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<h1 class="p-name">FSFE Newsletter - September 2015</h1>
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<h2>FSFE supports users' control over their online data</h2>
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<p>Nowadays we use online services for everything and
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increasingly provide our data to them. However we also lose the control
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of our own data more than ever. Together with other organisations
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<a href="/news/2015/news-20150829-01.html">FSFE supports the
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publication of the User Data Manifesto 2.0</a> which promotes users'
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basic rights to control their data while using online services. According
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to the manifesto, users must control the access to their data, they have
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to know if their data is stored by the online services, and they have to
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be able to freely choose a platform without being forced to vendor lock-in.
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The manifesto is a good starting point for the debate about users' rights
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online, and FSFE looks forward to other organisations joining the effort
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to stand for online services that respect users' fundamental rights.</p>
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<h2>Compulsory routers: Another one bites the dust</h2>
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<p>The router, although often a device covered with dust in some corner
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at home, is an important part of your local network and phone. A lot of
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users in Germany do not own this device, although it stands in their home
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and they pay for its power. At least that is still the case. On August
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12th, the German Federal Ministry of the Economy (BMWi) passed a reworked
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<a href="http://www.bmwi.de/BMWi/Redaktion/PDF/Gesetz/gesetzentwurf-der-bundesregierung-zur-auswahl-und-zum-anschluss-von-telekommunikationsendgeraeten,property=pdf,bereich=bmwi2012,sprache=de,rwb=true.pdf">draft
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bill</a> that would free users from compulsory router lock-in. The draft ensures
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that internet users in Germany can use whatever routers they want to
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connect to the internet.</p>
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<p>The bill now has to be adopted by the Federal Parliament (Bundestag)
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and the Federal Assembly (Bundesrat). So far the comments concerned only
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a small formal ambiguity, but we have to make sure this law passes without
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any negative changes and that it is afterwards implemented. We have a
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<a href="/news/2015/news-20150902-01.html">detailed update</a>
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which also describes how you can help us in Germany at the moment!
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Besides that we <a href="/activities/routers/routers.html">summarised
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the issue</a> and we are
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<a href="/activities/routers/timeline.html">constantly
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updating our timeline</a> so in case this topic comes up in your country,
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you can reuse our arguments.</p>
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<h2>New German Coordinators and dissolving the German association</h2>
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<p><a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/dissolving-our-association/">In his
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blog post your editor outlined</a> the process of streamlining the FSFE
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by dissolving the last remaining country chapter, known as the FSFE Chapter
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Germany e.V. This step was decided last year in November with the goal to
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remove some bureaucratic burdens associated with maintaining a legal
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entity. However as you can read in the article, dissolving an organisation
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is not as easy as it may sound; but we hope to complete this process in
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April of next year.</p>
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<p>FSFE is happy to announce that Max Mehl and Björn Schießle became the
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new coordinators of the German team last month, and from now on will
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hopefully not spend many hours per year dealing with bureaucracy. Both
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have been a part of FSFE for a long time now and have been helping us to
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achieve <a href="/about/mission.html">our goal to empower
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people to control technology</a>. Just recently, Björn wrote
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<a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2015/user-data-manifesto-2-0/">an
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article on the German blog Netzpolitik.org about the User Data Manifesto</a>
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(see above in English), and Max just published an update on compulsory
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routers as mentioned above, along with an
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<a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2015/der-lange-weg-des-routerzwangs-zur-endgeraetefreiheit/">article
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on Netzpolitik.org about it</a>.</p>
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<h2>Something completely different</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Paul Boddie started with the Fellowship interviews again:
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=683">he talked
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with Neil McGovern</a> who is a Fellow of the FSFE from the United Kingdom
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and the current Debian Project Leader.</li>
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<li>Hugo Roy, FSFE's deputy legal coordinator wrote
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<a href="http://www.lemondedudroit.fr/le-monde-du-droit-le-quotidien-des-juristes-daffaires/publications/dossiers/207324-decompilation-dun-logiciel-etat-des-lieux.html">an
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article</a> (in French) about a copyright case between Skype and a French
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software company which decompiled parts of Skype in order to, allegedly,
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build a system interoperable with it. Interestingly enough, the court
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found that company's disclosure of the source code was illegal, but that
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using the code to build a new interoperable program was legal.</li>
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<li>FSFE has a new role in the
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<a href="/news/2015/news-20150817-01.html">Bacula project</a>.
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Over the coming months, the FSFE will wind down its previous role as a
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fiduciary for Bacula, effectively transferring its copyright to Kern.
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However, the FSFE will continue to work with Kern and contributors to
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ensure that Bacula will remain as Free Software, as per our original
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agreement.</li>
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<li>Next month FSFE will have a booth at the "Rotlintstraßenfest" in
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Frankfurt on 19 September and a booth at the "Kieler Open Source
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and Linuxtage" from 18-19 September.</li>
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<li>From the <a href="https://planet.fsfe.org">planet aggregation</a>:</li>
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<ul>
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<li>Nikos Roussos was guided by Open Street Map during his vacations and
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afterwards he spent time to
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<a href="http://www.roussos.cc/2015/08/07/post-vacations-map-editing/">improve
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the Open Street Map</a> with the data he gathered during his trip so
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everybody will benefit from it again.</li>
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<li>Daniel Pocock published the second part of his how-to about "recording live events like a
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pro".</li>
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<li>Paul Boddie <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1000">commented
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on the new Fairphone</a> and wrote about his
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1070">passion</a> for
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microcomputer systems from the 1980s and his experience with PCB design.</li>
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<li>Mario Fux unveils the secret ingredient for the success of the
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=336">"Randa Meetings"</a> --
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the KDE meetings in the Swiss Alps -- which took place for the sixth
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time this year.</li>
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<li>On a more technical side Peter Bubestinger, FSFE's Austrian
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coordinator and technician at the National Video-Archive, wrote about
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pb/?p=158">rescuing videotapes</a>.</li>
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<li>Kevin Keitzer wrote about some SSH magic in
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2015/08/27/web-interface-over-ssh/">"Connecting
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to a server’s web interface over SSH"</a>, and about
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2015/08/31/sdr-on-linux/">how
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to track airplanes and do other interesting things with "software-defined
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radio on GNU/Linux"</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<h2>Get active: translate and improve translations of our mission statement</h2>
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<p>"Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users
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to control technology. Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our
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lives. It is important that this technology empowers rather than restricts
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us. Free Software gives everybody the rights..." That is how FSFE's
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recently updated <a href="/about/mission.html">mission
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statement starts</a>. We hope that it will help us to get more people to
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understand what we are doing. We already have translations into Albanian,
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Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, and Turkish.</p>
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<p>Please help us to <a href="/contribute/translators/translators.html">get
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more translations</a>, and to check the exisiting translations for easy
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readability for everybody.</p>
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<p>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 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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