(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)
(see also http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=961)
From August 21. to 26. there is Campus Party in Berlin. I was asked
before if I can make suggestions for good speakers from the Free
Software community. That is what I did. So beside the already announced
keynote speakers like Jon “maddog” Hall, Mark Surman (Mozilla
Foundation), and Rainey Reitman (EFF) to following talks will take place
in the Free Software track:
- Amir Taaki - Bitcoin: money backed by code and maths, not laws and
politics
- Daniel Kinzler - Wikidata: implementation and integration of
Wikipedia´s next big thing
- Hugo Roy – Why Free Software needs Network Neutrality?
- Lydia Pintscher - Free Software: Your chance to change the world and
how to get there
- Matthias Kirschner – An endangered species: computer as a universal
machine
- Matthias Kirschner – The FSFs – Fighting for your freedom, since 1985
- Peter Bubestinger - Record. Mix. Master: professional audio production
with Free Software
- Torsten Grote – Free your Android: Reclaim your phone
I also suggested the following speakers, which are now confirmed for
other tracks:
- Alessandro Rubini – THOS: Two Hour Operating System
- Frank Karlitschek - Free Software and Cloud Data Storage
- Hugo Roy – Terms of Services: Didn´t Read!
Tickets cost €128 and gives you access to all activities during the
entiresix days of Campus Party Europe in Berlin. The CP Village is
outfitted withtents, bathrooms, showers and 24/7 access to food vendors.
Camping in theVillage is €64, tents included.
Until the July 30 you can buy your ticket using this registration form,
and 30 people out of the registrations using this link
<http://www.campus-party.eu/webapp/participante/formularioAbreviado/39O1wxdw…>
will win a gratis ticket to the event.
This will be an interesting week and I am looking forward to see you at
thein Berlin.
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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)
Hi everyone,
FSFE has two internship positions available, starting August 2012
or later.
We are looking for bright, motivated people who want to make a
real difference for a free information society.
Whether your background is in politics, law, computer science or
other fields, we welcome your application. If you want to spend
between four and twelve exciting months working at the point where
technology, society and politics meet, apply now.
For details, please see
http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.en.html
Best regards,
Karsten
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Karsten Gerloff [ ] <gerloff(a)fsfeurope.org>
Free Software Foundation Europe [ ][ ][ ] [http://fsfe.org]
President | | +49 176 9690 4298
Your donation powers our work! [http://fsfe.org/donate/]
Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. is a German Verein registered
at the Registergericht Hamburg (VR 17030).
Greetings,
I have been taking looks at
<https://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html>, and I have
discovered that quite a few URLs once reported as bugs do not resolve
(404) any more, or do not contain any proprietary PDF reader
advertisements. This seemed to be especially common for German
institutions. If someone has time, please, take a look at the bug
list, and either find a new URL containing a bug for such
institutions, or being unable to do so, close the bug.
Faithfully,
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Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild
FSFE Fellow (en) / FSFE ühinglane (et)
<repentinus(a)fsfe.org>
<https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/repentinus>
<http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/>