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<h1 class="p-name">FSFE Newsletter – June 2015</h1>
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<h2>For whom the bell tolls?</h2>
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<p>
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On the first Wednesday of May, a coalition of digital liberties
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organizations, including FSFE, and a multitude of individual activists
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held the
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<a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm">International Day Against DRM</a> 2015
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to raise awareness about digital restrictions management, a pervasive
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and deeply entrenched mechanism designed to plunder the citizenry of
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the concept of ownership.
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</p>
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<p>
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Along with numerous other defenders of consumer rights and digital
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liberties we published
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<a href="/news/2015/news-20150506-01.html">a statement asking
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legislators to guarantee the traditional right to tinker</a> with our
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property. This was necessitated by both the prior steady erosion of the
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rights to repair and modify our belongings and the renewed push by
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various manufacturing companies, like
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<a href="http://copyright.gov/1201/2015/comments-032715/class%2021/John_Deere_Class21_1201_2014.pdf">John Deere</a>, one of the largest
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manufacturers of agricultural equipment, to deny their customers the
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right to modify their own property in whatever way the customers wish,
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using bad laws like the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which
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forbid consumers to circumvent or remove certain defects from their
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purchases.
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</p>
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<h2>FSFE is looking for a systems architect</h2>
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<p>
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Due to sustained growth we have experienced in the last few years, our
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infrastructure has developed into a state where it is no longer able to
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fulfil our needs. Therefore, we are
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<a href="/news/2015/news-20150527-01.html">looking for a systems architect</a>
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to help us document our existing infrastructure dependencies, develop
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this into a maintainable architecture, and help our system administrators
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migrate our services to the new architecture.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you have a good grasp of Free Software, creating technical
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documentation, virtualization, MTAs, database servers, and web services
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and you wish to help us ensure scalability and continued availability
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of both Fellowship services and our internal tools, then
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you are welcome to apply by contacting our Executive Director,
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Jonas Öberg. This is your chance
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to gain a deeper understanding of the technical challenges faced by our
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volunteers and staff, and help us overcome these hurdles!
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</p>
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<h2>Something completely different</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>
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Guido Arnold, FSFE's edu-team coordinator, held a keynote at DORS/CLUC
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in Zagreb about Free Software adoption in education throughout Europe
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and wrote <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2015/06/free-software-in-education-keynote-at-dorscluc/">a short post about it</a>.
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</li>
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<li>
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Our President Karsten Gerloff has written a blog post explaining
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2015/06/01/facebook-offers-to-send-you-encrypted-emails-this-wont-help-you/">why Facebook's new option to
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encrypt e-mail notifications using the OpenPGP standard is useless</a>.
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The bottom line is that on Facebook you are the product and the new
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“feature” will neither guard your data from overreaching law
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enforcement nor advertisers willing to pay.
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</li>
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<li>
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Our <a href="/about/associates/associates.html">associate</a>
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<a href="https://ceata.org/">Fundaţia Ceata</a> is organizing a
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conference called <a href="http://coliberator.ro/2015/">Coliberator '15</a>
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from June 6th to 7th in Bucharest, Romania. The conference has
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featured our president Karsten Gerloff and the founder of the Free
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Software movement, Richard M. Stallman, as keynote speakers during
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previous editions.
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</li>
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<li>From the planet aggregation:</li>
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<ul>
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<li>
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Our Fellow Kevin Keijzer writes about
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2015/05/08/flashing-coreboot-on-a-t60-with-a-raspberry-pi/">liberating a Thinkpad T60p</a>
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for another Fellow, André, who
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2015/05/29/how-i-got-a-thinkpad-t60p-coreboot-gnu-linux-libre-trisquel-laptop/">reviews the experience</a>.
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</li>
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<li>
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Daniel Pocock is showing people how to
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use Blender for video editing.
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</li>
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<li>
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Max Mehl, a former intern, is writing about
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<a href="http://blog.mehl.mx/2015/technology-and-free-software-in-tz/">his current volunteering experience in Africa</a>.
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Max offers a rather strange, but eye-opening perspective on the way
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Tanzanians perceive technology.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<h2>Get active: call on legislators to oppose TTIP, CETA</h2>
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<p>
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This newsletter started with DRM; it will also end with DRM:
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unscrupulous actors are attempting to use secretly negotiated trade
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agreements TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) and
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CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) to make it extremely
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difficult for future governments to get rid of current bans on
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circumventing digital restrictions mechanisms. Instead, they would force
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governments to impose ever-harsher penalties on anyone who dares to
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tinker with their property.
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</p>
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<p>
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We at FSFE would rather avoid that future. Hence, we are asking you to
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contact your elected representatives both in the European parliament and
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various legislative bodies throughout Europe and let them know that you
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wish European laws to remain the province of European legislators. Ask
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them to oppose
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/lucile.falg/2014/08/11/ttip-policy-laundering-a-few-reasons-for-free-software-communities-to-get-angry/">secretly negotiated</a>
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treaties; ask them to demand transparency and openness; and, most
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importantly, do it now and tell your legislators about the things you
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like to do with your possessions.
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</p>
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<p>
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It would also be nice if you could tell them what you would be unable
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to do if those secretive trade agreements were ratified, but you cannot:
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we do not know the current state of the negotiations. This is quite
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annoying, but despair not: most of our elected representatives are also
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in the dark, and they are unlikely to enjoy it. This offers us a unique
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opportunity to tune them against the deals before they are finalized
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and presented for ratification: let us get our representatives to
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oppose these deals while they can make a decision based on democratic
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principles and need not yet decide whether the economic perks outweigh
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the proposed harm to a free society.
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</p>
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<p>
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Thanks to all the <a href="/contribute/contribute.html">volunteers</a>,
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<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
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work, <br/>
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<a href="/about/people/repentinus">Heiki Lõhmus</a>,
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<a href="/index.html">FSFE</a>
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