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Software Freedom Day 2023
by Jurgen Gaeremyn 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

Hello, on the third Saturday of September, the world traditionally celebrates Software Freedom Day. So this year it's September 16th, 2023. In our hackerspace (Brussels), we've been upholding this tradition for a few years now. Last year, we worked around the topic 'the cloud is yours' (https://hsbxl.be/events/software-freedom-day/2022-10-02/). For this year, we'd like to tackle the topic of free software and its value in education. Right now, we're looking around for people interested in giving a presentation, hosting a discussion panel, organizing a workshop, ... These can be in Dutch, French or English. Depending on the response, the event could be anything from a one day, single track event up to a full weekend, triple track event. Would you be interested in participating, or do you know people that I might reach out to? Please get in touch! Oh, and if Brussels is too far away... nobody's stopping you to celebrate Software Freedom in your neck of the woods! Hop in at www.softwarefreedomday.org for more details. Grtz, Jurgen Hackerspace Brussels

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News about the use of Google Classroom in Denmark
by Carsten Agger 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

In August, the Danish data protection agency banned the use of Google's products in the municipality of Helsingør. If this ban is upheld, the use of Google Classroom in 40+ municipalities will be illegal. The agency has allowed Helsingør to continue using the product until supplying further information in January, since postponed some times. Now, the interest organization "KL - Local Government in Denmark"[1] are arguing[2] that if Google's say that they need students' personal data to "enhance" the product and "innovate" it, then the Danish municipalities should provide that data. These data, that Google may use to "enhance" its product includes IP address, email address, location, passwords, metadata, bookmarks, and ... files created by the students. In the article in the medium Radar I refer to (i.e. [2]) a professor of administrative law argues that this is probably against the Danish school law. I also imagine it must violate the GDPR, but IANAL. But basically, Google are taking the municipalities hostage (who, I might add, have bought *individually* from Google - they haven't negotiateed as a block) by claiming that they *need* that data to operate - a claim that must certainly be false. Best Carsten [1]: https://www.kl.dk/english/ [2]: https://radarmedia.dk/eksperter-kommuners-nye-argumenter-i-chromebook-sag-e…

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If in near Aarhus (Denmark), join our Local Group Meeting
by Carsten Agger 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

The next Local Group meeting in FSFE Aarhus will be on THURSDAY, JANUARY 12 at Silkeborgvej 260, 8230 Åbyhøj at 17:00 hours. The location is kindly sponsored by Magenta ApS, https://magenta.dk. See also: https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/Aarhus Topics will include * Campaigns * Activities, including appearances at educational institutions * Happenings and events (ideas are welcome) * Your own topic We've still have a lot of printed material regarding the Public Money Public Code campaign - you're welcome to take some of it and spread to your own workplace or acquaintances See you there!

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I Love Free Software Day 2023
by Bonnie Mehring 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Dear Discussion-List, I would like to share with you the news about the upcoming I Love Free Software Day 2023 :) and hear your thoughts on this. The "I Love Free Software Day" is an annual celebration of our love for software freedom on the 14th of February. On this day we reach out to each other and say thank you to all Free Software contributors. More info for the I Love Free Software Day can be found here: https://ilovefs.org For this years “I Love Free Software Day” we have focused on real-life meetings and asked our local groups to organise a get-together. If you would like to join a meeting here are a few that will happen on the 14th: * the Netherlands team will meet in Arnhem at 7 pm (CET) * In Berlin an “I Love Free Software Day” party will take place at C-Base, Rungestraße 20, from 19:30 till 00:00 (and even better directly before the party an Upcycling Android workshop will take place starting at 16:30 pm (CET) * the local group in Hamburg will meet for the I Love Free Software Day * and a Pizza party will be organised at the Chaos Computer Club in Frankfurt am Main. * in Greece an I Love Free Software and privacy get-together will be organised in Thessaloniki. * in Switzerland the local group Zurich invites all Free Software enthusiast to join them at 5 o’clock in the afternoon at Bitwäscherei in Zurich. * While the Italian community will meet online. If there is no meeting near you, we would be happy to help you organise a get-together in your area. Let us ensure we show our love for Free Software and it’s contributors online and offline for this years I Love Free Software Day! Join us in celebrating software freedom across Europe on the 14th of February. For all of you who want to celebrate online we have our sharepic-generator: https://sharepic.fsfe.org/#ilovefs Create a personalised thank you image and share it via social media. And last but not least: share your love for a Free Software project while using our new I Love Free Software postcard: https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.en.html#ilovefs Let us make this years I Love Free Software Day a team event and support the local group meetings! Best regards, Bonnie -- Bonnie Mehring - Junior project manager - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.org/support)

