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 	<h1 class="p-name">FSFE Newsletter - December 2015</h1>
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 <h2 id="from-the-fsfe">From the FSFE</h2>

 <h2 id="meps-in support-of-our-amendments" >MEPs in support of our amendments</h2>

 <p>The European Parliamentary committees for Internal Market and Consumer 
 Protection (IMCO) as well as Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) issued 
 their joint own-initiative report based on the Commission's Digital Single 
 Market Strategy. FSFE's policy team analysed their report and proposed 
 changes to include standards that are open, minimalistic, and implementable 
 with Free Software, to integrate users' control over their data and to 
 make sure that the the single open science cloud is implemented with 
 Free Software.</p>

 <p>The report received more than 1000 amendments from Members of the European 
 Parliament (MEPs), several of whom supported our points and proposed amendments. 
 This shows increased awareness in the Parliament towards the importance 
 of Free Software in &quot;cloud computing&quot;, big data and standardisation, 
 as well as in public sector. Shadow rapporteur Cornelia Ernst even highlighted 
 the need to address Free Software during her talk in the joint meeting of 
 IMCO/ITRE on 10 November. This month, on December 14, the Parliament will 
 vote for the final version of the report.</p>

 <p>Although the report is non-binding and the Commission is not obliged 
 to follow the Parliament's recommendations, the fact that our amendments 
 were supported by several MEPs is an important step. Especially in the 
 Parliament that is usually less receptive when it comes to the issues 
 concerning digital rights and Free Software.</p>

 <h2 id="germany-passed-law-against-compulsory-routers">Germany passed law 
 against compulsory routers</h2>

 <p><a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/timeline.html">After three 
 years of intensive lobbying by the FSFE</a> and other organisations, the 
 German Parliament as well as the second chamber, the Federal Council, 
 passed a law against compulsory routes but for free choice of the user. 
 This is an important step towards consumer protection and fair competition 
 of manufacturers. Free choice also empowers users to take care of critical 
 features like security or privacy on their own preferred device. The law 
 will become effective in the mid of 2016 and should set an example across 
 Europe. We will support similar legislation wherever needed.</p>

 <h2 id="sony-rootkit-makes-headlines-10-years-later">Sony Rootkit makes 
 headlines 10 years later</h2>

 <p>In the end of October FSFE reminded of the dangers posed by technical 
 restrictions on technology to promote everyone's right to tinker. As a 
 result, the topic got picked up by the press and the FSFE info page was 
 linked with at least a dozen articles from several big name news sources. 
 Our ex-intern Asa Ritz [summarised] <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/asawritz/2015/11/04/sony-rootkit-still-making-headlines-10-years-later-2/">summarised</a> in his blogpost the media coverage we received.</p>

 <h2 id="what-else-have-we-done">What else have we done?</h2>

 <ul>
 <li>FSFE president <a href="http://berlin2015.codemotionworld.com/talk-detail/?detail=1958">Matthias Kirschner gave a talk about the computer as a universal machine</a> at 
 Codemotion Berlin, and ran a <a href="http://www.gruene-fraktion-berlin.de/offener-it-gipfel">workshop 
 about restrictions on technical restrictions at the "Open IT Summit"</a> 
 in Berlin. In a podcast, <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/podcast-on-non-military-use-clause-in-gnu-gpl/">Matthias argued against a &quot;non-military clause&quot; in Free Software 
 licenses</a>.</li>

 <li>FSFE community coordinator Erik Albers and FSFE legal team coordinator 
 Matija Šuklje participated at <a href="http://copycamp.pl/en/">Copycamp 
 Warsaw</a> to host a booth and Matija to gave a talk about "Implications 
 of the EU Copyright Reform on Free Software".</li>

 <li>FSFE was present at <a href="https://fscons.org/2015/">FSCONS</a> in 
 Goteborg, Sweden. Christian Kalkhoff <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/softmetz/?p=63">wrote 
 about his FSCONS experience</a> in a blogpost.</li>

 <li>FSFE had its booths also at <a href="http://www.opensourcesummit.paris/">Open 
 Source Summit in Paris</a>, at <a href="http://www.linuxday.at/">Linuxday 
 in Dornbirn</a>, Austria, and at <a href="http://openrheinruhr.de/">OpenRheinRuhr 
 Oberhausen</a>, Germany.</li>
 </ul>


 <h2 id="take-action">Take Action</h2>

 <ul>
 <li>If you like to meet us in person, you will meet members, staff and 
 community of the FSFE at our booth at <a href="https://fosdem.org/2016/">FOSDEM</a>. 
 And if you go to <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Main_Page">this 
 year's Chaos Communication Conference, #32C3</a>, then do not miss to pass by 
 the <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe">FSFE assembly</a>, participate in one of our sessions or simply take a break 
 in our "Free Software lounge".</li>

