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2017-05-15 23:09:14

We've posted it a few hours ago already, but here is a markdown version of the full newsletter for #Diaspora
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FSFE Newsletter - May 2017

Daniel Pocock is the new Fellowship representative

From 10 to 24 April 2017 the #FSFE ran the ninth annual vote for a Fellowship representative to represent the FSFE's community and Fellowship in the FSFE's General Assembly. The General Assembly consists of members of the FSFE e.V. and is FSFE's legal body. It is responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, agenda-setting, exonerating, and the electing and recalling of the Executive Council and the Financial Officer. And the winner of this year's election is ... Daniel Pocock!

Daniel Pocock came first from seven candidates who ran for office, with a self-description inside our wiki page for the Fellowship Elections 2017 and by participating in public hustings. Unfortunately two different dates were announced for the hustings, but the log-file is available online for everyone who missed it.

The FSFE would like to thank Nicolas Dietrich, former Fellowship representative, for his contributions during the last two years and welcomes Daniel Pocock as a new representative. Please find Daniel's personal conclusions in his own blog.

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What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE

• From 26 to 28 April, the FSFE's annual Free Software #Legal and #Licensing workshop (LLW) took place in #Barcelona, #Spain. This year we gathered 120 legal experts from all over the world to share their knowledge and experience with each other in a 3-day event that encompassed more than 35 presentations on numerous legal issues, from open data to tooling, software patents and existing challenges for Free Software licensing.
• Armijn Hemel and Shane Coughlan, members of the FSFE Legal Team, published a guide for #startups, small businesses, and engineers on "Practical GPL compliance". The guide is designed to demystify #GPL compliance and to facilitate the work of compliance engineers on a practical level.
• North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populated state, is having general elections on 14 May 2017. The FSFE joined a "coalition of Free knowledge" which has developed for the first time a "Digital-o-Mat". The "Digital-o-Mat" is a tool to help those voters who are concerned about digital rights and freedoms, to decide about which party to vote for during these elections. Eight questions guide users to choose their own preferences on important topics about digital society - for example questions about the use of Free Software, Open Data or Open Educational Resources. After filling them out, users will see which party matches best with their own preferences and they can additionally browse detailed explanations on the party's positions regarding each topic. The interface for North-Rhine Westphalia is in German, the underlying Software however is Free Software and free to adopt for other purposes.
• On the FSFE's Planet, we had an interesting dialogue popping up between our executive director Jonas Öberg who argues that sometimes you can use proprietary software to further free and open source software although you should be aware about the risk of backfiring. And Daniel Pocock, our new Fellowship representative, answered with "the risk of proprietary software" and that "no deal might be better than a bad deal", meaning that if you cannot achieve something with Free Software you should consider just doing without it.
• Paul Hänsch, one of the FSFE's system administrators, organised the very first physical wiki caretakers meeting. The wiki caretakers are a team of volunteers who help to organise information inside the #wiki and make it easy for others to contribute.
• Monitoring shows that in the last semester nine Italian Regions have reduced advertisement of proprietary #PDF readers on their website, and that one Region has increased its support for Free Software PDF readers.
• The FSFE's executive director Jonas Öberg, blogs about "a new understanding of non-profit management" and uses this new understanding to analyse the FSFE's characteristics in the uses of technocracy, hierarchy, innovation and direction-orientation. Jonas closes his analytics with some thoughts about the way he would like to see the FSFE evolving.
• The FSFE was present with booths at the Linke Medien Akademie in Berlin/Germany, at the 16th Augsburger Linux Info Tag in #Augsburg/ #Germany, FOSS North in #Göteborg/ #Sweden and #Linuxtage in #Graz/ #Austria.

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Thanks to all the volunteers, supporters and donors who make our work possible.

Your editors, Erik Albers, Polina Malaja FSFE

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FSFE Newsletter - May 2017

From 10 to 24 April 2017 the FSFE ran the ninth annual vote for a Fellowship representative to represent the FSFE's community and Fellowship in the FSFE's General Assembly. The General Assembly consis...

Monkeymind

2017-02-17 14:00:24

My Company (in Berlin, Germany) is Hiring

Hello D* - in case you or someone you know is looking for a job in either of the following two positions here in Berlin, Germany: * DevOps/SRE (Hadoop, Python, Spark, Grafana, InfluxDB, MongoDB, Scylla, virtualization, Ansible, and so on and so on) * System Administrator (both Debian- and Redhat families, Python, virtualization, wiki and git and so on, monitoring and alarming, backups, small local DC, no network management (routers, switches, firewalls), some offsite stuff at customer installations, and so on )

Goodies: interesting but not over-the-top levels of complexity, you get to play with interesting technologies, international team (English is business language), free fruit and veggies, admin your own notebook (you can install Linux if you like), small company ( < 30) but due to the ownership structure of the company you can get into a corporate pension plan if you want, and the pay check is totally on time every month.

