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

11 Nov '14

= FSFE Newsletter – November 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201411.it.html ] == Munich: facts harder than fiction == The city of Munich runs Free Software on more than 15.000 workplace computers and has saved over 11.000.000€ in return[1]. During the migration to Free Software, they consolidated their heterogeneous IT in 51 places with 1000 IT employees and 22 IT departments. Despite these challenges most users are happy with the migration and say they do not want to switch back[2] (in German). And all of this happened in the front-yard of Microsoft's German headquarters. If you do not like the success of Free Software in Munich, what could you do? You could play on emotions and spread rumours that the Munich IT people are not taking the demands of regular users nor the executive into account. Of course, you have to stay vague, hoping to bring out a few of those voices that are always unhappy - but this is an easy way of discrediting the progress already made. This is what happened in the last months in Munich with remarks by the new mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD, Social Democrats) and his vice Josef Schmid (CSU, Christian Democrats). Some commentators have speculated about a connection to the fact that Microsoft is now moving its headquarter from Unterschleissheim to Munich, and Reiter claiming that he helped with this deal[3] (in German). As Microsoft was the biggest tax payer in Unterschleissheim[4] (in German), Munich will financially benefit by this move. But they seem to have underestimated the success of Free Software in Munich. IT experts from their own political parties raised their voice to correct them[5] and others have uncovered their misleading statements[6]. Thus, the comments by the mayors represent only individual opinions. Munich's political support for GNU/Linux is strong, and the money the city saves and will continue to save by using GNU/Linux, LibreOffice/OpenOffice, and the Desktop from KDE counts profoundly. If Free Software can even survive a smear campaign by the mayors it shows that it is there to stay. Dear Free Software community: /be proud and spread the word!/ But do not rest, the next attack will be more subtle. == EU wide Open Standards policy == But the answer to the inquiry includes another crucial point: the problem with document formats. The Munich IT managers noted that, at the beginning of their migration, the German federal states and the federal government highlighted the importance of Free Software and Open Standards, but afterwards never consequently went this path. In Germany, the lack of a clear Open Standard Policy is a major blocker for public administrations to use Free Software. In recent years, other European Countries such as Great Britain, France, Italy, and Sweden have done more to promote Free Software and Open Standards. On the European level, the former Munich mayor asked the European Commission to implement two measures to enable participation with Free Software in EU projects[7]: First to have all document templates which are available in Microsoft Office formats, also in Open Document Text (ODT) format. Second that all presenter notebooks in the EU institutions also have a program installed which can handle Open Document Presentation (ODP) files. This was in 2011 and the European bodies have neglected implementing Open Standard policies for a long time. == Open Standard compliance checks == When intuitions decide on Open Standards policies, this is just the first step. It is important to check this decision and to remind them about it. In 2010 as a Document Freedom Day activity our Fellows in Cologne and Bonn checked the German federal administrations after a decision that they have to be able to receive, edit, and send back ODF[8]. The FSFE found out that only 2 of 87 departments are conforming to federal open document regulations. This highlights the importance of being persistent and monitoring the implementation of such policies. Check out this month's “Get active” item with a specific suggestion how you can help with that within a few minutes. == Something completely different == - We are currently looking for interns again, especially in preparation of Document Freedom Day[9] but we also have general internship positions open from early January[10]. When Max Mehl saw the news item he published a summary about his internship with FSFE[11]. - Together with the Italian consumer association ADUC, and the Italian group ILS, we asked[12] regulators to take concrete steps to protect Italians from being forced to pay for software they do not want or need. - Local activities: Our Vienna group had their most active and successful Autumn ever. Franz documented how they participated in the three big events Software Freedom Day, the biggest German speaking animal rights conference, and the Game City fair 2013[13]. Christian Kalkhoff from our Munich group gave a presentation about the groups activities at the GNU Hackers Meeting 2014. The video is now online[14]. If you want to help with the organisation of the LibreOffice conference 2015, Carsten Agger is still looking for assistance, as our Aarhus group will help at the event[15]. - Spoiler alert: The last edition of the education news also mentions the focus of the upcoming Document Freedom Day 2015[16]. - Public administrations: The German town of Gummersbach announced that this summer it has completed its switch to GNU/Linux PCs[17], England's Healthwatch switches to Free Software CiviCRM[18], and a Free Software solution developed for the government of South Tyrol (Italy) to automatically test government websites and services is now also being used to probe sites of the region's tourism sector[19]. - Our sister organisation invites Free Software enthusiasts to the libre planet conference 2015[20] in the US. Furthermore the nomination for the 17th annual Free Software Awards is open[21], and you can send your nominations before Sunday 16 November. - Matthew Garret wrote a blog post on why he joined FSF's board[22]. But some of the comments he received are really offensive, and your editor hopes that Matthew can just ignore them. Related to this, your editor recommends you reading the article “On the sickness of our community”[23] by Jonathan Corbet. As always, if you have comments about it send them to our discussion lists[24]. - From the planet aggregation[25]: - Computers are entering the fashion field from multiple directions. Current FSFE intern Michele Marrali wrote about MeshCon 2014, a conference that connects fashion designer and technology experts[26]. - André Ockers reports that the Dutch public broadcaster NOS moves away from open standards[27] - Matija Šuklje made his first commit to KDE and writes about FSFE's Fiduciary Licence Agreement[28] - Daniel Pocock reports positive results from Outreach Program for Women[29] - Hugo Roy explains how he wrote a new defensive publication for ownCloud's file syncing encryption[30]. == Get active: Fix my document - ODF in EU bodies == The EU institutions still have a lot to do to remove barriers for Free Software users. Together with Open Forum Europe (OFE) your editor had a meeting with the IT responsible of the Commission, the Council, and the Parliament about that. We discussed our letter on video format[31] and the campaign “FixMyDocuments.eu”. This campaign was started by OFE to help EU institutions to implement their decision to support Open Document Formats[32] FSFE's volunteers already translated the website in more languages, but now it is time for all of you to act. We would like you to /find EU institutions who offer non-free formats/ on their website, without also publishing those documents in ODT, and then submit them[33]. Furthermore OFE encourages and will support anyone who wants to use the platform to cover other administrations. Thanks to all the volunteers[34], Fellows[35] and corporate donors[36] who enable our work, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/106341 2. http://www.computerwoche.de/a/wohin-steuert-linux-in-muenchen,3043464,2 3. http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2013-11/reiter-muenchen-spd/komplett… 4. http://www.merkur-online.de/lokales/muenchen-lk-nord/unterschleissheim-umzu… 5. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/munich-city-council-shields… 6. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141016-01.it.html 7. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/prasident-des-deutschen-stadtetags-an-europaische… 8. https://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100803-01.it.html 9. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141017-01.it.html 10. https://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.it.html 11. http://blog.mehl.mx/2014/my-internship-at-fsfe/ 12. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20141017-02.it.html 13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2014/10/23/three-autumn-events-2014/ 14. http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2014/2014-08--kalkhoff--fsfe--ghm.webm 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/10/22/announcing-the-libreoffice-conferen… 16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/10/free-software-in-education-news-%E2%80… 17. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/105069 18. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/104519 19. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/tyrol-government-shares-tes… 20. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/registration-opens-for-libreplanet-2015 21. https://www.fsf.org/news/the-free-software-foundation-opens-nominations-for… 22. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/33455.html 23. http://lwn.net/Articles/615192/ 24. https://fsfe.org/contact/community.it.html 25. http://planet.fsfe.org 26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/puster/2014/10/14/meshcon-2014/ 27. https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2014/10/28/dutch-public-broadcaster-moves-away-fr… 28. http://matija.suklje.name/my-very-first-commit-to-kde 29. http://danielpocock.com/positive-results-from-opw-2013 30. http://hroy.eu/posts/owncloud-encryption-defpub/ 31. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140326-02.it.html 32. http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/informatics/oss_tech/pdf/2011-07-25_ares.pdf 33. http://fixmydocuments.eu/?page_id=9 34. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.it.html 35. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 36. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.it.html

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FSFE Newsletter – Ottobre 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

