DFEY-NW(Digital Freedom in Education and Youth - North West) is a group formed in response from a growing need in the Northwest of England for a Group to encourage and promote young people's involvement with the free software community by creating a social space to make it more comfortable for young people to get involved with GLUGs and FSUGs.
Read more »DFEY-NW :: October 19th :: Marbella Cafe :: Digital Freedom in Education and Youth - North West
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Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman
"Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner [...] «It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign,» he told The Guardian..."
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Brazil begins using the Open Document Format
The Brasília Protocol (now translated to English) started the process of implementation of the Open Document Format (ODF) within the Brazilian Government.
Read more »Debian and Ubuntu DDNS with Bind9 and DHCP
This tutorial is a continuation of my previous post How to setup a LAN DNS server using Bind9 under Debian and Ubuntu Linux which covers the installation of bind9 on a Debian/Ubuntu system. This new tutorial will cover the Dynamic DNS features of bind9.
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How to setup a LAN DNS server using Bind9 under Debian and Ubuntu Linux
This is a step by step tutorial on how to install and configure DNS server for your LAN using bind9. The DNS server will provide caching and name resolution as well as reverse name resolution for your local network. In this tutorial, we will use the domain "debian.lan" and this will be the domain of your local network.
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Interview with Daniel Oliveira from the UTUTO project in Argentina
The UTUTO Project is a non-profit volunteer organization that incubates other free software/knowledge projects from Argentina. They maintain a GNU/Linux distribution all translated to Spanish, they keep their own packages repository and you can search for packages on their site. The UTUTO community also maintains various documentation projects as well as a multimedia server.
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BrOffice, the Brazilian OpenOffice, with a life of its own
Continuing our series of bringing information about the free software movement in Latin America to English readers, North by South interviewed Cláudio Filho (original in Portuguese), one of the people responsible for starting the OpenOffice.org project in Brazil (pt-BR), known in the country as BrOffice.org.
Read more »Free Software Foundation Latin America: Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the GNU project
"Few people had access to computers back when Richard Matthew Stallman realized the then-nascent software industry was adopting a business model based on denying software users their four essential freedoms, and that he could do something about it.
Read more »Happy Birthday To GNU! — The FSFE Celebrates the GNU Project's 25th Birthday!
"Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the initial announcement of the GNU Project, a pioneering initiative to develop an operating system that gives all users the freedom to modify it and publish modified versions, individually or working together.
Read more »GNU turns 25
"Twenty five years ago , on September 27 1983, Richard Stallman announced his plans to 'write a complete Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu’s Not Unix), and give it away free to everyone who can use it'..."
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FSFE to make legal consolidation tool available in 10 languages
"The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) announced today that it plans to make the Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA) available ten languages. The selected languages are English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Serbian, Polish, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese..."
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Updates from the Free Software Foundation Europe
"My name is Shane Coughlan and and I work for Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), a non-profit, non-governmental organisation with offices in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Sweden. You may remember me from my last FSFE update on this blog on the Freedom Task Force, which is the FSFE's legal training project which I coordinate.
Read more »Freedom Socks - Episode 8 - Socks Without DRM
So, we’re back after our little break, with better sound quality. We sink our teeth right into the latest and greatest news, including the amazing news from SGI. Then, we send a shipment of hate to the evil DRM fiends at Spore, review TuxGuitar and cleverly discuss the links between Science and free software. Finally, we wrap up the show with some listener feedback.
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Ogg on the Rise
"The recent launch of Stephen Fry's film in celebration of GNU's 25th anniversary has been a success on a number of levels — including for PlayOgg.org , the campaign for free audio and video formats. Worldwide, people have reached out to thank us and offer their support, including dozens of volunteers who have translated the film into over 24 languages.
Read more »Passion of GNU/Linux users (video)
This video describes something that happened to free software movement.
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