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[Fsfe-se] Last day for Nordic Free Software Award nominations
by Henrik Sandklef 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

This is the last day to send in your nominations to Nordic Free Software Award 2010. The Nordic Free Software Award is given to people, projects or organisations in the Nordic countries that have made a prominent contribution to the advancement of Free Software. The award will be announced during FSCONS 2010 in Gothenburg. For more information, visit: http://fscons.org/award Previous winners: * 2009 Simon Josefsson and Daniel Stenberg * 2008 Mats Östling * 2007 SkoleLinux

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[Fsfe-se] Last day for Nordic Free Software Award 2010 nominations
by Henrik Sandklef 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

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[Fsfe-se] [FSFE PR][SV] FSFE : 2286 public websites advertise non-free software
by press＠fsfeurope.org 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

(Hjälp oss att nå ut till människor i deras modersmål. Gå med i vårt svenska översättningsteam: http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/.) = 2286 public websites advertise non-free software = [permanent URL : http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20101018-01.html] During Free Software Foundation Europe's pdfreaders.org[1] campaign, Free Software activists from 41 countries have reported 2286 public sector institutions which advertise non-free PDF readers on their websites. FSFE will now contact these institutions, trying to get as many advertisements for non-free PDF readers as possible removed before the end of the year. Progress will be documented on the list of reported institutions[2]. "Public bodies are right to try and make things easy for citizens by explaining how to open the files on their sites. But by advertising non-free software, they're doing citizens a disservice", says Karsten Gerloff, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe. "Democratic governments are supposed to give us freedom, not to drive us into dependence on a single software vendor." Most versions of the PDF file format are Open Standards[3], but the advertised readers are proprietary. These advertisements help to build a brand for the one particular non-free software company. The public sector becomes a marketing channel for that company and its products, making it harder for Free Software PDF readers[4] to gain market share. "We're frankly astonished at the amount of responses we got", says Matthias Kirschner, FSFE's Fellowship coordinator. "The number of reports we've received show that the problem is endemic across all levels of the public sector." In just four weeks, hundreds of activists from 41 countries submitted 2286 reports[5] about advertisement for non-free software to FSFE. Beside that, already 37 organisations, 45 businesses and 1418 individuals have signed FSFE's petition asking public bodies to remove advertisements for non-free software from their websites. "This shows how many people across Europe care about software freedom and are willing to get active to help the public sector solve its advertising problem", continues Kirschner. FSFE encourages public institutions to remove advertisements for non-free software from their websites, or at least change their websites so that they no longer discriminate against Free Software[6]. In February 2009 Fellows of FSFE[7] started pdfreaders.org[8], a website listing Free Software PDF readers for all major operating systems. The website also provides recommendations based on a range of practical criteria, such as integration with the operating system and ease of installation. == 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. http://fsfe.org/ 1. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.en.html 2. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html 3. http://www.fsfe.org/projects/os/os.en.html 4. http://www.pdfreaders.org/ 5. http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100913-01.en.html 6. http://www.fsfe.org/about/basics/freesoftware.en.html 7. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/ 8. http://pdfreaders.org/ _______________________________________________ Press-release-sv mailing list Press-release-sv(a)fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/press-release-sv

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[Fsfe-se] FOSSDay – 5 november 2010
by Henrik Sandklef 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

För dig som beslutsfattare inom näringsliv eller i offentlig förvaltning eller som arbetar med fri programvara / öppen källkod. FOSSDay 2010 är ett inspirerande halvdagsseminarium där du kan få information från företag, myndigheter och akademin kring produkter, tjänster, inköp och upphandling. Dagen organiseras av Fossgruppen och IT-Universitetet tillsammans med Op5, Cybercom och Redpill Linpro och äger rum i Göteborg den 5e november. Seminariet erbjuder ett fullspäckat program med start klockan 09.45. Dagen erbjuder kortare föredrag, fika, mingel och lunch samt möjlighet att prata med och besöka de företag som deltar. Vi avslutar klockan 15.00 med kaffe. Talare som deltar på seminariet är: Peter Östlin - op Kommersiella intressen som drivkraft ör utvecklingen av öppen källkod Patrik Lägermo - Cybercom Group Starta och driva projekt med FOSS-verktyg Göran Westerlund - Kivos Hur samverkar västsvenska kommuner kring open source? Thomas Altré - RedPill Öppna möjligheter Daniel Melin - Kammarkollegiet Ramavtalsupphandlingen “Öppna programvaror 2010″ Marcus Rejås - Rejås Datakonsult Öppna programvaror i offentlig verksamhet Espen Riskedal - Cutehack Mobila tjänster med Qt Kostnaden för seminariet är 450 kronor och inkluderar lunch, kaffe och bullar. Anmäl dig och ditt företag på http://fossday.se/

