Hoj,
če bo kdo na CCC, bo tam FSFE imel svoje assembly ☺
lp,
hook
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In rem: FSFE assembly during 31C3
Die et hora: 02. 12. 14 17.52.07
Scripsit: Erik Albers <eal(a)fsfe.org>
Ad: coordinators(a)lists.fsfe.org
Dear coordinators,
soon and once again will be Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg [1], from
December 27-30. This year, the FSFE will have an assembly [2] and we are happy
to invite you and your friends to pass by, get to know us or join our
activities. Details are not yet fixed, but you will find updates on the above
mentioned wiki-page. BTW: You will find us in the "noisy square" along with
other digital civil rights organisations like EDRi, Wauland, WeFixTheNet etc.
We are also looking for help by guys like you to give our assembly spirit,
live and attraction. If you like to offer a workshop, you like to represent
the booth or anything else you have in mind, then please (temporarily) join
our FSFE Hamburg-mailinglist or contribute in the pad:
https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/assembly31c3
(also easy to use for just putting your idea there)
I am looking forward to everyone that I get to know these days, as a visitor
or a helper.
Any questions? Please, feel free to ask
Best regards,
Erik
[1] http://events.ccc.de/category/31c3/
[2]
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_…
[3] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Assembly:Noisy_Square
[4] https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/hamburg
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In rem: [Correction] FSFE Newsletter November 2014
Die et hora: 11. 11. 14 17.01.47
Scripsit: Fellowship of FSFE <fellowship(a)fsfeurope.org>
Ad: Matija Šuklje <hook(a)fsfe.org>
Dear Fellows,
after the November Newsletter was sent to you, we received a very good
suggestion for the first section. Therefor we decided to rewrite this
part before publishing it. So here the corrected Newsletter, how it was
sent to the public today. The only change is in the first section about
Munich. I hope you enjoy reading it.
All the best,
Matthias
= FSFE Newsletter – November 2014 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201411.en.html ]
== Munich: facts harder than fiction ==
The city of Munich runs Free Software on more than 15.000 workplace
computers and has saved over 11.000.000€ in return[1]. During the
migration to Free Software, they consolidated their heterogeneous IT in
51 places with 1000 IT employees and 22 IT departments. Despite these
challenges most users are happy with the migration and say they do not
want to switch back[2] (in German). And all of this happened in the
front-yard of Microsoft's German headquarters.
If you do not like the success of Free Software in Munich, what could
you do? You could play on emotions and spread rumours that the Munich IT
people are not taking the demands of regular users nor the executive
into account. Of course, you have to stay vague, hoping to bring out a
few of those voices that are always unhappy - but this is an easy way of
discrediting the progress already made. This is what happened in the
last months in Munich with remarks by the new mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD,
Social Democrats) and his vice Josef Schmid (CSU, Christian Democrats).
Some commentators have speculated about a connection to the fact that
Microsoft is now moving its headquarter from Unterschleissheim to
Munich, and Reiter claiming that he helped with this deal[3] (in
German). As Microsoft was the biggest tax payer in Unterschleissheim[4]
(in German), Munich will financially benefit by this move.
But they seem to have underestimated the success of Free Software in
Munich. IT experts from their own political parties raised their voice
to correct them[5] and others have uncovered their misleading
statements[6]. Thus, the comments by the mayors represent only
individual opinions. Munich's political support for GNU/Linux is strong,
and the money the city saves and will continue to save by using
GNU/Linux, LibreOffice/OpenOffice, and the Desktop from KDE counts
profoundly. If Free Software can even survive a smear campaign by the
mayors it shows that it is there to stay. Dear Free Software community:
be proud and spread the word! But do not rest, the next attack will be
more subtle.
== EU wide Open Standards policy ==
But the answer to the inquiry includes another crucial point: the
problem with document formats. The Munich IT managers noted that, at the
beginning of their migration, the German federal states and the federal
government highlighted the importance of Free Software and Open
Standards, but afterwards never consequently went this path.
