Ciao a tutti,
questa e-mail è d'interesse solo per i Fellow e so che l'avete già ricevuta
tutti, ma faccio un promemoria.
Lunedi 25 maggio, 20:30: incontro jabber con i 4 candidati al primo seggio della
Fellowship per l'Assemblea Generale di FSFE.
Server: conference.jabber.fsfe.org
stanza: fellowship
http://wiki.fsfe.org/Jabber
Qui un paio d'informazioni aggiuntive
http://blogs.fsfe.org/blog/2009/05/21/jabber-meeting-meet-the-candidates/
L'occasione è utile per conoscere i candidati, ed anche se avete già votato, per
fare loro qualche domanda.
Buon weekend
Giacomo
Here the english translation of Winners announcement
and motivation for Italian BBA.
Please send it to all possible interested parties.
This years awards was very important, being italian
privacy manaced by several new law proposals.
Here
http://bba.winstonsmith.info/bba2009_conferenza_stampa_MP515438.mp3
the audio of the announcement of winners
done in the Italian parliement, Low Chamber
of Representiatives
Thanks! Marco
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Big Brother Awards Italy 2009
Winners announcement
Today, the votes of the jurors for the Big Brother Awards Italia
2009(http://bba.winstonsmith.info/) is public. The jurors have made
their choice on the basis of the proposals sent by all Italians.
This is the first year when the winners are announced first to the
press. The prizes will be handed out during the E-Privacy 2009 meeting,
which will be held in Florence on Saturday, May 23.
The Big Brother Awards come in six flavours:
- Worst public organisation
- Worst private company
- Most invasive technology
- “Boot mouth”
- “Lifelong threat”
- “People's Lament”
Besides the “negative” prizes, there is also a positive one - the
- Winston Smith – Privacy Hero
The Big Brother Awards are assigned on the basis of public proposals,
which are selected and voted by a jury.
For a month everyone, even anonymously, was able to propose persons or
organisations for one of the prizes. The nominations have been evaluated
by a jury, which has voted the most meaningful; each of the 6 members of
the jury gave 5 points to the most meaningful proposal, 3 for the second
and 1 for the third – this for each category.
The proposal with the maximum score (the best one can get is 30) gets
the prize. In case of an equal result the jury goes for a second round;
if there is still an equal result, the president of the jury decides.
The winner of one of the prizes has already been announced; it's the
“People's Lament” prize, assigned without a decision of the jury to the
person or organisation which received the largest number of negative
proposals.
This year we received 56 proposals, of which 48 were complete – 40 for
the negative prizes and 8 for the positive one.
This year, the prize “People's Lament” has been won to the well-known
social network operator Facebook, with 12 proposals on 40.
The organises of BBA Italia 2009 have already invited Facebook to send a
representative to Florence to take the prize.
The winners of the other categories are announced today. These prizes
will be handed out on May 23 and all winners are invited to send a
representative.
Prize "Most invasive technology": facebook(21/30).
Facebookis not a really innovative technology, since it uses almost
exclusively existing standard technologies. What is unique is the
specific mix that, like for Dr. Jekyll's drug, encourages to the maximum
possible extent the compulsive need to put our personal data on the
Internet.
It does this with the protection of a policy that, although it has been
largely discussed and even partially changed, allows any type of use of
any textual, graphical, relational data put into into.
The success of the company is an indication of its dangerous ability to
profile and control its users. The fact that it stores and processes not
only simple search or email messages, such as Google, but directly
social relationships, i.e. the most intimate of personal data, makes it
potentially much more dangerous.
Prize "Worst private company": facebook(25/30)
Facebookmanages to establish an unprecedent record in the history of the
Big Brother Awards, in Italy and elsewhere, winning this prize with an
almost unanimous score.
Notwithstanding the trendy and informal “look and feel” of this company,
its behaviour is rather disappointing. The recent and known case of an
“acceptable use policy” that allows everything to Facebook and nothing
to its users (as is unfortunately “natural” for a free service which
must obtain its income through other means) goes on par with an
unsatisfactory care to those who see their accounts violated by
strangers or blocked by Facebook itself on the basis of third parties'
notifications.
Without discussing the functioning of this social community, Facebook
is, in the experience of those who voted it for this prize, a
substantially “opaque” company, very difficult to contact, which does
not make its business plans public and shares very little of its
internal operations or its current and future strategies.
