= FSFE Newsletter Juli 2019 =
[ Online lesen: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201907.de.html ]
Die Highlights des diesmonatigen Newsletters sind unsere neue
Testimonials-Seite und die Zusammenfassung unseres diesjährigen "Legal
and Licensing Workshops" in Barcelona. Außerdem findest du Infos über
kommende Events mit und von uns, sowie einige visuelle Eindrücke von
unserer Arbeit zur Verbreitung von Freier Software in Europa.
== Die Testimonials-Seite ==
Die FSFE ist eine gemeinnützige Organisation mit dem Ziel, Anwendern die
Kontrolle über Technologie zu ermöglichen. Zusammen mit unserer
Community sind wir eine europäische Bewegung, um unsere digitale
Gesellschaft auf Freiheit für Benutzer und Software aufbaut. Dabei
erhalten wir so viel Unterstützung von kreativen und motivierten
Personen, dass wir es leider nie schaffen werden, alle im Detail
aufzuzählen. Trotzdem möchten wir einige Unterstützerinnen und
Unterstützer vorstellen, die uns durch tatkräftige Hilfe dahin gebracht
haben, wo wir heute sind.
Dazu hat die FSFE in den letzten Monaten an der Testimonials-Seite
gearbeitet. Das ist Teil einer Reihe von Interviews mit Supportern und
Freunden der FSFE, die gerne ihre Erlebnisse und Erfahrungen als
Mitglieder unserer vielfältigen Gemeinschaft teilen möchten. Sie alle
eint, dass sie als Ehrenamtliche die Mission der FSFE [1] in ganz Europa
unterstützen. In einem der ersten Beiträge stellen wir Cryptie, unsere
Supporterin und Datenschutzexpertin, aus Frankreich vor. Sie nutzt Freie
Software seit 15 Jahren und ist ein aktiver Teil der FSFE-Community seit
sechs Jahren. Du findest weitere Interviews, Videos und Testimonials auf
unserer Testimonials-Seite [2]. Wir wünschen dir viel Spaß beim
Kennenlernen unserer Community!
== Der Legal and Licensing Workshop 2019 ==
Ein großer Aspekt beim Einsatz Freier Software führt durch den
Paragraphendschungel. Einer unserer wichtigen Bausteine zum Verständnis
der Rechtslage zu Freier Software ist der "Legal and Licensing
Workshop". Diesen organisieren wir als geschlossene Veranstaltung einmal
pro Jahr für Mitglieder des FSFE Legal Networks. Jedes Jahr nehmen viele
Anwälte aus Europa und der Welt am Workshop teil, diskutieren Best
Practices und Lizenzthemen rund um Freie Software. Die meist dreitägige
Veranstaltung im informativen und vertraulichen Rahmen bringt die
Teilnehmer auf den neuesten Stand der Entwicklungen unter anderem zu den
Themen Lizenzkonformität, Patente, Projektsteuerung oder
Unternehmensverantwortung.
Die Teilnahme am Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop bietet den
Rechtexperten neben dem Austausch von Wissen und Neuigkeiten zu ihren
jeweiligen Arbeitsgebieten auch die Gelegenheit zum gemeinsamen
Kennenlernen. Diese beiden Punkte in Kombination fördern bessere
Lizenzkonformität durch die Verbreitung von Best Practices. Die
Konferenz ist auch ein Forum für ein diverses Fachpublikum, um sich
gegenseitig besser zu verstehen und damit allgemeine Missverständnisse
in diesem Bereich abzubauen.
Die FSFE hat eine kurze Zusammenfassung [3] des diesjährigen Workshops
erstellt. Bei Interesse findest du dort auch Informationen über die
vorherigen Workshops.
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== Nicht verpassen: Kommende Veranstaltungen mit der FSFE ==
Wie jeden Monat klären wir Organisationen, Unternehmen und Personen über
Freie Software auf und zeigen, wie Freie Software zu Freiheit,
Transparenz und Selbstbestimmung beiträgt. Wenn du uns bei der Arbeit
sehen oder uns treffen möchtest, schau doch bei einer der
Veranstaltungen in den kommenden Monaten vorbei:
- Am 10. und 11. August ist die FSFE mit einem Stand bei der FrOSCon in
Sankt Augustin, Bonn, vertreten. Unser Policy Manager "Alexander
Sander" hält dort einen Vortrag über unsere "Public Money? Public
Code!"-Kampagne.
- Vom 21. bis 25. August organisiert die FSFE eine Assembly [5] beim
Chaos Communication Camp in Mildenberg. Die Assembly wird Teil des
about:freedom [6] -Clusters sein, das die Schwerpunkte digitale
(Menschen-)Rechte, Informationsfreiheit und die Verbreitung Freier
Software hat. Das Cluster ist ein Zusammenschluss verschiedener
Organisationen aus der ganzen Welt, die sich für Freie Software und
die Verteidigung der digitalen Rechte einsetzen. Dazu gibt es vor Ort
Workshops und Infomaterial. Falls du beim Camp bist, schau doch
vorbei!
- Am 24. und 25. August kannst du uns außerdem an unserem Stand beim
zweiten Veganmania-Festival in Wien treffen.
== Was haben wir sonst so gemacht? Inner- und außerhalb der FSFE ==
Nicht erst seit dem letzten Newsletter bringen wir aktiv Personen,
Organisationen und Unternehmen Freie Software näher und ermutigen sie zu
deren Einsatz und Entwicklung. Im Folgenden zeigen wir dir einige
Events, von denen wir Fotos und Videos haben:
- Der FSFE Policy Manager Alexander Sander hat während der Kirchentage
in Dortmund vom 19. bis 23. Juni einen Vortrag über Freie Software
gehalten und an einer Podiumsdiskussion teilgenommen. Einen
ausführlichen Bericht findest du hier [7]. Während der Veranstaltung
hat Alex außerdem zwei Einsteiger-Workshops gehalten und die Bedienung
von Open Street Map und das Bearbeiten von Wikipedia-Artikeln erklärt.
- Der FSFE Programme Manager Max Mehl zeigte am 3. Juli bei Pass the
SALT in Lille, Frankreich, wie Freie Software eine Lösung für viele
Sicherheitsprobleme sein kann. Du kannst dir seinen kompletten Vortrag
über unseren Mirror [8] ansehen.
- Unser langjähriger Unterstützer Reinhard Müller gab einen Vortrag über
seinen erfolgreichen Einsatz von Web-Technologien bei der Entwicklung
des neuen FSFE-Community-Portals [9] am 6. Juli bei der Tübix [10] in
Tübingen.
- Am 22. Juli hat die FSFE-Community in Franken und der Hackerspace
Nürnberg einen gemeinsamen Vortrag [11] über die Grundlagen und
häufigsten Missverständnisse zu Freier Software organisiert.
== Empfehlungen der Autorin ==
Hier findest du einige mehr oder weniger technische Infos von
Mitgliedern der Community auf unserem FSFE Planet [12]:
- Albert Astals bietet einige neue KDE Anwendungs-Branches [13] an.
- Evaggelos Balaskas schreibt über seine Idee, virtuelle "nested-Kernel-
based"-Maschinen zu benutzen, um minikube in einer virtuellen Maschine
auszuführen. Damit kann minikube einen Kernel-based-Virtual-Machine-
Knoten unter Ubuntu 18.04 LTS [14] erstellen.
- Matija Šuklje (Hook) zeigt die Ergebnisse seiner Recherche über die
meistgenutzten Lizenzen in OpenAPI [15].
== Mach mit! ==
Wir sind immer auf der Suche nach Übersetzerinnen und Übersetzern in
verschiedenen Sprachen, damit unser Newsletter von möglichst vielen
Menschen verstanden werden kann. Wenn du bei unserem Übersetzer-Team
mitmachen möchtest, melde dich gerne bei contact(a)fsfe.org [16].
== Unser Newsletter braucht dich ==
Gerne kannst du uns einen Artikel, News oder Fotos für unseren
Newsletter schicken. Melde dich einfach bei newsletter(a)fsfe.org [17].
Wir freuen uns von dir zu hören.
Als Supporter kannst du unsere Arbeit auch mit einer einmaligen oder
regelmäßigen Spende unterstützen und gleichzeitig Teil unserer
Gemeinschaft werden: https://my.fsfe.org/support [18]
Vielen Dank an unsere Community, alle Freiwilligen [19], Supporter [20]
und Spender [21], die unsere Arbeit ermöglichen! Ein extra Dankeschön
geht an unsere Übersetzer, die es dir ermöglichen, diesen Newsletter auf
Deutsch zu lesen.
Deine Redakteurin
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= FSFE Newsletter June 2019 =
[ Online lesen: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201906.de.html ]
This month's newsletter highlights the Google/Huawei case and the
greater picture it reveals to us. In the Get Active section we call for
your proactivity in promoting the use of Free Software. Additionally,
you can find out what happened at our Web-a-thon in Frankfurt am Main
and view some media of the actions we have taken for promoting and
increasing the awareness of Free Software to the wider audience, as well
as see what's planned for the near future, where you can take part in.
== The Google - Huawei Lessons ==
Last month, Google blacklisted and blocked Huawei from accessing all its
proprietary components of the Android mobile operating system. The
California based tech giant had to comply with the executive order
issued by the U.S. government to effectively ban all American companies
from trading with Huawei. While the Chinese telco will not have access
to Google's proprietary components, it will nevertheless be able to use
those parts of Android's operating system available under the open
source licence, which is free for anyone to use. This highlights the
importance that Free Software has for users, public bodies, and
businesses. The Free Software Foundation Europe presented three
essential lessons from this case:
1. Free Software enables control over technology: The more important
technology becomes in our daily lives, the more relevant Free
Software becomes for individual users.
2. The EU is overly reliant on foreign sources of technology: The
European Union and its member states should invest in Free Software
development and focus on supporting local Free Software organisations
and businesses. This can foster greater technological independence
for the EU economy.
