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FSFE Newsletter – November 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

= FSFE Newsletter – November 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201411.ro.html ] == Munich: facts harder than fiction == The city of Munich runs Free Software on more than 15.000 workplace computers and has saved over 11.000.000€ in return[1]. During the migration to Free Software, they consolidated their heterogeneous IT in 51 places with 1000 IT employees and 22 IT departments. Despite these challenges most users are happy with the migration and say they do not want to switch back[2] (in German). And all of this happened in the front-yard of Microsoft's German headquarters. If you do not like the success of Free Software in Munich, what could you do? You could play on emotions and spread rumours that the Munich IT people are not taking the demands of regular users nor the executive into account. Of course, you have to stay vague, hoping to bring out a few of those voices that are always unhappy - but this is an easy way of discrediting the progress already made. This is what happened in the last months in Munich with remarks by the new mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD, Social Democrats) and his vice Josef Schmid (CSU, Christian Democrats). Some commentators have speculated about a connection to the fact that Microsoft is now moving its headquarter from Unterschleissheim to Munich, and Reiter claiming that he helped with this deal[3] (in German). As Microsoft was the biggest tax payer in Unterschleissheim[4] (in German), Munich will financially benefit by this move. But they seem to have underestimated the success of Free Software in Munich. IT experts from their own political parties raised their voice to correct them[5] and others have uncovered their misleading statements[6]. Thus, the comments by the mayors represent only individual opinions. Munich's political support for GNU/Linux is strong, and the money the city saves and will continue to save by using GNU/Linux, LibreOffice/OpenOffice, and the Desktop from KDE counts profoundly. If Free Software can even survive a smear campaign by the mayors it shows that it is there to stay. Dear Free Software community: /be proud and spread the word!/ But do not rest, the next attack will be more subtle. == EU wide Open Standards policy == But the answer to the inquiry includes another crucial point: the problem with document formats. The Munich IT managers noted that, at the beginning of their migration, the German federal states and the federal government highlighted the importance of Free Software and Open Standards, but afterwards never consequently went this path. In Germany, the lack of a clear Open Standard Policy is a major blocker for public administrations to use Free Software. In recent years, other European Countries such as Great Britain, France, Italy, and Sweden have done more to promote Free Software and Open Standards. On the European level, the former Munich mayor asked the European Commission to implement two measures to enable participation with Free Software in EU projects[7]: First to have all document templates which are available in Microsoft Office formats, also in Open Document Text (ODT) format. Second that all presenter notebooks in the EU institutions also have a program installed which can handle Open Document Presentation (ODP) files. This was in 2011 and the European bodies have neglected implementing Open Standard policies for a long time. == Open Standard compliance checks == When intuitions decide on Open Standards policies, this is just the first step. It is important to check this decision and to remind them about it. In 2010 as a Document Freedom Day activity our Fellows in Cologne and Bonn checked the German federal administrations after a decision that they have to be able to receive, edit, and send back ODF[8]. The FSFE found out that only 2 of 87 departments are conforming to federal open document regulations. This highlights the importance of being persistent and monitoring the implementation of such policies. Check out this month's “Get active” item with a specific suggestion how you can help with that within a few minutes. == Something completely different == - We are currently looking for interns again, especially in preparation of Document Freedom Day[9] but we also have general internship positions open from early January[10]. When Max Mehl saw the news item he published a summary about his internship with FSFE[11]. - Together with the Italian consumer association ADUC, and the Italian group ILS, we asked[12] regulators to take concrete steps to protect Italians from being forced to pay for software they do not want or need. - Local activities: Our Vienna group had their most active and successful Autumn ever. Franz documented how they participated in the three big events Software Freedom Day, the biggest German speaking animal rights conference, and the Game City fair 2013[13]. Christian Kalkhoff from our Munich group gave a presentation about the groups activities at the GNU Hackers Meeting 2014. The video is now online[14]. If you want to help with the organisation of the LibreOffice conference 2015, Carsten Agger is still looking for assistance, as our Aarhus group will help at the event[15]. - Spoiler alert: The last edition of the education news also mentions the focus of the upcoming Document Freedom Day 2015[16]. - Public administrations: The German town of Gummersbach announced that this summer it has completed its switch to GNU/Linux PCs[17], England's Healthwatch switches to Free Software CiviCRM[18], and a Free Software solution developed for the government of South Tyrol (Italy) to automatically test government websites and services is now also being used to probe sites of the region's tourism sector[19]. - Our sister organisation invites Free Software enthusiasts to the libre planet conference 2015[20] in the US. Furthermore the nomination for the 17th annual Free Software Awards is open[21], and you can send your nominations before Sunday 16 November. - Matthew Garret wrote a blog post on why he joined FSF's board[22]. But some of the comments he received are really offensive, and your editor hopes that Matthew can just ignore them. Related to this, your editor recommends you reading the article “On the sickness of our community”[23] by Jonathan Corbet. As always, if you have comments about it send them to our discussion lists[24]. - From the planet aggregation[25]: - Computers are entering the fashion field from multiple directions. Current FSFE intern Michele Marrali wrote about MeshCon 2014, a conference that connects fashion designer and technology experts[26]. - André Ockers reports that the Dutch public broadcaster NOS moves away from open standards[27] - Matija Šuklje made his first commit to KDE and writes about FSFE's Fiduciary Licence Agreement[28] - Daniel Pocock reports positive results from Outreach Program for Women[29] - Hugo Roy explains how he wrote a new defensive publication for ownCloud's file syncing encryption[30]. == Get active: Fix my document - ODF in EU bodies == The EU institutions still have a lot to do to remove barriers for Free Software users. Together with Open Forum Europe (OFE) your editor had a meeting with the IT responsible of the Commission, the Council, and the Parliament about that. We discussed our letter on video format[31] and the campaign “FixMyDocuments.eu”. This campaign was started by OFE to help EU institutions to implement their decision to support Open Document Formats[32] FSFE's volunteers already translated the website in more languages, but now it is time for all of you to act. We would like you to /find EU institutions who offer non-free formats/ on their website, without also publishing those documents in ODT, and then submit them[33]. Furthermore OFE encourages and will support anyone who wants to use the platform to cover other administrations. Thanks to all the volunteers[34], Fellows[35] and corporate donors[36] who enable our work, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/106341 2. http://www.computerwoche.de/a/wohin-steuert-linux-in-muenchen,3043464,2 3. http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2013-11/reiter-muenchen-spd/komplett… 4. http://www.merkur-online.de/lokales/muenchen-lk-nord/unterschleissheim-umzu… 5. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/munich-city-council-shields… 6. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141016-01.ro.html 7. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/prasident-des-deutschen-stadtetags-an-europaische… 8. https://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100803-01.ro.html 9. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141017-01.ro.html 10. https://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.ro.html 11. http://blog.mehl.mx/2014/my-internship-at-fsfe/ 12. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141017-02.ro.html 13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2014/10/23/three-autumn-events-2014/ 14. http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2014/2014-08--kalkhoff--fsfe--ghm.webm 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/10/22/announcing-the-libreoffice-conferen… 16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/10/free-software-in-education-news-%E2%80… 17. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/105069 18. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/104519 19. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/tyrol-government-shares-tes… 20. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/registration-opens-for-libreplanet-2015 21. https://www.fsf.org/news/the-free-software-foundation-opens-nominations-for… 22. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/33455.html 23. http://lwn.net/Articles/615192/ 24. https://fsfe.org/contact/community.ro.html 25. http://planet.fsfe.org 26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/puster/2014/10/14/meshcon-2014/ 27. https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2014/10/28/dutch-public-broadcaster-moves-away-fr… 28. http://matija.suklje.name/my-very-first-commit-to-kde 29. http://danielpocock.com/positive-results-from-opw-2013 30. http://hroy.eu/posts/owncloud-encryption-defpub/ 31. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140326-02.ro.html 32. http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/informatics/oss_tech/pdf/2011-07-25_ares.pdf 33. http://fixmydocuments.eu/?page_id=9 34. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ro.html 35. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 36. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ro.html

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Buletinul de știri al FSFE - octombrie 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

