= FSFE Newsletter - May 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201605.ru.html ]
== EU jeopardises its goals in standardisation with FRAND licensing ==
As a part of the Digital Single Market strategy, the European Commission
has published the communication on ICT standardisation priorities[1] as
one of the key factors in the digital economy. FSFE welcomes the overall
approach taken in the communication in favour of more open standards and
a greater inclusion of Free Software communities into standardisation
processes.
However, the document lacks proper understanding of licensing conditions
of standard-essential patents in order to include Free Software into
standard setting processes. In particular, FSFE expresses its concerns
in regard to the promotion of so-called "fair, reasonable, and non-
discriminatory (FRAND) licensing terms[2] that in practice are
incompatible with Free Software. This way, the document jeopardises
every effort set by the European Commission to integrate Free Software
communities into standardisation.
== European Commission vs Google Android ==
On April 20, the European Commission outlined its charges in regard to
Google's business practices relating to the Android operating system[3].
According to the Commission, Google is abusing its dominant market
position by pre-installing and setting Google Search, Google Play Store
and Google Chrome as the default on most Android devices sold in Europe.
These practices close off ways for competitive search engines to access
the market.
FSFE has previously raised its concerns in regard to the claim against
the free-of-charge distribution of Android[4] that had been raised to
the European Commission by a coalition of certain online service
providers who claimed that this practice is harmful to competition. We
argued against that claim as it undermines the whole essence of Free
Software licensing, and are pleased to see that the Commission
disregarded that claim in its antitrust case against Google.
== From the community ==
Guido Arnold, our education team coordinator, summarised legal aspects
and possible activities to take, when public schools make MS Office
mandatory.[5]
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Vitaly Repin published the course by Richard Stallman "On the Road to
the Free Digital Society" in Moodle Backup and IMS Common Cartridge
formats[6], and invites everyone to give feedback and promote the course
through their channels.
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Since Let’s Encrypt has left beta testing, Michal Nazarewicz uses and
promotes this new certificate authority which provides free TLS
certificates[7]: "If you're running your own server there's no excuse
not to use TLS".
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Björn Schießle blogs about a self hostable application for saving web
pages, "Wallabag", and about its maintenance on a shared web hosting
service[8].
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Marcus Moeller explains how to set up a Freedombox on a Beagle Bone
Black in order to self-host a blog on freely designed hardware and
without the need to use proprietary software[9].
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== What else have we done? ==
We ran the eighth annual election for a Fellowship representative who is
to represent our community and the FSFE's Fellowship in FSFE's general
assembly[10]. Although we only had one candidate, we would like to thank
and congratulate Mirko Boehm to run for the office and being
elected[11].
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We now have over 30 organisations and companies who joined us in
proposing measures to EU institutions and EU member states to avoid
negative implications on users' rights and Free Software imposed by the
EU Radio Equipment Directive 2014/53/EU, aka 'Radio Lockdown
Directive'[12]. The joint statement is open to new signatures against
negative implications that the 'Radio Lockdown Directive' poses on
software freedom, users' rights, fair competition, innovation,
environment, and volunteering.
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FSFE also joined a coalition of organisations that fight the negative
implementations of the 'Radio Lockdown Directive' in France. Together,
we signed an open letter to the French government and French
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ART)[13] to ensure that the
implementation of the 'Radio Lockdown Directive' in France will not harm
Free Software.
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On our way to become more transparent and inclusive, we published our
transparency commitment[14] in line with the guidelines from
Transparency International Germany.
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A lot of our initial structure and founding documents have not been
updated ever since the FSFE grew from being a small circle of volunteers
into an organisation with hired staff, with a Fellowship program and a
community of thousands of people. We now begun to revise our "Self
Conception"[15], to better reflect our grown decision-making process.
Jonas Öberg, FSFE's executive director, shared his thoughts on and
insights about potential future steps to FSFE's structure and
membership[16] on his blog.
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On the backend of our work, we have introduced a ticket system built on
OTRS[17]. Although at first sight not many people seem to be directly
affected by this, our whole communication will profit over time from
higher control of our workflow. Also, it shall be opened to be used by
volunteers as well.
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>From 13 - 15 April, FSFE's annual legal licensing workshop LLW took
place in Barcelona, Spain. The event is dedicated to gather legal
practitioners from all over the world to dicuss the most challenging
issues in and around Free Software licensing. This year it had a record
number of participants, showing the increasing interest and importance
of Free Software in software licensing.
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== Take Action ==
>From 2 - 4 September, 2016, the first summit of FSFE will take place, an
event dedicated to our community. To make it a unique and appealing
experience for everyone, we sent out a Call for Participation[18] last
week to all our Fellows and on our mailing lists. Take your chance and
be part of FSFE's main event in 2016 by becoming a speaker or a
volunteer, by hosting a workshop or another event.
== Good Free Software news ==
Spain's Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations published its
web-based solution for archiving electronic files under a Free Software
license[19]. France is also not lagging behind and recently published
the source code of the fiscal calculator used by the French fiscal
administration to calculate the income taxes of individuals in
France[20]. This was an outcome of the legal case in Paris'
administrative court that concluded that a source code of a software
written by and for public authorities can be considered as a public
information that can be freely accessed.
Thanks to all the volunteers[21] , Fellows[22] and corporate donors[23]
who enable our work,
your editors Polina Malaja and Erik Albers, FSFE[24]
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1. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/communication-ict-standa…
2. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160428-02
3. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-16-1506_en.htm?locale=en
4. https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/20130729.EC.Fairsearch.letter.en.html
5. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2016/04/public-schools-making-ms-office-mandat…
6. https://blogs.fsfe.org/vitaly_repin/2016/04/14/course-on-the-road-to-the-fr…
7. http://mina86.com/p/tls-is-a-yes/
8. http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/04/16/installing-wallabag-2-on-a-shared-web-…
9. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2016/04/20/setting-up-a-freedombox-on-bbb-t…
10. https://fsfe.org/about/team.en.html#general-assembly
11. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160502-01
12. https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/statement
13. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160406
14. https://fsfe.org/about/transparency-commitment
15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=60
16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=50
17. http://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=65
18. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/Summit2016/CallForParticipation
19. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spain-publishes-file-archiv…
20. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-unveils-source-code-…
21. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ru.html
22. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
23. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ru.html
24. https://fsfe.org/index.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter - April 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201604.ru.html ]
== EU Radio Directive threatens software freedom ==
We published our position on the Radio Equipment Directive 2014/53/EU
(adopted in May 2014) that demands from device manufacturers to check
each device software's compliance. At first sight, this may sound
reasonable but it has highly negative implications on user rights and
Free Software, fair competition, innovation, environment, and
volunteering – mostly without large benefits for security. The directive
needs to be implemented in member states before 13 June 2016. We have
formulated several proposals to EU institutions and EU member states
with concrete steps to solve these issues.[1]
== US government demands publicly financed software to be published as Free Software ==
As one of our main goals for 2016 is to push for the demand of all
publicly funded software to be published as Free Software in the EU, we
are positive to see some concrete steps in this direction happening
across the Atlantic. In particular, in the beginning of March, the US
Government published a draft of Source Code Policy[2] for the public to
comment upon until 11 April. The policy requires every public agency to
publish their custom-build software as Free Software for other public
agencies as well as for the general public to use, study, share and
improve the software.[3]
We would like the EU to follow this example and come up with similar
policies on the European level. If you have any feedback or comments in
regard to the US Source Code Policy, please send them to our English
discussion list[4] or directly to Matthias Kirschner. We would like to
make sure to consider your feedback before talking with European
politicians about this topic.
== From the community ==
Björn Schiessle blogged about the new feature of the ownCloud 9.0 the
Federation App[5] that allows users to exchange their Federated Cloud
ID-s and share data between their "clouds" more easily.
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Sergey Matveev summarised the GoVPN Free Software daemon: why it was
born, which tasks it is aimed to solve, and its technical overview[6] in
his blogpost.
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Guido Arnold wrote about the Fellowship meeting in Frankfurt which also
included a talk about Free Software licenses by Michael Stehmann[7].
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Guido Günther posted a follow-up to calendar synchronisation with
Calypso, syncEvolution and the N900 running Maemo[8].
