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| <title>FSFE Newsletter - December 2015</title> | |||
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| <body class="newsletter article" microformats="h-entry" id="nl-201512"> | |||
| <h1 class="p-name">FSFE Newsletter - December 2015</h1> | |||
| <div class="e-content"> | |||
| <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 "cloud computing", 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 "non-military clause" 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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