= Hoja informativa de la FSFE - Julio 2017 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201707.es.html ]
== Ahora la FSFE proporciona hospedaje Git para sus seguidores ==
Compartir el conocimiento propio y aumentar la colaboración son
principios fundamentales en la comunidad del Software Libre. Por esa
razón, la FSFE se complace en proporcionar ahora a sus seguidores y
voluntarios registrados una plataforma para crear y administrar
repositorios Git con un interfaz web confortable en git.fsfe.org [1].
Con git.fsfe.org, la FSFE permite a sus seguidores compartir y colaborar
en un plataforma que respeta completamente sus libertades [2]. Y
mientras los usuarios son libres de usar esta plataforma para sus
propósitos privados, animamos a cada activista y grupo local de la FSFE
a alojar el código que están usando en sus actividades FSFE, para
compartir actas u otros documentos de reuniones del grupo FSFE así como
cualquier otra información de interés público. De esta forma, nos
gustaría facilitar y estimular la colaboración, la retroalimentación y
la creatividad dentro de nuestra comunidad paneuropea.
Los equipos oficiales y grupos de trabajo de la asociación de la FSFE
también se esforzarán en migrar a esta nueva plataforma tanto código y
ficheros relevantes como sea posible. Por ejemplo, futuros desarrollos
web, material de promoción y guiones (scripts) útiles para el trabajo
diario de la organización. Para los principiantes en Git explicamos el
servicio en detalle en el wiki de la FSFE [3]. Los usuarios avanzados
son bienvenidos para ayudar a extender las guías de los flujos de
trabajo más comunes.
Encuéntranos y usa, estudia, comparte y mejora en git.fsfe.org [4].
[ In the online version you find a picture here of R2D2 who was ]
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== ¿Qué más hemos hecho? Dentro y fuera de la FSFE ==
- Estonia se encargó de la presidencia del Consejo de la Unión Europea y
ahora ha solicitado comentarios públicos sobre su propuesta para que
la "Declaración de Tallinn" - un conjuto de propuestas políticas para
el gobierno digital europeo - sea firmada por los ministros de la UE
en octubre. La FSFE ha proporcionado sus comentarios [6] en la primera
ronda de consulta pública de la propuesta, aunque la participación en
la segunda ronda de comentarios está actualmente abierta para todo el
mundo. Te animamos a participar [7] y reutilizar nuestros argumentos
para fomentar el Software Libre y los Estándares Abiertos en la
infraestructura digital pública europea. La fecha final para admitir
comentarios es el 14 de Julio.
- Como parte de nuestra campaña Libera tu Android (Free Your Android),
la FSFE explica y promueve [8] el uso de el repositorio F-Droid de
aplicaciones mçoviles (apps) de Software Libre. Torsten Grote, miembro
de la Asamblea General de la FSFE e iniciador de nuestra campaña
Libera tu Android, comparte algunas de sus impresiones sobre cómo
F-Droid está proporcionando apps a Cuba [9].
- ¿Es aceptable usar (plataformas de) software privativo para
promocionar la libertad del software? LA comunidad de la FSFE,
incluyendo a los representantes de la hermandad (Fellowship) de la
FSFE, han estado discutiendo esta cuestión en nuestra lista pública de
discusión [10]. Sientete libre de unirte a la discusión.
- En Zurich hubo una reunión de arranque de un grupo local de ordenador
alimentario [11] que incluía al representante de la hermandad FSFE,
Daniel Pocock, y un patrocinio de la FSFE para el viaje y
participación de Anisa Kuci.
- El gerente de programa de la FSFE, Max Mehl, ha visitado el grupo
local de la FSFE de Rhein/Main en Frankfurt, Alemania, y dió una
charla sobre "Dinero Público, Código Público".
- El equipo de Francia de la FSFE estuvo presente en una caseta en los
Encuentros Mundiales de Software Libre (Rencontres Mondiales du
Logiciel Libre, RMLL) - también conocidos como Reunión de Software
Libre (Libre Software Meeting, LSM) - en Saint-Etienne donde Cryptie,
nuestro seguidor durante largo tiempo, también dió una charla sobre
"De la criptografía académica a la práctica: ups, algo se ha perdido"
[12].
- El grupo local de la FSFE de Berlin estuvo presente con una caseta en
la Maker Faire para explicar a los visitantes por qué cacharrear
(tinkering) depende fuertemente del Software Libre.
- El grupo local de la FSFE de Milán, Italia, junto con Game Over
Milano, celebraron el Dia Internacional Contra el DRM [13] para
informar sobre las amenazas del DRM concernientes a HTML5, ebooks,
musica, juegos y mucho más.
- El grupo local de la FSFE de Offenbach, Alemania, estuvo con una
caseta en el Bended Realities Festival para informar sobre la conexión
entre la Educación Libre y el Software Libre.
- El grupo local de la FSFE de Munich dió un taller sobre "¿Qué es
Software Libre?" [14] con especial hincapié en la gente con poco o
ningún conocimiento de software.
== ¡Para no perderse! Próximos eventos con la FSFE ==
- SHA es el nombre de un campamento Hacker sin ánimo de lucro al aire
libre que tiene lugar del 4 al 8 de agosto, cerca de Amersfoort en
Holanda. El equipo de la FSFE de Holanda junto con amigos estarán
presentes con un grupo dedicadado a la FSFE [15]. Si te coincide estar
cerca, pásate y únete a una de las variadas sesiones, charlas,
talleres, proyectos o ayuda cantando la canción del Software Libre
[16].
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Gracias a todos los voluntarios [17], seguidores [18] y donantes [19]
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2: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170616-01.es.html
3: https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Git
4: https://git.fsfe.org
5: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-07
6: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170710-01.es.html
7: https://ideas4digitalgov.eu/
8: https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#f-droid
9: https://blog.grobox.de/2017/how-f-droid-is-bringing-apps-to-cuba/
10: https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/discussion/2017-June/011591.html
11: https://danielpocock.com/croissants-qatar-food-computer-zurich
12:
https://prog2017.rmll.info/programme/securite-entre-transparence-et-opacite…
13: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2017/07-06-International-Day-Against-DRM
14:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiMUC/2017-06-02_Workshop:_Wie_fu…
15: https://wiki.sha2017.org/w/Village:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe
16: http://blog.3rik.cc/2017/06/join-us-now-at-sha2017/
17: https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute
18: http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
19: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus
= FSFE Newsletter - June 2017 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201706.es.html ]
== New European Interoperability Framework urges public administrations to use and contribute to Free Software ==
After a round of public consultation last year, the 'new' European
Interoperability Framework [1] (EIF) was finally published in March
2017. In alignment with our answers [2] to the public consultation, and
with the general responses [3] from citizens and businesses that
demanded more Free Software within public e-services, the revised EIF
includes a recommendation to public administrations across Europe to
ensure a level playing field for Free Software and demonstrate active
and fair consideration of using Free Software when offering e-services.
In addition, the new EIF urges public administrations to not only use
Free Software but "whenever possible contribute to the pertinent
developer communities". This is a significant improvement in comparison
to the previous EIF v.2, and explicit acknowledgement of Free Software
being essential for ensuring better interoperablity. The down side is
that similar to the communication on "ICT Standardisation Priorities for
the Digital Single Market" [4], the new EIF unfortunately does not
sufficiently address the obstacles that so-called "fair, reasonable, and
non-discriminatory" (FRAND) licensing terms create for Free Software. By
basing its licensing policy of Open Standards on FRAND, the EIF
unfortunately does not allow Free Software projects to participate in
offering their services to public administrations.