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== What else have we done? ==
Founding member of FSFE, Werner Koch received this year's Free Software
award for the Advancement of Free Software for his GnuPG project[9]. The
Award for the Advancement of Free Software is given annually to an
individual who has made a great contribution to the progress and
development of Free Software.
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Our president Matthias Kirschner and the German coordinator Max Mehl
gave talks at Chemnitzer Linuxtage[10]. The event was a success with
most of our merchandise and promotional material disappearing quickly
from the booth handled by Reinhard Müller, Katja Müller, Max Mehl and
Fabian Keil.
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Our volunteers in Berlin participated in the FSF campaign against
digital restrictions proposed by W3C in the web HTML standard[11].
Digital restrictions in Web standards would make it easier and more
politically acceptable to impose restrictions on users.
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FSFE was present with a booth at CIJ Logan Symposium[12], a conference
dedicated to gather leading journalists, hacktivists, legal and security
experts to discuss freedom of press and digital rights. The list of the
speakers at the CIJ event included Edward Snowden, who also gave a
keynote at Libreplanet[13], a Free Software conference organised by FSF.
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== Take Action ==
To all awesome translators out there! Help us to expand our outreach by
updating the 'Spread the Word' page[14] for ordering our promotional
material into your language. Currently, the page exists in English,
German, Dutch and Albanian but it would be great to include any other
languages into this list too.
== Good Free Software news ==
Indian Patent Office said no to software patents[15] in its updated
guidelines that clearly state that any patent claim that lies only in
software will not be permitted under Indian patent law. Poland's new
eGovernment strategy recommends that publicly financed software for a
new system of public registers should be considered to be published
under a Free Software licence[16]. Sweden has updated the list of 'Open
IT standards' that can be made mandatory when procuring software and
related services[17]. To make it to the list IT standards must be
developed openly and publicly, must not constrain reuse of the standard,
and standard-essential patents should be made freely available.
Thanks to all the volunteers[18] , Fellows[19] and corporate donors[20]
who enable our work,
your editors Polina Malaja and Jonas Öberg, FSFE[21]
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1. https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/
2. https://sourcecode.cio.gov/SourceCodePolicy.pdf
3. https://k7r.eu/us-government-commits-to-publish-publicly-financed-software-…
4. https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
5. http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/03/14/federated-sharing-whats-new-in-ownclou…
6. http://blogs.fsfe.org/stargrave/archives/158
7. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2016/03/fsfe-meeting-in-frankfurt-with-talk-abo…
8. http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Contatacs__CardDAV__Calypso_and_the_N900.html
9. http://www.fsf.org/news/library-freedom-project-and-werner-koch-are-2015-fr…
10. https://k7r.eu/chemnitzer-linuxtage-misunderstandings-compulsory-routers-an…
11. http://www.fsf.org/news/anti-drm-activists-go-to-w3c-meeting-to-protest-dig…
12. https://logancij.com/
13. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/recapping-day-zero-of-libreplanet-2016
14. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.en.html
15. http://sflc.in/press-release-indian-patent-office-says-no-to-software-paten…
16. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/polish-egovernment-strategy…
17. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/sweden-updates-list-mandato…
18. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ru.html
19. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
20. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ru.html
21. https://fsfe.org/index.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter - March 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201603.ru.html ]
== "I love Free Software" Day 2016 ==
For the 6th time in a row we asked everyone to express their gratitude
and appreciation towards Free Software contributors on Valentine's Day.
Check out our #ilovefs 2016 report and see who got acknowledged this
year through countless blog posts, pictures, artwork, memes, personal
notes and many more[1]. Don't forget to mark next year's 14 February as
"I love Free Software" Day to continue this nice tradition of
acknowledging the people and hard work of everyone behind Free Software.
We thank all participants who found time to say "thank you" and for
making #ilovefs 2016 such a success!
== "No cloud" went viral ==
Just before "I love Free Software" Day, thanks to a spontaneous Reddit
post we received over 200 orders of our promotional material[2] in the
time span of 48 hours. In comparison, in 2015 we had around 370 orders
in total. After 24 hours we had more orders than usual in 6 months. The
majority of orders requested "no cloud" material but beside that people
also ordered our leaflet with basic information about Free Software, the
GnuPG leaflet, and our F-Droid leaflet.
== European Free Software Policy Meeting 2016 ==
In the end of Janury we organised, together with Open Forum Europe, a
pre-FOSDEM policy meeting in Brussels with the active Free Software
policy groups around Europe[3]. The purpose of the meeting was to learn
about each other's activities and exchange views, with an emphasis on
public policy related actions. In total, 19 organisations participated
in the meeting. In addition, Member of the European Parliament Julia
Reda, and a representative of the IT department of the European
Commission, Pierre Damas, attended the meeting to present the work of EU
institutions in the field of Free Software.
== From the community ==
February was dedicated to the sweet love declarations to Free Software
in the light of #ilovefs day. Check out our #ilovefs 2016 report above
for more detailed information about different blogposts, and get
inspired for the next year's celebrations by following Florian Snow's
idea for DIY #ilovefs banners[4].
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Paul Boddie combined retrocomputing with Python programming and wrote
how to make Python programs faster with Shedskin[5].
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Marcus Moeller gave tips about getting started with the federated social
network GNU social[6].
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Björn Schießle contemplated about the future of GitHub and the next
generation of code hosting platforms[7].
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== What else have we done? ==
After the adoption of the European Parliament's own-initiative report
"Towards a Digital Single Market" which included several positive
references to increase the use of Free Software in public sector, it
turned out that the meaning of "free" got lost in translation. In
particular the Italian version of the report referred to Free Software
as "gratis" as in free beer, instead of "libre" as in freedom. We asked
the staff of the member of the European Parliament Julia Reda to help us
and draw attention of the authors of the report to this mistake. The
mistake got fixed and the Italian version of the report now rightfully
refers to software freedom, and not the price[8].
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We've simplified a lot of our internal processes: no longer it is
necessary for someone helping us with our web pages or in other teams to
register a guest account in our systems. Instead they will now register
in the same system as our Fellows. It may not sound like much, but it's
a revolution in simplification which we're very happy with! Read about
how you too can contribute to our work[9]
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We published a report of our work in 2015[10]. From teaching people to
use encryption for their e-mail, to changing the direction of policy on
a European level, FSFE worked hard in 2015 to empower users to control
technology. We saw a lot of improvements in how we work, and we ended
the year positively with a lot to look forward to in 2016. We want to
thank everyone for helping us making the world a better place!
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As hinted at in the previous newsletter, we've teamed up with KDE, Qt,
VideoLAN and others who are organising QtCon 2016 in Berlin 2-4
September 2016. We'll use the opportunity to host an FSFE summit during
QtCon, with more information forthcoming.
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== Take Action ==
We still have plenty of "no cloud" stickers and other informational
material in stock! Help us to spread the word about software freedom in
your local community by ordering our leaflets, stickers, postcards and
posters[11].
== Good Free Software news ==
The French government is reviewing its existing Free Software support
contract, signed in 2011, and asks Free Software communities and the
public to help them draft their next multi-year framework contract for
Free Software services and support.[12] Meanwhile, the French Parliament
has approved a first draft law for a Digital Republic, which encourages
the use of Free Software by public administrations, and considers source
code of software developed by or for public administrations to be public
information[13]. Schools in the capital of Estonia, Tallinn, are
gradually moving to Free Software after the city administration decided
to switch to Free Software[14] in January 2015. By September 2015 more
than 4000 workstations and laptops across the 50 schools in Tallinn are
running on Free Software. In Germany, Federal Pension Insurance, which
is the largest in the country, is increasing the use of Free Software by
publishing a call for tender seeking assistance for its Free Software-
based services[15].
