Explaining Free Software is an important but sometimes difficult task. Complex ideas and terminology, subtle variations and an intensely political history can all get in the way of effective advocacy. These guidelines aim to help you to communicate clearly and consistently, and present yourself and what you're saying in a compelling and credible light.
Read more »Community - free software in the global community - people, interviews, opinions, activism, events and community adoption of free software. In other words, the whos, whens and wheres of free software.
Effective Free Software advocacy
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Torvalds: GNOME over as Linux creator switches to Xfce
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Torvalds describes this as "the kind of 'head up the arse' behavior of gnome3" and says he has switched: "I'm using Xfce. I think it's a step down from gnome2, but it's a huge step up from gnome3. Really."
Read more »FSFE newsletter -August 2011
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This month's headlines:
- Inside stories by a critical thinker: interview with FSFE co-founder Bernhard Reiter
- Get Rid of "Intellectual Property"
- Support FSFE in critical thinking
- Get active: Read and distribute "crime story" on "When patents attack"
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FSFE's Fellowship interview with Bernhard Reiter
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Bernhard Reiter, co-founder of FSFE, talks about funding Free Software development and advocacy, the need for salaried campaigners, and the evolution of FSFE from its humble origins.
Read more »EFF Campaign Increases the Number of Tor Relays by 13.4%
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We launched our campaign on May 31, 2011 –and within days surpassed our goal of 100 new relays.
Read more »12 Things You See Every Day That Wouldn't Exist Without Linux
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Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, told us, "You use Linux every day but you don't know it. It's such a fundamental part of our lives.
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!
Tux Paint Kids Summer Drawing Contest
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Grab Tux Paint, make a cool drawing, win one of 3 OLPC laptops, one of 10 Sugar-on-a-stick and other awesome prizes! The 2011 Tux Paint Summer Drawing Contest is sponsored by Worldlabel.com and is open to all children aged 3 to 12 who live anywhere in the World!
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 »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.
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 »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 »Fellowship interview with Florian Effenberger
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Florian Effenberger has been a Free Software evangelist for many years. Pro bono, he is founding member and part of the Steering Committee at The Document Foundation. He has previously been active in the OpenOffice.org project for seven years, most recently as Marketing Project Lead.
Read more »Join the Movement
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Join the Open Source and free Software Lebanese Movement community and become active to promote and advocate Free and Open source software.
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Outcry leads to 200 bricks ordered and reprehensible Nintendo response
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In a little over a week, we surpassed our goal of taking 200 brick orders for Nintendo, to protest their claim that they have the right to "brick" (disable) users' devices when used outside of Nintendo's outrageous Terms of Service.
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