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HEVC patent? openess? (Video codec)
by Bernhard Reiter 20 Aug '12

20 Aug '12

It seems a join venture of Moving Picture Experts Group and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group currently develops a new video codes that among other things compresses twice as efficient as h264: HEVC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding As h264 had real patent pressures, and thus is hard to implement with all software freedom retained: What is the status of HEVC, that is supposed to become h265 regarding patents and openness? If the video codes of WebM: VP8 or libvpx is a real competitor to h264, what could be the next version that can compete with the claimed higher efficiency of HEVC? -- FSFE -- Founding Member of the GA blogs.fsfe.org/bernhard Support our work for Free Software: https://fsfe.org/support/?ber

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Newspaper "Die Zeit": Wistleblower software published as Free Software
by Matthias Kirschner 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

"Die Zeit", Germany's biggest weekly newspaper, introduced a "digital postbox" [1], which enables people to leak documents to the newspaper. They published this as Free Software [2]. First the software makes the data anonymous, by removing metadata and other information from the files. Then the GnuPG encrypted data will be sent to the journalists, who will check the information, and see if they make a story out of it. The software also provides a kind of anonymous postbox, to interact with the the wistleblower. Regards, Matthias 1. http://blog.zeit.de/zeitansage/2012/07/30/zeit-online-startet-digitalen-bri… 2. https://github.com/zeitonline -- 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) Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner)

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Slashdot reports: First-sale doctrine upheld for software by the EU Court of Justice
by Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Greetings, http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/03/1245200/used-software-can-be-sold-sa… Discuss. Also, does someone have time to examine the decision? We might want a press release acclaiming the decision, as such a decision seems to have strengthened the people's right to share software. Cheers, -- Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild FSFE Fellow (en) / FSFE ühinglane (et) <repentinus(a)fsfe.org> <https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/repentinus> <http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/> P.S. I hope all the recipients feel concerned about the decision, and are the right people to consider the implications.

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Campus Party in August in Berlin
by Matthias Kirschner 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

(see also http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=961) From August 21. to 26. there is Campus Party in Berlin. I was asked before if I can make suggestions for good speakers from the Free Software community. That is what I did. So beside the already announced keynote speakers like Jon “maddog” Hall, Mark Surman (Mozilla Foundation), and Rainey Reitman (EFF) to following talks will take place in the Free Software track: - Amir Taaki - Bitcoin: money backed by code and maths, not laws and politics - Daniel Kinzler - Wikidata: implementation and integration of Wikipedia´s next big thing - Hugo Roy – Why Free Software needs Network Neutrality? - Lydia Pintscher - Free Software: Your chance to change the world and how to get there - Matthias Kirschner – An endangered species: computer as a universal machine - Matthias Kirschner – The FSFs – Fighting for your freedom, since 1985 - Peter Bubestinger - Record. Mix. Master: professional audio production with Free Software - Torsten Grote – Free your Android: Reclaim your phone I also suggested the following speakers, which are now confirmed for other tracks: - Alessandro Rubini – THOS: Two Hour Operating System - Frank Karlitschek - Free Software and Cloud Data Storage - Hugo Roy – Terms of Services: Didn´t Read! Tickets cost €128 and gives you access to all activities during the entiresix days of Campus Party Europe in Berlin. The CP Village is outfitted withtents, bathrooms, showers and 24/7 access to food vendors. Camping in theVillage is €64, tents included. Until the July 30 you can buy your ticket using this registration form, and 30 people out of the registrations using this link <http://www.campus-party.eu/webapp/participante/formularioAbreviado/39O1wxdw…> will win a gratis ticket to the event. This will be an interesting week and I am looking forward to see you at thein Berlin. -- 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) Weblog (blogs.fsfe.org/mk) - Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner)

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Internship opportunities at FSFE
by Karsten Gerloff 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Hi everyone, FSFE has two internship positions available, starting August 2012 or later. We are looking for bright, motivated people who want to make a real difference for a free information society. Whether your background is in politics, law, computer science or other fields, we welcome your application. If you want to spend between four and twelve exciting months working at the point where technology, society and politics meet, apply now. For details, please see http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.en.html Best regards, Karsten -- Karsten Gerloff [ ] <gerloff(a)fsfeurope.org> Free Software Foundation Europe [ ][ ][ ] [http://fsfe.org] President | | +49 176 9690 4298 Your donation powers our work! [http://fsfe.org/donate/] Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. is a German Verein registered at the Registergericht Hamburg (VR 17030).

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404s and unclosed but fixed bugs in the PDF readers bug list
by Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Greetings, I have been taking looks at <https://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html>, and I have discovered that quite a few URLs once reported as bugs do not resolve (404) any more, or do not contain any proprietary PDF reader advertisements. This seemed to be especially common for German institutions. If someone has time, please, take a look at the bug list, and either find a new URL containing a bug for such institutions, or being unable to do so, close the bug. Faithfully, -- Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild FSFE Fellow (en) / FSFE ühinglane (et) <repentinus(a)fsfe.org> <https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/repentinus> <http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/>

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Fwd: Who owns this computer?
by Sam Tuke 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

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New Fellowship Interview published
by Alessandro Polvani 25 Jun '12

25 Jun '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, This month we interviewed Bjarni Runar Einarsson, the founder and lead developer of PageKite, an application which allows the publication of websites stored on personal computers and mobiles. He won the Nordic Free Software Award for his work in 2010. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=605 Best, Alessandro - -- Alessandro Polvani [ ] <alessandro.polvani(a)fsfe.org> Free Software Foundation Europe [ ][ ][ ] [http://fsfe.org] Assistant to the President | | +49-30-27595290 Your donation powers our work! [http://fsfe.org/donate/] Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. is a German Verein registered at the Registergericht Hamburg (VR 17030). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iJwEAQECAAYFAk/olpcACgkQey/ZAxEJx3944gQAnbCaoBoE4cR6/sXCDp5/e0Md ii/a23gXD/QxtsQ4hkqKoryklVMPBOGILT/0JjvbKViBMp/gxbHXyjul6NVOR2y/ XZsA+5qrV4zCMnzoSl8bv0YtM7tmwO30QqO2zTf/ZpC2jV1aRxIYXW8zY6lkpXnO OEYlqXWE9dbJSuSUGjc= =e6oH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RMLL 2012
by Reinhard Müller 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Dear friends of Free Software! >From 7 to 12 July, FSFE will have a booth at RMLL in Geneva. We are looking for people to join us at our booth and help spread the word about Free Software and FSFE. If you are interested in participating in FSFE's presence at RMLL, please write an email to Hugo Roy (hugo(a)fsfe.org - French or English) or Reinhard Müller (reinhard(a)fsfe.org - German or English). However, even if you just visit RMLL, please visit the FSFE booth and say hello to us! Hugo and Reinhard

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Debate on Free Software at EC
by Fioddor Superconcentrado 14 Jun '12

14 Jun '12

After triggering changes at home [1] recently, basque country officials, free software supporters and free software companies have inyected a proposal [2] about free software releases by the public sector in a EC debate about open data. The rationale -similar to the one that keeps Europe free of software patents - relies on the idea that software is yet another information format. For the moment, most of the comments are originated in Spain. It would be great to have tons of comments from other parts of Europe supporting the innitiative. Please, help spread the word. [1] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/spains-basque -countrys-administration-share-all-its-software [2] http://daa.ec.europa.eu/content/open-apps-open-source-released-open-data

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