= FSFE Newsletter - October 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201610.es.html ]
== Words from your editors ==
After some changes to the FSFE's internship program in early September,
we're happy to be able to announce an opening for a technical intern[1]
with the FSFE. We're seeking an intern who can work with us for three
months in our Berlin office, learning about Free Software and the FSFE,
while at the same time contributing to rewriting parts of our technical
infrastructure.
In the coming months, we'll announce more internship opportunities and a
good way to get to know about them is to read this newsletter regularly.
Be sure to check out our section on taking action below for some news
about our merchandise sale and information material (we'd love to send
you more, if you've run out!).
== The Summit ==
We're still not over how cool it was to see so many from our community
join the FSFE Summit in September. It was a good experience and we're
keen to repeat it. One of the highlights was the ending keynote where
Julia Reda called out proprietary software as a threat to democracy[2].
Be sure to view the keynote and some of the other talks from the Summit,
either on our YouTube channel[3], or from our download server[4] where
you can get the available videos in webm format.
We also celebrated the FSFE's 15th birthday in C-Base with a ceremony
where we honored many of our local heroes from around Europe. C-Base has
kindly provided a recording of the ceremony[5] if you're interested in
hearing the story of some of our heroes, all of whom you can find
working in one of the FSFE's teams today.
== Are you our next technical intern? ==
As mentioned, we are looking for a technical intern to join our team for
three months, taking part in rewriting and implementing a new account
management system. This internship is based in Berlin, starting the 1st
of January 2017 or as otherwise agreed. It's compensated with a basic
salary, the details of which you can read together with other
information in our call for a technical intern[6]. We look forward to
seeing your application!
== From the community ==
David Boddie described the experiences he had exploring alternative
operating systems and in particular, Inferno[7].
-
Michał ‘mina86’ Nazarewicz offered a handful of useful Python tricks and
tips[8]
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Jonas Öberg blogged about code availability, or code contributions[9]
and introduced the changes to the FSFE internship program[10]. Subscribe
to our newsletter, if you haven't done already, in order to receive the
latest news about all the open internship vacancies in the FSFE!
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Elena "of Valhalla" explains the differences between accepting candy
from strangers and using gratis software from random sources[11].
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Polina Malaja blogged about the challenges of the EU Copyright
reform[12].
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Florian Snow shared his memories from the 3 days of the FSFE Summit[13]
in Berlin, inside and outside the BCC.
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== Other news ==
Matthew Garrett, board member of the FSF, wrote an article[14] stressing
the necessity of full user control over Internet-connected devices,
outlining some necessary practices for IoT.
== What else have we done? ==
Polina Malaja, FSFE's policy analyst and legal coordinator, together
with the FSFE's legal counsel Carlo Piana, participated in a workshop on
the interactions of Free Software and standardisation, organised by the
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in Sophia-
Antipolis, France. During the workshop, they worked to push for adoption
of strong copyleft licenses and to resolve some of the tensions around
patents.
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Continuing the practice of being present in events organised by other
communities, the FSFE was present with an Info-booth at the
Rotlintstraßenfest in Frankfurt am Main. A big thanks to the Fellowship
group Rhine/Main for making this possible!
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== Take action! ==
- We have recently collected, sorted and taken stock of some leftovers
of the merchandise we had in previous years, and we've put these items
online[15]. For most of the older items, we only have a few available,
so this is your chance to order some vintage FSFE merchandise at a
reduced price (look out for the red numbers!)
- If you're starting to run out of informational material about free
software, now may also be a good opportunity to get some more. Order
some stickers, posters and flyers from our promotional material
page[16] and we'll get them to you as soon as possible so you can help
us spread them around your company, your school, the local library, at
events, or anywhere else where you feel people should know about free
software.
- If you're not already a Fellow of the FSFE, you should consider
joining[17]. Our work wouldn't be possible without the contribution of
our Fellows and volunteers!
== The FSFE in the Press ==
- [DE] by Patrick Beuth, Zeit Online, HP sabotages its own customers[18]
- [DE] by Stefan Krempl, Heise, Free Software Summit: Campaign for
"Public Software" in Public Administrations[19]
Thanks to all the volunteers[20], Fellows[21] and corporate donors[22]
who enable our work,
Your editors, Jonas Öberg and Olga Gkotsopoulou FSFE[23]
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1. http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160930-01.html
2. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160907-01.html
3. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC68ldbHwL_-5qzETqOaAMWQ
4. https://download.fsfe.org/videos/summit2016/
5. https://vimeo.com/181328339
6. http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160930-01.html
7. http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/www-repo/Personal/Updates/2016/2016-09-01.ht…
8. https://mina86.com/2016/python-tricks/
9. http://blog.jonasoberg.net/code-availability-or-code-contributions/
10. http://blog.jonasoberg.net/internship-changes-in-the-fsfe/
11. http://social.gl-como.it/display/3e3ce0df3657cf0f075f102119218743
12. https://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/2016/09/14/copyright-reform-mo-money-to-publi…
13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/floriansnow/
14. http://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-stresses-necessity-of-full…
15. https://fsfe.org/order/
16. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword
17. http://fsfe.org/join
18. http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2016-09/digitales-rechtemanagement-drm-…
19. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Free-Software-Summit-Kampagne-fuer-o…
20. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html
21. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
22. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html
23. https://fsfe.org
= FSFE Newsletter - September 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201609.es.html ]
== Words from your editors ==
Thank you for contributing to making the FSFE Summit this past weekend a
huge success! We were excited to see so many familiar faces and we're
eager to meet again soon. Of course, the FSFE Summit was not the only
thing going on in the past month. In this newsletter you can read about
our community's other activities. In the October newsletter, we will
share more of what happened at the Summit. Stay tuned for more!
== The FSFE's 15 years ==
This year we are celebrating our 15th anniversary[1] and the culmination
of the official celebration took place during the FSFE Summit from the
2nd to the 4th of September. But this celebration should continue
throughout the year: let us use the coming weeks and months to highlight
15 years of our existence, and use this opportunity to spread the word
about free software and our work. Let us highlight our biggest
achievements, recall personal stories and share them through blog posts,
social media, mailing lists, chats and in other ways.
In order to get some inspiration about how you can contribute, you are
welcome to visit our wiki page[2] in which you will find examples and
help to contribute. Some of the work we have carried out in the last 15
years is also available on the revised FSFE timeline[3].
One of our recent accomplishments has been the creation of our FSFE
video[4] to commemorate our birthday. This video has subtitles in no
less than 12 languages, thanks to our amazing volunteer translators.
Check out our new 15th anniversary sticker, which you can order from us
to help spread the word[5], not only for yourself.
== From the community ==
- Thanks to our translators (mentioned now for the second time in this
newsletter!), we are able to reach a wide multilingual audience! The
help of our translators is crucial to our outreach. French translator
Julien Pivotto has improved the existing translation process to be
more efficient and accessible. He has written a proposal to change the
principal concept behind the process[6]. Cryptie and André Ockers held
a session about this during the summit[7].
- Paul Boddie blogged about the EOMA68 Campaign and some of its
criticisms[8]. The EOMA68 campaign later succeeded in its fundraising
and will now be put in production.
- André Ockers also convinced Dutch authorities to remove ads for a non-
free PDF reader[9] from the official website Digid.nl used to access
most of the public services in Netherlands.
- Matthias Kirschner blogged about a way to set up a slightly more
secure solution for home banking[10], letting the browser you use for
banking run separately from your other browser. In a separate post, he
also wrote an overview of the positive aspects[11] of Free Software
included in parties' positions, for the forthcoming Berlin elections.
- Jonas Öberg wrote about the FSFE's group registration with IRC network
Freenode, which makes it possible to request FSFE affiliated
cloaks[12]. He also wrote about his experience getting subtitles to
work with our FSFE video using WebVTT[13].
== What else have we done? ==
- The FSFE joined the Advisory board of the Document Foundation, whilst
the Document Foundation became an associated organisation of the
FSFE[14]. With this mutual expression of support, both organisations
will strengthen one another in their common goal to keep the general
public in the technological driver's seat.