In Germany, the lack of a clear Open Standard Policy is a major blocker
for public administrations to use Free Software. In recent years, other
European Countries such as Great Britain, France, Italy, and Sweden have
done more to promote Free Software and Open Standards.
On the European level, the former Munich mayor asked the European
Commission to implement two measures to enable participation with Free
Software in EU projects[7]: First to have all document templates which
are available in Microsoft Office formats, also in Open Document Text
(ODT) format. Second that all presenter notebooks in the EU institutions
also have a program installed which can handle Open Document
Presentation (ODP) files. This was in 2011 and the European bodies have
neglected implementing Open Standard policies for a long time.
== Open Standard compliance checks ==
When intuitions decide on Open Standards policies, this is just the
first step. It is important to check this decision and to remind them
about it. In 2010 as a Document Freedom Day activity our Fellows in
Cologne and Bonn checked the German federal administrations after a
decision that they have to be able to receive, edit, and send back
ODF[8]. The FSFE found out that only 2 of 87 departments are conforming
to federal open document regulations. This highlights the importance of
being persistent and monitoring the implementation of such policies.
Check out this month's “Get active” item with a specific suggestion how
you can help with that within a few minutes.
== Something completely different ==
- We are currently looking for interns again, especially in preparation
of Document Freedom Day[9] but we also have general internship
positions open from early January[10]. When Max Mehl saw the news item
he published a summary about his internship with FSFE[11].
- Together with the Italian consumer association ADUC, and the Italian
group ILS, we asked[12] regulators to take concrete steps to protect
Italians from being forced to pay for software they do not want or
need.
- Local activities: Our Vienna group had their most active and
successful Autumn ever. Franz documented how they participated in the
three big events Software Freedom Day, the biggest German speaking
animal rights conference, and the Game City fair 2013[13]. Christian
Kalkhoff from our Munich group gave a presentation about the groups
activities at the GNU Hackers Meeting 2014. The video is now
online[14]. If you want to help with the organisation of the
LibreOffice conference 2015, Carsten Agger is still looking for
assistance, as our Aarhus group will help at the event[15].
- Spoiler alert: The last edition of the education news also mentions
the focus of the upcoming Document Freedom Day 2015[16].
- Public administrations: The German town of Gummersbach announced that
this summer it has completed its switch to GNU/Linux PCs[17],
England's Healthwatch switches to Free Software CiviCRM[18], and a
Free Software solution developed for the government of South Tyrol
(Italy) to automatically test government websites and services is now
also being used to probe sites of the region's tourism sector[19].
- Our sister organisation invites Free Software enthusiasts to the libre
planet conference 2015[20] in the US. Furthermore the nomination for
the 17th annual Free Software Awards is open[21], and you can send
your nominations before Sunday 16 November.
- Matthew Garret wrote a blog post on why he joined FSF's board[22]. But
some of the comments he received are really offensive, and your editor
hopes that Matthew can just ignore them. Related to this, your editor
recommends you reading the article “On the sickness of our
community”[23] by Jonathan Corbet. As always, if you have comments
about it send them to our discussion lists[24].
- From the planet aggregation[25]:
- Computers are entering the fashion field from multiple directions.
Current FSFE intern Michele Marrali wrote about MeshCon 2014, a
conference that connects fashion designer and technology
experts[26].
- André Ockers reports that the Dutch public broadcaster NOS moves
away from open standards[27]
- Matija Šuklje made his first commit to KDE and writes about FSFE's
Fiduciary Licence Agreement[28]
- Daniel Pocock reports positive results from Outreach Program for
Women[29]
- Hugo Roy explains how he wrote a new defensive publication for
ownCloud's file syncing encryption[30].
