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= FSFE Newsletter - August 2012 =
[Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201208.en.html ]
== Helping the European Parliament to release its own Free Software ==
For the first time, the European Parliament (EP) is about to release one
of its own programs as a Free Software. The program in question is
called AT4AM, short for "Automatic Tool for Amendments". The Parliament
is making laws, and AT4AM automates a lot of the formalities associated
with the legislative process.
Karsten Gerloff and Carlo Piana were invited to give talks at the event
to discuss the right license under which to publish AT4AM, and to
explain the political dimension of Free Software.
Do you want to know why the FSFE suggested the EP to license their
software under GNU AGPL version 3, and what else our president has on
his wishlist for the EP? Then read his report[1]!
1. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/07/18/helping-the-european-parliament-to…
== Protect Free Software licenses from bankruptcy ==
When the companies or authors that license Free Software enter
bankruptcy, there is a risk that granted Free Software licenses will
face legal challenges in some jurisdictions. The FSFE is trying to
prevent this situation in Germany. We started talking about this during
a meeting with the German Minister of Justice, who we could have meet
thanks to receiving the Theodor Heuss Medal[2]. Now the ifrOSS supported
by the FSFE suggests the German Ministry of Justice to include a
specific Free Software clause in the German Insolvency Code[3]. The
clause ensures that Free Software licenses would not be negatively
affected by a bankruptcy of a licensing rights holder. It makes it clear
that any offer to grant a Free Software license made before the
licensor's bankruptcy can be accepted by anyone even after the
bankruptcy proceedings started.
If Free Software face similar problems in your jurisdiction, please
contact us[4] or take similar steps.
2. http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100510-01.en.html
3. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120730-01.en.html
4. http://fsfe.org/contact/contact.en.html
== The Fellowship: One to rule them all ==
In the Lord of the Rings, Gollum does not want to share the ring. He is
such an egoist. But Barbara "swimmi" Roth and Martin "gollo"
Gollowitzer, both Fellows of the FSFE are used to share (as well as use,
study, and improve).
After signing their public keys with the highest trust level[5], they
now finally decided to swim into the harbour of marriage. It is the
first marriage your editor knows about, where both were Fellows
*before* their marriage. The FSFE wishes them all the best for
their future and is looking forward to see a lot of "forks"[6], so we
have more Free Software activists. May many fellow[7] this example[8]!
5. https://xkcd.com/364/
6. http://media.macno.org/u/macno/m/i-am-a-fork/
7. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
8. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
== Something completely different ==
- From August 21st to 26th Free Software will be one major theme at Campus
Party in Berlin. Your editor helped to find some interesting speakers for the
event. Well, see yourself[9].
- La Quadrature Du Net published a video tutorial how to call a Member of the
European Parliament (MEP). You can apply their instructions[10] to our Ask
Your Candidates campaign[11] and talk with politicians about general Free
Software topics, our campaigns[12], or other issues.
- How, exactly, can you have a successful project with collaborators? Can we
quantitatively analyse past projects to figure out what works, instead of
just using our best guesses? David A. Wheeler reviewed a book[13]which
analyses how to be successful with Free Software.
- You want to have a small low cost Free Software PC? Take a look at this
overview[14]and decide what is best for you.
- Digital Restriction Managmenet: Our sister, the FSF finished an update of the
"Guide to DRM-free Living"[15]with dozens of new places to get ebooks,
movies, and music without DRM.
- A selection from the Fellowship blog aggregation[16]:
- Berlin Fellowship group[17]coordinator Alexander Kahl wrote about why git
kicks ass[18]and how to use GNU Emacs as a terminal emulator[19].
- What is going on in Norway, and what is the role of Free Software
competence centres? Paul Boddie takes a look[20]at the Norwegian
government's recent withdrawal of all financial support for the Norwegian
Free Software Competence Center.
- Hugo Roy explains how to microblog links quickly with duckduckgo[21].
- Timo Jyrinki tells a story[22] how sometimes computing brings you to the
closet.
- Our interns[23] were attending Richard Stallman's talk in Dresden.
Anatolii Doludenko published some pictures in his blog[24].
- From the Nokia 770 to the N800 to the N810 to the N900 to the N9. What is
next? Read Henri Bergius' dreams of the MeeGo diaspora[25].
- Our former president Georg Greve gives an update and overview about the
Free Software groupware Kolab 3.0[26],
- and finally our vice president is looking for someone who can write a GUI
front-end to Searduino[27]. Can you? If not, but you want to help Free
Software, continue reading our this month's get active item.
9. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=961
10. https://www.laquadrature.net/node/5880
11. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates.en.html
12. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/campaigns.en.html
13. http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2012/07/08/#internet-success
14. http://raymii.org/cms/p_Small_Linux_PCs_overview
15. http://www.defectivebydesign.org/node/2241
16. http://planet.fsfe.org
17. http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Berlin
18. http://paralambda.org/2012/07/06/git-evolution-of-a-topic-branch-and-how-to…
19. http://paralambda.org/2012/07/02/using-gnu-emacs-as-a-terminal-emulator/
20. http://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=88
21. http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2012/07/tweet-bang-how-to-share-a-link-quickly-o…
22. http://losca.blogspot.de/2012/07/where-computing-takes-you.html
23. http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.en.html
24. http://blogs.fsfe.org/tolld/2012/07/12/fsfe-in-dresden-during-rms-talk/
25. http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/meego-diaspora/
26. http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=529
27. https://sandklef.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/searduino-needs-a-gui/
== Get Active: Help us with Android installation parties! ==
Torsten Grote, who started our Free Your Android[28]campaign, wrote down
what he is missing in CyanogenMod 9[29]. In good Free Software fashion
he created feature requests for a configurable power control widget, an
ssh daemon, direct in-app shortcuts, or native OpenVPN support in
CyanogenMod’s issue tracker.
