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04 Nov '10

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FSFE : End non-free advertisement: stamp out the ads!
by press＠fsfeurope.org 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

= End non-free advertisement: stamp out the ads! = [permanent URL : http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-2010-11-02-01.html] One month, one campaign, one goal: getting rid of non-free software advertisements on public websites. In four weeks, FSFE received reports concerning 2162 European institutions[1] who advertise non-free PDF readers. Apart from the 305 activists who participated to the search, 1500 individuals, 46 businesses and 38 organisations signed our Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites[2]. Now that the hunt is over, it's time to chase up those websites which encourage visitors to jeopardise their freedom. It's time to stamp out the ads! Highly motivated volunteers searched the internet for public websites that advertise non-free software and reported 2162 institutions[3]. Some of them, like Massimo Barbieri and Lucas Bickel individually reported more than 350! Alessandro Albini, Rainer Schmitz, and Pavel Kharitonov also made a remarkable contribution in reporting around 50 institutions each. But the FSFE won't stop with a list of institutions. In the coming weeks, FSFE will send letters to the institutions[4] to draw their attention to their unfair advertising. In the name of the signatories of the petition[5], FSFE will ask the institutions to either remove any recommendation for non-free software from their website, or give a choice of several programs. Wherever you are, whatever time you have, you can contribute to the removal of non-free software adverts on public websites. The amazing work of the ads hunters and our translators[6] has laid a firm foundation for the next phase. Now it is up to you to enable us to get things done. You can make a difference! Help us to translate the letter[7] into missing languages or donate to the PDF readers campaign fund[8] to help cover the 1600 EUR for postage and the extra costs of administration to deliver the messages throughout Europe. Help us stamp out the ads! == About the Free Software Foundation Europe == The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and involved in many global activities. Access to software determines participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study, modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSFE. http://fsfe.org/ 1. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html 2. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html 3. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html 4. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/letter.en.html 5. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html 6. http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.en.html 7. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/letter.en.html 8. http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.en.html

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FSFE : 2286 public websites advertise non-free software
by press＠fsfeurope.org 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

(Hjälp oss att nå ut till människor i deras modersmål. Gå med i vårt svenska översättningsteam: http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/.) = 2286 public websites advertise non-free software = [permanent URL : http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20101018-01.html] During Free Software Foundation Europe's pdfreaders.org[1] campaign, Free Software activists from 41 countries have reported 2286 public sector institutions which advertise non-free PDF readers on their websites. FSFE will now contact these institutions, trying to get as many advertisements for non-free PDF readers as possible removed before the end of the year. Progress will be documented on the list of reported institutions[2]. "Public bodies are right to try and make things easy for citizens by explaining how to open the files on their sites. But by advertising non-free software, they're doing citizens a disservice", says Karsten Gerloff, President of the Free Software Foundation Europe. "Democratic governments are supposed to give us freedom, not to drive us into dependence on a single software vendor." Most versions of the PDF file format are Open Standards[3], but the advertised readers are proprietary. These advertisements help to build a brand for the one particular non-free software company. The public sector becomes a marketing channel for that company and its products, making it harder for Free Software PDF readers[4] to gain market share. "We're frankly astonished at the amount of responses we got", says Matthias Kirschner, FSFE's Fellowship coordinator. "The number of reports we've received show that the problem is endemic across all levels of the public sector." In just four weeks, hundreds of activists from 41 countries submitted 2286 reports[5] about advertisement for non-free software to FSFE. Beside that, already 37 organisations, 45 businesses and 1418 individuals have signed FSFE's petition asking public bodies to remove advertisements for non-free software from their websites. "This shows how many people across Europe care about software freedom and are willing to get active to help the public sector solve its advertising problem", continues Kirschner. FSFE encourages public institutions to remove advertisements for non-free software from their websites, or at least change their websites so that they no longer discriminate against Free Software[6]. In February 2009 Fellows of FSFE[7] started pdfreaders.org[8], a website listing Free Software PDF readers for all major operating systems. The website also provides recommendations based on a range of practical criteria, such as integration with the operating system and ease of installation. == About the Free Software Foundation Europe == The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a non-profit non-governmental organisation active in many European countries and involved in many global activities. Access to software determines participation in a digital society. To secure equal participation in the information age, as well as freedom of competition, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pursues and is dedicated to the furthering of Free Software, defined by the freedoms to use, study, modify and copy. Founded in 2001, creating awareness for these issues, securing Free Software politically and legally, and giving people Freedom by supporting development of Free Software are central issues of the FSFE. http://fsfe.org/ 1. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.en.html 2. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html 3. http://www.fsfe.org/projects/os/os.en.html 4. http://www.pdfreaders.org/ 5. http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100913-01.en.html 6. http://www.fsfe.org/about/basics/freesoftware.en.html 7. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/ 8. http://pdfreaders.org/

