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title: In Memory of our Friend Elias Diem
uri: In-Memory-of-our-Friend-Elias-Diem
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160809-01.html
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In Memory of our Friend Elias Diem
    <img src="media/143c42fc.elias-diem.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2016/graphics/elias-diem.jpg"/>
  
    <p>Elias Diem (1976 - 2016)</p>
  
<p>In the afternoon of Saturday 6 August, our friend and
active Fellow Elias Diem passed away. He was on his way back home from a hiking
trip with a friend in the Swiss alps. He slipped and fell about 150 meters.
His friend tried to rescue him, but it was too late. He died of a heavy head
injury in the age of 39.</p><p>Elias was one of our most active Fellows in Switzerland and his death
is a great loss to us all. He led the Zurich Fellowship Group and took part in or
organised a couple of Free Software related events. He loved the text editor
Vim and the mail user agent Mutt. Elias was very interested in Free Hardware as
well and contributed to the <a href="https://www.labdoo.org/">Ladboo
project</a>, which helps to bring GNU/Linux laptops to schools in emerging
countries.</p><p>There is no way to fill the gap his lost caused in our hearts. We can
just try to continue his engaged work for freedom and fairness.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: En souvenir de notre ami Elias Diem
uri: En-souvenir-de-notre-ami-Elias-Diem
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160809-01.html
content:
En souvenir de notre ami Elias Diem
            <img src="media/143c42fc.elias-diem.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2016/graphics/elias-diem.jpg"/>
            
                <p>Elias Diem (1976 - 2016)</p>
            
        <p>
        Dans l'après-midi du samedi 6 août, notre ami et Fellow Elias Diem nous a quittés. Il rentrait d'une randonnée avec un ami dans les alpes suisses. Il a glissé et fait une chute de 150 mètres. Son ami a tenté de le secourir, mais il était trop tard. Il est décédé d'une grave blessure à la tête à l'âge de 39 ans.
        </p><p>
        Elias était l'un de nos plus actifs Fellows en Suisse et sa mort est une grande perte pour chacun d'entre nous. Il a dirigé le "Zurich Fellowship Group", organisé et participé à plusieurs évènements de la communauté du Libre. Il aimait l'éditeur de texte Vim et le client mail Mutt. Elias était aussi très intéressé par le Matériel Libre et a contribué au <a href="https://www.labdoo.org/">projet labdoo</a> qui a pour objectif de fournir des PC portables sous GNU/Linux à des écoles dans des pays émergeants.
        </p><p>
        Rien ne pourra combler le vide causé par sa perte dans nos cœurs. Nous pouvons uniquement essayer de poursuivre son travail dévoué pour les libertés et l'éthique.
        </p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Lettre d'information - Août 2016
uri: Lettre-d-information-Août-2016
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201608.html
content:
Lettre d'information - Août 2016Audit de sécurité pour le Libre et l'Open Source, l'UE a besoin des commentaires de la communauté du Logiciel Libre<p>L'objectif du projet pilote d'audit de sécurité pour le Libre et l'Open Source (Free and Open Source Security Audit ou FOSSA) est d'améliorer la sécurité des Logiciels Libres utilisés par les institutions européennes. La FSFE suit le projet depuis début 2014. Récemment, la Commission Européenne <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eu-fossa/og_page/project-deliveries"> a publié le premier tour de livrables basés sur les entretiens avec les différentes parties prenantes.</a> Bien que la FSFE soutienne totalement cette initiative européenne, la façon dont le projet est mis en œuvre nous inquiète. La première analyse de FOSSA montre un manque de compréhension des Logiciels Libres, elle inclut plusieurs erreurs factuelles, et est basé sur des entretiens généraux mal conduits.
<a href="https://k7r.eu/fossa-now-we-need-feedback-by-the-real-experts/">Le président de la FSFE Matthias Kirschner</a> et <a href="https://creative-destruction.me/2016/07/11/eu-fossa-needs-your-help-a-free-software-community-call-to-action/">le représentant de la Fellowship FSFE Mirko Bhm</a>, qui ont tous les deux été interviewés pour le projet, ont résumé les problèmes les plus évidents des dernières publications de FOSSA. D'un autre côté, FOSSA est toujours dans ses premières étapes et avec l'aide de plus d'experts en Logiciel Libre, nous pourrions remettre ce projet dans la bonne direction. La FSFE continuera de suivre de près les futurs développements du projet FOSSA. Au cas où vous ayez des commentaires ou des retours sur cette initiative, n'hésitez pas à partager vos pensées avec nous sur notre <a href="https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion">liste de discussion</a> ou directement à Matthias Kirschner. Cela nous permettra de nous assurer que toutes les questions pertinentes soient communiquées à l'UE.</p>
L'Italie prévoit d'arrêter son soutien explicite au Logiciel Libre pour son gouvernement électronique<p>Le gouvernement italien prévoit de <a href="http://www.funzionepubblica.gov.it/articolo/riforma-della-pa/10-02-2016/codice-dellamministrazione-digitale">réviser la loi sur l'administration numérique qui exige des administrations publiques de prioriser les solutions réutilisables basées sur du Logiciel Libre</a>. Le changement concerne aussi la publication et la mise à jour d'une liste de standard techniques ouverts qui sont utilisés dans l'administration publique. Suivre cette proposition impliquera que le gouvernement national ne demandera plus à l'agence pour la numérisation du secteur public (AGID) de publier des avis contraignants pour l'interopérabilité ou de prioriser le Logiciel Libre. Les membres du parlement italien se sont inquiétés des changements proposés. Carlo Piana du Conseil Général de la FSFE a précédemment <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140116-01.en.html">conseillé les autorités italiennes sur les lignes de conduites pour la mise en œuvre de la loi sur l'administration numérique</a> et contesté les plans du gouvernement dans sa lettre à <a href="http://www.techeconomy.it/2016/07/07/bulgaria-open-italia-qualche-passo-dietro/">Tech economy</a> (en italien).
</p>Dans la communauté
Daniel Pocock explique les problèmes de sécurité avec la vérification par SMS et par téléphone et demande <a href="https://danielpocock.com/how-many-mobile-phone-accounts-will-be-hijacked-this-summer">combien de comptes téléphoniques seront attaqués cet été</a>.

Hannes Hauswedell explique comment on peut <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2016/07/27/retroactively-replacing-git-subtree-with-git-submodule/">rétroactivement remplacer git subtree par git submodule</a>.
	
Polina Malaja résume la création de l'Association européenne de cyber sécurité (European Cyber Security Organisation - ECSO) et <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/2016/07/11/ec-free-software-to-enhance-cybersecurity/">explique pourquoi beaucoup de préoccupations sécuritaires peuvent être réduites par l'utilisation massive de Logiciel Libre</a>.

Daniel Pocock explique <a href="https://danielpocock.com/help-monitoring-packages-in-debian-and-ubuntu">comment vous pouvez apporter votre aides aux packages de monitoring dans Debian et Ubuntu.</a> 

Wolfang Romey écrit au sujet de <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/wromey/2016/07/16/anschlussfrage-warum-sind-nachhaltige-gerate-zudem-noch-technisch-ruckstandig/">la pérennité des appareils et leurs besoin de logiciel libre</a> (en Allemand).
Qu'avons-nous fait d'autres  ?	
Au début de l'été, la FSFE a co-signé une lettre en support d'une neutralité des réseaux forte, avec 72 autres associations. La commission européenne, cependant, semble adopter la faible neutralité demandée proposée par la coalition des 17 plus grands fournisseurs d'accès internet européens dans le manifeste "5G manifesto". Notre analyste politique Poliana Malaja <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/2016/07/15/on-carrots-and-sticks-5g-manifesto/">a bloggué à propos de la direction inquiétante de diminuer la neutralité des réseaux au nom de "l'innovation"</a>. 

Matthias a donné une conférence à la Technical University de Berlin à propos du Logiciel Libre et mis en valeurs certains aspects des travaux de la FSFE.

L'équipe italienne de la FSFE était présente avec un stand à Wikimania 2016 à Esino Larino, Italie.
Agissez  !<p>Depuis le 1er août, une nouvelle loi allemande autorise les utilisateurs à choisir leur routeur. La FSFE veut s'assurer que chacun connait ses nouveaux droit et  <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160725-01.en.html">demande aux utilisateurs de rapporter les cas où les fournisseurs d'accès internet (FAI) essayent de contourner la législation</a>. La nouvelle réglementation a été conçue pour bannir l’ambiguïté qui existait autour des "routeurs obligatoires" imposés aux utilisateurs par les FAI. Cependant, il est nécessaire de s'assurer que la nouvelle loi prend effet sur le terrain.</p><p>Si vous êtes clients d'un fournisseur d'accès allemand, nous vous demandons d'exercer votre nouveau droit et de commencer à utiliser un appareil alternatif, idéalement un qui fonctionne avec du Logiciel Libre. Merci de nous indiquer si vous avez rencontré des problèmes lorsque vous avez essayé d'utiliser un nouveau routeur et aidez nous à les documenter dans notre <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/CompulsoryRouters/Implementation/Germany">page wiki</a>. Si vous ne disposez pas de matériel alternatif, la FSFE peut aussi fournir des équipements de test. Merci de vous référer à notre page wiki pour plus d'informations à ce propos.</p>Les bonnes nouvelles du Logiciel Libre<p>La commission européenne va <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/new-european-contest-promote-it-reuse">récompenser les solutions informatiques existantes qui ont été développées et partagées par les administrations publiques, et qui peuvent être réutilisées ailleurs en Europe grâce aux licences libres</a>. Adullact, l'organisation française pour les administrations publiques utilisant des logiciels libres, a lancé Comptoir-du-Libre.org, <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/new-site-promote-proven-open-source-ict-tools">un site web dont l'objectif est d'aider les décideurs des administrations publiques à migrer vers le Logiciel Libre</a>. En Espagne, le conseil communal de <a href="http://www.miciudadreal.es/2016/05/25/el-pleno-acuerda-caminar-hacia-el-software-libre/">Ciudad Real a voté en faveur de la migration des 400 postes de travail de l'administration communale vers du Logiciel Libre</a> (en Espagnol). L'Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, en association avec le ministre fédéral allemand de l'Éducation et de la Recherche, a lancé le <a href="https://prototypefund.de/en/">Prototype fund</a> qui soutien les Logiciels Libres avec un budget allant jusqu'à 30.000 euro, disponible pour toute personne dont la résidence principale est en Allemagne.</p><p>Merci à tous les <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html">bénévoles</a>, <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> et <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html">donateurs</a> qui rendent notre travail possible,</p><p>Vos éditeurs Polina, Malaja et Eric Albers, <a href="https://fsfe.org">FSFE</a>,</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: The Document Foundation and the FSFE strengthen their relationship
uri: The-Document-Foundation-and-the-FSFE-strengthen-their-relationship
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160817-01.html
content:
The Document Foundation and the FSFE strengthen their relationship<p>The Free Software Foundation (FSFE) is joining the <a href="https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/advisory-board/">Advisory
Board of The Document Foundation</a>. At the same time, The Document
Foundation is becoming an <a href="http://fsfe.org/associates/associates.html">associated
organisation of the FSFE</a>.</p><p>The Free Software Foundation Europe's aim is to help people control
technology instead of the other way around. However, this is  a goal which no
single organisation can achieve on its own. Associated organisations are
entities that share the FSFE's vision and support the foundation and Free
Software in general by encouraging people to use and develop Free Software, by
helping organisations understand how Free Software contributes to freedom,
transparency and self-determination, and by removing barriers to Free Software
adoption.</p><p>With this mutual expression of support, both organisations strengthen one
another in their fight to keep the general public in the technological driver's
seat. While the FSFE embodies the principles of the community movement working
in support of the adoption of Free Software in companies, public administrations
and for private citizens, the Document Foundation turns principles and ethics
into actual products, putting a first class, fully-featured, and completely free
productivity suite in the hands of users.</p><p>"We are happy to welcome the Free Software Foundation Europe as a member of
our Advisory Board. Together, we will able to further develop the adoption of
Free Software in Europe, amongst public administrations and enterprises", said
Eike Rathke, a <a href="https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/board/">Director of The
Document Foundation</a> and a long time Free Software advocate and
hacker.</p><p>"We believe it is important to join forces with all the organisations active
in Free Software around Europe," said <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner/kirschner.html">Matthias Kirschner</a>, President of the
Free Software Foundation Europe, "and work together to reach our common goals.
With our associated organisations we want to show that we are a strong and
cohesive movement, and we work to achieve common objectives. To do this, we
exchange ideas, coordinate efforts, motivate each other, and find opportunities
to work together on specific projects. This is the case with The Document
Foundation, steward of one of the most successful Free Software projects:
LibreOffice".</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: The Document Foundation et la FSFE renforcent leurs relations
uri: The-Document-Foundation-et-la-FSFE-renforcent-leurs-relations
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160817-01.html
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The Document Foundation et la FSFE renforcent leurs relations
<p>
La Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) rejoint le <a href="https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/advisory-board/">conseil consultatif de The Document Foundation</a>. Et au même moment/De fait, The Document Foundation devient une <a href="http://fsfe.org/associates/associates.html">organisation associée à/de la FSFE</a>.
</p><p>
L'objectif de la Free Software Foundation Europe est d'aider les gens à contrôler la technologie et non l'inverse. Cependant, c'est un objectif qu'aucune organisation ne peut réaliser seule. Les organisations associées sont des organismes qui partagent la vision de la FSFE et qui soutiennent la fondation et le Logiciel Libre en général en encourageant chacun à utiliser et déveloper des Logiciels Libres, en aidant les organisations à comprendre comment les Logiciels Libres contribuent à la liberté, la transparence et à disposer d'eux-mêmes/libre arbitre/autodetermination, et en réduisant les barrières à l'adoption de Logiciel Libre.
</p><p>
Avec cette déclaration de soutien mutuelle, les deux organisations se renforcent l'une l'autre dans leur combat pour maintenir le grand public dans le siège conducteur technologique. Pendant que la FSFE incarne les principes du mouvement communautaire travaillant en faveur de l'adoption du Logiciel Libre dans les entreprises, les administrations publiques et chez les citoyens, The Document Foundation transforme ces principes et cette éthique en de vrais produits, en mettant dans les mains des utilisateurs une suite bureautique de première classe/ordre, complète et libre. 
</p><p>
"Nous sommes heureux d'accueillir la Free Software Foundation Europe comme membre de notre comité consultatif. Ensemble, nous aurons la capacité de développer d'avantage l'adoption de Logiciel Libre en Europe, dans les administrations publiques et les sociétés", a déclaré Eike Rathke, un 
<a href="https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/board/">des directeurs de The Document Foundation</a>, défenseur et hacker du Logiciel Libre de longue date.
</p><p>
"Nous croyons qu'il est important de joindre nos forces avec toutes les organisations actives dans le Logiciel Libre en Europe", a déclaré <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner/kirschner.html">Matthias Kirschner</a>, Président de la Free Software Foundation Europe, "et travailler ensemble pour atteindre des objectifs communs. Pour cela, nous échangeons des idées, coordonnons nos efforts, nous motivons les uns les autres, et trouvons des opportunités de travailler ensemble sur des projets spécifiques. C'est le cas de The Document Foundation, hôte de l'un des projects de Logiciel Libre les plus réussis : LibreOffice".
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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uri: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Bisherige-Regierungsparteien-mit-offensichtli
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160823-01.html
title:
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Bisherige Regierungsparteien mit offensichtlichen Berührungsängsten bei Freier Software

content:
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Bisherige Regierungsparteien mit offensichtlichen Berührungsängsten bei Freier Software<p>Die Free Software Foundation Europe veröffentlicht heute als Teil der "Koalition Freies Wissen <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201608-germany-meck-pomm">die Wahlprüfsteine für die Wahl zum Landtag von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern am 04. September 2016</a>. Die Parteien konnten Stellung nehmen zur Forderung, öffentlich finanzierte Software als Freie Software zu veröffentlichen, sowie zu ihrer Bereitschaft, Freie Software an Bildungseinrichtungen verstärkt einzusetzen. Die Grünen sind Freier Software gegenüber positiv aufgeschlossen und machen Vorschläge zur Umsetzung. Die Linken haben die Bedeutung „Freier Software“ als solche erkannt -- auch wenn konkrete Vorschläge zur Umsetzung fehlen. SPD und CDU haben dagegen inhaltlich starken Nachholbedarf.</p><p>CDU, Grüne, Linke und SPD erklärten dazu ihre jeweiligen Positionen. Besonders erfreulich schneiden dabei die Grünen ab, die sich für eine Überarbeitung der IT-Strategie des Landes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern einsetzen und dabei den Einsatz Freier Software stärken möchten. Zusammen mit den Linken unterstützen sie zudem die Forderung, dass öffentlich finanzierte Software auch der Öffentlichkeit als Freie Software zur Verfügung stehen soll. Enttäuschend hingegen sind die Antworten der in dieser Legislaturperiode fraktionsstärksten Parteien CDU und SPD. Beide scheinen sich mit der Thematik Freier Software noch nicht auseinandergesetzt zu haben und reagieren dementsprechend abschottend.</p>Einige Ergebnisse der Befragung<p>Die CDU hat die insgesamt vier Fragen vom <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/">Bündnis Freie Bildung</a> und von der FSFE in eine einzige Antwort zusammengefasst. Darin vertritt sie die Ansicht, dass es im Ermessen des Urhebers oder der Urheberin liegt, ob das Werk der Allgemeinheit zur Verfügung gestellt wird. Damit händigt die CDU die Kontrolle über Software der Verwaltung an IT-Unternehmen aus und beschneidet die staatliche Handlungsfähigkeit. Der CDU fehlt der politische Wille zu konkreten Schritten für mehr digitale Souveränität und der Förderung Freien Wissens.</p><p>Im Gegensatz dazu möchten die Grünen die IT-Strategie des Landes überarbeiten, um den Einsatz von Freier Software zu stärken. Öffentlich finanzierte Software soll dabei als Freie Software freigeben werden. Etwas vage formuliert ist der Einsatz Freier Software in Bildungseinrichtungen: Dieser soll "bei gleicher Eignung" Vorrang gegeben werden. Solche Formulierungen werden in der Praxis leider öfter dazu missbraucht, Freie Software auszuschließen. Schließlich sehen die Grünen bereits in der Ausbildung von Lehrkräften einen weiteren Ansatzpunkt, den Einsatz Freier Software zu fördern. </p><p>Die Linke steht der Idee einer Förderung und Verwendung Freier Software positiv gegenüber. „Dienstleistungen und Waren, die von der öffentlichen Hand finanziert wurden" sollen -- so die Linke -- "den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern zur Verfügung gestellt werden". Allerdings drückt sich die Linke um konkrete Aussagen und zieht sich darauf zurück, dass „die Umsetzung [...] im Falle einer Regierungsbeteiligung dann im Rahmen der Koalitionsvereinbarung geregelt“ wird.</p><p>Die SPD geht in ihrem Wahlprogramm auf keine der Fragen des Bündnis Freie Bildung ein. Dies gesteht die Partei gleich zu Beginn ein: "Zu dem von Ihnen erfragten, sehr speziellen, Sachverhalt [hat die SPD] noch keine endgültig abgestimmte Position". Allerdings behaupten die Sozialdemokraten in ihrer Antwort, dass "die speziell für die Landesverwaltung programmierte Software [...] nicht für freie Lizenzen geeignet" sei. Bei Schulen und Bildungseinrichtungen verweist die SPD auf die Eigenständigkeit der Schulträger sowie "Grundsätze der Sparsamkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit", kann sich allerdings zu keiner Position für oder gegen Freie Software durchringen. Offensichtlich hat die SPD es bisher versäumt, sich mit den Auswirkungen Freier Software zu beschäftigen. </p>Fazit<p>Die Grünen sind Freier Software gegenüber positiv aufgeschlossen und machen Vorschläge zur Umsetzung. Die Linken haben die Bedeutung „Freier Software“ als solche erkannt -- auch wenn konkrete Vorschläge zur Umsetzung fehlen. SPD und CDU haben dagegen inhaltlich starken Nachholbedarf.</p>"Es ist schade, dass sich gerade die bisherigen Regierungsparteien in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern bisher nicht oder nur sehr oberflächlich mit der wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung Freier Software beschäftigt haben. Die FSFE steht gerne als Gesprächspartner bereit, um dies zu ändern, und wird sich auch in Zukunft für die Aufklärung von politischen Akteuren einsetzen", so Max Mehl, Deutschland-Koordinator der FSFE. <p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Zittende regeringspartijen zijn blijkbaar bang voor Vrije Software
uri: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Zittende-regeringspartijen-zijn-blijkbaar-ba
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160823-01.html
content:
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - Zittende regeringspartijen zijn blijkbaar bang voor 
Vrije Software<p>De Free Software Foundation Europe maakt vandaag als deel van 
de "Coalitie Vrije Kennis <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201608-germany-meck-pomm">
de verkiezingstoetsstenen voor de verkiezingen voor het parlement van Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 
op 4 september 2016</a> bekend. De partijen konden stelling nemen ten aanzien van 
de eis om publiek gefinancierde software als Vrije Software openbaar te maken en 
ten aanzien van de bereidheid om Vrije Software versterkt in het onderwijs in te 
zetten. De Groenen staan positief ten opzichte van Vrije Software en doen voorstellen 
voor de omschakeling. De Linksen hebben de betekenis van „Vrije Software“ als 
zodanig erkent, hoewel concrete voorstellen voor de omschakeling ontbreken. SPD 
en CDU hebben daarentegen inhoudelijk veel in te halen.</p><p>CDU, Groenen, Linksen en SPD legden daarna hun stelling uit. Vooral de Groenen 
vallen positief op omdat zij zich inzetten voor een herziening van de IT-strategie 
van het bondsland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern en daarbij de inzet van Vrije Software 
zouden willen versterken. Samen met de Linksen steunen zij de eis dat publiek 
gefinancierde software ook aan het publiek als Vrije Software ter beschikking 
zou moeten zijn gesteld. Daarentegen zijn de antwoorden van CDU en SPD, de 
sterkste fracties in deze kabinetsperiode, teleurstellend. Beide schijnen zich 
met het thema Vrije Software nog niet beziggehouden te hebben en reageren 
dienovereenkomstig afschermend.</p>Enkele resultaten uit de enquête<p>De CDU heeft de in totaal vier vragen van <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/">Bündnis Freie Bildung</a> 
en van de FSFE in een enkel antwoord samengevat. Daarin is zij van mening dat het 
aan het oordeel van de maker is of het werk aan het publiek ter beschikking wordt 
gesteld. Daarmee overhandigt de CDU de controle over de software van het openbaar 
bestuur aan IT-bedrijven en beperkt zij de handelingsvrijheid van de staat. De 
CDU heeft niet de politieke wil voor het zetten van concrete stappen voor meer 
digitale soevereiniteit en het aanmoedigen van vrije kennis.</p><p>Daarmee in tegenstelling willen de Groenen de IT-strategie 
van het bondsland graag herzien om de inzet van Vrije Software te versterken.
Openbaar gefinancierde software zou dan als Vrije Software moeten worden 
vrijgegeven. De inzet van Vrije Software in educatieve instellingen is ietwat 
vaag geformuleerd: deze zou "bij gelijke geschiktheid" de voorrang moeten krijgen. 
Zulke formuleringen worden in de praktijk helaas vaak misbruikt om Vrije Software 
uit te sluiten. De Groenen zien tenslotte in het onderwijs aan leerkrachten een 
verder aanknopingspunt om de inzet van Vrije Software te versterken.</p><p>De Linksen staan positief tegenover het idee van de uitdaging 
en het gebruik van Vrije Software. „Diensten en goederen die door het publiek 
worden gefinancierd" moeten, aldus de Linksen, "aan de burgers ter beschikking 
worden gesteld". De Linksen doen echter geen concrete uitspraken en nemen het 
standpunt in dat „de omschakeling [...] in het geval van een regeringsdeelname 
dan in het kader van een coalitie-overeenkomst geregeld" wordt.</p><p>De SPD gaat in haar verkiezingsprogramma op geen enkele vraag 
van Bündnis Freie Bildung in. Dat stelt de partij ook gelijk in het begin: "Ten 
opzichte van de door u gevraagde stand van zaken neemt de SPD nog geen definitief 
afgestemde stelling in". Toch beweren de sociaaldemocraten in hun antwoord dat 
"de speciaal voor het bondsstaatbestuur geprogrammeerde software [...] niet voor 
vrije licenties bedoeld" zijn. Bij scholen en educatieve instellingen wijst de 
SPD op de zelfstandigheid van het bevoegd gezag en op de "grondbeginselen van 
spaarzaamheid en rendabiliteit" en kan dus niet tot een besluit komen voor of tegen 
Vrije Software. Het is duidelijk dat de SPD tot nu toe heeft verzuimd om zich 
bezig te houden met de gevolgen van Vrije Software. </p>Eindresultaat<p>De Groenen staan positief tegenover Vrije Software en doen voorstellen voor 
omschakeling. De Linksen hebben de betekenis van „Vrije Software“ als zodanig 
erkent, hoewel concrete voorstellen voor omschakeling ontbreken. SPD en SDU 
hebben daarentegen inhoudelijk iets in te halen.</p>"Het is jammer dat juist de zittende regeringspartijen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 
zich tot nu toe niet of zeer oppervlakkig met de economische en maatschappelijke 
betekenis van Vrije Software bezig hebben gehouden. De FSFE is graag bereid om 
als gesprekspartner dit te veranderen en zal zich ook in de toekomst inzetten 
voor het informeren van politieke actoren", aldus Max Mehl, Duitslandcoördinator 
van de FSFE.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Berliner Parteien zu Freier Software: Regierung enttäuscht, Opposition macht Hoffnung
uri: Berliner-Parteien-zu-Freier-Software-Regierung-enttäuscht-Oppositio
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Berliner Parteien zu Freier Software: Regierung enttäuscht, Opposition macht Hoffnung<p>Die Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) veröffentlicht heute als Teil der "Koalition Freies Wissen <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201608-germany-berlin">die Wahlprüfsteine für die Wahl zum Abgeordnetenhaus  von Berlin am 18. September 2016</a>. Die Parteien konnten Stellung nehmen zur Forderung, öffentlich finanzierte Software als Freie Software zu veröffentlichen, sowie zu  ihrer Bereitschaft, Freie Software an Bildungseinrichtungen verstärkt einzusetzen. CDU, Grüne, Linke, Piraten und SPD haben geantwortet und erklärten ihre jeweiligen Positionen dazu. Zudem wurden die Wahlprogramme der Parteien untersucht und Vergleiche zu den Positionen der Parteien von vor fünf Jahren gezogen. Dabei schneiden Grüne und Linke positiv ab, bei der CDU, den Piraten und der SPD sieht die FSFE teils erheblichen Verbesserungsbedarf.</p><p>Fortschrittlich in Erscheinung treten die Grünen in Berlin, die Freier Software möglichst Vorzug geben wollen und zudem fordern, dass öffentlich finanzierte Software "stets mit Quellcode unter einer freien Lizenz veröffentlicht werden" soll. Auch die Linke in Berlin tritt positiv in Erscheinung, unterstützt Freie Software in ganzer Breite und möchte "für alle zukünftigen Beschaffungen [...] auf die Nutzung freier Software drängen". Dies auch, so die Linke, damit die öffentliche Hand die Hoheit über ihre eigenen Infrastrukturen behält. Die beiden regierenden Parteien enttäuschen hingegen. Die CDU scheint Freie Software und die Möglichkeit, einen Quellcode zu verändern, als grundsätzlich für gefährlich zu betrachten, denn jemand könnte die Software "für gesetzlich verbotene Zwecke einsetzen". Die Christdemokraten verlangen daher eine Einzelfallprüfung für jede Software und weichen weiteren Fragen konsequent aus. Bei der SPD herrscht ebenfalls Unwissenheit, aber zumindest begrüßt sie den Einsatz Freier Software "wenn möglich" – eine Formulierung, die jedoch in der Vergangenheit oft dafür missbraucht wurde, Freie Software von vornherein auszuschließen. Die Piraten enttäuschen überraschenderweise mit ihrer Antwort: Sind sie bei der letzten Wahl noch als Vorreiter für Freie Software in Erscheinung getreten, sind sie dieses Mal kaum auf dieses Thema eingegangen.</p>Einige Ergebnisse der Befragung<p>Das <a href="media/313981f9.Wahlprogramm_final-Screen.pdf" data-original-source="http://cduberlin.de/image/inhalte/file/Wahlprogramm_final-Screen.pdf">Wahlprogramm der Berliner CDU</a> kommt vollständig ohne die Erwähnung Freier Software aus und dementsprechend enttäuschend und unambitioniert klingen die Antworten der CDU auf unsere Fragen. Sie blockt damit, "dass wenn eine Software mit naheliegenden Veränderungen so abgewandelt werden kann, dass sie zu gesetzlich verbotenen Zwecken eingesetzt werden kann, dies [aus Sicht der CDU Berlin, Anm. d. Red.] der Bereitstellung als freier Software entgegenstehen kann." Deshalb, folgert die CDU, sei in jedem Einzelfall zu prüfen ob eine Software "der Allgemeinheit vollumfänglich zur Verfügung gestellt werden" könne. Dabei ist das Argument irreführend, denn genauso wie ein Küchenmesser Gutes und Schlechtes tun kann, so kann prinzipiell auch jegliche Software (auch ohne Abwandlung), beispielsweise ein Schreibprogramm, für gesetzlich verbotene Zwecke eingesetzt werden. Auf die Frage zum „Berliner Haushalts-, Kassen- und Rechnungswesen“ wird gar nicht eingegangen. Und bei der Frage, ob sich die CDU für den Einsatz von Freier Software an Schulen und anderen öffentlichen Bildungsinstitutionen stark macht, wird schlicht und einfach die Antwort kopiert, die auch dem <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/">Bündnis Freie Bildung</a> zum Thema <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150210-01.html">Open Educational Resources</a> erteilt wurde – obwohl die Antwort in diesem Fall überhaupt keinen Bezug zu Software nimmt. Zusammenfassend <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110913-01.html">fällt die CDU wie bereits fünf Jahre zuvor</a> damit auf, sich den gestellten Fragen zu verweigern und wenige konkrete Aussagen zu treffen.</p><p>Ganz anders das <a href="media/2e230d05.b90g_berlin_vollprogramm2016.pdf" data-original-source="https://gruene.berlin/sites/gruene.berlin/files/b90g_berlin_vollprogramm2016.pdf">Wahlprogramm von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen</a>, in dem Freie Software als Grundlage der zukünftigen IT-Strategie Berlins gefordert wird. Dementsprechend positiv bewertet die FSFE die Antworten, denn die Grünen bestätigen noch einmal: "Ausschreibungs- und Beschaffungskriterien sind so zu überarbeiten, dass möglichst freie und offene Software vorrangig zum Einsatz kommen". Weiterhin schreiben sie: "Wie offen, frei und nachhaltig unsere Gesellschaft ist, spiegelt sich auch im Einsatz freier und offener Software wider." Deshalb sollen "Softwareentwicklungen von und für Behörden stets mit Quellcode unter einer freien Lizenz veröffentlicht werden", womit die Partei die grundlegende Forderung der FSFE unterstützen, dass öffentlich finanzierte Software unter einer freien Lizenz veröffentlicht werden muss. Geht es nach den Grünen, soll deshalb auch das "Berliner Haushalts, Kassen und Rechnungswesen (HKRneu)" als Freie Software implementiert werden. Auch setzen sich die Grünen für den Einsatz Freier Software "in allen öffentlichen Bereichen ein, also auch in Schulen, Hochschulen und anderen Bildungseinrichtungen". </p><p>Bereits <a href="http://www.die-linke-berlin.de/wahlen/berlin_2016/wahlprogramm/">in ihrem Wahlprogramm fordert Die Linke in Berlin</a>, "die öffentliche Verwaltung soll auf Open Source Software umgestellt werden". Und obwohl uns keine Antworten mit direktem Bezug auf unsere Fragen vorgelegt wurden, betont die Linke noch einmal ihre Position und argumentiert: "die öffentliche Hand sollte die Hoheit über die genutzten Infrastrukturen behalten". Auch möchte die Linke "Für alle zukünftigen Beschaffungen [...] auf die Nutzung freier Software drängen" und zudem eine "konzertierte Open-Source-Strategie auf Landesebene" erarbeiten, "die durch eine koordinierende Stabsstelle unterstützt wird." Positiv im Sinne Freier Software ist auch das Konzept, dass im Rahmen eines "Bund-Länder-Programm für digitale Bildung" alle Schülerinnen und Schüler ein mobiles Endgerät erhalten sollen, welches mit Freier Software betrieben wird. Denn, "eine massenhafte Ausstattung der Schüler*innen mit proprietärer Software lehnen wir ab", so die Linke. Die Linke Berlin bleibt damit erfreulicherweise im wesentlichen ihren Positionen der vergangenen Wahl von 2011 treu.</p><p>Das <a href="media/cc236d1c.wp_innen.pdf" data-original-source="https://berlin.piratenpartei.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp_innen.pdf">diesjährige Wahlprogramm der Berliner Piraten</a> überrascht damit, dass es mit keinem Wort Freie Software erwähnt wird – ein Thema, bei dem sich dieselbe Partei zu <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201109-germany-berlin.de.html">den Fragen der FSFE im Jahre 2011</a> noch positiv hervorgetan hat. Leider fehlt auch in den gegebenen Antworten eine klare Linie zu Freier Software. So wird die Frage "Wie positionieren sie sich zu [...] von der öffentlichen Hand beauftragte und finanzierte Software [...] und mit welchen Maßnahmen werden Sie Ihre Position umsetzen?" mit einem logisch inkonsistenten "Ja." beantwortet. Auf die Frage zu dem Einsatz von Freier Software an Schulen und anderen öffentlichen Bildungseinrichtungen antworten die Piraten mit der Forderung nach einem "freien und gleichberechtigten Zugang zu Inhalten" sowie der Erstellung von Unterrichtsmaterial unter freien Lizenzen. Das ist grundsätzlich begrüßenswert, aber beantwortet die Frage nicht.</p><p>Im <a href="media/26cac18f.spd_wahlprogramm_lang_online.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.spd.berlin/w/files/spd-2016-wahl/spd_wahlprogramm_lang_online.pdf">Wahlprogramm der Berliner
    SPD</a> kommt Freie Software gar nicht vor und liest man die Antworten auf unsere Fragen, scheint bei diesem Thema noch viel Nachholbedarf
    zu bestehen. Den Fragen nach der Veröffentlichung öffentlich  finanzierter Software sowie der
    Softwarelösung für das „Berliner  Haushalts-, Kassen- und Rechnungswesen (HKR-neu)“ weicht die SPD aus.
    Auf die Frage nach Freier Software an Schulen verrennen sich die Sozialdemokraten in Phrasen und technische Schlagwörter wie "digitale Schule",
    "Whiteboards" und "WLAN", ohne jedoch politische Lösungen aufzuzeigen. Trotz einiger bestehender Berührungsängste mit Freier Software schreibt die SPD:
    "Wir begrüßen eine Umstellung auf Open-Source-Software mit offenen Quellcodes an Stellen, wo dies möglich ist". Leider ist "wo dies möglich ist" eine schwammige Formulierung, die oft zum unberechtigten Generalauschluss Freier Software geführt hat.
    So wurden unter anderem in Berlin in der Vergangenheit eigentlich sinnvolle Beschlüsse zum Einsatz Freier Software in der Verwaltung auch von der
    SPD blockiert.
    </p>Fazit<p>Positiv gegenüber dem vermehrten Einsatz Freier Software treten in Berlin die Grünen und die Linken in Erscheinung. Beide Parteien haben konkrete Vorschläge und möchten damit verstärkt auf die Nutzung Freier Software drängen, sowohl in der Verwaltung, als auch in öffentlichen Bildungseinrichtungen. Die Grünen fordern zudem, dass öffentlich finanzierte Software stets unter freier Lizenz veröffentlicht werden soll. Die beiden aktuellen Regierungsparteien, CDU und SPD, haben immer noch starken Nachholbedarf bei Freier Software. Bei der CDU erwecken die Antworten gar den Anschein, dass die CDU Angst vor dem Einsatz Freier Software hat. Die Piraten sind letztendlich nicht auf die eigentlichen Fragen eingegangen.</p><p>"Es freut uns zu sehen, dass das Thema Freie Software inzwischen bei den meisten Parteien angekommen ist und auch verstanden wird. Insbesondere bei den Grünen und Linken steht Freie Software mit oben auf der politischen Agenda. Leider enttäuschen beide Regierungsparteien und insbesondere die CDU. Die FSFE wird hier weiter dran bleiben und dabei helfen, unnötige und unbegründete Ängste vor Freier Software weg zu nehmen", sagt Erik Grun, Projektleiter der Berliner FSFE</p><p>Siehe auch:</p>

    2016: <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201608-germany-berlin.html">Wahlprüfsteine der Koalition Freies Wissen zur Berliner Abgeordnetenhauswahl</a>

    2016: <a href="https://k7r.eu/free-software-in-the-berlin-election-programs/">Free Software in the Berlin election programs 2016 (Englisch)</a>

    2011: <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2011/news-20110913-01.html">Berlin - Hauptstadt der Freien-Software-Parteien</a>, unsere Auswertung der

    Wahlprüfsteine zur Berliner Abgeordnetenhauswahl

    2011: <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201109-germany-berlin.html">Unsere Wahlprüfsteine zur Berliner Abgeordnetenhauswahl</a>

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title: Julia Reda, MEP: "Proprietary Software threatens Democracy"
uri: Julia-Reda-MEP-Proprietary-Software-threatens-Democracy
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160907-01.html
content:
Julia Reda, MEP: "Proprietary Software threatens Democracy"

        
          
        
      <p>Julia Reda ended the QtCon, a conference for
the Free Software community, with a closing keynote on, among other
things, Free Software in the European Public Sector.
</p><p>Ms Reda, a member of the EU Parliament for the Pirate Party,
explained how proprietary software, software that forbids users from
studying and modifying it, has often left regulators in the dark,
becoming a liability for and often a threat to the well-being and
health of citizens.</p><p>An example of this, she said, is the recent Dieselgate scandal, in
which auto-mobile manufacturers installed software that cheated
instruments that measured fumes in test environments, only to spew
illegal amounts of toxic exhaust into the atmosphere the moment they
went on the road.</p><p>Ms Reda also explained how medical devices running proprietary
software posed a health hazard for patients. She gave the example of a
woman with a pacemaker who collapsed while climbing some stairs due to
a bug in her device. Doctors and technicians had no way of diagnosing
and correcting the problem as they did not have access to the
code.</p><p>Also worrying is the threat software with restrictive licenses pose to
democracy itself. The trend of substituting traditional voting ballots
with voting machines is especially worrying, because, as these
machines are not considered a threat to national security, their
software also goes unaudited and is, in fact, unauditable in most
cases.</p><p>And, although voting machines are built and programmed by private
companies, they are commissioned by public entities and paid for with
public money, money taken from citizens' taxes. However, there are no
universal EU regulations that force companies, or, indeed, public
organisations, to make the source code available to the citizens that
have paid for it, said Ms Reda.</p><p>Furthermore, she noted that, despite the fact Free Software
technologies (web servers, CMSs, email servers, and so on) are used
extensively throughout the public administration, the public sector
assumes very little responsibility in the way of giving back to the
community via patches or even bug reports.</p><p>Ms Reda said that the solution to this very dismal state of affairs is
a multi-pronged one. She commended the Free Software Foundation Europe
for its work in advocating for all software commissioned by public
entities and paid with public money, be made available under
free/libre licenses for everyone. She also noted that to get
governments on the side of Free Software it is essential to make them
see its merits.</p><p>Only like this, she said, would it be possible to make legislators
regulate coherently in favour of free/libre technologies.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Lettre d'information de la FSFE - Juillet 2016
uri: 2016-09-09-Lettre-d-information-de-la-FSFE-Juillet-2016
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201607.html
content:
Lettre d'information de la FSFE - Juillet 2016EIF v. 3: 
L'UE contrecarre son propre objectif d'encouragement d'une meilleure interopérablité en encourageant des conditions de licences nuisibles<p>La FSFE a exposé à la commission européenne <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160624-01.html">son point de vue sur la révision du Cadre européen d'interopérabilité</a> (European Interoperability Framework - EIF). L'EIF vise la promotion d'une interopérabilité poussée dans le secteur public européen, et en est à sa troisième révision depuis 2004. Tandis qu'<a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/files/57b2ecd5-effa-4594-9ef2-47e7ecc67047">un premier jet</a> favorise les standards ouverts dans les services publics, il promeut les clauses de licence nuisibles dites "FRAND" (pour "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" c'est à dire équitable, raisonnable et non-discriminatoire). Ces clauses sont en pratique <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/why-frand-is-bad-for-free-software.en.html">hautement anticoncurrentielles et inappropriées</a>, non seulement pour le Logiciel Libre mais aussi pour le secteur du logiciel en général.

