(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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Hi all,
here a short blog post with pictures from our installation party in
Berlin. Thanks a lot to all of you!!
"Like in the 90ies but with phones: First Free Your Android
installation parties" http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1000
If you like this activity of FSFE, please sign up to show that you care
about Free Software and support the FSFE's activities:
http://fsfe.org/support/?mk (no costs involved).
Best Regards,
Matthias
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Matthias Kirschner - FSFE - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator
FSFE, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 +49-1577-1780003
Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner)
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It seems a join venture of Moving Picture Experts Group and
ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group currently develops a new video
codes that among other things compresses twice as efficient as
h264: HEVC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding
As h264 had real patent pressures, and thus is hard to implement with all
software freedom retained: What is the status of HEVC, that is supposed to
become h265 regarding patents and openness?
If the video codes of WebM: VP8 or libvpx is a real competitor to h264,
what could be the next version that can compete with the claimed higher
efficiency of HEVC?
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"Die Zeit", Germany's biggest weekly newspaper, introduced a "digital
postbox" [1], which enables people to leak documents to the newspaper.
They published this as Free Software [2].
First the software makes the data anonymous, by removing metadata and
other information from the files. Then the GnuPG encrypted data will be
sent to the journalists, who will check the information, and see if they
make a story out of it. The software also provides a kind of anonymous
postbox, to interact with the the wistleblower.
Regards,
Matthias
1. http://blog.zeit.de/zeitansage/2012/07/30/zeit-online-startet-digitalen-bri…
2. https://github.com/zeitonline
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FSFE, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 +49-1577-1780003
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