- Erik Grun and Erik Albers aligned in the name of the FSFE with several
other organisations to run a Ask your candidates campaign[15] called
"Wahlprüfsteine". Questions have been sent to most parties in the
upcoming elections in Mecklenburg Vorpommern[16] and Berlin[17]. Their
responses have been analysed and published for the voting public.
- Since August 1st, thanks to a new German law[18], if you are the
client of a German internet provider, you have the right to use an
alternative router, ideally one running Free Software. Please provide
us feedback whether you had any issues running a new router and help
us to collect it in our wiki page[19]. In case you don't have an
alternative device at hand, the FSFE's German Coordinator Max Mehl has
already sent the first Free Software routers to volunteers[20] for
testing and we can provide more.
- The FSFE was present at FrOSCon 2016 in Sankt Augustin, where our
Policy Analyst and Legal Coordinator Polina Malaja gave a talk about
"DSM, EIF, RED: Acronyms on the EU level and why they matter for
software freedom"[21] (in English), and the German Coordinator Max
Mehl gave talk about "Routerzwang und Funkabschottung – Was Aktivisten
davon lernen können"[22] (in German). Max blogged about his conference
experience and included links to recordings of both talks[23].
== Take action! ==
== For our 15 year anniversary (there's a lot of this this month, as you can tell), we are organising the "Get to know your Local Free Software Hero" campaign[24]. The idea is to bring our community members in touch with the local press in the region where they live. Our local heroes explain how the Free Software community affects the people in their region, its benefits for education, health system, local economy and the daily life of the citizens. If you are a journalist, blogger, vlogger, podcaster, or anyone else who can help us to get in touch with a media outlet, please contact us and we will tell you who your local heroes are and how to meet them. Other Free Software news ==
== The Lithuanian police migrated over 8000 workstations from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice[25]. The Dutch government in its Digital Agenda for 2016-2017 is considering making the use of Open Standards mandatory for public administrations[26], within the aim of providing businesses and citizens with easier access to eGovernment services. The city of Valencia (Spain) is reusing Epoptes[27], a software for managing school PC labs, developed as free software in Greece since 2008. The software is improved by staff members of the city’s IT department, who share their code publicly. The FSFE in the Press ==
- In light of its 15th anniversary, the FSFE received press coverage
concerning a number of topics. Here are some of these articles for
further reading: [EN] by William New, Matthias was quoted by an
Intellectual Property Watch article about how the New US Government
Source Code Policy Could Provide Model For Europe[28].
- [IT] [EN] by Sonia Montegiove, Tech Economy, Support to the digital
freedom with FSFE: a double interview with Matthias Kirschner and
Alessandro Rubini[29].
- [DE] [AT] by Patrick Dax, Future zone, Concerns regarding the
limitation of alternative router software[30]. In the article, there
is a reference to the FSFE's campaign against compulsory routers.
- [EN] by Paul Brown, opensource.com, First ever FSFE Summit celebrates
free software successes[31].
- [DE] by Hans-Joachim Baader, pro-linux.de, The FSFE compares the
positions of the parties regarding Free Software for the elections in
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern[32].
- [DE] by Mirko Lindner, pro-linux.de, FSFE und TDF arbeiten enger
zusammen[33].
- [EN] by Paul Brown, LiNUX.com, First FSFE Summit Will Focus on Social
Issues and Strategies[34].
- [DE] by Jan Raehm, Deutschlandfunk, Computer programs without
constraints - the battle for free software[35].
Thanks to all the volunteers[36], Fellows[37] and corporate donors[38]
who enable our work,
your editors Polina Malaja, Erik Albers, Olga Gkotsopoulou and Jonas
Öberg, FSFE[39]
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1. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/index.es.html
2. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2016/FSFE-15years-birthday/spread-the-word
3. https://fsfe.org/timeline/timeline
4. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/15years
5. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword
6. https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Translations
7. https://conf.qtcon.org/en/qtcon/public/events/757
8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1314
9. http://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2016/08/13/free-software-pdf-campaign-it-isnt-over…
10. https://k7r.eu/setting-up-a-slightly-more-secure-solution-for-home-banking
11. https://k7r.eu/free-software-in-the-berlin-election-programs/
12. http://blog.jonasoberg.net/irc-cloaks-on-freenode-available/
13. http://blog.jonasoberg.net/the-woes-of-webvtt/
14. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160817-01
15. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ayc
16. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160823-01
17. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160831-01
18. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160725-01
19. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/CompulsoryRouters/Implementation/Germany
20. https://blog.mehl.mx/2016/erste-testgeraete-fuer-routerfreiheit-versendet/
21. https://programm.froscon.de/2016/events/1797.html
22. https://programm.froscon.de/2016/events/1738.html
23. https://blog.mehl.mx/2016/froscon-2016-ein-rueckblick/
24. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/15years
25. https://itsfoss.com/lithuanian-police-switches-libreoffice/
26. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/epractice/news/dutch-consider-mandato…
27. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spain%E2%80%99s-valencia-re…
28. http://www.ip-watch.org/2016/08/22/new-us-government-source-code-policy-cou…
29. http://www.techeconomy.it/2016/08/18/sostegno-alla-liberta-digitale-fsfe-in…
30. https://futurezone.at/netzpolitik/bedenken-gegen-einschraenkung-alternative…
31. https://opensource.com/life/16/8/fsfe-summit-europe-2016?sc_cid=70160000001…
32. http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/23900/fsfe-vergleicht-parteipositionen-zu-fr…
33. http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/23878/fsfe-und-tdf-arbeiten-enger-zusammen.h…
34. https://www.linux.com/news/first-fsfe-summit-will-focus-social-issues-and-s…
35. http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/computer-programme-ohne-zwaenge-kampf-um-frei…
36. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html
37. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
38. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html
39. https://fsfe.org
= FSFE Newsletter - August 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201608.es.html ]
== "Free and Open Source Security Audit" in the EU needs feedback from Free Software communities ==
The goal of the "Free and Open Source Security Audit" (FOSSA) pilot
project is to increase the security of Free Software used by European
institutions. The FSFE has been following the project since early 2014.
Recently, the European Commission published the first round of
deliverables based on their interviews with stakeholders[1]. While the
FSFE is in full support of this European initiative, the implementation
of the project leaves us concerned. FOSSA's first analysis lacks an
understanding of Free Software; it includes several factual errors; and
it was based on poorly conducted general interviews. FSFE President
Matthias Kirschner[2] and FSFE Fellowship Representative Mirko Böehm[3],
who were both interviewed for the project, have summarised the most
evident shortcomings in the recent FOSSA publications. However, looking
from another perspective: FOSSA is still in its first stages and with
the help of more Free Software experts, we can get FOSSA going in the
right direction. The FSFE will continue to closely follow FOSSA's
upcoming implementations. In case you have any comments or feedback
concerning the initiative, please do not hesitate to share your thoughts
with us on our discussion list[4] or directly to the attention of
Matthias Kirschner. This way, we will make sure that all relevant
concerns will be communicated to the EU.
== Italy plans to stop its explicit support for Free Software in e-Government ==
The government of Italy is planning to revise the provision in the
Digital Administration Law that requires public administrations to
prioritise reusable, Free Software-based software solutions[5]. The
changes also concern the publication and maintenance of a list of open
ICT standards that are used by public administrations. Following this
proposal would mean the government will no longer require the national
agency for the Digitisation of the Public Sector (AGID) to issue binding
opinions on interoperability, or to prioritise Free Software. Members of
the Italian Parliament have raised their concerns in regard to the
proposed changes. FSFE's General Counsel Carlo Piana has previously
advised Italian authorities on the guidelines of implementation of
Digital Administration Law[6], and contested the government's plans in
his letter to Tech Economy[7] (in Italian).
== From the community ==
- Daniel Pocock explains security problems with SMS and phone
verification, and asks how many mobile phone accounts will be hijacked
this summer[8].
- Hannes Hauswedell explains how you can retroactively replace git
subtree with git submodule[9].
- Polina Malaja sums up the creation of the European Cyber Security
Organisation (ECSO) and explains why many security concerns can be
significantly decreased by using Free Software as much as
possible[10].