De plus, ce projet passe sous silence la relation établie entre interopérabilité et Logiciel Libre : de nombreux règlements nationaux <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Migrated/EU%20Policies%20overview%3A%20Free%20Software%20and%20Open%20Standards">exigent que leurs services nationaux soient basés sur du Logiciel Libre</a>. Nous <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/eif-v3.en.html">avons demandé à
la commission européenne de répondre, entre autres,  à ces préoccupations afin de garantir efficacement l'interopérabilité.</a></p>Sommet de la FSFE - Inscriptions ouvertes, comment y participer<p>Le tout premier sommet de la FSFE se tiendra du 2 au 4 septembre. Il s'agit <a href="https://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/summit/frontpage">du plus grand évènement rassemblant les membres de la FSFE et ses soutiens de toute l'Europe</a>. Durant ces dernières semaines, la super équipe chargée du sommet de la FSFE a passé tout son temps (même ses pauses café!) à vous concocter un évènement qui vaudra le détour et qui sera à la hauteur de la célébration des 15 ans de la FSFE. Cet évènement est paneuropéen, organisé pour toute la communauté, incluant les nouveaux venus et les anciens stagiaires. Il aura lieu au cur de Berlin. Chaque jour aura son thème, chacun étant constitué de
présentations à propos de la technologie, la liberté et la société. Et enfin, d'évènements sociaux en soirée pour se rencontrer, partager des idées et planifier de nouveaux projets.</p><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/summit/attendance">Les inscriptions  à ce premier sommet FSFE sont officiellement ouvertes</a>. Sur cette même page vous trouverez toutes les réponses aux questions que vous vous pourriez vous poser sur votre participation au sommet. Faites vite, les places sont limitées !</p><p>Sachez que l'équipe en charge du sommet travaille toujours dur afin de vous concevoir un programme communautaire, inspirant et équilibré. Celui-ci sera annoncé dans les semaines à venir.</p>Dans la communauté

<p>Rebondissant sur les dernières nouvelles à propos de la mise en place de chiffrement dans des applications populaires de discussion instantanée, <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/h2/2016/05/31/why-privacy-is-more-than-crypto/">Hannes Hauswedell révèle l'importance de la confidentialité dans la communication</a>, et donne des exemples d'applications existantes et de projets en cours qui respectent la confidentialité à différent niveaux. Au delà du chiffrement, Hannes déclare que, notre vie privée a besoin du Logiciel Libre, d'appareils intègres et d'architectures fédérées. <a href="https://framablog.org/2016/06/27/le-chiffrement-ne-suffira-pas/">Framasoft a traduit ce texte en français</a>.</p>

<p>Björn Schießle raconte <a href="http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/07/04/history-and-future-of-cloud-federation/">l'historique et le Futur du Cloud fédéré</a> où il explique le concept de partage de serveur-à-serveur dans OwnCloud/NextCloud et son développement d'un "identifiant de cloud décentralisé", qui serait similaire à une adresse e-mail. Comme l'e-mail, cet identifiant correspond à un utilisateur sur un serveur spécifique.</p>

<p>Torsten Grote, membre de l'A.G., <a href="https://blog.grobox.de/2016/the-proprietarization-of-android-google-play-services-and-apps/"> a écrit à propos de la privatisation d'Android</a> et comment elle handicape les autres versions d'Android, les rendant de plus en plus inutiles. Torsen affirme également que même handicapées, ces versions d'Android sont toujours fondamentales pour améliorer la Liberté des gens dans la communauté.</p>

<p>Daniel Pocock parle de <a href="https://danielpocock.com/webrtc-sip-xmpp-projects-gsoc-2016">WebRTC et des projets de communication dans le cadre du Google Summer of Code, sous l'étiquette du projet Debian</a>. Son aperçu comprend des plugins WebRTC pour des CMS et des framework web, ainsi que de véritables alternatives de pair-à-pair comme le framework Telepathy pour le bureau Linux.</p>

<p>Erik Albers raconte comment les ministres de l'UE ont raté une opportunité de faire du Logiciel Libre une part intégrante de leur Stratégie de Libre Accès et  pourquoi <a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2016/06/there-is-no-open-science-without-the-use-of-open-standards-and-free-software/">il n'y a pas de Science Ouverte sans Standards Ouverts et Logiciel Libre</a>.</p>

<p>Björn Schießle écrit  sur <a href="http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/06/15/freedom-for-whom/">la Liberté pour qui ?</a> où il partage sa vision à propos du danger des Accords de Licence pour contributeurs (Contributor License Agreement - CLA) pour les communautés du Logiciel Libre et comment le monde des affaires et la communauté peuvent tous deux bénéficier du développement de solutions complètement Libres.</p>
Qu'avons-nous fait d'autres ?
<p>Erik Albers, chef de l'équipe en charge du sommet, a écrit à plusieurs reprises ce mois-ci pour partager le processus d'organisation du tout premier sommet de la FSFE. Il partage ses idées au sujet de <a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2016/05/fsfe-summit-about-logo-and-pr/">RP (Représentation Publique) et Logo</a>, à propos du <a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2016/06/fsfesummit-some-updates-and-introducing-our-committee/">comité du sommet</a> et des <a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2016/07/fsfesummit-registration-open/">inscriptions et de l'équipe qui en a la charge</a>.</p>

<p>La FSFE a apporté son soutien à la création de la <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160630-01">Software Heritage initiative, une archive de code Libre</a>. Elle collecte les logiciels, applications et autres fragments de codes distribués sous licence Libre depuis une grande variété de sources actives et inactives, avec pour objectif d'empêcher ce code de tomber dans l'oubli.</p>

<p>À une certaine époque, nous avions lancé l'idée de lancer des branches nationales de la FSFE, mais cela s'est avéré inutile. Matthias Kirschner a annoncé que la <a href="https://k7r.eu/fsfe-chapter-germany-ev-officially-dissolved/">branche allemande de la FSFE (FSFE Chapter Germany e.V.) était officiellement dissoute</a>.</p>

<p>La FSFE a envoyé ses préoccupations à Andrus Ansip, vice-président du Marché Unique chargé du Numérique ainsi qu'aux commissaires Elżbieta Bieńkowska, Günther Oettinger et Margrethe Vestager, au sujet des <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/why-frand-is-bad-for-free-software.html">clauses de licence "FRAND"</a>  dans les objectifs de standardisation européens.</p>

<p>Nous avons rejoint l'initiative "Société Civile Transparente" et ce changement est maintenant visible dans une nouvelle section de notre page <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/about.html">À propos</a> : <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/transparency-commitment.html">notre engagement de transparence</a> liste toutes les informations requises pour prendre part à cette initiative.</p>

<p>La FSFE Autriche a tenu un <a href="https://blog.widerstroem.com/weblog/6/veganmania-2016-in-wien">stand FSFE à la Veganmania 2016 à Vienne</a>(DE), à <a href="https://blog.widerstroem.com/weblog/7/fair-planet-2016-in-linz">Fair 
Planet 2016 à Linz</a> (DE) et à <a href="https://blog.widerstroem.com/weblog/8/linuxwochen-linz-2016">Linuxwochen Linz 2016</a>.</p>

<p>Le vice président de la FSFE, Alessandro Rubini, a participé à l'organisation de la conférence italienne du Logiciel Libre Confsl 2016 et a <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/rubini/2016/06/29/confsl-2016-the-italian-free-software-conference/">representé la FSFE lors d'une session</a>.</p>

<p>Le groupe FSFE Munich a tenu un <a href="https://www.softmetz.de/2016/06/13/erster-corso-leopold-2016-die-fsfe-war-dabei/">stand FSFE durant le premier Corso Leopold 2016</a> (DE).</p>

<p>Le "FreieSoftwareOG" a tenu un <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/fast_edi/?p=502">stand FSFE à Offenburg</a> (DE).</p>
Agissez<p><a href="https://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/summit/attendance">Obtenez dès maintenant votre ticket pour le premier sommet de la FSFE, du 2 au 4 septembre</a> !</p><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/summit/frontpage#spreadtheword">Aidez-nous à répandre la nouvelle</a> dans votre liste de diffusion favorite, votre blog, vos canaux de réseaux sociaux ou partagez la nouvelle avec vos voisins.</p>Les bonnes nouvelles du Logiciel Libre <p>L'April a publié un point d'étape sur sa mobilisation sur le projet de loi « pour une République numérique » dans lequel le <a href="https://www.april.org/point-detape-sur-la-mobilisation-de-lapril-sur-le-projet-de-loi-pour-une-republique-numerique">le parlement français encourage l'utilisation de Logiciel Libre</a>. Pendant que le cadre législatif général en France avance uniquement par petits pas dans la promotion des logiciels libres, fin de l'année 2018 quasiment <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/%E2%80%98open-source-values-match-municipal-public-services%E2%80%99">70% des stations de travail de la ville de Fontaine, en France, tourneront sous Linux</a>. 
La Bulgarie, quant à elle, est en train de devenir l'exemple à suivre dans le domaine des politiques de Logiciel Libre, en <a href="https://thepolicy.us/bulgaria-got-a-law-requiring-open-source-98bf626cf70a#.nfmord3u7">adoptant une loi qui requiert que tous les logiciels écrits pour le gouvernement soient des Logiciels Libres et soient développés en tant que tel dans un dépot public</a>. L'Andalousie suit la tendance et a annoncé le prolongement du <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/andalusia-renews-funds-key-open-source-projects">financement de deux importants projets Libres régionaux : GECOS and Guadalinux</a>. Des collèges en Europe <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/european-colleges-share-smes-open-source-training">mettent en place des cours pour former les élèves à aider les sociétés à choisir des services de cloud Libres.</a></p><p>Merci à tous les <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.html">bénévoles</a>, <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> et <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.html">donateurs</a> qui  rendent notre travail possible,</p><p>Vos éditeurs Cellini, Polina and Erik, <a href="https://fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Newsletter - September 2016
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-September-2016
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201609.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter - September 2016Words from your editors<p>
Thank you for contributing to making the FSFE Summit 
this past weekend a huge success! We were excited to see so many
familiar faces and we're eager to meet again soon. Of course, the
FSFE Summit was not the only thing going on in the past month. In this
newsletter you can read about our community's other activities.
In the October newsletter, we will share more
of what happened at the Summit. Stay tuned for more!
</p>The FSFE's 15 years<p>
This year we are celebrating our <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/">15th
anniversary</a> and the culmination
of the official celebration took place during the FSFE Summit from the
2nd to the 4th of September. But this celebration should continue throughout the year: let us
use the coming weeks and months to highlight 15 years of our 
existence, and use this opportunity to spread the word about free
software and our work. Let us highlight our biggest
achievements, recall personal stories and share them through blog posts,
social media, mailing lists, chats and in other ways.
</p><p>
In order to get some inspiration about how you can contribute, you are
welcome to visit <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2016/FSFE-15years-birthday/spread-the-word">our
wiki page</a> in which you will find examples and help to contribute. Some of the
work we have carried out in the last 15 years is also available on the
revised FSFE <a href="http://fsfe.org/timeline/timeline">timeline</a>.
</p><p>
One of our recent accomplishments has been the creation of our
<a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/15years">FSFE video</a> to commemorate our
birthday. This video has subtitles in no less than 12
languages, thanks to our amazing volunteer translators.
Check out our new 15th anniversary sticker, which you can
order from us to help <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword">spread the
word</a>, not only for yourself.
</p>From the community<p>

Thanks to our translators (mentioned now for
the second time in this newsletter!), we are able to reach a wide
multilingual audience! The help of our translators is crucial to our
outreach. French translator Julien Pivotto has
improved the existing translation process to be more efficient and
accessible. He has written a proposal to change the <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Translations">principal concept behind the
process</a>. Cryptie and
André Ockers held a session about this <a href="https://conf.qtcon.org/en/qtcon/public/events/757">during the
summit</a>.

Paul Boddie <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1314">blogged
about the EOMA68 Campaign and some of its criticisms</a>. The EOMA68
campaign later succeeded in its fundraising and will now be put in
production.

André Ockers also <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2016/08/13/free-software-pdf-campaign-it-isnt-over-until-it-is-over/">convinced Dutch authorities to remove ads for a
non-free PDF reader</a>
from the official website Digid.nl used to access most of the public
services in Netherlands. 

Matthias Kirschner blogged about a way to <a href="https://k7r.eu/setting-up-a-slightly-more-secure-solution-for-home-banking">set up a slightly more secure solution for home
banking</a>,
letting the browser you use for banking run separately from your other
browser. In a separate post, he also wrote <a href="https://k7r.eu/free-software-in-the-berlin-election-programs/">an
overview of the positive aspects</a> of Free Software included in 
parties' positions, for the forthcoming Berlin elections.

Jonas Öberg wrote about the FSFE's group registration with IRC
network Freenode, which makes it possible to <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/irc-cloaks-on-freenode-available/">request
FSFE affiliated cloaks</a>.
He also wrote about his <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/the-woes-of-webvtt/">experience getting
subtitles to work with our FSFE video using WebVTT</a>.


</p>What else have we done?<p>

<a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160817-01">The FSFE joined the Advisory
board of the Document Foundation, whilst the Document Foundation became
an associated organisation of the FSFE</a>. With this mutual expression
of support, both organisations will strengthen one another in their common
goal to keep the general public in the technological driver's
seat.

Erik Grun and Erik Albers aligned in the name of the FSFE with several
other organisations to run a <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ayc">Ask your
candidates campaign</a> called "Wahlprüfsteine". Questions have been
sent to most parties in the upcoming elections in
<a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160823-01">Mecklenburg Vorpommern</a>
and <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160831-01">Berlin</a>.
Their responses have been analysed and published 
for the voting public.

Since August 1st, thanks to <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160725-01">a
new German law</a>, if you are the client of a German internet provider,
you have the right to use an alternative router, ideally one
running Free Software. Please provide us feedback whether you had any
issues running a new router and help us to collect it in our
<a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/CompulsoryRouters/Implementation/Germany">wiki page</a>.
In case you don't have an alternative device at hand, the FSFE's German
Coordinator Max Mehl has already <a href="https://blog.mehl.mx/2016/erste-testgeraete-fuer-routerfreiheit-versendet/">sent the first Free Software routers to volunteers</a>
for testing and we can provide more. 

The FSFE was present at FrOSCon 2016 in Sankt Augustin, where our
Policy Analyst and Legal Coordinator Polina Malaja gave a talk about
<a href="https://programm.froscon.de/2016/events/1797.html">"DSM, EIF,
RED: Acronyms on the EU level and why they matter for software
freedom"</a> (in English), and the German Coordinator Max Mehl gave talk about
<a href="https://programm.froscon.de/2016/events/1738.html">"Routerzwang
und Funkabschottung – Was Aktivisten davon lernen können"</a> (in
German). Max <a href="https://blog.mehl.mx/2016/froscon-2016-ein-rueckblick/">blogged about
his conference experience and included links to recordings of both
talks</a>.


</p>Take action!<p>
For our 15 year anniversary (there's a lot of this this month, as you
can tell), we are organising the <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/15years">"Get
to know your Local Free Software Hero" campaign</a>. The idea
is to bring our community members in touch with the local press in the
region where they live. Our local heroes explain how the Free Software
community affects the people in their region, its benefits for
education, health system, local economy and the daily life of the
citizens. If you are a journalist, blogger, vlogger, podcaster, or
anyone else who can help us to get in touch with a media outlet,
please contact us and we will tell you who your local heroes are and
how to meet them.
</p>Other Free Software news<p>
The Lithuanian police <a href="https://itsfoss.com/lithuanian-police-switches-libreoffice/">migrated
over 8000 workstations from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice</a>. The
Dutch government in its Digital Agenda for 2016-2017 is considering
<a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/epractice/news/dutch-consider-mandatory-egovernment-standards">making the use of Open Standards mandatory
for public administrations</a>, within the aim of providing businesses and
citizens with easier access to eGovernment services. The city of
Valencia (Spain) is <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spain%E2%80%99s-valencia-reuses-greek-pc-lab-software">reusing Epoptes</a>,
a software for managing school PC labs, developed as free software in
Greece since 2008. The software is improved by staff members of the
city’s IT department, who share their code publicly.
</p>The FSFE in the Press<p>
In light of its 15th anniversary, the FSFE received press coverage
concerning a number of topics. Here are some of these articles for
further reading:
</p><p>

 [EN] by William New, Matthias was quoted by an Intellectual Property
Watch article about how the <a href="http://www.ip-watch.org/2016/08/22/new-us-government-source-code-policy-could-provide-model-for-europe/">New US Government Source Code Policy Could
Provide Model For Europe</a>.

[IT] [EN] by Sonia Montegiove, Tech Economy, <a href="http://www.techeconomy.it/2016/08/18/sostegno-alla-liberta-digitale-fsfe-intervista-doppia-matthias-kircker-alessandro-rubini/?platform=hootsuite">Support to the digital
freedom with FSFE: a double interview with Matthias Kirschner and
Alessandro Rubini</a>.

[DE] [AT] by Patrick Dax, Future zone, 
<a href="https://futurezone.at/netzpolitik/bedenken-gegen-einschraenkung-alternativer-router-software/216.155.897">Concerns regarding the limitation of
alternative router software</a>.  In the article, there is a reference
to the FSFE's campaign against compulsory routers.

[EN] by Paul Brown, opensource.com, <a href="https://opensource.com/life/16/8/fsfe-summit-europe-2016?sc_cid=701600000011jJVAAY">First ever FSFE Summit celebrates free software
successes</a>.

[DE] by Hans-Joachim Baader, pro-linux.de, <a href="http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/23900/fsfe-vergleicht-parteipositionen-zu-freier-software-f%C3%BCr-wahl-in-mecklenburg.html">The FSFE compares the
positions of the parties regarding Free Software for the elections in
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern</a>.

[DE] by Mirko Lindner, pro-linux.de, <a href="http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/23878/fsfe-und-tdf-arbeiten-enger-zusammen.html">FSFE
und TDF arbeiten enger zusammen</a>.

[EN] by Paul Brown, LiNUX.com, <a href="https://www.linux.com/news/first-fsfe-summit-will-focus-social-issues-and-strategies">First FSFE Summit Will Focus on Social Issues and
Strategies</a>.

[DE] by Jan Raehm, Deutschlandfunk, <a href="http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/computer-programme-ohne-zwaenge-kampf-um-freie-software.684.de.html?dram:article_id=364243">Computer programs without
constraints - the battle for free software</a>.

</p><p>Thanks to all the <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html">volunteers</a>, 

<a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html">corporate donors</a> who enable our work,</p><p>your editors Polina Malaja, Erik Albers, Olga Gkotsopoulou and
Jonas Öberg, <a href="https://fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: EU copyright proposal reinforces DRM
uri: EU-copyright-proposal-reinforces-DRM
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160928-01.html
content:
EU copyright proposal reinforces DRM<p>On 14 September the European Commission (EC) published 
its long-awaited <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/proposal-directive-european-parliament-and-council-copyright-digital-single-market">proposal
for a Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market</a>. While we 
welcome the proposal to introduce a mandatory exception for 'text 
and data mining' (TDM) in the field of scientific research, we are concerned 
about the inclusion of a far-reaching "technical safeguards" clause granted 
to rightholders in order to limit the newly established exception.</p><p>The proposal grants a mandatory exception to research organisations to 
carry out TDM of copyrighted works to which they have lawful access. The 
exception is only applicable to research organisations, thus narrowing 
its scope and excluding everyone else with the lawful access to the copyrighted 
works.</p><p>According to the accompanying Impact Assessment, the TDM exception has 
the potential of inflicting a high number of downloads of the works, and 
that is why the rightholders are allowed to apply "necessary" technical 
measures in the name of "security and integrity" of their networks and 
databases.</p><p>Such a requirement, as it is proposed by the EC in the current text, 
gives rightholders a wide-reaching right to restrict the effective implementation
of the new exception. Rightholders are free to apply whichever measure 
they deem "necessary" to protect their rights in the TDM exception, and 
to choose the format and modalities of such technical measures.</p><p>This provision will lead to a wider implementation of 
<a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/drm/index.en.html">"digital restrictions 
management"</a> (DRM) technologies. These technologies are already used 
extensively to arbitrarily restrict the lawful use of accessible works 
under the new TDM exception. This reference to "necessary technical safeguards" 
is excessive and can make the mandatory TDM exception useless. It is worth 
repeating that the exception is already heavily limited to cover only r
esearch organisations with public interest.</p><p>Further reasons to forbid the use of DRM technologies in the exception are:</p>
DRM leads to vendor lock-in. As researchers will 
need a specific compatible software in order to be able to access the work, 
they will be locked to a particular vendor or provider for arbitrary reasons. 
These technical safeguards will most likely stop researchers from exercising 
their right under the exception of using their own tools to extract data, 
and can lead to the factual monopoly of a handful of companies providing 
these technologies. 
DRM excludes free software users. DRM always relies 
on proprietary components to work. These components, by definition, are 
impossible to implement in Free Software. The right of Free Software users 
to access resources under the exception will be violated.
DRM technologies increase the cost of research and education. 
Accessing DRM-protected resources typically requires purchasing specific 
proprietary software. Such technology is expensive and it is important to 
ask how much the implementation of these technologies would cost for research 
and educational institutions throughout Europe. Furthermore, very often 
this software cannot be shared, so every research workstation would need 
to purchase a separate copy or license for the software. 
DRM artificially limits sharing between peers. 
A typical functionality DRM provides is to cap the number of copies you 
can make of documents and data. This will force different researchers to 
access and download data and documents several times even if they are 
working on the same team. This is a waste of time and resources. As DRM 
also typically limits the number of downloads, teams could find themselves 
cut of from resources they legitimately have a right to access under the 
exception.
<p>We ask the European Parliament and the EU member states to explicitly 
forbid the use of harmful DRM practices in the EU copyright reform, 
especially with regard to already heavily limited exceptions.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Open internship position as a technical intern
uri: Open-internship-position-as-a-technical-intern
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160930-01.html
content:
Open internship position as a technical intern<p>
FSFE is a charity dedicated to empowering users to control technology.
We are working to build freedom in digital society. We operate in a lively
environment with volunteers from many countries. We are looking for a
technical intern to join our team for three months, taking part in the
work to rewrite and implement a new account management system.</p><p>
What we can offer is:

A challenging and exciting time with a dynamic NGO working internationally
A close-up view of organisational and community processes
A chance to take the initiative and put your ideas into practice

</p><p>
What you'll do:

Contribute to the FSFE's ongoing project to rewrite (from scratch!)
   our account management system, focusing on primarily the front-end
   system
Contribute to our other projects, interacting with our volunteer community
General office tasks
Work with our system administrators and other staff and volunteers

</p><p>
Be sure to read our pages about <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship">internships</a>
in general before applying!
</p>Basic details<p>
Location: Berlin, Germany.  Please note the FSFE has no ability to help
with accommodation or travel, you will need to cover this yourself and
arrange this prior to your internship.</p><p>Duration: 3 months full time at 35 hours per week, starting around the
1st of January 2017 or as otherwise agreed.</p><p>Compensation: This internship is salaried with a basic salary of €1,289 per month.</p>Work responsibility and activities<p>
You will be in charge of rewriting our account management system, a
central piece of our infrastructure which is the public facing interface
for new membership registrations, donations and volunteers.
</p><p>
By rewriting the system with a Python framework, we hope to make it more
modular and maintainable so we can tackle some of the limitations of the
current system which is a blocker for some of our other work.
</p>Qualifications<p>
You need to have experience from development in Python, and some
knowledge of common web frameworks (Flask, Pyramid or Django, for
instance). Some CSS framework experience is also beneficial.
</p>Formal requirements<p>
You must be fluent in English and will be required to show that you
can legally work in Germany; either by being an EU citizen, or
by having a residence and work permit for the duration. The FSFE
can not help you in getting either of these documents, but we will
accept them if you have them (for instance because you are studying
in Germany and are allowed to work).
</p><p>
You must also have a German tax number which you get by registering
with the residents registration office (Einwohnermeldeamt) in Germany.
This should ideally be done before starting the internship, or at
latest on the first days of your internship.
</p>Application deadline<p>
We would like to receive your application by the 1st of November, but will
be communicating with prospective applicants already before then.
</p>How to apply<p>
Send your application containing a letter of motivation, a CV by e-mail
to office@fsfe.org. Please make sure to write clearly you apply for
the internship position with reference TI-WEB. We prefer to receive
your documents in PDF format.
</p>Contact persons<p>
If you have any questions about the position or any administrative
details in connection with it, you're welcome to contact:
</p><p>

 Jonas Öberg about the position itself, and the work involved
 Ulrike Sliwinski for any administrative questions

</p><p>
Both will be reading and responding if you send your question to the
office@fsfe.org address. We look forward to reading your application!
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Newsletter - October 2016
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-October-2016
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201610.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter - October 2016Words from your editors<p>
After some changes to the FSFE's internship program in early
September, we're happy to be able to announce an opening for a
<a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160930-01.html">technical intern</a>
with the FSFE. We're seeking an intern who can work with us for three months
in our Berlin office, learning about Free Software and the FSFE, while at
the same time contributing to rewriting parts of our technical infrastructure.
</p><p>
In the coming months, we'll announce more internship opportunities and a
good way to get to know about them is to read this newsletter regularly.
Be sure to check out our section on taking action below for some news about
our merchandise sale and information material (we'd love to send you more,
if you've run out!).
</p>The Summit<p>We're still not over how cool it was to see so many from our
  community join the FSFE Summit in September. It was a good
  experience and we're keen to repeat it. One of the highlights was
  the ending keynote where Julia Reda called out <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160907-01.html">proprietary
  software as a threat to democracy</a>. Be sure to view the
  keynote and some of the other talks from the Summit, either on
  our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC68ldbHwL_-5qzETqOaAMWQ">YouTube
  channel</a>, or from our <a href="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/summit2016/">download
  server</a> where you can get the available videos in webm
  format.</p><p>We also celebrated the FSFE's 15th birthday in C-Base with a
  ceremony where we honored many of our local heroes from around
  Europe. C-Base has kindly provided a <a href="https://vimeo.com/181328339">recording of the ceremony</a> if
  you're interested in hearing the story of some of our heroes, all
  of whom you can find working in one of the FSFE's teams today.</p>Are you our next
  technical intern?<p>As mentioned, we are looking for a technical intern to join
  our team for three months, taking part in rewriting and
  implementing a new account management system. This internship is
  based in Berlin, starting the 1st of January 2017 or as otherwise
  agreed. It's compensated with a basic salary, the details of
  which you can read together with other information in our
  <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160930-01.html">call
  for a technical intern</a>. We look forward to seeing your
  application!</p>From the community
    
      <p>David Boddie described the experiences he had <a href="http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/www-repo/Personal/Updates/2016/2016-09-01.html">
      exploring alternative operating systems and in particular,
      Inferno</a>.</p>
    

    
      <p>Michał ‘mina86’ Nazarewicz offered a handful of useful
      <a href="https://mina86.com/2016/python-tricks/">Python
      tricks and tips</a></p>
    

    
      <p>Jonas Öberg blogged about <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/code-availability-or-code-contributions/">
      code availability, or code contributions</a> and introduced
      <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/internship-changes-in-the-fsfe/">the
      changes to the FSFE internship program</a>. Subscribe to our
      newsletter, if you haven't done already, in order to receive
      the latest news about all the open internship vacancies in
      the FSFE!</p>
    

    
      <p>Elena "of Valhalla" explains the differences between
      <a href="http://social.gl-como.it/display/3e3ce0df3657cf0f075f102119218743">
      accepting candy from strangers and using gratis software from
      random sources</a>.</p>
    

    
      <p>Polina Malaja blogged about <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/2016/09/14/copyright-reform-mo-money-to-publishers-mo-problems-for-everyone-else/">
      the challenges of the EU Copyright reform</a>.</p>
    

    
      <p>Florian Snow <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/floriansnow/">shared his memories
      from the 3 days of the FSFE Summit</a> in Berlin, inside and
      outside the BCC.</p>
    
  Other news<p>Matthew Garrett, board member of the FSF, wrote <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-stresses-necessity-of-full-user-control-over-internet-connected-devices">
  an article</a> stressing the necessity of full user control over
  Internet-connected devices, outlining some necessary practices
  for IoT.</p>What else have we done?
    
      <p>Polina Malaja, FSFE's policy analyst and legal
      coordinator, together with the FSFE's legal counsel Carlo Piana,
      participated in a workshop on the interactions of Free
      Software and standardisation, organised by the European
      Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in
      Sophia-Antipolis, France. During the workshop, they worked to
      push for adoption of strong copyleft licenses and to resolve
      some of the tensions around patents.</p>
    

    
      <p>Continuing the practice of being present in events
      organised by other communities, the FSFE was present with an
      Info-booth at the Rotlintstraßenfest in Frankfurt am Main. A
      big thanks to the Fellowship group Rhine/Main for making this
      possible!</p>
    
  Take action!
    We have recently collected, sorted and taken stock of some
    leftovers of the merchandise we had in previous years, and
    we've <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/">put these items
    online</a>. For most of the older items, we only have a few
    available, so this is your chance to order some vintage FSFE
    merchandise at a reduced price (look out for the red
    numbers!)

    If you're starting to run out of informational material about
    free software, now may also be a good opportunity to get some
    more. Order some stickers, posters and flyers from our <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword">promotional material
    page</a> and we'll get them to you as soon as possible so you can help us
    spread them around your company, your school, the local
    library, at events, or anywhere else where you feel people
    should know about free software.

    If you're not already a Fellow of the FSFE, you should
    consider <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">joining</a>. Our work
    wouldn't be possible without the contribution of our Fellows
    and volunteers!
  The FSFE in the Press
    [DE] by Patrick Beuth, Zeit Online, <a href="http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2016-09/digitales-rechtemanagement-drm-hp-drucker-tintenpatronen-firmware/komplettansicht">
    HP sabotages its own customers</a>

    [DE] by Stefan Krempl, Heise, <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Free-Software-Summit-Kampagne-fuer-oeffentliche-Software-in-der-Verwaltung-3313707.html">
    Free Software Summit: Campaign for "Public Software" in Public
    Administrations</a>
  <p>Thanks to all the <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html">volunteers</a>,
  <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and
  <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html">corporate
  donors</a> who enable our work,</p><p>Your editors, Jonas Öberg and Olga Gkotsopoulou <a href="https://fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Call for sessions at the FSFE assembly during 33C3
uri: Call-for-sessions-at-the-FSFE-assembly-during-33C3
url: https://blog.3rik.cc/2016/10/call-for-sessions-at-the-fsfe-assembly-during-33c3#formalities
content:
From December 27 to 30, the FSFE will host an assembly during the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress (33C3) including an information booth, self-organised sessions and a meeting point for all friends of Free Software to come together, share or simply relax. We are looking forward to organise sessions in the name of our assembly and we will book proper rooms or offer our assembly itself. Sessions can be inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, community/developer/strategy meetings or any other public, informative or collaborative activity. Topics can be anything that is about or related to Free Software. We welcome technical sessions but we also encourage to give non-technical talks that address philosophical, economical or other aspects of/about Free Software. We also like sessions about related subjects that have a clear connection to Free Software for example privacy, data protection, sustainability and similar topics. Finally, we welcome all backgrounds – from your private project to global community projects. If you are interested, read more about our call for participation.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Berliner Wahlversprechen umsetzen und Freie Software im Koalitionsvertrag verankern
uri: Berliner-Wahlversprechen-umsetzen-und-Freie-Software-im-Koalitionsvert
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20161027-01.html
content:
Berliner Wahlversprechen umsetzen und Freie Software im Koalitionsvertrag verankern<p>In dieser Woche steht das Thema Netzpolitik auf dem Programm der aktuellen Koalitionsverhandlungen in Berlin. Die Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) fordert die Koalitionäre dabei auf, die in ihren Wahlprogrammen und bei den Wahlprüfsteinen der "Koalition Freies Wissen" gemachten Versprechungen im Koalitionsvertrag zu verankern und Berlin damit zu einem europäischen Vorreiter in Freier Software zu machen. Dazu gibt die FSFE drei konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen.</p><p>"Berlin hat sich in den letzten Jahren in der IT-Branche zu einem wichtigen internationalen Standort entwickelt. Wenn Berlin dieses Know-How weiter bündeln will, wird es höchste Zeit, dass sich diese Ambition auch in einer fortschrittlichen Hauptstadtpolitik widerspiegelt", so Erik Albers von der FSFE. "Dazu hat die sich formierende Koalition tatsächlich beste Chancen, da sie in wesentlichen Punkten zur Förderung und Verwendung Freier Software und offener Standards übereinstimmen."</p><p>Um die koalierenden Parteien an ihre Gemeinsamkeiten und Chancen zu erinnern, <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201610-germany-berlin-handlungsempfehlungen">versendet die FSFE heute drei konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen</a> an die derzeitigen Koalitionäre von SPD, Die Grünen und Die Linke:</p><p>

Eigenentwicklungen des Landes Berlin sowie in Auftrag gegebene Software unter einer freien Lizenz veröffentlichen.
Entwicklung einer langfristigen Strategie, um die Verwaltung Berlins auf Freie Software umzustellen.
Die Förderung des Einsatzes von Open Educational Resources (OER) und Freier Software in den öffentlichen Bildungseinrichtungen Berlins.

</p><p>Diese drei Handlungsempfehlungen sind direkt aus den von den Parteien fomulierten Zielen vor der Wahl abgeleitet und in ihrer Übereinstimmung zusammengeführt. Grundlage dazu sind die Wahlprogramme sowie die Antworten auf die <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160831-01">Wahlprüfsteine der "Koalition Freies Wissen"</a>.</p><p>SPD, Die Grünen und Die Linke sind sich einig, dass von der öffentlichen Hand beauftragte und finanzierte Software grundsätzlich unter einer freien Lizenz veröffentlicht werden soll. Die SPD hatte bereits <a href="media/7f8b222c.12-partizipation-und-digitale-teilhabe-in-der-sozialen-stadt.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.spd.berlin/w/files/spd-parteitage/beschluss-lpt-27.10.2012-partizipation-und-digitale-teilhabe-in-der-sozialen-stadt.pdf">in ihrem Parteitag 2012 formuliert</a>, dass „Neue Software-Lösungen, welche für die Berliner Verwaltung eigens entwickelt werden, sollen dann auf freien Lizenzen aufbauen“. Die Linke stellt in ihrer Antwort auf unsere Wahlprüfsteine klar, dass "für alle zukünftigen Beschaffungen wollen wir auf die Nutzung freier Software drängen.". Und auch Die Grünen antworten, dass "Softwareentwicklungen von und für Behörden stets mit Quellcode unter einer freien Lizenz veröffentlicht werden [sollen], damit alle von ihnen profitieren und sie einfach weiterentwickelt werden können". </p>"Zu einer zukunftsweisenden IT-Strategie gehört, dass das Land Berlin fortan sowohl Eigenentwicklungen als auch Auftragsarbeiten unter freier Lizenz veröffentlicht. Wir fordern die sich bildende Regierung auf, so bald wie möglich die rechtliche Grundlage dafür zu schaffen und geeignete Vorgaben zu machen." sagt Erik Albers von der FSFE. "Zugleich ermutigt die FSFE die neue Koalition dazu mit gutem Beispiel voran zu gehen und erste Freie-Software-Projekte umzusetzen. Die Softwarelösung für das Berliner Haushalts-, Kassen- und Rechnungswesen bietet sich dafür exemplarisch an. Die FSFE unterstützt dabei gerne mit fachlicher Expertise."<p>Außerdem sind sich die koalierenden Parteien einig, dass die Verwaltung Berlins auf Freie Software umgestellt werden soll. Die SPD hatte wiederum auf ihrem Landesparteitag 2012 bereits „das langfristige Ziel" beschlossen, "eine Umstellung auf freier Open Source Software für die Verwaltung durchzuführen, wie sie beispielsweise die Stadt München seit nun mehr zehn Jahren erfolgreich betreibt“. <a href="https://gruene.berlin/wp">Die Grünen versprechen in ihrem Wahlprogramm</a>, „den Einsatz von offener und freier Software sowie ressourcenschonender Informationstechnik (Green IT) bei hoher IT-Sicherheit zum Standard" zu machen und <a href="media/5560eccd.wahlprogramm.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.die-linke-berlin.de/fileadmin/download/2016/wahlprogramm.pdf">Die Linke fordert in ihrem Wahlprogramm</a>, "die öffentliche Verwaltung soll auf Open Source Software umgestellt werden".</p><p>Schließlich empfiehlt die FSFE der entstehenden Koalition ihre Übereinstimmung in der Förderung von Open Educational Resources dazu zu nutzen, von Beginn an eine nachhaltige Strategie zu verfolgen und die Verbreitung von OER mit der Verwendung Freier Software zu verknüpfen. Beides muss zusammen gedacht werden, wie das <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/positionspapier-oer/">Bündnis Freie Bildung in ihrem Positionspapier deutlich herausarbeitet</a>.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_svn/news/generated_xml/news___2016___news-20161031-01.en.xml
title: Heiki Lõhmus takes over FSFE vice-presidency from Alessandro Rubini
uri: Heiki-Lõhmus-takes-over-FSFE-vice-presidency-from-Alessandro-Rubini
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20161031-01.html
content:
Heiki Lõhmus takes over FSFE vice-presidency from Alessandro Rubini<p>
Alessandro Rubini has stepped down as Vice-president of the FSFE. Alessandro, an electronic engineer with Ph. D. in a computer science, brought invaluable insight to the internal discussions within the FSFE and has worked tirelessly to push the Free Software envelope in Italy and the rest of Europe.
</p><p>
Alessandro has left the vice-presidency to concentrate on his work with the Free Software community in Italy, but he remains an active member of the FSFE and continues contributing his time generously to the organisation.
</p><p>
Taking over from Alessandro is Heiki Lõhmus, a student of aeronautical engineering from Estonia. Heiki started collaborating with the FSFE when he "discovered some Estonian-language gibberish on fsfe.org purporting to be a translation of an English original, which it definitely was not". He quickly became involved in the translation process and became the translation coordinator.  
</p><p>
He also represented the FSFE community in its board from 2013 to 2015. During his time in the post, he managed the transition to a new way of valuing contributions, ensuring volunteers and paying members of the organisation enjoy the same benefits for their contributions.
</p><p>
Beyond his work at the FSFE, Heiki has actively lobbied the Estonian government to publish the software used for the Estonian elections as Free Software. "Estonia is the only country in the world where it is possible to vote over the Internet" says Heiki, and relying on proprietary software to do so is a security risk and does not inspire much trust. Heiki works along with other activists to get the software published under a free license.
</p><p>
Heiki is an enthusiastic member of the FSFE and we are sure he will carry on Alessandro's excellent work.
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: [Blog] OpenRheinRuhr 2016 report
uri: Blog-OpenRheinRuhr-2016-report
url: https://blog.mehl.mx/2016/openrheinruhr-2016-a-report-of-iron-and-freedom/
content:
Last weekend, the FSFE visited Oberhausen to participate in OpenRheinRuhr, a well-known Free Software event in north-western Germany. We had a strong booth team, gave talks, and enjoyed talking to tons of like-minded people about politics, technology and other stuff. In this blog post you will learn about some highlights of the weekend and what coat hangers have to do with flat irons.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: [Newsletter] FSFE news in November 2016
uri: Newsletter-FSFE-news-in-November-2016
url: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201611
content:
This month the FSFE newsletter comes with a public consultation on our Fellowship brand. Read the background and do not miss your chance to participate. Also read about the take-over of FSFE's Vice-presidency by Heiki Löhmus and the ongoing revision of the European Interoperability Framework. As in every newsletter, you also find our out-of-the-community as well as a what-we-have-done section with some good Free Software news and highlights of our press coverage.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Russian Bill makes Free Software a Public Priority
uri: Russian-Bill-makes-Free-Software-a-Public-Priority
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20161110-01.html
content:
Russian Bill makes Free Software a Public Priority<p>
Legislators have drafted 
<a href="http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/addwork/scans.nsf/ID/15186D4536B068A54325804200466D57/$File/1187178-6.PDF?OpenElement">a bill</a>
that will boost Free Software on multiple levels within the Russian 
Federation's public sector.</p><p>The draft, approved by the Russian Federation's Duma (lower chamber) 
in mid-October, requires the public sector to prioritise Free Software over 
proprietary alternatives, gives precedence to local IT businesses that offer 
Free Software for public tenders, and recognises the need to encourage 
collaboration with the global network of Free Software organisations and 
communities.</p><p>The text enforces prioritising Free Software over proprietary alternatives 
by requiring public administrations to formally justify any purchase of 
proprietary software. The purchase will be considered unjustified if a 
Free Software solution exists that satisfies the list of technical specifications 
and standards. In addition, all IT purchase agreements in the public 
sphere must be registered in a dedicated registrar and detail the overall 
quantity and price of both purchased proprietary and Free Software.</p><p>In order to encourage local businesses, IT companies that distribute 
and provide Free Software products and services will by default receive 
bonus points in public tenders. With this measure, legislators intend to 
reduce the administration's dependency on foreign IT providers of proprietary 
software.</p><p>Despite the above, the bill also recognises the universality of Free 
Software. As the legislators acknowledge in explanatory notes appended 
to the text, the concept of "Russian Free Software" is meaningless due 
to the global nature of Free Software. The text recognises the need to 
support Russian Free Software companies in order to better integrate into 
global Free Software communities.</p>	
<p>"[...]законопроект предлагает тем самым уйти от понятия «российское СПО», 
поскольку наборы программных кодов, открытых по разного вида свободным 
лицензиям, представляют собой по сути единую мировую платформу[...]"</p>

<p>English translation:</p>
<p>[...]the draft bill suggests to withhold the concept of "Russian Free
Software", because the source code available under different open licences
represents in essence one global platform[...]</p>
<p>Another interesting aspect of the law is how the authors of the bill 
have made an extra effort to ensure the language used in the draft are 
correct. For one, only software carrying licenses that allow 
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">the four freedoms</a>
may be legally labelled as "Free Software":</p>

<p>"Свободное программное обеспечение (СПО) - программное обеспечение, 
имеющее открытый исходный код и распространяемое по открытым лицензиям на 
условиях специального лицензионного договора, на основании которого пользователь 
получает неограниченное право на его установку, запуск, а также свободное 
использование, изучение, распространение и изменение (модификацию) по своему 
усмотрению в любых, не запрещенных законом целях."</p>

