"Please join the Free Software Foundation as part of an international day celebrating software freedom. We'll be one of the many groups around the world hosting an event that day (see http://softwarefreedomday.org). Keep an eye on the wiki page below for more information including a schedule of activities! ..."
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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...»
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RMS: 1, Symbolics: 0
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"Symbolics probably doesn't mean much to you, but it should. It was the main reason that Richard Stallman started the GNU project..."
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Icelandic Ministry of Education supports free software
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In a press release from the Icelandic Ministry of Education the ministry explains it is working with the free software community to put free software into Icelandic schools. Two main reasons are given. Firstly, the Ministry’s agenda is to increase knowledge and competence among students in IT related subjects (using free software). Secondly, the ministry wants to cut costs.
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Secure VoIP, GNU SIP Witch, and replacing Skype with free software
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"For the last few years I had been working when time was available on what is called the GNU Telephony Secure Calling Initiative.This initiative was originally started specifically to make passive voice communication intercept a thing of the past using free software and public standards, and came out of ideas from and the work of the New York City civil liberties community and New York Fair Use in
Read more »Stallman Takes His Free-Software Crusade to Argentina
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"Two whirlwinds blew into Buenos Aires this week: the hundreds of Wikipedia supporters, editors and administrators here for their annual Wikimania conference, and the free-software activist Richard Stallman, who was in town as part of his never-ending tour of the globe to promote his cause..."
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SELF News August 2009
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1. End of the EC funded period - Wouter Tebbens (FKI)
2. News from the development team - Nagarjuna G. (HBCSE)
3. UOC to use SELF at their new Master Programme on Free Software...
4. FKI and UOC setting up the Free Technology Academy - David Jacovkis (UOC)
5. Vía Libre collaborates in the organisation of Wikimania 2009
6. Join SELF!
Gnutiken - International GNU Cooperative Sweden
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Since I ended my internship with the FSFE in May, my main priority has been the establishing of a Free Software cooperative in Göteborg. The result is about to unfold itself, and it’s name is Gnutiken, or “the Gnutique” if you want to be English about it.
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Mini-summit on Women in Free Software
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The Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software to discuss how the free software community can cultivate and increase participation by women in free software's development and activism communities.
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GNU Hackers Meeting 2009
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« Registration is now open for the GNU Hackers Meeting on 11-13 November in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is being held jointly with the FSCONS conference on 14-15 November. The meeting is intended for active GNU contributors and its theme is "the continued advancement of the GNU system"...
Read more »Launching the Windows7sins Campaign - Join us Wednesday in Boston
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"Hi everyone, This Wednesday, August 26 at 11am, the Free Software Foundation will be launching its Windows7sins.org public awareness campaign, drawing attention to the threats posed by the adoption of Microsoft's proprietary operating system.
Read more »Openoffice.org - Five things MS Office users do not know.
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Five basic things that users of MS Office do not know about Open Office.
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Camping and Hacking at HAR2009
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"...HAR (Hacking At Random) is an international technology and security conference, with a strong free software, freedom of information political leaning [...] The issues addressed by these talks are not just technical, they have political implications for how we live [...] But HAR2009 was not just about talks. It was also about meeting people, talking, exchanging ideas.
Read more »Free as in Car Keys
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"...Free Software is really something to get excited about. Through the community created by GNU Generation, hopefully that excitement will persevere through the years to come. Unfortunately, it will take more than just a small little campaign to make this happen. It will take the cooperation of all Free Software users, developers, and advocates to really get the message across.
Read more »Health check - Mono, too much monkey business
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At the turn of this decade Miguel de Icaza was the unblemished hero of the free software movement and chief architect and co-creator, with Federica Mena, of the GNOME project, which had come into being as the free software response to KDE. Now de Icaza is regarded with suspicion because of his support for Mono. What happened to bring about this change?
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