(If you are reading FSFE's newsletters [1] (and you should when you
have not yet given me feedback what I could improve ;) ), and you
already use one of our banners [2], you can skip this post because I
copied and pasted it. Else please continue.)
Let us admit it, the Free Software community is often very critical.
Wewrite bug reports, tell others how they can improve the software, ask
them fornew features, and to not spare with criticism. Sometimes we
forget to say "thank you, for all your work". As in the last years, we
want to change this, at least for one day. So on Tuesday the 14th of
February we will celebrate the "I love Free Software" - Day [3].
Get active, buy your favourite developer a drink or give them a hug (ask
forpermission first), write an e-mail/letter [4] expressing your
feelings, create nice pictures, donate to a Free Software initiative,
use another of our suggestions [5] or be create yourself to show how you
appreciate people, working hard to enlarge or defend our freedom.
Beside that help us to promote the activity with our banners [6], by
e-mail, (micro)blog or in your (distributed?) social networks.
New this year is a whole day event in the Unperfekthaus in Essen
(Germany) [7] and that all our Fellows automatically get an
login(a)ilovefs.org e-mail alias.
So let's make sure that on February 14th there are more love reports,
than bug reports!
All the best,
Matthias
1. http://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html
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3. http://ilovefs.org
4. http://blogs.fsfe.org/thomaslocke/2012/01/18/why-i-love-free-and-open-sourc…
5. http://ilovefs.org
6. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/banners.html
7. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2012/unperfekthaus.html
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Hello,
I just wanted to share two pieces of information that I hope everybody
who do FS advocacy would know:
1) If the target uses Windows and has no experience with Free
Software, give them a VALO-CD. See www.valo-cd.net for details (in
English)
2) If the person already uses some FS, and you want them to make a
strategic decision to always us FS, suggest them to buy a
pre-installed Linux-laptop. This way their experience is likely to be
happy and at the same time they contribute in the process of "voting
with their money" to show laptop manufacturers that Linux support is
important.
My own favorite is the Dell XPS 13, which comes with Ubuntu
preinstalled but you can replace the distro with your favorite as the
drivers are open and custom kernel is public at Launchpad.net. Details
at http://seravo.fi/2013/dell-xps-13-ubuntu-edition-first-impressions
A long and updated list of pre-installed laptops available is at
http://linuxpreloaded.com/
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Otto Kekäläinen [] otto(a)fsfe.org
Finnish Team Coordinator [][][] finland(a)fsfe.org
Free Software Foundation Europe || +358 44 566 2204
Support FSFE! http://fsfe.org/support?otto
Today, I gave talk on Open Data for the Hack4Dk cultural heritage data,
where I presented a free software developer's perspective on the concept
of Open Data.
I use the "open source" word, mainly for ease of communication - "Free
Software" is not yet readily understood by everybody here, alas (our
Fellowship Group wants to work on that).
The talk is here, feedback is welcome if you have any:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPfEGz2fgdI
Hi,
I rather liked the German "screwdriver" flyer, and would have liked to
hand out a Dutch version at the software freedom day meeting of my
local LUG. Since no translations existed, I translated the flyer to
English and Dutch. The translations can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/flx-fsfe. I was unable to use the layout and used
part of the f-droid flyer instead of a part of the original flyer
because I liked it better. I was unable to find any copyright
information about the original flyers and assumed that, as an fsfe
fellow, it would be OK if I simply translated it, with very few
modifications. I also hope my translated texts can be useful to
others, perhaps to create a proper flyer.
- Felix (flx(a)fsfe.org)