<p>English translation:</p>
<p>"Free Software - software which is open source and distributed under 
open licences based on special licensing contract terms, allowing a user 
unrestricted right to install, run, use, study, distribute and modify it 
freely, according to one's needs and for purposes that are not restricted 
by law."</p>
<p>Secondly, every time the bill text refers to the most famous free operating 
system, it refers to it as "GNU/Linux", not simply "Linux". This indicates 
an awareness not commonly found amongst authors of national legislations.</p><p>"The bill is an example of public software procurement done right." says 
Polina Malaja, Policy Analyst and Legal Coordinator at the FSFE. "The FSFE 
has long advised having all public administrations prioritise Free Software 
and recommended that all software developed by and for the public sector 
be published under a Free Software licence. As the authors of the Russian 
bill have come to realise, without Free Software public administrations 
will never be able to claim they have real digital sovereignty. Other 
European administrations should take note."</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_svn/news/generated_xml/news___nl___nl-201611.en.xml
title: FSFE Newsletter - November 2016
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-November-2016
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201611.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter - November 2016Public consultation on our Fellowship<p>Since 2005, the FSFE has maintained two distinct 
brands: the FSFE and our Fellowship. While this made sense initially, 
we've grown increasingly uncomfortable with the way this created a 
separation between the Fellows and the FSFE as two separate entities, 
despite the fact that we're all working together! Accordingly, we've reduced our 
activities promoting the "Fellowship" as something distinct from the FSFE, 
and now talk more about "FSFE Groups" rather than "Fellowship Groups", for our 
local groups.</p><p>We now need to come to a decision on how to develop these brands in 
the future. Based on an initial discussion between our coordinators and 
in our core team, we've developed a proposal which you will find below: 
it essentially means that we would deprecate the
Fellowship, and bring everything under the umbrella of the FSFE. As an 
important part of our community, your feedback is valuable to us. For 
this public consultation, we would be happy to hear your thoughts on the 
matter by the 30th of November 2016, after which we will provide a 
summary of the feedback received on which we will base our decision.</p><p>Any changes that stem from this proposal, in its current form or in 
the way we will shape it based on the feedback provided, will be put 
into practice during 2017. You can provide your feedback 
to contact@fsfe.org.</p><p>Please note that in the proposal below we use a term "Supporter" as a 
new alternative to "Fellow". We would very much like to hear your thoughts 
on this too. Other options suggested include "Patron", "Supporter", 
"Contributor", "Donor", and possibly other names you may think of too. 
There is also the option to keep the name "Fellow" as a term, and only 
deprecate "Fellowship".</p>PROPOSAL<p>The "Fellowship" and "Fellow" names are deprecated. Activities done in
local groups or which were otherwise named in conjunction with the
brand "Fellowship" shall be brought under the name of the "FSFE": an
FSFE event, an FSFE local group, and so on.</p><p>Our "Community" is anyone who identifies as being a part of the FSFE,
be that by supporting and encouraging our activities, contributing financially,
or participating in the work. We want everyone to be a part of
our community, regardless of their level of engagement.</p><p>Anyone who contributes financially with the intent of contributing
regularly is a "Supporter" of the FSFE. The Council may set a minimum
threshold for a regular contribution to account for transaction costs.
Financially, our Supporters provide the solid foundation on which the
FSFE stands: their regular financial contributions give stability
to the organisation.  We call our one-time contributors "Donors".</p><p>We encourage everyone who wants to be part of our activities to join
one of our teams: either a topical team (as a translator, webmaster, or similar)
or a geographical team (the Berlin team, the Nordic team, and so on).
By joining one of our teams they become a "Team Member" of that team
(system-hackers team member, translation team member).</p>EIF v.3 – citizens demand more Free Software, while businesses seek to promote true Open Standards<p>The European Commission (EC) has finally <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/2016/10/31/eif-v-3-citizens-demand-for-more-free-software-while-businesses-seek-to-promote-true-open-standards/">published 
the summary of the contributions received for its public consultation on
 the revision of the European Interoperability Framework</a> (EIF), a set of 
 guidelines for public administrations to deliver their e-government services. 
 The FSFE has <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/eif-v3.en.html">previously 
 submitted its comments and recommendations on the proposed draft</a>. 
 According to the results of the public consulation, the majority of respondents 
 amongst citizens asked for more Free Software and Open Standards when 
 revising the EIF, whilst respondents amongst businesses and private 
 organisations asked the EC to "promote the use of (true) open standards
 and support of standards in new technologies". We hope the EC will follow 
 the wishes of EU citizens and implement these recommendations in 
 the revised EIF.</p>From the community
<p>André Ockers <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2016/10/18/my-participation-in-the-first-fsfe-summit-and-15th-anniversary-celebration/">wrote about 
his participation in the first FSFE Summit and 15th anniversary celebration</a>, 
as well as Guido Arnold, who also <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2016/10/my-fsfe-summitqtcon/">blogged 
about his experience at the FSFE summit.</a> </p>

<p>Björn Schießle blogs about the
<a href="http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/07/04/history-and-future-of-cloud-federation/">History 
and Future of Cloud Federation</a> where he explains the concept of server-to-server 
sharing in Owncloud/Nextcloud and its development to a "federated cloud ID", 
which looks similar to an email address. Like email, "federated cloud" refers 
to a user on a specific server.</p>

<p>Are you interested in real-time communications? Daniel Pocock 
<a href="https://danielpocock.com/fosdem-2017-rtc-cfp">encourages you to 
become a speaker and participate at FOSDEM 2017</a>, one of the world's 
biggest conferences addressing Free Software developers in particular. </p>

<p>Iain R. Learmonth <a href="https://iain.learmonth.me/post/2016/pathspider-stable/">presents
 PATHspider 1.0.0 and highlights the changes that have been incorporated 
 to the latest version</a> of this framework for performing and analysing 
 existing network impairments.  </p>

<p>David Boddie <a href="http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/www-repo/Personal/Updates/2016/2016-10-16.html">gives you 
a step-by-step explanation on how to build disk images for the
 operating system Inferno</a>.</p>
What else have we done?
<p>The FSFE's current Vice-president Alessandro Rubini stepped down
 to focus on his work with the Free Software community in Italy. 
<a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20161031-01.en.html">Taking over 
from Alessandro is Heiki Lõhmus, a student of aeronautical engineering
 from Estonia</a>. Alessandro Rubini is a long time advocate of Free Software: 
 as the FSFE's Vice-president, he has contributed with invaluable 
 efforts to push for Free Software, not only in Italy but all over
  Europe. Heiki Lõhmus has actively lobbied the Estonian government to
 publish the software used for the Estonian elections as Free Software and
 now receives the baton for Vice-president of FSFE to carry on 
 Alessandro’s excellent work.</p>

<p>The FSFE
<a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201610-germany-berlin-handlungsempfehlungen">sent three 
recommendations for actions to foster the use and implementation
of Free Software</a> (in German) to the new government that is currently being 
formed in the state of Berlin.</p>

<p>The local FSFE group in Rhein/Main <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/guido/2016/10/fsfe-booth-at-street-festival-in-frankfurt/">was present
 at a street festival (Rotlintstraßenfest) in Frankfurt</a> to promote 
 the FSFE and explain and inform the people about Free Software. </p>

<p>The system hackers have decided to <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/System-Hackers/Decommissioning-Pad">decommission 
our (very) old pad service</a>. They invite anyone who's interested 
in the FSFE offering a pad service to get in touch to setup a new team 
which can create a new pad service.</p>

<p>From October 24 to 27, the FSFE's President Matthias Kirschner 
and the FSFE's Policy analyst Polina Malaja participated in several
 community events in Greece. They gave <a href="https://foss.ntua.gr/wiki/index.php/%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B1">talks 
 in the National Technical University of Athens</a>, 
<a href="https://www.hackerspace.gr/#/updates/967244">in the Athens 
Hackerspace</a> (in Greek) and <a href="https://opensource.ellak.gr/2016/10/27/apologismos-imeridas-elefthero-anikto-logismiko-anikti-prosvasi-me-ton-ton-proedro-tou-fsfe-matthias-kirschner/">in the 
National Hellenic Reseach Foundation</a> (in Greek).</p>

<p> On October 4-6, the FSFE participated with a booth in the
<a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe">
LinuxCon + ContainerCon Europe 2016</a>, which took place in Berlin.</p>

<p>The "FreieSoftwareOG" represented the FSFE with a<a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/fast_edi/?p=502"> booth in Offenburg</a> (in German).</p>
Take action!<p>Please read the proposal for the Fellowship brand above and send your comments
or thoughts to contact@fsfe.org.</p>Good Free Software News<p>The public procurement authority of the French state <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-renews-its-two-free-software-support-contracts">renewed its two contracts 
for free software support services provided for ministries 
and other governmental agencies</a>. Both contracts were awarded to the 
French free software services provider Linagora and were originally initiated 
in 2012. More good news from France and the city of <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/nantes-open-source-cuts-recurring-charges">Nantes, 
where the switch to LibreOffice last April has lowered the IT costs 
by EUR 1.6 million</a> and will keep saving the public administration EUR 260 000 per year.</p>The FSFE in the Press
 netzpolitik.org [DE] <a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2016/berliner-koalitionsverhandlungen-als-chance-fuer-freie-software/">Berliner 
 Koalitionsverhandlungen als Chance für Freie Software</a>.

netzpolitik.org [DE] <a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2016/urheberrecht-usa-erlaubt-tuefteln-an-eigenen-geraeten/"> Urheberrecht: USA 
erlaubt Tüfteln an eigenen Geräten</a>.

PCMAG [EL], 
<a href="https://gr.pcmag.com/eleuthero-logismiko/23652/news/o-proedros-tou-free-software-foundation-europe-sten-athena">The President of the FSFE in Athens</a>.

Business news [EL], <a href="http://www.businessnews.gr/article/53076/eellak-imerida-gia-eleythero-logismiko">GFOSS: Talks about Free Software</a>.

Greek Union of Computer Engineers [EL], <a href="http://bit.ly/2ep13c1">Free Software 
Day with the FSFE President Matthias Kirschner</a>.

epixeiro.gr [EL], <a href="http://bit.ly/2eoYmqW">Free Software, 
Open Access and Enterpreuneship Day</a>.
Help us to improve our newsletter<p>Do you think we have missed some news, or you'd like specific 
news to appear in the next newsletter? You have been reading about 
the FSFE in the press and would like to share this with us? For this and any 
other feedback, please share it by writing to newsletter@fsfeurope.org
</p><p>Thanks to all the <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html">volunteers</a>, 
<a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and 
<a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html">corporate donors</a> 
who enable our work,</p><p>your editors Erik Albers, Olga Gkotsopoulou,
Jonas Öberg and Polina Malaja, <a href="https://fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: [Blog] There is no Free Software company - But!
uri: Blog-There-is-no-Free-Software-company-But
url: https://k7r.eu/there-is-no-free-software-company-but/
content:
Since the start of the FSFE 15 years ago, the people involved were certain that companies are a crucial part to reach our goal of software freedom. For many years we have explained to companies – IT as well as non-IT – what benefits they have from Free Software. We encourage individuals and companies to pay for Free Software, as much as we encourage companies to use Free Software in their offers. While more people demanded Free Software, we also saw more companies claiming something is Free Software or Open Source Software although it is not.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Help us now to grow bigger and make a difference in 2017
uri: Help-us-now-to-grow-bigger-and-make-a-difference-in-2017
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20161202-01.html
content:
Help us now to grow bigger and make a difference in 2017<p><a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/15years"/>This year, FSFE celebrated its 15th birthday. 15 years of empowering users, supporting communities and pushing for better legislation. 15 years to see that all activities, even if considered small at the time, can become big when we work together. 15 years to see that all activities, even if considered impossible at the time, can succeed when we stand together. Together, we sometimes succeeded even against the heaviest lobbying of large interest groups. 15 years to know that all of this would not have been possible without the continuous support of our community, contributing thousands of hours of their work time and backing us financially. <a href="http://fsfe.org/join/fdpg">Help us now to grow bigger and make a difference in 2017.</a></p><p>Public Money - Public Code</p><p>In the mid of next year we will be launching a new campaign to reach out into new audiences. Under the slogan of "Public Money, Public Code", we will illuminate how public money is constantly (mis-)used in countries across Europe by paying for proprietary software, vendor lock-in and dependency. Investing in Free Software, instead, will serve public needs and interest on a big scale. The campaign aims to make Free Software a mandatory requirement in public procurement by law, but more importantly, in practice too. If Free Software becomes the default in public administration, this will have massive positive impact on other areas and the empowerment of our society. We will align with other political organisations and together focus on getting this message out. </p><p>The strength of this campaign depends on your support. Every donation helps: We need to produce a lot of information material and spread it around, we like to train activists and bring them together, we want to facilitate travel costs to bring people together with local decision makers in politics and public administration. Also we are in contact with a professional video artist to create a video that explains the benefits of publicly funded Free Software in a way anyone can understand. This will help us to go viral.</p><p>Please help us get this message out with <a href="http://fsfe.org/join/fdpg">your donation</a> before the next year starts and give our movement for Free Software in public administration the decisive boost it needs.</p>
    <img src="media/7ae98d43.pmpc-group-500.JPG" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/pictures/pmpc-group-500.JPG"/>
    
      <p>Our creative campaign team</p>
    
  <p>Challenges in 2017</p><p>Of course, running this campaign will not stop us from doing other important activities and to stand up for Free Software where necessary. If you decide to <a href="http://fsfe.org/join/fdpg">join us with your continuous support</a>, you can be assured to found the best way to help our movement and the furthering of Free Software throughout the year and to support various activities. To mention just a few of them:</p>
      At this moment, the European Commission is currently revising copyright to be more adaptable for the digital age. To get them things right, we will continue to raise awareness and address the dangerous implications of technical restrictions measures forced on users by the revised copyright rules.
      
      Important elections will be held in 2017 in many European countries. We will be working hard to convince candidates of the importance of Free Software and thereby improving future policy decisions. 

      We will increase our efforts to empower even more users to challenge the corporations and legislations that limit their freedom. We will support booths on events all over Europe and encourage the launch of more local groups.
      
    
    <img src="media/d3e72a45.connecting-europe-500.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/pictures/connecting-europe-500.jpg"/>
    
      <p>Connecting Europe</p>
    
  <p><a href="http://fsfe.org/join/fdpg">Help us now to grow bigger and make a difference in 2017!</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Newsletter - December 2016
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-December-2016
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201612.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter - December 2016
Help us now to grow bigger and make a difference in 2017
<p>
This year, the FSFE celebrated its 15th birthday. 15 years of empowering users, supporting communities, and pushing for better legislation. 15 years during which we saw that all activities, even if considered small at the time, can become big when we work together. 15 years during which we saw that that all activities, even if considered impossible at the time, can succeed when we stand together. Together, we have even succeeded against the heaviest lobbying of large interest groups. All of this would not have been possible without the continuous support of our community, contributing thousands of hours of their work time and backing us financially. If you are a frequent reader of our newsletter, and you like our work but you are not yet part of our community ... then consider joining the FSFE!
</p><p>
Help us to grow bigger and make a difference in 2017:
<a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nltr16"> https://fsfe.org/join </a>
</p>
Russian Bill makes Free Software a Public Priority
<p>
In mid October, the
<a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20161110-01">
lower chamber of the Russian Federation ("Duma") approved a bill that will boost Free Software on multiple levels within the Russian Federation's public sector</a>. It requires 
the public sector to prioritise Free Software over proprietary alternatives, 
gives precedence to local IT businesses that offer Free Software for public tenders, 
and recognises the need to encourage collaboration with the global network of Free Software organisations and communities.
</p><p>
The legislators made an extra effort to ensure a proper use of language. The bill talks about "Free Software", explicitly mentions the four freedoms and even uses "GNU/Linux" to refer to the most widespread free operating system.
</p><p>
As our Policy Analyst Polina Malaja puts it: "The bill is an example of public software procurement done right."
</p>What else have we done?

At the beginning of October there was the annual meeting of
<a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#general-assembly"> the General Assembly of the FSFE</a>. On 
this occasion Mirko Böhm, our current Fellowship representative, managed to untie the knot that was around our ideas to start evaluating "Free Software business". The genius might lie in not evaluating the companies but rather their activities. Matthias Kirschner summarised the whole background in his blog
<a href="https://k7r.eu/there-is-no-free-software-company-but/">"There is no Free Software company - But!" </a>
and asks for feedback.


After
<a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2016/09/what-do-political-parties-in-berlin-think-about-internet-policy-issues/">
asking the political parties for the state's election in Berlin about their plans regarding the use and spread of Free Software
</a>
and
<a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201610-germany-berlin-handlungsempfehlungen">
sending them three recommendations for actions (DE)</a>, we have now
<a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2016/11/die-neue-berliner-koalition-und-freie-software-zwei-schritte-vor-einer-fehlt-noch/">
published an analysis of the coalition agreement of the new government in the state of Berlin (DE)</a>.

Max Mehl writes a Report of Iron and Freedom and shares his memories from
<a href="https://blog.mehl.mx/2016/openrheinruhr-2016-a-report-of-iron-and-freedom/"> the OpenRheinRuhr 2016</a>
which took place in Oberhausen. The FSFE was well represented with talks by
<a href="http://programm.openrheinruhr.de/2016/events/496.de.html"> Max Mehl</a>
himself,
<a href="http://programm.openrheinruhr.de/2016/events/445.de.html"> Matthias Kirschner</a>, and
<a href="http://programm.openrheinruhr.de/2016/events/494.de.html"> Erik Albers</a>, as well as an international info booth by German and Dutch Fellows.


On November 12-13, the
<a href="https://fsfe.org/about/localteams#netherlands"> FSFE Country Team Netherlands </a>
held a booth at
<a href="http://t-dose.org/"> T-Dose in Eindhoven </a>
and organised a Dutch team-meeting in preparation of the upcoming elections in March.


On November 16-17, the FSFE's Policy Analyst and Legal Coordinator Polina Malaja participated by
<a href="http://opensourcesummit.paris/preinscription-conferences.html?orderby=time">
giving a talk at the Open Source Summit 2016, that took place in Paris</a>.
<p>Help us to grow bigger and make a difference in 2017:<a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nltr16"> https://fsfe.org/join </a></p>

On November 23, Matthias Kirschner gave
<a href="https://dnugbb.azurewebsites.net/events/die-freie-software-foundation-europe-fsfe-stellt-sich-vor/">
a talk for the .Net User Group Berlin-Brandenburg, presenting a general overview of the FSFE's mission and projects</a>.

Jonas Öberg, the FSFE's executive director, participated in
<a href="https://www.koikonfait.com/event/5827d03e0cdaab447d1ccf28/paneldebatt-vem-ager-vad-pa-internet">
a panel about Freedom of Panorama, copyright, openness and democracy in Linköping Sweden</a>.

The FSFE was also present with a Booth at
<a href="https://2016.fiffkon.de/"> the FIfFKon16 – in.visible systems </a>
on November 25-27.


On November 28-29,
<a href="https://europa.eu/digitec/event/open-source/">
Georg Greve, founding president of the FSFE, participated in a panel with MEP Julia Reda</a>, discussing 
the future of Free Software in the European institutions at DIGITEC 2016 in Brussels.

From the community

Erik Albers, the FSFE's community builder, tried to reach out and localise
<a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#nocloud"> our noCloud slogan</a>
with translations from all over the world. With the amazing help of Olga Gkotsopoulou, crowdsourcing went pretty well and in our wiki
<a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Migrated/KnowledgeBase/PromotionMaterial/noCloud">
we now have almost 40 translations in several languages and dialects, from Japanese, Breton and Arabic, to Luxembourgish and Swabian</a>. Erik summarised this activity
<a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2016/11/localizing-our-nocloud-slogan/">
and ways you can still contribute to the noCloud translations</a>. We hope 
to use these translations to offer our favorite sticker in your own language or dialect soon.


For everyone working with the FSFE website, like the web team or many translators, Max Mehl wrote a
<a href="https://blog.mehl.mx/2016/build-fsfe-websites-locally/">
detailed explanation of how to locally build the whole FSFE website and then how to quickly build single XHTML files locally as well</a>.

Paul Boddie discusses the various impacts of computers on our work time, our careers, our self-development, free time, and the potential fulfillment of life in his blogpost
<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1497"> On Not Liking Computers</a>.

Tarin Gamberini offers an overview of
<a href="http://www.taringamberini.com/en/blog/fsfe/adoption-of-free-software-pdf-readers-in-italian-regional-public-administrations-third-monitoring/">
the third monitoring after the adoption of Free Software PDF readers in Italian Regional Public Administrations</a>: ten Italian 
Regions have reduced advertisements for proprietary PDF readers on their websites.


Iain R. Learmonth writes about
<a href="https://iain.learmonth.me/post/2016/pathspider-plugins/"> PATHspider Plugins</a>.

Daniel provides us with a
<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/kuleszdl/2016/11/02/android-data-backup/">
How-to for backing up and restoring data on Android devices directly via USB
</a>
and shares his expertise
<a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/kuleszdl/2016/11/05/benchmarking-microsd-cards/"> benchmarking microSD cards</a>.

In the light of ever more Internet of things botnets,
<a href="https://danielpocock.com/using-a-fully-free-os-for-devices-in-the-home">
Daniel Pocock starts a discussion about the security of home devices running GNU/Linux-based firmware</a>.
Take action!<p>
<a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20161202-01">
Help us now to grow bigger and make a difference in 2017</a>.</p>Good Free Software news<p>
Good news from public administrations in Europe and worldwide:
<a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/hungary-aims-get-rid-it-vendor-lock">
Hungary aims to create a standard Free-Software based PC desktop configuration for all its ministries and central government departments</a>.
<a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/parliament-navarre-should-move-use-open-source"> A parliament resolution</a>
urging the government to draft a migration plan to Free Software solutions was adopted by the Parliament of Navarre in Spain.
<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/3129360/france-adds-source-code-to-list-of-documents-covered-by-freedom-of-information-laws.html">
France has added source code to the list of state documents covered by freedom of information laws</a>, but
<a href="https://www.april.org/en/progress-report-aprils-campaign-around-french-digital-republic-bill">
introduces a new exception if disclosure would threaten government security</a>.</p><p>
Good news on European level:
<a href="https://opensource.com/business/16/11/fiware-platform"> A Free Software FIWARE platform</a>, funded by 
the European Commission creates new IoT opportunities for businesses, while the Joint Research Centre (JRC), as part of its active Free Software distribution policy, released
<a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eupl/news/commission-and-jrc-distribute-new-software">
Free Software for forestry and Internet risk awareness</a>.</p><p>
Under the light of the Transatlantic Open Data Partnership between EU-US,
<a href="https://www.bea.gov/developers/r-index.htm">
a new R library for economic data was developed and published on GitHub</a>.</p><p>
And finally, in 2016, Linux has been running on 99,6%, or
<a href="https://itsfoss.com/linux-99-percent-top-500-supercomputers/">
498 out of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world
</a>.</p> Help us to improve our newsletter<p>
Do you think we have missed some news, or you'd like specific news to appear in the next newsletter? Please share this and any other feedback by writing to newsletter@fsfe.org
</p><p>
Thanks to all the
<a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html">volunteers</a>,
<a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join/nltr16">Fellows</a>
and
<a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html">corporate donors</a>
who enable our work,
</p><p>
your editors Olga Gkotsopoulou and Erik Albers,
<a href="https://fsfe.org">FSFE</a>
</p><p>
PS: Because of the holiday season there will not be a newsletter in January.
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: [Newsletter] FSFE news in December 2016
uri: Newsletter-FSFE-news-in-December-2016
url: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201612
content:
This month the FSFE newsletter comes for the first time with a call to raise our funds and progress in Russia to further Free Software on political level. Also read about our various activities or participate in our discussion about "Free Software business". As in every newsletter, you also find our out-of-the-community section with interesting news from our community and some good Free Software news from around the world.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Report of the first ever FSFE summit
uri: Report-of-the-first-ever-FSFE-summit
url: https://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/summit/backsight.en.html
content:
From September 2nd to 4th, the FSFE organised its first ever summit to bring together our pan-European community and Fellows for a whole weekend and to discuss contemporary and important issues regarding software freedom. On this occasion we also held our official party to celebrate 15 years of FSFE. Read our report including some pictures of the event and find a summary with all talks that have been held with links to our video-recordings.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: The FSFE asks for more Free Software and Open Standards in Open Science
uri: The-FSFE-asks-for-more-Free-Software-and-Open-Standards-in-Open-Scienc
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170105-01.html
content:
The FSFE asks for more Free Software and Open Standards in Open Science<p>The Free Software Foundation Europe calls for Free 
  Software and Open Standards to be considered as a vital part of Open 
  Science for all publicly-funded research in Europe. You can help us by 
  sharing our position paper. Read more about the position paper and how 
  you can promote Free Software in science.</p><p>Today, the FSFE published and submitted to the European Commission 
  its <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/Horizon2020-Position-Paper.en.html">Position 
  paper for the endorsement of Free Software and Open Standards in Horizon2020</a>, 
  as part of the ongoing <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/interim_h2020_2016/consultation_en.htm">public consultation</a> on the 
  midterm evaluation of Horizon 2020.</p><p>The position paper gives key recommendations for the midterm evaluation 
  of Horizon 2020, the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever 
  with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020).</p><p>The results of this consultation will help the European Commission 
  to set the scene for future discussions on the post-2020 EU research 
  and innovation funding programmes. The FSFE considers this public consultation 
  of paramount importance and wishes to put forward its suggestions regarding 
  Free Software and Open Standards in Horizon2020 or any other EU research 
  and innovation funding programmes in the future.</p><p>In order to safeguard a sustainable future of scientific and technological 
  innovation in Europe and worldwide, the FSFE makes the following recommendations 
  to the European Commission:</p>
  <p>Open Standards should be preferred for all knowledge exchange, 
  and in  particular for the dissemination of scientific publications and 
  the archival of all articles, data, and software used in scientific 
  research. The use of Open Standards in data and software repositories 
  and Data Management Plans (DMPs) concerning the Horizon 2020 publications, is 
  necessary to ensure data preservation and Open Science. Research 
  Funding Organisations should take the lead and foster changes of 
  business models when dealing with research data.</p>
  
  <p>Software developed with public funding, and in particular in 
  the framework of the Horizon2020 program should be mandatorily published 
  under a Free Software licence.</p>
  
  <p>Software developed with  public funding, and in particular in the 
  framework of the Horizon2020  program should be mandatorily archived in 
  a public software repository ensuring long term availability and persistent identification.</p>
  
  <p>Data and software repositories and Data Management Plans (DMPs) 
  must employ Free Software in order to ensure unfettered access to their 
  contents and long term preservation.</p>
  
  <p>Establish "Open Science" Prizes for the promotion of Open Science 
  and raise awareness among stakeholders.</p>  
  <p>Software is an integral part of almost every research project, enabling 
  scientific progress. In Horizon 2020, most of the software used for scientific 
  research is both acquired and developed in the auspices of public or public-private 
  funding. Ensuring the accessibility to reuse, study, further develop and 
  improve the software would be a catalyst for Open Science, fostering 
  scientific cooperation, improving scientific processes, and benefiting 
  society as a whole.</p><p>A recent decision of EU ministers' provided that by 2020, all scientific 
  publications on the results of publicly funded research in Europe must 
  be freely available under Open Access. European Commission expliticly 
  called free public access to publicly funded research "a vision of the 
  future" of Open Science not only in Europe, but globally for the year 2030.</p><p>If you are interested to learn more about the above FSFE's recommendations 
  and the reasoning behind them, <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/Horizon2020-Position-Paper.en.html">read 
  our full Position paper</a>.</p>Help to spread the word<p>To find out more about how you can do that, please consult our 
  <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/OpenScience_InterimEvaluation_Horizon2020">wiki page</a>. If your 
  time is limited, but you still wish to contribute, <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/OpenScience_InterimEvaluation_Horizon2020#If_you_just_have_5_minutes">please check our 5 minutes instructions!</a> Every 
  and each questionnaire submitted to the consultation makes a difference!</p><p>We strongly encourage everyone to take part in the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/interim_h2020_2016/consultation_en.htm">consultation</a> and give weight to more Free Software and 
  Open Standards in publicly-funded scientific research. The consultation 
  is open for everyone and runs until 15.01.2017.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Annual Report 2016
uri: FSFE-Annual-Report-2016
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170109-01.html
content:
FSFE Annual Report 2016<p>
 It has been a busy year for the FSFE. Upholding the principles of 
 Free Software and protecting citizens' from being exploited
 are ongoing challenges we tackled from a variety of angles. 
 We (and by "we", we mean the staff and volunteers at the FSFE) pored 
 over hundreds of pages of policies and legislations, looking for loopholes 
 through which Free Software could be attacked.</p><p>We travelled to events all over Europe, often carrying with us dozens 
 of heavy boxes of merchandising, to explain what Free Software is all about 
 as speakers and attendees. We have organised our own events too including 
 our first international summit.</p>
  <img src="media/020751bc.Summit_ConferenceRoom2_400.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/summit/pictures/Summit_ConferenceRoom2_400.jpg"/>
  <p>MEP Julia Reda speaks at the FSFE Summit</p>
<p>And we have dreamt up and executed campaigns to spread awareness of 
the threats to Free Software and users' freedoms. This has entailed 
mobilising dozens of staff members and volunteers, contacting the media, 
and designing and ordering T-shirts, squishy stress balls/hearts, and balloons, 
lots of balloons.</p><p>What follows are just a few of the highlights from 2016.</p><p>Help us to grow bigger and make a difference in 2017:<a href="https://fsfe.org/join/an116"> https://fsfe.org/join </a></p>

      
	
	<a href="#policies">Policies and Legislation</a>
	
	
	  <a href="#campaigns">Campaings</a>
	
	
	  <a href="#events">Events</a>
	
	
	  <a href="#network">Strengthening the Free Software Network</a>
	
	
	  <a href="#2017">Coming up in 2017</a>
	
	
	  <a href="#tl">TL;DR</a>
	
      
  Policies and Legislation<p>We have been carefully monitoring policies and legislation in Europe 
and intervened when citizens' rights were in peril. We have formulated 
several proposals to EU institutions and EU member states containing concrete 
steps to <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/">solve the 
issues with the EU Radio Directive</a>.
</p><p>This Directive threatens software 
freedom with its ambiguous phrasing that all but forbids users from 
installing unapproved software (read "Free operating systems") on 
radio-enabled devices. These devices include all modern laptops, wireless 
routers and every single smartphone in existence. Over 40 European 
organisations and enterprises support our concerns and demands.Max Mehl 
and Polina Malaja will be doing follow-up on this with along with our volunteers 
and other organisations to make sure you can still install Free Software 
on those devices.</p><p>Another threat to Free Software is the EC's stance on the Digital Single 
Market strategy. We have patiently explained several times why <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160428-02.en.html">FRAND licensing</a>, the licensing 
favoured by the Commission in its "ICT Standardisation Priorities for the 
Digital Single Market", is incompatible with Free Software and why a more 
liberal model should be used. This is still an ongoing battle.</p><p>Staying with the EC, we tried to help out on the <a href="http://k7r.eu/fossa-now-we-need-feedback-by-the-real-experts/">"Free and Open Source 
Security Audit" (FOSSA)</a> project, commissioned jointly by the European 
Parliament. The project should have helped evaluate the suitability of the 
Free Software used in public administrations. A professional audit of Free 
Software tools and frameworks would seem a good thing at first glance, an 
excellent way to test run software and improve it when bugs and vulnerabilities 
pop up. At the very least it would help protect citizens' data stored on 
public servers.</p><p>However, after reading the results, it was not clear the time and 
money invested into the study had been well-spent. The conclusions were 
sometimes vague and some parts directly wrong. Despite our best efforts, 
the company employed to do the survey did not seem to know much about 
Free Software at all.</p><p>Join the FSFE to support our legal and policy work in 2017: <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/an216"> https://fsfe.org/join </a></p><p>That said, the EC and MEPs in charge of the project, were always open 
to our comments and able to push for improvements, although they were bound 
to a contract with consultants who were not too knowledgeable about Free 
Software matters. Viewed as a pilot, it helped everybody see where the 
pitfalls were. With a bigger budget and the lessons learnt, the EU is 
planning to follow our advice and improve the project in future iterations.</p><p>We even put the law to the test, and our colleague Max Mehl, the FSFE 
coordinator for Germany, sent out <a href="https://blog.mehl.mx/2016/erste-testgeraete-fuer-routerfreiheit-versendet/">"alternative" routers to testers</a> so they could try them 
with their Internet provider. <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/CompulsoryRouters/Implementation/Germany">We published the results on our Wiki</a> to help others 
who are thinking of changing their devices.</p>Campaigns
  <img src="media/f09f5199.ilovefs-postcard-front-thumb.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/contribute/promopics/ilovefs-postcard-front-thumb.png"/>
  <p>I Love Free Software Postcard</p>
<p>
But not all our campaigns have been so serious. We have also carried 
out a campaigns to raise awareness about Free Software amongst the general 
public, and here "light-hearted" is literally the keyword. We launched 
our 6th <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160222-01.en.html">"I love FS" campaign</a> on Valentine's day. 
During this campaign, we encouraged all our friends to make a display of 
love towards Free Software by telling the world, online with posts to 
social media, or offline, with public demonstrations of FS love.</p><p>Online, we got tweets and blog posts from users, volunteers and 
sympathizers explaining what they loved most about their favourite Free 
Software project. Offline, we had at least one cake baked by the WikiMedia 
Foundation, gifs of people squeezing our #ilovefs stress heart, and pictures 
of people from all over Europe waving our "&lt;3 Free Software" 
balloons.</p><p>In a similar vein, we wanted to help the general media, local newspapers, radios 
and TV stations, to know more about Free Software. To this end we started 
our "Meet a Free Software Hero" campaign. Part of our larger <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/15years">15th Anniversary 
celebration campaign</a>, we encouraged volunteers and media outlets to 
get in touch with each other so that the "heroes" could explain 
what software freedom was all about, and bust a few myths at the same time.</p><p>Thanks to the campaign, we managed to increase our profile with the 
media and it has now become much more usual for journalists to get in touch 
with us to comment on stories. This gives us more visibility and influence 
to affect changes in favour of Free Software.</p><p>
	<img src="media/5f18f960.fsfe-15-badge.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/fsfe-15-badge.png"/>
	</p>Events<p>Another way of reaching a wider audience was through events. Apart from 
participating in Free Software-specific conferences like FOSDEM, LinuxCon 
and different Linuxtage (we took the FSFE booth to all of these), we also 
participated in the <a href="https://blog.widerstroem.com/#res:ner-page=4om/weblog/10/wear-fair-2016">Wear Fair and more</a>. This event 
is Austria's largest textile fair for sustainable clothing and lifestyle, 
and covers from organic food, to DIY electronic repairs. The themes of 
sustainability, individual personal freedom and alternative economic 
models helped our Foundation fit right in and we sold plenty of 
T-shirts, bags and baby vests. We also collected contact information 
of people interested in our cause.</p><p>But we are prouder of the two big events we organised ourselves. In April 
we held our annual <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/legal-conference.en.html">Legal and Licensing Workshop</a>. This Workshop 
is set up by and for members of the FSFE's Legal Network. Legal experts 
from all sectors of the industry got together to discuss licenses, compliance 
and what constitutes derivative work for three days in balmy Barcelona.</p><p>Speakers included Harald Welte of gpl-violations.org fame; 
Miriam Ballhausen from JBB; and Eben Moglen, chairman of the Software 
Freedom Law Center.</p><p>Our Legal Coordinator Polina Malaja together with our trainee Olga Gkotsopoulou 
are already busy planning next years conference which we expect to be at 
least as successful as 2016's.</p><p>Similarly exciting was our first ever <a href="https://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/summit/backsight.en.html">FSFE Summit held in Berlin</a> in September, 
in which, Erik Albers, our community builder, commandeered a veritable 
army of volunteers and interns to make sure that everything run smoothly.</p><p>Part celebration of FSFE's 15th anniversary, and everything we have achieved 
over the years; part <a href="https://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/summit/frontpage">event to talk 
about the non-technical aspects of Free Software</a>, we covered the topics 
of Free Software in business, the public sector and as a force for 
social advancement in more than 50 talks. We also had our 15th 
birthday party.</p><p>Speakers included, among many others, the two prior presidents and the 
one current president of the FSFE, that is, Georg Greve, Karsten Gerloff, 
and Matthias Kirschner; Sonia Montegiove and Italo Vignoli, the architects 
behind the migration to LibreOffice of the Italian Armed Forces; and Roberto di Cosmo, 
co-founder along with Stefano "Zach" Zacchiroli of SoftwareHeritage.org.</p><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160907-01.en.html">Julia Reda, 
MEP for the Pirate Party, closed the event</a> with a keynote on copyright
 reform and made the case for Free Software on machines critical in 
 modern democracies. She explained, for example, why using inauditable 
 proprietary software on voting machines was unacceptable.</p>
   <img src="media/76ea0e93.Summit_Booth2_200.jpeg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/summit/pictures/Summit_Booth2_200.jpeg"/>
 <p>Booth at the FSFE Summit</p>
Strengthening the Free Software Network<p>Which brings us to the subject of how we used events to make the network 
of Free Software organisations stronger. The Software Heritage mentioned 
above, for example, collects programs, applications and snippets of code 
distributed under free license from several sources. It aims to preserve 
an encyclopedia of free code for posterity. It was clear from the start 
that the FSFE and SH had a lot in common, so we supported the initiative 
early on, helping them get coverage in the media and offering them a platform 
to spread the word about what they do.</p><p>We also <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160817-01.en.html">strengthened our ties with the Document Foundation 
by joining its Advisory Board</a>. At the same time, The Document Foundation 
became an associated organisation of the FSFE. This means that we will 
be offering advice, support and suggestions on one of the most successful 
Free Software projects out there: LibreOffice and all its ecosystem. With 
the Document Foundation as an associated organisation, we created official 
channels for the exchange of ideas, coordinate efforts, motivate each other, 
and find opportunities to work together on specific projects.</p><p>Another thing we did was to <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160126-01.en.html">hand over 
the running of the FSFE's Document Freedom Day to Document Freedom Foundation</a>. The DFD 
already organises the Software Freedom Day (SFD) campaign, the Education 
Freedom Day, and the Hardware Freedom Day. It seemed logical that they 
also organise the Document Freedom Day. Like that they widened the range 
of events of related events they offer, and it allows us to concentrate 
on core Free Software topics.</p>
  <img src="media/e75e68d7.CCC_400.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/pictures/CCC_400.jpg"/>
  <p>FSFE Booth at 33C3</p>
Coming up in 2017<p>But there is still a  lot of work to do and 2017 is shaping up to be 
an interesting year. Although we have managed to get the ban on compulsory 
routers into law, we expect that ISPs will fight back, so we will have 
to be on guard for that. The threat of FRAND licensing and software 
patents is never far off and we will have to continue advising lawmakers 
on why these are dangerous for Free Software and the European software 
industry in general.Katharina Nucon, policy coordinator of the German 
Pirate Party, will be helping us with this campaign.</p><p>Most of our efforts, however, will most likely be spent pushing for 
getting more public institutions to publish their software under a free 
license. We want public money to pay for public code, and only public code. 
Software used by public institutions is acquired, deployed and/or developed 
with taxpayers' money. Making it available under a Free license to all 
citizens is just the right thing to do. Furthermore, we hope we will raise 
awareness amongst politicians of the importance of using Free Software 
when they see its advantages.</p><p>There are several important national and regional elections scheduled 
throughout Europe in 2017. Politicians are supposedly more receptive during 
campaigns, so we will do our best to make candidates and parties commit 
to Free Software and openness in their administrations.</p><p>We need governments to commit to improving policies that favour Free 
Software across the board. It is not admissible any more that the 
administration pilfer taxpayers money on proprietary software.</p><p>We need policies that help the European IT sector become much more competitive 
and sustainable. There is no better way to achieve this than incentivising 
the use and development of Free Software and Open Standards.</p><p>Finally we need better policies to help promote Free Software amongst 
the general public. Every European citizen must be allowed to regain 
control over the technology they use once and for all.</p>TL;DR<p>This has been a long report, but if you need a summary, here goes:</p><p>Free Software improves everybody's life and the world. It is clear that
 everybody have been handed
  the short end of the IT stick for too long. SMEs need a level playing ground
   to prosper and create employment. Private citizens and business owners must 
   be allowed to own and control the devices they pay for. Governments must be 
   at the service of the people, as must the software they pay for with people's 
   taxes. Free Software, Free Hardware and Open Standards solve all of the above.</p><p>All of these things should be self-evident, but apparently are not. 
That is why we at the FSFE do what we do. Throughout this report we have 
mentioned some of the people that work to turn these things into reality. However, and 
it may sound cliché, but it doesn't make it less true, without the continued 
support from you, the volunteer, the fellow, the occasional donor, and the moral 
supporter, none of our staff would be able to do anything. We rely heavily on you, 
your activities and your donations to stay independent and fight for your rights 
when they are threatened, regardless as to where the threat comes from.</p><p>Please help us make next year's report is as long as this one, and do
consider <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/an316">joining the FSFE.</a></p><p>Best Regards,
Jonas Oberg (Executive Director) and Matthias Kirschner (President)
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: The FSFE files FOI request for Horizon 2020
uri: The-FSFE-files-FOI-request-for-Horizon-2020
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170110-01.html
content:
The FSFE files FOI request for Horizon 2020<p>The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) files 
   <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/OpenScience_InterimEvaluation_Horizon2020#The_FSFE.27s_Freedom_of_Information_.28FOI.29_request">Freedom
   of Information (FOI) request</a> to the European Commission (EC) Directorate-General
   for Research and Innovation, asking for information related to the use,
   development and release of software under Horizon 2020, the biggest 
   EU research funding programme.</p><p>Software is a cardinal part of almost every research project in 
  Horizon 2020 and most of it is acquired or developed with public or 
  public-private funding. We are interested to figure out what percentage
  of the funding is spent on proprietary licences and what percentage 
  of software developed within Horizon 2020 is released under Free Software
  licences. Our aim is to aggregate this data and draw conclusions about
  the situation of software in publicly funded research. </p> 
  <p>Taking into account the main points raised in our <a href="   https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/20170105-horizon2020-position-paper.pdf">
  Position paper for the endorsement of Free Software and Open Standards
  in Horizon 2020 and all publicly-funded research</a> and in accordance 
  with the suggestions stated in it, the FSFE asks from the Commission 
  the following questions:</p>
  
 
 <p>Do you monitor and/or collect data about the usage of IT and software
   in Horizon 2020 projects, and specifically if projects use or develop
   Free Software (also known as 'open source') ?</p>
  
 <p>How many projects, both in numbers and in percentage of the overall
   amount of research projects, are funded by Horizon 2020 to pay licence
   fees for software? What are the top most paid licence fees for software
   amongst Horizon2020 projects? </p>

 <p>How much money was spent by Horizon 2020 during its most recent 
 "phase" on proprietary software licences? How much is this in comparison
  to the overall funds of Horizon 2020? </p>

 <p>How many projects in numbers and in percentage of the overall amount
  of research projects funded by Horizon2020 develop software on their own?
  What percentage of this software is kept proprietary and how much is 
  published under a licence approved by Free Software Foundation/Open 
  Source Initiative? Which are the most used Free Software/Open Source 
  licences in this regard?</p>
 
   What to do while waiting for the EC to answer?<p>A few days ago, the FSFE published and submitted to the European
  Commission its <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170105-01.en.html">
  Position paper for the endorsement of Free Software and Open Standards
  in Horizon 2020 and all publicly-funded research</a>, as part of 
  <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/interim_h2020_2016/consultation_en.htm">
  the public consultation on the midterm evaluation of Horizon 2020</a>.</p><p>You can help us spread the word by reading and sharing our 
  <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/Horizon2020-Position-Paper.en.html">
  position paper</a> or participating in the EC consultation on Horizon 2020. 
  This way you make sure that your voice demanding Free Software and Open 
  Standards in science is heard! You can take a look on how to do that at
  <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/OpenScience_InterimEvaluation_Horizon2020">
  the relevant wiki page</a>.</p><p>The consultation is open for everyone and runs until 
  15.01.2017.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: 2017 internship positions as student interns
uri: 2017-internship-positions-as-student-interns
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170116-01.html
content:
2017 internship positions as student interns<p>
FSFE is a charity dedicated to empowering users to control technology.
We are working to build freedom in digital society. We operate in a lively
environment with volunteers from many countries. We are looking for
students who can join our team in Berlin for three months as a mandatory
part of their studies or before graduation.</p><p>
What we can offer is:

A challenging and exciting time with a dynamic NGO working internationally
A close-up view of organisational and community processes
A chance to take the initiative and put your own ideas into practice
The opportunity to meet and work with Free Software advocates across Europe 


</p><p>
What you'll do:

        
          Contribute to <a href="http://fsfe.org/work.html">FSFE's ongoing projects</a>, working with one or more of our staff and volunteers.
        