3. Free Software gives companies technological independence.: A company
that uses proprietary software is dependent on such software's vendor
and the government that regulates it. The best strategy for a company
to avoid this is to use as much Free Software as possible in their
supply chains.
Read more details about these lessons in our press release [1].
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== Do not miss: upcoming events with the FSFE ==
As with every month, we are trying to spread the word and help
individuals and organisations understand what Free Software is and how
Free Software contributes to freedom, transparency, and self-
determination. If you are interested in seeing us in action and join our
cause, keep in mind the following dates and locations in the coming few
months:
- On July 3rd, FSFE Programme Manager Max Mehl will explain how Free
Software can be the solution to many security problems at Pass the
Salt [3] in Lille, France.
- On July 6th, FSFE supporter Reinhard Müller will give a presentation
at Tübix [4] about the development of web applications he used
successfully for the development of the new online FSFE community
portal [5] in Tübingen, Germany
- On July 8th, the FSFE community in Bonn will have a meeting [6]
discussing Free Software.
- On July 22nd, the Franken community of the FSFE and the Nuremberg
Hackerspace will be hosting a lecture [7] about the basics and common
misunderstandings of Free Software in Nuremberg, Germany
- Between August 21st and 25th the FSFE will host an assembly [8] at the
Chaos Communication Camp in Mildenberg, Germany. The assembly will be
part of about:freedom [9], a cluster with a focus on digital (human)
rights politics, freedom of information and Free Software advocacy. It
is a union of different and diverse organisations from all over the
world promoting Free Software and defending and extending digital
rights. There will be workshops on-site and information materials. If
you are coming to the camp, drop by and have a chat with us!
== What have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE ==
Since the last newsletter we have been very active in promoting the Free
Software cause, by helping individuals and organisations have a better
understanding of what Free Software is and encouraging them to develop
and implement it in their lives. We want to share with you the events we
have photos and videos for, below:
- Between May 24th and 26th, the FSFE ran our web-a-thon 2019 [10].
There were 13 hackers (and more in the evenings) who met in Frankfurt
(Main) to work on the FSFE's website, and of course to also celebrate
our nice community and commemorate International Towel Day [11]. We
aimed high and tried to get rid of many unresolved issues, some rather
small, some highly important for editors, translators and of course
our visitors. In the milestone "Hackathon1905" [12], we collected the
issues to be worked on, and it turns out that we achieved more than we
anticipated. 47 tickets and pull requests have been closed
successfully. Thanks to everyone who participated, maintained the good
mood throughout and to the CCC FFM [13] for hosting us patiently
during the whole weekend!
- Lucas Lasota, the FSFE's legal intern, presented the legal trends in
Free Software at the Libre Graphics Meetings [14] in Saarbrücken,
Germany on May 29th. You can watch his presentation video. [15]
The Viennese FSFE supporters group participated with an FSFE info-booth
at the local street festival Veganmania between June 7th and 10th in
Vienna, Austria. See pictures of the event and read about the local
group's successful down-to-earth approach in a report by Franz Gratzer
[16].
The FSFE's president Matthias Kirschner gave a keynote about Free
Software in our society at this year's OW2 on June 13th in Paris. You
can watch the keynote video. [17]
Our Policy Manager Alexander Sander was invited as an expert on
E-Government in the Landtag Saarland, the parliament of the German
federal State Saarland on June 17th. In his talk he discussed the
advantages of free software in the area of e-government. You can find
his expert opinion and research here [18]:
The FSFE participated with a booth at the OpenExpo [19] in Madrid, Spain
on June 20th where we had the chance to meet and talk to many people
about Free Software.
- On June 25th, the FSFE's Policy and Project Managers Alexander Sander
and Galia Mancheva talked about the Public Money? Public Code!
campaign and the updated Copyright Directive at Libertybits [20] in
Sofia, Bulgaria
== Get Active ==
Do you remember that some years ago the German newspaper Die
Tageszeitung (TAZ) received the Document Freedom Day Award [21] for
delivering its electronic paper to its subscribers in a choice of open
formats, and without digital restrictions (DRM) [22]? This year, the TAZ
newspaper went a step further and even launched their taz.app on f-droid
[23] under a Free Software license. This is a great example for other
newspapers to follow. Contact your favourite newspaper and demand they
follow the TAZ's example of giving users freedom of choice and technical
control.
== Contribute to our newsletter ==
If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to
us. As always, the address is newsletter(a)fsfe.org. We're looking forward
to hearing from you!
If you also want to support us and our work, join our community and
support us with a donation or a monthly contribution:
https://my.fsfe.org/support [24]
Thanks to our community, all the volunteers [25], supporters [26] and
donors [27] who make our work possible. And thanks to our translators
[28], who enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.
Your editors,
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= FSFE Newsletter May 2019 =
[ Online lesen: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201905.de.html ]
This newsletter edition gives special attention to the upcoming EU
Elections. We are telling the story of the Spanish Pica Pica Hacklab who
successfully used our "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign to influence
the Parliament of Asturias. Pica Pica's story takes us to the upcoming
EU Elections that will bring in new MEPs into the European Parliament
and so we provide advice and tips on how you can get active in promoting
Free Software to them. As always, you will also read about the events
the FSFE is going to be part of this month, as well as a retrospective
of what has happened in the past month.
== EU Elections 2019 and Free Software ==
"The Parliament of Asturias commits itself to the international Public
Money? Public Code! [1] campaign" - this is a quote from the first
demand in a recent proposal brought in by the Parliament of Asturias [2]
towards its government and it marks the happy end of continuous lobbying
efforts from Oviedo's local hackerspace "Pica Pica Hacklab" [3].
Pica Pica Hacklab team in front of the Parliament of Asturias after the
Parliament's decision to support Public Money? Public Code! This was
already the second attempt of Pica Pica to lobby the Parliament of
Asturias and demand the use of Free Software within public
administrations. However, in contrast to their first attempt in 2015,
this time Pica Pica had "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign materials
[4] at hand and used them extensively, together with their self-
developed social hacking skills, to convince the politicians.
Pica Pica's success story is highly motivating for local activists and
so we interviewed Iyán Méndez Veiga [5], member of Pica Pica, to
highlight key elements of their activities, the usage of our campaign
material and their lobbying. Read how Pica Pica successfully emphasised
different benefits of Free Software depending on the agenda of the
political party they were talking to respectively, how they turned
emails into face-to-face meetings and how they finally landed even more
meetings with officials from different parties by simply walking through
the Parliament's building.
Pica Pica's story is not only motivating but it also clearly shows how
local engagement by a small single group can influence even the highest
political levels. Still, it is one story out of many, happening
continuously in many parts of Europe. Be it a group of people or
individuals: every talk, explanation or sometimes even the mere handing
out of a well-formulated and informative leaflet [6] can make the
difference and convince a decision-maker to care about Free Software.
That brings us to this year's EU Elections of the European Parliament
taking place next week throughout Europe, from May 23rd to 26th. Let us
follow the recent example of Pica Pica and make sure that as many
candidates as possible are aware of Free Software and its benefits, and
convince them to join us in empowering users to control technology.
This is even more important now, as forecasts predict that half of the
Members in the current European Parliament will not be back in the next
term. That means that there will be new members appearing on the scene
that do not yet know about Free Software.
Help let them know about the benefits of technologies that respect users
freedom. Help us establish new contacts with advocates for Free Software
in the next European Parliament's term. Seek out the candidates in your
region and get in contact with them. Use our "Public Money?Public Code!"
campaign [7] as a source for arguments. Find more general hints and tips
[8] in our wiki.
And then get out there and vote for the candidate that convinced you
most concerning the topics and values that matter to you!
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== Do not miss: upcoming events with the FSFE ==
- From May 17th to 19th the Maker Fair Berlin will take place and the
local FSFE group Berlin will be present with an information booth.
- On May 18th the FSFE's Policy Manager Alexander Sander will be present
at the Albanian Open Source conference OSCAL [12] to promote the
FSFE's "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign to the local community.
- On May 21st Erik Albers, FSFE's Communication and Programme Manager,
will talk at the Magdeburger Developer Days [13] about the
sustainability of software and how to preserve software resources for
future generations.
- From May 24th to 26th the FSFE will host its own web-a-thon [14] in
Frankfurt (Main) to have a fruitful collective work on improving the
FSFE's homepage together. You can find all details on the
corresponding wiki-page.
- On May 29th, the FSFE's legal intern Lucas Lasota will present FOSS
legal trends at the Libre Graphics Meetings [15] in Saarbrücken,
Germany.
- On June 8th, the FSFE's Project Manager Galia Mancheva will present
the Public Money? Public Code! campaign to the Bulgarian tech
community at TuxCon [16] in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
- On June 13th, the FSFE's President Matthias Kirschner will give a
keynote about Free Software in our society at OW2con [17] in Paris,
France.
- On June 25th, the FSFE's Policy and Project Managers Alexander Sander
and Galia Mancheva will talk about the Public Money?Public Code!
campaign and the updated Copyright Directive at Libertybits [18] in
Sofia, Bulgaria
== Save the Date: ==
This year we are running the FSFE community meeting on November 15th and
16th in cooperation with the SFSCon [19] in Bolzano, Italy. The FSFE
country team Italy will use this occasion to prepare and run a dedicated
FSFE track during the conference and the conference day will be followed
by a dedicated community day. The general Call for Participation of the
SFSCon is already up and running, while the one for the FSFE track in
particular will be published soon. If you are interested in the
publication of the call, follow our news [20] ( RSS feed
<https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.rss> )
== What have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE ==
- On 27 April, Max Mehl, the FSFE's Programme Manager, gave a keynote at
Grazer Linuxtage about Free Software and why security and openness are
not contradictory. If you are curious about what he said, you can
watch the keynote video [21].
- On April 27th, there was an FSFE's info-booth at the the local FLISoL
event in A Coruña, Spain and on 11 May, the FSFE was present with a
booth at T-Dose in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
- Alexander Sander, the FSFE's Policy Manager talked about the
importance of supporting the Public Money? Public Code! campaign on
May 3rd at the LWW2019 in Vienna, where the FSFE also hosted an
infobooth.