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FSFE : Newsletter October 2010
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

(We now have dedicated lists for our newsletter. If you want to receive only the monthly newsletter, please subscribe to one of the newsletter-*@ lists <http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo>) (Hjälp oss att nå ut till människor i deras modersmål. Gå med i vårt svenska översättningsteam: http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/.) = FSFE Newsletter - October 2010 = [Permanent URL: http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.en.html] In this edition we discuss the misleading term "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms" (FRAND), we explain what we are doing about centralised computer systems and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and update you on our current campaign to end non-free software commercials by public institutions. FSFE celebrated Software Freedom Day with a variety of local events and activities. We organised talks and booths in Berlin, Bonn, Hamburg, Cologne, Offenburg (Germany), Zurich (Switzerland), and The Hague (Netherlands). [25]With our activities we reached new audiences, and explained to them why Free Software will become as important as freedom of the press and freedom of assembly. == Why FRAND excludes Free Software == [26]We asked European Free Software businesses to participate in a survey of business attitudes towards the acceptability of including patents in industry standards. A major theme in the survey was whether patents that cover standards should be licensed royalty-free (as W3C recommends), or whether they should instead be licensed under so-called "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms" (FRAND). FRAND is a misnomer as the terms are often unfair, unreasonable, and highly discriminatory, particularly for Free Software. In reality FRAND is only fair and reasonable to a small circle of the most powerful software companies. Paying royalties of 0.000001 Cent per copy to implement a standard might look fair at the first sight, but such a fee would make it impossible to distribute a program as Free Software. Free Software safeguards the right to share with others. Therefore, when Free Software companies sell their software they cannot know how many people will eventually end up using it. It becomes impossible to estimate the total amount of royalties owed to patent owners; Free Software businesses will be unable to compete with their proprietary competitors and Free Software as a whole would be undermined. We encouraged Free Software companies to respond to this survey, so that their views were heard and the interests of Free Software were represented in the study's results. Unfortunately the implicit assumptions of the survey were biased towards large corporations with dedicated 'standardisation employees' dedicated to providing detailed information. We received feedback that it was very difficult and sometimes impossible for small and medium sized companies to fill out the questionnaire. We will highlight this fact as well as our general criticism in the forthcoming process, [27]as we have done in the past. == Cloudy Internet Governance Forum == The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is a global policy discussion forum of the United Nations, established as an outcome of the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). We are constantly following the IGF to ensure that policy discussions will not endanger digital freedom in general and Free Software in particular. Karsten attended the Forum in Vilnius, Lithuania and presented his talk [28]"Data in the cloud: Where do Open Standards fit in". He drew attention to potential solutions to the threats of cloud computing, including the possibility of users operating their own easy to administer, always connected servers, which could offer preconfigured web, mail, jabber, and microblogging services. He also discussed Yacy, GNU Social, Angel Applications and other Free Software programs which present decentralised alternatives to dominant proprietary services. We are currently working on ways to encourage wider use of applications which use distributed models, so that control of the software is also distributed amongst users. As a result we have integrated [29]Yacy, the distributed search engine into our website and are now testing its results. YaCy's lead developer Michael Christen will be speaking at our track of talks [30]'Divide and Reconquer: regaining control of our communications' at FSCONS, which focuses on issues of centralisation of key Internet services. == Non-free software commercials presented by public institutions == Each day public