        
          Communicate with contacts from the FSFE community, NGO, industry, and public administrations.
        
        
          Coordinate volunteers and others in the work on various projects.
        
        
          General office tasks.
        
        
          Find your own strengths, and do something you care about.
        

</p><p>
Be sure to read our pages about <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship">internships</a>
in general before applying!
</p>Basic details<p>
Location: Berlin, Germany.  Please note the FSFE has no ability to help
with accommodation or travel, you will need to cover this yourself and
arrange this prior to your internship.</p><p>Duration: 3 months full time at 35 hours per week, starting as agreed. If the internship is a mandatory part of your education, the internship duration can be longer.</p><p>Compensation: This internship is salaried with a basic salary of €450 per month.</p>Qualifications<p>
You should have some experience or a considerable interest in Free Software.
Your field of study doesn't matter, but you should be able to relate it to
our work. Traditionally, a lot of interns in the FSFE have a legal or
political science background, but we've also had interns working with us
with a more technical or other social science background.
</p>Formal requirements<p>
You must be fluent in English and will be required to show that you
can legally work in Germany; either by being an EU citizen, or
by having a residence and work permit for the duration. The FSFE
can not help you in getting either of these documents, but we will
accept them if you have them.
</p><p>
The internship must be a formal part of your education, or, if you
do the internship on a voluntary basis, you must do the internship
before you graduate and in direct connection with your studies.
</p><p>
You must also have a German tax number which you get by registering
with the residents registration office (Einwohnermeldeamt) in Germany.
This should ideally be done before starting the internship, or at
latest on the first days of your internship.
</p>Application deadline<p>
There is no fixed application deadline for these positions. We accept
interns regularly throughout the year, but to facilitate with our planning
and to increase the chances of us being able to accommodate you for an
internship, you should ideally send your application at least six months
before your intended starting date.
</p>How to apply<p>
Send your application containing a letter of motivation, a CV by e-mail
to office@fsfe.org. Please make sure to write clearly you apply for
the internship position with reference SI-2017. We prefer to receive
your documents in PDF format.
</p>Contact persons<p>
If you have any questions about the position or any administrative
details in connection with it, you're welcome to contact:
</p><p>

 Jonas Öberg about the positions themselves, and the work involved
 Ulrike Sliwinski for any administrative questions

</p><p>
Both will be reading and responding if you send your question to the
contact@fsfe.org address. We look forward to reading your application!
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Report of FSFE's assembly during the Chaos Communication Congress
uri: Report-of-FSFE-s-assembly-during-the-Chaos-Communication-Congress
url: http://blog.3rik.cc/2017/01/worked-for-us-thank-you-33c3/
content:
The Chaos Communication Congress is Germany’s biggest annual meetup of hackers and political activists. This year has been the 33rd edition ("33C3") and FSFE has been present with an assembly, a booth and 21 sessions about Free Software. Read a visual report of our activities along some pictures by Erik Albers.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_svn/news/generated_xml/news___nl___nl-201702.en.xml
title: FSFE Newsletter - February 2017
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-February-2017
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201702.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter - February 2017
Why Open Science matters and the FSFE's position on Horizon 2020<p>"Open Science" is an emerging movement that asks to 
transfer the four freedoms that we practice in Free Software into science. 
Although it is still emerging, Open Science receives more and more strategic 
importance for decision-makers. In the eyes of financial ministers of the 
European Union, Open Science produces and uses a lot of Open Data, which 
in turn has the potential for big economic benefits. The "European Cloud 
Initiative", for example, is part of the European Commission's strategy 
for Open Science, intended for building a <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/open-science">"competitive data 
and knowledge economy in Europe"</a>. It aims at strengthening Europe's 
position in data-driven innovation and is thus considered to become an 
important part of the European Digital Single Market. Or, as the Organisation 
for Economic Co-operation and Development puts it: <a href="https://www.oecd.org/sti/oecd-science-technology-and-innovation-outlook-25186167.htm">"Encouraging the 
sharing and re-use of research data could generate more value for public money"</a>.</p><p>With this in mind, the FSFE targets Free Software to be part of this 
emerging field of European Open Science from the beginning. As all 
research, data processing and archiving nowadays heavily depends on 
software, it is a chance to jump on the bandwagon and define Free Software 
as a precondition of Open Science. As one course of action, we <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170105-01">wrote a position 
paper for the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020</a>, the biggest EU Research 
and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available.</p><p>The <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/Horizon2020-Position-Paper">FSFE's position paper 
explains how Free Software and Open Standards are fundamental to Open 
Science</a> and we therefore ask for all publicly-funded research in Europe 
to mandatorily use and develop Free Software and Open Standards. With 
the "European Cloud Initiative" in mind, we explicitly ask that <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170105-01">"Data and 
software repositories and Data Management Plans (DMPs) must employ Free 
Software in order to ensure unfettered access to their contents and long 
term preservation"</a>.</p><p>Help us now to grow bigger and make a difference in 2017<a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-02"> https://fsfe.org/join</a></p>What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE
To underpin the demands of the position paper we wrote for the interim 
evaluation of Horizon 2020 (see above), we <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170110-01">filed a Freedom 
of Information request to the European Commission’s Directorate-General 
for Research and Innovation</a> to ask about the use, development and 
release of (Free) software under Horizon2020. We will keep you updated 
about any response.
<a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170109-01.en.html">We published 
our annual report</a> with insights about our policy work, campaigns and 
events in 2016 as well as a preview for 2017.
 In August 2016, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160817-01">the FSFE joined the Advisory Board of 
The Document Foundation</a>. Now, <a href="https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/12/27/the-document-foundation-opens-libreoffice-certification-for-migrations-and-trainings-to-all-project-volunteers-to-members-of-not-for-profit-bodies-and-to-individuals-of-proven-competence/">The Document 
Foundation opens up the LibreOffice Certification for Migrations and 
Trainings</a> to members of not-for-profit organisations on their Advisory 
Board, including the FSFE.
<a href="https://fsfe.org/community/events/2016/summit/backsight">We published 
a report of the first ever FSFE summit</a> that happened in September 2016. The 
report includes reflections, impressions, pictures and the full schedule 
with links to the abstract, slides and video recordings of each talk, if 
available. If you missed the summit, this report is your chance to catch 
up on it.
<a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2016/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe">The FSFE's 
assembly during the 33rd edition of the Chaos Communication Congress (33C3)</a> was a 
big success thanks to our highly motivated team behind the booth and the 
high quality of 21 sessions in three days that have been realized by our 
session hosts. <a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2017/01/worked-for-us-thank-you-33c3/">Read Erik's 
report and see the pictures for more insights</a>.
Like every year, FSFE staff and many team members will be at FOSDEM 
and we have a big booth <a href="https://fosdem.org/2017/practical/transportation/">in the K building</a>. If you 
come to FOSDEM take the chance to meet the FSFE or individual members.
<a href="http://bcnfs.org/">"Barcelona Free Software"</a> is a local 
group in Barcelona and an open space for coders and users who love Free 
Software. Following a team decision at the end of 2016, Barcelona Free 
Software now is an <a href="https://fsfe.org/associates/associates">associated 
organisation of the FSFE</a>.
Would you like to work with us in the FSFE or you know somehow who 
would like to? <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170116-01">In 2017, 
we are looking for new student interns</a> to join our team and who like 
to get to know a world full of Free Software.
Get active<p>February 14 is "I love Free Software day", the day to say thank you to 
all the people behind Free Software. Use this day to show your love for 
your favorite Free Software and check out our campaign page in advance 
to get some ideas and inspiration: <a href="http://www.ilovefs.org">http://www.ilovefs.org</a></p>Good Free Software News<p>The <a href="https://en.ogpsummit.org/paris-declaration/">Paris Declaration on Open Government</a>, introduced 
during the OGP Paris Summit last December, aims at establishing cooperation 
between countries and civil societies throughout 2017. The Declaration is 
composed of 21 collective action items with the <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/opengov/news/paris-declaration-promote-collective-actions-open-government">accomplishment 
of open public procurement and formation of effective Free Software 
policies listed among them</a>.</p> Help us to improve our newsletter<p>
Do you think we have missed some news, or you'd like specific news to appear in the next newsletter? Please share this and any other feedback by writing to newsletter@fsfe.org
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Thanks to all the
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<a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join/nltr16">Fellows</a>
and
<a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html">corporate donors</a>
who enable our work,
</p><p>
your editors Erik Albers, Olga Gkotsopoulou and Fernando Sanjurjo,
<a href="https://fsfe.org">FSFE</a>
</p><p>Help us now to grow bigger and make a difference in 2017<a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-02"> https://fsfe.org/join</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: I love Free Software Day 2017
uri: I-love-Free-Software-Day-2017
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170209-01.html
content:
I love Free Software Day 2017<p>
It's time to say "thank you" on 14th of February, the "I love Free 
Software" Day 2017. The Free Software Foundation Europe asks all Free 
Software users to use the traditional day of love to think of the 
hardworking people contributing to the Free Software we all depend on. 
As every year there are many ways for people to participate in this 
campaign.
</p><p>In the Free Software society we exchange a lot of criticism. We 
write bug reports, tell others how they can improve the software, ask 
them for new features, and generally are not shy about criticising 
others. There is nothing wrong about that. It helps us to constantly 
improve. But sometimes we forget to show the hardworking people behind 
the software our appreciation.</p>Show your love for Free Software<p>As the traditional day to show one's appreciation to people, 
Valentine's Day is the perfect opportunity to thank the contributors of 
the various Free Software you love: developers, translators, designers, 
testers, or documentation writers, of huge softwares or smaller 
projects. All of them work on the Free Software ecosystem which we can 
enjoy every day.</p><p>Have a look at how you can participate this year on <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/">our campaign page</a>. You can also read <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160222-01.html">how we celebrated last year</a> 
and see how <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.html">people 
declare their love</a> for Free Software. If everybody contributes a 
small part we can enjoy a beautiful "I love Free Software" day 
together!</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Berlin sends a message for "I love Free Software" day
uri: Berlin-sends-a-message-for-I-love-Free-Software-day
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170214-01.html
content:
Berlin sends a message for "I love Free Software" day<p>In celebration of the "I love Free Software" day on 
February 14, the Berlin Reichtag has been illuminated with the message 
"Give Free Software A Chance" last weekend. On numerous buildings and 
symbolic places in Berlin other messages have been projected. "Build 
Free Software - Not Walls" could have been read on the Berlin Wall, and 
the Federal Ministry of Finances has been decorated by the slogan 
"Public Money, Public Code". Thereby, activists draw attention to the 
importance of larger appreciation of Free Software.</p><p>FSFE representatives also delivered an open letter together with a 
rose to all members of German parliament in which they demand a higher 
political support of Free Software and the a higher recognition of 
voluntary Free Software development.</p><p>Max Mehl, program manager of FSFE, comments: "Free 
Software enables everyone to use, study, share, and improve programs 
for any purpose. These rights help support other fundamental rights 
like freedom of speech, freedom of press and privacy. Therefore, we ask 
politics and administration to put publicly financed software under a 
free license. Software funded by public money should be a common good 
and available to all people so that the whole society can benefit from 
it."</p><p>The "I love Free Software" day is being celebrated on every 
Valentine's Day and is dedicated to the countless voluntary 
contributors of Free Software.</p><p>Further information:</p>
  <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2017/berlin.html">Pictures of the activity under a free license</a> 
  <a href="media/24739eab.ilovefs-OpenLetter.pdf" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2017/ilovefs-OpenLetter.pdf">Letter to the members of German parliament</a> (German)
  <a href="https://ilovefs.org">About "I love Free Software" day</a> 
<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: European Free Software Policy Meeting 2017
uri: European-Free-Software-Policy-Meeting-2017
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170214-02.html
content:
European Free Software Policy Meeting 2017<p>Building on the experience from last year's <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160205-01.en.html">successful 
pre-FOSDEM meeting</a>, the <a href="https://fsfe.org/index.en.html">Free 
Software Foundation Europe</a> and <a href="http://www.openforumeurope.org/">OpenForum Europe</a> recently 
continued the tradition of bringing together active Free Software groups 
a day before the FOSDEM event, in order to discuss public policy related 
actions at both the EU and the national levels. This year, the meeting 
focused on encouraging exchanges of views between individual citizens 
and decision-makers, by providing practical first-hand information on topics 
relating to Free Software in public policy.</p><p>The session started with Sebastian Raible (parliamentary assistant to 
Julia Reda (a Member of the European Parliament)), who gave a <a href="http://raible.org/presentations/2017-02-03_FOSSA_Pre-FOSDEM-Meetup/#1">presentation 
about Free Software developments from the perspective of the European Parliament</a>. He explained 
the progress of the <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eu-fossa/description">Free and Open Source Software Audit (or FOSSA) programme</a>, which 
was extended for another three years at the end of 2016, and explained 
that one of the main changes to the programme is that now it includes a 
new “bug bounty” incentive scheme, rewarding the discovery and reporting 
of new software bugs. Participants highlighted their concerns over the 
methodology of FOSSA, and the need to focus on its aim, namely, support 
for the security of the Free Software projects.</p><p>Next, Pierre Damas (Head of Sector, Digital Services at the Directorate 
General of Information Technologies of the European Commission) shared 
with the group some of the <a href="media/75f02f5a.EC-Open-Source-Strategy-OFE-PRE-FOSDEM-1.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.openforumeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/EC-Open-Source-Strategy-OFE-PRE-FOSDEM-1.pdf">Commission's plans</a> for 
updating its <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/european-commissions-open-source-strategy_en">Open Source Software Strategy</a>, identifying 
the key barriers and motivations for adopting it in practice. According 
to Pierre Damas, although within the Commission Free Software is technically now 
treated equally with its proprietary counterparts, there remains a lack 
of political will to back up the mainstream adoption of Free Software technologies 
within the EU institutions. According to him, the next step for the updated 
Open Source Strategy in the Commission is the "digital transformation" of 
areas such as "cloud", big data, and the "Internet of Things".</p>
<a href="media/40c1f4b7.2017-policy-meeting.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/graphics/2017-policy-meeting.jpg">

</a>
<p>Jaana Sahk-Labi (from the Estonian Permanent Representation to the EU) <a href="media/6d430df9.presentation-pre-FOSDEM-03022017-1.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.openforumeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/presentation-pre-FOSDEM-03022017-1.pdf">presented 
Estonia's national framework for supporting the implementation of Free Software</a>. Estonia is 
considered to be the leader in e-Government at the EU level, and is planning 
to highlight e-Government topics during its presidency of the Council of 
the EU, in the second half of 2017. One of the main challenges for the 
Estonian government in the upcoming presidency will be the right approach 
for future-proofing "no legacy" policies that continue after the term of 
Estonia's presidency has come to an end. Consequently, Estonia is preaching 
for a digital revolution in the EU institutions.</p><p>Laurent Joubert (from the French government) <a href="media/55a94f57.PGO_FOSS-contribution-policy-43-1.pdf" data-original-source="http://www.openforumeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/PGO_FOSS-contribution-policy-43-1.pdf">presented 
the Open Source Contribution Policy Template</a> which has been drafted 
by numerous representatives from governments, non-governmental 
organisations, companies, international organisations and academic sector 
as a part of the <a href="https://paris-declaration.ogpsummit.org/topic/5820e48c2fd812b46ab9facc">Open 
Government Partnership</a>. The aim of this template is to provide an easily 
shareable and ready-to-use template for governments – as well as other 
public administrations - to set up a policy for code contributions made 
by civil servants, which have to be open by default. The ultimate goal of 
such a policy is to facilitate, share and reuse the code developed by and 
for public administrations.</p><p>The speakers' presentations were followed by a round table discussion, engaging 
the participants in considering the possibility creating a dashboard, which 
would serve as a tool for advocacy groups to assess best practices and 
policies for supporting Free Software and Open Standards (OS) in Member States. Part 
of the discussion was dedicated to finding ways to evaluate the existing 
national or regional policies which support Free Software. A couple of identified 
indicators of "openness" were: the level of Free Software usage; and the fact of 
using global analytics of online procedures. In addition, certain other 
criteria will also need to be taken into account: transparency of how Free Software 
is adopted in the public sector; the implementation of the policy in practice; and 
product maturity. The participants agreed to start working on listing the 
parameters which would describe "best behaviour" on the part of government, with 
a view to developing concrete steps or actions to support governments to 
achieve this.</p><p>The meeting was a stepping-stone, paving the way for a bigger collaboration 
on how to promote public policies supporting Free Software across Europe. We hope to continue 
the collaboration and to coordinate our actions in order to collectively 
make a difference on the policy level.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: European Commission responds to the FSFE's information request for Horizon 2020
uri: European-Commission-responds-to-the-FSFE-s-information-request-for-Hor
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170217-01.html
content:
European Commission responds to the FSFE's information request for Horizon 2020 <p>The European Commission Directorate-General for Research
   and Innovation responds to <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170110-01.en.html"> 
   a Freedom of Information (FOI) request about the use, development and
   release of software under Horizon 2020</a> - submitted by the FSFE on
   January 9, 2017.</p><p>With this FOI request, the FSFE directly aimed at shedding light on 
  how much money is spent on the use and purchase of proprietary software
  licences through the Horizon 2020 funding for the beneficiary projects.
  Respectively, it intended to figure if and what kind of data is collected,
  apropos of Free Software licences. The FOI request followed the publication
  of the FSFE's <a href="media/d0e7dcee.20170105-horizon2020-position-paper.pdf" data-original-source="https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/20170105-horizon2020-position-paper.pdf">
  position paper for the endorsement of Free Software and Open Standards in
  Horizon 2020 and all publicly-funded research</a>.</p><p>However, <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/PublicProcurementForNonFreeSoftware#The_response">
   the response by the Commission</a> revealed that no information is being
   collected on how the EU funds are being spent, when it comes to the 
   software used and developed by the beneficiary projects within Horizon 
   2020:</p> 
 <p>"[...] we checked if the requested information existed and the competent 
 Commission services informed us that the European Commission does not 
 systematically collect information about open source software used or 
 developed under Horizon 2020 grants, as this is not a reporting requirement
 in the Horizon 2020 legal basis. Consequently we are not in a position
 to provide you the information that you are looking for. The same applies
 to data concerning Horizon 2020 projects paying licence fees for software
 or developing software on their own."</p>
 Breaking down the EC's reply<p>The EC is justifying the lack of information with the argument that
   "it is not legally mandatory" to collect data concerning the use and
    acquisition of software licences.</p><p>According to the Article 14(1) of the Regulation (EU) No 1291/2013 
  establishing Horizon 2020, particular attention in the framework shall
  be paid to the development and application of key enabling and industrial
  technologies as well as future and emerging technologies; and shall
  contribute to the Digital Agenda for Europe initiative. Regarding this
  particular point, the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 shall assess
  the efficiency and use of resources, with particular attention to cross-cutting
  issues and other elements referred in the Article 14(1). Software
  is no doubt falling under all of the points that Horizon 2020 is supposed to
  focus on when it comes to both industrial and emerging technologies, as
  well as part of the Digital Agenda for Europe. The absence of monitoring
  the use of resources Horizon 2020 projects are allocating to the use and
  development of software in Research and Innovation will not allow
  to assess the efficiency and use of resources of Horizon 2020 in its
  Interim evaluation.</p><p>Indeed, in the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/news/horizon-2020-monitoring-report-2014">
  first Annual Monitoring Report 2014</a> which focuses on the implementation 
  of the first year of the programme, information regarding the share of 
  EU financial contribution to the Information and Communication Technology
  (ICT) Research and Innovation was missing. According to <a href="media/042ab9e4.second_h2020_annual_monitoring_report.pdf" data-original-source="http://ec.europa.eu/research/evaluations/pdf/archive/h2020_monitoring_reports/second_h2020_annual_monitoring_report.pdf">
  the second report for 2015</a>, however, preliminary data show that over one fifth
  of the EU funding in Horizon 2020 contributes to ICT Research and Innovation. </p>What "no information" means for Free Software and Open Science<p>The absence of data about the use of software within Horizon 2020 
  beneficiary projects makes almost impossible the accurate estimation of
  the amount of both proprietary and Free Software, being used or developed
  under Horizon 2020 grants.</p><p>Taking into consideration the fact that nowadays, scientists irrespective
  of their field of study depend on software in order to successfully conduct
  their research, it is indisputable that almost every beneficiary project
  spends a considerable amount of the hand-out grant in the purchase of
  software licences. The fact that the EC does not collect data on the
  spending of public money for software licences disregards an essential
  part of the modern research.</p><p>Consequently, without relevant data, Horizon 2020 monitoring and evaluation
  processes cannot draw safe conclusions. Critical factors, such as the
  re-use of software being developed with Horizon 2020 funding, or the
  costs for re-purchasing the same licences cannot be scrutinized and therefore,
  cannot lead decision-makers to optimised funding solutions. Albeit, the most 
  significant complication is the fact that the EC is not in position to 
  prove with a degree of certainty that Open Access and subsequently
  Open Science, two of the Horizon 2020 most fundamental principles, are
  implemented in practice. As already argued in the FSFE's <a href="media/d0e7dcee.20170105-horizon2020-position-paper.pdf" data-original-source="https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/20170105-horizon2020-position-paper.pdf">
  recent position paper</a>, Open Science can neither be achieved nor be
  sustainable in long-term without Free Software being its chief constituent.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: What happened in Munich
uri: What-happened-in-Munich
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170301-01.html
content:
What happened in Munich<p>
    On 15 February 2017, the  city council of Munich, Germany convened
    to  discuss the  future  of  their LiMux  project.  In its  public
    session, the plenary voted to have the city administration develop
    a strategy to  unify client-side IT architecture,  building atop a
    yet-to-be-developed "Windows-Basis-Client".  A translation  of the
    complete decision is included further down.
  </p><p>
    The opposing parties were overruled, but the decision was amended
    such that the strategy document must specify which
    LiMux-applications will no longer be needed, the extent in which
    prior investments must be written off, and a rough calculation of
    the overall costs of the desired unification.
  </p><p>
    Since this decision was reached, the majority of media have
    reported that a final call was made to halt LiMux and switch back
    to Microsoft software. This is, however, not an accurate
    representation of the outcome of the city council meeting. We
    studied the available documentation and our impression is that the
    last word has not been spoken.
  </p><p>
    We succeeded thus far in forcing the mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) to
    postpone the final decision, and this was possible through the
    unwavering pressure created by joint efforts between The Document
    Foundation, KDE, OSBA, and the FSFE together with all the
    individuals who wrote to city council members and took the issue
    to the media.
  </p><p>
    Although the mandate is highly suggestive in that it suggests that
    the existing vendor-neutral approach is to be replaced with a
    proprietary solution, it leaves the door open; Or are you aware of
    a commonly-used software standard that ensures maximal
    compatibility in all directions?
  </p><p>
    The new mandate buys us some time. And we will keep going.
  </p>Background information <p>
    What lead to this public hearing on 15 February? In 2014, Dieter
    Reiter was elected new mayor of Munich. He had referred to himself
    as "Microsoft fan" even before he took office. He prides himself
    with having played a major part in the decision to move the
    Microsoft Germany headquarters to downtown Munich. He started to
    question the LiMux strategy as soon as his term started, and asked
    Accenture, a Microsoft partner in the same building as Microsoft,
    to analyse Munich's IT infrastructure. The report can be found
    <a href="media/c6e3610a.4277724.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.ris-muenchen.de/RII/RII/DOK/SITZUNGSVORLAGE/4277724.pdf">here</a> (German). It's
    noteworthy that in their report, the analysts identify primarily
    organisational issues at the root of the problems troubling LiMux
    uptake, rather than technical challenges.
  </p><p>
    The coalition of SPD and CSU filed a surprise motion with minimal
    lead time before the city council, with the goal to put LiMux to
    rest once and for all.
  </p>Our reaction<p>
    Given the importance of this matter, an ad-hoc coalition of The
    Document Foundation, KDE, OSBA, and the FSFE
    collected <a href="https://blog.schiessle.org/2017/02/14/rolle-ruckwarts-in-munchen-diese-fragen-sollte-man-sich-stellen/">questions
    about this motion</a> (German), as well as the processes that
    lead up to it. We reached out to all members of the city council
    prior to the public hearing. Additionally, we sent a <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/LiMux/CallForAction">call for
    action</a> (German) to all our supporters in Germany and Austria, asking
    them to get in contact with politicians on this issue. The
    reaction was phenomenal. During the public hearing, politicians
    quoted some of our question, and said that they had never received
    as much input from the public before.
  </p><p>
    Thank you everyone who made this happen!
  </p><p>
    We also generated quite a bit of press coverage this way, not only
    in Germany, but also in other parts of the world. An incomplete
    list of press coverage can be found
    <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/LiMux">here</a>. Please
    share with us any additional material you might know about.
  </p>Conclusion<p>
    LiMux suffered from organisational problems, including lack of
    clear structures and responsibilities, which the Accenture report
    also makes clear. These are independent from the software used on
    client machines, and switching operating systems will not solve
    them.
  </p><p>
    LiMux as such is still one of the best examples of how to create a
    vendor-neutral administration based on Free Software. The project
    was started 13 years ago when the city had to replace their no
    longer supported Windows NT4 workstations. Since then, they
    migrated 15.000 workplaces to vendor-neutral Free Software
    solutions, and Open-Standard-based file formats, supported by
    local IT companies. Overall this initiative displays not only a
    successful move to more independence, but also serves as role
    model of how to strengthen the local IT industry. By solving the
    organisational problems only, Munich could continue to successfully
    foster not only an independent administration but also a strong and
    healthy IT landscape.
  </p>Our goal<p>
    We understand that LiMux has not solved all problems, but we
    maintain that the root of the problems are of organisational
    nature, and thus must not be confounded with the technical
    choices.
  </p><p>
    Public infrastructure must stay independent of singular commercial
    interests, that are known to stifle innovation. Free Software
    provides the unique opportunity to invest into common assets and
    benefit from everyone else's contributions, while staying in
    control of what gets deployed, and when. Local service providers
    operating in healthy competition boost the local economy and
    ensure best use of tax payers' money.
  </p><p>
    We also note that the trend moves away from client-side operation
    to more centralised infrastructures, which
    operating-system-independent use across multiple devices and
    users' browsers of choice. It may turn out best for LiMux to
    adjust its focus, while the vendor-neutral strategy must prevail.
  </p>The modified motion, as passed on 15 February<p>
    The following conclusion was reached (overruling the opposition by
    Die Grünen - rosa liste, BAYERNPARTEI Stadtratsfraktion,
    Freiheitsrechte, Transparenz und Bürgerbeteiligung, ÖDP, DIE
    LINKE, LKR und BIA):
  </p><p>
    The motion filed before the plenum by SPD and CSU shall have its
    section 6b (new) extended, as shown between the *** markers:
  </p><p>
    "The administration shall without delay propose a strategy how to
    unify the city's client-side IT architecture by 2020-12-31,
    building on a yet-to-be-developed 'Windows-Basis-Client'. Baseline
    functionality (word processing, spreadsheets, presentation
    software, PDF reading, e-mail client and Web browser) needs to be
    provided by commonly-used, standard products, which must guarantee
    maximal compatibility with existing internal and external
    processes, as well as other software infrastructure (such as SAP).
  </p><p>
    ***
    The strategy must be clear on which applications on LiMux-Basis
    will no longer be needed. The city council is to be informed on
    the extent that this requires write-offs of prior
    investments. Furthermore, a rough budget to illustrate the costs
    associated with the unification is to be presented. The city
    council will then make a final decision.
    ***
  </p><p>
    Throughout the transition, the various departments are free to
    deploy the new, unified solution building on the
    'Windows-Basis-Client', or continue using their existing,
    multi-tier (Window/LiMux) solution, depending on technical status.
  </p><p>
    Strategic goal must remain that administrative tools shall be
    usable independently of the client-side operating system (e.g. web
    apps, virtualisation, remote desktop services)."
  </p><p>
    The original decision is only available in German and can be found
    <a href="media/364e56ae.4372059.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.ris-muenchen.de/RII/RII/DOK/TOP/4372059.pdf">here</a>,
    augmenting
    the <a href="media/7d9c09e8.4367152.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.ris-muenchen.de/RII/RII/DOK/SITZUNGSVORLAGE/4367152.pdf">original
    motion</a>.
  </p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_svn/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20170302-01.en.xml
title: Freedomvote.nl helps voters compare party positions on digital freedom in upcoming Dutch election
uri: Freedomvote-nl-helps-voters-compare-party-positions-on-digital-freedom
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170302-01.html
content:
Freedomvote.nl helps voters compare party positions on digital freedom in upcoming Dutch election<p>Today FSFE Netherlands, NLnet, ISPConnect, and Open
  Source &amp; Overheid launch <a href="https://freedomvote.nl">Freedomvote.nl</a> to help inform voters in
   the upcoming Dutch general election, which is held on 15 March 2017.
   Freedomvote.nl provides guidance to voters on the topic of digital freedom,
   based on eight questions.</p><p>The website allows voters to compare their political views with those of
  the parties participating in the election. The questions cover the topics of
  Free and Open Source Software, open standards, open data, open science, open
  education, surveillance, net neutrality and software patents. Voters can
  answer these questions for themselves, save them, and then compare the
  results with the answers from the political parties. Descriptions are added
  to all the questions, to provide context.</p><p>"Freedomvote fills a gap for the Dutch elections." explains
    Nico Rikken from FSFE Netherlands. "As only a couple of parties have a
    formal stance on themes of digital freedom, Freedomvote encourages parties
    to take a stance, so voters who care about digital freedoms know what
    they'll be voting for."</p><p>Unlike its <a href="https://freedomvote.ch/">Swiss predecessor</a>, the
  Dutch Freedomvote model represents the political parties rather than
  individual candidates, and thus reflects the strong party orientation in the
  Netherlands' political system. Freedomvote.nl is based on Free Software
  source code developed for Freedomvote.ch. Further software improvements are
  in the works, intended for others wanting to run their own Freedomvote in the
  future.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_svn/news/generated_xml/news___nl___nl-201703.fr.xml
title: FSFE Lettre d'information - Mars 2017
uri: FSFE-Lettre-d-information-Mars-2017
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201703.html
content:
FSFE Lettre d'information - Mars 2017Les chroniques de LiMux<p>En février, les nouvelles de LiMux ont bouleversé le monde.
    LiMux est un projet de la ville de Munich mis en place en 2013. Celui-ci est un des plus 
    beaux exemples d'une administration publique indépendante de ses fournisseurs grâce aux Logiciels Libres.
    Pendant sa mise en œuvre 15000 ordinateurs (fixe et portable) utilisés par l'administration publique ont été migrés vers du Logiciel Libre.</p><p>À la surprise générale, une coalition a très rapidement soumis une motion devant le conseil de la ville demandant la 
    suppression du projet et le retour des solutions propriétaires.</p><p>La réponse de la communauté à été immédiate et formidable.
    Le coordinateur associé pour l'Allemagne, Björn Schießle, 
    <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170301-01">décrit ce qui a suivit</a>. 
    Une coalition spéciale a été formée par la FSFE, la Document Foundation, KDE et OSBA, 
    recueillant les questions sur la motion et les processus liés. Des membres du conseil ont 
    été contactés avant l’audience publique et les soutiens de la FSFE en Allemagne et en Autriche ont été 
    invité à s'engager en contactant les politiciens sur cette question.
    <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/LiMux">Une couverture médiatique
    dans de nombreuses langues</a> en a résulté.</p><p>Pendant l'audience publique, les participants ont cités certaines de nos questions,
    et ont admis qu'ils n'avaient jamais reçu autant d'information du public. 
    L'audience a résulté en une motion modifié, votée le 15 février,
    demandant à l'administration de proposer une stratégie pour
    l'unification de l'architecture informatique côté client d'ici fin 2020. Celle-ci devant
    s'appuyer sur un futur client propriétaire et garantir une 
    compatibilité maximale avec les solutions existantes.</p><p>La FSFE n'affirme pas que LiMux a résolu tous les problèmes. 
    Cependant, nous affirmons que ces problèmes sont principalement
    de nature organisationnel et, en tant que tel, déconnecté des questions techniques.
    L'infrastructure publique doit rester indépendante d'un unique vendeur de logiciel
    et investir dans les biens communs, fournis par le Logiciel Libre.</p><p>Aidez nous à grandir et à faire la différence en 2017
    <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-03">
    https://fsfe.org/join</a></p>
   Qu'avons-nous fait d'autres ? Dans et en dehors de la FSFE
      Pour #IloveFS, André <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2017/02/14/ilovefs-2017-vrije-software-lied/">a traduit</a>la chanson "the Free Software song".
      

      Après le succés de la réunion pré-FOSDEM de l'année dernière, la FSFE
      et l'OpenForum Europe ont perpétué la tradition de rassembler les
      partis prenantes actives du Logiciel Libre durant un événement pré-FOSDEM 
      dédié aux politiques publiques.
      <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170214-02">La réunion de cette année</a>
      offrait l'opportunité aux citoyens et aux décideurs d'échanger leurs points de vue,
      sur la base d'information pratique de première main sur le 
      Logiciel Libre dans les politiques publiques.
      
      Pour la 16éme année, la FSFE a tenu un stand à au FOSDEM
      avec de nombreux bénévoles et employés. Reinhard Müller, le
      coordinateur du stand de la FSFE <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/reinhard/2017/02/fosdem-2017/">
      raconte dans son rapport</a> la merveilleuse atmosphère parmi
      les bénévoles du stand et  la  quantité impressionnante de produits et de matériel promotionnel
      qui a été distribués durant cet événement de deux jours.

    
      <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/713073/">En 2016, l'Europe a accueillie
      trois nouvelles organisations</a> pour les projets de Logiciel (et matériel) Libre : Public Software CIC, The
      Commons Conservancy et le 'Center for the Cultivation of Technology".

          Constituées pour répondre aux besoin de la communauté, ces toutes nouvelles organisations fournissent, pour les projets qui le souhaitent, une entité juridique pour les donations, la comptabilité, les subventions, la conformité juridique ou même une infrastructure de gouvernance.