== Get active: Fix my document - ODF in EU bodies ==
The EU institutions still have a lot to do to remove barriers for Free
Software users. Together with Open Forum Europe (OFE) your editor had a
meeting with the IT responsible of the Commission, the Council, and the
Parliament about that. We discussed our letter on video format[31] and
the campaign “FixMyDocuments.eu”. This campaign was started by OFE to
help EU institutions to implement their decision to support Open
Document Formats[32] FSFE's volunteers already translated the website in
more languages, but now it is time for all of you to act.
We would like you to find EU institutions who offer non-free formats
on their website, without also publishing those documents in ODT, and
then submit them[33].
Furthermore OFE encourages and will support anyone who wants to use the
platform to cover other administrations.
Thanks to all the volunteers[34], Fellows[35] and corporate donors[36]
who enable our work,
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE
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1. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/106341
2. http://www.computerwoche.de/a/wohin-steuert-linux-in-muenchen,3043464,2
3. http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2013-11/reiter-muenchen-spd/komplett…
4. http://www.merkur-online.de/lokales/muenchen-lk-nord/unterschleissheim-umzu…
5. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/munich-city-council-shields…
6. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141016-01.en.html
7. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/prasident-des-deutschen-stadtetags-an-europaische…
8. https://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100803-01.en.html
9. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141017-01.en.html
10. https://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.en.html
11. http://blog.mehl.mx/2014/my-internship-at-fsfe/
12. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141017-02.en.html
13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2014/10/23/three-autumn-events-2014/
14. http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2014/2014-08--kalkhoff--fsfe--ghm.webm
15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/10/22/announcing-the-libreoffice-conferen…
16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/10/free-software-in-education-news-%E2%80…
17. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/105069
18. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/104519
19. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/tyrol-government-shares-tes…
20. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/registration-opens-for-libreplanet-2015
21. https://www.fsf.org/news/the-free-software-foundation-opens-nominations-for…
22. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/33455.html
23. http://lwn.net/Articles/615192/
24. https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html
25. http://planet.fsfe.org
26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/puster/2014/10/14/meshcon-2014/
27. https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2014/10/28/dutch-public-broadcaster-moves-away-fr…
28. http://matija.suklje.name/my-very-first-commit-to-kde
29. http://danielpocock.com/positive-results-from-opw-2013
30. http://hroy.eu/posts/owncloud-encryption-defpub/
31. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140326-02.en.html
32. http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/informatics/oss_tech/pdf/2011-07-25_ares.pdf
33. http://fixmydocuments.eu/?page_id=9
34. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html
35. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
36. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html
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če koga zanima, pomembno je že.
LP
-------------- Posredovano sporočilo --------------
Od: <Natasa.GORSEK(a)ec.europa.eu>
Datum: 10. november 2014 11.44
Zadeva: Vabilo na neformalni pogovor o mednarodnih trgovinskih sporazumih
med EU in partnericami - 20.11.
Za:
Kp: Sasa.GOLOB(a)ec.europa.eu
Spoštovani,
v zadnjem obdobju se tudi v Sloveniji krepi javna razprava o
zunanjetrgovinski politiki Evropske unije, konkretneje o pogajanjih oziroma
prostotrgovinskih sporazumih med državami članicami EU in nekaterimi
ključnimi partnericami, kot sta ZDA (TTIP) in Kanada (CETA), veliko pa je
govora tudi o sporazumu TISA (Sporazum o trgovini s storitvami).
Evropska komisija si želi v posameznih državah članicah Evropske unije
predstaviti pomen in potek pogajanj ter predvsem izmenjavo mnenj in
argumentov različnih deležnikov.
Predstavništvo Evropske komisije v Sloveniji zato vljudno vabi
predstavnika/co vaše organizacije na neformalno srečanje, posvečeno tej
tematiki, z *Lutzom Guellnerjem, namestnikom vodje enote za informacije,
komuniciranje in civilno družbo iz Generalnega direktorata Evropske
komisije za trgovino*.