- FSFE booth at Linuxwochen Wien Carmen Bianca Bakker writes about
elitists and laypeople [22] and uses this distinction for a comparison
between the development of the Game of Thrones script with her own
development and history from Spacemacs to Emacs to VSCodium and more.
- Syncthing is a Free Software sync-solution on F-Droid. Andrea Scarpino
explains the customizations he has done to use it for simple but
automated phone backup with Syncthing [23]
- Matija Šuklje sums up different way and methods [24] he used to
archive and organise his bookmarks in the last years.
== Get Active ==
As already brought up in the beginning of the Newsletter, the European
Parliament's Elections are ahead and forecasts predict that many new
members will be part of the next term. If you want Free Software to
catch on with these Parliamentary freshmen, then you can seek out the
candidates in your region and get in contact with them. We prepared a
short list of actions you can take and other tips [25] in our wiki.
== Contribute to our newsletter ==
If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to
us. As always, the address is newsletter(a)fsfe.org. We're looking forward
to hearing from you!
Thanks to our community, all the volunteers [26], supporters [27] and
donors [28] who make our work possible. And thanks to our translators
[29], who enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.
Your editors,
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1: http://publiccode.eu/
2: http://www.picahack.org/181115%20-%20PNL%20Software%20Libre%20-%20RE35416.P…
3: http://picapica.mindhackers.org/
4: https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#pmpc
5: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190514-01.de.html
6: https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.de.html
7: https://publiccode.eu/
8: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/European_Elections_2019
9: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament#/media/File:European_Parl…
10: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
11: https://my.fsfe.org/support
12: https://oscal.openlabs.cc/speakers/alexander-sander/
13: https://md-devdays.de/Act?id=1000138
14: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2019/0525-fsfe-web-a-thon
15: https://opensaar.de/2019/04/libre-graphis-meeting-in-saarbruecken/
16: http://tuxcon.mobi/
17: https://ow2con19.sched.com/event/NzsE
18: https://libertybits.org/eventalk_speaker_category/2019/
19: https://www.sfscon.it/
20: https://fsfe.org/news/index.de.html
21: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOv_5ZPcFZ8
22: https://www.carmenbianca.eu/en/post/2019-05-08-of-elitists-and-laypeople/
23: https://scarpino.dev/posts/automated-phone-backup-with-syncthing.html
24: https://matija.suklje.name/how-i-put-order-in-my-bookmarks-and-found-a-bett…
25: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/European_Elections_2019
26: https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute
27: https://my.fsfe.org/support
28: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus
29: https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators
30: https://my.fsfe.org/support
= FSFE Newsletter April 2019 =
[ Online lesen: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201904.de.html ]
This month's newsletter highlights the presence of the FSFE's
campaign"Public Money? Public Code!" in German media and its growing
popularity across Europe. You can find a short reminder of the news
around the newly voted Copyright Directive, as well as a short summary
of what else has happened during the past month. In the Get Active
section this month we remind you of the new open call the Next
Generation Internet project we are part of has launched. Additionally
you can find out about new events we are attending and the Web-a-thon we
organise in Frankfurt am Main.
== "Public Money? Public Code!" in German media ==
Our campaign Public Money? Public Code! [1] has really taken off, as
German media WDR [2] and t3n [3] picked it up earlier this month. The
FSFE's initiative received prominent support in the media from various
Bundestag members, as well as digital politics activists and publicists
embracing the free licenses for software receiving money from public
sector.
Additionally, t3n, who also supports the campaign, published an
interview [4] with the FSFE's Public Policy Manager, Alexander Sander on
the way public sector, like the city of Barcelona, deploys Free Software
in its administration and city solutions: "The city manages to "react to
the digital transformation with appropriate digital solutions". "The
government's agenda today is 70 percent determined by the proposals made
through Decidim." says the Public Policy Manager. He believes that
administrations could save money in the long term by using free-open
source software: different communities might share programs and
knowledge, new software would not have to be bought at high cost or
completely redeveloped." Alexander Sander also mentioned Barcelona was
the first major European city to support this action.
Please, feel welcome to also express your support by spreading the word
and sharing our brochure [5]
== Copyright Directive was adopted ==
The European Parliament adopted the controversial Copyright Directive by
348 votes in favour, 274 votes against and 36 abstentions. Heated
discussions about the introduction of upload filters ended up in
protests of hundreds of thousands of people in the streets all across
Europe. You can read our press release [6] on the topic.
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== Inside and Outside the FSFE ==
- Pablo González, the FSFE's Madrid Coordinator, was present with an
info booth between March 26th and 28th at the Taller de Periodismo de
Datos [8] in Medialab Prado in Madrid, Spain. He met with local
journalists, hackers and data researchers interested in the FSFE's
initiatives and goals, and topics like Open Standards and privacy.
- We also published our #ilovefs report [9] where you can see only few
of the pictures and graphics used during the day, as unfortunately, we
couldn't include all the wonderful photos we saw. And you can also
have insights on some numbers in statistics.
- On 3 April, the FSFE's Policy Manager Alexander Sander was at the Open
Platform for Open Data? [10] in Vienna, Austria. There, he talked
about the challenges and contradictions of the models public
administrations face when deploying software, as well as provided ways
forward on how to shape the open data debate in a way that
systematically promotes the public interest.
- Alexander Sander also made few other presentations on that topic at
the Netzpolitischer Abend [11] on 4 April in Vienna and on April 5th
at the Grand Garage [12] in Linz, Austria. A full video of his talk in
Vienna is also available [13].
- Marcus Moeller, the FSFE Switzerland Coordinator, gave a presentation
promoting the sustainable use of electronic equipment for educational
purposes and thus also promoting Free Software, on 6 April at the Open
Education Day [14] in Berne, Switzerland. His presentation was given
in front of teachers, people engaged with school informatics, as well
as people interested in introducing and promoting Free Libre Open
Source Software, Open Content or Open Hardware at their school.
- On 6 April the FSFE was present with an information and merchandise
booth at another event - the 18th "Linux-Infotag Augsburg" [15]. The
event took place in the premises of the IT faculty of the Augsburg
University of Applied Sciences.
- On April 8th, The FSFE's Policy Analyst Alexander Sander and Programme
Manager Erik Albers gave a presentation at Escola del Treball de
Barcelona about our "Public Money?Public Code!" Campaign. The meetup,
lead by Monica Bernardi from Dimmos, discussed public policies around
Free Software, public money and how to leverage Free Software to push
public administrations into the next level. You can also watch the
full video [16] from the event.
- This month we had local FSFE supporter meetings in Hamburg, Bonn, Kiel
and Zurich, Switzerland.
== Do not miss: upcoming events with the FSFE ==
- On 26 and 27 April, Max Mehl, the FSFE's Programme Manager, will give
a keynote about Free Software as a solution to many pressing IT
security problems at the Grazer Linuxtage [17]. He will look at the
pros and cons and use concrete examples to illustrate why security and
openness are not contradictory. If you are close by, pay a visit to
his talk at the Technical University Graz.
- On 11 May, the FSFE will be present with a booth at T-Dose [18] in
Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Visit the booth for interesting dicussions
and chats about Free Software.
- On 21 May, Erik Albers, the FSFE's Communication Manager, will talk at
the Magdeburger Developer Days [19] about how we can help ours and
future generations to safe resources with the help of software.
- Between 24 and 26 May, the FSFE will host a web-a-thon in Frankfurt
(Main) with the intend to have a fruitful collective work on improving
the FSFE's homepage. The web-a-thon will happen at the local Chaos
Computer Club [20]. Be there, or be square.
== Get Active ==
Next Generation Internet Initiative [21]: The third call of NGI Zero
Discovery and NGI Zero PET opened up on April 1st 2019, with a deadline
for submissions of June 1st 2019 12:00 CET.
NGI Zero Discovery [22] is seeking for project proposals between 5.000
and 50.000 euros - with the potential to scale them up if there is
proven potential. Search should not be a gatekeeper, a black box or a
privacy nightmare. If the internet is the equivalent of a global brain,
we need creativity and diversity in the pathways across that brain to
unlock its true potential. Search and discovery are basic human needs
for humans of all ages, and we would like to put powerful new technology
in the hands of future generations as building blocks for a fair and
democratic society and an open economy that benefits all.
NGI Zero PET [23] is seeking project proposals between 5.000 and 50.000
euros - with the potential to scale them up if there is proven
potential. Reliability, confidentiality, integrity and security should
be the 'new normal' of the internet, something ordinary users should not
have to worry about. Trust is one of the key drivers for the Next
Generation Internet, and an adequate level of privacy is a non-
negotiable requirement for that. The desire is to assist independent
researchers and developers to create powerful new technology, and to
help them put it in the hands of future generations as building blocks
for a fair and democratic society and an open economy that benefits all.
If your proposal ends up amongst the winners list, you will receive
licensing advices and consultation from the FSFE team.
== Contribute to our newsletter ==
If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to
us. As always, the address is newsletter(a)fsfe.org. We are looking
forward to hearing from you. Also make sure to see your event in our
next newsletter. Please use our new tool [24] to announce it!
Thanks to our community, all the volunteers [25], supporters [26] and
donors [27] who make our work possible. And thanks to our translators
[28], who enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.