      Ces services administratifs permettent aux projets de se concentrer sur 
      les domaines  techniques et  communautaires.
    Agissez<p>Nous pouvons encore accepter de nouveaux étudiants en stage pour 2017.
    Si vous étudiez actuellement et que vous devez effectuer un stage pour vos études,
    ou si vous n'avez pas encore terminé vos études et souhaitez faire un stage volontaire,
    vous pouvez <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170116-01">candidater dès maintenant.</a>.</p>Aidez nous à améliorer notre lettre d'information<p>Si vous voyez une information qui devrait être incluse, faites là nous parvenir.
    Si vous voulez partager vos pensées, envoyez les nous. L'adresse est toujours newsletter@fsfe.org. 
    Nous avons hâte de recevoir de vos nouvelles !</p><p>Merci à tous les <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.html">bénévoles</a>, <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join/nltr17">soutiens</a>  et <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.html">donateurs</a> qui rendent notre travail possible,</p><p>vos éditeurs Olga Gkotsopoulou et Jonas Öberg
    
    <a href="https://fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>Aidez nous à grandir et à faire la différence en 2017
    <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-03">
    https://fsfe.org/join</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_svn/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20170315-01.en.xml
title: #ilovefs Report 2017: Love and Activism
uri: ilovefs-Report-2017-Love-and-Activism
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170315-01.html
content:
#ilovefs Report 2017: Love and Activism<p>On Tuesday 14th of February, the "I Love Free 
Software" day was celebrated for its seventh consecutive year, in what 
can now be called a tradition. This day has become a special day for 
people all around the world to declare their love and affection not 
only to their partner but also to the whole Free Software 
community.</p><p>The FSFE would like to thank everybody who participated during this 
year’s #ilovefs campaign. Thank you for taking the time to show your 
appreciation to the people that make Free Software possible: the 
developers, designers, testers, translators and projects that work hard 
every day to preserve our freedoms. And thanks to everybody for your 
pictures, videos, blogs and news posted during the 14th, before or 
after. Because of you, the #ilovefs campaign has become an authentic 
success. </p>FOSDEM: Find your way into love<p>The first love signs were shown at FOSDEM in the beginning of 
February. This year we held again our IloveFS photobooth and many 
people, (<a href="https://twitter.com/fsfe/status/831596374663716864">but don't 
assume only people</a>) posed in front of our camera in order to 
confess their love for their favourite Free Software projects, 
colleagues and community contributors (<a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.en.html">see 
our full gallery</a>). When we asked them why they love FS, words such 
as Free Society, Democracy and Freedom were repeatedly written on our 
black chalkboards. Who said, you cannot love and be wise at the same 
time?</p>
  <a href="media/a8c4856b.IloveFS-Mozilla.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2017/graphics/IloveFS-Mozilla.jpg">
    
  </a>
  
    <p>Love for Mozilla at FOSDEM</p>
  
<p>In this ambient full of love, we also distributed around 20 IloveFS 
packages to Free Software projects present at FOSDEM. Each package 
included a variety of stickers, leaflets, balloons and a paper with 
creative ideas in order to grant some inspiration to all those 
considering to participate in this year's celebrations.</p>Letters 'n' Roses
  <a href="media/3507fb3e.ilovefs-roses.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2017/graphics/ilovefs-roses.jpg">
    
  </a>
  
    <p>Roses and letters ready to be delivered to the German Paliament</p>
  
<p>631 is the number of elected MPs in the German Parliament. This is 
also the number of <a href="media/c10614e8.ilovefs-OpenLetter.pdf" data-original-source="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2017/ilovefs-OpenLetter.pdf">letters</a> 
and flowers that <a href="media/a2338464.ilovefs-berlin-2017-9.jpg" data-original-source="https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2017/ilovefs-berlin-2017-9.jpg">FSFE 
volunteers and staff prepared and delivered</a> to every single one of 
them for the IloveFS Day. The main aim was to use this occasion to 
raise awareness among parliamentarians and invite candidates - in 
advance of the German elections taking place this autumn - to support 
Free Software and endorse the idea of "Public Money Public Code". But 
no, this is not all...</p>Berlin and Frankfurt love Free Software to bits<p>The FSFE volunteers, based in Berlin did not stop there! They chose 
to combine once again political activism with their love for Free 
Software and <a href="https://netzpolitik.org/2017/guerilla-projektionen-zum-i-love-free-software-tag-in-berlin/">spent 
a night in the streets of Berlin with a light projector</a> and thought-provoking love messages on the <a href="media/53c977e7.ilovefs-berlin-2017-1.jpg" data-original-source="https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2017/ilovefs-berlin-2017-1.jpg">German 
Parliament</a>, the <a href="media/23251acc.ilovefs-berlin-2017-3.jpg" data-original-source="https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2017/ilovefs-berlin-2017-3.jpg">Federal 
Ministry of Finance</a>, the Berlin Wall and other places of public 
interest. In the end, <a href="media/d99f54b0.ilovefs-berlin-2017-4.jpg" data-original-source="https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/2017/ilovefs-berlin-2017-4.jpg">even 
the Berlin Astronaut admitted the universe's love for Free 
Software</a>.</p>
  <a href="media/7912d6c6.IloveFS-Projektionen.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2017/graphics/IloveFS-Projektionen.jpg">
    
  </a>
  
    <p>"Public Money Public Code" projection on the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy</p>
  
<p>On the very same night of the 14th, some Pirates of Hesse also took 
part in the beamer action and displayed messages of Free Software 
affection <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/blixxter/32872437596/">all around 
Frankfurt</a>.</p>14th<p>And finally, the big day has arrived. During Tuesday, 14 February, people 
all around the world expressed their appreciation to Free Software and the 
people that make it possible, in many ways, including blog posts, pictures, news 
items, microblogs and funny memes. Keeping with the cheesy theme, <a href="https://twitter.com/Olga_Gkotso/status/830404271392833536">heart-shaped 
specially decorated chocolates</a> could not be missing from such a day.</p>
  <a href="media/8f18ded9.IloveFS-Tweet2.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2017/graphics/IloveFS-Tweet2.png">
    
  </a>
  
    <p>@JCR_Internet posting this beautiful We &lt;3 FS graphic</p>
  
<p>The day was full of love for Free Software projects and developers. 
For example, <a href="https://femgeeks.de/ilovefs-lineage-os/">Femgeeks</a>  wrote 
about their love for the Lineage OS.  The <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/whats-a-cryptovalentine">FSF 
asked people to become each other's cryptovalentines</a> by setting up 
private and encrypted communication with GnuPG. Others showed their 
love to <a href="https://ctrl.blog/entry/ilovefs-2017">GNU/Linux</a>, 
<a href="https://ctrl.blog/entry/ilovefs-2017">Ikiwiki and git 
annex</a>

<p>Also, we were really happy to see that many organisations, coming 
from different backgrounds and regions, decided to promote the “I love 
Free Software” campaign from their respective websites. <a href="http://medialab-prado.es/article/dia-del-amor-por-el-software-libre-ilovefs-2017">Medialab 
Prado</a>, in Madrid, organised activities to promote the use of Free 
Software during the whole day. The artist Elektroll, decided to show 
his appreciation for Free Software projects with <a href="http://www.elektrollart.de/?p=4503">this wonderful artwork</a>. 
<a href="http://osb-alliance.de/news/berlin-sendet-eine-botschaft-zum-i-love-free-software-tag">OSB 
Alliance</a> informed about FSFE's activities and promoted love for 
Free Software on its page. In general, we would like to thank all the 
organisations who decided to promote "I Love Free Software" day, like: 
<a href="https://ansol.org/ilovefs2017">Ansol</a>, <a href="http://xarxanet.org/informatic/noticies/el-14-de-febrer-es-el-dia-mostrar-el-teu-amor-al-programari-lliure">Xarxanet</a>, 
<a href="http://punttic.gencat.cat/article/el-14-de-febrer-mostra-el-teu-amor-pel-programari">Punt 
Tic</a>, <a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/february-14th-is-i-love-free-software-day-170213201009.html">Linux 
Today</a>, <a href="http://www.gizlogic.com/i-love-free-software-day-no-san-valentin/">Gizlogic</a> 
and many others. Some Free Software projects took the occasion to send 
a special ‘thank you’ to their hard working communities, like <a href="http://www.kdeblog.com/un-simple-gracias-tambien-ayuda-love-free-software-day-2017-ilovefs.html">KDE 
Spain</a>, <a href="https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2017/02/14/celebrating-i-love-free-software-day-2017/">The 
Document Foundation</a> or <a href="https://framablog.org/2017/02/15/plus-damour-pour-le-logiciel-libre-ilovefs/">Framasoft</a>.</p>


  <a href="media/5985d0af.IloveFS-Tweet3.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2017/graphics/IloveFS-Tweet3.png">
    
  </a>
  
    <p>Member of the European Parliement, Jan Philipp Albrecht, sending some love to Free Software</p>
  


<p>Julia Reda, Member of European Parliament, did not miss the chance 
to show her support for Free Software by <a href="https://juliareda.eu/2017/02/ilovefs-haende-weg-von-limux/">calling 
out Munich to stay with LiMux</a>. Also Green MEP, Jan Philipp 
Albrecht, posted on twitter about his love for Free Software and the 
FSFE. In their website <a href="https://gruen-digital.de/2017/02/we-love-free-software/">GrünDigital</a>, 
the German Greens expressed their political support for the Free 
Software community. As did the <a href="https://www.piratenpartei-hessen.de/pressemitteilung/2017-02-14-i-love-free-software-tag-piraten-sind-mit-dabei">Pirate 
Party Hesse</a>, calling for the use of Free Software in public 
administrations.</p>


  <a href="https://quitter.no/notice/3277730">
    
  </a>
  
    <p>Yoda showing #ilovefs</p>
  


<p>In his blog, FSFE’s president, Matthias Kirschner <a href="https://k7r.eu/thanks-to-free-software-contributors-in-the-public-service/">dedicated 
his #ilovefs thank you to Free Software contributors in the public 
administrations</a>. Erik Albers, FSFE's community builder, prepared <a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2017/02/free-software-ergo-sum/">a blog with 
nice memes of classic philosophers and their vision on Free 
Software</a>. While, Max Mehl, our Germany Coordinator, <a href="https://blog.mehl.mx/2017/i-love-astroid-ilovefs/">blogged about 
his new favourite email client, astroid</a>.</p>


<p>We hope all Free Software contributors out there feel even more 
motivated after this year's #ilovefs day. Our own conclusion? <a href="https://quitter.no/notice/3277117">"Build Free Software - Not 
walls"</a>, because in the Free Software world, different languages do 
not divide us. <a href="https://twitter.com/fsfe/status/831503330690158596">Instead, our 
love for freedom unites us all</a>.</p>

<p>
We encourage everybody to mark next year's February 14 as "I Love Free 
Software" day to continue this lovely campaign. Nevertheless, don't 
forget: each and every day is the perfect day to show your appreciation 
to Free Software and its contributors, by using, studying, sharing and 
improving it. </p>
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: PraktikantIn für Kampagne zur Bundestagswahl gesucht
uri: PraktikantIn-für-Kampagne-zur-Bundestagswahl-gesucht
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170321-01.html
content:
PraktikantIn für Kampagne zur Bundestagswahl gesucht<p>Die Free Software Foundation Europe (https://fsfe.org) ist ein gemeinnütziger Verein, der Menschen im selbstbestimmten Umgang mit Technik unterstützt. Dazu helfen wir Menschen und Organisationen dabei, zu verstehen, wie Freie Software zu Freiheit, Transparenz und Selbstbestimmung in der digitalen Gesellschaft beiträgt. Unsere Arbeit und Mission wird von einigen Angestellten und vielen Freiwilligen aus ganz Europa unterstützt und ermöglicht. Für unser Büro in Berlin suchen wir aktuell eine PraktikantIn (m/w), die uns in der Vorbereitung der Bundestagswahl unterstützt. Wir sind ein gemischtes, internationales Team und diskriminieren nicht nach Geschlecht, Herkunft, Hintergrund oder sonstigen Nebensächlichkeiten.</p>Deine Aufgaben:
	Du hilfst uns, unsere "Ask Your Candidates"-Kampagnen-Seiten auf den neuesten Stand zu bringen und im Zuge dessen auch die Struktur und das Design zu überarbeiten.
	Du hilfst uns, unsere verschiedenen Werkzeuge, die wir für Wahlen entwickelt haben, zu dokumentieren.
	Du unterstützt unsere Bundestagskampagne 2017. Dazu gehört unter anderem die Analyse von Wahlprogrammen, das Verfassen von Nachrichten, Koordination mit Freiwilligen und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit für unser Software-Tool.
	Du unterstützt unsere täglichen Prozesse im Büro und mit der Community.
Was wir Dir bieten:
	Die Arbeit in einer jungen, europäischen NGO mit Büro im Herzen Berlins.
	Die Möglichkeit, eigene Ideen einzubringen und mitzugestalten.
	Eine Arbeitsumgebung voll mit Freier Software, sowie die Möglichkeit, mit Freie-Software-Experten aus ganz Europa zusammen zu arbeiten.
	Die Einarbeitung und Betreuung durch erfahrene Mitarbeiter (Mentor).
Was Du mitbringen solltest:
	Interesse an Politik, Gesellschaft und neuen Technologien. Vorzugsweise hast Du einen politik- oder sozialwissenschaftlichen Hintergrund.
	Spaß am Texten! Darunter E-Mails, Dokumentationen, Nachrichten, Newsletter, Kampagnenseiten und mehr.
	Spaß an Öffentlichkeitsarbeit. Es ist ein Pluspunkt, wenn Du schon Erfahrungen in dieser Richtung hast.
	Du sprichst und schreibst fließend Deutsch und Englisch.
	Ein Grundverständnis von (Internet-) Technologien oder die Bereitschaft, sie zu lernen. Insbesondere Linux, HTML, CSS und Wiki.
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Dauer: 1. Juni bis 31. Oktober (5 Monate). Sollte der Zeitraum für Dich aus irgendeinem Grund leicht angepasst werden müssen, ist dies auch möglich. Am wichtigsten ist die Kernzeit der Bundestagswahl: Juli/August und September.
Vergütung: 450 Euro im Monat und die Möglichkeit, Deine eigenen Stärken zu finden.
Wie Du Dich bewirbst:<p>Bitte sende Deine Bewerbung in Englisch (!) mit kurzem Motivationsschreiben und Lebenslauf im PDF Format per E-Mail mit der Referenz "BTW-17" an contact@fsfe.org.</p>Noch Fragen?<p>Wenn Du noch Fragen hast, kannst Du Dich damit jederzeit an Erik Albers wenden (https://fsfe.org/about/albers/).</p><p>Wir freuen uns auf Deine Bewerbung!</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Input about Free Software for German OGP action plan published
uri: Input-about-Free-Software-for-German-OGP-action-plan-published
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170328-01.html
content:
Input about Free Software for German OGP action plan published<p>Today the civil society "working group OGP (Open
  Government Partnership) Germany" (Arbeitskreis OGP Deutschland) <a href="https://opengovpartnership.de/2017/03/2069/">published its
  input for a German OGP action plan</a>. The goal of the Open Government actions
  is to increase transparency, citizen friendlyness, reporting, and
  effectiveness of governments and administrations. The input, which was
  already handed over to the German Government on 20 March, consists of 30 Open
  Government topics, including a section about Free Software.</p><p>In December 2016 Germany joined the Open Government Partnership. Until
  June 2017 a German action plan is to be developed and decided by the German
  government.</p><p>To achieve this, on 17 February 2017 the German government invited 
  representatives from the civil society to a workshop to develop input for a
  German action plan for the upcoming two years. After the workshop members of
  civil society groups further developed the suggestions published today. In
  the weeks to come the German federal ministries will examine the different
  suggestions, debate internally, and draft a national action plan with
  concrete goals. There will also be another workshop to discuss the
  goals between administrations and the civil society (see <a href="http://www.verwaltung-innovativ.de/DE/Internationales/OGP/zeitlicher_ablauf/zeitlicher_ablauf_node.html">the German timetable for the action plan by the German Government</a>).</p><p>The OGP action plan will not just address the federal government but should
  also affect administrations in the German federal states and municipalities.</p>Input from the civil society about Free/Open Source Software<p>The Free Software Foundation Europe worked together with other German Free
  Software organisations and the "working group OGP Germany" to summarise the
  topic of Free Software in the Open Government context and develop concrete
  action items for the government.</p><p>By publishing the input we hope to enable civil society actors around the
  world to learn about the OGP discussion in Germany, adapt suggestions to
  other countries' contexts, and to enable people to give further input to the
  German debate.</p><p>Below a rough translation of our input originally written in German. (The
  <a href="media/9234f743.170323_Zivilgesellschaftliche_Empfehlungen_NAP_OGP.pdf" data-original-source="https://opengovpartnership.de/files/2017/03/170323_Zivilgesellschaftliche_Empfehlungen_NAP_OGP.pdf">full
submission is available in German at the website for the workgroup
OGP</a>.)</p>
  Introduction into the topic

  <p>Open Government offers the possibility to make the activities of the state
  more persistent and plausible for its citizens. Open software achieves this
  with its open/free licensing which is proved as an international standard.
  The "Open Government Toolbox" sums up 1928 IT projects from 523 organisations
  to help in the transition to Open Government.  The spectrum of this stunning
  collection shows the potential of Open Government software.  From data
  visualisation to participation tools and on up to tools for local urban
  initiatives, numerous projects for administration and civil society are
  already freely accessible.</p>

  

    Recycling: Open Software can be used for various
      purposes and can be re-used.  Once it is developed in the scope of a
      governmental tender, the software code can then be used by other
      administrations for similar problems.  A good example is "Fix My Street":
      originally developed as a reporting tool for damage on roads in the
      United Kingdom, it is now also being used in Switzerland, Ireland,
      Malaysia, Norway, Sweden, Uganda and Uruguay. As additionally developed
      extensions to the software and user experiences are shared between
    nations, all users benefit from the increasing use.

    Independence: The use of Open Software offers more
      opportunities for procurement and selection of partners. A
      strategic "lock-in", a dependency on certain vendors, is avoided as the
    code can be maintained by other market competitors as well.

    Neutrality of platforms: With open standards the
      public authorities can achieve more platform neutrality. Thereby they are
      no longer dependent on certain vendors and can choose a new one at any
    time.

    Transparency: While conventional government software
      is a blackbox and is a proprietary secret, the source code of Open
      Government software is basically always available.

    Participation: The Open Source code combined with a
      free license allows synergies of government agencies (with civil
      society), enterprises and citizens.  Software provided by the state can
      be maintained and used by external users - and vice versa. Open
      Government software projects initiated by the state give an impetus for
      collaborative projects where various perspectives from administration,
      civil society, enterprises and citizens come together.

  

  <p>For the implementation of the Open Government road map, new software will
  be developed.  Open Government software should be accessible under a suitable
  Free/Open license [1] to enable re-use and sharing of solutions between
  authorities, companies and citizens.</p>

  Our vision until 2030:

  <p>Federal, regional and local administrations share their solutions with
  other administrations, companies and civil society.  For new solutions, the
  participants can refer to a collection of pre-existing solutions, re-use and
  improve these and share them with everyone.  All solutions guarantee use
  independent of the used platform.  Neither citizens, companies nor
  administrations should be technically discriminated against.  These German
  software solutions enjoy an excellent reputation in administrations, civil
  society, and commercial enterprises around the world.  People enjoy using
  them and they are further developed by other programming groups.  Therefore
  this results in investment protection and a higher sustainability for the
  public sector, which will be developed further by third-parties, even if
  individual German administrative authorities opt for other solutions.</p>

  Further information sources and links:

  
    [1] Free/Open Source licensing model: See also the list of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html">Free Software Foundation</a> and of the <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/category">Open Source Initiative</a>
      <a href="https://ogptoolbox.org/en/">OGP Toolbox</a>
      <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/interoperability/search">EU Joinup solutions</a>
      <a href="http:///code.gov">USA Portal Code.Gov</a>
      <a href="https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/making-source-code-open-and-reusable">UK: Proof of concept</a>
      <a href="http://fixmystreet.com/">Fixmystreet UK</a> - <a href="http://fixmystreet.org/">Fixmystreet OGS</a>
      <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/eupl/og_page/european-union-public-licence-eupl-v11">EUPL</a>
      <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/basics/freesoftware.html">Introduction into "Software Freedom" by FSFE</a>
  

  Suggestions for commitments by the workshop for a NAP two-pager

  Level 1: Suggestions for organising the process

  

    Establishment of an expert group, containing members of federal, state
      and municipal administrations for re-use and sharing of open software for
      the state and the administration (Re-use and Share OSS). Therefore, at
      least twice a year, an internal dialogue can take place. There, the group
      can tap into the topic of Open Source software and understand it in terms
      of overlapping administrative needs.  Due to this overlap, employees from
      all levels of the public administrations should be utilised  as
      contributors and architects, and encouraged to integrate, share, and
      promote more re-use of the administration's software.

    Establishment of a workgroup with members from administration, civil
      society and companies for re-use and sharing of Free Software for the
      state and the administration. The workshop should take place at least
      twice a year to enable an exchange to listen to each other and receive
      feedback by the civil society for further conceptional development. There
      should be a strong link between the workgroup and the referring expert
      group (see paragraph above) in the administration. Thereby a transfer of
      knowledge into the public administration, and indirectly into politics,
      is ensured.

    Commissioning of a study running until December 2018 to do basic
      research about the cooperation in public administrations in usage of
      free/open software. It should consider both users and
      business/development associations so that national and international
      knowledge and practical experience from study and usage are taken into
      account. The full potential, with the help of workshops (Collaborative
      Design), should be outlined.  With this approach, all relevant
      perspectives and proposals for implementation are available for the
      second National Action Plan.

    Conducting two <a href="http://plugfest.opendocumentformat.org/">"Plug
        Fest"</a> events in Germany until 2018 as Open Collaborative Workshops,
      where special departments of local authorities can be brought into
      technical dialogue with providers of document editing solutions.  With
      those multi stakeholder events many countries in Europe have made
    positive experiences for increasing interoperability.  

    Commission of a scientific study about open standards and open
      interfaces in public administrations (including open document formats) by
      June of 2018.  With this the national and international knowledge and
      practical experience (Germany: SAGA 5.1.0, EU, Austria, Switzerland,
      France, Italy, Netherlands) will be taken into account. The full
      potential with the help of workshops (Collaborative Design) should be
      outlined so all relevant possibilities and proposals should be available
      for the second National Action Plan.

    Commission of an evaluation study about the accessibility and platform
      neutrality of public web interfaces by the federal authorities until
      January 2018.  Through this we can achieve transparency about how certain
      user groups are technically discriminated against by the websites of the
      authorities and how these sites are accessible regardless of used
      devices.  Based on this evaluation, best practices will be introduced
      simultaneously.  Also, basic principles acting as suggestions for
      creating accessible and vendor-neutral websites for authorities as well
      as for public institutions will be presented.

  

    Level 2: Precise legislative steps and regulation requirements

    

    Establishment of the EU ISA2 law regarding the platform neutrality in
      the acquisition of web service until 2019, so that citizens can use
      public sector services regardless of the technology used by the citizens
      (Operating systems: Mac OS, Linux, Windows, Android / Browser: Firefox,
      Chrome, Internet Explorer.../ Hardware: Tablet, Desktop-PC, Smartphone,
      Thin Internet Client).

    Proposal for a law to set up a national software archive by 2019 which
      clarifies where German authorities and suppliers should deposit and store
      (long-term-archive) the source code, documentation, interface
      specifications and database schemes of their software solutions. This
      enables security checks and the preservation of our digital cultural
      heritage.

    

    Level 3: Minimal measures (Mandatory programme)

     
      
      Software, which is being commissioned or developed in the course of
        realising the OGP action plan, should re-use free/open software
        components and should be made accessible on the <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/">EU software
                          platform joinup</a> and in the <a href="https://ogptoolbox.org/de/">"OGP Toolbox"</a>
                      for other governments, companies and the civil
                      society.

      Capacity-generating measures for the participation of Germany in the
        further development of the <a href="https://github.com/DISIC/foss-contrib-policy-template">
          Free/Open Source Software Contributor Policy Template in the OGP</a>
        (Bulgaria, France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America
        have already pledged to do this).

    Until mid 2018 evaluation of which software, of those created during the
      implementation of the IT-planning council's action plan for 2017, can be
      made available in the OGP Toolbox under a free/open license by 2019.
        (See <a href="http://www.it-planungsrat.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Entscheidungen/21_Sitzung/20_Anlage1_Aktionsplan.html">Action
          Plan</a>)

    Federal government, federal states, and municipalities should
      communicate information about the cooperation between the authorities and
      other participants regarding software solutions to the EU portal Joinup
      for publication. This will make this kind of cooperation more popular and
      persuades other entities to participate.
    

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title: Fellowship elections 2017 with eight candidates
uri: Fellowship-elections-2017-with-eight-candidates
url: https://wiki.fsfe.org/Migrated/FellowshipElection_2017
content:
According to our constitution, two seats in the General Assembly are reserved for elected representatives of our Fellows. They serve two-year terms and one seat is up for re-election every year. The current representatives are Nicolas Dietrich and Mirko Boehm; Nicolas's term is coming to an end and his seat will be up for re-election this April. The election period runs from April 10 to April 24, 2017, with eight candidates eligible for election. The list of candidates, along with their manifestos and background, can be found at the election wiki page. In addition, a moderated hustings will be held on March 30, 5:30 PM UTC to 7:30 PM UTC in #fsfe at irc.freenode.net. Detailed schedule and instructions may be found at the election wiki page. All orderly Fellows eligible to vote will also receive detailed voting instructions by e-mail in due course.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Newsletter - April 2017
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-April-2017
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201704.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter - April 2017Free Software in the German OGP action plan<p>Last December, Germany joined the 
    <a href="https://www.opengovpartnership.org/">Open Government 
    Partnership</a> and now has until June 2017 to develop and decide
    on an action plan. Increased transparency and continuous reporting, 
    governmental effectiveness and citizen-friendly administration are
    all part of the goals of Open Government.</p><p>The FSFE has worked together with other organisations and the 
    "working group OGP" Germany to summarise the topic of Free Software
     in the Open Government context and provide concrete action items,
     along with a short but illuminating introduction into the topic
     and a vision for 2030. The recommendations were submitted to the
     German government in March.</p><p>The proposal was the outcome of a workshop, held by the German
     Government in February, with the contribution of numerous
     civil society representatives, including the FSFE. By 
     <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170328-01.en.html">
	 publishing our suggestions</a>, we hope to enable civil society 
	 actors worldwide to learn about the OGP discussion in Germany and
	 use these suggestions in other countries.</p><p>Help us grow and make a difference in 2017
    <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-04">
    https://fsfe.org/join</a></p>
    What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE

       In the Dutch elections, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170302-01.en.html">
	  Freedomvote.nl</a>, initiated by the Dutch FSFE group, compared
	  party positions on digital freedom and not only helped voters
	  to make up their minds, but also gave a taste of what to expect
	  by the newly elected parties' digital policies.

       Last month, <a href="https://fsfe.org/associates/associates.en.html">
	  we welcomed as an associated organisation, Dyne.org - a 
	  non-profit think/do tank</a> with more than 10 years of 
	  expertise in developing Free Software tools and narratives for
	  community empowerment.

      On March 7, <a href="ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPd5N2Y5nuM">
	  Matthias Kirschner put the spotlight on LiMux</a> at the talk 
	  he gave at <a href="https://digitalegesellschaft.de/2017/03/58-npa/">
	  the 58. Netzpolitischer Abend</a> in Berlin, and on March 28, 
	  <a href="https://ansol.org/FSFE-palestra">he shared his views 
	  with the audience at the ISCTE–University Institute of Lisbon 
	  in Portugal</a> concerning ways to empower people to use
	  technology. Matthias also participated in a longer 
	  <a href="http://www.pietcast.com/folge-0026-limux/">podcast 
	  in German about LiMux</a>.
      
      On March 11-12,<a href="https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2017/en"> 
      the FSFE returned to Chemnitzer Linux-Tage</a>, Germany's 
      biggest Free Software conference, held in the University
      of Chemnitz. We arranged an information booth and Max Mehl
      spoke about the developments around the 
      <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/index.html">
      EU Radio "Lockdown" Directive</a>.
      
      On March 20, Olga Gkotsopoulou, Polina Malaja and Lusy Vaseva
      <a href="https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/oscibar2017_session17">
	  presented the FSFE's Position Paper for the endorsement of Free
      Software and Open Standards in Horizon 2020 and all publicly-funded
      research</a> and facilitated a discussion about the role of Free
      Software in Open Science at <a href="https://www.open-science-conference.eu/barcamp/">
      the Open Science Barcamp in Berlin</a>.
      
      <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/securedrop-and-alexandre-oliva-are-2016-free-software-awards-winners">
	  The winners of the 2016 Free Software Awards were announced by
	  the Free Software Foundation</a> during the LibrePlanet 2017 
	  conference. The Award for Projects of Social Benefit was given to
	  SecureDrop, an anonymous whistleblowing platform, maintained by 
	  Freedom of the Press Foundation, while the Award for the Advancement
	  of Free Software went to Alexandre Oliva, an advocate of Free
	  Software and the GNU Project.
      
      <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2017/03/10/booth-veganmania-indoor-2017/">
	  The Vienna FSFE group held an information booth at Veganmania 
	  indoor festival 2017.</a>
      
      Jonas Öberg wrote about the <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/policy-whys-that">
	  the need to work more with governments and local municipalities</a>
	  in order to encourage uptake of Free Software friendly policies in
	  procurement and development of IT systems. The FSFE policy team
	  has intensified its efforts in this direction and 
	  <a href="https://fsfe.org/fellowship/ams/join.php?ams=join">asks 
	  for everyone's support.</a>
	  
	  If you're interested in discussions about Free Software on 
	  Android, you can join FSFE's <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/android">
	  android mailing list</a>, which Matthias Kirschner highlighted in 
	  his introduction to <a href="https://k7r.eu/testing-signal-without-google-account/">
	  installing Signal without a Google account or Google Play</a>.
	  
	   <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170315-01.en.html">
	  In February, we celebrated the "I Love Free Software day" for the 
	  8th consecutive year</a>. People all over the world used the 
	  occasion to declare their love and affection not only towards their 
	  significant other, but to the whole Free Software community. 
	  This year's celebrations had everything: 
	  <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.en.html">
	  a FOSDEM photobooth in Brussels</a>, <a href="media/33d64d95.ilovefs-roses.jpg" data-original-source="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/graphics/ilovefs-roses.jpg">
	  letters and flowers for the German Parliament</a>, light projections 
	  <a href="http://bit.ly/2ltZM4H"> in the streets of Berlin</a> 
	  and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/blixxter/32872437596/">
	  Frankfurt</a>, creative <a href="http://www.elektrollart.de/?p=4503">
	  artworks</a>, a bright program of IloveFS events, 
	  <a href="https://blog.3rik.cc/2017/02/free-software-ergo-sum/">
	  funny memes</a>, songs, microblogging as well as longer blogposts 
	  from individuals, politicians and supporting organisations.
      
      Are you currently a student? Is an internship a compulsory part
      of your studies curriculum? Are you fluent in German and English
      and interested in the politics around Free Software? Then, 
      <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170321-01.de.html">check
      our new intern vacancy announcement</a>, for a position in our 
      office in Berlin, from June till October 2017. And don't forget,
      that we're still able to accept additional student interns for 
      2017. <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170116-01.html">
	  Apply now</a> and don't miss the opportunity to become part of a 
	  great international and diverse team, based in Berlin!
    Get active<p>Fellowship elections 2017: According to 
    <a href="https:///www.fsfe.org/about/legal/constitution.html#id-fellowship-seats">
	our constitution</a>, two seats in the <a href="https:///www.fsfe.org/about/team#general-assembly">
	General Assembly</a> are reserved for elected representatives of our 
	Fellows. They serve two-year terms and one seat is up for re-election
	every year. The electoral process 2017 covers the period from April
	10 till April 24. Eight candidates are running for office in the 
	FSFE's General Assembly. You can find the list of candidates, along 
	with their manifestos and background as well as the election schedule 
	and voting procedure, in <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/FellowshipElection_2017">
	our dedicated Fellowship Election 2017 page</a>. All Fellows
	eligible to vote will automatically receive an email with all
	necessary information.</p>Help us improve
    our newsletter<p>If you see some news you think should be included, forward
    it to us. If you'd like to share any thoughts, send them to us.
    The address is as always newsletter@fsfe.org. We're looking
    forward to hearing from you!</p><p>Thanks to all
    <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html">
    volunteers</a>,
    <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join/nltr17">
    supporters</a> and
    <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html">
    donors</a> who make our work possible.</p><p>your editors Jonas Öberg, Olga Gkotsopoulou, Lusy Vaseva

    <a href="https://fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>Help us grow and make a difference in 2017
    <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-04">
    https://fsfe.org/join</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Digital-o-Mat: Campaigning for freedom in the state elections of North Rhine-Westphalia
uri: Digital-o-Mat-Campaigning-for-freedom-in-the-state-elections-of-North
url: https://www.digital-o-mat.de/
content:
North Rhine-Westphalia is Germany's most populated state which is having its next general elections on May 14, 2017. For this election, a "coalition of Free knowledge" developed for the first time a "Digital-o-Mat". The "Digital-o-Mat" is a tool to help those voters who are concerned about digital rights and freedoms, to decide about which party to vote for. Therefor, eight questions guide any user to choose his own preferences on important topics about the digital society - like questions about the use of Free Software, Open Data or Open Educational Resources. After filling them out, a user will see which party matches best with his own preferences and he can additionally browse detailed explanations on the party's positions. The "coalition of Free knowledge" is an alliance of different NGOs who care about freedom in the digital age, including the Free Software Foundation Europe. The tool is Free Software, the version for the elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in German. More detailed background-information in German in Erik Albers' blog.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: And the winner of the election for FSFE's Fellowship GA seat is ...
uri: 2017-04-25-And-the-winner-of-the-election-for-FSFE-s-Fellowship-GA-seat-is
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170425-01.html
content:
    And the winner of the election for FSFE's Fellowship GA seat is…
  Election results<p>
  … Daniel Pocock! The election period for this year's Fellowship GA seat has ended on April 24, 2017. FSFE is proud to have such an interested and active community to have had seven outstanding candidates who were running for office this time. Now, Daniel Pocock is happy to take over the GA's Fellowship seat from former representative Nicolas Dietrich.</p><p>Thanks to all candidates and Fellows who participated in the process and interesting discussions. You made this a valuable experience for the FSFE and our community. We had a voter participation of 17,23% this time.</p><p>Please <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/FellowshipElection_2017">see FSFE's wiki for more background about 2017's candidates</a>, including our <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/FellowshipElection_2017#Hustings">public hustings</a>. You can alse see the <a href="http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_29119d29f759bbf8">detailed Fellowship elections results</a>. </p>Result details
  1234567
1. Daniel Pocock
 
-110
123
121
139
166
125

2. Carsten Agger
 
99
-119
123
134
163
130

3. Florian Snow
 
88
92
-121
127
153
124

4. Maurice Verheesen
 
79
85
82
-105
138
112

5. Patrick Moelands
 
53
58
63
67
-126
101

6. Joe Awni
 
39
39
44
52
50
-79

7. Thomas Kandler
 
14
13
13
20
19
38
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title: Digital-o-Mat: Campaigning for freedom in the state elections of North Rhine-Westphalia
uri: 2017-05-09-Digital-o-Mat-Campaigning-for-freedom-in-the-state-elections-of-North
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170419-01.html
content:
Digital-o-Mat: Campaigning for freedom in the state elections of North Rhine-Westphalia<p>
			  
			
				<a href="https://www.digital-o-mat.de/"/>
			
				
			North Rhine-Westphalia is Germany's most populated state which is having its next general elections on May 14, 2017. For this election, a "coalition of Free knowledge" developed for the first time a <a href="https://www.digital-o-mat.de/">"Digital-o-Mat"</a>. The "Digital-o-Mat" is a tool to help those voters who are concerned about digital rights and freedoms, to decide about which party to vote for. Therefor, eight questions guide any user to choose his own preferences on important topics about the digital society - like questions about the use of Free Software, Open Data or Open Educational Resources. After filling them out, a user will see which party matches best with his own preferences and he can additionally browse detailed explanations on the party's positions.</p><p>The "coalition of Free knowledge" is an alliance of different NGOs who care about freedom in the digital age, including the Free Software Foundation Europe. The tool is Free Software, the version for the elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in German. More <a href="https://blog.3rik.cc/2017/04/eine-neues-kampagnentool-der-digital-o-mat/">detailed background-information</a> in German in Erik Albers' blog.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Lettre d'information - Mai 2017
uri: FSFE-Lettre-d-information-Mai-2017
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201705.html
content:
FSFE Lettre d'information - May 2017Daniel Pocock est le nouveau représentant de la Fellowship<p>Du 10 au 24 avril 2017 la FSFE a organisé <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/FellowshipElection_2017">la neuvième élection annuelle de la Fellowship</a> pour élire la personne représentant la communauté de la FSFE à <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/GA">son Assemblée Générale</a>. L'Assemblée Générale est constituée des membres de la FSFE e.V. et constitue la personne morale de la FSFE. Elle est responsable du planning stratégique, du budget, des agendas, des exonérations, et de l'élection et du renouvellement du conseil exécutif et du trésorier. <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170425-01">Et le gagnant de l'élection de cette année est... Daniel Pocock !</a></p><p><a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/FellowshipElection_2017#Daniel_Pocock">Daniel Pocock</a> est arrivé premier parmi sept candidats, avec un auto-portrait sur notre <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/FellowshipElection_2017">page wiki dédiée aux élections de la Fellowship 2017</a> et en participant <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/FellowshipElection_2017#Hustings">à l'interview public</a>. Malheureusement deux dates différentes avaient été annoncées pour cet interview mais le journal des discussions est accessibles en ligne à tous ceux qui l'aurait manqué.</p><p>La FSFE aimerait remercier Nicolas Dietrich, ancien représentant de la Fellowship, pour ses contributions durant les deux dernières années et accueillir le nouveau représentant Daniel Pocock. Vous trouverez <a href="https://danielpocock.com/fsfe-fellowship-representative-and-upcoming-events"> les conclusions personnelles de Daniel sur son blog</a>.</p><p>Aidez nous à grandir et à faire la différence en 2017
<a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-05">https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-05</a></p>Qu'avons-nous fait d'autres ? À l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de la FSFE

Du 26 au 28 avril, <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/legal-conference.en.html">l'atelier annuel juridique Licence et Logiciel libre de la FSFE ( Legal and Licensing workshop - LLW )</a> a pris place à Barcelone, en Espagne. Cette année nous avons rassemblé 120 experts juridiques de toute la planète pour partager leurs connaissances et leurs expériences durant les 3 jours de l'événement. Celui-ci a accueilli plus de 35 présentations sur de nombreuses questions juridiques, de <a href="https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/721540/7831c0949927d665/">l'open data</a> à l'outillage, aux brevets logiciels ou encore aux <a href="https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/721458/be70cd561648d22f/">défis existants pour l'utilisation des licences du Logiciel Libre</a>.

Armijn Hemel et Shane Coughlan, membres de l'équipe juridique de la FSFE, <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-and-free-software-foundation-europe-introduce-resources-to-support-open-source-software-license-identification-and-compliance-300444721.html">ont publié un guide</a> pour les startups, les TPE et les ingénieurs sur la <a href="https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/research/practical-gpl-compliance">"Conformité pratique à la GPL" [En].</a> Ce guide est conçu pour démystifier la conformité à la GPL et pour faciliter le travail de conformité des ingénieurs  de façon pratique.

La Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie, la région la plus peuplée d'Allemagne, organise des élections générales le 14 mai 2017. La FSFE s'est jointe à une "coalition de la connaissance Libre" qui a lancé pour la première fois un <a href="https://www.digital-o-mat.de/">"Digital-o-Mat"</a>. Le "Digital-o-Mat" est un outil pour aider les électeurs concernés par les droits et libertés numérique à décider pour quel parti voter durant ces élections. Huit questions guident l'utilisateur à se décider selon ses préférences sur des sujets importants concernant la société numérique - par exemple sur des questions relatives à l'utilisation du Logiciel Libre, à l'Open Data ou aux Ressources Éducatives Ouvertes. Après avoir tout complété, les utilisateurs découvrent quel parti correspond le mieux à leurs préférences et peuvent ensuite accéder à des explications détaillées des positions du parti sur chaque sujet. L'interface pour la Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie est en Allemand, toutefois le <a href="https://github.com/dsstio/digital-o-mat">logiciel de base</a> est un Logiciel Libre et donc libre à adopter pour d'autres cas.

Sur <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org/">l'aggrégateur de blog de la FSFE</a>, nous avons assisté à un dialogue intéressant entre notre directeur exécutif, Jonas Öberg,  qui considère que <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/using-proprietary-software-for-freedom/">parfois vous pouvez utiliser des logiciels propriétaires pour faire avancer le Logiciel Libre</a> mais vous devez avoir conscience du risque que ça se retourne contre nous, et Daniel Pocock, notre nouveau représentant de la Fellowship, qui a répondu avec <a href="https://danielpocock.com/risks-of-using-proprietary-software">"le risque du logiciel propriétaire"</a> et que "l'absence d'accord pourrait être mieux qu'un mauvais accord" signifiant que si vous ne pouvez pas réaliser quelque chose avec du Logiciel Libre, vous devriez juste envisager de ne pas le faire.

Paul Hänsch, un des administrateurs systèmes de la FSFE, a organisé la toute <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/WikiCaretakers/Hackathon2017">première réunion physique des soignants du wiki</a>. Les <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/WikiCaretakers">soignants du wiki sont une équipe de volontaires</a> qui aide à organiser l'information dans le wiki et à faciliter la contribution pour les autres.

Durant le dernier semestre <a href="https://www.taringamberini.com/en/blog/fsfe/adoption-of-free-software-pdf-readers-in-italian-regional-public-administrations-fourth-monitoring/">la surveillance montre</a> que 9 régions italiennes ont réduit leur publicité, sur leurs sites, des lecteurs PDF propriétaires et qu'une région a accru le support pour <a href="https://pdfreaders.org/">les lecteurs PDF libre</a>. 

Le directeur exécutif de la FSFE,Jonas Öberg, a blogué sur "une nouvelle compréhension de la gestion des organismes sans but lucratif" et il utilise cette nouvelle compréhension pour <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/towards-a-new-understanding-of-non-profit-management/">analyser les caractéristiques de la FSFE</a> dans son usage de la technocratie, de la hiérarchie, de l'innovation et de ses orientations. Jonas termine son analyse avec quelques réflexions sur comment il aimerait voir la FSFE évoluer.

La FSFE était présente avec des stands à la <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2017/LiMA">Linke Medien Akademie</a> à Berlin en Allemagne, à la 16ème Augsburger Linux Info Tag à Augsburg en Allemagne, à FOSS North à Göteborg en Suède et au Linuxtage à Graz en Autriche.

Aidez-nous à améliorer notre lettre d'information<p>Si vous voyez des nouvelles que devrait être incluses, faites nous les suivre. Si vous souhaitez partager des idées, envoyez les nous. L'adresse est toujours newsletter@fsfe.org. Nous attendons de vos nouvelles !</p><p>Merci à tous les <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">bénévoles</a>, <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">soutiens</a> et <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donateurs</a> qui rendent notre travail possible.</p><p>Vos éditeurs,
Erik Albers et Polina Malaja

 <a href="https://fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: New European Interoperability Framework calls on public sector to contribute to Free Software
uri: New-European-Interoperability-Framework-calls-on-public-sector-to-cont
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170613-01.html
content:
New European Interoperability Framework calls on public sector to contribute to Free Software<p>The revised "new" 
  <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/eif_en">European Interoperability Framework</a> (EIF),
  adopted by the European Commission on 23 March 2017, gives specific guidance
  on how to set up interoperable digital public services, and offers public 
  administrations concrete recommendations on how to improve interoperability 
  of their e-services.</p><p>The FSFE <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160624-01.en.html">participated</a>
  in the public consultation round on the draft version of the revised 
  EIF (published in 2016). The "new" EIF includes significant improvements 
  in alignment with our answers and in contrast to the draft version and 
  the previous <a href="media/746bedf3.isa_annex_ii_eif_en.pdf" data-original-source="https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/sites/isa/files/isa_annex_ii_eif_en.pdf">EIF v.2</a>. 
  However, the European Commission (EC) has not sufficiently addressed 
  the risks that a FRAND-based standardisation policy pose to Free Software.</p><p>In alignment with our <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/eif-v3.en.html">answers</a>
  to the public consultation, the new EIF includes the principle of openness 
  that was absent from the draft version. Furthermore, the principle of 
  openness according to the new EIF requires public administrations to 
  actively consider using Free Software when offering their public services:</p>
	<p>Recommendation 3: Ensure a level playing field for open source 
	software and demonstrate active and fair consideration of using open 
	source software, taking into account the total cost of ownership of 
	the solution.</p>
<p>Furthermore, according to the new EIF public administrations should 
  not only use Free Software but "whenever possible contribute to the 
  pertinent developer communities". Free Software is also called 
  "an enabler of the underlying EIF principle on reusability". 
  This is a significant improvement in comparison to both previous
  <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/eifv2.en.html">EIF v.2</a>
  (published in 2010) and the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/files/57b2ecd5-effa-4594-9ef2-47e7ecc67047">draft</a>
  version that was open for public consultation. The need for more Free 
  Software when offering e-services was also <a href="media/7ea667f2.eif-public-consultation-factual-summary-en.pdf" data-original-source="http://ec.europa.eu/isa2/sites/isa/files/eif-public-consultation-factual-summary-en.pdf">expressed</a>
  by majority of citizen respondents to the public consultation, and it
  is plausible to see that the EC included the wishes of the EU citizens 
  to the new EIF. </p><p>Licensing policies of so called "open specifications" (the alternative 
  term the European Commission uses for <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/os.en.html">Open Standards</a> 
  have also been revised for the better. The EIF v.2 based its appropriate 
  licensing model on what is described as "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" 
  (FRAND)/or royalty-free terms, despite that FRAND <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/why-frand-is-bad-for-free-software.en">does not allow standards to be implemented in Free Software</a>.</p><p>The new EIF gives a slight preference to the royalty-free licensing 
  terms when it comes to licensing of "open specifications", which is an 
  improvement to the previous version.</p><p>However, the new EIF ignores the fact that "royalty-free" is not a 
  sub-term of FRAND, and the way the new EIF is worded still gives a preference 
  to FRAND terms, but just without royalties. This is extremely problematic, 
  as the effects of FRAND do not solely come from royalty-related criteria, 
  but also include several other restrictions that make FRAND incompatible 
  with Free Software.</p><p>Unfortunately, the way the new EIF is basing its licensing policies 
  of open specifications can still prevent Free Software projects from 
  offering their services to the public sector.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Lettre d'information - Juin 2017
uri: FSFE-Lettre-d-information-Juin-2017
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201706.html
content:
FSFE Lettre d'information - Juin 2017Un nouveau cadre européen d'interopérabilité encourage l'administration publique à utiliser et contribuer au Logiciel Libre<p>Après une consultation publique l'an dernier, le « nouveau » cadre européen d'intéropérabilité <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/eif_en">" European Interoperability Framework " (EIF) [EN]</a> a finalement été publié en mars 2017. Dans la continuité de <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/eif-v3">nos réponses</a> à la consultation publique et des <a href="media/c7007f4d.eif-public-consultation-factual-summary-fr.pdf" data-original-source="http://ec.europa.eu/isa2/sites/isa/files/eif-public-consultation-factual-summary-fr.pdf">réponses</a>
 citoyennes et d'entreprises demandant plus de Logiciel Libre dans 
les services publics numériques, la nouvelle version de l'EIF 
recommande aux administrations publiques à travers l'Europe d'assurer 
une saine compétition pour le Logiciel Libre et de montrer une prise en 
compte honnête et active des Logiciels Libres lorsqu'elles offrent des 
services en ligne.</p><p>De plus, le nouveau EIF ne pousse pas seulement les 
administrations publiques à utiliser des Logiciels Libres mais aussi à 
« contribuer, autant que possible, aux communautés de développeurs 
pertinentes ». Ceci est une
 amélioration notable vis-à-vis de la version précédente EIFv.2 qui 
reconnaît explicitement le Logiciel Libre comme indispensable pour 
assurer une meilleure interopérabilité. Par contre, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160428-02">de
 manière similaire à la communication sur les « priorités en matière de 
standard pour les TIC dans le marché unique numérique »(EN)</a>, le 
nouveau EIF ne traite pas suffisamment des obstacles au Logiciel Libre 
que sont les clauses de licence « équitables, raisonnables et 
non-discriminatoires » (" fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory " 
(FRAND) en anglais). En basant sa politique de licence en matière de 
standard ouvert sur les FRAND, l'EIF ne permet malheureusement pas aux 
Logiciels Libres de participer en offrant des services aux 
administrations publiques. </p><p>Pour plus d'information sur ce sujet, vous pouvez lire notre article <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/why-frand-is-bad-for-free-software">« Pourquoi les FRAND sont mauvaises pour le Logiciel Libre ?(EN) »</a></p><p>Aidez nous à grandir et à faire la différence en 2017
        <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-06">https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-06</a></p>Qu'avons-nous fait d'autres ? À l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de la FSFE
		Jonas Öberg, le directeur exécutif de la FSFE, <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/automating-the-software-toolchain/">explique un nouveau projet</a>
 de la FSFE pour faciliter l'automatisation dans la chaîne d'outils 
logiciels en aidant à identifier automatiquement les licences utilisées.
 (EN)
    
		Daniel Pocock, notre représentant de la Fellowship FSFE 
fraîchement élu, a organisé une réunion pour construire un ordinateur à 
nourriture à Zurich. Sur son blog, <a href="https://danielpocock.com/hacking-the-food-chain-in-switzerland">Daniel explique</a> ce que c'est et le lien entre son projet et le Logiciel Libre.
    
