(If you are reading FSFE's newsletters [1] (and you should when you
have not yet given me feedback what I could improve ;) ), and you
already use one of our banners [2], you can skip this post because I
copied and pasted it. Else please continue.)
Let us admit it, the Free Software community is often very critical.
Wewrite bug reports, tell others how they can improve the software, ask
them fornew features, and to not spare with criticism. Sometimes we
forget to say "thank you, for all your work". As in the last years, we
want to change this, at least for one day. So on Tuesday the 14th of
February we will celebrate the "I love Free Software" - Day [3].
Get active, buy your favourite developer a drink or give them a hug (ask
forpermission first), write an e-mail/letter [4] expressing your
feelings, create nice pictures, donate to a Free Software initiative,
use another of our suggestions [5] or be create yourself to show how you
appreciate people, working hard to enlarge or defend our freedom.
Beside that help us to promote the activity with our banners [6], by
e-mail, (micro)blog or in your (distributed?) social networks.
New this year is a whole day event in the Unperfekthaus in Essen
(Germany) [7] and that all our Fellows automatically get an
login(a)ilovefs.org e-mail alias.
So let's make sure that on February 14th there are more love reports,
than bug reports!
All the best,
Matthias
1. http://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html
2. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/banners.html
3. http://ilovefs.org
4. http://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2012/01/18/why-i-love-free-and-open-sourc…
5. http://ilovefs.org
6. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/banners.html
7. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/unperfekthaus.html
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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)
Hello all, this Saturday Free Software activists will determine the easiest
ways of chatting using Free Software audio and video programs. We'll be
testing out a variety of applications, including Pidgin, Empathy, and Kopete.
The core group of testers will be in Madlab Hackerspace in Manchester, but
*anyone can participate* - join the #FSFE IRC channel on Freenode to find
people to test chatting with, and see what still needs testing (email
manchester(a)lists.fsfe.org if you need help getting access to IRC).
The aim is to publish the results as a compatibility chart that will show at a
glance the easiest way to chat. As many Free Software users still use Skype
due to confusion surrounding Free Software alternatives, our research will
hopefully be very useful to a variety of individuals and organisations.
*Activity outline*
- Testing takes place on 15.09.12 at 14.00-17.00 UK time (15.00-18.00 CEST)
- Use a grid of Free Software chat programs for collecting our findings
- Test as many chat clients as possible (eg. Pidgin, Psi)
- For each combination of programs test whether voice chat and video
works (people without webcams can still test voice chat)
*Optional additional tests*
- Try connecting to other people at madlab, and also try
connecting to people in other countries
- Test the Free Software clients with different operating
systems if people bring them installed on laptops
- Test different versions of chat clients (not just the latest release)
*Requirements*
- Bring your own laptop (some older laptops will be available to borrow)
- Your laptop should have either a built in microphone, a separate microphone,
or mic headset
*Optional Requirements*
- Built in, or stand-alone webcam
Three separate Free Software and GNU/Linux groups will be meeting in MadLab on
Saturday: Manchester FSFE Fellowship Group, Manchester Free Software, and
ManLUG. Other activities will likely be available in addition to chat testing,
so feel free to come along and see what you fancy.
MadLab event page: http://madlab.org.uk/content/fsfe-manchester-free-software-
and-manlug/
"See" you there (one way or another :) ),
Sam.
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Sam Tuke
Campaign Manager
Free Software Foundation Europe
IM : samtuke(a)jabber.fsfe.org
Latest UK Free Software news: uk.fsfe.org
Is freedom important to you? Join the fellowship.fsfe.org
The how-to guides:
http://wiki.fsfe.org/Card_howtos
all steer people away from keeping the main key on a card. Yet some of
the coloured notes here:
http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/ch05s02.html
suggest that may not be best practice today.
Can anyone comment on the state of play?
My understanding is that various possibilities exist, potentially with
multiple cards:
card 1:
- main RSA private key
- used for signing other keys
- kept in a safe at home
card 2:
- sub key
- signed by main key
- card that is kept in the wallet
Please consider to contribute and encourage your team members and fellow scientists to contribute to the following events.
Thanks for forwarding the information on this Call for Submissions to those potentially interested to submit.
Extended Deadline HMI 2013
At the request of a number of potential contributors, we have decided to extend the deadline for receipt of papers to be presented to The 1st International Conference Human-Machine Interaction (HMI 2013). This deadline is extended to November 20, 2012. This conference will be held in Indiad, 25 - 27 March 2013.
The paper submission is on-line at: .
In the other hand the HMI 2013 committees have decided to arrange a "Special poster session for junior researchers" during the days of the conference. If you feel interested, please submit your short paper (1/2 page) at this link http://www.setit.rnu.tn/poster_hmi.html
Financial Supports HMI 2013
We are pleased to inform you that all participants from developing or emerging countries will be free for the accomodation fees ( Hotel ). The accompagnits have to paid 10$ by night. A "financial support" of amount 150 $ will be also allocated to 100 of these participants. We annonce also that 20 participants will be given with Special Travel Grant under Research Sponsorship of "ASDF, India" to travel to India for the purpose of presenting their Technical Paper.
The criteria used for the allocation of the financial supports are:
Country of residence (developing country, country with poor currency...)