- Daniel Pocock explains how you can help with monitoring packages in
Debian and Ubuntu.[11]
- Wolfgang Romey writes about the sustainability of technical devices
and their need for Free Software[12] (German).
== What else have we done? ==
- Early this summer, the FSFE co-signed a letter in support of strong
net neutrality together with 72 other organisations. The European
Commission, however, seems to endorse the weak net neutrality demands
proposed by the coalition of 17 biggest EU Internet Service Providers
(ISP) in the so-called '5G manifesto'. Our policy analyst Polina
Malaja blogged about the worrisome direction of watering down strong
net neutrality in the name of 'innovation'[13].
- Matthias gave a talk at the Technical University of Berlin about the
importance of Free Software and presented some of the highlights of
FSFE's work.
- FSFE's Italian team was present with a booth at Wikimania 2016 in
Esino Larino, Italy.
== Take action! ==
>From August 1st, a new German law will allow users to freely choose
their router device. The FSFE wants to ensure everybody knows about
their new rights and is asking users to report cases in which internet
service providers (ISP) try to avoid the new regulation[14]. The new
regulation was designed to eliminate previous ambiguity around the
practice of "compulsory routers" imposed on the users by ISPs. However,
it is necessary to ensure that the new law is implemented.
If you are a client of a German internet provider, we ask you to
exercise your new right and start using an alternative device, ideally
one that runs Free Software. Please provide us feedback whether you had
any issues about running a new router and help us to collect it in our
wiki page[15]. In case you don't have an alternative device at hand, the
FSFE can also provide some testing devices. Please refer to our wiki
page for more information on this.
== Good Free Software news ==
The European Commission will reward existing IT solutions that have been
developed and shared by public administrations, and that can be further
reused across Europe due to the use of Free Software licenses[16].
Adullact, the French organisation for public administrations using free
software, set up Comptoir-du-Libre.org, a website that aims to help
public administrations’ IT decision-makers to switch to Free
Software[17]. The city council of the Spanish city of Ciudad Real voted
in favor of a resolution to switch all 400 workstations of the city's
administration to Free Software[18] (Spanish). The Open Knowledge
Foundation Germany, in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry of
Education and Research, started the Prototype fund[19], which supports
Free Software projects with a grant of up to €30.000, available for
anyone with primary residence in Germany.
Thanks to all the volunteers[20], Fellows[21] and corporate donors[22]
who enable our work,
your editors Polina Malaja and Erik Albers, FSFE[23]
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1. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eu-fossa/og_page/project-deliveries
2. https://k7r.eu/fossa-now-we-need-feedback-by-the-real-experts/
3. https://creative-destruction.me/2016/07/11/eu-fossa-needs-your-help-a-free-…
4. https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
5. http://www.funzionepubblica.gov.it/articolo/riforma-della-pa/10-02-2016/cod…
6. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140116-01.en.html
7. http://www.techeconomy.it/2016/07/07/bulgaria-open-italia-qualche-passo-die…
8. https://danielpocock.com/how-many-mobile-phone-accounts-will-be-hijacked-th…
9. http://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2016/07/27/retroactively-replacing-git-subtree-wit…
10. https://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/2016/07/11/ec-free-software-to-enhance-cybers…
11. https://danielpocock.com/help-monitoring-packages-in-debian-and-ubuntu
12. https://blogs.fsfe.org/wromey/2016/07/16/anschlussfrage-warum-sind-nachhalt…
13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/2016/07/15/on-carrots-and-sticks-5g-manifesto/
14. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160725-01.en.html
15. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/CompulsoryRouters/Implementation/Germany
16. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/new-european-contest-promote-it-reuse
17. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/new-site-promote-proven-ope…
18. http://www.miciudadreal.es/2016/05/25/el-pleno-acuerda-caminar-hacia-el-sof…
19. https://prototypefund.de/en/
20. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html
21. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
22. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html
23. https://fsfe.org
= FSFE Newsletter - June 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201606.es.html ]
== FSFE co-signed letter on net neutrality ==
FSFE together with 72 organisations signed a letter to the EU telecom
regulators in support of strong net neutrality rules[1] in the on-going
negotiations for the guidelines on the implementation of the recently
adopted EU Regulation 2015/2120. The Regulation creates a basis for
strong net neutrality, and FSFE together with other organisations from
all over the world asks the Body of European Regulators of Electronic
Communication (BEREC) and the 28 national telecom regulators to uphold
these rules and to establish strong net neutrality guidelines around
Europe.
== From Free Software misunderstandings to software at CERN - FSFE busy at events ==
The past month was full of events and talks, with FSFE staff and team
members being present on several occasions. Talks and presentations make
a large part of our work to reach out and communicate our message to
people from different backgrounds.
FSFE's president Matthias Kirschner gave a short talk during Re:publica
TEN[2] about how to counter Free Software misunderstandings. He also
participated as a speaker at the Croatian Linux Users' Conference DORS /
CLUC[3] in Zagreb, Croatia, where he gave a keynote about "The long way
to empower people to control technology".
During the foss-north conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, FSFE's vice
president Alessandro Rubini gave a talk on "Time in Software and
Hardware - how time is handled in the Linux kernel and in the White
Rabbit network at CERN", and FSFE's executive director, Jonas Öberg,
presented a talk about the "State of Free Software in Europe (and
elsewhere)".
German Coordinator Max Mehl gave a talk about Radio 'Lockdown' Directive
during the Wireless Battle of the Mesh v9, in Porto, Portugal, and your
co-editor Polina Malaja gave an overview on the same topic during the
Wireless Community Weekend 2016in Berlin, Germany.
Last but not least, FSFE's Austrian coordinator Peter Bubestinger gave a
talk about Free Software in schools[4] at the Open Source Conference
Albania OSCAL.
== From the community ==
Torsten Grote gives an overview of recent security innovations in
instant messaging in his blogpost about "Briar - Next Step of The Crypto
Messenger Evolution"[5]. Briar is aiming at becoming a peer-to-peer
messenger which is entirely Free Software: it utilises end-to-end
encryption with forward secrecy and does not require its users to
disclose their metadata (i.e. the content of their address-books and how
frequently they talk to their contacts). These criteria will help in
offering a secure and privacy-friendly messenger that is available for
everyone to use freely.
-
Elena Grandi described her experience with OpenPandora[6], a handheld
game console and a mobile personal computer. On this occasion, Elena
also anticipated the pros and cons of the successor device Pyra.
-
Diderik van Wingerden blogged about his perception of future innovations
and the role of Free Software in it by compiling a list of sources that
helped him in "Shaping a vision of the future"[7].
-
Our executive director Jonas Öberg wrote about the Videorooter project
and its automated testing of algorithms[8]. The code is now connected to
Github repositories and automated tests of algorithms are run every time
someone improves the code.
-
Björn Schießle read the coalition contract of the new government in
Baden-Württemberg, a state of Germany, and analysed how they promise to
promote Free Software[9] (German).
-
Christian Widerström made an overview of the upcoming activities and
events that the Austrian FSFE team will be participating in[10]
(German).
-
The project "Sustainable use of older laptops with Linux and Free
Software", mainly run by Fellow Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann, has been given
the RWE Sustainability Award[11]. The project helps people to migrate to
Free Software and to make use of their old hardware with a proper
GNU/Linux installation (German).
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== What else have we done? ==
How to successfully campaign for Free Software in a way that is
appealing both for the general public and politicians? FSFE teamed up
with the Peng! Collective[12] and learned from the latter's experience
in campaigning during a weekend-long workshop. FSFE's Fellowship
Representative Mirko Boehm summarised the outcome of the workshop in his
blogpost[13].
-
FSFE's Austrian team did a great job by being present with booths at
Linuxwochen Wien and Grazer Linuxtage (German)[14] and the local group
in Berlin was present at the OpenTechSummit in Berlin, Germany.
-
Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann gave an interview about the importance of Free
Software in Open Educational Resources[15] (German).
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Getting active for Free Software and doing this by working for the FSFE
is increasingly attractive and we receive a lot of applications for our
internship program each month. However, most of the applications we get
do not make the cut. In his blogpost, our executive director Jonas Öberg
gave a few hints about how to succeed with your internship
application[16] and make it to the FSFE team as an intern.