= FSFE Newsletter – Ottobre 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201410.it.html ] == I giudici italiani affermano lo svincolo di hardware e software == Quando si compra un computer, può risultare difficile evitare il pagamento di una licenza Microsoft Windows, in quanto molti portatili vengono venduti con il sistema operativo preinstallato. Questa "tassa di Windows" aumenta artificialmente il prezzo per gli utenti di Software Libero che non vogliono essere utenti del sistema operativo Microsoft. Noi, in quanto utenti di Software Libero, vogliamo supportare lo sviluppo del Software Libero e non di quello proprietario come Microsoft Windows. Dal 2008 manteniamo una pagina wiki con consigli per i consumatori che vogliano evitare di sostenere economicamente lo sviluppo di software non libero[1], inoltre per più di una decade abbiamo interrogato i politici e le organizzazioni per i diritti dei consumatori a proposito della presente questione. Nonostante questi sforzi, i progressi sono lenti, e ci vorranno anni per far mutare la situazione in Europa. Per un obbiettivo a lungo termine, raggiungere obbiettivi intermedi è importante. Il mese scorso abbiamo vinto una battaglia. La corte di Cassazione Italiana ha deciso[2] che l'acquirente di un portatile abbia il diritto a ricevere un rimborso per il prezzo della licenza Microsoft Windows che era stato obbligato ad acquistare con il suo computer. I giudici criticano in modo chiaro la pratica di vendere PC esclusivamente con sistema operativo non libero definendola "una politica commerciale finalizzata alla diffusione forzosa". La corte considera questa pratica come "tendenzialmente monopolista". È anche messo in evidenza che la la pratica in questione forza l'utente ad usare ulteriori software proprietari per questioni di compatibilità ed interoperabilità, a prescindere dalla sua volontà di voler usare questi programmi. Ora le autorità italiane devono trasformare questa sentenza in una vera vittoria per i consumatori, assicurando che gli acquirenti di computer possano scegliere con quale sistema operativo comprare il computer (o di comprarlo senza). Ci piacerebbe convincere altri paesi europei a seguire l'esempio italiano, o ancora meglio sarebbe trovare una soluzione a livello europeo. == La pubblica amministrazione europea usa Software Libero == C'è spesso da parte dei media, ma anche da parte nostra, di concentrarsi sulle notizie negative a proposito dell'uso del Software Libero nella pubblica amministrazione. In questa edizione, ci vogliamo concentrare su qualche esempio positivo accaduto nell'ultimo mese. Buone notizie a riguardo pacchetti di Software Libero per l'ufficio: il Bundesrechenzentrum austriaco (centro informatico federale), loda la varietà di usi di Apache OpenOffice[3]. Gli austriaci apprezzano come "la soluzione possa essere adattata alle necessità dello specifico datacenter, integrata in specifiche applicazioni ed in oltre permette la creazione e consegna di documenti in maniera automatica o semi automatica. OpenOffice è il pacchetto per l'ufficio standard nel centro informatico dal 2008, ed è installato sui 1200 PC. Inoltre, la pubblica amministrazione delle città italiane di Todi e Terni stanno migrando a LibreOffice[4]. Seguono l'esempio della città di Perugia, che usa LibreOffice su 1200 PC, così come il sistema sanitario di Perugia che use LibreOffice su 600 PC. La pubblica amministrazione francese usa il pacchetto per l'ufficio di Software Libro su 500.000 computer[5]. Anche se affermano che il passaggio al Software Libero sia stato duro, sono stati in grado di gestire i problemi. Il successo del progetto è in parte dovuto a due contratti con fornitori di servizi di consulenza IT. I contratti prevedono l'assistenza per 260 applicazioni di Software Libero, e i consulenti assicurano che le migliorie fatte in virtù dei contratti sono condivise con la comunità del progetto originale. I verdi in Sassonia/Germania domandano urgentemente al governo federale uno studio di fattibilità per una migrazione a Software Libero[6]. "Il gruppo politico, utente del software libero dal Dicembre 2011, afferma che un abbassamento dei costi per l'IT e una maggiore sicurezza informatica dovrebbero incentivare la pubblica amministrazione" ad usare Software Libero. Affermano che la dipendenza dal software proprietario "fornisce a grandi aziende accesso e influenza sia alle attività lavorative, che alle comunicazioni e dati sensibili dei cittadini". == Qualcosa di totalmente diverso == - Anche senza la "tassa Windows" summenzionata, bisogna sempre sapere se il computer che uno vuole comperare funzioni con il Software Libero. Per migliorare le informazioni sulla compatibilità hardware, la FSF e Debian collaborano per espandere e migliorare il database di hardware h-node[7] al fine di aiutare gli utenti ad imparare e condividere informazioni a proposito di computer che funzionino con sistemi operativi Liberi. - Sulla nostra mailing list pubblica si sta correntemente discutendo su metafore appropriate per il Software Libero Hugo Roy ha aperto il thread[8] con alcuni esempi. Alessandro Rubini ha qualche osservazione a riguardo, facendo notare che le metafore proposte non siano le più azzeccate[9]. Lui suggerisce che se abbiamo bisogno di una metafora per spiegare il Software Libero al pubblico, dobbiamo restare nel campo dell'informazione, del sapere che può essere condiviso a costo zero. In un post recente Guido Arnold riporta esperienze con l'uso dell'analogia delle ricette con i bambini.[10] - Nel giorno per il Software Libero moti gruppi locali dell'FSFE si sono attivati: Edgar Hoffmann ha organizzato un banchetto informativo di fronte al municipio di Offenburg, e una mini-conferenza-comunitaria con lezioni e il nostro Free Software quiz alla sera[11] (in Tedesco, ma con un sacco di foto). Dominic Hopf, in nostro coordinatore ad Amburgo, ha parlato in pubblico all'evento SFD in Kiel a proposito di F-Droid[12], invece Torsten Grote ha introdotto nuove persone a F-Droid all'evento SFD di Berlino. Allo stesso evento hanno presenziato Nermin Canik da Istanbul e il sottoscritto per parlare al pubblico a proposito di libertà del software. Da ultimo, Michael Stehmann ha parlato di Software Libero e privacy all'evento SFD a Colonia[13] (in Tedesco). - Dal 13 al 15 Ottobre l'FSFE avrà un banchetto alla Linuxcon a Düsseldorf. Visto che molti attivisti per il Software Libero saranno lì in giro da prima, il nostro gruppo della Fellowship di Düsseldorf invita tutti i sostenitori del Software Libero a un brunch il 10 ottobre 2014 dalle 11:00 al bistro "Schwesterherz"[14], Bilker Allee 66, 40219 Düsseldorf. Un periodo molto attivo per il nostro gruppo locale che, dopo aver partecipato a un criptoparty per il Commissario per la Protezione dei Dati e la Libertà di Informazione[15] (in Tedesco) e organizzato un banchetto allo Zackk street festival[16] (in Tedesco). - Guido Arnold sintetizza il risultato del gruppo di lavoro dell'FSFE a Essen, dove abbiamo discusso le best practices per fare lavoro di advocacy a livello locale[17]. - Lo sviluppatore di Software Libero Matthew Garret è "solidamente convinto che il software Libero che non fa nulla per rispettare o responsabilizzare l'utente è un assoluto spreco di tempo". Nel suo blog[18] afferma che dobbiamo sviluppare software dal basso verso l'alto, in modo tale che le libertà costituiscano un vantaggio reale e immediato per l'utente. Secondo lui, tutto il resto è un fallimento. - Dalla planet aggregation[19]: - Il rapporto di Guido Arnold dal laboratorio Teckids al FrOSCon9. Più di 60 bambini dai 9 ai 13 anni hanno partecipato in tre differenti laboratori a proposito di robot, giochi in python e Blender[20]. - Max Mehl spiega come impostare Openstreetmap per vedere la mappa nei contatti di Thunderbird[21] e come accedere ai contatti di ownCloud attraverso il calendario CalDAV[22]. - Henri Bergius riporta dallo status dell'ambiente di sviluppo NoFlo[23], un'interfaccia utente per programmare basandosi sui diagrammi di flusso. - Ci sono alcune cose che puoi fare per evitare di avere a che fare con file Microsoft Office. In certi casi però sei obbligato a misurarti con loro. Kevin Keijzer documenta come tirare fuori il meglio da file Microsoft Office in quanto utente di Software Libero[24]. - Il nostro stagista Michele Marrali ha scritto un post su come i brevetti, il diritto d'autore e i marchi possano essere usati per promuovere libertà in progetti Hardware[25]. == Attivati: di' la tua sul User Data Manifesto == La seconda versione del User Data Manifesto[26] è stata rilasciata. Lo scopo del manifesto è definire i diritti fondamentali degli utenti per i propri dati nell'epoca di Internet: controllare l'accesso ai propri dati (e metadata), sapere come e dove i dati sono conservati e essere liberi di scegliere una piattaforma. Alcuni progetti stanno già lavorando verso l'adozione del manifesto così da dare agli utenti questi diritti! Al momento, la seconda versione è pubblicata come bozza in un wiki che permette commenti pubblici[27]. Chiediamo a tutti i sostenitori del Software Libero di dare il loro parere sul manifesto, cosicché possa migliorare, e possiamo decidere se sostenerlo in quanto FSFE. Ogni commento è apprezzato: discuti il manifesto sulla tua lista di discussione[28], e chiedi ad altre organizzazioni per il Software Libero il loro parere e se vogliano supportare il manifesto. Grazie a tutti i volontari[29], i Fellow[30] e i donatori aziendali[31] che ci permettono di svolgere il nostro lavoro, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://wiki.fsfe.org/WindowsTaxRefund 2. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140912-01.it.html 3. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/103311 4. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/104084 5. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/103567 6. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/103307 7. https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-and-debian-join-forces-to-help-free-software-u… 8. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-September/010265.html 9. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-September/010295.html 10. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-October/010296.html 11. https://blogs.fsfe.org/fast_edi/?p=476 12. http://blog.dmaphy.de/2014/09/software-liberty-is-like-security-in-it.html 13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1258 14. http://www.bistro-schwesterherz.de/ 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1227 16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1247 17. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/09/how-to-advocate-for-free-software-in-l… 18. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/32686.html 19. http://planet.fsfe.org 20. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/09/teckids-workshops-at-froscon9-robots-p… 21. http://blog.mehl.mx/2014/setting-openstreetmap-as-default-in-thunderbird-co… 22. http://blog.mehl.mx/2014/birthday-calendar-with-owncloud-via-caldav/ 23. http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/flowhub-kickstarter-delivery/ 24. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/09/12/ooxml/ 25. http://blogs.fsfe.org/puster/2014/09/08/freedom-and-openness-in-hardware/ 26. https://userdatamanifesto.org/2.0/ 27. http://udm.branchable.com/index.en.html 28. https://fsfe.org/contact/community.it.html 29. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.it.html 30. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 31. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.it.html