Thanks to all the volunteers[16] , Fellows[17] and corporate donors[18]
who enable our work,
your editors Polina Malaja and Jonas Öberg FSFE[19]
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2. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/the-reddit-effect-more-orders-in-24-hours-than-usu…
3. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160205-01.en.html
4. https://blogs.fsfe.org/floriansnow/2016/02/13/make-your-own-personal-banner…
5. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1233
6. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2016/02/03/getting-started-with-gnu-social/
7. http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/02/12/the-next-generation-of-code-hosting-pl…
8. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/now-italian-european-parliaments-dsm-report-speaks…
9. https://fsfe.org/contribute/
10. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160224-01.en.html
11. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.en.html
12. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-involves-public-draf…
13. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-assembly-encourages-…
14. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/tallinn-schools-piloting-op…
15. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/open-source-largest-german-…
16. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ru.html
17. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
18. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ru.html
19. https://fsfe.org/index.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter - February 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201602.ru.html ]
== FSFE turns 15 ==
In 2016, the Free Software Foundation Europe is looking forward towards
an exciting year. This is the year when we are celebrating our 15th
birthday and that will give us the chance to look back, to see and show
how your support brought us here. However, we are also looking forward
to mastering the challenges ahead.
Since 2001, a lot has evolved for the good, including the changes that
we could not think of once a small team of volunteers from different
countries decided to come together in the Villa Vogelsang in Essen,
Germany, and to found the Free Software Foundation Europe[1]. Since
then, this initial team of activists grew together as friends, FSFE
received the Theodor Heuss Medal for our work for freedom in the
information society[2], we became an influential voice on national and
European level, we have our third president in office and we became a
European wide organisation with a permanent staff team. All of this
would not have been possible without the help of you, our Fellows. Your
advice, your support, your financial contribution, your local
activities, your viral marketing, your campaign projects and all the
time you dedicated to us are priceless and what made us strong. We are
overwhelmed and happy that in 2016, the Free Software Foundation Europe
is carried upon thousands of shoulders. This is why we dedicate this
year to you, our Fellows, our community.
We will come up with some activities and stories for you as a thank you
during the year and in memory of our 15 years of existence. Let's start
this with celebrating the I love Free Software day on February 14 as
colourfully as possible. Join us in spreading love towards Free Software
and their developers[3]. And don't miss to already save the date from
September 2nd to 4th[4] as a core event in 2016. This is the weekend we
will organise our first FSFE summit - for and by you. More information
will follow.
== Document Freedom Day is given into the hands of the Digital Freedom Foundation ==
Half as old as the FSFE is our Document Freedom Day campaign, celebrated
for the first time in 2008 to oppose the adoption of Microsoft's OOXML
standard[5] - and then turned itself into an annual day to celebrate
Open Standards. During the years we had hundreds events all over the
globe, we have seen impressive artwork, inspiring comics and videos and
we have seen political parties, companies and non-profit organisations
using Document Freedom Day to let the world know about the power and
freedom of interoperability.
In 2016, however, the FSFE hands over Document Freedom Day campaign to
the Digital Freedom Foundation[6], the organisation that is best known
for organising the Software Freedom Day. This way, the FSFE sees the
potential to further broaden Document Freedom Day as the international
day of Open Standards and to further decentralise the campaign's
concept. This year, Document Freedom Day will be on March 30, 2016.
== MEPs vote for more Free Software in public sector ==
On 19 January, the European Parliament adopted in Plenary its own-
initiative report "Towards a Digital Single Market" prepared by the co-
rapporteurs Kaja Kallas (ALDE) from the Industry, Research and Energy
Committee (ITRE) and Evelyne Gebhardt (S D) from Internal Market and
Consumers Protection Committee (IMCO). The FSFE's policy team has
amended the draft report and is pleased to see that the final version
adopted in the Plenary includes several positive statements concerning
Free Software.
In particular, the report urges the European Commission and the Council
of the EU to increase the share of Free Software and its reuse in public
administrations as a solution to increase interoperability. The report
also promotes the security advantages of Free Software, and calls the EU
to commit to the increased use of Free Software in educational
establishments and public administrations. We hope that the European
Commission will follow the example of the Parliament and will implement
the recommendations to increase the use of Free Software in public
sector.
== Out of the community ==
Daniel Pocock blogs about the freedom to leave your phone offline or at
home[7], and argues why you should start with buying a watch.
-
Hook writes about his positive experience with switching to Let's
Encrypt certificates for his server[8] and comes up with some links for
more information to do it yourself.
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Many of us feel sad these days about the loss of Ian Murdock. His
contributions to the world of Free Software and the Debian system are
without end. Daniel Pocock gathered some background, feelings and other
people's tributes to Ian Murdock on his blog[9].
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Marcus Möller reports and gives a summary about Freedomvote[10] - a
successful 'ask you candidates' campaign that the FSFE Switzerland was
running for this years elections.
-
Erik Albers made his first experiences with FirefoxOS and asks Mozilla
to put freedom into FirefoxOS market place[11].
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The FSFE group Berlin made a Free Software installation party and
liberated 23 PC's with Debian[12] that will be given to refugee
organisations and schools.
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== What else have we done? ==
FSFE provided the European Commission input on setting priorities in ICT
standards and answered to the public consultation on the adoption of a
Priority ICT Standards Plan[13]. In order for the EU to achieve a true
digital single market that is interoperable and pro-competitive, there
is a need for standards that are open, minimalistic and implementable
with Free Software. Other points that have been risen are that a
reference implementation is published under a Free Software licence,
that all software developed with public funds is to be released as Free
Software, and that harmful licensing practices such as FRAND should be
avoided in the fields of software, internet and the web.
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Together with April and several other organisations, FSFE signed a joint
disagreement against the partnership agreement signed between France's
ministry of education and Microsoft[14] about IT solutions in school.
The partnership revolves around teachers' training for mastering
Microsoft environment, the provision of a cloud ecosystem and an
e-learning platform which in total amounts to complete control of IT in
French schools under the supervision of Microsoft. With this agreement
the ministry is forcing schools and pupils to a particular proprietary
vendor.
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FSFE had an assembly at the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress[15] in
Hamburg, Germany, including 12 self-organized sessions and the
GNU/Burger[16].
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Just before Christmas and the completion of the EU Data Protection
package, all members of the European Parliament received our e-mail
self-defense leaflet in their mailboxes. This way we wanted to remind
policymakers how important encryption is to everyone's right to
privacy[17].
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== Take Action ==
In 2016 we have 15 years of FSFE and 5 years of I love Free Software
Day: Join us in celebrating Free Software by expressing your
appreciation towards Free Software developers on February 14[18]!
#ILoveFS
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As every year, we will have a booth at FOSDEM and a lot of members of
our community will give talks or come to listen to talks. It is one of
the best chances throughout the year to meet many people from the FSFE.
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== Good Free Software news ==
An amendment to the France's upcoming law for the Digital Republic that
obliges public administrations to publish the source code of its custom-
built software solutions[19] was adopted by France's parliament.
Meanwhile another French city, Grenoble, commits to Free Software[20]
that is said to help to increase citzen participation, to cut costs, and
facilitate the sharing of knowledge. Speaking of licences, family of
Free Software licenses has expanded by three new licences written by the
government of the Canadian province of Quebec[21]. This should encourage
the province’s public administrations to share their ICT solutions.
Thanks to all the volunteers[22] , Fellows[23] and corporate donors[24]
who enable our work,
your editors Polina Malaja and Erik Albers FSFE[25]
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2. https://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100510-01.en.html
3. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/
4. https://wiki.fsfe.org/FSFE%20summit
5. https://fsfe.org/news/2008/news-20080220-01
6. http://documentfreedom.org/news/2016/news-20160122-01.html
7. http://danielpocock.com/do-you-own-your-phone-or-it-owns-you
8. http://matija.suklje.name/i-am-using-lets-encrypt-on-my-server-now
9. http://danielpocock.com/ian-murdock-police-brutality
10. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2015/12/15/freedomvote-a-summary/
11. http://blog.3rik.cc/2016/01/put-freedom-into-firefox-os-marketplace/
12. https://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipEvents/Berlin/2016-01-16-Free-Software-Inst…
13. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160118-01.en.html
14. https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20151203-01.en.html
15. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_…
16. http://blog.3rik.cc/2015/12/fsfe-assembly-during-chaos-communication-congre…
17. http://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/?p=69
18. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/
19. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-parliament-source-co…
20. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/grenoble-commits-free-softw…
21. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/open-source-initiative-appr…
22. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ru.html
23. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
24. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ru.html
25. https://fsfe.org/index.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter - December 2015 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201512.ru.html ]
== From the FSFE ==
== MEPs in support of our amendments ==
The European Parliamentary committees for Internal Market and Consumer
Protection (IMCO) as well as Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) issued
their joint own-initiative report based on the Commission's Digital
Single Market Strategy. FSFE's policy team analysed their report and
proposed changes to include standards that are open, minimalistic, and
implementable with Free Software, to integrate users' control over their
data and to make sure that the single open science cloud is implemented
with Free Software.