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[Fsfe-se] Nordic Free Software Award 2010 - 7 days left to nominate
by Henrik Sandklef 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

For one more week you can nominate a person, a project or an organisation for the Nordic Free Software Award. The Nordic Free Software Award given to people, projects or organisations in the Nordic countries that have made a prominent contribution to the advancement of Free Software. The award will be announced during FSCONS 2010 in Gothenburg. Send an email to “award at fscons.org” with the following information: * Name of nominee * Description/Bio of the nominee * Motivation for the award * Description of accomplishments The Nordic Free Software Award has previously been given to: * 2009 Simon Josefsson and Daniel Stenberg * 2008 Mats Östling * 2007 SkoleLinux FSCONS: The Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit is a meeting place for social change. It's a conference for and by the people who work to change our future.

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[Fsfe-se] [FSFE PR][SV] FSFE : Newsletter October 2010
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

(We now have dedicated lists for our newsletter. If you want to receive only the monthly newsletter, please subscribe to one of the newsletter-*@ lists <http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo>) (Hjälp oss att nå ut till människor i deras modersmål. Gå med i vårt svenska översättningsteam: http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/.) = FSFE Newsletter - October 2010 = [Permanent URL: http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.en.html] In this edition we discuss the misleading term "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms" (FRAND), we explain what we are doing about centralised computer systems and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and update you on our current campaign to end non-free software commercials by public institutions. FSFE celebrated Software Freedom Day with a variety of local events and activities. We organised talks and booths in Berlin, Bonn, Hamburg, Cologne, Offenburg (Germany), Zurich (Switzerland), and The Hague (Netherlands). [25]With our activities we reached new audiences, and explained to them why Free Software will become as important as freedom of the press and freedom of assembly. == Why FRAND excludes Free Software == [26]We asked European Free Software businesses to participate in a survey of business attitudes towards the acceptability of including patents in industry standards. A major theme in the survey was whether patents that cover standards should be licensed royalty-free (as W3C recommends), or whether they should instead be licensed under so-called "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms" (FRAND). FRAND is a misnomer as the terms are often unfair, unreasonable, and highly discriminatory, particularly for Free Software. In reality FRAND is only fair and reasonable to a small circle of the most powerful software companies. Paying royalties of 0.000001 Cent per copy to implement a standard might look fair at the first sight, but such a fee would make it impossible to distribute a program as Free Software. Free Software safeguards the right to share with others. Therefore, when Free Software companies sell their software they cannot know how many people will eventually end up using it. It becomes impossible to estimate the total amount of royalties owed to patent owners; Free Software businesses will be unable to compete with their proprietary competitors and Free Software as a whole would be undermined. We encouraged Free Software companies to respond to this survey, so that their views were heard and the interests of Free Software were represented in the study's results. Unfortunately the implicit assumptions of the survey were biased towards large corporations with dedicated 'standardisation employees' dedicated to providing detailed information. We received feedback that it was very difficult and sometimes impossible for small and medium sized companies to fill out the questionnaire. We will highlight this fact as well as our general criticism in the forthcoming process, [27]as we have done in the past. == Cloudy Internet Governance Forum == The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a global policy discussion forum of the United Nations, established as an outcome of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). We are constantly following the IGF to ensure that policy discussions will not endanger digital freedom in general and Free Software in particular. Karsten attended the Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania and presented his talk [28]"Data in the cloud: Where do Open Standards fit in". He drew attention to potential solutions to the threats of cloud computing, including the possibility of users operating their own easy to administer, always connected servers, which could offer preconfigured web, mail, jabber, and microblogging services. He also discussed Yacy, GNU Social, Angel Applications and other Free Software programs which present decentralised alternatives to dominant proprietary services. We are currently working on ways to encourage wider use of applications which use distributed models, so that control of the software is also distributed amongst users. As a