Andre Klapper was a busy man at the Gnome Asia summit. Maybe it was the aura of the hackfest that got to him. Or maybe it was the spicy Indian food. Whatever it might be, Andre was unstoppable, giving one talk after another. We caught him off stage to do some more, um, talking.
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FSFE Fellowship Interview with Heiki Ojasild
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For our January fellowship interview we met Heiki Ojasild. He joined the Free Software Foundation Europe in 2011, undertaking the task of translating fsfe.org into Estonian, his mother tongue. He is currently developing an XChat add-on, as well as a website for free SVG and JavaScript games. In 2010 he took part in the Baltic Olympiad in Informatics.
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Behind the scenes of the new GNU mailing list server
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The GNU list server is a monster machine serving lists.gnu.org, lists.nongnu.org and a few other domains. Every day, it spools out over 1 million messages for 2700 mailing lists. Until April 11, our venerable list server was an 8-year old Fedora Core 2 (!) box equipped with 6 high-speed SCSI drives organized in two RAID packs to maximize I/O bandwidth.
Read more »Linux in 2012: what to expect
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2011 was also the year when all of the major Linux vendors started focusing on alternate platforms, on multiple devices, and started integrating cloud services into their products. There was a flurry of cross-platform apps that you could run on the desktop as well as on your mobile phone. These and other developments in 2011 have set up a wonderful platform for 2012.
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FSFE Newsletter - April 2011
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- a decade of Freedom: FSFE turned 10
- Worldwide celebration of Open Standards
- news from FSFE's country teams
and much more: pdf readers, gamingfreedom, legal news, red hat & nokia
Swedish activist receives Nordic Free Software Award 2011
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Erik Josefsson is the winner of the Nordic Free Software Award 2011. With the award, the Swedish Foundation for Free Culture and Free Software (FFKP) honours Josefsson for his achievements as a campaigner for freedom in the information society. [...]
Read more »Bitcoins: A new way to donate to the FSF
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The FSF is now accepting Bitcoin donations. FSF joined the list of organizations accepting donations of Bitcoins. Bitcoin is a virtual peer-to-peer currency, powered by free software, and we've received several requests over the last year to participate.
Read more »The Decline and Fall of OpenOffice.org
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LibreOffice will be both months ahead of OpenOffice.org, and able to borrow OpenOffice.org code, and OpenOffice.org behind and unable to borrow LibreOffice code.
Read more »Highlights from the 2011 Day Against DRM
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This year's Day Against DRM on May 4th was an overall success. Thanks to all of you who participated!
Read more »Educating with free software
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Frederic Muller, president of Software Freedom International, was flaunting two things at the Gnome Asia Summit in Bangalore -- his passion for free software, and his newly acquired beard. We try to capture both in this interview. Frederic has lots of hands-on experience of promoting free software in education and offers wonderful advice for others who want to do the same.
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Fall internship positions are still open at the FSF—apply today!
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The FSF has internships available in campaigns, licensing, and system administration. Come help us advance and promote free software while gaining valuable work experience.
Read more »FSFE Newsletter - July 2011
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- attack on Free Software and the GNU GPL – the AVM case
- FSFE Internal: An era ends, others start – the team evolution
- how the European Commission got contract signed with Microsoft without caring about alternatives
- help us in Strasbourg!
FSFE newsletter - May 2011
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This month's headlines:
- Competition authorities: Free Software protects competition
- Mission is possible: take part into our Free PDFreaders campaign follow-up!
- Something completely different: LinuxTag, articles on Free Software on the Fellowship planet.
- Get Active - Internships at FSFE
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Final rush for FSF membership drive!
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Today is the last day of the FSF's membership drive-- and they have really been turning up their game lately. If you appreciate free software, please join and help meet the goal!
Join here! https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom?referrer=6894
Read more »Strip mining of OpenOffice.org
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We now have two implementations of the same code and two communities working to different licensing regimes, and the outcome is potentially divisive and bad for everyone except IBM.
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