For more background on this topic read our article "Why is FRAND bad for
Free Software?" [5]
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== What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE ==
- Jonas Öberg, the FSFE's executive director, explains an upcoming
project [7] by the FSFE to facilitate automation in the software
toolchain by helping to automatically identify the license in use.
- Daniel Pocock, our newly elected FSFE Fellowship Representative, is
organising a meetup to build a food computer in Zurich. In his blog,
Daniel explains [8] what it is about and the project's connection to
Free Software.
- Heiki Löhmus, Vice President of the FSFE, gave a workshop [9] about
using Free Software for STEM education at DORS/CLUC in Zagreb,
Croatia.
- Polina Malaja, the FSFE's Legal Coordinator and Policy Analyst,
participated in a panel discussion about "Towards an Internet of
People: A progressive new deal for technology" at Diem25 [10] in
Berlin.
- Matthias Kirschner, President of the FSFE, participated in a panel
discussion [11] about how data, code, and algorithms are influencing
our lives and the economy at the German Church Day in Magdeburg,
Germany. There is also a video recording available [12].
- Erik Albers, the FSFE's Community and Communication Coordinator, gave
the opening talk at the Open Tech Summit 2017 about "The Digital-o-Mat
or how to set Free Software as a topic for democratic elections". The
FSFE was also present with a booth.
- Maurice Verheesen, the FSFE's country coordinator Netherlands, gave a
keynote about public money, public code at the Open Source event in
Tilburg, the Netherlands.
- Franz Gratzer, one of the FSFE's volunteer designers, was giving a
workshop about GIMP basics [13] at the Linuxwochen Wien 2017. The FSFE
group Vienna was also present with a booth.
- The FSFE-Group Munich, Germany, was present with a booth at the Munich
street festival "Corso Leopold" to inform people about the FSFE and
our work for Free Software.
- Matthias Kirschner gave the keynote at the openSUSE conference [14]
2017 in Nürnberg, Germany, about Limux and what the Free Software
community can learn from it. There is also a video recording available
[15].
- Fellows from Madrid, Spain, have been at the OpenExpo with a booth to
inform people about FSFE and our work for Free Software.
- Polina Malaja gave a presentation about the current status of Radio
'Lockdown' Directive [16] during the Wireless Community Weekend [17]
in Berlin.
- Frank Karlitschek blogs about [18] our ethical responsibility towards
technology and software.
- Matthias Kirschner, Polina Malaja, and Daniel Pocock have been at the
Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL) to talk about "Empowering
people to control technology", "EU level and software freedom" and
"Free Real-Time Communications with Free Software". The FSFE was also
represented with a booth.
- The FSFE group Vienna was present with a booth at the veganmania [19]
to inform people about FSFE and our work for Free Software.
== Help us to improve our newsletter ==
If you see some news you think that should be included, forward it to
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address is newsletter(a)fsfe.org. We're looking forward to hearing from
you!
Thanks to all the volunteers [20], supporters [21] and donors [22] who
make our work possible.
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2: https://fsfe.org/activities/os/eif-v3
3: http://ec.europa.eu/isa2/sites/isa/files/eif-public-consultation-factual-su…
4: https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160428-02
5: https://fsfe.org/activities/os/why-frand-is-bad-for-free-software
6: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-06
7: http://blog.jonasoberg.net/automating-the-software-toolchain/
8: https://danielpocock.com/hacking-the-food-chain-in-switzerland
9: https://2017.dorscluc.org/talk/2/
10: https://diem25.org/diem25-returns-to-berlin-to-develop-its-political-roadma…
11: https://theonet.de/2017/05/29/freie-daten-freies-teilen-frei-sein/
12: https://k7r.eu/free-software-at-church-days/
13: https://cfp.linuxwochen.at/de/LWW17/public/events/547
14: https://k7r.eu/recording-for-limux-the-loss-of-a-lightouse/
15: https://media.ccc.de/v/1458-limux-the-loss-of-a-lighthouse
16: https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective
17: https://wiki.freifunk.net/Wireless_Community_Weekend_2017/Timetable
18: https://karlitschek.de/2017/06/is-doing-nothing-evil/
19: http://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2017/06/04/booth-at-linuxwochen-and-veg…
20: https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute
21: http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
22: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus
= Boletín de la FSFE - Mayo 2017 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201705.es.html ]
== Daniel Pocock es el nuevo representante de la Fellowship ==
Del 10 al 24 de abril de 2017, la FSFE ha celebrado la novena votación
anual donde se eligió un representante de la Fellowship [1] para
representar a la comunidad FSFE y a los Fellowships en la Asamblea
General de la FSFE [2]. La Asamblea General está formada por miembros de
la FSFE e.V. y es su órgano de representación. Es responsable de la
planificación estratégica, la elaboración de los presupuestos, el
establecimiento de la agenda, la exoneración y la elección y destitución
del Consejo Ejecutivo y del Director Financiero. Y el ganador de las
elecciones de este año es ... ¡Daniel Pocock! [3]
Daniel Pocock [4] fue el elegido entre los siete candidatos que se
postularon para el cargo, con una autodescripción en nuestra wiki para
las Elecciones de Fellowship 2017 [5] y participando en la campaña
electoral pública [6]. Desafortunadamente se anunciaron dos fechas
diferentes para la campaña electoral, pero el archivo de registro está
disponible en línea para todos los que se lo perdieron.
La FSFE le agradece a Nicolas Dietrich, ex representante de la
Fellowship, sus contribuciones en los dos últimos años y saluda a Daniel
Pocock como nuevo representante. Por favor mira las conclusiones
personales de Daniel en su propio blog [7].
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== ¿Qué más hemos hecho? Dentro y fuera de la FSFE ==
- Desde 26 hasta el 28 de abril, el taller anual sobre Legislación y
Licencias del Software Libre de la FSFE (LLW) [9] se realizó en
Barcelona, España. Este año reunimos a 120 expertos legales de todo
el mundo para compartir sus conocimientos y experiencias en un acto de
3 días que abarcó más de 35 presentaciones sobre numerosos temas
legales, desde open data [10] a herramientas, patentes de software y
los desafíos existentes a las licencias de Software Libre [11].
- Armijn Hemel y Shane Coughlan, miembros del Equipo Legal de la FSFE,
publicaron una guía [12] para startups, pequeñas empresas e ingenieros
en "Uso práctico de la GPL" [13]. La guía está diseñada para
desmitificar el cumplimiento de la GPL y facilitar el trabajo a los
ingenieros en un nivel práctico.
- Renania del Norte-Westfalia, el estado más poblado de Alemania, tiene
elecciones generales el 14 de mayo de 2017. La FSFE se unió a una
"coalición por el conocimiento Libre" que ha desarrollado por primera
vez un "Digital-o-Mat" [14]. El "Digital-o-Mat" es una herramienta
para ayudar a los votantes que están preocupados por los derechos
digitales y las libertades, para decidir a qué partido votar durante
estas elecciones. Ocho preguntas orientan a los usuarios en la
elección de sus propias preferencias en temas importantes sobre la
sociedad digital - por ejemplo preguntas sobre el uso de Software
Libre, Datos Abiertos o Recursos Educativos Abiertos. Después de
rellenarlos, los usuarios verán qué partido coincide mejor con sus
propias preferencias y además pueden buscar explicaciones detalladas
sobre las posiciones del partido en relación con cada tema. La
interfaz para Renania del Norte-Westfalia es en alemán, el Software
subyacente [15] es Software Libre y libre de adaptar para otros fines.
