Discussion January 2012

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Books to donate
by Mike Dupont 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Hello everyone, I have a number of computer books to donate. Originally I wanted to send them to kosovo, but that would also cost for transport, So i thought I could donate them to the fsfe maybe in germany. is there any procedure or interest in this? mike -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org

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Your help until 29th January for the Standards Quartet
by Matthias Kirschner 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

Hey everybody, we are currently organising the next Document Freedom Day on March 28th and therefore we wanted to produce a card game, called "Standards Quartet" (a card game that is often played by little children usually not comparing different facts about Open Standards but about cars, dinosaurs, etc.). For this we need your help to collect all the information that we need, maybe you could help us out: Please have a look at this link: https://dfd.etherpad.fsfe.org/10 and fill in as many facts as you know. Basically we need: 32 cards, 4 groups (each consisting of 8 different cards) and categories to compare those cards: Examples for the groups: - Text - Video/Audio - Picture - Network Examples for the categories: - Amount of words of the current standards - Amount of implementations - Exists since year XY - Freedom level? (Give points from our Open Standard Definition) - Uses XY other open standards - Amount of money to lobby the standards If you have any other ideas for groups or categories, please add them to the list. (You can also include proprietary standards, depending on how many Open Standards we find we will decide how exactely to structure it.) We will than design the cards, and print them. Thanks for your help! Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - FSFE - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator FSFE, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 +49-1577-1780003 Free Software is important to you? Join today! (fsfe.org/join) Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner)

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Ask celebraties for Document Freedom Day quotes
by Matthias Kirschner 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hi there, as you have seen we got a quote from Stephen Fry for Document Freedom Day. That's really cool! But we should we stop with that? Why shouldn't we be able to get more cool quotes. So who of you will be able to get another cool quote from a celebraty? Whoever is able to get Arnold Schwarzenegger saying "Your file 'll be back. So better make sure to use Open Standards!"? will be my personel hero for the next year!! So, if you have any ideas, please contact them, explain them briefly what Open Standards are and ask them for a quote. Believe me, it can be fun finding a hook to explain Open Standards to different people. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - FSFE - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator FSFE, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 +49-1577-1780003 Free Software is important to you? Join today! (fsfe.org/join) Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner)

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Re: Ask celebraties for Document Freedom Day quotes
by Matthias Kirschner 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

* Jelle Hermsen <jelle(a)fsfe.org> [2012-01-24 21:39:14 +0100]: > Given the idea of six degrees of separation this theoretically > shouldn't be that hard if we properly utilize our friends (I suggest a > combination of chocolate and frightening tales of documents longing > for freedom). Methods authorised ;) Please Proceed! Cheers, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - FSFE - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator FSFE, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 +49-1577-1780003 Free Software is important to you? Join today! (fsfe.org/join) Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner)

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$YOURFREESOFTWARE.org supporting Document Freedom Day?
by Matthias Kirschner 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hi all, you are part of a Free Software group? Please a) become supporting organisation of Docuemnt Freedom Day b) make an activity for DFD and C) if you participate provide us a nice picture and quote, like we already got from Stephen Fry: "Open standards makes sense. What makes no sense is that large companies in the field still do not understand this. It is time once and for all to end the pointless nonsense of one document sent on one platform being incomprehensible to the user of another." Stephan Fry http://documentfreedom.org/testimonials.en.html Here more information on DFD (pass it along): Document Freedom Day (DFD) <http://documentfreedom.org> is a global day for document liberation. It is a worldwide event celebrating Open Standards and raising general awareness about the need for their adoption. DFD is actively redefining perceptions of Open Standards in media, public administration and educational institutions. Thanks to generous donations, in the last year we were able to: - Organise 42 events in 14 different countries around the world, ranging from Brazil and Mexico, to Greece and Portugal, - Coordinate an important talk at the European Parliament with multiple speakers, and - Raise the profile of pioneering users of Open Standards, such as German news website 'tagesschau.de', by awarding certificates and prizes in view of the press. The winner of the DFD 2011 Germany prize went to a popular news website which provides its 1.4m daily visitors with current affairs videos in the Free video format Ogg Theora. The award was presented in Berlin, resulting in coverage in 8 national and international media outlets. The city of Munich received the European prize, for the use of Open Standards in its LiMux project. In 2012 we will celebrate Document Freedom Day for the fourth time. We shall again organise more than 42 events, include countries that were previously not involved, and strenghten engagement with the public sector. To make these plans a reality, we need your support as a partner of Document Freedom Day 2012! Talk with your friends/regional groups, and think about activities and events that you could organise to promote Open Standards. We would be happy to help you with ideas, prize-giving, and finding sponsors. With your help we will be able to organise more events in 2012, and together we can raise awareness for Open Standards around the world. At the moment we are coordinating our activities with international partners and sponsors. Please do not hesitate to contact us for more detailed information about partnership opportunities for Document Freedom Day 2012. Please let us know until 6. February if you want to organise your own activity or event, and/or if you want to be listed on our supporter page as a supporting organisation. Thanks, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - FSFE - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator FSFE, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 +49-1577-1780003 Free Software is important to you? Join today! (fsfe.org/join) Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner)

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Re: A modest proposal to stop INTERNET PIRACY in its tracks
by Xavi Drudis Ferran 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

On Tue 24/01/12 14:15 , David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > My apologies to non-native speakers confused by my post :-) > My apologies for my poor English. Unfortunately we're so used to other "modest proposals" enacted as law even if they are obviously bad jokes, that one gets in the habit of too literal reading...

