= FSFE Newsletter - September 2016 =
[ Lexojeni online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201609.sq.html ]
== Words from your editors ==
Thank you for contributing to making the FSFE Summit this past weekend a
huge success! We were excited to see so many familiar faces and we're
eager to meet again soon. Of course, the FSFE Summit was not the only
thing going on in the past month. In this newsletter you can read about
our community's other activities. In the October newsletter, we will
share more of what happened at the Summit. Stay tuned for more!
== The FSFE's 15 years ==
This year we are celebrating our 15th anniversary[1] and the culmination
of the official celebration took place during the FSFE Summit from the
2nd to the 4th of September. But this celebration should continue
throughout the year: let us use the coming weeks and months to highlight
15 years of our existence, and use this opportunity to spread the word
about free software and our work. Let us highlight our biggest
achievements, recall personal stories and share them through blog posts,
social media, mailing lists, chats and in other ways.
In order to get some inspiration about how you can contribute, you are
welcome to visit our wiki page[2] in which you will find examples and
help to contribute. Some of the work we have carried out in the last 15
years is also available on the revised FSFE timeline[3].
One of our recent accomplishments has been the creation of our FSFE
video[4] to commemorate our birthday. This video has subtitles in no
less than 12 languages, thanks to our amazing volunteer translators.
Check out our new 15th anniversary sticker, which you can order from us
to help spread the word[5], not only for yourself.
== From the community ==
- Thanks to our translators (mentioned now for the second time in this
newsletter!), we are able to reach a wide multilingual audience! The
help of our translators is crucial to our outreach. French translator
Julien Pivotto has improved the existing translation process to be
more efficient and accessible. He has written a proposal to change the
principal concept behind the process[6]. Cryptie and André Ockers held
a session about this during the summit[7].
- Paul Boddie blogged about the EOMA68 Campaign and some of its
criticisms[8]. The EOMA68 campaign later succeeded in its fundraising
and will now be put in production.
- André Ockers also convinced Dutch authorities to remove ads for a non-
free PDF reader[9] from the official website Digid.nl used to access
most of the public services in Netherlands.
- Matthias Kirschner blogged about a way to set up a slightly more
secure solution for home banking[10], letting the browser you use for
banking run separately from your other browser. In a separate post, he
also wrote an overview of the positive aspects[11] of Free Software
included in parties' positions, for the forthcoming Berlin elections.
- Jonas Öberg wrote about the FSFE's group registration with IRC network
Freenode, which makes it possible to request FSFE affiliated
cloaks[12]. He also wrote about his experience getting subtitles to
work with our FSFE video using WebVTT[13].
== What else have we done? ==
- The FSFE joined the Advisory board of the Document Foundation, whilst
the Document Foundation became an associated organisation of the
FSFE[14]. With this mutual expression of support, both organisations
will strengthen one another in their common goal to keep the general
public in the technological driver's seat.
- Erik Grun and Erik Albers aligned in the name of the FSFE with several
other organisations to run a Ask your candidates campaign[15] called
"Wahlprüfsteine". Questions have been sent to most parties in the
upcoming elections in Mecklenburg Vorpommern[16] and Berlin[17]. Their
responses have been analysed and published for the voting public.
- Since August 1st, thanks to a new German law[18], if you are the
client of a German internet provider, you have the right to use an
alternative router, ideally one running Free Software. Please provide
us feedback whether you had any issues running a new router and help
us to collect it in our wiki page[19]. In case you don't have an
alternative device at hand, the FSFE's German Coordinator Max Mehl has
already sent the first Free Software routers to volunteers[20] for
testing and we can provide more.
- The FSFE was present at FrOSCon 2016 in Sankt Augustin, where our
Policy Analyst and Legal Coordinator Polina Malaja gave a talk about
"DSM, EIF, RED: Acronyms on the EU level and why they matter for
software freedom"[21] (in English), and the German Coordinator Max
Mehl gave talk about "Routerzwang und Funkabschottung – Was Aktivisten
davon lernen können"[22] (in German). Max blogged about his conference
experience and included links to recordings of both talks[23].