        Heiki Löhmus, Vice Président de la FSFE,  <a href="https://2017.dorscluc.org/talk/2/">a organisé un atelier</a>
 sur l'utilisation du Logiciel Libre dans l'enseignement des sciences, 
des technologies, des Sciences de l’Ingénieur et des mathématiques 
durant la DORS/CLUC à Zagreb, en Croatie.

		Polina Malaja, analyste politique et coordonnatrice juridique de la FSFE, a participé à un panel <a href="https://diem25.org/diem25-returns-to-berlin-to-develop-its-political-roadmap/">« Vers un internet pour les gens : un nouveau pacte progressiste pour les technologies» à la Diem25</a> à Berlin.

		Matthias Kirschner, Président de la FSFE,  <a href="https://theonet.de/2017/05/29/freie-daten-freies-teilen-frei-sein/">a participé à une table ronde</a>
 sur «comment les données, le code et les algorithmes influencent nos 
vies et l'économie » pendant la Journée allemande de l'Eglise à 
Magdeburg, Allemagne.  <a href="https://k7r.eu/free-software-at-church-days/">Un enregistrement vidéo est disponible</a>. 
    
		Erik Albers, le coordinateur communication et communauté de la 
FSFE, a fait une intervention à l'Open Tech Summit 2017 sur « Le 
Digital-O-Mat ou comment faire du Logiciel Libre une thématique aux 
élections démocratiques ». La FSFE était aussi présente à cette 
conférence avec un stand.

		Maurice Verheesen, le coordinateur pour les Pays Bas de la FSFE, a
 donné une conférence "argent public, code source public" à un l'Open 
Source event à Tilburg, aux Pays-Bas. 

		Franz Gratzer, un des bénévoles designer de la FSFE, a organisé un<a href="https://cfp.linuxwochen.at/de/LWW17/public/events/547"> atelier sur les bases de GIMP</a> au Linuxwochen Wien 2017. Le groupe viennois de la FSFE y tenait aussi un stand.
        
		Le groupe de Munich (Allemagne) de la FSFE, a tenu un stand au 
festival de rue de Munich "Corso Leopold" pour informer les gens sur la 
FSFE et sur notre travail pour le Logiciel Libre.

		Matthias Kirschner <a href="https://k7r.eu/recording-for-limux-the-loss-of-a-lightouse/">a donné une conférence lors de l'openSUSE conférence</a> 2017 à Nürnberg, en Allemagne, sur Limux et ce que la communauté du Logiciel Libre peut en apprendre. Un <a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/1458-limux-the-loss-of-a-lighthouse">enregistrement vidéo est disponible</a>.

		Des Fellows de Madrid, en Espagne, était à l'OpenExpo avec un 
stand d'information pour informer les gens sur la FSFE et notre travail 
pour le Logiciel Libre.

		Polina Malaja a fait une présentation sur le statut actuel de la directive "verrouillage" Radio <a href="https://wiki.freifunk.net/Wireless_Community_Weekend_2017/Timetable">durant le weekend de la communauté sans fil</a> à Berlin. 

		Frank Karlitschek <a href="https://karlitschek.de/2017/06/is-doing-nothing-evil/">a blogué sur</a> notre responsabilité étique vis à vis de la technologie et des logiciels.

		Matthias Kirschner, Polina Malaja et Daniel Pocock ont été à 
l'Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL) pour parler de « Donner aux gens
 les moyens de contrôler la technologie », « Niveau européen et liberté 
logiciel » et « Communication Temps Réel Libre avec du Logiciel Libre ». La
 FSFE était aussi représentée par un stand.

		Le groupe de Vienne de la FSFE tenait <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/franz.gratzer/2017/06/04/booth-at-linuxwochen-and-veganmania-2017/">un stand à Veganmania</a> pour parler de la FSFE et de ce que nous faisons pour le Logiciel Libre.
    
	Aidez-nous à améliorer notre lettre d'information<p>Si vous voyez des nouvelles que devrait être incluses, faites nous 
les suivre. Si vous souhaitez partager des idées, envoyez les nous. 
Comme toujours, l'adresse est newsletter@fsfe.org. Nous attendons de vos
 nouvelles !</p><p>Merci à tous les <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">bénévoles</a>, <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">soutiens</a> et <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donateurs</a> qui rendent notre travail possible.</p><p>Vos éditeurs,
Erik Albers and Polina Malaja</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_svn/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20170616-01.en.xml
title: FSFE provides Git hosting for its supporters
uri: FSFE-provides-Git-hosting-for-its-supporters
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170616-01.html
content:
FSFE provides Git hosting for its supporters<p>Sharing one's knowledge is a core principle in the Free Software 
society, collaboration is another. From today, the FSFE provides its <a href="http://fsfe.org/join?ref-git">supporters</a> and registered <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/KnowHow/FSFELife/VolunteerAccountCreation">volunteers</a> a 
platform to create and manage Git repositories with a comfortable user 
interface: <a href="https://git.fsfe.org">git.fsfe.org</a>.</p><p>Git is not only a tool to store files but the most popular version 
control system, similar to SVN. While Git is a command line server and 
client, there are several graphical implementations. The FSFE is using <a href="https://gitea.io">Gitea</a> as a web interface.</p>Features<p>With <a href="https://git.fsfe.org">git.fsfe.org</a>, the FSFE allows 
its supporters to share and collaborate on a platform while fully 
respecting their freedoms. Using the graphical web interface, people 
can open issue reports for bugs or feature requests. This way, users 
are able to:</p>
  host code they are using for their FSFE activities (and of course 
  other purposes)
  share minutes and other documents of FSFE group meetings
  collaborate on flyers, presentations or business cards
  leave feedback on and help improving existing software by other 
  users of git.fsfe.org
  ...and many more!
<p>The FSFE also strives to migrate as much code and relevant files as 
possible to this new platform, for example future website developments, 
promotion material, and helpful scripts for the organisation's 
day-to-day work.</p>About Gitea<p>Gitea is a performant and user-friendly Git service that is 
published under a Free Software license. Unlike other services there is 
no proprietary enterprise version ("open-core"), but has a strong focus 
on community development, and already contains almost all features 
people know from other Git services without any non-free dependencies. 
There are already efforts taking place to interconnect Gitea 
installations to enable federation of Git repositories.</p><p>We would like to welcome you to log in with your FSFE Fellowship 
credentials, test and use the service, and <a href="http://fsfe.org/contact">leave 
some feedback</a>. You can also push this new service by improving 
and adding usage guides for Git beginners on our <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Git">dedicated wiki pages</a> – help us 
helping! Also, consider contributing to the Gitea project.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Legal and Licensing Workshop 2017: Its 10th edition "restarts" debates in Free Software licensing
uri: Legal-and-Licensing-Workshop-2017-Its-10th-edition-restarts-debates
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170619-01.html
content:
Legal and Licensing Workshop 2017: Its 10th edition "restarts" debates in Free Software licensing<p>In April, the FSFE organised its annual 
  <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/legal-conference.en.html">Free 
  Software Legal and Licensing Workshop</a> (LLW): a meeting point for 
  legal experts from all over the world to discuss issues and best practices 
  surrounding Free Software licences. This year marks the 10th anniversary 
  of the LLW which was celebrated with the record number of participants: 
  120 top legal experts and technologists came all the way down to Barcelona 
  (Spain) to spend 3 full days discussing legal challenges around Free Software.</p><p>This year, the workshop was held under theme "Restart". Based on the 
  topics discussed <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/legal-conference.en.html">in the previous editions</a>, 
  it seemed that several prominent discussions needed to be reopened in 
  order to address emerging challenges. Experts had the opportunity to 
  debate on various legal issues, including but not limited to: open data
  and hardware, open government, tooling for lawyers, software patents, 
  copyright trolls an other existing challenges for Free Software compliance, 
  by attending more than 35 presentations of internationally distinguished 
  speakers with long-standing contribution in the field.</p><p>Admission to the event was open to all 
  <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/ln-rules.en.html#join">Legal Network</a> 
  members, while the whole event was covered under the 
  <a href="https://www.chathamhouse.org/about/chatham-house-rule">Chatham 
  House Rule</a>, enabling confidential discussions under fair terms for 
  all the participants.</p><p>The part of event was covered by Jake Edge from LWN.net, who 
  underlined the following discussions during the workshop:</p><p>Shane Coughlan, Armijn Hemel and Mark Radcliffe participated in a panel 
  discussing <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/721458/">the rise of the 
  copyright troll</a>. Despite copyright trolls not being something new 
  to the Free Software legal world, the three panellists analysed the 
  methodology behind such enforcement efforts, based on McHardy's case 
  in Germany, and discussed ways to address that problem through governance 
  of Free Software projects.</p><p>The FSFE program manager, Max Mehl shared with the audience the 
  <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/722197/">FSFE's concerns about the EU radio equipment directive</a>
  (RED). RED might be leading device makers to lock down their hardware, 
  stripping users and vendors from their right to install alternative software
  of their choice on it. Existing legal uncertainty over newly introduced 
  requirements for hardware manufacturers poses a real threat to Free Software 
  enterprises and projects, thus a timely response to these concerns is 
  critical for software freedom on all devices that emit and/or receive 
  radio waves, including laptops and smartphones. Max Mehl presented 
  <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/statement.en.html">the 
  Joint Statement against Radio Lockdown</a>, signed by almost 50 organisations 
  and companies, and invited everyone to take part in the relevant discussions 
  by subscribing to <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/radiodirective">the dedicated mailing list</a>.</p><p>Luis Villa, as one of the speakers presenting on open data, 
  <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/721540/">shed light on the legal implications</a>
  that need to be taken into account, especially with regard to the data 
  sets used by machine-learning systems. Privacy concerns, cross-jurisdictional 
  issues, copyright claims and an emerging right to explanation are all 
  open legal questions, waiting for a not-so-easy response, according to 
  Luis Villa. A move towards open data has already began in this area but 
  the legal difficulties remain: can a copyright licence, albeit open*, 
  address all these issues? The regulatory response from the governments 
  may also not be the best solution to provide necessary leverage, according 
  to Luis Villa.</p><p>In the Free Software world, the supply chain is perplexed and global, 
  characterised by compliance challenges within numerous Free Software 
  licences. Shane Coughlan <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/721698/">described the OpenChain project</a> 
  as the means that helps companies in the supply chain to keep track of 
  their compliance, irrespective of the preferred Free Software licence.</p><p>Another recent effort from the pioneers of the GPL compliance - Shane 
  Coughlan and Armijn Hemel - was also presented during the workshop: 
  <a href="https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/research/practical-gpl-compliance">Practical GPL Compliance</a>
  is designed to guide individuals and companies for better GPL compliance 
  when working with Free Software.</p><p>Last but not least, this year marked also a "restart" for our 
  long-serving <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/fiduciary.en.html">Fiduciary Licensing Agreement</a> (FLA). 
  The FLA is a well-balanced contributor agreement, which gives the trustee 
  responsible power to make sure the contributed software always remain 
  free and open. Matija Šuklje, the previous FSFE's Legal Coordinator and 
  the main driving force behind the FLA update, presented the challenges, 
  process and changes that led to the FLA-2.0. The biggest points of the 
  update are that the FLA now also covers patents and enables more practical 
  outbound licensing options, including a reference to an external licensing 
  policy. In addition, the new wording is much improved both in its compatibility 
  with more jurisdictions as well as being easier to understand and apply. 
  The final text and a new website are to launch in the coming weeks, 
  so watch this space.</p><p>The workshop would not have been possible without the generous support 
  of all the event's sponsors. In particular, we would like to thank our 
  Platinum Sponsors: Intel, Red Hat and The Linux Foundation.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Estonian presidency in the EU: the FSFE asks for truly interoperable IT services in public sector
uri: Estonian-presidency-in-the-EU-the-FSFE-asks-for-truly-interoperable-I
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170710-01.html
content:
Estonian presidency in the EU: the FSFE asks for truly interoperable IT services in public sector<p>The FSFE submitted its comments for the upcoming 
  Tallinn Declaration for e-government drafted by the Estonian presidency 
  of the Council of the EU. Therein the FSFE asks the current Estonian 
  presidency to promote greater inclusion of Free Software in delivering 
  truly inclusive, trustworthy and interoperable digital services to all 
  citizens and businesses across the EU. The Tallinn Declaration will be 
  signed by EU ministers in October 2017, expressing member states' joint 
  vision for e-government and political commitment to follow the goals set. 
  The proposal for Tallinn declaration is open for public comments until 14 July. 
  The FSFE is asking organisations, companies, and individuals to let EU 
  ministers know how Free Software is important for transparent and accountable 
  e-government.</p><p>Since 1 July, Estonia is holding its presidency of the Council of the 
  EU. The presidency is responsible for driving forward the Council's work 
  on EU legislation, ensuring the continuity of the EU agenda, orderly 
  legislative processes and cooperation among member states. As part of 
  its presidency, Estonia has set up a goal to make strong progress on 
  the development of public digital services in Europe.</p><p>The Estonian presidency is currently planning to bring forward an e-government 
  roadmap for both the national as well as EU levels, through <a href="https://www.mkm.ee/en/news/your-ideas-next-ministerial-declaration-digital-government">ministerial declaration</a> 
  signed by e-government ministers across the EU. Several policy 
  proposals indicated in the Tallinn Declaration will shape the future 
  EU policy in this domain.</p><p>The Estonian presidency released a <a href="https://ideas4digitalgov.eu/">proposal for the declaration</a>
  for public consultation. One of the key points therein says that:</p>
	  <p>"Public services and IT systems should be interoperable across organisations 
  and platforms".</p>
  <p>Amongst other things, this should be achieved by "opening up" 
  government data and services. Another key point suggests that:</p>
	  <p>"Citizens should also have a right to algorithmic accountability 
  and transparency, such that citizens can understand and challenge decisions 
  based on algorithms".</p>
  <p>The FSFE believes that the Estonian presidency should follow Estonia's 
  <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/EU_Policies_overview_FS#Estonia">own example</a> 
  of building open and interoperable public IT services with Free Software, 
  and go further to explicitly acknowledge the importance that Free Software 
  and Open Standards play in providing reusable, transparent and accountable
  solutions in the public sector across EU member states.</p><p>The FSFE extends a continuous pressure to open up government data and 
  services into the release of software that is used for governmental e-services. 
  The opening of data also means the opening of rules and modules that
  produce that data, complements it and underpins public decisions. Without 
  that important resource, true algorithmic transparency and accountability 
  is not possible. Hence, the FSFE demands that all publicly funded software 
  that is underpinning public digital services is made publicly available 
  as Free Software. Only then, increased trust in e-government can be achieved. </p>Our amendments and how you can help<p>In summary, the FSFE asks the authors of the Tallinn Declaration 
  to amend and include the following points:</p>
	  Give preference to Open Standards, including for data interchange, 
as in line with the European Interoperability Framework. Open Standards 
can only be called open if they allow implementations in Free Software.

	Allow citizens and enterprises to access, edit and port their data 
owned by public administration in Open Standards and open formats. Software 
developed by and for public administration has to be published as Free 
Software in order to guarantee algorithmic accountability and transparency.

	Continue the progress in opening up government data and services, 
including software, starting from extending the scope of the Public Sector 
Information directive (PSI) to data and software privately held, but of 
public interest. PSI also needs to be extended to source code of public s
oftware that needs to be released under Free/Open Source Software licences.
	<p>Please see our full comments for Tallinn declaration <a href="media/7889c6df.FSFE-Tallinn-Declaration.pdf" data-original-source="https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/FSFE-Tallinn-Declaration.pdf">here</a>.</p><p>The proposal is open for public comments until 14 July, 
which will then be presented to the member states as an input in the preparation 
of the declaration to define future EU policy on digital government. 
The FSFE encourages organisations, companies, and individuals <a href="https://ideas4digitalgov.eu/">to submit 
comments and directly participate in the EU policy making</a>. Feel free 
to reuse the arguments laid out above for your own submission and tell 
the EU ministers how Free Software and Open Standards are important for 
trustworthy, interoperable and transparent digital government.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_svn/news/generated_xml/news___nl___nl-201707.fr.xml
title: FSFE Lettre d'information - Juillet 2017
uri: FSFE-Lettre-d-information-Juillet-2017
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201707.html
content:
FSFE Lettre d'information - Juillet 2017La FSFE fournit maintenant une instance GIT pour ses soutiens<p>Partager son savoir et améliorer la coopération sont les principes fondamentaux de la communauté du Logiciel Libre. C'est pourquoi la FSFE est heureuse de fournir à ses soutiens et à ses volontaires enregistrés une plate-forme pour créer et gérer des dépôts Git avec une interface web confortable à l'adresse  <a href="https://git.fsfe.org">git.fsfe.org</a>.</p><p>Avec git.fsfe.org, la FSFE permet à ses soutiens de partager et collaborer sur une plate-forme <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170616-01.html">qui respecte totalement leurs libertés</a>. Et bien que les utilisateurs sont libres d'utiliser cette plate-forme pour leurs besoins privés, nous encourageons tous les activistes et les groupes locaux de la FSFE à y héberger leur code pour leurs activités pour la FSFE, à y partager leurs comptes rendus et documents liés à leur réunion de groupe FSFE ou encore à y déposer toute information publique intéressante. De cette façon, nous aimerions faciliter et stimuler les collaborations, les retours et la créativité au sein de notre communauté pan-européenne.</p><p>Les équipes et groupes de travail officiels de l'association FSFE vont aussi essayer de migrer autant de code et de dossiers pertinents que possible sur cette nouvelle plate-forme. Par exemple les futures développements web, les documents de promotion ainsi que les scripts utiles au travail quotidien de l'organisation. Pour les débutants sur Git, nous expliquons le service en détail sur le <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Git">wiki de la FSFE [EN]</a>. Les utilisateurs avancés sont invités à aider à étendre les guides pour les processus Git les plus courants.</p><p>Trouvez et utilisez nous, étudiez, partagez et améliorez sur <a href="https://git.fsfe.org">git.fsfe.org</a>.</p>

                                
                                <a href="media/9796a910.2017-06-R2D2-with-IloveFS-at-FSFE-booth.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/2017-06-R2D2-with-IloveFS-at-FSFE-booth.jpg"/>
                                

                                        <p>[<a href="#boothpic">**</a>] R2D2 at the FSFE booth: <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/">"J'aime le Logiciel Libre"</a></p>
                                
                  <p> Aidez nous à grandir et à faire la différence en 2017.
                <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-07">https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-07</a></p>Qu'avons-nous fait d'autres ? A l'intérieur ou à l'extérieur de la FSFE

 
                L'Estonie a pris la présidence du conseil de l'union européenne et demande au public de commenter leur proposition de "Déclaration de Tallinn", un ensemble de propositions politiques pour le gouvernement numérique Européen, qui devrait être signé par les ministres de l'union européenne en Octobre. La FSFE a <a href="FIXME: LINK">fourni ses commentaires</a> dans un premier tour de consultation publique, le second tour de commentaires étant ouvert à tous. Nous vous encourageons à <a href="https://ideas4digitalgov.eu/">participer</a> et à réutiliser nos arguments pour favoriser les Logiciels Libres et les Standards Ouverts dans l'infrastructure numérique publique européenne. La  date limite pour les commentaires est le 14 Juillet.

 

                Dans le cadre de notre campagne Libérez votre Android, la FSFE <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#f-droid">explique et promeut</a>
 l'utilisation du magasin d'application libre F-Droid. Torsten Grote, membre de l'Assemblée Générale de la FSFE et initiateur de notre campagne Libérez votre Android (FYA-campaign en anglais), a partagé ses connaissances sur <a href="https://blog.grobox.de/2017/how-f-droid-is-bringing-apps-to-cuba/">comment F-Droid apporte des applications à Cuba</a>.



                Est-il acceptable d'utiliser des plates-formes propriétaires pour promouvoir les Logiciels Libres ? La communauté de la FSFE, incluant les représentants FSFE des soutiens, ont discuté de cette question <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/discussion/2017-June/011591.html">sur notre liste de discussion publique</a>. N'hésitez pas à vous joindre à la discussion.


                À Zurich, il y a eu <a href="https://danielpocock.com/croissants-qatar-food-computer-zurich">une réunion de lancement d'un groupe local "ordinateur à nourriture" (Food Computer)</a>
 incluant le représentant FSFE des soutiens, Daniel Pocock, et un financement de la FSFE pour la venue d'Anisa Kuci.

                Le directeur du programme de la FSFE, Max Mehl,  s'est rendu au groupe local de la FSFE Rhein/Main à Francfort, en Allemagne, et a donné une conférence sur "Argent Public, Code public".


                L'équipe française de la FSFE était présente avec un stand aux Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre (RMLL) - aussi connues sus le nom de Libre Software Meeting (LSM) - à Saint-Etienne où Cryptie, notre supportrice depuis des années, a donné une conférence <a href="https://prog2017.rmll.info/programme/securite-entre-transparence-et-opacite/de-la-crypto-academique-a-la-pratique-oups-il-manque-un-truc?lang=en">"De la crypto académique à la pratique : oups il manque un truc "</a>.

                


                Le groupe local de la FSFE Berlin était présent avec un stand au Maker Faire pour expliquer aux visiteurs pourquoi le bricolage dépend beaucoup des Logiciels Libres. 



                Le groupe local de FSFE Milan, en Italie, <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2017/07-06-International-Day-Against-DRM">ont célébré avec Game Over Milano la journée internationale contre les DRM</a> en informant sur les menaces des DRM concernant le HTML5, les livres électroniques, les musiques, jeux et plus encore.

                
                Le groupe local de la FSFE Offenbach, en Allemagne, était présent avec un stand au Bended Realities Festival pour informer sur le lien entre éducation libre et Logiciel Libre.



                Le groupe local de la FSFE Munich, e, Allemagne, a tenu un atelier sur <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiMUC/2017-06-02_Workshop:_Wie_funktioniert_freie_Software%3F">"Qu'est-ce qu'un Logiciel Libre ?"</a> avec un focus spécial pour les personnes n'ayant que peu ou pas de connaissance sur les logiciels.
           Ne les loupés pas ! Les prochains événements avec la FSFE        


				SHA est le nom d'un Hacker camp à but non lucratif en extérieur qui a lieu du 4 au 8 aout, à coté de Amersfoort en Hollande. L'équipe hollandaise de la FSFE et ses amis seront présents avec un <a href="https://wiki.sha2017.org/w/Village:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe">village dédié à la FSFE</a>. Si vous êtes dans les parages, passez et rejoignez une des sessions, conférences, ateliers ou projets, ou encore aidez à <a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2017/06/join-us-now-at-sha2017/">chanter la "Free Software song" (chanson du Logiciel Libre)</a>.

           Aidez nous à améliorer notre lettre d'information<p>Si vous voyez des nouvelles qui devraient être incluses, faites nous les suivre. Si vous souhaitez partager des idées, envoyez les nous. Comme toujours, l'adresse est newsletter@fsfe.org. Nous attendons de vos nouvelles !</p><p>Merci à tous les <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">bénévoles</a>, <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">soutiens</a> et <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donateurs</a> qui rendent notre travail possible.</p><p>Votre éditeur,

                
                Erik Albers</p><p><a href=""/>[**] Sur l'image: R2D2 qui visitait le stand FSFE pendant la conférence Maker Fair à Berlin. 
    Avez-vous de belles images de stand de la FSFE (et de l'équipe) que vous voulez partager  avec notre communauté ? Envoyez les nous à <a href="mailto:contact@fsfe.org">contact@fsfe.org</a>. Nous adorons les photos de stand &lt;3</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Désormais disponible dans notre boutique en ligne : la bavette rose non-binaire
uri: Désormais-disponible-dans-notre-boutique-en-ligne-la-bavette-rose
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170726-01.html
content:
Désormais disponible dans notre boutique en ligne : la bavette rose non-binaire parfaite pour tous les genres !<p>Consultez notre nouveau produit pour les tout jeunes
  soutiens de la Free Software Fondation dans notre boutique en ligne : une
  bavette en matières 100% biologiques et équitables. L'expression « I am a
  fork » (je suis un embranchement) est cousue sur la bavette et restera
  ainsi intact même après plusieurs lavages.</p><p>C'est le cadeau parfait pour votre famille, vos connaissances et vos
  collègues et qui est inévitable si vous avez vos propres "forks" à la maison.
  <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order.fr#baby-bib-pink">Obtenez votre bavette
     grâce à notre boutique en ligne</a>, ou bien achetez la  <a href="https://fsfe.org/events/events.fr">lors de l'un de nos évènements</a> !</p>
				<a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order#baby-bib-pink"/>

			<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Open internship position as project assistant
uri: Open-internship-position-as-project-assistant
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170811-01.html
content:
Open internship position as project assistant<p>
FSFE is a charity dedicated to keeping the power over technology in your
hands. We are working to build freedom in a digital society and operate
in a lively environment with volunteers from many countries. We are
looking for an intern to join our remote team for three to six months,
working with us on a project which seek to prepare the organisation
for the next 15 years of work.
</p><p>
What we can offer is:

A challenging and exciting time with a dynamic NGO working internationally
A close-up view of organisational and community processes
A chance to take the initiative and put your own ideas into practice
The opportunity to meet and work with Free Software advocates across Europe 

</p><p>
What you'll do:

        
          Contribute to <a href="http://fsfe.org/work.html">FSFE's ongoing projects</a>, working with one or more of our staff and volunteers, with a particular focus on a project which will map out and analyse our organisational identity.
        
        
          Communicate with contacts from the FSFE community, NGO, industry, and public administrations.
        
        
          Coordinate volunteers and others in the work on various projects.
        
        
          Find your own strengths, and do something you care about.
        

</p><p>
Be sure to read our pages about <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship">internships</a>
in general before applying!
</p>Basic details<p>
Location: Remote. You'll be welcome to visit our office in Berlin, but you'll be working closely with our executive director based in Stockholm, Sweden, and as such, you will also be working primarily from your own place.
</p><p>Duration: 3 to 6 months full time at 35 hours per week, starting as agreed.</p><p>Compensation: We offer a compensation commensurate with your experience. As a general reference, for our technical internship offered in
2016-2017, we offered a salary of roughly €1,300 per month.</p>Work responsibility and activities<p>
Together with our executive director, you will work on a project to analyse
how the different groups within and outside of the FSFE perceive the
organisation's identity, which will work towards understanding how aligned
the identity is between the different groups.
</p><p>
The work will take the form of an analysis of existing material, interviews
with stakeholders, members and staff, as well as surveys. The whole process
will lead towards defining the organisational identity such that it can form
the basis for continued work in our organisational development.
The work may involve some travel, but it is likely to be limited.
</p>Qualifications<p>
You should have some experience or a considerable interest in Free Software.
Your field of study doesn't matter, but you should be able to relate it to
our work. Traditionally, a lot of interns in the FSFE have a legal or
political science background, but we've also had interns working with us
with a more technical or other social science background.
</p><p>
Experience from your studies or similar from conducting and analysing
interviews and surveys, together with appropriate methods for doing so
(for example grounded theory), will be greatly beneficial.
</p>Formal requirements<p>
You must be fluent in English, and ideally in at least one other
language. You must have some experience from working with Free Software
previously.
</p>Application deadline<p>
There is no fixed application deadline for this positions, but we will
conduct interviews and hiring starting the 14th of August, and as such,
your application should be sent soonest.
</p>How to apply<p>
Send your application containing a letter of motivation, a CV by e-mail
to contact@fsfe.org. Please make sure to write clearly you apply for
the internship position with reference PA-2017. We prefer to receive
your documents in PDF format.
</p>Contact persons<p>
If you have any questions about the position or any administrative
details in connection with it, you're welcome to contact:
</p><p>

 Jonas Öberg about the positions themselves, and the work involved
 Ulrike Sliwinski for any administrative questions

</p><p>
Both will be reading and responding if you send your question to the
contact@fsfe.org address. We look forward to reading your application!
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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uri: Digital-O-Mat-Compare-your-views-on-Internet-policies-with-the-partie
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170829-01.html
title:
Digital-O-Mat: Compare your views on Internet policies with the parties for the German federal election 2017

content:
Digital-O-Mat: Compare your views on Internet policies with the parties for the German federal election 2017<p>Although digital issues are becoming increasingly important, general election coverage often miss them out. That is why the "Koalition Freies Wissen" ("Free Knowledge Coalition") created the "Digital-O-Mat", an online tool for voter information for the German federal election of 2017. The FSFE asked the participating parties about their positions on Free Software. CDU/CSU, SPD and FDP avoid clear statements and thus confirm the status quo, the Greens and the Left in contrast present themselves as supporters of Free Software.</p>What is the Digital-O-Mat?<p>
                <a href="https://bund.digital-o-mat.de/"/>
            

The <a href="http://bund.digital-o-mat.de/">Digital-O-Mat</a> highlights the parties' positions on Internet policy relevant topics and helps voters to find their matching party for the election to the German parliament. Its design resembles the well-known Wahl-O-Mat, a popular online voter information tool by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education . Users of the Digital-O-Mat are able to answer twelve questions and then compare their position to the participating parties. The topics of Digital-O-Mat include transparency, surveillance, digital civil rights and, of course, Free Software. We asked AfD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, CDU/CSU, FDP, Die Linke and the SPD. We received replies from everyone except AfD. <a href="https://github.com/dsstio/digital-o-mat">Digital-O-Mat is Free Software</a> and had its debut in 2017 for the <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170419-01">state parliament elections in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)</a>.</p>The parties' positions on Free Software<p>For Digital-O-Mat, the Free Software Floundation Europe asked the participating parties the following questions:</p>
          If software is financed or co-financed by the public sector, should there be no regulation regarding its licensing, e.g. a Free Software licence?
          Should public administrations gradually migrate their IT systems to Free and Open Source software?
        <p>CDU/CSU (conservatives) and FDP (liberals) marked their position as "neutral" and answered in a very similar fashion. Unfortunately, these parties avoid making a clear stance and ultimately confirm the status quo. On one hand, they do consider the use of Free Software, on the other hand, so they say, there are multiple other aspects to consider weigh in. However, they list functionality and usability for example, even though they have no relation to the licence in use. When asked about the migration of existing IT systems, CDU/CSU prefer decision making on a case-by-case basis, while FDP dodged our question. </p><p>Although the SPD (labour) also marked their answer as "neutral", they support the deployment and development of Free Software in public administrations and educational institutions, "to foster the creation of innovative businesses in the local market". Die Linke (lefts) and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (greens) position themselves as supporters of deployment and public funding of Free Software. The greens consider Free Software to be a "cornerstone for secure and future-proof IT systems", and the lefts also fully support it, as long as there are no concerns regarding security or operation.  </p>
				<a href="media/918fc376.2017-08-29-digitalomat-infographic-parties-EN.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/miscellaneous/2017-08-29-digitalomat-infographic-parties-EN.png"/>
				
					<p>Infographic: The parties' positions on Free Software</p>
				
			About the "Koalition Freies Wissen"<p>The Koalition Freies Wissen ("Free Knowledge Coalition") is an association of multiple civic organisations, namely <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/">Bündnis Freie Bildung</a>, <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/">Chaos Computer Club e.V.</a>, <a href="https://digitalegesellschaft.de/">Digitale Gesellschaft e.V.</a>,  <a href="https://freifunk.net/">Freifunk</a>, <a href="https://okfn.de/">Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V.</a>, <a href="https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Hauptseite">Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.</a> and the <a href="https://fsfe.org">Free Software Foundation Europe</a>. </p><p>The common goal of the Koalition Freies Wissen is to disseminate knowledge about digital and Internet policy issues as well as to highlight and establish digital civil rights in society and politics. The coalition has sent questions to the participating parties in previous state parliament elections this year and has now created the Digital-O-Mat for the German federal elections 2017.</p><a href="https://digital-o-mat.de/">Digital-O-Mat</a><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Bundestagswahl 2017: Das sagen die Parteien zu Freier Software
uri: Bundestagswahl-2017-Das-sagen-die-Parteien-zu-Freier-Software
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Bundestagswahl 2017: Das sagen die Parteien zu Freier Software<p>Die Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) veröffentlicht heute, als Teil der "Koalition Freies Wissen", ihre Wahlprüfsteine für die Wahl zum 19. Deutschen Bundestag am 24. September 2017. Zusammenfassend schneiden Grüne und Linke positiv ab. Beide Parteien scheinen die zentrale Rolle von Software zu verstehen und sprechen sich, wie auch schon zur letzten Bundestagswahl, sowohl für den Einsatz als auch für die aktive Entwicklung von Freier Software aus. Im Vergleich dazu sind die Positionen von CDU/CSU, der SPD und der FDP eher zurückhaltend und oft mit Einschränkungen verbunden.</p><p>In den Wahlprüfsteinen der FSFE konnten die gefragten Parteien Stellung nehmen zur Forderung, öffentlich finanzierte Software als Freie Software zu veröffentlichen, sowie zu ihrer Bereitschaft, öffentliche Verwaltungen schrittweise auf Freie Software zu migrieren. CDU/CSU, FDP, Grüne, Linke, und SPD haben geantwortet und erklärten ihre jeweiligen Positionen dazu. Wir analysieren die eingereichten Antworten und vergleichen diese zudem mit unseren <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130703-01">Wahlprüfsteinen von 2013</a>. Die Wahlprüfsteine wurden in Zusammenarbeit mit der Koalition Freies Wissen erstellt. Die Koalition Freies Wissen ist ein Zusammenschluss aus mehreren zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen. Auf der Kampagnenseite zur Bundestagswahl 2017 finden sich  <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201709-germany-bundestagswahl">die kompletten Fragen und Antworten der "Koalition Freies Wissen"</a>. Im Folgenden eine  Zusammenfassung und Bewertung der Antworten auf die Fragen der FSFE.</p>
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					<p>Die Wahl zum neuen 19. Deutschen Bundestag findet statt am 24. September 2017.</p>
				