= Buletinul de știri al FSFE - octombrie 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201410.ro.html ] == Înalta Curte a Italiei sprijină separarea programelor de aparatură == Când cumperi un calculator portabil, este dificil să eviți să plătești o licență de Microsoft Windows, de vreme ce multe portabile vin împreună cu o astfel de licență. Această „taxă pentru Windows” a crescut în mod artificial prețul aparatelor pentru utilizatorii de programe libere care nu vor să folosească sistemul de operare al lui Microsoft. Noi, ca utilizatori de programe libere, vrem să sprijinim dezvoltarea programelor libere, în loc de cea a programelor nelibere, precum Microsoft Windows. Încă din 2008 administrăm o pagină de „wiki” cu sfaturi pentru clienții care vor să evite finanțarea dezvoltării programelor nelibere[1] și timp de mai mult de un deceniu am vorbit cu politicieni și organizații pentru protecția clienților pe marginea acestui subiect. Cu toate acestea, se fac progrese foarte mici în această direcție și vor trebui să treacă ani de zile până când această situație se va schimba în Europa. Pentru astfel de obiective pe termen lung, este importantă atingerea unor obiective intermediare. Luna trecută am înregistrat o astfel de victorie. Înalta Curte a Italiei a decis[2] că cumpărătorul unui portabil are dreptul să primească rambursarea prețului licenței de Microsoft Windows, pe care a fost forțat să o achiziționeze odată cu calculatorul său. Judecătorii au criticat aspru practica de a vinde calculatoare personale doar împreună cu sisteme de operare nelibere, pe care au catalogat-o drept „o politică comercială de distribuire forțată”. Curtea a considerat că această practică este „o tendință monopolistă”. A mai atras atenția că practica de a cupla programele cu aparatura presupune forțarea utilizatorilor să folosească aplicații nelibere suplimentare din cauza problemelor de compatibilitate și interoperabilitate, indiferent că doresc sau nu aceste programe. Acum, autoritățile italiene trebuie să transforme această decizie într- un real câștig pentru clienți, asigurându-se că cumpărătorii de calculatoare pot să-și aleagă dispozitivul împreună cu orice sistem de operare doresc sau cu niciunul. Apoi, sperăm că vom convinge și alte țări din Europa să urmeze exemplul dat de Italia sau să găsească la nivel european o soluție pentru această problemă. == Administrația publică europeană folosește programe libere == Adesea se observă tendința presei, dar și a noastră, de a ne concentra pe veștile proaste despre programele libere din administrația publică. În schimb, în această ediție, ne vom concentra pe exemplele bune din ultima lună. Așadar, iată că există vești bune care privesc suitele de programe libere pentru birou: Centrul de Calcul Federal al Austriei (Bundesrechenzentrum) laudă gama largă de utilizări a lui Apache OpenOffice[3]. Apreciază că „soluția poate fi adaptată la nevoile centrului, integrată în aplicațiile sale specializate și totodată permite ca documentele să fie create și trimise în moduri automate și semiautomate. OpenOffice este suita standard de programe pentru birou folosită de centrul de calcul încă din 2008, instalată pe 12.000 de calculatoare personale din întreaga organizație”. Mai mult, administrațiile publice ale orașelor italiene Todi și Terni trec la LibreOffice[4]. Ele urmează exemplul provinciei italiene Perugia, care folosește LibreOffice pe toate cele 1.200 de calculatoare personale ale sale, și a Autorității Locale pentru Sănătate - Perugia, care a instalat suita pentru birou pe 600 de calculatoare. Administrația publică franceză folosește o suită liberă pentru birou pe 500.000 de calculatoare de birou[5]. Deși au spus că trecerea la programele libere a fost grea, au reușit să rezolve problemele. Succesul proiectului se datorează în parte celor două contracte pe care ministerele le au cu furnizorii de servicii de TIC. Contractele atrag după sine asistența tehnică pentru 260 de programe libere și echipa care oferă asistența se asigură că peticele făcute pentru ministere sunt trimise înapoi sub formă de contribuții în proiectele acelor programe libere. Verzii din Saxonia (Germania) îndeamnă guvernul statului federal să facă un studiu de fezabilitate în ceea ce privește migrarea la programe libere[6]. „Grupul politic, însuși format din utilizatori de programe libere încă din decembrie 2011, spune că costurile mai mici din TI și avantajele din securitatea TI trebuie să direcționeze administrațiile publice” către programele libere. Ei susțin că dependența de programele proprietărești „oferă marilor corporații accesul și infuența asupra fluxului oficial de lucru intern, dar și asupra comunicării și datelor sensibile ale cetățenilor statului”. == Ceva cu totul diferit == - Chiar și fără taxa pentru Windows menționată mai sus, tot trebuie să verifici dacă calculatorul pe care vrei să-l cumperi funcționează cu programe libere. Pentru a crește calitatea informațiilor cu privire la care aparate sunt compatibile, de acum FSF și Debian cooperează la extinderea și îmbunătățirea bazei de date despre aparatură h-node[7], pentru a-i ajuta pe utilizatori să afle și să împărtășească informații despre calculatoarele care merg cu sisteme de operare libere. - Pe lista noastră de discuții publică în engleză, are loc în acest moment o discuție despre metaforele bune pentru programe libere. Hugo Roy a început firul de discuție[8] cu câteva exemple. Alessandro Rubini a avut câteva remarci critice, aducând argumente împotriva metaforelor menționate[9]. Cel din urmă susține că dacă avem nevoie de metafore pentru a explica oamenilor ce sunt programele libere, trebuie să rămânem în domeniul informației, a cunoașterii care poate fi răspândită fără costuri. Într-un articol recent, Guido Arnold a raportat că a avut experiențe pozitive cu copiii, când a folosit analogia cu rețeta[10]. - De Ziua Libertății Programelor de anul acesta, s-au implicat mai multe grupuri locale ale FSFE: Edgar Hoffmann a pus la punct un stand de informare în fața primăriei orașului Offenburg și seara a organizat o mini-conferință a comunității, cu prezentări și chestionarul nostru despre programe libere[11] (în germană, dar cu multe poze). Dominic Hopf, coordonatorul nostru din Hamburg, a susținut o prezentare la un eveniment de ZLP în Kiel despre F-Droid[12], în timp ce Torsten Grote le-a făcut participanților de la evenimentul din Berlin de ZLP o introducere în F-Droid. La acest eveniment au mai fost prezenți Nermin Canik din Istanbul și subsemnatul, pentru a vorbi cu oamenii despre libertatea programelor. Mai mult, Michael Stehmann a susținut o prezentare despre programele libere și viața privată la evenimentul de ZLP din Köln[13] (în germană). - De pe 13 pe 15 octombrie FSFE va avea un stand la Linuxcon, în Düsseldorf. Întrucât mulți activiști pentru programe libere vor fi prin zonă mai devreme, grupul nostru al Frăției din Düsseldorf îi invită pe toți susținătorii programelor libere să ia masa pe 10 octombrie 2014 începând cu ora 11:00 la „Bistro Schwesterherz”[14] de pe Aleea Bilker nr. 66, c.p. 40219, Düsseldorf. Și iată că este o perioadă activă pentru grupul nostru local de acolo, după ce a participat la criptopetrecerea dată pentru comisarul pentru protecția datelor și libertatea de informare[15] (în germană) și după ce a pus la punct un stand la festivalul de stradă Zackk[16] (în germană). - Guido Arnold a făcut un rezumat al efectelor atelierului din Essen al lui FSFE, în care am discutat care sunt cele mai bune practici pentru munca de activism de la nivel local[17]. - Dezvoltatorul de programe libere Matthew Garret este „absolut convins că programele libere care nu fac nimic ca să respecte sau să dea putere utilizatorilor sunt o totală pierdere de timp”. În jurnalul său[18], el aduce argumente în sprijinul ideii că trebuie să concepem programe de jos în sus în așa fel încât acele libertăți să pună la dispoziția utilizatorilor beneficii imediate și reale. În opinia sa, orice altceva este un eșec. - Din agregarea planetei[19]: - Guido Arnold raportează de la atelierele Teckids de la FrOSCon9. Mai mult de 60 copii cu vârste cuprinse între 9 și 13 ani au participat la trei ateliere diferite despre roboți, jocuri de Python și Blender[20]. - Max Mehl arată cum să folosești implicit Openstreetmap pentru contactele din Thunderbird[21] și cum să accesezi zilele de naștere ale contactelor din ownCloud, prin calendarul CalDAV[22]. - Henri Bergius raportează stadiul mediului de dezvoltare NoFlo[23], o interfață pentru utilizatori pentru programarea bazată pe Flow. - Poți să iei anumite măsuri pentru a evita să ai de-a face cu fișiere de Microsoft Office. Cu toate acestea, în anumite cazuri vei fi forțat să le folosești. Kevin Keijzer a documentat cum să obții cât mai mult din fișierele de Microsoft Office, ca utilizator de programe libere[24]. - Stagiarul nostru actual Michele Marrali a scris un articol de jurnal despre cum brevetele, drepturile de autor și mărcile comerciale pot fi folosite pentru a promova libertatea în proiectele de aparatură[25]. == Fii activ: Spune-ți părerea despre Manifestul pentru Datele Utilizatorului == A fost lansată versiunea 2 a Manifestului pentru Datele Utilizatorului[26]. Scopul acestui manifest este să definească drepturile fundamentale ale utilizatorilor asupra propriilor date în era Internetului: să controleze accesul la datele (și metadatelor) lor, să știe cum și unde sunt stocate datele și să fie liberi să-și aleagă platforma. Unele proiecte lucrează deja la susținerea manifestului prin acordarea acestor drepturi utilizatorilor lor! În acest moment, versiunea 2 este publicată ca ciornă pe „wiki” și comentariile publice sunt permise[27]. Îi rugăm pe toți susținătorii programelor libere să-și spună părerea despre manifest, așa încât să poată fi îmbunătățit și mai mult și să decidem dacă vrem să-l susținem la FSFE. Te rugăm să-ți spui părerea chiar tu, să discuți manifestul pe listele noastre de discuții[28] și să le ceri părerea și altor organizații pentru programe libere și să le întrebi dacă l-ar susține în această formă. Mulțumim tuturor voluntarilor[29], confraților[30] și donatorilor corporatiști[31] care ne fac posibilă activitatea, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://wiki.fsfe.org/WindowsTaxRefund 2. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140912-01.ro.html 3. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/103311 4. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/104084 5. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/103567 6. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/103307 7. https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-and-debian-join-forces-to-help-free-software-u… 8. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-September/010265.html 9. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-September/010295.html 10. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-October/010296.html 11. https://blogs.fsfe.org/fast_edi/?p=476 12. http://blog.dmaphy.de/2014/09/software-liberty-is-like-security-in-it.html 13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1258 14. http://www.bistro-schwesterherz.de/ 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1227 16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1247 17. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/09/how-to-advocate-for-free-software-in-l… 18. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/32686.html 19. http://planet.fsfe.org 20. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/09/teckids-workshops-at-froscon9-robots-p… 21. http://blog.mehl.mx/2014/setting-openstreetmap-as-default-in-thunderbird-co… 22. http://blog.mehl.mx/2014/birthday-calendar-with-owncloud-via-caldav/ 23. http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/flowhub-kickstarter-delivery/ 24. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/09/12/ooxml/ 25. http://blogs.fsfe.org/puster/2014/09/08/freedom-and-openness-in-hardware/ 26. https://userdatamanifesto.org/2.0/ 27. http://udm.branchable.com/index.en.html 28. https://fsfe.org/contact/community.ro.html 29. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ro.html 30. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 31. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ro.html

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FSFE Newsletter – September 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

