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<title>FSFE Newsletter - October 2011</title>
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<h1>FSFE Newsletter - October 2011</h1>
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<h2>Laundruino - The laundry hack and laser sharks</h2>
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<p newsteaser="yes">FSFE Fellow Michael Clemens has a solution for all of you out there who want
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to know when their laundry in the washing machine is done. <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/clemens/2011/08/05/the-arduino-enabled-washing-machine/">In
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his article he explains </a> how to build get a "Laundruino", based on the
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Free Software microcontroller <a
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino">Arduino</a>, which informs you of
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the status of your laundry cycle. </p>
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<p>During his research for a <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=828">radio interview (German) </a> about a
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teenager who built a Free Software earthquake detection system for under 100
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EUR, your editor was delighted to find many similar projects, such as how to
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make free hardware based <a
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href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-wall-avoiding-Robot!/">simple
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robots</a>, <a
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href="http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Arduino-Weather-Station-Thermostat/">weather
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stations</a>, <a
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href="http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=mkca1">a
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blimp</a>, an <a
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href="http://hacknmod.com/hack/high-speed-photography-how-to-trigger-using-arduino/">installation
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to make high speed pictures </a> and <a
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href="http://wiki.makerbot.com/thingomatic">3D-makerbots</a>.</p>
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<p>These creative and educational guides are the result of people sharing
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blueprints and source code, and are made possible by the fact that the authors
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are able to change how these computers work. They can modify them, and share
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their knowledge and ideas with others. With Free Software and free hardware,
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people can really understand the technology that surrounds them, and change it
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to meet their needs. And who knows, maybe soon your editor's dream of sharks
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with lasers will become reality.</p>
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<h2>Euro 2012 champion to speak at FSCONS</h2>
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<p>Guido Arnold from FSFE's <a
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href="/activities/education/eduteam.html">Education Team</a> presented the
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results of the Euro 2012 qualification in Free Software and Open Standards for
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<a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2011/09/euro-2012-in-free-software-qualification-results-sep-2-2011/">September
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2nd </a>, <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2011/09/euro2012-in-free-software-qualification-results-sep-3-2011/">September
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3rd </a> and <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2011/09/euro2012-in-free-software-qualification-results-sep-6/">September
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6th </a>. On November 12th, he will give a presenation in FSFE's track at <a
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href="http://fscons.org">FSCONS</a> about the developments of Free Software
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in education and how to participate in the team's activities.</p>
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<h2>Something completely different</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>"In Facebook you are not the customer, you are the product", writes our
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President Karsten Gerloff in <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2011/09/23/facebooks-opengraph-time-to-get-out/">his
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article</a> on recent announcements by Facebook, and decentralised <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/CloudComputing/">social networks</a>.</li>
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<li>Check out the latest Fellowship Interview with <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=422">Stefan
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Kangas</a>, who talks about <a href="https://fripost.org/">Fripost</a> as a
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new community developing Free, privacy-preserving email services in a
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reliable way. </li>
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<li>A selection of interesting blog entries from our <a
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href="http://planet.fsfe.org">planet aggregation</a>:
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<ul>
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<li>Two Fellows doing analysis: Henri Bergus introduces us to <a
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href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/business_analytics_with_couchdb_and_noflo/">business
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analytics with CouchDB and NoFlo</a>, and <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/padams/?p=237">Paul Adams analyses SVN
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commits in KDE</a>.</li>
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<li>"Dr. Danz" wrote a daily journal about the KDE-telepathy sprint: <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/drdanz/?p=542">day 0</a>, <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/drdanz/?p=555">day 1</a>, <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/drdanz/?p=576">day 2</a>, and <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/drdanz/?p=587">day 3</a>.</li>
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<li>Read <a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/business_analytics_with_couchdb_and_noflo/">Henri's view</a> on
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who is winning the war between tablets and laptops, and share your views
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with our <a href="/contact/community.html">mailing lists</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Get Active: New merchandise - Laser sharks with Fellowship logo?</h2>
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<p>We want to think about some new merchandise, and we would really like your
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fresh ideas. So please help us brainstorming; send proposals for t-shirt
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designs and other merchandise ideas to discussion@fsfeurope.org, or if you
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prefer, directly to me at the address below. It does not matter if your ideas
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are crazy or unrealistic. Send them in and help us to be creative.</p>
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<p>Thanks to all the <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and
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<a href="donate/thankgnus.html">donors</a> who enable our work,<br/>
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<a href="/about/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a
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href="http://www.fsfe.org">FSFE</a>
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</p>
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<p>
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<tag>Matthias Kirschner</tag>
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