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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Sam Tuke
British Team Coordinator
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.
Details:
http://openstandardsroundtable5.eventbrite.co.uk/
Is the Government one of your potential customers? Free Software may shortly
be locked out of opportunities in the public sector if proposed Open Standards
policy is adopted.
Tomorrow afternoon the Cabinet Office is consulting businesses in the North West
on how the policy could affect the market, and whether it would result in a
distorted playing-field for Free Software solutions.
Those in the Manchester area, please go to the meeting tomorrow afternoon in
MadLab and tell the Government if your business uses Open Standards as part of
a product or service.
Free Software could be blocked from public sector use if the new policy allows
"FRAND" terms within British standards. Millions of pounds has been spent on
lobbying to pressure the UK Government to back down on a strong definition of
Open Standards over the past few months, as recently discovered via Freedom of
Information requests.
Whether a national UK standard can be adopted if it block Free Software by
requiring royalties to be paid to private third parties is not yet decided -
your comments tomorrow on how Open Standards affect your business could make
the difference.
FRAND is FRAUD:
https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120426-01.en.html
Non-Government groups demand Open Standards:
https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120425-02.en.html
Best,
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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ACTA threatens free software, and entrenches DRM:
https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/03/01/acta-first-do-no-harm
Volunteer stewards are needed for the upcoming UK protests (see below).
On Thursday 24 May 2012 17:25:14 Jim Killock wrote:
> Can I ask if anyone here is willing to act as a steward for the demo?
>
> We desparately need around 20 stewards.
>
> On 23 May 2012, at 07:15, Martin Houston wrote:
>
> Now have a location confirmed for the main London ACTA protest:
>
> See http://june9.org.uk/ - please let people know.
>
> On 14 May 2012 19:43, Martin Houston <mhoust42(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> The next wave of Europe wide ACTA protests are due on 9th June - I
> have set up a small website http://june9.org.uk to help co-ordinate
> the protests that people want to stage in the UK.
>
> One thing we need is some funding to help with flyer costs etc. Open
> Rights group are acting as bankers for any donations people want to
> make on behalf of their organisations. Just a few hundred pounds would
> really help get the message out to the public about these increasingly
> desperate attempts to silence the Internet.
Best,
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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Dear all,
> As some of you may know, the Flossie 2012 <http://www.flossie.org>conference is happening this weekend. I am running a project called "The
> Record" which will create a video archive of interviews with women
> attending this fab event (there are set to be 180 women in attendance).
>
> http://etherpad.fsfe.org/Tm1nUTnAME
>
> I am inviting fellow fellows to add their questions, which will be put to
> the women during the interview. Just click the link above and write down
> any questions you would like to ask about Women and Floss!
>
> Best,
>
> Anna
>