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== Take Action ==
Become a volunteer to maintain our blog platform! If you are interested
in devops or system administration, we now offer an opportunity to
polish your skills and learn new tricks by hosting a blog platform for
thousands of our volunteers!
FSFE's blog platform is a service we provide to our volunteers to give
them a place to write about their explorations of Free Software and
their work in the FSFE. For a while, the service has been in dire
straits and in need of an upgrade[17]. Thanks to our wonderful
volunteers who already stepped up and proposed their help in maintaining
the platform, the service will be kept alive.
If you are interested in joining our blog platform team, get in touch
with our blog team at blog-hackers (at) lists.fsfe.org.
== Good Free Software news ==
The Hungarian government published a decree promoting the use of Free
Software and Open Standards in public administrations[18]. The country's
Ministry of Interior is bound to start a central licence registry for
software used by the public sector and report yearly on the progress
made in use of Free Software and Open Standards. Meanwhile, France
revised its interoperability guidelines which from now on recommend ODF
as a standard communication format between public administrations and
citizens[19]. Sweden's Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan) is
determined to adhere to its Free Software strategy and to sustain the
Free Software solutions it uses[20], according to the planned updates of
the strategy to be published in June. As stated by the Social Insurance
Agency, Free Software maximises value of IT by allowing its efficient
use.
Thanks to all the volunteers[21] , Fellows[22] and corporate donors[23]
who enable our work,
your editors Polina Malaja and Erik Albers, FSFE[24]
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1. https://akvorrat.at/sites/default/files/20160502_nn_berec_civilsocietylette…
2. https://re-publica.de/16/session/freie-software-missverstandnisse-gekonnt-a…
3. http://2016.dorscluc.org/activity/29/#activity
4. http://blogs.fsfe.org/pb/?p=165
5. https://blog.grobox.de/2016/briar-next-step-of-the-crypto-messenger-evoluti…
6. http://social.gl-como.it/display/3e3ce0df12572dd2557bdda693148259
7. http://think-innovation.com/blog/shaping-a-vision-of-the-future/
8. http://blog.jonasoberg.net/automated-testing-of-algorithms/
9. http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/05/10/freie-software-im-koalitionsvertrag-ba…
10. https://blog.widerstroem.com/weblog/4/veranstaltungen-oesterreich-2016-part…
11. https://blogs.fsfe.org/wromey/2016/05/06/projekt-nachhaltige-nutzung-auch-a…
12. https://www.pen.gg/
13. https://creative-destruction.me/2016/05/04/how-to-campaign-for-the-cause-of…
14. https://blog.widerstroem.com/weblog/2/linuxwochen-wien-grazer-linuxtage
15. http://open-educational-resources.de/podlove/file/502/s/download/c/select-s…
16. http://blog.jonasoberg.net/are-you-the-fsfes-next-intern/
17. http://blog.jonasoberg.net/blogs-and-other-infrastructures/
18. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/hungary-increase-use-open-s…
19. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france%E2%80%99s-rgi-v2-rec…
20. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/sweden%E2%80%99s-insurer-op…
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/index.es.html
= FSFE Newsletter - May 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201605.es.html ]
== EU jeopardises its goals in standardisation with FRAND licensing ==
As a part of the Digital Single Market strategy, the European Commission
has published the communication on ICT standardisation priorities[1] as
one of the key factors in the digital economy. FSFE welcomes the overall
approach taken in the communication in favour of more open standards and
a greater inclusion of Free Software communities into standardisation
processes.
However, the document lacks proper understanding of licensing conditions
of standard-essential patents in order to include Free Software into
standard setting processes. In particular, FSFE expresses its concerns
in regard to the promotion of so-called "fair, reasonable, and non-
discriminatory (FRAND) licensing terms[2] that in practice are
incompatible with Free Software. This way, the document jeopardises
every effort set by the European Commission to integrate Free Software
communities into standardisation.
== European Commission vs Google Android ==
On April 20, the European Commission outlined its charges in regard to
Google's business practices relating to the Android operating system[3].
According to the Commission, Google is abusing its dominant market
position by pre-installing and setting Google Search, Google Play Store
and Google Chrome as the default on most Android devices sold in Europe.
These practices close off ways for competitive search engines to access
the market.
FSFE has previously raised its concerns in regard to the claim against
the free-of-charge distribution of Android[4] that had been raised to
the European Commission by a coalition of certain online service
providers who claimed that this practice is harmful to competition. We
argued against that claim as it undermines the whole essence of Free
Software licensing, and are pleased to see that the Commission
disregarded that claim in its antitrust case against Google.
== From the community ==
Guido Arnold, our education team coordinator, summarised legal aspects
and possible activities to take, when public schools make MS Office
mandatory.[5]
-
Vitaly Repin published the course by Richard Stallman "On the Road to
the Free Digital Society" in Moodle Backup and IMS Common Cartridge
formats[6], and invites everyone to give feedback and promote the course
through their channels.
-
Since Let’s Encrypt has left beta testing, Michal Nazarewicz uses and
promotes this new certificate authority which provides free TLS
certificates[7]: "If you're running your own server there's no excuse
not to use TLS".
-
Björn Schießle blogs about a self hostable application for saving web
pages, "Wallabag", and about its maintenance on a shared web hosting
service[8].
-
Marcus Moeller explains how to set up a Freedombox on a Beagle Bone
Black in order to self-host a blog on freely designed hardware and
without the need to use proprietary software[9].
-
== What else have we done? ==
We ran the eighth annual election for a Fellowship representative who is
to represent our community and the FSFE's Fellowship in FSFE's general
assembly[10]. Although we only had one candidate, we would like to thank
and congratulate Mirko Boehm to run for the office and being
elected[11].
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We now have over 30 organisations and companies who joined us in
proposing measures to EU institutions and EU member states to avoid
negative implications on users' rights and Free Software imposed by the
EU Radio Equipment Directive 2014/53/EU, aka 'Radio Lockdown
Directive'[12]. The joint statement is open to new signatures against
negative implications that the 'Radio Lockdown Directive' poses on
software freedom, users' rights, fair competition, innovation,
environment, and volunteering.
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FSFE also joined a coalition of organisations that fight the negative
implementations of the 'Radio Lockdown Directive' in France. Together,
we signed an open letter to the French government and French
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (ART)[13] to ensure that the
implementation of the 'Radio Lockdown Directive' in France will not harm
Free Software.
-
On our way to become more transparent and inclusive, we published our
transparency commitment[14] in line with the guidelines from
Transparency International Germany.
-
A lot of our initial structure and founding documents have not been
updated ever since the FSFE grew from being a small circle of volunteers
into an organisation with hired staff, with a Fellowship program and a
community of thousands of people. We now begun to revise our "Self
Conception"[15], to better reflect our grown decision-making process.
Jonas Öberg, FSFE's executive director, shared his thoughts on and
insights about potential future steps to FSFE's structure and
membership[16] on his blog.
-
On the backend of our work, we have introduced a ticket system built on
OTRS[17]. Although at first sight not many people seem to be directly
affected by this, our whole communication will profit over time from
higher control of our workflow. Also, it shall be opened to be used by
volunteers as well.
-
>From 13 - 15 April, FSFE's annual legal licensing workshop LLW took
place in Barcelona, Spain. The event is dedicated to gather legal
practitioners from all over the world to dicuss the most challenging
issues in and around Free Software licensing. This year it had a record
number of participants, showing the increasing interest and importance
of Free Software in software licensing.
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== Take Action ==
>From 2 - 4 September, 2016, the first summit of FSFE will take place, an
event dedicated to our community. To make it a unique and appealing
experience for everyone, we sent out a Call for Participation[18] last
week to all our Fellows and on our mailing lists. Take your chance and
be part of FSFE's main event in 2016 by becoming a speaker or a
volunteer, by hosting a workshop or another event.