Prize "Lifelong Threat": MP Gabriella Carlucci (16/30)
MP Carlucci has promoted in the past some law proposals that keep into
very low esteem those honest persons with a double citizenship, of Italy
and of the Internet. A network which is full of “pedo-terror-satanists”
or by stupids in need of protection. Such as her recent proposal DDL
2195/2009, originally titled “Internet, a territory of freedom, of
rights and of duties”, and now “scaled down” to “Measures to ensure the
legality of the Internet network and assigning power to the Government
to create to this end a committee of the Authority for Communications”.
This law proposal had been promoted as a remedy to limit the
“widespread” illegality on Internet and to fight against pedophily.
The document, which had no trace of such intentions, has been
immediately analysed by Netizens, who discovered that the document has
been written by Davide Rossi, the president of Univideo. The reactions
that followed have convinved many that “freedoms and rights” of the
proposal are only those of the holders of so-called “intellectual
property rights” and the “duties” are only those of Italian citizens, to
be turned into homogenous and disciplined “consumers of bit”. There
continues to be no trace of any “pedo*” stuff in the final text, which
spends most of its length to define and create a new
"...high authority with functional and investigation powers, with no
prejudice to the role of criminal, civil and administrative judges and
to the functions of existing regulatory and control bodies."
Netizens are, clearly, incredibly missing such a new authority.
The “very high authority” would have in its remit to regulate:
"... all the activities of access to the Internet done by or through
devices or infrastructures located in the national territory."
In short: an Italian Little Brotherto identify everyone, destroying the
Italian Internet as we know it, in order to save intellectual property
rights.
On the other hand, our Constitution refers not to the latter but rather
to freedom of expressionand inviolability of communication, but this
only shows that our Constitutions needs to be changed (again).
Prize "Foul Mouth": MP Gabriella Carlucci (21/30)
MP Carlucciestablishes a new record – two prizes in one year – which is
unfortunately immediately surpasses by Facebook, which gets three
prizes. For a single person this is anyway without precedent. This prize
is for the “most terrifying” public sentence on the topic of privacy and
civil rights on the Net.
"The time has come to fight and destroy anonimity on the Internet. Yet
another time, anonymous criminals use the Internet to slander, ridicule,
categorise, offend, denounce. This time the target is our police forces,
filed and offended by an anonymous blogger. This is the umpteenth
unacceptable case of an improper use of the Internet, showing how badly
and urgently we need a law preventing law-breakers to use the net for
anti-social goals, hiding behind the cover of anonimity.”
And this is it for honest Italian citizens, who since some centuries
have used their right to anonimity, even if only by sending a letter
with no sender, when they feel they need to, without creating police
crisis or institutional collapses, and without this preventing the fight
against crime.
Prize "Worst public organisation": Ministry of Home Affairs (23/30)
TheMinistry of Home Affairshas implemented an initiative to identify and
file all roma children, via compulsory fingerprinting.
With the approval of the so-called “Security Package”, the Ministry will
probably get the possibility to censor websites without a prior judicial
decision, using the technological infrastructure funded and built for a
fictitious action to contract “pedo-pornography”, and getting back to
using the never forgotten crime of “apology of ...”, the real swiss
knife of censorship.
Prize "Winston Smith – Privacy Hero": Electronic Frontier Foundation
(15/30)
The US organisation Electronic Frontier Foundation works to defend
privacy and civil rights on the Internet since 1990.
Its activities, always visionary and dedicated, have had important
effects throughout the world, including in Italy.
The support given to Tor (http://tor.eff.org) has been one of its most
important activities, but its ongoing attention and reaction to all
initiatives aimed at censoring the Net or repress freedom of expression
has been absolutely precious.
All Netizens, whether Italian or not, have a real debt towards it. For
this reason it receives a prize which is normally reserved to Italian
organisations – which this year have not been as effective.
What's the Big Brother Award ?
What is Big Brother Awards Italy? It is a "negative" prize which is
awarded in the whole world to those who have most endangered privacy.
In a scenario where privacy is virtually annihilated by new technologies
and controversial initiatives to enhance "security", where censorship is
becoming a normal tool for social control, the BBA aims to bring
attention to the worst privacy offenders, who often benefit from the
fact that - as usual - public spotlight is kept far away from these
subjects.