Occupational status
To benifit from these financial supports you are plased to fill in detail this financial support form . The HMI 2013 organization committee examine on a case by case basis all requests and provide a response over 1 week. If you have any questions, don´t hesitate to contact us.
To fill the form please clic here http://www.setit.rnu.tn/financial_hmi.html
HMI 2013 Committee
Honorary Chair
Pranav MISTRY
MIT Media Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
General Chairs
Mohamed Salim BOUHLEL
Higher Institute of Biotechnology
University of Sfax, Tunisia
KOKULA KRISHNA HARI K.
Chief Scientist & Founding President,
Techno Forum Group, India
Call for papers HMI 2013
International Conference on Human Machine Interaction 2013
25 – 27, March 2013
Hotel Hilton, Chennai, India
In association with ASDF (Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties) Chennai Chapter, and SETIT, Sfax University, Tunisia.Human Machine Interaction (HMI), is a main annual research conference aimed at presenting current research being carried out. The idea of the conference is for the scientists, scholars, engineers and students from the Universities all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry.HMI 2013 is co-sponsored by Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties and SETIT, Sfax University, Tunisia and technical co-sponsored by many other universities and institutes. The HMI 2013 conference proceeding will be published in the ASDF Proceedings as one volume, and will be included in the Engineering & Technology Digital Library, and indexed by EBSCO, World Cat, Google Scholar, and sent to be reviewed by Ei Compendex and ISI Proceedings. Selected papers will be recommended to be published in the Journals.
Area of Submission
Active Vision
Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Applications of Perception
Artificial Intelligence
Brain Machine Interfaces
Cognitive Engineering
Collaborative Design and Manufacturing
Collaboration Technologies and Systems
Computer Graphics
Computer Vision
Cooperative Design
Dimensionality Reduction
Distributed Intelligent Systems
Ergonomics
Fuzzy Systems
Health Care
Human Centered Transportation System
Human Factors
Human Perception
Hybrid Intelligent System Design
Image Analysis
Intelligent Transportation
Knowledge Representation
Machine Learning
Material Appearance Modeling Medical Imaging
Mental Workload
Multimedia
Multiview Learning
Next Generation Network
Network Security and Management
Ontologies
Patient Safety
Pattern Recognition
Perceptual Factors
Physiological Indicators
Production Planning and Scheduling
Protocol Engineering
Semi-Supervised Learning
Service-Oriented Computing
Simulator Training
Systems Integration and Collaboration
Systems Safety and Security
Team Performance
Video Processing
Virtual Reality
Visualization
Topics of interest for HMI is widely declared for the above, but not limited to.
Paper Submission ends: 30th October, 2012. For submission instruction visit http://hmi2013.in/pprsubmission.html
Best regards
Mohamed Salim BOUHLEL
General Co-Chair, SETIT 2013 and HMI 2013
Head of Research Unit: Sciences & Technologies of Image and Telecommunications (Sfax University)
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Hi,
the new fellowship interview is available online:
"This month we interviewed Hugo Roy, FSFE’s French Team coordinator and
co-founder
of Digital Freedoms association. He joined FSFE in 2009, asisting FSFE
president
Karsten Gerloff. He is member of April and of French Data Network too. "
Link to the interview : http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=628
Best regards,
Ana
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Ana Galán Herranz
Spanish Team, FSFE Berlin
http://fsfe.org/support/?anaghz
E-mail : anaghz(a)fsfe.org
Phone: +49 30 27 59 52 90
Mobile : + 49 (0) 157 352 10 311
GPG : E972 501A 721C 5BA2 D113 D452 6C25 D3F0 B358 4942
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I recently received my card, and reading the document here:
http://fellowship.fsfe.org/card.en.html
referred me to the instructions here:
http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/ch01.html
Under s1.1, it suggests the OpenPGP card only has 1024 bit RSA, which
many people are now trying to phase out. I personally use 4096 bit
RSA for PGP and SSH purposes.
As for choosing a card reader, I came across this page:
http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/ch02s02.html
but it is dated March 2007 - is there any updated advice/suggestions
available?
I have previously had some correspondence with gooze
http://www.gooze.eu/
they are open-source friendly but they have also told me about a year
ago that they can only supply cards up to 2048 bit (that is now the
minimum accepted by Debian, for example) but would look for 4096 bit
cards if there was sufficient interest.
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Dear Fellows,
From November 17th to 18th, FSFE will have a booth at JDLL in Lyon, France.
We are looking for people to join us at our booth and help spread the
word about Free Software and FSFE. If you are interested in
participating in FSFE's presence at JDLL, please write an email to
Léopold Baillard <leobaillard(a)fsfe.org>.
However, even if you just visit JDLL, please visit the FSFE booth and
say hello to us!
We will also give a talk about Free Your Android there.
You can find more info about JDLL at <http://2012.jdll.org>.
We are looking forward to meet you there!
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Léopold Baillard
- FSFE intern in Berlin -
E-mail : leobaillard(a)fsfe.org
Mobile : + 49 (0) 151 21 40 55 46
GPG : 59C6 1CCA 2343 8DE4 D4FF D96A BC55 4A21 3B90 C658
Support FSFE! http://fsfe.org/support/?leobaillard