= FSFE Newsletter – August 2014 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201408.ru.html ]
== Privilege and Power ==
In the olden days a common citizen of a republic going about their
everyday business was quite, shall we say, free. While tending to their
chores they would occasionally need a new tool or some advice, but the
old Latin proverb /scientia potentia est/ dictated the limits of their
freedom to be the limits of their knowledge: if they needed a new tool
and lacked the knowledge to make it, they became dependent on the
toolmaker only to obtain the tool.
In the brave new world it is different: not only do we depend on the
toolmaker when we wish to obtain a new tool, but oft we remain dependent
on them forever after. In the olden days a hammer could be used both to
put stakes in the ground (or vampires) and nail planks atop the
vampire's coffin. Today, the customer buying a general purpose tool has
to pay twice for it: once to put stakes in the vampire and then again to
nail planks atop its coffin.
This is great if you happen to be one of the few toolmakers: not only
are they one of the few privileged to be in control of their own
property, but they have also stripped the rest of us of our rights and
have the power to command our tools and hence have the power over us.
Unfortunately, the privilege blinds them to the situation's
revoltingness.
Times have not been kind and, in addition to the revolting consequences
of failed regulations and cold, unjust, profit-oriented business logic,
we have been treated with a revelation after a revelation of agencies
and offices founded to protect us, and subsequently given an impossible
mission, preying on us. These developments, while despicable, can at
least be rationally understood.
However, it cannot be rationally comprehended why our /democratically
elected representatives/ would seek to entrench these unfortunate
encroaches on our rights, on their own rights. Yet many of them do: the
European Commission is refusing to break Microsoft's stranglehold on the
EU[1] and, as an even more deeply unsettling development, the
Communications Committee of the UK parliament's House of Lords has
proposed to end anonymity on the Internet[2].
If the danger to privacy and freedom were not so grave, the latter's
technical ineptitude and arguments utterly unsuitable to the birthplace
of liberalism would be highly amusing. Yet the danger posed by people
who have been corrupted by power or greed is real and our resolve to
confront that danger with more decentralization, security, privacy, and
anonymity must become ever greater.
== We are all Targets ==
According to new revelations[3] from early July pretty much anyone in
the technological community is a target for surveillance. Among other
activities we have been, or will be picked out, for visiting the Tor
website[4], reading the Linux Journal[5], connecting to Mixminion
anonymous remailer service[6], and downloading Tails[7], a privacy-
sensitive GNU/Linux distribution. These sobering facts ought to be
remembered every hour, every day. In the end our greatest weapon is
developing and promoting projects that will one day land people
interested in them on that very same list.
== Something Completely Different ==
- FSFE will have a booth at FrOSCon[8], where our Vice President
Matthias Kirschner[9] will also give a talk[10] on the demise of the
general purpose computer.
- Our President Karsten Gerloff[11] writes about evaluating Free
Software for procurement[12].
- Hugo Roy[13], our Deputy Legal Coordinator writes about defensive
publications and his work for the Open Invention network[14] at his
blog.
- Matthias writes at his Fellowship blog about the invisible tasks[15]
that are being attended to by Reinhard Müller[16], our Financial
Officer.
- Guido Arnold, our Education Team Coordinator, has finished composing
his collection of Free Software in Education News for June[17].
- From the planet aggregation:[18] Kevin Keijzer writes about
receiving TV using a DVB-T USB dongle[19]. For our more
adventurous readers we suggest tuning the receiver to 1090 MHz and
obtaining an overview of the local civilian air air traffic as
reported by ADS-B transmitters on the aircraft.
- Sergey Matveev reports on the GoVPN daemon[20] he wrote in the Go
programming language.
-
== Get Active! ==
1. Use and spread the word about GnuPG[21], Off-the-Record
messaging[22], Tor[23], cryptsetup[24], HTTPS Everywhere[25], Privacy
Badger[26] and other privacy-enhancing Free Software.
2. If you can write code and understand a bit of computer science, find
a cool privacy-or-anonymity-enhancing concept in a scientific journal
and make it come alive.
We thank all our volunteers[27], Fellows[28], and donors[29] who make
our efforts possible,
Heiki Ojasild[30] – FSFE
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1. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140708-01.ru.html
2. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201415/ldselect/ldcomuni/37/3704…
3. http://www.wired.com/2014/07/nsa-targets-users-of-privacy-services/
4. https://www.torproject.org/
5. http://www.linuxjournal.com/
6. http://mixminion.net/
7. https://tails.boum.org/
8. https://www.froscon.de/en/home/
9. https://fsfe.org/about/kirschner/kirschner.ru.html
10. http://programm.froscon.de/2014/events/1321.html
11. https://fsfe.org/about/gerloff/gerloff.ru.html
12. http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/07/03/evaluating-free-software-for-procu…
13. https://fsfe.org/about/roy/roy.ru.html
14. http://hroy.eu/posts/intro-defpubs/
15. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/an-invisible-part-of-the-free-software-foundation-…
16. https://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/reinhard
17. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/07/free-software-in-education-news-june/
18. http://planet.fsfe.org/
19. http://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/07/17/watching-dvb-t-without-…
20. http://blogs.fsfe.org/stargrave/archives/122
21. https://www.gnupg.org/
22. https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
23. https://www.torproject.org/
24. https://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/
25. https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
26. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
27. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ru.html
28. https://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
29. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ru.html
30. https://fsfe.org/about/ojasild/ojasild.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter – July 2014 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201407.ru.html ]
== Privacy café: e-mail encryption as the main course! ==
Imagine you take some friends to a café, but instead of hot and cold
beverages, the menu features information on measures of ensuring digital
privacy. Like "https everywhere" as a starter, "GnuPG e-mail encryption"
for the main course, and "tosdr.org" (information about terms of
services) as dessert. Such cafés already exist in the Netherlands. At
the German speaking FSFE meeting in Essen, Felix Stegerman, our Deputy
Coordinator Netherlands, presented his plans to set up more privacy
cafés and why he thinks it is the right time and a good opportunity for
Free Software to do so in other places as well.