Your editor,
Galia Mancheva
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1: https://publiccode.eu/
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M_AYj0gc_A
3: https://t3n.de/news/sascha-lobo-breites-buendnis-code-1148918/
4: https://t3n.de/news/barcelona-touristen-hochburg-1139070/
5: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/publiccode/brochure
6: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190326-01.de.html
7: https://my.fsfe.org/support
8: https://www.medialab-prado.es/programas/taller-de-periodismo-de-datos-2019-…
9: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190329-01.de.html
10: https://privacylab.at/event/alexander-sander-open-platforms-for-open-data/
11: https://netzpolitischerabend.wordpress.com/2019/03/28/programm-des-35-netzp…
12: https://grandgarage.eu/de/events/
13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqTKkFHCnz0
14: https://openeducationday.ch/
15: https://www.luga.de/Aktionen/LIT-2019/
16: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXwq_bhjSwQ
17: https://pretalx.linuxtage.at/glt19/talk/K9YDDN/
18: http://t-dose.org/
19: https://md-devdays.de/Act?id=1000138
20: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2019/0525-fsfe-web-a-thon
21: https://www.ngi.eu/
22: https://nlnet.nl/discovery/
23: https://nlnet.nl/PET/
24: https://fsfe.org/events/events.de.html
25: https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.de.html
26: https://my.fsfe.org/support
27: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.de.html
28: https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.de.html
29: https://my.fsfe.org/support
= FSFE Newsletter March 2019 =
[ Online lesen: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201903.de.html ]
This month's newsletter highlights the new project the FSFE recently
joined and the funding opportunities it offers, that you may want to
take advantage of. You can get the latest updates on the Copyright
Directive reform and the hottest news regarding Article 13, as well as a
short summary of what else has happened during the past month. In the
Editor's choice section this month you can find interesting news on
developments with the Radio Equipment Directive, and find out who else
have expressed their support for our "Public Money? Public Code!"
campaign and what they have to say about it.
== European Commission Next Generation Internet Initiative ==
The European Commission launched an initiative called "The Next
Generation Internet" and the FSFE is part of its NGI0 consortium [1].
The Initiative's purpose is to create technologies for a better internet
where the individual user's best interests are the top priority. In
other words, internet technologies that respect human rights and
important values like privacy, openness, transparency, cooperation, and
protection of data. To help achieve these objectives, the Initiative
runs two branch projects, led by the NLnet Foundation [2], in order to
award grants to applicant technologies that attest to those ideals. The
FSFE's role is to provide Free Software licensing recommendations and
consultation in these projects:
NGI0 PET [3] deals with technologies that enhance privacy and trust on
the Internet. It awards grants to applicants that can provide people
with new instruments to keep their data on the Internet confidential,
while still being able to act freely and independently online.
NGI0 Discovery [4], deals with technologies that enhance the ability to
search for information on the Internet. The project confers grants to
applicants that can help strengthen how we search for and discover
content on the internet in such a way that supports important social
values, such as freedom of expression, privacy, and transparency. The
best suited solutions would ensure that searching for information is
less centralised with as few intermediaries as possible.
All granted technologies will be based on and be made available as Free
and Open Source Software.
The NGI0 consortium acts as a sort of advisory body for successful
applicants and assists them with their technologies in specific areas,
such as security and accessibility. In this context, the FSFE
facilitates their software licensing, advising them on how to properly
apply best licensing practices, and making sure their technologies are
licensed and compliant.
Calls for applications for both projects are renewed every 2 months.
They are currently in the midst of their 2nd call, the deadline of which
is 1 April 2019. The first call, which ended in February, resulted in
over a hundred submissions from countries not only from Europe, but also
from Asia, Africa, and the Americas. If you are interested in getting
funding to develop your relevant technology, you can apply here [5].
== Copyright and Article 13 - What happened and what's next ==
Despite uncertainties and controversies along the way, the Copyright in
the Digital Single Market Directive seems to be reaching the end of the
road. There are many steps to finalise a legal text in the EU, but now
the EU Member States and the European Parliament have reached an
agreement on a consolidated text [6]. The next step is for the Directive
to be voted in the plenary session at the end of March/in early April.
As reported [7], the original proposal could have regulated the
platforms software developers use, cooling incentives to innovate and
making software more fragile in Europe. It was in response to this that
the OpenForum Europe and the FSFE started the SaveCodeshare.eu [8]
campaign. Together we wrote letters, petitions, and held meetings and
events in Brussels and in EU member states.
Article 13 now excludes “open source software development and sharing
platforms” from its scope (see article 2(5) in the provisional agreement
[9]. This one unintended consequence has at least been avoided. From a
wider perspective, no matter how the vote turns out, we were able to
raise awareness and understanding of what drives software development in
Europe today among many policymakers. We explained how the software
ecosystem operates, the pervasive use of Free and Open Source software
licenses, and the commercial nature of Free and Open Source Software.
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== Inside and Outside the FSFE ==
- The four universal freedoms of Free Software offer fertile soil for
emancipating technologies without restrictions towards gender or any
other backgrounds. However, women have traditionally been and still
are under-represented in those bodies and communities shaping these
technologies. It is time to change that. On March 8, the International
Women's Day, we used the occasion to share the FSFE's ongoing efforts
to improve gender balance and ensure gender equality [11].
- As a way to help ensure that in the FSFE everyone can, at all times,
feel at ease to participate without fearing any form of attack,
reprisal or harassment, we adopted a Code of Conduct [12] and
installed a CARE team [13]. To further support the aims of the CARE
Team, we welcome Gabriel Ku Wei Bin [14] as a new member.
- On February 23rd Alexander Sander [15], FSFE's policy analyst, spoke
about our Public Money - Public Code [16] campaign at the "Winter
Kongress Digitale Gesellschaft" in Zurich, Switzerland ( watch the
video [17] ). At the same event, Marcus Moeller, the FSFE's
Coordinator for Switzerland, and Michel Ketterle presented the next
version of Freedomvote [18]. Freedomvote is a campaign [19] and a Free
Software [20] that enables local groups to run political and electoral
campaigns by themselves. FSFE local groups have already been using it
to run campaigns in the Netherlands in 2017 [21] and in Switzerland in
2015 [22]
- Katharina Nocun, Internet activist and FSFE Freelancer, together with
Basanta E. P. Thapa from Fraunhofer Fokus presented the ongoing Public
Money - Public Code [23] campaign and our new expert policy brochure
[24], and used this occasion to talk about ways public procurement can
be modernised. The presentation took place on March 5th at c-base in
Berlin, hosted by the Netzpolitischen Abend [25] - (Watch the video)
[26]
- From March 16th to 17th, FSFE's booth and staff could be spotted at
the Chemnitzer Linuxtage [27] in Chemnitz, Germany. Erik Albers [28],
FSFE's Programme Manager, gave a workshop about F-Droid [29], G-Droid,
and the most useful Free Software apps to help people use more Free
Software on their mobile phones.
- Another place you could inform yourself about the FSFE and have a chat
with our supporters was at the the Dutch Linux Usergroup NLLGG [30] on
March 16th, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
- FSFE supporter André Klöpfel was interviewed [31] (DE) by
Deutschlandfunk Marktplatz about how to install a Linux Distro for
beginners.
- This month we had local FSFE supporter meetings in Madrid, Hamburg,
Frankfurt (Main), Berlin and Bonn.
== Editor's choice ==
- Protect freedom on radio devices: raise your voice today! [32] - Alert
on an upcoming threat from a new EU regulation. In this entry Max
explains in greater detail how a single article in the EU Radio
Equipment Directive [33] has the capacity to make installing a custom
piece of software on most radio devices (like WiFi routers,
smartphones and embedded devices) impossible. Read his blog to find
out how you can contribute to the better development of events.
- Public Money? Public Code! campaign in EDRi's Newsletter EDRigram
[34]: "Publicly funded software has to result in public code." Read
their opinion on our initiative.
== Do not miss: upcoming events with the FSFE ==
- Pablo González, FSFE's local Coordinator Madrid, will be present with
an info-booth from March 26th to 28th at the Taller de Periodismo de
Datos [35] in Medialab Prado in Madrid, Spain. Pass by to get to know
local Madrid supporters and the FSFE.
== Get Active ==
We have a cool tool [36] for announcing events and promoting them on our
website and social channels. If you would like us to include your event
in our next newsletter and website, feel welcome to try out the event
submission tool [37]
== Contribute to our newsletter ==
If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to
us. As always, the address is newsletter(a)fsfe.org. We are looking
forward to hearing from you!
Thanks to our community, all the volunteers [38], supporters [39] and
donors [40] who make our work possible. And thanks to our translators
[41], who enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.
Your editor, Galia Mancheva
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2: https://nlnet.nl
3: https://nlnet.nl/PET/
4: https://nlnet.nl/discovery/
5: https://nlnet.nl/propose/
6: https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Copyright_Final_compromise.…
7: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171130-01.de.html
8: https://savecodeshare.eu/
9: https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Copyright_Final_compromise.…
10: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2019-03
11: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190308-01.de.html
12: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
13: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct#CARE
14: https://fsfe.org/about/ku/ku.de.html
15: https://fsfe.org/about/sander/sander.de.html
16: https://publiccode.eu/
17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHI3rR9UmqA&pbjreload=10
18: https://www.digitale-gesellschaft.ch/kongress/2019/talks/freedomvote_-_eine…
19: https://freedomvote.ch/
20: https://github.com/freedomvote/freedomvote
21: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170302-01.de.html
22: https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150916-01.de.html
23: https://publiccode.eu/
24: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190124-01.de.html
25: https://digitalegesellschaft.de/portfolio-items/netzpolitischer-abend/
26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya-NY1d2e9c&pbjreload=10
27: https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2019/en
28: https://fsfe.org/about/albers/albers.de.html
29: https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2019/en/programm/beitrag/269
30: https://nllgg.nl/bijeenkomst/20190316
31: https://srv.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothek-audio-teilen.3265.de.html?mdm…
32: https://blog.mehl.mx/2019/protect-freedom-on-radio-devices-raise-your-voice…
33: https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/
34: https://edri.org/fsfe-publicly-funded-software-has-to-result-in-public-code/
35: https://www.medialab-prado.es/programas/taller-de-periodismo-de-datos-2019-…
36: https://fsfe.org/community/tools/eventregistration.de.html
37: https://fsfe.org/community/tools/eventregistration.de.html
38: https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute
39: http://fsfe.org/join
40: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus
41: https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators
42: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2019-03
= FSFE Newsletter Februar 2019 =
[ Online lesen: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201902.de.html ]
Diesen Monat stellt unser Newsletter unsere neue Expertenbroschüre
"Public Money? Public Code" vor und reflektiert über die Bedeutung
Offenen Quellcodes für Vertrauen und Sicherheit in kritischen IT-
Infrastrukturen. Wie immer gibt der Newsletter einen Überblick über die
Vorträge und Stände unserer Community sowie eine kurze Zusammenfassung
dessen, was wir getan haben - diesen Monat unter anderem FOSDEM, 35C3,
FOSS4SMEs und das Next Generation Internet Projekt. Als Aufruf zum
mitmachen empfehlen wir diesen Monat an unserer IloveFS-Kampagne
teilzunehmen.
