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Hi guys
I wanted to update you with regards the FAQ for giving talks about Free
Software.
There is a new section on the fellowship site for advocacy. At the
moment you'll find the English version of the FAQ there. We also have
the FAQ in the following languages:
- - German
- - French
- - Spanish
- - Italian
- - Bulgarian
Someone offered to do a Turkish translation and I'm waiting on that.
I've also been cheeky and asked a Japanese friend to do a Japanese
translation. Ditto Chinese Mandarin and Chinese Cantonese.
The translations of the FAQ are waiting on an update to the followship
CMS board system to allow all the characters to display properly.
Now, regarding the advocacy section of the site: I want to add a lot
more material there to help people spread the word about Free Software.
Suggestions and material welcome!
Regards
Shane
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Shane Martin Coughlan
e: shane(a)opendawn.com
m: +447773180107 (UK) +353862262570 (Ire)
w: www.opendawn.com
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> I'm sorry, but I don't understand this (not the questions, those I
> understand), but who today even thinks that others should provide the
> answers to:
>
> How do I get paid for working with X?
>
> Let me give you some important knowledge: the first step of a business
> is defining what value will you be providing to your customers and
> define the price appropriately. If you can't provide enough value to
> charge what you want, try another business/market/tools.
>
> Please understand that NOBODY will assure an income stream.
> Translating,
> nobody will put money in your direction for free. Some pyramid schemes
> promise that, but they don't deliver.
>
> Several of us are fine with working with free software and get paid
> for
> development, services and other things. Please do your homework if you
> want to work in the same field. There's a lot of information
> around, but
> it's up to you to define your business. It's not up to us to change
> free
> software to adapt to what you're thinking.
probably i should emigrate somewhere else...
http://www.intraneia.com/servicos/traducao.xhtml
try to ask 75euros/hour (no VAT) here in italy... no-one will give
it to you
you can reach 300/500 euro/day ... no-more
and bodyrental market (continuous income) cannot go over 250euros/day
italian taxation is about 48,5% for me, i'm a freelancer ... that
means 125 A DAY!!!
(when you are lucky...)
i can earn more, making prepackaged installations, that what i want
to do... to give them away for free, and to earn on customizations...
but what if a competitor of mine asks me for my toolchain??? i'm not
going to give it away for free...
someone can please ask to redhat his toolchain?
or to ubuntu? or suse?
can i get access to their compilation cluster?
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Guido Serra aka Zeph
http://guidoserra.it
+39 348 4313 992
sistemista e sviluppatore
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Hi all,
this week we're launching a new project called STACS - Science,
Technology and Civil Society. It's coordinated by the Association pour
la création d'une Fondation Sciences Citoyennes in France, and aside
from the FSFE, it also involves five other partners with various
backgrounds from France, Germany, Belgium and United Kingdom.
The idea with the project is to bring civil society closer to research
and to get some sort of societal relevance to the research projects
worked upon. The FSFE is participating in the project to bring knowledge
of Free Software to both researchers and civil society. We'll organise a
training session on Free Software for civil society, and a workshop
that will link researchers and civil society together.
If anyone is interested in this project, I would encourage you to first
look at the web page I just created for it:
http://fsfeurope.org/projects/stacs/
And then get in touch with me if you have questions or want to help out.
Separately, I also created a web page for the SELF project that I've
written about before:
http://fsfeurope.org/projects/self/
Of course, another way to help right now is to also sign up for the
Fellowship which has also been previously mentioned here many times :-)
Remember though that to participate in the Raffle you have to sign up by
the 1st of april:
http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/raffle/2007/raffle_2007
--
Jonas Öberg
Free Software Foundation Europe ( Join the Fellowship )
Tel. +46-31-780 21 61 Mob. +46-733 423 962 ( http://fsfe.org )
I would like to write in german because my german is much more powerful than
english. Please understand this. And I had some trouble sending with
webmaster[at]mxchange[dot]org on your list regardless if I have disabled or
enabled my PGP signature. So I have subcribed with an other email address. :)
Thanks in advance for your understanding.
Ich werde ab Juli Harz4-Empfaenger werden. Das damit inbegriffene finanzielle
Aus sollte hoffentlich allen gelaeufig sein, wenn nicht: Harz4 ist auch als
Arbeitslosengeld II bekannt. Es wird einem die Miete bezahlt (aber nicht zu
hoch darf sie sein, sondern "angemessen") und mehr nicht. Vielleicht noch ein
Fernseher samt G.E.Z.
Ich habe nun oefters was von den so genannten "OpenSource-Firmen (=OS-Firma)"
gehoert. Meine Fragen nun dazu:
1.) Bietet die FSF-Europe Beratungen fuer Existenzgruender an? Also fuer
welche, die eine OS-Firma gruenden wollen?
2.) Wenn ja, auch in Hamburg? Ich habe da etwas von einer
Niederlassung/Bueroraum (?) in Hamburg gehoert.
Ich selber wohne naemlich nahe Hamburg und bin nicht sehr sonderlich mobil.
3.) Und wird die Beratung etwas kosten? Ich muss das dennoch fragen, da ich
derzeit mehr Schulden als Einnahmen habe.
4.) Ist mein offener Brief angekommen? Ich habe diesem am 25.02.2007 an
germany(a)fsfeurope.org versendet und in meinem unten verlinkten Blog Online
gestellt.