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FSFE Newsletter – Settembre 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

= FSFE Newsletter – Settembre 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201409.it.html ] == Una Introduzione al Software Libero a alla liberazione del cyberspazio == Le libertà di parola, di stampa, di assemblea, di associazione e la privacy sono precondizioni essenziali per una Società Libera. Se a questa manca una di queste libertà, risulta difficile mantenere le altre. In quanto società, è importante difendere queste libertà, specialmente in luce di cambiamenti fondamentali come quelli introdotti dall'ubiquità dei computer. Tali cambiamenti possono minacciare le vecchie libertà e possono creare la necessità di istituirne di nuove. Per questo ora la libertà del software è cruciale per distribuire e bilanciare il potere all'interno della società. La FSFE è convinta che una società libera necessiti delle libertà che solo il Software Libero può offrire. Queste sono le ragioni per cui difendiamo il Software Libero. Nel 2010, abbiamo scritto l'articolo "La democrazia ha bisogno del Software Libero"[1], spiegando ai politici il messaggio sopra espresso, in occasione della cerimonia durante la quale è stata conferita alla FSFE la medaglia Theodor-Heuss. Grazie al team di traduttori dell' FSFE, l'articolo è nel frattempo divenuto disponibile in 15 lingue e ampiamente condiviso. Dal mese scorso, il messaggio sull'importanza del Software libero è espresso anche in un breve video TEDx "Introduzione al Software Libero e liberazione del cyberspazio"[2] di Richard Stallman. E' un buon modo di rendere gli altri consapevoli del significato del Software Libero e del perché sia importante. Abbiamo bisogno di altre persone che comprendano perché il Software libero sia importante per una società libera, come i seguenti esempi mostreranno ancora una volta. == La Slovacchia forza ancora gli utenti all'uso del software non libero == Nel 2012 -- grazie al nostro ex stagista Martin Husovec -- la FSFE si è impegnata in un caso contro l'Agenzia delle Entrate slovacca[3] in collaborazione con l'Istituto della Società Europea per l'Informazione (EISi). Come l'attuale stagista FSFE Matej Gera scrive nel suo blog[4] il problema della forzatura da parte delle autorità slovacche ad usare il software non libero è ancora in presente: secondo quanto prescritto de una nuova regolamentazione in Slovacchia, le persone in possesso di terre ad uso agricolo intenzionate a venderle devono prima fare un offerta su una pagina web del Ministero dell'Agricoltura. Per inviare un'offerta alla pagina web del ministero, è necessario l'utilizzo di un ulteriore software. Il software in questione è proprietario è solo disponibile per Microsoft Windows, ed è l'unico modo -- non ci sono moduli cartacei. Se si prova a vendere la terra in altro modo, si infrange la legge. Questa pratica non solo è inaccettabile per gli utenti del Software libero, ma è anche in sé illegittima in Slovacchia. Dal 2008, esiste una regolamentazione che proibisce alle autorità pubbliche di richiedere agli utenti di usare uno specifico sistema operativo. Ma il sito web del Ministero in questione chiaramente non è in rispettoso di questa regola. Ora, l'organizzazione slovacca non-profit EISi ha inviato una lettera al Ministero dell'Agricoltura, richiedendo porre fine a questa pratica. Se non rispetteranno qunto richiesto nella lettera e non forniranno una soluzione interoperabile entro ottobre, l'EISi andrà in causa per proteggere i diritti degli utenti software slovacchi. == Forzati dal Fornitore di Servizi Internet (ISP) ad usare un certo hardware == Non dovrebbe essere necessario dirlo, nella nostra società, dovremo essere in grado di scegliere liberamente l'apparecchiatura tecnica da usare nelle nostre case come scegliamo l'arredamento o i libri sui nostri scaffali. Ma oltre alle autorità che ci forzano ad usare software non liberi, la FSFE al momento deve contrapporsi a compagnie che intendono forzarci all'uso di certi dispositivi a casa nostra. In questo caso addirittura uno dei dispositivi più importanti: il router, che dovrebbe funzionare da custode tra il nostro network privato e l'internet pubblico. In Germania, i provider del servizio Internet (ISP) forzano i loro clienti ad usare certi tipi di hardware per potersi connettere ad internet. Gli utenti di dispositivi alternativi, invece, non sono in grado di connettersi ad internet attraverso quegli ISP. Insieme ad altri membri della comunità del Software libero, il nostro team in Germania ha scritto parecchi articoli su questo caso e siamo entrati in discussione con agenzie del governo, aziende, ed altre organizzazioni riguardo l'uso obbligatorio di certi router. Essendo, questo argomento, stato sviluppato principalmente in Germania e in tedesco, il membro del nostro team tedesco Max Mehl ha riassunto questo caso[5] e compilato una cronologia degli eventi più importanti che hanno condotto alla situazione attuale[6]. Speriamo che queste informazioni possano supportare altri attivisti del Software Libero in giro per il mondo, che dovessero affrontare problemi simili. == Qualcosa di completamente diverso == - La FSFE ha ricevuto copertura televisiva due volte nei mesi scorsi. Prima, il coordinatore legale Matija Šuklje è stato intervistato dalla RTV Slovenia per commentare a proposito delle sfide del Commissario per l'Informazione del paese, correlate al cloud computing. Anche se hanno tradotto la sigla FSFE in "Fondazione per la programmazione senza restrizioni", è stata la prima volta che la FSFE è apparsa sulla televisione slovena. In seguito, il nostro coordinatore austriaco Peter Bubestinger è stato a Città del Messico ad un seminario di archiviazione, dove ha presentato i casi d'uso per i formati di file e lo stoccaggio a lungo termine implementato nel Free Software. L'intero seminario è stato tradotto dal vivo in Spagnolo e trasmesso su Televison Educativa, un canale TV nazionale di educazione. Hanno anche caricato i video su youtube. L'intervista di Peter[7] può essere trovata a 3h50m. - Guido Arnold ha pubblicato alcune notizie a scopo educativo[8] riguardo una gara di hacking per trovare falle nella sicurezza di Moodle, altre sugli attivisti del Software libero in visita alle scuole in Slovacchia, e altre informazioni legate all'informazione e all'educazione. - Membri e collaboratori della comunità GNU hanno scoperto dettagli circa un programma di sorveglianza governativo sviluppato da cinque paesi dal nome in codice HACIENDA[9]. Gli stessi hacker hanno già elaborato un Software Libero come contromisura per ostacolare il programma. - Equipaggiato con un software libero GNU Radio, un gruppo di cittadini scienziati ha contattato, controllato, e sta tentando di rientrare in contatto con un satellite risalente agli anni '70, per riportarlo in un'orbita vicino alla Terra. La storia dietro questo caso[10] dimostra l'importanza di sviluppare, mantenere e promuovere il Software Libero. - Dalla planet aggregation[11]: - Hugo Roy ha dato uno sguardo a cosa sia previsto nel "diritto all'oblio"[12] della Corte di Giustizia Europea. Avendolo trovato difficile da leggere, ha scritto una versione alternativa della direttiva. In un altro post spiega perché ha aiutato il progettista di motori di ricerca per il Software Libero, Pablo Joubert, a pubblicare una pubblicazione difensiva[13] riguardo i motori di ricerca che utilizzano le tabelle di hash distribuite. - La nostra ex stagista Lucile Falgueyrac scrive scrive del perché gli accordi TTIP CETA (rispettivamente: Associazione Transatlantica per il Commercio e l'Investimento, Atto Comprensivo di Occupazione e Formazione) comportano alcune ragioni che possono far arrabbiare i difensori del Software Libero[14]. Sostiene questo sia un buon momento per inviare un forte messaggio alla Commissione Europea, ai governi e agli stati riguardo il fatto che il "riciclaggio legislativo" non sia un modo legittimo di legislatore e che non dovrebbe mai avere luogo. - Il nostro attuale stagista Bela Seeger ha scritto su un blog riguardo la Messaggistica Off-The-Record[15] (OTR, protocollo per comunicazioni criptate), chiarendo il significato e gli aspetti tecnici del suddetto genere di messaggistica e fornendo uno sguardo all'interno delle possibilità di implementarla in vari dispositivi. (Potresti aver notato da questi aggiornamenti, che gli attuali e precedenti stagisti della FSFE sono piuttosto attivi!) - I nostri Fellow hanno partecipato a molti eventi. Nikos Roussos scrive riguardo i suoi personali punti in evidenza circa la Conferenza 2014 dei Contributori Fedora[16]. Ha anche menzionato i punti fondamentali circa il progetto laptop Novena, riassunto su LWN[17] (Notiziario Settimanale Linux). Mario Fux e Mirko Böhm hanno riportato dall'incontro KDE (Ambienti Desktop K) a Randa, con circa 50 attivisti del Software libero al lavoro per migliorare KDE. Se volete avere alcune impressioni riguardo l'incontro, Mirko ha postato un breve video dall'incontro in Svizzera[18]. - André Ockers, che attualmente sta aggiornando e traducendo quasi tutto il materiale FSFE in olandese, ha iniziato a tenere un blog[19]. Scrive in inglese, olandese, tedesco e francese. - Kevin Keijzer, a sua volta dall'Olanda, fornisce una dettagliata visione d'insieme del Software Libero che sta utilizzando[20]. - Daniel Pocock fornisce un aggiornamento su WebRTC[21] (Comunicazione Web in Tempo Reale), spiegando cosa funziona e cosa no. - Matija riporta il suo esperimento di musica libera[22], evidenziando i suoi artisti preferiti che utilizzano licenze Creative Commons per la loro musica. == Diventa attivo: spargi la voce riguardo il Software Freedom Day == Il 20 Settembre 2014, si celebra l'evento mondiale del giorno dedicato al Software Libero. Gli organizzatori del Software Freedom International hanno annunciato che la registrazione per l'evento è aperta. Forniscono una guida di partenza[23] con consigli e indicazioni per organizzare il tuo evento SFD di gruppo. Se organizzi un evento, o vuoi semplicemente spargere informazioni riguardo il Software Libero durante il Software Freedom Day puoi anche: - ordinare da noi materiale informativo stampato[24] - inviare in giro la guida della FSF all'autodifesa per le e-mail[25] ora disponibile in 11 lingue. (Alla dimostrazione "Libertà non Paura", il nostro gruppo Fellowship di Berlino ha distribuito un centinaio di volantini stampati nella versione tedesca, anche quelli puoi ordinarli da noi. - condividi il video di Richard Stallman[26], o l' articolo menzionato sopra[27] per spiegare ai tuoi amici del Software libero. Grazie a tutti i volontari[28], Fellow[29] e alle aziende donatrici[30] che ci permettono di fare il nostro lavoro, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/society/democracy.it.html 2. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/20140407-geneva-tedx-talk-free-software-free-… 3. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/eura-slovakia/eura.it.html 4. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gera/2014/08/18/interesting-new-development-in-slovak… 5. https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/routers.it.html 6. https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/timeline.it.html 7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggCvJ0dzqx4 8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/08/free-software-in-education-news-july/ 9. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-hackers-discover-hacienda-governmen… 10. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-in-space-gnu-radio-and-th… 11. http://planet.fsfe.org 12. https://hroy.eu/posts/whats-in-C-131_12/ 13. http://hroy.eu/posts/intro-defpubs/ 14. https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2014/08/11/ttip-policy-laundering-a-few-… 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/seeger/2014/08/04/off-the-record-otr-messaging/ 16. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/08/13/fedora-flock-2014/ 17. http://lwn.net/Articles/608426/ 18. http://creative-destruction.me/2014/08/28/the-kde-randa-video/ 19. https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/ 20. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/08/06/a-quick-overview-of-th… 21. http://danielpocock.com/webrtc-what-works-what-doesnt 22. http://matija.suklje.name/the-jamendo-experiment-week-1 23. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide 24. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.it.html#promo-material 25. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/volunteers-translate-email-self-defense… 26. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/20140407-geneva-tedx-talk-free-software-free-… 27. https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/society/democracy.it.html 28. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.it.html 29. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 30. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.it.html

