The March Manchester FSFE Fellowship meeting will take place on Thursday
29th at 19.00 in MadLab.
Bob Ham, GNU/Linux audio developer and coordinator of Liverpool Linux User
Group, will introduce and explain the JACK Audio Connection Kit - a
professional Free Software sound server for audio recording, mixing, editing,
and more.
JACK is at the cutting edge of professional media software, and powers the
most powerful Free Software applications in the field, including:
- Ardour: http://ardour.org/
- Hydrogen: http://www.hydrogen-music.org
- Blender: http://www.blender.org/
- VLC: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
- PureData: http://puredata.info/
JACK does things that the most expensive proprietary software cannot, as was
originally funded and still developed by British programmer Paul Davis.
Bob's description:
> A short history and discussion of the JACK Audio Connection Kit, its
> operating principles, design and implementation
>
> * A short history of JACK
> * Some sound card basics
> * The JACK system
> * Demonstration
>
> The talk is a bit technical and contains phrases like "sound card buffer" and
> "callback".
There will also be discussion about recent news from the politics of Free
Software, and a report from Document Freedom Day, which takes place the day
before. Please bring your own topics for discussion with you, and present them
to the group.
How to find MadLab: http://madlab.org.uk/contact/
See you there!
Sam.
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Free Software Foundation Europe
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== About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit
non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and
involved in many global activities. Access to software determines
participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in
the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free
Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the
furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study,
modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues,
securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people
Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues
of the FSFE.
Manchester Fellow Anna Morris was interviewed on BBC Radio this week,
about a conference that she's organising in London for women in Free
Software. In just a few minutes she discusses what Free Software is,
what it's like being a woman in the Free Software movement, and how she
first got involved.
Her interview starts at 17:13
http://download.fsfe.org/audio/20120320-bbc5-interview-anna-morris.ogg
BBC podcast page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/pods
Anna is one of the Coordinators of the Manchester Fellowship group. The
Women in Free Software conference is called Flossie:
http://www.flossie.org/
Enjoy!
Sam.
The Open Rights Group is having its annual conference on Saturday 24th March
in Westminister. They have written to FSFE encouraging us to come and run a
Free Software booth.
ORG is one of the UK's biggest digital rights groups, and shares some
political goals with the Free Software movement. It would be good for Free
Software to be represented at this major event, and for FSFE to find new
contacts and supporters amongst Britain's digital rights campaigners.
*Are you able to you help to run a booth at ORGCON?* Some London based Fellows
have already expressed an interest, and it would be great if someone were to
volunteer.
Unfortunately I cannot attend due to other important events taking place
immediately before and after ORGCON (including Document Freedom Day, and the
Leicester Big Green Festival).
Running a booth simply requires an understanding of what Free Software is,
what FSFE broadly hopes to achieve as an organisation, and a willingness to
communicate these things. If you are unsure, this information can be found at
fsfe.org and wiki.fsfe.org.
I can provide you with leaflets, stickers, merchandise, advice, documentation,
and also potentially a budget for travel costs, depending on where you live.
Best,
Sam.
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British Team Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
IM : samtuke(a)jabber.fsfe.org
Latest UK Free Software news: uk.fsfe.org
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Document Freedom Day 2012 is one week away, and your help is needed to spread
the word.
We have 2,000 A2 posters with a message from Stephen Fry about the importance
of Open Standards, and we need them put up in offices, universities, and
libraries all over Britain.
If you are able to put up or distribute some posters, please order them here:
http://documentfreedom.org/posters.en.html
Posters and postage costs are free of charge. If you wish to contribute to
costs, please donate at http://documentfreedom.org/donate/
The posters are designed to be reusable from year to year.
See the Stephen Fry poster here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html
Best,
Sam.
== About Document Freedom Day ==
Document Freedom Day (DFD) campaigns to celebrate information accessibility
and introduce non-technical audiences to Open Standards. Open Standards are a
basic condition for citizen freedom and choice; ensuring the freedom to access
data, and the freedom to build freedom preserving ways to read and write
information. Started in 2008, the campaign has resulted in hundreds of events
worldwide. This year it takes place on March 28th. Partners include The
Document Foundation, the Foundation for a Free Information infrastructure,
KDE e.V., and the European Parliament Free Software User Group.
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Free Software Foundation Europe
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Hello
The username mbnr = M Bernard N Richards & I'm a Maths personal tutor
based in Oldham, Greater Manchester. I look forward to discussing events
with a UK focus once the nature of the discussions on this list have
become clear.
Regards
Bernard.
= Summary 5-11 March =
During three days this week I spent most of my time doing admin work for DFD,
following up on Fellowship work, and doing minor web tasks.
= Detail =
== Web ==
- Assisted new web team members on getting commit access to FSFE SVN
- Advised intern Tobias extensively on web infrastructure and HTML5, fsfe
XML and XSL, image upload handling etc.
- Added Piwik tracking to FSFE blogs
- Sent Piwik analytics implementation summary to team-reports (status,
opportunities, recommendations)
- Replied to system hackers concerning Python Vs PHP
== Editors ==
- Edited android poster text
== Fellowship ==
- Sent Manchester Fellowship meeting announcement for March (with details of
JACK pro-audio talk)
- Sent presentation, links, and call to join FSFE to liverpool LUG mailing
list following my talk there last week
- Sent report of talk at Liverpool LUG to team-reports@ & UK team
- Sent mail to UK Fellows about running a booth at ORGCON
- Welcomed new UK Fellow 'mbnr'
- Welcomed new Fellow moved from Germany to UK
== Document Freedom Day ==
- Researched UK MP contact data, constituency region data for DFD handcuff pack
delivery and began implementing OSM UK region highlighting
- Submitted expense request for printing of 2,000 Stephen Fry posters
- Replied to Open Rights Group DFD partnership enquiries
== Other ==
- Found cause of missing UK team mail to my inboxes, fixed it (finally)
- Apologised to UK team for missing mails
Thanks,
Sam.
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Sam Tuke
British Team Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
IM : samtuke(a)jabber.fsfe.org
Latest UK Free Software news: uk.fsfe.org
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