- En Planeta FSFE [16], hemos tenido un interesante debate surgido de
nuestro director ejecutivo Jonas Öberg, director ejecutivo de la FSFE,
quien argumenta que a veces se puede utilizar software propietario
para ampliar el software libre y de código abierto [17] Aunque debe
ser consciente del riesgo de backfired. Y Daniel Pocock, nuestro nuevo
representante de la Fellowship, respondió con el "riesgo del software
propietario" y que "ningún trato puede ser mejor que un mal trato"
[18], lo que significa que si no puedes lograr algo con el Software
Libre debes considerar simplemente hacerlo sin él.
- Paul Hänsch, uno de los administradores de sistemas de la FSFE,
organizó la primera reunión de cuidadores de wiki física [19]. Los
cuidadores de la wiki son un equipo de voluntarios [20] que ayudan a
organizar la información dentro de la wiki y facilitan que otros
contribuyan.
- El monitoreo muestra [21] que en el último semestre nueve Regiones
italianas han reducido la publicidad de lectores de PDF propietarios
en su sitio web, y que una Región ha aumentado su apoyo a los lectores
PDF de Software Libre [22].
- El director ejecutivo de la FSFE, Jonas Öberg, bloguea sobre "una
nueva comprensión de la gestión sin ánimo de lucro" y utiliza este
nuevo entendimiento para analizar las características de la FSFE [23]
en los usos de la tecnocracia, la jerarquía, la innovación y la
dirección-orientación. Jonas cierra su análisis con algunas
reflexiones sobre la forma en que le gustaría ver evolucionar a la
FSFE.
- La FSFE estuvo presente con stands en la Linke Medien Akademie [24] en
Berlín/Alemania, en la 16ª Augsburger Linux Info Tag en
Augsburgo/Alemania, FOSS Norte en Göteborg/Suecia y Linuxtage en
Graz/Austria.
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2: http://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/GA
3: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170425-01
4: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/FellowshipElection_2017#Daniel_Po…
5: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/FellowshipElection_2017
6: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/FellowshipElection_2017#Hustings
7: https://danielpocock.com/fsfe-fellowship-representative-and-upcoming-events
8: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-05
9: https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/legal-conference.en.html
10: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/721540/7831c0949927d665/
11: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/721458/be70cd561648d22f/
12: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-and-free-software-…
13: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/research/practical-gpl-compliance
14: https://www.digital-o-mat.de/
15: https://github.com/dsstio/digital-o-mat
16: http://planet.fsfe.org/
17: http://blog.jonasoberg.net/using-proprietary-software-for-freedom/
18: https://danielpocock.com/risks-of-using-proprietary-software
19: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/WikiCaretakers/Hackathon2017
20: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/WikiCaretakers
21: https://www.taringamberini.com/en/blog/fsfe/adoption-of-free-software-pdf-r…
22: https://pdfreaders.org/
23: http://blog.jonasoberg.net/towards-a-new-understanding-of-non-profit-manage…
24: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2017/LiMA
25: https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute
26: http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
27: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus
= Boletín de la FSFE - Abril 2017 =
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== Software Libre en el plan de acción de la AGA alemana ==
El pasado diciembre, Alemania se unió a la Asociación de Gobierno
Abierto [1] y ahora tiene hasta junio de 2017 para desarrollar y decidir
un plan de acción. El aumento de la transparencia y la información
continua, la eficacia gubernamental y la administración amigable para el
ciudadano, son parte de los objetivos del Gobierno Abierto.
La FSFE ha trabajado junto con otras organizaciones y el "grupo de
trabajo de la AGA" alemana para sintetizar el tema del Software Libre en
el contexto de Gobierno Abierto y proporcionar puntos de acción
concretos, junto con una breve pero esclarecedora introducción en el
tema y una visión para 2030. Las recomendaciones fueron presentadas al
gobierno alemán en marzo.
La propuesta fue el resultado de un taller, realizado por el gobierno
alemán en febrero, con la participación de numerosos representantes de
la sociedad civil, incluyendo la FSFE. Mediante la publicación de
nuestras sugerencias [2], esperamos poder permitir que los actores de la
sociedad civil en todo el mundo aprendan de la discusión de la AGA en
Alemania y usar estas sugerencias en otros países.
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== ¿Qué hemos hecho? Dentro y fuera de la FSFE ==
- En las elecciones holandesas, Freedomvote.nl, [4] iniciado por el
grupo holandés de la FSFE, comparó las posturas de los partidos sobre
la libertad digital y no sólo ayudaron a los votantes a formarse una
opinión, sino que también mostró lo que se puede esperar de las
políticas digitales de los partidos recién elegidos.
- El mes pasado, fuimos admitidos como una organización asociada,
Dyne.org - una organización sin ánimo de lucro/depósito [5] con más de
10 años de experiencia en el desarrollo de herramientas y
descripciones de Software Libre para la potenciación de la comunidad.
- El 7 de marzo, Matthias Kirschner puso a LiMux en el candelero [6] en
la charla que dio en el 58. Netzpolitischer Abend [7] en Berlín y el
28 de marzo, compartió sus opiniones con el público en el Instituto
ISCTE – Universidad de Lisboa en Portugal [8] sobre las formas de
empoderar a las personas para utilizar la tecnología. Matías también
participó en un largo podcast en alemán sobre LiMux [9].
- Los días 11 y 12 de marzo, la FSFE volvió a Chemnitzer Linux-Tage,
[10] la Conferencia de Software Libre más grande de Alemania,
celebrada en la Universidad de Chemnitz. Organizamos un stand de
información y Max Mehl habló sobre lo sucedido con la Directiva de
Radio de la Unión Europea "Lockdown" [11].
- El 20 de marzo, Olga Gkotsopoulou, Polina Malaja y Lusy Vaseva
presentaron el documento con la Postura de la FSFE sobre el apoyo del
Software Libre y los Estándares Abiertos en Horizonte 2020 y toda la
investigación en inversiones públicas [12] y facilitaron un debate
sobre el papel del Software Libre en la Ciencia Abierta en El Barcamp
de Ciencia Abierta en Berlín [13].
- La Fundación del Software Libre anunció los ganadores de los Premios
de Software Libre 2016 [14] en la Conferencia LibrePlanet 2017. El
premio a proyectos de beneficio Social fue otorgado a SecureDrop, una
plataforma de denuncia anónima, mantenido por la Fundación por la
Libertad de Prensa, mientras que el Premio por el Avance del Software
Libre fue para Alexandre Oliva, un defensor del Software Libre y el
proyecto GNU.
- El grupo de Viena de la FSFE puso un stand de información en el
Festival Veganomania de 2017. [15]
- Jonas Öberg escribió sobre la necesidad de trabajar más con los
gobiernos y los municipios locales [16] para fomentar políticas
amigables con el Software Libre en la adquisición y desarrollo de
sistemas IT. El equipo de la FSFE de políticas ha intensificado sus
esfuerzos en esta dirección y pide el apoyo de todo el mundo. [17]
- Si está interesado en las discusiones sobre Software libre en Android,
puede inscribirse en la lista de correo de android de la FSFE [18],
que Matthias Kirschner destacó en su introducción a instalar Signal
sin una cuenta de Google o Google Play [19].
- En febrero, celebramos el día de "Amo el Software Libre" por octavo
año consecutivo [20]. Personas en todo el mundo aprovecharon la
ocasión para declarar su amor y cariño no sólo a los conocidos, sino a
toda la comunidad del Software Libre. Las celebraciones de este año
tuvieron de todo: un photobooth FOSDEM en Bruselas [21], cartas y
flores para el Parlamento alemán [22], las proyecciones de luz en las
calles de Berlín [23] y Francfort [24], creativas obras de arte [25],
un brillante programa de actos IloveFS, memes graciosos [26],
canciones, microblogging, así como muchos blogs de particulares,
políticos y organizaciones de apoyo.