The report received more than 1000 amendments from Members of the
European Parliament (MEPs), several of whom supported our points and
proposed amendments. This shows increased awareness in the Parliament
towards the importance of Free Software in "cloud computing", big data
and standardisation, as well as in public sector. Shadow rapporteur
Cornelia Ernst even highlighted the need to address Free Software during
her talk in the joint meeting of IMCO/ITRE on 10 November. This month,
on December 14, the Parliament will vote for the final version of the
report.
Although the report is non-binding and the Commission is not obliged to
follow the Parliament's recommendations, the fact that our amendments
were supported by several MEPs is an important step. Especially in the
Parliament that is usually less receptive when it comes to the issues
concerning digital rights and Free Software.
== Germany passed law against compulsory routers ==
After three years of intensive lobbying by the FSFE[1] and other
organisations, the German Parliament as well as the second chamber, the
Federal Council, passed a law against compulsory routers but for free
choice of the user. This is an important step towards consumer
protection and fair competition of manufacturers. Free choice also
empowers users to take care of critical features like security or
privacy on their own preferred device. The law will become effective in
the mid of 2016 and should set an example across Europe. We will support
similar legislation wherever needed.
== Sony Rootkit makes headlines 10 years later ==
In the end of October FSFE reminded of the dangers posed by technical
restrictions on technology to promote everyone's right to tinker. As a
result, the topic got picked up by the press and the FSFE info page was
linked with at least a dozen articles from several big name news
sources. Our ex-intern Asa Ritz summarised[2] in his blogpost the media
coverage we received.
== What else have we done? ==
- FSFE president Matthias Kirschner gave a talk about the computer as a
universal machine[3] at Codemotion Berlin, and ran a workshop about
restrictions on technical restrictions at the "Open IT Summit"[4] in
Berlin. In a podcast, Matthias argued against a "non-military clause"
in Free Software licenses[5].
- FSFE community coordinator Erik Albers and FSFE legal team coordinator
Matija Šuklje participated at Copycamp Warsaw[6] to host a booth and
Matija to gave a talk about "Implications of the EU Copyright Reform
on Free Software".
- FSFE was present at FSCONS[7] in Goteborg, Sweden. Christian Kalkhoff
wrote about his FSCONS experience[8] in a blogpost.
- FSFE had its booths also at Open Source Summit in Paris[9], at
Linuxday in Dornbirn[10], Austria, at T-Dose in Eindhoven,
Netherlands, and at OpenRheinRuhr Oberhausen[11], Germany.
== Take Action ==
- If you like to meet us in person, you will meet members, staff and
community of the FSFE at our booth at FOSDEM[12]. And if you go to
this year's Chaos Communication Congress, #32C3[13], then do not miss
to pass by the FSFE assembly[14], participate in one of our sessions
or simply take a break in our "Free Software lounge".
- The FSFE Education team is redesigning its educational leaflet. If you
like to join or share ideas, feel free to participate on the wiki
page[15].
- The local group FSFE Zurich started a Free Software photo book to show
people that use Free Software. If you like, you can be part of it.[16]
- In our Free Your Android campaign we highlight the importance of
Replicant as a 100% free Android-based operating system. We are happy
to see that business grows, that start to sell phones with Replicant
pre-installed[17] and we hope there are more companies who follow this
example.
- If you like what we have done in 2015 and you like us to continue the
good work in 2016 or even grow stronger, then consider to support us
with a donation[18] or to become a sustainable member[19]. Funding is
crucial to our existence.
== Out of the community ==
- A new team got established: North Rhine-Westphalia is the biggest
state of Germany with currently three local FSFE groups. This month,
they had an inaugural meeting of a state-wide action group, the Team
NRW[20]. Besides coordination, the primary tasks shall be the
education of teachers[21].
- At the local meeting of FSFE Düsseldorf, Andreas Schreiber talked
about the open source strategy of Germany’s Aerospace Centre DLR[22]
and this event was picked up by the European Open Source
Observatory[23]
- After offering pre-flashed Libreboot Laptops at freie.computer[24] the
local group FSFE Zurich now decided to start doing Flashdays[25]
- Daniel Pocock reports about team building around SIP and XMPP
communication in Debian and Fedora[26], and Daniel has also written a
quick start to use Blender for video editing[27]
- Marcus Möller customised Fedora 23 in a Freed version[28], which
includes linux-libre kernel and Icecat webbrowser. All proprietary
firmware has been removed.
== Good Free Software News ==
At the *EU* level: the European Parliament calls upon the Commission for
the systematic replacement of proprietary software by verifiable Free
Software in all the EU institutions[29]. In *Italy*, the Italian
Ministry of Defence is replacing Microsoft Office with LibreOffice[30]
on 150,000 PCs in what is Europe’s second largest LibreOffice
implementation. Meanwhile, the second most important industrial city in
Southern Italy, Bari, is about to complete its transition to
LibreOffice[31] and the ODF. At the same time in *Switzerland*, the
council of Bern ordered the IT department to end its dependence on
proprietary software[32], and replace proprietary software by Free
Software solutions. The same example was followed in *Denmark* where the
city of Aarhus is requiring the use of open IT standards for all of its
future IT projects[33] in order to rid itself of IT vendor lock-in.
Lastly, recent study in *France* confirmed that country's administration
is still a large enabler of Free Software in France[34]. According to
the study, the Free Software market is growing on a linear trend and
will grow by 9% annually until 2020.
This was the final newsletter in 2015. Thank you very much for your
attention. You will receive the next newsletter in the beginning of
February 2016.
BTW: We are still experimenting with new ways and formats for our
newsletter. Please feel free to give us your feedback at
fellowship(a)fsfeurope.org.
Happy Christmas and a Happy GNU-year!
Your editors Polina Malaja and Erik Albers FSFE[35]
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1. https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/timeline.html
2. http://blogs.fsfe.org/asawritz/2015/11/04/sony-rootkit-still-making-headlin…
3. http://berlin2015.codemotionworld.com/talk-detail/?detail=1958
4. http://www.gruene-fraktion-berlin.de/offener-it-gipfel
5. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/podcast-on-non-military-use-clause-in-gnu-gpl/
6. http://copycamp.pl/en/
7. https://fscons.org/2015/
8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/softmetz/?p=63
9. http://www.opensourcesummit.paris/
10. http://www.linuxday.at/
11. http://openrheinruhr.de/
12. https://fosdem.org/2016/
13. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Main_Page
14. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_…
15. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Reasons_for_schools_to_use_Free_Software
16. http://freie.software
17. https://tehnoetic.com/tehnoetic-s2-phone-replicant
18. https://fsfe.org/donate/donate
19. https://fsfe.org/join
20. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1629
21. http://blogs.fsfe.org/wromey/2015/11/22/grundungssitzung-des-nrw-teams-der-…
22. http://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1592
23. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/147875
24. https://freie.computer/
25. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2015/11/27/flashdays-are-coming/
26. http://danielpocock.com/building-teams-around-sip-and-xmpp-in-debian-and-fe…
27. http://danielpocock.com/quick-start-blender-video-editing
28. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2015/11/04/freed-ora-23-workstation-availab…
29. https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20151110-01.en.html
30. http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500256578/Free-software-gains-ground-in…
31. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/146281
32. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/bern-council-demands-transi…
33. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/denmark%E2%80%99s-aarhus-in…
34. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/147785
35. https://fsfe.org/index.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter - November 2015 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201511.ru.html ]
== FSFE to EU: Think global, go Free Software! ==
In the end of October, FSFE provided its recommendations[1] to the
European Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy, a roadmap for
European policy in digital age aimed at bringing down regulatory
barriers between 28 different national markets. In particular, the
Commission has set goals to digitalise European industries, to develop
standards for “the cloud”, “the Internet of Things”, and big data, and
to further enhance digital education.
FSFE believes that Free Software will help the EU to meet the goals set
by the Commission. However, several barriers to unleash the full
potential of Free Software still exist: in particular unharmonised
exceptions to copyright protection, software patents, unrecognised
rights of users to modify their property, and the danger of standard-
essential patents in the standardisation. We ask EU legislators to
follow our recommendations and abolish the obstacles in the way of Free
Software.