== Good Free Software news ==
Spain's Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations published its
web-based solution for archiving electronic files under a Free Software
license[19]. France is also not lagging behind and recently published
the source code of the fiscal calculator used by the French fiscal
administration to calculate the income taxes of individuals in
France[20]. This was an outcome of the legal case in Paris'
administrative court that concluded that a source code of a software
written by and for public authorities can be considered as a public
information that can be freely accessed.
Thanks to all the volunteers[21] , Fellows[22] and corporate donors[23]
who enable our work,
your editors Polina Malaja and Erik Albers, FSFE[24]
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1. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/communication-ict-standa…
2. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160428-02
3. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-16-1506_en.htm?locale=en
4. https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/20130729.EC.Fairsearch.letter.en.html
5. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2016/04/public-schools-making-ms-office-mandat…
6. https://blogs.fsfe.org/vitaly_repin/2016/04/14/course-on-the-road-to-the-fr…
7. http://mina86.com/p/tls-is-a-yes/
8. http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/04/16/installing-wallabag-2-on-a-shared-web-…
9. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2016/04/20/setting-up-a-freedombox-on-bbb-t…
10. https://fsfe.org/about/team.en.html#general-assembly
11. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160502-01
12. https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/statement
13. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160406
14. https://fsfe.org/about/transparency-commitment
15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=60
16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=50
17. http://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=65
18. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/Summit2016/CallForParticipation
19. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spain-publishes-file-archiv…
20. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-unveils-source-code-…
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/index.es.html
= Boletín de la FSFE - abril 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201604.es.html ]
== La Directiva Europea de equipos radioeléctricos amenaza la libertad del software ==
Hemos publicado nuestra posición sobre la Directiva de equipos
radioeléctricos 2014/53/UE (adoptada en mayo del 2014) que exige a los
fabricantes de dispositivos que comprueben el software de los mismos. En
principio, podría sonar razonable pero tiene unas implicaciones muy
negativas sobre los derechos de los usuarios y el Software Libre, la
competencia leal, la innovación, el medio ambiente, y el voluntariado –
todo ello sin grandes beneficios para la seguridad. La directiva ha de
aplicarse en los estados miembros antes del 13 de junio 2016. Hemos
formulado varias propuestas a las instituciones y estados miembros de la
UE con medidas concretas para resolver estas cuestiones.[1]
== El gobierno de los EE.UU pide que el software financiaciado públicamente se publique como Software Libre ==
Como uno de los grandes objetivos para el 2016 es impulsar que el
software financiado con fondos públicos se publique como Software Libre
en los EE.UU, estamos seguros de ver pasos concretos en dicho sentido al
otro lado del Atlántico. En particular, a principios de marzo, el
Gobierno de los EE.UU. publicó un borrador sobre la Política de Código
Fuente[2] para que el público haga comentarios hasta el 11 de abril. La
política requiere que cada Agencia pública publique su software creado a
medida como Software Libre para que tanto otras agencias públicas como
el público en general lo puedan usar, estudiar, compartir y mejorar.[3]
Nos gustaría que la UE siguiera este ejemplo y realizara una política
similar a nivel europeo. Si tiene algo que comentar en relación a la
Política de Código Fuente de los EE.UU., envíelo, por favor, a nuestra
lista de debate en inglés[4] o directamente a Matthias Kirschner. Nos
gustaría tener en cuenta sus comentarios antes de hablar con los
políticos europeos sobre este asunto.
== Desde la comunidad ==
Björn Schiessle escribió en el blog sobre la nueva característica de
ownCloud 9.0, la App de Federación[5] que permite a los usuarios
intercambiar más facilmente sus identificadores de Nube Federada y
compartir datos entre sus nubes.
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Sergey Matveev resumió el demonio GoVPN de Software Libre: por qué
nació, qué tareas pretende resolver y su resumen técnico[6] en su
blogpost.
-
Guido Arnold escribió sobre el encuentro de la Fellowship en Frankfurt
que también incluye la charla sobre licencias de Software Libre de
Michael Stehmann[7].
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Guido Günther publicó el seguimiento a la sincronización del calendario
con calypso, syncevolution y el N900 corriendo maemo[8].
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== ¿Qué más hemos hecho? ==
El miembro fundador de la FSFE, Werner Koch recibió el premio de
Software Libre de este año para el Avance del Software Libre por su
proyecto GnuPG[9]. El Premio para el Avance del Software Libre se otorga
anualmente a un individuo que ha hecho una gran contribución al progreso
y desarrollo del Software Libre.
-
Nuestro presidente Matthias Kirschner y el coordinador alemán Max Mehl
dieron charlas en el Chemnitzer Linuxtage[10]. El evento fue un éxito,
la mayoría de nuestro material de promoción desapareció rápidamente del
stand atendido por Reinhard Müller, Katja Müller, Max Mehl y Fabian
Keil.
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En Berlín nuestros voluntarios participaron en la campaña anti-DRM de la
FSF contra las restricciones digitales propuestas por el W3C en el
estándar HTML web[11]. Las restricciones digitales en los estándares web
harían más fácil y políticamente más aceptable el imponer restricciones
a los usuarios.
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La FSFE estuvo presente con un stand en el CIJ Logan Symposium[12], una
conferencia dedicada a reunir a los principales periodistas,
hacktivistas, expertos legales y en seguridad para discutir sobre la
libertad de prensa y los derechos digitales. La lista de los oradores de
la CIJ incluía a Edward Snowden, quien también dio un discurso inaugural
en Libreplanet[13], una conferencia sobre Software Libre organizada por
la FSF.
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== Actúe ==
¡Todos los impresionantes traductores ahí afuera! Ayudennos a expandir
nuestro alcance actualizando la página 'Corre la voz'[14] para para
ordenar nuestro material promocional en su idioma. Actualmente, la
página existe en Inglés, alemán, holandés y albanés pero sería magnífico
poder incluir en la lista otros idiomas.
== Buenas noticias del Software Libre ==
La Oficina de Patentes India ha dicho no a las patentes de software[15]
en sus directrices actualizadas que establecen claramente que cualquier
solicitud de patente que consista únicamente en software no se permitirá
bajo la legislación india de patentes. En Polonia, la nueva estrategia
de eGovernment recomienda que el software de financiación pública para
un nuevo sistema de registros públicos deberá considerarse para su
publicación bajo una licencia de Software Libre[16]. Suecia ha
actualizado la lista de 'estándares Abiertos IT' que se pueden hacer
obligatorios cuando se adquiera software y servicios relacionados[17].
Para hacer esto la lista de normas IT se ha de desarrollar abierta y
públicamente, no puede restringir la reutilización de la norma, y las
patentes de estándares esenciales han de ser de libre disposición.
Gracias a todos los voluntarios[18] , Fellows[19] y donantes
corporativos[20] que hacen posible nuestro trabajo,
sus editores Polina Malaja y Jonas Öberg, FSFE[21]
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1. https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/
2. https://sourcecode.cio.gov/SourceCodePolicy.pdf
3. https://k7r.eu/us-government-commits-to-publish-publicly-financed-software-…
4. https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
5. http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/03/14/federated-sharing-whats-new-in-ownclou…
6. http://blogs.fsfe.org/stargrave/archives/158
7. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2016/03/fsfe-meeting-in-frankfurt-with-talk-abo…
8. http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Contatacs__CardDAV__Calypso_and_the_N900.html
9. http://www.fsf.org/news/library-freedom-project-and-werner-koch-are-2015-fr…
10. https://k7r.eu/chemnitzer-linuxtage-misunderstandings-compulsory-routers-an…
11. http://www.fsf.org/news/anti-drm-activists-go-to-w3c-meeting-to-protest-dig…
12. https://logancij.com/
13. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/recapping-day-zero-of-libreplanet-2016
14. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.en.html
15. http://sflc.in/press-release-indian-patent-office-says-no-to-software-paten…
16. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/polish-egovernment-strategy…
17. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/sweden-updates-list-mandato…
18. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.es.html
19. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
20. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.es.html
21. https://fsfe.org/index.es.html
= Boletín de la FSFE - marzo 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201603.es.html ]
== "Me encanta el Día Software Libre" 2016 ==
Por sexta vez consecutiva os pedimos a todos que expreséis vuestra
gratitud y aprecio a los desarrolladores del Software Libre en el Día de
San Valentín. Echa un vistazo a nuestros informes #ilovefs 2016 y
observa quien logró reconocimiento este año a través de innumerables
blogs, imágenes, obras de arte, memes, notas personales y muchos más[1].