institutions advertise non-free software on their websites. They link to non-free software PDF readers and thereby recommend that their visitors use non-free software. [31]Non-free software harms our society, and it is particularly inappropriate for public institutions to unnecessarily endorse it. Some public institutions go as far as stating that it is only possible to view their PDF files with the proprietary reader that they recommend, which is simply false. Many [32]Free Software PDF readers exist and provide users with a clear choice over which reader they wish to use. To raise awareness of this behaviour we started a new PDF readers campaign, and began collecting reports of infringing institutions, and petition signatures agreeing that this practice should be changed. Adverts for gratis non-free PDF readers readers are nonetheless adverts for non-free software, and because of this we do not include them on pdfreaders.org. Public websites should not list them either as promoting one proprietary reader over another reader gives an unfair advantage, and supports the existence of software monopolies. Since 13 September, volunteers from all over the world helped us with the campaign. At the time of writing they submitted over 1369 occurences of advertisement for 39 countries. 762 individuals, 20 organisations and 21 businesses signed the "Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites". Amazingly the campaign website is available in 10, the petition page in 11, and pdfreaders.org in 18 languages. == Get active == This month we ask you to support our PDFreaders campaign: - Find and [33]report advertisements for non-free software on websites belonging to public institutions. - Sign our [34]Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites. - [35]Translate the websites about this campaign into your language. - Find out if it is [36]illegal for the public institutions to give unfair advertising to particular companies in your country and inform us about it. - Find out and inform us how much money it would cost in your country to get an online advertisement on websites comparable to the public institutions which contain the advertisement. - Inform others about the campaign and what they can do to help. Regards, Matthias Kirschner 1. http://www.fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss 2. http://www.fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss 3. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.en.html#content 4. http://www.fsfe.org/index.en.html 5. http://www.fsfe.org/about/about.en.html 6. http://www.fsfe.org/projects/work.en.html 7. http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html 8. http://www.fsfe.org/donate/donate.en.html 9. http://www.fsfe.org/order/order.en.html 10. http://www.fsfe.org/press/press.en.html 11. http://www.fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html 12. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/ 13. http://wiki.fsfe.org/ 14. http://planet.fsfe.org/ 15. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join 18. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/about 19. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders 20. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.de.html 21. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.es.html 22. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.fr.html 23. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.it.html 24. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.pt.html 25. http://www.fsfe.org/events/SFD-2010.en.html 26. http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100907-01.en.html 27. http://www.fsfe.org/projects/os/ps.en.html 28. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/?p=391 29. http://www.yacy.net/ 30. http://www.fsfe.org/events/fscons-2010.en.html 31. http://www.fsfe.org/freesoftware/society/democracy.en.html 32. http://www.pdfreaders.org/ 33. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.en.html 34. http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html 35. http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.en.html 36. http://blogs.fsfe.org/maelle/?p=60 37. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201010.en.html#top 38. http://www.fsfe.org/index.en.html 39. http://www.fsfe.org/source/news/nl/nl-201010.en.xhtml 40. http://www.fsfe.org/contribute/translators/index.en.html 41. http://www.fsfe.org/about/fsfnetwork.en.html 42. http://www.fsf.org/ 43. http://www.fsf.org.in/ 44. http://www.fsfla.org/ -- Free Software Foundation Europe <http://www.fsfe.org> FSFE News <http://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <http://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <http://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html>