The reason is that most of the people that go to a privacy café are
already aware of issues around privacy and freedom. But it gives local
volunteers a good opportunity to talk about Free Software, and the
importance of using Free Software for privacy issues. For example, by
asking the participants "who controls the software?" Read Felix's blog
post for more details about the cafés and future plans[1].
== E-mail self-defence goes multilingual ==
Good information material about encryption and Free Software is crucial
for the privacy cafés just mentioned. Fortunately, our sister
organisation, the FSF, published the e-mail self-defence guide[2] and
volunteers translated the guide and the infographic in 6 other
languages: English, German, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Russian,
Turkish, and Japanese. This guide explains the installation of the
necessary programs for e-mail encryption under GNU/Linux, MacOS, and
Microsoft Windows as well as the key generation, the web of trust and
the usage of those programs. All you need is a computer with an Internet
connection, an email account, and about half an hour. For information
how you can help to spread information about e-mail self-defence, see
this edition's "get active" section.
== What to use instead of WhatsApp and Threema? ==
"How can I encrypt my e-mail" was one of the most common questions we
received in the last months. Thanks to the e-mail self-defence guide we
now have a good answer. Another questions about encryption and privacy
we were asked frequently was: "is there a secure and free WhatsApp
alternative?"
WhatsApp is a messaging program for mobiles that allows you to send
(text) messages free-of-charge. After WhatsApp's recent acquisition by
Facebook and in the face of the NSA revelations, many WhatsApp users are
looking for secure and trustworthy alternatives.
Because this effects so many people, we at the Free Software Foundation
Europe would like to be able to promote an alternative that respects
your freedom and privacy. Therefore we decided to do some research and
to hold a workshop on WhatsApp alternatives during our latest FSFE team
meeting in Essen. Hannes Hauswedell and Torsten Grote summarised the
results[3].
== Something completely different ==
- Local group activities: FSFE had professional outdoor booths at the
vegan summer festival in Vienna[4], as well as at Corso Leopold in
Munich[5]. At the Free Software meeting in Athens FSFE's our local
group discussed how to build your own home server. Nikos Roussos
documented how to setup a home server with Fedora and Beagle Bone
Black[6]. Our local group in Frankfurt focused on crypto topics[7],
and Hugo Roy, coordinator of local group in Paris, gave a talk at the
local Ubuntu party[8].
- "Free Software needs a strong community. If we fail to attract
everyone willing to work for Free Software, we’re shooting ourselves
in the foot." wrote Karsten Gerloff in his blog post "Four social
rules for a 'No Asshole Zone'"[9]. Our local group coordinators have a
similar discussion, and started with a code of conduct for FSFE's
discussions[10]. We are interested in your feedback on the pad.
- The Free Software community now has 33 supporters in the European
Parliament. All of them signed the Free Software pact for the European
elections[11], and we are sure there will be times in which we will
remind them of the promise they have given, and ask them to support
our cause.
- Our president Karsten Gerloff was delivering a keynote at the European
Christian Internet Conference[12]. Afterwards he was asked by a pastor
to comment on a draft strategy to move the churches in his region
towards Free Software, which Karsten did[13].
- From 7 to 8 June 2014 Fundația Ceata, an associated organisation of
FSFE, organised the second Coliberator conference in Bucharest. At the
first edition FSFE president Karsten Gerloff gave the keynote, and at
this edition it was the Richard Stallman, president of FSF. The first
batch of talks are already published on the conference's website[14].
- Guido Arnold provides the news from Free Software in education - May
2014[15].
- Public administration: Joinup reports that the complexity of
proprietary software licences is encouraging the uptake of Free
Software in the Greater London Authority[16], that the Extremadura
health care has switched to Free Software[17], and that the German
city of Leipzig already migrated 2792 of the city's 4300 workstations
to the Free Software office suites Apache OpenOffice and
LibreOffice[18]. They expect "that in the first five years the
anticipated savings will be swallowed by the exit costs associated
with the proprietary software used by the city."
- From the planet aggregation[19]:
- More female speakers at the conference and ATMs running GNU/Linux.
Torsten was giving a talk about Free Your Android at FISL in
Brazil[20].
- Under the slogan "your data at the intelligence services" the
German Humanistische Union organised a "blog parade", asking
organisations to participate with a blog post. Erik Albers wrote a
post "Protection against surveillance through encryption with Free
Software" (in German)[21].
- The Randa Meetings, a collection of sprints that make KDE software
better needs your help for this year's edition. Mario Fux asks
everyone to spread the word, help, donate and/or support them[22].
- Hugo Roy lists some "awesome tools" he uses but are little
known[23].
- Bdale Garbee wrote about TeleGPS, an easy-to-use tracking-only
board providing GPS location[24].
- Photography: Hannes started to publish a photo of the month[25],
edited with the Free Software Darktable, and Paul Boddie explains
how he was tuning digiKam’s picture previews[26].
- Björn Schießle describes how to integrate the todo list software
"ToDo.txt" into Claws Mail[27].
- Former FSFE employee Sam Tuke explains how to backup multiple
e-mail accounts automatically on GNU/Linux[28].
== Get active: Spread the e-mail self-defence guide! ==
The FSF's e-mail self-defence guide[29] and the corresponding
infographic[30] is good material to explain e-mail encryption to wider
audience. For some time now FSFE ships Free Software information
materials to activists[31]. Beside general information about Free
Software, Open Standards, Digital Restrictions Management, or F-Droid,
we would like to distribute the infographic in future.
