FSFE-IE November 2006

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The latest on GPLv3 - a transcript of RMS from last week's conference
by Ciaran O'Riordan 27 Nov '06

27 Nov '06

I've made a transcript of Richard's talk from last week's GPLv3 conference in Japan which shows the state of the debates such as how patents and tivoisation will be tackled: http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/tokyo-rms-transcript Novell/MS are mentioned, as is treacherous computing, the goals of versions 1 and 2, and some other interesting stuff. The 3rd discussion draft is currently being worked on and is due in early December, so if you haven't gotten around to it yet, now is the time to go and read discussion draft 2 and make your comments so that they can be thought about before draft 3 is published. I made the transcript from a video I took myself, but I haven't gotten around to processing it or putting it online, and I'm kinda hoping that the official event videos will be published so that I won't have to do all that. I also made a transcript of my presentation: http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/tokyo-ciaran-transcript -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org

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IFSO Meeting: Tuesday 17th October, 2000h, Mahaffey's Pub
by Glenn Strong 21 Nov '06

21 Nov '06

Hi there. Tomorrow (Wednesday 22nd) is the previously announced date of the rescheduled IFSO meeting, so there will be IFSO members in Mahaffey's pub from 8pm: http://www.ifso.ie/get-involved.html#meetings Apologies for the short notice of the reminder. -- Glenn Strong

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Help sought: improving menus in transcripts on ifso.ie
by Ciaran O'Riordan 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

The menu in the transcript we made of RMS's swpat talk could be much better: http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-2004-05-24.html It's a useful document, and IIRC it's the most viewed page on ifso.ie, so improving the menu would be worthwhile. I've wanted to do it for months but I never get around to it. Here's an example of what I think is a good menu: http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/bangalore-rms-transcript.en.html If someone wanted to go even further, maybe each anchor within the transcript should have three buttons for return to menu, next section, and previous section. But that would have to be done in a nice way, not to clutter the transcript. Also, our other four transcripts could be improved, menu-wise: http://www.ifso.ie/documents/index.html#transcripts Any takers, download a copy, tell the list that you're working on it, and send your improved version to committee -at- ifso.ie when you're done. (So until there is a mail to this list saying someone is doing it, it is still an open task.) -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org

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doing a PR for the release of Vista?
by Ciaran O'Riordan 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

It looks like MS have set November 30th as the release date for Vista. (http://apcmag.com/node/4258) There're two things we could do. One would be a press release, along the lines of "Vista is out, time to upgrade your OS, to GNU/Linux". The could be good because some journalists like to give an opposing point of view at the end of partisan articles - so we'd be giving them something to write. The more ambitious idea would be to declare it "GNU Upgrade Day". And with the launch of gNewSense 1.0, we'd have a distro to recommend: http://www.gnewsense.org/ http://www.fsf.org/news/gnewsense Yes? No? -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org

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FSFE Newsletter
by Free Software Foundation Europe 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

1. DRM.info platform launched 2. Introducing Shane M. Coughlan and Maria Luisa Carli 3. FSFE helped liberating Italian ZIP code database 4. FSFE at LWE fairs in Utrecht (Netherlands) and London (UK) 5. FSFE Swedish Team at the Internet Days in Stockholm (Sweden) 1. DRM.info platform launched Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology affect all users of digital technology. At the same time, there is an almost total lack of critical dialog. To address this issue, FSFE has contacted multiple organisations from various areas, such as consumer rights, libraries, digital rights and Creative Commons, and jointly started the DRM.info platform to provide the critical view that is currently missing. Accompanying the launch, FSFE organised protests in various cities, including Zürich and Gothenburg, to inform people about the problem that in order for DRM to work, they need to be at least partially disowned of the devices they bought, surrendering control over them to third parties. The platform, which also contains pictures from the protests, can be found online at http://DRM.info/ Please help FSFE and its collaborators on DRM.info to spread the information, link to DRM.info and point others to it! 2. Introducing Shane M. Coughlan and Maria Luisa Carli Shane Martin Coughlan has started to work for FSFE full time as a project coordinator. Shane was born in Dublin City and moved to England for higher education. He graduated 2003 in Birmingham with an MA in International Studies (Globalisation and Governance). He joined FSFE because he believes ICT needs to be available to society at large, and he thinks FSFE is in an excellent position to work towards this goal. Maria Luisa Carli works as an intern for FSFE from October 2006 to June 2007. Marilu was born in Foligno, Italy. She gradueted 2004 in businness law and did an MBA at University of Perugia. Marilu joined to FSFE because she was impressed by the enthusiasm that drives the organization and by the international and motivated team. Both work together with FSFE president Georg Greve in FSFE's new office in Zürich, Switzerland, which has been set up as the third operational base after Düsseldorf and Gothenburg. 3. FSFE helps liberating Italian ZIP code database As soon as the ZIP codes have been updated by the private company Poste Italiane, the official list of codes distributed as compressed text file has disappeared from the websites of Poste Italiane and of the Ministry of Communication. Such text file was used to develop Free Software useful in many commercial environments. Poste Italiane made available the ZIP codes only with proprietary software and proprietary formats (even encrypted) running only on one operating system or via a web search form. As ZIP codes are public data under Italian laws, FSFE's Italian Team helped the developers of Free Software providing legal expertise and protection to rebuild the list of codes using a crawler. FSFE also promoted an open letter to the Minister of Communication asking to release the list of ZIP codes as before. http://www.italy.fsfeurope.org/it/projects/cap/ 4. FSFE at LWE fairs in Utrecht (Netherlands) and London (UK) During the 2006 LWE in Utrecht, FSFE president Georg Greve presented the strategic value of Free Software in business as part of a Free Software masterclass in collaboration with Harald Welte. The show also served to present and promote to the public the "Scientific Education and Learning in Freedom" (SELF) project. FSFE's Gareth Bowker and Rainer Kersten were in London, manning a booth at the LinuxWorld Expo on 25-26th of October. The show itself was very successful, raising a significant amount of awareness about the work FSFE do in Europe - as well as outfitting the UK masses in FSFE's latest fashions! Thanks must also go to Richard Smedley and Simon Morris for helping out on the booth. 5. FSFE Swedish Team at the Internet Days in Stockholm (Sweden) During the last week of October, the Swedish II Foundation held their annual Internet Days in Stockholm, where the FSFE participated with its Swedish team. Besides having a booth with information about our activities, FSFE vice president Jonas Öberg also participated in a panel debate on open document formats. The Swedish Team of the FSFE was also there as one of the recipients of the II Foundation stipends that are given out during the Internet Days each year. The stipend was given to the Swedish Team to complement the activities of the SELF project in Sweden, in particular to work with schools in Sweden to give educations based on SELF material and make more material from SELF available in Swedish. Henrik Sandklef from the FSFE also received a stipend from the II Foundation. His work will focus on translations of manuals and other documents for GnuPG into Swedish. You can find a list of all FSFE newsletters on http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/newsletter.en.html