We want to help as many people as possible to regain control of their
Android devices and their data in general. One important step in this
process is helping people to install Free Software on their phones and
tablets. So on Software Freedom Day (15th September) the FSFE wants to
have public Free Your Android installation parties.
If you can organise such a workshop, please let us know[30]! If you
still need help on how to do so, we will try to help you having a
successful event. E.g. on August 26th we will have a workshop in Berlin
for people who plan to give such workshops in the future, be it at
Software Freedom Day, at a conference or another occaison.
28. http://FreeYourAndroid.org
29. http://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2012/07/18/what-i-am-missing-in-cyanoge…
30. mailto:android@lists.fsfe.org
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= FSFE Newsletter - June 2012 =
[Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201206.ru.html ]
== Free Software, Open Source, FOSS, FLOSS – Same same but different
==
There are two major terms connected to software that can be freely used,
studied, shared and improved: Free Software and Open Source. You can
also find different combinations and translations of those terms like
FOSS, Libre Software, FLOSS and so on. Reading articles about Free
Software or listening to people involved in Free Software often raises
the question: Why do they use one term or another and how they differ
from each other?
Long time FSFE volunteer Björn Schiessle wrote a good article[1]about
this topic, how to deal with the different terminology.
1.
http://blog.schiessle.org/2012/05/11/free-software-open-source-foss-floss-s…
== State neglected web standards, company now faces EUR 5600 in fines ==
In Slovakia, the state has mandated electronic means as the only way of
fulfilling certain statutory obligations. However the dedicated web
solution excludes some citizens from participating as it is not
interoperable and runs only on the non-free software from one vendor. In
absence of any non-electronic option, this means that the state mandates
the use of a certain product from a certain vendor. People who did not
own the copy, had to buy one. A Slovak textile importer deemed that the
state should not force him to use a certain software for its business
and fulfilled its legal obligation by paper. Now the company faces EUR
5600 in fines.
Current FSFE intern Martin Husovec decided this is not just and made it
his internship project to change it: he is working on the case, reading
court files, wrote FSFE's press release[2], and an executive summary of
the EURA case[3]. He is motivated to ensure that no one is forced to use
certain non-free software in Slovakia just to fulfil the law, and will
keep you updated[4].
2. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120509-01.ru.html
3. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120509-02.ru.html
4. http://fsfe.org/news/news.ru.html
== Will the UK be lobbied into the FRAND trap? ==
Free Software could be blocked from the UK's public sector use if the
new policy allow"FRAND" terms[5]within British standards. As recently
revealed by Freedom of Information Requests[6]: Intensive lobbying
efforts have focused on pressuring the Cabinet Office to back down on a
strong definition of Open Standards over the past few months.
5. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/why-frand-is-bad-for-free-software.ru.html
6. http://www.freedomofinformationrequests.co.uk/
FSFE is trying to counter this development. In May the FSFE asked North-
West UK businesses to tell Government that Open Standards matter[7], and
we will continue to work on the case.
7. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120528-01.ru.html
== Democratic elections with non-free software? ==
In France, the FSFE has raised its concerns (French)[8]on the online
voting process implemented for French electors registered abroad. FSFE
strongly criticised the complete lack of precautions, the opacity of the
voting process, and the request to use proprietary software to vote.
8. https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120525-01.html
== Something completely different ==
- "My cooking can't be a copy of your cooking." Richard Stallman wrote a
new article"Network Services Aren't Free or Nonfree; They Raise Other
Issues"[9].
- This month's Fellowship interview[10]is with Giacomo Poderi, member of
FSFE's general assembly, has worked as a translator and editor for
FSFE, as well as completing a masters degree in Philosophy. Currently
he is working on a Ph.D in sociology, which looks at the user
experience in Free Software Projects, focusing on the turn-based
strategy game "The Battle for Wesnoth".
- According to joinup[11], software written by or for public authorities
and public organisations in the Basque Country will by default be made
available to others as Free Software starting this July.
- What happens with licenses when the licensor gets insolvent? IfrOSS
wrote a proposal (German)[12]about insolvency questions with Free
Software Licenses, which FSFE also supports.
- Open Standards: "How did we get to a point where we will pay for the
'privilege' of having a vendor take our data and lock it up such that
we have to pay them, again and again, to access it?" asks Jake Edge
from LWN in his article"Who owns your data?"[13]. Will you "rebel" at
next year's Document Freedom Day[14]?
- In the lawsuit Oracle vs. Google FSFE's Carlo Piana[15]and FSF's John
Sullivan[16]published articles covering the topic.