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

04 Aug '14

= FSFE Newsletter – Agosto 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201408.it.html ] == Privilegio e potere == Nei tempi passati, la vita quotidiana dei cittadini di una repubblica era, potremmo dire, relativamente libera. Durante il normale svolgersi delle loro attività, occasionalmente avevano bisogno di un nuovo strumento o di consigli, ma il vecchio proverbio latino /scientia potentia est/ impone che i limiti della loro libertà siano i limiti della loro conoscenza: se avevano bisogno di un nuovo strumento e non sapevano come costruirlo, diventavano dipendenti dal costruttore dello strumento, ma unicamente per ottenerlo. Nel mondo attuale, la situazione è differente: non solo dipendiamo dal costruttore quando desideriamo avere un nuovo strumento, ma spesso ne rimaniamo dipendenti per sempre. In passato un martello poteva essere usato sia per piantare un picchetto nella terra (o nei vampiri) sia per inchiodare le assi sopra la cassa di un vampiro. Oggi, un utente che compra uno strumento generico deve pagarlo due volte: una volta per piantare un picchetto nel vampiro, e un'altra volta per inchiodare le assi sopra la sua bara. Questo è vantaggioso se ti dovesse capitare di essere uno dei pochi costruttori: i quali non solo costituiscono una casta privilegiata in cui si ha il controllo dei propri strumenti, ma hanno anche sottratto al resto delle altre persone i propri diritti, e hanno il potere di comandare i nostri strumenti, e quindi potere su di noi. Sfortunatamente, questo privilegio non permette loro di vedere l'aspetto rivoltante della situazione. I tempi non sono stati facili, e, in aggiunta alle conseguenze rivoltanti di una regolamentazione mancante e di una logica di mercato cruda, ingiusta, e orientata unicamente al profitto, abbiamo scoperto, rivelazione dopo rivelazione, che le agenzie e gli organismi istituiti per proteggerci, vista l'impossibilità della missione, ci hanno trasformato in prede. Questi sviluppi, benché spregevoli, possono perlomeno essere comprensibili. Comunque, non può essere razionalmente compreso perché i nostri /rappresentati eletti democraticamente/ cerchino di consolidare questi abusi sui nostri diritti, sui loro diritti. Eppure molti lo fanno: la Commissione Europea ha rifutato di togliere il dominio di Microsoft sull'Unione Europea[1] e, come sviluppo ancora più preoccupante, la Commissione per le Comunicazione della Camera dei Lord del parlamento del Regno Unito ha proposto di eliminare l'anonimato su Internet[2]. Se il pericolo per la privacy e la libertà non fosse così grave, l'inettitudine tecnica e gli argomenti provenienti dalla culla del Liberalismo non fossero totalmente fuori luogo sarebbero molto divertenti. Ma il pericolo creato dalle persone che sono state corrotte dal potere o dall'avidità è reale, e la nostra determinazione ad affrontare questo pericolo con più decentralizzazione, sicurezza, privacy e anonimato deve crescere sempre più. == Siamo tutti bersagli == Secondo le nuove rivelazioni[3], dall'inizio di luglio pressoché chiunque nel campo della comunità tecnologica è sotto sorveglianza. Tra le varie attività, abbiamo proposto, o vorremmo proporre, di visitare il sito web di Tor[4], leggere il Linux Journal[5], connettersi al servizio Mixminion per la redirezione anonima delle mail[6], e scaricare Tails[7], una distribuzione GNU/Linux focalizzata a preservare la privacy. Dovremmo riflettere su questi fatti ogni ora, ogni giorno. Alla fine la nostra arma migliore è sviluppare e promuovere progetti che un giorno saranno la causa per cui le persone interessate ad essi finiranno nella lista dei sorvegliati. == Qualcosa di completamente diverso == - La FSFE avrà uno stand al FrOSCon[8], dove il nostro vice presidente Matthias Kirschner[9] terrà un discorso[10] sulla dismissione dei computer general purpose. - Il nostro presidente Karsten Gerloff[11] ha scritto su come valutare le soluzioni di Software Libero e come appaltarle[12]. - Hugo Roy[13], il nostro vice coordinatore del gruppo legale, ha scritto a riguardo di pubblicazioni difensive e il suo lavoro per l'Open Invention network[14] nel suo blog. - Matthias ha scritto nel Fellowship blog sulle attività invisibili[15] che sono svolte da Reinhard Müller[16], il nostro tesoriere. - Guido Arnold, il nostro coordinatore dell'Education Team, ha finito di comporre la sua collezione di news sul Software Libero nell'istruzione - giugno 2014[17]. - Dalla planet aggregation:[18] Kevin Keijzer ha scritto su come guardare la TV usando una chiavetta USB DVB-T[19]. Per i nostri lettori più avventurosi, suggeriamo di sintonizzare il ricevitore sui 1090 MHz e avere una panoramica del traffico locale civile aria aria come riportato dai trasmettitori ADS-B degli aeroplani. - Sergey Matveev segnala il demone GoVPN[20] che lui stesso ha scritto nel linguaggio di programmazione Go. - == Attiviamoci! == 1. Usa e passa la parola su GnuPG[21], messaggistica Off-the-Record[22], Tor[23], criptare il proprio disco[24], HTTPS dappertutto[25], Privacy Badger[26] e altro Software Libero che salvaguardia la privacy. 2. Se sai scrivere codice e capisci qualcosa di informatica, cerca su qualche rivista scientifica un bel concetto che migliori la privacy o l'anonimato e cerca di realizzarlo. Ringraziamo tutti i nostri volontari[27], i Fellow[28], e i donatori[29] che rendono possibile il nostro lavoro, Heiki Ojasild[30] – FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140708-01.it.html 2. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldselect/ldcomuni/37/3704… 3. http://www.wired.com/2014/07/nsa-targets-users-of-privacy-services/ 4. https://www.torproject.org/ 5. http://www.linuxjournal.com/ 6. http://mixminion.net/ 7. https://tails.boum.org/ 8. https://www.froscon.de/en/home/ 9. https://fsfe.org/about/kirschner/kirschner.it.html 10. http://programm.froscon.de/2014/events/1321.html 11. https://fsfe.org/about/gerloff/gerloff.it.html 12. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/07/03/evaluating-free-software-for-procu… 13. https://fsfe.org/about/roy/roy.it.html 14. http://hroy.eu/posts/intro-defpubs/ 15. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/an-invisible-part-of-the-free-software-foundation-… 16. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/reinhard 17. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/07/free-software-in-education-news-june/ 18. http://planet.fsfe.org/ 19. http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/07/17/watching-dvb-t-without-… 20. http://blogs.fsfe.org/stargrave/archives/122 21. https://www.gnupg.org/ 22. https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ 23. https://www.torproject.org/ 24. https://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/ 25. https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere 26. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger 27. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.it.html 28. https://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 29. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.it.html 30. https://fsfe.org/about/ojasild/ojasild.it.html

