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<h1 class="p-name">FSFE Newsletter – July 2014</h1> |
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<h2>Privacy café: e-mail encryption as the main course!</h2> |
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<p>Imagine you take some friends to a café, but instead of hot and cold |
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beverages, the menu features information on measures of ensuring digital |
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privacy. Like "https everywhere" as a starter, "GnuPG e-mail encryption" for |
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the main course, and "tosdr.org" (information about terms of services) as |
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dessert. Such cafés already exist in the Netherlands. At the German speaking |
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FSFE meeting in Essen, Felix Stegerman, our Deputy Coordinator Netherlands, |
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presented his plans to set up more privacy cafés and why he thinks it is the |
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right time and a good opportunity for Free Software to do so in other places as |
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well.</p> |
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<p>The reason is that most of the people that go to a privacy café are already |
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aware of issues around privacy and freedom. But it gives local volunteers a |
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good opportunity to talk about Free Software, and the importance of using Free |
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Software for privacy issues. For example, by asking the participants "who |
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controls the software?" Read <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2014/07/01/workshop-on-privacy-and-free-software/">Felix's |
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blog post for more details about the cafés and future plans</a>.</p> |
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<h2>E-mail self-defence goes multilingual</h2> |
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<p>Good information material about encryption and Free Software is crucial for |
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the privacy cafés just mentioned. Fortunately, our sister organisation, the |
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FSF, published <a href="https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/">the e-mail |
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self-defence guide</a> and volunteers translated the guide and the infographic |
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in 6 other languages: English, German, Brazilian Portuguese, French, |
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Russian, Turkish, and Japanese. This guide explains the installation of the |
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necessary programs for e-mail encryption under GNU/Linux, MacOS, and Microsoft |
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Windows as well as the key generation, the web of trust and the usage of those |
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programs. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection, an email |
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account, and about half an hour. For information how you can help to spread |
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information about e-mail self-defence, see this edition's "get |
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active" section.</p> |
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<h2>What to use instead of WhatsApp and Threema?</h2> |
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<p>"How can I encrypt my e-mail" was one of the most common questions we |
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received in the last months. Thanks to the e-mail self-defence guide we now |
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have a good answer. Another questions about encryption and privacy we were |
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asked frequently was: "is there a secure and free WhatsApp alternative?"</p> |
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<p>WhatsApp is a messaging program for mobiles that allows you to send |
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(text) messages free-of-charge. After WhatsApp's recent acquisition by Facebook |
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and in the face of the NSA revelations, many WhatsApp users are looking |
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for secure and trustworthy alternatives.</p> |
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<p>Because this effects so many people, we at the Free Software Foundation |
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Europe would like to be able to promote an alternative that respects your |
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freedom and privacy. Therefore we decided to do some research and to hold a |
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workshop on WhatsApp alternatives during our latest FSFE team meeting in Essen. |
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Hannes Hauswedell and Torsten Grote <a |
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href="http://freedom-blog.net/2014/06/what-to-use-instead-of-whatsapp-and-threema/">summarised |
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the results</a>.</p> |
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<h2>Something completely different</h2> |
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<ul> |
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<li>Local group activities: FSFE had professional outdoor booths at the <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2014/06/11/booth-on-the-vegan-summer-festival-in-vienna-2014/">vegan |
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summer festival in Vienna</a>, as well as <a |
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href="http://www.softmetz.de/2014/06/14/freie-software-offene-standards-und-freie-inhalte-beim-ersten-corso-leopold-2014/">at |
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Corso Leopold in Munich</a>. At the Free Software meeting in Athens FSFE's |
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our local group discussed how to build your own home server. Nikos Roussos |
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documented <a |
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href="http://www.roussos.cc/2014/06/23/fedora-beaglebone-black/">how to setup a |
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home server with Fedora and Beagle Bone Black</a>. Our local group in Frankfurt |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/06/report-from-fellowship-meeting-in-frankfurt-june-4/">focused |
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on crypto topics</a>, and Hugo Roy, coordinator of local group in Paris, <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2014/05/talk-about-the-fsfe-ubuntu-party-2014/">gave |
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a talk at the local Ubuntu party</a>.</li> |
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<li>"Free Software needs a strong community. If we fail to attract everyone |
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willing to work for Free Software, we’re shooting ourselves in the foot." <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/06/four-social-rules-for-a-no-asshole-zone/">wrote |
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Karsten Gerloff in his blog post "Four social rules for a 'No Asshole |
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Zone'"</a>. Our local group coordinators have a similar discussion, and started |
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<a href="https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/CodeOfConduct">with a code of conduct |
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for FSFE's discussions</a>. We are interested in your feedback on the pad.</li> |
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<li>The Free Software community now has 33 supporters in the European |
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Parliament. All of them <a |
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href="/news/2014/news-20140528-01.html">signed the Free |
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Software pact for the European elections</a>, and we are sure there will be |
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times in which we will remind them of the promise they have given, and ask |
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them to support our cause.</li> |
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<li>Our president Karsten Gerloff was <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/30/talking-to-the-church-about-free-software/">delivering |