- A selection from the Fellowship blog aggregation[17]:Fellowship
representative Nikos Roussos gave a speech[18]about Free Software
solutions that can be used for self-hosted web services.
- Georg Greve does "not believe that Windows is the future of the Free
Software desktop." Sounds obvious? Is it? Here is his blog article"A
bridge leading nowhere: Outlook-centric groupware"[19].
- Clean, playful, wide use in Free Software, out-of-the-boxiness. Fellow
Karl Beecher argues why to choose Python for teaching[20].
- FSFE's vice-president is hacking on Searduino[21], a software to make
it easy to program C/C++ for Arduino. It is also a simulator for
source level Arduino API so it is possible to directly test executable
code without the Arduino board present, and it can even do more.
- Or are you looking for a good configuration for your tiling window
manager? Fellows shared their configuration files for Awesome[22], and
xmonad[23].
- Beside that Hannes Hauswedell wrote about improving e-mail
privacy[24]by removing header information when using GnuPG and
Thunderbird, and
- Isabel Drost explains how to ruin software projects fast and rapidly.
E.g. by referring developers as resources, not not investing in
tooling, or by other suggestions[25].
- Finally, if you have the problem that one of your presentations is
still too long, she also has suggestions how to shorten it[26].
9.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html
10. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=590
11.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/spains-basque-countrys-administration-shar…
12.
http://www.ifross.org/artikel/vorschlag-des-ifross-insolvenzrechtlichen-fra…
13. https://lwn.net/Articles/496418/
14. http://documentfreedom.org
15. http://piana.eu/java-verdict
16.
https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-statement-on-jurys-partial-verdict-in-oracle-v…
17. http://planet.fsfe.org
18. http://roussos.cc/2012/05/14/liberate-your-cloud-data/
19. http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=505
20. http://computerfloss.com/2012/05/why-choose-python-for-teaching/
21.
https://sandklef.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/examples-in-manuals-how-to-verify…
22. http://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2012/05/05/my-awesome-wm-config/
23. http://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2012/05/05/my-xmonad-wm-config/
24. http://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2012/05/12/improving-e-mail-privacy/
25.
http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/389/geecon-failing-software-…
26.
http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/385/presentation-shortening
-
== Get Active: PDFReaders 2.0 – Your help is needed! ==
Our petition[27]is signed by 72 organisations, 57 businesses, and 2327
individuals. The Green party filed an oral request in the European
Parliament[28](5 questions) , and in the German Parliament[29](18
questions with introduction). The German agency for IT security is
recommending pdfreaders.org[30]in their new migration guide and
highlights that you should not advertise for non-free software readers.
And 539 public administrations removed the advertisement for non-free
software, which is a success rate of 25%.
27. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.ru.html
28. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/parliamentary-questions-eu.ru.html
29.
http://gruen-digital.de/2012/03/document-freedom-day-kleine-anfrage-laesst-…
30. http://pdfreaders.org
After long discussions and considerations the PDF readers team is now
preparing a major update to PDFReaders.org, adding: a more appealing and
cleaner front-page, with one recommendation for the auto-detected
platform; free pdf reader recommendations for mobile platforms; and free
pdf browser plugin recommendations.
Please have a look at the current reader overview and the TODOs
there[31], and tell us[32]if you know any other free PDF reader that we
have not listed, and which Android reader you would recommend.
31. https://wiki.fsfe.org/PDFreaders/todo2012/Overview-Page
32. mailto:feedback@pdfreaders.org
Thanks to all the Fellows[33]and donors[34]who enable our work,
33. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
34. donate/thankgnus.ru.html
Matthias Kirschner- FSFE
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= FSFE Newsletter - May 2012 =
[Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201205.ru.html ]
== 54 DFD events and FSFE handcuffed EU Commissioner ==
As you can read and see in this years report[1], Document Freedom Day
2012 was celebrated with 54 events in 23 countries and in 19 world
languages. It was the biggest DFD in history with over 26 talks, over 6
awards for Open Standards, lots of other events and the press coverage
counted almost one hundred articles. FSFE coordinated between all the
different events, awarded several organisation, and in Germany mailed
over 370 and called over 170 politicians about Open Standards[2].
Several of these politicians, from a range of political parties, did
activities for DFD[3]. FSFE also send out 100 information packages
including handcuffs[4]to suggested people including several politicians,
CEOs, and the Pope. EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes used our handcuffs in a
public speech, which resulted in a lot of additional press
coverage[5]including the front page of the Guardian Online. FSFE is
eager to hear more reports of what recipients of the package did with
the handcuffs.
1. http://documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120403-01.html
2. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/def.ru.html
3. http://documentfreedom.org/events/events.html
4. http://documentfreedom.org/handcuffs/index.html
5. http://documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120420-01.html
== May 4th: Day against DRM. Is it their "good right" to restrict us? ==
Last week your editor gave an interview about Digital Restriction
Management (DRM)[6](German). It was about the questions of what DRM is,
why companies introduce DRM, why you have to treat your customer as an
enemy to make DRM work, and which other possibilities exist. When
discussing Free Software, DRM, Antifeatures and other topics you might
often hear from intelligent critical people that it is "the good right"
of producers to control their products. Why do so many people think so?