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RMS, previously, on Sun freeing java
by Ciaran O'Riordan 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

I just put online some recent comments by Richard on if Sun liberate Java: http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/rms_recently… -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org

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GPLv3 article for weekend reading
by Ciaran O'Riordan 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Friday night was obviously not my preferred time to put this online :-) Here's an article I wrote about GPLv3 and licence proliferation: http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7188273245.html I'm gone now. -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org

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IFSO Meeting - Change in arrangements
by Glenn Strong 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hi everyone, It's recently become clear that the old IFSO meeting dates didn't suit some people any more. After some internal discussion, we have decided to try meeting on a Wednesday, starting this month. Since this is rather short notice we're pushing this months meeting out a week. So, the next IFSO meeting is on Wednesday 22 November 2006 in Mahaffeys pub. The meeting after that will be on December 20 -- Glenn Strong

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What to do about Novell and Microsoft?
by Ciaran O'Riordan 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

I haven't read all the published details, but it raises some interesting questions. When should we prevent companies from getting patent protection for their customers? Possible answer: when it creates a situation where they profit from others being in danger, and gives them an incentive to sustain that danger for others. I wrote about this in my blog: http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/what_should_… Bruce Perens seems pretty sure the deal violates version 2 of the GPL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/07/perens_on_ms_novell/ -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org

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Re: [ILUG] ILUG AGM 2006 - it's only a day away
by Ciaran O'Riordan 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

A reminder that the ILUG AGM is Saturday the 4th (tomorrow) in Dublin. Niall O Broin <niall(a)linux.ie> writes: > The 2006 ILUG AGM takes place on tomorrow, November 4th , at 14:30. > [Note - the time is slightly earlier than previously advertised, to > accommodate our full talks schedule] > > The venue is once again generously provided by the Irish Computer > Society - map > and details at http://www.ics.ie/main/contact.htm. > > Lots of interesting talks, election of committee and such AGM like > stuff, and beers afterwards in a nearby hostelry. > > Remember, it's YOUR LUG, and if you want it to do anything > differently, it's up to YOU to suggest it. > > Several current committee members either can't be re-elected to their > current positions this year, due to the 3 year rule, or have decided > not to seek re-election for personal reasons, so the ILUG committee > is going to look rather different after the AGM. If you think that > you could have something to contribute, do come along and volunteer > your services. This can't be over emphasised people - the ILUG > committee is essentially about > to be gutted, and needs re-populating. > > The full list of speakers (and it is indeed full) in alphabetical > order (running order will be decided on the day - so if you come > late, you might miss the talk you're particularly interested in) is: > > Speaker Affiliation Subject > > Brian Brazil google The gNewSense project > John Looney google Managing multi million machine clusters > Dave Malone Hamilton Institute Network research involving Linux > Paschal Nee Mobile Travel Technologies The mobile internet > Anton O Lachlain FON The largest WiFi community in the world > Ciaran O Riordan FSFE GPLv3, specifically DRM issues > Dave Wilson HEANet Bandwidth on demand > > We're having a slight change in format this year, such that we will > have some talks, then the AGM business per se, and then the remainder > of the talks. This is to accommodate the number of talks we have, to > break things up a little, and to ensure that stragglers don't miss > the actual AGM. > > Also this year, for the first time, we're taking a leaf from the Late > Late Show's book. If you're curious about that, you'll just have to > join the audience - it might be worth your while. > > > Niall -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org

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