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= FSFE Newsletter - February 2011 =
[Permanent URL: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201102.de.html ]
== Drop a container to free web videos ==
Videos on the internet often prove to be literal nuisance to Free Software
users. Several websites required the non-free flash video plugin to view
videos. Perhaps also your friends were wondering why you are not able to
watch youtube videos within your web browser, and thought you are a freak
when you started downloading videos with youtube-dl[1] . With gnash[2]
and other programs which are able to play flash video directly the
situation improved. But flash is still a pain annoying both for Free
Software users and developers.
1. http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
2. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
Developing HTML5 turned out to be a chance to purge this problem. It
enables the user to play audio and video directly in your web browser. But
there was disagreement which video container format should be used: H.264,
WebM[3] or Ogg Theora[4] ? MPEG LA organisation requires developers who
implement H.264 to agree to a patent license which is incompatible with
Free Software. So we might have ended up depending on non-free software
again to watch web videos.
3. http://www.webmproject.org/
4. http://www.theora.org/
But now Google[5] announced to suspend support for patent-encumbered
codec H.264 and support free codecs only instead. Being the biggest
provider of web videos Google's decision is a huge step to dispose of non-
free video software. Our sister organisation FSF issued a press release on
this topic[6] and I (Matthias) was interviewed by Dradio Wissen[7] about
it (in German).
5. http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html
6. http://www.fsf.org/news/supporting-webm
7. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=719
Now time has come to help adopt WebM as free video format: get in contact
with website operators and ask them to distribute videos in the WebM
format to get rid of H.264.
== New clothes for FSFE ==
For many people their first contact with FSFE is via website. After months
of work by FSFE's Web Team[8] a new website design has been launched
including a fresh look, improved infrastructure, and new features. Here is
a list of our new features:
8. http://fsfe.org/contribute/web/web.de.html
- iCal feed[9] of FSFE events and activities
- Option to subscribe to FSFE newsletters[10] in multiple languages
- Tagging of news and events, allowing dynamic generation of information
feeds for specific topics (useful for country pages, and topic homepages
such as "EU News"); documentation added[11]
- Improved country teams contact page[12] , including more information and
links to team member profiles
- Improved people page[13] with avatars of team members
- New meta-data storage and display system for published articles[14] which
consistently presents important article information
9. webcal://fsfe.org/events/events.en.ics
10. http://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.de.html
11. http://fsfe.org/contribute/web/tagging.de.html
12. http://fsfe.org/contact/local.de.html
13. http://fsfe.org/about/team.de.html
14. http://fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.de.html
== Something completely different ==
- We have written to German competition authorities in order to share our
concern about the sale of Novell's patents to a consortium called CPTN
made up of Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and EMC. Read the details in our
press release[15] and Karsten's blog article[16] .
- Fellowship Election for GA seat: In February Fellows may choose their
candidate for the Fellowship seat in FSFE's General Assembly. Check out
the candidates[17] and choose your candidate. If you are not a Fellow yet
join now[18] , and you can pick your choice, too.
- Fellowship interview: Political veteran Anne Østergaard discusses[19]
new ways to influence European legislation, the scale of Free Software
support in developing countries, and the importance of local culture in
community campaigning.
- There is a lot of good things to read[20] . Patents are definetely not
something you'll enjoy. If this warning doesn't keep you from reading
them, Matija wrote a blog article "Reading patents made easier?"[21] .
- Do you want some fries together with FSFE? Like every year we will have
a strong booth presence at FOSDEM[22] with several volunteers, project
coordinators, our president and vice-president. We are looking forward
to having discussions at our booth after Karsten's[23] and my
presentation[24] as well as while eating fries, or having a beer with
you.
- Links on Free Software and Law; FTF team member Matija started
publishing legal news on Free Software: Free Software & law related
links[25] ( part 2[26] ).
- You can do a lot of (nice ;) ) things with handcuffs: Richard wrote
about practical advantages[27] of not being handcuffed in your daily
life.
15. http://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110113-02.de.html
16.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2011/01/12/why-were-concerned-about-the-sale-…
17. http://wiki.fsfe.org/election11
18. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
19. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=233
20. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=399
21. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/220
22. http://www.fosdem.org/2011/
23. http://www.fosdem.org/2011/schedule/event/powerfreedomsoftware
24. http://www.fosdem.org/2011/schedule/event/nonfreeadvertisement
25. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/214
26. http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/218
27. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/practical.html
== Get active - Join the Web Team ==
FSFE's Web Team needs help! We need new ideas and suggestions as well as
developers, designers[28] , and translators[29] to improve fsfe.org even
further.
28. http://fsfe.org/contribute/designers/designers.de.html
29. http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.de.html
- Sign up to the Web Team's mailing-list[30] to read discussion about
current and future changes, and submit your own queries and comments
- Submit bugs with the website to the Web issue tracker[31] (you can
create a new account, and remember your usename will end in -guest)
- Ask questions in real time in the Web Team's IRC channel: #fsfe-web[32]
on freenode
30. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/web
31. https://trac.fsfe.org/fsfe-web
32. irc://irc.freenode.net/fsfe-web
Viele Grüße,
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE
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