Before we print a larger amount and ship it to our local groups[32] and
other activists around Europe, we would like you to test the
infographics with friends, family and colleagues. Try to find out if
they have problems understanding some parts and use our public
discussion lists[33], so that we--together with our sister organisation
--can modify them if necessary.
Thanks to all the volunteers[34], Fellows[35] and corporate donors[36]
who enable our work,
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE
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1. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2014/07/01/workshop-on-privacy-and-free-software/
2. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/
3. http://freedom-blog.net/2014/06/what-to-use-instead-of-whatsapp-and-threema/
4. https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2014/06/11/booth-on-the-vegan-summer-f…
5. http://www.softmetz.de/2014/06/14/freie-software-offene-standards-und-freie…
6. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/06/23/fedora-beaglebone-black/
7. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/06/report-from-fellowship-meeting-in-fran…
8. https://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2014/05/talk-about-the-fsfe-ubuntu-party-2014/
9. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/06/four-social-rules-for-a-no-asshol…
10. https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/CodeOfConduct
11. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140528-01.html
12. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/30/talking-to-the-church-about-free-…
13. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/06/30/free-software-in-the-church-from-…
14. http://coliberator.ro/
15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/06/free-software-in-education-news-may/
16. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/london-complex-proprietary-…
17. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/extremadura-health-care-has…
18. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/leipzig-switching-open-sour…
19. http://planet.fsfe.org
20. http://blog.grobox.de/2014/liberte-seu-android-at-fisl15/
21. https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/06/20/verschluesselung-mit-freier-software/
22. http://www.kde.org/fundraisers/randameetings2014/index.php
23. http://hroy.eu/tips/awesome-tools/
24. http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/posts/TeleGPS_v1.0.html
25. https://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2014/07/01/photo-of-the-month-2014-07/
26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=784
27. http://blog.schiessle.org/2014/06/10/combine-claws-mail-with-todo-txt/
28. http://samtuke.com/2014/06/backup-multiple-email-accounts-automatically-on-…
29. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/
30. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/infographic.html
31. https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.ru.html#promo-material
32. https://fsfe.org/about/localteams.ru.html
33. https://fsfe.org/contact/community.ru.html
34. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ru.html
35. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
36. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter – June 2014 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201406.ru.html ]
== Security is interdependent: We are all Gmail users now ==
You care about privacy and you are either paying an e-mail provider, or
even run your own mail server to keep autonomy, control, and privacy
over your email. You do this because you want to make sure that no big
company has copies of all of your personal email. Still, this does not
prevent other companies from getting their hands on your data. It is not
enough to merely take care of your own security, if you seek to increase
your security. You have to convince your peers to increase their
security, too: like Jacob Appelbaum says, security is interdependent[1].
FSF board member Benjamin Mako Hill wondered how much of his email has
ended up in the hands of companies such as Google. So he wrote a small
program to go through all his email since April 2004 (when Gmail was
introduced) and analyse it. Read what Benjamin found out[2], what
results FSFE's Karsten Gerloff[3] and Hugo Roy[4] got when they
reproduced it, and why not try those scripts out for yourself?
== Is it a torch light or a spy in your pocket? ==
A lot of programs that people install on their Android devices violate
their security. It is common that those programs ask users to accept
non-readable terms and conditions, once installed they might reveal
where the device (and therefore the user) currently is, and access
personal data like user's address books or text messages. A seemingly
innocent app such as a torch light can thus violate the user's privacy.
For owners of mobile devices it is important to have an app store that
exclusively provides Free Software. Since this means that the source
code can be checked by external parties other than the vendor, they can
check what an app really does, and highlight or directly remove anti-
features. The result is a repository providing software with licenses
that respect the user's rights instead of violating them.
In the last months we experienced that more and more people care about
the software on their mobile devices. Your editor summarised what is
currently happening with Free Your Android[5], including promotion in
Greece, updating and translation status of our F-Droid leaflets, an
interview with the F-Droid developer, and your editor participating in
an event about consumer protection in the mobile phone sphere in the
German Parliament.
== Another security nightmare: DRM ==
After a possible setback for DRM in Europe[6] it is important to raise
more awareness about this issue. We cannot stay quiet while some
companies use Digital Restriction Management to write their own
copyright laws, restrict us, and decrease our IT security. Many
organisations including EFF[7], April, and us participated in the Day
Against DRM[8], organised by FSF to highlight the dangers of DRM. The
FSFE used the occasion to contact the European Commission with an Open
Letter about DRM in HTML5[9]. We explained that DRM is directly contrary
to the interests of the vast majority of Internet users everywhere.
Just a few days later the Free Software community received the bad news
from Mozilla: DRM will be implemented in Firefox (the part is called
EME). The reactions ranged from the FSF condemning the partnership
between Mozilla and Adobe[10], Mozilla justifying its decision[11],
others supporting it[12], and Glyn Moody criticising them by comparing
Mozilla's mission with its current action[13]. As always we are
interested in your opinion. What do you think about Mozilla's decision
and its reasoning? What can the Free Software community do to
counterbalance this move? Let us know on our public discussion list[14].
== Something completely different ==
- FSFE's country team Netherlands wrote a short text "The Importance of
Free Software"[15] (also available in Dutch[16] ) about the relevance
of Free Software and its conclusions for policy makers. The text
highlights the crucial question for our society about "who controls
the software?". "Because if we don't control the software we use, it
controls us. And whoever controls the software therefore controls us."
The text then was used to convince candidates to sign the Free
Software Pact[17] - a project run by April[18] and supported by many
organisations, including the FSFE.
- Fellowship Groups: After two years as a Fellowship representative in
FSFE's GA, Nikos Roussos now started local FSFE meetings in
Athens[19]. Furthermore we had a first Fellowship meeting in
Wiesbaden[20]. In addition, new groups are establishing regular
meetings since a while now in Zurich and Cologne.
