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[Fsfe-se] [FSFE PR][SV] Document Freedom Day 2012: Activists around the world celebrate Open Standards
by press＠fsfeurope.org 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

= Document Freedom Day 2012: Activists around the world celebrate Open Standards = [Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120328-02.sv.html ] Free Software advocates worldwide are today celebrating information accessibility and Open Standards. 48 events in 17 countries are using demonstrations, talks and workshops to explain why Open Standards[1]and Free Software are crucial to a free and competitive information society. 1. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/os.sv.html A network of 34 international partner organisations[2]are carrying this message to new audiences, from Cairo to Argentina, Poland to Taiwan, and the European Parliament[3]to Aberystwyth University. 2. http://documentfreedom.org/partners.html 3. http://erikjosefsson.eu/sites/default/files/global_dfd_invite.html "The growth of support for Document Freedom Day[4]shows growing demand for accessible formats and unprejudiced standards" says Campaign Coordinator Matthias Kirschner. "Citizens, businesses, and politicians alike are calling for adoption of fairer and more compatible international standards". Prizes are being awarded this year by Document Freedom Day teams in Germany[5], Italy[6], Slovakia and Poland[7], to businesses and government offices which have recently adopted Open Standards within their organisations. 4. http://documentfreedom.org 5. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120328-01.sv.html 6. http://www.dfd-arezzo.tk/ 7. http://www.linux.org.pl/news/kontener-na-newsy-i-eventy/document-freedom-%2… Open Standards are a common language, publicly documented, that computer programs can speak. They are central to interoperability and freedom of choice in technology. Open Standards allow Free Software developers to create programs that can interoperate with other solutions, so users can migrate away from proprietary solutions. "Fresh support from celebrities like Stephen Fry[8], and major community groups such as Open Rights Group have introduced Open Standards to new groups this year" said Deputy Campaign Coordinator, Sam Tuke. "We are delighted by the response we have received, and the additional political impact Document Freedom Day has achieved". 8. http://documentfreedom.org/testimonials.html#quote-fry Document Freedom Day 2012 is facilitated by the Free Software Foundation Europe, and supported by campaign patrons[9]Google and Oracle. 9. http://documentfreedom.org/sponsors.en.html == 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/ == 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 freedom and choice in software; ensuring the freedom to access data, and the freedom to build Free Software to read and write information. Started in 2008, the campaign has resulted in hundreds of events worldwide, and this year will take place on March 28th. This year 28 partners are supporting DFD. http://documentfreedom.org Contact: Matthias Kirschner, Free Software Foundation Europe, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290, m +49-1577-1780003 _______________________________________________ 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] FSFE Newsletter - March 2012
by press＠fsfeurope.org 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

= FSFE Newsletter - March 2012 = [Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201203.en.html ] == Subway information screen: Good or bad? == "7500 dead people in the last year, daily up to 100." That is what your editor read on the subway news screen in Berlin. While discussing with DFD volunteer Julia Fuchs[1]what is wrong -- your editors reading skills, his basic mathematical skills, or the news agency -- something else popped up: our FreeYourAndroid.org campaign[2]! Unfortunately your editor was too slow to make a picture of that. But as the German news agency DPA covered the official campaign start[3], we had a very good press coverage, so a lot of people read about how you can use Free Software on mobile phones. The campaign manager Torsten Grote is currently gathering all the press coverage, please send news and blog stories about #FreeYourAndroid to press[4] fsfeurope.org[5]. 1. http://documentfreedom.org/contact.en.html 2. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.en.html 3. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120228-01.en.html 4. mailto:press@fsfeurope.org 5. mailto:press@fsfeurope.org == The Why in Free SoftWare! == On February 14th many people in the Free Software community celebrated the"I love Free Software day"[6]. You can read the full report with nice pictures[7]. In case you sometimes feel frustrated or demotivated in future, you can read why others love Free Software[8]. Here is one love declaration by Dr. Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian Project Leader, Scientist and Free Software Developer: 6. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/ilovefs.en.html 7. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120223-01.en.html 8. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/whylovefs.en.html "I love Free Software because we depend more and more upon software, in every moment of our lives. It is software that handles our email and social network activities when we communicate; it is software that controls our ovens and fridges when to prepare our meals; it is software that drives cars and airplanes when we travel around the world; it is software that keeps many of us alive when we need hospital equipment or bio-medical devices like pacemakers. A world without Free Software means being held hostage by proprietary software authors that run our lives. I love Free Software because it can set us free." == More motivation: FOSDEM! == If you still need more motivation for writing, documenting, or promoting Free Software, you probably have not been at FOSDEM. This event is always a challenge for FSFE's team but also one of the events which increases our motivation[9]. Long talks with other Free Software activists from all over the world, answering questions about our current work[10]and our campaigns[11], making sure all people who want a FSFE T-shirt[12]get one, coordinating work with Fellowship groups[13]all over Europe, and having some time to socialise (=drinking Belgium beer). Beside that in the Legal and Policy Issue DevRoom Hugo Roy participated in a panel discussion about application stores[14], and our sister organisation's Executive Director John Sullivan gave a talk entitled "Is Copyleft Being Framed?", which is also discussed in the current FaiF OggCast[15]. 9. http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=263 10. http://fsfe.org/projects/work.en.html 11. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/campaigns.en.html 12. http://fsfe.org/order/order.en.html 13. http://wiki.fsfe.org/CategoryFellowshipGroup 14. http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2012/02/fosdem-2012-panel-on-application-stores/ 15. http://faif.us/cast/2012/feb/28/0x23/ == Comics and Free Software == When you see computers attached to human brains, makerbots scanning your body, creating perfectly fitting clothes for you (unless they are on drugs), you realise that Free Software will be even more important in future. At the moment this stuff happens e.g. in Transmetropolitan[16], one of your editor's favourite comics. Lots of comic-related things have happened during the last weeks: Fellow Thomas Leske started translating the web comic Mimi and Eunice into German, read e.g."A World Without Poop"[17]( or the German version[18]) connected with the article"Did You Say 'Intellectual Property'? It's a Seductive Mirage" by Richard Stallman[19]; there was a good"Faceboogle Comic" on distributed systems[20]; our sister FSF is starting a webcomic contest about Restricted Boot[21]; and at the time of writing this our intern Erik ordered 5000 "Join the Fellowship" comic version leaflets[22]. 16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmetropolitan 17. http://mimiandeunice.com/2010/07/31/a-world-without-poop/ 18. http://mimiandeunice.minimalstaat.de/content/eine-welt-ohne-h%C3%A4ufchen 19. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html 20. http://my.pages.de/dsn-vn/ 21. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/enter-the-restricted-boot-comic-contest… 22. http://download.fsfe.org/advocacy/leaflets/fellowship-leaflet-nyr2.en.pdf == Something completely different == - Last minute inclusion: Congratulations to Nikos Roussos[23]who is the winner of the Fellowship election 2012. The election results are available on the voting platform[24], more information on this will f*e*llow soon. - "When elephants dance, the smaller wildlife gets crushed." Read our press release"Google/Motorola deals create balance of terror on software patents"[25]to find out why our president talks about animals. - We asked you to join the ACTA protests[26], like your editor several Fellows joined the protests[27], and it was also a topic on FSFE's planet aggregation[28], like Karsten's"ACTA, First, do no harm"[29]blog entry. - Our Fellows continuously update the Windows Tax Refund wiki page[30]. Now it also covers the new decision by a French court[31], according to which Lenovo has to pay 1920 for forcing French laptop buyer to pay for Windows operating system. - As an organisation which depends on donations[32]FSFE felt honored and happy to receive the Mozilla grant[33]. Thanks a lot to Mozilla for this support. - FSF announced they will work on"JavaScript License Web Labels"[34], so it will be easier for you in future to only allow Free Software JavaScript code running in your browser. - A selection from the Fellowship planet aggregation[35]:Can you imagine: being prevented from copy-pasting something from a webpage! Unethical HTML5 content-restriction proposal (aka DRM)[36]. - Heiki is asking you to give him quotes[37]so our web team[38]can use them to pimp our website. - Find out what Mark Lindhout, the author of new Fellowship blog theme pome,[39]suggests to do with politicians who refuse to gain a basic understanding of the mechanisms they try to mandate[40]. - Matija uklje wrote about"We, the Web kids[41] faith restored in our youth"[42]. - And we have Hugo Roy's article"Free Software v. Open Source community?"