[Discussioni] Fwd: [FSFE PR][EN] FSFE Newsletter - October 2013
Francesco Potortì
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Gio 10 Ott 2013 14:34:36 CEST
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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:12:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: Free Software Foundation Europe <press a fsfeurope.org>
Subject: [FSFE PR][EN] FSFE Newsletter - October 2013
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== Our movement turned 30! ==
On 27 September 1983 Richard Stallman announced the GNU project[1]. An
initiative that started with a programmer's frustration over a broken
printer driver[2] has changed our society. The idea of software that
everyone can use, study, share and improve[3] has proven powerful.
The GNU project has acted as the starting point of a movement that makes
sure we can control technology, and not technology controlling us.
Today, Free Software is everywhere: It powers the Internet, our mobile
phones, televisions, cars, routers, and electronic devices of all sorts.
Free Software has fundamentally changed the way people create software:
instead of preventing people to adapt the software to their own needs,
they invite people to participate in the development.
FSFE is grateful to Richard Stallman for sparking this epochal change,
and to everyone who has joined our movement to drive Free Software's
progress for three decades.
== Boost local activities: European Fellowship Coordinators Meeting ==
For example our local Fellowship groups. During last month our groups in
Aarhus hosted a talk[4] and the meetings in Frankfurt[5] are continuing.
In Munich we had a public booth during a street festival[6], during
Software Freedom Day our Fellows informed passers-by about Free Software
in Vienna[7] and in Offenburg[8], whereas in Helsinki[9] they helped
others installing Free Software. Our Düsseldorf Fellowship group was
very active the last weeks as well: They had a booth at the summer party
of the Pirate Party[10], and attended the summer party of the Green
Party[11], held a Software Freedom Day event[12], supported a
Cryptoparty in Kempen[13], held a regular meeting[14], as well as a talk
by Sam Tuke about Free Your Android[15].
>From 27-29 September 22 Fellows of FSFE from 10 countries gathered in
Berlin for the first European Coordinators Meeting. During the weekend
the coordinators got to know each other, presented their work, talked
about possibilities to promote Free Software, shared good practices, and
provided valuable feedback about our campaigns. If you are interested to
see who is promoting Free Software in local Fellowship groups have a
look at Lucile's blog entry[16].
== Something completely different ==
- - Technology should be a means to freedom and creativity. Yet
governments around the world are turning computers and networks into
tools of oppression. FSFE joined a coalition of more than 265
organisations[17] which launched a list of 13 International Principles
on the Application of Human Rights to Communication Surveillance.
- - Ask Your Candidates: Our Austrian team published their questions and
answers for the Nationalratswahl (federal election)[18], and the
German published the answers to similar questions for the state
election in Hessen[19].
- - After FSFE already spoke up against it[20], KDE also rejected the
Fairsearch initiative claims, and stated why Free Software is
competitive[21].
- - There is a new edition of the Free Software in education news for
August[22], including what Open Education Resources can learn from
Free Software.
- - Together with Mirko Vogt from OpenWrt FSFE wrote a letter to the
German Federal Network Agency[23] (German). We argued about the
importance of having the freedom to use every router you want to have
for your internet access.
- - CERN, which is publishing a lot of hardware design documentation, has
updated its Open Hardware License to version 1.2[24].
- - To celebrate GNU's 30th anniversary, FSF suggested software freedom
actions[25] for each day during September. Of course you can repeat
that anytime you want.
- - Public administration: the French Gendarmerie now maintains 37,000
GNU/Linux desktops[26], and after the planned switch next summer it
will be 72,000. Officials say they are able to lower the total cost of
operation by 40% compared to the proprietary solution. But the savings
are just one point, the other one is more vendor independence.
- - From the planet aggregation[27]:
- Hugo Roy asks for feedback on the user data manifesto[28].
- Georg Greve argues that software freedom advocates had it right all
along: You cannot trust proprietary cryptography, or proprietary
software[29].
- Mirko Böhm and Paul Adams organised a seminar about Free Software in
economy and society at the German protestant student union[30]
(German), where Karsten Gerloff also gave a talk as a guest speaker
in front of students of medicine, natural sciences, or theology.
- Lucile learnt to appreciate regular expressions[31], and highlighted
some quotes by Bruce Schneier[32], including "We’re afraid of risk.
It's a normal part of life, but we're increasingly unwilling to
accept it at any level."
- Thomas Løcke asks if we want to live in a world where shadow
agencies run amok[33] and where our hard-earned taxes are being used
to fund leashes for our necks and whips for our backs?