- ¿Está actualmente estudiando? ¿Son las prácticas obligatorias en su
plan de estudios? ¿Habla con fluidez Inglés y Alemán y está interesado
en el Software Libre? Entonces, visite nuestro nuevo anuncio de
becarios [27], Para un puesto en nuestra oficina en Berlín, entre
junio y octubre 2017. Y no olvide, que todavía estamos en condiciones
de aceptar becarios adicionales para el 2017. ¡Solicitelo ya [28] y no
pierda la oportunidad de ser parte de un gran equipo internacional y
variado, con sede en Berlín!
== Actívate ==
Elección de Fellowship 2017: Según nuestra constitución [29], hay dos
escaños en la Asamblea General [30] reservados a los representantes
elegidos de nuestros Fellows. El mandato tiene una duración de dos años
y un escaño se elige anualmente. El proceso electoral 2017 cubre el
período desde el 10 de abril hasta el 24 de abril. Se presentan ocho
candidatos para la Asamblea General de la FSFE. Puede ver la lista de
candidatos, junto con sus manifiestos y curriculums, así como el
calendario de las elecciones y procedimiento de votación en nuestra
página dedicada a las elecciones de Fellowship 2017 [31]. Todo Fellow
con derecho a votar recibirá automáticamente un correo electrónico con
toda la información necesaria.
== Ayudarnos a mejorar nuestro boletín de noticias ==
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desea compartir alguna idea, nos la envía. La dirección es como siempre
newsletter(a)fsfe.org. ¡Esperamos tener noticias de usted!
Gracias a todos los voluntarios [32], simpatizantes [33] y donantes [34]
que hacen posible nuestro trabajo.
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4: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170302-01.en.html
5: https://fsfe.org/associates/associates.en.html
6: ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPd5N2Y5nuM
7: https://digitalegesellschaft.de/2017/03/58-npa/
8: https://ansol.org/FSFE-palestra
9: http://www.pietcast.com/folge-0026-limux/
10: https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2017/en
11: https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/index.html
12: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/oscibar2017_session17
13: https://www.open-science-conference.eu/barcamp/
14: http://www.fsf.org/news/securedrop-and-alexandre-oliva-are-2016-free-softwa…
15: https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2017/03/10/booth-veganmania-indoor-201…
16: http://blog.jonasoberg.net/policy-whys-that
17: https://fsfe.org/fellowship/ams/join.php?ams=join
18: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/android
19: https://k7r.eu/testing-signal-without-google-account/
20: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170315-01.en.html
21: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.en.html
22: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/graphics/ilovefs-roses.jpg
23: http://bit.ly/2ltZM4H
24: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blixxter/32872437596/
25: http://www.elektrollart.de/?p=4503
26: https://blog.3rik.cc/2017/02/free-software-ergo-sum/
27: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170321-01.de.html
28: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170116-01.html
29: https:///www.fsfe.org/about/legal/constitution.html#id-fellowship-seats
30: https:///www.fsfe.org/about/team#general-assembly
31: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Migrated/FellowshipElection_2017
32: https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html
33: http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join/nltr17
34: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html
35: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-04
= FSFE Newsletter - March 2017 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201703.es.html ]
== The Chronicles of LiMux ==
In February, the news about LiMux shook the world. LiMux, a project run
by the city of Munich and completed in 2013, constitutes one of the
finest examples of vendor-neutral administration based on Free Software;
during its execution phase, 15,000 personal computers and laptops used
by public administrations were migrated to Free Software.
In a surprise move, a coalition of parties filed a motion with minimal
lead time before the city council, asking for the abolishment of the
project and the return into proprietary solutions.
The response by the community was immediate and formidable. FSFE's
Deputy Coordinator for Germany, Björn Schießle, describes what followed
[1]. An ad-hoc coalition was formed by the FSFE, the Document
Foundation, KDE and OSBA, collecting questions around the motion and its
related processes. Members of the city council were contacted prior to
the public hearing and FSFE supporters in Germany and Austria were
invited to engage, contacting politicians on the issue. Media coverage
in multiple languages [2] was additionally created.
During the public hearing, participating parties quoted some of our
questions, and admitted they had never before received so much input
from the public. The result of the hearing was a modified motion passed
on February 15, calling the administration to propose a strategy for the
unification of the city's client-side IT architecture by the end of
2020, building on a yet-to-be-developed proprietary client and
guaranteeing maximal compatibility with the existing solutions.
The FSFE does not claim LiMux has solved all the problems. However, we
do claim these problems are mostly of organisational nature, and as such
must be disconnected from the technical side. Public infrastructure must
remain independent of single software vendors, and invest into common
assets, which are provided by Free Software.
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== What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE ==
- For #IloveFS, André translated [4] the Free Software song.
- After last year's successful pre-FOSDEM meeting, the FSFE and
OpenForum Europe continued the tradition of bringing together active
Free Software stakeholders during a prior to FOSDEM public policy
related event. This year's meeting [5] offered the opportunity to
individual citizens and decision-makers to exchange their views on the
basis of practical first-hand information concerning Free Software in
public policy.
- For 16 years, FSFE has been present at FOSDEM with a booth, numerous
volunteers and staff. Reinhard Müller, FOSDEM booth coordinator,
describes in his report [6] the great atmosphere among the booth
volunteers and how an outstanding amount of merchandise and
promotional material was distributed during the 2 days of the event.
- In 2016, Europe welcomed three new umbrella organizations [7] for Free
Software (and hardware) projects: Public Software CIC, The Commons
Conservancy, and the Center for the Cultivation of Technology.
Standing by the needs of the community, the brand-new organisations
provide a legal entity for projects to join, with regards to
donations, accounting, grants, legal compliance, or even sophisticated
governance. These administrative services allow projects to focus on
technical and community matters.
== Get active ==
We're still able to accept additional student interns for 2017. If
you're currently studying and are required to do an internship as part
of your studies, or if you've not yet graduated and want to do a
voluntary internship, you should apply now [8].
== Help us to improve our newsletter ==
If you see some news you think should be included, forward it to us. If
you'd like to share any thoughts, send them to us. The address is as
always newsletter(a)fsfe.org. We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Thanks to all volunteers [9], supporters [10] and donors [11] who make
our work possible.
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4: https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2017/02/14/ilovefs-2017-vrije-software-lied/
5: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170214-02
6: https://blogs.fsfe.org/reinhard/2017/02/fosdem-2017/
7: https://lwn.net/Articles/713073/
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= FSFE Newsletter - February 2017 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201702.es.html ]
== Why Open Science matters and the FSFE's position on Horizon 2020 ==
"Open Science" is an emerging movement that asks to transfer the four
freedoms that we practice in Free Software into science. Although it is
still emerging, Open Science receives more and more strategic importance
for decision-makers. In the eyes of financial ministers of the European
Union, Open Science produces and uses a lot of Open Data, which in turn
has the potential for big economic benefits. The "European Cloud
Initiative", for example, is part of the European Commission's strategy
for Open Science, intended for building a "competitive data and
knowledge economy in Europe" [1]. It aims at strengthening Europe's
position in data-driven innovation and is thus considered to become an
important part of the European Digital Single Market. Or, as the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development puts it:
"Encouraging the sharing and re-use of research data could generate more
value for public money" [2].
With this in mind, the FSFE targets Free Software to be part of this
emerging field of European Open Science from the beginning. As all
research, data processing and archiving nowadays heavily depends on
software, it is a chance to jump on the bandwagon and define Free
Software as a precondition of Open Science. As one course of action, we
wrote a position paper for the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 [3],
the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80
billion of funding available.