== FSFE veröffentlicht Fachbrbroschüre zu “Public Money? Public Code!" ==
Entscheidungsträger davon zu überzeugen, dass mehr Freie Software zum
Vorteil aller ist, sollte eigentlich einfach sein. Schließlich gibt es
so viele gute Gründe öffentlich finanzierten Code unter eine Freie
Lizenz zu stellen: Steuerersparnisse, Transparenz und
Innovationsförderung sind nur einige davon. Aber in des Praxis zeigt
sich, dass viele Grundlagen noch erkläret werden müssen So zum Beispiel
"Was ist Freie Software?", "Warum soll der öffentliche Bereich Freie
Software entwickeln?" oder "Welche Geschäftsmodelle für Freie Software
gibt es?". Um diese Fragen zu beantworten und praktische Anleitungen an
Entscheidungsträger zu geben, haben wir eine Broschüre zu dem Thema
veröffentlicht. Darin finden sich die wichtigsten Fakten und Gründe für
öffentliche Software unter Freien Lizenzen.
Die Broschüre [1] beantwortet Entscheidungsträgern meist gestellte
Fragen und klärt über weit verbreitete Missverständnisse über Freie
Software auf. Auch enthält die Broschüre Fallbeispiele, in denen Freie
Software bereits jetzt schon im öffentlichen Bereich eingesetzt wird.
Darüberhinaus gibt die Broschüre praktische Anleitungen zur
Modernisierung der öffentlichen Infrastruktur und zur Anpassung von
Vergabeprozessen, um die Vorteile Freier Software nutzen zu können. Die
Download und Print-Version der Broschüre ist unter einer Creative
Commons Lizenz verfügbar [2].
Neben Beiträgen von Experten aus verschiedenen Feldern enthält die
Broschüre ein Interview mit Francesca Bria (Chief Technology und Digital
Innovation Officer von Barcelona), welche die Modernisierung Barcelonas
öffentlicher Infrastruktur vorantreibt. Über “Public Money? Public
Code!" sagt sie: "Die Stadt Barcelona unterstützt die FSFE Kampagne
'Public Money, Public Code', weil wir Allianzen benötigen um Freie
Software zum Standard im öffentlichen Sektor zu machen. Die öffentliche
digitale Infrastruktur, die wir nutzen, sollte ein öffentliches Gut
sein, das den Bürgern gehört und unter deren Kontrolle steht."
== Wie die Offenlegung von Quellcode Vertrauen in kritische Infrastruktur schaffen kann ==
Das chinesische Unternehmen Huawei hat nach Spionagevorwürfen in vielen
Ländern einen Vertrauensverlust erlitten. Huawei ist einer der größten
Hersteller von Komponenten für 5G, der nächsten Generation von
Mobilfunknetzen. Um sicherzustellen, dass die Produkte und die
Infrastruktur sicher sind, haben Netzbetreiber und Politiker eine
Prüfung des Quellcodes vorgeschlagen. Die FSFE begrüßt diesen Vorschlag
[3], da er die Bedeutung der freien Verfügbarkeit von Quellcode zeigt.
Leider ist die Lösung noch zu kurz gedacht. Eine Prüfung des
geheimgehaltenen Codes durch ausgewählte Stellen könnte zwar in diesem
speziellen Fall helfen, ist aber keine Lösung für ähnliche Probleme. Für
vollständiges Vertrauen in kritische Infrastruktur (wie 5G), ist die
Veröffentlichung von deren Software unter einer Freien Software Lizenz
notwendig. Als Folge könnte jeder den Code auf Hintertüren und andere
Sicherheitslücken untersuchen. Nur mit dieser Freiheit zur unabhängigen
Kontrolle können sich Bürger, Unternehmen und öffentliche Stellen auf
die Sicherheit und Verfügbarkeit ihrer Daten- und Kommunikationwege
verlassen. Außerdem muss der Compile- und Installationsprozess selbst
ausführbar sein, damit sichergestellt werden kann, dass die Software aus
dem offenen Quellcode auch wirklich auf den Geräten läuft.
"Wir sollten nicht nur den Fall Huawei diskutieren, sondern die
Diskussion auf alle kritischen Infrastrukturen ausdehnen", sagt Max
Mehl, Programm-Manager der FSFE. "Nur mit Freier und Open Source
Software können Transparenz und Verantwortlichkeit gewährleistet werden.
Dies ist eine seit langem bekannte entscheidende Voraussetzung für
Sicherheit und Vertrauen. Wir erwarten von den staatlichen Akteuren,
dass sie dies sofort umsetzen. Nicht nur für den Fall Huawei, sondern
für alle vergleichbaren IT-Sicherheitsfragen."
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== Was haben wir sonst noch getan? Inner- und außerhalb der FSFE ==
- Am 14. und 15. Januar nahm unser Projektleiter Gabriel Ku Wei Bin an
einem Eröffnungsgespräch in Amsterdam bezüglich Next Generation
Internet [5] Projekt teil. Das Projekt wird finanziert von der
Europäischen Kommission und wird von der NLNet Foundation in den
Niederlanden verwaltet. Die FSFE tritt dem Projekt bei, um Leitlinien
für die teilnehmenden Technologien, die an dem Projekt beteiligt sind,
zu erarbeiten und sicherzustellen, dass sie mit best practices Freier-
Software-Lizensierung kompatibel sind.
- Am 16. und 17. Januar traten nahmen FSFE's Projektmanager Galia
Mancheva und Max Mehl, an einem FOSS4SMEs [6] Treffen in Dublin teil
und produzierten dort Videos für einen Online-Unterricht, den die
E-Learning-Plattform des Projekts noch in diesem Jahr starten wird.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Website des Projekts [7].
- Björn Schießle (FSFE Koordinator Deutschland) hielt im Rahmen der
Copyleft Conference in Brüssel am 4. Februar einen Talk [8] über den
Einsatz starken Copylefts, um ein nachhaltiges Geschäftsmodell
aufzubauen.
- Am 23. Januar hat Alexander Sander (FSFE EU Public Policy Programme
Manager) an einem Forum beim Eurocieties Society Forum in Barcelona
teilgenommen. Sander sprach darüber, wie Städte und öffentliche
Verwaltungen Freie Sofware fördern und lokale Unternehmen und Menschen
durch den Einsatz digitaler Dienste basierend auf Freier Software und
offenen Standards einbinden können.
- Paul Boddie schreibt über "An Absence of Strategy?" [9], in dem er
argumentiert, dass "einfach drüber installieren" in der Welt der
mobilen Geräte nicht mehr ausreicht. Er mutmaßt, dass wir stattdessen
eine Strategie und eine Organisation brauchen, die gemeinsame
Anstrengungen und praktische Maßnahmen bündelt, um sowohl laufende
Projekte zu identifizieren alsl auch konkrete Lösungen für den Bau
nachhaltiger, gemeindeorientierter und benutzerfreundlicher Geräte
vorzuschlagen.
- Frank Karlitschek sagt voraus [10], dass 2019 ein sehr gutes Jahr für
sichere, freie und dezentrale "Cloud"-Software [11] wird. Es könnte
das Jahr werden, in dem Freie Software, föderierte und selbst
gehostete Systeme in der breiten Masse ankommen.
- Björn Schießle argumentiert [12] dass Freie Software eine "neue
Kulturtechnik" ist, das es sich um eine kollektive Leistung im
soziokulturellen Kontext handelt, die soziale Interaktion und
Partizipation erfordert. Und als solches erfordert diese Kulturtechnik
auch eine besondere Aufmerksamkeit von Politik und Gesellschaft.
- Marcus Moeller, Landeskoordinator der FSFE in der Schweiz, gründete
einen Schweizer Verband Faircomputer [13], für den er und seine
Mitarbeiter gebrauchte Laptops sammeln. Diese Geräte werden dann
überprüft, repariert, gereinigt und mit Freier Software ausgestattet.
Die generalüberholten Maschinen werden kostenlos an Interessierte in
Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz verschenkt, wobei nur ein
kleiner Betrag für die Garantie berechnet wird, um sicherzustellen,
dass sie jahrelang problemlos verwendet werden können.
- Zwischen Weihnachten und Neujahr organisierte die FSFE zusammen mit
Gleichgesinnten Organisationen ein Cluster "about:freedom" auf auf dem
Chaos Communication Congress, dem größten Community-gesteuerten
Hacker- Congress in Deutschland. Innerhalb des Clusters war die FSFE
vertreten [14] mit einer Assembly, einem Stand und einer eigenen
Vortragsreihe. Darin sprachen von der FSFE Susanne über ihr self-made
"smartphone" [15] ( video [16] ), Katharina Nocun über Datensammelei
bei Amazon [17] ( video [18] ) und Erik Albers über das beste aus
Fdroid [19] ( video [20] )
- Anfang Februar war die FSFE zu Gast bei der FOSDEM, dem größten
Community getriebenen Freien Software Event in Europa. Dort hatten
einige Meetings, gesellige Abendveranstaltungen und einen Infostand.
- Am 19. Januar hat die FSFE am Treffen der niederländischen Linux User
Group (NLLGG) mit einem Infostand und interessanten Gesprächen über
Freie Software und ähnliche Themen teilgenommen.
- Diesen Monat fanden Treffen der lokalen FSFE Gruppen in Hamburg [21],
Bonn, Frankfurt a.M. [22], Madrid [23], Zürich [24] und Berlin [25]
statt. Wenn dein lokales FSFE Treffen hier fehlt, melde es bitte über
unser Veranstaltungs-Tool [26].
