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<title>FSFE Newsletter - September 2010</title>
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<h1>FSFE Newsletter - September 2010</h1>
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<p>In this edition we are covering Free Software in education,
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distributed Free Software solutions as alternative to centralised services,
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some ways to celebrate what we -- the Free Software community -- already
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achieved, and how you can participate in the European football championship
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even if you are not interested in football.</p>
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<p>A lot of us used August to recharge our batteries. We also supercharged our
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internship team, as Nicolas Jean joined Maëlle Costa and Sam Tuke. Karsten <a
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href="http://www.noticiasdegipuzkoa.com/2010/08/23/economia/el-dinero-que-se-gasta-en-software-libre-se-queda-aqui-y-encima-se-destina-a-desarrollar-tecnologia-de-alto-nivel">gave
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an interview in Noticias de Gipuzcoa (Spanish)</a> where he talks about how
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Free Software contributes to the division of power in democracies. He also
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discusses how Free Software helps local enterprises to acquire advanced
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technology skills, and keeps profits in the region. I (Matthias) gave an
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interview to Dradio to explain a wider audience, that <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=627">'Free does not mean gratis
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(German)'</a>, explaining how and why to earn money with software you can
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use, study, share, and improve.</p>
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<h2>Free Software in education</h2>
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<p>As more people understand technology, more people will understand why Free
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Software is important for our society. Our aim is that children and students do
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not only learn how to use software, but understand the principles how software
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and computers in general work. With Free Software there are no artificial
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barriers to stop you from learning. You can dive right in and see exactly how
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professionals design software.</p>
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<p>Our <a
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href="/freesoftware/education/eduteam.html">education
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team</a> is connecting people working on these topics to avoid duplication of
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efforts, spreads information about Free Software in education and explains the
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importance of software freedom.</p>
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<p>Edu-team member <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2010/08/free-software-in-education-clearing-the-backlog/">
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Guido Arnold published a summary</a> covering news about Free Software in
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education over the last 16 month in European countries, including news from
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Free Software distributions aiming for education, and news what happened in the
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education team itself.</p>
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<h2>Celebrate Software Freedom</h2>
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<p>Many of us dedicate a lot of time and energy working for freedom in the
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digital age. One possibility to celebrate our achievements worldwide is <a
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href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/"> Software Freedom Day</a> on September
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18th. At this day we encourage you to celebrate Free Software, and share your
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joy with others.</p>
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<p>We organise and take part in several events. Our Austrian Fellows are
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organising an event in Graz, Hugo Roy is planning an activity in Paris, our
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German Fellows take part at events in Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, and Offenburg.
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Our President Karsten will give a talk at a celebration in the Royal Library of
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The Hague/Netherlands and Reinhard Müller will hold a speech at FrOSCamp in
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Zurich titled "Free yourself -- how to save the world in five easy steps". For
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more details check out <a
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href="/events/events.html">our event page</a> and <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipEvents">the Fellowship calendar</a>.</p>
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<h2>Free Software Championship</h2>
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<p>Do you like Football? To like Guido's Free
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Software championship, you don't have to. The idea is to run a parallel tournament to the football
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championship in Europe 2012 where the discipline is Free Software usage in
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government. Guido developed the <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2010/08/euro-2012-in-free-software/">ground
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rules</a> and uses the <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Free_Software_usage_in_public_administration">
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information from our page about Free Software usage in the public
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administration</a> as input. Participate by <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2010/08/euro2012-qualifying-preparing-for-day-2/">adding
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missing data</a> about the Free Software usage in governments to our website
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and discuss the rules with Guido. If you like to microblog about it, you can
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use the hashtag #euro4fs.</p>
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<h2>Will distributed Free Software preserve our freedom?</h2>
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<p>Today, the majority of Europe's citizens communicate on-line, often hundreds
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of times a day. Employers demand it, communities need it, yet more and more
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digital communication happens through only a handful of globalised service
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providers. Whether emailing, social networking, blogging, calling over VOIP,
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sharing files or researching data, control over our data and what we can do
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remains firmly out of our grasp.</p>
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<p>A democratic society relies on dividing power between its institutions and
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citizens. Individuals deserve control of their own actions and information in
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the digital age.</p>
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<p>Does Free Software offer us this control, through distributed, accessible
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and transparent ways of interacting? That is what we want to discuss. We will
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be hosting an own track at FSCONS. Our five talks form a series entitled <a
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href="/events/fscons-2010.html">'Divide and Reconquer:
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regaining control of our communications'</a>, and includes speakers from
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software initiatives that are changing the future of the Internet.</p>
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<p>'Divide and Reconquer' invites you to engage with the empowering concept of
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decentralised networks, understand how recent trends have concentrated control,
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and witness the most exciting tools available for taking the power back.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The foundations of the Internet: the dawn of peer-to-peer (working title) -
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Benjamin Bayart (French Data Network)</li>
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<li>The Centralisation of the Internet (working title) - Torsten Grote (FSFE)</li>
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<li>Socially responsible social networks (working title) - Michael Chisari
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(Appleseed Project), Jaussoin Timothée and Ludovic Bocquet (Movim)</li>
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<li>Web Search By The People, For The People (working title) - Michael Christen
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(YaCy)</li>
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<li>TBA - Matt Lee (FSF)</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Get active: Encourage people think about distributed software</h2>
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<p>For our monthly get active item, we would like to encourage more people to
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think about distributed Free Software programs as an alternative to centralised
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services. Our track 'divide and reconquer' at FSCONS will deal with that.
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Please help us:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Attend the conference, discuss the topics with us and afterwards continue
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discussions with friends. <a
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href="http://fscons.org/catalog/14">Accommodation booking</a> through
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FSCONS will close by the end of September.</li>
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<li>Help out as a volunteer during the conference in Gothenburg. For example
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you can help us with recording the talks so more people can benefit from
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them. Get in <a href="mailto:contact@fsfe.org">touch with us</a>.
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Your help will be very much appreciated.</li>
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<li>Promote the conference on your website, or by inviting friends.</li>
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<li>Check out the topics of the track and send us possible questions for the
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speakers to <a href="/contact/community.html">our
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discussion lists</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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Thank you for supporting FSFE!
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<p>Regards,<br /> <a href="/about/people/kirschner/kirschner.html">Matthias
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Kirschner</a>- FSFE</p>
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<p>-- <br />
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