The FSFE's position paper explains how Free Software and Open Standards
are fundamental to Open Science [4] and we therefore ask for all
publicly-funded research in Europe to mandatorily use and develop Free
Software and Open Standards. With the "European Cloud Initiative" in
mind, we explicitly ask that "Data and software repositories and Data
Management Plans (DMPs) must employ Free Software in order to ensure
unfettered access to their contents and long term preservation" [5].
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== What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE ==
- To underpin the demands of the position paper we wrote for the interim
evaluation of Horizon 2020 (see above), we filed a Freedom of
Information request to the European Commission’s Directorate-General
for Research and Innovation [7] to ask about the use, development and
release of (Free) software under Horizon2020. We will keep you updated
about any response.
- We published our annual report [8] with insights about our policy
work, campaigns and events in 2016 as well as a preview for 2017.
- In August 2016, the FSFE joined the Advisory Board of The Document
Foundation [9]. Now, The Document Foundation opens up the LibreOffice
Certification for Migrations and Trainings [10] to members of not-for-
profit organisations on their Advisory Board, including the FSFE.
- We published a report of the first ever FSFE summit [11] that happened
in September 2016. The report includes reflections, impressions,
pictures and the full schedule with links to the abstract, slides and
video recordings of each talk, if available. If you missed the summit,
this report is your chance to catch up on it.
- The FSFE's assembly during the 33rd edition of the Chaos Communication
Congress (33C3) [12] was a big success thanks to our highly motivated
team behind the booth and the high quality of 21 sessions in three
days that have been realized by our session hosts. Read Erik's report
and see the pictures for more insights [13].
- Like every year, FSFE staff and many team members will be at FOSDEM
and we have a big booth in the K building [14]. If you come to FOSDEM
take the chance to meet the FSFE or individual members.
- "Barcelona Free Software" [15] is a local group in Barcelona and an
open space for coders and users who love Free Software. Following a
team decision at the end of 2016, Barcelona Free Software now is an
associated organisation of the FSFE [16].
- Would you like to work with us in the FSFE or you know somehow who
would like to? In 2017, we are looking for new student interns [17] to
join our team and who like to get to know a world full of Free
Software.
== Get active ==
February 14 is "I love Free Software day", the day to say thank you to
all the people behind Free Software. Use this day to show your love for
your favorite Free Software and check out our campaign page in advance
to get some ideas and inspiration: http://www.ilovefs.org [18]
== Good Free Software News ==
The Paris Declaration on Open Government [19], introduced during the OGP
Paris Summit last December, aims at establishing cooperation between
countries and civil societies throughout 2017. The Declaration is
composed of 21 collective action items with the accomplishment of open
public procurement and formation of effective Free Software policies
listed among them [20].
== Help us to improve our newsletter ==
Do you think we have missed some news, or you'd like specific news to
appear in the next newsletter? Please share this and any other feedback
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Thanks to all the volunteers [21], Fellows [22] and corporate donors
[23] who enable our work,
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== Why Open Science matters and the FSFE's position on Horizon 2020 ==
"Open Science" is an emerging movement that asks to transfer the four
freedoms that we practice in Free Software into science. Although it is
still emerging, Open Science receives more and more strategic importance
for decision-makers. In the eyes of financial ministers of the European
Union, Open Science produces and uses a lot of Open Data, which in turn
has the potential for big economic benefits. The "European Cloud
Initiative", for example, is part of the European Commission's strategy
for Open Science, intended for building a "competitive data and
knowledge economy in Europe" [1]. It aims at strengthening Europe's
position in data-driven innovation and is thus considered to become an
important part of the European Digital Single Market. Or, as the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development puts it:
"Encouraging the sharing and re-use of research data could generate more
value for public money" [2].
With this in mind, the FSFE targets Free Software to be part of this
emerging field of European Open Science from the beginning. As all
research, data processing and archiving nowadays heavily depends on
software, it is a chance to jump on the bandwagon and define Free
Software as a precondition of Open Science. As one course of action, we
wrote a position paper for the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 [3],
the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80
billion of funding available.
The FSFE's position paper explains how Free Software and Open Standards
are fundamental to Open Science [4] and we therefore ask for all
publicly-funded research in Europe to mandatorily use and develop Free
Software and Open Standards. With the "European Cloud Initiative" in
mind, we explicitly ask that "Data and software repositories and Data
Management Plans (DMPs) must employ Free Software in order to ensure
unfettered access to their contents and long term preservation" [5].
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== What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE ==
- To underpin the demands of the position paper we wrote for the interim
evaluation of Horizon 2020 (see above), we filed a Freedom of
Information request to the European Commission’s Directorate-General
for Research and Innovation [7] to ask about the use, development and
release of (Free) software under Horizon2020. We will keep you updated
about any response.
- We published our annual report [8] with insights about our policy
work, campaigns and events in 2016 as well as a preview for 2017.
- In August 2016, the FSFE joined the Advisory Board of The Document
Foundation [9]. Now, The Document Foundation opens up the LibreOffice
Certification for Migrations and Trainings [10] to members of not-for-
profit organisations on their Advisory Board, including the FSFE.
- We published a report of the first ever FSFE summit [11] that happened
in September 2016. The report includes reflections, impressions,
pictures and the full schedule with links to the abstract, slides and
video recordings of each talk, if available. If you missed the summit,
this report is your chance to catch up on it.
- The FSFE's assembly during the 33rd edition of the Chaos Communication
Congress (33C3) [12] was a big success thanks to our highly motivated
team behind the booth and the high quality of 21 sessions in three
days that have been realized by our session hosts. Read Erik's report
and see the pictures for more insights [13].
- Like every year, FSFE staff and many team members will be at FOSDEM
and we have a big booth in the K building [14]. If you come to FOSDEM
take the chance to meet the FSFE or individual members.
- "Barcelona Free Software" [15] is a local group in Barcelona and an
open space for coders and users who love Free Software. Following a
team decision at the end of 2016, Barcelona Free Software now is an
associated organisation of the FSFE [16].
- Would you like to work with us in the FSFE or you know somehow who
would like to? In 2017, we are looking for new student interns [17] to
join our team and who like to get to know a world full of Free
Software.
== Get active ==
February 14 is "I love Free Software day", the day to say thank you to
all the people behind Free Software. Use this day to show your love for
your favorite Free Software and check out our campaign page in advance
to get some ideas and inspiration: http://www.ilovefs.org [18]
== Good Free Software News ==
The Paris Declaration on Open Government [19], introduced during the OGP
Paris Summit last December, aims at establishing cooperation between
countries and civil societies throughout 2017. The Declaration is
composed of 21 collective action items with the accomplishment of open
public procurement and formation of effective Free Software policies
listed among them [20].
== Help us to improve our newsletter ==
Do you think we have missed some news, or you'd like specific news to
appear in the next newsletter? Please share this and any other feedback
by writing to newsletter(a)fsfe.org
Thanks to all the volunteers [21], Fellows [22] and corporate donors
[23] who enable our work,
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3: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170105-01
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5: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170105-01
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7: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170110-01
8: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170109-01.en.html
9: https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160817-01
10: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/12/27/the-document-foundation…
11: https://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/summit/backsight
12: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2016/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_…
13: http://blog.3rik.cc/2017/01/worked-for-us-thank-you-33c3/
14: https://fosdem.org/2017/practical/transportation/
15: http://bcnfs.org/
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= FSFE Annual Report 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170109-01.es.html ]
It has been a busy year for the FSFE. Upholding the principles of Free
Software and protecting citizens' from being exploited are ongoing
challenges we tackled from a variety of angles. We (and by "we", we mean
the staff and volunteers at the FSFE) pored over hundreds of pages of
policies and legislations, looking for loopholes through which Free
Software could be attacked.