- Our Munich Fellowship coordinator Christian Kalkhoff explains why he
finally quit facebook[34] (German) after they changed their terms of
services.
- On a technical level: if you have to dual boot GNU/Linux and Windows
8 on a machine with restricted boot[35] read the description from
our Finnish Fellows[36].
- If you used GnuCash or HomeBank before for your finances, Daniel
Pocok suggests to have a look at PostBooks[37], and maybe support
their crowdfunding campaign for missing features.
- He also looked into calendar and contact data with Free Software[38]
in the Smartphone era.
- Paul Boddie wrote about the Neo900[39], successor of the famous N900
mobile phone.
- Guido Günther is monitoring a heating system[40] powered by Free
Software, and
- Henri Bergius was flying a quadrocopter with NoFlo[41].
- After many years Matija's laptop broke. Read how he changed his
distribution[42] after a decade and the good feeling to have working
backups.
- Finally he is discussing if copyright, patents and state-given
monopolies in general are natural[43].
== Get active: Talk to some friends about how it started! ==
As you read on the first paragraph it is 30 years since Richard Stallman
announced to start with the GNU operating system[44]. Many people
mistakenly think of this 30th anniversary[45] only as a success in a
technical way but it is more: GNU and the philosophy behind it is a
social revolution as well.
More people should know about the importance and uniqueness of the
development GNU has started. So we ask you to talk with your friends,
acquaintances and colleagues about the history[46] and philosophy[47] of
GNU project and to reflect about which positive side effect of GNU's
invention you personally appreciate the most.
Please share your experiences with us, for example by writing a blog
post[48] about the talk with the people you spoke with or sharing your
experiences on our public mailing lists
<http://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html>.
Thanks to all the Fellows[49] and donors[50] who enable our work,
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE
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1. http://fsfe.org/freesoftware/basics/gnuproject.en.html
2. http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html
3. http://fsfe.org/about/basics/freesoftware.en.html
4. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Referat19September2013
5. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/09/fellowship-treffen-rheinmain-in-frankfurt-4-sep-2013/
6. http://www.softmetz.de/2013/09/23/freie-software-beim-corso-leopold-2-0/
7. https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2013/09/22/software-freedom-day-2013-in-vienna/
8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/fast_edi/?p=393
9. http://coss.fi/2013/09/17/lauantaina-vietetaan-kansainvalista-avointen-ohjelmien-paivaa/
10. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=906
11. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=925
12. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=936
13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=916
14. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=946
15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=884
16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2013/10/01/first-european-coordinators-meeting-2/
17. http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130923-01.en.html
18. http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130926-01.en.html
19. http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130918-01.en.html
20. http://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/20130729.EC.Fairsearch.letter.en.html
21. http://dot.kde.org/sites/dot.kde.org/files/KDE-Fairsearch-claim-response_0.pdf
22. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/09/free-software-in-education-news-august-2013/
23. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1124
24. http://ohwr.org/cernohl
25. https://www.gnu.org/gnu30/gnu-a-day
26. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/french-gendarmerie-open-source-desktop-lowers-tco-40
27. http://planet.fsfe.org
28. https://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2013/09/rfc-user-data-manifesto/
29. https://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=634
30. http://creative-destruction.me/2013/09/15/open-source-in-wirtschaft-und-gesellschaft-sommeruni-2013/
31. https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2013/09/23/check-your-regular-expressions/
32. https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2013/09/04/schneier-on-risk/
33. https://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2013/09/06/leashes-for-our-necks-and-whips-for-our-backs/
34. http://www.softmetz.de/2013/09/07/erlaubnis-zur-nutzung-deines-namens-profilbilds-deiner-inhalte-und-informationen/http://www.softmetz.de/2013/09/07/erlaubnis-zur-nutzung-deines-namens-profilbilds-deiner-inhalte-und-informationen/
35. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.en.html
36. http://seravo.fi/2013/dual-booting-ubuntu-12-04-windows-8-machines-restricted-boot
37. http://danielpocock.com/postbooks-packages-available
38. http://danielpocock.com/mastering-calendar-and-contact-data-with-free-software-in-the-smartphone-era
39. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=430
40. http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Monitoring_the_temparature_values_of_a__kofen_Pellematic_using_munin.html
41. http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-ardrone/
42. http://matija.suklje.name/after-many-years-new-laptop-after-a-decade-a-new-distro-and-thankfully-working-backups
43. http://matija.suklje.name/are-copyright-and-other-ip-rights-really-a-natural-right
44. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html
45. http://computerfloss.com/2013/09/happy-birthday-gnu/
46. https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html
47. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
48. https://blogs.fsfe.org/about/
49. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
50. http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html
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