#jobbörse #jobmarket #berlin #devops #sysadmin #python #hadoop #linux

Pavithran S

2016-08-25 13:18:40 UTC

#NextCloud 10 is out ✔️😎

@jospoortvliet Poortvliet The nextcloud community manager reports here in #Diaspora about the new #release of NextCloud.
* Two Factor #Authentication * User #Monitoring * Automatic file #tagging
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#Owncloud #cloud #Libre #freedom #privacy #Linux #FOSS #opensource

Share the good news: #nextcloud 10 is out with a brand new monitoring app, extensive workflow handling, usability improvements and much m...

Share the good news: #nextcloud 10 is out with a brand new monitoring app, extensive workflow handling, usability improvements and much more. I'm certain there are interesting features in there for each and every one of you!
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Yes, it is time to upgrade and let us know what you think!
Learn more in my blog post. (https://nextcloud.com/?p=859)
We've also published a blog explaining an use case for the File Access Control app for home users, read it here (https://nextcloud.com/file-access-control-a-firewall-for-your-private-files-in-nextcloud/)
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@Om*

2016-06-01 05:43:17

A Vegan Cafe Was Attacked by Meat-Wielding Neo-Nazis...

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The Kiwi Café in Tbilisi, Georgia. All photos by Beth Ann Lopez

The Kiwi Café in Tbilisi, Georgia, is a hipster enclave in the city. It's located on a rundown street at the edge of the country's capital and is known for its veggie burgers and falafel. But this weekend, the cafe became the target of an attack by extremists, who reportedly ransacked the cafe and bludgeoned its patrons with meat.

Around 15 people brandishing meat skewers showed up at the business on Sunday and began shouting at customers, throwing pieces of meat at them and into their food, according to Kiwi Café staff.

"They were wearing sausages on their necks," 20-year-old Giorgi Gegelashvili, who works at the cafe and seemed slightly traumatized by the event, told VICE. "They were yelling, 'We know your face, who know who you are.'"


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The counter at Kiwi Café

Gegelashvili and other staffers told me the attackers were members of a local neo-Nazi soccer fan club who had harassed patrons of the Kiwi Café a month earlier.

According to Kiwi Café staff, as the yelling and abuse spilled into the street, over a dozen neighbors noticed the ruckus and joined in. They claim that the neighbors were yelling that the cafe's customers and staff were "punks" who were "not Georgian" and "had no respect for traditional values."

According to Kiwi Café's statement on the incident, a female cafe worker's face was shoved onto the street, while a customer's face was cut after a man hit him with a walking stick. A brawl reportedly ensued, with about four of the cafe's staff and patrons receiving some kind of injury.

"Our neighbors do not like us, maybe because we have piercings and tattoos and talk about peace," Gegelashvili told me.


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A patron inside Kiwi Café

Kiwi first opened in July 2015 and is run by a cooperative of vegans, most of whom sport dreads, tattoos, and piercings. The place is a symbol of counterculture, decorated with posters that say things like, "Not your mom, not your milk!" In New York or San Francisco, such an establishment would hardly cause a stir. But in a country like Georgia, it sticks out like a sore thumb.

"I do not like that Kiwi place," a small business owner on the same street as the cafe told me, although he said he knew nothing about the recent events. "They put things in their hair, their skin..."

The attack dovetails rising concerns in the country over the far right, and particularly the status of sexual minorities and immigrants. Earlier this month, a massive anti-gay conference was hosted in Tbilisi, and during Independence Day celebrations last week, hundreds of ultra-nationalists marched through Tbilisi chanting "Georgia is for the Georgians!"

Vegans and others with "alternative lifestyles" are often lumped together with gays and immigrants by the extreme right, according to Shota Kincha, a researcher at the Tbilisi-based Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center.

"Obviously, those who work or frequent [Kiwi Café] were and are identified as dubious or deviant in terms of their lifestyle and expression," Kincha told VICE.


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Artwork inside Kiwi Café

According to Kiwi Café's statement, the chaos ended when police arrived at the scene.

It appears that police are investigating the incident. When I visited Kiwi on Tuesday, several of the cafe's staff members were meeting uniformed police officers and being driven to the police station for interviews.


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Mariam Tabatadze, one of the co-owners of Kiwi Café

No arrests have been reported so far, though Kiwi staff claim to know the identities of some of the sausage-wielding attackers.

For its part, Kiwi Café has promised to remain open "in spite of... everyday negative attitudes to us and other people who visit us." The cafe has also received support both online and offline, although that has been tempered by some anti-vegan vitriol on its Facebook page as well.

Earlier today, David Vashadze, who works as the Georgian Film Commissioner, came to Kiwi for a coffee and to show solidarity with the establishment. He was with a friend who denounced the assault as un-Georgian.

"That was very stupid," Vashadze told me, "and I'm not even vegetarian."

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A Vegan Cafe Was Attacked by Meat-Wielding Neo-Nazis | VICE | United States

Around 15 people showed up at the Kiwi Café in Tbilisi, Georgia, brandishing meat skewers and violently throwing meat at its patrons.