Discussion November 2014

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Announcing the LibreOffice Conference for 2015 in Aarhus, Denmark
by Carsten Agger 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

[1]The LibreOffice Conference for 2015 will take place in Aarhus, Denmark, as a collaboration between the Document Foundation, the Danish LibreOffice community, the FSFE local group and the municipality of Aarhus. Also involved are the local hacker space and (hopefully) other local free software groups. I personally will be involved as a community contact, i.e. as the person with feet on the ground in Aarhus. The event will be hosted by the municipality. As the Document Foundation writes on its blog[2]: Aarhus WaterfrontBerlin, October 17, 2014 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces that the LibreOffice Conference 2015 will be jointly organized by the Danish LibreOffice community in collaboration with local F/OSS groups and the Aarhus municipality, and hosted at the brand new Urban Media Space, from September 23 to September 25, 2015. In addition, on September 22 the LibreOffice community will gather for several face-to-face meetings: Board of Directors, Advisory Board, Engineering Steering Committee, and Certification Committee. Aarhus is a city of education, knowledge and research. Its university is internationally recognized for its contributions within, among other fields, social sciences, technology and science. Aarhus is known to attract talented students from around the world which also provides the city with a great diversity. “Hosting the LibreOffice Conference will be an exciting opportunity for the entire Danish free software community”, says Leif Lodahl, a long time leader of the Danish LibreOffice community, a founder of The Document Foundation, and the architect of several large migration projects to LibreOffice. “We are looking forward to welcoming LibreOffice volunteers and advocates from every corner of the world”. As the day comes nearer, I may well want to reach out to the wider FSFE community to ask for assistance and support. I’m certainly excited to see how it will work out. [1] Originally posted on my blog, http://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/10/22/announcing-the-libreoffice-conferenc… [2] http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2014/10/17/libreoffice-conference-2015-i… -- http://www.modspil.dk https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/

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Free 500 USD laptop proposal
by Paul van der Vlis 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

Hello, I saw this propposal, could be interesting: https://bryanquigley.com/uncategorized/would-you-crowdfund-a-500-ubuntu-ope… But I think I would like an laptop without an OS more. With regards, Paul van der Vlis -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer, Groningen http://www.vandervlis.nl

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Crowdfunded Laprop that respects your freedom
by Tobias Platen 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

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English GnuPG leaflets available
by Matthias Kirschner 24 Nov '14

24 Nov '14

In September we layouted and printed a German version of the e-mail self-defense leaflet to distribute at the freedom not fear demonstration in Berlin. We received a lot of positive feedback about the leaflet, and had to order it for the third time already. Volunteers are distributing them before the cinemas (”interested in e-mail encryption like Edward Snowden”) when they show Citizienfour, one cinema even hands them out themselves for every Citizienfour ticket they sell. Today the *English version* arrived in our office, and can now be ordered on <https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html#promo-material>. Other language versions (Dutch, Italian, French, Spanish, Greek) will soon be available, too. If you want to help with translations, please write an e-mail to translators(a)fsfeurope.org with Spanish we currently need proofreading https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/emailselfdefense-flyertext *Enable us to distribute it* If you want to support FSFE to produce and send leaflets to activists all over Europe, you can help by donating to FSFE http://fsfe.org/donate or to support us in the long run become a supporting member of FSFE http://fsfe.org/join (If you donate 150€ we cover postage to send out ~10 big promo packs). Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - Vice President FSFE Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) Receive monthly Free Software news (fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html) Your donation enables our work (fsfe.org/donate)

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1&1 / gmx to switch off service it received dfd award for
by chrysn 16 Nov '14

16 Nov '14

hi fellows, some years ago, 1&1 (gmx) received the dfd award for providing open standards infrastructure to the masses[1]. now, it seems they plan to switch it off[1]. not that i'd have recommended gmx to anybody for quite some time, but i'm actively communicating with many people over xmpp who already had gmx addresses and for whom this was an easy start. now given i'm neither a customer of theirs (much less a paying one) nor active in any social media where they could feel like reacting to anything, i see myself a little low on options to act against that. (if it involved only me, i'd take it as a reason to just move to another server, but convincing communication partners is another issue). do you see any way the fellowship could exert some influence? i'm certainly not suggesting actions along the lines of withdrawing the award ("and hand back the cake" -- that'd be childish), but the award has been at least acknowledged in media and press releases ([3], [4], [5]), maybe that could be taken up? best regards chrysn [1] http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120328-01.en.html [2] http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/MultiMessenger-United-Internet-schal… [3] http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Document-Freedom-Award-fuer-1-1-Internet-A… [4] http://blog.1und1.de/2012/03/28/11-internet-ag-erhaelt-document-freedom-awa… [5] http://newsroom.gmx.net/2012/03/30/auszeichnung-fuer-gmx-der-beliebte-multi… -- Most people would leave. Not us. We're Vikings. We have stubbornness issues. -- Hiccup, son of Stoic

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United Nations' policy regarding Free Software?
by Bernhard Reiter 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Does the United Nations organization have a policy regarding Free Software and its mission? And how does this affect the 17 specialisted UN organisations? Does the UN prefer to use and republish improvements with Free Software? I found a general statement of the Secretary General's speech from 2010: http://www.unglobalpulse.org/blog/un-secretary-general-appeals-global-open-… And some documentation from the UNESCO: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002156/215621e.pdf A lot of old links from the UNESCO portal of Free Software seem old. Does somebody know more? Thanks, Bernhard -- FSFE -- Founding Member of the GA blogs.fsfe.org/bernhard Support our work for Free Software: https://fsfe.org/support/?ber

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