- Die Europäische Kommission erweitert ihr Bug-Bounty-Programm [27] (EU-
FOSSA2). Software-Entwickler, die eine kritische Sicherheitslücke in
ausgewählten Freien Software Projekten finden, erhalten eine Prämie
zwischen 3.000 und 25.000 €.
== Nicht verpassen: Kommende Events mit der FSFE ==
- Die FSFE ist mit einem Stand bei den Chemnitzer Linuxtagen am 16. und
17. März vertreten. Wir freuen uns auf interessante Gespräche über
Freie Software. Außerdem gibt FSFE Programme Manager Erik Albers einen
Workshop darüber, wie man mit FDroid das Beste aus seinem
Android(-fork) herausholt. Falls du vorab Fragen hast oder beim Stand
unterstützen möchtest, melde dich im Thema in unserem Forum [28].
== Mach mit! ==
Am 14. Februar feiert unsere weltweite Community den "I love Free
Software" Tag [29]. Mach mit und bedanke dich bei deinen lieblings
Freie-Software-Projekten und den Menschen dahinter.
Wie in früheren Ausgaben freuen wir uns darauf, alle Arten von
Materialien weiter zu verbreiten, seien es Texte, Bilder, Grafiken,
Skripte oder was auch immer euch in den Sinn kommt, um eure Liebe zu
Freier Software auszudrücken. Den ganzen Tag über werden wir dazu
Beiträge rund um den Globus auf unseren Medienkanälen teilen und
sammeln. Wenn du mitmachst, vergiss nicht, den Hashtag *#ilovefs* zu
verwenden, oder wenn du eines unserer IloveFS visuals [30] auf deiner
Webplattform, Website oder einem Blog benutzt, lass es uns bitte wissen,
damit wir es in unseren Stream aufnehmen können.
== Trage zu unserem Newsletter bei ==
Wenn du deine Meinung, Fotos oder Neuigkeiten mitteilen möchtest,
schicke sie uns an newsletter(a)fsfe.org [31]. Wir freuen uns von dir zu
hören!
Vielen Dank an unsere Community, alle Freiwilligen [32], Supporter [33]
und Spender [34], die unsere Arbeit möglich machen! Ein extra Dankeschön
geht an unsere Übersetzer, die es dir ermöglichen, diesen Newsletter auf
Deutsch zu lesen.
Dein Redakteur,
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Fellowship Blog Aggregation <https://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml>
Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html>
1: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190124-01.html
2: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/publiccode/brochure.html
3: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190205-01.html
4: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2019-02
5: https://nlnet.nl/PET/background/
6: https://fsfe.org/activities/foss4smes/foss4smes.html
7: (https://www.foss4smes.eu
8: https://2019.copyleftconf.org/schedule/presentation/12/
9: https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=2386
10: https://karlitschek.de/2019/01/2018-and-2019/
11: https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#nocloud
12: https://www.schiessle.org/articles/2019/01/02/cultural-techniques/
13: https://faircomputer.ch
14: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2018/wiki/index.php/Assembly:Free_Software_F…
15: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events/9681.html
16: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9681-butterbrotdosen-smartphone
17: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events/9858.html
18: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9858-archaologische_studien_im_datenmull
19: https://pretalx.35c3oio.freifunk.space/35c3oio/talk/UFZYAS/
20: https://media.freifunk.net/v/35c3oio-74-f-droid-pimp-your-android-fork-with…
21: https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/Hamburg
22: https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/RheinMain
23: https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/Madrid
24: https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/Zurich
25: https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/Berlin
26: https://fsfe.org/community/tools/eventregistration
27: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/eur-3000-eur-25000
28: https://community.fsfe.org/t/chemnitzer-linuxtage-2019-standteam/216
29: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/
30: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/artwork/artwork.html
31: https://fsfe.org/mailto:newsletter@fsfe.org
32: https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute
33: http://fsfe.org/join
34: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus
35: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2019-02
= FSFE Newsletter Dezember 2018 =
[ Online lesen: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201812.de.html ]
== Neuste Entwicklungen und deren Einfluss auf Freie Software und deren
Communities ==
Die zweiten Jahreshälfte 2018 war voller interessanter Entwicklungen für
die Freie-Software-Gemeinschaft. In unserem Dezember-Newsletter wollen
wir auf drei wichtige Punkte eingehen, die möglicherweise langfristigen
Einfluss auf Freie Software haben und was das für die Arbeit der FSFE in
2019 und darüber hinaus bedeutet.
Eines der meistdiskutierten Themen in der Europäischen Union 2018 war
und ist die Urheberrechtsreform. In Bezug auf Freie Software war die
Debatte um Artikel 13 am bedeutendsten. Dieser Artikel schlägt den
Einsatz von Upload-Filtern vor. Durch diesen Vorschlag kann die Funktion
und Verbreitung von Code-Hosting-Plattformen und öffentliche Code-
Repositories für Freie Software behindert werden.
Nach langer intensiver Debatte und durch Unterstützung unserer "Save
Code Share"-Kampagne [1] konnten wir im September einige Ausnahmen für
Freie Software in den Texten des Europäischen Parlaments erreichen. Mit
den Übernahmen der Änderungen 143 und 150 [2] im aktuellen
Urheberrechtsreformentwurf im Europäischen Parlament haben wir jetzt
zumindest die Ausnahme für "Entwicklungsplattformen für Open Source
Software". Allerdings ist diese Anpassung nur mit Einschränkungen gültig
(z.B. "Diensteanbieter, die nicht zu kommerziellen Zwecken tätig sind").
Seit Oktober befinden sich das Europäische Parlament und der Rat in der
Debatte um den endgültigen Text. Um Freie Software weiterhin aus dieser
gefährlichen Direktive auszuschließen, wird die FSFE den Prozess genau
verfolgen und für Freie Software eintreten. Wenn du unsere Arbeit
unterstützen möchtest, kannst du uns etwas spenden [3] oder uns als
Supporter beitreten [4]!
Ein anderes Ereginis ist die Aktualisierung des "Code of Conduct"
(Verhaltenskodex) des Linux-Kernels. Außerdem nahm der Hauptentwickler
Linus Torvalds eine Auszeit und schickte eine öffentliche Mail mit einer
Entschuldigung für sein früheres Verhalten. Ohne hier weiter ins Detail
zu gehen, scheint der Umgang miteinander in größeren Freien Software
Projekten immer wichtiger zu werden. Viele Projekte legen daher vermehrt
großen Wert auf einen angemessenen Verhaltenskodex. Bei der FSFE haben
wir ebenfalls einen Verhaltenskodex [5], um "eine freundliche und
friedvolle Umgebung für alle Aktivitäten der FSFE, online und offline"
sicherzustellen. In der Zwischenzeit haben hunderte Freie-Software-
Projekte einen Verhaltenskodex und unterzeichneten den "Contributor
Covenant Code of Conduct" [6]. Das ist eine Entwicklung, die wir sehr
schätzen, und wir unterstützen weiterhin das Wohlbefinden in Freie-
Software-Gemeinschaften und -Projekten.
In den letzten Monaten konnten wir außerdem beobachten, wie Global
Player, die durch den Verkauf proprietärer Software im 20. Jahrhundert
groß geworden sind, Milliarden in den Kauf anderer Global Player
investieren, die durch das Angebot von Dienstleistungen basierend auf
Freier Software im 21. Jahrhundert groß geworden sind. Beispiele sind
der Kauf von GitHub durch Microsoft oder die Übernahme eines der größten
Freie-Software-Unterstützers, RedHat, durch IBM. Was das in langer Sicht
für Freie Software bedeutet, kann aktuell nur vermutet werden, aber wir
sehen ein wachsendes Interesse an Freier Software bei vielen Unternehmen
und Anbietern. Insgesamt muss es nicht zwingend eine schlechte
Entwicklung für Freie Software sein, dennoch scheint es es wichtig, dass
Non-Profit-Organisationen wie die Free Software Foundation Europe gehört
werden. Diese können eine neutrale, aber dennoch florierende Umgebung
für Freie Software gewährleisten. Es ist das oberste Ziel unserer
Mission [7], sicherzustellen, dass die Interessen individueller
Nutzerinnen und Nutzer geschützt werden, indem diese befähigt werden,
Technik zu kontrollieren. Das bringt uns hoffentlich auf dem Weg in eine
freie Gesellschaft weiter.
Wenn du uns bei unserer Arbeit unterstützen und die Freiheit der Nutzer
erhalten möchtest, kannst du uns gerne eine Spende zukommen lassen [8]
oder uns als Supporter beitreten [9].
== Was haben wir sonst noch getan? Inner- und außerhalb der FSFE ==
- Am Wochenende des 24. und 25. November fand unser erster FSFE
Hackathon [11] statt. Eine gute handvoll Hackerinnen und Hacker trafen
sich im Onion Space Berlin, um die FSFE-Webseite zu verbessern. Ein
Teilnehmer nahm sogar extra den langen Weg von Linz in Österreich auf
sich. In Vorbereitung haben wir einen Meilenstein [12] in unserem Git-
Issue-Tracker angelegt. Dank der versammelten Expertise der
Teilnehmerinnen konnten wir wichtige Verbesserungen am Front- und
Back-End unserer Webseite umsetzen. Die offensichtlichsten Änderungen
sind unter anderem die Aktualisierung der Info-Seitenleiste auf der
Hauptseite [13], die Überarbeitung der News- [14] und Event- [15]
Seiten sowie die Verbesserung der Anmeldeseite für Events [16]. Die
Teilnehmer brennen darauf, einen weiteren Hackathon Anfang 2019 zu
veranstalten. Schaue regelmäßig in die News, wenn du daran teilnehmen
möchtest!