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a keynote at the European Christian Internet Conference</a>. Afterwards he was |
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asked by a pastor to <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/30/free-software-in-the-church-from-principles-to-practice/">comment |
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on a draft strategy to move the churches in his region towards Free Software, |
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which Karsten did</a>.</li> |
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<li>From 7 to 8 June 2014 Fundația Ceata, an associated organisation of FSFE, |
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organised the second Coliberator conference in Bucharest. At the first edition |
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FSFE president Karsten Gerloff gave the keynote, and at this edition it was the |
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Richard Stallman, president of FSF. The first batch of talks are already |
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published <a href="http://coliberator.ro/">on the conference's |
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website</a>.</li> |
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<li>Guido Arnold provides the <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/06/free-software-in-education-news-may/">news |
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from Free Software in education - May 2014</a>.</li> |
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<li>Public administration: Joinup reports that <a |
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href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/london-complex-proprietary-licences-encourage-open-source">the |
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complexity of proprietary software licences is encouraging the uptake of Free |
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Software in the Greater London Authority</a>, that the <a |
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href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/extremadura-health-care-has-switched-open-source">Extremadura |
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health care has switched to Free Software</a>, and that the German city of <a |
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href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/leipzig-switching-open-source-office-suites">Leipzig |
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already migrated 2792 of the city's 4300 workstations to the Free Software |
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office suites Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice</a>. They expect "that in |
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the first five years the anticipated savings will be swallowed by the exit |
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costs associated with the proprietary software used by the city."</li> |
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<li>From the <a href="https://planet.fsfe.org">planet aggregation</a>:</li> |
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<li>More female speakers at the conference and ATMs running GNU/Linux. Torsten |
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was giving a <a |
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href="http://blog.grobox.de/2014/liberte-seu-android-at-fisl15/">talk about |
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Free Your Android at FISL in Brazil</a>.</li> |
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<li>Under the slogan "your data at the intelligence services" the German |
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Humanistische Union organised a "blog parade", asking organisations to |
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participate with a blog post. Erik Albers wrote a post <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/06/20/verschluesselung-mit-freier-software/">"Protection |
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against surveillance through encryption with Free Software" (in |
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German)</a>.</li> |
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<li>The Randa Meetings, a collection of sprints that make KDE software better |
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needs your help for this year's edition. <a |
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href="http://www.kde.org/fundraisers/randameetings2014/index.php">Mario Fux |
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asks everyone to spread the word, help, donate and/or support |
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them</a>.</li> |
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<li>Hugo Roy lists some <a href="http://hroy.eu/tips/awesome-tools/">"awesome |
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tools" he uses but are little known</a>.</li> |
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<li>Bdale Garbee wrote about <a |
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href="http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/posts/TeleGPS_v1.0.html">TeleGPS, an |
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easy-to-use tracking-only board providing GPS location</a>.</li> |
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<li>Photography: Hannes started to <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2014/07/01/photo-of-the-month-2014-07/">publish |
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a photo of the month</a>, edited with the Free Software Darktable, and Paul |
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Boddie explains how he was <a |
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=784">tuning digiKam’s picture |
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previews</a>.</li> |
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<li>Björn Schießle describes <a |
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href="http://blog.schiessle.org/2014/06/10/combine-claws-mail-with-todo-txt/">how |
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to integrate the todo list software "ToDo.txt" into Claws Mail</a>.</li> |
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<li>Former FSFE employee Sam Tuke explains <a |
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href="http://samtuke.com/2014/06/backup-multiple-email-accounts-automatically-on-linux/">how |
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to backup multiple e-mail accounts automatically on GNU/Linux</a>.</li> |
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<h2>Get active: Spread the e-mail self-defence guide!</h2> |
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<p><a href="https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/">The FSF's e-mail self-defence |
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guide</a> and the corresponding <a |
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href="https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/infographic.html">infographic</a> is |
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good material to explain e-mail encryption to wider audience. For some time now |
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FSFE <a |
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href="/contribute/spreadtheword.html#promo-material">ships |
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Free Software information materials to activists</a>. Beside general |
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information about Free Software, Open Standards, Digital Restrictions |
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Management, or F-Droid, we would like to distribute the infographic in |
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future.</p> |
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<p>Before we print a larger amount and ship it to <a |
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href="/about/localteams.html">our local groups</a> and other activists around |
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Europe, we would like you to test the infographics with friends, family and |
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colleagues. Try to find out if they have problems understanding some parts and |
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<a href="/contact/community.html">use our public discussion lists</a>, so that |
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we--together with our sister organisation--can modify them if necessary.</p> |
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<p>Thanks to all the <a href="/contribute/contribute.html">volunteers</a>, <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">Fellows</a> and |
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<a href="/donate/thankgnus.html">corporate donors</a> who enable our work,<br/> |
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<a href="/about/people/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="/">FSFE</a></p> |
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