Would they also accept those restrictions in "the analogue world"? Is it
the good right of a publisher to prohibit that you can read a book out
loud, lend it friends, or sell it? Several times your editor abused
books: last week he used three of them to fix his broken sofa. Would it
be acceptable that the publisher or the author can forbid such use
cases? Do more people accept such restrictions with software and data,
and if so, why? Has the industry with the term "Digital Rights
Management" successfully implied that they have this right, and a lot of
people accept this?
6. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=929
The 4th of May is the Day against DRM[7]. While DRM has largely been
defeated in music, it is a growing problem in the area of ebooks. So it
is good news that due to pressure from their readers, Tor/Forge will
drop DRM from ebooks[8]. Discuss the topic with your friends or
colleagues, e.g. send them Richard Stallman's short story"The Right to
Read"[9], and tell us your experience on our public discussion lists
<http://fsfe.org/contact/community.ru.html>or send it directly to your
editor[10].
7. http://dayagainstdrm.org/
8. http://www.defectivebydesign.org/tor-to-drop-drm-on-ebooks
9. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
10. http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner/kirschner.ru.html
== Free Software topic in the French Presidential elections ==
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that 15 percent[11]of the State's
IT budget is spent on Free Software programming, support, and
maintenance. In future this budget will increase by 30 percent per year.
He said this policy is "strategic for the development of the French IT
sector". His challenger François Hollande even said this policy has to
be intensified.
11.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/sarkozy-administration-open-source-spendin…
grows-30-percent-annually
Besides that, the French Free Software advocacy group April asked all of
the candidates in the French presidential elections[12]about their
positions on Free Software, software patents[13], DRM[14]and more.
12.
https://www.april.org/en/presidential-elections-2012-and-free-software-some-
answers-some-non-answers-some-dont-answer
13. http://fsfe.org/projects/swpat/swapt.ru.html
14. http://drm.info
It is important to raise awareness for Free Software with your
politicians, and sending them questions is a good start. FSFE is
gathering all such effort in our"Ask Your Candidate" campaign[15]. FSFE
would like to thank April[16]for their good work in France, and
encourages other Free Software supporters in Europe to get in contact
with their politicians. If you have questions how to start such
activities in your country, region, or municipality, please get in
contact with us. By next month you will also have the political parties'
replies to the questions from FSFE for two federal state elections in
Germany.
15. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidtes.ru.html
16. http://april.org
== Vendor lock-in costing Helsinki 3.4 million Euros per year? ==
A report on the City of Helsinki's pilot project for the use of
OpenOffice in the public administrations leaves the public with more
questions than answers. The city trialled the Free Software productivity
suite on the laptops of council members for ten months in 2011. The
suite enjoyed high approval rates among its users. When the pilot was
finished, the City produced a report stating that the costs of migrating
the entire administration to OpenOffice would be very high. Read more
about it in the press release[17]and if you are interested in details of
the City of Helsinki's OpenOffice pilot project, and in lessons that may
be drawn from this project, we have published an analysis of the
report[18].
17. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120412-02.ru.html
18. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120412-02.ru.html
== Something completely different ==
- "Replace 'ICT' with 'Sex'": 42 minutes before the deadline our
education team[19]submitted FSFE's position for a consultation on ICT
education[20]to the UK Department of Education. Besides other points
we highlighted the importance of "ICT education", instead of "ICT
training".
- Fellowship Interview: Operating Free Software based servers and
workstations in a pro-privacy web hosting and IT service company,
advocating Free Software since 2001, volunteering for the Freedroidz
project, and more: this months's interview is Bernd Wurst[21].
- The Czech municipality Grygov uses Free Software[22]for nearly
everything in their public administration.
- On the 31st of March, FSFE's UK Fellows have set up a link between the
Green Light (Manchester) and Chorlton's Big Green (Leicester)
festivals. There was a Free Software talk and booth at both events,
and a live link-up which brought environmentalists together via Free
Software.
- Our web team met in Manchester for a web sprint[23]. A variety of
international volunteers worked together to improve website features
and infrastructure. Interested in fixing bugs, or implementing new
functionality to improve our information about Free Software in web
work? Join our web team[24]!
- Computerworld UK published a a good article on software patents[25].
- A selection from the Fellowship blog aggregation[26]:
- Affiliate Userscripts to support FSFE: If you already spend money on
Amazon or libri, you can install a userscript[27]developed by Hannes
Hauswedell and 5% of the money you spend there goes to FSFE to the
struggle for Software Freedom! The userscripts are tested for
Chromium, Firefox, and Iceweasel[28].
- Distributed Free Software: Thomas Jensch wrote an article on how to
setup OwnCould on Hiawatha[29], and Sam Tuke also looked into setting
up a local web development server[30].
- Different experiences than Wikipedia: Hannes Hauswedell from the
PDFreaders[31]team is currently living in China, and wrote about his
technical experiences with the Chinese firewall[32].
- After his hard disk died Patrik Willard wrote about git and
rsync[33]and Isabel Drost also dedicated a blog article to git[34].
19. http://fsfe.org/projects/education/education.ru.html
20. http://blogs.fsfe.org/riepernet/?p=149
21. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=573
22.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/czech-municipality-uses-open-source-nearly-
everything
23. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120402-01.ru.html
24. http://fsfe.org/contribute/web/web.ru.html
25.