- Our sister organisation, the FSF, awarded the Respects Your Freedom
(RYF) certification to the Tehnoetic TET-N150 wireless USB
adapter[21]. The RYF certification mark is awarded to products that
meet the FSF's standards in regard to users' freedom, control over the
product, and privacy. Visitors of FSFE's booth at FOSDEM might already
know those adapters, as Tiberiu C. Turbureanu sold them at our booth.
- From the planet aggregation[22]: Carsten Agger explains what the
result of the Danish referendum on the European patent court and
the unitary patent means for software patents[23].
- Leena Simon published an essay about the importance of
attributions and the flow of information named "Standing on the
Shoulders of Free Culture"[24].
- Your editor wrote about the Novena hardware computing platform for
hackers and Free Software drivers[25] and documented how to
generate a new wifi password the mobile friendly way[26].
- Henri Bergius spent three days at the GNOME Developer Experience
hackfest working on the NoFlo runtime for GNOME[27].
- Mario Fux wrote that Debian's KDE community needs help[28].
- Our new intern Bela Seeger[29] as well as long term Fellow Paul
Adams[30] report from Linuxtag in Berlin.
- While Konstantinos Boukouvalas wrote about LPI affiliates,
openLabs and OSCAL, as well as the Albanian Free Software
Community[31].
-
== Get active: Your experiences with programming resources for children ==
Beside publishing the monthly Free Software in education news[32] our
education team answers a lot of question by people who want to use more
Free Software in education.
As the edu-team was asked for good resources to teach kids to program,
Guido Arnold thought the answer (or more a summary of the answers) might
be interesting to others as well. So he published the summary[33]. To
improve our education website we ask you to give us feedback on those
resources. How do you like them, did you already have experience with
some of them, what was good, where did you have problems, and which
resources did we miss?
Thanks to all the volunteers[34], Fellows[35] and corporate donors[36]
who enable our work,
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE
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1. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/05/14/our-privacy-is-interdependent/
2. http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all…
3. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/05/27/were-all-gmail-users-now-pt-2
4. http://hroy.eu/posts/gmail-most-email/
5. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/consumer-protection-for-mobiles-is-it-a-torch-lig…
6. http://lwn.net/Articles/584167/
7. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/how-drm-harms-our-computer-security
8. http://www.defectivebydesign.org/thanks-for-a-great-international-day-again…
9. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140506-01.ru.html
10. https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mozilla-and-adobe…
11. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/
12. https://leomca.github.io/2014/05/15/Mozilla-and-DRM.html
13. http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2014/05/whither-mozilla/in…
14. https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2014/05/07/the-importance-of-free-software/
16. https://blogs.fsfe.org/flx/2014/05/07/het-belang-van-vrije-software/
17. http://freesoftwarepact.eu
18. http://www.april.org/
19. http://www.roussos.cc/2014/04/30/athens-free-software-monthly-meetups/
20. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/05/report-from-the-first-fellowship-meeti…
21. https://www.fsf.org/news/tehnoetic-wireless-usb-adapter-now-fsf-certified-t…
22. http://planet.fsfe.org
23. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/05/26/elections-14-not-much-to-celebrate/
24. http://leena.de/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-free-culture/
25. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/support-hardware-computing-platform-for-hackers-a…
26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/how-to-generate-a-new-wifi-password-the-mobile-fr…
27. http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/flowhub-gnome-dx/
28. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=231
29. https://blogs.fsfe.org/seeger/2014/05/23/linuxtag-2014/
30. https://blogs.fsfe.org/padams/?p=303
31. http://blogs.fsfe.org/boukouvalas/?p=556
32. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/05/free-software-in-education-news-april/
33. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/05/teach-programming-with-free-software/
34. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ru.html
35. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
36. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter – May 2014 =
[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201405.ru.html ]
== Heartbleed and economic incentives ==
You probably heard about the bug in the Free Software OpenSSL nicknamed
"heartbleed". The FSFE already welcomed the industry initiative to fund
critical Free Software projects[1], and the topic was discussed in
several blog articles on the planet: Sam Tuke wrote about his
impression[2], Hugo Roy shared an XKCD comic explaining how heartbleed
works[3], and Martin Gollowitzer wrote about what the Heartbleed bug
revealed to him[4] about StartSSL certificate authority.
But your editor is convinced that the main problem is not OpenSSL. It is
not Free Software. It is about companies not taking responsibilities and
about missing economic incentives to ensure security. Security expert
Bruce Schneier wrote in 2006[5]:
"We generally think of computer security as a problem of technology,
but often systems fail because of misplaced economic incentives: The
people who could protect a system are not the ones who suffer the
costs of failure."
In a nutshell, if your private data is exposed because your health
insurance, where it is stored, did not take care to secure it, you
suffer to a much higher degree than the health insurance does! You are
in no position to preasure the health insurance to change its level of
security, and they have no economic incentive to do so. In the article
Schneier further explains that the liability for attacks is diffuse and
that "the economic considerations of security are more important than
the technical considerations".
Following the argument, the important question we face is, how can we
give the right economic incentives to ensure that: security relevant
software has the proper funding; third parties are auditing code; more
people are trained in computer security; programmers have time for
maintenance and are not forced to just develop new features; we have a
diversity of software[6] for different special purposes and therefor
prevent software monocultures[7]; companies run secure software instead
of just giving people a good feeling by performing a security theatre or
by delegating responsibility to others (for example the government), so
they can be blamed if there is a problem, and that also the security
interest of private users is fulfilled and not just those of big
cooperations.
In the FSFE we thought about how to give good economic incentives for
Free Software development from the beginning, and now we have to think
more about economic incentives to increase security. It is a difficult
area, so we are looking forward to your comments on this topic and
invite you to discuss it on our public mailing lists[8].
