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<h1 id="fsfe-newsletter-march-2018">FSFE Newsletter March 2018</h1> |
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<h2 id="italy-at-the-forefront-of-european-legislation-for-public-code"> |
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Italy at the forefront of European legislation for public code</h2> |
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<p>With the FSFE's <a href="https://publiccode.eu"> |
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Public Money? Public Code!</a> campaign not only do we demand that code |
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paid for by the people should be available to the people. We also |
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highlight good examples of public code so other decision makers can learn |
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from it. One very good example is |
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<a href="http://www.agid.gov.it/cad/art-68-analisi-comparativa-soluzioni"> |
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Article 68</a> and |
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<a href="http://www.agid.gov.it/cad/art-69-riuso-soluzioni-standard-aperti"> |
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Article 69</a> of the "Codice Amministrazione Digitale", an |
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Italian law requiring public administrations inside Italy to prefer |
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internally made solutions and Free Software solutions over proprietary |
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ones. In addition, these administrations have the duty to share the source |
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code and documentation of any software developed with public money. |
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These laws put Italy at the forefront of European legislation in favour of |
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public code.</p> |
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<p>Unfortunately, so far the law lacks proper implementation. In that light, |
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the FSFE's country team in Italy ran an |
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<a href="/activities/elections/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates"> |
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Ask Your Candidates campaign</a> in which they |
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<a href="/news/2018/news-20180219-01">asked the political |
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parties about their stand on Free Software</a> and the implementation of |
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the aforementioned Articles 68 and 69 after the national elections on |
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March 4.</p> |
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<p>FSFE Italy received very positive replies and many parties |
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<a href="/news/2018/news-20180302-01.html">took a |
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favourable stand towards Free Software</a>. Such a big consensus across |
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these parties gives hope to open up a lot of possibilities for progress |
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towards the use of Free Software at the state level in Italy and a better |
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implementation of Articles 68 and 69 of the "Codice Amministrazione |
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Digitale". As a match to this, the team "Developers |
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Italia", who are in charge of further implementation of the Articles |
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68 and 69, |
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<a href="https://twitter.com/developersITA/status/964060999899860992">sent |
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out their love for Free Software</a> on I love Free Software day.</p> |
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<h2 id="read-our-detailed-ilovefs-report">Read our detailed IloveFS |
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report</h2> |
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<p>As promised in the last newsletter, we now have a |
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<a href="/news/2018/news-20180308-01">detailed report about our IloveFS |
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campaign in 2018</a>. In the report, you will not only read about some |
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highlights that happened for this year's IloveFS. Thanks to our |
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current intern Jan, we also have an analysis and visualisation of 439 |
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'I Love Free Software' messsages containing the |
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<em>#IloveFS</em> hashtag. The scraper Jan used for his analysis is |
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written in GNU R and <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/janwey/ilfs-data"> |
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published as Free Software</a>.</p> |
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<p>While every year we are happy to see so many people celebrating I |
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love Free Software day, we also encourage you to express your Free |
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Software love every day :)</p> |
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<p><a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate?referrer=nl2018-03">Join our community of freedom fighters.</a></p> |
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<h2 id="what-else-have-we-done-inside-and-outside-the-fsfe">What else have |
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we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE</h2> |
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<li>Paul Boddie reflects on |
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<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1978">the hobbyism and |
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volunteerism attitude</a> in many Free Software projects and what |
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this means for the valuation of the actual work that is done, |
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examining Python language development as an example.</li> |
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<li>Isabel Drost Fromm |
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<a href="http://blog.isabel-drost-fromm.de/posts/proxies-considered-harmful.html"> |
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argues against people acting as mediators</a> as the only interface |
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between their employer and a Free Software project.</li> |
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<li>Carmen Bianca Bakker |
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<a href="https://www.carmenbianca.eu/en/post/2018-03-09-how-we-conduct-ourselves/"> |
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reflects on the recently updated FreeBSD Code of Conduct</a>, examines |
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the included dangers of positive discrimination, and states how |
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a non-biased, welcoming Code of Conduct can indeed |
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help dogs and cats to live happily ever after.</li> |
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<li>Daniel Pocock reflects on the newly-introduced SwissID, and its potential dangers |
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to privacy and democratic referendums.</li> |
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<li>Erik Albers asked our community on multiple channels to let |
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the FSFE know about upcoming Free Software events in 2018 that are |
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of interest to the FSFE community. Thanks to our current intern |
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Vincent they all ended up in <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events"> |
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the FSFE's wiki calendar</a> so our teams and community can use |
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them to organise their attendance.</li> |
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<li>Björn Schießle, the FSFE's country coordinator Germany, gave a |
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talk about |
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<a href="https://www.schiessle.org/articles/2017/11/14/software-freedom-in-the-cloud/"> |
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software freedom in the cloud</a> at "Chemnitzer |
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Linuxtage" in Chemnitz, Germany.</li> |
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<li>Erik Albers was giving a |
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<a href="https://platform.internetfreedomfestival.org/en/IFF2018/public/schedule/custom/478"> |
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talk about Public Money? Public Code!</a> at the Internet Freedom |
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Festival in Valencia, Spain.</li> |
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<li>The new born local FSFE group in Madrid had its first meeting on |
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<a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2018/0222-encuentro-local-madrid"> |
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February 22</a> and |
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<a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2018/0303-encuentro-grupo-local-madrid"> |
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March 3</a>.</li> |
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<li>The FSFE has been present with a booth at "Chemnitzer |
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Linuxtage" in Chemnitz (Germany), at T3chfest in Madrid |
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(Spain), and at the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia |
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(Spain).</li> |
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<h2 id="get-active">Get Active</h2> |
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<p>If you have not done so yet, let us know your favorite Free Software |
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event that you think is or should be in interest for the FSFE community to |
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set up a booth at or participate in with a talk or workshop. The simplest |
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way to do so is by sending a mail to <a href="mailto:contactATfsfeDOTorg"> |
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<email>contact@fsfe.org</email></a> with the subject "Free Software event |
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2018". Please state what the event is about, how many participants |
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are expected, and the main language used. Before informing us, please |
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check if we do not already have it |
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<a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2018/03/free-software-events-in-europe-in-2018/"> |
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in our list</a>.</p> |
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<p>If you are visiting any other events regularly or soon, be it a big |
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conference or a local meet-up, equip yourself with some FSFE promotion |
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material that you can <a href="/promo">order at no charge</a>.</p> |
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<h2 id="contribute-to-our-newsletter">Contribute to our newsletter</h2> |
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<p>If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to |
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us. As always, the address is <a href="mailto:newsletterATfsfeDOTorg"> |
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<email>newsletter@fsfe.org</email></a>. We're looking forward to hearing from |
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you!</p> |
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<p>Thanks to our community, all the |
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<a href="/contribute/contribute">volunteers</a>, <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate"> |
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supporters</a> and <a href="/donate/thankgnus">donors</a> who make our |
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work possible. And thanks to |
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<a href="/contribute/translators/translators">our translators</a>, who |
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enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.</p> |
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<p>Your editors, <br /> |
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Erik Albers and Max Mehl</p> |
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<p><a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate?referrer=nl2018-03">Join our community of freedom |
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fighters.</a></p> |
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