= FSFE Newsletter – September 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201409.ro.html ] == An Introduction to Free Software and the liberation of cyberspace == The freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, and privacy are essential preconditions for a Free Society. If it lacks one of those freedoms, it is difficult to maintain the others. As a society, it is important to defend those freedoms, especially in light of fundamental changes such as the one introduced by the ubiquity of computers. Such changes can threaten old freedoms and can create the need for new ones. So now software freedom is crucial to distribute and balance power in society. The FSFE is convinced that a free society needs the freedoms which only Free Software can offer. That is, why we advocate Free Software. In 2010, we wrote the article "Democracy requires Free Software"[1], explaining the message above to politicians at the ceremony at which the Theodor-Heuss medal was awarded to the FSFE. Thanks to FSFE's translators team, the article is meanwhile available in 15 languages, and is shared widely. Since last month, the message of the importance of Free Software is also featured in a short TEDx video "Introduction to Free Software and the liberation of cyberspace"[2] by Richard Stallman. It is a good way to make others aware of the significance of Free Software and why it matters. We need more people to understand why Free Software matters for a free society, as the following examples will show once again. == Slovakia still forcing users to use non-free software == In 2012 -- thanks to our former intern Martin Husovec -- the FSFE got engaged in a case against the Slovak Tax Authorities[3] together with the European Information Society Institute (EISi). As current FSFE intern Matej Gera writes in his blog[4] the problem of Slovak authorities forcing people to use non-free software is still ongoing: According to a new regulation in Slovakia, people who own agricultural land and want to sell it must make an offer on web page of the Ministry of Agriculture first. In order to submit an offer to the Ministry's web page, you need to use additional software. The software in question is proprietary and only available for Microsoft Windows, and it is the only way -- there is no paper form. If you would try to sell the land otherwise, you would break the law. This practice is not only unacceptable for Free Software users, but also unlawful itself in Slovakia. Since 2008, there is a binding regulation which forbids public authorities to request users to use a specific operating system. But the website of Ministry clearly does not comply with this rule. Now, the Slovak non-profit organisation EISi sent a letter to Ministry of Agriculture, calling to end this practice. If they will not comply with the letter and will not provide an interoperable solution until October, EISi will go to court to protect rights of Slovak software users. == Forced by Internet Service Provider to use certain hardware == It should go without saying that in our society, we should be able to freely choose technical devices for use in our homes like we choose the furniture or the books in our shelves. But besides authorities forcing us to to use non-free software, the FSFE currently also has to counter companies who want to force us to use certain computers in our home. In this case even one of the most important computers: the router, which should act as the gatekeeper between our private network and the public internet. In Germany, Internet service providers (ISPs) force their customers to use certain types of hardware in order to connect to the internet. Users of alternative devices, instead, are not able to connect to the internet by those ISPs. Together with other members of the Free Software community, our German team wrote several comments on this case and we entered talks with government agencies, corporations, and other organisations about compulsory routers. As this topic was mainly covered in Germany and in German, our German team member Max Mehl summarised this case[5] and made a timeline of the most important events which lead to the current state[6]. We hope that with this information we can support other Free Software activists around the world, who might face similar problems. == Something completely different == - FSFE has received television coverage twice in the last months. First, our legal coordinator Matija Šuklje was interviewed for the RTV Slovenia to point out the challenges for the newly appointed Information Commissioner of Slovenia related to cloud computing. Although they translated the FSFE into "Foundation for unrestricted programming", it was the first time for the FSFE to appear on Slovenian television. Thereafter, our Austrian coordinator Peter Bubestinger was in Mexico City at an archiving seminar, where he presented use cases for file-formats and long-term storage implemented in Free Software. The whole seminar was translated live into Spanish and broadcasted on Televison Educativa, a nation-wide education TV channel. They also uploaded the videos to youtube. Peter's interview[7] can be found at 3h50m. - Guido Arnold published some education news[8] covering a hacking contest to find security holes in Moodle, Free Software activists visiting schools in Slovakia, and other education related news. - GNU community members and collaborators have discovered details about a five-country government surveillance program codenamed HACIENDA[9]. Those same hackers have already worked out a Free Software countermeasure to thwart the program. - Equipped with free GNU Radio software, a group of citizen scientists has contacted, controlled, and is attempting to recapture a 1970s-era satellite and bring it back into an orbit close to Earth. The story behind this[10] demonstrates the importance of developing, maintaining, and promoting Free Software. - From the planet aggregation[11]: - Hugo Roy takes a look at what is featured in the European Court of Justice's "right to be forgotten"[12]. As he found it difficult to read, he wrote an alternate version of the directive. In another post he explains why he helped the Free Software search engine developer Pablo Joubert to publish a defensive publication[13] around search engines making use of distributed hash tables. - Our former intern Lucile Falgueyrac writes about why TTIP[14] CETA entails a few reasons for Free Software advocates to get angry[15]. She argues that now, there is a good moment to send a strong message to the European Commission, the governments and states that policy laundering is not a legitimate way to legislate, and never should be. - Our current intern Bela Seeger wrote a blog post about Off-The- Record (OTR) Messaging[16], clarifying the meaning and technicalities of "off-the-record" (OTR) messaging and giving insight into the possibilities of implementing it in various devices. (You might have noticed in this edition, that current and former interns of FSFE are quite active!) - Our Fellows participated at many events. Nikos Roussos writes about his personal highlights of the Fedora Contributor Conference 2014[17]. He also mentioned the keynote about the Novena laptop project, which was summarised on LWN[18]. Mario Fux and Mirko Böhm report from the KDE meeting in Randa, with around 50 Free Software activists improving KDE. To get some impressions from the meeting, Mirko posted a short video from the meeting in Switzerland[19]. - André Ockers, who is currently updating and translating almost all FSFE materials into Dutch, started blogging[20]. He writes in English, Dutch, German, and French. - Kevin Keijzer, also from the Netherlands, gives a detailed overview of Free Software he is using[21]. - Daniel Pocock gives an update on WebRTC, explaining what works, what does not[22]. - Matija reports from his free music expirement[23], highlighting his favourite artists who are using Creative Commons licenses for their music. == Get active: Spread the word on Software Freedom Day == On 20 September 2014, people around the world celebrate Free Software. The organisers from Software Freedom International announced that the registration for events is now open. They provide a start guide[24] with tips and pointers for organising your own SFD team event. If you organise an event, or just want to spread information about Free Software on Software Freedom Day you can also: - order printed information materials from us[25] - send around the FSF's e-mail self defence guide[26] which is now available in 11 languages. (At the "Freedom not Fear" demonstration our Berlin Fellowship group handed out a hundreds of printed leaflet of the German version, which you can also order from us.) - share Richard Stallman's video[27], or the article mentioned above[28] to explain your friends Free Software. Thanks to all the volunteers[29], Fellows[30] and corporate donors[31] who enable our work, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/society/democracy.ro.html 2. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/20140407-geneva-tedx-talk-free-software-free-… 3. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/eura-slovakia/eura.ro.html 4. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gera/2014/08/18/interesting-new-development-in-slovak… 5. https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/routers.ro.html 6. https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/timeline.ro.html 7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggCvJ0dzqx4 8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/08/free-software-in-education-news-july/ 9. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-hackers-discover-hacienda-governmen… 10. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-in-space-gnu-radio-and-th… 11. http://planet.fsfe.org 12. https://hroy.eu/posts/whats-in-C-131_12/ 13. http://hroy.eu/posts/intro-defpubs/ 14. https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2014/08/11/ttip-policy-laundering-a-few-… 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2014/08/11/ttip-policy-laundering-a-few-… 16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/seeger/2014/08/04/off-the-record-otr-messaging/ 17. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/08/13/fedora-flock-2014/ 18. http://lwn.net/Articles/608426/ 19. http://creative-destruction.me/2014/08/28/the-kde-randa-video/ 20. https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/ 21. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/08/06/a-quick-overview-of-th… 22. http://danielpocock.com/webrtc-what-works-what-doesnt 23. http://matija.suklje.name/the-jamendo-experiment-week-1 24. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide 25. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.ro.html#promo-material 26. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/volunteers-translate-email-self-defense… 27. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/20140407-geneva-tedx-talk-free-software-free-… 28. https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/society/democracy.ro.html 29. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ro.html 30. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 31. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ro.html

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FSFE Newsletter – August 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

