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<h1>FSFE Newsletter - April 2011</h1>
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<h2>A decade of Freedom: FSFE turned 10</h2>
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<p newsteaser="yes">
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One room with a bed, a desk, and a sofa. That was the situation when
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your editor started working as an intern for FSFE in Georg Greve's one
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room appartment in Hamburg in 2004. FSFE started with its operations
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in <a href="/news/2011/news-20110310-01.html">March 2001</a> as the first
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sister organisation of the FSF in the US. We have come <a href="/about/history/birthday10.html">a
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long way</a> since then.
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First of all, our interns don't get Georg's mandatory cooking lessons any more,
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instead they now have their own desks and do not have to work from the
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sofa any more. Second, we now have the Fellowship which leads to a growth
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of volunteers and activities:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>In the UK, Sam Tuke is currently busy setting up a punchy team. They
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are giving talks, organising events, and documenting
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<a href="/uk/mapping-uk.html">the developments</a> in the future
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role of Free Software in the British public sector.</li>
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<li>Our Italian team is currently supporting ADUC to get rid of the
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<a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/WindowsTaxRefund">Windows Tax</a>. ADUC is
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an Italian association for users/consumers' rights who recently filed a
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class action request against Microsoft Italy's refusal of reimbursing
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unused OEM licences for its operating system. Carlo Piana is helping
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ADUC's lawyers and Giacomo Poderi with the Italian team will help to
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<a href="/news/2011/news-20110321-01.html">raise awareness on this issue</a>.</li>
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<li>In Switzerland you have a confusing landscape of different Free
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Software organisations, which have problems with coordination. It was
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nearly impossible to find out what is going on in the next weeks, or
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to find a date for an activity which does not interfere with another
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group. That's why the Zurich Fellowship group has now set up an event
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calendar on <a href="http://freie-termine.ch">freie-termine.ch</a> to
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improve this situation.</li>
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<li>Our Swedish team was actively publishing
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<a href="http://fscons.org/2010/news/fscons-2010-videos-finally">videos from FSCONS</a>.
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Last year in
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November, we hosted our own track at FSCONS around different topics of
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decentralised (social) networks and free network services. Now the
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<a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote/2011/03/28/fscons-2010-divide-and-re-conquer-talks-now-online/">videos of the talks</a>
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are finally online.</li>
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<li>This year there are at least 8 Federal State elections in Germany. The
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German team already received replies from the parties in
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<a href="/campaigns/ayc/201103-germany-sachsen-anhalt.de.html">Sachsen-Anhalt</a>,
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<a href="/campaigns/ayc/201103-germany-rheinland-pfalz.de.html">Rheinland-Pfalz</a>,
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and <a href="/campaigns/ayc/201103-germany-baden-wuerttemberg.de.html">Baden-Würrtemberg</a>
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on questions like general support of Free Software, problems of vendor
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lock-in, <a href="/activities/os/os.html">Open Standards</a>,
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<a href="/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.html">non-free PDF readers advertisements</a>
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on public websites, the use of <a href="/activities/education/education.html">Free Software in education</a>,
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and <a href="/campaigns/swpat/swpat.html">software patents</a>. The same will
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be done for the remaining elections.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Worldwide celebration of Open Standards</h2>
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Open Standards are a common language, publicly documented, that computer
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programs can speak. They are central to interoperability and freedom of
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choice in technology. Open Standards allow Free Software developers to
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create programs that can interoperate with other solutions, so users can
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migrate away from proprietary solutions.