== What the cloud is going on? ==
As a part of the Commission’s Digital Single Market, the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has been requested to
identify a detailed map of the standards required to support EU policy
in “the cloud”. Your co-editor blogged[2] about their confusing position
on Free Software in the ETSI’s Cloud Standards Coordination initiative.
== FSFE’s legislative push against compulsory routers inches forward in Bundestag ==
FSFE hired our German coordinator Max Mehl as a working student to stay
on top of the compulsory routers issue. So far the FSFE, together with 9
other civil and economic organisations, sent a joint letter[3] to
members of the German Bundestag to support the bill against compulsory
routers. Forcing consumers to use a specific router provided by an ISP
undermines free and fair competition of manufacturers. In addition they
are harmful to users’ security, privacy, and independence to use their
own preferred, secure, device.
The Bundestag will consult about the bill in November, and despite the
unanimous opinion of experts, consumer protectors, and politicians who
support the bill, some members of the Federal Council aligned against
it, and adopted technically inconsistent arguments of internet providers
and network carriers.
== Remember Sony rootkit? FSFE does ==
FSFE commemorated the 10th anniversary of the Sony rootkit fiasco on 31
October by posting a reminder[4] of how dangerous digital restrictions
are for user’s security, the freedom to tinker, and general purpose
computing. Before public outrage and lawsuits demanded retribution from
Sony, the rootkit had already infiltrated users’ computers, spied on
their listening habits, blocked third party software, slowed down
computer performance, created holes in user’s computer security, and
sent data back to Sony. This month FSFE reached out[5] to dozens of tech
and security journalists to team up and remind the public to protect
their digital freedoms and to be wary of digital restrictions, the same
kinds of restrictions that gave Sony access to millions of computers and
hundreds of thousands of networks.
== Get Active ==
Since last week was the 10th anniversary of when the Sony rootkit was
unveiled, spend a few minutes this month to share what happened back in
2005 with friends, family, or colleagues who have never heard of the
Sony rootkit. Sony rootkit provides a prime example of how companies
build in harmful restrictions into software to limit what consumers can
do with their own property.
== FSF’s 30th birthday finds cake, birthday wishes, and Swiss press coverage ==
In contrast to the Sony rootkit anniversary, there was also a positive
anniversary this month. On 3 October 2015 the Free Software Foundation
of Europe celebrated the Free Software Foundation’s 30th birthday[6]
with some delicious cake and many wonderful birthday wishes. Shortly
thereafter, FSFE President Matthias Kirschner spoke extensively[7] with
the largest Swiss newspaper about FSFE and the role of Free Software in
politics and the economy. Matthias’s interview complemented an
additional article[8] about Richard Stallman and Free Software activism.
== Zurich fellows offer Free Software computer ==
Fellows in Zurich started “Free Computer for Free People”[9], an
initiative to offer laptops that run completely on Free Software only.
This includes alternative firmware and free BIOS that are most often
proprietary on the majority of laptops and preclude users from
installing Free Software not authorised by the manufacturer. By reusing
used hardware, the Zurich Fellows also like to foster a sustainable use
of hardware.
== FreeRTC Mission Statement for Skype replacement ==
FSFE’s project to develop FreeRTC, that is, Real Time Communications, is
taking suggestions for how to improve their Mission Statement. The goal
is to make it as easy as possible to call other people and receive calls
from other people using solely Free Software, open standards, a free
choice of service providers and a credible standard of privacy. Sign up
to the mailing list[10] to follow the discussion and post your opinion.
== FSFE Executive Director Jonas Öberg reflects on his 1999 meeting with Richard Stallman ==
FSFE co-founder and Executive Director, Jonas Öberg reminisced[11] about
how he got involved in Free Software, including the details of his
influential trip to Boston as a 22-year-old in 1999. His story features
trips to Technology Square in Boston, attending the Free Software
Awards, and a commitment to Richard Stallman to “always be true to the
community.”
== Interview with Apache Software Foundation member, developer, and mother, Isabel Drost-Fromm ==
On 13 October, Paul Boddie commemorated Ada Lovelace Day (international
day of women in science and technology) by interviewing[12] local Berlin
resident and Free Software contributor, Isabel Drost-Fromm. Their
conversation covered technical topics (naturally), as well as advice on
managing expectations and building confidence for the transition to the
next generation of hackers, makers, and tinkerers.
Thanks to all the volunteers[13], Fellows[14], and corporate donors[15]
who enable our work.
Polina Malaja and Asa Ritz - FSFE[16]
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2. http://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/2015/10/15/what-the-cloud-is-going-on-in-etsi/
3. http://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20151028-01.html
4. http://fsfe.org/activities/drm/sony-rootkit-fiasco.en.html
5. http://blogs.fsfe.org/asawritz/2015/11/04/sony-rootkit-still-making-headlin…
6. https://wiki.fsfe.org/FSF30Birthday
7. http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/digital/computer/Politisch-denkende-Menschen-ve…
8. http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/digital/computer/Politisch-denkende-Menschen-ve…
9. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2015/10/07/libre-laptops/
10. https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc
11. https://opensource.com/life/15/10/my-open-source-story-jonas-oberg
12. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=715
13. http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html
14. https://fsfe.org/fellowship/ams/join.php?ams=join
15. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html
16. https://fsfe.org/index.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter - October 2015 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201510.ru.html ]
== FSFE elections and other news from Bucharest ==
At this year's General Assembly in Bucharest, the FSFE elected a new
leadership team for the next two years[1]. Reinhard Müller will continue
his role as Financial Officer while your editor will assume the role as
President, with Alessandro Rubini filling in as Vice-President.
Alessandro is an electronic engineer working on device drivers and
embedded systems. He was one of the first members of the FSFE and
recently joined again to support us in our work. The FSFE's former
President, Karsten Gerloff welcomed the change and wrote about his
future steps[2].
The city of Bucharest was already warming up to Free Software several
weeks before the FSFE's arrival, as Romanian public administrations were
invited by Rogentos Linux User Group to test out two GNU/Linux-
distributions[3]. This is a first step towards more awareness for
software freedom in the country's public administration. After the
General Assembly, we discussed this news and further collaboration with
Free Software contributors from Romania, especially with our friends
from Fundația Ceata, the Romanian foundation for Free Software and Free
Culture. We found out that they are looking for skilled designers to
contribute their ideas for a new logo for the foundation. So any graphic
artists out there who are willing to flex their muscles for a good cause
can find more information on their call for submissions page[4].
== FSFE’s evaluation of the EU Parliament copyright report ==
In July, the European Parliament adopted its recommendations for
copyright reform initially drafted by MEP Julia Reda, and the FSFE
released[5] its assessment of the final report that was approved in the
Parliament after considerable amount of amendments. While some
improvements exist in the Parliament's final report over current
legislation, there are enough problems that it should be reconsidered,
especially in regards to Free Software. In particular, the report fails
to adequately address Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) that can
still hinder the use of works that fall under copyright exceptions, and
it does not provide a possibility for software developers to contribute
their works directly to the public domain.
In the next step, the Commission will publish their proposal on
copyright reform sometime before the end of 2015. We ask the Commission
to take the copyright reform even further and ensure that no exception
to copyright should be ever limited by technological restrictions, to
provide for a fully harmonised set of exceptions, and to publish all
works that are publicly funded under a Free Software licence.
== Tidying up PDFreaders ==
While wrapping up our PDFreaders campaign[6] it is worthy to highlight a
few success stories in particular. Our German Coordinator, Max Mehl,
blogged[7] about the success of the campaign in German government. In
fact, the campaign was so successful, the German "Migration Guide" now
includes a titbit about us, saying "If PDF documents are provided
publicly authorities shall no longer only recommend Adobe Acrobat Reader
for displaying them, but for example use the HTML templates provided by
the FSFE on their websites for downloading alternative PDF readers", as
well as recommending officials to expand to Free Software as viable
alternatives.
