"The second annual FSCons is about to take place in Gothenburg, Sweden the 24th to the 26th of October. I am giving a talk about Perl and debian, and there are lots of good talks this year as well as the second Nordic Free Software Award, won last year by Skolelinux. We hope you'll attend if you are in the neighborhood!"

Sweden approved ODF as a national standard. Too bad my country, Portugal, doesn't do the same. :\

Without making a press release or public announcement the Swedish Standards Institute has formally approved ODF 1.0 as a national standard. Only the “SS” prefix in SS-ISO/IEC 26300:2008 give away the status of the document.

“Calls on the Commission and the Member States to recognise that the Internet is a vast platform for cultural expression, access to knowledge, and democratic participation in European creativity, bringing generations together through the information society; calls on the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to avoid adopting measures conflicting with civil liberties and human rights and

"On the 26th February at 5.30 pm - the Free Software Foundation Europe, Unionen and the Royal Institute of Technology are offering a lecture by Richard Stallman: The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System..."

"On the 16th of may 2007, Richard Stallman gave a speech on the subject of Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works..."

PEOPLE in the city of Lund in Sweden that use the Microsoft Vista OS can't connect to the Internet. Apparently the reason is because Lund is a Linux city which has a a Linux server that doesn't like Vista.