[43], which -- like all the other topics -- you can discuss on our public mailing lists <http://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html>. 23. http://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipElection_2012 24. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_491367a42… 25. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120214.01.en.html 26. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120210-01.en.html 27. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fast_edi/?p=279 28. http://planet.fsfe.org 29. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/03/01/acta-first-do-no-harm/ 30. http://wiki.fsfe.org/WindowsTaxRefund 31. http://www.techworld.com.au/article/414500/lenovo_ordered_pay_1920_making_f… 32. http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.en.html 33. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120204-01.en.html 34. https://www.fsf.org/news/announcing-js-labels 35. http://planet.fsfe.org 36. http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2012/02/%E2%80%9Cunethical%E2%80%9D-html5-conten… 37. http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2012/02/13/call-for-fsfe-fellowshi… 38. http://fsfe.org/contribute/web/web.en.html 39. http://blogs.fsfe.org/blog/2012/02/05/new-blog-theme-pome/ 40. http://blogs.fsfe.org/marklindhout/2012/02/the-threat-of-digital-incompeten… 41. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/256 42. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/256 43. http://blog.hugoroy.eu/2012/02/23/free-software-v-open-source-community/ - == Get Active: Be like the European Commission! == While Open Standards are threatened in the UK[44], we are working hard[45]to counter such relapses. The latest success is that the European Commission confirmed to take part in the DFD event in Brussels[46]. 44. http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/01/microsoft-hustled… 45. http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=309 46. http://erikjosefsson.eu/sites/default/files/global_dfd_invite.html In this regard we ask you to be like the EC: join DFD 2012 activities[47]. In the next days we will have the official call for activities, but you can already write the campaign team an e-mail[48]to get your activity on the website. If you still need inspirations for your own event take a look at proposed activities[49]. 47. http://documentfreedom.org/2012/events/events.en.html 48. http://documentfreedom.org/contact.en.html 49. http://documentfreedom.org/getinvolved.en.html Thanks to all the Fellows[50]and donors[51]who enable our work, 50. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 51. donate/thankgnus.en.html Matthias Kirschner- FSFE _______________________________________________ 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] [PR] Nortel/Rockstar, Google/Motorola deals create balance of terror on software patents
by press＠fsfeurope.org 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

=== Nortel/Rockstar, Google/Motorola deals create balance of terror on software patents=== [Read Online: http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120214.01.en.html] On Monday, the US Department of Justice approved the sale of Nortel's patent portfolio to a consortium led by Apple and Microsoft. At the same time, the DOJ and the European Commission allowed Google to buy Motorola Mobility, thus giving the search company a sizable patent portfolio. "We appreciate that competition authorities in the US and Europe continue to take software patents seriously as a risk to competition," says Karsten Gerloff, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe. "However, we believe that the commitments made by Google, Microsoft and Apple regarding their patent licensing policies are not sufficient to allow everyone to compete on equal terms." The terms of those commitments do nothing to ensure that the software patents in the portfolios in question can be implemented in Free Software. While Microsoft has said that it will not seek injunctions against companies using its standard-essential patents, this policy merely restates the commitments Microsoft has already made to standards organisations. Microsoft will only license its patents on so-called "RAND" terms (short for "reasonable and non-discriminatory"). These typically require the company that implements the patents to pay a licensing fee per unit. Despite their name, such conditions are largely incompatible with Free Software based on Open Standards [1], standards which can be implemented by anyone in any business or software model. This means that Microsoft remains free to use its patents to block or harm some of its most important Free Software competitors, such as the GNU/Linux operating system and the LibreOffice productivity suite. "By greenlighting both the Google and Nortel transactions, the DOJ has merely created a balance of terror where patents are concerned," says Gerloff. "Small companies and individual software developers don't have the deep pockets required to play the patent litigation game. They will suffer as a result of this deal, along with the shareholders of Google, Microsoft and Apple. When elephants dance, the smaller wildlife gets crushed." FSFE submitted a comprehensive statement of concern to the US Department of Justice in September 2011. [2] Links: [1] http://fsfe.org/projects/os/def.html [2] http://fsfe.org/projects/swpat/nortel.en.html == Contact: == Karsten Gerloff President of the Free Software Foundation Europe E-Mail: gerloff AT fsfe DOT org Phone: +49 176 9690 4298 == 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] [FSFE PR][SV] FSFE Newsletter - February 2012
