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FSFE Newsletter – February 2015
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

= FSFE Newsletter – February 2015 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201502.es.html ] == I ♥ Free Software == Come February 14 and our website will be turning pink and heart-laden to celebrate the creators of Free Software. We have taken the opportunity on every Valentine's Day since 2010 to celebrate not only our loved ones, but also the dedicated people working very hard to ensure that we have the option to use Free Software. You can read more about how we celebrated[1] the I ♥ Free Software Day in 2014 to get a feel for the spirit of the occasion, and you are very welcome to join our celebrations this year! == Fellowship elections == The Fellowship elections[2] are almost here! Three candidates ( Nicolas Dietrich[3], Max Mehl[4], and Felix Stegerman[5] ) are vying for the seat currently held by Repentinus[6]. Repentinus wishes them all very well in trying to replace him, and hopes that so shall you, our dear readers. May the best candidate win! Voting will take place from February 20 to March 6, and all orderly Fellows whose membership is active on February 19, 2015, 12am (UTC+1) are allowed to vote. So there is still plenty of time to renew your Fellowship[7] and to become able to make a difference. == Transitions == Whoever becomes the new Fellowship Representative will be joining a Core Team[8] very different to that joined by Repentinus almost two years ago. First, we expect to take on Jonas Öberg[9] as Executive Director around the same time the new Fellowship Representative will be joining the Core Team and the General Assembly. Furthermore, later in the year when the General Assembly will be holding its annual meeting, we will be electing a new President. It is expected that the GA will confirm our current Vice President Matthias Kirschner[10] as the new President. These changes have been internally known for quite some time, but were publicly announced[11] by our President Karsten Gerloff[12] only on January 26. == Something completely different == - Our staffers, volunteers, and Fellows are often present at various Free Software gatherings. If you have always wondered what goes on at these conferences, then you would do well to read the report from Chaos Communication Congress[13], penned by our Fellowship Coordinator Erik Albers[14]. - From the planet aggregation: Paul Boddie writes[15] about the inadequate coverage topics like interoperability and platform choice have received in the past from consumer magazines. He notes how the advent of multiple mobile ecosystems is forcing consumer magazines to acknowledge the problem, and invites a major consumer magazine to join the push for interoperable Free Software. - Guido Arnold, our Education team coordinator, has posted his monthly collection of “ Free Software in Education News”[16] for December. - Kevin Keijzer makes the case for[17] Free Software in education as a human rights issue. - Nico Rikken argues[18] that engineering students should be taught to use Free Software. - Max Mehl writes about setting up your own URL shortener[19]. - Felix Stegerman gives an overview of FSFE activities in Netherlands throughout 2014[20]. - == Get active: hug a developer == For February we would like all of you to join us in celebrating developers of Free Software. Come 14th, please send developers, translators, and artists e-mail, postcards, and cake, hug them (with permission, of course), or use any other polite and creative option to let them know just how much you appreciate them and the work they have put into Free Software you use every day. Thanks to all the volunteers[21], Fellows[22] and corporate donors[23] who enable our work, Heiki Ojasild[24] Fellowship Representative, FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140221-01.es.html 2. https://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipElection_2015 3. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/nidi/Election2015 4. http://blog.mehl.mx/2015/fellowship-elections/ 5. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2015/01/26/my-candidacy-in-fsfes-fellowship-elec… 6. https://fsfe.org/about/ojasild/ojasild.es.html 7. https://fsfe.org/fellowship/ams/join.php?ams=join 8. https://fsfe.org/about/team.es.html 9. https://fsfe.org/about/oberg/oberg.es.html 10. https://fsfe.org/about/kirschner/kirschner.es.html 11. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2015/01/26/new-horizons/ 12. https://fsfe.org/about/gerloff/gerloff.es.html 13. http://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2015/01/21/fsfes-assembly-at-chaos-communication-… 14. https://fsfe.org/about/albers/albers.es.html 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=835 16. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2015/01/free-software-in-education-news-decembe… 17. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2015/01/11/free-software-educatio… 18. http://nicorikken.eu/blog/why-engineering-students-need-to-be-taught-free-s… 19. http://blog.mehl.mx/2015/yourls-url-shortener-for-turpial/ 20. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2015/01/26/fsfe-netherlands-in-2014/ 21. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.es.html 22. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 23. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.es.html 24. https://fsfe.org/about/ojasild/index.es.html

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FSFE Newsletter – January 2015
by press＠fsfeurope.org 06 Jan '15

06 Jan '15

= FSFE Newsletter – January 2015 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201501.es.html ] == A revolution == The Earth has once again completed a full, customarily counted revolution. Here at FSFE we have been busy throughout 2014, working hard to ensure that users remain in control of their devices and that Free Software may once compete on a level playing field for public tenders. More information, including the extent of our limited success and our future prospects, on both these issues and our other frontiers may be found in our annual report for 2014[1], penned by our President Karsten Gerloff[2]. In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of our activities in 2014, Karsten finishes the report with a sneak peek of the challenges we are going to face and overcome in revolution 2015. For instance, we intend to build on the success of the Free Software Pact[3] to spread awareness about Free Software among both the elected representatives of the European citizenry and the unelected bureaucrats of the executive branch. We also intend to invest more in our local volunteers and Fellowship groups. We are hopeful that not only will we reach a wider audience and have a greater impact with increased local participation, but this will also be much more fun for everyone involved. == Fellowship elections == FSFE has a bit less than 1500 Fellows[4] or sustaining members. In addition to receiving certain benefits[5] useful for digital activists, all of them have a say in the governance of the FSFE. This right is exercised by electing[6] representatives to the General Assembly, the highest decision-making body of FSFE. Your temporary editor will have served his term as a Fellowship Representative by this spring, and hence a new Representative will be elected by the orderly Fellows from February 20th to March 6th 2015, 12pm. Your outgoing Representative would like to take this opportunity to invite all our Fellows to partake in the elections. The General Assembly is responsible for making all strategic decisions for FSFE, and all Fellows, whether true idealists or business-minded pragmatists, have the same right to affect our future growth and direction, so please do so. == EU: the good and the bad == On December 17, 2014, the European Parliament adopted the EU budget for 2015. We are very happy to report that thanks to the efforts of MEPs Julia Reda (Pirates) and Max Andersson (Greens), the Parliament has allocated up to a million euros to audit Free Software used by the European Parliament and Commission. We hope that the institutions concerned will closely work with upstream developers to best benefit the public. We also welcome further allocations[7] that aim to allow equal participation in the digital society. Unfortunately, we must still call upon EU institutions to make use of Open Standards and Free Software, as a recent study prepared for the Greens/EFA has found[8] that the EU Parliament falls woefully short of its democratic obligations to ensure transparency and openness. Among other shortcomings the parliamentarians lack access to a standards- compliant e-mail solution. == Something completely different == - From the planet aggregation: Paul Boddie writes about the ‘ unplanned obsolescence[9] ’ of early Fairphone devices, justifiedly arguing that Fairphone's decision to overlook or deprioritize hardware support for Free Software was unwise considering the abundance of information available on the lack of hardware support for Free Software. - Otto Kekäläinen writes[10] about password management while recognizing that people are not storage media. Otto's piece is an excellent read when taken with a pinch of salt. - Nico Rikken contemplates the right to make bad choices in his piece ‘ Optional rights[11] ’. 2015 will bring a new etiquette to our Fellowship Planet. A proposed draft will be presented to the Fellows for consultation at the earliest convenience. == Get active: spread free software == The gift giving season has just ended. No doubt you have a friend or relative unfortunate enough to have been given a computer bundled with non-free software as a gift. Help them install a free GNU/Linux distribution or Replicant[12]. Thanks to all the volunteers[13], Fellows[14] and corporate donors[15] who enable our work, Heiki Ojasild[16] Fellowship Representative, FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141218-02.es.html 2. https://fsfe.org/about/gerloff/index.es.html 3. http://freesoftwarepact.eu/ 4. https://fsfe.org/fellowship/index.es.html 5. https://fsfe.org/fellowship/about/fellowship.es.html#youget 6. https://fsfe.org/about/legal/constitution.es.html#id-fellowship-seats 7. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141219-01.es.html 8. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141212-01.es.html 9. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=802 10. http://seravo.fi/2014/password-hygiene-every-mans-responsibility 11. http://nicorikken.eu/blog/optional-rights/ 12. http://www.replicant.us/ 13. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.es.html 14. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 15. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.es.html 16. https://fsfe.org/about/ojasild/index.es.html

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FSFE Newsletter – December 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

