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<title>FSFE Newsletter - January 2011</title>
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<h1>FSFE Newsletter - January 2011</h1>
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<h2>Robots, Football, and Education</h2>
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<p>Their mission is to bring Free Software into schools
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and universities. Their new task is to gather information about <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Education#stakeholders">their
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stakeholders</a>, and <a href="/about/printable/printable.html">create
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targeted leaflets</a>. And I am sure the favourite colour of the
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coordinators <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/riepernet/">Thomas
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Jensch</a> and <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido">Guido Arnold</a>
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is <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">Fellowship</a> green. That's <a
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href="/freesoftware/education/education.html">our education team</a>.</p>
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<p>Can robots help with that? We think they can. Our education team had
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<a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2010/12/freedroidz-workshop-with-tarent/">a
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first meeting</a> to get trained in giving programming workshops using
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freedroidz robots. We want to teach pupils how to program, show them
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that it's good to share and co-operate, and explain Free Software to
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their teachers, parents, and
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politicians.</p>
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<p>And what about football? Regular readers might remember that Guido
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Arnold is running a parallel tournament to the football championship in
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Europe 2012 where the discipline is Free Software usage in government.
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So every time there is a football match, Guido starts a Free Software
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match between them, while a huge part is of course the government's
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education policy. Read <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/category/euro2012/">Guido's blog</a>
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to find out why Russia is a hot candidate for the European champion, but
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why we need more information on Eastern European countries.</p>
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<h2>Public institutions - hares or snails?</h2>
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<p>Already, 203 public institutions have removed advertisements for
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proprietary PDF readers from their websites. Particularly outstanding
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were the responses from Croatia, Russia and Slovenia. In Croatia all
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except one reported institution deleted the advertisement. Half of those
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contacted in Russia and Slovenia fulfilled FSFE's request. Amongst the
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public institutions are ministries, parliaments, law enforcement
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agencies, local governments, and other administrations.</p>
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<p>With <a href="/activities/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.html">our
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PDFreaders campaign</a> we will continue to follow-up with the <a
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href="/activities/pdfreaders/buglist.html">reported institutions</a>
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and you can still encourage friends <a
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href="/activities/pdfreaders/petition.html">to sign the corresponding
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petition</a>.</p>
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<h2>Something completely different</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>You think your old C64 was slow? Working on the United Nations
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level will change your mind. Karsten Gerloff wrote an article about
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FSFE's UN work: <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/?p=434">"WIPO
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CDIP/6: Moving the glacier"</a>.</li>
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<li>Open Standards in Europe: The European Commission published the
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new version of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF). We at
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FSFE have been <a href="/freesoftware/standards/eifv2.html">working on this
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document</a> for a long time. Read <a
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href="/news/2010/news-20101216-01.html">our press
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release</a> and an <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2010/12/17/assessing-the-new-european-interoperability-framework/">
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article by Karsten assessing the new EIF</a>. </li>
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<li>Current developments at Nokia, the transformative power of Free
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Software, and the potential dangers posed by the use of Free Software
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by large organisations. Those are the topics of the <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=198">current
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Fellowship interview with Alexander Kahl</a>, Fedora packager, Lisp,
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JavaScript and
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Perl programmer, and active FSFE volunteer.</li>
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<li>While Torsten Grote <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=698">gave
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a radio interview (German)</a> about risks of cloud computing and
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chances of distributed Free Software, Björn Schiessle <a
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href="http://blog.schiessle.org/2010/12/19/a-new-toy-arrived/">writes
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about how he wants to install</a> distributed software at home.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Get active: Help with Euro 2012 championship</h2>
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<p>Help us gathering information about government's Free Software usage.
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This information helps us to evaluate the current situation and of
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course it will decide who will be the European Free Software champion in
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2012. <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Free_Software_usage_in_public_administration">Add
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the information on our website</a> before March 25 and it will
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influence the next matches, add information continuously and it will
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help Free Software activists all over the world.</p>
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<p>Happy GNU Year,<br/>
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<a href="/about/people/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="/">FSFE</a></p>
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<p>-- <br />
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<a href="/index.html">Free Software Foundation Europe</a><br />
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<a href="/news/news.rss">FSFE News</a><br />
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<a href="/events/events.rss">Upcoming FSFE Events</a><br />
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<a href="https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml">Fellowship Blog Aggregation</a><br />
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<a href="/contact/community.html">Free Software Discussions</a> </p>
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