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A modest proposal to stop INTERNET PIRACY in its tracks
by David Gerard 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Ban all copyrighted material from the Internet that is not under a free licence. https://plus.google.com/u/0/104205134740204626607/posts/Riy9n4Fv2SW Anyone want to get behind this one? :-D - d.

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Re: A modest proposal to stop INTERNET PIRACY in its tracks
by Xavi Drudis Ferran 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

On Tue 24/01/12 12:29 , David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ban all copyrighted material from the Internet that is not under a free > licence. > > https://plus.google.com/u/0/104205134740204626607/posts/Riy9n4Fv2SW > > Anyone want to get behind this one? :-D > Not me. Besides what's been said already, I wonder what you mean by "there is nothing to pirate". "Piracy" is quite a silly term but I usually assume people mean illegal copying of copyrigthed works. If you only allow freely licensed works in the internet it means there are still copyright licenses and they can be infringed. People can "pirate" free works and they do (and sometimes they even get condemned for it if they don't amend it). I once wrote a private mail (in Catalan) to give examples, so I can dig it if you want to, but it should be obvious here. So spreading the idea that free copyright licenses can't be infringed no matter what you do is quite against any freedom goal. The infringement of free licenses often is freedom-destructive. You might simply advocate for the abolishment of copyright, which would likely be more consistent although not by itself wise (but not necessarily worse than some other options, like some that are increasingly being tried).

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LUG Scandiano (Italy) persuades its local governors to use free software
by Massimo Barbieri 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

Hi! I send you my new blog entry about what the Linux User Group Scandiano (Italy) recently obtained with its local governors. Ciao, Massimo == LUG Scandiano persuades its local governors to use free software == Since the birth of the Linux User Group[1] Scandiano on 2007 the members of this group, in which I’m active, have always tried to start a dialogue with local institutions in order to inform them about the benefits that come from the use of Open Standards and Free Software in terms of freedom, of independence, of security, of neutrality and of costs savings. During local political elections on 2009, the LUG Scandiano wrote a public letter[2] to all candidates for mayor of Scandiano to ask them if they were planning to adopt policies in support of Free Software and Open Standards. The responses were published on the LUG Scandiano’s website[2] and the political group that won those elections wrote in their program an important point about the plan to adopt and promote Free Software in the systems of the institutions the they will be going to rule. In following months the LUG Scandiano continued to send reminders to the local governament, first by asking, with a letter written in collaboration with the Italian Group of the Free Software Foundation Europe[3], to use Open Standards for the documents distributed from the official website of the municipality of Scandiano which was accepted shortly afterwards, then by asking to start a plan for the progressive adoption of Free Software in the computer systems of the institution. Several meetings took place among the activists of the LUG, local governors and technical staff on these issues. The 22/11/2011 has been published on the official website of the town of Scandiano a document which it is explicitly dispays the intention to adopt Open Standards and to start a gradual migration to Free Software. With this declaretion, the local governors of Scandiano are will start to “a gradual adoption fo Libre Office” instead of using proprietary software and to use the ODF file format for their documents managed within the organization, the PDF file format for the documents distributed and to evaluate different document types for collaborative drafting of documents with other parties. All members of the LUG Scandiano are obviously pleased with this important effort and thank the local governors for their efforts. The resolution reached by local governors of Scandiano is obviously just the beginning of a complex project towards freedom and the LUG is committed, as it always has, to provide its widest support. Originally posted on: http://blogs.fsfe.org/massimo/2012/01/12/lug-scandiano-persuades-its-local-… [1] http://lug.42019.it [2] http://lug.42019.it/index.php/Domande_del_LUG_ai_candidati_alla_carica_di_S… [3] http://www.gnuvox.info/2010/12/standard-aperti-sul-sito-del-comune-di-scand… -- IM: max-b(a)jabber.org OpenPGP Key-Id: 0x5D168FC1

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Missing 15 signatures for PDFreaders
by Matthias Kirschner 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

Hi there, we are just missing 15 signatures for our PDFreaders petition, than we have 2000 individual signatures: http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html Can you distribute this a bit, so we are able to fill this gap. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - FSFE - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator FSFE, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 +49-1577-1780003 Free Software is important to you? Join today! (fsfe.org/join) Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner)

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