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

04 Jul '14

= FSFE Newsletter – Luglio 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201407.it.html ] == Privacy caffè: cifratura delle mail come pasto principale! == Immagina di portare degli amici al bar, ma invece di bevande calde e fredde, il menù prevede informazioni sulle misure da adottare per garantire la privacy nel mondo digitale. Ad esempio "https dappertutto" come primo piatto, "E-mail cifrate con GnuPG" come secondo, e "tosdr.org" (informazioni riguardo i termini di utilizzo) come dolce. Questi tipi di bar esistono già nei Paesi Bassi. Al meeting tedesco dell'FSFE in Essen, Felix Stegerman, il nostro vice coordinatore nei Paesi Bassi, ha presentato il suo progetto per creare più "privacy caffè" ed ha spiegato perché lui pensa che è arrivato il tempo ed è un'ottima opportunità per il Software Libero, di fare la stessa cosa anche in altri posti. Questo perché la maggior parte delle persone che vanno ad un privacy caffè sono già a conoscenza delle problematiche legate alla privacy e alla libertà. Ma in queste occasioni viene data ai volontari locali una buona opportunità di parlare del Software Libero e dell'importanza di usare il Software Libero per i problemi di privacy. Ad esempio, chiedendo ai partecipanti "Chi controlla il software?". Leggi i post nel blog di Felix per ulteriori dettagli a riguardo dei privacy caffè e dei futuri progetti[1]. == Il manuale di auto-difesa per le mail diventa multilingua == Del buon materiale di informazione sulla crittografia e sul Software Libero è cruciale per i privacy caffè appena citati. Fortunatamente la nostra organizzazione associata, la FSF, ha pubblicato il manuale di auto-difesa per le mail[2], e dei volontari hanno tradotto la guida e l'infografica in altre 6 lingue incluso inglese, tedesco, brasiliano portoghese, francese, russo, turco e giapponese. Questa guida spiega l'installazione, sotto GNU/Linux, MacOS e Microsoft Windows, dei programmi necessari per cifrare le mail, come anche la generazione delle chiavi, il web of trust /(rete di fiducia)/ e l'uso di questi programmi. Tutto quello di cui hai bisogno è un computer con una connessione Internet, un account mail, e circa mezz'ora. Per avere dettagli su come aiutare a divulgare queste informazioni riguardo l'auto-difesa per le mail, guarda la sezione "Attiviamoci" di questa newsletter. == Cosa usare al posto di WhatsApp e Threema? == "Come posso cifrare le mie mail" è una delle maggiori domande che abbiamo ricevuto negli ultimi mesi. Grazie al manuale di auto-difesa per le mail ora abbiamo una buona risposta. Un'altra domanda riguardo la cifratura e la privacy che sovente ci è stata chiesta è: "C'è un'alternativa sicura e libera a WhatsApp?" WhatsApp è un programma di messaggistica che permette di mandare messaggi (di testo) gratuitamente. Dopo la recente acquisizione di WhatsApp da parte di Facebook e alla luce delle rivelazioni su NSA, molti degli utenti WhatsApp stanno cercando un'alternativa sicura ed affidabile. Siccome ci sono molte persone coinvolte, da parte della Free Software Foundation Europe vorremmo promuovere un'alternativa che rispetti la tua libertà e la tua privacy. Durante l'ultimo meeting del team FSFE in Essen, abbiamo quindi deciso di fare alcune ricerche e di tenere un workshop sulle alternative a WhatsApp. Hannes Hauswedell e Torsten Grote hanno riassunto i risultati ottenuti[3]. == Qualcosa di completamente diverso == - Attività dei gruppi locali: la FSFE ha allestito degli stand al festival estivo vegano in Vienna[4], e anche al Corso Leopold in Monaco[5]. Al meeting sul Software Libero in Atene il nostro gruppo locale dell'FSFE ha discusso su come costruire il proprio server casalingo. Nikos Roussos ha documentato come installare un server casalingo con Fedora e Beagle Bone Black[6]. Il nostro gruppo locale di Francoforte si è focalizzato sulla crittografia[7], e Hugo Roy, il coordinare del gruppo locale di Parigi, ha tenuto un discorso al party Ubuntu locale[8]. - "Il Software Libero ha bisogno di una grande comunità. Se falliamo nel facilitare tutti quanti a disporsi a lavorare con il Software Libero, ci tiriamo la zappa sui piedi" ha scritto Karsten Gerloff nel suo blog con il post "Quattro regole sociali per una 'Zona senza antipatici'"[9]. I nostri coordinatori locali stanno avendo una discussione simile, e hanno iniziato con un codice di condotta per le discussioni dell'FSFE[10]. Siamo interessati ad un tuo feedback a riguardo di questo codice. - La comunità del Software Libero ha ora 33 sostenitori nel Parlamento Europeo. Tutti hanno firmato il patto sul Software Libero per le elezioni europee[11], e siamo sicuri che ci saranno occasioni in cui ricorderemo loro la promessa che hanno fatto, e chiederemo loro di perorare la nostra causa. - Il nostro presidente Karsten Gerloff ha preparato una presentazione alla Conferenza Cristiana Europea su Internet[12]. Successivamente gli è stato chiesto da un pastore di commentare una bozza di strategia su come condurre le Chiese della sua regione verso il Software Libero, cosa che Karsten ha fatto[13]. - Dal 7 all'8 giugno 2014 Fundația Ceata, una organizzazione associata alla FSFE, ha organizzato la seconda conferenza Coliberator. Alla prima edizione ha tenuto la presentazione il presidente della FSFE Karsten Gerloff, e in questa edizione l'ha tenuta Richard Stallman, presidente della FSF. La prima serie dei discorsi è già disponibile sul sito della conferenza[14]. - Guido Arnold ha preparato le news sul Software Libero nell'istruzione - maggio 2014[15]. - Amministrazione pubblica: Joinup riporta che la complessità delle licenze del software proprietario sta incoraggiando l'adozione del Software Libero da parte dell'Autorità della Grande Londra[16]; che l' assistenza sanitaria di Extremadura è passata al Software Libero[17]; e che la città tedesca di Leipzig ha già migrato ai programmi di ufficio Apache OpenOffice e LibreOffice 2792 delle 4300 workstation della città[18]. Ci si aspetta "che nei primi 5 anni si riescano a riassorbire i costi derivati dalla dismissione del software proprietario usato dalla città". - Dalla Planet aggregation[19]: - Alla conferenza molte donne relatrici e ATM (Bancomat) su cui gira GNU/Linux. Torsten ha tenuto una relazione su come Liberare il tuo Android al FISL in Brasile[20]. - Usando lo slogan "i tuoi dati ai servizi di intelligence" l'Unione Umanistica Tedesca ha organizzato un "blog parade", chiedendo alle organizzazioni di partecipare a questo blog. Erik Albers ha scritto il post "Proteggersi contro la sorveglianza attraverso la cifratura con il Software Libero" (in tedesco)[21]. - Il Randa Meetings, una serie di attività che fanno diventare migliore il software KDE, ha bisogno del tuo aiuto per l'edizione di quest'anno. Mario Fux chiede ad ognuno di divulgare, aiutare, donare e/o supportare queste attività[22]. - Hugo Roy ha fatto un elenco di alcuni "fantastici tool" che lui usa ma che sono poco conosciuti[23]. - Bdale Garbee ha scritto a riguardo del TeleGPS, una scheda per il tracciamento della posizione GPS semplice da usare[24]. - Fotografia: Hannes ha iniziato a pubblicare la foto del mese[25], elaborata con il Software Libero Darktable, e Paul Boddie spiega come ha messo a punto il preview delle immagini in digiKam[26]. - Björn Schießle descrive come integrare il software per la lista delle cose da fare "ToDo.txt" in Claws Mail[27]. - L'ex impiegato della FSFE Sam Tuke spiega come fare il backup automatico su GNU/Linux di più account e-mail[28]. == Attiviamoci: diffondi il manuale di auto-difesa per le mail! == Il manuale di auto-difesa per le mail dell'FSF[29] e la corrispondente infografica[30] è una buona documentazione per spiegare la cifratura delle mail a più persone possibili. La FSFE per un po' di tempo passerà materiale informativo sul Software Libero agli attivisti[31]. In aggiunta alle informazioni generali sul Software Libero, Standard Aperti, Gestione delle Restrizioni Digitali (DRM), o F-Droid, in futuro vorremmo distribuire l'infografica. Prima di stamparne una grossa quantità e spedirla ai nostri gruppi locali[32] e ad altri attivisti in Europa, vorremmo che tu testassi l'infografica con i tuoi amici, la tua famiglia e i tuoi colleghi. Cerca di scoprire se incontrano problemi nel capire alcune parti e usa la nostra lista di discussione pubblica[33], così che --insieme alla nostra organizzazione associata FSF-- possiamo modificarla nel caso fosse necessario. Grazie a tutti i volontari[34], i Fellow[35] e le corporazioni donatrici[36] che consentono il nostro lavoro, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2014/07/01/workshop-on-privacy-and-free-software/ 2. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ 3. http://freedom-blog.net/2014/06/what-to-use-instead-of-whatsapp-and-threema/ 4. https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2014/06/11/booth-on-the-vegan-summer-f… 5. http://www.softmetz.de/2014/06/14/freie-software-offene-standards-und-freie… 6. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/06/23/fedora-beaglebone-black/ 7. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/06/report-from-fellowship-meeting-in-fran… 8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2014/05/talk-about-the-fsfe-ubuntu-party-2014/ 9. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/06/four-social-rules-for-a-no-asshol… 10. https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/CodeOfConduct 11. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140528-01.html 12. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/30/talking-to-the-church-about-free-… 13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/30/free-software-in-the-church-from-… 14. http://coliberator.ro/ 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/06/free-software-in-education-news-may/ 16. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/london-complex-proprietary-… 17. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/extremadura-health-care-has… 18. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/leipzig-switching-open-sour… 19. http://planet.fsfe.org 20. http://blog.grobox.de/2014/liberte-seu-android-at-fisl15/ 21. https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/06/20/verschluesselung-mit-freier-software/ 22. http://www.kde.org/fundraisers/randameetings2014/index.php 23. http://hroy.eu/tips/awesome-tools/ 24. http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/posts/TeleGPS_v1.0.html 25. https://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2014/07/01/photo-of-the-month-2014-07/ 26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=784 27. http://blog.schiessle.org/2014/06/10/combine-claws-mail-with-todo-txt/ 28. http://samtuke.com/2014/06/backup-multiple-email-accounts-automatically-on-… 29. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ 30. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/infographic.html 31. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.it.html#promo-material 32. https://fsfe.org/about/localteams.it.html 33. https://fsfe.org/contact/community.it.html 34. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.it.html 35. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 36. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.it.html