= FSFE Newsletter – August 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201408.ro.html ] == Privilege and Power == In the olden days a common citizen of a republic going about their everyday business was quite, shall we say, free. While tending to their chores they would occasionally need a new tool or some advice, but the old Latin proverb /scientia potentia est/ dictated the limits of their freedom to be the limits of their knowledge: if they needed a new tool and lacked the knowledge to make it, they became dependent on the toolmaker only to obtain the tool. In the brave new world it is different: not only do we depend on the toolmaker when we wish to obtain a new tool, but oft we remain dependent on them forever after. In the olden days a hammer could be used both to put stakes in the ground (or vampires) and nail planks atop the vampire's coffin. Today, the customer buying a general purpose tool has to pay twice for it: once to put stakes in the vampire and then again to nail planks atop its coffin. This is great if you happen to be one of the few toolmakers: not only are they one of the few privileged to be in control of their own property, but they have also stripped the rest of us of our rights and have the power to command our tools and hence have the power over us. Unfortunately, the privilege blinds them to the situation's revoltingness. Times have not been kind and, in addition to the revolting consequences of failed regulations and cold, unjust, profit-oriented business logic, we have been treated with a revelation after a revelation of agencies and offices founded to protect us, and subsequently given an impossible mission, preying on us. These developments, while despicable, can at least be rationally understood. However, it cannot be rationally comprehended why our /democratically elected representatives/ would seek to entrench these unfortunate encroaches on our rights, on their own rights. Yet many of them do: the European Commission is refusing to break Microsoft's stranglehold on the EU[1] and, as an even more deeply unsettling development, the Communications Committee of the UK parliament's House of Lords has proposed to end anonymity on the Internet[2]. If the danger to privacy and freedom were not so grave, the latter's technical ineptitude and arguments utterly unsuitable to the birthplace of liberalism would be highly amusing. Yet the danger posed by people who have been corrupted by power or greed is real and our resolve to confront that danger with more decentralization, security, privacy, and anonymity must become ever greater. == We are all Targets == According to new revelations[3] from early July pretty much anyone in the technological community is a target for surveillance. Among other activities we have been, or will be picked out, for visiting the Tor website[4], reading the Linux Journal[5], connecting to Mixminion anonymous remailer service[6], and downloading Tails[7], a privacy- sensitive GNU/Linux distribution. These sobering facts ought to be remembered every hour, every day. In the end our greatest weapon is developing and promoting projects that will one day land people interested in them on that very same list. == Something Completely Different == - FSFE will have a booth at FrOSCon[8], where our Vice President Matthias Kirschner[9] will also give a talk[10] on the demise of the general purpose computer. - Our President Karsten Gerloff[11] writes about evaluating Free Software for procurement[12]. - Hugo Roy[13], our Deputy Legal Coordinator writes about defensive publications and his work for the Open Invention network[14] at his blog. - Matthias writes at his Fellowship blog about the invisible tasks[15] that are being attended to by Reinhard Müller[16], our Financial Officer. - Guido Arnold, our Education Team Coordinator, has finished composing his collection of Free Software in Education News for June[17]. - From the planet aggregation:[18] Kevin Keijzer writes about receiving TV using a DVB-T USB dongle[19]. For our more adventurous readers we suggest tuning the receiver to 1090 MHz and obtaining an overview of the local civilian air air traffic as reported by ADS-B transmitters on the aircraft. - Sergey Matveev reports on the GoVPN daemon[20] he wrote in the Go programming language. - == Get Active! == 1. Use and spread the word about GnuPG[21], Off-the-Record messaging[22], Tor[23], cryptsetup[24], HTTPS Everywhere[25], Privacy Badger[26] and other privacy-enhancing Free Software. 2. If you can write code and understand a bit of computer science, find a cool privacy-or-anonymity-enhancing concept in a scientific journal and make it come alive. We thank all our volunteers[27], Fellows[28], and donors[29] who make our efforts possible, Heiki Ojasild[30] – FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140708-01.ro.html 2. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldselect/ldcomuni/37/3704… 3. http://www.wired.com/2014/07/nsa-targets-users-of-privacy-services/ 4. https://www.torproject.org/ 5. http://www.linuxjournal.com/ 6. http://mixminion.net/ 7. https://tails.boum.org/ 8. https://www.froscon.de/en/home/ 9. https://fsfe.org/about/kirschner/kirschner.ro.html 10. http://programm.froscon.de/2014/events/1321.html 11. https://fsfe.org/about/gerloff/gerloff.ro.html 12. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/07/03/evaluating-free-software-for-procu… 13. https://fsfe.org/about/roy/roy.ro.html 14. http://hroy.eu/posts/intro-defpubs/ 15. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/an-invisible-part-of-the-free-software-foundation-… 16. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/reinhard 17. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/07/free-software-in-education-news-june/ 18. http://planet.fsfe.org/ 19. http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/07/17/watching-dvb-t-without-… 20. http://blogs.fsfe.org/stargrave/archives/122 21. https://www.gnupg.org/ 22. https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ 23. https://www.torproject.org/ 24. https://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/ 25. https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere 26. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger 27. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ro.html 28. https://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 29. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ro.html 30. https://fsfe.org/about/ojasild/ojasild.ro.html

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Buletinul de știri al FSFE – iulie 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

= Buletinul de știri al FSFE – iulie 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201407.ro.html ] == Cafeneaua intimității: criptarea corespondenței electronice ca fel principal! == Imaginează-ți că-ți iei câțiva prieteni și mergeți într-o cafenea, dar în loc de băuturi fierbinți și reci, meniul prezintă informații despre măsurile care garantează intimitatea digitală. Precum „https peste tot” ca aperitiv, „criptarea corespondenței cu GnuPG” la felul principal și „tosdr.org” (informații despre termenii serviciilor) ca desert. Astfel de cafenele există deja în Țările de Jos. La întâlnirea în limba germană din Essen a lui FSFE, Felix Stegerman, coordonatorul nostru adjunct din Țările de Jos, și-a prezentat planurile de a pune la punct mai multe cafenele ale intimității și motivele pentru care crede că este momentul potrivit și o oportunitate bună pentru programele libere, să facă la fel și în alte locuri. Acest lucru se datorează faptului că majoritatea oamenilor care se duc într-o cafenea a intimității deja sunt conștienți de problemele legate de intimitate și libertate. Dar le și oferă voluntarilor locali o ocazie bună să vorbească despre programele libere și importanța folosirii de programe libere din motive de intimitate. De exemplu, întrebându-i pe participanți „cine este în controlul programelor”? Citește articolul de jurnal al lui Felix pentru mai multe detalii despre aceste cafenele și planurile de viitor[1]. == Autoapărarea corespondenței electronice devine multilingvă == O resursă bună de informare despre criptare și programe libere are o importanță crucială pentru cafenelele intimității pe care tocmai le-am menționat. Din fericire, organizația noastră suroră FSF a publicat un ghid al autopărării corespondenței electronice[2] și voluntariii au tradus ghidul și infograficul în alte șase limbi, printre care germană, portugheză braziliană, franceză, rusă, turcă și japoneză. Acest ghid explică cum se instalează programele necesare pentru criptarea corespondenței folosind GNU+Linux, MacOS și Microsoft Windows, dar și cum se face generarea cheii, ce este rețeaua bazată pe încredere și cum se folosesc aceste programe. De tot ce ai nevoie este un calculator cu conexiune la Internet, un cont de poștă electronică și undeva pe la o jumătate de oră. Pentru detalii despre cum poți contribui la răspândirea informațiilor despre autoapărarea corespodnenței elecronice, uită-te la secțiunea „fii activ” a acestei ediții. == Ce să folosești în loc de WhatsApp și Threema? == „Cum pot să-mi criptez corespondența electronică?” a fost una dintre cele mai obișnuite întrebări pe care le-am primit în ultimele luni. Mulțumită ghidului de autoapărare a corespondenței, avem acum un răspuns bun. Altă întrebare despre criptare și intimitate care ne-a fost pusă în mod frecvent a fost: „există o alternativă sigură și liberă la WhatsApp?” WhatsApp este un program de mesagerie pentru telefoanele inteligente care îți permite să trimiți gratuit mesaje (de tip text). După recenta achiziție a lui WhatsApp de către Facebook și ținând cont de dezvăluirile despre NSA, mulți dintre utilizatorii de WhatsApp caută înlocuitori siguri și de încredere. Pentru că acest lucru îi afectează pe atât de mulți utilizatori, noi, cei de la Fundația pentru Programe Libere Europa, am dori să putem să promovăm un înlocuitor care-ți respectă libertatea și intimitatea. Prin urmare, am decis să facem niște cercetări și să susținem un atelier despre înlocuitorii lui WhatsApp la ultima întâlnire a echipei FSFE, din Essen. Hannes Hauswedell și Torsten Grote au făcut un rezumat al rezultatelor.[3]. == Ceva cu totul diferit == - Activitățile grupurilor locale: FSFE a avut standuri profesioniste în aer liber la festivalul vegan al verii din Viena[4], dar și la Corso Leopold în München[5]. La întâlnirea din Atena despre programe libere, grupul nostru local a discutat despre cum se construiește propriul server personal. Nikos Roussos a documentat cum se configurarează un server caznic cu Fedora și Beagle Bone Black[6]. Gupul nostru local din Frankfurt s-a concentrat pe subiecte de criptografie[7] și Hugo Roy, coordonatorul unui grup local din Paris, a susținut o prezentare la petrecerea locală dedicată lui Ubuntu[8]. - „Programele libere au nevoie de o comunitate puternică. Dacă nu reușim să-i atragem pe toți cei care vor să lucreze pentru programele libere, ne împușcăm singuri în picior.” a scris Karsten Gerloff în articolul său de jurnal „Patru reguli sociale pentru o „zonă fără nesimțiți”[9]. Coordonatorii grupurilor noastre locale au avut o discuție similară și au început cu un cod de conduită pentru discuțiile din FSFE[10]. Suntem interesați să aflăm ce părere ai pe această tabletă. - Comunitatea programelor libere are acum 33 de susținători în Parlamentul European. Toți au semnat pactul pentru programe libere de la alegerile europarlamentare[11] și suntem siguri că vor fi momente în care le vom reaminti de promisiunea pe care au făcut-o și îi vom ruga să ne sprijine cauza. - Președintele nostru Karsten Gerloff a susținut un discurs care a dat tonul Conferinței Europene a Internetului Creștin[12]. Apoi a fost rugat de un pastor să comenteze pe marginea unui plan de a migra bisericile din regiunea sa către programe libere, lucru pe care Karsten l-a și făcut[13]. - De pe 7 pe 8 iunie 2014, Fundația Ceata, o organizație asociată cu FSFE, a organizat în București a doua conferință Coliberator. La prima ediție președintele lui FSFE, Karsten Gerloff, a dat tonul, iar la această ediție a fost Richard Stallman, președintele lui FSF. Prima serie de prezentări sunt deja publice la situl conferinței[14]. - Guido Arnold pune la dispoziție știrile despre programele libere din educație - mai 2014[15]. - Administrația publică: Joinup raportează că complexitatea licențelor programelor proprietărești încurajează adoptarea programelor libere de către Autoritatea Londrei Mari[16], că asigurările sănătate din Extremadura au trecut la programe libere[17] și că orașul german Leipzig deja a migrat 2792 din cele 4300 de stații de lucru ale orașului la suitele de programele libere de birotică Apache OpenOffice și LibreOffice[18]. Se așteaptă ca „în primii cinci ani economiile anticipate vor fi înghițite de costurile de ieșire asociate cu programele proprietărești folosite de oraș”. - Din agregarea planetei[19]: - Mai multe femei prezentatoare la conferință și ATM-uri care rulează GNU+Linux. Torsten a susținut o prezentare despre cum să- ți eliberezi Androidul la FISL din Brazilia[20]. - Sub sloganul „datele tale la serviciile de informații”, Uniunea Umanistă Germană a organizat „parada jurnalelor”, în cadrul căreia a cerut organizațiilor să participe cu câte un articol de jurnal. Erik Albers a scris articolul „Protecție împotriva supravegherii prin criptare cu programe libere” (în germană)[21]. - Întâlnirile din Randa, o serie de sprinturi care fac programele de KDE să fie mai bune, au nevoie de sprijinul tău pentur ediția acestui an. Mario Fux ne roagă pe toți să ducem mai departe vestea, să-i ajutăm, să le facem donații și/sau să-i susținem[22]. - Hugo Roy enumeră câteva „unelte nemaipomenite” pe care le folosește, dar sunt puțin cunoscute[23]. - Bdale Garbee a scris despre TeleGPS, o placuță doar pentru urmărire care pune la dispoziție funcții de localizare prin GPS și este ușor de folosit[24]. - Fotografie: Hannes a început to să publice fotografia lunii[25], editată cu programul liber Darktable și Paul Boddie explică cum a reglat previzualizările de fotografii din digiKam[26]. - Björn Schießle descrie cum să integrezi programul de liste de lucruri de făcut „ToDo.txt” în Claws Mail[27]. - Fostul angajat al lui FSFE Sam Tuke explică cum să faci în mod automat copii de rezervă ale mai multor conturi de poștă electronică în GNU+Linux[28]. == Fii activ: Distribuie ghidul de autoapărare a corespondenței electronice! == Ghidul lui FSF de autoapărare a corespondenței electronice[29] și infograficul[30] corespunzător este o resursă bună pentru explicarea criptării corespondenței unei audiențe mai largi. Deja de ceva timp FSFE livrează activiștilor materiale cu informații despre programe libere[31]. Pe lângă informațiile generale despre programele libere, formatele libere, Gestiunea Digitală a Restricțiilor și F-Droid, dorim pe viitor să distribuim și infograficul. Înainte de a-l tipări în cantități mari și de a-l expedia grupurilor noastre locale[32] și altor activiști din toată Europa, am vrea să te rugăm să testezi inforgraficele cu prietenii, familia și colegii. Încearcă să afli dacă au probleme în a înțelege anumite părți din el și folosește listele noastre de discuții publice[33], în așa fel noi -- împreună cu organizația noastră suroră -- să le modificăm, dacă este necesar. Le mulțumim tuturor voluntarior[34], confraților[35] și donatorior corporatiști[36] pentru că fac posibilă activitatea noastră, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2014/07/01/workshop-on-privacy-and-free-software/ 2. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ 3. http://freedom-blog.net/2014/06/what-to-use-instead-of-whatsapp-and-threema/ 4. https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2014/06/11/booth-on-the-vegan-summer-f… 5. http://www.softmetz.de/2014/06/14/freie-software-offene-standards-und-freie… 6. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/06/23/fedora-beaglebone-black/ 7. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/06/report-from-fellowship-meeting-in-fran… 8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2014/05/talk-about-the-fsfe-ubuntu-party-2014/ 9. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/06/four-social-rules-for-a-no-asshol… 10. https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/CodeOfConduct 11. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140528-01.html 12. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/30/talking-to-the-church-about-free-… 13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/30/free-software-in-the-church-from-… 14. http://coliberator.ro/ 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/06/free-software-in-education-news-may/ 16. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/london-complex-proprietary-… 17. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/extremadura-health-care-has… 18. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/leipzig-switching-open-sour… 19. http://planet.fsfe.org 20. http://blog.grobox.de/2014/liberte-seu-android-at-fisl15/ 21. https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/06/20/verschluesselung-mit-freier-software/ 22. http://www.kde.org/fundraisers/randameetings2014/index.php 23. http://hroy.eu/tips/awesome-tools/ 24. http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/posts/TeleGPS_v1.0.html 25. https://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2014/07/01/photo-of-the-month-2014-07/ 26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=784 27. http://blog.schiessle.org/2014/06/10/combine-claws-mail-with-todo-txt/ 28. http://samtuke.com/2014/06/backup-multiple-email-accounts-automatically-on-… 29. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ 30. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/infographic.html 31. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.ro.html#promo-material 32. https://fsfe.org/about/localteams.ro.html 33. https://fsfe.org/contact/community.ro.html 34. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ro.html 35. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 36. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ro.html

