fsfe-se November 2011

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[Fsfe-se] Fellowshipmöte imorgon torsdag
by Stian Rødven Eide 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

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[Fsfe-se] [FSFE PR][SV] Svensk aktivist erhåller Nordic Free Software Award 2011
by Free Software Foundation Europe 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

= Svensk aktivist erhåller Nordic Free Software Award 2011 = [ http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20111114-01.sv.html ] Erik Josefsson är mottagare av the Nordic Free Software Award 2011. Med utmärkelsen uppmärksammar Föreningen Fri Kultur och Programvara (FFKP) Josefsson för hans insatser i kampanjen för frihet i infomationssamhället. "Det är en glädje för oss att få uppmärksamma Erik för det oerhört viktiga arbete han har utfört under de senaste 10 åren", säger FFKP:s vice direktör Jonas Öberg. "Erik har en exceptionell förmåga att förstå och förklara sambandet mellan teknik och politik. Vi är oerhört tacksamma för hans insats. Hans arbete inspirerar oss alla." Från en karriär som professionell basviolinist har Josefsson gradvis gått över till att bli heltidsaktivist för frihet i informationssamhället. Han grundade den svenska grenen av Föreningen för en Fri Informationsinfrastruktur (FFII) år 2004. Året därefter listades han som en av Sveriges 30 främsta makthavare inom teknik, i samband med den stora debatten om patent på mjukvara inom EU. Josefsson räknas som en av de främsta försvararna av fri programvara i Europa. Som aktivist i Bryssel 2005, hade Josefsson en nyckelroll i att få EU-parlamentet att förkasta förslaget till direktiv om patent på programvara. I fjol hade han en lika viktig roll i att förhindra lagstiftning som skulle stänga av människor från Internet utan föregående juridisk prövning. För närvarande bekämpar han en ratificering av ACTA-fördraget. [1] Josefsson är för närvarande anställd av den Gröna gruppen i EU-parlamentet, som rådgivare i internetfrågor. Han arbetar på att bygga upp verktyg, som t.ex. ParlTrack [2], som gör parlamentets arbete mer transparent för unionens medborgare. "Det är en källa till verklig makt", says Henrik Sandklef, vice ordförande i Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) [3]. "Att förstå hur parlamentet arbetar och kunna påverka vid rätt tid i processen är oerhört viktigt om rörelsen för fri programvara ska få något inflytande alls. Erik är oerhört duktig på att förklara filosofin bakom fri programvara för politiker, och på att hjälpa frihetsaktivister att förstå maktstrukturen inom EU." Varje år sedan 2007 har FFKP [4] delat ut Nordic Free Software Award för att uppmärksamma och belöna personer, projekt och organisationer i de Nordiska länderna, som har gjort betydande bidrag till framsteg inom Fri Programvara. Tidigare mottagre har varit Bjarní Runar Einarsson (2010), Simon Josefsson och Daniel Stenberg (2009), Mats Östling (2008), samt Skolelinuxprojektet (2007). 1. http://en.act-on-acta.eu/ 2. http://parltrack.euwiki.org/ 3. http://fsfe.org 4. http://ffkp.se == Press contact == Jonas Öberg Executive Director, FFKP Email: jonas(a)ffkp.se Phone: +46 31 780 21 61 = Om Free Software Europe = Free Software Foundation Europe (FSF Europe) är en icke-statligt organisation hängiven alla aspekter inom Fri Programvara i Europa. Tillgång till programvara bestämmer vem som får delta i ett digitalt samhälle. Friheterna att använda, kopiera, modifiera och vidaredistribuera programvara - som beskrivs i definitionen av Fri Programvara - gör att all kan deltaga på lika villkor i informationsåldern. Att skapa medvetenhet kring dessa frågor, att säkerställa Fri Programvara politiskt och juridiskt samt att ge människor frihet genom att stödja utvecklingen av Fri Programvara är centrala frågor för FSF Europe, vilken grundades 2001 som den europeiska systerorganisationen till Free Software Foundation i USA. http://www.fsfe.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] [FSFE PR][SV] Swedish activist receives Nordic Free Software Award 2011
by Free Software Foundation Europe 14 Nov '11

