Due to the release of Kubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and the change-over to KDE 4 the German speaking Kubuntu Community set up a competition for best KDE 4 and Intrepid related wiki-articles on http://www.kubuntu-de.org

This month we've interviewed Rolf Camps about volunteering, translating, and free software awareness in Belgium. Rolf is one of the translators doing public-facing work that's essential for a European organisation - but which doesn't get much credit - so we decided to ask him about getting involved.

After a gap of three years, the Free Software Free Society (FSFS) conference is back again. The first FSFS conference was held on 28-30 May, 2005 in Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), the capital city of south Indian state of Kerala.

"Yes, I seriously did have the opportunity to meet him personally, and listen to his speech on the Free Software Movement. Let me attempt to explain the experience, and how it came to be..."

"FSF's John Sullivan will speak about the problems with Digital Restrictions Management at the American Society for Information Science and Technology's annual meeting. He'll talk about the history and work of DefectiveByDesign.org, as well as the importance of free software and information sharing..."

Do you like fast paced deathmatch? How about rich, colorful, arcadelike atmospheres? How about...retro Sci Fi? Then you're going to love what Alien Arena 2008 has in store for you!

"I've often lamented how few schools in the UK use free software, and how difficult it is to break the lock that Microsoft has on the entire educational system. The pathetic state here is highlighted by contrast with Russia, which is making amazing strides in rolling out open source to schools..."