"...Gitorious now is a project maintained by Shortcut AS, which I co-founded. Shortcut AS now officially supports and develops Gitorious in cooperation with contributors outside Shortcut. Gitorious is, and will continue to be, 100% free software, licensed under the Affero GPL..."
Read more »Gitorious: Hosting Free Software projects that use Git on GNU systems
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Time To Change: Why DHH should bring Rails closer to the GNU Project and relicense it under the GPL
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"The problem with the Ruby on Rails community isn’t simply sexism, unprofessionalism, or ghetto-ism, but that Rails is, at its core, a culture which values individual ego more than community..." -- N.B: Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs
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Launch of Free Software Movement - Karnataka
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"We, the Free Software Movement Team having been consistently working to build the Free Software Movement in Karnataka, have decided to consolidate our efforts by forming an organisation.
Read more »The Free Software Foundation spreads the Free Software Pact Initiative
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"The Free Software Foundation spreads the Free Software Pact Initiative by putting a link up on the front page of FSF web site and GNU website..."
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OSOR spreads the Free Software Pact initiative
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«...Spokesperson for the campaign, Alix Cazenave, said free software advocacy groups in Spain and Portugal are about to join the campaign. 'And we are also making contact with German free software activists.' ...»
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Free software and transparency are not enough
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Democracy relies on the trust of the voters and the transparency of the vote. It is hard to argue that closed source code provides any guarantees beyond the say-so of the manufacturers. The one thing we can know is that computer systems are fallible, and no system is fault proof.
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An attempt at forbidding «hacker tools» in Switzerland
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"The Federal Department of Justice and Police recently proposed to introduce legislation illegalizing so-called «hacker tools» in Switzerland as well [...] The current proposal can thus be considered as totally inappropriate, and will need a complete makeover.
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FSFE Fellowship Interview with Timo Jyrinki
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In addition to being the friendly media face of Wikipedia Finland, the team contact for Ubuntu Finland and founder of local advocacy project Vapaa Suomi (Libre Finland), Timo Jyrinki has been involved as an active developer and translator for a wide range of Free Software organisations such as FSFE, Debian, GNOME and Openmoko. He has worked on computer graphics for much of his life, with a particular interest in human-computer interaction, and spends a lot of his current time making improvements to embedded systems.
Read more »FSF launches new free software activist internship program
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The FSF is offering a number of new educational opportunities for students to come work at its Boston headquarters, helping out with campaign and community organizing, programming, free software licensing, and more. Applications for the first term are due May 25.
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Lessons of emancipation: the example of free software movement - by Hervé Le Crosnier
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Translation of the article entitled "Lessons of emancipation: the example of free software movement", published by Hervé Le Crosnier on ATTAC France website last week... (distributed under a Creative Commons BY-NC License).
Source : http://www.france.attac.org/spip.php?article9864
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Lessons of emancipation: the example of free software movement - by Hervé Le Crosnier
Translation of the article entitled "Lessons of emancipation: the example of free software movement", published by Hervé Le Crosnier on the site Attac France, on the 27th of April 2009. (distributed under a Creative Commons BY-NC License).
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Venezuelan government’s Canaima GNU/Linux 2.0.1 stable is released
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Canaima is a Venezuelan GNU/Linux distribution, promoted and developed with significant government support, and designed to be packaged with applications for administering federal government agencies!
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London Olympics Says No To Free Software
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"...Free Software represents too much of a risk in terms of application compatibility to be used widely in the London 2012 Olympics according to the chief information officer for the event..."
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Canaima GNU/Linux 2.0.1: Venezuelans should reject Adobe's proprietary Flash format.
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"Canaima GNU/Linux is a Debian-based desktop distribution created mainly for use in Venezuela's government departments ..."
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David Bollier talk on 5/18 at NYU - History of Free Culture Movement
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"...David Bollier will speak about the themes of his new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press)..."
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