= FSFE Newsletter – December 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201412.es.html ] == More demand from the EU institutions == The new European Commission is currently setting the direction of its policy making for the coming five years. The FSFE is in frequent contact with Commission staff, who currently see open doors for Free Software in Brussels. We want to make sure to use this momentum to push for changes on software procurement, standardisation, and device sovereignty. So our president Karsten Gerloff participated in several meetings. In November the European Parliament (EP) organised a conference to inform members of the parliament about the IT services available to them. It featured a panel discussion led by Adina Valean, the new EP Vice President in charge of ICT, with a contribution from Giancarlo Villela, the director of the EP’s IT department. After the panel discussion, Karsten got the chance to contribute a few brief remarks about the EU institution’s live streams, DebianParl, and vendor lock- in[1]. In the beginning of December Karsten was again at the Parliament, this time at a workshop on “Open Standards for ICT procurement”[2]. The real value of those events, as so often, was in the people who are there. The workshop provided an opportunity for the small community pushing Free Software and Open Standards in procurement to meet and share updates. So in the future we can push together with them for positive changes. == There is no cloud just other people’s computers == Another event Karsten participated in was the presentation of the report on “cloud” computing and interoperability by the Brussels-based lobby organisation ECIS’s. Karsten documented the meeting in his blog post “Some common-sense recommendations on cloudy computing”[3]. Just a few days later our new “there is no cloud just other people’s computers”-stickers arrived in our office[4]. We received lots of positive feedback about the stickers, and now added them to our promo packs[5]. We are planning to have some more merchandise with this slogan ready for our booth at FOSDEM from 31 January to 1 February 2015 in Brussels. == Progress with “email self-defence” leaflets == Beside the new stickers, you can now also order new leaflets, to promote our sister organisation’s “email self-defence guide”. Originally we produced this leaflet in German for the annual Berlin “freedom not fear” demonstration in September. Afterwards volunteers all over Germany ordered[6] and distributed them. For example, one cinema gave out a leaflet for everybody who bought a ticket for the Snowden documentary “Citizienfour”. Meanwhile we had to reorder the German version for a third time and since the end of November we have been sending out the English version to Free Software supporters throughout Europe. In the next weeks our translators[7] and designers[8] will finalise a Chinese, Dutch, French, Greek, Italian, and a Spanish version. For 2015 we want to enable local Free Software supporters to distribute this and other leaflets at libraries, universities, schools, cinemas, companies, restaurants and cafes, shops and in other places. == FSFE’s translators: they are just awesome == This brings us to a badly needed thank you note. During the last 12 months we published the newsletter monthly. Two of the editions were written by our volunteer Heiki ”Repentinus” Ojasild, so your editor could enjoy his vacation. Our newsletter was available in 6 languages on average (lowest 4 languages highest 9 languages). We had newsletters in Albanian, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, and Spanish. Your editor is proud to work in a team with such dedicated volunteers. They translate the newsletter, the leaflets mentioned above, plus other FSFE news. They enable more people around the world to read about Free Software in their mother tongue, and are therefore a crucial part of the FSFE. So your editor would like to deeply thank our growing translators team[9] for this important work. == Something completely different == - The year is almost over, and it is reporting season. Our president published a sneak preview of things we achieved in 2014[10] covering our work on: public procurement, the Free Software pact, compulsory routers, improving information material, informing about “trusted computing” and “Secure Boot”, organising Document Freedom Day, answering legal questions, as well as our participation events such as workshops, panel discussions, or organising booths. - In the last newsletter we asked you to help the FixMyDocuments campaign. With the support they received, they have now compiled a list of over 15,000 editable documents from the European institutions not available in the Open Document Format[11]. - WhatsApp adopted a secure end-to-end encryption method developed for the Free Software app TextSecure. Torsten Grote takes a look at what that means for Free Software[12]. - Local events: FSFE had a booth at T-Dose in the Netherlands[13]. Our Dutch Fellows organised the booth together, Kevin Keijzer gave a talk about “Discrimination of Free Software (users) in education”, Maurice Verheesen spoke about “Digital Sovereignty For Europe”, and Felix Stegerman talked about the opportunities and dangers of the “Internet of Things”[14]. Beside that, our Berlin group organised a booth at the FiFFkon[15] at the Technical University Berlin. - Guido Arnold published a summary of what happened in education throughout Europe during October[16]. - The French Fellow Alexandre Keledjian published F-Droid-Web, a simple and lightweight web interface to F-Droid server[17]. It provides an easy way to add a new software repository to your mobile using qr- codes, and to browse the F-Droid catalogue by name, category, summary, license type, and description. - From the planet aggregation[18]: - Mirko Böhm, FSFE Fellow and KDE community member, wrote about why you should support FSFE’s work[19], which in his words is: to protect, explain, and organise the freedoms to use, study, share, and improve software. - Daniel Pocock questions if Amnesty is giving spy victims a false sense of security[20]. In his post he provides a letter template to sent to Amnesty. - “EOMA68” is an open electronic interface standard, designed to support the development of small computing devices. Nico Rikken wrote why EOMA68 will advance both Free Software and free hardware[21]. - Mario Fux explains how you can contribute as a non-developer to KDE[22]. - Beside that we had some technical HowTos on the planet, including: Kevin Keijzer who reports from his experience trying to install Ubuntu without proprietary software[23]. - Hannes Hauswedell who wrote about how to encrypt cron’s daily mail on FreeBSD[24]. His HowTo pertains to FreeBSD in particular, but he is “sure all you GNUsers out there will figure out the necessary changes”. - Mirko Böhm who describes how to configure a gaming mouse on GNU/Linux in a way that you can work and play at the machine[25]. - And Max Mehl who is now running his own Git (a decentralised version control system) instance which also includes a script to delete all meta data from PDF files in a directory[26]. == Get active: Get a smartcard and support us == Next year, we will push harder than ever to weave software freedom into the fabric of our society. To enable us to intensify our work with the European Commission, to let more people know about Free Software, and to continue our other work we still need €190,000 for 2015[27]. As an individual the best way to support the FSFE’s work financially is to become a Fellow (a sustaining member of the FSFE)[28]. All Fellowship contributions directly benefit our work towards a free society. Fellows receive a state-of-the-art Fellowship smartcard which, together with the free GnuPG encryption software and a card reader, can be used to sign and encrypt e-mails, to securely log into a computer from a potentially insecure machine using SSH, or to store the user’s hard disk encryption keys. Since the encryption key is stored on the card itself, it is almost impossible to steal. Thanks to all the volunteers[29], Fellows[30] and corporate donors[31] who enable our work, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/11/19/free-software-for-the-european-pa… 2. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/12/04/workshop-on-open-standards-for-ict… 3. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/11/14/some-common-sense-recommendations… 4. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/new-stickers-and-leaflets-no-cloud-and-e-mail-sel… 5. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html#promo-material 6. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.es.html#promo-material 7. https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.es.html 8. https://fsfe.org/contribute/designers/designers.es.html 9. https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.es.html 10. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/12/01/preview-what-fsfe-did-in-2014/ 11. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/110097 12. http://blog.grobox.de/2014/whatsapp-end-to-end-encryption-federation/ 13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2014/11/11/t-dose-2/ 14. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2014/11/09/my-t-dose-talk-the-internet-of-things… 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/majestyx/2014/11/12/fiffkon-2014-leak/ 16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/11/free-software-in-education-news-octobe… 17. https://github.com/dervishe-/f-droid-web/wiki 18. http://planet.fsfe.org 19. http://creative-destruction.me/2014/12/04/fsfe-needs-your-support-for-2015/ 20. http://danielpocock.com/amnesty-detekt-false-sense-of-security 21. http://nicorikken.eu/blog/why-eoma68-will-advance-both-free-software-and-fr… 22. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=257 23. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/11/16/installing-ubuntu-with… 24. https://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2014/11/04/encrypting-crons-daily-mail/ 25. http://creative-destruction.me/2014/11/13/configure-your-gaming-mouse-on-li… 26. http://blog.mehl.mx/2014/sharing-is-caring-my-git-instance/ 27. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141203-01.es.html 28. https://fsfe.org/join/join.es.html 29. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.es.html 30. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 31. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.es.html

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FSFE Newsletter – November 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

= FSFE Newsletter – November 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201411.es.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 -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 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.es.html 7. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/prasident-des-deutschen-stadtetags-an-europaische… 8. https://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100803-01.es.html 9. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141017-01.es.html 10. https://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.es.html 11. http://blog.mehl.mx/2014/my-internship-at-fsfe/ 12. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141017-02.es.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.es.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.es.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.es.html 35. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 36. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.es.html

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Boletín de la FSFE – Octubre de 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

