The European Parliament Free Software Users group, which supports MEPs with
using and migrating to Free Software, is looking for someone to help them with
their Drupal website. The site, http://epfsug.eu, is up and running, and has
an experienced system administrator taking care of it. A few extra features
are required however to make it more useful to MEPs.
A calendar is required so that users can schedule events and meetings, and
better spam handling of comments would also be appreciated. The group is
looking for someone who can take care of these tasks, and also ideally help
out in future with maintenance issues relating to Drupal should they arise.
If you are able to help with this important project, *please email Erik
Josefsson* <erik.josefsson(a)europarl.europa.eu>, who is the advisor on Internet
policies to The Greens party (currently the fourth group in the European
Parliament with 56 MEPs from 15 countries).
FSFE assisted in setting up the Parliamentary Free Software group, and
continues to take an active part in their important work.
Thanks!
Sam.
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Free Software Foundation Europe
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FSFE has published a new Fellowship interview with Mirko Boehm.
Mirko Boehm currently works as a researcher at the Technical University
of Berlin, focusing on the subject of Free Software and copyright and
patents. For a long time he has been involved with KDE. In our November
Internship Interview he talks about interactions between Free Software
communities and “corporate” world, and the role of Free Software at
universities and in education.
http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=477
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Dear translators and discussants,
this e-mail serves two purposes.
First, I am trying to find out whether any Estonian-speakers are
subscribed to either of the lists or whether any of the subscribers
have Estonian-speaking friends he/she could sway to contact me. It
would be easier to spread FSFE campaigns in Estonia if we had more
than one active Estonian-speaker. :-)
Second, while writing my appeal for Estonian-speakers to join forces
<http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2011/11/15/estonian-translations-p…>,
I happened to consider my translation experience in retrospect and it
made me think that it would be interesting to hear about the
experience of other translators too. So, does anyone feel like
sharing? :-)
[This is sent both to translators@ and discussion@ because this
concerns translators quite a bit, but it is probably of interest to a
wider audience and there's a greater chance of finding Estonians this
way :-).]
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Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild
<repentinus(a)fsfe.org>
<https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/repentinus>
Hi there,
I was called by a journalist and spoke about antifeatures
http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=797. She wants to talk to someone about
planned obsolescence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence.
Do you know contacts whom I could give her? Or with whom I could also
talk in future about this topic?
She is looking for information how this is done for:
- laptop and photo batteries
- printer cartridges
Thanks a lot,
Matthias
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Matthias Kirschner - FSFE - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator
FSFE, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 +49-1577-1780003
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Sam Tuke, our UK coordinator, was interviewed on Hacker Public Radio
(HPR) during FSCONS in Gothenburg this weekend. You can hear the
podcast here:
<URI:http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=0857>
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Andreas Tolf Tolfsen
Deputy Web Coordinator
Hi there,
this weekend at FSCONS the Nordic Free Software Award 2011 was
announced:
Erik Josefsson is the winner of the Nordic Free Software Award 2011.
With the award, the Swedish Foundation for Free Culture and Free
Software (FFKP) honours Josefsson for his achievements as a campaigner
for freedom in the information society.
See full text: https://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20111114-01.en.html
Thanks to Erik, as well as to the previous winners Bjarní Runar
Einarsson (2010), Simon Josefsson and Daniel Stenberg (2009), Mats
Östling (2008), and the Skolelinux project (2007).
Best Regards,
Matthias
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We started a campaign in the Netherlands:
The Dutch government wants to tie the country's schools to a single
software vendor for years to come. Dutch students using Free Software
or devices without Silverlight-support will find themselves locked out
of schools' online systems due to the use of proprietary technology
and closed standards. Marja Bijsterveldt, the secretary of education,
recently said that she is unwilling to enforce the Dutch government's
own Open Standards policy on educational institutions. Instead, the
government will accept long-term vendor lock-in of educational
institutions.
Full PR: https://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20111107-01.en.html
Campaign page: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/nledu/nledu.en.html
Regards,
Matthias
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Hi all,
It is a very important topic for us too in Hungary.
10 years ago the lock-in process has been very similar in Hungary:
1. The state has bought a central educational online system which only worked on MS platform.
2. Next year MS declared to the ministry that they have to be payed as the central system is MS based
3. In 2001 the ministry of education signed School&Campus for the whole sector
4. Result: Vendor lock-in for 10 years, all free softwares has been droped out
5. In the past couple of years we (Open SKM - FSF Hungary - ODFA Hungary) had many (more or less unsuccessful) campaign against MS vendor locks.
6. After 10 years we are near to convince the government to end MS vendor lock-in.
I strongly believe that certain and long term changes are now achievable via Europe wide activities.
This could be a good time to start a European/cross nation campaign for free softwares and open software standards in the public sector (education, administration).
Best,
Peter Szakal
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From: "Matthias Kirschner" <mk(a)fsfe.org>
To: discussion(a)fsfeurope.org
Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 10:52:33 AM
Subject: Dutch government hands over education's keys to Microsoft
We started a campaign in the Netherlands:
The Dutch government wants to tie the country's schools to a single
software vendor for years to come. Dutch students using Free Software
or devices without Silverlight-support will find themselves locked out
of schools' online systems due to the use of proprietary technology
and closed standards. Marja Bijsterveldt, the secretary of education,
recently said that she is unwilling to enforce the Dutch government's
own Open Standards policy on educational institutions. Instead, the
government will accept long-term vendor lock-in of educational
institutions.
Full PR: https://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20111107-01.en.html
Campaign page: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/nledu/nledu.en.html
Regards,
Matthias
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Matthias Kirschner - FSFE - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator
FSFE, Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin, t +49-30-27595290 +49-1577-1780003
Free Software is important to you? Join today! (fsfe.org/join)
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In Portugal, after having a law that forces the Government to use Open
Standards, there's now this division defining how and which open standards to
support... The consultation about it ends at the 30th, and we're still in the
middle of the work for it. Several questions already rose, tho... And I'm
hoping someone can help us answering them in this last few days:
* TLS 1.1 or 1.2 (since the biggest F.S. browsers don't support it)
* is it true that konqueror supports them?
* is it true that midori supports them?
* is there any (free software) mail client that supports SMTPS, POP3S and
IMAP3S using TLS 1.1 or 1.2 (which one?)
* SQL 92 and SQL 99 - is there any free software database supporting
completely any of this two standards?
* is there any free software at all supporting (even if only partially) the
XBRL standard?
Thank you,
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Marcos Marado
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