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<title>FSFE Newsletter - August 2009</title>
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<h1>FSFE Newsletter - August 2009</h1>
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<p>August traditionally is a month with a lower level of activity due to
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holidays. Still, a lot of things happened under FSFE's and the
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Fellowship's roofs.</p>
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<p>Fellowship groups met in Zurich and Stuttgart, other Fellows and
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volunteers manned a booth at the FrOSCon, our website now benefits from
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an improved contact page, Karsten Gerloff commented on the ruling about
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software patent infringement against Microsoft, and Thomas Jensch took
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on the role of coordinator for our edu-team.</p>
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<p align="right"><a href="mailto:poderi@fsfe.org">Giacomo Poderi</a></p>
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<h3>Table of Contents</h3>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="#1" name="TOC1">Fellowship meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, 26 August</a></li>
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<li><a href="#2" name="TOC2">4th FrOSCon in St. Augustin, Germany, 22-23 August</a></li>
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<li><a href="#3" name="TOC3">Software patent infringed: Microsoft barred from selling Word</a></li>
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<li><a href="#4" name="TOC4">New overview on our community contacts</a></li>
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<li><a href="#5" name="TOC5">Fellowship meeting and KDE 4.3 release party in Stuttgart, Germany, 01 August</a></li>
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<strong>In the spotlight</strong>
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<li><a href="#6" name="TOC6">Thomas Jensch takes on coordination for FSFE's edu-team</a></li>
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<strong>It happened in the past</strong>
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<li><a href="#7" name="TOC7">Karsten Gerloff at the ATTAC Germany summer academy</a></li>
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<strong>Upcoming events</strong>
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<li><a href="#8" name="TOC8">Fellowship's booth at the Braderie de Lille, France, 05-06 September</a></li>
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</ol>
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<p></p>
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<h3><a name="1"/>Fellowship meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, 26 August</h3>
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<p>On 26 August the Fellowship group of Zurich met for their traditional
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Free Software summer barbecue. About 13 Fellows and other interested
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people participated. Christian Holz, FSFE's Executive Director, also
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joined them meeting to discuss our potential participation in
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OpenExpo, the consolidation of the Swiss Fellowship group, and the
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philosophical differences between Free and proprietary Software.</p>
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<li><a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Zuerich">https://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Zuerich</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="2"/>4th FrOSCon in St. Augustin, Germany, 22-23 August</h3>
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<p>We participated with a lively and highly populated booth at the 4th
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FrOSCon in St. Augustin, Germany. Ten of our Fellows and volunteers were
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present at the booth during the two days event to explain our work and
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our projects. As a result new people will join the Fellowship. Matthias
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Kirschner, Fellowship coordinator, and Michael Kesper, our team member,
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were also interviewed by a local radio station. Michael wrote a short
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post on his blog with a couple of pictures taken at FrOSCon.</p>
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<li><a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mkesper/?p=44">https://blogs.fsfe.org/mkesper/?p=44</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Froscon-2009">https://wiki.fsfe.org/Froscon-2009</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="3"/>Software patent infringed: Microsoft barred from selling Word</h3>
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<p>On Tuesday 11 August, Microsoft received an injunction for patent
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infringement concerning an XML-related patent held by Canadian XML
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specialist i4i. The injunction prevents Microsoft from selling the
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2003 and 2007 versions of Word in the United States and requires the
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company to pay US$ 290 million in damages. Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's
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president, commented the news on his blog and focused on how damaging
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software patents can be even for the biggest corporation.</p>
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<li><a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/?p=251">https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/?p=251</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="4"/>New overview on our community contacts</h3>
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<p>After some redesign work, our contact page is now available with a new
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section providing a better overview of our Community contacts. We
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hope that these improvements will make it easier for people get in
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touch with the right groups and to start becoming involved in our
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community of Free Software supporters.</p>
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<li><a href="/about/contact.html#community">https://fsfe.org/about/contact.html#community</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="5"/>Fellowship meeting and KDE 4.3 release party in Stuttgart, Germany, 01 August</h3>
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<p>The Fellowship group in Stuttgart gathered together with some KDE people
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to celebrate the release of KDE 4.3. The meeting started at 19:00 on
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1 August and went on until midnight with about ten people discussing
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about the new improvements of KDE and Free Software in general.
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There was also space for a small tournament of Ksquares played on the
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touch screen of a tablet PC.</p>
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<li><a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Stuttgart">https://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Stuttgart</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gladhorn/2009/08/08/taking-a-walk/">https://blogs.fsfe.org/gladhorn/2009/08/08/taking-a-walk/</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>In the spotlight</h2>
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<h3><a name="6"/>Thomas Jensch takes on coordination for FSFE's edu-team</h3>
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<p>FSFE's Education project aims at furthering Free Software in all
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education related activities and institutions, such as kindergartens,
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schools and universities. In recent years the project had been
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inactive due to lack of a coordinator and workforce. Now, thanks
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to Thomas Jensch, our current intern in Zurich, we will be able to
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revive this important project.</p>
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<p>Thomas accepted the role of coordinator for the edu-team as a part of
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his internship and he is already working to reorganise the activities of
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the project. Thomas also agreed to continue coordinating the team
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after his intership ends in November.</p>
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<p>To receive information about the progresses and news of the edu-team, it
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is possible to register to the edu-eu@gnu.org mailing list, to get
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in contact with the team you can send an e-mail
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to <a href="mailto:edu-team@lists.fsfe.org">edu-team < AT > fsfeurope < DOT > org</a></p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/news/2009/news-20090831-01.html">https://fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20090831-01.html</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>Relevant links:</p>
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<li><a href="/freesoftware/education/education.html">https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/education/education.html</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Education">https://wiki.fsfe.org/Education</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-eu/">http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-eu/</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>It happened in the past</h2>
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<h3><a name="7"/>Karsten Gerloff at the ATTAC Germany summer academy</h3>
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<p>In August 2005, Karsten Gerloff, now FSFE's president, was invited to
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give a speech at ATTAC Germany's summer academy in Goettingen about
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the developments within the World Intellectual Property Organisation
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(WIPO) and the A2K (Access To Knowledge) Treaty. At that time, Karsten
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had just finished his internship with FSFE.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/press-release/2005q3/000115.html">Press Release</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Upcoming events</h2>
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<h3><a name="8"/>Fellowship's booth at the Braderie de Lille, France, 05-06 September</h3>
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<p>The Fellowship will take part with a booth to the "Braderie de Lille"
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(Lille's flea market) in Lille, France. FSFE and, in particular, the
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Fellowship booth, will get a lot of visibility, since millions of
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people from different nations take a walk on Lille's streets during
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the event. The booth will be located on Place du Vieux Marché aux
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chevaux. If you would like more information about this event please
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send an e-mail to Benjamin Morant:</p>
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<li><a href="mailto:morant@fsfeurope.org">morant < AT > fsfeurope < DOT > org</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p></p>
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<p>You can find a list of all FSFE newsletters on</p>
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<a href="/news/newsletter.html">https://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html</a>
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<p>You can join the Fellowship and find how to support us on</p>
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<a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">https://my.fsfe.org/donate</a>
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<a href="/contribute/contribute.html">https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.html</a>
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<p>You can order our merchandise at</p>
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<a href="/order/order.html">https://fsfe.org/order/order.html</a>
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