Srečanje pripravljamo *v četrtek, 20. novembra 2014, med 11.45 in
13.15* v *konferenčni
dvorani Predstavništva Evropske komisije v Sloveniji na Bregu 14 v
Ljubljani*.
Pogovor bo neformalne narave (t.i. off the record) in bo potekal v*
angleščini*. Ker bo dogodek potekal v času kosila, bomo poskrbeli za
sendviče in osvežilno pijačo.
Zaradi lažje organizacije vas vljudno prosim, da *udeležbo vaše/ga
predstavnika/ce potrdite najkasneje do ponedeljka, 17. novembra 2014,* na
elektronski naslov: *sasa.golob(a)ec.europa.eu* <sasa.golob(a)ec.europa.eu>
V upanju, da se boste odzvali našemu vabilu, vas lepo pozdravljam in se
veselim srečanja,
*Nataša Goršek Mencin *Head of Representation / Vodja Predstavništva
*European Commission / Evropska komisija *Representation in Slovenia /
Predstavništvo v Sloveniji
Breg 14, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
tel.: + 386 1 252 88 10
fax.: + 386 1 425 20 85
E-mail: natasa.gorsek(a)ec.europa.eu
*http://ec.europa.eu/slovenija/ * <http://ec.europa.eu/slovenija/>
Spremljajte Evropsko komisijo v Sloveniji na *Facebooku*
<http://www.facebook.com/evropska.komisija>, *Twitterju*
<http://twitter.com/> in *YouTubeu*
<https://www.youtube.com/user/EvropskaKomisijaSI?feature=watch>
Od odgovorov na vsa vprašanja o Evropski uniji vas loči le klic na
brezplačno telefonsko številko *EUROPE DIRECT 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11*. Vsak
državljan lahko iz katerekoli države članice EU brezplačno pokliče na
omenjeno številko ter v svojem jeziku postavi in dobi odgovor na vprašanje
o EU. Storitev je dostopna od ponedeljka do petka med 9.00 in 18.00 uro.
********Disclaimer********
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Hejhoj vsem,
revidiran draft za FSFE-jev mission statement in še uradna prošnja za
komentarje sta spodaj.
Zelo bi nam koristil vsakršen feedback – super hvala ☺
lp,
hook
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In rem: Tell us your views on FSFE's mission statement - until 26 October
Die et hora: 21. 10. 14 08.19.48
Scripsit: Fellowship of FSFE <fellowship(a)fsfeurope.org>
Ad: Matija Šuklje <hook(a)fsfe.org>
Dear Fellows,
many of you have already given us valuable feedback in our last survey
about FSFE's strategy process. Thank you for that!
We have used this feedback to formulate a new mission statement that
better communicates FSFE's goals and purpose. Today, we want to share
this draft with you, and would like to hear what you think of it! Please
help us to sharpen and polish this text into something that is both
immediately understandable and appealing.
You can help us with suggestions for how to improve it, as well as with
a short emotional statement, such as “this is exciting to read” or “this
doesn't feel quite right”.
To send us your comments, simply reply to to this message until 26
October 2014.
## Short version
FSFE works to put people in Europe in charge of the technology they
use by promoting software freedom.
## Long version
Our mission is to empower all people in Europe to use technology for
their benefit. Digital technology deeply affects our lives. FSFE works
to ensure that this technology will benefit all of us in the long
term. For technology to respect human rights, every individual must
be able to make self-determined use of technology. This means that
everyone needs the right to use, to understand, adapt and share
software.
- We encourage people to use and develop Free Software, and work to
strengthen users' rights.
- We help individuals, organisations, and especially the next
generation to understand how software affects them, so they can
determine their own path towards freedom, autonomy, and
self-determination.
- We provide resources to enable a growing base of dedicated persons
and groups throughout Europe to further Free Software. And
- we promote and support all aspects of Free Software throughout
Europe, and act as a hub for others doing the same.
We are very much looking forward to your comments!
