The Free Software community celebrated the worldwide Software Freedom Day, -held annually the third Saturday in September, with diverse events and -meetings.
- -Our local Fellowship -group in -Manchester met to test and discuss "what alternative is there to -Skype?". They recorded 25 sets of results which were sumed up - and and -published for public use.. They concluded that either Mumble or SIP -(with all callers on the same server and using the same client) can be -an appropiate Free Software -Skype alternative.
- -Free Software alternatives were what the Vienna Fellowship Group were -offering at an information booth they organized on the ocassion of that day. -Dressed with a hoodie with the logo "Independent through free software – -fsfe.org", they were informing the passers about Free Sotware benefits and -giving away The Free Software community celebrated the worldwide Software Freedom Day, held annually +the third Saturday in September, with diverse events and meetings. Our local Fellowship group in + Manchester met to test and discuss what alternative there is to Skype. +They did extensive testing and published the results.
+ +Dressed with hoodies with the slogan "Independent through free software" our +Vienna Fellowship group had an +information booth giving away - 300 Live CDs from different free operating systems and about 1000 - leaflets.
- -At Freedom Kosova 2012, that took place during the SFD weekend, Erik Albers -gave a talk, in front of a hundred of students . At +Freedom Kosova 2012, Erik Albers - about the importance of Free Software in education and the need to -support it. The previous day, he also helped to free some Androids during a -workshop.
- -More devices were liberated during the Free Your Android workshop that -Torsten Grote organized during the celebration of the Software Freedom Day at -BeLUG's headquarters. Meanwhile in Cologne a day event with lectures, -that congregated Free Sotware advocaters from different generations, was -held.
- - + gave a talk and the day before he helped to free some Android phones. +More devices were liberated + during the Free Your Android workshop that Torsten Grote organised during +SFD in Berlin. And meanwhile in Cologne there was a gathering with lectures about + software freedom.Meanwhile the -European Parliament has postponed the debate about the Unitary Patent , + href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/17/ep-committee-postpones-discussion-of-unitary-patent/">the + European Parliament has postponed the debate about the Unitary Patent
, which gives us more time to work on pointing out the several -serious problems, [incoherences] and hazards of the proposal to the Legal + href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/09/04/software-patents-in-europe-game-on/">several + serious problems, incoherences and hazards of the proposal to the Legal Affairs Commitee.Our president, Karsten Gerloff, wrote a series of articles about software
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why the general-purpose computer is worth fighting for.
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