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

FSFE Newsletter - February 2012 Reclaim your smartphone! Smartphones are small computers that we carry around all the time. Unfortunately, most smartphones are not controlled by us, the users, but by the manufacturers and the operators. Even Android phones are being shipped with non-free software and proprietary add-ons that usually do not work in the full interest of us. Software updates will only keep to be available if the manufacturer still has a commercial interest in your device. The applications available from the official market are most of the time non-free. Nobody is allowed to study how they work and what they really do on your phone. Sometimes they do not work exactly as you want, but sometimes they might even contain malicious features. Running only Free Software on your device puts you in full control. Even though you might not be able to directly exercise all of your freedoms, you will benefit from a vibrant community that can do it together. FSFE [1]is collecting information about running an Android system as free as possible. We try to coordinate the different efforts, but we need your help with it. Join our mailing list, update the wiki and thereby enable more people to use Free Software on their everyday computers. Lesson 1: Learn how to programme! Our [2]education team has done [3]solid work in 2011, including our [4]NL edu campaign. Free Software permits children to learn how software works and thus to understand the concepts underlying a whole category or type of software. They are then prepared to adapt to any environment, which is a key skill nowadays. In addition, we believe that the possibility to tinker does motivate children easily to learn autonomously. Finally, Free Software allows them to understand computers in a more depth. Sam Tuke was [5]asked by the BBC to comment about suggestions that the British Government may add basic programming skills to the national curriculum, and whether this would have a political impact on society in terms of how we interact with technology. The education team will have a brief meeting at the upcoming FOSDEM, at the 4th and 5th of February. You are welcome to join. Already plans for 28th of March? Open Standards make it easier for individuals, companies and the public administration to switch to Free Software. The goal of the[6]Document Freedom Day is to raise awareness for Open Standards so people have more freedom. This year your editor is in charge of DFD and he will bluntly promote it in this and upcoming newsletters. At the moment, please save the date 28th of March, [7]send our country teams nominations for the Document Freedom Award, help us to gather information for our [8]Standards Quartet, find [9]street artists to promote the idea of Open Standards, and [10]contact the DFD team if you want to [11]become a supporting organisation. Something completely different * Time to vote: The [12]2012 Fellowship election is running until the end of February. As Fellow you can decide between [13]Albert Dengg, Gert Seidl, and Nikos Roussos. On 22nd February we plan to have a chat meeting with the candidates. * Slovak Copyright Act: [14]FSFE intern Martin Husovec [15]sent letters to four members of Slovak Parliament that proposed a highly awaited amendment, but later faced its dismissal due to preliminary elections. * Heiki Ojasild joined the Free Software Foundation Europe in 2011, undertaking the task of translating fsfe.org into Estonian. He is currently developing an XChat add-on, a website for free SVG and JavaScript games, and asked [16]Estonian politicians questions about Free Software. Read more in [17]this month's Fellowship interview about copyright, Digital Restrictions Management, kopimism, and activism. * Richard Stallman's new article [18]"Measures Governments Can Use to Promote Free Software" is out. * Two new editions of the [19]legal news cover the US Supreme Court decision on copyright extension, patent inflation, the[20]release of the Mozilla Public License version 2.0 which is GNU GPL-compatible, and more. * During the January 18th protest against SOPA, we blacked out our website joining other organisations to protect the Internet. * Here a selection from the [21]Fellowship planet aggregation: + The new FSFE Fellowship blog theme â€” a name, a first version. [22]Presenting: Pome 1.0. + Interested why Thomas Koch suggests you should [23]stop coding for money? + You should demand Free Software in a business context became it [24]makes