= Boletín de la FSFE – Octubre de 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201410.es.html ] == La justicia italiana apoya la separación de software y hardware == Al comprar un portátil, puede ser complicado evitar pagar por una licencia de Microsoft dado que muchos portátiles vienen con una licencia incluida. Este "impuesto Windows” ha incrementado artificialmente los precios del hardware para los usuarios de Software Libre que no quieren usar sistemas operativos de Microsoft. Nosotros, como usuarios de Software Libre, queremos apoyar el desarrollo de Software Libre en lugar de software privativo como Microsoft Windows. Desde 2008 mantenemos una página wiki con recomendaciones para consumidores que desean evitar financiar el desarrollo de software privativo[1], y durante una década hemos hablado con políticos y organizaciones de defensa de los consumidores sobre este particular. No obstante, el pogreso en la materia es pequeño y llevará años cambiar esta situación en Europa. Para semejantes metas a largo plazo, alcanzar objetivos intermedios es importante. El mes pasado obtuvimos una victoria de ese tipo. El Tribunal Supremo de Italia estableció[2] que un comprador de portátil tenía derecho a recibir la devolución del precio de la licencia de Microsoft Windows que ha sido obligado a comprar con su ordenador. Los jueces criticaron agudamente la práctica de vender PCs únicamente junto con un sistema operativo privativo como una "política comercial de distribución forzosa". El tribunal consideró esta práctica como "de tendencia monopolística". También resaltó que la práctica de unión de hardware y licencia significa que los usuarios finales son obligados a usar aplicaciones privativas adicionales debido a cuestiones de compatibilidad e interoperabilidad, tanto si desean esos programas como si no. Ahora las autoridades italianas tienen que hacer de esta normativa un beneficio real para los consumidores, asegurando que los compradores de ordenadores puedan elegir su dispositivo con el sistema operativo que deseen, e incluso ninguno. Posteriormente esperamos convencer a otros países en Europa a seguir el ejemplo establecido por Italia, o que encontremos una solución de ámbito europeo al problema. == Administraciones públicas europeas que usan Software Libre == Con frecuencia existe una tendencia en los medios y también en nosotros a concentrarse en las malas noticias sobre el uso del Software Libre en la administración pública. En esta edición, nos concentraremos por el contrario en buenos ejemplos del mes anterior. Hay buenas noticias respecto al uso de Software Libre en paquetes ofimáticos: El Bundesrechenzentrum de Austria, el centro de computación propiedad del gobierno federal, alaba el amplio rango de uso en aplicaciones de Apache OpenOffice[3]. Aprecian que la “solución puede adaptarse a las necesidades de los centros de datos, integrarse en sus aplicaciones especializadas y también permite la creación y envío de documentos de forma automática y semiautomática. OpenOffice es la suite ofimática estándar en el centro de computación desde 2008, instalada en 12.000 PCs en toda la organización.” Aún más, las administraciones públicas de las ciudades italianas Todi y Terni están cambiando a LibreOffice[4]. Siguen el ejemplo de la provincia italiana de Perugia, usando LibreOffice en todos sus 1.200 PCs y de la Autoridad Sanitaria Local de Perugia, que ha instalado el paquete ofimático en 600 PCs. La administración pública francesa está usando un paquete ofimático de Software Libre en 500.000 ordenadores de escritorio[5]. Aúnque han dicho que cambiar a Software Libre fue duro, han sido capaces de gestionar los problemas. El éxito del proyecto se debe parcialmente a dos contratos que los ministerios tienen con proveedores de servicios TIC. Los contratos supondrán el soporte a 260 aplicaciones de Software Libre, y el equipo de soporte asegura que los parches realizados por los ministerios se contribuirán también a los proyectos de software libre originales. Los Verdes en Sajonia/Alemania urgen al gobierno del Estado Federal a realizar un estudio de viabilidad para la migración a Software Libre[6]. “El grupo político, ellos mismos usuarios de software libre desde diciembre de 2011, dicen que los costes en TI más bajos y las ventajas en seguridad TI deberían guiar a las administraciones públicas" hacia el uso del Software Libre. Argumenta que la dependencia del software privativo “da a las grandes corporaciones acceso e influencia sobre los flujos de trabajo internos oficiales, así como sobre comunicación sensible y datos de los ciudadanos del Estado.” == Algo completamente diferente == - Incluso sin el impuesto Windows mencionado previamente, todavía tienes que ver si el ordenador que deseas comprar funciona con Software Libre. Para mejorar la información sobre el hardware compatible, la FSF y Debian ahora cooperan para expandir y mejorar la base de datos de hardware h-node[7] para ayudar a los usuarios a conocer y compartir información sobre ordenadores que funcionan con sistemas operativos de Software Libre. - En nuestra lista de correo pública en inglés está teniendo lugar actualmente una discusión sobre buenas metáforas para el Software libre. Hugo Roy inició el hilo[8] con algunos ejemplos. Alessandro Rubini hizo algunas comentarios críticas, argumentando contra las metáforas mencionadas[9]. Él argumenta que si necesitamos una metáfora para explicar el Software Libre a la gente, necesitamos permanecer en el campo de la información, del conocimiento que puede difundirse sin coste. En un envío reciente Guido Arnold informó de buenas experiencias usando las recetas como analogía con los niños[10]. - En el Día del Software Libre de este año, se implicaron varios grupos locales de la FSFE: Edgar Hoffmann organizó un stand informativo en frente del Ayuntamiento de Offenburg, y una mini-conferencia- comunitaria con charlas y nuestro cuestionario sobre Software Libre durante la tarde[11] (en alemán, pero con muchas fotografías). Dominic Hopf, nuestro coordinador de Hamburgo, dio una charla en el evento SFD en Kiel sobre F-Droid[12], mientras que Torsten Grote introdujo a la gente a F-Droid en el evento SFD de Berlin. También estuvo presente en este evento Nermin Canik de Estambul y vuestro editor para hablar con la gente sobre libertad de software. Más aún, Michael Stehmann dio una charla sobre Software Libre y privacidad en el evento SFD en Colonia[13] (en alemán). - Del 13 al 15 de Octubre la FSFE tendrá un stand en la Linuxcon en Düsseldorf. Como muchos activistas del Software Libre ya estarán con anterioridad, nuestro grupo Fellowship de Düsseldorf invita a todos los colaboradores del Software Libre a un "brunch" el 10 de octubre de 2014 que da comienzo a las 11:00 am en bistro "Schwesterherz"[14], Bilker Allee 66, 40219 Düsseldorf. Por lo tanto, una jornada muy activa para nuesro grupo local allí, tras participar en una cryptoparty para el Comisionado para la Protección de Datos y la Libertad de Información[15] (en alemán) y organizar un stand en el festival de la calle Zackk[16] (en alemán). - Guido Arnold resumió el resultado del taller de la FSFE en Essen, en el cual discutimos las mejores prácticas para realizar trabajo de promoción a nivel local[17]. - El desarrollador de Software Libre Matthew Garret está “firmemente convencido de que el Software Libre que no hace nada para respetar o empoderar a los usuarios es una absoluta pérdida de tiempo”. En su blog[18] argumenta que necesitamos diseñar software desde la base de forma que esas libertades proporcionen beneficios reales e inmediatos a nuestros usuarios. En su opinión, cualquier otra cosa es un fallo. - Del planeta de blogs[19]: - Guido Arnold informa de los talleres Teckids en la FrOSCon9. Más de 60 niños de 9 a 13 años participaron en tres talleres diferentes sobre robots, juegos en python y Blender[20]. - Max Mehl explica cómo usar OpenStreetMap de manera predeterminada en los contactos de Thunderbird[21] y cómo acceder a los cumpleaños de los contactos de OwnCloud a través de un calendario CalDAV[22]. - Henri Bergius informa del estado del entorno de desarrollo NoFlo[23], un interfaz de usuario para programación basada en flujo. - Hay algunos pasos que puedes dar para evitar tener que tratar con los ficheros de Microsoft Office. Sin embargo, en algunos casos te verás obligado a tratar con ellos. Kevin Keijzer documentó cómo sacar el máximo provecho a los ficheros de Microsoft Office como usuario de Software Libre[24]. - Nuestro becario actual Michele Marrali escribió un artículo de blog sobre cómo las patentes, el copyright y las marcas comerciales pueden usarse para promocionar la libertad en los projectos Hardware[25]. == Implícate: Envía tu opinión sobre el Manifiesto de Datos de Usuario == La versión 2 del Manifiesto de Datos de Usuario[26] se ha publicado. La intención de este manifiesto es definir los derechos fundamentales de los usuarios sobre sus propios datos en la era de Internet: a controlar el acceso a sus datos (y metadatos), a conocer cómo y dónde se almacenan los datos y a ser libre para elegir una plataforma. ¡Algunos proyectos ya están trabajando en apoyar el manifiesto para conceder esos derechos a sus usuarios! Por el momento, la versión 2 está publicada como un borrador en un wiki que admite comentarios públicos[27]. Pedimos a todos los partidarios del Software Libre que opinen sobre el manifiesto, para que pueda ser mejorado, y podamos, si queremos, apoyarlo como FSFE. Por favor danos tu opinión, discute el manifiesto en nuestras listas de discusión[28], y pide la opinión de otras organizaciones de Software Libre así como si lo apoyarían en su forma actual. Gracias a todos los voluntarios[29], Fellows[30] y donantes corporativos[31] que hacen posible nuestro trabajo, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://wiki.fsfe.org/WindowsTaxRefund 2. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140912-01.es.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.es.html 29. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.es.html 30. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 31. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.es.html