== Take action! ==
== For our 15 year anniversary (there's a lot of this this month, as you can tell), we are organising the "Get to know your Local Free Software Hero" campaign[24]. The idea is to bring our community members in touch with the local press in the region where they live. Our local heroes explain how the Free Software community affects the people in their region, its benefits for education, health system, local economy and the daily life of the citizens. If you are a journalist, blogger, vlogger, podcaster, or anyone else who can help us to get in touch with a media outlet, please contact us and we will tell you who your local heroes are and how to meet them. Other Free Software news ==
== The Lithuanian police migrated over 8000 workstations from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice[25]. The Dutch government in its Digital Agenda for 2016-2017 is considering making the use of Open Standards mandatory for public administrations[26], within the aim of providing businesses and citizens with easier access to eGovernment services. The city of Valencia (Spain) is reusing Epoptes[27], a software for managing school PC labs, developed as free software in Greece since 2008. The software is improved by staff members of the city’s IT department, who share their code publicly. The FSFE in the Press ==
- In light of its 15th anniversary, the FSFE received press coverage
concerning a number of topics. Here are some of these articles for
further reading: [EN] by William New, Matthias was quoted by an
Intellectual Property Watch article about how the New US Government
Source Code Policy Could Provide Model For Europe[28].
- [IT] [EN] by Sonia Montegiove, Tech Economy, Support to the digital
freedom with FSFE: a double interview with Matthias Kirschner and
Alessandro Rubini[29].
- [DE] [AT] by Patrick Dax, Future zone, Concerns regarding the
limitation of alternative router software[30]. In the article, there
is a reference to the FSFE's campaign against compulsory routers.
- [EN] by Paul Brown, opensource.com, First ever FSFE Summit celebrates
free software successes[31].
- [DE] by Hans-Joachim Baader, pro-linux.de, The FSFE compares the
positions of the parties regarding Free Software for the elections in
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern[32].
- [DE] by Mirko Lindner, pro-linux.de, FSFE und TDF arbeiten enger
zusammen[33].
- [EN] by Paul Brown, LiNUX.com, First FSFE Summit Will Focus on Social
Issues and Strategies[34].
- [DE] by Jan Raehm, Deutschlandfunk, Computer programs without
constraints - the battle for free software[35].
Thanks to all the volunteers[36], Fellows[37] and corporate donors[38]
who enable our work,
your editors Polina Malaja, Erik Albers, Olga Gkotsopoulou and Jonas
Öberg, FSFE[39]
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1. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/index.sq.html
2. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2016/FSFE-15years-birthday/spread-the-word
3. https://fsfe.org/timeline/timeline
4. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/15years
5. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword
6. https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Translations
7. https://conf.qtcon.org/en/qtcon/public/events/757
8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1314
9. http://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2016/08/13/free-software-pdf-campaign-it-isnt-over…
10. https://k7r.eu/setting-up-a-slightly-more-secure-solution-for-home-banking
11. https://k7r.eu/free-software-in-the-berlin-election-programs/
12. http://blog.jonasoberg.net/irc-cloaks-on-freenode-available/
13. http://blog.jonasoberg.net/the-woes-of-webvtt/
14. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160817-01
15. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ayc
16. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160823-01
17. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160831-01
18. https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160725-01
19. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/CompulsoryRouters/Implementation/Germany
20. https://blog.mehl.mx/2016/erste-testgeraete-fuer-routerfreiheit-versendet/
21. https://programm.froscon.de/2016/events/1797.html
22. https://programm.froscon.de/2016/events/1738.html
23. https://blog.mehl.mx/2016/froscon-2016-ein-rueckblick/
24. https://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/15years
25. https://itsfoss.com/lithuanian-police-switches-libreoffice/
26. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/epractice/news/dutch-consider-mandato…
27. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spain%E2%80%99s-valencia-re…
28. http://www.ip-watch.org/2016/08/22/new-us-government-source-code-policy-cou…
29. http://www.techeconomy.it/2016/08/18/sostegno-alla-liberta-digitale-fsfe-in…
30. https://futurezone.at/netzpolitik/bedenken-gegen-einschraenkung-alternative…
31. https://opensource.com/life/16/8/fsfe-summit-europe-2016?sc_cid=70160000001…
32. http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/23900/fsfe-vergleicht-parteipositionen-zu-fr…
33. http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/23878/fsfe-und-tdf-arbeiten-enger-zusammen.h…
34. https://www.linux.com/news/first-fsfe-summit-will-focus-social-issues-and-s…
35. http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/computer-programme-ohne-zwaenge-kampf-um-frei…
36. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html
37. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
38. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html
39. https://fsfe.org