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FSFE Newsletter August 2010
by press＠fsfeurope.org 04 Aug '10

04 Aug '10

(Hjälp oss att nå ut till människor i deras modersmål. Gå med i vårt svenska översättningsteam: http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/.) = FSFE Newsletter - August 2010 = [Permanent URL: http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201008.en.html] The focus of this edition is Free Software in the public sector: on a national level within the United Kingdom, in the Italian region of Bozen, and in the Austrian city of Linz. We introduce a new definition and of mnemonic Open Standards, and invite you to participate in upcoming local Free Software events. Additionally in July Maëlle Costa and Sam Tuke started their internships. Răzvan Sandu transcribed Richard Stallman's speech from eLiberatica, Maëlle created a structured web edition [1], and our active translator Stelios Stavroulakis translated it into Greek. Matthias Kirchner gave the first in a new series of radio interviews [2] occurringon the 4th Monday of the each month for the public radio station 'Dradio Wissen'. Europe is witnessing an ever increasing number of public administrations considering the migration to Free Software. Public administration represents the largest purchaser of software in each EU country, and is a critically important area of Free Software growth. Increased public sector use of free software means more money invested in the development and deployment of Free Software, which ultimately results in greater quality and quantity of Free Software programs. In June the Government of Malta asked all their agencies to prefer Free Software in all future purchases [3]. In their statement they directly referred to FSF's Free Software definition == Saving money with Free Software in the UK == In the UK, her Majesty’s Treasury asked 60,000 people working for the government how more savings could be made. They got 60,000 ideas out of it, processed them and put that into 31 proposals. Two of those proposals [4] relate to Free Software. They include annulling the government’s contract with Microsoft to furnish government departments, and replace their products with Free Software, including GNU/Linux and OpenOffice. Supporting arguments for the switch included lower costs, improved security, and the opportunity to create a "more diverse spectrum of the IT industry, instead of [just] one corporation". == Public tendering: Bozen reconsiders deal with Microsoft == Progress in the public sector of Italy was also made this month, when the regional government of Bolzano accepted FSFE's request to discuss a rethink of a plan forged earlier this year to renew and extend their licenses from Microsoft. On the 25th of May Italian politicians agreed to spend 2.2 million EUR over the next three years on contracts with Microsoft Ireland, and increase the number of licenses that they had purchased. This decision was made without a public call for tender, making it impossible for competing suppliers to make offers of their own. We asked the local government to rethink their decision [5] and accept an offer of dialogue extended to them by local Free Software experts at the GNU/Linux User Group Bolzano (LUGBZ). The local government has now accepted LUGBZ's offer [6], and the first meeting is planned for the beginning of August. Also in attendance shall be representatives from the Free Software Center of TIS and the Free University of Bolzano. == Linz - region for Free Software == In the Austrian city of Linz, Free Software is already the norm, and a new scheme is being devised to crown it a 'Free Software Region'. Linz City councillors recognise the social importance of Free Software, and as a result are instigating a much wider programme of Free Software use and promotion. Government officials have identified 7 key characteristics [7 that an area should ulfil in order to merit the title of Free Software Region. Amongst them: general public sector support for Free Software, regular Free Software events together with local companies and user groups, usage of Free Software in universities, schools and other education bodies, as well as the suggestion that public administration and organisations should cooperation with Free Software organisations, or become members of them. == Open Standards on the political agenda in Germany == Beside the progress of Free Software in the public sector, Open Standards continue to be on the political agenda. In June, Thomas de Maiziere, German Minister of Interior, demanded Open Standards for all public IT systems [8], therefore supporting FSFE's long standing demands. The minister's permanent secretary and IT Commissioner of the German government, Cornelia Rogall-Grothe explained his position further in an interview [9]: "only by using Open Standards can [the government] obtain independence from software development companies". She also recognised that "maximal interoperability can be reached with open IT-Standards". == Now available in English: AEIOU mnemonic for Open Standards == While publishing our press release Kai Eckert translated our German AEIOU mnemonic for Open Standards into English [10]. We hope it helps you to remember a clear and meaningful definition of the term Open Standard. This definition requires formats and protocols to adhere to the following rules: - -Applicable (without restrictions): free from legal or technical clauses that limit its utilisation by any party or in any business model, - Existing (implementations): available in multiple complete implementations by competing vendors, or as a complete implementation equally available to all parties. - Independent (of a single vendor): managed and further developed independently of any single vendor in a process open to the equal participation of competitors and third parties - Open (specification): subject to full public assessment and use without constraints in a manner equally available to all partie - Untainted (with dependencies to closed standards): without any components or extensions that have dependencies on formats or protocols that do not meet the definition of an Open Standard themselves == Get active: Help at local events == This month FSFE President Karsten Gerloff participated in local regional events, including RMLL Bordeaux (France) [11] and Free Software events in Vitoria, San Sebastian, and Bilbao in Basque (Spain). For organising such events we depend local volunteers. Help us to introduce Free Software to people in your region: -We have an event calendar where you can add Free Software events (Thanks to Paul Boddie for implementing this great feature!) -Add the ical calendar [12] to your own digital calender, and get in contact with us if you can help at one of the events. -Contact fellowship(a)fsfeurope.org if you organise an event and you need more help at the booth or a speaker from FSFE. - Help us to improve our documentation for organising booths Regards, Matthias Kirschner [1]http://www.fsfe.org/freesoftware/transcripts/rms-2009-05-22-eliberatica.h… [2] http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=625 [3]http://ictpolicies.gov.mt/docs/GMICT_D_0097_Open_Source_Software_v1.0.pdf [4] http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=614 [5] http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100702-01.html [6]http://www.osor.eu/news/it-bolzano-region-begins-discussion-on-open-source-strategy [7] http://www.netzpolitik.org/2010/linz-will-open-commons-region-werden/ [8] http://mailman.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release-de/2010q2/000158. html [9] http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100705-01.de.html [10] http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=618 [11] http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/?p=376 [12] http://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipEvents [13] http://wiki.fsfe.org/BoothCountdown - -- Free Software Foundation Europe <http://www.fsfe.org> FSFE News <http://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <http://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <http://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html>