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Hoja informativa de la FSFE - septiembre 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

= Hoja informativa de la FSFE - septiembre 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201409.es.html ] == Una Introducción al Software Libre y a la liberación del cyberespacio == Las libertades de expresión, prensa, reunión, asociación, y la privacidad son condiciones fundamentales de una Sociedad Libre. Si faltara una de ellas, sería difícil mantener las restantes. Como sociedad, es importante defender estas libertades, especialmente a partir de cambios fundamentales como el introducido por la ubicuidad de los ordenadores. Tales cambios pueden amenazar las viejas libertades y pueden crear la necesidad de otras nuevas. Así que ahora la libertad del software es crucial para distribuir y equilibrar el poder en la sociedad. La FSFE está convencida de que una sociedad libre necesita las libertades que sólo el Software Libre puede ofrecer. Por eso defendemos el Software Libre. En el año 2010, escribimos el artículo "La Democracia necesita Software Libre"[1], explicando el significado de dicho mensaje a los políticos asistentes la ceremonia en la que se entregó a la FSFE la medalla de Theodor-Heuss. Gracias al equipo de traductores de la FSFE, el artículo está disponible en 15 idiomas, y se comparte ampliamente. Desde el mes pasado, se encuentra, también, disponible el mensaje sobre la importancia del Software Libre en un corto vídeo TEDx "Introducción al Software Libre y la liberación del ciberespacio"[2] por Richard Stallman. Es una buena forma de concienciar a otros sobre la importancia del Software Libre. Necesitamos que muchas personas entiendan la relación de Software Libre y la sociedad libre, como nos lo demuestra, una vez más los siguientes ejemplos. == Eslovaquia sigue obligando a los usuarios a utilizar software no libre == En 2012 -- gracias a nuestro antiguo becario Martin Husovec -- la FSFE pudo participar en un caso contra la Agencia Tributaria Eslovaca[3] junto con el European Information Society Institute (EISi). Como escribe en su blog el actual becario de la FSFE Matej Gera[4] aún subsiste el problema de la obligación de usar software no libre por imposición de las autoridades eslovacas: De acuerdo con la nueva legislación de Eslovaquia, la persona que posea y quiera vender tierras de labor, primero ha de hacer una oferta en la página web del Ministerio de Agricultura. Y para poder subir una oferta a dicha página del Ministerio, se necesita software adicional. El software en cuestión es propietario y solo disponible para Microsoft Windows, y es la única forma -- pues no hay formulario en papel. Si de todas formas intentara vender la tierra, infringiría la ley. Esta práctica no sólo es inaceptable para los usuarios del Software Libre, sino también ilegal en la misma Eslovaquia. Existe desde 2008, una regulación vinculante que prohíbe a las autoridades públicas que requieran a los usuarios el uso de un sistema operativo concreto. Pero la página web del Ministerio claramente no cumple esta orden. Ahora, la organización eslovaca sin ánimo de lucro EISi ha enviado un escrito al Ministerio de Agricultura, pidiendo la terminación de esta práctica. Si para octubre no cumplen con la norma y no proporcionan una solución interoperativa, EISi recurrirá a los tribunales para proteger los derechos de los usuarios de software eslovacos. == Obligados por los proveedores de Servicios de Internet a usar determinado hardware == En la sociedad actual, no debería de plantearse si quiera, la posibilidad de elegir libremente los dispositivos técnicos que usamos en nuestros hogares, al igual que elegimos el mobiliario o los libros de las estanterías. Pero además de las autoridades que nos obligan a utilizar software no libre, actualmente la FSFE ha de luchar contra ciertas empresas que quieren obligarnos a usar ciertos ordenadores en nuestra casa. En este caso incluso uno de los más importantes ordenadores: el router, que ha de actuar como guardián entre nuestra red privada y el Internet público. En Alemania, los proveedores de servicios de Internet (ISPs) obligan a sus clientes a utilizar hardware muy concreto para conectarse a internet. Por lo que, los usuarios de dispositivos alternativos, no son capaces de conectarse a Internet por los ISPs. Junto a otros miembros de la comunidad del Software Libre, nuestro equipo alemán escribió varios comentarios sobre este caso y nos pusimos en contacto con agencias gubernamentales, corporaciones, y otras organizaciones para tratar el tema de los routers obligatorios. Como este asunto ha sido cubierto en alemán y principalmente en Alemania, Max Mehl miembro alemán del equipo resume este caso[5] y escribe una cronología de los actos más importantes que han llevado a la situación actual[6]. Esperamos que con esta información podamos apoyar a otros activistas del Software Libre del mundo, que pudieran encontrarse con un problema parecido. == Algo completamente distinto == - En los últimos meses la FSFE en dos ocasiones ha recibido cobertura televisiva. La primera, cuando nuestro coordinador legal Matija Šuklje fue entrevistado por la RTV eslovena para mostrar los nuevos desafíos a los que se enfrenta el Comisionado de Información de Eslovenia en relacción con la computación en la nube. Aunque tradujeron la FSFE como la "Fundación para la programación sin restricciones", ha sido la primera vez que la FSFE ha aparecido en la televisión eslovena. La siguiente, cuando nuestro coordinador austriaco Peter Bubestinger estuvo en Ciudad de México en un seminario sobre archivos, en el que presentó los casos de uso de formatos de archivo y almacenamiento de larga duración implementados en el Software Libre. Se tradujo al castellano todo el seminario en directo y transmitido por Televisión Educativa, canal educativo a nivel nacional. También subieron los vídeos a youtube. Se puede encontrar la entrevista a Peter[7] a las 3h50m. - Guido Arnold publicó un artículo sobre educación[8] incluyendo un concurso de hacking para encontrar una falla en la seguridad de Moodle, activistas de Software libre visitaron colegios en Eslovaquia, y otras noticias relacionadas con la educación. - Colaboradores y miembros de la comunidad GNU han descubierto detalles sobre un programa de vigilancia de los gobiernos de cinco países denominado HACIENDA[9]. Estos mismos hackers ya han elaborado una contramedida en Software Libre para contarrestar el programa. - Equipado con software libre GNU de radio, un grupo de científicos libres ha contactado, controlado, y está intentando recuperar un satélite de 1970 y devolverlo a una órbita cercana a la tierra. La historia subyacente[10] demuestra la importancia de desarrollar, mantener, y promover el Software Libre. - De lo subido a planet[11]: - Hugo Roy echa un vistazo a lo que se ha presentado en el Tribunal Europeo de Justicia "derecho a ser olvidado"[12]. Como le pareció difícil de leer, escribió una versión alternativa de la directiva. En otro post explica por qué ha ayudado a Pablo Joubert desarrollador de ingeniería de búsqueda de Softwae Libre a publicar una defensa[13] sobre los motores de búsqueda que hacen uso de tablas distribuidas Hash. - Nuestra antigua becaria Lucile Falgueyrac escribe por qué TTIP[14] CETA conlleva una serie de razones de enfado por parte de los defensores del Software Libre[15]. Argumenta que ahora, es un buen momento para enviar un gran mensaje a la Comisión Europea, gobiernos y estados sobre que blanquear la política no es la forma legítima de legislar, y nunca debe serlo. - Nuestro actual becario Bela Seeger puso en el blog un post sobre el mensaje Off-The-Record (OTR)[16], aclarando el significado y los tecnicismos del mensaje "off-the-record" (OTR) y dando ideas sobre la posibilidad de implementarlo en otros dispositivos. (Ya se habrá percatado en esta edición, !que tanto los actuales, como los antiguos becarios son bastante activos!) - Nuestros Fellows han participado en muchos actos. Nikos Roussos escribe su versión personal de la Conferencia de Colaboradores de Fedora 2014[17]. Menciona también la clave del proyecto de laptop Novena, que está resumido en LWN[18]. Mario Fux y Mirko Böhm informan sobre el encuentro de KDE en Randa, con unos 50 activistas del Software Libre mejorando KDE. Para tener alguna idea del encuentro, Mirko colgó un corto vídeo del encuentro en Suiza[19]. - André Ockers, que está actualmente actualizando y traduciendo casi todos los materiales de la FSFE en danés, comenzó a blogearlos[20]. Escribe en inglés, danés, alemán, y francés. - Kevin Keijzer, también de los Países Bajos, nos da una visión detallada del Software Libre que está utilizando[21]. - Daniel Pocock da una actualización de WebRTC, explicando qué hace y que no[22]. - Matija informa sobre su experimento en música libre[23], destacando sus artistas favoritos que usan licencias licencias Creative Commons para su música. == Actívese: Corra la voz en el Día del Software Libre == El 20 de septiembre de 2014, la gente en todo el mundo celebra el Software Libre. Los organizadores del Día Internacional del Software Libre anuncian que está abierto el registro de actos. Proporcionan una guía de inicio[24] con consejos y sugerencias para organizar su propio equipo de actos SFD. Si organiza un acto, o simplemente desea distribuir información sobre Software Libre en el Día del Software Libre también puede: - pedirnos material impreso[25] - repartir la guía de defensa del correo electrónico de la FSF[26] que se encuentra disponible en 11 lenguas. (Para la protesta "Libertad sin Miedo" nuestro grupo Fellowship de Berlín entregó unos cientos de folletos impresos de la versión alemana, que también puede pedirnos.) - comparte el video de Richard Stallman[27], o el artículo citado above[28] para explicar a sus amigos el Software Libre. Gracias a todos los voluntarios[29], Fellows[30] y corporaciones donantes[31] que hacen posible nuestro trabajo, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/society/democracy.es.html 2. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/20140407-geneva-tedx-talk-free-software-free-… 3. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/eura-slovakia/eura.es.html 4. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gera/2014/08/18/interesting-new-development-in-slovak… 5. https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/routers.es.html 6. https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/timeline.es.html 7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggCvJ0dzqx4 8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/08/free-software-in-education-news-july/ 9. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-hackers-discover-hacienda-governmen… 10. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-in-space-gnu-radio-and-th… 11. http://planet.fsfe.org 12. https://hroy.eu/posts/whats-in-C-131_12/ 13. http://hroy.eu/posts/intro-defpubs/ 14. https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2014/08/11/ttip-policy-laundering-a-few-… 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2014/08/11/ttip-policy-laundering-a-few-… 16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/seeger/2014/08/04/off-the-record-otr-messaging/ 17. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/08/13/fedora-flock-2014/ 18. http://lwn.net/Articles/608426/ 19. http://creative-destruction.me/2014/08/28/the-kde-randa-video/ 20. https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/ 21. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/08/06/a-quick-overview-of-th… 22. http://danielpocock.com/webrtc-what-works-what-doesnt 23. http://matija.suklje.name/the-jamendo-experiment-week-1 24. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide 25. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.es.html#promo-material 26. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/volunteers-translate-email-self-defense… 27. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/20140407-geneva-tedx-talk-free-software-free-… 28. https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/society/democracy.es.html 29. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.es.html 30. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 31. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.es.html