The FSFE helped to bring out the best in Free Software PDF readers for
the private sector as well. Our very own Polina Malaja was able to catch
up[8] with our former PDFreaders campaign coordinator, Hannes
Hauswedell, about his conversation with Google back in 2011 about
releasing Pdfium software as Free Software. Finally in 2014, Hannes's
request came to fruition. Now, we are not saying our campaign caused the
Pdfium release, but we would like to think our campaign played a part in
it.
== Something completely different ==
- FSFE Switzerland, in cooperation with the Swiss Open Systems User
Group, sent out hundreds of letters to different political candidates
asking them to participate in their online questionnaire,
Freedomvote[9], as a way to collect candidates' opinions of various
digital issues that are sometimes overlooked like e-voting, open data,
Free Software, and data security. The results were posted online for
citizens to make more informed decisions about who they will vote for
on election day on 18 October.
- Paul Boddie interviews FSFE Fellow Nico Rikken[10] from the
Netherlands. Nico's background is in electrical engineering, and he
provides insight into open hardware and education policy amongst other
things.
- On 1 September the Parisian High Court reaffirmed that software
patents are illegal in Europe under the European Patent
Convention.[11] However, this success comes only as a silver lining,
considering that the plaintiff in this case was actually granted a
patent from the European Patent Office.
- According to Felix Greve's PhD thesis, the German constitution
requires vendor-neutral ICT standards to ensure interoperability in
public administration and elsewhere[12]. The current lack of
interoperability rules are a major barrier to the country’s uptake of
Free Software.
- FSF certified Taurinus X200 laptop[13] to respect users' freedom. It
also removes Intel's Management Engine (ME) which is a secret and
proprietary software that allows remote access to the computer over a
network, changing and upgrading the BIOS configuration, or wiping the
disk. ME has full access to the computer with a wide functionality and
could be a very useful security measure, but only if the owner of the
device has the ability to control it.
- Public Administration: The UK government publishes an authoritative
ODF guide[14] about integration of ODF with enterprise software in
public procurement, the Italian military is switching to LibreOffice
and ODF[15] making it Europe’s second largest LibreOffice
implementation, at the Debian Conference "DebConf15" the city of
Munich showed that they are a major contributor to Free Software by
sharing software solutions and best practices[16], and Open Forum
Europe's Karel De Vriendt provided insight[17] into the thinking
behind European Commission's call for tender concerning Microsoft
products that will further increase the vendor lock-in in public IT
sector.
- From the planet aggregation[18]:
- Daniel Pocock argues that the only way to avoid scandals like the
one with VW[19] in the future is to ensure everyone's freedom to
see and modify the source code in the equipment that controls our
lives.
- Dominic Hopf (now an official intergalactic diplomat) and new
Fellow Pascal Wittmann, organised a booth at a Software Freedom
Day (SFD) event in Kiel[20] and gave a presentation about F-Droid.
- On a wet day in Frankfurt, the FSFE booth made a splash among
visitors at the annual Rotlintstraßenfest who were eager to learn
more about software freedom. Guido Arnold provides more details on
this popular outdoor event.[21]
- Meanwhile FSFE Fellow Michael Stehmann summarised his SFD
experience in Cologne (in German)[22].
- Our Executive Director Jonas Öberg gave a rundown on the logistics
behind running a successful event[23].
- Carsten Agger was busy organising the LibreOffice Hackfest in
Aarhus[24].
- Tobias Platen criticises[25] just how allegedly "free" Purism
Librem computers actually are.
- André Ockers explains how concerned citizens in the Netherlands
convinced a Dutch government agency to use an Open Document
format[26], and
- Paul Boddie asks "Random Questions" about the Fairphone's source
code availability"[27].
== Get Active: Nominate people and projects for the Free Software Award ==
Often users do not realise that they are using Free Software. Sometimes
we need to explicitly state that fact. For instance the new upgrade of
WordPress[28] includes a tab with a reference to the GNU General Public
License and the four freedoms of Free Software, explicitly informing the
Wordpress community about the importance of freedom underlying their
software.
However, very often a lot of amazing Free Software developers and
projects out there do not get the recognition they deserve. Right now
the FSF is accepting nominations for the 18th annual Free Software
Awards[29] for people and projects who have improved the world using
Free Software. There are two awards, one for people who have advanced
the movement, and another for a project that has fulfilled a crucial
societal need through the use of Free Software. Please submit your
nominations until 1 November.
Thanks to all the volunteers[30], Fellows[31] and corporate donors[32]
who enable our work,
Matthias Kirschner[33] - FSFE[34]
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3. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/145574
4. https://ceata.org/comunicate/international-challenge-logo-for-ceata.html
5. https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/20150918-Assessment-Of-The-Report-On-…
6. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.en.html
7. http://blog.mehl.mx/2015/german-government-wants-authorities-to-advertise-p…
8. http://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/2015/09/10/free-pdf-reader-for-the-web-browser/
9. https://freedomvote.ch/
10. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=672
11. https://www.april.org/en/paris-high-court-reaffirms-ban-software-patents
12. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/145984
13. http://www.fsf.org/news/now-fsf-cerified-to-respect-your-freedom-taurinus-x…
14. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/145658
15. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/145784
16. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/145626
17. http://www.openforumeurope.org/windows-dressing/
18. http://planet.fsfe.org
19. http://danielpocock.com/the-only-way-to-ensure-the-vw-scandal-never-happens…
20. http://blog.dmaphy.de/2015/09/how-to-travel-intergalactic-way-free.html
21. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2015/09/fsfe-info-booth-at-rotlintstrasenfest-i…
22. http://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1554
23. http://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=20
24. http://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2015/09/28/organizing-this-years-libreoffice-co…
25. http://blogs.fsfe.org/tobias_platen/2015/09/22/why-i-wont-buy-the-libre/
26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2015/09/26/why-we-convinced-a-dutch-government-ag…
27. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1129
28. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/wordpress-brings-the-freedom-to-the-front
29. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/who-is-improving-the-world-through-free-…
30. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ru.html
31. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
32. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ru.html
33. https://fsfe.org/about/kirschner
34. https://fsfe.org/index.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter - September 2015 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201509.ru.html ]
== FSFE supports users' control over their online data ==
Nowadays we use online services for everything and increasingly provide
our data to them. However we also lose the control of our own data more
than ever. Together with other organisations FSFE supports the
publication of the User Data Manifesto 2.0[1] which promotes users'
basic rights to control their data while using online services.
According to the manifesto, users must control the access to their data,
they have to know if their data is stored by the online services, and
they have to be able to freely choose a platform without being forced to
vendor lock-in. The manifesto is a good starting point for the debate
about users' rights online, and FSFE looks forward to other
organisations joining the effort to stand for online services that
respect users' fundamental rights.
== Compulsory routers: Another one bites the dust ==
The router, although often a device covered with dust in some corner at
home, is an important part of your local network and phone. A lot of
users in Germany do not own this device, although it stands in their
home and they pay for its power. At least that is still the case. On
August 12th, the German Federal Ministry of the Economy (BMWi) passed a
reworked draft bill[2] that would free users from compulsory router
lock-in. The draft ensures that internet users in Germany can use
whatever routers they want to connect to the internet.
The bill now has to be adopted by the Federal Parliament (Bundestag) and
the Federal Assembly (Bundesrat). So far the comments concerned only a
small formal ambiguity, but we have to make sure this law passes without
any negative changes and that it is afterwards implemented. We have a
detailed update[3] which also describes how you can help us in Germany
at the moment! Besides that we summarised the issue[4] and we are
constantly updating our timeline[5] so in case this topic comes up in
your country, you can reuse our arguments.
== New German Coordinators and dissolving the German association ==
In his blog post your editor outlined[6] the process of streamlining the
FSFE by dissolving the last remaining country chapter, known as the FSFE
Chapter Germany e.V. This step was decided last year in November with
the goal to remove some bureaucratic burdens associated with maintaining
a legal entity. However as you can read in the article, dissolving an
organisation is not as easy as it may sound; but we hope to complete
this process in April of next year.
FSFE is happy to announce that Max Mehl and Björn Schießle became the
new coordinators of the German team last month, and from now on will
hopefully not spend many hours per year dealing with bureaucracy. Both
have been a part of FSFE for a long time now and have been helping us to
achieve our goal to empower people to control technology[7]. Just
recently, Björn wrote an article on the German blog Netzpolitik.org
about the User Data Manifesto[8] (see above in English), and Max just
published an update on compulsory routers as mentioned above, along with
an article on Netzpolitik.org about it[9].
