In April, the FSFE organised its annual Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop (LLW): a meeting point for legal experts from all over the world to discuss issues and best practices surrounding Fre...
"We organised an FSFE information booth on Linuxwochen Wien from 4 to 6 of May and at Veganmania' http://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2017/06/04/booth-at-linuxwochen-and-veganmania-2017/ #fsfe #austria
“FSFE provides #FreeSoftware #Git hosting for its supporters and volunteers. Give it a try and leave feedback! https://t.co/u9dsrRkzLt #Giteaâ€
Sharing one's knowledge is a core principle in the Free Software society, collaboration is another. From today, the FSFE provides its supporters and registered volunteers a platform to create and mana...
Free in Free Software is referring to freedom, not price. Having been used in this meaning since the 80s, the first documented complete definition appears to be the GNU's Bulletin, vol. 1 no. 1, publi...
“@gnupg helps protect journalists. Please help ensure we can continue to improve it! https://t.co/m6r2PaJKeM https://t.co/5UqZjulYVgâ€
Am kommenden Wochenende werden wir einen kleinen Stand auf dem Bended Realities 2017 haben. Motto der Veranstaltung diesmal: KONKRETOPIA
Kommt vorbei, Eintrit ist frei!
#fsfe #fsferm #offenbach #bendedrealities
Mal ein Fall für den Backup-Account: Cryptospora ist leider seit Tagen mit Pod-Aktualisierungen beschäftigt.
Because people already asked, Matthias Kirschner's talk about LiMux at the OpenSuse Conference is online https://media.ccc.de/v/1458-limux-the-loss-of-a-lighthouse #LiMux #FSFE #openSusemedia.ccc.de: Limux: the loss of a lighthouse
Started in 200X the Limux was often cited as the lighthouse project for Free Software in the public administration. Since then we have re...
♻ @mxmehl: At @fsfe we're constantly improving our tech infrastructure, e.g. by containerisation. Interested? Join us! http://blog.jonasoberg.net/containerising-the-fsfe-aiming-for-kubernetes-2020/ … @jonaso #fsfeWhen the FSFE started using virtualisation technologies on our servers, about 15 years ago, we decided to use Linux-Vservers, a budding project which Jacques Gélinas had started just a year or two prior. To those of us administering the FSFE machines at the time, it was quite like magic, being
Started in 200X the Limux was often cited as the lighthouse project for Free Software in the public administration. Since then we have re...
When the FSFE started using virtualisation technologies on our servers, about 15 years ago, we decided to use Linux-Vservers, a budding project which Jacques Gélinas had started just a year or two prior. To those of us administering the FSFE machines at the time, it was quite like magic, being
We've posted it a few hours ago already, but here is a markdown version of the full newsletter for #Diaspora
Check FSFE's website for original versionFSFE 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.
Help us grow and make a difference in 2017 https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-05What 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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Your editors, Erik Albers, Polina Malaja FSFE
#swpat #opendata #oer #italyFrom 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...
NAJVEĆA i najstarija hrvatska konferencija o slobodnom i otvorenom softveru te operacijskom sustavu Linux - DORS/CLUC - održat će se od 31. svibnja do 2. lipnja na FER-u u Zagrebu.
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...
On May 12 hackers hit more than a hundred countries exploiting a stolen N.S.A. tool that targeted vulnerabilities of Microsoft software. The attacks infected only machines running Windows. Among the victims are public administrative bodies such as NHS hospitals in …
On May 13, Maurice Verheesen, coordinator of the country team Netherlands, is giving a keynote about "Public Money, Public Code" at the Open Source Event in the library of Tilburg, Netherlands. Admission is gratis. #fellowship - http://tilburg.com/agenda/open-source-event-in-bibliotheek-tilburg-centrum/ #event #fsfeOp 13 mei organiseert Bibliotheek Tilburg Centrum de tweede editie van het Open Source Event. Gratis entree en doe mee met de leuke workshops.