With kind regards,
Matthias Kirschner
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Hejhoj,
pišem vam vsem, ker ste vsi zelo relevantni za Free Software in zato pomembni
za FSFE [Free Software Foundation Europe].
Zadnje leto smo v FSFE se trudili, da bi posodobili svoj mission statement in
po več iteracijah, brainstormih in sestankih je delovna skupina prišla do
spodnjega osnutka. Vsakršni komentarji so dobrodošli in jih bomo upoštevali
ter sprejeli končen tekst na skupščini naslednji mesec.
Our mission is to empower all people in Europe in their use of technology.
Digital technology is pervasive and increasingly impacting the course of our
lives. To have technology which respects human rights, everybody must have
the right to self-determined use, to understand, adapt and share software. We
work to abolish barriers to developing and using such software, and to
enhance users' rights.
The FSFE helps the general public, professionals, institutions and the next
generation to understand how software affects them, so they can determine
their own path. We provide resources to enable a growing base of dedicated
persons and groups throughout Europe to further Free Software.
Že vnaprej hvala za komentarje.
lp,
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dogodek bo širši — kot sporazumi — je pa poenostavljeno spet ACTA.
Državljanska pobuda ("eureferendum") ni mogoča, zato gre boj naprej po
ostalih tradicionalnih poteh.
Vabljeni.
-------------- Posredovano sporočilo --------------
Od: Andrej Gnezda <andrej(a)umanotera.org>
Datum: 30. september 2014 15.45
Zadeva: INFO: Vabilo na javno razpravo: Trgovanje s prihodnostjo?
Za: planbzaslovenijo(a)googlegroups.com
Drage članice in člani,
vabim vas, da se udeležite javne razprave o prostotrgovinskih sporazumih
TTIP in CETA, ki jo organizira Umanotera. Vabilo na razpravo z vsemi
podrobnostmi se nahaja v priponki.
Prav tako vas obveščam, da bo 11.10. v sklopu akcije "European day of
action against TTIP, CETA, TISA" tudi v Sloveniji organiziran shod. Več na
http://www.stop-ttip-ceta-tisa.eu/sl/ in https://www.facebook.com/
events/388753461282237/?fref=ts Shod organizira ad hoc ustanovljena
koalicija poimenovana "Proti tajnim sporazumom".
Če želite
- postati članica koalicije in tako javno podpreti shod
- sodelovati pri njegovi izvedbi, pripravi vsebin
- ali bi želeli na shodu kaj sporočiti
lahko sporočite meni. Seznam članic koalicije bo objavljen v kratkem.
Lep pozdrav, Andrej Gnezda!
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In rem: FSFE Newsletter - October 2014
Die et hora: 02. 10. 14 16.54.32
Scripsit: Fellowship of FSFE <fellowship(a)fsfeurope.org>
Ad: Matija Šuklje <hook(a)fsfe.org>
= FSFE Newsletter – October 2014 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201410.en.html ]
== Italian Court supports unbundling of software and hardware ==
When buying a laptop, it can be difficult to avoid paying for a
Microsoft Windows license since many laptops come bundled with one. This
“Windows Tax” has artificially increased hardware prices for Free
Software users who do not want to use Microsoft's operating system. We
as Free Software users want to support the development of Free Software
instead of non-free software like Microsoft Windows.
Since 2008 we maintain a wiki page with advice for consumers who want to
avoid funding the development of non-free software[1], and for over a
decade we talked with politicians and consumer protection organisations
about this topic. Nonetheless, there is only slow progress on the
subject, and it will take years to change this situation in Europe. For
such long term goals, reaching intermediate goals is important. Last
month we had such a victory.
Italy's High Court ruled[2] that a laptop buyer was entitled to receive
a refund for the price of the Microsoft Windows license he was forced to
purchase with his computer. The judges sharply criticised the practice
of selling PCs only together with a non-free operating system as “a
commercial policy of forced distribution”. The court considered this
practice as “monopolistic in tendency”. It also highlighted that the
practice of bundling means that end users are forced to use additional
non-free applications due to compatibility and interoperability issues,
whether they want these programs or not.
