There seems to be a lot of anti-establishment rhetoric going about.
The UK may have an anti-EU referendum in 3 months. Yanis Varoufakis
(controversial former Greek finance minister who rides motorbikes[1]) is
now trying to create some movement of pro-EU democracy activists under
the name DiEM25[2] with a launch in Berlin next week.
What is notably absent from debates on both the left and right of the
spectrum is any talk about the role of proprietary technology, big data
and the cloud. Many of the social problems created by big data are
global. The DiEM25 people are talking about "bringing back" democracy,
but I suspect that with their web site simply linking to Facebook and
Twitter they are simply another well-intentioned group transferring a
little more power into the hands of a few privileged people in Silicon
Valley.
Is anybody in FSFE reaching out to any of these groups - anywhere in the
political spectrum - to see if there are areas for collaboration?
Has there been any follow-up after the efforts around the last European
elections?
Is anybody potentially interested in the DiEM25 meeting next week, maybe
even trying to get somebody with competence in big data and the cloud
into their panel of speakers?
Even if we don't agree with everything these people have to say
politically, I feel these types of collaborations can lead to more
public awareness and sometimes fund-raising opportunities for the things
we do believe in.
Regards,
Daniel
1. https://www.google.ch/search?q=yanis+varoufakis+motorbike&&tbm=isch
2. http://diem25.org/
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I was given this link by PhillW on #linuxpadawan on IRC
https://opensource.com/education/15/3/asian-penguins-Linux-middle-school
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Great story as to how kids really can if given a chance embrace free
software and GNU / Linux
May be something to share or take inspiraton from
hope this helps
Paul
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Hi,
anybody participating in the European "joinup" communities for Free
Software? I found e.g. the "Open source observatory"
(https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/home) which looks interestin
g.
I haven't digged deeper, but is FSFE participating there?
I would like to hear any experiences and whether it makes sense to
watch/join the "joinup" communities (they are primarily targeted
towards Public Administrations)...
BTW: I'm still looking for a way on how I can support our demand "for
all publicly funded software to be published as Free Software".
Thanks!
- - Henning
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Probably a lot of you already know this, but I just found out by seeing
Jez Humble joining them [1]:
Apparently the US government is funding a fully FLOSS-based
"consultancy" to "build the 21st century US government":
https://18f.gsa.gov/
They have a nice Open Source policy and a lot of Github projects:
https://github.com/18F/open-source-policy
I'm not sure, but I haven't seen anything comparable (well funded
government initiative with a lot of FLOSS projects) at least in Germany.
Maybe you can correct me and share any comparable European initiatives
with such "manpower" and number of FLOSS projects..
- Henning
[1] https://twitter.com/jezhumble/status/692048962681843712
We now have the "There is no cloud, just other people's computers"
design on a t-shirt, too. It is in a nice bordeaux, which according to
our trend scouts, is THE colour to wear in the Free Software Community in
2016.
https://fsfe.org/order/
Thanks to the designer Markus Meier!
All the best,
Matthias
PS: the stickers and postcards can be ordered together with information
about Free Software on http://fsfe.org/promo
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Hi all,
I have seen that there is a Call for Papers: Decentralizing the Commons and as
I think that one of the core aspects of Free Software is the ability for
decentralizing, I was thinking someone here might have interest in participating.
The concept is very open and it does not need to be a scientific paper. the
Deadline however is quite soon, January 30:
http://p2pvalue.eu/floss4p2p-book-open-call
Best,
Erik
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Hi,
I have a licence related questions that I hope somebody here
can awnser.
I want to use a modified version of the zsync [1] code in a different
project (the ownCloud Desktop client). Now the ownCloud
Desktop client is licenced under the GPLv2.
But the original zsync library is licenced under the:
When searching I did find several sources (including
wikipedia [2]) stating that the Artistic Licence V2 is GPL compatible.
However the beta4 differs slightly. To me it looks very similar.
But I'd like to get some opinion from people that are a bit
more into licences.
I already tried to contact the creator several times but no responses.
To make a long questions a bit shorted.
Can somebody tell me if the "The Artistic License Version 2.0beta4,
October 2000"
is GPLv2 compatible?
Thanks in advance!
--Roeland
[1] http://zsync.moria.org.uk/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artistic_License