== Internet Censorship and Open Standards ==
Local elections scheduled across the country for the following day, the
government blocking both YouTube and Twitter, and the usage numbers of
the Free Software anonymity software Tor doubling during the week. Is
there a better time for the FSFE's President to go to this country? At
the annual conference of the Turkish GNU/Linux Users Association in
Istanbul Karsten Gerloff talked about the relationship between
technology and power, and made it to the front page of a national
newspaper by mentioning who sold the software to block the internet.
Karsten wrote a summary of his talk and his journey in his blog[9].
The talk would not have happened without our Turkish volunteer Nermin
Canik, who encouraged us to attend the conference. Nermin has been
working steadily and reliably as a volunteer for a couple of years now.
Together with other volunteers she organised Document Freedom Day[10]
(DFD) events in Turkey. This year, although as mentioned above it was a
hard time for people in Turkey who care about freedom, they accomplished
7 events in Istanbul, Ankara, Çayırova, Denizli, and Adana.
Have a look at the Document Freedom Day 2014 Report[11] to find out what
happened in Turkey and around the world during that day. The report
includes lots of pictures ranging from children celebrating DFD at
school, the new leaflets, comic, and t-shirts, as well as the very
delicious looking cakes. Thanks to our Turkish translator[12] Tahir Emre
and our leaving intern Matti Lammi the report and the whole DFD website
are also available in Turkish and Finnish.
== Something completely different ==
- The German association Teckids e.V.[13] offers workshops for 10 to 16
year olds to build robots with different sensors (light, sound, or
ultrasonic) and program them to do cool things by using Free Software.
Your editor was delighted to see that in those workshops teenagers
teach other teenagers how to tinker with Free Software[14]. More news
about education are covered by Guido Arnold in the Free Software
education news[15].
- News from the public administration: The government of Galicia
recommends use of Open Document Format[16] and a school in
Villmergen/Switzerland is satisfied with Free Software[17] as they can
now invest more money in education.
- 143 of the politicians newly elected in France's municipal elections
have pledged their support for Free Software. They all signed the Free
Software Pact by the French Free Software organisation April[18]. The
FSFE congratulates them for the good job. Please notice that this
month's "Get Active" item, always at the end of the newsletter, is
also about the Free Software Pact and how you can help us.
- From the planet aggregation[19]:
- Ghostery is an browser extension supposed to help users against
tracking and surveillance on the web. But as Hugo Roy reports[20],
the problem is that Ghostery is not released as Free Software.
- Guido Günther reports from the 7th Debian groupware meeting[21] at
the Linuxhotel including why the participants, of whom all but one
are FSFE Fellows, took the decision to remove iceowl (calendar) or
what they did with icedove (e-mail).
- Our Fellow Number 1, wrote about KDE e.V., families at Free
Software meetings, especially at the meetings in Randa
Switzerland[22], and he made some proposals for future KDE
releases[23].
- Karl Beecher explains why Programmers Start Counting at Zero[24].
- Carsten Agger gave a talk about Open Data and Hacktivism at the
hackerspace in Aarhus[25]. He also participated at the first
International Festival for Technoshamanism. He explains what
Technoshamanism is[26], what it has to do with Free Software, and
reports from the first day[27].
- Hugo Roy takes a look at the GNU GPL in a javascript outliner:
"GNU GPL, JS and BS"[28] and he wrote about Innovation policy and
Internet liability in courts–beyond advertising[29] with the
conclusion that "we need to take back control of innovation and
technology policy to foster privacy and freedom; more than ever."
- Konstantinos Boukouvalas wrote about the OSCAL conference in
Albania[30] (3-4 May) which is supported by Albania's Ministry of
Youth and Social Welfare[31]. They keynote there was done by
FSFE's Erik Albers[32].
- On a technical side: Guido Arnold explains the advantages of using
caff for keysigning[33], which is part of the keysigning-party
package on Debian based systems.
- Kevin Keijzer's new bedroom is now equipped with a new Free
Software computer[34] and he documented how to install Debian
GNU/Linux on the Acer C720 Chromebook[35].
- Jens Leuchtenbörger explains how to do Certificate Pinning for
GNU/Linux and Android[36].
- When Daniel Pocock upgraded an Android device he "found out that
Android betrays the tethering data"[37], after he received a lot
of feedback he wrote a follow-up article because people justified
the way mobile networks try to discriminate against tethering[38]
after his first blog entry. Also read Paul Boddie's comment about
the second article[39].
- Furthermore Daniel wrote about problems with SMS logins[40], how
his AirBNB hosts wanted to scan his identity documents and
passports[41], and the best real-time communication (RTC / VoIP)
softphone on the GNU/Linux desktop[42].
== Get active: Make the Free Software Pact a success! ==
As we wrote in March[43], candidates pledging for Free Software is a
good way to take them at their word after an election. In Future we can
contact them whenever there will be EU legislation to be passed that
might endanger the existence or growth of Free Software.
After FSFE's volunteers did a lot of translations for the pact, April
now published all necessary information on the Free Software pact
website[44] so you can get active.
In Italy our new intern Michele Marrali already contacted 51 candidates.
He searched for the candidates, used Erik's template[45] (also available
in German[46] ) to contact them, and afterwards noted on our pad whom he
already contacted[47]. His goal is to contact every Italian candidate
and get them to sign the pact. So how many can you contact?
In case you do not have time to participate in this "hobby lobby
competition", consider to make a donation[48] so we can offer the most
active volunteers some rewards from our shop[49].
