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<title>FSFE Newsletter - September 2011</title>
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<h1>FSFE Newsletter - September 2011</h1>
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2011-09-02 09:13:55 +00:00
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<h2>New Intern surrounded by 800 geeks?</h2>
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2011-09-02 08:17:15 +00:00
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<p>The first day in a new organisation always is quite intensive, many new
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people, procedures, so much information. Our new intern <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/eszter/">Eszter Bako</a> it was even more
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intense. She spent her first day with FSFE at the Desktop Summit, surrounded by nearly 800
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people talking about strange things such as KDE, Gnome, Qt, GTK, Plasma, Git, QML,
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D-Bus, or about <a
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href="https://www.desktopsummit.org/program/sessions/complexity-everyday-technology">how
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to build a toaster</a>. For beginners the Free Software community can give a
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strange impression.</p>
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2011-09-02 09:13:55 +00:00
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<p>Good thing that she wasn't on her own. Our experienced intern Natalia Evdokimova, who
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organised our booth at the event, safely guided her through the day. Beside that
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there were many other FSFE activists: Our president Karsten gave a talk about
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<a
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href="https://www.desktopsummit.org/program/sessions/free-desktops-europes-public-sector">
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"Free desktops for Europe's public sector"</a> and founding member Bernhard
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talked about <a
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href="https://www.desktopsummit.org/program/sessions/daily-melee-paid-people-within-free-software-initiatives-how-they-tick-how-keep-the">"Daily
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Melee: paid people within Free Software initiatives - How they tick, how to
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keep them and the art of behaving if you are one"</a>. Like you can see on
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our <a href="https://planet.fsfe.org">blog aggregation</a> there were a lot of
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other Fellows present, including our former president Georg Greve.</p>
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<p>Beside Eszter joining and Natalia leaving as intern, there are more changes
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within our team: <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/nicoulas">Nicolas Jean's</a>
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internship has now ended. He was one of the most active people in the web team, and
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we are happy that he will remain in our volunteers team as FSFE's webmaster. <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/diegojavier/">Diego Naranjo Barroso</a> and <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/alessandro.polvani/">Alessandro Polvani</a>
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started their internships. Diego already contacted the <a
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href="/activities/pdfreaders/buglist.html#ES">Spanish Institutions</a> for our
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PDFreaders campaign, and Alessandro will do the follow-up in Italy. </p>
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<h2>Digits to remember: 22-10-11 and 11-11-11</h2>
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<p>The Nordic Free Software Award is given to people, projects or organisations
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in the Nordic countries that have made a prominent contribution to the
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advancement of Free Software. <a
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href="https://sandklef.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/nomination-period-open-for-nordic-free-software-award-2/">Henrik
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Sandklef, our vice-president, asks you</a> to submit nominations by email
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until October 22nd.</p>
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<p>The award will be announced during the <a
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href="http://fscons.org/">Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit
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(FSCONS)</a> in Gothenburg, Sweden which will take place from Friday November
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11th through Sunday November 13th. The conference is organised by FSFE's
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Swedish team, and your editor is responsible for FSFE's <a
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href="http://fscons.org/schedule/">"Free Software in Politics" track</a>
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there. We are looking forward to see you there. (Fellows will get a discount of
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10 EUR on the standard rate).</p>
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<h2>Something completely different</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>The importance of promoting Free Software, spreading Free Software
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in schools, and what role the computer sciences can play in relating the
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messages of Free Software to other institutions and disciplines: Read the latest <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=378">Fellowship
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interview</a>, in which our fellow Richard Shipman shares his thoughts on
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these topics.</li>
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<li>On Saturday 13th August Free Software
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activists came to FSFE’s PDF Readers Sprint in Manchester and found 59
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previously unreported adverts for proprietary PDF readers, all of them on UK
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Council websites. Check out the report about the event done by <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=191">Sam Tuke</a> and <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/chriswoolfrey/2011/08/15/pdf-readers-campaign-hits-the-uk-fsfe-attends-oggcamp11/">Chris
