Tomorrow Richard M. Stallman will give a speech in Thessaloniki. You
can find more info at http://www.gnugr.org, Association of Greek Users
and Friends of Free Software, regarding the event.
We succeeded to print FSFE material to share, around 400 black and
white copies of various FSFE official promotional material, printed on
laser printer.
Currently we have a great feedback, and you might have seen also
internet traffic coming along to FSFE website, from Greece. The
attendees are almost 300 persons pre-registered and we are doing our
best for the event.
I recently found this page on the environmentalist People and Planet
site: http://peopleandplanet.org/floss
This is really a great endorsement for Free Software, from a well
established UK charity.
I wondered if FSFE has had anything to do with this? If not then it
seems to me that we should note the page's existence, and use
content/contacts from it in future when doing more charity targeted
campaigning.
If FSFE has not yet made contact with this group then perhaps we should,
just to let them know that we exist, appreciate their efforts, and would
like to support them if possible in using and promoting FOSS.
Sam.
PS Is there a better list for this?
Dear all,
on the evening of Tuesday May 4, the data center which hosts our web
and mail servers experienced a power failure. As a consequence, the
servers running FSFE's mail services - the @fsfe.org forwarding,
mailing lists and FSFE's internal mail system - suffered hardware
damage.
In the evening of Wednesday May 5, related problems caused FSFE's web
server to go offline.
Since the problems started, our system administrators have been
working hard to fix the problem, reinstate basic mail services, and
get FSFE's website back online.
Recovering the mailing lists proved to be a trickier task. Only this
Monday evening (May 17) were we able to get the mailing lists back
online.
Mails sent to our mailing lists during the outage were stored on the
server, and are now being delivered.
This sort of outage clearly shouldn't happen. As a consequence, we
have moved our servers to a different hosting facility with more
reliable services. We are now reviewing and adapting our setup to make
sure that outages will be extremely rare in future, and that we are
able to recover more quickly from those outages that do occur.
Please accept our sincere apologies for this prolonged outage. Thank
you for your understanding, and for your continued support of our
work.
Kind regards,
Karsten Gerloff
President, Free Software Foundation Europe
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at the Registergericht Hamburg (VR 17030).
Hi all,
In an interesting article [1], Till Jäger explains how
gpl-violations.org enforced the GNU GPL in European countries, as well
as countries outside Europe, like Taiwan, Korea, the US and China.
Till’s conlusion:
The well-established practice of GPL enforcement in Germany and some
parts of Europe leads to a growing number of GPL compliant products.
Since embedded systems often contain third party software,
enforcement cannot stop with legal actions against manufacturers or
importers of infringing products, but must aim for compliance of the
complete distribution chain and needs to have a more general
strategy of information policy for such software developing
companies and countries. Plenty of documentation exists that can be
used for providing the software industries all over the world with
the necessary know-how to avoid GPL violations. Considering the
increasing use of GPL software in the software market, license
enforcement will continue being an essential issue in the OSS world.
I highly recommend this article if you are interested to learn more
about GNU GPL enforcement.
Best wishes,
Matthias
1. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100403103524185
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Hi all,
Today is the Day against Digitial Restriction Management (DRM):
<http://www.defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm2010> organised by our
sister organisation the FSF.
I have seen that MJ Ray, who is also on this list, already wrote a short
article on it:
<http://www.news.software.coop/day-against-drm-4-may-2010/946/>.
After some problems with our servers today (power problems in Zürich)
now finally a short article from me: "Digital Restriction Management =
bye bye Pippi Longstocking" <http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=555>.
Best wishes,
Matthias
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Free Software Foundation Europe (fsfe.org)
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http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=403
*champagne*
(How many other free software people have knighthoods? There's Sir Tim
Berners-Lee. Florence Devouard, previous chair of the Wikimedia
Foundation, got chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite. Any
others?)
- d.