US international bully-boy uses threats of trade savagery to force unconstitutional copyright legislation on reluctant Spanish internet!
Read more »Spanish KDE Community Announces Akademy-es 2011
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KDE Spain is organizing Akademy-es 2011, the annual meeting of KDE users and contributors in Barcelona, Spain from May 20th through May 22nd. Akademy-es is an important event in the KDE calendar. Attendance and the technical quality of papers have increased significantly during each of the previous events.
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Not-So-Gentle Persuasion: US Bullies Spain into Website Blocking Law
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But now some of the cables provided by WikiLeaks to Spanish newspaper El Pais confirm that the US government has pushed other countries to adopt measures that go beyond US law, unleashing the fury of Spanish Internet users.
Read more »Free Software Street, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"The free software street is a street about 300 meters from the city of Berga, province of Barcelona (Spain), located from the coordinates 42.097168, 1.841567 to 42.096138,1.839265. The particularity of this street is the first in the world dedicated to free software movement, and which was officially opened by Mr. Richard Stallman, founder of free software, on 3 July 2010..."
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Inaugurating the first Free Software street
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"The Free Software conferences held in Berga during the last weekend, where eyeOS participated with a conference and a workshop, ended with a very special moment: The official inauguration of the first “Free Software” street in the world. Richard Stallman, founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, was invited and after speaking, officially inaugurated the street..."
Read more »Open Public Data are so good that it's hard to start explaining why
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I just came back from an international meeting in Madrid on the reuse of Public Sector Information through open digital standards and open licenses. This is a partial report of the most interesting concepts discussed during the day.
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ODF Alliance Newsletter: February 2010 (PDF)
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ODF Alliance Newsletter for February 2010. Contains latest news regarding open formats, including adoption by various governments around the world.
Read more »iFreeTablet: Free software alternative to Apple's tablet
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"...On February 4 will be presented, the iFreeTablet, capping more than 20 years of research of EATCO Group at the University of Cordoba in the field of usability, ergonomics and adaptive devices as an alternative to the new Apple tablet..."
Read more »Spain pays 12m Euros to Telefonica to maintain open source web site
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Who said there isn’t money to be made in open source? The Spanish government has awarded a 12m Euro contract to Telefonica to maintain the Presidential web site, a site that is built on OpenCMS, an open source content management system.
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RMS at International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies - Las Palmas, Spain - Feb 10-12 2010
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"...IWEEE is not a pure technical conference. It will focus on the human factor and in raising awareness about the actual situation. We will discuss the tools that we can provide today to doctors and institutions to improve their habitants health and education.
Read more »Digital rights: call to all citizens to fight back (Free Culture Forum)
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"The first International Free Culture Forum will take place in Barcelona from October 29 to November 1 2009. This event will bring together the main organisations and most active voices in the world of Free Culture and Free Knowledge to set common agendas and strategies..."
Read more »Free Culture Forum: Organization and Action - Barcelona, 29th October - 1st November 2009
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"Across the planet, people are recognizing the need for an international space to build and coordinate a global framework and common agenda for issues surrounding free culture and access to knowledge.
Read more »DebConf9 in Cáceres, Spain: Time of changes
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«...Every year several hundreds of Debian contributors from around the world get together at DebConf in a different city to share a week (or more!) of work, friendship and fun...»
Read more »Microsoft’s Latest Netbooks Collusion and Attack on Spanish and Australian Education
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More collusion to exclude GNU/Linux and more pressure to impose Windows+DRM on innocent schoolchildren
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In 2010 Asia and Latin America will be leading the use of free software... Africa lags behind
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"Researchers from Seville -María Dolores Gallego, Salvador Bueno (of Pablo de Olavide University) and Paula Luna (University of Seville)- carried out a report, published in the magazine Technological Forecasting & Social Change, stating that the use of free software in South America and Asia will be around 70% in 2010, with a special relevance in the education sector..."
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