1. Moving forward in the GPLv3 public consultation process 2. SELF project issues call for material 3. New office in Sweden 4. School of Art and Design Zürich donates hosting services to FSFE 5. Giacomo Poderi ends his internship 6. Alex Antener joins the core team
1. Moving forward in the GPLv3 public consultation process
On 23 and 24 August, the 4th international GPLv3 conference took place in Bangalore, India. The event was organised by FSFE's sister organisation, the Free Software Foundation India, and FSFE helped the organisers by sharing their experiences from the 3rd conference in Barcelona.
Regarding Europe, the FSFE still keeps a high level of public appearance to inform people about the essence and the backgrounds of the proposed changes in GPLv3. Most notably, Jonas Öberg presented the GPLv3 at one of the regular meetings of Dataföreningen, the Swedish computer association, and Ciarán O'Riordan did a presentation at the Danish Unix User Group DKUUG.
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/gplv3.en.html
2. SELF project issues call for material
SELF (Science Education and Learning in Freedom), an EU funded project to create and collect educational material about Free Software and open standards, issued a call for material. Everybody who knows of existing material that might be interesting to the SELF project is encouraged to register it online so that it can be evaluated and considered for the SELF platform.
http://www.selfproject.eu/repository/submit
3. New office in Sweden
Thanks to a cooperation with the Göteborg University, the FSFE has been able to start an office in Sweden. This will help the FSFE to build up an even stronger presence in the nordic region and give the volunteers and employees of the FSFE in Sweden a permanent place to work from.
4. School of Art and Design Zürich provides home for new FSFE server
The School of Art and Design Zürich (HGKZ, "Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich") supports the FSFE by donating rack space and bandwidth for a new server. This is an important and valuable contribution to FSFE, which took the summer break opportunity to further consolidate and improve its server infrastructure.
5. Giacomo Poderi ends his internship
August was the last month of Giacomo Poderi's internship. The FSFE thanks him for his valuable and reliable work. Giacomo found his internship a really formative experience, where he also got the chance of seeing how a lively and active organization like FSFE works to try ensuring that rights in the 'digital age' are not disregarded. He remains an active member of the FSFE and will continue to contribute in the Italian team.
6. Alex Antener joins the core team
Alex Antener from Zürich joined the FSFE core team as the first Swiss member. The focus of his work with FSFE is building up a strong team to support Free Software in Switzerland, in cooperation with FSFE's associate organisations. Having attended a school of arts rather than a technical school, he also aims to provide a bridge between Free Software issues on the one side and education and culture on the other.
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