Discussion June 2014

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EU research funding + free software
by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Hello, I was made aware of the following fosdem talk about EU research funding and free software: https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/eu_research_funding/ My experience with EU projects is that it is infeasible for any small project to manage the bureaucracy required by the EU. Could FSFE assume that role? As far as I know all EU projects include funds for secretarial work, so that could be assumed by paid positions within FSFE. What do you think? regards, Nikos

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Translations of FSF's email self-defence now available
by Matthias Kirschner 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Today our sister organisation, the FSF, published their e-mail self defence guide and their infographic in 6 new languages. It is now available in English, German, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Russian, Turkish, and Japanese. They explain the installation of the necessary programs for e-mail encryption under GNU/Linux, MacOS, and Microsoft Windows; the key generation; the web of trust; as well as the usage of those programs. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection, an email account, and about half an hour. - E-Mail self defence: <https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/> - Infographic: <https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/infographic.html> Please distribute them!! At FSFE we plan to print the infographics and make them available like other Free Software info materials on <https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.en.html#political-leaflets>. Please send in your feedback, so FSF and we can include that before printing the infographics. If you like that we send those materials to activists around Europe, you can also support us with a donation to cover printing and distributing costs: <http://fsfe.org/donate>. 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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The desktop and the developer
by Matthias Kirschner 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Maybe interesting to some of you: Matthew Garreth wrote a blog post "The desktop and the developer" <http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/31714.html> about how to provide good developer tools. So people do not just develop Free Software, but also use Free Software on their laptop/desktop computers. E.g. he proposes: If the desktop had built-in awareness of the issue tracker then they could be presented with relevant information and options without having to click through two separate applications. If git commits were locally indexed, the developer could find the relevant commit without having to move back to a web browser or open a new terminal to find the local checkout. A simple task that currently involves multiple context switches could be made significantly faster. 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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Crowdfunding of Etherpad
by Hugo Roy 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

Hi, Just to let you know there is a crowdfunding campaign going on to improve etherpad: http://www.ulule.com/etherpad-framapad/ Please consider making a donation :-) Thanks, Hugo -- Hugo Roy, Free Software Foundation Europe, <www.fsfe.org> Deputy Coordinator, FSFE Legal Team, <www.fsfe.org/legal> Coordinator, FSFE French Team, <www.fsfe.org/fr> Get our monthly newsletter, sign up! <https://l.fsfe.org/nl>

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Free software
by Kevin Mizzi 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

Dear All Do you consider Cobian backup 11 Gravity as free software? Thanks Kevin

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PGP signing
by Allan Irving 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

I have a question and this may be very, very stupid. What I see at the moment, when a message is just signed, is a wrapper consisting of the encryption type the public key uses and then the key itself towards the bottom. How does GPG prevent someone from copying this, spoofing an email address and then signing a message? Or does it not? In this case, is simply signing a message even worthwhile in itself unless you encrypt it? Kind regards, *This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, confidential, copyrighted and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return email and delete the message and any attachments. *

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The source code of the music
by Massimo Barbieri 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi! A few months ago I started with a friend of mine a musical project that has particular similarities to the philosophy of free software. I would like to tell you about it in this post and I'd love to read your feedback. With our band John Option[1] we published our first single My monkey some week ago. Of course the song is published under the terms of the Creative Commons License (CC-BY-SA) and it's completely produced only with free software: Ardour, Hydrogen, Jack, Qsynth, CALF, and many other great free audio software that we used under a GNU/Linux system. But with the project of John Option we have done a little more in the direction of freedom. As for the free software the source code is accessible for the users, we decided to do the same thing for our music. So we published the single recording tracks of the song My monkey and the complete Ardour session. All this material is published in our official website[1] under the CC-BY-SA license so that anyone can use our tracks to produce a remix of our song or even a new song that have to be published under the same license. I hope that you like our choice of freedom. If you feel like I'd love to read your feedback, because the encouragement of the people who listen to us and appreciate the philosophy of our project is a fuel for us to continue. Ciao, Max-B [1] Official site: http://johnoption.org - -- IM: massimo(a)jabber.fsfe.org - OpenPGP Key-Id: 0x5D168FC1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlOUdagACgkQnxH3+F0Wj8FbfQD/TL3jXyHTksdMa0q3aWVMIwYu X5jvL50e43LRUIxD97gA/1T7u171qB5yhfILx+SL4aR/qWhTXxHyM0rgATUkrNn6 =pzpi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Invitation - Tails HackFest - July, 5-6th 2014 - Paris, France
by u 08 Jun '14

08 Jun '14

Hi * Join us at the Tails HackFest 2014! It'll take place on July 5-6, 2014 in Paris, France. Description and goals ===================== Join us to make online anonymity and digital privacy usable by the masses! Whether you're a writer, a software developer, a designer, a system administrator or just plain interested, come learn about the challenges faced by Tails, and how you can be part of the solution. The Tails HackFest will bring together anyone interested in making Tails more usable and more secure. This open event will be an intense mix of teaching, drawing, coding, sharing, learning and celebrating. Logistics ========= * Where: the venue for the event is IRILL, Paris, France (https://www.irill.org/about/information-for-guests). * Dates: Saturday, July 5, 2014 - Sunday, July 6, 2014 * Time: 10 AM - 10 PM * Registration: if you want to attend, please consider dropping us a note about it. This is optional, but would help organizing this event. * Contact: <tails-hackfest-2014(a)boum.org>, #tails-hackfest on irc.oftc.net * Details, scheduling and updates: https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/HackFest_2014_Paris/ What is Tails? ============== Tails is a live operating system that can be started on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It is Free Software, and based on Debian GNU/Linux. Tails provides a platform to solve many surveillance problems by "doing the right thing" out of the box by default, protecting even less tech-savvy users from the most likely and highest impact risks. It aims at preserving privacy and anonymity, and helps to: * use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship; all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network; * leave no trace on the computer being used unless the user asks it explicitly; * use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt files, emails and instant messaging. Tails is about usability: every feature and software is ready-to-use, thoroughly documented, and translated into many languages. Tails is about cooperation: all products are released as Free and Open Source Software, and shared with other projects whenever possible. People use Tails to write books and create movies. People use Tails to chat off-the-record, browse the web anonymously and share sensitive documents. Many people depend on Tails to do their daily work, if not simply to stay alive. If you haven't already, you can find out more at https://tails.boum.org. Looking forward to meet you on July 5-6! No doubt you'll find a great way to contribute to Tails, regardless of what your field of expertise is! Host and sponsors ================= Many thanks to Debian, IRILL, Mozilla and the Tor Project for supporting this event!

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32 members of the European Parliament are official supporters of Free Software
by Erik Albers 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Dear Fellows and supporters, this is a big thank you to all of you who engaged in the freesoftwarepact.eu campaign and who invested their time to contact candidates to convince them to sign the Free Software Pact. You have been done great work! this is also a thank you to all that might not have been able to participate themselves but that have spread the message throughout their channels. We made a press-release today and put a news entry on our homepage: https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140528-01.de.html 162 candidates out of 16 countries have signed the pact. Unfortunately, just one fifth of them have been voted in the end, but that are 32 politicians. These politicians and their signatures are very important for FSFE, because in our future work we can always remind them or even trust in their support when it is necessary. That is also why I do not declare the campaign to be finished: Although the election period is over, new and old members of the parliament still can sign the Free Software Pact and show their support for a European Union in that users have full control over their computers. Thanks again, Erik -- Erik Albers | https://fsfe.org/about/albers Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) - Campaigns & Community Free as in Freedom!

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