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Our movement turned 30!
-It was 30 years ago that Richard Stallman announced the On 27 September 1983 Richard Stallman announced the GNU project. An initiative
that started with a programmer's frustration
over a broken printer driver has changed our society. The idea of
software that everyone can use,
- study, share and improve has proven successful.
+ study, share and improve has proven powerful.
The GNU project has acted as the starting point of a movement that makes
sure we can control technology, and not technology controlling us. Today, Free
@@ -27,24 +27,25 @@ people to adapt the software to their own needs, they invite people to
participate in the development.
FSFE is grateful to Richard Stallman for sparking this epochal change, and
-to everyone who has worked so hard to drive Free Software's progress for three
-decades.
+to everyone who has joined our movement to drive Free Software's progress for
+three decades.
Boost local activities: European Fellowship Coordinators Meeting
-During the last month our Fellowship group in Aarhus/Denmark held a
- talk and the meetings in Frankfurt/Germany
+
For example our local Fellowship groups. During last month our groups in Aarhus hosted a talk
+and the meetings in Frankfurt
are continuing. In Munich/Germany
- we had a public booth during a street festival, during Software Freedom Day Fellows
-informed passers-by about Free Software in Vienna/Austria
-and in Offenburg/Germany, whereas in Munich
+ we had a public booth during a street festival, during Software Freedom
+Day our Fellows informed passers-by about Free Software in Vienna
+and in Offenburg, whereas
+in
- Helsinki/Finland they helped others installing Free Software. Our
-Düsseldorf Fellowship group was very active the last weeks as well: They had a booth at
+ Helsinki they helped others installing Free Software. Our Düsseldorf
+Fellowship group was very active the last weeks as well: They had a booth at
the summer party of the Pirate
Party, and attended the summer party of the Green Party, held a Cryptoparty in
meeting, as well as a
talk by Sam Tuke about Free Your Android.
-From 27-29 September 22 Fellows from FSFE from 10 countries
+
From 27-29 September 22 Fellows of FSFE from 10 countries
gathered in Berlin for the first European Coordinators Meeting. During the
weekend the coordinators got to know each other, presented their work, talked
-about possibilities to promote Free Software, shared good practices, and provided
-valuable feedback about our campaigns. If you are interested in seeing who is
-promoting Free Software on the local level in Fellowship groups have
a look at Lucile's blog entry.
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ promoting Free Software on the local level in Fellowship groups
Technology should be a means to freedom and creativity. Yet governments
- around the world are turning computers and networks into tools of oppression,
+ around the world are turning computers and networks into tools of oppression.
FSFE joined a coalition of more
than 265 organisations which launched a list of 13 International
Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communication
@@ -91,25 +92,28 @@ promoting Free Software on the local level in Fellowship groups
new edition of the Free Software in education news for August.
- FSFE wrote a letter to the
- German Federal Network Agency (German). Together with Mirko Vogt from
- OpenWrt we argued about the importance of having the freedom to use every
- router you want to have for your internet access.
+ Together with Mirko Vogt from OpenWrt FSFE wrote a letter to the German
+ Federal Network Agency (German). We argued about the importance of
+ having the freedom to use every router you want to have for your internet
+ access.
- CERN has updated its Open Hardware
- License to version 1.2.
+ CERN, which is publishing a lot of hardware design documentation, has updated its Open Hardware License to
+ version 1.2.
To celebrate GNU's 30th anniversary, FSF suggested 30 software freedom actions
- you can take in a month. It was meant for September, but can of course be
- repeated anytime.
+ href="https://www.gnu.org/gnu30/gnu-a-day">software freedom actions for
+ each day during September. Of course you can repeat that anytime you
+ want.
Public administration: the French
Gendarmerie now maintains 37,000 GNU/Linux desktops, and after the
- planned switch next summer it will be 72,000. Officials say they are able to lower
- the total cost of operation by 40% compared to the proprietary solution. But
- the savings are just one point, the other is more vendor independence.