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FSFE Newsletter – June 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

= FSFE Newsletter – June 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201406.ro.html ] == Security is interdependent: We are all Gmail users now == You care about privacy and you are either paying an e-mail provider, or even run your own mail server to keep autonomy, control, and privacy over your email. You do this because you want to make sure that no big company has copies of all of your personal email. Still, this does not prevent other companies from getting their hands on your data. It is not enough to merely take care of your own security, if you seek to increase your security. You have to convince your peers to increase their security, too: like Jacob Appelbaum says, security is interdependent[1]. FSF board member Benjamin Mako Hill wondered how much of his email has ended up in the hands of companies such as Google. So he wrote a small program to go through all his email since April 2004 (when Gmail was introduced) and analyse it. Read what Benjamin found out[2], what results FSFE's Karsten Gerloff[3] and Hugo Roy[4] got when they reproduced it, and why not try those scripts out for yourself? == Is it a torch light or a spy in your pocket? == A lot of programs that people install on their Android devices violate their security. It is common that those programs ask users to accept non-readable terms and conditions, once installed they might reveal where the device (and therefore the user) currently is, and access personal data like user's address books or text messages. A seemingly innocent app such as a torch light can thus violate the user's privacy. For owners of mobile devices it is important to have an app store that exclusively provides Free Software. Since this means that the source code can be checked by external parties other than the vendor, they can check what an app really does, and highlight or directly remove anti- features. The result is a repository providing software with licenses that respect the user's rights instead of violating them. In the last months we experienced that more and more people care about the software on their mobile devices. Your editor summarised what is currently happening with Free Your Android[5], including promotion in Greece, updating and translation status of our F-Droid leaflets, an interview with the F-Droid developer, and your editor participating in an event about consumer protection in the mobile phone sphere in the German Parliament. == Another security nightmare: DRM == After a possible setback for DRM in Europe[6] it is important to raise more awareness about this issue. We cannot stay quiet while some companies use Digital Restriction Management to write their own copyright laws, restrict us, and decrease our IT security. Many organisations including EFF[7], April, and us participated in the Day Against DRM[8], organised by FSF to highlight the dangers of DRM. The FSFE used the occasion to contact the European Commission with an Open Letter about DRM in HTML5[9]. We explained that DRM is directly contrary to the interests of the vast majority of Internet users everywhere. Just a few days later the Free Software community received the bad news from Mozilla: DRM will be implemented in Firefox (the part is called EME). The reactions ranged from the FSF condemning the partnership between Mozilla and Adobe[10], Mozilla justifying its decision[11], others supporting it[12], and Glyn Moody criticising them by comparing Mozilla's mission with its current action[13]. As always we are interested in your opinion. What do you think about Mozilla's decision and its reasoning? What can the Free Software community do to counterbalance this move? Let us know on our public discussion list[14]. == Something completely different == - FSFE's country team Netherlands wrote a short text "The Importance of Free Software"[15] (also available in Dutch[16] ) about the relevance of Free Software and its conclusions for policy makers. The text highlights the crucial question for our society about "who controls the software?". "Because if we don't control the software we use, it controls us. And whoever controls the software therefore controls us." The text then was used to convince candidates to sign the Free Software Pact[17] - a project run by April[18] and supported by many organisations, including the FSFE. - Fellowship Groups: After two years as a Fellowship representative in FSFE's GA, Nikos Roussos now started local FSFE meetings in Athens[19]. Furthermore we had a first Fellowship meeting in Wiesbaden[20]. In addition, new groups are establishing regular meetings since a while now in Zurich and Cologne. - Our sister organisation, the FSF, awarded the Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Tehnoetic TET-N150 wireless USB adapter[21]. The RYF certification mark is awarded to products that meet the FSF's standards in regard to users' freedom, control over the product, and privacy. Visitors of FSFE's booth at FOSDEM might already know those adapters, as Tiberiu C. Turbureanu sold them at our booth. - From the planet aggregation[22]: Carsten Agger explains what the result of the Danish referendum on the European patent court and the unitary patent means for software patents[23]. - Leena Simon published an essay about the importance of attributions and the flow of information named "Standing on the Shoulders of Free Culture"[24]. - Your editor wrote about the Novena hardware computing platform for hackers and Free Software drivers[25] and documented how to generate a new wifi password the mobile friendly way[26]. - Henri Bergius spent three days at the GNOME Developer Experience hackfest working on the NoFlo runtime for GNOME[27]. - Mario Fux wrote that Debian's KDE community needs help[28]. - Our new intern Bela Seeger[29] as well as long term Fellow Paul Adams[30] report from Linuxtag in Berlin. - While Konstantinos Boukouvalas wrote about LPI affiliates, openLabs and OSCAL, as well as the Albanian Free Software Community[31]. - == Get active: Your experiences with programming resources for children == Beside publishing the monthly Free Software in education news[32] our education team answers a lot of question by people who want to use more Free Software in education. As the edu-team was asked for good resources to teach kids to program, Guido Arnold thought the answer (or more a summary of the answers) might be interesting to others as well. So he published the summary[33]. To improve our education website we ask you to give us feedback on those resources. How do you like them, did you already have experience with some of them, what was good, where did you have problems, and which resources did we miss? Thanks to all the volunteers[34], Fellows[35] and corporate donors[36] who enable our work, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/05/14/our-privacy-is-interdependent/ 2. http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all… 3. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/05/27/were-all-gmail-users-now-pt-2 4. http://hroy.eu/posts/gmail-most-email/ 5. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/consumer-protection-for-mobiles-is-it-a-torch-lig… 6. http://lwn.net/Articles/584167/ 7. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/how-drm-harms-our-computer-security 8. http://www.defectivebydesign.org/thanks-for-a-great-international-day-again… 9. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140506-01.ro.html 10. https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mozilla-and-adobe… 11. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/ 12. https://leomca.github.io/2014/05/15/Mozilla-and-DRM.html 13. http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/05/whither-mozilla/in… 14. https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2014/05/07/the-importance-of-free-software/ 16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2014/05/07/het-belang-van-vrije-software/ 17. http://freesoftwarepact.eu 18. http://www.april.org/ 19. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/04/30/athens-free-software-monthly-meetups/ 20. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/05/report-from-the-first-fellowship-meeti… 21. https://www.fsf.org/news/tehnoetic-wireless-usb-adapter-now-fsf-certified-t… 22. http://planet.fsfe.org 23. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/05/26/elections-14-not-much-to-celebrate/ 24. http://leena.de/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-free-culture/ 25. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/support-hardware-computing-platform-for-hackers-a… 26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/how-to-generate-a-new-wifi-password-the-mobile-fr… 27. http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/flowhub-gnome-dx/ 28. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=231 29. https://blogs.fsfe.org/seeger/2014/05/23/linuxtag-2014/ 30. https://blogs.fsfe.org/padams/?p=303 31. http://blogs.fsfe.org/boukouvalas/?p=556 32. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/05/free-software-in-education-news-april/ 33. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/05/teach-programming-with-free-software/ 34. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ro.html 35. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 36. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ro.html

