll be fun, it'll be social, and it'll help to spread Free Software more
effectively online.
Schedule, travel info, and contact details:
http://wiki.fsfe.org/WebSprint2012
Contact me for free accommodation, and for grants to cover travel contact web
team coordinator Nicolas Jean <nicoulas(a)fsfe.org>.
This is a great opportunity to meet some like-minded Free Software advocates
without having to travel far. Feel free to drop in for a short time if you
can't make the whole thing.
See you there!
Sam.
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Sam Tuke
British Team Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
IM : samtuke(a)jabber.fsfe.org
Latest UK Free Software news: uk.fsfe.org
Is freedom important to you? Join the fellowship.fsfe.org
PDFreaders.org poster available
In cooperation with the fsfe a poster for the PDFreaders.org campaign
came to life. The campaign is about removing ads for proprietary
pdfreaders from government websites.
When you arrange an event which is connected to Free Software you may
order or print a poster yourself after consultation with the fsfe.
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PDFreaders.org Poster verfügbar
In Zusammenarbeit mit der fsfe ist ein Poster für die PDFreaders.org
Kampagne entstanden. In der Kampagne geht es darum, Werbung für
proprietäre PDF-Betrachter von Webseiten der öffentlichen Verwaltung zu
entfernen.
Wer eine Aktion, die mit Freier Software zu tun hat, durchführt, kann
nach Absprache mit der fsfe ein Poster für seine Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
beziehen oder die Datei zum selber ausdrucken erhalten.
On 3/13/12, Matthias Kirschner <mk(a)fsfe.org> wrote:
> Hi Antonio,
>
> * Antonio Esposito <kobe(a)member.fsf.org> [2012-03-09 22:49:21 +0100]:
>
>> I noticed Garlach44 starts to preinstall Trisquel GNU/Linux in many of
>> their computers. I think it's a wonderful news for Free Software
>> community and movement. :)
>>
>> http://www.garlach44.eu/en/
>> http://www.garlach44.eu/en/trisquel
>
> Good news indeed. Thanks for letting me know. You might want to inform
> discussion(a)fsfeurope.org about that. Beside that we have
> https://wiki.fsfe.org/Hardware_vendors, where you might want to add it.
I already know the FSFE database and Garlach44 is inside.
The novelty is they are the first company (I know) in Europe that sell
some computers with Trisquel preinstalled (a completely free
distribution based on Ubuntu), so they're completely compatible with
Free Software.
Most of the companies that sell computers with GNU/Linux and-or
without windows preinstalled do NOT pose the problem that many of
these computers require proprietary firmware (alias "binary bloobs")
to run some important components, including wireless cards.
IMHO it's not wrong to propose and have a database lists who do not
sell computers with Trisquel (or other free distribution)
preinstalled, but it should keep in mind in order to create a
constructive awareness that will lead other companies to make this
choice, and then further improve the Free Software world.
In conclusion, a good idea might be to give priority to companies who
preinstall Trisquel (as ThinkPenguin and Garlach44) and list the
others in a second table explaining why they're in a different table.
My 2cent,
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Antonio Esposito
http://ur1.ca/74xok