(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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The FAZ has published the article "Information Consumerism - The Price
of Hypocrisy"
<http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/ueberwachung/information-con…>.
I strongly recommend reading it.
It covers a lot of important points, says that over-reliance on foreign
communications infrastructure is no way to boost one's sovereignty,
highlights a quote from Microsoft saying that making new forms of
communication less secure is inevitable. It argues that we cannot be
building insecure communication infrastructure and expect that only
Western government would profit from it, that Snowden exposed the shaky
foundations of already unsustainable policies, the problems of
appliances connected to the internet, and why it does not help to only
concentrate on securing e-mails. It writes that Google algorithm keep
your email communication both free and accessible to the NSA, and argues
that in future the NSA might just be able to buy the data it needs. It
makes the point that market logic has replaces morality. The political
and moral consequences to information consumerism and about real
freedoms.
I also disagree with minor points, but first read it yourself!
Best Regards:,
Matthias
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FSFE, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 +49-1577-1780003
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