- Lokale FSFE Community Treffen fanden diesen Monat in Helsinki, im
Rhein-Main-Gebiet in Frankfurt a.M. [17], Hamburg [18], Kiel [19],
Bonn und Linz [20] statt. Wenn du auch dein lokales FSFE Treffen hier
sehen möchtest, trage es bitte in unser verbessertes Event-
Ankündigungs-Tool [21] ein.
- Deinen Geburtstag, deine Hochzeit oder Weihnachten im Zusammensein mit
Familie, Freunden oder Kollegen feiern macht Spaß. Wenn du dabei keine
Lust auf den Geschenkewahn hast, kannst du auch eine Spende für einen
guten Zweck vorschlagen. Um dir die Spendenmitteilung einfacher zu
machen, haben wir dir einige Textvorschläge im Wiki [22] vorbereitet.
== Verpasse keine kommende Veranstaltung mit der FSFE ==
- 35C3: Wie auch in den vergangenen Jahren richten wir eine FSFE-
Assembly während des Chaos Communication Congress vom 27. bis 30.
Dezember in Leipzig ein. Unser Treffpunkt ist Anlaufstelle für alle
unsere Mitglieder, Freunde und Supporter und bietet Raum für
Diskussionen und Organisatorisches. Wir freuen uns auf eine Reihe von
Vorträgen (siehe auch unseren Aufruf für Vorträge [23] ), die
Einblicke in aktuelle Themen rund um Freie Software in verschiedenen
Bereichen bieten. Die Themen reichen von der Finanzierung Freier-
Software-Projekte bis hin zur Vermeidung von Überwachung, um Leben zu
retten, und vieles mehr. Sobald das 35C3-Wiki online ist, findest du
dort die komplette Liste. Komm vorbei, unterhalte dich mit uns und
höre dir die Vorträge an!
- FOSDEM 2019: Das Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting ist
de facto die größte Freie-Software-Entwickler-Konferenz in Europa und
findet am 2. und 3. Februar 2019 auf dem Solbosch Campus der Freien
Universität Brüssel (ULB) statt. Wie jedes Jahr ist die FSFE mit einem
großen Infostand vertreten. Dort gibt es unsere komplette Palette an
Infomaterial, Stickern, Postkarten und die neuste FSFE-Kollektion.
Außerdem ist das FSFE Kern-Team vor Ort und freut sich darauf, mit dir
Ideen zur Unterstützung und Verbreitung von Freier Software in Europa
in 2019 zu besprechen.
== Mach mit! ==
Dank unseres erstem FSFE-Hackathons (siehe oben) und durch andere
kürzliche Updates ist unsere Webseite ansprechender und intuitiver
geworden. Alle Anpassungen wurden zuerst in den englischen Versionen
vorgenommen. Das bedeutet, dass die Anpassungen in andere Sprachen
übernommen werden müssen. Wenn du uns dabei helfen möchtest, schaue auf
der Infoseite für Übersetzer [24] vorbei. Unser hilfsbereites
Übersetzer-Team heißt dich herzlich willkommen und freut sich über deine
Unterstützung! Falls du Fragen hast oder Starthilfe brauchst, melde dich
einfach auf der Übersetzer-Mailing-Liste [25].
== Trage zu unserem Newsletter bei ==
Wenn du deine Meinung, Fotos oder Neuigkeiten mitteilen möchtest,
schicke sie uns an newsletter(a)fsfe.org [26]. Wir freuen uns von dir zu
hören!
Vielen Dank an unsere Community, alle Freiwilligen [27], Supporter [28]
und Spender [29], die unsere Arbeit möglich machen! Ein extra Dankeschön
geht an unsere Übersetzer, die es dir ermöglichen, diesen Newsletter auf
Deutsch zu lesen.
Bitte beachte, dass es im Januar keinen Newsletter geben wird.
Dein Redakteur,
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Free Software Discussions <https://fsfe.org/contact/community.en.html>
1: https://savecodeshare.eu/
2:
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3: https://fsfe.org/donate/
4: https://my.fsfe.org/support
5: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct
6: https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct
7: https://fsfe.org/about/mission
8: https://fsfe.org/donate/
9: https://my.fsfe.org/support
10: https://my.fsfe.org/support
11: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2018/1124-fsfe-hackathon
12: https://git.fsfe.org/FSFE/fsfe-website/issues?milestone=9
13: https://fsfe.org/index.en.html
14: https://fsfe.org/news/news.en.html
15: https://fsfe.org/events/events.en.html
16: https://fsfe.org/community/tools/eventregistration
17: https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/RheinMain
18: https://wiki.fsfe.org/LocalGroups/Hamburg
19:
https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2018/FSFEKielMeeting_2018-11-22#head-e12ab4055…
20:
https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2018/Fellowship%20Meeting%20Linz%202018-12-20#…
21: https://fsfe.org/community/tools/eventregistration
22: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Templates%20for%20Donations
23: https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181024-01
24: https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators
25: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/translators
26: https://fsfe.org/mailto:newsletter@fsfe.org
27: https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute
28: http://fsfe.org/join
29: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus
30: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-12
= FSFE Newsletter November 2018 =
[ Online lesen: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201811.de.html ]
== Software Freedom in Europe ==
For 17 years, the FSFE has been empowering people to have control over
their technology, and we get better at it every year. To help you
understand how we work and what we do, we have just published "Software
freedom in Europe" [1], the yearly report about the FSFE and our
activities.
The report gives you a breakdown of important things the FSFE has
achieved during the last 12 months in one document. In the 2018 report,
you will read about several campaigns, our input on the European Union's
copyright reform, and about our successful outreach in demanding
publicly financed software be made publicly available under a Free
Software licence. You will also get insights about the multiple events
we (co-)organised, about our community and groups that helped us with
these achievements. Finally, we will display some numbers showing what
resources we counted on, and giving an outlook for the next year.
If you like our report, please share it on your favorite (social) media
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== What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE ==
- A large part of the FSFE team was present at the SFScon in Bolzano,
Italy, with a booth. The FSFE's president Matthias Kirschner gave a
talk about how "Technology shapes democracy" [3] and our EU public
policy programme manager Alexander Sander hosted a policy workshop.
- Bits&Bäume is a conference to bring together actors of different
sustainability and digital right movements. The FSFE local group
Berlin was present with a booth and Erik Albers gave a talk about
software as a digital resource [4], Christian Nähle about Free
Software in municipalities [5] and Bernhard Reiter about paying for
freedom [6].
- In the third consecutive year, the FSFE coordinators Spain were
running a booth at OSHWDem, a fair about Free Software and free
hardware. On this occasion, the creation of a FSFE local group in
Northern Spain was announced, as well as a translation team for the
Galician language. If you are interested to join one of them, please
get in contact with Pep Diz [7].
- At this year's Linux Day Italy, the FSFE Local Group Sicilia hosted an
event [8] with Giuseppe Bonocore, member of FSFE local group Milano,
who gave an introduction about the FSFE and the state of the art of
Free Software for "Microservices, dev-ops and silverbullet". At the
same time, the FSFE local group Milano was also hosting an event in
Milano [9] about Free Software and open source culture, together with
local associations where Stefano Costa gave a talk about "Libera il
tuo router!" (Free your router).
- Paul Boddie writes about [10] how he learned to publish applications
through F-Droid and encourages everyone to do likewise: "The process
was smooth and people were friendly and happy to help".
- Björn Schießle writes about his set-up of Zim [11], and how that helps
him keep being organised.
- Diderik van Wingerden proposes an alternative entrepreneurial-based
innovation model [12] that he believes has the potential to be good
for people and the planet by design.
== Get Active ==
Towards the end of the year, many people are open to join or support a
cause they believe in or they believe to do good. If you liked our
annual report [13] and the work we are doing, please spread the word
about it. You can for example share our report on your favorite (social)
media channels and mailing lists, amongst your colleagues, friends and
families. If you are not a supporter of the Free Software Foundation
Europe yet, please consider doing so [14] and strengthening the European
Free Software movement. Help yourself by making the process of
understanding or explaining the importance of Free Software easier for
yourself with our promotion material [15]. Get our latest merchandise
[16] and improve your outfit for the winter season - or gift it to
someone you know during the winter celebrations.
== Contribute to our newsletter ==
If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to
us. As always, the address is newsletter(a)fsfe.org. We're looking forward
to hearing from you!
Thanks to our community, all the volunteers [17], supporters [18] and
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1: https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181105-01
2: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-11
3: https://www.sfscon.it/talks/be-aware-technology-shapes-democracy/
4: https://fahrplan.bits-und-baeume.org/events/138.html
5: https://fahrplan.bits-und-baeume.org/events/176.html
6: https://fahrplan.bits-und-baeume.org/events/163.html
7: https://fsfe.org/mailto:pd@fsfe.org
8: https://linuxday.thefreecircle.org/2018/en/
9: http://linuxdaymilano.org/2018/
10: http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/www-repo/Personal/Updates/2018/2018-11-11.ht…
11: https://www.schiessle.org/articles/2018/11/01/keep-yourself-organized/
12: http://think-innovation.com/blog/reinventing-startups/
13: https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181105-01
14: https://my.fsfe.org/support
15: https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword
16: https://fsfe.org/order/
17: https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute
18: http://fsfe.org/join
19: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus
20: https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators
21: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-11
= FSFE Newsletter October 2018 =
[ Online lesen: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201810.de.html ]
== Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network ==
Historically, Microsoft has used software patents to slow down Free
Software adoption in businesses and public administration, by claiming
patent infringement of important Free Software components and taking
billions of dollars from Free Software re-distributors. In recent years,
however, Microsoft approached themselves more and more with the Free
Software community. In October, this led to Microsoft's next big step to
join the LOT Network and the Open Invention Network (OIN), two
organisations that aim to solve problems created by software patents
towards the GNU/Linux systems.
LOT works to protect members against so called "non-practicing
entities", while the OIN wants to protect a defined set of Free Software
technologies from patent litigation, defined in their so-called "Linux
system definition" [1].