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/03/open-standards-
licensing-apples-key-evidence/index.htm
26. http://planet.fsfe.org
27. http://wiki.fsfe.org/SupportPrograms
28. http://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/userscripts/
29. http://blogs.fsfe.org/riepernet/?p=155
30. http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=359
31. http://pdfreaders.org
32.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2012/04/20/an-inside-view-on-the-great-chinese-fir…
/
33. http://blog.padowi.se/2012/04/22/2012w16/
34. http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/377/second-steps-with-git
== Get Active: FRAND is FRAUD - Participate in UK consultation ==
Busy times in the UK. Besides the consultation on education (see above)
the UK government is holding another one until the 4th of June about
what sort of patent licenses an Open Standard[35]should require. FSFE
and our sister organisation the FSF published a joint statement[36]on
the UK Open Standard consultation, explaining why FRAND conditions for
Open Standards discriminate against Free Software (regular readers might
realise this is an ongoing debate), and recommending the UK government
to abolish software patents to prevent damage to the UK's economy. We
also informed UK Free Software businesses, organisations, and Fellows
about the consultation, prepared draft answers to some of the questions
in the survey[37], held a Summit Meeting of Open Standard experts[38],
and also published a joint statement together with other Open Standard
groups[39].
35. http://fsfe.org/project/os/def.ru.html
36. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120426-01.ru.html
37. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/uk-standards-consultation.ru.html
38. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120425-02.ru.html
39. https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120425-01.html
There is a website explaining how to participate in the
consultation[40]. Please do so to support the requirement for royalty-
free licenses for Open Standards.
40. http://consultation.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/openstandards/how-to-respond
Thanks to all the Fellows[41]and donors[42]who enable our work,
41. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
42. donate/thankgnus.ru.html
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= FSFE Newsletter - April 2012 =
[Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201204.ru.html ]
== Let us end all Free Software "projects" quickly! ==
A "project" is always temporary, in the narrow sense of the term. Some
Free Software people use "project" to refer to long lasting initiatives
instead. Your editor also did this, until Bernhard Reiter convinced him
to use different terms for people, the result they create, and temporary
concerted actions. After several people in FSFE encouraged Bernhard to
write down his thoughts, he now published an article arguing[1]: By
adopting the more widespread use of the term project, Free Software
initiatives will be more successful. "Free Software is here to stay,
prepare your mind for this situation.", writes Bernhard.
1.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/bernhard/2012/03/lets-end-all-free-software-projects-…
== Corporate perk or monopolist bribery? ==
Staff in the European Parliament are facing a challenge to their ethics.
A company is offering all of them a gift which could compromise their
independence. The company in question is Microsoft, and the gift is a
bunch of proprietary programs. Through the Parliament's administration,
Microsoft is offering staff (though probably not MEPs) gratis licenses
to Microsoft Office, Project, and Visio. This happens under the so-
called "Home Use Program".
The staff is working on regulations that also effect Microsoft, who is
now making a gift to them. Staff is usually the one who does all the
legwork. They are the one who control access to our MEPs. FSFE asks the
MEPs to tell their staff, and the staff in their groups, not to accept
Microsoft's gift. On the contrary, they should push the administration
into making Free Software tools available that staffers can use to do
their work, and urge the Parliament itself to migrate to Free Software.
Karsten Gerloff wrote about this in his blog[2]and will closeley monitor
how the MEPs and their staff in the European Parliament will react. We
will keep you posted.
2.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/03/23/corporate-perk-or-monopolist-bribe…
== Help for FSFE from Greece ==
The election period for this year's Fellowship GA seat has ended on
February 29th. To summarise the detailed election results[3]: Our new
Fellowship representative is Nikos Roussos from Greece. He will meet
with other members of FSFE's general assembly[4]in Lisboa at the end of
April, to work on strategic questions for the coming years. Thanks to
Albert Dengg and Gert Seidl who also stood for the Fellowship GA seat,
and who want to continue their great work for FSFE in their area.
3. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120303-01.ru.html
4. http://fsfe.org/about/members.ru.html
== Something completely different ==
- Digital Restriction Management: In his article"Like candy from a baby:
PS Vita takes freedom from new generation"[5], Sam takes the Sony PS
Vita, as an example how owners of devices are restricted in what they
can do with their computers.
- Guido Günther joined the Debian Project while completing his degree
in physics at the University of Konstanz. He helped with development
of Debian for new processor architectures, and co-initiated Debian’s
Groupware Meetings. He also enjoys contributing to the GNOME project,
and advanced Free Software virtualisation technologies. Read more in
the last Fellowship interview[6].
- Ask Your Candidates:[7]in Germany, we asked the usual set of
questions[8]and published the analysis[9]. Compared with the positive
replies in the Berlin election[10], the Saarland election was a
disappointment. Our press release also resulted in discussions[11]if
it is "the good right" of companies to restrict the users.
- Fellow Anna Morris was interviewed by the BBC(Audio, starting at
17:13)[12]about a conference that she is organising in London for
women in Free Software. In just a few minutes she discusses what Free
Software is, what it is like being a woman in the Free Software
movement, and how she first got involved.