No olvides marcar el próximo el año el 14 de febrero como el Día de "Me
encanta el Software Libre" para continuar con esta bonita tradición de
reconocer a las personas y el duro trabajo trabajo que hay tras del
software libre. ¡Agradecemos a todos los participantes que encuentran
tiempo para decir "gracias" y para convertir #ilovefs 2016 en todo un
éxito!
== "Ninguna nube" se volvió viral ==
Justo antes del día "Amo el Software Libre", gracias a un post
espontáneo de Reddit hemos recibido unas 200 peticiones de nuestro
material promocional[2] en el lapso de tiempo de 48 horas. En
comparación, en 2015 tuvimos un total de 370 peticiones. En unas 24
horas, tuvimos más peticiones de lo habitual en 6 meses. La mayoría de
los pedidos solicitan material de "ninguna nube" pero al mismo tiempo,
también pidieron nuestro folleto con información básica sobre el
Software Libre, el folleto GnuPG, y nuestro folleto F-Droid.
== Encuentro Europeo sobre Política del Software Libre 2016 ==
A finales de enero organizamos, junto con el Foro Abierto de Europa, una
reunión de política pre-FOSDEM en Bruselas con los grupos activos en
política del Software Libre en toda Europa[3]. El propósito de la
reunión fue conocer las actividades de los otros e intercambiar
opiniones, con énfasis en las acciones relacionadas con las políticas
públicas. En total, 19 organizaciones participaron en la reunión.
Además, la europarlamentaria Julia Reda, y un representante del
departamento de IT de la Comisión Europea, Pierre Damas, asistieron a la
reunión para presentar el trabajo de las instituciones de la UE en el
ámbito del Software Libre.
== Fuera de la comunidad ==
Febrero ha sido dedicado a las declaraciones de amor con el Software
Libre con el día de #ilovefs. Eche un vistazo a nuestro informe 2016
#ilovefs para conseguir información más detallada sobre las diferentes
entradas del blog, y como fuente de inspiración para las celebraciones
del próximo año, siguiendo la idea de Florian Snow para los banners DIY
#ilovefs[4].
-
Paul Boddie combina la retroinformática con la programación en Python y
escribe cómo programar en Python más rápido con Shedskin[5].
-
Marcus Moeller da consejos sobre cómo comenzar con la red social
federada GNU social[6].
-
Björn Schießle contempla el futuro de GitHub y y la próxima generación
de plataformas de alojamiento[7].
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== ¿Qué más hemos hecho? ==
Tras la aprobación del informe, de iniciativa propia, "Hacia un mercado
único digital", que incluye varias referencias positivas para aumentar
el uso del Software Libre en el sector público, resultó que el
significado de "libre" se perdió en la traducción. En particular, la
versión italiana del informe se refiere al Software Libre como "gratis",
como en una cerveza gratis, en lugar de "libre" como en libertad. Le
pedimos al personal de la europarlamentaria Julia Reda que nos ayudara y
llamara la atención a los autores del informe de este error. El error
fue resuelto y la versión italiana del informe se refiere ahora
correctamente a la libertad de software, y no al precio[8].
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Hemos simplificado mucho nuestros procesos internos: ya no es necesario
que alguien nos ayude con nuestras páginas web o en otros equipos para
registrar una cuenta de invitado en nuestros sistemas. En su lugar,
ahora se registrarán en el mismo sistema como nuestros Fellows. Puede
que no parezca mucho, pero es una revolución en la simplificación ¡Con
la que estamos muy contentos! Infórmese de cómo usted también puede
contribuir a nuestro trabajo[9]
-
Hemos publicado un informe de nuestro trabajo en 2015[10]. Desde enseñar
a la gente como utilizar el cifrado para su correo electrónico, hasta
cambiar la dirección de la política a nivel europeo, la FSFE ha
trabajado bastante en el 2015 para permitir a los usuarios controlar la
tecnología. Vimos un montón de mejoras en la forma en la que trabajamos,
y terminamos el año de forma positiva con esperanzas en el 2016.
¡Queremos agradecer a todos el ayudarnos a hacer del mundo un lugar
mejor!
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Como insinuamos en el boletín anterior, nos hemos asociado con KDE, Qt,
VideoLAN y otros que están organizando QtCon 2016 entre el 2 y 4 de
septiembre de 2016. Vamos a aprovechar la oportunidad de acoger una
cumbre de la FSFE durante QtCon, más adelante daremos más información.
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== Actúa ==
¡Tenemos un montón de pegatinas "no cloud" y otros materiales
informativos en stock! Ayúdenos a correr la voz sobre el Software Libre
en su comunidad local solicitando nuestros folletos, pegatinas, postales
y carteles[11].
== Buenas Noticias del Software Libre ==
El Gobierno Francés está revisando el contrato de soporte del Software
Libre, firmado en el 2011, y pide a las comunidades de Software Libre y
al público que le ayuden a redactar el próximo contrato marco
plurianual, para los servicios de apoyo y de Software Libre.[12]
Mientras tanto, el Parlamento Francés ha aprovado un primer proyecto de
ley para una República Digital, que fomenta el uso del Software Libre en
las administraciones públicas, y considera que el código fuente del
software desarrollado por o para las administraciones públicas sea
información pública[13]. Las escuelas de la capital de Estonia, Tallin,
se están moviendo gradualmente hacia el Software Libre después de que la
administración local decidiera cambiar al Software Libre[14] en enero de
2015. Desde septiembre del 2015 más de 4000 estaciones de trabajo y
ordenadores portátiles de las 50 escuelas de Tallin están usando
Software Libre. En Alemania, el Seguro de Pensiones Federales, que es el
más grande del país, ha aumentando el uso de Software Libre mediante la
publicación de un anuncio de licitación en busca de ayuda para sus
servicios basados en Software Libre[15].
Gracias a todos y todas los y las voluntarios[16] , Fellows[17] y
donantes corporativos[18] que hacen posible nuestro trabajo,
sus editores Polina Malaja y Jonas Öberg FSFE[19]
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1. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160222-01.en.html
2. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/the-reddit-effect-more-orders-in-24-hours-than-usu…
3. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160205-01.en.html
4. https://blogs.fsfe.org/floriansnow/2016/02/13/make-your-own-personal-banner…
5. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1233
6. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2016/02/03/getting-started-with-gnu-social/
7. http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/02/12/the-next-generation-of-code-hosting-pl…
8. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/now-italian-european-parliaments-dsm-report-speaks…
9. https://fsfe.org/contribute/
10. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160224-01.en.html
11. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.en.html
12. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-involves-public-draf…
13. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-assembly-encourages-…
14. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/tallinn-schools-piloting-op…
15. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/open-source-largest-german-…
16. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.es.html
17. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
18. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.es.html
19. https://fsfe.org/index.es.html
= FSFE Newsletter - February 2016 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201602.es.html ]
== FSFE turns 15 ==
In 2016, the Free Software Foundation Europe is looking forward towards
an exciting year. This is the year when we are celebrating our 15th
birthday and that will give us the chance to look back, to see and show
how your support brought us here. However, we are also looking forward
to mastering the challenges ahead.
Since 2001, a lot has evolved for the good, including the changes that
we could not think of once a small team of volunteers from different
countries decided to come together in the Villa Vogelsang in Essen,
Germany, and to found the Free Software Foundation Europe[1]. Since
then, this initial team of activists grew together as friends, FSFE
received the Theodor Heuss Medal for our work for freedom in the
information society[2], we became an influential voice on national and
European level, we have our third president in office and we became a
European wide organisation with a permanent staff team. All of this
would not have been possible without the help of you, our Fellows. Your
advice, your support, your financial contribution, your local
activities, your viral marketing, your campaign projects and all the
time you dedicated to us are priceless and what made us strong. We are
overwhelmed and happy that in 2016, the Free Software Foundation Europe
is carried upon thousands of shoulders. This is why we dedicate this
year to you, our Fellows, our community.