The FSFE welcomes Microsoft's steps, and encourages them to continue in
this direction [2]. The FSFE aligns with our sister organisation, the
Free Software Foundation (FSF) in their demand [3] that useful next
steps should make a clear, unambiguous statement that Microsoft has
ceased all patent infringement claims on the use of Linux in Android: to
expand the list of packages protected from patents inside the definition
of "Linux System", to include every Free Software component found in a
GNU/Linux system, and to use the past patent royalties, extorted from
Free Software, to fund the effective abolition of all patents covering
ideas in software.
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== What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE ==
- From December 27th to 30th there will be the 35th Chaos Communication
Congress and the FSFE is happy to host an assembly again, acting as an
information booth and a meeting point for our friends and all friends
of Free Software. For sessions at the FSFE assembly, we are looking
for inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, community/developer/strategy
meetings or any other public, informative or collaborative activities
and have an open call for sessions running until November 18 [5].
- On the first weekend of October, the FSFE held it's annual assembly in
the Onion Space in Berlin. The general assembly are the members of the
FSFE, responsible for strategic planning and budgeting. Besides the
members, this year's general assembly welcomed our newest staffer
Alexander Sander to attend as guest. Soon after this newsletter
reaches you, a more detailed report, including the official minutes,
will be published on our homepage.
- We started onboarding two new staffers: Galia Mancheva [6] and Gabriel
Ku Wei Bin [7] have joined as project managers. We are excited to see
our team growing organically, and you will soon hear more from Galia's
and Gabriel's work in this newsletter.
- Prior to the elections in Hessen [8] and Bavaria [9], the FSFE
together with the "Free Knowledge Coalition", published another
"Digital-O-Mat" [10]. The Digital-O-Mat is one of our elections
campaigns and an online tool to help voters to inform themselves on
the parties positions about Free Software. Voters can use the Digital-
O-Mat to compare their own views about internet related policies with
the ones from the participating parties, and, this way, they are able
to find their best match. To also help understand the parties
positions in a broader context and raise public attention, the FSFE
analysed and evaluated their positions in a public statement [11].
- The FSFE's president Matthias Kirschner gave a talk at Kernel Recipes
[12] on the importance of Free Software and its role in protecting
democracy.
- The FSFE's country coordinator Germany Björn Schießle gave a talk at
the “Free Software Free Knowledge as a Profession” [13] series of
lectures organised and hosted by the dedicated working university
group at TU Dresden.
== Do not miss: upcoming events with the FSFE ==
>From November 15 to 17, part of the FSFE team will be present at the
SFScon [14] in Bolzano, Italy. The FSFE's president Matthias Kirschner
will give a talk and our EU public policy programme manager Alexander
Sander will host a policy workshop. Also, we will run a booth, where we
will present the findings of the REUSE [15] software study - carried out
by the University of Bolzano. If you are around, do pass by: we look
forward to meeting you.
== Get Active ==
To let as many people as possible know about software freedom and the
FSFE's mission, it is beneficial to explain our cause to them in their
mother tongue. Our team of translators [16] does an amazing job in
making sure that a majority of Europeans can read our pages in their
native language. Indeed, many parts of our homepage have been translated
in more than 20 European languages. This is a priceless contribution to
spreading software freedom and we are grateful to all contributors who
helped us in this.
However, every homepage needs an update from time to time and we will
refresh several parts of our homepage in the upcoming weeks - on top of
our general publications and news, like this newsletter. This means new
parts of our page that need translations. If you are a native speaker of
any language apart from English and you like translating, please join
our translator team [17] now, and help us to modernize our
infrastructure by getting our message out. Our translators team is very
helpful and looks forward to welcoming new members. You can get in
contact with the team via our mailing list [18] or with individual
coordinators [19] listed on the translators page.
== Open positions at FSFE ==
We currently have open positions for an internship as well as for a
"Bundesfreiwilligendienst" [20]. You an find more information about our
internships, previous interns and currently open positions on our
internships page [21].
== Contribute to our newsletter ==
If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to
us. As always, the address is newsletter(a)fsfe.org. We're looking forward
to hearing from you!
Thanks to our community, all the volunteers [22], supporters [23] and
donors [24] who make our work possible. And thanks to our translators
[25], who enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.
Your editor,
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1: https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/joining-oin/linux-system/
2: https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181023-02.html
3: https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-statement-on-microsoft-joining-the-open-invent…
4: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-10
5: https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181024-01
6: https://fsfe.org/about/mancheva/mancheva
7: https://fsfe.org/about/ku/ku
8: https://hessen.digital-o-mat.de/
9: https://bayern.digital-o-mat.de/
10: https://digital-o-mat.de/
11: https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181010-01.en.html
12: https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2018/talks/democracy-requires-free-software/
13: https://wiki.fsfw-dresden.de/doku.php/ringvorlesung/ws2018
14: https://www.sfscon.it/
15: https://reuse.software/
16: https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/
17: https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/
18: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/translators
19: https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/
20: https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180913-01.en.html
21: https://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.html
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= FSFE Newsletter September 2018 =
[ Online lesen: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201809.de.html ]
== Limited exclusion for Free Software in the Copyright Directive ==
On September 12, the European Parliament rejected the mandate to fast-
track the controversial legislation intended to reform online copyright.
After its previous rejection in July, they voted again on this package –
and this time it was adopted. However, with amendment 143 and 150 of the
current copyright reform proposal, we now have at least a limited
exclusion for “open source software developing platforms (..) within the
meaning of this Directive”. ( consolidated document [1] )
This exception is partially a result of our SaveCodeShare Campaign [2].
Nearly 13.000 individuals have already signed our open letter asking to
preserve the ability to share and build software online, and lots of
Free Software supporters raised their voice. Please continue to support
this campaign as the debate is not over yet.
In the next step, the European Parliament and the Council are starting
the Trialogue, moderated by the European Commission. This debate will
most likely continue until the beginning of next year. We will closely
follow this process and will continue to raise our voice for Free
Software. If you like to support our work, join us as a supporter [3].
== "Go open today, there's no excuse not to" ==
Within our Public Money? Public Code! campaign, we run a series of
interviews that highlight good examples and use-cases as best practices.
This time we conducted an interview with Timo Aarnio [4], GIS Expert at
the National Land Survey of Finland and product owner for Oskari
software. Oskari is an award-winning Free Software platform for
browsing, sharing and analysing geographic information from distributed
data sources. Read about its background, its development practices and a
network with over 38 organisations from both the public and private
sector.
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== What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE ==
- The FSFE is now official partner with the German
"Bundesfreiwilligendienst", a successor of the former alternative
civilian service. A paid volunteer can now work full time in our
office and learn about Free Software and our community. We have an
open call [6] running for this position. Be our first "Bufdi" or
spread the message to people who might be interested.
- Until two years ago, the FSFE had successfully defended [7] the user's
right of free choice against compulsory routers introduced by Internet
service providers in Germany. Recent numbers seem to acknowledge the
importance of our activites, as they suggest (DE) [8] that the number
of users who exercise their right of free choice have doubled since
the law passed in 2016. Due to Tobias Platen's findings [9] however,
users now have a “freedom of choice” but they do not have full
“software freedom”, because many embedded devices still use
proprietary software.
- The FSFE is happy to welcome Alexander Sander [10] as our new EU
public policy programme manager.
- OMEMO is an XMPP extension protocol, which specifies end-to-end
encryption for XMPP clients and it is currently the de-facto standard
for XMPP encryption. In his blog [11], Vanitas Vitae discusses its
current problems and the foreseeable future of this protocol.
- Paul Boddie argues [12] how Free Software advocates could improve
understanding the significance of their message by augmenting the four
software freedoms with some freedoms or statements of their own.
- Isabel Drost-Fromm posts a detailed summary [13] of the keynote by
Lorena Jaume-Palasi given at FrOSCon about the intersection of ethics
and technology: "Blessed by the algorithm - the computer says no!".
- At the 25th anniversary of Debian, Bits from the Basement writes [14]
about Freedom, Aretha Franklin and Debian's birthday.
- Diderik van Wingerden estimates and calculates [15] how much Free
Software projects would profit if people would donate 25% of the price
of its equivalent proprietary alternative.
- Torsten Grote explains [16] reproducible build processes, and why they
matter for Briar.
- Max Mehl, FSFE Program Manager, and Albert Dengg, FSFE System
Administrator, participated in BalCCon with a talk about "Public
Money? Public Code!" and a "Free Your Android" workshop.
- FSFE had a booth at NLLGG Software Freedom Day 2018 [17] in Utrecht,
The Netherlands, and at FrOSCon [18] in St. Augustin, Germany,
== Open positions at FSFE ==
We currently have open positions for an internship as well as for a
"Bundesfreiwilligendienst". Read about internships, previous interns and
currently open positions on our internships page [19]
== Contribute to our newsletter ==
If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to
us. As always, the address is newsletter(a)fsfe.org [20]. We're looking
forward to hearing from you!
Thanks to our community, all the volunteers [21], supporters [22] and
donors [23] who make our work possible. And thanks to our translators
[24], who enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.
Your editor,
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1: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2…
2: http://savecodeshare.eu/
3: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-09
4: https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180917-01
5: https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-09
6: https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180913-01
7: https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/
8: https://www.golem.de/news/vodafone-zahl-der-nutzer-der-routerfreiheit-hat-s…
9: http://blogs.fsfe.org/tobias_platen/2018/08/01/two-years-of-terminal-device…
10: https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180907-01.en.html
11: https://blogs.fsfe.org/vanitasvitae/2018/09/07/future-of-omemo/
12: https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=2307
13: http://blog.isabel-drost-fromm.de/posts/froscon-2018.html
14: http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/posts/Mixed_Emotions_On_Debian_Anniversary.ht…
15: http://think-innovation.com/blog/should-you-donate-to-open-source-software/
16: https://blog.grobox.de/2018/building-briar-reproducible-and-why-it-matters/
17: https://nllgg.nl/bijeenkomst/20180915
18: https://www.froscon.de/
19: https://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.html
20: https://fsfe.org/mailto:newsletterATfsfeDOTorg
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