+ planned switch next summer it will be 72,000. Officials say they are able to
+ lower the total cost of operation by 40% compared to the proprietary
+ solution. But the savings are just one point, the other one is more vendor
+ independence.
From the planet aggregation:
@@ -123,14 +127,6 @@ promoting Free Software on the local level in Fellowship groups You cannot trust
proprietary cryptography, or proprietary software.
- Lucile learnt
- to appreciate regular expressions, and
- highlighted some quotes by Bruce Schneier, including "We’re afraid of
- risk. It's a normal part of life, but we're increasingly unwilling to
- accept it at any level."
-
Mirko Böhm and Paul Adams organised a
seminar about Free Software in economy and society at the German
@@ -138,10 +134,31 @@ promoting Free Software on the local level in Fellowship groups
- Read the description from our Finnish Fellows how to do
- "Dual-booting Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 8 on machines with Restricted
- Boot".
+ Lucile learnt
+ to appreciate regular expressions, and
+ highlighted some quotes by Bruce Schneier, including "We’re afraid of
+ risk. It's a normal part of life, but we're increasingly unwilling to
+ accept it at any level."
+
+ Thomas Løcke asks
+ if we want to live in a world where shadow agencies run amok and
+ where our hard-earned taxes are being used to fund leashes for our necks
+ and whips for our backs?
+
+ Our Munich Fellowship coordinator Christian Kalkhoff explains
+ why he finally quit facebook (German) after they changed their terms
+ of services.
+
+ On a technical level: if you have to dual boot GNU/Linux and Windows 8
+ on a machine with restricted
+ boot read the
+ description from our Finnish Fellows.
If you used GnuCash or HomeBank before for your finances, Daniel Pocok
@@ -159,22 +176,11 @@ promoting Free Software on the local level in Fellowship groups Guido Günther is
- monitoring a heating system powered by Free Software.
+ monitoring a heating system powered by Free Software, and
Henri Bergius was
flying a quadrocopter with NoFlo.
- Thomas Løcke asks
- if we want to live in a world where shadow agencies run amok and
- where our hard-earned taxes are being used to fund leashes for our necks
- and whips for our backs?
-
- Our Munich Fellowship coordinator Christian Kalkhoff explains
- why he finally quit facebook (German) after they changed their terms
- of services.
-
After many years Matija's laptop broke. Read
how he changed his distribution after a decade and the good feeling
@@ -182,31 +188,30 @@ promoting Free Software on the local level in Fellowship groups Finally he is
- discussing if copyright, patents (and state-given monopolies in general)
+ discussing if copyright, patents and state-given monopolies in general
are natural.
-Get active: Talk to some friends about GNU!
+Get active: Talk to some friends about how it started!
-As you read on the first paragraph, our beloved operating system GNU turned 30 years old
-since it's first announcement.
-Many people mistakenly think of this
-30th anniversary only as a success in a technical way but it's even more: GNU and
-the philosophy behind it is a social
-revolution as well.
+As you read on the first paragraph it is 30 years since Richard Stallman
+ announced to start with the GNU operating system. Many people mistakenly
+think of this
+ 30th anniversary only as a success in a technical way but it is more: GNU
+and the philosophy behind it is a social revolution as well.
-We think that more people should know about the importance and uniqueness of the development
+
More people should know about the importance and uniqueness of the development
GNU has started. So we ask you to talk with your friends, acquaintances and colleagues about
the history and
philosophy of GNU project and to reflect
about which positive side effect of GNU's invention you personally appreciate the most.
Please share your experiences with us, for example by writing a blog post
-about the talk with the people you spoke with. If you are interested in more information about Free Software
-and it's evolution, get the book "Free as in Freedom".
+about the talk with the people you spoke with or sharing your experiences on our public mailing lists.
Thanks to all the Fellows and