We travelled to events all over Europe, often carrying with us dozens of
heavy boxes of merchandising, to explain what Free Software is all about
as speakers and attendees. We have organised our own events too
including our first international summit.
And we have dreamt up and executed campaigns to spread awareness of the
threats to Free Software and users' freedoms. This has entailed
mobilising dozens of staff members and volunteers, contacting the media,
and designing and ordering T-shirts, squishy stress balls/hearts, and
balloons, lots of balloons.
What follows are just a few of the highlights from 2016.
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== Policies and Legislation ==
We have been carefully monitoring policies and legislation in Europe and
intervened when citizens' rights were in peril. We have formulated
several proposals to EU institutions and EU member states containing
concrete steps to solve the issues with the EU Radio Directive [2].
This Directive threatens software freedom with its ambiguous phrasing
that all but forbids users from installing unapproved software (read
"Free operating systems") on radio-enabled devices. These devices
include all modern laptops, wireless routers and every single smartphone
in existence. Over 40 European organisations and enterprises support our
concerns and demands.Max Mehl and Polina Malaja will be doing follow-up
on this with along with our volunteers and other organisations to make
sure you can still install Free Software on those devices.
Another threat to Free Software is the EC's stance on the Digital Single
Market strategy. We have patiently explained several times why FRAND
licensing [3], the licensing favoured by the Commission in its "ICT
Standardisation Priorities for the Digital Single Market", is
incompatible with Free Software and why a more liberal model should be
used. This is still an ongoing battle.
Staying with the EC, we tried to help out on the "Free and Open Source
Security Audit" (FOSSA) [4] project, commissioned jointly by the
European Parliament. The project should have helped evaluate the
suitability of the Free Software used in public administrations. A
professional audit of Free Software tools and frameworks would seem a
good thing at first glance, an excellent way to test run software and
improve it when bugs and vulnerabilities pop up. At the very least it
would help protect citizens' data stored on public servers.
However, after reading the results, it was not clear the time and money
invested into the study had been well-spent. The conclusions were
sometimes vague and some parts directly wrong. Despite our best efforts,
the company employed to do the survey did not seem to know much about
Free Software at all.
That said, the EC and MEPs in charge of the project, were always open to
our comments and able to push for improvements, although they were bound
to a contract with consultants who were not too knowledgeable about Free
Software matters. Viewed as a pilot, it helped everybody see where the
pitfalls were. With a bigger budget and the lessons learnt, the EU is
planning to follow our advice and improve the project in future
iterations.
We even put the law to the test, and our colleague Max Mehl, the FSFE
coordinator for Germany, sent out "alternative" routers to testers [5]
so they could try them with their Internet provider. We published the
results on our Wiki [6] to help others who are thinking of changing
their devices.
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== Campaigns ==
But not all our campaigns have been so serious. We have also carried out
a campaigns to raise awareness about Free Software amongst the general
public, and here "light-hearted" is literally the keyword. We launched
our 6th "I love FS" campaign [8] on Valentine's day. During this
campaign, we encouraged all our friends to make a display of love
towards Free Software by telling the world, online with posts to social
media, or offline, with public demonstrations of FS love.
Online, we got tweets and blog posts from users, volunteers and
sympathizers explaining what they loved most about their favourite Free
Software project. Offline, we had at least one cake baked by the
WikiMedia Foundation, gifs of people squeezing our #ilovefs stress
heart, and pictures of people from all over Europe waving our "<3 Free
Software" balloons.
In a similar vein, we wanted to help the general media, local
newspapers, radios and TV stations, to know more about Free Software. To
this end we started our "Meet a Free Software Hero" campaign. Part of
our larger 15th Anniversary celebration campaign [9], we encouraged
volunteers and media outlets to get in touch with each other so that the
"heroes" could explain what software freedom was all about, and bust a
few myths at the same time.
Thanks to the campaign, we managed to increase our profile with the
media and it has now become much more usual for journalists to get in
touch with us to comment on stories. This gives us more visibility and
influence to affect changes in favour of Free Software.
== Events ==
Another way of reaching a wider audience was through events. Apart from
participating in Free Software-specific conferences like FOSDEM,
LinuxCon and different Linuxtage (we took the FSFE booth to all of
these), we also participated in the Wear Fair and more [10]. This event
is Austria's largest textile fair for sustainable clothing and
lifestyle, and covers from organic food, to DIY electronic repairs. The
themes of sustainability, individual personal freedom and alternative
economic models helped our Foundation fit right in and we sold plenty of
T-shirts, bags and baby vests. We also collected contact information of
people interested in our cause.
But we are prouder of the two big events we organised ourselves. In
April we held our annual Legal and Licensing Workshop [11]. This
Workshop is set up by and for members of the FSFE's Legal Network. Legal
experts from all sectors of the industry got together to discuss
licenses, compliance and what constitutes derivative work for three days
in balmy Barcelona.
Speakers included Harald Welte of gpl-violations.org fame; Miriam
Ballhausen from JBB; and Eben Moglen, chairman of the Software Freedom
Law Center.
Our Legal Coordinator Polina Malaja together with our trainee Olga
Gkotsopoulou are already busy planning next years conference which we
expect to be at least as successful as 2016's.
Similarly exciting was our first ever FSFE Summit held in Berlin [12] in
September, in which, Erik Albers, our community builder, commandeered a
veritable army of volunteers and interns to make sure that everything
run smoothly.
Part celebration of FSFE's 15th anniversary, and everything we have
achieved over the years; part event to talk about the non-technical
aspects of Free Software [13], we covered the topics of Free Software in
business, the public sector and as a force for social advancement in
more than 50 talks. We also had our 15th birthday party.
Speakers included, among many others, the two prior presidents and the
one current president of the FSFE, that is, Georg Greve, Karsten
Gerloff, and Matthias Kirschner; Sonia Montegiove and Italo Vignoli, the
architects behind the migration to LibreOffice of the Italian Armed
Forces; and Roberto di Cosmo, co-founder along with Stefano "Zach"
Zacchiroli of SoftwareHeritage.org.
Julia Reda, MEP for the Pirate Party, closed the event [14] with a
keynote on copyright reform and made the case for Free Software on
machines critical in modern democracies. She explained, for example, why
using inauditable proprietary software on voting machines was
unacceptable.
== Strengthening the Free Software Network ==
Which brings us to the subject of how we used events to make the network
of Free Software organisations stronger. The Software Heritage mentioned
above, for example, collects programs, applications and snippets of code
distributed under free license from several sources. It aims to preserve
an encyclopedia of free code for posterity. It was clear from the start
that the FSFE and SH had a lot in common, so we supported the initiative
early on, helping them get coverage in the media and offering them a
platform to spread the word about what they do.
We also strengthened our ties with the Document Foundation by joining
its Advisory Board [15]. At the same time, The Document Foundation
became an associated organisation of the FSFE. This means that we will
be offering advice, support and suggestions on one of the most
successful Free Software projects out there: LibreOffice and all its
ecosystem. With the Document Foundation as an associated organisation,
we created official channels for the exchange of ideas, coordinate
efforts, motivate each other, and find opportunities to work together on
specific projects.
Another thing we did was to hand over the running of the FSFE's Document
Freedom Day to Document Freedom Foundation [16]. The DFD already
organises the Software Freedom Day (SFD) campaign, the Education Freedom
Day, and the Hardware Freedom Day. It seemed logical that they also
organise the Document Freedom Day. Like that they widened the range of
events of related events they offer, and it allows us to concentrate on
core Free Software topics.