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FSFE Newsletter - July 2010
by Free Software Foundation Europe 04 Jul '10

04 Jul '10

(Hjälp oss att nå ut till människor i deras modersmål. Gå med i vårt svenska översättningsteam: http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/.) = FSFE Newsletter - July 2010 = [Permanent URL: http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201007.sv.html ] This edition covers Neelie Kroes' statement about Open Standards, the Free Software discussion in Saxony (Germany), and the relicensing of WebM to be GPL compatible, and asks you all to keep in touch with your politicians about Free Software issues. Beside that, FSFE's strategic decision making body, the General Assembly [1] (GA) , met in Bozen, Italy. The various outcomes of this meeting will become apparent in the next months and years. On the operational side we organised Fellowship meetings [2] in Tampere (Finland), Göteburg (Sweden), Paris, Lille (France), Berlin, Düsseldorf, Siegen, (Germany), as well as a Fellowship jabber meeting about ACTA. Stian published a new Fellowship interview with David Reyes Samblas Martinez [3], in which he answers questions on hardware manufacturing, e-learning and Free Software politics. == "Proprietary technology is a waste of money" == No, this is not a quote from someone out of the Free Software community. As Karsten reported in his article [4] it was Neelie Kroes, European Commission’s vice president, who comment at the Open Forum Europe (OFE) meeting in Brussels on 10 June. She also said that: "Many authorities have found themselves unintentionally locked into proprietary technology for decades. After a certain point that original choice becomes so ingrained that alternatives risk being systematically ignored, no matter what the potential benefits. This is a waste of public money that most public bodies can no longer afford." Kroes also backed up our definition of Open Standards [5]. She made clear that "truly open" standards "do not come with any constraints for implementers". This is important as it means that programmers can implement a standard in Free Software; Microsoft and others have been trying to convince the Commission that a standard is "open" even if it cannot be implemented in Free Software. These developments are good news - please share them! == "Free" State of Saxony argues against Free Software == Already in May German politicians had a discussion about Free Software in the Free State of Saxony's state parliament. I (Matthias) published an analysis about this discussion [6] (in German). The state government talks about strategic reasons against Free Software, but does not name any of them. The CDU and the FDP say they do not want to influence the market. On the other hand the state government educates all their pupils with software from a monopolist and advertises Adobe's proprietary software on their websites. In their tenders they do not ask for Free Software, but complain that there are too few Free Software service providers and programs. Beside that they use the term "market standards" against Free Software. That such discussions happen in parliament are a very good sign. They mean that politicians have to think about Free Software, and that we can all enter discussion with politicians about Free Software, too. That is why we asked people from Saxony to send their politicians feedback on the discussion, and to write them what they liked about the discussion and ask questions like ‘when politicians talk about strategic reasons against Free Software, what are these reasons?’. The speech by Neelie Kroes quoted above is also something that you can point politicians to. == Free Video Formats / Software licenses == In May, Google updated the license for their WebM project [7] to make it GPL-compatible. As explained in the last issue [8] WebM is important so users do not have to install the non-free flash plugins anymore, but have a free video format to play and encode videos. WebM was already Free Software, as the rightsholders stated in the licence that users have the freedom to use, study, share, and improve it. The problem was that its license was not compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) [9]. There are a lot of Free Software licenses [10], but the GNU GPL is the most famous Free Software copyleft license and is used by a large percentage of Free Software. It ensures the four freedoms and adds the condition that those freedoms remain intact in further distribution of the software. If people use the same licence or at least GPL-compatible licences, then programmers can exchange code freely, and easily, so programmers do not have to reinvent the wheel again but can use already existing code. That is why it is so important that programmers use the GNU AGPL [11], GPL, LGPL [12], or a compatible Free Software license for their software. There is also an article by David Wheeler which is worth reading, why you should make your software GPL compatible [13], like WebM does now. == Get active: Give your politicians continuous feedback == Our mission is to explain the concept of Free Software to as many people as possible. This month the German team had a booth at the GNU/Linuxtag in Berlin and explained Free Software to all the different visitors, gave interviews and speeches about "Freedom in the cloud" and common misunderstandings about Free Software. Depending on the audience you should use slightly modified explanations. To support Free Software supporters, we are providing links to video [14] and audio [15] files, as well as transcripts of speeches [16]. As Fellow [17] you automatically have an account there, but you can just register for a guest account [18] and help us to make those pages a good resource for people who want to learn from others how to best explain the benefits of software freedom. Regards, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE 1. http://www.fsfe.org/about/members.en.html 2. http://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipEvents 3. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/david-reyes-samblas-martinez/ 4. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/?p=359 5. http://www.fsfe.org/projects/os/def.en.html 6. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=589 7. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/googles-updated-webm-license 8. http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201006.en.html 9. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html 10. http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ 11. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html 12. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html 13. http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html 14. http://wiki.fsfe.org/Video 15. http://wiki.fsfe.org/Audio 16. http://wiki.fsfe.org/Transcripts 17. http://fellowship.fsfe.org 18. http://wiki.fsfe.org/UserGuide?action=newaccount -- Free Software Foundation Europe <http://www.fsfe.org> FSFE News <http://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <http://fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <http://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html>

