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<title>FSFE Newsletter - November 2009</title>
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<h1>FSFE Newsletter - November 2009</h1>
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<p newsteaser="yes">November: another month full of activities and work to do for FSFE.
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Among other things we launched the Fellowship grant project, fought for
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Open Standards in the European public sector, had an excellent time at
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the FSCONS in Sweden, and participated in WIPO to ensure that Free
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Software principles are respected. To keep FSFE strong and independent,
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we have launched our year-end fund raising campaign: Cooking for Freedom.</p>
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<p align="right"><a href="mailto:poderi@fsfe.org">Giacomo Poderi</a></p>
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<h3>Table of Contents</h3>
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<li><a href="#1" name="TOC1">WIPO meeting on implementation of Development Agenda, Geneva, Switzerland, 16-20 Nov</a></li>
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<li><a href="#2" name="TOC2">Fellowship Jabber meeting: Free Software in Education</a></li>
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<li><a href="#3" name="TOC3">FSCONS 2009, Lindholmen, Sweden 13-15 Nov</a></li>
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<li><a href="#4" name="TOC4">The Nordic Free Software Award to Simon Josefson and Daniel Stenberg</a></li>
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<li><a href="#5" name="TOC5">FSFE takes action on the problems of the EIF v2</a></li>
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<li><a href="#6" name="TOC6">The Fellowship grants</a></li>
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<strong>In the spotlight</strong>
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<li><a href="#7" name="TOC7">FSFE calls for donations: Invest in freedom!</a></li>
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<strong>It happened in the past</strong>
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<li><a href="#8" name="TOC8">Launch of the Freedom Task Force</a></li>
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<strong>Upcoming events</strong>
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<li><a href="#9" name="TOC9">European "Open Source" and Free Software Law Event, Brussels, Belgium, 09 Dec</a></li>
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</ol>
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<p></p>
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<h3><a name="1"/>WIPO meeting on implementation of Development Agenda, Geneva, Switzerland, 16-20 Nov</h3>
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<p>Thanks to the consistent support by FSFE and other organisations, the
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World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Development Agenda is
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finally on the way to implementation. Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's President,
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participated to the event in Geneva to help WIPO make use of Free
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Software and Open Standards. In the meeting, WIPO's member states
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discussed the mechanisms for monitoring the progress of WIPO's
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Development Agenda in practice.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/activities/wipo/wipo.html">http://www.fsfe.org/activities/wipo/wipo.html</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="2"/>Fellowship Jabber meeting: Free Software in Education</h3>
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<p>On November 18, more than 25 Fellows joined a chat session to follow
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Thomas Jensch's introduction to the FSFE's Education project. Thomas
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talked about the general scope of the project and about specific
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challenges to be met before bringing to full active status the project,
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such as gathering information on the different European education
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systems, and developing good strategies for being effective also at the
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level of Universities. Afterwords, the Fellows asked questions and provided
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interesting feedbacks to Thomas.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/activities/education/education.html">http://www.fsfe.org/activities/education/education.html</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="3"/>FSCONS 2009, Lindholmen, Sweden 13-15 Nov</h3>
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<p>The Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS) which took place
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in Lindholmen, Göteborg, Sweden was a great success. FSFE's Swedish Team
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co-organised the event, and FSFE got a very friendly reception in an
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engaging atmosphere of Free Software, hackers and technology people.
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Martin Gollowitzer, deputy Fellowship coordinator, organised a OpenPGP
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Card Workshop, Matthias Kirschner, Fellowship coordinator, and Andreas
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Tolf Tolfsen moderated a workshop on the restructuring of our website.