 <li>The FSFE Education team is redesigning its educational leaflet. If 
 you like to join or share ideas, feel free to participate on the <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Reasons_for_schools_to_use_Free_Software">wiki page</a>.</li>

 <li>In our Free Your Android campaign we highlight the importance of 
 Replicant as a 100% free Android-based operating system. We are happy to 
 see that business grows, that start to sell <a href="https://tehnoetic.com/tehnoetic-s2-phone-replicant">phones with replicant pre-installed</a> and we hope there are more 
 companies who follow this example.</li>

 <li>If you like what we have done in 2015 and you like us to continue 
 the good work in 2016 or even grow stronger, then consider to 
 <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/donate">support us with a donation</a> 
 or to <a href="https://fsfe.org/join">become a sustainable member</a>. 
 Funding is crucial to our existence.</li>
 </ul>

 <h2 id="out-of-the-community">Out of the community</h2>

 <ul>
 <li>A new team got established: North Rhine-Westphalia is the biggest 
 state of Germany with currently three local FSFE groups. This month, they 
 had an <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1629">inaugural meeting 
 of a state-wide action group, the Team NRW</a>. Besides coordination, 
 the <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/wromey/2015/11/22/grundungssitzung-des-nrw-teams-der-free-software-foundation-europe/">primary tasks shall be the education of teachers</a>.</li>

 <li>At the local meeting of FSFE Düsseldorf, <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1592">Andreas Schreiber talked about the open source strategy of Germany’s Aerospace 
 Centre DLR</a> and this event was <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/147875">picked 
 up by the European Open Source Observatory</a></li>
 <li>After offering pre-flashed Libreboot Laptops at <a href="https://freie.computer/">freie.computer</a> the local group <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2015/11/27/flashdays-are-coming/">FSFE 
 Zurich now decided to start doing Flashdays</a></li>

 <li>Daniel Pocock reports about <a href="http://danielpocock.com/building-teams-around-sip-and-xmpp-in-debian-and-fedora">team 
 building around SIP and XMPP communication in Debian and Fedora</a>, and 
 Daniel has also written a [quick start to use Blender for video editing](http://danielpocock.com/quick-start-blender-video-editing</li>

 <li>Marcus Möller <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2015/11/04/freed-ora-23-workstation-available/">customised Fedora 23 in a Freed version</a>, which includes linux-libre 
 kernel and Icecat webbrowser. All proprietary firmware has been removed.</li>
 </ul>

 <h2 id="good-free-software-news">Good Free Software News</h2>
 <ul>
 <li>At the <strong>EU</strong> level : the European Parliament calls upon 
 the Commission for the <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20151110-01.en.html">systematic 
 replacement of proprietary software by verifiable Free Software in all 
 the EU institutions</a>. In <strong>Italy</strong>, the <a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500256578/Free-software-gains-ground-in-the-Italian-public-administration">Italian Ministry of Defence is replacing Microsoft Office with 
 LibreOffice</a> on 150,000 PCs in what is Europe’s second largest 
 LibreOffice implementation. Meanwhile, the second most important industrial 
 city in Southern Italy, <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/146281">Bari, 
 is about to complete its transition to LibreOffice</a> and the ODF. At 
 the same time in <strong>Switzerland</strong>, the <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/bern-council-demands-transition-open-source">council 
 of Bern ordered the IT department to end its dependence on proprietary 
 software</a>, and replace proprietary software by Free Software solutions.
 The same example was followed in <strong>Denmark</strong> where the city of Aarhus <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/denmark%E2%80%99s-aarhus-insists-open-it-standards">is requiring the use of open IT standards for all of its future IT projects</a> 
 in order to rid itself of IT vendor lock-in. Lastly, recent study in 
 <strong>France</strong> confirmed that <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/147785">country's administration is still a large enabler of Free Software in France</a>. 
 According to the study, the Free Software market is growing on a linear trend and will grow by 9% annually until 2020.</li>

 </ul>
 <p>This was the final newsletter in 2015. Thank you very much for your 
 attention. You will receive the next newsletter in the beginning of 
 February 2016.</p>

 <p>BTW: We are still experimenting with new ways and formats for our 
 newsletter. Please feel free to give us your feedback at 
 fellowship@fsfeurope.org.</p>

 <p>Happy Christmas and a Happy GNU-year!</p>
 <p>Your editors Polina Malaja and Erik Albers <a href="/index.html">FSFE</a></p>
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