14 Nov '11

= Swedish activist receives Nordic Free Software Award 2011 = [Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20111114-01.en.html ] Erik Josefsson is the winner of the Nordic Free Software Award 2011. With the award, the Swedish Foundation for Free Culture and Free Software (FFKP) honours Josefsson for his achievements as a campaigner for freedom in the information society. "We are proud to honour Erik for the tremendously important work he has done over the past ten years", says FFKP [1] Executive Director Jonas Öberg. "Erik has an exceptional ability to understand and explain the link between policy and technology. We are hugely grateful for his work. He is an inspiration to all of us." From a career as a professional double-bass player, Josefsson gradually moved to full-time activism for freedom in the information society. He founded the Swedish Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII Sweden) in 2004. Listed among Sweden's 30 most influential people during the European debate about software patents in 2005, Josefsson is among Europe's foremost defenders of software freedom. As an activist in Brussels, Josefsson was instrumental in getting the European Parliament to reject the Software Patent Directive in 2005. More recently, he prevented the EU from passing a law to cut off people's Internet access without due process, and is currently campaigning against ACTA. [1] Josefsson currently works as an adviser on Internet policies for the Green/EFA Group in the European Parliament. He is busy building tools such as ParlTrack [2] that make the Parliament's processes transparent to citizens. "This information holds real power", says Henrik Sandklef, Vice President of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). [3] "Understanding how the Parliament works is very important for the Free Software movement. Erik does a great job of explaining software freedom to politicians, and helping freedom campaigners to understand Europe's power structure." Every year since 2007, FFKP [4] has used the Nordic Free Software Award to honour people, projects and organisations in the Nordic countries that have made a prominent contribution to the advancement of Free Software. Previous winners of the award are Bjarní Runar Einarsson (2010), Simon Josefsson and Daniel Stenberg (2009), Mats Östling (2008), and the Skolelinux project (2007). 1. http://en.act-on-acta.eu/ 2. http://parltrack.euwiki.org/ 3. http://fsfe.org 4. http://ffkp.se == Press contact == Jonas Öberg Executive Director, FFKP Email: jonas(a)ffkp.se Phone: +46 31 780 21 61 == 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/ _______________________________________________ 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] Sökes en soffa eller liknande under FSCONS
by Henrik Nordström 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Kört ihop sig lite med boendet för mitt FSCONS besök. och undrar om det är någon annan fellow som har en ledig soffa eller liknande i närheten av Göteborg fredag-måndag? En annan fråga är var är fellowship mötet på fredag? Mvh Henrik Nordström Stockholm

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[Fsfe-se] [FSFE PR][SV] FSFE Newsletter - November 2011
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