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</p>
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<p>
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Many of you followed our call to participate in this year's Document
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Freedom Day: in Brazil, the Federal Data Processing Company - Serpro -
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hold events in 10 cities. In the European Parliament, experts discussed
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Open Standards as a means to guarantee access to cultural works in the
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long term. Other groups participated in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil,
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Croatia, Greece, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Portugal,
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Spain and United Kingdom. Selected FSFE activities include:
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<ul>
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<li>The City Munich was awarded with the European Document Freedom Day
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prize for its <a href="/news/2011/news-20110330-02.html">LiMux project</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="/news/2011/news-20110330-01.html">Tagesschau.de awarded</a> for
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the use of Open Standards: The prize was
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awarded in Berlin and Hamburg by the Foundation for a Free Information
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Infrastructure (FFII) and us for offering the broadcast shows also
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in the free video format "Ogg Theora". As you can see on the
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<a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=765">pictures</a> (DE) the cake
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was amazing (also available <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/nicoulas/?p=87">in French</a>)</li>
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<li>"A bright Document Freedom Day for Britain?"
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about <a href="/news/2011/news-20110330-04.html">Open Standards in Britain</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<h2>Something completely different</h2>
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<li>Redhat made $909 million with Free Software and Nokia is spreading
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FUD?: After Mirko Böhm wrote <a href="http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4394">an interesting analysis</a>
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on the current Nokia move, your editor <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=736">commented on Nokia's announcement</a>
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about selling the proprietary Qt business to Digia. This also led to
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interesting discussions on our public mailing lists about the meaning of
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"commercial". </li>
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<li>Our freshly elected Fellowship representative
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<a href="/news/2011/news-20110301-01.html">Hugo Roy</a> wrote about <a href="http://blog.hugoroy.eu/2011/03/28/ipred-remettre-en-question-la-politique-de-lue-en-matiere-de-droit-dauteur-et-de-brevets-sur-internet/">IPRED</a> (FR).</li>
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<li><a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=267">Fellowship
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Interview with Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen</a>. Dan describes the
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aims of these exciting gaming projects, and discusses what Free
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Software could mean for gaming in future.</li>
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<li>New Legal News available for <a href="http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/232">19.02.-25.02.</a>,
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<a href="http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/233">26.02.-04.03.</a>,
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<a href="http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/236">05.03.-13.03.</a>,
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<a href="http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/237">14.03.-20.03.</a>,
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<a href="http://matija.suklje.name/?q=node/238">21.03.-28.03.</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-free-software-awards-announced">2010 Free Software Awards</a>
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go to: Rob Savoye and the TOR project.
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Savoye is a long-time free software hacker, who has worked on GNU and
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other free software for over 20 years. TOR is enabling people around
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the world to experience freedom of access and expression on the
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Internet while keeping them in control of their privacy and anonymity.</li>
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<li>The FSF <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/debian-squeeze-makes-key-progress-toward-being-a-fully-free-distribution">welcomed
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Debian's "Squeeze" release</a>.
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Debian GNU/Linux also received a prize at the Cebit, where Karsten
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Gerloff held the <a href="/events/2011/lnm-award-debian.html">laudatio</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Get Active - Translations for free PDF readers</h2>
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<p>During <a href="/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders">our pdfreaders campaign</a>
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we received the
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feedback that it is difficult to use some free PDF readers, as the
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download pages, or the actual software is not translated. Since then our
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intern Nicoulas Jean is in contact with several free PDF reader developers.
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Take a look at <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/PDFreadersTranslations">our list of PDF readers</a>
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and how to help them with translation, and take action:
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<ul>
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<li>Help translating your favorite PDF reader and ask others to do so.</li>
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<li>Find out how to help with translations of the missing readers and add
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this information it to the website.</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<p>Regards,<br/>
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<a href="/about/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner </a> - <a href="http://www.fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p>
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<p>-- <br />
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<a href="/index.html">Free Software Foundation Europe</a><br />
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<a href="/events/events.rss">Upcoming FSFE Events</a><br />
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<a href="/contact/community.html">Free Software Discussions</a> </p>
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<tag>newsletter</tag>
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<tag>Matthias Kirschner</tag>
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<timestamp>$Date: 2011-03-14 17:23:06 +0100 (lun. 14 mars 2011) $ $Author: nicoulas $</timestamp>
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