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FSFE Newsletter – May 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 05 May '14

05 May '14

= FSFE Newsletter – May 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201405.ro.html ] == Heartbleed and economic incentives == You probably heard about the bug in the Free Software OpenSSL nicknamed "heartbleed". The FSFE already welcomed the industry initiative to fund critical Free Software projects[1], and the topic was discussed in several blog articles on the planet: Sam Tuke wrote about his impression[2], Hugo Roy shared an XKCD comic explaining how heartbleed works[3], and Martin Gollowitzer wrote about what the Heartbleed bug revealed to him[4] about StartSSL certificate authority. But your editor is convinced that the main problem is not OpenSSL. It is not Free Software. It is about companies not taking responsibilities and about missing economic incentives to ensure security. Security expert Bruce Schneier wrote in 2006[5]: "We generally think of computer security as a problem of technology, but often systems fail because of misplaced economic incentives: The people who could protect a system are not the ones who suffer the costs of failure." In a nutshell, if your private data is exposed because your health insurance, where it is stored, did not take care to secure it, you suffer to a much higher degree than the health insurance does! You are in no position to preasure the health insurance to change its level of security, and they have no economic incentive to do so. In the article Schneier further explains that the liability for attacks is diffuse and that "the economic considerations of security are more important than the technical considerations". Following the argument, the important question we face is, how can we give the right economic incentives to ensure that: security relevant software has the proper funding; third parties are auditing code; more people are trained in computer security; programmers have time for maintenance and are not forced to just develop new features; we have a diversity of software[6] for different special purposes and therefor prevent software monocultures[7]; companies run secure software instead of just giving people a good feeling by performing a security theatre or by delegating responsibility to others (for example the government), so they can be blamed if there is a problem, and that also the security interest of private users is fulfilled and not just those of big cooperations. In the FSFE we thought about how to give good economic incentives for Free Software development from the beginning, and now we have to think more about economic incentives to increase security. It is a difficult area, so we are looking forward to your comments on this topic and invite you to discuss it on our public mailing lists[8]. == Internet Censorship and Open Standards == Local elections scheduled across the country for the following day, the government blocking both YouTube and Twitter, and the usage numbers of the Free Software anonymity software Tor doubling during the week. Is there a better time for the FSFE's President to go to this country? At the annual conference of the Turkish GNU/Linux Users Association in Istanbul Karsten Gerloff talked about the relationship between technology and power, and made it to the front page of a national newspaper by mentioning who sold the software to block the internet. Karsten wrote a summary of his talk and his journey in his blog[9]. The talk would not have happened without our Turkish volunteer Nermin Canik, who encouraged us to attend the conference. Nermin has been working steadily and reliably as a volunteer for a couple of years now. Together with other volunteers she organised Document Freedom Day[10] (DFD) events in Turkey. This year, although as mentioned above it was a hard time for people in Turkey who care about freedom, they accomplished 7 events in Istanbul, Ankara, Çayırova, Denizli, and Adana. Have a look at the Document Freedom Day 2014 Report[11] to find out what happened in Turkey and around the world during that day. The report includes lots of pictures ranging from children celebrating DFD at school, the new leaflets, comic, and t-shirts, as well as the very delicious looking cakes. Thanks to our Turkish translator[12] Tahir Emre and our leaving intern Matti Lammi the report and the whole DFD website are also available in Turkish and Finnish. == Something completely different == - The German association Teckids e.V.[13] offers workshops for 10 to 16 year olds to build robots with different sensors (light, sound, or ultrasonic) and program them to do cool things by using Free Software. Your editor was delighted to see that in those workshops teenagers teach other teenagers how to tinker with Free Software[14]. More news about education are covered by Guido Arnold in the Free Software education news[15]. - News from the public administration: The government of Galicia recommends use of Open Document Format[16] and a school in Villmergen/Switzerland is satisfied with Free Software[17] as they can now invest more money in education. - 143 of the politicians newly elected in France's municipal elections have pledged their support for Free Software. They all signed the Free Software Pact by the French Free Software organisation April[18]. The FSFE congratulates them for the good job. Please notice that this month's "Get Active" item, always at the end of the newsletter, is also about the Free Software Pact and how you can help us. - From the planet aggregation[19]: - Ghostery is an browser extension supposed to help users against tracking and surveillance on the web. But as Hugo Roy reports[20], the problem is that Ghostery is not released as Free Software. - Guido Günther reports from the 7th Debian groupware meeting[21] at the Linuxhotel including why the participants, of whom all but one are FSFE Fellows, took the decision to remove iceowl (calendar) or what they did with icedove (e-mail). - Our Fellow Number 1, wrote about KDE e.V., families at Free Software meetings, especially at the meetings in Randa Switzerland[22], and he made some proposals for future KDE releases[23]. - Karl Beecher explains why Programmers Start Counting at Zero[24]. - Carsten Agger gave a talk about Open Data and Hacktivism at the hackerspace in Aarhus[25]. He also participated at the first International Festival for Technoshamanism. He explains what Technoshamanism is[26], what it has to do with Free Software, and reports from the first day[27]. - Hugo Roy takes a look at the GNU GPL in a javascript outliner: "GNU GPL, JS and BS"[28] and he wrote about Innovation policy and Internet liability in courts–beyond advertising[29] with the conclusion that "we need to take back control of innovation and technology policy to foster privacy and freedom; more than ever." - Konstantinos Boukouvalas wrote about the OSCAL conference in Albania[30] (3-4 May) which is supported by Albania's Ministry of Youth and Social Welfare[31]. They keynote there was done by FSFE's Erik Albers[32]. - On a technical side: Guido Arnold explains the advantages of using caff for keysigning[33], which is part of the keysigning-party package on Debian based systems. - Kevin Keijzer's new bedroom is now equipped with a new Free Software computer[34] and he documented how to install Debian GNU/Linux on the Acer C720 Chromebook[35]. - Jens Leuchtenbörger explains how to do Certificate Pinning for GNU/Linux and Android[36]. - When Daniel Pocock upgraded an Android device he "found out that Android betrays the tethering data"[37], after he received a lot of feedback he wrote a follow-up article because people justified the way mobile networks try to discriminate against tethering[38] after his first blog entry. Also read Paul Boddie's comment about the second article[39]. - Furthermore Daniel wrote about problems with SMS logins[40], how his AirBNB hosts wanted to scan his identity documents and passports[41], and the best real-time communication (RTC / VoIP) softphone on the GNU/Linux desktop[42]. == Get active: Make the Free Software Pact a success! == As we wrote in March[43], candidates pledging for Free Software is a good way to take them at their word after an election. In Future we can contact them whenever there will be EU legislation to be passed that might endanger the existence or growth of Free Software. After FSFE's volunteers did a lot of translations for the pact, April now published all necessary information on the Free Software pact website[44] so you can get active. In Italy our new intern Michele Marrali already contacted 51 candidates. He searched for the candidates, used Erik's template[45] (also available in German[46] ) to contact them, and afterwards noted on our pad whom he already contacted[47]. His goal is to contact every Italian candidate and get them to sign the pact. So how many can you contact? In case you do not have time to participate in this "hobby lobby competition", consider to make a donation[48] so we can offer the most active volunteers some rewards from our shop[49]. Thanks to all the volunteers[50], Fellows[51] and corporate donors[52] who enable our work, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140424-01.en.html 2. https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=718 3. http://hroy.eu/notes/openssl-tragedy/ 4. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gollo/2014/04/13/what-the-heartbleed-bug-revealed-to… 5. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/economics_and_i_1.html 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_implementations 7. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/dan_geer_on_hea.html 8. https://fsfe.org/contact/community.ro.html 9. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/04/29/interesting-times-speaking-about-… 10. http://documentfreedom.org/events/events.html 11. http://documentfreedom.org/news/2014/news-20140424-01.html 12. http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.html 13. https://www.teckids.org/ 14. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/teenagers-teach-how-to-program-robots-with-free-s… 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/04/free-software-in-education-news-march/ 16. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/galicia-recommends-use-open… 17. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/news/swiss-school-invests-open-source… 18. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/news/143-french-politicians-pledge-su… 19. http://planet.fsfe.org 20. http://hroy.eu/notes/avoid_ghostery-proprietary/ 21. http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Bits_from_the_7th_Debian_groupware_meeting.html 22. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=205 23. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=224 24. http://computerfloss.com/2014/04/chapter-0-programmers-start-counting-zero-… 25. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/04/10/speaking-about-open-data-and-hackti… 26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/04/18/participating-in-the-1st-internatio… 27. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/04/25/opening-the-1st-international-festi… 28. http://hroy.eu/posts/gpl-js-bs/ 29. http://hroy.eu/posts/innovation-policy/ 30. https://blogs.fsfe.org/boukouvalas/?p=546 31. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/news/albania-youth-ministry-supports-… 32. http://oscal.openlabs.cc/speakers/ 33. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/04/key-signing-with-caff/ 34. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/03/29/my-new-bedroom-htpc-gi… 35. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/04/20/acer-c720-chromebook-d… 36. https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2014/04/05/certificate-pinning-f… 37. http://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-data 38. http://danielpocock.com/tethering-and-petrol-charges 39. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=769 40. http://danielpocock.com/sms-logins-an-illusion-of-security 41. http://danielpocock.com/airbnb-hosts-scanning-copying-passports 42. http://danielpocock.com/best-rtc-voip-softphone-linux-desktop 43. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140304-01.ro.html 44. http://freesoftwarepact.eu/ 45. https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/04/23/the-free-software-pact-for-the-europe… 46. https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/04/23/der-freie-software-pakt-eu 47. https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/freesoftwarepact-eu-candidates 48. https://fsfe.org/donate/donate.ro.html 49. https://fsfe.org/order/order.ro.html 50. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ro.html 51. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 52. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ro.html

