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<h1>FSFE Newsletter - March 2011</h1>
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<h2>Revolution failed: Facebook not available in Egypt</h2>
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<p>"On 27th January facebook was shut down in Egypt. For the
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moment this stopped the protests. Media assumes that this is due to the
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influence of Mubarak's granddaughter who is Mark Zuckerberg's girl-friend." Of
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course this is not true. But with software which is controlled by one company,
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something like this can happen. What if the owner of the social network would
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have been an Egypt company? Would this company have been able to resist state
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pressure?</p>
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<p>For a long time dedicated people have been working on decentralised Free
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Software solutions, to make sure there is no vulnerable single point of
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control. We as citiziens should be in control of our tools, and as most of
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those tools today are comprised of software we do need decentralised software.
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That's why FSFE organised a related <a
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href="http://www.fscons.org/divide">track at FSCONS</a>, and our staff as
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well as dedicated volunteers like Torsten Grote <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/CloudComputing">gather information</a>, <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/CloudComputing#Video">give talks</a> or <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/CloudComputing#Audio">interviews</a>. </p>
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<p>Karsten Gerloff gave a talk on <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2011/02/05/fosdem-talk-on-power-software-freedom/">
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"Power Software Freedom"</a> (there is a <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/bjg/2011/02/decentralised-systems-and-the-tendency-to-centralisation/">
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good summary by Brian Gough</a>) at FOSDEM this month, and one of the event's
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keynotes <a
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href="http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosdem/2011/maintracks/political.xvid.avi">"Why
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Political Liberty Depends on Software Freedom More Than Ever"</a> by Eben
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Moglen targetted this topic as well, especially the so-called <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/CloudComputing#Freedom_Boxes">"Freedom Box"</a>
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which started to receive good media coverage in turn, and will hopefully push
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this topic even further.</p>
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<h2>Lawyered! - FSFE's legal workshop</h2>
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<p>More than 75 lawyers, for 2 days, in 1 room -- and all of this organised by
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the FSFE. What is it about? We do this to ensure that the best possible legal
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knowledge about Free Software is shared between everyone, no matter whether
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individuals, businesses or initiatives.</p>
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<p>As part of this, FSFE facilitates an annual event called <a
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href="/activities/ln/llw.html">European Legal Network
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Conference</a> to allow legal experts to discuss the future of Free Software
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law and governance. This has become the world's premier event for debating,
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discussing and sharing knowledge around Free Software legal affairs. </p>
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<p>This year it will be held at the NH Barbizon Palace, Amsterdam, between the
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7th and 8th of April, and will feature speakers like Carlo Piana from FSFE,
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Mark Shuttleworth from Canonical, Eben Moglen from SFLC, and Harald Welte from
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gpl-violations.org.</p>
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<h2>Something completely different</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Leaked documents highlight Germany's Foreign Office move back to non-free
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software: This move is intransparent, and the more we find out the more
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questions we have. See</li>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/news/2011/news-20110202-02.html">Foreign Office: Will it switch off the Free Software beacon?</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/press-release-de/2011q1/000182.html">Leaked Documents: Change of strategy in the Foreign Office against recommodations.</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.taz.de/1/netz/netzoekonomie/artikel/1/eine-studie-nach-der-anderen/">"One study after the other"</a>. Interview from the German Newspaper TAZ
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with your editor</li>
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<li><a href="http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2011/02/28/drw_201102281034_netzpolitik_des_auswaertigen_amte_334eb749.mp3">Without Free Software in the Foreign Office</a> - Dradio interview with Bernhard Reiter.</li>
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</ul>
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<li>"Love love love": The Beatles sing about it, we wanted to have some for
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Free Software activists at Valentine's Day. As last year we run a <a
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href="/activities/ilovefs/index.html">campaign animating
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people to show their love for Free Software</a>. See <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/maelle/?p=228">Maëlle's blog post for this
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years
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summary</a> and mark February 14th for 2012.</li>
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<li><a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=257">Fellowship
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Interview with Italy's PDFreaders heart</a>: While your editor can inform
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more people about our <a href="/activities/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.html">our
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pdfreaders campaign</a> like in a <a
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href="http://blog.isabel-drost.de/index.php/archives/310/fosdem-saturday">
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FOSDEM talk</a> this campaign would not be such successfull without many
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dedicated volunteers. This month Fellowship interview is with Massimo
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Barbieri, IT manager at the Earth Science Department, of the University of
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Modena and Reggio Emilia, leader of the band The Radiostars, and "Mr
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PDFreader" in Italy.</li>
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<li>What happens with your code "when you’re no longer coding. When your
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uplink is permanently disconnected. When you’re dead." Armijn Hemmel wrote <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/adridg/?p=1094">an article why the Fiduciary
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Licence Agreement is an important tool]</a>.</li>
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<li>New editions of Matija Suklje's "Free Software and law related links" are
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available for <a
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href="http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/226">29.1.-4.2.2011</a>, <a
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href="http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/228">5.2.-11.2.2011</a>, and <a
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href="http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/230">12.2.-18.2.2011</a>.</li>
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<li>At <a href="http://www.goopen.no/program/">GoOpen 2011</a> the 22-23rd of
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March in Oslo, Norway, the Swedish FSFE team is helping to organise a special
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<a href="http://www.fscons.org">FSCONS</a> track. The track takes some
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inspiration from previous FSCONS conferences in Sweden and introduces
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speakers on Free Software and Free Society.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Get active - Activities for Document Freedom</h2>
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<p><a href="http://www.documentfreedom.org">Document Freedom Day (DFD)</a> is a
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global day for document liberation. March 30th will be a day of grassroots
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effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and
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<a href="/freesoftware/standards/standards.html">Open Standards</a> in general. This is how you
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can help:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://documentfreedom.org/2011/teams.en.html">Join and help a team!</a></li>
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<li>Blog about it, and link to our campaign!</li>
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<li><a href="http://documentfreedom.org/2011/support.en.html">Donate money to DFD!</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://documentfreedom.org/2011/sponsors.en.html">Sponsor the campaign!</a></li>
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<li>Put a banner on your website with our <a href="http://documentfreedom.org/2011/artwork.en.html">Artwork"</a></li>
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<li>Use !dfd group on Identi.ca and #dfd2011 tag on Identi.ca and Twitter</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Regards,<br/>
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<a href="/about/people/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="/">FSFE</a></p>
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