Thanks to all the volunteers[50], Fellows[51] and corporate donors[52]
who enable our work,
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE
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1. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140424-01.en.html
2. https://blogs.fsfe.org/samtuke/?p=718
3. http://hroy.eu/notes/openssl-tragedy/
4. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gollo/2014/04/13/what-the-heartbleed-bug-revealed-to…
5. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/economics_and_i_1.html
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_implementations
7. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/dan_geer_on_hea.html
8. https://fsfe.org/contact/community.ru.html
9. https://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2014/04/29/interesting-times-speaking-about-…
10. http://documentfreedom.org/events/events.html
11. http://documentfreedom.org/news/2014/news-20140424-01.html
12. http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.html
13. https://www.teckids.org/
14. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/teenagers-teach-how-to-program-robots-with-free-s…
15. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/04/free-software-in-education-news-march/
16. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/galicia-recommends-use-open…
17. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/news/swiss-school-invests-open-source…
18. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/news/143-french-politicians-pledge-su…
19. http://planet.fsfe.org
20. http://hroy.eu/notes/avoid_ghostery-proprietary/
21. http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Bits_from_the_7th_Debian_groupware_meeting.html
22. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=205
23. https://blogs.fsfe.org/mario/?p=224
24. http://computerfloss.com/2014/04/chapter-0-programmers-start-counting-zero-…
25. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/04/10/speaking-about-open-data-and-hackti…
26. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/04/18/participating-in-the-1st-internatio…
27. https://blogs.fsfe.org/agger/2014/04/25/opening-the-1st-international-festi…
28. http://hroy.eu/posts/gpl-js-bs/
29. http://hroy.eu/posts/innovation-policy/
30. https://blogs.fsfe.org/boukouvalas/?p=546
31. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/news/albania-youth-ministry-supports-…
32. http://oscal.openlabs.cc/speakers/
33. https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2014/04/key-signing-with-caff/
34. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/03/29/my-new-bedroom-htpc-gi…
35. https://blogs.fsfe.org/the_unconventional/2014/04/20/acer-c720-chromebook-d…
36. https://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2014/04/05/certificate-pinning-f…
37. http://danielpocock.com/android-betrays-tethering-data
38. http://danielpocock.com/tethering-and-petrol-charges
39. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=769
40. http://danielpocock.com/sms-logins-an-illusion-of-security
41. http://danielpocock.com/airbnb-hosts-scanning-copying-passports
42. http://danielpocock.com/best-rtc-voip-softphone-linux-desktop
43. https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140304-01.ru.html
44. http://freesoftwarepact.eu/
45. https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/04/23/the-free-software-pact-for-the-europe…
46. https://blogs.fsfe.org/eal/2014/04/23/der-freie-software-pakt-eu
47. https://public.pad.fsfe.org/p/freesoftwarepact-eu-candidates
48. https://fsfe.org/donate/donate.ru.html
49. https://fsfe.org/order/order.ru.html
50. https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.ru.html
51. http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join
52. https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter – January 2014 =
[Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201401.ru.html]
== From Yuletide to Full-Blown Winter ==
Many hackers (including us, of course!) have been enjoying the various
festivities occurring around the winter solstice. But, alas!, the time
to dwell on Christmas presents and enjoy a family recess is no more –
the Yule has gone, the year has been made anew, and the fight for
freedom and liberty demands our attention once more. Hence, it is only
fitting to begin with a short review of what 2014 has got in store for
us during the next few months.
Those fond of celebrations should already have their eyes set on
February 14, the yearly occasion when our website turns pink and heart-
laden, and the perfect time to hug developers[1] and bring loved ones to
Free Software and the Fellowship[2].
Those favouring a more hands-on approach have to wait until late March
to educate their fellow citizens[3] about Open Standards[4]. However, it
is not necessary to despair: our various ongoing campaigns[5] are always
looking for new hacktivists. Getting in touch is easy[6] !
And while we are on the topic, there will be many opportunities to meet
our staff, volunteers, and Fellows throughout the year. For starters,
FSFE is going to be present with a booth at the Free Software conference
FOSDEM, which takes place on the first weekend of February at Brussels.
Everyone fancying a chat or running low on freedom gear[7] should stop
by. Those who cannot make it to FOSDEM this year should occasionally
check the events section on our website[8] for future opportunities to
meet us.
== Do It Yourself versus Digital Restrictions Management ==
While we are sure that many of our readers were either lucky or vocal
enough to only receive Christmas presents that respect their freedom,
there are probably some who find themselves in possession of items that
were neither made by the giver nor appear in our sister's Holiday Giving
Guide[9].
We have a few recommendations for handling such gifts: some of those can
be liberated (e.g., Android devices[10] ); developers working to create
free replacements to various proprietary systems would most likely
appreciate hardware donations (search the web for various efforts to
liberate various device categories); and you might be able to hack such
a gift to run Free Software.
Whatever you have decided to do with such items, we would love to hear
about your solutions. We have opened a mailing list thread[11] on the
topic and e-mails to discussion[12] fsfeurope.org[13] (please be advised
this is a public mailing list) are most welcome. In addition to
solutions to non-free gifts, we are also looking forward to reading
about freedom-respecting or DIY gifts you are truly enjoying.
== Something Completely Different ==
- This newsletter is regularly available in Romanian since December 2013
. Our associate Fundația Ceata[14] has taken it upon themselves to
provide timely translations for which we are extremely grateful.
- From the planet aggregation[15] :
- Our ex-Vice President Henrik Sandklef has been busy[16] adding LCD
support[17] to Searduino. The latter post (not on the planet) also
serves as a call for contributors.
- Isabel Drost-Fromm's ‘ On geeks growing up[18] ’ contemplates the
meaning of life, or to put it more plainly, family-friendliness of
various technology conferences. The positive role models Isabel
has identified deserve a few words of encouragement, and to Isabel
herself we say naught but Inductive Bias rocks!
- Guido Arnold, Deputy Coordinator of the Education team, has
collected and summarised November news stories about Free Software
in education[19].