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FSFE Newsletter – April 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

= FSFE Newsletter – April 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201404.ro.html ] == Document Freedom Day: Open Standards explained for grandpa == Although more entrepreneurs and politicians understand the importance of Open Standards, people do not see the connection with their daily life. That is why on 26 March we again organised Document Freedom Day[1] (DFD). This year we had a lot of new materials: new leaflets in different languages explain Open Standards[2], and a nice comic shows why you should use Open Standards[3] so you do not have problems with your files when you are old. There were at least 51 events in 22 countries[4] organised by a lot of independent groups. FSFE's volunteers in the UK presented an award to The OpenStreetMap Foundation in Birmingham[5], while FSFE's Werner Koch participated in an event on Open Standards in Cryptography in the Parliament[6]. Our local group in Linz organised an information booth in the city centre[7], and in the evening they gave a talk about Open Standards at the university. At the booth in Vienna our volunteers had some problems with an artist of a monument[8], but still handed out a huge amount of leaflets and also informed four friendly police officers about Free Software and Open Standards. Our DFD team[9] is still gathering information of what happened during the DFD week, and will publish a full report during April. == EU institution acknowledges captivity to Microsoft == In a recent letter to MEP Amelia Andersdotter[10] (PDF), the EC acknowledges that it is in a state of "effective captivity" to Microsoft. As FSFE has pointed out repeatedly that this is a persistent problem for the Commission, the Council and the Parliament. On Document Freedom Day the FSFE and Open Forum Europe sent an open letter to the European Parliament and the European Commission highlighting its vendor lock-in with Microsoft[11]. == Using Free Software in the Netherland's education sector == The Free Software in education news for February[12] are out, including an update from the NLEdu campaign[13]: Kevin reports that the commercial director of SchoolMaster, the largest Dutch ELO/student administration software supplier, confirmed that they will roll out a platform- independent HTML5 version in April, replacing the Silverlight version. This would make the NLEdu campaign a success as it will allow Free Software users to access the course materials with any standard compliant browser. Kevin Keijzer published detailed information about this matter[14]. == Something completely different == - For the European Parliament elections from 22 May to 25, FSFE supports the Free Software Pact by April, and the WePromise.Eu by EDRi[15]. Our volunteers worked on translations, and help to promote the campaign[16]. - Karsten Gerloff participated in the first meeting of the Asian Legal Network in Hong Kong[17]. Most of the people there were representatives from technology companies in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and Korea. This is a series of round tables organised jointly by FSFE, Open Invention Network and Linux Foundation. Inspired by the Legal Network which FSFE has been facilitating since 2006[18], it has the same goal: enabling legal experts to share knowledge about Free Software. - FSFE welcomes its new Fellowship representative Stefan "Penny" Harmuth[19] in the the General Assembly[20]. - PDFreaders: Heiki reports why we had to remove SumatraPDF from pdfreaders.org[21], as it includes non-free code. - Local FSFE Fellowship meetings: Guido Arnold reports from the meeting in Frankfurt[22] including the schedule of the next events in Wiesbaden, Bad Homburg, and of course Frankfurt. Thanks to Simon Wächter our group in Zürich resumed their monthly Fellowship meetings after some time of inactivity[23]. - After several years, our education team coordinator Guido Arnold finally visited the Chemnitzer Linuxtage[24]. As in previous years the FSFE had a booth there, distributing our new Free Software leaflet for beginners[25] which was written by our Vienna Fellowship group for a vegan festival and which is now available printed in English, German, French, and to be printed in Finnish. Beside that your editor gave a talk about the threat to the general purpose computer. - We welcome OSB Alliance's publication of a guide how to procure Free Software in the public administration for the German public administration[26]. - During LibrePlanet 2014 The Free Software Awards went to the GNOME Foundation's Outreach Program for Women and Matthew Garrett[27], for his work to keep "Secure Boot"[28] Free Software compatible. Dan Fritzmartin documented how he made a video for LibrePlanet using all Free Software[29]. - Free Your Android[30]: Paul Kocialkowski of Replicant found a backdoor in the Samsung Galaxy[31]. Basically, these devices have a proprietary userspace program which accepts requests from the proprietary baseband firmware to modify the filesystem. By replacing that userspace program with a free one, this particular back-door can be closed by Replicant -- of course the proprietary modem firmware will still have sufficient control over the device to do many evil things. - South Tyrol will increase its use of Free Software, announced their Governor Arno Kompatscher[32]. The European Parliament wants its IT department to rehabilitate its GNU/Linux desktop pilot. On Tuesday, the EP's committee on budgetary control accepted a request by MEPs Bart Staes and Amelia Andersdotter to restart the GNU/Linux desktop pilot[33], which had been shelved in 2012. - From the planet aggregation[34]: - Setup a call for papers, select a few talks, publish a schedule, book a venue, sell a few tickets - have fun: Essentially all it takes to organise a conference, isn't it? In theory maybe - in practice - not so much. Fellow Isabel Drost-Fromm is sharing her experience on event organisation so others can learn from it[35], e.g. how increasing the ticket price relates to your amount of sleep. - Hugo Roy considers himself to be a turing complete user[36]. He points to a recommendable essay by Olia Lialina[37]. Related to this, if you have not seen revealing errors by Benjamin Mako Hill[38], it is worth it. - Henrik Sandklef wrote about what education is[39], and he searches for a strategy for teaching programming to newbies[40]. - Nikos Roussos wrote that making things distributed is hard[41], and why centralisation happens. But although it takes effort and determination, he argues that we all together can build an Internet that is distributed. - He also documented how to build and run Popcorn Time from source[42]. - Jens Lechtenbörger describes how he pins certificates in GNU Emacs[43]. - Timo Jyrinki from our Finnish team wrote about the problems to switch to Qt 5.2.1 in Ubuntu involving roughly 130 source packages[44]. - Franz Grazer wrote an article asking the question: Do we need DRM?[45] arguing that Free Software should not get involved with DRM since it is all about locking things down. - Matija documented How to write your Pelican-powered blog using ownCloud and WebDAV[46] and reports from his first results of testing DE razor blades for shaving with oil[47]. == Get active: The right not to pay for non-free software == The revelations from Edward Snowden concerning massive surveillance of communications demonstrates the need for each person to be able to control their computers and phones. Yet computer and telephone manufacturers and retailers typically impose on users programs that jeopardise their privacy. Each person should therefore have the opportunity to refuse to pay for non-free software, and be allowed to choose the programs that run on their telephone and computer, in our case a Free Software operating system and other Free Software. We joined other organisations throughout the world[48] in requesting an unfettered choice of the operating system on telephones, laptops and other computing devices. This month we ask you to sign the international petition[49], and help us promoting it[50]! Thanks to all the volunteers[51], Fellows[52] and corporate donors[53] who enable our work, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. http://documentfreedom.org 2. http://documentfreedom.org/promotion.html 3. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/comic-and-quotes-why-you-should-use-open-standard… 4. http://documentfreedom.org/events/events.html 5. http://documentfreedom.org/news/2014/news-20140324-01.html 6. http://www.greenmediabox.eu/archive/2014/03/26/greensefa-4th-document-freed… 7. https://blogs.fsfe.org/jzarl/2014/03/29/celebrating-document-freedom-day-in… 8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2014/03/28/document-freedom-day-in-vie… 9. http://documentfreedom.org/contact.html 10. https://ameliaandersdotter.eu/sites/default/files/andersdotter_annex.pdf 11. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140326-02.ro.html 12. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/03/free-software-in-education-news-collec… 13. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/nledu/ 14. http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/03/04/nledu-progressions-and-… 15. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140304-01.ro.html 16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2014/03/the-free-software-pact-for-the-european… 17. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140314-01.ro.html 18. https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/network.ro.html 19. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140303-01.ro.html 20. https://fsfe.org/about/team.ro.html#id-general-assembly 21. https://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2014/03/05/pdfreaders-org-removal… 22. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/03/report-of-latest-fellowship-meeting-in… 23. http://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipEvents/Zurich%202014-03-06 24. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/03/dieses-jahr-geht-es-endlich-nach-chemn… 25. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.ro.html#free-software 26. http://www.osb-alliance.de/themen-aktuelles/detailansicht/artikel/cebit-kos… 27. https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-award-winners-announced 28. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.html 29. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/how-i-made-a-video-for-libreplanet-usin… 30. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.ro.html 31. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/replicant-developers-find-and-close-sam… 32. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/south-tyrol-increase-use-fr… 33. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/european-parliament-covets-… 34. http://planet.fsfe.org 35. http://blog.drost-fromm.de/posts/how-hard-can-it-be-organising-a-conference… 36. http://hroy.eu/posts/im-a-turing-complete-user/ 37. http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/ 38. http://revealingerrors.com/ 39. http://sandklef.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/education-nevermid-what-was-it-any… 40. http://sandklef.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/wanted-a-strategy-for-teaching-pro… 41. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/03/12/making-things-distributed-is-hard/ 42. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/03/21/building-running-popcorn-time/ 43. https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2014/03/23/certificate-pinning-f… 44. http://losca.blogspot.de/2014/03/qt-521-in-ubuntu.html 45. https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2014/03/08/do-we-need-drm/ 46. http://matija.suklje.name/how-to-write-your-pelican-powered-blog-using-ownc… 47. http://matija.suklje.name/the-first-results-of-testing-de-razor-blades-for-… 48. http://no.more.racketware.info/petition/support 49. http://no.more.racketware.info/petition/click/en 50. http://no.more.racketware.info/petition/index 51. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ro.html 52. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 53. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ro.html