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FSFE Newsletter – June 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

= FSFE Newsletter – June 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201406.it.html ] == Security is interdependent: We are all Gmail users now == You care about privacy and you are either paying an e-mail provider, or even run your own mail server to keep autonomy, control, and privacy over your email. You do this because you want to make sure that no big company has copies of all of your personal email. Still, this does not prevent other companies from getting their hands on your data. It is not enough to merely take care of your own security, if you seek to increase your security. You have to convince your peers to increase their security, too: like Jacob Appelbaum says, security is interdependent[1]. FSF board member Benjamin Mako Hill wondered how much of his email has ended up in the hands of companies such as Google. So he wrote a small program to go through all his email since April 2004 (when Gmail was introduced) and analyse it. Read what Benjamin found out[2], what results FSFE's Karsten Gerloff[3] and Hugo Roy[4] got when they reproduced it, and why not try those scripts out for yourself? == Is it a torch light or a spy in your pocket? == A lot of programs that people install on their Android devices violate their security. It is common that those programs ask users to accept non-readable terms and conditions, once installed they might reveal where the device (and therefore the user) currently is, and access personal data like user's address books or text messages. A seemingly innocent app such as a torch light can thus violate the user's privacy. For owners of mobile devices it is important to have an app store that exclusively provides Free Software. Since this means that the source code can be checked by external parties other than the vendor, they can check what an app really does, and highlight or directly remove anti- features. The result is a repository providing software with licenses that respect the user's rights instead of violating them. In the last months we experienced that more and more people care about the software on their mobile devices. Your editor summarised what is currently happening with Free Your Android[5], including promotion in Greece, updating and translation status of our F-Droid leaflets, an interview with the F-Droid developer, and your editor participating in an event about consumer protection in the mobile phone sphere in the German Parliament. == Another security nightmare: DRM == After a possible setback for DRM in Europe[6] it is important to raise more awareness about this issue. We cannot stay quiet while some companies use Digital Restriction Management to write their own copyright laws, restrict us, and decrease our IT security. Many organisations including EFF[7], April, and us participated in the Day Against DRM[8], organised by FSF to highlight the dangers of DRM. The FSFE used the occasion to contact the European Commission with an Open Letter about DRM in HTML5[9]. We explained that DRM is directly contrary to the interests of the vast majority of Internet users everywhere. Just a few days later the Free Software community received the bad news from Mozilla: DRM will be implemented in Firefox (the part is called EME). The reactions ranged from the FSF condemning the partnership between Mozilla and Adobe[10], Mozilla justifying its decision[11], others supporting it[12], and Glyn Moody criticising them by comparing Mozilla's mission with its current action[13]. As always we are interested in your opinion. What do you think about Mozilla's decision and its reasoning? What can the Free Software community do to counterbalance this move? Let us know on our public discussion list[14]. == Something completely different == - FSFE's country team Netherlands wrote a short text "The Importance of Free Software"[15] (also available in Dutch[16] ) about the relevance of Free Software and its conclusions for policy makers. The text highlights the crucial question for our society about "who controls the software?". "Because if we don't control the software we use, it controls us. And whoever controls the software therefore controls us." The text then was used to convince candidates to sign the Free Software Pact[17] - a project run by April[18] and supported by many organisations, including the FSFE. - Fellowship Groups: After two years as a Fellowship representative in FSFE's GA, Nikos Roussos now started local FSFE meetings in Athens[19]. Furthermore we had a first Fellowship meeting in Wiesbaden[20]. In addition, new groups are establishing regular meetings since a while now in Zurich and Cologne. - Our sister organisation, the FSF, awarded the Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Tehnoetic TET-N150 wireless USB adapter[21]. The RYF certification mark is awarded to products that meet the FSF's standards in regard to users' freedom, control over the product, and privacy. Visitors of FSFE's booth at FOSDEM might already know those adapters, as Tiberiu C. Turbureanu sold them at our booth. - From the planet aggregation[22]: Carsten Agger explains what the result of the Danish referendum on the European patent court and the unitary patent means for software patents[23]. - Leena Simon published an essay about the importance of attributions and the flow of information named "Standing on the Shoulders of Free Culture"[24]. - Your editor wrote about the Novena hardware computing platform for hackers and Free Software drivers[25] and documented how to generate a new wifi password the mobile friendly way[26]. - Henri Bergius spent three days at the GNOME Developer Experience hackfest working on the NoFlo runtime for GNOME[27]. - Mario Fux wrote that Debian's KDE community needs help[28]. - Our new intern Bela Seeger[29] as well as long term Fellow Paul Adams[30] report from Linuxtag in Berlin. - While Konstantinos Boukouvalas wrote about LPI affiliates, openLabs and OSCAL, as well as the Albanian Free Software Community[31]. - == Get active: Your experiences with programming resources for children == Beside publishing the monthly Free Software in education news[32] our education team answers a lot of question by people who want to use more Free Software in education. As the edu-team was asked for good resources to teach kids to program, Guido Arnold thought the answer (or more a summary of the answers) might be interesting to others as well. So he published the summary[33]. To improve our education website we ask you to give us feedback on those resources. How do you like them, did you already have experience with some of them, what was good, where did you have problems, and which resources did we miss? Thanks to all the volunteers[34], Fellows[35] and corporate donors[36] who enable our work, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/05/14/our-privacy-is-interdependent/ 2. http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all… 3. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/05/27/were-all-gmail-users-now-pt-2 4. http://hroy.eu/posts/gmail-most-email/ 5. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/consumer-protection-for-mobiles-is-it-a-torch-lig… 6. http://lwn.net/Articles/584167/ 7. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/how-drm-harms-our-computer-security 8. http://www.defectivebydesign.org/thanks-for-a-great-international-day-again… 9. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140506-01.it.html 10. https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mozilla-and-adobe… 11. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/ 12. https://leomca.github.io/2014/05/15/Mozilla-and-DRM.html 13. http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/05/whither-mozilla/in… 14. https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2014/05/07/the-importance-of-free-software/ 16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2014/05/07/het-belang-van-vrije-software/ 17. http://freesoftwarepact.eu 18. http://www.april.org/ 19. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/04/30/athens-free-software-monthly-meetups/ 20. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/05/report-from-the-first-fellowship-meeti… 21. https://www.fsf.org/news/tehnoetic-wireless-usb-adapter-now-fsf-certified-t… 22. http://planet.fsfe.org 23. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/05/26/elections-14-not-much-to-celebrate/ 24. http://leena.de/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-free-culture/ 25. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/support-hardware-computing-platform-for-hackers-a… 26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/how-to-generate-a-new-wifi-password-the-mobile-fr… 27. http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/flowhub-gnome-dx/ 28. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=231 29. https://blogs.fsfe.org/seeger/2014/05/23/linuxtag-2014/ 30. https://blogs.fsfe.org/padams/?p=303 31. http://blogs.fsfe.org/boukouvalas/?p=556 32. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/05/free-software-in-education-news-april/ 33. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/05/teach-programming-with-free-software/ 34. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.it.html 35. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 36. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.it.html

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FSFE Newsletter – May 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 05 May '14