Now the Italian authorities have to turn this ruling into a real win for
consumers, by ensuring that computer buyers can choose their device with
any operating system they want, or none. Afterwards we hope that we can
convince other countries in Europe to follow the example set by Italy,
or that we find a European-wide solution to the problem.
== European public administrations using Free Software ==
Often there is a tendency in the media and also from us to concentrate
on the bad news about Free Software usage in the public administration.
In this edition, we will concentrate on good examples from last month
instead. So there are good news concerning Free Software office suites:
The Austria's Bundesrechenzentrum, the federal government-owned
computing centre, praises the wide range of application uses of Apache
OpenOffice[3]. They appreciate that the “solution can be adapted to the
data centre's needs, integrated in its specialist applications and also
allows documents to be created and submitted automatically and semi-
automatically. OpenOffice is the standard office suite at the computing
centre since 2008, installed on 12000 PCs across the organisation.”
Furthermore, the public administrations of the Italian cities Todi
and Terni are switching to LibreOffice[4]. They follow the example of
the Italian province of Perugia, using LibreOffice on all of its 1200
PCs and the Perugia Local Health Authority, which installed the office
suite on 600 PCs.
The French public administration is using a Free Software office suite
on 500,000 desktops[5]. Although they said switching to Free Software
was hard, they were able to handle the problems. The project's success
is partly due to two contracts the ministries has with ICT service
providers. The contracts entail support for 260 Free Software
applications, and the support team ensures that patches made for the
ministries are contributed back to the software projects.
The Greens in Saxony/Germany urge the federal state government to do a
feasibility study on migrating to Free Software[6]. “The political
group, free software users themselves since December 2011, say that
lower IT costs and advantages in IT security should drive public
administrations” to use Free Software. They argue that the dependency on
proprietary software “gives large corporations access to and influence
on official internal workflows, as well as sensitive communication and
data of the state's citizens.”
== Something completely different ==
- Even without the Windows tax mentioned above, you still have to find
out if the computer you want to buy works with Free Software. To
improve the information which hardware is compatible, the FSF and
Debian now cooperate to expand and enhance the hardware database
h-node[7] to help users learn and share information about computers
that work with Free Software operating systems.
- On our English public mailinglist a discussion about good metaphors
for Free Software is currently taking place. Hugo Roy started the
thread[8] with some examples. Alessandro Rubini had some critical
remarks, arguing against the metaphors mentioned[9]. He argues that if
we need a metaphor to explain Free Software to people, we need to
remain in the field of information, of knowledge that can be spread at
no cost. In a recent post Guido Arnold reported good experiences with
using the recipe analogy with children[10].
- On this year's Software Freedom Day several local FSFE groups were
involved: Edgar Hoffmann organised an info booth in front of the
Offenburg town hall, and a mini-community-conference with talks and
our Free Software quiz in the evening[11] (in German, but with lots of
pictures). Dominic Hopf, our Hamburg coordinator, gave a talk at SFD
event in Kiel about F-Droid[12], while Torsten Grote introduced people
to F-Droid at the Berlin SFD event. Also present at this event were
Nermin Canik from Istanbul and your editor to talk with people about
software freedom. Moreover, Michael Stehmann gave a talk about Free
Software and privacy at the SFD event in Cologne[13] (in German).
- From 13 to 15 October the FSFE will have a booth at Linuxcon in
Düsseldorf. As many Free Software activists will already be around
before, our Düsseldorf Fellowship group invites all Free Software
supporters to brunch on 10 October 2014 starting from 11:00 am at
bistro "Schwesterherz"[14], Bilker Allee 66, 40219 Düsseldorf. Thus, a
very active time for our local group there, after participating at a
cryptoparty for the Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of
Information[15] (in German) and organising a booth at Zackk street
festival[16] (in German).