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FSFE Newsletter – August 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

= FSFE Newsletter – August 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201408.es.html ] == Privilege and Power == In the olden days a common citizen of a republic going about their everyday business was quite, shall we say, free. While tending to their chores they would occasionally need a new tool or some advice, but the old Latin proverb /scientia potentia est/ dictated the limits of their freedom to be the limits of their knowledge: if they needed a new tool and lacked the knowledge to make it, they became dependent on the toolmaker only to obtain the tool. In the brave new world it is different: not only do we depend on the toolmaker when we wish to obtain a new tool, but oft we remain dependent on them forever after. In the olden days a hammer could be used both to put stakes in the ground (or vampires) and nail planks atop the vampire's coffin. Today, the customer buying a general purpose tool has to pay twice for it: once to put stakes in the vampire and then again to nail planks atop its coffin. This is great if you happen to be one of the few toolmakers: not only are they one of the few privileged to be in control of their own property, but they have also stripped the rest of us of our rights and have the power to command our tools and hence have the power over us. Unfortunately, the privilege blinds them to the situation's revoltingness. Times have not been kind and, in addition to the revolting consequences of failed regulations and cold, unjust, profit-oriented business logic, we have been treated with a revelation after a revelation of agencies and offices founded to protect us, and subsequently given an impossible mission, preying on us. These developments, while despicable, can at least be rationally understood. However, it cannot be rationally comprehended why our /democratically elected representatives/ would seek to entrench these unfortunate encroaches on our rights, on their own rights. Yet many of them do: the European Commission is refusing to break Microsoft's stranglehold on the EU[1] and, as an even more deeply unsettling development, the Communications Committee of the UK parliament's House of Lords has proposed to end anonymity on the Internet[2]. If the danger to privacy and freedom were not so grave, the latter's technical ineptitude and arguments utterly unsuitable to the birthplace of liberalism would be highly amusing. Yet the danger posed by people who have been corrupted by power or greed is real and our resolve to confront that danger with more decentralization, security, privacy, and anonymity must become ever greater. == We are all Targets == According to new revelations[3] from early July pretty much anyone in the technological community is a target for surveillance. Among other activities we have been, or will be picked out, for visiting the Tor website[4], reading the Linux Journal[5], connecting to Mixminion anonymous remailer service[6], and downloading Tails[7], a privacy- sensitive GNU/Linux distribution. These sobering facts ought to be remembered every hour, every day. In the end our greatest weapon is developing and promoting projects that will one day land people interested in them on that very same list. == Something Completely Different == - FSFE will have a booth at FrOSCon[8], where our Vice President Matthias Kirschner[9] will also give a talk[10] on the demise of the general purpose computer. - Our President Karsten Gerloff[11] writes about evaluating Free Software for procurement[12]. - Hugo Roy[13], our Deputy Legal Coordinator writes about defensive publications and his work for the Open Invention network[14] at his blog. - Matthias writes at his Fellowship blog about the invisible tasks[15] that are being attended to by Reinhard Müller[16], our Financial Officer. - Guido Arnold, our Education Team Coordinator, has finished composing his collection of Free Software in Education News for June[17]. - From the planet aggregation:[18] Kevin Keijzer writes about receiving TV using a DVB-T USB dongle[19]. For our more adventurous readers we suggest tuning the receiver to 1090 MHz and obtaining an overview of the local civilian air air traffic as reported by ADS-B transmitters on the aircraft. - Sergey Matveev reports on the GoVPN daemon[20] he wrote in the Go programming language. - == Get Active! == 1. Use and spread the word about GnuPG[21], Off-the-Record messaging[22], Tor[23], cryptsetup[24], HTTPS Everywhere[25], Privacy Badger[26] and other privacy-enhancing Free Software. 2. If you can write code and understand a bit of computer science, find a cool privacy-or-anonymity-enhancing concept in a scientific journal and make it come alive. We thank all our volunteers[27], Fellows[28], and donors[29] who make our efforts possible, Heiki Ojasild[30] – FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140708-01.es.html 2. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldselect/ldcomuni/37/3704… 3. http://www.wired.com/2014/07/nsa-targets-users-of-privacy-services/ 4. https://www.torproject.org/ 5. http://www.linuxjournal.com/ 6. http://mixminion.net/ 7. https://tails.boum.org/ 8. https://www.froscon.de/en/home/ 9. https://fsfe.org/about/kirschner/kirschner.es.html 10. http://programm.froscon.de/2014/events/1321.html 11. https://fsfe.org/about/gerloff/gerloff.es.html 12. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/07/03/evaluating-free-software-for-procu… 13. https://fsfe.org/about/roy/roy.es.html 14. http://hroy.eu/posts/intro-defpubs/ 15. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/an-invisible-part-of-the-free-software-foundation-… 16. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/reinhard 17. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/07/free-software-in-education-news-june/ 18. http://planet.fsfe.org/ 19. http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/07/17/watching-dvb-t-without-… 20. http://blogs.fsfe.org/stargrave/archives/122 21. https://www.gnupg.org/ 22. https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ 23. https://www.torproject.org/ 24. https://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/ 25. https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere 26. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger 27. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.es.html 28. https://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 29. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.es.html 30. https://fsfe.org/about/ojasild/ojasild.es.html

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FSFE Newsletter – July 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

