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<h1 class="p-name">FSFE Newsletter – February 2015</h1>
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<h2>I ♥ Free Software</h2>
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<p>
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Come February 14 and our website will be turning pink and heart-laden to
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celebrate the creators of Free Software. We have taken the opportunity
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on every Valentine's Day since 2010 to celebrate not only our loved ones,
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but also the dedicated people working very hard to ensure that we have
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the option to use Free Software.
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</p>
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<p>
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You can read more about
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<a href="/news/2014/news-20140221-01.html">how we celebrated</a> the
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I ♥ Free Software Day in 2014 to get a feel for the spirit of the
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occasion, and you are very welcome to join our celebrations this year!
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</p>
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<h2>Fellowship elections</h2>
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<p>
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The <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/FellowshipElection_2015">Fellowship elections</a>
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are almost here! Three candidates
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(<a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/nidi/Election2015">Nicolas Dietrich</a>,
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<a href="http://blog.mehl.mx/2015/fellowship-elections/">Max Mehl</a>,
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and <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2015/01/26/my-candidacy-in-fsfes-fellowship-election-2015/">Felix Stegerman</a>)
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are vying for the seat currently held by
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<a href="/about/ojasild/ojasild.html">Repentinus</a>. Repentinus wishes
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them all very well in trying to replace him, and hopes that so shall
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you, our dear readers. May the best candidate win!
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Voting will take place from February 20 to March 6, and all orderly
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Fellows whose membership is active on February 19, 2015, 12am (UTC+1)
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are allowed to vote. So there is still plenty of time to
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<a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">renew your Fellowship</a>
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and to become able to make a difference.
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</p>
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<h2>Transitions</h2>
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Whoever becomes the new Fellowship Representative will be joining a
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<a href="/about/team.html">Core Team</a> very different to that joined
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by Repentinus almost two years ago.
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</p>
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First, we expect to take on
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Jonas Öberg as Executive
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Director around the same time the new Fellowship Representative will
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be joining the Core Team and the General Assembly. Furthermore, later
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in the year when the General Assembly will be holding its annual meeting,
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we will be electing a new President. It is expected that the GA will
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confirm our current Vice President
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<a href="/about/people/kirschner/kirschner.html">Matthias Kirschner</a> as the
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new President. These changes have been internally known for quite some
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time, but were
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2015/01/26/new-horizons/">publicly announced</a>
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by our President <a href="/about/people/gerloff/gerloff.html">Karsten Gerloff</a>
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only on January 26.
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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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Our staffers, volunteers, and Fellows are often present at various Free
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Software gatherings. If you have always wondered what goes on at these
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conferences, then you would do well to read the
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2015/01/21/fsfes-assembly-at-chaos-communication-congress-31c3/">report from Chaos Communication Congress</a>,
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penned by our Fellowship Coordinator
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<a href="/about/people/albers/albers.html">Erik Albers</a>.
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</li>
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<li>
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From the planet aggregation:
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<ul>
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<li>
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Paul Boddie <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=835">writes</a>
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about the inadequate coverage topics like interoperability and
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platform choice have received in the past from consumer magazines.
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He notes how the advent of multiple mobile ecosystems is forcing
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consumer magazines to acknowledge the problem, and invites a major
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consumer magazine to join the push for interoperable Free
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Software.
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</li>
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<li>
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Guido Arnold, our Education team coordinator, has posted his
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monthly collection of
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“<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2015/01/free-software-in-education-news-december-2/">Free Software in Education News”</a>
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for December.
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</li>
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<li>
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Kevin Keijzer
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2015/01/11/free-software-education-human-rights/">makes the case for</a>
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Free Software in education as a human rights issue.
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</li>
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<li>
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Nico Rikken
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<a href="http://nicorikken.eu/blog/why-engineering-students-need-to-be-taught-free-software/">argues</a>
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that engineering students should be taught to use Free Software.
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Max Mehl writes about
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<a href="http://blog.mehl.mx/2015/yourls-url-shortener-for-turpial/">setting up your own URL shortener</a>.
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</li>
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<li>
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Felix Stegerman gives an overview of
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2015/01/26/fsfe-netherlands-in-2014/">FSFE activities in Netherlands throughout 2014</a>.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Get active: hug a developer</h2>
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For February we would like all of you to join us in celebrating developers
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of Free Software. Come 14th, please send developers, translators, and
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artists e-mail, postcards, and cake, hug them (with permission, of
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course), or use any other polite and creative option to let them know
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just how much you appreciate them and the work they have put into Free
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Software you use every day.
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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/ojasild">Heiki Ojasild</a><br />
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Fellowship Representative, <a href="/">FSFE</a>
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