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Buletinul de știri al FSFE – ianuarie 2014
by Free Software Foundation Europe 05 Jan '14

05 Jan '14

= Buletinul de știri al FSFE – ianuarie 2014 = [Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201401.ro.html] == Din Crăciun în miezul iernii == Mulți hăcuitori (inclusiv noi, bineînțeles!) s-au bucurat de diversele festivități ce au avut loc în apropierea solstițiului de iarnă. Dar, vai! nu mai este timp să rămânem la cadourile de Crăciun și să ne bucurăm de vacanța în familie – zilele de Crăciun au trecut, anul s-a reînnoit și lupta pentru libertate din nou ne solicită atenția. Deci, este oportun să începem cu un scurt rezumat al lucrurilor pe care 2014 le are pregătite pentru noi în următoarele câteva luni. Cei pasionați de sărbători ar trebui să aibă deja privirile îndreptate către 14 februarie, prilejul anual cu care situl nostru se face roz și plin de inimioare și momentul perfect să îmbrățișați dezvoltatori[1] și să-i aduceți pe cei dragi la programe libere și în Frăție[2]. Cei care preferă o abordare mai practică trebuie să aștepte până la sfârșitul lunii martie ca să-i educe pe concetățenii lor[3] în legătură cu standardele deschise[4]. Cu toate acestea, nu este obligatoriu să se deznădăjduiască: diversele noastre campanii în derulare[5] sunt întotdeauna în căutare de noi hăcuitori și activiști. Este ușor[6] să intrați în contact! Și dacă tot suntem la acest subiect, vor exista de-a lungul anului mai multe oportunități de a vă întâlni cu personalul, voluntarii și confrații noștri. Pentru început, FSFE va fi prezentă cu un stand la conferința de programe libere FOSDEM, care va avea loc în Bruxel în prima săptămână din februarie. Toți amatorii de o discuție și toți cei care sunt aproape să rămână pe zero cu materialele promoționale despre programe libere[7] ar trebui să se oprească la standul nostru. Cei care nu pot să ajungă anul acesta la FOSDEM ar trebui să verifice ocazional secțiunea de evenimente din situl nostru[8] pentru oportunități viitoare de a ne întâlni. == Făcute chiar de tine sau cu Administrarea Digitală a Restricțiilor == În timp ce suntem siguri că mulți dintre cititorii noștri au fost fie norocoși, fie suficient de vocali să primească doar cadouri de Crăciun care le respectă libertatea, probabil sunt și câțiva care se găsesc în posesia unor lucruri care ori nu au fost făcute de dăruitor, ori nu apar în ghidul darurilor de sărbători[9] al organizației noastre surore. Avem câteva recomandări în legătură cu aceste daruri: unele dintre acestea pot fi eliberate (de exemplu, dispozitivele cu Android[10] ); dezvoltatorii care lucrează la înlocuitori liberi pentru diverse sisteme proprietărești mai mult ca sigur vor aprecia donațiile de aparatură (căutați în Internet după diversele eforturi de a elibera diverse categorii de dispozitive); și s-ar putea să fii capabil chiar tu să hăcuiești un astfel de cadou să ruleze programe libere. Indiferent de ce ați decis să faceți cu aceste lucruri, ne-ar plăcea să ne spuneți la ce soluții ați ajuns. Am pornit pe acest subiect un fir[11] pe lista de discuții și scrisorile sunt binevenite la adresa discussion[12] fsfeurope.org[13] (vă rugăm să aveți în vedere că aceasta este o listă de discuții publică). Pe lângă soluțiile la darurile nelibere, suntem de asemenea interesați să citim despre darurile care respectă libertatea utilizatorilor și despre cele care sunt făcute și nu cumpărate de care vă bucurați cu adevărat. == Ceva cu totul diferit == - Acest buletin de știri este disponibil în română în mod regulat din decembrie 2013. Organizația noastră asociată Fundația Ceata[14] și-a luat angajamentul de a pune la dispoziție la timp traducerile, motiv pentru care suntem extrem de recunoscători. - Din agregarea planetei[15] : - Fostul nostru vicepreședinte Henrik Sandklef s-a ocupat[16] de adăugarea suportului de LCD[17] în Searduino. Ultimul articol (nu cel din planetă) servește și ca apel pentru contribuitori. - Articolul Isabelei Drost-Fromm „ Despre tocilarii care cresc mari[18] ” reflectează asupra sensului vieții ori, ca să-o spunem mai direct, asupra gradului de accesibilitate pentru întreaga familie a diverselor conferințe de tehnologie. Modelele pozitive pe care Isabel le-a identificat merită câteva cuvinte de încurajare și Isabelei nu putem să-i spunem altceva decât că jurnalul său „Inductive Bias” este tare! - Guido Arnold, coordonator adjunct al echipei pentru educație, a colectat și a rezumat știrile din noiembrie despre programe libere în educație[19]. - Daniel Pocock a scris pe larg despre WebRTC („ Apeluri gratuite din navigator pe mobil cu programe libere[20] ”, „ WebRTC se obține mai rapid[21] ”, „ xWiki: 10 ani și o poveste de succes pentru WebRTC[22] ”). - Paul Boddie a făcut la fel pentru Kolab („ Aventuri cu împachetarea lui Kolab și pykolab[23] ”, „ Integrarea lui setup- kolab în sistemul de împachetare al lui Debian[24] ”). - Ultimul articol din planetă căruia i se garantează o mențiune onorabilă în buletinul de știri realizat de această redacție temporară este articolul lui Jens Lechtenbörger „ OpenPGP și S/MIME sau încredere și „încredere”[25]. Jens explică de ce OpenPGP ar trebui să fie preferat față de S/MIME pentru criptarea corespondenței electronice. Familiarizarea cu explicația este recomandată călduros tuturor celor care folosesc sau se gândesc să folosească criptarea corespondenței electronice. - Repentinus, unul dintre cei doi reprezentanți ai Frăției, își ține gâtul cald iarna aceasta purtând o eșarfă verde-neagră de lână cu plusulețul Frăției și literele „FSFE”. Aceia din cititorii noștri care pot să tricoteze, pot să-și facă singuri o eșarfă similară urmând instrucțiunile puse la dispoziție de prietena lui[26] (aveți grijă că această legătură duce la un jurnal găzduit de Blogspot; este recomandat să vă luați precauțiile necesare (ca de exemplu, să folosiți o extensie de blocat JavaScript)). Restul cititorilor noștri pot ori să învețe să tricoteze, ori să roage pe cineva să le tricoteze această eșarfă. == Dăruind pentru libertate == Acest buletin de știri a început cu o privire de ansamblu asupra evenimentelor anuale care ne așteaptă în următoarele câteva luni. Astfel de sărbători, deși distractive și educative, au nevoie pentru organizare de efortul combinat al voluntarilor și al personalului nostru. Pe lângă faptul că cer timp din partea personalului nostru, activitățile desfășurate în cadrul sărbătorilor au nevoie de fonduri. Mai mult, pe lângă sărbătorile distractive, avem nevoie de fonduri ca să ne ținem în viață campaniile noastre continue, să promovăm programele libere, să consiliem dezvoltatorii în legătură cu licențierea programelor libere și să educăm firmele din domeniul tehnologiei cu privire la programele libere și respectarea licențelor. Din nefericire, încă nu ne-am asigurat bugetul pentru 2014. Cititorii noștri care se gândesc să ne sprijine activitatea pot ori să facă o donație unică[27], ori să se alăture Frăției[28]. Le mulțumim tuturor donatorilor și confraților noștri existenți! Un an nou liber! Heiki Ojasild[29] - FSFE -- Fundația pentru Programe Libere Europa[30] Știri ale FSFE[31] Evenimente viitoare ale FSFE[32] Agregarea jurnalelor Frăției[33] Discuții despre programe libere[34] 1. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/ilovefs.ro.html 2. http://fsfe.org/fellowship/index.ro.html 3. http://documentfreedom.org/ 4. http://fsfe.org/activities/os/os.ro.html 5. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/campaigns.ro.html 6. http://fsfe.org/contact/contact.ro.html 7. http://fsfe.org/order/order.ro.html 8. http://fsfe.org/index.ro.html#id-events 9. https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/ 10. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.ro.html 11. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-January/009897.html 12. http://fsfe.org/mailto:discussion@fsfeurope.org 13. http://fsfe.org/mailto:discussion@fsfeurope.org 14. http://fsfe.org/associates/associates.ro.html#id-funda%C8%9Bia-ceata 15. http://planet.fsfe.org 16. http://sandklef.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/lcd-support-added-in-searduino/ 17. http://searduino.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/partial-lcd-support-in-searduino-… 18. http://blog.isabel-drost.de/posts/on-geeks-growing-up.html 19. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/12/free-software-in-education-news-novembe… 20. http://danielpocock.com/free-calling-from-browser-to-mobile 21. http://danielpocock.com/get-webrtc-going-faster 22. http://danielpocock.com/xwiki-ten-years-and-webrtc 23. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=606 24. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=623 25. http://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2013/12/23/openpgp-and-smime/ 26. http://tjadens.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/knitting-pattern-make-your-own-fsfe.h… 27. http://fsfe.org/donate/onetime-donation.ro.html 28. http://fsfe.org/fellowship/join.ro.html 29. http://fsfe.org/about/ojasild/ojasild.ro.html 30. http://fsfe.org/index.ro.html 31. http://fsfe.org/news/news.ro.rss 32. http://fsfe.org/events/events.ro.rss 33. http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml 34. http://fsfe.org/contact/community.ro.html

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