== Something completely different ==
- Paul Boddie started with the Fellowship interviews again: he talked
with Neil McGovern[10] who is a Fellow of the FSFE from the United
Kingdom and the current Debian Project Leader.
- Hugo Roy, FSFE's deputy legal coordinator wrote an article[11] (in
French) about a copyright case between Skype and a French software
company which decompiled parts of Skype in order to, allegedly, build
a system interoperable with it. Interestingly enough, the court found
that company's disclosure of the source code was illegal, but that
using the code to build a new interoperable program was legal.
- FSFE has a new role in the Bacula project[12]. Over the coming months,
the FSFE will wind down its previous role as a fiduciary for Bacula,
effectively transferring its copyright to Kern. However, the FSFE will
continue to work with Kern and contributors to ensure that Bacula will
remain as Free Software, as per our original agreement.
- Next month FSFE will have a booth at the "Rotlintstraßenfest" in
Frankfurt on 19 September and a booth at the "Kieler Open Source and
Linuxtage" from 18-19 September.
- From the planet aggregation[13]:
- Nikos Roussos was guided by Open Street Map during his vacations
and afterwards he spent time to improve the Open Street Map[14]
with the data he gathered during his trip so everybody will
benefit from it again.
- Daniel Pocock published the second part[15] of his how-to about
"recording live events like a pro".
- Paul Boddie commented on the new Fairphone[16] and wrote about his
passion[17] for microcomputer systems from the 1980s and his
experience with PCB design.
- Mario Fux unveils the secret ingredient for the success of the
"Randa Meetings"[18] -- the KDE meetings in the Swiss Alps --
which took place for the sixth time this year.
- On a more technical side Peter Bubestinger, FSFE's Austrian
coordinator and technician at the National Video-Archive, wrote
about rescuing videotapes[19].
- Kevin Keitzer wrote about some SSH magic in "Connecting to a
server’s web interface over SSH"[20], and about how to track
airplanes and do other interesting things with "software-defined
radio on GNU/Linux"[21].
== Get active: translate and improve translations of our mission statement ==
"Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to
control technology. Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our
lives. It is important that this technology empowers rather than
restricts us. Free Software gives everybody the rights..." That is how
FSFE's recently updated mission statement starts[22]. We hope that it
will help us to get more people to understand what we are doing. We
already have translations into Albanian, Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek,
Italian, Portuguese, and Turkish.
Please help us to get more translations[23], and to check the exisiting
translations for easy readability for everybody.
Thanks to all the volunteers[24], Fellows[25] and corporate donors[26]
who enable our work,
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE[27]
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1. http://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150829-01.html
2. http://www.bmwi.de/BMWi/Redaktion/PDF/Gesetz/gesetzentwurf-der-bundesregier…
3. https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150902-01.html
4. https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/routers.html
5. https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/timeline.html
6. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/dissolving-our-association/
7. http://fsfe.org/about/mission.html
8. https://netzpolitik.org/2015/user-data-manifesto-2-0/
9. https://netzpolitik.org/2015/der-lange-weg-des-routerzwangs-zur-endgeraetef…
10. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=683
11. http://www.lemondedudroit.fr/le-monde-du-droit-le-quotidien-des-juristes-da…
12. http://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150817-01.en.html
13. http://planet.fsfe.org
14. http://www.roussos.cc/2015/08/07/post-vacations-map-editing/
15. http://danielpocock.com/recording-live-events-like-a-pro-part-two-video
16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1000
17. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1070
18. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=336
19. http://blogs.fsfe.org/pb/?p=158
20. http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2015/08/27/web-interface-over-ssh/
21. http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2015/08/31/sdr-on-linux/
22. https://fsfe.org/about/mission.html
23. http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.html
24. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ru.html
25. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
26. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ru.html
27. https://fsfe.org/index.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter - August 2015 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201508.ru.html ]
== Reply to EU consultation on copyright, patents, and trade secrets ==
Earlier this month, FSFE answered to the “Consultation on the respect of
intellectual property in public procurement procedures”, initiated by
the European Commission. According to Commission the initial purpose of
the consultation was to “gather evidence, opinions and feedback
regarding the respect of intellectual property rights and trade secrets
in public procurement procedures”, and assess whether there is a need
for a guide for public authorities in this regard.
In our answer, we restate several issues that need to be addressed in
the overall topic of the consultation. For example on software patents
we explained that it is impossible to procure software that is not
violating any patents, and that the rights of copyright holders should
not be devalued by third parties’ patents. In addition, FSFE argued that
every publicly funded software should be published and distributed as
Free Software by default, so that everyone can use the software for
their own purposes and provide better services for public authorities in
return.
Our current trainee Polina Malaja summarised our answers and wrote about
the consultation in her blogpost[1], and made our answers available in
FSFE's wiki[2].
== How to deal with firmware restrictions ==
FSFE's goal is to ensure that the owners of IT devices are always in
full and sole control of them. During the last years this fundamental
principle is being challenged by such developments as UEFI “Secure
Boot”[3], or the proprietary BIOS. This is low-level software that runs
when you turn on your computer. It initialises the hardware and may be
designed to restrict users to install software which is not “authorised”
by the manufacturer. This development was also a topic in your editor's
keynote[4] at this year's Akademy in A Coruña/Spain, that gives an
insight on how to resolve these manufactured restrictions.
One of the ways to counter those developments is alternative boot
firmware. There are several ways to have the built-in proprietary
firmware replaced with free analogues. Our fellow Kevin Keijzer explains
in detail how to "set up a beaglebone black to flash Coreboot"[5], and
how to "flash Libreboot on an Lenovo X200 with a Raspberry Pi"[6].
Another fellow André Ockers explains in his blogpost how he got a
Thinkpad T60p with Trisquel and Libreboot[7].
Beside working on free alternative boot firmware, we also have to look
further into the future. We have to think about how to extend the ideas
of Free Software to hardware. Richard Stallman wrote about this in his
article "Why we need free digital hardware designs"[8].
== Something completely different ==
- On July 24-26, FSFE held its European Coordinators Meeting 2015
(ECM15) in Essen. Amongst many topics our coordinators discussed
strategy, a proposal to restructure FSFE's community and
communication, as well as our press and campaign work. For more
information please read Erik Albers's blogpost[9].
- FSFE's education team updated their website[10]. Have a look at it,
give us feedback, or even better: join our education team to promote
the use of Free Software in schools and universities.
- Your editor, Matthias Kirschner, was interviewed before Akademy. The
interview is available on KDE's website[11]. It covers questions about
your editor's first GNU/Linux distribution, why he studied politics
and management, how he got involved in FSFE, how Free Software is
linked to the progress of society, as well as his involvement in wild
first aid seminars. (Victorhck translated the interview into
Spanish[12].)
- The European Commission published the legislation editor LEOS as Free
Software[13]. It can be used to draft and automatically process legal
texts. Currently the software supports legal texts issued by the EC,
yet can be extended to support other legislative processes.
- Two good developments in France: On one hand the French government has
published templates[14] to be used by procurement officers when
requesting free software-based ICT solutions. The templates include
Free Software procurement clauses that prompt developers to organise
contributing code. On the other hand, France wants its public
administration to prioritise ODF over Microsoft OOXML format (see an
article in the Register[15] ).
- On 3 October 2015 the FSF celebrates its 30th birthday in Boston. That
is a reason to celebrate. As their sister organisation, we invite you
to organise small birthday parties[16] around Europe, too. Let us know
if you plan something, so we promote the celebration.
- From the planet aggregation[17]:
- Riccardo Iaconelli wrote about WikiFM[18], a KDE project which
aims to bring free and open knowledge to the world, in the form of
textbooks and course notes. It is aimed at students, researchers
and continuous learners, with manuals and content ranging from
basic calculus to “Designing with QML” (already used by High
Energy Physics Software Foundation).
- Daniel Pocock explains howto[19] record live events with your
mobile phone and a lapel microphone.
- Guido Arnold reported on Galicia introducing over 50 000 students
to free software[20], and a school in Spain switching to using
Ubuntu/Linux[21] for its desktop PCs in class rooms and offices.