Freie Software für gute Bildung und eine starke und unabhängigen Wirtschaft
Ich freue mich, dass ich auf den "Fellbacher Weltwochen" die Frage diskutieren kann, wie man mit Freier Software Nachhaltig Bildung exportieren und zum Aufbau einer starken lokalen Wirtschaft beitragen kann.
http://ichbinbaff.de/multibaff/ww17/events/digitale-abhaengigkeit-vermeiden-mit-freier-software-fuer-gute-bildung-und-eine-starke-und-unabhaengigen-wirtschaft-sorgen/
#FreieSoftware #Wirtschaft #Bildung #Nachhaltigkeit #Entwicklung #Politik #Gesellschaft #FSFESoftware ist heute aus dem Alltag nicht mehr weg zu denken. Laut einer Studie interagieren wir im Schnitt mehr als 300 mal am Tag mit Software. Damit nimmt Software eine Schlüsselrolle in unserem L…
Software ist heute aus dem Alltag nicht mehr weg zu denken. Laut einer Studie interagieren wir im Schnitt mehr als 300 mal am Tag mit Software. Damit nimmt Software eine Schlüsselrolle in unserem L…
Software ist heute aus dem Alltag nicht mehr weg zu denken. Laut einer Studie interagieren wir im Schnitt mehr als 300 mal am Tag mit Software. Damit nimmt Software eine Schlüsselrolle in unserem L…
At the 2017 Free
Software Legal and Licensing Workshop (LLW), Max Mehl presented some
concerns about EU
radio equipment directive (RED) that was issued in 2014. The worry is
that the directive will lead device makers to lock down their hardware,
which will preclude users from installing alternative free software on
it. The problem is reminiscent of a similar
situation in the US, but that one has seemingly been resolved in favor of users—at least for now.
Freie Software für gute Bildung und eine starke und unabhängigen Wirtschaft
Ich freue mich, dass ich auf den "Fellbacher Weltwochen" die Frage diskutieren kann, wie man mit Freier Software Nachhaltig Bildung exportieren und zum Aufbau einer starken lokalen Wirtschaft beitragen kann.
http://ichbinbaff.de/multibaff/ww17/events/digitale-abhaengigkeit-vermeiden-mit-freier-software-fuer-gute-bildung-und-eine-starke-und-unabhaengigen-wirtschaft-sorgen/
#FreieSoftware #Wirtschaft #Bildung #Nachhaltigkeit #Entwicklung #Politik #Gesellschaft #FSFESoftware ist heute aus dem Alltag nicht mehr weg zu denken. Laut einer Studie interagieren wir im Schnitt mehr als 300 mal am Tag mit Software. Damit nimmt Software eine Schlüsselrolle in unserem L…
Software ist heute aus dem Alltag nicht mehr weg zu denken. Laut einer Studie interagieren wir im Schnitt mehr als 300 mal am Tag mit Software. Damit nimmt Software eine Schlüsselrolle in unserem L…
Op 13 mei organiseert Bibliotheek Tilburg Centrum de tweede editie van het Open Source Event. Gratis entree en doe mee met de leuke workshops.
♻ @3albers: Looking for a #FreeSoftware #designer or #layouter, who knows #Scribus and likes to help out @FSFE PR section for some € and a lot of Karma? #fsfe
Die Koalition Freies Wissen hat das Konzept des Wahl-o-Mat verwendet, um einen Digital-o-Mat für die Landtagswahl in Nordrhein-Westfalen zu erstellen.
♻ @openSUSE: @fsfe president to discuss open source in public administration & Munich’s decision on changing software at #oSC17 http://bit.ly/2ppZ7m5 #fsfe
Matthias Kirschner, FSFE's President, Polina Malaja, Legal Coordinator and Policy Analyst, and Daniel Pocock, FSFE's newly-elected Fellowship Representative will be present with their talks and an info booth at OSCAL (Open Source Conference Albania) 2017, the first annual conference in Albania organized to promote software freedom, open source software, free culture and open knowledge. The ev... - http://ur1.ca/qui3v #event #fsfe
