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<h1>FSFE Newsletter - February 2012</h1>
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<h2>Reclaim your smartphone!</h2>
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<p>Smartphones are small computers that we carry around all the time. Unfortunately, most
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smartphones are not controlled by us, the users, but by the manufacturers and the
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operators. Even Android phones are being shipped with non-free software and proprietary
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add-ons that usually do not work in the full interest of us. Software updates
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will only keep to be available if the manufacturer still has a commercial
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interest in your device. The applications available from the official market
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are most of the time non-free. Nobody is allowed to study how they work and
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what they really do on your phone. Sometimes they do not work exactly as you
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want, but sometimes they might even contain malicious features.</p>
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<p>Running only Free Software on your device puts <strong>you</strong> in full
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control. Even though you might not be able to directly exercise all of your
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freedoms, you will benefit from a vibrant community that can do it together.</p>
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<p>FSFE <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Android">is collecting information</a> about running an Android system as free as possible. We try
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to coordinate the different efforts, but we need your help with it. Join our
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mailing list, update the wiki and thereby enable more people to use Free
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Software on their everyday computers.</p>
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<h2>Lesson 1: Learn how to programme!</h2>
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<p>Our <a href="/freesoftware/education/education.html">education team</a> has done
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2012/01/edu-team-2011-summary/">solid work
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in 2011</a>, including our <a href="/activities/nledu/nledu.html">NL edu
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campaign</a>. Free Software permits children to learn how software works and
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thus to understand the concepts underlying a whole category or type of
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software. They are then prepared to adapt to any environment, which is a key skill
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nowadays. In addition, we believe that the possibility to tinker does motivate children easily to learn
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autonomously. Finally, Free Software allows them to understand computers in a more depth.</p>
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<p>Sam Tuke was <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=255">asked by the BBC
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to comment</a> about suggestions that the British Government may add basic
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programming skills to the national curriculum, and whether this would have a
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political impact on society in terms of how we interact with technology. The
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education team will have a brief meeting at the upcoming FOSDEM, at the 4th
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and 5th of February. You are welcome to join.</p>
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<h2>Already plans for 28th of March?</h2>
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<p>Open Standards make it easier for individuals, companies and the public
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administration to switch to Free Software. The goal of the <a
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href="http://documentfreedom.org">Document Freedom Day</a> is to raise
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awareness for Open Standards so people have more freedom. This year your
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editor is in charge of DFD and he will bluntly promote it in this and upcoming
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newsletters. At the moment, please save the date 28th of March, <a
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href="/news/2012/news-20120110-02.html">send our
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country teams nominations for the Document Freedom Award</a>, help us to
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gather information for our <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=881">Standards
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Quartet</a>, find <a href="/news/2012/news-20120130-01.html">street artists
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to promote the idea of Open Standards</a>, and <a
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href="http://documentfreedom.org/contact.html">contact the DFD team</a> if
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you want to <a
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href="http://documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120127-01.html">become a
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supporting organisation</a>.</p>
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<h2>Something completely different</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Time to vote: The <a href="/news/2012/news-20120131-01.html">2012
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Fellowship election</a> is running until the end of February. As Fellow you
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can decide between <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipElection_2012">Albert Dengg, Gert
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Seidl, and Nikos Roussos</a>. On 22nd February we plan to have a chat
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meeting with the candidates.</li>
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<li>Slovak Copyright Act: <a href="/about/jobs/internship.html">FSFE
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intern</a> Martin Husovec <a
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href="/news/2012/news-20120110-01.html">sent letters to four
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members of Slovak Parliament</a> that proposed a highly awaited amendment,
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but later faced its dismissal due to preliminary elections.</li>
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<li>Heiki Ojasild joined the Free Software Foundation Europe in 2011,
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undertaking the task of translating fsfe.org into Estonian. He is currently
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developing an XChat add-on, a website for free SVG and JavaScript games, and
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asked <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2012/01/10/estonian-political-landscape-1-lauri-luik-from-estonian-reform-party-answers-our-questions/">Estonian
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politicians questions about Free Software</a>. Read more in <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=521">this month's
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Fellowship interview</a> about copyright, Digital Restrictions Management,
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kopimism, and activism.</li>
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<li>Richard Stallman's new article <a
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href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/government-free-software.html">"Measures
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Governments Can Use to Promote Free Software"</a> is out.</li>
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<li>Two new editions of the <a href="/news/2012/news-20120126-01.html">legal
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news</a> cover the US Supreme Court decision on copyright
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extension, patent inflation, the <a
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href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/mpl-2.0-release">release of the
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Mozilla Public License version 2.0</a>
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which is GNU GPL-compatible, and more.</li>
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<li>During the January 18th protest against SOPA, we blacked out our
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website joining other organisations to protect the Internet.</li>
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<li>Here a selection from the <a href="https://planet.fsfe.org">Fellowship
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planet aggregation</a>:
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<ul>
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<li>The new FSFE Fellowship blog theme — a name, a first version. <a href="
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https://blogs.fsfe.org/marklindhout/2012/01/the-fsfe-blog-theme-%E2%80%94-a-name-a-first-version/">Presenting:
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Pome 1.0</a>.</li>
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<li>Interested why Thomas Koch suggests you should <a
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href="http://koch.ro/blog/index.php?/archives/154-Stop-coding-for-money.html">stop
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coding for money</a>?</li>
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<li>You should demand Free Software in a business context because it <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/jelle/2012/01/09/demanding-free-software-in-a-business-context/">makes
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sense and saves a lot of money</a>, says Jelle Hermsen.</li>
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<li><a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=167">Fellow No1
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tells us</a> how much 57 persons in Randa can eat while hacking on Free
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Software</li>
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<li>What is the "web trap"? <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2012/01/04/the-web-trap/">Heiki
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Ojasild argued</a> to treat HTML, SVG and CSS as tools that should be as
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accessible to everyone as software in general should be.</li>
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<li>And a nice hardware hack: <a
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href="http://fl0rian.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/computer-startup-aid-using-a-lego-train/">Computer
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startup aid using a LEGO train</a>.</li>
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</ul></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Get active: More love reports instead of bug reports!</h2>
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<p>Let us admit it, the Free Software community is often very critical. We
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write bug reports, tell others how they can improve the software, ask them for
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new features, and to not spare with criticism. Sometimes we forget to say
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"thank you, for all your work". As in the last years, we want to change this,
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at least for one day. So on Tuesday the 14th of February we will celebrate the
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href="http://ilovefs.org">"I love Free Software" - Day</a>.</p>
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<p>Get active, buy your favourite developer a drink or give them a hug (ask for
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permission first), write an <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2012/01/18/why-i-love-free-and-open-source-software/">e-mail/letter
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expressing your feelings</a>, create nice pictures, donate to a Free Software
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initiative, use another <a
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href="/activities/ilovefs/index.html">of our suggestions</a> or be
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create yourself to show how you appreciate people, working hard to enlarge or
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defend our freedom. Beside that help us to promote the activity with <a
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href="/activities/ilovefs/index.html">our banners</a>, by e-mail,
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(micro)blog or in your (distributed?) social networks.</p>
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<p>New this year is a <a
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href="/activities/ilovefs/index.html">whole day
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event in the Unperfekthaus in Essen (Germany)</a> and that all our Fellows
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automatically get an login@ilovefs.org e-mail alias.</p>
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<p>Thanks to all the <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">Fellows</a> and
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<a href="/donate/thankgnus.html">donors</a> who enable our work,<br/>
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<a href="/about/people/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="/index.html">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="/about/contact.html#community">Free Software Discussions</a> </p>
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