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Woolfrey</a> from our UK team. </li>
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<li>Computer Aided Design (CAD) software is critically important to a variety
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of industries and professions. It is also notorious for being poorly catered
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for by Free Software applications. <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=169">Sam wrote a brief summary of
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the current situation.</a></li>
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<li>Support Ogg Vorbis by helping our sister FSF to reach 5.000 signatures
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for <a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/tal-ogg-petition">their
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petition</a>, asking for This American Life in Ogg Vorbis. Also concerning
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Ogg, FSFE's UK team had a booth at the <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=194">OggCamp2011</a>.</li>
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<li>R-DIY Feminism Festival: FSFE will be represented at the <a
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href="http://diyfeminism.com/events-andworkshops/"> DIY Feminism
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Festival</a> in Manchester on September 3 and 4, holding events, including talks on Free Software
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philosophy, Free Software and women, and an Open Street Map workshop.</li>
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<li>Summer time was blogging time, so here some articles from the <a
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href="https://planet.fsfe.org">planet aggregation</a>:
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<ul>
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<li>With our new intern Diego J. Naranjo Barroso's help Matija prepared the
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Free Software and law related links covering links about the the patents
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war, Google acquiring Motorola Mobility, and other stories in <a
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href="http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/254">1.8.-14.8.</a> and <a
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href="http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/255">15.8.-21.8.</a>.</li>
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<li>Timo Jyrinki writes about <a
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href="http://losca.blogspot.com/2011/08/meego-ce-and-freesmartphoneorg.html">Free
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Software on mobile phones</a> and the <a
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href="http://losca.blogspot.com/2011/04/meego-summit-fi-starts-tomorrow.html">MeeGo Summit
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Finland</a> including <a
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href="http://losca.blogspot.com/2011/04/meego-summit-fi-days-1-2.html">lots
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of pictures from the event</a>.</li>
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<li>Freedom Box: <a
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href="http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/posts/FreedomBox_in_Banja_Luka.html">Read
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about the progress and technical details of the Freedom Box</a>, in Bdale
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Garbee's report from DebConf11 in Banja Luka. If you are in the UK at the time, you can
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attend <a href="/news/news.html">Sam's talk on Freedom Boxes</a> in
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Manchester on 20 September 2011 at 19:00.</li>
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<li>Interested in processing images from the command line? Swedish Team
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member <a href="http://blog.padowi.se/2011/08/28/2011w34/">Patrik Willard
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writes about how to do that</a> for the FSCONS preperations.</li>
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<li>Chris Woolfrey, who is doing the <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/">Fellowship
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interviews</a> started blogging. His latest article is about the
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question, if <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/chriswoolfrey/2011/08/18/should-all-the-data-on-your-work-computer-count-as-company-data/">all
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the data on your work computer count as company data"</a>.</li>
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</ul></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Get Active: Software Freedom Day</h2>
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<p>September 17th is <a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/">Software Freedom
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Day</a> (SFD), a worldwide celebration of Free Software. Its goal is
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educational, teaching people why Free Software is the best choice when it comes
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to using Software. Organised and coordinated by the Software Freedom
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International, SFD invites everyone to participate and take action on a local
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level. Our <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/CategoryFellowshipGroup">Fellowship
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group</a> in Vienna for example invits you to a Software Freedom Party. The
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evening will be opened by a talk about legal aspects in Free Software, held by
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FSFE's new legal coordinator Matija Šuklje. The groups in <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Bonn">Bonn</a>, <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Hamburg">Hamburg</a>, and <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Manchester">Manchester</a> also have
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plans.</p>
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<p>Contact existing groups to participate in events, or organise your own SFD
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activity!</p>
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<p>Regards,<br/>
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<a href="/about/people/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="/index.html">FSFE</a>
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