05 May '14

= FSFE Newsletter – May 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201405.it.html ] == Heartbleed and economic incentives == You probably heard about the bug in the Free Software OpenSSL nicknamed "heartbleed". The FSFE already welcomed the industry initiative to fund critical Free Software projects[1], and the topic was discussed in several blog articles on the planet: Sam Tuke wrote about his impression[2], Hugo Roy shared an XKCD comic explaining how heartbleed works[3], and Martin Gollowitzer wrote about what the Heartbleed bug revealed to him[4] about StartSSL certificate authority. But your editor is convinced that the main problem is not OpenSSL. It is not Free Software. It is about companies not taking responsibilities and about missing economic incentives to ensure security. Security expert Bruce Schneier wrote in 2006[5]: "We generally think of computer security as a problem of technology, but often systems fail because of misplaced economic incentives: The people who could protect a system are not the ones who suffer the costs of failure." In a nutshell, if your private data is exposed because your health insurance, where it is stored, did not take care to secure it, you suffer to a much higher degree than the health insurance does! You are in no position to preasure the health insurance to change its level of security, and they have no economic incentive to do so. In the article Schneier further explains that the liability for attacks is diffuse and that "the economic considerations of security are more important than the technical considerations". Following the argument, the important question we face is, how can we give the right economic incentives to ensure that: security relevant software has the proper funding; third parties are auditing code; more people are trained in computer security; programmers have time for maintenance and are not forced to just develop new features; we have a diversity of software[6] for different special purposes and therefor prevent software monocultures[7]; companies run secure software instead of just giving people a good feeling by performing a security theatre or by delegating responsibility to others (for example the government), so they can be blamed if there is a problem, and that also the security interest of private users is fulfilled and not just those of big cooperations. In the FSFE we thought about how to give good economic incentives for Free Software development from the beginning, and now we have to think more about economic incentives to increase security. It is a difficult area, so we are looking forward to your comments on this topic and invite you to discuss it on our public mailing lists[8]. == Internet Censorship and Open Standards == Local elections scheduled across the country for the following day, the government blocking both YouTube and Twitter, and the usage numbers of the Free Software anonymity software Tor doubling during the week. Is there a better time for the FSFE's President to go to this country? At the annual conference of the Turkish GNU/Linux Users Association in Istanbul Karsten Gerloff talked about the relationship between technology and power, and made it to the front page of a national newspaper by mentioning who sold the software to block the internet. Karsten wrote a summary of his talk and his journey in his blog[9]. The talk would not have happened without our Turkish volunteer Nermin Canik, who encouraged us to attend the conference. Nermin has been working steadily and reliably as a volunteer for a couple of years now. Together with other volunteers she organised Document Freedom Day[10] (DFD) events in Turkey. This year, although as mentioned above it was a hard time for people in Turkey who care about freedom, they accomplished 7 events in Istanbul, Ankara, Çayırova, Denizli, and Adana. Have a look at the Document Freedom Day 2014 Report[11] to find out what happened in Turkey and around the world during that day. The report includes lots of pictures ranging from children celebrating DFD at school, the new leaflets, comic, and t-shirts, as well as the very delicious looking cakes. Thanks to our Turkish translator[12] Tahir Emre and our leaving intern Matti Lammi the report and the whole DFD website are also available in Turkish and Finnish. == Something completely different == - The German association Teckids e.V.[13] offers workshops for 10 to 16 year olds to build robots with different sensors (light, sound, or ultrasonic) and program them to do cool things by using Free Software. Your editor was delighted to see that in those workshops teenagers teach other teenagers how to tinker with Free Software[14]. More news about education are covered by Guido Arnold in the Free Software education news[15]. - News from the public administration: The government of Galicia recommends use of Open Document Format[16] and a school in Villmergen/Switzerland is satisfied with Free Software[17] as they can now invest more money in education. - 143 of the politicians newly elected in France's municipal elections have pledged their support for Free Software. They all signed the Free Software Pact by the French Free Software organisation April[18]. The FSFE congratulates them for the good job. Please notice that this month's "Get Active" item, always at the end of the newsletter, is also about the Free Software Pact and how you can help us. - From the planet aggregation[19]: - Ghostery is an browser extension supposed to help users against tracking and surveillance on the web. But as Hugo Roy reports[20], the problem is that Ghostery is not released as Free Software. - Guido Günther reports from the 7th Debian groupware meeting[21] at the Linuxhotel including why the participants, of whom all but one are FSFE Fellows, took the decision to remove iceowl (calendar) or what they did with icedove (e-mail). - Our Fellow Number 1, wrote about KDE e.V., families at Free Software meetings, especially at the meetings in Randa Switzerland[22], and he made some proposals for future KDE releases[23]. - Karl Beecher explains why Programmers Start Counting at Zero[24]. - Carsten Agger gave a talk about Open Data and Hacktivism at the hackerspace in Aarhus[25]. He also participated at the first International Festival for Technoshamanism. He explains what Technoshamanism is[26], what it has to do with Free Software, and reports from the first day[27]. - Hugo Roy takes a look at the GNU GPL in a javascript outliner: "GNU GPL, JS and BS"[28] and he wrote about Innovation policy and Internet liability in courts–beyond advertising[29] with the conclusion that "we need to take back control of innovation and technology policy to foster privacy and freedom; more than ever." - Konstantinos Boukouvalas wrote about the OSCAL conference in Albania[30] (3-4 May) which is supported by Albania's Ministry of Youth and Social Welfare[31]. They keynote there was done by FSFE's Erik Albers[32]. - On a technical side: Guido Arnold explains the advantages of using caff for keysigning[33], which is part of the keysigning-party package on Debian based systems. - Kevin Keijzer's new bedroom is now equipped with a new Free Software computer[34] and he documented how to install Debian GNU/Linux on the Acer C720 Chromebook[35]. - Jens Leuchtenbörger explains how to do Certificate Pinning for GNU/Linux and Android[36]. - When Daniel Pocock upgraded an Android device he "found out that Android betrays the tethering data"[37], after he received a lot of feedback he wrote a follow-up article because people justified the way mobile networks try to discriminate against tethering[38] after his first blog entry. Also read Paul Boddie's comment about the second article[39]. - Furthermore Daniel wrote about problems with SMS logins[40], how his AirBNB hosts wanted to scan his identity documents and passports[41], and the best real-time communication (RTC / VoIP) softphone on the GNU/Linux desktop[42]. == Get active: Make the Free Software Pact a success! == As we wrote in March[43], candidates pledging for Free Software is a good way to take them at their word after an election. In Future we can contact them whenever there will be EU legislation to be passed that might endanger the existence or growth of Free Software. After FSFE's volunteers did a lot of translations for the pact, April now published all necessary information on the Free Software pact website[44] so you can get active. In Italy our new intern Michele Marrali already contacted 51 candidates. He searched for the candidates, used Erik's template[45] (also available in German[46] ) to contact them, and afterwards noted on our pad whom he already contacted[47]. His goal is to contact every Italian candidate and get them to sign the pact. So how many can you contact? In case you do not have time to participate in this "hobby lobby competition", consider to make a donation[48] so we can offer the most active volunteers some rewards from our shop[49]. Thanks to all the volunteers[50], Fellows[51] and corporate donors[52] who enable our work, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140424-01.en.html 2. https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=718 3. http://hroy.eu/notes/openssl-tragedy/ 4. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gollo/2014/04/13/what-the-heartbleed-bug-revealed-to… 5. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/economics_and_i_1.html 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_implementations 7. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/dan_geer_on_hea.html 8. https://fsfe.org/contact/community.it.html 9. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/04/29/interesting-times-speaking-about-… 10. http://documentfreedom.org/events/events.html 11. http://documentfreedom.org/news/2014/news-20140424-01.html 12. http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.html 13. https://www.teckids.org/ 14. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/teenagers-teach-how-to-program-robots-with-free-s… 15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/04/free-software-in-education-news-march/ 16. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/galicia-recommends-use-open… 17. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/news/swiss-school-invests-open-source… 18. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/news/143-french-politicians-pledge-su… 19. http://planet.fsfe.org 20. http://hroy.eu/notes/avoid_ghostery-proprietary/ 21. http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Bits_from_the_7th_Debian_groupware_meeting.html 22. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=205 23. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=224 24. http://computerfloss.com/2014/04/chapter-0-programmers-start-counting-zero-… 25. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/04/10/speaking-about-open-data-and-hackti… 26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/04/18/participating-in-the-1st-internatio… 27. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/04/25/opening-the-1st-international-festi… 28. http://hroy.eu/posts/gpl-js-bs/ 29. http://hroy.eu/posts/innovation-policy/ 30. https://blogs.fsfe.org/boukouvalas/?p=546 31. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/news/albania-youth-ministry-supports-… 32. http://oscal.openlabs.cc/speakers/ 33. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/04/key-signing-with-caff/ 34. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/03/29/my-new-bedroom-htpc-gi… 35. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/04/20/acer-c720-chromebook-d… 36. https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2014/04/05/certificate-pinning-f… 37. http://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-data 38. http://danielpocock.com/tethering-and-petrol-charges 39. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=769 40. http://danielpocock.com/sms-logins-an-illusion-of-security 41. http://danielpocock.com/airbnb-hosts-scanning-copying-passports 42. http://danielpocock.com/best-rtc-voip-softphone-linux-desktop 43. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140304-01.it.html 44. http://freesoftwarepact.eu/ 45. https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/04/23/the-free-software-pact-for-the-europe… 46. https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/04/23/der-freie-software-pakt-eu 47. https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/freesoftwarepact-eu-candidates 48. https://fsfe.org/donate/donate.it.html 49. https://fsfe.org/order/order.it.html 50. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.it.html 51. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 52. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.it.html

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FSFE Newsletter – April 2014
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