= FSFE Newsletter - November 2011 = [Read Online : http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201111.en.html ] == WWW would have been better if it was patented == How long should copyright last? Should living beings or software be patentable? The World Intellectual Property Organisation deals with this sort of questions. Since 2004, we are involved in the WIPO to make sure they do not harm Free Software. Our most important demand is that when it comes to copyright and patents, the benefits should be weighed against the costs. The new Director General Francis Gurry's said that the World Wide Web would have been better if it was patented. This shows us that the current trend is in the opposite direction. Read more about this in Karsten's article WIPO sliding back into the Dark Ages?[1], our WIPO dossier[2], and support the Geneva Declaration[3]. 1. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2011/10/24/wipo-sliding-back-into-the-dark-ag… 2. http://fsfe.org/projects/wipo/wipo.de.html 3. http://fsfe.org/projects/wipo/wiwo.de.html == Daily business - step by step == Why do FSFE so frequently give interviews and talks, and travel to promote FSFE issues? Our mission is to promote freedom in emerging digital society. So as you can see on our events page[4]it is part of our daily business to travel around, give talks, interviews, and organise events. Paul Boddie improved our Fellowship event calendar[5]which now integrates GriCal. This way you can subscribe to the calendar. If you are already subscribed to the the event's RSS feed <http://fsfe.org/events/events.de.rss>or the Ical feed[6]you can skip the next paragraph. 4. http://fsfe.org/events/events.de.html 5. http://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=54 6. webcal://fsfe.org/events/events.en.ics So for example in October Karsten and Matija gave talks at LinuxCon Europe in Prague, Sam gave a speech at the DIY Feminist Festival in Manchester[7], our UK team had a booth at FLOSS UK Unconference 2011 in Manchester, your editor gave a talk about "10 misunderstandings about Free Software (or are they lies?)" at the technical university in Berlin, our Austrian coordinator Peter Bubestinger gave a talk "Free Software and Open Formats: virtual immortality and independence for digital archives" at the National Library in Vienna, and our French coordinator Hugo Roy organised a talk on "A Free Digital Society" by Richard Stallman[8]. 7. http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=215 8. http://www.libertesnumeriques.net/evenements/stallman-19octobre2011?lang=en On the interview front: Karsten gave a radio interview about our work at WIPO[9], Hugo an interview to the French GNU Linux Magazine Essentiel, your editor to the German newspaper TAZ about Secure boot[10]. 9. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2011/10/24/wipo-sliding-back-into-the-dark-ag… 10. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=845 == Something completely different == - Rikard Fröberg works at The Society for Free Culture and Software[11], and contributes this year to the FSCONS[12]organisation and thereby supporting our Free Software in Politics track[13]. In the October Fellowship Interview[14]he considers the importance of having an active and engaged community of users. - Free Software from a human rights angle. Instead of just saying good- bye after the end of his internship, Diego wrote us a nice article as a gift:"Free Software social networks for social change"[15]. - A selection of interesting blog entries from our planet aggregation[16]:Denmark - Portugal 4:5. The regular qualification for the EURO2012 in Free Software are over. Which country has good Free Software and Open Standard practices? Guido Arnold looked at this[17]. (Even though they were not able to win against Belgium, your editor is happy that Germany qualified. It is difficult to compete against teams with such good players as FOSDEM[18].) - New government in Denmark, read what new opportunities Fellow Carsten Agger sees[19]. - Converting letters into e-mails? Working on our PDFreaders campaign[20], Sam received letters from public administrations and had to forward them to our mailing list. So he took this opportunity to write about Easy OCR on GNU/Linux with gImageReader"[21]. - The first 100 customers matter! Writes Georg Greve in his article about an Open climate for entrepreneurs in Europe[22]. Read more about Research and Development programmes, Silicon Valley, and software patents. - UnRAR in freedom: Thanks to The Unarchiver initiative, we are now able to extract recent rar files completely with Free Software[23]. - When is a bug report useful?[24]Read the article, and file about to this month newsletter. - KDE became 15 Years in October. Paul Adams wondered how that does look like[25]. 11. https://ffkp.se/ 12. http://fscons.org/ 13. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=840 14. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=446 15. http://blogs.fsfe.org/diegojavier/2011/10/10/free-software-social-networks-… 16. http://planet.fsfe.org 17. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2011/10/euro2012-in-free-software-regular-quali… 18. http://www.fosdem.org 19. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2011/10/01/denmark-new-government-new-opportun… 20. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.de.html 21. http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=227 22. http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=455 23. http://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2011/10/14/unrar-in-freedom/ 24. http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2011/10/when-is-a-bug-report-useful 25. http://blogs.fsfe.org/padams/?p=251 - == Get Active: Document Freedom Day - Let's get ready to rumble == Coordination for next years Document Freedom Day[26]is starting. Your editor is responsible for next years international coordination, and shamelessly asks you to join the team, subscribe to our mailinglist[27], give input about the last year, help with campaign planing, taking care of coordination events in a certain country, taking care with the communication with partners, help with the organisation of events for next year, help with setting up the new website, writting texts, translate them, help with designing t-shirts and other promotion materials, or if you do not have time, make a donation[28]to support us in this activity. 26. http://documentfreedom.org 27. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/df-coordination 28. http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.en.html Thanks to all the Fellows[29]and donors[30]who enable our work, 29. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 30. donate/thankgnus.de.html Matthias Kirschner- FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <http://fsfe.org> FSFE News <http://fsfe.org/news/news.de.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <http://fsfe.org/events/events.de.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <http://fsfe.org/contact/community.de.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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[Fsfe-se] Invitation to Fellowship meeting Nov 11 in Gothenburg (FSCONS)
by Henrik Sandklef 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hello You're invited to the Fellowship[1] meeting Nov 11 in Gothenburg. The invitation is for everyone. On 11.11.2011, from 10:00 to 18:45, we will have a Fellowship meeting in Gotenburg, Sweden. Help us with your ideas, get some stuff done, and give us feedback. From Friday November 11th through Sunday November 13th the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS) will take place in Gothenburg. The conference is organised by FSFE’s Swedish team, and I am organising a track for FSFE titled “Free Software in Politics where we try to provide you a good overview on Worldwide Free Software policy (Fellows will get a discount of 10 EUR on the FSCONS standard rate, contact me for the discount code). Here is the preliminary agenda: Agenda: ----------------------------------- 10:00 – 10:15: Greeting 10:15 – 11:15: Preparing activities for I love Free Software 11:30 – 12:30: Preparing activities for Document Freedom Day 12:45 – 14:00: Lunch break 14:00 – 17:00: PDFreaders sprint 17:15 – 18:45: “How FSFE can suck less!” For more info: http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=836 [1] http://fellowship.fsfe.org/

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[Fsfe-se] FSFE Fellowship @ FSCONS & Stallman @ Runan
by Stian Rødven Eide 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hej alla, FSFE skall ha en stand/booth både på FSCONS (11-13 november) och på Richard Stallmans föredrag i Runan på Chalmers den 10:e november. Vi behöver hjälp av er att bemanna dessa. Hör av dig om du har möjlighet! bästa hälsningar, Stian

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[Fsfe-se] Fellowship-möte på torsdag
by Stian Rødven Eide 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hej alla, Jag påminner om månadens Fellowship-träff nu på torsdag. Som vanligt möts vi i Gnutiken klockan 18.00. Det blir genomgång av sociala plattformen Diaspora och prat om bland annat FSCONS. Vi ses! bästa hälsningar, Stian

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