== Coming up in 2017 ==
But there is still a lot of work to do and 2017 is shaping up to be an
interesting year. Although we have managed to get the ban on compulsory
routers into law, we expect that ISPs will fight back, so we will have
to be on guard for that. The threat of FRAND licensing and software
patents is never far off and we will have to continue advising lawmakers
on why these are dangerous for Free Software and the European software
industry in general. Katharina Nucon, policy coordinator of the German
Pirate Party, will be helping us with this campaign.
Most of our efforts, however, will most likely be spent pushing for
getting more public institutions to publish their software under a free
license. We want public money to pay for public code, and only public
code. Software used by public institutions is acquired, deployed and/or
developed with taxpayers' money. Making it available under a Free
license to all citizens is just the right thing to do. Furthermore, we
hope we will raise awareness amongst politicians of the importance of
using Free Software when they see its advantages.
There are several important national and regional elections scheduled
throughout Europe in 2017. Politicians are supposedly more receptive
during campaigns, so we will do our best to make candidates and parties
commit to Free Software and openness in their administrations.
We need governments to commit to improving policies that favour Free
Software across the board. It is not admissible any more that the
administration pilfer taxpayers money on proprietary software.
We need policies that help the European IT sector become much more
competitive and sustainable. There is no better way to achieve this than
incentivising the use and development of Free Software and Open
Standards.
Finally we need better policies to help promote Free Software amongst
the general public. Every European citizen must be allowed to regain
control over the technology they use once and for all.
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== TL;DR ==
This has been a long report, but if you need a summary, here goes:
Free Software improves everybody's life and the world. It is clear that
everybody have been handed the short end of the IT stick for too long.
SMEs need a level playing ground to prosper and create employment.
Private citizens and business owners must be allowed to own and control
the devices they pay for. Governments must be at the service of the
people, as must the software they pay for with people's taxes. Free
Software, Free Hardware and Open Standards solve all of the above.
All of these things should be self-evident, but apparently are not. That
is why we at the FSFE do what we do. Throughout this report we have
mentioned some of the people that work to turn these things into
reality. However, and it may sound cliché, but it doesn't make it less
true, without the continued support from you, the volunteer, the fellow,
the occasional donor, and the moral supporter, none of our staff would
be able to do anything. We rely heavily on you, your activities and your
donations to stay independent and fight for your rights when they are
threatened, regardless as to where the threat comes from.
Please help us make next year's report is as long as this one, and do
consider joining the FSFE. [18]
Best Regards,
Jonas Oberg (Executive Director) and Matthias Kirschner (President)
1: https://fsfe.org/join/an116
2: https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/
3: https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160428-02.en.html
4: http://k7r.eu/fossa-now-we-need-feedback-by-the-real-experts/
5: https://blog.mehl.mx/2016/erste-testgeraete-fuer-routerfreiheit-versendet/
6: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/CompulsoryRouters/Implementation/Germany
7: https://fsfe.org/join/an216
8: https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160222-01.en.html
9: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/15years
10: https://blog.widerstroem.com/#res:ner-page=4om/weblog/10/wear-fair-2016
11: https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/legal-conference.en.html
12: https://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/summit/backsight.en.html
13: https://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/summit/frontpage
14: https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160907-01.en.html
15: https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160817-01.en.html
16: https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160126-01.en.html
17: https://fsfe.org/join/an316
18: https://fsfe.org/join/an316
== About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==
Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to
control technology. Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our
lives; and it is important that this technology empowers rather than
restricts us. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use,
understand, adapt and share software. These rights help support other
fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, press and privacy.
The FSFE helps individuals and organisations to understand how Free
Software contributes to freedom, transparency, and self-determination.
It enhances users' rights by abolishing barriers to Free Software
adoption, encourage people to use and develop Free Software, and
provide resources to enable everyone to further promote Free Software
in Europe.
http://fsfe.org
= Hoja Informativa de la FSFE - Noviembre 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201611.es.html ]
== Consulta pública sobre nuestra Fellowship ==
Desde el 2005, la FSFE ha mantenido dos ramas diferentes: la FSFE y
nuestra Fellowship. Aunque esto tuvo sentido en un principio, se ha
vuelto cada vez más incómodos por la forma en que esto crea una
separación entre los Fellows y la FSFE como dos entidades separadas, ¡a
pesar de que todos trabajamos juntos! En consecuencia, hemos reducido
las actividades de promoción de la "Fellowship" como algo distinto de la
FSFE, y ahora hablamos más sobre "Grupos de la FSFE" en vez de "Grupos
de Fellowship", para nuestros grupos locales.
Ahora es necesario que tomemos una decisión sobre cómo desarrollar estas
ramas en el futuro. Basándonos en una discusión inicial entre los
coordinadores y nuestro equipo principal, hemos desarrollado la
propuesta que encontrará a continuación: significa fundamentalmente que
eliminaríamos la Fellowship, y acogeríamos todo bajo el paraguas de la
FSFE. Como parte importante de nuestra comunidad, su opinión es muy
valiosa para nosotros. Para esta consulta pública, estaríamos encantados
de escuchar sus ideas sobre el asunto hasta el 30 de noviembre de 2016,
tras lo cual vamos a ofrecer un resumen de la información recibida en la
que basaremos nuestra decisión.
Cualquier cambio derivados de esta propuesta, en su forma actual o en la
que le demos sobre la base de la información proporcionada, se pondrán
en práctica durante 2017. Puede proporcionar su opinión a
contact(a)fsfe.org.
Tenga en cuenta que en la propuesta, que sigue a continuaión, utilizamos
el término "Supporter" como una nueva alternativa a "Fellow". También
nos gustaría mucho saber su opinión sobre esto. Otras opciones sugeridas
incluyen "Patron", "Supporter", "Contribuyente", "Donante", al igual que
otros nombres que posiblemente pueda imaginar. También existe la opción
de mantener el nombre de "Fellow" como un término, y sólo eliminar
"Fellowship".
=== PROPUESTA ===
Se eliminan los nombres "Fellowship" y "Fellow". Las actividades
realizadas en los grupos locales o que fueron, de cualquier manera,
convocadas en conjunto con la rama "Fellowship" se colocarán bajo el
nombre "FSFE": un acto de la FSFE, un grupo local de la FSFE, y así
sucesivamente.
Nuestra "Comunidad" es cualquier persona que se identifique como parte
de la FSFE, ya sea apoyando o fomentando nuestras actividades,
contribuyendo económicamente o participando en el trabajo. Queremos que
todos formen nuestra comunidad, independientemente de su nivel de
compromiso.
Cualquiera que contribuya económicamene con la intención de hacerlo con
regularidad es un "Supporter" de la FSFE. El Consejo podrá establecer un
mínimo para la contribución periódica y tener en cuenta los costos de
transacción. Financieramente, nuestros Supporters proporcionan la base
sólida en la se apoya la FSFE: sus contribuciones financieras regulares
dan estabilidad a la organización. Llamamos a nuestros contribuyentes
esporádicos "Donantes"
Animamos a todos los que quieren tomar parte en nuestras actividades a
que se unan a alguno de nuestros equipos: ya sea un equipo temático
(como traductor, webmaster, o similar) o un equipo geográfico (el equipo
de Berlín, el equipo nórdico, y así sucesivamente). Al unirse a uno de
nuestros equipos se convierten en un "Miembro de ese equipo" (miembro
del equipo de hackers, miembro del equipo de traducción).