In the best tradition of the Internet, the BBA is a serious initiative
which doesn't take itself too seriously. The BBA is also about having
fun, not because the issues under consideration are not serious, but
because having fun is the best way to do things effectively. For this
reason, the award event, which will take place on May 23 during
E-Privacy 2009 (http://e-privacy.winstonsmith.info), will sport some
surpsirses..
BBA Italy is organised by the Winston Smith Project (link
http://www.winstonsmith.info/pws), in cooperation with Privacy
International (http://www.privacyinternational.org/) and other
organisations.
Per more information info(a)winstonsmith.info
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Secondo voi si puo' fare qualcosa?
Esiste qualche garante della concorrenza? Cavillo della legge stanca?
Soggetto in grado di fare ricorso? E' il caso di inoltrare questa cosa
alle associazioni di consumatori?
a voi la parola,
niz
> <http://www.comune.roma.it/was/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_21L?menuPage=/&…>
> vi faccio un riassunto di alcuni aspetti salienti del bando
> base d'asta 26 mln €
> fornitura, manutenzione e gestione di apparecchiature informatiche
> (desktop, server, help-desk, ecc.)
> durata del contratto 39 mesi
>
> ----
> in "capitolato speciale"
> art.3 specificità del servizio richiesto
> (..)
> fornitura di licenze software Microsoft e servizi di manutenzione
> fornitura di licenze software Symantec e servizi di manutenzione
> supporto specialistico per le attività connesse con l’active directory e
> il software di Microsoft installato e per la piattaforma del software
> Symantec;
>
> ---------------
> FORNITURA RICHIESTA
>
> I anno II anno TOtale
> Personal computer Base 3.600 2.400 6.000
> Personal computer Evoluta 30 20 50
> Personal mobile 70 30 100
> Server medi 20 10 30
> Server grandi 12 8 20
> System Storage servers 12 8 20
> Stampanti A4 b/n di gruppo 35 ppm 30 20 50
> Stampanti A4 b/n ppm sk rete 1.560 1.040 2.600
> Stampanti A4 colori 24 ppm 300 200 500
> Stampanti ad impatto 300 100 400
> Stampanti multifunzione A4 b/n 30 20 50
> Stampanti multifunzione A4 colori 20 10 30
>
>
> LICENZE SOFTWARE
>
> 1. Acquisizione di licenze software per le nuove Postazioni di Lavoro (PdL),
> comprensiva della manutenzione evolutiva triennale (Software
> Assurance) per i
> seguenti prodotti software:
> n° 3000 licenze di upgrade al sistema operativo Windows Vista
> Enterprise comprensivo del relativo tools di gestione integrata
> denominato Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP)
> n° 3000 licenze Office 2007 versione Professional Plus
> n° 3000 licenze Windows Server Client Access License (CAL)
> n° 10 licenze Visual Studio Team Foundation CAL
> n°1 licenza Visual Studio Professional con MSDN Premium
> n°5 licenze Visio Professional
> n° 10 licenze Project Server CAL
> n°5 licenze Project Professional + CAL
> n° 5 Abbonamenti Technet Plus
>
> 2. Acquisizione di licenze per server, comprensiva della manutenzione
> evolutiva
> triennale (Software Assurance) per i seguenti prodotti software:
> n° 20 licenze Windows Server versione Enterprise
> n° 30 licenze Windows Server versione Standard
> n° 1 licenza Office Sharepoint Server
> n° 1 licenza SQL Server versione Standard licenza per server
> n° 1 licenza SQL Server versione Standard licenza per processore
> n° 1 licenza System Center Configuration Manager Enterprise
> n° 1 licenza System Center Operation Manager (console)
> n° 50 licenze System Center Operation Manager
> n° 1 licenza Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
> n° 1 Licenza Project Server
>
> licenze Symantec ...
>
>
Segnalo la conferenza rivolta ai gruppi italiani attivi sul tema del SL e che si
terrà il 13 Giugno a Bologna. Co-locata con la conferenza Italian sul Software
Libero.
L'invito è rivolto a tutti :)
http://www.fsugitalia.org/lugconf/doku.phphttp://www.gnuvox.info/2009/05/lug-conference-13-giugno-2009-bologna/
Giacomo
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> Lugconference 09
> La comunità italiana FOSS si incontra.