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FSFE Newsletter June 2010
by press＠fsfeuorpe.org 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

(Hjälp oss att nå ut till människor i deras modersmål. Gå med i vårt svenska översättningsteam: http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/.) = FSFE Newsletter - June 2010 = [ Permanent URL http://www.fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201006.en.html ] May was quite busy, for the first time we participated in a big church event to inform visitors about Free Software. We analysed the European Commission's Digital Agenda, and there was news about free video formats. But why are we working on all those things? Because it is important for society. Today software is everywhere, in our desktops, laptops, and mobile phones as well as in cars, trains, TVs, fridges - any complex device you care to name. Software is not just a tool like a car; it is everywhere and will become even more important in future. Control over software means power. Whoever controls the software decides what you can and what you cannot do with it. In democracies we separate and distribute power amongst a lot of different people. The control of software as such a powerful tool of our society has to be distributed as well. If more and more parts of our life are controlled by software, the software needs to be Free Software. This month we received the Theodor Heuss medal for exactly this work for society. The Theodor Heuss Foundation which awarded the medal is a non-partisan foundation which carries the name of Germany's first president. The foundation seeks "to bring attention to something, which has to be done and shaped in our democracy, without being finished" (Carl Friedrich v. Weizsäcker, 1965). The Theodor Heuss prize is given annually to persons of high standing and organisations which are groundbreaking in this respect. This award gives Free Software supporters recognition outside the usual software scene. It shows that a well-known political foundation agrees that Free Software is good for our society and that FSFE is doing a good job. This is a door-opener to reach a broader audience in feature, especially politicians. At the ceremony and the day before at the workshop Bernhard Reiter, Björn Schießle, Georg Greve, Karsten Gerloff, other Fellows and I myself had good discussions with a lot of political interested persons with different backgrounds (see [1] [2] [3]). *Enlarging the audience* Speaking about a broader audience, for the first first time we participated at the ecumenical church day in Munich, Germany. While we have given talks at church events before to explain the values of Free Software, it was the completely new experience for us to participate in an event of this size, with 130,000 visitors. Thomas Jensch organised a shared booth with KDE e.V. to explain the participants why they as Christians should care about Free Software (see [4]). *Open Standards and politics* Open Standards are important to ease the migration path to Free Software. This month the European Commission published the Digital Agenda. It is good that the Commission plans to give standards a greater role in the public procurement of software, and to get dominant software vendors to license their interoperability information, opening up the software market for Free Software vendors. However the EC avoids all references to Open Standards as well as Free Software, although the Member States set those goals for the Commission in the Granada and Malmö declarations. Instead, the Commission points to the European Interoperability Framework. This is a document which is currently being systematically hollowed out, as shown by FSFE's analysis [5]. We outlined that the EC needs to adopt a strict definition of Open Standards, along the lines of the first European Interoperability Framework (EIF), and that the Commission needs to focus on Open Standards for its public sector IT strategy to enable the full potential of Free Software for European innovation (see [6]). *Free Video Formats* Good news about open video formats. In March both our sister organisation the FSF and our associated organisation FFII asked Google to free the video codec vp8 and use it on YouTube. This month Google announced they will do so. From now on users will be able use Free Software to play and encode the new WebM format. "WebM is based on the Matroska container format -- replacing Ogg -- and the VP8 video codec which replaces Theora. Crucially, the Vorbis audio codec is part of the new WebM specification." (see [7] and [8]). The other good news, since a few days the German ARD news program tagessschau is available in Ogg Theora. After the public radio station Dradio is broadcasting its program in OGG vorbis you can now watch the tagesschau with Free Software [9] and do not have to install proprietary software like the Adobe's flash player (see [10]). *Get Active* We depend on the help of many volunteers to evaluate current topics. If you want to help Free Software in Europe please subscribe to our public mailing lists [11] and participate in the discussion sharing your knowledge with others. You have dived into a topic like free video formats, found an interesting article about Free Software, you think we missed an important point in a discussion, or you want to give us feedback on the newsletter? Get active and share this information with other Free Software supporters on discussion(a)fsfeurope.org. Regards, Matthias Kirschner - FSFE 1. http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100126-01.en.html 2. http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100510-01.en.html 3. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/?p=350 4. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gladhorn/2010/05/18/going-where-no-gearheads-have-gon… 5. http://www.fsfe.org/projects/os/eifv2.en.html 6. http://www.fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100519-01.en.html 7. http://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-statement-on-webm-and-vp8 8. http://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/FFII%20welcomes%20Google%27s%20move%… 9. http://www.tagesschau.de/tagesschau24/ 10. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=581 11. http://www.fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html -- Free Software Foundation Europe <http://www.fsfe.org> FSFE News <http://www.fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> Upcoming FSFE Events <http://www.fsfe.org/events/events.en.rss> Fellowship Blog Aggregation <http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml> Free Software Discussions <http://www.fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html>

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10,000 kronor till två bra idéer
by Jonas Öberg 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

2009-01-16 Föreningen fri kultur och programvara utlyser tävlingen Idépriset '09 där två bra idéer belönas med 10,000 kronor vardera. Tävlingens ska uppmuntra ett kreativt tänkande och visa att även begränsade resurser kan få stora resultat för fri kultur och fri programvara. Juryn består av Oscar Swartz, Rasmus Fleischer och Patrik Wallström. Utifrån genomförbarhet, nyskapande, relevans och kreativitet kommer juryn att bedöma de idéer som skickas in. De två vinnarna kommer att belönas med 10,000 kronor vardera. Pengarna ska gå till att inom ramen för föreningen genomföra deras idé. Med Idépriset '09 vill föreningen lyfta fram sådana projekt som med relativt små medel kan betyda mycket för rörelserna kring fri kultur och fri programvara. De två vinnande bidragen kommer att presenteras i april. För att delta i tävlingen ska idéerna ha inkommit senast den 1 mars 2009, ligga inom området för fri kultur och/eller fri programvara samt vara genomförbara med 10,000 kronor. Information om idépriset och anmälan finns på www.idepriset.se Information om Föreningen fri kultur och programvara finns på www.ffkp.se Ytterligare frågor besvaras av: Jonas Öberg Tel: 0733-423962 E-post: jonas(a)ffkp.se

