1. Happy birthday FSFE 2. Pablo Machón and Xavier Reina join the FSFE core team 3. GPLv3 conference in Torino 4. gnuvox, the voice of Free Software in Italy 5. Official FSFE statement on patent system in Europe 6. Fellowship of FSFE participates to LUGConference 2006 7. Karsten Gerloff at TACD
1. Happy birthday FSFE
On 10 March 2001, the Free Software Foundation Europe has started its work. A lot of successful work was done in these five years. The FSFE has not only become Europe's major stakeholder for Free Software on national, European and UN level, it has also managed to build up a large virtual community for freedom in the digital age with the Fellowship.
http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q1/000133.html
2. Pablo Machón and Xavier Reina join the FSFE core team
The Free Software Foundation Europe continues to expand its capacity as well as its geographic presence: Pablo Machón and Xavier Reina joined the FSFE core team. Both have been contributing precious work for years, and they are committed to increase FSFE's activities in Spain.
3. GPLv3 conference in Torino
The FSFE organized a conference in Torino where Richard Stallman talked about the future of Free Software and the changes in the upcoming version 3 of the GNU General Public License. The event was well received, with big success of public, thanks also to the collaboration with Politecnico di Torino, NetStudent and Hipatia. Recordings of the event are available on
http://streaming.polito.it/TFOFS
and a transcript of Richard Stallman's speech is on
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/torino-rms-transcript.en.html
4. GNUvox, the voice of Free Software in Italy
Free Software Foundation Europe Chapter Italy has launched a project to improve communication and information of Free Software in Italian. The aim is to send the message "Free Software, Free Society" beyond the borders of the Free Software community. The fist step of this project is the blog GNUvox.info, the daily source of information about Free Software in Italian.
5. Official FSFE statement on patent system in Europe
Ciaran O'Riordan drafted FSFE's response to the European Commission's questionnaire "On the patent system in Europe" which has been delivered and is now online:
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/swpat/fsfe-patstrat-response.en.html
The deadline for submitting responses has been extended to April 12th, so FSFE encourages free software supporters to do so - possibly based on FSFE's response.
6. Fellowship of FSFE participates to LUGConference 2006
LUGRoma organized one of the best community driven events of the past years in Italy. The Fellowship of FSFE participated officially with Stefano Maffulli. Many other Fellows where at the Conference, some of themalso as members of LUGs. The conference allowed meeting many people of the community and listening to suggestions and criticisms. There was time to discuss the proposal of Austrian Fellow Stephan Peijnik (sp) for an international meeting of Fellows and find volunteers for the organization of the event. Join the discussion on
https://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/sp/free_software_blog/multi_national_free_so...
More info, in Italian:
http://www.lugroma.org/contenuti/eventi/lugconf06 https://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/maffulli/rants/impressioni_dalla_lugconferen...
7. Karsten Gerloff at TACD conference
In Brussels, Karsten Gerloff represented FSFE at a conference about "The politics and ideology of intellectual property". The event was organised by TACD (Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue), a forum of 65 consumer organisations from the EU and the US. For two days, researchers and activists discussed the intellectual background of copyrights and patents. Karsten established new contacts and strengthened FSF Europe's connections to other NGOs working for Access to Knowledge alongside FSF Europe.
You can find a list of all FSF Europe newsletters on http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/newsletter.en.html