= FSFE Newsletter – July 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201407.es.html ] == Privacy café: e-mail encryption as the main course! == Imagine you take some friends to a café, but instead of hot and cold beverages, the menu features information on measures of ensuring digital privacy. Like "https everywhere" as a starter, "GnuPG e-mail encryption" for the main course, and "tosdr.org" (information about terms of services) as dessert. Such cafés already exist in the Netherlands. At the German speaking FSFE meeting in Essen, Felix Stegerman, our Deputy Coordinator Netherlands, presented his plans to set up more privacy cafés and why he thinks it is the right time and a good opportunity for Free Software to do so in other places as well. The reason is that most of the people that go to a privacy café are already aware of issues around privacy and freedom. But it gives local volunteers a good opportunity to talk about Free Software, and the importance of using Free Software for privacy issues. For example, by asking the participants "who controls the software?" Read Felix's blog post for more details about the cafés and future plans[1]. == E-mail self-defence goes multilingual == Good information material about encryption and Free Software is crucial for the privacy cafés just mentioned. Fortunately, our sister organisation, the FSF, published the e-mail self-defence guide[2] and volunteers translated the guide and the infographic in 6 other languages: English, German, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Russian, Turkish, and Japanese. This guide explains the installation of the necessary programs for e-mail encryption under GNU/Linux, MacOS, and Microsoft Windows as well as the key generation, the web of trust and the usage of those programs. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection, an email account, and about half an hour. For information how you can help to spread information about e-mail self-defence, see this edition's "get active" section. == What to use instead of WhatsApp and Threema? == "How can I encrypt my e-mail" was one of the most common questions we received in the last months. Thanks to the e-mail self-defence guide we now have a good answer. Another questions about encryption and privacy we were asked frequently was: "is there a secure and free WhatsApp alternative?" WhatsApp is a messaging program for mobiles that allows you to send (text) messages free-of-charge. After WhatsApp's recent acquisition by Facebook and in the face of the NSA revelations, many WhatsApp users are looking for secure and trustworthy alternatives. Because this effects so many people, we at the Free Software Foundation Europe would like to be able to promote an alternative that respects your freedom and privacy. Therefore we decided to do some research and to hold a workshop on WhatsApp alternatives during our latest FSFE team meeting in Essen. Hannes Hauswedell and Torsten Grote summarised the results[3]. == Something completely different == - Local group activities: FSFE had professional outdoor booths at the vegan summer festival in Vienna[4], as well as at Corso Leopold in Munich[5]. At the Free Software meeting in Athens FSFE's our local group discussed how to build your own home server. Nikos Roussos documented how to setup a home server with Fedora and Beagle Bone Black[6]. Our local group in Frankfurt focused on crypto topics[7], and Hugo Roy, coordinator of local group in Paris, gave a talk at the local Ubuntu party[8]. - "Free Software needs a strong community. If we fail to attract everyone willing to work for Free Software, we’re shooting ourselves in the foot." wrote Karsten Gerloff in his blog post "Four social rules for a 'No Asshole Zone'"[9]. Our local group coordinators have a similar discussion, and started with a code of conduct for FSFE's discussions[10]. We are interested in your feedback on the pad. - The Free Software community now has 33 supporters in the European Parliament. All of them signed the Free Software pact for the European elections[11], and we are sure there will be times in which we will remind them of the promise they have given, and ask them to support our cause. - Our president Karsten Gerloff was delivering a keynote at the European Christian Internet Conference[12]. Afterwards he was asked by a pastor to comment on a draft strategy to move the churches in his region towards Free Software, which Karsten did[13]. - From 7 to 8 June 2014 Fundația Ceata, an associated organisation of FSFE, organised the second Coliberator conference in Bucharest. At the first edition FSFE president Karsten Gerloff gave the keynote, and at this edition it was the Richard Stallman, president of FSF. The first batch of talks are already published on the conference's website[14]. - Guido Arnold provides the news from Free Software in education - May 2014[15]. - Public administration: Joinup reports that the complexity of proprietary software licences is encouraging the uptake of Free Software in the Greater London Authority[16], that the Extremadura health care has switched to Free Software[17], and that the German city of Leipzig already migrated 2792 of the city's 4300 workstations to the Free Software office suites Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice[18]. They expect "that in the first five years the anticipated savings will be swallowed by the exit costs associated with the proprietary software used by the city." - From the planet aggregation[19]: - More female speakers at the conference and ATMs running GNU/Linux. Torsten was giving a talk about Free Your Android at FISL in Brazil[20]. - Under the slogan "your data at the intelligence services" the German Humanistische Union organised a "blog parade", asking organisations to participate with a blog post. Erik Albers wrote a post "Protection against surveillance through encryption with Free Software" (in German)[21]. - The Randa Meetings, a collection of sprints that make KDE software better needs your help for this year's edition. Mario Fux asks everyone to spread the word, help, donate and/or support them[22]. - Hugo Roy lists some "awesome tools" he uses but are little known[23]. - Bdale Garbee wrote about TeleGPS, an easy-to-use tracking-only board providing GPS location[24]. - Photography: Hannes started to publish a photo of the month[25], edited with the Free Software Darktable, and Paul Boddie explains how he was tuning digiKam’s picture previews[26]. - Björn Schießle describes how to integrate the todo list software "ToDo.txt" into Claws Mail[27]. - Former FSFE employee Sam Tuke explains how to backup multiple e-mail accounts automatically on GNU/Linux[28]. == Get active: Spread the e-mail self-defence guide! == The FSF's e-mail self-defence guide[29] and the corresponding infographic[30] is good material to explain e-mail encryption to wider audience. For some time now FSFE ships Free Software information materials to activists[31]. Beside general information about Free Software, Open Standards, Digital Restrictions Management, or F-Droid, we would like to distribute the infographic in future. Before we print a larger amount and ship it to our local groups[32] and other activists around Europe, we would like you to test the infographics with friends, family and colleagues. Try to find out if they have problems understanding some parts and use our public discussion lists[33], so that we--together with our sister organisation --can modify them if necessary. Thanks to all the volunteers[34], Fellows[35] and corporate donors[36] who enable our work, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2014/07/01/workshop-on-privacy-and-free-software/ 2. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ 3. http://freedom-blog.net/2014/06/what-to-use-instead-of-whatsapp-and-threema/ 4. https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2014/06/11/booth-on-the-vegan-summer-f… 5. http://www.softmetz.de/2014/06/14/freie-software-offene-standards-und-freie… 6. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/06/23/fedora-beaglebone-black/ 7. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/06/report-from-fellowship-meeting-in-fran… 8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2014/05/talk-about-the-fsfe-ubuntu-party-2014/ 9. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/06/four-social-rules-for-a-no-asshol… 10. https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/CodeOfConduct 11. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140528-01.html 12. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/30/talking-to-the-church-about-free-… 13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/30/free-software-in-the-church-from-… 14. http://coliberator.ro/ 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/06/free-software-in-education-news-may/ 16. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/london-complex-proprietary-… 17. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/extremadura-health-care-has… 18. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/leipzig-switching-open-sour… 19. http://planet.fsfe.org 20. http://blog.grobox.de/2014/liberte-seu-android-at-fisl15/ 21. https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/06/20/verschluesselung-mit-freier-software/ 22. http://www.kde.org/fundraisers/randameetings2014/index.php 23. http://hroy.eu/tips/awesome-tools/ 24. http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/posts/TeleGPS_v1.0.html 25. https://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2014/07/01/photo-of-the-month-2014-07/ 26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=784 27. http://blog.schiessle.org/2014/06/10/combine-claws-mail-with-todo-txt/ 28. http://samtuke.com/2014/06/backup-multiple-email-accounts-automatically-on-… 29. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ 30. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/infographic.html 31. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.es.html#promo-material 32. https://fsfe.org/about/localteams.es.html 33. https://fsfe.org/contact/community.es.html 34. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.es.html 35. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 36. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.es.html

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FSFE Newsletter – March 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

