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Dear all,
A new fellowship interview with Paul Boddie has been published on our
website. Please find it at
http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=509 .
Regards,
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Alessandro Polvani [ ] <alessandro.polvani(a)fsfe.org>
Free Software Foundation Europe [ ][ ][ ] [http://fsfe.org]
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Dear discussion participants,
as our world depends more and more on software, we need a strong Free
Software movement to cope with the upcoming challenges to free society.
You are a part of this movement, thank you all for taking part in Free
Software discussions during 2011.
Beside helping us with finding good positions, please also consider to
support us financially. It is now possible to donate your contribution
*yearly* or *monthly* by *credit card*, *direct debit*, and other means.
Every small donation helps us finance Free Software advocacy for another
year.
- You want to donate to us in the longer term? Become a Fellow of FSFE:
https://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
- You or your company want to make one time or recurring donations?
Become a donor of FSFE: https://fsfe.org/donate/
With the support of our Fellows and company donations in 2011 we:
- got 518 public institutions to remove advertisement for non-Free
software from their websites; Members of European Parliament are now
continuing our work in parliament [1],
- got answers from political parties about Free Software for elections
in Vienna/Austria, Switzerland, and 5 federal state elections in
Germany [2],
- defended Free Software from patent attacks (e.g. [3] and [4]),
- Achieved widespread press coverage for distributed Free Software
systems such as Yacy [5],
- defended the GNU GPL from legal challenges, working along side
gpl-violations.org [6],
- coordinated 42 events in 14 different countries raising awareness of
Open Standards for Document Freedom Day, and awarded media and
government organisations for publishing using Ogg Theora and Open
Document Format [7]
- and much, much more [8]
Please support us and fight for Free Software and free society in 2012!
Kind regards and enjoy the holiday season,
Matthias
1. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=873
2. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ayc/
3. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20111208-01.en.html
4. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20111208-01.en.html
5. https://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20111128-01.en.html
6. https://fsfe.org/projects/ftf/avm-gpl-violation.en.html
7. https://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110330-01.en.html
8. https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.html
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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)
The European Parliament Free Software Users group, which supports MEPs with
using and migrating to Free Software, is looking for someone to help them with
their Drupal website. The site, http://epfsug.eu, is up and running, and has
an experienced system administrator taking care of it. A few extra features
are required however to make it more useful to MEPs.
A calendar is required so that users can schedule events and meetings, and
better spam handling of comments would also be appreciated. The group is
looking for someone who can take care of these tasks, and also ideally help
out in future with maintenance issues relating to Drupal should they arise.
If you are able to help with this important project, *please email Erik
Josefsson* <erik.josefsson(a)europarl.europa.eu>, who is the advisor on Internet
policies to The Greens party (currently the fourth group in the European
Parliament with 56 MEPs from 15 countries).
FSFE assisted in setting up the Parliamentary Free Software group, and
continues to take an active part in their important work.
Thanks!
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
FSFE has published a new Fellowship interview with Mirko Boehm.
Mirko Boehm currently works as a researcher at the Technical University
of Berlin, focusing on the subject of Free Software and copyright and
patents. For a long time he has been involved with KDE. In our November
Internship Interview he talks about interactions between Free Software
communities and “corporate” world, and the role of Free Software at
universities and in education.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=477
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Dear translators and discussants,
this e-mail serves two purposes.
First, I am trying to find out whether any Estonian-speakers are
subscribed to either of the lists or whether any of the subscribers
have Estonian-speaking friends he/she could sway to contact me. It
would be easier to spread FSFE campaigns in Estonia if we had more
than one active Estonian-speaker. :-)
Second, while writing my appeal for Estonian-speakers to join forces
<http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2011/11/15/estonian-translations-p…>,
I happened to consider my translation experience in retrospect and it
made me think that it would be interesting to hear about the
experience of other translators too. So, does anyone feel like
sharing? :-)
[This is sent both to translators@ and discussion@ because this
concerns translators quite a bit, but it is probably of interest to a
wider audience and there's a greater chance of finding Estonians this
way :-).]
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Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild
<repentinus(a)fsfe.org>
<https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/repentinus>
Hi there,
I was called by a journalist and spoke about antifeatures
http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=797. She wants to talk to someone about
planned obsolescence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence.
Do you know contacts whom I could give her? Or with whom I could also
talk in future about this topic?
She is looking for information how this is done for:
- laptop and photo batteries
- printer cartridges
Thanks a lot,
Matthias
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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)
Sam Tuke, our UK coordinator, was interviewed on Hacker Public Radio
(HPR) during FSCONS in Gothenburg this weekend. You can hear the
podcast here:
<URI:http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0857>
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Andreas Tolf Tolfsen
Deputy Web Coordinator
Hi there,
this weekend at FSCONS the Nordic Free Software Award 2011 was
announced:
Erik Josefsson is the winner of the Nordic Free Software Award 2011.
With the award, the Swedish Foundation for Free Culture and Free
Software (FFKP) honours Josefsson for his achievements as a campaigner
for freedom in the information society.
See full text: https://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20111114-01.en.html
Thanks to Erik, as well as to the previous winners Bjarní Runar
Einarsson (2010), Simon Josefsson and Daniel Stenberg (2009), Mats
Östling (2008), and the Skolelinux project (2007).
Best Regards,
Matthias
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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)