We will come up with some activities and stories for you as a thank you
during the year and in memory of our 15 years of existence. Let's start
this with celebrating the I love Free Software day on February 14 as
colourfully as possible. Join us in spreading love towards Free Software
and their developers[3]. And don't miss to already save the date from
September 2nd to 4th[4] as a core event in 2016. This is the weekend we
will organise our first FSFE summit - for and by you. More information
will follow.
== Document Freedom Day is given into the hands of the Digital Freedom Foundation ==
Half as old as the FSFE is our Document Freedom Day campaign, celebrated
for the first time in 2008 to oppose the adoption of Microsoft's OOXML
standard[5] - and then turned itself into an annual day to celebrate
Open Standards. During the years we had hundreds events all over the
globe, we have seen impressive artwork, inspiring comics and videos and
we have seen political parties, companies and non-profit organisations
using Document Freedom Day to let the world know about the power and
freedom of interoperability.
In 2016, however, the FSFE hands over Document Freedom Day campaign to
the Digital Freedom Foundation[6], the organisation that is best known
for organising the Software Freedom Day. This way, the FSFE sees the
potential to further broaden Document Freedom Day as the international
day of Open Standards and to further decentralise the campaign's
concept. This year, Document Freedom Day will be on March 30, 2016.
== MEPs vote for more Free Software in public sector ==
On 19 January, the European Parliament adopted in Plenary its own-
initiative report "Towards a Digital Single Market" prepared by the co-
rapporteurs Kaja Kallas (ALDE) from the Industry, Research and Energy
Committee (ITRE) and Evelyne Gebhardt (S D) from Internal Market and
Consumers Protection Committee (IMCO). The FSFE's policy team has
amended the draft report and is pleased to see that the final version
adopted in the Plenary includes several positive statements concerning
Free Software.
In particular, the report urges the European Commission and the Council
of the EU to increase the share of Free Software and its reuse in public
administrations as a solution to increase interoperability. The report
also promotes the security advantages of Free Software, and calls the EU
to commit to the increased use of Free Software in educational
establishments and public administrations. We hope that the European
Commission will follow the example of the Parliament and will implement
the recommendations to increase the use of Free Software in public
sector.
== Out of the community ==
Daniel Pocock blogs about the freedom to leave your phone offline or at
home[7], and argues why you should start with buying a watch.
-
Hook writes about his positive experience with switching to Let's
Encrypt certificates for his server[8] and comes up with some links for
more information to do it yourself.
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Many of us feel sad these days about the loss of Ian Murdock. His
contributions to the world of Free Software and the Debian system are
without end. Daniel Pocock gathered some background, feelings and other
people's tributes to Ian Murdock on his blog[9].
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Marcus Möller reports and gives a summary about Freedomvote[10] - a
successful 'ask you candidates' campaign that the FSFE Switzerland was
running for this years elections.
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Erik Albers made his first experiences with FirefoxOS and asks Mozilla
to put freedom into FirefoxOS market place[11].
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The FSFE group Berlin made a Free Software installation party and
liberated 23 PC's with Debian[12] that will be given to refugee
organisations and schools.
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== What else have we done? ==
FSFE provided the European Commission input on setting priorities in ICT
standards and answered to the public consultation on the adoption of a
Priority ICT Standards Plan[13]. In order for the EU to achieve a true
digital single market that is interoperable and pro-competitive, there
is a need for standards that are open, minimalistic and implementable
with Free Software. Other points that have been risen are that a
reference implementation is published under a Free Software licence,
that all software developed with public funds is to be released as Free
Software, and that harmful licensing practices such as FRAND should be
avoided in the fields of software, internet and the web.
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Together with April and several other organisations, FSFE signed a joint
disagreement against the partnership agreement signed between France's
ministry of education and Microsoft[14] about IT solutions in school.
The partnership revolves around teachers' training for mastering
Microsoft environment, the provision of a cloud ecosystem and an
e-learning platform which in total amounts to complete control of IT in
French schools under the supervision of Microsoft. With this agreement
the ministry is forcing schools and pupils to a particular proprietary
vendor.
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FSFE had an assembly at the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress[15] in
Hamburg, Germany, including 12 self-organized sessions and the
GNU/Burger[16].
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Just before Christmas and the completion of the EU Data Protection
package, all members of the European Parliament received our e-mail
self-defense leaflet in their mailboxes. This way we wanted to remind
policymakers how important encryption is to everyone's right to
privacy[17].
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== Take Action ==
In 2016 we have 15 years of FSFE and 5 years of I love Free Software
Day: Join us in celebrating Free Software by expressing your
appreciation towards Free Software developers on February 14[18]!
#ILoveFS
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As every year, we will have a booth at FOSDEM and a lot of members of
our community will give talks or come to listen to talks. It is one of
the best chances throughout the year to meet many people from the FSFE.
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== Good Free Software news ==
An amendment to the France's upcoming law for the Digital Republic that
obliges public administrations to publish the source code of its custom-
built software solutions[19] was adopted by France's parliament.
Meanwhile another French city, Grenoble, commits to Free Software[20]
that is said to help to increase citzen participation, to cut costs, and
facilitate the sharing of knowledge. Speaking of licences, family of
Free Software licenses has expanded by three new licences written by the
government of the Canadian province of Quebec[21]. This should encourage
the province’s public administrations to share their ICT solutions.
Thanks to all the volunteers[22] , Fellows[23] and corporate donors[24]
who enable our work,
your editors Polina Malaja and Erik Albers FSFE[25]
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1. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2001q2/000002.html
2. https://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100510-01.en.html
3. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/
4. https://wiki.fsfe.org/FSFE%20summit
5. https://fsfe.org/news/2008/news-20080220-01
6. http://documentfreedom.org/news/2016/news-20160122-01.html
7. http://danielpocock.com/do-you-own-your-phone-or-it-owns-you
8. http://matija.suklje.name/i-am-using-lets-encrypt-on-my-server-now
9. http://danielpocock.com/ian-murdock-police-brutality
10. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2015/12/15/freedomvote-a-summary/
11. http://blog.3rik.cc/2016/01/put-freedom-into-firefox-os-marketplace/
12. https://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipEvents/Berlin/2016-01-16-Free-Software-Inst…
13. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160118-01.en.html
14. https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20151203-01.en.html
15. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_…
16. http://blog.3rik.cc/2015/12/fsfe-assembly-during-chaos-communication-congre…
17. http://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/?p=69
18. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/
19. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-parliament-source-co…
20. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/grenoble-commits-free-softw…
21. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/open-source-initiative-appr…
22. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.es.html
23. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
24. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.es.html
25. https://fsfe.org/index.es.html
= Hoja informativa de la FSFE - diciembre 2015 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201512.es.html ]
== Desde la FSFE ==
== Eurodiputados a favor de nuestras enmiendas ==
Las comisiones del Parlamento Europeo de Mercado Interior y Protección
del Consumidor (IMCO) así como la de Industria, Investigación y Energía
(ITRE) emitieron un informe conjunto, por propia iniciativa, basado en
la estrategia para el mercado digital único de la Comisión. El equipo
político de la FSFE ha analizado el informe y los cambios propuestos
para incluir estándares abiertos, minimalista, y aplicables con el
Software Libre, para integrar el control de los usuarios sobre sus datos
y asegurarse que la única nube de ciencia abierta se realice con
Software Libre.
El informe recibió más de 1000 enmiendas de los Diputados del Parlamento
Europeo (MEPs), algunas apoyaban nuestras enmiendas y puntos propuestos.
Esto muestra un aumento de la conciencia en el Parlamento sobre la
importancia del Software Libre en la "computación en la nube", los datos
y la normalización, así como en el sector público. La ponente
alternativa Cornelia Ernst incluso destacó la necesidad del Software
Libre durante su charla en la reunión conjunta del IMCO/ITRE el 10 de
noviembre. Este mes, el 14 de diciembre, el Parlamento votará la versión
definitiva del informe.