- FSFE's volunteers and staff have been quite busy with Document Freedom
Day[13]in the last weeks. We will send out the handcuffs[14]and write
a report what happend all over the world. In the preperation we have
published an article by FSFE co-founder Bernhard Reiter[15]. He
discusses what makes a good data format, and argues that Open
Standards are good, but that we need to push further still. His
central question to data formats is "Can we make it simpler?" The
article is in German, and we are looking for translations[16].
- FSF announced the Free Software Awards[17]. Big thanks from FSFE to
Free Software hacker Yukihiro Matsumoto and GNU Health[18].
- Iceland launched a project[19]to encourage migration of the public
administration to Free Software. Your editor is already looking
forward to a report about this at FSCONS[20]in Gothenburg.
- A selection from the Fellowship planet aggregation[21]:Free Software,
nothing for marketing? And which is the most powerful brand in Free
Software? Timo Jyrinki writes about brands, marketing and technical
details[22].
- Hugo Roy is organising an event at Sciences Po on 6th April[23](in
French). Beside others Lawrence Lessig, author of "Code and other laws
of Cyberspace" will talk about "The Character of Cyberlaw Battles".
- Birgit Hüsken explains how to knit the Fellowship plussy[24].
- Fellow Number 1, Mario Fux, wants to set up a local association[25]in
Randa, Switzerland to keep the local Free Software activities running.
- And Mirko Böhm writes about about managing trust in mixed commercial
and volunteer Free Software communities[26].
5. http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=325
6. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=547
7. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates.ru.html
8. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/example-questions.ru.html
9. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120322-01.ru.html
10. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120322-01.ru.html
11.
http://netzpolitik.org/2012/saarlandische-piraten-abhangigkeit-und-restrikt…
12. http://download.fsfe.org/audio/20120320-bbc5-interview-anna-morris.ogg
13. http://documentfreedom.org
14. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120321-01.ru.html
15. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/minimalisticstandards.ru.html
16. http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.ru.html
17. https://www.fsf.org/news/2011-free-software-awards-announced
18. http://health.gnu.org/
19.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/all-icelands-public-administrations-moving…
20. http://fscons.org
21. http://planet.fsfe.org
22. http://losca.blogspot.de/2012/03/on-brands-marketing-and-technical.html
23. http://blog.hugoroy.eu/2012/03/28/cyberlawconf-avec-lawrence-lessig/
24. http://blogs.fsfe.org/birgit.huesken/?p=122
25. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=179
26.
http://www.agile-workers.com/web/2012/03/managing-trust-in-mixed-commercial…
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== Get Active: Leaflets to free others mobile! ==
Our Free Your Android[27]campaign, got a lot of attention. Beside
preparing his exams, Torsten Grote gave interviews for the German
newspaper"Die Tageszeitung"[28], radio interviews[29], and held a first
installation party for FoeBud e.V.[30]. Also at our booth at Cebit[31],
Chemnitzer Linux-Tage[32], as well as Augsburger Linuxinfotage[33]a lot
of people showed interest in this campaign. We would like to get more
people involved in this campaign. We ask you to promote the campaign
with leaflets and posters in your local Free Software user group, your
hackerspace, company, university, school, or your favourite bar. Please
write an e-mail with a postal address to fellowship[34]
fsfeurope.org[35], and we send you some leaflets and posters to promote
it.
27. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.ru.html
28. https://www.taz.de/Kampagne-fuer-offene-Mobilsysteme/!90036/
29.
http://on3.de/element/13543/freie-software-fuer-android-handys-weg-mit-den-…
30. http://foebud.de
31. http://blog.romal.de/2012/03/fsfe-cebit-stand-uberlebt.html
32. http://blogs.fsfe.org/birgit.huesken/?p=105
33.
http://blog.schiessle.org/2012/03/26/ruckblick-auf-den-augsburger-linux-inf…
34. mailto:fellowship@fsfeurope.org
35. mailto:fellowship@fsfeurope.org
Thanks to all the Fellows[36]and donors[37]who enable our work,
36. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
37. http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ru.html
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FSFE Newsletter - February 2012
Reclaim your smartphone!
Smartphones are small computers that we carry around all the time.
Unfortunately, most smartphones are not controlled by us, the users,
but by the manufacturers and the operators. Even Android phones are
being shipped with non-free software and proprietary add-ons that
usually do not work in the full interest of us. Software updates will
only keep to be available if the manufacturer still has a commercial
interest in your device. The applications available from the official
market are most of the time non-free. Nobody is allowed to study how
they work and what they really do on your phone. Sometimes they do
not work exactly as you want, but sometimes they might even contain
malicious features.
Running only Free Software on your device puts you in full control.
Even though you might not be able to directly exercise all of your
freedoms, you will benefit from a vibrant community that can do it
together.
FSFE [1]is collecting information about running an Android system as
free as possible. We try to coordinate the different efforts, but we
need your help with it. Join our mailing list, update the wiki and
thereby enable more people to use Free Software on their everyday
computers.
Lesson 1: Learn how to programme!
Our [2]education team has done [3]solid work in 2011, including our
[4]NL edu campaign. Free Software permits children to learn how
software works and thus to understand the concepts underlying a whole
category or type of software. They are then prepared to adapt to any
environment, which is a key skill nowadays. In addition, we believe
that the possibility to tinker does motivate children easily to learn
autonomously. Finally, Free Software allows them to understand
computers in a more depth.