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Deadline extension for the Youth Hacking 4 Freedom registration
by Bonnie Mehring 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Dear All, Happy New Year to all of you and I hope you had a good start into 2023! Thank you for your help in spreading the news about the “Youth Hacking 4 Freedom” contest [1]. This has helped us greatly and we have received numerous registrations. However, after closing the registration we noticed people missed the closing and are now hoping to be admitted late. Of course we are not holding anyone back and are happy to extend the deadline until the end of January. So that everybody has the chance to register. This extension does not include an extensions for the coding period. Projects have to be handed in by the end of June 2023. As this extension should be an option for everybody I would like to ask you for your help in promoting the news about it and the contest itself. YH4F in a nutshell: * Participants must be 14-18 years old and should register at YH4F website: https://yh4f.org * The registration is extended till the end of January * Six winners will be awarded again with cash prizes and a trip to Brussels. * The competition takes place online. The Award Ceremony is in Brussels. * The coding period started on the 1st of January and ends on the 30th of June 2023. Thank you for your help in spreading the news throughout Europe. Best regards, Bonnie [1] yh4f.org -- Bonnie Mehring - Junior project manager - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.org/support)

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Share new Youth Hacking 4 Freedom round
by Bonnie Mehring 12 Dec '22

12 Dec '22

Dear all, I want to share our news of the second round of the Youth Hacking 4 Freedom contest. This contest gives youngsters the chance to compete in a fun way, while also learning more about Free Software, improving their coding skills, and even winning prizes. YH4F in a nutshell: * Participants must be 14-18 years old and should register at YH4F website. * The registration is open till the end of year, Saturday, 31 December 2022. httpw://yh4f.org * Six winners will be awarded again with cash prizes and a trip to Brussels. * The competition takes place online. The Award Ceremony is in Brussels. * The coding period starts on the 1st of January 2023 and ends on the 30th of June. I would be very glade if you could help me in spreading our call for participation. All information about the contest and how to register can be found here: https://yh4f.org Let’s make sure that the people in (y)our community will have the chance to register! Thank you for your help! I am happy to answer any questions you might have. Best regards, Bonnie -- Bonnie Mehring - Junior project manager - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.org/support)

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[Ebook] Contribute to open source: the right way 3rd edition
by Daniele "Mte90" Scasciafratte 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

Hi everyone, I am just writing there, hoping that is not spam, that I published the third edition of my free and open source book "Contribute to open source: the right way 3rd edition". Basically include my whole experience in the last 12 years in different communities, projects and roles. From the community manager to developer, localizer and so on as per international roles and national ones. The purpose to write was to reply the people asking me how to start or how to improve that stuff. You can download it from GitHub/Leanpub: https://daniele.tech/2022/09/contribute-to-open-source-the-right-way-3rd-ed… I am open to feedback of course :-) -- Daniele Scasciafratte - OpenSource MultiVersal Guy daniele.tech <https://daniele.tech> - @Mte90Net <https://twitter.com/Mte90net> - GitHub <https://github.com/Mte90> - Italian Linux Society council member <http://www.ils.org/> - Mozillian <https://people.mozilla.org/p/Mte90> Mozilla Reps, Mozilla TechSpeakers, WordPress Core Contributor <https://profiles.wordpress.org/mte90>, FSFE member <https://fsfe.org/>, LibreItalia member <http://www.libreitalia.it/>, Wikimedia Italia member <https://www.wikimedia.it/> and LUG Rieti founder <http://lugrieti.linux.it/>.

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Op/ed about Free Software in Danish newspaper Information
by Carsten Agger 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

Øjvind from our Danish FSFE team had a feature/opinion piece in the Danish newspaper Information the other day, print edition and online: https://www.information.dk/debat/2022/08/baeredygtige-it-fremtid-benytte-fr… Its headline is: "Our sustainable IT future must use Free Software, not Microsoft, Google and Apple". If you don't read Danish you could use a translation service to read the actual article. Best Carsten

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Fwd: New FSFE group in Denmark - Take part!
by Carsten Agger 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

Hi If anyone is in or near Aarhus, Denmark, we are resuming our local group activities there with the first meeting being on Thursday: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: New FSFE group in Denmark - Take part! Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 14:49:21 +0200 From: Carsten Agger <agger(a)fsfe.org> To: Carsten Agger <agger(a)fsfe.org> Do you often wish that Free Software was more popular in Denmark? You are not alone, and now you can connect with like-minded people. Volunteers have taken the initiative to restart the FSFE local group Aarhus. The purpose of the new working group is to spread awareness in Denmark about Free Software and its values. The first meeting will be at Magenta ApS, Silkeborgvej 260, 8230 Åbyhøj on Thursday 9 June at 17:00. Everyone interested in software freedom is welcome! The group will discuss what can and should be done for Free Software in Denmark, the "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign - and, of course, any related topic the participants want to bring up. Greetings, Carsten Coordinator Denmark

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City of Lyon (France) will switch to FOSS office suite (published July 7th 2022)
by Jonke Suhr 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

https://www.lyonmag.com/article/124375/informatique-la-ville-de-lyon-veut-t… Seems like good news, it's quite a big city. Maybe our French community members can provide some more insight :)

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