- Daniel Pocock has written extensively about WebRTC (‘ Free calling
from browser to mobile with free software[20] ’, ‘ Get WebRTC
going faster[21] ’, ‘ xWiki: 10 years and a WebRTC success
story[22] ’).
- Paul Boddie has done the same about Kolab (‘ Adventures in Kolab
Packaging and pykolab[23] ’, ‘ Integrating setup-kolab with Debian
Packaging[24] ’).
- The last planet item to warrant an honourable mention in the
newsletter under this temporary editorship is Jens Lechtenbörger's
‘ OpenPGP and S/MIME or Trust and “Trust”[25] ’. Jens explains why
OpenPGP should be preferred over S/MIME for e-mail encryption.
Acquainting oneself with the explanation is highly recommended for
anyone making use of, or contemplating the use of, e-mail
encryption.
- Repentinus, one of our two Fellowship Representatives, is keeping his
neck warm this winter by wearing a green-black woollen scarf featuring
the Fellowship Plussy and letters "FSFE". Those among our readers who
can knit can make themselves a similar scarf by following the
instructions provided by his girlfriend[26] (please be advised this
link leads to a blog hosted on Blogspot; taking appropriate
precautions (like using a JavaScript blocker) is recommended). The
rest of our readers can either learn to knit or have someone knit this
scarf for them.
== Giving for Freedom ==
This newsletter started with a short overview of annual events waiting
us in the next few months. Such celebrations, while fun and educational,
require the combined efforts of volunteers and our staff to organise. In
addition to requiring staff time, activities hosted as part of the
celebrations require funds. Furthermore, in addition to the fun
celebrations, we require funds to keep our continuous campaigns running,
lobby for Free Software, advise developers on Free Software licensing,
and educate technology companies on Free Software and licence
compliance. Unfortunately, we have not yet secured our budget for 2014.
Our readers considering supporting our work can either make a one-time
donation[27] or join the Fellowship[28]. We thank all our existing
donors and Fellows!
Free New Year!
Heiki Ojasild[29] - FSFE
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Free Software Foundation Europe[30]
FSFE News[31]
Upcoming FSFE Events[32]
Fellowship Blog Aggregation[33]
Free Software Discussions[34]
1. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/ilovefs.ru.html
2. http://fsfe.org/fellowship/index.ru.html
3. http://documentfreedom.org/
4. http://fsfe.org/activities/os/os.ru.html
5. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/campaigns.ru.html
6. http://fsfe.org/contact/contact.ru.html
7. http://fsfe.org/order/order.ru.html
8. http://fsfe.org/index.ru.html#id-events
9. https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/
10. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/android/android.ru.html
11. http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/discussion/2014-January/009897.html
12. http://fsfe.org/mailto:discussion@fsfeurope.org
13. http://fsfe.org/mailto:discussion@fsfeurope.org
14. http://fsfe.org/associates/associates.ru.html#id-funda%C8%9Bia-ceata
15. http://planet.fsfe.org
16. http://sandklef.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/lcd-support-added-in-searduino/
17. http://searduino.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/partial-lcd-support-in-searduino-…
18. http://blog.isabel-drost.de/posts/on-geeks-growing-up.html
19. http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2013/12/free-software-in-education-news-novembe…
20. http://danielpocock.com/free-calling-from-browser-to-mobile
21. http://danielpocock.com/get-webrtc-going-faster
22. http://danielpocock.com/xwiki-ten-years-and-webrtc
23. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=606
24. https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=623
25. http://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2013/12/23/openpgp-and-smime/
26. http://tjadens.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/knitting-pattern-make-your-own-fsfe.h…
27. http://fsfe.org/donate/onetime-donation.ru.html
28. http://fsfe.org/fellowship/join.ru.html
29. http://fsfe.org/about/ojasild/ojasild.ru.html
30. http://fsfe.org/index.ru.html
31. http://fsfe.org/news/news.ru.rss
32. http://fsfe.org/events/events.ru.rss
33. http://planet.fsfe.org/en/rss20.xml
34. http://fsfe.org/contact/community.ru.html
= FSFE Newsletter - December 2013 =
[Read online: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201312.ru.html ]
== Our cryptocards and straw fires ==
In 2005 we started giving crypto cards[1] to individuals who donated to
us and have become Fellow of FSFE. We believe it is important to remind
people about Free Software tools to encrypt our communications. Besides
since FSFE was founded in 2001, we have been explaining that those 40
digits on our business cards are about encryption and why this is
important. 8 years later, the topic encryption hit ithe media, and it is
now mentioned in every newspaper in Europe. This is good and bad at the
same time: We currently face the problem that media attention is very
high but it does not mean we have more resources to deal with it. We
would like to work more on these issues but we also cannot stop working
on other long term topics.
== Importance of long term work ==
If you take a look at our new timeline[2] you will see that we often had
to work on topics which are difficult to explain to a larger audience,
work intensive, and sometimes unpopular. Companies worked against Free
Software as they saw it as threat to them earning money but we helped
them to understand how they can make revenues with Free Software. We had
to spend 8 years of work with the European Commission and the European
Court of Justice to make sure Free Software companies are allowed to
compete with Microsoft's work group servers and since then we are
pushing this knowledge also on the national[3] and local levels. License
compliance was an unpopular topic for a long time but developers have to
make sure our software can be programmed and used without legal risks.
When we started working on Open Standards it was a niche topic, now it
is main stream. Companies opposed our position on software patents, now
a lot of businesses and politicians realised they are a dangerous
business risk. Today they use our arguments and ask us for input to get
rid of them.
== What we need to master the challenge ==
We believe in a society in which software is in the hands of all of us:
as individuals, companies and organisations, or governments, instead of
a few powerful entities. Nobody should be allowed to prevent you from
changing software, or asking someone else to change it for you, on your
mobile phone, router, car, or other belongings. The last months have
shown us that it is important for our society to have computers we can
trust. Computers we control. Programs that are transparent in what they
do with our data and which can be changed to fulfil our needs. The only
way to achieve this is with Free Software.
