Hey, who's going to this?? I am hoping to bake some stuff, any requests?
best
Anna
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012, Sam Tuke <samtuke(a)fsfe.org> wrote:
> Reply from Shaun.
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www.ethical-pets.co.uk - The pet shop thats *all sorts *of ethical!
Hey, who's going to this?? I am hoping to bake some stuff, any requests?
best
Anna
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012, Sam Tuke <samtuke(a)fsfe.org> wrote:
> Reply from Shaun.
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www.ethical-pets.co.uk - The pet shop thats *all sorts *of ethical!
So that you have some time to think about them before Thursday's meeting,
these are the domains that I have registered so far. Many thanks to Anna for
her contributions!
mancmail.comrebelmail.orgmailpod.orgminecloud.orgcloudfreed.comcloudfreed.org
Thanks,
Sam.
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Sam Tuke
British Team Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
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The January Manchester FSFE Fellowship meeting will take this Thursday
26th at 19.00 in MadLab:
http://madlab.org.uk/content/free-software-foundation-europe/
Proposed topics for discussion:
- Progress with Manchester community hosting project (domains, hardware,
legality)
- Document Freedom Day 2012 - status, UK events, new site, ideas (Stephen Fry
is on board!)
- UK National Curriculum changes - promoting Free Software
- FOSDEM conference in February
Please come along and bring your views and own topics for discussion!
Kind regards,
Sam.
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Hi Shaun,
I believe that you're interested in digital communication privacy, and I was
wondering if you know anything about an issue I'm researching.
The Manchester Free Software Foundation Europe Fellowship group is working on
a project to provide community mail hosting in a local and privacy conscious
way. We'd like to store the mail of our users in encrypted containers that the
system administrators don't have access to, so that user privacy is
guaranteed. We'd also like to not keep any logs of mail processing (message
headers etc.).
Do you know if doing either of these things would be legal in the UK? Have you
experience in setting up an encrypted storage system like the one outlined
above?
Thanks any info you can provide!
Sam.
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= Summary 16-22 January =
During three days this week I spent most of my time investigating current UK
open standards procurement policy, and making improvements to the Document
Freedom Day website and content.
= Detail =
== DFD & Web ==
- Fixed issue on dfd site with events not appearing
- Added new Stephen Fry qoute to DFD front page
- Added improved styling to dfd form input elements (match colour scheme,
shadows, etc.)
- Implemented system for displaying cc license infomation to dfd and fsfe.org
- Added description and keywords meta tags to dfd front pages
- Suggested solutions for other search engines indexing of wiki.fsfe.org
- Added description and keywords meta tags to android fsfe wiki page
- Updated list of women in FS wiki
== Policy ==
- Worked on list of articles to be written by team members on education
proposed to coincide with new national ict curriculum
- Requested copy of leaked cabinet office report and BSA consultation
submissions from journalist
- Updated RMS on FSFE's work on ict national curriculum
- Assessed current Open Standards procurement situation
- Notified UK team about opportunity to speak at Leicester Green Light festival
== Fellowship ==
- Approached potential speaker for Jan manchester Fellowship meeting
= Preview =
- Further work on DFD website and content
- Possibly write article / chart / infographic on UK govt. open standards flip-
flopping
- Chair Manchester Fellowship meeting
Thanks,
Sam.
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British Team Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
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Contact the British team: uk(a)fsfeurope.org
Hi, you want to do a talk and stall at this?
http://greenlightfestival.org/- about 1200 should attend fest. I am
going with ethical pets. Will send
you the form when it arrives
a
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A little research indicates that using many "freedom boxes" (plug
computers) in a cluster for running mail hosting services is probably
unfeasible or impractical. Both cost and watts per mhz would presumably
be poor, especially considering that the ARM CPUs are only 32 bit.
If a single freedom box would be sufficiently powerful to constitute the
server, then that remains an option (I can't find much conclusive data
on this, but I gather that it may be not be the case if we attempt to
host both webmail applications (eg roundcube) and also mail server on
the same device).
An alternative would be to use the fit-PC3 (see
http://www.fit-pc.com/web/purchase/order-direct-fit-pc3/). This a new
product with the following advantages:
64-bit
dual core 1ghz processors
many standard CPU extensions, inc. virtualisation (http://s.coop/7quk)
2GB DDR3 RAM
*only 9 watts power consumption*
It is quite expensive however at 454 USD (292 GBP) inc. shipping from
the states. We would need to get a hard drive + caddy and cable
separately (approx. 80 gbp more, without a backup drive). If we had
funding of some sort then currently this machine would definitely be my
choice.
I have yet to find out if there is second hand hardware that we could
use from Arcspace. I intend to do so shortly.
Thanks!
Sam.
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British Team Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
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Document Freedom Day 2012 (DFD) will be on March 28th, and currently planning
and preparations of all sorts are under way.
If you would like to be involved with DFD activities, press-releases, website
information, donors, or any other aspect, please join the dedicated mailing
list:
https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/dfd (dfd(a)lists.fsfe.org)
Shortly before Christmas I launched the new DFD website, which can be found
here:
http://documentfreedom.org/
We're hoping to make many improvements before the day itself.
*About Document Freedom Day*
Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a day designed to "raise awareness about
document freedom" "on the last Wednesday of March". Document Freedom Day was
first celebrated on March 26, 2008, and is organised and funded by the Free
Software Foundation Europe.
According to Ars Technica, more than "200 groups in 60 countries" are actively
involved in DFD.
DFD's main goals are:
- promotion and adoption of free document formats
- forming a global network
- coordination of activities that happen on last Wednesday of March, Document
Freedom Day
Thanks!
Sam.
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British Team Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
IM : samtuke(a)jabber.fsfe.org
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