> Bologna 13 giugno 9:30 am
>
> Come forse molti di voi già sapranno il 12-13 Giugno 2009, a Bologna
> si terrà la terza “Conferenza Italiana sul Software Libero”.
> All'interno di quest'evento sarà ospitata, nella seconda giornata, una
> LugConference.
>
> A discapito del nome, la LugConference è l'evento aperto a tutti i
> Lug/FSUG/HackLab, in cui le comunità si incontrano e si confrontano,
> affrontando i temi legati alla diffusione del FOSS, le comunità, le
> collaborazioni, le progettualità e gli eventi (es. LinuxDay). E' una
> occasione imperdibile per discutere dei vari problemi emersi più e più
> volte all'interno delle varie liste, per conoscersi e per dare una
> occhiata al panorama italiano delle comunità FOSS.
>
> L'evento, così come è stato pensato, è fortemente orientato alla
> discussione da parte dei gruppi; dopo i primi due talk introduttivi,
> di cui uno proprio di ILS, sarà dato ampio spazio a quanto i gruppi
> stessi avranno da dire o proporre, attraverso un dibattito aperto.
>
> Al fine di ottimizzare le risorse di tempo e di spazio, è stato
> istituito un wiki ( http://www.fsugitalia.org/lugconf/ ), per
> segnalare i gruppi che parteciperanno all'iniziativa e gli argomenti
> che dovrebbero essere trattati. Invitiamo tutti quelli che volessero
> partecipare a segnalarci la loro partecipazione o sul wiki, o
> direttamente alla mia mail ( axj [at] fsugitalia [dot] com ). Lo
> stesso vale per gli “argomenti” che volete proporre (sezione apposita
> nel wiki o mail).
>
> Sappiamo che per tutti non sarà semplice venire, e ci rendiamo conto
> delle criticità che possono essere insite nel periodo dell'anno e
> nella locazione geografica. Ciò non toglie che siamo grati agli
> organizzatori di Confsl, con particolare riferimento al professor
> Renzo Davoli, per l'opportunità che ci viene data di realizzare una
> lugconference. A costo di essere ripetitivo, vi esorto a non perdere
> per voi, e per il vostro gruppo, una simile occasione di discutere, e,
> magari, di cambiare le cose.
>
> Ovviamente, nell'invitarvi alla lugconference, vi invito anche a
> partecipare alla ConfSL, che, dalle notizie che mi giungono
> dall'organizzazione, sarà un evento ricco di interventi e
> partecipazioni da diversi settori del FOSS, quindi, nel suo complesso,
> un evento da non perdere. Potete saperne di più andand su
> http://www.confsl.org
>
> Per qualsiasi domanda potete contattarmi al mio indirizzo di posta, e
> provvederò quanto prima a rispondere (se possibile)
>
>
> L'evento è organizzato da ILS, FSUGitalia e in collaborazione con gli
> organizzatori della ConfSL.
>
>
> E' molto importante che, se possibile, contattiate i lug (et similia)
> più prossimi a voi per informarli di tale iniziativa, in modo che
> tutti i lug attivi che hanno qualcosa da dire, sappiano in tempo di
> tale possibilità... mi rivolgo quindi ai vari amministratori,
> chiedendo di far girare questa mail.
>
> Grazie
>
> Cordiali saluti
> Alexjan Carraturo
Ciao,
vi avevo preannunciato della creazione di un internet point libero
basato su gnewsense, vi mando una foto per mostrarvelo!
Abbiamo allestito questo internet point nell'ambito del campus di
biennale democrazia (biennaledemocrazia.acmos.net), un evento che
raccoglie circa 300 ragazzi delle scuole superiori piemontesi per 4
giorni e notti a campeggiare nel centro di torino, nel giardino di un
noto locale torinese, come potete capire dall'"ambientazione"
dell'internet point :-)
Per ora sono tre computer, uno oggi ha deciso di abbandonarci... sono
tutti computer di recupero (pentium 3) che vanno meravigliosamente con
gnewsense!
Vorrei preparare un volantino da lasciare vicino alle postazioni,
magari domani porto qualcosa... Mi servirebbe in italiano, se già ci
fosse qualcosa...
Comunque sono molto contento e volevo condividere con voi :-)
ciao!
Matteo