Such a challenge cannot be solved in a few months, it takes a long time.
It takes organisations which continue to work when there is no big media
attention. An organisation which fights for your freedom in the digital
age. FSFE has worked on those issues for over 12 years.
To face this challenge FSFE needs to work continuously towards this
goal, and for this we need you, to invest in your freedom! At the moment
it is a good time to intensify our work, as there are many people out
there who listen differently to the same messages we had before. We
would like to expand our activities, and therefore we need your
donation. Do what others did who value software freedom: Become a
supporting member by joining the Fellowship of FSFE!
== Something completely different ==
- FSFE published a press release about the Rockstar vs. Google case[4] :
Rockstar, a consortium of companies formed to collect certain patents
put on sale in the dissolution procedure of Nortel, has sued Google
and other companies over seven of those patents. FSFE already voiced
serious concerns and warned competition regulators against exactly
such a scenario in December 2011[5]. Again an example how software
patents are a dangerous business risk.
- We welcome our new core team member Maurice Verheesen from the
Netherlands[6]. He already took care of our booth at T-Dose which also
becomes a meeting point for Fellows from the Netherlands and the
Rhineland[7].
- Shall I buy a computer without an operating system and install
GNU/Linux distribution of my own choice, or buy a laptop with
GNU/Linux preinstalled which includes non-free software? Participate
in the discussion on our public English speaking list by reading this
message[8], continue with the mentioned blogs articles there, comment
on the list, and like Paul Boddie wrote: join other volunteers to
maintain the hardware vendors page[9].
- Thanks to Nermin Canik, FSFE had its first booth in Turkey[10], and
Michael Stehmann took care of an FSFE booth and two talks at
OpenRheinRuhr[11].
- FSFE participated at the Open Knowledge Festival[12]. At the "speed
geeking", in which Lucile Falgueyrac gave the same five minutes talk
seven times, she presented FSFE, Open Standards and Document Freedom
Day[13].
- The Parliament in Spain's Andalusia is unanimously urging the region's
government to switch to Free Software[14].
- Guido Arnold published the FSFE education update from October[15].
- Jérémie Zimmermann from our friends at La Quadrature Du Net argues in
"Snowden and the Future of our Communication Architecture"[16] that
the "Snowden revelations give us a vivid illustration that Richard
Stallman and others have been right for all these years." He writes
that we need decentralised services, Free Software, and end-to-end
encryption.
- The Guardian project wrote about how to set up your own app store with
F-Droid[17]. If you host your own F-Droid repository, then people can
use F-Droid to install your own apps signed by your own signing key.
- Renault apparently has the ability to remotely prevent the battery
from charging. Karsten Gerloff wrote about the Zoe electric car[18].
- He also summarised a report by the French website Mediapart. At the
European Parliament in Strasbourg, a technically skilled person
managed to intercept 14 Members of the European Parliament and their
staffers[19] using trivial tools.
- From the planet aggregation[20] :
- After discussion with a Danish Member of Parliament, Thomas Locke
wrote what he did to support TOR[21] and is now running a TOR exit
node.
- Torsten Grote summarised the presentation[22] about Dark Mail as
Next-Generation Email to Stop Spying.
- Fellowship representative Nikos Roussos wrote about how he started
with GNU/Linux[23].
- The Neo900 phone moved beyond the discussion phase and into the
fundraising phase. Paul Boddie gives some background[24].
- Besides he takes a look at the Free Software Desktop[25]. He
argues that "Free Software desktop developers have imperilled
their own mission with the result that they now have to make up
lost ground in the struggle to get people to use their software."
- In Paris another MutterWare meeting[26] took place. Nicolas Jean
wrote a short summary[27], about the email client meeting. Hugo
Roy documents how to do a carddav lookup in mutt[28] and Karsten
Gerloff how to do address lookup with mu[29]. If you regret not
living in Paris, Hugo and Nicolas suggest to start MutterWare
meetings in your city, too
- A court in Caen/France ruled that a French SME did not infringe
Skype's copyright by reverse-engineering the algorithm used by the
company[30] for its VoIP services, and attempting to use it
commercially.
- Daniel Pocock highlights the applications for the Outreach Program
for Women[31] and the option for Australian women to get $75,000
to make free software during maternity leave[32].
- Cryptography: Sergey Matveev wrote about a big cryptoparty in
Moscow[33], Lucile Falgueyrac helped at a cryptoparty for
journalists[34], and wrote about the problems accepting a security
signature in GNU/Linux[35].
- Anna spent a week with some 5-11 year old children for an
plasticine animating using Phatch, Linux Stop Motion and
Kdenlive[36].
- And your editor highlighted the part about Free Software[37] from
David Wheelers's article "Vulnerability bidding wars and
vulnerability economics".
== Get active: Why does Free Software matter to you? ==
This month Jacob Appelbaum, spokesperson for the TOR Project, and two
other TOR developers became supporting members of FSFE and Jacob
explained why he did so:
I believe that actions of support for the FSFE are important for
encouraging Free Software development and adoption in Europe as well
as the rest of the world. I'm an FSFE Fellow because financially
supporting the cause of Free Software brings positive improvements
to all societies throughout the world.
Quotes like this help others understanding the importance of our work.
On our english Fellowship page[38] some of our Fellows already explain
why Free Software and FSFE's work is important to them. We would also
like *you* to write us why Free Software and our work matters to
you[39]. In agreement with you, we would then like to publish some of
the submissions on our website. Else they just motivate FSFE's working
teams.
Thanks to all the volunteers[40], Fellows[41] and corporate donors[42]
who enable our work,
Matthias Kirschner - FSFE
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