Sam Tuke was [5]asked by the BBC to comment about suggestions that the
British Government may add basic programming skills to the national
curriculum, and whether this would have a political impact on society
in terms of how we interact with technology. The education team will
have a brief meeting at the upcoming FOSDEM, at the 4th and 5th of
February. You are welcome to join.
Already plans for 28th of March?
Open Standards make it easier for individuals, companies and the public
administration to switch to Free Software. The goal of the[6]Document
Freedom Day is to raise awareness for Open Standards so people have
more freedom. This year your editor is in charge of DFD and he will
bluntly promote it in this and upcoming newsletters. At the moment,
please save the date 28th of March, [7]send our country teams
nominations for the Document Freedom Award, help us to gather
information for our [8]Standards Quartet, find [9]street artists to
promote the idea of Open Standards, and [10]contact the DFD team if you
want to [11]become a supporting organisation.
Something completely different
* Time to vote: The [12]2012 Fellowship election is running until the
end of February. As Fellow you can decide between [13]Albert Dengg,
Gert Seidl, and Nikos Roussos. On 22nd February we plan to have a
chat meeting with the candidates.
* Slovak Copyright Act: [14]FSFE intern Martin Husovec [15]sent
letters to four members of Slovak Parliament that proposed a highly
awaited amendment, but later faced its dismissal due to preliminary
elections.
* Heiki Ojasild joined the Free Software Foundation Europe in 2011,
undertaking the task of translating fsfe.org into Estonian. He is
currently developing an XChat add-on, a website for free SVG and
JavaScript games, and asked [16]Estonian politicians questions
about Free Software. Read more in [17]this month's Fellowship
interview about copyright, Digital Restrictions Management,
kopimism, and activism.
* Richard Stallman's new article [18]"Measures Governments Can Use to
Promote Free Software" is out.
* Two new editions of the [19]legal news cover the US Supreme Court
decision on copyright extension, patent inflation, the[20]release
of the Mozilla Public License version 2.0 which is GNU
GPL-compatible, and more.
* During the January 18th protest against SOPA, we blacked out our
website joining other organisations to protect the Internet.
* Here a selection from the [21]Fellowship planet aggregation:
+ The new FSFE Fellowship blog theme — a name, a first
version. [22]Presenting: Pome 1.0.
+ Interested why Thomas Koch suggests you should [23]stop coding
for money?
+ You should demand Free Software in a business context became
it [24]makes sense and saves a lot of money, says Jelle
Hermsen.
+ [25]Fellow No1 tells us how much 57 persons in Rwanda can eat
while hacking on Free Software
+ What is the "web trap"? [26]Heiki Ojasild argued to treat
HTML, SVG and CSS as tools that should be as accessible to
everyone as software in general should be.
+ And a nice hardware hack: [27]Computer startup aid using a
LEGO train.
Get active: More love reports instead of bug reports!
Let us admit it, the Free Software community is often very critical. We
write bug reports, tell others how they can improve the software, ask
them for new features, and to not spare with criticism. Sometimes we
forget to say "thank you, for all your work". As in the last years, we
want to change this, at least for one day. So on Tuesday the 14th of
February we will celebrate the [28]"I love Free Software" - Day.
Get active, buy your favourite developer a drink or give them a hug
(ask for permission first), write an [29]e-mail/letter expressing your
feelings, create nice pictures, donate to a Free Software initiative,
use another [30]of our suggestions or be create yourself to show how
you appreciate people, working hard to enlarge or defend our freedom.
Beside that help us to promote the activity with [31]our banners, by
e-mail, (micro)blog or in your (distributed?) social networks.
New this year is a [32]whole day event in the Unperfekthaus in Essen
(Germany) and that all our Fellows automatically get an
login(a)ilovefs.org e-mail alias.
Thanks to all the [33]Fellows and [34]donors who enable our work,
[35]Matthias Kirschner - [36]FSFE
References
1. http://wiki.fsfe.org/Android
2. http://fsfe.org/projects/education/education.html
3. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2012/01/edu-team-2011-summary/
4. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/nledu/nledu.html
5. http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=255
6. http://documentfreedom.org/
7. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120110-02.html
8. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=881
9. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120130-01.html
10. http://documentfreedom.org/contact.html
11. http://documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120127-01.html
12. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120131-01.html
13. http://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipElection_2012
14. http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.html
15. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120110-01.html
16.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2012/01/10/estonian-political-land…
17. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=521
18. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/government-free-software.html
19. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120126-01.html
20. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/mpl-2.0-release
21. http://planet.fsfe.org/
22.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/marklindhout/2012/01/the-fsfe-blog-theme-%E2%80%94-a-…
23.
http://koch.ro/blog/index.php?/archives/154-Stop-coding-for-money.html
24.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/jelle/2012/01/09/demanding-free-software-in-a-busines…
25. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=167
26. http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2012/01/04/the-web-trap/
27.
http://fl0rian.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/computer-startup-aid-using-a-lego-t…
28. http://ilovefs.org/
29.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2012/01/18/why-i-love-free-and-open-sourc…
30. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/ilovefs.html
31. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/banners.html
32. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/unperfekthaus.html
33. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
34. http://fsfe.org/home/alessandro/Documents/donate/thankgnus.html
35. http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner
36. http://www.fsfe.org/
37. http://fsfe.org/index.html
38. http://fsfe.org/news/news.rss
39. http://fsfe.org/events/events.rss
40. http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml
41. http://fsfe.org/contact/community.html
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= FSFE Newsletter - January 2012 =
[Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201201.ru.html ]
== Preventing 6000 mines against Free Software? ==
Competition authorities are investigating the sale of 6000 patents from
Nortel, a bankrupt telecommunications equipment manufacturer, to a
consortium of Apple, Microsoft and four other companies.