= FSFE Newsletter – March 2014 = [Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201403.es.html] == The UK attempts to break free from vendor lock-in == The UK government is making progress towards less vendor lock-in. In January, they published a few principles[1] for future government IT contracts. They want to break the dominance of the big software companies who provided the vast majority of software and services to the UK government. Now they are asking for comments on the standards they should use for "sharing or collaborating with government documents". Among other things, the government proposes to make ODF the sole standard for office-type documents. The FSFE has submitted comments on a proposal[2] by the UK government to use only document formats based on Open Standards in the future. Microsoft also submitted a lengthy comment[3], urging the government to include OOXML in its list of standards, to which we responded as well[4]. == Why Open Standards aren't enough: the minimal principle == Although a good data-format can only be an Open Standard, FSFE's Bernhard Reiter[5] argues that this requirement alone is not enough. Originally written for last year's Document Freedom Day[6] in German, the article "The minimal principle: because being an open standard is not enough"[7] is now available in English. In a nutshell Bernhard argues that the data-format needs to solve a problem adequately: It should be a good fit from a functional point of view, as well as on a technical level. In order to judge this, there are a number of things to consider: efficiency, maintainability, accessibility, extensibility, learnability, simplicity, longevity and a few more. Two central questions posed are: How well does the data-format solve the problem and --more interesting-- is there a simpler format that could solve the problem just as well? Read the article[8], discuss it on our public mailing lists[9], and if you are a developer always ask yourself if it can be done simpler. == Lots of motivation for Free Software contributors == On February 14th, people all around the world followed our suggestions[10] to express their gratitude and appreciation to Free Software and its contributors on " I love Free Software" day 2014! Blog entries, e-mails to developers, a comic, a picture by the leadership of the German Green party, an #ilovefs festival, blogs dedicated to Free Software in general and developers in particular, and a lot of microblog messages were dedicated to Free Software. We were overwhelmed by the resonance. Contributors of Free Software projects work hard to ensure our freedom and on this day surely many of them gained new motivation. Thanks to everybody who participated in this year's #ilovefs campaign and if you have not been involved enjoy some of the many love declarations we collected[11]. == Something completely different == - On Document Freedom Day (March 26), FSFE and the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament are organising an event in the European Parliament[12] to discuss how cryptography can help us break the grip of the surveillance state. The draft program includes Werner Koch (of GnuPG fame, and one of FSFE’s founders), Karen O’Donoghue (Internet Society), French journalist Amaelle Guitton, and Swedish IT security expert Joachim Strömbergson. - Free Software in the public administration: After a decision by the Parliament in the Swiss canton Bern[13], the government has to implement a bill which lists six measures to support Free Software in the canton's public administrations. The Canaries are increasing their Free Software usage[14] and in Riga they are using more Free Software in children hospitals[15]. - Furthermore the European Parliament passed a resolution[16] that, among other things, highlights the need for decentralised services with strong privacy protections. - With our Free Your Android campaign[17], we ask developers to also publish their mobile applications in F-Droid, a Free Software repository for Android[18]. After talking with the LibreOffice developers about it, briefly before FOSDEM they published "Impress Remote" version 2[19], a program to control your presentation. Thanks to Daniel Martí, Christian Lohmaier, and Norbert Thiebaud for the work. - Fighting compulsory routers, raising awareness about "Secure Boot", a joint motion against software patents in the German Parliament, supporting a working group in the German parliament about Free Software, raising questions about Free Software in several elections, organising compliance workshops, and lots of talks and events. Read the 2013 summary from FSFE's German team[20]. - With the end of the support for Microsoft Windows XP, and a low adoption rate of Windows 8 it is a good time to convince people to switch to GNU/Linux. Our sister organisation FSF wants to improve online resources for helping people to achieve this, and demonstrate GNU/Linux to new audiences[21]. - They also published an interview with Joerg Henrichs of SuperTuxKart[22]. - As every year FSFE was present at FOSDEM with a booth. This year with a lot of new posters, leaflets, stickers, t-shirts, and our Fellows gave lots of talks[23]. - What has happened with Free Software in schools and universities? Read the new Free Software in education news[24]. - From the planet aggregation[25] : - Carsten Agger gave an interview[26] for the Danish newspaper about software patents and the European Parliament election. - The Fellowship group in Aarhus/Denmark which Carsten coordinates, is moving their meetings into the new hackerspace[27]. - Henrik Sandklef wants to better understand his students, read why he learned Haskell to achieve that in part 1[28], 2[29], and 3[30] of this blog series. - Fellow Iain Learmonth reported from the Debian Med Sprint 2014[31] in Stonehaven, Aberdeen. - Karl Beecher is writing a computer science book[32] for everyone. - Karsten made a proposal for more transparency in EU policy making[33]. - Having been inspired by the prospect of chat integration within Roundcube, Paul Boddie set out to install a suitable XMPP server[34]. - Daniel Pocock writes about about JitMeet a web application from the Jitsi team[35]. - Erik Albers now published his article The right to control your own devices as a requirement for privacy (in German)[36] in his blog, after it was published in the book Snowden surveillance book by netzpolitik[37]. - Isabel Drost-Fromm argues that if something didn't happen on the mailing list it didn't happen at all[38]. - Our intern Max Mehl wrote about secure alternatives to WhatsApp (in German)[39], covering surespot, Telegram, ChatSecure, TextSecure, and Kontalk. == Get active: Participate in Document Freedom Day! == There has been so many news about Open Standards in this edition. Do you want to help us to promote them? If so, Document Freedom Day on 26 March is a good occasion for that. Last year we had 59 events in 30 countries all over the world[40]. This year Sam Tuke and the DFD campaign team aim for 75 events, but they need your help. Either organise a small event or educate your friends and colleagues through other ways about Open Standards. You can now register your event[41] or order promotional packs with new materials[42], including multilingual posters and leaflets, flyers, and stickers, as well as new t-shirts[43]. Thanks to all the volunteers[44], Fellows[45] and corporate donors[46] who enable our work, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE 1. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/01/30/uk-to-pick-odf-as-default-documen… 2. http://fsfe.org/activities/os/2014-02-uk-consultation-os.es.html 3. http://standards.data.gov.uk/comment/929#comment-929 4. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/02/26/comments-on-uk-governments-consul… 5. http://www.intevation.de/~bernhard/ 6. http://documentfreedom.org 7. http://fsfe.org/activities/os/minimalisticstandards.es.html 8. http://fsfe.org/activities/os/minimalisticstandards.es.html 9. http://fsfe.org/contact/community.es.html 10. http://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140211-01.es.html 11. http://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140221-01.es.html 12. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/02/14/free-speech-crypto-and-free-softw… 13. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/canton-bern-parliament-vote… 14. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/canaries-continue-save-open… 15. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/more-and-more-linux-riga-ch… 16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/02/05/european-parliament-calls-for-dis… 17. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.es.html 18. https://f-droid.org/ 19. https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.libreoffice.impressremote 20. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/german-fsfe-activities-in-2013/ 21. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/help-the-fsf-bury-windows-8 22. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/interview-with-joerg-henrichs-of-supert… 23. http://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/01/29/fosdem-2014-fsfe-fellowship-and-speaki… 24. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/02/free-software-in-education-news-%E2%80… 25. http://planet.fsfe.org 26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/02/05/fsfe-in-the-news/ 27. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/02/22/opening-reception-at-open-space-aar… 28. http://sandklef.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/understanding-my-students-or-why-i… 29. http://sandklef.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/understanding-my-students-or-why-i… 30. http://sandklef.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/understanding-my-students-or-why-i… 31. https://blogs.fsfe.org/irl/2014/02/06/debian-med-sprint-2014/ 32. http://computerfloss.com/2014/02/brown-dogs-barbers-crowdfunding-book-compu… 33. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/01/30/transparency-in-eu-policy-making-… 34. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=741 35. http://danielpocock.com/jitmeet-webrtc-free-communications-takes-another-bi… 36. https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/02/20/eigene-geraetehoheit-als-bedingung-de… 37. https://netzpolitik.org/2014/wir-verschenken-unser-buch-ueberwachtes-netz-d… 38. http://blog.drost-fromm.de/posts/on-being-aggressively-public.html 39. http://blog.max-mehl.com/2014/wirklich-sichere-whatsapp-alternativen/ 40. http://documentfreedom.org/news/2013/news-20130419-01.html 41. https://documentfreedom.org/how-add-event 42. https://documentfreedom.org/en/promotion.en.html 43. https://documentfreedom.org/en/products 44. http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.es.html 45. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 46. http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.es.html

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FSFE Newsletter – February 2014
by Free Software Foundation Europe 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