- Guido Arnold summarised the outcome of FSFE's work shop in Essen, in
which we discussed best practices for doing advocacy work on a local
level[17].
- The Free Software developer Matthew Garret is “solidly convinced that
Free Software that does nothing to respect or empower users is an
absolute waste of time”. In his blog[18] he argues that we need to
design software from the ground up in such a way that those freedoms
provide immediate and real benefits to our users. In his opinion,
anything else is a failure.
- From the planet aggregation[19]:
- Guido Arnold reports from the Teckids workshops at FrOSCon9. More
than 60 children from 9 to 13 participated in three different
workshops about robots, python games and Blender[20].
- Max Mehl explains how to use Openstreetmap as default in
Thunderbird’s contacts[21] and how to access ownCloud contacts'
birthdays via CalDAV calendar[22].
- Henri Bergius reports from the status of the NoFlo development
environment[23], a user interface for Flow-Based programming.
- There are some steps you can take in order to avoid having to deal
with Microsoft Office files. However, in some cases you will be
forced to deal with them. Kevin Keijzer documented how to make the
best out of Microsoft Office files as Free Software user[24].
- Our current intern Michele Marrali wrote a blog post on how
patents, copyright and trademarks can be used to promote freedom
in Hardware projects[25].
== Get active: Give feedback about the User Data Manifesto ==
Version 2 of the User Data Manifesto[26] has been released. The aim of
this manifesto is to define the fundamental rights for users on their
own data in the Internet age: to control access to their data (and
metadata), to know how and where the data is stored and to be free to
choose a platform. Some projects are already working towards supporting
the manifesto to give their users these rights! At the moment, version 2
is published as a draft on a wiki allowing public comments[27].
We ask all Free Software supporters to give feedback to the manifesto,
so it can be further improved upon, and we can decide whether we want to
support it as FSFE. Please give feedback yourself, discuss the manifesto
on our discussion lists[28], and ask other Free Software organisations
for feedback and if they would support it in this form, too.
Thanks to all the volunteers[29], Fellows[30] and corporate donors[31]
who enable our work,
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE
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1. https://wiki.fsfe.org/WindowsTaxRefund
2. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140912-01.en.html
3. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/103311
4. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/104084
5. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/103567
6. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/103307
7. https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-and-debian-join-forces-to-help-free-software-u…
8. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-September/010265.html
9. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-September/010295.html
10. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-October/010296.html
11. https://blogs.fsfe.org/fast_edi/?p=476
12. http://blog.dmaphy.de/2014/09/software-liberty-is-like-security-in-it.html
13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1258
14. http://www.bistro-schwesterherz.de/
15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1227
16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1247
17. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/09/how-to-advocate-for-free-software-in-l…
18. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/32686.html
19. http://planet.fsfe.org
20. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/09/teckids-workshops-at-froscon9-robots-p…
21. http://blog.mehl.mx/2014/setting-openstreetmap-as-default-in-thunderbird-co…
22. http://blog.mehl.mx/2014/birthday-calendar-with-owncloud-via-caldav/
23. http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/flowhub-kickstarter-delivery/
24. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/09/12/ooxml/
25. http://blogs.fsfe.org/puster/2014/09/08/freedom-and-openness-in-hardware/
26. https://userdatamanifesto.org/2.0/
27. http://udm.branchable.com/index.en.html
28. https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html
29. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html
30. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
31. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html
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Mene sicer ne bo takrat v Ljubljani, zna biti pa precej fino da bi kdo šel.
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In rem: Vabilo na razpravo nevladnih organizacij o Strategiji razvoja
informacijske družbe do leta 2020
Die et hora: 19. 09. 14 17.41.18
Scripsit: Inštitut za elektronsko participacijo (INePA) <info(a)inepa.si>
Ad: hook(a)fsfe.org
Pozdravljeni,
lepo vabljeni na razpravo nevladnih organizacij o izhodiščih za pripravo
strategije razvoja informacijske družbe do leta 2020, ki bo potekala v
četrtek, 25. septembra, od 16.30 do 19.00 v prostorih Kiberpipe (Gosposvetska
cesta 2, Ljubljana, neposredna bližina vhoda v knjižnico Otona Župančiča).
