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Fellowship interview with Myriam Schweingruber
by Stian Rødven Eide 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hi all, The latest instalment of our Fellowship interview series has now been published: http://fellowship.fsfe.org/interviews/fellowship-interview-with-myriam- schweingruber/ Please forward where appropriate and vote for the story at http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/FSFE_Fellowship_interview_with_Myriam_Schw… all the best, /Stian

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FSFE Newsletter
by Giacomo Poderi 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

If you were wondering when the newsletter would come back, stop wondering - it's back! We apologise for the delays in delivering the newsletter over the past few months and assure you that our monthly newsletter will now resume the task of updating you regularly about FSFE activities. This month's newsletter has been specially extended to include items for the first quarter of 2009. Starting from the next month onwards, the traditional format of the newsletter will be back: one month, one newsletter! I am pleased to take over the role of newsletter editor that previously belonged to Reinhard, Shane and Ciaran. I'll do my best to keep up their good work and to improve upon it. If you have any suggestions or comments, do not hesitate to contact me at: poderi <AT> fsfeurope <DOT> org Giacomo Poderi 1. FSFE at the international workshop on "Regulation of the Internet", 31 March 2. FSFE statements at 13th Session of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents, 23-27 March 3. DFD 2009, global day for document liberation, 25 March 4. FSFE at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage, 14-15 March 5. Happy Birthday to FSFE! 6. FSFE brings Free Software to CeBIT 2009, 03-08 March 7. Fellowship vote for GA seats - Call for nominations: the candidates 8. Regular Fellowship meetings and special KDE release parties 9. Meetings of the special interest groups 10. FSFE engages in the EU browser case 11. FSFE presence at FOSDEM 2009, 07-08 February 12. The Fellowship interviews: Colin Turner and Enrico Zini 13. The Fellowship launches the Free PDF Readers campaign 14. FTF publishes "Building legal infrastructure for your Free Software project" FORTHCOMING EVENTS 15. European Licensing and Legal Workshop for Free Software, 23-24 April 16. FSCONS Fellowship meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, 15 April 17. Voting procedures for the Fellowship seat at the General Assembly 1. FSFE at the international workshop on "Regulation of the Internet", 31 March Free Software Foundation Europe's (FSFE) President Georg Greve represented the organisation by participating in the workshop entitled "Technical Regulation of the Internet: From Standardisation to Behavorial and Societal Norms", which was held in Paris on the 31st March. The main topic of the workshop was the relevance of standardisation processes in the context of 'open innovations'. In relation to this event, Georg wrote an article entitled "Considerations on Innovation and Competition Policy". http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=309 2. FSFE statements at 13th Session of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents, 23-27 March Georg Greve participated in the 13th Session of the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), in Geneva. On behalf of FSFE, he made important statements on the issues of patents and standardisation, patents and future works, exceptions and limitations of patents. If you want to know what is going on at WIPO, Georg wrote a roundup on the SCP/13 with many links and pointers to background information at http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=302 3. DFD 2009, global day for document liberation, 25 March Thanks to the hard work made by Ivan Jelic and the support provided by FSFE, once again it has been possible to celebrate the global day for document liberation. Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a collaborative and volunteer driven effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general. 273 teams of which 82 were new ones and 72 countries with at least one team are the numbers of the DFD 2009. The DFD team is currently gathering and organising all the information about this year's activities. These will be published on the DFD web pages. If you have material about local document liberation activities, please send an e-mail to: contact AT documentfreedom.org http://documentfreedom.org/ 4. FSFE at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage, 14-15 March Isabel Drost, Dirk Zemisch and Rainer Kersten managed a FSFE booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage on the 14th and 15th March. The event was a big success, with about 2600 visitors in all. The FSFE booth received visits from many interesting visitors, and the team enjoyed the friendly atmosphere at the event. FSFE will surely be at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2010 to repeat the experience. If you are interested in helping us to manage this or any of our other booths, please contact us. It's hard work, but lots of fun! http://fsfeurope.org/contribute/booth/booth.html 5. Happy Birthday to FSFE! On the 11th March, FSFE celebrated its eighth birthday. Established in 2001, the Foundation has constantly contributed to the diffusion of Free Software principles in Europe. For the past eight years, its work has ranged from the educational to the political, and from the technical to the social. A rich history of achievements that FSFE intends to keep up, while addressing new challenges for the benefit of Free Software. To mark the occasion, we published a special interview with Georg Greve, founder and current president of FSFE. The interview traces the origins of the Foundation and its main achievements. Enjoy the reading and once again...Happy Birthday to FSFE! http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=27 http://fsfeurope.org/news/2009/news-20090311-01.html 6. FSFE brings Free Software to CeBIT 2009, 03-08 March For the first time, FSFE participated at this year's CeBIT expo in Hanover, the largest computer expo in the world. FSFE was there with a booth and three talks held by Bernhard Reiter, Shane Coughlan and Georg Greve. The volunteers at the booth were kept busy during the entire expo, helping to spread Free Software principles and explain them to the public. Bernhard, German chapter coordinator, conducted a speech entitled "Free Software, the sustainable alternative". Shane, Freedom Task Force (FTF) coordinator, discussed "the strategic implementation of Free Software in business". Georg challenged the public not to be afraid of turning to Free Software and explained clearly why there is little to fear, but a lot to gain in making the chance, with a speech entitled "To dare more freedom!". Georg: http://streaming.linux-magazin.de:8080/cos09/di02.ogg Shane: http://streaming.linux-magazin.de:8080/cos09/do08.ogg 7. Fellowship vote for GA seats - Call for nominations: the candidates In March, the candidacy period was open for Fellows to candidate for the election to their first reserved seat at FSFE General Assembly (GA). We are happy to announce that the Fellows running for the election are: Torsten Grote, Jan-Hendrik Peters, Michel Roche and Bjoern Schiessle. Soon they will present themselves to the Fellowship so that other Fellows will have the chance to form their opinion about the vote. There will be a two months period for the voting process, which will conclude in time for the next GA in Miraflores de la Sierra, Spain, 19-21 June. http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/2009/news-20090301-01.html 8. Regular Fellowship meetings and special KDE release parties In the first quarter of 2009, the Fellowship proved to be as lively as ever. Regular meetings happened in Germany, Austria and Sweden. The Fellows met in Augsburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Gothenburg and Vienna. They talked about Free Software, participation to events, planned future activities, and most importantly, they got the chance to get to know each other better. Additionally, at the end of January, special Fellowship events were held in Berlin, Stuttgart, Vienna and Zurich to celebrate the release of KDE 4.2, in cooperation with the KDE community. We are happy to see the community growing and being active and we would welcome similar meetings taking place all around Europe. http://techbase.kde.org/Events/KDE42ReleaseParties#Europe Zürich KDE 4.2 launch event speeches: http://sss2009.blip.tv/#1830788 9. Meetings of the special interest groups On the 24th February and the 24th March, two FSFE Freedom Task Force legal special interest groups meetings took place. The first meeting was at the law firm Kemp Little's offices in London, while the second one was hosted in Frankfurt, at the offices of attorneys WilmerHale. Both meetings discussed linking and were reserved to the members of the European Legal Network: a professional network of legal experts facilitated by the FTF. http://fsfeurope.org/projects/ftf/network.html 10. FSFE engages in the EU browser case FSFE declared its support the European Commission's antitrust investigation against Microsoft and has requested to be admitted as an interested third party. In January, the European Commission DG Competition issued a statement of objections regarding Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer (IE) to the Windows Operating System product family. This action built on a complaint originally submitted by Opera. FSFE provided valuable support to the Commission in the previous European Commission antitrust case from 2001 to 2007. FSFE hopes to join the new investigation and will provide all the required expertise to the Commission. http://fsfeurope.org/news/2009/news-20090227-01.html 11. FSFE presence at FOSDEM 2009, 07-08 February As in past years, FSFE participated in the Free and Open Source Development European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels. The event promotes the widespread use of Free Software, provides Free Software developers and communities with a place to meet, to get in touch with other projects, and to promote the development and the benefits of Free Software solutions. We set up a booth where we informed people about our recent activities, the Fellowship of the FSFE and Free Software in general. We also sold our merchandise articles. The booth included a special FTF desk to discuss licensing issues with FOSDEM participants. http://www.fosdem.org/2009/ 12. The Fellowship interviews: Colin Turner and Enrico Zini For the "Smallest unit of freedom" interviews series, we present you Colin Turner and Enrico Zini. Colin works as a scientist and teacher at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. He has been advocating Free Software in schools and universities for many years. Enrico is a prominent Italian Debian developer. He has been involved in many different projects relating to Free Software and he is deeply concerned about social issues. Both are long time Fellows. Colin Turner http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=17 Enrico Zini http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=7 13. The Fellowship launches the Free PDF Readers campaign The Fellowship of FSFE is proud to announce its latest initiative: pdfreaders.org, a site providing information about the Portable Document Format (PDF) with links to Free Software PDF readers for all major operating systems. Hannes Hauswedell and Jan-Hendrik Peters worked hard during the past months. Thanks to all the feedback received from Fellows and interested people, they managed to improve the beta version of the website and to make it ready for a great launch in February. Help us spread the word! http://pdfreaders.org/ http://fsfeurope.org/news/2009/news-20090202-01.html 14. FTF publishes "Building legal infrastructure for your Free Software project" In January, FTF released an important guide to help Free Software projects to understand the relevance of having a formal legal infrastructure and how to set it up. Written as a quick and easy guide, the document is spreading fast and receiving good feedback from the Free Software community. http://fsfeurope.org/projects/ftf/building-legal-infrastructure.html FORTHCOMING EVENTS 15. European Licensing and Legal Workshop for Free Software, 23-24 April FSFE announced the second European Licensing and Legal Workshop which will take place at the Hotel Okura on the 23rd and the 24th of April 2009 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://fsfeurope.org/news/2009/news-20090323-01.html 16. FSCONS Fellowship meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, 15 April On the 15th of April, Fellows and other interested parties are invited to attend an open planning meeting and get-together to discuss FSCONS 2009. The meeting starts at 19:00 in Delirium Cafe, Kronhusgatan 2B. 17. Voting procedures for the Fellowship seat at the General Assembly Information on the voting procedures and about the candidates' profile are under processing while I'm writing this newsletter. They will appear shortly, stay tuned! http://fsfeurope.org/news/news.html You can find a list of all FSFE newsletters on http://fsfeurope.org/news/newsletter.html You can find how to support FSFE on http://www.fsfeurope.org/contribute/contribute.html Copyright (C) FSFE. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.

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[EN] [Urgent] Request for interview proofreading
by Stian Rødven Eide 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Hi all, I was told that there might not be many native English speakers on translators, so I thought it best to resend this to also include the discussion@ lists. Could someone please help me proofread the latest Fellowship interview? I have attached the HTML file. thanks, /Stian

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