= FSFE Newsletter – February 2014 = [Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201402.es.html] == A big step forward for Free Software in Italy == More public administrations using Free Software means more money for the development of Free Software and less problems for citizen using Free Software communicating with their authorities. In January the Italian government has made Free Software the default choice for public administrations[1]. The Italian Digital Agency issued new rules saying that all government organisations in the country must consider using Free Software before buying licenses for proprietary programs. The rule, which has been discussed for over a year, has now been reaffirmed. Carlo Piana, who participated on FSFE's behalf in the working group, wrote[2] : "Now public administrations have no excuse not to comply with the guidelines. There are no more excuses, there is no room for ambiguous interpretations." == What else is going on in the public administration == First the bad news, the European Commission is still in denial on their vendor lock-in and Karsten Gerloff offers good reasons[3] to believe that they are not serious about using and supporting the Open Document Format. But there were also a lot of good developments: The European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), wants to use more Free Software for their new IT systems[4]. The Greens/ETA in the European parliament started a small pilot program[5] to increase e-mail security, running 10 laptops with Debian GNU/Linux. The next step for them would be to budget to pay for the Free Software support, like the Parliament does for non-free software. The city of Munich successfully completed their GNU/Linux migration with 14.800 PCs[6]. They also announced that they will continue their advocacy work for Free Software[7]. EC's Joinup reports that public administrations in the Netherlands who use Free Software spend 24% less than the ones who do not[8]. In Denmark public libraries are switching to GNU/Linux, and are demanding a complete free admin system. Carsten Agger, our local coordinator for Århus/Denmark, is involved in providing this system[9]. == Compulsory routers: Private network should be private! == You should be able to use a router of your own choice in your home, so you can have more control over this gateway from your private network to the internet. But in Germany ISPs started to force customers to use specific routers, and did not offer them the internet access credentials to use routers of their own choice. Together with dedicated volunteers from OpenWRT[10], IPFire[11] and others, FSFE worked on this issue in 2013[12], sending a letter to the authorities, and answering 18 detailed questions. Our argument were then covered by German newspapers, magazines and and television news sites. What did we achieve? The new coalition agreement of the German governments says that they are against compulsory routers, and that the ISPs have to send the usernames and passwords without request from the customers. Those are the good news from the new coalition agreement. Our intern Max Mehl summarised our work on compulsory routers in his blog entry "Why free choice of routers is a must"[13]. But although the coalition agreement by CDU/CSU und SPD is an improvement for Free Software compared to the one from the last Government, there are still some critical points, which we pointed out in our press release[14] (in German, but Joinup published a good article in English about it[15] ). == Something completely different == - You might have noticed it already: Our web team applied a new design to FSFE's website. Hugo Roy announced the plans in the beginning of the month[16]. The new design should make the website better usable on every screen (tiny mobile, mobile, big mobile/tablet, laptops, desktops, whatevercomesnext) and we will reuse this for www.,wiki.,planet.,fellowship., search. and eventually, blogs.fsfe.org. Hugo documented how to use the new web design in a template article[17], and how to edit our CSS with LESS[18]. - Matthew Garrett criticised Canonical's contributor agreement[19]. Other copyright assignment tools, such as FSFE's Fiduciary License Agreement[20] and the GNU Project's copyright assignment, enable developers to prevent their code from being used in non-free software. In contrast, Canonical's agreement explicitly states that the company may distribute people's contributions under non-free licenses. If you value software freedom, FSFE recommends you *not to sign* agreements which make it possible to distribute your code under non-free licenses. - Get 46.03€ back for an unused Microsoft Windows license. Rui Miguel Silva Seabra explains in a series of blog entries how he was successful to get a Windows tax refund in Portugal[21]. You can help us to keep Windows Tax Refund wiki up to date[22]. - Fellowship representative Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild and other Free Software supporters convinced the Institute of the Estonian Language to differ between Free Software and gratis software[23]. - Local groups: Carsten Agger, our local group coordinator from Aahrus Denmark, started blogging about Free Software and FSFE in Danish[24]. FSFE's local group in Manchester ran a Cryptoparty[25] and explained public/private key encryption with actual locks, keys, and a diary. We had our first Fellowship meeting in Aschaffenburg[26], and at the meeting in Frankfurt[27] local Free Software activists discussed I love Free Software[28], Document Freedom Day[29], PDFreaders[30], TheyDontWantYou.to[31], the local event Fuxcon, and CryptoParties. - Interesting news about Free Software in education are covered in Guido Arnold's latest update[32], - and an edited version of Benjamin Mako Hill's talk "When Free Software isn't better" is now available[33]. - From the planet aggregation[34] : - Debian.org enabled SIP federation[35]. Furthermore Daniel Pocock describes how easy it is to have a phone call from a mobile phone to a desktop system using WebRTC[36]. - Fellow No 1, Mario Fux, wrote about the 2014 Free Software meetings in Randa/Switzerland about several KDE topics, Open Street Map, and usability[37]. - Who was the creator of an image, what is its terms of use, where was it created and when? This information often gets lost. Former FSFE's Vice President Jonas Öberg wants to fix this, and received another year of funding by the Shuttleworth Foundation for working on Commons Machinery[38]. - Are you looking for ways to get your children in touch with technology? Isabel Drost-Fromm was asked how to achieve that and wrote about it in "Children tinkering"[39]. But be careful, like mentioned in the quote from the December education news[40] : If your children start hacking, companies might want to hire them. - Lucile Falgueyrac organised a meeting about the European Commission's consultation on copyright[41] to share knowledge about the consultation, and she wrote about her first television interview in Russia Today[42]. - The KDE Community released a tech preview of the upcoming KDE 5 Frameworks, Mirko Böhm summarised the changes[43]. - Tobias Platen wrote about GNU/Linux on mobile devices and single board computers[44]. - Paul Boddie wrote an article about "Python 3: I Told You So?"[45] explaining why it may be easier for users to choose another technology entirely than to deal with version 3, - and your editor found his old Free Software floppies and CDs[46], and remembered how he got involved in Free Software. == Get active: You love Free Software? Show it! == Free Software eases our daily life and ensures we can work and create in freedom. In many cases, we do not pay for these tools and yet we write bug reports to make the developer improving his software even more. On 14 February we ask you to show your love to the people working on the Free Software you use. For example, you could prepare a "love letter" telling the developers of a certain program why you love their work, include banners or buttons[47] on your website, (micro)blog about your favourite piece of software, or help us collecting quotes[48] by well- known people and yourself. On " I love Free Software day[49] ", it is time to give back. In Manchester, our local group is even celebrating Free Software with a week-long event. The " I love Free Software Festival[50] " takes place from 3 to 8 February 2014 and focusses especially on Bitcoin, Wordpress, encryption, and Free Your Android[51]. It is a great opportunity to meet other likeminded people in MadLab's great atmosphere. Thanks to all the volunteers[52], Fellows[53] and corporate donors[54] who enable our work, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE 1. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140116-01.en.html 2. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/italy-posts-benchmark-open-… 3. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/01/15/european-commission-still-in-deni… 4. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/improve-it-security-ep-dema… 5. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/ep-green/efa-use-open-sourc… 6. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/munich-open-source-switch-completed-succes… 7. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/munich-continue-open-source… 8. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/oss-use-dutch-town-lowers-i… 9. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/01/07/bibos-admin-admin-system-for-gnulin… 10. https://openwrt.org/ 11. http://www.ipfire.org/ 12. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1163 13. http://blog.max-mehl.com/2014/why-free-choice-of-routers-is-an-unnegotiable… 14. https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20131211-01.en.html 15. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/fsfe-german-coalition-shoul… 16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2014/01/a-new-website-for-fsfe-org/ 17. http://fsfe.org/contribute/template.es.html 18. http://fsfe.org/contribute/web/css.es.html 19. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/29160.html 20. https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/fiduciary.en.html 21. https://blog.1407.org/2014/01/10/got-my-windows-refund-and-so-can-you/ 22. https://www.wiki.fsfe.org/WindowsTaxRefund 23. https://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2014/01/27/a-short-excursion-into… 24. http://www.modspil.dk/itpolitik/ 25. https://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2014/01/25/manchester-cryptoparty… 26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/12/first-fellowship-meeting-in-aschaffenb… 27. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/01/fellowship-meeting-rheinmain-in-frankf… 28. http://ilovefs.org 29. http://documentfreedom.org 30. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.es.html 31. http://theydontwantyou.to 32. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/01/free-software-in-education-news-decemb… 33. http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/when-free-software-isnt-better-talk 34. http://planet.fsfe.org 35. http://danielpocock.com/debian-sip-federation 36. http://danielpocock.com/webrtc-calling-firefox-android-chromium-linux 37. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=189 38. http://commonsmachinery.se/2014/01/another-year-of-fellowship/ 39. http://blog.drost-fromm.de/posts/children-tinkering.html 40. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/01/free-software-in-education-news-decemb… 41. https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2014/01/21/ec-copyright-consulation/ 42. https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2014/01/28/interview-rt-russia-today/ 43. http://creative-destruction.me/2014/01/07/kde-frameworks-5-tech-preview-rel… 44. https://blogs.fsfe.org/tobias_platen/2014/01/05/gnulinux-on-mobile-devices-… 45. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=635 46. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/memories-about-some-old-free-software-floppies-and… 47. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2014/banners.es.html 48. https://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-January/009966.html 49. http://ilovefs.org 50. http://freeasinfreedom.org.uk/?page_id=88 51. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.es.html 52. http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.es.html 53. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 54. http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.es.html

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