sense and saves a lot of money, says Jelle Hermsen. + [25]Fellow No1 tells us how much 57 persons in Rwanda can eat while hacking on Free Software + What is the "web trap"? [26]Heiki Ojasild argued to treat HTML, SVG and CSS as tools that should be as accessible to everyone as software in general should be. + And a nice hardware hack: [27]Computer startup aid using a LEGO train. Get active: More love reports instead of bug reports! Let us admit it, the Free Software community is often very critical. We write bug reports, tell others how they can improve the software, ask them for new features, and to not spare with criticism. Sometimes we forget to say "thank you, for all your work". As in the last years, we want to change this, at least for one day. So on Tuesday the 14th of February we will celebrate the [28]"I love Free Software" - Day. Get active, buy your favourite developer a drink or give them a hug (ask for permission first), write an [29]e-mail/letter expressing your feelings, create nice pictures, donate to a Free Software initiative, use another [30]of our suggestions or be create yourself to show how you appreciate people, working hard to enlarge or defend our freedom. Beside that help us to promote the activity with [31]our banners, by e-mail, (micro)blog or in your (distributed?) social networks. New this year is a [32]whole day event in the Unperfekthaus in Essen (Germany) and that all our Fellows automatically get an login(a)ilovefs.org e-mail alias. Thanks to all the [33]Fellows and [34]donors who enable our work, [35]Matthias Kirschner - [36]FSFE References 1. http://wiki.fsfe.org/Android 2. http://fsfe.org/projects/education/education.html 3. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2012/01/edu-team-2011-summary/ 4. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/nledu/nledu.html 5. http://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=255 6. http://documentfreedom.org/ 7. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120110-02.html 8. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=881 9. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120130-01.html 10. http://documentfreedom.org/contact.html 11. http://documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120127-01.html 12. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120131-01.html 13. http://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipElection_2012 14. http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.html 15. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120110-01.html 16. http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2012/01/10/estonian-political-land… 17. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=521 18. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/government-free-software.html 19. http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120126-01.html 20. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/mpl-2.0-release 21. http://planet.fsfe.org/ 22. http://blogs.fsfe.org/marklindhout/2012/01/the-fsfe-blog-theme-%E2%80%94-a-… 23. http://koch.ro/blog/index.php?/archives/154-Stop-coding-for-money.html 24. http://blogs.fsfe.org/jelle/2012/01/09/demanding-free-software-in-a-busines… 25. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=167 26. http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2012/01/04/the-web-trap/ 27. http://fl0rian.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/computer-startup-aid-using-a-lego-t… 28. http://ilovefs.org/ 29. http://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2012/01/18/why-i-love-free-and-open-sourc… 30. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/ilovefs.html 31. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/banners.html 32. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/unperfekthaus.html 33. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 34. http://fsfe.org/home/alessandro/Documents/donate/thankgnus.html 35. http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner 36. http://www.fsfe.org/ 37. http://fsfe.org/index.html 38. http://fsfe.org/news/news.rss 39. http://fsfe.org/events/events.rss 40. http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml 41. http://fsfe.org/contact/community.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] Extraordinarie Fellowshipmöte torsdag 26/1
by Stian Rødven Eide 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hej alla, Nästa vecka får Fellowship i Göteborg besök av FSFE:s Fellowship Coordinator Matthias Kirschner. I samband med detta flyttar vi årets första Fellowship-möte från 2:e februari till torsdagen den 26:e januari. Jag hoppas det är många av er som har möjlighet att komma denna dagen. Vi bjuder på kaffe, te och kanske även en tårta. Svara gärna till mig så att vi vet hur många som kommer. Om det finns intresse kan vi ta en liten tur på krogen efter mötet. Märk att på grund av ombyggnad i Gnutiken kommer mötet äga rum på konferensrummet. Tidpunkten för mötet blir som vanligt klockan 18:00. Välkomna! /Stian

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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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