Cilj razprave je zbrati čim več skupnih pripomb in predlogov zainteresiranih
nevladnih organizacij, ki bodi prispevali k izboljšanju izhodišč za pripravo
strategije in jih poslati v odziv na Ministrstvo za izobraževanje, znanost in
šport. Izhodišča strategije so objavljena na spletni strani
http://www.mizs.gov.si/si/medijsko_sredisce/novica/article//8881/a6a53e02d8…,
kjer so dostopna tudi izhodišča za Načrt razvoja širokopasovnih omrežij
naslednje generacije do leta 2020 in strategijo kibernetske varnosti. Javna
razprava o vseh treh dokumentih se zaključi 3. oktobra 2014.
Prijazno vas prosimo, da vabilo posredujete tudi drugim nevladnim
organizacijam, ki bi jih zanimalo sodelovanje v razpravi. Če se razprave ne
boste uspeli udeležiti, vas prosimo, da predloge in pripombe na izhodišča
strategije razvoja informacijske družbe do leta 2020 posredujete na spodnje e-
naslove najkasneje do 29. septembra:
info(a)inepa.si
info(a)kiberpipa.org
info(a)pina.si
Razprava bo tudi priložnost, da izmenjamo pričakovanja glede delovanja
vsebinske mreže nevladnih organizacij za vključujočo informacijsko družbo
(NVO-VID), ki je v nastajanju.
Z lepimi pozdravi,
mag. Simon Delakorda
Inštitut za elektronsko participacijo
www.inepa.si
Andrej Vernekar
Društva uporabnikov Linuxa Slovenije (Kiberpipa)
www.lugos.si
Vid Tratnik
Kulturno izobraževalnega društva PINA
www.pina.si
Zoran Mihajlović
Studio 12
www.studio12.si
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Pozdravljeni,
Za dan svobode programske opreme (Software Freedom Day) se načrtuje manjše srečanje nekdanjega moštva Pingo okrog 20.9.2014. Točen datum in uro želimo uskladiti prek https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/SFD_2014_Pingo_3/ Če le mogoče, javite svojo morebitno prisotnost v ta koledar, lahko pa tudi bolj preprosto z odgovorom na to sporočilo.
Namen srečanja je poleg druženja moštva Pingo tudi obujanje spominov na izid Pingo 3.0 pred točno desetimi leti in izmenjava (medgeneracijskih) izkušenj, kaj (prosta) programska oprema je in kako se to počne.
Dogodek organizira Kiberpipa.
Lep pozdrav,
Ales
-----Original Message-----
From: Matija Šuklje [mailto:hook@fsfe.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 4:19 PM
To: fellowship-slovenia(a)lists.fsfe.org
Cc: pipa-org(a)list.sou-lj.si; Rok Papež; Aleš Košir
Subject: Re: [Fellowship-Slovenia] [pipa-org] Software Freedom Day je 20.9.2014
Die 08. 08. 14 et hora 21.39.37 Matija Šuklje scripsit:
> Die 30. 07. 14 et hora 18:19:22 Matija Šuklje scripsit:
> > Kar se termina tiče, pa predlagam, da se vsak pofočka kdaj ima čas na:
> > https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/SFD_2014_Pingo_3/
>
> ping?
Do danes smo se pofočkali samo 4-je in nisem dobil nobenih kontaktov od bivšega Pingo moštva.
Če se do konca tedna ta cifra ne dvigne na vsaj 10 ljudi, se mi zdi brez veze organizirat.
Trenutno ima največ glasov 23. 9. 17h-19h.
lp,
hook
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