Ich hoffe auf baldige Antwort und verbleibe,
mit internetten Gruessen,
Roland Haeder
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Weblog:
http://blog.mxchange.org
[This message is sent to the conference organizing committee, to the FSF
Europe main mailing list, to the it.comp.software.libero newsgroup, and to
the Associazione Software Libero main mailing list.]
I have a few doubts about the Italian Free Software Conference 2007; i
cannot find a dedicated mailing list or forum, so I'll try discussing them
here.
http://hacklab.cosenzainrete.it/confsl07/
I've been working in information technology for 17 years, almost
exclusively with free software for seven, and got my degree at the Calabria
University (where the conference will take place); when I got to know about
it, I tried to participate, submitting three different subjects related to
my professional work.
The committee answered reiterating what is written in the "Call for Papers":
http://hacklab.cosenzainrete.it/confsl07/index.php?option=com_content&task=…
A couple things look peculiar to me. I wholly agree that:
"The primary target of the Italian Free Software Conference is to make the
point about The Free Software art in Italy."
and that:
"This Conference wants also to be a gather for everyone who is involved in
the Free Software diffusion and use in Italy, like companies, public
institutions, universities, developers, researchers and neckers(?) to
convey and have collaborations and projects."
but how can this be reconciled with:
"For this reason the technical level of the conference would like to be
high-grade, with strongly innovative contents..."
and with:
"This Conference has the intention of being the first Free Software
Conference of scientific nature..."
then going back to the formerly declared aims:
"...that involves all the souls of Italian Free Software, and would like to
be the first of a series of annual meetings that would further the Free
Software diffusion in Italy increasing the consciousness both of technic
and economic implication, ethic and philosophic."
I am a developer, use free software, take part in its communities, and am
interested in its diffusion.
I can contribute my experience in study and professional usage of free
software, and also in the dynamics of its communities. Unfortunately I
cannot deliver "strongly innovative contents", nor did I deal with "Free
Software [...] of scientific nature".
I find such criteria as damagingly limiting, and in conflict with the other
stated objectives stated.
I hope someone will help me get a better understanding of such matters.
--
Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/
I've started writing a few articles about GPLv3. I'm hoping these articles
will either get people thinking about this issue again, or provide a
starting point for discussion when GPLv3 becomes topical again.
And I'd welcome suggestions on what people think there needs to be articles
about. In what situtations do you read something on a blog or a mailing
list and you wish there was an article explaining the purpose or
implications of some change?
I put two articesl online recently, one about the EUCD/DMCA, and one about
why additional permissions are removable (links at end of mail).
In the next few days, I hope to write further articles on these topics:
* Explaining the harms of the Novell deal (I recently met someone who
thought it was a good thing because his boss felt safer)
* About the length of GPLv3, and how longer can be simpler
* What's good in GPLv3 for developers (this might be delayed)
http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/why_gplv3_sa…http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/how_gplv3_ad…
Suggestions sought.
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Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by
http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org
On April 1st (no joke), FSFE will hold by far its biggest Fellowship raffle
yet. The goal is to encourage more people to join the Fellowship, so we're
asking for your help spread the word. We've made some graphics if you'd
like to use them, and more general information is here:
http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/raffle/2007/raffle_2007
If you've been waiting for the right time to join the Fellowship, or if you
know people who value free software or intend to join but haven't gotten
around to it, now's a good time.
The prizes this year are:
* 1 Free Software Greenphone from Trolltech
* 2 Free Software based routers KWGR614, from NETGEAR
* 1 LinSoft BTP-PC amounting to 500 EUR, from linsoft.de
* 4 USB smart card readers SCR-335, compatible with the Fellowship
crypto card on all GNU/Linux distributions, from kernelconcepts.de
* 2 Omnikey PCMCIA CardMan 4040, compatible with the Fellowship crypto
card on all GNU/Linux distributions, from xtops.de
* 30 German books (among German speaking Fellows only), from linuxland.de
* 3 Developer Discount codes for Nokia N800 Internet Tablets from Nokia
NOTICE: special conditions apply to the N800 prizes, see:
http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/raffle/2007/special_conditions_for_nokia_n800
Everyone that is a Fellow on April 1st, new and old, will be included in the
raffle.
Since it's launch in February 2005, the Fellowship has been a great success.
It's enabled FSFE to interact more directly with the community, it's aided
the organising of local Fellowship meetings.
In recent years, mostly thanks to the financial support of the Fellowship,
FSFE has grown to include 5 full-time and 2 part-time staff doing GPL
enforcement, EU/UN/WIPO lobbying, GPLv3 awareness, volunteer coordination,
events, and media relations as well as national activities.
We want to grow the Fellowship to further increase the work that FSFE does.
Finally, we'd like to thank the hardware vendors who have donated the
prizes. FSFE is glad to see that hardware vendors see the importance
of a future without lock-in and dependency.
So please help spread the word: If anyone was waiting to join, now is the
time. Putting a logo on your webpages or forwarding a message to relevent
mailing lists would a good way to help FSFE.
And good luck to all the Fellows, new and old on April 1st!
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Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by
http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org
You talk perfect sense.
Again we have the clash between those who want to filter non-freedom and those who want to provide freedom.
To me this is the difference between bombing a prison and opening the doors