Aunque el informe no es vinculante y la Comisión no está obligada a
seguir las recomendaciones del Parlamento, el hecho de que nuestras
enmiendas fueran apoyadas por varios europarlamentarios es un paso
importante. Especialmente en el Parlamento que es donde se suele ser
menos receptivos cuando se trata de temas relacionados con los derechos
digitales y el Software Libre.
== Alemania aprobó la ley contra los routers obligatorios ==
Tras tres años de fuerte presión por parte de la FSFE[1] y de otras
organizaciones, el Parlamento alemán y el Consejo Federal, segunda
cámara, han aprobado la ley contra los routers obligatorios a favor de
los de libre elección. Es un paso importante hacia la protección del
consumidor y por la competencia leal de los fabricantes. La libertad de
elección permite a los usuarios tener en cuenta puntos fundamentales
como la seguridad o la privacidad en su dispositivo favorito. La ley
entrará en vigor a mediados del 2016 y ha de servir de ejemplo para toda
Europa. Apoyaremos legislaciones similares doquiera fuera necesario.
== Sony Rootkit 10 años después siguen siendo noticia ==
A finales de octubre, para promover el derecho de todo el mundo a
cacharrear, la FSFE recordaba el peligro de las restricciones técnicas
en la tecnología. Como resultado, el tema fue recogido por la prensa y
la página con dicho artículo de la FSFE fue vinculada por, al menos, una
docena de artículos de diferentes importantes fuentes de noticia.
Nuestro antiguo becario Asa Ritz [resumió] resumió[2] en su blog la
cobertura que hemos recibido.
== ¿Qué más hemos hecho? ==
- El presidente de la FSFE Matthias Kirschner dio una charla sobre el
ordenador como máquina universal[3] en el Codemotion Berlin, y realizó
un taller sobre las restricciones en la técnica en el "Open IT
Summit"[4] de Berlín. En un podcast, Matthias argumentó en contra de
una "clausula no-militar" en las licencias de Software Libre[5].
- El coordinador de la comunidad FSFE Erik Albers y el coordinador del
equipo legal de la FSFE Matija Šuklje participaron en el Copycamp de
Varsovia[6], pusieron un stand y Matija dio una charla sobre "Las
implicaciones de la reforma de los Derechos de Autor de la UE en el
Software Libre".
- Se presentó a la FSFE en la FSCONS[7] en Gotemburgo, Suecia. Christian
Kalkhoff escribe su experiencia en la FSCONS[8] en un blogpost.
- La FSFE también tuvo sus estands en París en el Open Source Summit[9],
en Dornbirn en el Linuxday[10], Austria, y en Oberhausen en el
OpenRheinRuhr[11], Alemania.
== Actúa ==
- Si quiere conocernos en persona, encontrará personal y miembros de la
FSFE en nuestro stand en FOSDEM[12]. Y si asiste a la Chaos
Communication Conference, #32C3[13], de este año, entonces no deje de
pasar por la asamblea de la FSFE[14], participe en una de nuestras
sesiones o simplemente descanse en nuestra "sala de Software Libre".
- El equipo de Educación de la FSFE está rediseñando su folleto
educativo. Si desea unirse y compartir ideas, no dude en participar en
la página wiki[15].
- En nuestra campaña Libere Su Android destacamos la importancia de
Replicant con un 100% sistema operativo libre basado en Android. Somos
felices al ver que los negocios aumentan, que se comienzan a vender
móviles con replicant pre-instalado[16] y esperamos que sean más las
empresas que sigan este ejemplo.
- Si le gusta lo que hemos hecho en el 2015 y desea que continuemos
igual en 2016 e incluso vayamos a más, piense en apoyarnos con una
donación[17] o hágase socio de apoyo[18]. La financiación es crucial
para nuestra existencia.
== Fuera de la Comunidad ==
- Se ha creado un nuevo equipo: Rin-Westfalia del Norte es el estado
alemán mayor con tres grupos locales de la FSFE. Este mes, han
celebrado una reunión inaugural del grupo de acción de todo el estado,
el equipo NRW[19]. Además de la coordinación, la tarea principal será
la educación de los profesores[20].
- En la reunión local de la FSFE de Düsseldorf, Andreas Schreiber habló
sobre la estrategia del código abierto en el DLR del Centro
Aeroespacial Aleman[21] y este acto fué recogido por el Observatorio
Europeo de Código Abierto[22]
- Tras ofrecer portátiles Libreboot en freie.computer[23] el grupo local
de la FSFE de Zurich ahora ha decidido comenzar con díasFlash[24]
- Daniel Pocock ha informado sobre la creación de equipos en torno a la
comunicación SIP y XMPP en Debian y Fedora[25], y Daniel también ha
escrito una [ágil entrega para usar Blender en la edición de
vídeo](http://danielpocock.com/quick-start-blender-video-editing)
- Marcus Möller ha personalizado Fedora 23 en una versión Freed[26], que
incluye kernel linux-libre y el navegador Icecat. Ha eliminado todo el
firmware propietario.
== Buenas Noticias del Software Libre ==
- En la *UE*: el Parlamento Europeo hace un llamamiento a la Comisión
para la sustitución sistemática del software propietario por Software
Libre verificado en todas las instituciones de la UE[27]. En *Italia*,
el Ministerio de Defensa está sustituyendo Microsoft Office por
LibreOffice[28] en 150,000 PCs en la que es la segunda mayor
implementación de LibreOffice en Europa. Mientras tanto, la segunda
ciudad industrial más importante en el Sur de Italia, Bari, está a
punto de terminar su transición al LibreOffice[29] y a ODF. Al mismo
tiempo en *Suiza*, el consejo de Berna ordenó a su departamento TI que
terminara su dependencia del software propietario[30], y lo
sustituyera por soluciones de Software Libre. Se siguió el mismo
ejemplo en *Dinamarca* donde la ciudad de Aarhus está reclamando el
uso de estándares IT abiertos para todos sus proyectos IT futuros[31]
con el objetivo de terminar con su dependencia de los proveedores IT.
Finalmente, un reciente estudio en *Francia* confirma que la
administración del país es aún un gran facilitador del Software
Libre[32]. Según el estudio, el mercado del Software Libre está
creciendo en una tendencia lineal y crecerá un 9% anual hasta 2020.
Esta ha sido la última hoja informativa del 2015. Muchas gracias por su
atención. La próxima hoja aparecerá a principios de febrero de 2016.
BTW: Aún estamos experimentando con nuevos formatos y nuevas formas para
nuestra hoja informativa. Por favor siéntase con libertad para
manifestar su opinión en fellowship(a)fsfeurope.org.
¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año-GNU!
Sus editores Polina Malaja y Erik Albers FSFE[33]
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Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html>
1. https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/timeline.html
2. http://blogs.fsfe.org/asawritz/2015/11/04/sony-rootkit-still-making-headlin…
3. http://berlin2015.codemotionworld.com/talk-detail/?detail=1958
4. http://www.gruene-fraktion-berlin.de/offener-it-gipfel
5. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/podcast-on-non-military-use-clause-in-gnu-gpl/
6. http://copycamp.pl/en/
7. https://fscons.org/2015/
8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/softmetz/?p=63
9. http://www.opensourcesummit.paris/
10. http://www.linuxday.at/
11. http://openrheinruhr.de/
12. https://fosdem.org/2016/
13. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Main_Page
14. https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_…
15. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Reasons_for_schools_to_use_Free_Software
16. https://tehnoetic.com/tehnoetic-s2-phone-replicant
17. https://fsfe.org/donate/donate
18. https://fsfe.org/join
19. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1629
20. http://blogs.fsfe.org/wromey/2015/11/22/grundungssitzung-des-nrw-teams-der-…
21. http://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1592
22. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/147875
23. https://freie.computer/
24. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2015/11/27/flashdays-are-coming/
25. http://danielpocock.com/building-teams-around-sip-and-xmpp-in-debian-and-fe…
26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2015/11/04/freed-ora-23-workstation-availab…
27. https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20151110-01.en.html
28. http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500256578/Free-software-gains-ground-in…
29. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/146281
30. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/bern-council-demands-transi…
31. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/denmark%E2%80%99s-aarhus-in…
32. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/147785
33. https://fsfe.org/index.es.html