result we have integrated [29]Yacy, the distributed search engine into our website and are now testing its results. YaCy's lead developer Michael Christen will be speaking at our track of talks [30]'Divide and Reconquer: regaining control of our communications' at FSCONS, which focuses on issues of centralisation of key Internet services. == Non-free software commercials presented by public institutions == Each day public institutions advertise non-free software on their websites. They link to non-free software PDF readers and thereby recommend that their visitors use non-free software. [31]Non-free software harms our society, and it is particularly inappropriate for public institutions to unnecessarily endorse it. Some public institutions go as far as stating that it is only possible to view their PDF files with the proprietary reader that they recommend, which is simply false. Many [32]Free Software PDF readers exist and provide users with a clear choice over which reader they wish to use. To raise awareness of this behaviour we started a new PDF readers campaign, and began collecting reports of infringing institutions, and petition signatures agreeing that this practice should be changed. Adverts for gratis non-free PDF readers readers are nonetheless adverts for non-free software, and because of this we do not include them on pdfreaders.org. Public websites should not list them either as promoting one proprietary reader over another reader gives an unfair advantage, and supports the existence of software monopolies. Since 13 September, volunteers from all over the world helped us with the campaign. At the time of writing they submitted over 1369 occurences of advertisement for 39 countries. 762 individuals, 20 organisations and 21 businesses signed the "Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites". Amazingly the campaign website is available in 10, the petition page in 11, and pdfreaders.org in 18 languages. == Get active == This month we ask you to support our PDFreaders campaign: - Find and [33]report advertisements for non-free software on websites belonging to public institutions. - Sign our [34]Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites. - [35]Translate the websites about this campaign into your language. - Find out if it is [36]illegal for the public institutions to give unfair advertising to particular companies in your country and inform us about it. - Find out and inform us how much money it would cost in your country to get an online advertisement on websites comparable to the public institutions which contain the advertisement. - Inform others about the campaign and what they can do to help. Regards, Matthias Kirschner 1. http://www.fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss 2. http://www.fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss 3. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.en.html#content 4. http://www.fsfe.org/index.en.html 5. http://www.fsfe.org/about/about.en.html 6. http://www.fsfe.org/projects/work.en.html 7. http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html 8. http://www.fsfe.org/donate/donate.en.html 9. http://www.fsfe.org/order/order.en.html 10. http://www.fsfe.org/press/press.en.html 11. http://www.fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html 12. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/ 13. http://wiki.fsfe.org/ 14. http://planet.fsfe.org/ 15. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 18. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/about 19. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders 20. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.de.html 21. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.es.html 22. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.fr.html 23. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.it.html 24. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.pt.html 25. http://www.fsfe.org/events/SFD-2010.en.html 26. http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100907-01.en.html 27. http://www.fsfe.org/projects/os/ps.en.html 28. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/?p=391 29. http://www.yacy.net/ 30. http://www.fsfe.org/events/fscons-2010.en.html 31. http://www.fsfe.org/freesoftware/society/democracy.en.html 32. http://www.pdfreaders.org/ 33. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.en.html 34. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html 35. http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.en.html 36. http://blogs.fsfe.org/maelle/?p=60 37. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.en.html#top 38. http://www.fsfe.org/index.en.html 39. http://www.fsfe.org/source/news/nl/nl-201010.en.xhtml 40. http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/translators/index.en.html 41. http://www.fsfe.org/about/fsfnetwork.en.html 42. http://www.fsf.org/ 43. http://www.fsf.org.in/ 44. http://www.fsfla.org/ -- Free Software Foundation Europe <http://www.fsfe.org> FSFE News <http://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <http://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <http://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> _______________________________________________ Press-release-sv mailing list Press-release-sv(a)fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/press-release-sv

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