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Hannes Hauswedell presented a talk about PDFreaders.org. Finally, Adrian
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de Groot and Karsten Gerloff held two sessions respectively about the
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Freedom Task Force and FSFE's work for the public sector.</p>
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<li><a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=380">http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=380</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/FSCONS-FSFE">http://wiki.fsfe.org/FSCONS-FSFE</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="4"/>The Nordic Free Software Award to Simon Josefson and Daniel Stenberg</h3>
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<p>This year, Nordic Free Software Award presented during FSCONS reflected
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the globalisation of the internet and the critical importance of network
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services for all software users. The award went to two excellent hackers:
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Simon Josefson and Daniel Stenberg. Simon is a member of the Fellowship
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and was rewarded for his long-lasting and excellent work on the network
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security packages GNUTLS and GNU Sishi of the GNU Project. Daniel's
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contributions to curl, libcurl and many other packages were considered
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crucial to the Free Software community.</p>
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<li><a href="http://fscons.org/award">http://fscons.org/award</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://blog.josefsson.org/2009/11/15/nordic-free-software-award-2009/">http://blog.josefsson.org/2009/11/15/nordic-free-software-award-2009/</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="5"/>FSFE takes action on the problems of the EIF v2</h3>
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<p>Early this month, FSFE commented on a worrisome leaked draft of the
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European Interoperability Framework v2 (EIF). The current EIF serves as
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a cornerstones for interoperability in Europe. The draft for the second
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version is a clear step backwards. FSFE worked hard to prevent this
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document to be adopted by putting pressure on EU members states and by
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tracking the 'evolution' of the EIF v2 draft. We also published a press
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release explaining why the current version is unacceptable for Free
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Software and for the European IT sector.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091127-01.html">http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091127-01.html</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/activities/os/eifv2.html">http://www.fsfe.org/activities/os/eifv2.html</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="6"/>The Fellowship grants</h3>
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<p>This month FSFE launched an important initiative to award outstanding
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Free Software activists with Fellowship grants that will cover the
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Fellowship contribution for one year. Three grants each month will be
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assigned during the next 12 months. Everybody who is actively working for
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Free Software but cannot afford the Fellowship contribution can apply for
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the grant.</p>
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<li><a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/grant.en.html">http://fellowship.fsfe.org/grant.en.html</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091109-01.html">http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091109-01.html</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>In the spotlight</h2>
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<h3><a name="7"/>FSFE calls for donations: Invest in freedom!</h3>
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<p>FSFE has been working for the Free Software community in Europe and
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beyond since 2001. Donations have always been crucial to sustain our
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work. They allow us to remain independent of any company or government,
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in order to do what is best for Free Software.</p>
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<p>In November we published a call for donations, so that the new year will
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find us ready to take on the many and demanding challenges of 2010.
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Karsten Gerloff published a letter explaining the reasons to donate to
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FSFE.</p>
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<p>This year, there is a special reward for the biggest donor of 2009.
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That person will share a cooking session with two people from FSFE's
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executive team. Software and cooking are both about creativity and
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freedom, and we are looking forward to an afternoon or evening of
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inspired discussions.</p>
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<p>If you believe in our work or you benefited from it, if you believe in
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Free Software principles and you want them to be defended: invest in
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freedom!</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091118-01.html">http://www.fsfe.org/news/2009/news-20091118-01.html</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>Relevant links:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/donate/letter-2009.html">http://www.fsfe.org/donate/letter-2009.html</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">http://www.fsfe.org/donate/donate.html</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>It happened in the past</h2>
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<h3><a name="8"/>Launch of the Freedom Task Force</h3>
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<p>After many preparations, in November 2006 we finally launched the Freedom
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Task Force (FTF). The project required sound planning and lot of efforts
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before it could be announced. In short time, thanks to Shane Coughlan's
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excellent work as the project's coordinator, the FTF became a key
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knowledge centre in Europe for Free Software licensing issues.</p>
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<li><a href="http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q4/000162.html">Press Release</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Upcoming events</h2>
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<h3><a name="9"/>European "Open Source" and Free Software Law Event, Brussels, Belgium, 09 Dec</h3>
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<p>Adriaan de Groot, FTF Coordinator, will hold a speech entitled "Use the
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Source -- but what is it?" at the European "Open Source" and Free
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Software Law Event (EOLE) on 9 December in Brussels.</p>
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<li><a href="http://eolevent.eu/">http://eolevent.eu/</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p></p>
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<p>You can find a list of all FSFE newsletters on</p>
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<a href="http://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html">http://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html</a>
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<p>You can join the Fellowship and find how to support us on</p>
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<a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join</a>
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<a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.html">http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.html</a>
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<p>You can order our merchandise at</p>
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<a href="http://fsfe.org/order/order.html">http://fsfe.org/order/order.html</a>
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