FSFE considers it a serious risk to competition in the mobile technology
space, and Free Software as a whole, if those companies acquire these
patents. Soon after the sale, we approached EU and US competition
authorities, and in September submitted a summary of our concerns[1].
1. http://fsfe.org/projects/swpat/nortel.en.html
== 80 billion EUR for RD: What will we get? ==
The European Commission has adopted a set of proposals for its next
framework program, called Horizon 2020. This program will provide 80
billion EUR for research and development projects from 2014 to 2020.
Prior to finalisation of the proposal, FSFE had provided input[2]to the
Commission in order to make the program accessible for Free Software
research and projects. FSFE will continue to engage with the European
institutions in order to support the development of Horizon 2020 in the
interest of Europe's citizens.
2. http://fsfe.org/projects/horizon2020/index.en.html
== Free Software makes German Parliament more secure ==
On the request of some members of parliament, the German Bundestag's IT-
department now supports GnuPG[3], so members of the parliament have the
option to set this up and receive encrypted and signed e-mails. The
president of the German City Council and Munich's main mayorUde wrote to
the EU-Commissioner Neelie Kroes[4]that she should support Open
Standards and Free Software.
Those are nice examples where politicians understand the advantages of
Free Software and also act upon this knowledge. We want more politicians
with this knowledge. One concrete activity is our"ask your candidates
campaign"[5], where we send out questions[6]to the political parties
before elections, and then evaluate the answers. This year we did so for
elections in Vienna/Austria, Switzerland, and 5 federal state elections
in Germany.
3. http://von-notz.de/2011/12/verschluesselung-mails-an-uns-ab-jetzt-auch-vers…
4. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=871
5. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates.en.html
6. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/example-questions.xhtml
== Something completely different ==
- In the dispute between the companies AVM and Cybits the written
reasoning of the decision of the Regional Court of Berlin is now
available[7]. The court confirmed FSFE's view that users of GNU GPLed
software are allowed to modify and install it even if it is shipped as
a part of an embedded device's firmware.
- City officials in Helsinki, Finland, are overwhelmingly satisfied
after trying out the Free Software office suite[8]OpenOffice.org on
their laptops. 75% of 600 officials have been using OpenOffice.org
exclusively since February, as part of a pilot project where the city
installed the program on 22,500 workstations.
- In this month Fellowship interview[9]Chris talked with Paul Boddie,
who has been working with Python since 1995, and from 2006 to 2010 was
involved in organising the annual EuroPython conference, administering
various conference-related tools and developing the conference
website.
- An important decision of the Court of Justice of EU, AG's opinion in
awaited European interoperability ruling, two software patent cases
and much more is to be found in our legal news[10].
- We are preparing for Document Freedom Day 2012. The website was
updated[11], on the mailing list we are discussing new ideas[12], and
you are welcome to join.
- From the Fellowship planet aggregation[13]:
- So what might Digital Sustainability be? Read Georg Greve's
explanation about it[14].
- Want to see a quadrocopter and other pictures from the Chaos
Communication Camp? Take a look at Florian's blog article[15].
- What do nerds drink? Michael Stehmann answers this question in his
article about the "Chaosvillage" in Düsseldorf[16].
- Patrik from our Swedish team writes about awk filtering and
counting[17].
- Our translator Heiki Ojasild thinks about the question what to
translate and what not to translate?[18]
7. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20111201-02.en.html
8. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20111213-01.en.html
9. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=509
10. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20111220-01.en.html
11. http://documentfreedom.org
12. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/df-coordination
13. http://planet.fsfe.org
14. http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=462
15. https://fl0rian.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/summer-holidays/
16. http://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=375
17. http://blog.padowi.se/2011/12/05/awk-filtering-and-counting/
18. http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2011/12/09/to-translate-or-not-to-…
== Get active: Support us by becoming a Fellow of FSFE! ==
Not everybody understands Free Software, and not everybody likes that
FSFE works hard on promoting Free Software[19]to enlarge the freedom in
our society. If you understand that Free Software is important in order
to cope with the upcoming challenges for free society, please support us
financially by becoming a Fellow of FSFE[20].
Since December it is possible to donate your
contribution*yearly*or*monthly*by*credit card*,*direct debit*, and other
means. Every small donation helps us to continue to be an independent
and critical voice for Free Software advocacy for another year.
19. http://fsfe.org/donate/letter-2011.en.html
20. https://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
Thanks to all the Fellows and donors who enable our work,
Matthias Kirschner- FSFE
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