= FSFE Newsletter – April 2014 = [ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201404.it.html ] == Document Freedom Day: Open Standards explained for grandpa == Although more entrepreneurs and politicians understand the importance of Open Standards, people do not see the connection with their daily life. That is why on 26 March we again organised Document Freedom Day[1] (DFD). This year we had a lot of new materials: new leaflets in different languages explain Open Standards[2], and a nice comic shows why you should use Open Standards[3] so you do not have problems with your files when you are old. There were at least 51 events in 22 countries[4] organised by a lot of independent groups. FSFE's volunteers in the UK presented an award to The OpenStreetMap Foundation in Birmingham[5], while FSFE's Werner Koch participated in an event on Open Standards in Cryptography in the Parliament[6]. Our local group in Linz organised an information booth in the city centre[7], and in the evening they gave a talk about Open Standards at the university. At the booth in Vienna our volunteers had some problems with an artist of a monument[8], but still handed out a huge amount of leaflets and also informed four friendly police officers about Free Software and Open Standards. Our DFD team[9] is still gathering information of what happened during the DFD week, and will publish a full report during April. == EU institution acknowledges captivity to Microsoft == In a recent letter to MEP Amelia Andersdotter[10] (PDF), the EC acknowledges that it is in a state of "effective captivity" to Microsoft. As FSFE has pointed out repeatedly that this is a persistent problem for the Commission, the Council and the Parliament. On Document Freedom Day the FSFE and Open Forum Europe sent an open letter to the European Parliament and the European Commission highlighting its vendor lock-in with Microsoft[11]. == Using Free Software in the Netherland's education sector == The Free Software in education news for February[12] are out, including an update from the NLEdu campaign[13]: Kevin reports that the commercial director of SchoolMaster, the largest Dutch ELO/student administration software supplier, confirmed that they will roll out a platform- independent HTML5 version in April, replacing the Silverlight version. This would make the NLEdu campaign a success as it will allow Free Software users to access the course materials with any standard compliant browser. Kevin Keijzer published detailed information about this matter[14]. == Something completely different == - For the European Parliament elections from 22 May to 25, FSFE supports the Free Software Pact by April, and the WePromise.Eu by EDRi[15]. Our volunteers worked on translations, and help to promote the campaign[16]. - Karsten Gerloff participated in the first meeting of the Asian Legal Network in Hong Kong[17]. Most of the people there were representatives from technology companies in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and Korea. This is a series of round tables organised jointly by FSFE, Open Invention Network and Linux Foundation. Inspired by the Legal Network which FSFE has been facilitating since 2006[18], it has the same goal: enabling legal experts to share knowledge about Free Software. - FSFE welcomes its new Fellowship representative Stefan "Penny" Harmuth[19] in the the General Assembly[20]. - PDFreaders: Heiki reports why we had to remove SumatraPDF from pdfreaders.org[21], as it includes non-free code. - Local FSFE Fellowship meetings: Guido Arnold reports from the meeting in Frankfurt[22] including the schedule of the next events in Wiesbaden, Bad Homburg, and of course Frankfurt. Thanks to Simon Wächter our group in Zürich resumed their monthly Fellowship meetings after some time of inactivity[23]. - After several years, our education team coordinator Guido Arnold finally visited the Chemnitzer Linuxtage[24]. As in previous years the FSFE had a booth there, distributing our new Free Software leaflet for beginners[25] which was written by our Vienna Fellowship group for a vegan festival and which is now available printed in English, German, French, and to be printed in Finnish. Beside that your editor gave a talk about the threat to the general purpose computer. - We welcome OSB Alliance's publication of a guide how to procure Free Software in the public administration for the German public administration[26]. - During LibrePlanet 2014 The Free Software Awards went to the GNOME Foundation's Outreach Program for Women and Matthew Garrett[27], for his work to keep "Secure Boot"[28] Free Software compatible. Dan Fritzmartin documented how he made a video for LibrePlanet using all Free Software[29]. - Free Your Android[30]: Paul Kocialkowski of Replicant found a backdoor in the Samsung Galaxy[31]. Basically, these devices have a proprietary userspace program which accepts requests from the proprietary baseband firmware to modify the filesystem. By replacing that userspace program with a free one, this particular back-door can be closed by Replicant -- of course the proprietary modem firmware will still have sufficient control over the device to do many evil things. - South Tyrol will increase its use of Free Software, announced their Governor Arno Kompatscher[32]. The European Parliament wants its IT department to rehabilitate its GNU/Linux desktop pilot. On Tuesday, the EP's committee on budgetary control accepted a request by MEPs Bart Staes and Amelia Andersdotter to restart the GNU/Linux desktop pilot[33], which had been shelved in 2012. - From the planet aggregation[34]: - Setup a call for papers, select a few talks, publish a schedule, book a venue, sell a few tickets - have fun: Essentially all it takes to organise a conference, isn't it? In theory maybe - in practice - not so much. Fellow Isabel Drost-Fromm is sharing her experience on event organisation so others can learn from it[35], e.g. how increasing the ticket price relates to your amount of sleep. - Hugo Roy considers himself to be a turing complete user[36]. He points to a recommendable essay by Olia Lialina[37]. Related to this, if you have not seen revealing errors by Benjamin Mako Hill[38], it is worth it. - Henrik Sandklef wrote about what education is[39], and he searches for a strategy for teaching programming to newbies[40]. - Nikos Roussos wrote that making things distributed is hard[41], and why centralisation happens. But although it takes effort and determination, he argues that we all together can build an Internet that is distributed. - He also documented how to build and run Popcorn Time from source[42]. - Jens Lechtenbörger describes how he pins certificates in GNU Emacs[43]. - Timo Jyrinki from our Finnish team wrote about the problems to switch to Qt 5.2.1 in Ubuntu involving roughly 130 source packages[44]. - Franz Grazer wrote an article asking the question: Do we need DRM?[45] arguing that Free Software should not get involved with DRM since it is all about locking things down. - Matija documented How to write your Pelican-powered blog using ownCloud and WebDAV[46] and reports from his first results of testing DE razor blades for shaving with oil[47]. == Get active: The right not to pay for non-free software == The revelations from Edward Snowden concerning massive surveillance of communications demonstrates the need for each person to be able to control their computers and phones. Yet computer and telephone manufacturers and retailers typically impose on users programs that jeopardise their privacy. Each person should therefore have the opportunity to refuse to pay for non-free software, and be allowed to choose the programs that run on their telephone and computer, in our case a Free Software operating system and other Free Software. We joined other organisations throughout the world[48] in requesting an unfettered choice of the operating system on telephones, laptops and other computing devices. This month we ask you to sign the international petition[49], and help us promoting it[50]! Thanks to all the volunteers[51], Fellows[52] and corporate donors[53] who enable our work, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE -- Free Software Foundation Europe <https://fsfe.org> FSFE News <https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html> 1. http://documentfreedom.org 2. http://documentfreedom.org/promotion.html 3. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/comic-and-quotes-why-you-should-use-open-standard… 4. http://documentfreedom.org/events/events.html 5. http://documentfreedom.org/news/2014/news-20140324-01.html 6. http://www.greenmediabox.eu/archive/2014/03/26/greensefa-4th-document-freed… 7. https://blogs.fsfe.org/jzarl/2014/03/29/celebrating-document-freedom-day-in… 8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2014/03/28/document-freedom-day-in-vie… 9. http://documentfreedom.org/contact.html 10. https://ameliaandersdotter.eu/sites/default/files/andersdotter_annex.pdf 11. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140326-02.it.html 12. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/03/free-software-in-education-news-collec… 13. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/nledu/ 14. http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/03/04/nledu-progressions-and-… 15. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140304-01.it.html 16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2014/03/the-free-software-pact-for-the-european… 17. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140314-01.it.html 18. https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/network.it.html 19. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140303-01.it.html 20. https://fsfe.org/about/team.it.html#id-general-assembly 21. https://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2014/03/05/pdfreaders-org-removal… 22. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/03/report-of-latest-fellowship-meeting-in… 23. http://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipEvents/Zurich%202014-03-06 24. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/03/dieses-jahr-geht-es-endlich-nach-chemn… 25. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.it.html#free-software 26. http://www.osb-alliance.de/themen-aktuelles/detailansicht/artikel/cebit-kos… 27. https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-award-winners-announced 28. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.html 29. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/how-i-made-a-video-for-libreplanet-usin… 30. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.it.html 31. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/replicant-developers-find-and-close-sam… 32. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/south-tyrol-increase-use-fr… 33. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/european-parliament-covets-… 34. http://planet.fsfe.org 35. http://blog.drost-fromm.de/posts/how-hard-can-it-be-organising-a-conference… 36. http://hroy.eu/posts/im-a-turing-complete-user/ 37. http://contemporary-home-computing.org/turing-complete-user/ 38. http://revealingerrors.com/ 39. http://sandklef.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/education-nevermid-what-was-it-any… 40. http://sandklef.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/wanted-a-strategy-for-teaching-pro… 41. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/03/12/making-things-distributed-is-hard/ 42. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/03/21/building-running-popcorn-time/ 43. https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2014/03/23/certificate-pinning-f… 44. http://losca.blogspot.de/2014/03/qt-521-in-ubuntu.html 45. https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2014/03/08/do-we-need-drm/ 46. http://matija.suklje.name/how-to-write-your-pelican-powered-blog-using-ownc… 47. http://matija.suklje.name/the-first-results-of-testing-de-razor-blades-for-… 48. http://no.more.racketware.info/petition/support 49. http://no.more.racketware.info/petition/click/en 50. http://no.more.racketware.info/petition/index 51. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.it.html 52. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 53. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.it.html

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

06 Mar '14

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

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

05 Feb '14

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

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