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Inbjudan till Workshops
by Jonas Öberg 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Free Software Foundation Europe, med stöd av .SE, bjuder in till två workshops om Fri Programvara i Stockholm respektive Göteborg. Båda tillfällena syftar till att samordna arbetet mellan olika grupperingar, företag, myndigheter och organisation som arbetar med fri programvara i Sverige. Vi vill med dessa workshops föra samman de aktörer som finns på den svenska marknaden kring fri programvara för att öka samordningen och sammanhållningen. Samtidigt får vi möjlighet att diskutera gemensamt hur vi kan öka medvetenheten kring fri programvara, vilket leder till fler affärsmöjligheter, bättre konkurrens, ökad produktivitet, mer flexibilitet och en högre grad av samarbete. Workshopen i Stockholm äger rum i samband med Internetdagarna 2008 den 21 oktober klockan 15.30 - 17.30. Workshopen i Göteborg äger rum i samband med FSCONS 2008 den 24 oktober klockan 13.00. Mer information om respektiva tillfälle, samt formulär för anmälan, finns på: http://www.ws08.se/ -- Jonas Öberg, Free Software Foundation Europe Free Society Conference & Nordic Summit -- Oct 24-26 -- Göteborg, Sweden http://fscons.org/

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PRESSMEDDELANDE: TRE STORHETER GÅR SAMMAN FÖR ETT FRITT SAMHÄLLE
by Jonas Öberg 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Wikipedia, GNU/Linux och Creative Commons är tre av ämnena för en tredagarskonferens i Göteborg. Mellan 24 och 26 Oktober 2008 hålls nämligen FSCONS på IT-Universitetet i Göteborg där målet är ett fritt samhälle. Förra årets FSCONS blev en succe med över 200 beökare. Detta följs upp i år med ännu en konferens. Enligt arrangörerna väntas antalet besökare öka i år. Över 40 personer kommer till Göteborg för att tala om digital frihet. Fri programvara, fri kultur och inte minst frihet på nätet är ämnen som behandlas. Förra årets konferens blev en viktig mötesplats mellan gäster och föreläsare där flera nya projekt föddes. I år är förutsättningarna för sådana projekt ännu bättre. - Att den prisbelönte journalisten Oscar Swartz kommer hit är viktigt då debatten om frihet på nätet är viktig och välbehövd, speciellt nu i dessa FRA-dagar, säger Stian Rødven Eide som är med och organiserar FSCONS. - Vi är väldigt glada över att kunna bredda konferensen samtidigt som vi håller ett spår tydligt på fri programvara, säger Henrik Sandklef, som är med i organisation bakom konferensen. I år kan man se föreläsningar som sträcker sig från inbyggd programmering, till Ubuntu via Open Street Map-projektet. Det är väldigt kul att vi fått hit John Buckman, som äger skivbolaget Magnatune. Buckman skall prata om hur han ser på nedladdningens effekter på musikindustrin. Under konferensen kommer priserna "Nordic Free Software Award" samt "Qt Centre Programming Award" att delas ut. - Även i år delar vi ut Nordic Free Software Award på FSCONS. Vårt mål med priset är att lyfta fram alla som jobbar med att, på ett eller annat sätt, sprida fri programvara i Norden, säger Jonas Öberg, FSFE. Bild på arrangörerna. http://fscons.org/files/fscons-pressphoto-posters-highres.png Från vänster: Johannes Tiemer, Mirko Lindner, Henrik Sandklef, Jonas Öberg, Stian Rødven Eide För frågor, kontakta Henrik Sandklef <hesa(a)sandklef.com> 0708-658406 För pressackreditering, http://fscons.org/press/ ARRANGÖRER Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) är en ideell icke-statlig organisation, hängiven till fri programvara. För mer information: http://www.fsfeurope.org Creative Commons (CC) är en icke-vinstdrivande organisation som erbjuder verktyg som låter artister, forskare och andra på ett enkelt sätt markera att de, helt eller delvis, vill dela med sig av sina verk. För mer information: http://www.creativecommons.se Wikimedia Sverige är en ideell förening, som verkar för att göra information fritt tillgänglig för alla, särskilt genom att stödja Wikimedia Foundations projekt. För mer information: http://se.wikimedia.org/

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