== Get active: Contribute to our static website generator ==
Since 2002 FSFE is using a static website generator for our web
presence. The first version was written by Jonas Öberg, who is now
FSFE's Executive Director. Last month we introduced an updated version
to the test instance of our website. In his blog post, FSFE's webmaster
Paul Hänsch summarises its new features, and limitations[22]. So if you
are interested to improve FSFE's web presence on a technical level, read
this and get in contact with our web team.
Thanks to all the volunteers[23], Fellows[24] and corporate donors[25]
who enable our work,
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE[26]
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Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html>
1. http://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/2015/07/24/fsfe-answers-to-the-consultation-on…
2. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Free_Software_in_public_procurement
3. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.ru.…
4. https://dot.kde.org/2015/07/25/akademy-talks-day-1
5. http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2015/06/08/setting-up-a-beaglebone…
6. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2015/06/06/libreboot-x200-raspber…
7. https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2015/05/29/how-i-got-a-thinkpad-t60p-coreboot-gnu…
8. http://www.wired.com/2015/03/need-free-digital-hardware-designs/
9. https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2015/07/30/european-coordinators-meeting-2015/
10. http://fsfe.org/activities/education/education.html
11. https://dot.kde.org/2015/07/15/akademy-2015-keynote-matthias-kirschner
12. https://victorhckinthefreeworld.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/entrevista-a-matth…
13. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/144375
14. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/144729
15. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/22/french_government_computer_agency_r…
16. http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-invites-the-free-software-community-to-its-30th…
17. http://planet.fsfe.org
18. http://blogs.fsfe.org/ruphy/2015/07/announcing-wikifm/
19. http://danielpocock.com/recording-live-events-like-a-pro-part-one-audio
20. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2015/07/galicia-introducing-over-50-000-student…
21. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2015/07/we-dont-use-free-software-we-want-somet…
22. http://blog.plutz.net/The_FSFE_org_buildscript.html
23. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ru.html
24. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
25. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ru.html
26. https://fsfe.org/index.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter - July 2015 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201507.ru.html ]
== FSFE pokes the European Commission on its transparency commitment ==
While looking into the Digital Single Market (DSM) package, our
president Karsten Gerloff noticed that the EU Commissioner Günther
Oettinger neglected to publish his recent meetings with lobbyists. So
Karsten reminded the Commission about their transparency commitment.
Meanwhile Oettinger's Head of Cabinet, Michael Hager, explained that a
long-term sickness leave in the cabinet has led to a delay in publishing
the meetings, and they updated the lists of meetings.
But it turned out Karsten was not the only one interested in Oettinger's
meetings[1]. A few days after Karsten's reminder the Spiegel and other
media published news stories about it. According to Spiegel Online’s
figures, 90% of the Commissioner’s meetings were with corporate
representatives, business organisations, consultancies and law firms.
Only 3% of his meetings were with NGOs. Of the top ten organisations
he’s meeting with, seven are telecoms companies, most of whom are
staunchly opposed to net neutrality.
Without the EU's transparency commitment, it would have been almost
impossible to research this. This shows how important such transparency
commitments are and it shows how important it is that organisations and
individuals actually monitor such publications. Furthermore we hope that
from now on Oettinger better balances his meetings, so he hears
different sides of an issue, and can make an informed decision.
== TiSA: intransparent treaty might prevent digital sovereignty ==
Nowadays countries start to demand the source code for software they
procure. If they sign the currently negotiated Trade in Services
Agreement (TiSA) they might be forbidden to continue doing so.
End of May, a draft of TiSA (Trade in Services Agreement) was leaked.
TiSA is yet another international agreement, like the Trans-Atlantic
Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), or the Comprehensive Economic
and Trade Agreement (CETA). It is apparently negotiated by 51 countries
including the EU. In the section “Transfer or Access to Source Code”[2]
the leaked version prevents countries to give priority to Free Software:
1. No Party may require the transfer of, or access to, source code of
software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition of
providing services related to such software in its territory.
2. For purposes of this Article, software subject to paragraph 1 is
limited to mass-market software, and does not include software used
for critical infrastructure.
We believe that a trade agreement should not force signatory countries
to give up control over their IT infrastructure for decades to come. On
the contrary, companies should provide the source code if the public
administrations demands it, as well as the corresponding rights to use
the software for any purpose, to share the software with others, as well
as to adopt the software for their own needs without anyone else's
permission.
== Something completely different ==
- Copyright directive: In an important step towards modernising the EU's
copyright laws, the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parliament
adopted a report on the Copyright Directive by MEP Julia Reda. FSFE,
which provided input to the MEPs[3] of the Legal Affairs committee
ahead of the vote, views the adopted report as largely positive[4].
The European Parliament is scheduled to hold a plenary vote on 9 July
2015 on the subject.
- Education: The German state of Saxony-Anhalt is forcing their pupils
to use a variety of Microsoft services by making it mandatory for
every public school. The plan was arranged by the Minister of Finance
without knowledge of neither the data protection officer, nor the
ministry of education. Erik Albers wrote about that[5] (in German) and
afterwards Fellows in Saxony filed a petition against this
procedure[6], which everybody – also outside Saxony-Anhalt – can sign
and promote.
- FSFE Internal: About two years ago, Karsten Gerloff decided that he
would eventually move on from his role as FSFE’s president. FSFE has
been preparing the leadership transition ever since. As he wrote in
his blog post[7] June was the last month for him actively handling
operations at FSFE. Karsten currently takes two months of parental
leave, and at FSFE’s General Assembly in September, FSFE's General
Assembly will elect his successor.
- Events: Our active volunteer Guido Arnold was giving a keynote “Free
Software in Education”[8] at the 22nd DORS/CLUC in Zagreb, and Franz
Gratzer reports from the FSFE's booth at Veganmania[9]. This vegan
festival in Vienna lasted for four days, with 70 organisations and
companies having booths there.
- From the planet aggregation[10]:
- In his series “Three steps towards more privacy on the Net”[11]
Jens Lechtenbörger explains how to setup Firefox with Tor/Orbot on
Android[12].
- Imagine you want to install GNU/Linux on ~10 old computers, and
all you have is a slow 10kb/s internet connection. Max Mehl faced
this problem and wrote “splitDL”, a small Bash script which splits
huge files into several smaller ones and downloads them[13].
- Timo Jyrinki takes a look at the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition
(2015) which is shipped with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS[14].
- Daniel Pocock documents how to use Blender for video editing[15]
with the included non-linear video editing system.
- And Erik Albers writes how he learned to love the NASA[16].
== Get active: Tell us about active groups in Europe ==
There are many groups in Europe who do advocacy and lobby work for
software freedom. Some have done this work for many years, some just
started doing it. Unfortunately often they do not know from each other's
existence, and therefore cannot benefit from a knowledge exchange.
We want to make sure the FSFE does not overlook other Free Software
activities in Europe, so we can learn from each other and improve our
way of empowering more users to control their technology. That is why
this month we ask you to tell us about the active groups working for
software freedom in Europe[17].
Thanks to all the volunteers[18], Fellows[19] and corporate donors[20]
who enable our work,
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE[21]
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1. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2015/06/24/lots-of-attention-for-oettingers-t…
2. https://netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/TISA-Annex-on-Electronic-Commerce.pdf
3. https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/20150605-Comments-On-Reda-Report.ru.h…
4. https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150616-01.ru.html
5. http://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2015/06/03/sachsen-anhalt-verkauft-seine-schulen-…
6. https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/vorvertrag-partnerschaft-des-la…
7. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2015/06/18/farewell-for-now/
8. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2015/06/free-software-in-education-keynote-at-d…
9. http://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2015/06/11/fsfe-fellowship-and-freie-it…
10. http://planet.fsfe.org
11. http://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2015/06/09/three-steps-towards-mo…
12. http://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2015/06/09/firefox-with-tororbot-…
13. http://blog.mehl.mx/2015/splitdl-downloading-huge-files-from-slow-and-unsta…
14. http://losca.blogspot.de/2015/06/quick-look-dell-xps-13-developer.html
15. http://danielpocock.com/quick-start-blender-video-editing
16. http://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2015/05/21/how-i-learned-to-love-the-nasa/
17. https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/GroupsForSoftwareFreedomInEurope
18. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ru.html
19. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
20. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ru.html
21. https://fsfe.org/index.ru.html