			Wahlprüfsteine der FSFE zur Bundestagswahl 2017Wie positionieren Sie sich zu der Forderung, dass Software, deren Entwicklung durch öffentliche Gelder finanziert oder kofinanziert wurde, grundsätzlich unter einer Freie-Software-Lizenz veröffentlicht werden soll, um sie auf diese Weise Bürgern und Unternehmen frei zur Verfügung zu stellen? Mit welchen konkreten Maßnahmen werden Sie Ihre Position umsetzen?<p>CDU/CSU haben unsere Frage nur teilweise beantwortet. Obwohl wir nach einer Veröffentlichung von durch öffentlichen Geldern finanzierter Softwareentwicklung fragten, sprechen CDU/CSU von einem "möglichen Einsatz Freier Software". Die von CDU/CSU aufgezählten Kriterien, beispielsweise Funktionalität und Interoperabilität, werden bei einer Eigenentwicklung vom Auftraggeber vorgegeben und vom Auftragnehmer entsprechend umgesetzt. Die verwendete Lizenz hat darauf keinen Einfluss und ist daher getrennt zu betrachten.</p><p>Ähnlich wie die CDU/CSU konzentriert sich die FDP bei ihrer Antwort auf die Beschaffung von bereits existierender Software und weniger auf die durch öffentliche Gelder finanzierte Softwareentwicklung, worauf die Frage eigentlich abgezielt hat. Die FDP sieht Vielfalt, "Wirksamkeit öffentlicher Fördermittel" und einen fairen Wettbewerb als wichtige Kriterien bei der Beschaffung von Software. Dies alles sind Werte, die durch Freie Software verkörpert werden. Die Lizenz wird als gleichwertiges Kriterium zur Qualität und Anwenderfreundlichkeit genannt. Während es einerseits positiv zu bewerten ist, dass die Lizenz für die FDP ein gleichwertiges Kriterium darstellt, sollte nicht außer Acht gelassen werden, dass subjektive Kriterien wie Anwenderfreundlichkeit in der Vergangenheit oft verwendet wurden, um Freie Software zu verhindern.  Darüber hinaus können Qualität und Anwenderfreundlichkeit bei Freier Software unabhängig vom ursprünglichen Entwickler verbessert werden, was sowohl bessere Ergebnisse ermöglicht als auch den von der FDP geforderten fairen Wettbewerb stärkt.</p><p>Die SPD verspricht, sie "wollen auch im Bereich der öffentlichen Beschaffung von Software stärker auf quelloffene Software (Open Source) setzen". Auch <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201309-germany-bundestagswahl.de.html#id-antworten-der-parteien">2013 versprach die SPD bereits</a> "von der öffentlichen Hand finanzierte Software soll, soweit es geht, als Freie Software auch wieder der Allgemeinheit zur Verfügung stehen." In den vergangenen vier Jahren wurde jedoch trotz Regierungsbeteiligung wenig umgesetzt. Zum Beispiel veröffentlicht das SPD-geführte Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie seine eigens entwickelte App "BMWi Behördenwegweiser" als proprietäre Software, welche zudem nur für Nutzerinnen mit Google oder Apple Benutzerkonto verfügbar ist. Zum Thema Elster meinte die SPD 2013 zudem noch: "Wenn die Politik es ernst meint, verstärkt auf Open Source und Freie Software setzen zu wollen, dann muss sie auch im Bereich der Steuerverwaltung entsprechende plattformunabhängige Ansätze unterstützen. Daher werden wir uns dafür einsetzen, entsprechende Software auch für alternative Betriebssysteme bereitzustellen." An der Situation hat sich bis heute allerdings nichts geändert. Wir würden uns freuen, wenn das Thema in der nächsten Legislaturperiode wieder aufgegriffen wird.</p><p>Die Grünen sehen Freie Software als einen "Eckpfeiler für sichere und zukunftsfähige IT-Systeme." Sie wollen Freie Software bei öffentlichen IT-Beschaffungen bevorzugen, "insbesondere dann, wenn BürgerInnen diese einsetzen sollen." Ähnlich wie bei CDU/CSU und FDP wurde auch hier der Punkt der öffentlich finanzierten Softwareentwicklung übersehen. Bei der letzten Bundestagswahl gab es von den Grünen hierzu noch eine klare Aussage, "dass bei Softwareentwicklungen von Behörden stets der Quellcode freigeben werden muss, d. h. die Programme müssen Open-Source sein, damit möglichst viele Menschen von ihnen profitieren können und die Möglichkeit besteht, sie einfach weiterzuentwickeln."</p><p>Die Linken dagegen "sind dafür, dass durch öffentliche Mittel finanzierte Entwicklungen allen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern zur Verfügung stehen, soweit dem keine Gründe der Sicherheit der informationstechnischen Systeme oder der Arbeitsweise der öffentlichen Verwaltung entgegenstehen." Dies geht einher mit dem Statement aus 2013, wo sie ebenso eine Veröffentlichung der von öffentlicher Hand selbst beauftragten Software unter Freien Lizenzen forderten.</p>Wie positionieren Sie sich zu der Forderung, dass alle öffentlichen Verwaltungen schrittweise auf solche Software umstellen sollen, die sowohl Bürgern als auch Unternehmen zur uneingeschränkten Nutzung, Bearbeitung und Weitergabe zur Verfügung steht (Freie/Open-Source-Software)? Mit welchen konkreten Maßnahmen werden Sie Ihre Position umsetzen?<p>CDU/CSU halten den Einsatz Freier Software zwar für sinnvoll, erwähnen aber nicht, in welchem Umfang, an welchen Stellen und in welchem Zeitraum sie planen, Freie Software in öffentlichen Verwaltungen einzusetzen. Sie nennen Paragraph 63, Absatz 2 der Bundeshaushaltsordnung (§ 63 Abs. 2 BHO ) als Hindernis, in dem es um die Veräußerung von "Vermögensgegenständen" geht. Dem gegenüber steht jedoch das Begleitdokument "Rechtliche Aspekte der Nutzung, Verbreitung und Weiterentwicklung von Open-Source-Software" (2012) zur vierten Auflage des Leitfaden für die Migration von Software:</p>"Nach § 63 Abs. 2 BHO dürfen Vermögensgegenstände nur veräußert werden, wenn sie in absehbarer Zeit nicht benötigt werden. Dies dürfte bei der Weitergabe von Software immer erfüllt sein, weil auch bei Weitergabe von Kopien immer eine nutzbare Version bei der Verwaltung verbleibt; §63 Abs. 2 BHO stellt also keine Begrenzung für die Weitergabe von Software dar." (S. 41)<p>Wenn die CDU/CSU in der Bundeshaushaltsordnung ein Hindernis für ihre Pläne zum Einsatz von Freier Software sieht, hätten sie die Möglichkeit gehabt das Gesetz in den letzten zwölf Jahren Regierungsbeteiligung anzupassen. Wir würden uns wünschen, dass die nächste Bundesregierung mögliche Unklarheiten in der BHO beseitigt und bieten hierzu unsere Unterstützung an. Rechtliche Unklarheiten wie diese sollten Innovationen in der öffentlichen Verwaltung nicht behindern.</p><p>Die SPD antwortet, sie wolle "stärker auf Freie Software setzen" und zitiert dazu aus ihrem Wahlprogramm. Dabei ist positiv hervorzuheben, wie auf Seiten der SPD die wirtschaftliche Dimension mitbedacht wird, denn diese möchte "den Anteil freier Software in Verwaltung und Bildungseinrichtungen erhöhen, um innovative Unternehmensgründungen im regionalen Markt zu unterstützen." In der Praxis müssen wir allerdings feststellen, dass die gleichen Vorhaben bereits 2013 formuliert und trotz Regierungsbeteiligung der SPD hier keine Fortschritte erzielt wurden.</p><p>Bei der Antwort der FDP fiel es uns schwer, einen Zusammenhang zwischen "E-Government", "bürgerfreundliche[r] Verwaltung", "digitale[n] Dienstleistungen" und unserer Frage zum Einsatz von Freier Software in der Verwaltung herzustellen. Die FDP betont, dass für sie "die Qualität und Nutzerfreundlichkeit der Anwendungen" im Vordergrund steht. Zwei Kriterien, welche sie bereits in ihrer Antwort zur ersten Frage hervorgehoben haben. Dies legt nahe, dass bei der FDP das Thema Freie Software nur eine untergeordnete Rolle spielt.</p><p>Die Grünen haben diese Frage identisch mit der ersten Frage beantwortet. Erstaunlich ist, dass sie an dieser Stelle nicht die Argumente aus ihrem Wahlprogramm anführen. Dort <a href="https://www.gruene.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Dokumente/BUENDNIS_90_DIE_GRUENEN_Bundestagswahlprogramm_2017.pdf#page=168">begründen</a> sie den Einsatz von Freier Software nämlich zusätzlich mit den Argumenten erhöhter Transparenz, geringerer Abhängigkeit von einzelnen Herstellern und sicherer Nachnutzung (S. 168).</p><p>Die Linke lässt in ihrer Antwort ein klares Bekenntnis zu Freier Software erkennen. Sie sieht Freie Software als eine Möglichkeit, den Datenaustausch zwischen verschiedenen Behörden zu erleichtern. Außerdem begrüßen wir, dass die Linke die Weiterentwicklung Freier Software durch öffentliche Verwaltungen fordert. Das hilft nicht nur anderen Behörden, Kosten zu sparen, sondern kommt auch der Allgemeinheit zu Gute, da die entsprechenden Freie-Software-Projekte von den Verbesserungen durch die Behörden profitieren.</p>Fazit<p>Alle befragten Parteien haben sich im Vergleich zu ihren Positionen 2013 nahezu nicht bewegt. Die derzeitigen Regierungsparteien CDU/CSU und SPD haben sich bedauerlicher Weise nicht weiter in Richtung Freier Software bewegt. Beide Parteien haben keine der von ihnen genannten Schritte zur Förderung Freier Software eingeleitet. Die juristischen Bedenken bezüglich § 63 Abs. 2 BHO wurden nicht geklärt und Deutschland bleibt mit der schwachen Förderung Freier Software digitaler Nachzügler in Europa. Das CDU geführte Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) ist hier als einziges Ministerium positiv in Erscheinung getreten und hat mit der Förderung des <a href="https://prototypefund.de">Prototype Fund</a> in dieser Legislaturperiode mehrere Millionen direkt in die Entwicklung von Freier Software investiert.</p><p>Im Vergleich dazu bestätigen die Grünen und die Linken das Bild, welches sie bei unseren Wahlprüfsteinen zur letzten Bundestagswahl hinterlassen haben. Während die Grünen bei allgemeinen Statements wiederholen, dass Freie Software und freie Formate für sie "ein Eckpfeiler für sichere und zukunftsfähige IT-Systeme" sei, bekräftigen die Linken ihre Position zu Freier Software: So sollen "durch öffentliche Mittel finanzierte Entwicklungen allen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern zur Verfügung stehen". Positiv zu bewerten ist zudem, dass die Linke mit Blick auf Freie Software nicht nur die kommerziellen Aspekte hervorhebt, sondern auch die der Autonomie und der Wiederverwertbarkeit, da diese "auch von den IT-Zentren der öffentlichen Verwaltung mit weiterentwickelt werden kann."</p> "Während der letzten Legislaturperiode hat sich bei den Parteien nicht viel zu Freier Software getan. Das muss sich nach der Wahl ändern, damit Deutschland nicht den Anschluss an Software-Innovationen verliert, von denen Unternehmen schon lange profitieren. Dafür bieten wir unsere Hilfe und Expertise an", so Björn Schießle, Deutschlandkoordinator der FSFE.Wie Du helfen kannst<p>Es ist noch etwas Zeit bis zur Bundestagswahl am 24. September. Sollten die Antworten der Parteien weitere Fragen aufgeworfen haben, möchten wir alle dazu ermutigen, diese direkt an die Kandidatinnen zu stellen. Hierfür bietet sich die Plattform <a href="https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de">Abgeordnetenwatch</a> an, aber auch der direkte Kontakt auf Wahlkampfveranstaltungen, per E-Mail oder telefonisch ist eine gute Möglichkeit um mit Politikern in Kontakt zu kommen und mehr, über ihre Position zu Freier Software zu erfahren. Zur weiteren Wahlinformation vor der Bundestagswahl haben wir zusammen mit der Koalition Freies Wissen außerdem einen  <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170829-01">Digital-O-Mat</a> gestaltet. Ähnlich dem "Wahl-O-Mat" der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung können sich die Nutzer des Digital-O-Mat durch ihre eigenen Antworten mit den zur Wahl antretenden Parteien vergleichen.</p><p>Analysen wie diese, vom ersten Entwurf der Fragen bis zur abschließenden Auswertung, kosten viel Zeit und Recherche. Aber auch nach der Wahl wollen wir mit den Parteien in Kontakt bleiben und sie bei der Umsetzung ihrer Wahlversprechen begleiten. Wir freuen uns deshalb über jede <a href="https://fsfe/support">Unterstützung</a>, um auch in Zukunft diese wichtige Arbeit zu leisten.</p>Über die Koalition Freies Wissen<p>Die Koalition Freies Wissen ist ein Zusammenschluss aus mehreren zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen, namentlich des <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/">Bündnis Freie Bildung</a>, dem <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/">Chaos Computer Club e.V.</a>, dem <a href="https://digitalegesellschaft.de/">Digitale Gesellschaft e.V.</a>,  dem <a href="https://freifunk.net/">Förderverein freie Netzwerke e.V.</a>, der <a href="https://okfn.de/">Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V.</a>, <a href="https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Hauptseite">Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.</a> und der <a href="https://fsfe.org">Free Software Foundation Europe</a>. </p><p>Gemeinsames Ziel der Koalition Freies Wissen ist es, die politische Bildung zu den Themen Digital- und Netzpolitik voranzutreiben sowie digitale Bürgerrechte in Gesellschaft und Politik zu verankern und zu beleuchten. Dazu wurden in vorangegangenen Landtagswahlen sowie zur Bundestagswahl 2017 gemeinsame Wahlprüfsteine an die jeweils antretenden Parteien versendet und für die Bundestagswahl zudem ein gemeinsamer <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170829-01">Digital-O-Mat</a> gestaltet.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE announces Software Licensing Best Practices
uri: FSFE-announces-Software-Licensing-Best-Practices
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170906-01.html
content:
FSFE announces Software Licensing Best Practices<p>
The FSFE launches today its best practises in licensing for Free and Open Source Software project. Targeted at developers and companies, these best practices show you how to make it clear to others what license your software is being distributed under, in a way which both computers and humans can understand.
    </p><p>
A <a href="https://github.com/blog/1964-open-source-license-usage-on-github-com">recent study</a> conducted by GitHub discovered that less than 20% of the projects hosted on their site included a license. This is problematic because, although most developers want to share their code, without their explicit consent spelled out in a legal document, you cannot benefit from their generosity.
</p><p>
If you want others to be able to use your code, you have to include a license, and do so in a way which can be understood by humans and computers alike. Attaching a license to software that humans can understand can be challenging in itself. Making a computer understand your license is even more difficult.
</p><p>
As a project grows, it will incorporate code from other projects or people. This means you will have to keep track of and retain copyright notices, respecting the licenses used. Careless licensing and omitting notices can infringe other people's rights. This can lead to legal problems for both parties.
</p><p>
The <a href="https://reuse.software/">Software Licensing Best Practices guide</a> will help you include license and copyright notices correctly in your software. You will avoid legal problems down the road and others will be able to share your programs in accordance with your wishes. Computers will be able to understand your license and copyright and, most important of all, your rights and the rights of others will be respected.
</p><p>
Visit our site <a href="https://reuse.software/">https://reuse.software/</a>, download our guide and spread the word to your colleagues and friends. If you have any questions regarding licensing, don't hesitate to <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/licence-questions">ask our experts</a>.
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_svn/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20170908-01.en.xml
title: European Copyright reform hampers Free Software development
uri: European-Copyright-reform-hampers-Free-Software-development
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170908-01.html
content:
European Copyright reform hampers Free Software development<p>The FSFE and Open Forum Europe teamed up for an initiative 
  to show the implications of the proposed EU copyright reform for the 
  Free Software development ecosystem: <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a>. 
  As part of this initiative, today we release our White Paper which 
  highlights the ways in which the proposed Article 13 could unintentionally 
  harm the communities and the businesses built around Free Software.</p><p>Free Software is often built by collaborative networks of programmers 
  that rely on code hosting services. Free Software allows and encourages 
  modifications and improvements made by everyone. For that, the software 
  is shared with everybody under terms that allow using it, studying its 
  source code, sharing it along, and customising it according to one's 
  needs. This is often done on code sharing platforms.</p><p>With its copyright proposal, the EU has decided to update the rules 
  applicable for online service providers, mainly targeting content sharing 
  platforms.  The new rules proposed by the EU will create legal uncertainty 
  for developers using online tools when contributing to the Free Software 
  projects through online code sharing platforms. Those proposed obligations 
  on code sharing platforms will threaten their existence, and effective 
  online co-development by:</p>
	Imposing on code sharing platforms the use of costly filtering technologies to prevent any possible copyright infringement 

	 Imposing an illegal monitoring obligation to track their every user
	"As a result, every user, of a code sharing platform: an individual, 
	company, or a public body is treated as a potential copyright infringer 
	whose content, including the whole code repositories, can be taken down 
	and disabled at any time." says Polina Malaja, Policy Analyst and Legal 
	Coordinator at the FSFE.<p>After explaining how Free Software platforms work in practice, the 
  White Paper shows how Article 13 restricts important fundamental rights 
  of developers and internet users such as the right to privacy, freedom 
  of expression, and the freedom to conduct a business. Article 13, as 
  currently proposed, would shift the responsibility for protecting allegedly 
  infringed rights from rightholders to the platforms, in a way that would 
  harm fundamental rights and negatively impact  collaborative software 
  development, and especially Free  Software.</p><p>If Article 13 has completely missed this impact in the software sharing 
  environment, it is likely that there are other unforeseen impacts that 
  the proposed Copyright Directive can have. The legislators need to make 
  sure they understand where and how innovation takes place nowadays, to 
  fully grasp the consequences and implications that the proposed Article 
  13 can create for our economy and our society.</p><p>Read our White Paper in full <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">here</a>.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE in 2020: Reaffirming our identity
uri: FSFE-in-2020-Reaffirming-our-identity
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170911-01.html
content:
FSFE in 2020Reaffirming our identity<p>
Our world is constantly changing, as are people's thoughts and perceptions. Since its founding in 2001, individuals engaged in the FSFE, from coordinators and volunteers to full-time employees, have come to develop their understanding of what FSFE is and what our shared values are. Sometimes the views expressed by individuals have been similar to one another, sometimes they have diverged.
</p><p>
A strategy review in 2014 identified at least seven different ways that people give on describing and communicating FSFE. This phenomenon is a result of the process of change and is all fine; expected even, as an organisation grows and develops over time. Moving forward, we see a need for us to come together under a common identity; a shared understanding of what FSFE is, what’s important in our work, what values we have and share, and how this shapes FSFE of the future.
</p>
<img src="media/adad02af.Logo-2001-transparent.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/miscellaneous/Logo-2001-transparent.png"/>

<p>
This is one of the first logotypes for the FSFE, used from 2001 to 2006. 
We have come a long way since then, and it's time to reaffirm the identity
the organisation has grown into.
</p>

<p>
With the FSFE in 2020 project, we are looking to redefine and renew the identity of FSFE, a process similar to one we undertook when founding the organisation. Now, 15 years later, we will be able to reflect on our work over the years and come to an understanding of what aspects of our identity has remained genuine and guided the organisation through these 15 years.
</p><p>
In our work, we have a steering group consisting of our executive director (Jonas Öberg), two representatives from our supporters (Mirko Boehm, Daniel Pocock), two of our members (Alessandro Rubini and Cryptie) and one member of staff (Erik Albers). Together with Kristi Progri as the project assistant in this work, they will try to steer us right on our path towards rediscovering FSFEs organisational identity.
</p><p>
Our primary focus will be on taking interviews from volunteers, coordinators, employees and others who feel that they have a connection with FSFE. We will also talk to people outside of the FSFE who have come in contact with our work and will be able to reflect not only on how we perceive the FSFE inside of it, but how we’ve managed to convey our identity to the public over the years.
</p><p>
As we work on this for the next few months, there will be several opportunities for all parts of our community to be heard: we will ask individuals to participate in interviews, sometimes directly, sometimes by asking for people who are interested in participating. We’ll conduct surveys circulated through our community and newsletter, and we will share our findings regularly, on our web pages, and on our <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/FSFE-in-2020">team wiki</a>.
</p><p>
We’re starting on an exciting adventure, and we hope you will join us on our way forward!
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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uri: Argent-public-Code-public-31-organisations-demandent-l-améliora
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170913-01.html
title:
Argent public ? Code public ! 31 organisations demandent l’amélioration des procédures de marchés publics pour les logiciels.

content:
Argent public ? Code public ! 31 organisations demandent l’amélioration des procédures de marchés publics pour les logiciels.<p>Les services numériques offerts et utilisés par nos administrations publiques sont les infrastructures critiques du 21e siècle des nations démocratiques. Afin d’établir des systèmes fiables, les institutions publiques doivent faire en sorte d’avoir le contrôle entier du logiciel et des systèmes informatiques au cœur de notre infrastructure numérique étatique. Ce n’est pourtant pas le cas actuellement pour des raisons de licences logicielles restrictives.</p><a href="https://publiccode.eu">
				</a>
			<p>Aujourd'hui, 31 organisations publient une <a href="https://publiccode.eu/fr/openletter/">lettre ouverte</a> dans laquelle elles appellent le législateur à mettre en œuvre une législation qui requiert que le logiciel financé par le contribuable pour le secteur public soit disponible publiquement sous une licence de Logiciel Libre et Open Source. Les premiers signataires incluent CCC, EDRi, Free Software Foundation Europe, KDE, Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, Open Source Business Alliance, Open Source Initiative, The Document Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland, ainsi que plusieurs autres organisations; elles invitent les individus à <a href="https://publiccode.eu/fr/#action">signer la lettre ouverte</a>. La lettre ouverte sera envoyée aux candidats pour les élections législatives en Allemagne et, pendant les prochains mois, jusqu'aux élections européennes en 2019, aux autres responsables politiques de l'UE et des États membres.</p><p>“Parce que le code source des logiciels propriétaires est souvent un secret d’affaires, la difficulté de trouver des failles de sécurité accidentelles ou volontaires dans des logiciels critiques augmente radicalement. La rétro-ingénierie de logiciels propriétaires dans le but de les améliorer ou les renforcer est une nécessité absolue dans l’environnement d’aujourd’hui, mais cette condition technique élémentaire est illégale dans de nombreuses circonstances et juridictions. Après que des infrastructures stratégiques telles que des hôpitaux, des usines automobiles et des cargos de fret aient toutes été déconnectées cette année à cause de failles dissimulées dans du logiciel propriétaire, un Code non vérifiable est un luxe que les États ne peuvent plus compenser avec des privilèges juridiques spéciaux sans le payer en vies humaines.</p>
	<p>En ce moment-même, la majorité des plans de notre infrastructure la plus critique n’est tout simplement pas disponible au public. En alignant le financement public avec une obligation de Logiciel Libre (NdT Free software en anglais) – “Free” dans le sens de la disponibilité publique du code et non pas du coût – nous pouvons trouver et réparer les failles avant qu’elles ne soient utilisées pour éteindre la lumière dans l’hôpital d'à côté.”</p> <p>Edward Snowden, Président de la Freedom of the Press Foundation à propos du lancement de <a href="https://publiccode.eu/fr/">la campagne “Public Money Public Code”</a>.</p><a href="https://publiccode.eu">
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			<p>Les institutions publiques dépensent chaque année des millions d'euros dans le développement de nouveaux logiciels sur mesure pour leurs besoins. La procédure d'appel d'offre joue un rôle fondamental sur quelles entreprises sont autorisées à entrer en compétition et quels logiciels sont payés avec l'argent du contribuable. Les administrations publiques à différents niveaux rencontrent souvent des problèmes pour partager le code source du logiciel entre elles, même si elles ont entièrement financé son développement. De plus, sans la possibilité pour des tiers indépendants d'effectuer des audits ou d'autres contrôles de sécurité sur le code, les données sensibles des citoyens sont en danger. </p><p>"Nous avons besoin de logiciels qui favorisent l’échange de bonnes pratiques et solutions. C’est seulement ainsi que nous pourrons améliorer les services informatiques aux personnes dans toute l'Europe. Nous avons besoin de logiciels qui aident les administrations publiques à reprendre le plein contrôle de leur infrastructure numérique et stratégique, leur permettant de devenir et rester indépendantes d’une poignée d’entreprises."</p><p>Matthias Kirschner, Président de la Free Software Foundation Europe.</p><p>C'est pourquoi les signataires appellent les représentants dans toute l'Europe à moderniser l'infrastructure publique pour permettre aux autres administrations, entreprises, ou individus de pouvoir librement utiliser, comprendre, modifier et partager les logiciels. Ces droits permettent de soutenir d'autres droits fondamentaux tels que la liberté d'expression, la liberté de la presse et la vie privée. Ceci garantit que les administrations publiques ne subissent le cloisonnement captif d'entreprises spécifiques qui utilisent des licences restrictives pour entraver la concurrence, ainsi que de veiller à ce que le code source soit accessible afin de pouvoir sceller les portes dérobées et réparer les failles de sécurité sans dépendre d’un unique prestataire de services. </p><p>"Les institutions publiques sont financées par l’impôt. Elles devraient utiliser les finances publiques d'une manière responsable et le plus efficacement possible dans l’intérêt général. S’il s’agit d’argent public, le code devrait être également public !" dit Kirschner.</p><p>Argent Public ? Code Public ! = Public Money? Public Code!</p>En savoir plus
<a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/">Lettre ouverte</a>
<a href="https://publiccode.eu/#action">Signer la lettre ouverte !</a>
<a href="http://download.fsfe.org/videos/pmpc/">Vidéo (3:47) sous formats</a>(publiée sous licence CC-By 4.0 ), ou aussi pour l’intégration sur
<a href="https://vimeo.com/232524527">Vimeo</a>
et <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuVUzg6x2yo">Youtube</a>
Les premiers signataires
  <a href="https://www.april.org/">April</a>
  <a href="https://ensinolivre.pt">Associação Ensino Livre</a>
  <a href="https://ansol.org">Associação Nacional para o Software Livre (ANSOL)</a>
  <a href="https://www.ccc.de">Chaos Computer Club (CCC)</a>
  <a href="https://couragefound.org/">Courage Foundation</a>
  <a href="https://direitosdigitais.pt/">D3-Defesa dos Direitos Digitais</a>
  <a href="https://digitalcourage.de/">Digitalcourage</a>
  <a href="https://digitalegesellschaft.de/">Digitale Gesellschaft</a>
  <a href="https://dyne.org">Dyne.org Foundation</a>
  <a href="https://epf.org.pl">ePaństwo Foundation</a>
  <a href="https://edri.org">European Digital Rights (EDRi)</a>
  <a href="https://exposefacts.org/">Expose Facts</a>
  <a href="https://fsfe.org">Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)</a>
  <a href="https://gfoss.eu/">GFOSS</a>
  <a href="https://hackyourphd.org/">HackYourPhD</a>
  <a href="https://ev.kde.org">KDE</a>
  <a href="http://www.lugos.si">Linux User Group Of Slovenia (LUGOS)</a>
  <a href="https://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen</a>
  <a href="https://nowoczesnapolska.org.pl">Modern Poland Foundation</a>
  <a href="http://quintessenz.at">quintessenz</a>
  <a href="https://okfn.de">Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland</a>
  <a href="http://theopenlabs.org">Open Labs</a>
  <a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/">Open Rights Group</a>
  <a href="http://osb-alliance.de">Open Source Business Alliance</a>
  <a href="https://opensource.org/">Open Source Initiative (OSI)</a>
  <a href="http://opensuse.org">openSUSE</a>
  <a href="https://publicsoftware.eu/">Public Software CIC</a>
  <a href="https://slat.org/">Software Liberty Association Taiwan</a>
  <a href="https://www.documentfoundation.org">The Document Foundation</a>
  <a href="https://wikimedia.de">Wikimedia Deutschland</a>
  <a href="https://xnet-x.net/">Xnet</a>
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FSFE  Lettre d'information - Septembre 2017Argent Public ? Code Public !<p>
Les services numériques proposés et utilisés par nos administrations publiques font
partie des infrastructures vitales des nations démocratiques du 21ème siècle.
Néanmoins, à cause de licences de logiciels restrictives, de nombreuses entités 
publiques n'ont pas un contrôle total sur leur infrastructure numérique. Même si la 
publication d'un logiciel financé par de l'argent public sous une licence libre engendre de 
nombreux bénéfices pour les gouvernements et la société civile, les responsables 
politiques sont réticents à améliorer la législation à ce sujet. Il est temps que cela change. 
À la FSFE, nous voulons une législation qui exige que les logiciels développés pour le 
secteur public et financés par de l'argent public soient mis à disposition sous une 
licence libre et open source. Si c'est de l'argent public, cela doit aussi être du 
code public !
</p><p>
Pour appuyer notre demande, la FSFE a lancé une nouvelle campagne la semaine dernière : <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170913-01">"Public Money Public Code" (Argent Public Code Public</a>. La campagne explique avec une <a href="https://publiccode.eu#about">courte vidéo</a> et une <a href="https://publiccode.eu#action">lettre ouverte</a> à signer les avantages de publier sous licence libre les logiciels financés par les fonds publics. La campagne et la lettre ouverte seront utilisées au cours des prochains mois et jusqu'aux élections du Parlement européen qui auront lieu en 2019, pour mettre en évidence les bons et les mauvais exemples de développement de logiciels financés par des fonds publics ainsi que leur réutilisation potentielle.
</p><p>
Débuté avec succès, le lancement de la campagne a été relayé par de nombreux sites Web et magazines d'information en Europe. Au moment d'écrire ces lignes, la Lettre Ouverte a déjà été signée par <a href="https://publiccode.eu/#organisations">plus de 35 organisations</a> et par <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/all-signatures/">plus de 5000 personnes</a>. Plusieurs politiciens et d'autres personnalités publiques ont ouvertement annoncé leur soutien à la campagne, dont Edward Snowden, président de la Fondation Liberté de la presse :
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/908012039045386240">"L'argent public ne devrait pas servir à écrire des logiciels que le public ne sera pas autorisé à corriger. Signez la lettre, sauvez le monde :https://publiccode.eu/#action #PublicCode"</a>
</p>
<a href="https://publiccode.eu">
				</a>
			<p>Signez la lettre ouverte et soutenez également un code public  : <a href="https://publiccode.eu/#action">https://publiccode.eu/#action</a>
</p>La FSFE publie les bonnes pratiques en matière de licences logicielles<p>
Si vous voulez que d'autres puissent utiliser votre code, vous devez inclure une licence, et le faire de la meilleure manière possible afin qu'elle puisse être comprise par les humains et les ordinateurs. Malheureusement, une infinité de logiciels et d'innombrables extraits de codes sont disponibles en accès libre mais sans toujours une licence appropriée. Une des raisons étant que le fait d'inclure une licence à un logiciel de manière cohérente et compréhensible peut parfois représenter un vrai défi. Faire comprendre votre licence à un ordinateur peut s'avérer encore plus difficile.
</p><p>
C'est pour cette raison que la FSFE a travaillé à <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170906-01"> rendre la gestion des droits d'auteur et des licences de Logiciel Libre plus facile</a>. Notre Guide des bonnes pratiques pour l'utilisation de licences pour les logiciels («  Software Licensing Best Practices guide   »)  va vous aider à inclure une licence et une note de droit d'auteur dans votre logiciel. Et alors que l'on est toujours en train d'évaluer ces bonnes 
pratiques, vous trouverez déjà à l'adresse <a href="https://reuse.software">https://reuse.software/</a> quelques mesures à prendre pour rendre la licence et les droits d'auteur plus facile à utiliser.
</p><p>
Dans la version en ligne vous trouverez une photo ici : 

Le village  FSFE durant le SHA Camp 2017 au Pays-Bas.

https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201709
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<a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-09">Aidez nous à grandir et à faire la différence en 2017.</a>
</p>Qu'avons-nous fait d'autres ?   A l'intérieur ou à l'extérieur de la FSFE

Les propositions de la  Directive Européenne des droits d'auteurs restreignent les droits des développeurs et des utilisateurs d'internet, créant des barrières au développement de code source. En coopération avec l' Open Forum Europe,  la FSFE <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170908-01">a écrit un livre blanc</a> afin d'aider chaque personne à percevoir la totalité des enjeux du point de vue du développeur de logiciels. Nous allons lancer une campagne dans le cours du mois, mais vous pouvez déjà aider à sensibiliser l'opinion en partageant largement le lien vers <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a>.


Le directeur exécutif de la FSFE, Jonas Öberg, a publié un billet sur son blog à propos du budget annuel de la FSFE, <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/where-does-our-money-go/">comment nos finances sont structurées et où passe l'argent</a>.


La «  Koalition Freies Wissen » (Coalition du Savoir Libre) <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170829-01"> a créé le « Digital-O-Mat » </a>, un outil en ligne pour informer les électeurs sur les élections fédérales allemandes du 24 septembre 2017. Le <a href="https://bund.digital-o-mat.de">Digital-O-Mat</a> (allemand) souligne les différentes positions des partis à propos des sujets qui sont importants pour la politique et la structure d'internet, comme le Logiciel Libre, et aident les électeurs à trouver le parti qui leur convient le mieux pour l'élection du parlement allemand.



L'équipe Allemagne de la FSFE a envoyé le questionnaire «Interrogez vos candidats» aux participants des partis du Bundestagswahl (les élections fédérales allemande) et <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170905-01">a publié et analysé leurs réponses.</a>. (Allemand)


L'équipe Pays-Bas de la FSFE  était présente avec un village au SHA Camp, un camp hacker sans but lucratif au Pays-Bas. Pendant les cinq jours, ce village a offert un espace de discussions, de rencontres, de karaoké, et un abri. La FSFE avait son propre village  <a href="https://blog.3rik.cc/2017/09/still-freeing-software-anyway/">qui a proposé de multiples sessions auto-gérées</a>, ainsi qu'une chorale de chant "Logiciel Libre" et un festival d'installation de FreedomBox.


L'équipe Grecque de la FSFE a soutenu la première édition du <a href="https://re-publica.com/en/eu17/sessions?location=Thessaloniki">Re:publica in Thessaloniki</a>, une conférence sur la culture numérique.



Le groupe de la FSFE de Mayence/Rhin (« Rhein/Main ») était <a href="https://k7r.eu/fsfe-at-froscon-2017/">présent avec un stand à Froscon</a>, une conférence sur le Logiciel Libre à l'Université de Sciences appliquées Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, en Allemagne. Le président de la FSFE Matthias Kirschner a également fait une présentation intitulée <a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2017-1991-limux_das_ende_eines_leuchtturm-projekts">« Limux: das Ende eines Leuchtturm-Projekts!? »(Limux: la fin d'un projet phare!?)</a>. (allemand)



En avril dernier, le Digital Society Institute a accueilli un colloque pour analyser le thème « Est-ce que les Logiciels Libres sont sûrs ? Les annales de la sécurité des Logiciels libres et open sourcet ». La rencontre comprenait une intervention de Matthias Kirschner qui est <a href="media/c60e1938.dsi_ipr5_engl-dt.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.esmt.org/sites/default/files/dsi_ipr5_engl-dt.pdf"> maintenant disponible en anglais et en allemand </a> et inclut des recommandations pour le secteur privé et public.


Nous sommes ravi d’accueillir 3 nouveaux stagiaires :  Carmen Bianca Bakker, Kristi Progri et Erik Da Silva. Si vous êtes intéressé par un stage avec nous, <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/internship">trouvez plus d'informations sur nos pages</a>.


Nous avons un nouvel article dans la boutique en ligne de la FSFE : <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170726-01">une bavette rose non-binaire</a> avec le slogan « I am a  fork » (je suis un embranchement) cousue sur le bavoir. Équitable et biologique.

<img src="media/286cf88d.20170807-village-and-team-at-SHA2017-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/20170807-village-and-team-at-SHA2017-800px.jpg"/>
					  À ne pas manquer  ! Événements à venir avec la FSFE<p>
Les 28 et 29 septembre, se tiendra le <a href="https://copycamp.pl/en/">CopyCamp à Varsovie</a>. CopyCamp est une conférence qui vise à interroger comment les droits exclusifs immatériels modifient la culture, l'éducation, la science et les Logiciels Libres. Mathias Kirschner parlera de «  Limux: la perte d'un projet phare   » et notre analyste politique Polina Malaja présentera « La réforme européenne des droits de reproduction et son incidence pour le développement collaboratif de logiciel ». Il n'y a pas de prix d'entrée, mais il est demandé aux personnes qui souhaitent participer de bien vouloir <a href="https://copycamp.pl/en/contact/register/"> s’inscrire</a> . Grâce à la fondation pour la Coopération Germano-Polonaise, il y a des bourses de voyage disponibles pour les personnes qui résident en Allemagne, offertes par le Ministères des affaires étrangères allemand

</p>Agissez<p>
Venez voir notre <a href="https://publiccode.eu">page «  Public Money Public Code  »</a> et la vidéo-PMPC et partagez-les avec vos amis, collègues et vos listes de diffusion préférées. Demandez-leur de <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/">signer la lettre ouverte</a> et faite le aussi. Si cette page n'est pas disponible dans votre langue locale <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/pmpc/website/src/master/TRANSLATE.md">aidez-nous à la traduire</a>.
</p>Aidez nous à améliorer notre lettre d'information<p>
Si vous souhaitez partager vos idées, des illustrations ou des nouvelles, vous pouvez nous les soumettre. Comme toujours, l'adresse est newsletter@fsfe.org. Nous nous réjouissons d'avoir de vos nouvelles !
</p><p>
Merci à notre communauté, à tous les <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">bénévoles</a>, <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">soutiens</a> et <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donateurs</a>qui rendent notre travail possible. Merci à <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators">nos groupes de traductions</a> grâce à qui vous pouvez lire ce bulletin d'information dans votre langue maternelle.
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Votre éditeur,

Erik Albers
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FSFE  Lettre d'information - Septembre 2017Argent Public ? Code Public !<p>
Les services numériques proposés et utilisés par nos administrations publiques font
partie des infrastructures vitales des nations démocratiques du 21ème siècle.
Néanmoins, à cause de licences de logiciels restrictives, de nombreuses entités 
publiques n'ont pas un contrôle total sur leur infrastructure numérique. Même si la 
publication d'un logiciel financé par de l'argent public sous une licence libre engendre de 
nombreux bénéfices pour les gouvernements et la société civile, les responsables 
politiques sont réticents à améliorer la législation à ce sujet. Il est temps que cela change. 
À la FSFE, nous voulons une législation qui exige que les logiciels développés pour le 
secteur public et financés par de l'argent public soient mis à disposition sous une 
licence libre et open source. Si c'est de l'argent public, cela doit aussi être du 
code public !
</p><p>
Pour appuyer notre demande, la FSFE a lancé une nouvelle campagne la semaine dernière : <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170913-01">"Public Money Public Code" (Argent Public Code Public</a>. La campagne explique avec une <a href="https://publiccode.eu#about">courte vidéo</a> et une <a href="https://publiccode.eu#action">lettre ouverte</a> à signer les avantages de publier sous licence libre les logiciels financés par les fonds publics. La campagne et la lettre ouverte seront utilisées au cours des prochains mois et jusqu'aux élections du Parlement européen qui auront lieu en 2019, pour mettre en évidence les bons et les mauvais exemples de développement de logiciels financés par des fonds publics ainsi que leur réutilisation potentielle.
</p><p>
Débuté avec succès, le lancement de la campagne a été relayé par de nombreux sites Web et magazines d'information en Europe. Au moment d'écrire ces lignes, la Lettre Ouverte a déjà été signée par <a href="https://publiccode.eu/#organisations">plus de 35 organisations</a> et par <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/all-signatures/">plus de 5000 personnes</a>. Plusieurs politiciens et d'autres personnalités publiques ont ouvertement annoncé leur soutien à la campagne, dont Edward Snowden, président de la Fondation Liberté de la presse :
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/908012039045386240">"L'argent public ne devrait pas servir à écrire des logiciels que le public ne sera pas autorisé à corriger. Signez la lettre, sauvez le monde :https://publiccode.eu/#action #PublicCode"</a>
</p>
<a href="https://publiccode.eu">
				</a>
			<p>Signez la lettre ouverte et soutenez également un code public  : <a href="https://publiccode.eu/#action">https://publiccode.eu/#action</a>
</p>La FSFE publie les bonnes pratiques en matière de licences logicielles<p>
Si vous voulez que d'autres puissent utiliser votre code, vous devez inclure une licence, et le faire de la meilleure manière possible afin qu'elle puisse être comprise par les humains et les ordinateurs. Malheureusement, une infinité de logiciels et d'innombrables extraits de codes sont disponibles en accès libre mais sans toujours une licence appropriée. Une des raisons étant que le fait d'inclure une licence à un logiciel de manière cohérente et compréhensible peut parfois représenter un vrai défi. Faire comprendre votre licence à un ordinateur peut s'avérer encore plus difficile.
</p><p>
C'est pour cette raison que la FSFE a travaillé à <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170906-01"> rendre la gestion des droits d'auteur et des licences de Logiciel Libre plus facile</a>. Notre Guide des bonnes pratiques pour l'utilisation de licences pour les logiciels («  Software Licensing Best Practices guide   »)  va vous aider à inclure une licence et une note de droit d'auteur dans votre logiciel. Et alors que l'on est toujours en train d'évaluer ces bonnes 
pratiques, vous trouverez déjà à l'adresse <a href="https://reuse.software">https://reuse.software/</a> quelques mesures à prendre pour rendre la licence et les droits d'auteur plus facile à utiliser.
</p><p>
Dans la version en ligne vous trouverez une photo ici : 

Le village  FSFE durant le SHA Camp 2017 au Pays-Bas.

https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201709
</p><p>
<a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-09">Aidez nous à grandir et à faire la différence en 2017.</a>
</p>Qu'avons-nous fait d'autres ?   A l'intérieur ou à l'extérieur de la FSFE

Les propositions de la  Directive Européenne des droits d'auteurs restreignent les droits des développeurs et des utilisateurs d'internet, créant des barrières au développement de code source. En coopération avec l' Open Forum Europe,  la FSFE <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170908-01">a écrit un livre blanc</a> afin d'aider chaque personne à percevoir la totalité des enjeux du point de vue du développeur de logiciels. Nous allons lancer une campagne dans le cours du mois, mais vous pouvez déjà aider à sensibiliser l'opinion en partageant largement le lien vers <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a>.


Le directeur exécutif de la FSFE, Jonas Öberg, a publié un billet sur son blog à propos du budget annuel de la FSFE, <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/where-does-our-money-go/">comment nos finances sont structurées et où passe l'argent</a>.


La «  Koalition Freies Wissen » (Coalition du Savoir Libre) <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170829-01"> a créé le « Digital-O-Mat » </a>, un outil en ligne pour informer les électeurs sur les élections fédérales allemandes du 24 septembre 2017. Le <a href="https://bund.digital-o-mat.de">Digital-O-Mat</a> (allemand) souligne les différentes positions des partis à propos des sujets qui sont importants pour la politique et la structure d'internet, comme le Logiciel Libre, et aident les électeurs à trouver le parti qui leur convient le mieux pour l'élection du parlement allemand.



L'équipe Allemagne de la FSFE a envoyé le questionnaire «Interrogez vos candidats» aux participants des partis du Bundestagswahl (les élections fédérales allemande) et <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170905-01">a publié et analysé leurs réponses.</a>. (Allemand)


L'équipe Pays-Bas de la FSFE  était présente avec un village au SHA Camp, un camp hacker sans but lucratif au Pays-Bas. Pendant les cinq jours, ce village a offert un espace de discussions, de rencontres, de karaoké, et un abri. La FSFE avait son propre village  <a href="https://blog.3rik.cc/2017/09/still-freeing-software-anyway/">qui a proposé de multiples sessions auto-gérées</a>, ainsi qu'une chorale de chant "Logiciel Libre" et un festival d'installation de FreedomBox.


L'équipe Grecque de la FSFE a soutenu la première édition du <a href="https://re-publica.com/en/eu17/sessions?location=Thessaloniki">Re:publica in Thessaloniki</a>, une conférence sur la culture numérique.



Le groupe de la FSFE de Mayence/Rhin (« Rhein/Main ») était <a href="https://k7r.eu/fsfe-at-froscon-2017/">présent avec un stand à Froscon</a>, une conférence sur le Logiciel Libre à l'Université de Sciences appliquées Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, en Allemagne. Le président de la FSFE Matthias Kirschner a également fait une présentation intitulée <a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2017-1991-limux_das_ende_eines_leuchtturm-projekts">« Limux: das Ende eines Leuchtturm-Projekts!? »(Limux: la fin d'un projet phare!?)</a>. (allemand)



En avril dernier, le Digital Society Institute a accueilli un colloque pour analyser le thème « Est-ce que les Logiciels Libres sont sûrs ? Les annales de la sécurité des Logiciels libres et open sourcet ». La rencontre comprenait une intervention de Matthias Kirschner qui est <a href="media/c60e1938.dsi_ipr5_engl-dt.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.esmt.org/sites/default/files/dsi_ipr5_engl-dt.pdf"> maintenant disponible en anglais et en allemand </a> et inclut des recommandations pour le secteur privé et public.


Nous sommes ravi d’accueillir 3 nouveaux stagiaires :  Carmen Bianca Bakker, Kristi Progri et Erik Da Silva. Si vous êtes intéressé par un stage avec nous, <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/internship">trouvez plus d'informations sur nos pages</a>.


Nous avons un nouvel article dans la boutique en ligne de la FSFE : <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170726-01">une bavette rose non-binaire</a> avec le slogan « I am a  fork » (je suis un embranchement) cousue sur le bavoir. Équitable et biologique.

