diff --git a/news/2014/news-20140221-01.en.xhtml b/news/2014/news-20140221-01.en.xhtml index d474aa1c20..1e0808f587 100644 --- a/news/2014/news-20140221-01.en.xhtml +++ b/news/2014/news-20140221-01.en.xhtml @@ -78,8 +78,10 @@ of people: the average computer users, artists, journalists, companies, and among them also politicians. This year the parliamentary group of the Green party in Germany wrote how important Free Software is in times of global surveillance and in -general. And as a small extra they also sent a nice picture, which -deserves much respect considering the stressful schedule of politicians.

+general. And as a small extra they also sent a picture expressing their +appreciation for the Free Software community, among them Katrin +Göring-Eckardt, Toni Hofreiter, Britta Haßelmann, Claudia Roth, Jan Phillip +Albrecht, Hans-Christian Stöbele, and Konstantin von Notz.

Media coverage

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The "I love Free Software Day" was also topic in several online news. For +example, the campaign was promoted in +Linux-Journalist, Unwatched, Linux-Community, heise.de, Linux-Magazin, ICT News, Dropnodes Magazin, and Netzpolitik.

More blog posts

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Beside the high participation in microblogs we also noticed a lot of blog +posts this year. Below you can find a selection of articles you should have a +look at:

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Many authors dedicated their post to particular projects or developers. +Andreas Färber from SUSE +thanked the QEMU developers, +Anatolij Zelenin +wrote a small library for Android containing some information about #ilovefs, +Isabel +says thank you to the contributors to Apache, Debian, Eclipse, Elasticsearch, +Linux, ZeroMQ, any all other useful Free Software projects, +Max Mehl +presented ZNC, an IRC bouncer with lots of functionalities, +Erik Albers +thanked the developers of OsmAnd for making the planning of his bicycle tours +so much easier, +Karsten Gerloff +said thank you to wget, a small, fast and efficient tool for downloading used +also by whistleblowers. +Guido Arnold +appreciates org-mode for making his planning process much more easier, whereas +Jens Lechtenbörger +lists a lot of usefull Free Software apps for his new Fairphone which respect +his privacy and +Tobias Platen +also appreciates the release of the Fairphone kernel under GPL although there +are a lot of other things to improve. +Matthias Kirschner +dedicated his post to the developers to his favourite music player programs, +fedoraFTW + highlights the importance of freedom for all people working on the fedora OS, +Hugo Roy + explains why he probably will never use another email client than mutt, +Konstantin and Paul + from Fairnopoly present Blender, zsh, vim, and Tmux as essential parts of + their work, +Martin Ingenhoven + thanks among others Gnome, ufraw, pinta, digikam, XFCE, and GIMP for their + work. +Mirco Lang + shows his readers why simple text adventures like "robot finds kitten" are + great and +Sven Lamprecht + dedicates his #ilovefs post to darktable, kdenlive, and ArchLinux.

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There were also a lot of articles about Free Software and its advantages in +general, for example from +Kevin Keijzer + who helps other people by building computers from old hardware which only +runs with Free Software or from +Siegrid + who appreciates especially the independence gained by the usage of Free +Software. +Christoph Langner + loves the political and democratical aspect of Free Software whereas +Oskar Welzl + used the #ilovefs day for telling interested co-workers about the importance of +Free Software. The +Free Software Foundation + offers a long list of software they use on a regular basis for their tasks and +totschka + likes the philosphy of community and freedom. +Benjamin + gains a lot of knowledge and fun by using Free Software and +Steve Woods + would simply be lost without the Free Software he uses every day.

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There were also a lot of posts in other languages, for example from +Databiblioteket +, Emilio Gil +, Geekstorming +, HUP +, Planeta Diego +, Victorhck in the free world +, Association of Greek Users and Friends of FS / OSS +, or Carsten Agger +