== EIF v.3 - los ciudadanos piden más Software Libre, mientras que las empresas tratan de promover verdaderos estándares abiertos ==
La Comisión Europea (CE) por fin ha publicado el resumen de las
contribuciones recibidas para su consulta pública sobre la revisión del
Marco Europeo de Interoperatividad[1] (EIF), un conjunto de directrices
dedicado a las administraciones públicas para ofrecer sus servicios de
gobierno electrónico. La FSFE previamente ha presentado sus comentarios
y recomendaciones sobre el proyecto de borrador propuesto[2]. De acuerdo
con los resultados de la consulta pública, la mayoría de los ciudadanos
y ciudadanas encuestados pedían más Software Libre y los Estándares
Abiertos al revisar el EIF, mientras que las encuestas entre las
empresas y organizaciones privadas pedían a la CE "promover el uso de
(auténticos) estándares abiertos y apoyar los estándares en las nuevas
tecnologías". Esperamos que la CE siga los deseos de los ciudadanos de
la UE y ponga en práctica estas recomendaciones en el EIF revisado.
== Desde la Comunidad ==
Andrea Ockers escribe sobre su participación en la primera FSFE Summit y
la celebración del 15 aniversario[3], Así como Guido Arnold, que también
blogueó sobre su experiencia en la FSFE Summit.[4]
-
Björn Schießle escribe sobre Historia y futuro de la Federación de la
Nube[5] donde explica el concepto de compartir de servidor a servidor en
OwnCloud/Nextcloud y su desarrollo en una "ID de nube federada", que se
parece a una dirección de correo electrónico. Como el correo
electrónico, "la nube federada"; se refiere a un usuario en un servidor
específico.
-
¿Le interesan las comunicaciones en tiempo real? Daniel Pocock le
estimula a convertirse en un orador y participar en el FOSDEM 2017[6],
una de las mayores conferencias del mundo que abordan los
desarrolladores de Software Libre en particular.
-
Iain R. Learmonth presenta PATHspider 1.0.0 y pone de relieve los
cambios que se han incorporado a la última versión[7] de este framework
para la realización y análisis de errores en la red.
-
David Boddie le da una explicación paso a paso sobre cómo crear imágenes
de disco para el sistema operativo Inferno[8].
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== ¿Qué más hemos hecho? ==
El actual vicepresidente de la FSFE Alessandro Rubini renunció para
centrarse en su trabajo con la comunidad del Software Libre en Italia.
Heiki Lõhmus sustituira a Alessandro, un estudiante de ingeniería
aeronáutica de Estonia[9]. Alessandro Rubini es un defensor del software
libre desde hace mucho tiempo: como Vice-presidente de la FSFE, ha
contribuido con valiosos esfuerzos a impulsar el Software Libre, no sólo
en Italia sino en toda Europa. Heiki Lõhmus ha presionado de forma
activa al Gobierno de Estonia para que publiquen el software utilizado
para las elecciones de Estonia como Software Libre y ahora recibe el
testigo como vice-presidente de la FSFE para continuar el excelente
trabajo de Alessandro.
-
La FSFE envió tres recomendaciones de acciones para fomentar el uso y la
implementación del Software Libre[10] (En alemán) al nuevo gobierno que
actualmente se está formando en el estado de Berlín.
-
El grupo local de la FSFE en Rhein/Main estuvo presente en un festival
callejero (Rotlintstraßenfest) en Frankfurt[11] para promover la FSFE y
explicar e informar a la gente sobre el Software Libre.
-
Los hackers del sistema han decidido desmantelar nuestro (muy) anticuado
servicio de edición[12]. Invitan a cualquiera que esté interesado en
ofrecer a la FSFE un servicio de edición a ponerse en contacto para
montar un nuevo equipo que pueda crear un nuevo servicio de edición.
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Entre el 24 y el 27 de octubre, el presidente de la FSFE Matthias
Kirschner y la analista política de la FSFE Polina Malaja participaron
en varios actos de la comunidad en Grecia. Dieron charlas en la
Universidad Técnica Nacional de Atenas[13], en el Atenas hackerspace[14]
(En griego) y en la Fundación Nacional Helénica para la
Investigación[15] (en griego).
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Entre el 4 y el 6 de octubre, la FSFE participó con un stand en la
LinuxCon + ContainerCon Europa 2016[16], que tuvo lugar en Berlín.
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La "FreieSoftwareOG" representó a la FSFE con un stand en Offenburg[17]
(en alemán).
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== ¡Actúa! ==
Por favor lea la propuesta sobre la rama Fellowship y envíe sus
comentarios o ideas a contact(a)fsfe.org.
== Buenas Noticias para el Software Libre ==
La autoridad de contratación pública del Estado francés renovó sus dos
contratos de servicios de soporte técnico de software libre previstos
para los ministerios y otras agencias gubernamentales[18]. Ambos
contratos fueron adjudicados al proveedor de servicios de Software Libre
francesa Linagora y se iniciaron originalmente en 2012. Más buenas
noticias de Francia y en concreto de Nantes, donde el cambio a
LibreOffice, el pasado mes de abril, ha bajado los costos TIC en 1,6
millones de euros[19] y continuará ahorrando a la administración pública
260000 euros al año.
== La FSFE en la Prensa ==
- netzpolitik.org [DE] Berliner Koalitionsverhandlungen als Chance für
Freie Software[20].
- netzpolitik.org [DE] Urheberrecht: USA erlaubt Tüfteln an eigenen
Geräten[21].
- PCMAG [EL], The President of the FSFE in Athens[22].
- Business news [EL], GFOSS: Talks about Free Software[23].
- Greek Union of Computer Engineers [EL], Free Software Day with the
FSFE President Matthias Kirschner[24].
- epixeiro.gr [EL], Free Software, Open Access and Enterpreuneship
Day[25].
== Ayúdanos a mejorar nuestro boletín ==
¿Cree que faltan algunas noticias, o le gustarían que aparecerian
noticias concretas en el próximo boletín? ¿Ha leído algo sobre la FSFE
en la prensa y le gustaría compartirlo con nosotros? Para esto y para
cualquier otra opinión, por favor, compartalo en
newsletter(a)fsfeurope.org
Gracias a todos los y las voluntarios y voluntarias[26], Fellows[27] y
donantes corporativos[28] que hacen posible nuestro trabajo,
sus editores Erik Albers, Olga Gkotsopoulou, Jonas Öberg y Polina,
Malaja FSFE[29]
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1. http://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/2016/10/31/eif-v-3-citizens-demand-for-more-fr…
2. https://fsfe.org/activities/os/eif-v3.en.html
3. https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2016/10/18/my-participation-in-the-first-fsfe-sum…
4. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2016/10/my%20-fsfe-summitqtcon/
5. http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/07/04/history-and-future-of-cloud-federation/
6. https://danielpocock.com/fosdem-2017-rtc-cfp
7. https://iain.learmonth.me/post/2016/pathspider-stable/
8. http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/www-repo/Personal/Updates/2016/2016-10-16.ht…
9. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20161031-01.en.html
10. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201610-germany-berlin-handlung…
11. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2016/10/fsfe-booth-at-street-festival-in-frankf…
12. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/System-Hackers/Decommissioning-Pad
13. https://foss.ntua.gr/wiki/index.php/%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%C…
14. https://www.hackerspace.gr/#/updates/967244
15. https://opensource.ellak.gr/2016/10/27/apologismos-imeridas-elefthero-anikt…
16. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe
17. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fast_edi/?p=502
18. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-renews-its-two-free-…
19. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/nantes-open-source-cuts-rec…
20. https://netzpolitik.org/2016/berliner-koalitionsverhandlungen-als-chance-fu…
21. https://netzpolitik.org/2016/urheberrecht-usa-erlaubt-tuefteln-an-eigenen-g…
22. https://gr.pcmag.com/eleuthero-logismiko/23652/news/o-proedros-tou-free-sof…
23. http://www.businessnews.gr/article/53076/eellak-imerida-gia-eleythero-logis…
24. http://bit.ly/2ep13c1
25. http://bit.ly/2eoYmqW
26. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html
27. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
28. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html
29. https://fsfe.org