<img src="media/286cf88d.20170807-village-and-team-at-SHA2017-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/20170807-village-and-team-at-SHA2017-800px.jpg"/>
		<p>The FSFE village during SHA Camp 2017 in the Netherlands.</p>
					  À ne pas manquer  ! Événements à venir avec la FSFE<p>
Les 28 et 29 septembre, se tiendra le <a href="https://copycamp.pl/en/">CopyCamp à Varsovie</a>. CopyCamp est une conférence qui vise à interroger comment les droits exclusifs immatériels modifient la culture, l'éducation, la science et les Logiciels Libres. Mathias Kirschner parlera de «  Limux: la perte d'un projet phare   » et notre analyste politique Polina Malaja présentera « La réforme européenne des droits de reproduction et son incidence pour le développement collaboratif de logiciel ». Il n'y a pas de prix d'entrée, mais il est demandé aux personnes qui souhaitent participer de bien vouloir <a href="https://copycamp.pl/en/contact/register/"> s’inscrire</a> . Grâce à la fondation pour la Coopération Germano-Polonaise, il y a des bourses de voyage disponibles pour les personnes qui résident en Allemagne, offertes par le Ministères des affaires étrangères allemand

</p>Agissez<p>
Venez voir notre <a href="https://publiccode.eu">page «  Public Money Public Code  »</a> et la vidéo-PMPC et partagez-les avec vos amis, collègues et vos listes de diffusion préférées. Demandez-leur de <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/">signer la lettre ouverte</a> et faite le aussi. Si cette page n'est pas disponible dans votre langue locale <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/pmpc/website/src/master/TRANSLATE.md">aidez-nous à la traduire</a>.
</p>Aidez nous à améliorer notre lettre d'information<p>
Si vous souhaitez partager vos idées, des illustrations ou des nouvelles, vous pouvez nous les soumettre. Comme toujours, l'adresse est newsletter@fsfe.org. Nous nous réjouissons d'avoir de vos nouvelles !
</p><p>
Merci à notre communauté, à tous les <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">bénévoles</a>, <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">soutiens</a> et <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donateurs</a>qui rendent notre travail possible. Merci à <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators">nos groupes de traductions</a> grâce à qui vous pouvez lire ce bulletin d'information dans votre langue maternelle.
</p><p>
Votre éditeur,

Erik Albers
</p><p>
<a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-09"> Aidez nous à grandir et à faire la différence en 2017</a>
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uri: 2017-09-27-Argent-public-Code-public-31-organisations-demandent-l-améliora
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170913-01.html
title:
Argent public ? Code public ! 31 organisations demandent l’amélioration des procédures de marchés publics pour les logiciels.

content:
Argent public ? Code public ! 31 organisations demandent l’amélioration des procédures de marchés publics pour les logiciels.<p>Les services numériques offerts et utilisés par nos administrations publiques sont les infrastructures critiques du 21e siècle des nations démocratiques. Afin d’établir des systèmes fiables, les institutions publiques doivent faire en sorte d’avoir le contrôle entier du logiciel et des systèmes informatiques au cœur de notre infrastructure numérique étatique. Ce n’est pourtant pas le cas actuellement pour des raisons de licences logicielles restrictives.</p><a href="https://publiccode.eu">
				</a>
			<p>Aujourd'hui, 31 organisations publient une <a href="https://publiccode.eu/fr/openletter/">lettre ouverte</a> dans laquelle elles appellent le législateur à mettre en œuvre une législation qui requiert que le logiciel financé par le contribuable pour le secteur public soit disponible publiquement sous une licence de Logiciel Libre et Open Source. Les premiers signataires incluent CCC, EDRi, Free Software Foundation Europe, KDE, Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, Open Source Business Alliance, Open Source Initiative, The Document Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland, ainsi que plusieurs autres organisations; elles invitent les individus à <a href="https://publiccode.eu/fr/#action">signer la lettre ouverte</a>. La lettre ouverte sera envoyée aux candidats pour les élections législatives en Allemagne et, pendant les prochains mois, jusqu'aux élections européennes en 2019, aux autres responsables politiques de l'UE et des États membres.</p><p>“Parce que le code source des logiciels propriétaires est souvent un secret d’affaires, la difficulté de trouver des failles de sécurité accidentelles ou volontaires dans des logiciels critiques augmente radicalement. La rétro-ingénierie de logiciels propriétaires dans le but de les améliorer ou les renforcer est une nécessité absolue dans l’environnement d’aujourd’hui, mais cette condition technique élémentaire est illégale dans de nombreuses circonstances et juridictions. Après que des infrastructures stratégiques telles que des hôpitaux, des usines automobiles et des cargos de fret aient toutes été déconnectées cette année à cause de failles dissimulées dans du logiciel propriétaire, un Code non vérifiable est un luxe que les États ne peuvent plus compenser avec des privilèges juridiques spéciaux sans le payer en vies humaines.</p>
	<p>En ce moment-même, la majorité des plans de notre infrastructure la plus critique n’est tout simplement pas disponible au public. En alignant le financement public avec une obligation de Logiciel Libre (NdT Free software en anglais) – “Free” dans le sens de la disponibilité publique du code et non pas du coût – nous pouvons trouver et réparer les failles avant qu’elles ne soient utilisées pour éteindre la lumière dans l’hôpital d'à côté.”</p> <p>Edward Snowden, Président de la Freedom of the Press Foundation à propos du lancement de <a href="https://publiccode.eu/fr/">la campagne “Public Money Public Code”</a>.</p><a href="https://publiccode.eu">
				</a>
			<p>Les institutions publiques dépensent chaque année des millions d'euros dans le développement de nouveaux logiciels sur mesure pour leurs besoins. La procédure d'appel d'offre joue un rôle fondamental sur quelles entreprises sont autorisées à entrer en compétition et quels logiciels sont payés avec l'argent du contribuable. Les administrations publiques à différents niveaux rencontrent souvent des problèmes pour partager le code source du logiciel entre elles, même si elles ont entièrement financé son développement. De plus, sans la possibilité pour des tiers indépendants d'effectuer des audits ou d'autres contrôles de sécurité sur le code, les données sensibles des citoyens sont en danger. </p><p>"Nous avons besoin de logiciels qui favorisent l’échange de bonnes pratiques et solutions. C’est seulement ainsi que nous pourrons améliorer les services informatiques aux personnes dans toute l'Europe. Nous avons besoin de logiciels qui aident les administrations publiques à reprendre le plein contrôle de leur infrastructure numérique et stratégique, leur permettant de devenir et rester indépendantes d’une poignée d’entreprises."</p><p>Matthias Kirschner, Président de la Free Software Foundation Europe.</p><p>C'est pourquoi les signataires appellent les représentants dans toute l'Europe à moderniser l'infrastructure publique pour permettre aux autres administrations, entreprises, ou individus de pouvoir librement utiliser, comprendre, modifier et partager les logiciels. Ces droits permettent de soutenir d'autres droits fondamentaux tels que la liberté d'expression, la liberté de la presse et la vie privée. Ceci garantit que les administrations publiques ne subissent le cloisonnement captif d'entreprises spécifiques qui utilisent des licences restrictives pour entraver la concurrence, ainsi que de veiller à ce que le code source soit accessible afin de pouvoir sceller les portes dérobées et réparer les failles de sécurité sans dépendre d’un unique prestataire de services. </p><p>"Les institutions publiques sont financées par l’impôt. Elles devraient utiliser les finances publiques d'une manière responsable et le plus efficacement possible dans l’intérêt général. S’il s’agit d’argent public, le code devrait être également public !" dit Kirschner.</p><p>Argent Public ? Code Public ! = Public Money? Public Code!</p>En savoir plus
<a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/">Lettre ouverte</a>
<a href="https://publiccode.eu/#action">Signer la lettre ouverte !</a>
<a href="http://download.fsfe.org/videos/pmpc/">Vidéo (3:47) sous formats</a>(publiée sous licence CC-By 4.0 ), ou aussi pour l’intégration sur
<a href="https://vimeo.com/232524527">Vimeo</a>
et <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuVUzg6x2yo">Youtube</a>
Les premiers signataires
  <a href="https://www.april.org/">April</a>
  <a href="https://ensinolivre.pt">Associação Ensino Livre</a>
  <a href="https://ansol.org">Associação Nacional para o Software Livre (ANSOL)</a>
  <a href="https://www.ccc.de">Chaos Computer Club (CCC)</a>
  <a href="https://couragefound.org/">Courage Foundation</a>
  <a href="https://direitosdigitais.pt/">D3-Defesa dos Direitos Digitais</a>
  <a href="https://digitalcourage.de/">Digitalcourage</a>
  <a href="https://digitalegesellschaft.de/">Digitale Gesellschaft</a>
  <a href="https://dyne.org">Dyne.org Foundation</a>
  <a href="https://epf.org.pl">ePaństwo Foundation</a>
  <a href="https://edri.org">European Digital Rights (EDRi)</a>
  <a href="https://exposefacts.org/">Expose Facts</a>
  <a href="https://fsfe.org">Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)</a>
  <a href="https://gfoss.eu/">GFOSS</a>
  <a href="https://hackyourphd.org/">HackYourPhD</a>
  <a href="https://ev.kde.org">KDE</a>
  <a href="http://www.lugos.si">Linux User Group Of Slovenia (LUGOS)</a>
  <a href="https://www.linuxwochen.at/">Linuxwochen</a>
  <a href="https://nowoczesnapolska.org.pl">Modern Poland Foundation</a>
  <a href="http://quintessenz.at">quintessenz</a>
  <a href="https://okfn.de">Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland</a>
  <a href="https://openlabs.cc/en/">Open Labs</a>
  <a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/">Open Rights Group</a>
  <a href="http://osb-alliance.de">Open Source Business Alliance</a>
  <a href="https://opensource.org/">Open Source Initiative (OSI)</a>
  <a href="http://opensuse.org">openSUSE</a>
  <a href="https://publicsoftware.eu/">Public Software CIC</a>
  <a href="https://slat.org/">Software Liberty Association Taiwan</a>
  <a href="https://www.documentfoundation.org">The Document Foundation</a>
  <a href="https://wikimedia.de">Wikimedia Deutschland</a>
  <a href="https://xnet-x.net/">Xnet</a>
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uri: 2017-09-27-Digital-O-Mat-Compare-your-views-on-Internet-policies-with-the-partie
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170829-01.html
title:
Digital-O-Mat: Compare your views on Internet policies with the parties for the German federal election 2017

content:
Digital-O-Mat: Compare your views on Internet policies with the parties for the German federal election 2017<p>Although digital issues are becoming increasingly important, general election coverage often miss them out. That is why the "Koalition Freies Wissen" ("Free Knowledge Coalition") created the "Digital-O-Mat", an online tool for voter information for the German federal election of 2017. The FSFE asked the participating parties about their positions on Free Software. CDU/CSU, SPD and FDP avoid clear statements and thus confirm the status quo, the Greens and the Left in contrast present themselves as supporters of Free Software.</p>What is the Digital-O-Mat?<p>
                <a href="https://bund.digital-o-mat.de/"/>
            

The <a href="http://bund.digital-o-mat.de/">Digital-O-Mat</a> highlights the parties' positions on Internet policy relevant topics and helps voters to find their matching party for the election to the German parliament. Its design resembles the well-known Wahl-O-Mat, a popular online voter information tool by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education . Users of the Digital-O-Mat are able to answer twelve questions and then compare their position to the participating parties. The topics of Digital-O-Mat include transparency, surveillance, digital civil rights and, of course, Free Software. We asked AfD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, CDU/CSU, FDP, Die Linke and the SPD. We received replies from everyone except AfD. <a href="https://github.com/dsstio/digital-o-mat">Digital-O-Mat is Free Software</a> and had its debut in 2017 for the <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170419-01">state parliament elections in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)</a>.</p>The parties' positions on Free Software<p>For Digital-O-Mat, the Free Software Floundation Europe asked the participating parties the following questions:</p>
          If software is financed or co-financed by the public sector, should there be no regulation regarding its licensing, e.g. a Free Software licence?
          Should public administrations gradually migrate their IT systems to Free and Open Source software?
        <p>CDU/CSU (conservatives) and FDP (liberals) marked their position as "neutral" and answered in a very similar fashion. Unfortunately, these parties avoid making a clear stance and ultimately confirm the status quo. On one hand, they do consider the use of Free Software, on the other hand, so they say, there are multiple other aspects to consider weigh in. However, they list functionality and usability for example, even though they have no relation to the licence in use. When asked about the migration of existing IT systems, CDU/CSU prefer decision making on a case-by-case basis, while FDP dodged our question. </p><p>Although the SPD (labour) also marked their answer as "neutral", they support the deployment and development of Free Software in public administrations and educational institutions, "to foster the creation of innovative businesses in the local market". Die Linke (lefts) and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (greens) position themselves as supporters of deployment and public funding of Free Software. The greens consider Free Software to be a "cornerstone for secure and future-proof IT systems", and the lefts also fully support it, as long as there are no concerns regarding security or operation.  </p>
				<a href="media/918fc376.2017-08-29-digitalomat-infographic-parties-EN.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/miscellaneous/2017-08-29-digitalomat-infographic-parties-EN.png"/>
				
					<p>Infographic: The parties' positions on Free Software</p>
				
			About the "Koalition Freies Wissen"<p>The Koalition Freies Wissen ("Free Knowledge Coalition") is an association of multiple civic organisations, namely <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/">Bündnis Freie Bildung</a>, <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/">Chaos Computer Club e.V.</a>, <a href="https://digitalegesellschaft.de/">Digitale Gesellschaft e.V.</a>,  <a href="https://freifunk.net/">Förderverein freie Netzwerke e.V.</a>, <a href="https://okfn.de/">Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V.</a>, <a href="https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Hauptseite">Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.</a> and the <a href="https://fsfe.org">Free Software Foundation Europe</a>. </p><p>The common goal of the Koalition Freies Wissen is to disseminate knowledge about digital and Internet policy issues as well as to highlight and establish digital civil rights in society and politics. The coalition has sent questions to the participating parties in previous state parliament elections this year and has now created the Digital-O-Mat for the German federal elections 2017.</p><a href="https://digital-o-mat.de/">Digital-O-Mat</a><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Open internship position as project assistant
uri: 2017-09-27-Open-internship-position-as-project-assistant
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170811-01.html
content:
Open internship position as project assistant<p>
FSFE is a charity dedicated to keeping the power over technology in your
hands. We are working to build freedom in a digital society and operate
in a lively environment with volunteers from many countries. We are
looking for an intern to join our remote team for three to six months,
working with us on a project which seek to prepare the organisation
for the next 15 years of work.
</p>Please note that the application deadline has been set to
the 28th of August 2017 and the position is no longer available for
more applicants.<p>
What we can offer is:

A challenging and exciting time with a dynamic NGO working internationally
A close-up view of organisational and community processes
A chance to take the initiative and put your own ideas into practice
The opportunity to meet and work with Free Software advocates across Europe 

</p><p>
What you'll do:

        
          Contribute to <a href="http://fsfe.org/work.html">FSFE's ongoing projects</a>, working with one or more of our staff and volunteers, with a particular focus on a project which will map out and analyse our organisational identity.
        
        
          Communicate with contacts from the FSFE community, NGO, industry, and public administrations.
        
        
          Coordinate volunteers and others in the work on various projects.
        
        
          Find your own strengths, and do something you care about.
        

</p><p>
Be sure to read our pages about <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship">internships</a>
in general before applying!
</p>Basic details<p>
Location: Remote. You'll be welcome to visit our office in Berlin, but you'll be working closely with our executive director based in Stockholm, Sweden, and as such, you will also be working primarily from your own place.
</p><p>Duration: 3 to 6 months full time at 35 hours per week, starting as agreed.</p><p>Compensation: We offer a compensation commensurate with your experience. As a general reference, for our technical internship offered in
2016-2017, we offered a salary of roughly €1,300 per month.</p>Work responsibility and activities<p>
Together with our executive director, you will work on a project to analyse
how the different groups within and outside of the FSFE perceive the
organisation's identity, which will work towards understanding how aligned
the identity is between the different groups.
</p><p>
The work will take the form of an analysis of existing material, interviews
with stakeholders, members and staff, as well as surveys. The whole process
will lead towards defining the organisational identity such that it can form
the basis for continued work in our organisational development.
The work may involve some travel, but it is likely to be limited.
</p>Qualifications<p>
You should have some experience or a considerable interest in Free Software.
Your field of study doesn't matter, but you should be able to relate it to
our work. Traditionally, a lot of interns in the FSFE have a legal or
political science background, but we've also had interns working with us
with a more technical or other social science background.
</p><p>
Experience from your studies or similar from conducting and analysing
interviews and surveys, together with appropriate methods for doing so
(for example grounded theory), will be greatly beneficial.
</p>Formal requirements<p>
You must be fluent in English, and ideally in at least one other
language. You must have some experience from working with Free Software
previously.
</p>Application deadline<p>
The last date to apply is the 28th of August 2017.
</p>How to apply<p>
Send your application containing a letter of motivation, a CV by e-mail
to contact@fsfe.org. Please make sure to write clearly you apply for
the internship position with reference PA-2017. We prefer to receive
your documents in PDF format.
</p>Contact persons<p>
If you have any questions about the position or any administrative
details in connection with it, you're welcome to contact:
</p><p>

 Jonas Öberg about the positions themselves, and the work involved
 Ulrike Sliwinski for any administrative questions

</p><p>
Both will be reading and responding if you send your question to the
contact@fsfe.org address. We look forward to reading your application!
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title: Désormais disponible dans notre boutique en ligne : la bavette rose non-binaire
uri: 2017-09-27-Désormais-disponible-dans-notre-boutique-en-ligne-la-bavette-rose
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170726-01.html
content:
Désormais disponible dans notre boutique en ligne : la bavette rose non-binaire parfaite pour tous les genres !<p>Consultez notre nouveau produit pour les tout jeunes
  soutiens de la Free Software Fondation Europe dans notre boutique en ligne : une
  bavette en matières 100% biologiques et équitables. L'expression « I am a
  fork » (je suis un embranchement) est cousue sur la bavette et restera
  ainsi intact même après plusieurs lavages.</p><p>C'est le cadeau parfait pour votre famille, vos connaissances et vos
  collègues, le cadeau inévitable si vous avez vos propres "forks" à la maison.
  <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order.fr#baby-bib-pink">Obtenez votre bavette
     grâce à notre boutique en ligne</a>, ou bien achetez la  <a href="https://fsfe.org/events/events.fr">lors de l'un de nos évènements</a> !</p>
				<a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order#baby-bib-pink"/>

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title: FSFE Lettre d'information - Juillet 2017
uri: 2017-09-27-FSFE-Lettre-d-information-Juillet-2017
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201707.html
content:
FSFE Lettre d'information - Juillet 2017La FSFE fournit maintenant une instance GIT pour ses soutiens<p>Partager son savoir et améliorer la coopération sont les principes fondamentaux de la communauté du Logiciel Libre. C'est pourquoi la FSFE est heureuse de fournir à ses soutiens et à ses volontaires enregistrés une plate-forme pour créer et gérer des dépôts Git avec une interface web confortable à l'adresse  <a href="https://git.fsfe.org">git.fsfe.org</a>.</p><p>Avec git.fsfe.org, la FSFE permet à ses soutiens de partager et collaborer sur une plate-forme <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170616-01.html">qui respecte totalement leurs libertés</a>. Et bien que les utilisateurs sont libres d'utiliser cette plate-forme pour leurs besoins privés, nous encourageons tous les activistes et les groupes locaux de la FSFE à y héberger leur code pour leurs activités pour la FSFE, à y partager leurs comptes rendus et documents liés à leur réunion de groupe FSFE ou encore à y déposer toute information publique intéressante. De cette façon, nous aimerions faciliter et stimuler les collaborations, les retours et la créativité au sein de notre communauté pan-européenne.</p><p>Les équipes et groupes de travail officiels de l'association FSFE vont aussi essayer de migrer autant de code et de dossiers pertinents que possible sur cette nouvelle plate-forme. Par exemple les futures développements web, les documents de promotion ainsi que les scripts utiles au travail quotidien de l'organisation. Pour les débutants sur Git, nous expliquons le service en détail sur le <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Git">wiki de la FSFE [EN]</a>. Les utilisateurs avancés sont invités à aider à étendre les guides pour les processus Git les plus courants.</p><p>Trouvez et utilisez nous, étudiez, partagez et améliorez sur <a href="https://git.fsfe.org">git.fsfe.org</a>.</p>

                                
                                <a href="media/4bfbc57a.20170610-R2D2-with-IloveFS-at-FSFE-booth.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/20170610-R2D2-with-IloveFS-at-FSFE-booth.jpg"/>
                                

                                        <p>[<a href="#boothpic">**</a>] R2D2 at the FSFE booth: <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/">"J'aime le Logiciel Libre"</a></p>
                                
                  <p> Aidez nous à grandir et à faire la différence en 2017.
                <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-07">https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-07</a></p>Qu'avons-nous fait d'autres ? A l'intérieur ou à l'extérieur de la FSFE

 
                L'Estonie a pris la présidence du conseil de l'union européenne et demande au public de commenter leur proposition de "Déclaration de Tallinn", un ensemble de propositions politiques pour le gouvernement numérique Européen, qui devrait être signé par les ministres de l'union européenne en Octobre. La FSFE a <a href="FIXME: LINK">fourni ses commentaires</a> dans un premier tour de consultation publique, le second tour de commentaires étant ouvert à tous. Nous vous encourageons à <a href="https://ideas4digitalgov.eu/">participer</a> et à réutiliser nos arguments pour favoriser les Logiciels Libres et les Standards Ouverts dans l'infrastructure numérique publique européenne. La  date limite pour les commentaires est le 14 Juillet.

 

                Dans le cadre de notre campagne Libérez votre Android, la FSFE <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#f-droid">explique et promeut</a>
 l'utilisation du magasin d'application libre F-Droid. Torsten Grote, membre de l'Assemblée Générale de la FSFE et initiateur de notre campagne Libérez votre Android (FYA-campaign en anglais), a partagé ses connaissances sur <a href="https://blog.grobox.de/2017/how-f-droid-is-bringing-apps-to-cuba/">comment F-Droid apporte des applications à Cuba</a>.



                Est-il acceptable d'utiliser des plates-formes propriétaires pour promouvoir les Logiciels Libres ? La communauté de la FSFE, incluant les représentants FSFE des soutiens, ont discuté de cette question <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/discussion/2017-June/011591.html">sur notre liste de discussion publique</a>. N'hésitez pas à vous joindre à la discussion.


                À Zurich, il y a eu <a href="https://danielpocock.com/croissants-qatar-food-computer-zurich">une réunion de lancement d'un groupe local "ordinateur à nourriture" (Food Computer)</a>
 incluant le représentant FSFE des soutiens, Daniel Pocock, et un financement de la FSFE pour la venue d'Anisa Kuci.

                Le directeur du programme de la FSFE, Max Mehl,  s'est rendu au groupe local de la FSFE Rhein/Main à Francfort, en Allemagne, et a donné une conférence sur "Argent Public, Code public".


                L'équipe française de la FSFE était présente avec un stand aux Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre (RMLL) - aussi connues sus le nom de Libre Software Meeting (LSM) - à Saint-Etienne où Cryptie, notre supportrice depuis des années, a donné une conférence <a href="https://prog2017.rmll.info/programme/securite-entre-transparence-et-opacite/de-la-crypto-academique-a-la-pratique-oups-il-manque-un-truc?lang=en">"De la crypto académique à la pratique : oups il manque un truc "</a>.

                


                Le groupe local de la FSFE Berlin était présent avec un stand au Maker Faire pour expliquer aux visiteurs pourquoi le bricolage dépend beaucoup des Logiciels Libres. 



                Le groupe local de FSFE Milan, en Italie, <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2017/07-06-International-Day-Against-DRM">ont célébré avec Game Over Milano la journée internationale contre les DRM</a> en informant sur les menaces des DRM concernant le HTML5, les livres électroniques, les musiques, jeux et plus encore.

                
                Le groupe local de la FSFE Offenbach, en Allemagne, était présent avec un stand au Bended Realities Festival pour informer sur le lien entre éducation libre et Logiciel Libre.



                Le groupe local de la FSFE Munich, e, Allemagne, a tenu un atelier sur <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiMUC/2017-06-02_Workshop:_Wie_funktioniert_freie_Software%3F">"Qu'est-ce qu'un Logiciel Libre ?"</a> avec un focus spécial pour les personnes n'ayant que peu ou pas de connaissance sur les logiciels.
           Ne les loupés pas ! Les prochains événements avec la FSFE        


				SHA est le nom d'un Hacker camp à but non lucratif en extérieur qui a lieu du 4 au 8 aout, à coté de Amersfoort en Hollande. L'équipe hollandaise de la FSFE et ses amis seront présents avec un <a href="https://wiki.sha2017.org/w/Village:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe">village dédié à la FSFE</a>. Si vous êtes dans les parages, passez et rejoignez une des sessions, conférences, ateliers ou projets, ou encore aidez à <a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2017/06/join-us-now-at-sha2017/">chanter la "Free Software song" (chanson du Logiciel Libre)</a>.

           Aidez nous à améliorer notre lettre d'information<p>Si vous voyez des nouvelles qui devraient être incluses, faites nous les suivre. Si vous souhaitez partager des idées, envoyez les nous. Comme toujours, l'adresse est newsletter@fsfe.org. Nous attendons de vos nouvelles !</p><p>Merci à tous les <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">bénévoles</a>, <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">soutiens</a> et <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donateurs</a> qui rendent notre travail possible.</p><p>Votre éditeur,

                
                Erik Albers</p><p><a href=""/>[**] Sur l'image: R2D2 qui visitait le stand FSFE pendant la conférence Maker Fair à Berlin. 
    Avez-vous de belles images de stand de la FSFE (et de l'équipe) que vous voulez partager  avec notre communauté ? Envoyez les nous à <a href="mailto:contact@fsfe.org">contact@fsfe.org</a>. Nous adorons les photos de stand &lt;3</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20171005-01.en.xml
title: EU Copyright Review: Tell Legislators to Save Code Share
uri: EU-Copyright-Review-Tell-Legislators-to-Save-Code-Share
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171005-01.html
content:
EU Copyright Review: Tell Legislators to Save Code Share<p>The FSFE, together with Open Forum Europe, asks the 
  EU policymakers to Save Code Share in the current on-going EU Copyright review. 
  Today we ask you to support our newest campaign <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a>
  by signing an <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/#sign-letter">Open Letter</a> 
  addressed to the EU policymakers.In this letter we request EU legislators 
  to preserve the ability to collaboratively build software online in current 
  EU Copyright Directive proposal.</p><p>If the proposed changes targeted at online platforms are implemented, this would 
  force online code sharing repositories to use filters that monitor and 
  preemptively take down any content that could potentially infringe copyright, 
  including entire code repositories. Otherwise, platforms will be held 
  directly liable for any alleged copyright infringement found in the source code 
  hosted on their services. Such shift in the liability regime from 
  rightholders to platforms would durably harm the Free Software ecosystem 
  which often relies on code hosting platforms to build software together, 
  as it will result in more arbitrary code removal on code hosting 
  platforms.</p>How does Article 13 harm Free Software?<p>A lot of the software used in everyday life contains Free Software 
  components. Free Software is popular because it can be shared under 
  terms that allow and encourage using it for any purpose, studying its 
  source code, sharing it with others, and customising it according to 
  one's needs. Source code is often shared through online code hosting 
  platforms that act as a main access point for collaboration online.</p><p>The current legislative negotiations over the EU "Copyright Reform" 
  package, and particularly Article 13, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170908-01.en.html">indicate</a>
  that we risk seeing the imposition of far-reaching rules for every online 
  platform which allows their users to upload large amounts of content, 
  including code hosting platforms. Specifically, the proposals embodied 
  in the draft of Article 13 threaten code hosting platforms by imposing 
  new obligations on them. Namely, code hosting platforms will be legally 
  required to use costly (but ultimately fundamentally flawed) filtering 
  technologies. There are no known filtering technologies that could accurately 
  and reliably identify whether any Free Software is being shared in 
  accordance with its legal terms and conditions. In addition, the proposed 
  Article 13 will oblige online platforms to monitor their users and 
  actively seek for possible copyright infringements.</p><a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">
				</a>
			<p>Consequently, Article 13, as currently proposed, would shift the 
  responsibility for protecting allegedly infringed rights from rightholders 
  to platforms in a way that disproportionately harms the sector that is
  a cornerstone of innovation.</p><p>Article 13 would restrict the freedom of developers to choose freely 
  among a variety of software components and tools, as these tools and 
  components will no longer be available online. In a domino effect, Free 
  Software projects could no longer rely upon precedent projects and tools 
  due to an arbitrary upload filter that can prevent code being hosted online. 
  As a consequence, software will become less reliable, and digital infrastructure 
  less resilient for everybody.</p>Take Action Now<p>Please <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">sign and share the Open Letter</a> 
  both on behalf of an organisation, and as an individual. The Open Letter 
  together with your signatures will be handed over to the Members of the 
  European Parliament and the EU Council. For more information on how 
  proposed Article 13 would harm fundamental rights and negatively impact 
  collaborative software development and Free Software, please <a href="media/b43fc5cc.hitePaper-ImpactofArticel13onSoftwareEcosystem-SaveCodeShare.pdf" data-original-source="https://savecodeshare.eu/static/assets/WhitePaper-ImpactofArticel13onSoftwareEcosystem-SaveCodeShare.pdf">read our White Paper</a>.
  </p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20171013-01.en.xml
title: FSFE presents modernised Fiduciary Licensing Agreement 2.0
uri: FSFE-presents-modernised-Fiduciary-Licensing-Agreement-2-0
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171013-01.html
content:
FSFE presents modernised Fiduciary Licensing Agreement 2.0<p>The FSFE and ContributorAgreements.org proudly present
  the revised and updated <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/fla.en.html">Fiduciary Licence Agreement 
  2.0</a> (FLA-2.0) - a next-generation contributor agreement that makes sure 
  the contributed software always remains Free Software.</p><p>The FSFE acknowledges that the licensing of code has been well served 
  by Free Software licences such as the GPL, Apache, BSD, and MPL families. 
  However, managing rights and content within a project over long periods 
  of time is still a complex issue.</p><p>To fix this the FSFE with the help of <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/fla.en.html#authors">knowledgeable experts</a>
  drafted the Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA) as early as 2002. The FLA 
  is a well-balanced contributor agreement, which gives the trustee, responsible 
  for managing the rights within a Free Software project, power and 
  responsibility to make sure the contributed software always remains free 
  and open. This way the project, together with all the respective contributors, 
  are protected against any misuse of power by a new copyright holder.</p><p>The way this works under the FLA is that developers assign an exclusive
  licence to the trustee (usually a foundation or company, under whose auspices 
  the software lies) and in return they receive a non-exclusive licence 
  of the same extent, as well as a legally binding promise that the code 
  they contributed will forever remain Free Software.</p><p>In the last decade, the world of IT has changed quite a bit and, 
  apart from copyright, patents and trade marks have become a serious concern 
  for Free Software projects.</p><p>With the last review in 2007, the FLA (version 1.2) was long due an 
  update. So we are delighted to finally unveil the FLA-2.0 – a much improved 
  and modernised version.</p><p>The biggest improvements are that the FLA-2.0 now also covers patents 
  and enables more practical licensing options directed towards third 
  parties – including referencing to an external licensing policy. In addition, 
  the new wording is much improved both in its compatibility with more 
  jurisdictions as well as being easier for everybody to understand and 
  apply.</p><p>Furthermore, we have joined forces with <a href="http://contributoragreements.org/about.html">ContributorAgreements.org</a> 
  and integrated the FLA-2.0 into its Copyright Licensing Agreement (CLA) 
  chooser/generator, in order to make the use of the FLA easier both for 
  projects and for developers. As a side-effect, all CLA on ContributorAgreements.org 
  have been updated as well, following some of the improvements from the FLA.</p>
  <p>As is often in FOSS and life, we are merely standing on 
  the shoulders of giants. The current update – while itself taking several 
  industrious years of research and analysis, culminating in a master's thesis
  – would not have been possible without the authors of the original FLA, 
  as well as a great deal of legal research which was the basis for the 
  ContributorAgreements.org. The sheer community knowledge aggregated in 
  the FLA-2.0 makes me confident that it is more relevant and useful today 
  as ever before.</p>
  
   <p>says Matija Šuklje, former FSFE's Legal Coordinator and the main 
  driving force behind the FLA update.</p>
  
  <p>The revised FLA-2.0 is an outcome of a longstanding and 
  scrupulous collaboration between the FSFE and ContributorAgreements.org. 
  We are pleased to see that collaboration to bear fruits in the shape of 
  the FLA-2.0. We hope that the new FLA will provide developers and Free 
  Software projects with more clarity, while retaining the spirit of the
  original version.</p>
  
  <p>says Polina Malaja, the FSFE’s Legal Coordinator</p>
    
  <p>We are thrilled to partner with FSFE and to see the new 
  FLA-2.0 go live hand in hand with a new version of our set of standardised 
  contributor agreements. FSFE's passion and especially Matija Šuklje's 
  dedication to modernising the FLA has enabled us to further revise and 
  refine our agreement chooser and we are especially delighted to offer 
  the new FLA-2.0 as one possible agreement to be chosen out different 
  options available at <a href="www.contributoragreements.org">contributoragreements.org</a>
  </p>
  
  <p>says Catharina Maracke, Team Lead at ContributorAgreements.org</p>
  
  <p>KDE e.V. is the biggest user of the FLA and we are delighted 
  to see this new version released. As a global project we especially appreciate 
  the effort to make it applicable to more jurisdictions and easier to 
  understand for our contributors.</p>
  
  <p>says Lydia Pintscher, President of KDE e.V.</p>
  <p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Call for sessions at the FSFE assembly during 34C3
uri: Call-for-sessions-at-the-FSFE-assembly-during-34C3
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171024-01.html
content:
Call for sessions at the FSFE assembly during 34C3<p>From December 27 to 30, the 34th Chaos Communication Congress will be held in Leipzig. As in recent years, the FSFE is happy to host an assembly that includes an information booth and a meeting point for all Free Software enthusiasts and our friends to come together. We offer a stage and look for interesting self-organised sessions for our community. This is the corresponding call for participation.</p><p>For our 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. Topics can be anything that is about or related to Free Software. We welcome technical sessions but we encourage to give non-technical talks that address philosophical, economical or other aspects of/about Free Software. We also enjoy sessions about related subjects that have a clear connection to Free Software, for example privacy, data protection, sustainability and similar topics. Finally, we welcome all backgrounds – from your private project to global community projects.</p><p>Do you have something different in mind?  For our friends, it is also possible to have informal meetings, announcements or other activities at our assembly.  In this case, get in touch and we will see what we can do.</p><img src="media/0f6b3f1e.g_a_session_about_secure_mobile_messengers_during_33C3-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/2016-12-Hannes_Hauswedell_giving_a_session_about_secure_mobile_messengers_during_33C3-800px.jpg"/><p>Crowded room while Hannes Hauswedell is giving a session about secure mobile messengers during 33C3</p>Formalities<p>If you are interested in hosting a session at the FSFE assembly, please apply no later than</p><p>** Sunday, November 19, 18:00 UTC **</p><p>by <a href="mailto:eal@fsfe.org">sending an email to Erik Albers</a> (<a href="http://http-keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=get&amp;search=0x1868FC2E8639DC81">OpenPGP</a>) with the subject “Session at 34C3” and use the following template:</p>
	Title: name of your session
	Description: description of your session
	Type: talk / discussion / meeting / workshop …
	Tags: put useful tags here
	Link: (if there is a helpful link)
	Expected number of participants: 20 or less / up to 40 / up to 100
	About yourself: some words about you/your biography 
	<p>You will be informed latest on Monday, November 27, if your session is accepted.</p>Good to know
If your session is accepted we happily take care of its proper organisation, advertising and everything else that needs to be done. You are then welcome to simply come and give/host your session. But please note that this is neither a guarantee of a ticket, nor do we take care of your ticket! Check the CCC-announcements and get yourself a ticket in time.

You do not need to be a <a href="https://fsfe.org/join">supporter of the FSFE</a> to host a session. On the contrary, we welcome external guests.

Please share this call with your friends or your favourite mailing list.
Related information:
For your inspiration to this call, see our sessions during <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2016/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe">33C3</a> and <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe">32C3</a>.

With the CCC moving from Hamburg to Leipzig, self-organized sessions will not longer happen in community rooms but on several stages that are organised by adjacent and clustering assemblies. Details still need to be sorted out, but we will form a cluster with other freedom fighting NGOs and our friends from European Digital Rights. Find some more information about this in <a href="https://blog.3rik.cc/2017/10/call-for-sessions-at-the-fsfe-assembly-during-34c3/">Erik Albers' blog post</a>.
<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___nl___nl-201710.fr.xml
title: FSFE Lettre d'information - Octobre 2017
uri: FSFE-Lettre-d-information-Octobre-2017
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201710.html
content:
FSFE Lettre d'information - Octobre 2017Dites à l'UE de préserver le partage du code dans le débat en cours sur les droits d’auteur !<p>L'UE est en train de réviser sa réglementation du droit d'auteur afin qu'elle soit mieux adaptée à l'ère numérique moderne dans sa proposition de <a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52016PC0593">directive européenne sur le droit d’auteur dans le marché unique numérique</a>. Au lieu de tenir compte des réalités dans la façon dont les différents contenus en ligne sont partagés, l'état actuel de la proposition de Directive européenne sur le droit d'auteur et en particulier son article 13 consacré aux hébergeurs de contenu en ligne menacent <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171005-01.en.html">menace</a>notre capacité à accéder à des dépôts (/répertoires) de code source en ligne. Les nouvelles règles inscrites dans l'article 13 visent à introduire de nouvelles obligations pour les plateformes d’hébergement de code source dans le but d'empêcher une possible violation du droit d'auteur, sinon ces plateformes pourraient être tenues directement responsables de l’activité de ses utilisateurs. L'article 13 impose ainsi l'utilisation de filtres onéreux lors de la mise en ligne de contenu afin d’identifier du code présumé contrevenant. Le problème avec une telle exigence, c'est qu'il n'existe aucun filtre automatique connu à ce jour qui puisse identifier rigoureusement si du code est partagé de manière adéquate sans enfreindre une licence de Logiciel Libre. De plus, l'article 13 impose une obligation de surveillance considérable aux plateformes d’hébergement de code afin de chercher activement des activités illicites de la part des utilisateurs. De ce point de vue, l'état actuel de l'article 13 considère chaque utilisateur d'une plateforme d’hébergement de code comme un potentiel auteur d'infractions du droit d'auteur, dont le contenu, y compris la totalité d'un dépôt peut être mis hors-ligne ou bien interdit d'être mis en ligne sur la plateforme à n'importe quel moment.Si le code devient aussi facilement non publiable, cela entraverait sévèrement tous les autres logiciels de se construire par-dessus. </p><p>Pour plus d'information sur la manière dont l'article 13 menace notre possibilité de créer des logiciels en ligne, visitez <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share (Préservez le partage du code)</a> et lisez notre <a href="media/b43fc5cc.hitePaper-ImpactofArticel13onSoftwareEcosystem-SaveCodeShare.pdf" data-original-source="https://savecodeshare.eu/static/assets/WhitePaper-ImpactofArticel13onSoftwareEcosystem-SaveCodeShare.pdf">Livre blanc</a>.</p><img src="media/13724330.20170820-booth-and-team-at-froscon-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/20170820-booth-and-team-at-froscon-800px.jpg"/>
			    	  <p>Stand FSFE à la conférence FrOSCon de l'Université des Sciences Appliquées Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Allemagne</p>
					  <p><a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-10"> Aidez-nous à grandir et à faire la différence en 2017 </a></p>Qu'avons-nous fait d'autre ? À l'intérieur ou à l'extérieur de la FSFE
		Jusqu'à présent, le succès de notre campagne <a href="https://publiccode.eu/">Argent public ? Code public !</a> a été extraordinaire. Au moment de vous écrire, nous avons récolté plus de 13.000 signataires de la  <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/">lettre ouverte</a> et la campagne a reçu le soutien de plus de 80 organisations. La campagne a reçu une attention accrue grâce à une importante <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/PMPC/Press">couverture de presse</a> mais aussi grâce aux nombreuses figures éminentes, développeurs, artistes, entrepreneurs ainsi qu’aux hommes et femmes politiques qui ont rejoint notre demande pour que dès qu'un logiciel ait été financé par de l'argent public, le code soit lui aussi public. Si vous ne l'avez pas encore fait, rejoignez-nous et signez la <a href="https://publiccode.eu/#action">lettre ouverte</a>.
		Jonas Öberg, le directeur exécutif de la FSFE <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/reuse-templates/">a blogué à propos des mises à jour</a> et des modèles pour la <a href="https://reuse.software/">campagne REUSE</a> de la FSFE. Dans sa note de blog, il présente trois différents répertoires Git où chacun est conforme à REUSE et illustre différents éléments des usages recommandés par REUSE.
		 Kristi Progri, assistante de projet pour la FSFE a écrit une note à propos  du processus actuel de la FSFE dans la définition de son identité  et <a href="https://kristiprogri.com/2017/09/20/fsfe-identity-process/"> comment participer au processus d'entretiens </a>.
		Polina Malaja, notre analyste politique et coordinatrice juridique a donné une conférence au CopyCamp de Varsovie, Pologne, à propos de l'état actuel de la directive européenne des droits d'auteur, de son incidence pour le développement collaboratif de logiciels et de notre campagne Save Code Share  (Préservez le partage du code). 
		Carmen Bakker et Erik Da Silva, nos actuels stagiaire à la FSFE, ont donné une conférence pendant le CopyCamp de Varsovie à propos de la campagne Argent Public ? Code Public ! Vous trouverez <a href="https://www.carmenbianca.eu/en/post/2017-10-02-copycamp-public-money-public-code/">un petit compte-rendu ainsi qu'une vidéo sur le blog de Carmen</a>.
		 Erik Albers, gestionnaire des programmes et coordonnateur communautaire de la FSFE a donné la conférence  <a href="https://www.kieler-linuxtage.de/index.php?seite=programm.html&amp;untermenu=Besucher-Info#308"> Les Logiciels Libres en campagne avant les élections)</a> à la Journée Linux de Kiel (Allemagne).
		Polina Malaja a fait une présentation lors de la journée Software Freedom Day (Journée de la Liberté Logicielle)   <a href="http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2017/Germany/Berlin/JointSFDBerlin">à propos de la campagne Argent Public ? Code Public !</a> à la c-base de Berlin.
		Lors de la Semaine numérique de Kiel, Erik Albers a parlé de  <a href="https://digitalewochekiel.de/programm/public-money-public-code/">Argent Public ? Code Public !</a> et de sa pertinence dans l'actuel accord electoral en Schleswig-Holstein. 
	À ne pas manquer  ! Événements à venir avec la FSFE<p> Nous sommes en train de préparer le premier rendez-vous communautaire de la FSFE. Il prendra place les 25 et 26 novembre à Berlin. Nous invitons tous les membres actifs et toutes les personnes qui souhaiteraient à nouveau s'engager  afin de se retrouver et de collaborer. Les places sont limitées à cause des restrictions physiques.Si vous souhaitez participer, vous pouvez lire tous les détails <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2017/the-fsfe-community-meeting-2017">sur la page wiki dédiée</a>.</p>Agissez<p>Dites aux membre du Parlement Européen et au Conseil Européen de protéger le dévelopement collaboratif du Logiciel Libre en ligne et tout particulièrement le partage de Logiciel Libre en signant la Lettre Ouverte en tant qu'individu et/ou en tant qu'organisation <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/#sign-letter">Save Code Share (Préserver le partage du code)</a>  ! Faites passer le mot à propos des dangers de l'état actuel de la Directive euorpéenne sur les droits d'auteur dans vos réseaux <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">#savecodeshare</a>. Dites aux hommes et femmes politique de l'UE qu'il n'y a pas de place pour les filtres automatiques lorsqu'il s'agit de partager du code en tant que Logiciel Libre ! </p>Aidez-nous à améliorer notre lettre d'information<p>Si vous souhaitez partager vos idées, des illustrations ou des nouvelles, vous pouvez nous les soumettre. Comme toujours, l'adresse est newsletter@fsfe.org.  Nous nous réjouissons d'avoir de vos nouvelles !  </p><p>Merci à notre communauté, à tous les <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">bénévoles</a>,  <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">soutiens</a> et <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donateurs</a>  qui rendent notre travail possible. Merci à  <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators"> nos groupes de traductions </a> grâce à qui vous pouvez lire ce bulletin d'information dans votre langue maternelle. </p><p>Vos éditeurs, Polina Malaja et Erik Albers</p><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-10"> Aidez-nous à grandir et à faire la différence en 2017</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


