(2012-01-23) Fellowship Interview with Heiki Ojasild For our January fellowship interview we met Heiki Ojasild. He joined the Free Software Foundation Europe in 2011, undertaking the task of translating fsfe.org into Estonian, his mother tongue. He is currently developing an XChat add-on, as well as a website for free SVG and JavaScript games. In 2010 he took part in the Baltic Olympiad in Informatics. In this interview, he explains us his views about copyright, Digital Restrictions Management, kopimism, and activism. Lexoni më tepër… (2012-01-23) Save the date: I love Free Software - Day on 14th February The Free Software Foundation Europe plans to celebrate Valentines Day on 14th February as an I love Free Software - Day. Please help us in showing your support for Free Software by participating in our online campaign. Emails, blogs, microblogs, donations, everything is welcome! There are free banners to use for your website available, too. In addition, this year will also be an event to celebrate Free Software in the Unperfekthaus in Essen. We would love to see you there! Lexoni më tepër… (2012-01-20) Free Software legal news Read about European concerns with SOPA, dangers of Secure Boot, Nokias move to sell 450 patents to a patent troll, summary of Free Software developments in 2011, web blocking in Germany and many more. Lexoni më tepër… (2012-01-17) FSFE i bën thirrje Senatit të ShBA-ve të ndalin SOPA / PIPA-n Tok me dhjetëra organizma të tjerë të shoqërisë civile, FSFE-ja ka nënshkruar një letër për drejtuesin e shumicës së Senatit të ShBA-ve, Harry Reid, për ti kërkuar Senatit të mbrojë të drejtat e njeriut, lirinë e fjalës dhe internetin e hapur, dhe të hedhë poshtë propozimet e tanishme SOPA dhe PIPA. Lexoni më tepër… (2012-01-13) Blog: A është politike dhënia mësim e programimit? Në një përgjigje për BBC-në rreth ndryshimeve të propozuara në programet mësimore kombëtare, Sam Tuke shpjegon disa nga rrugët në të cilat dhënia mësim në shkolla e aftësive të programimit të Software-it të Lirë është e rëndësishme për të ardhmen e Britanisë. Lexoni më tepër… (2012-01-10) FSFE-ja fton për propozime për Çmimin mbi Lirinë e Dokumenteve Këtë vit, për herë të katërt, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) do të japë më 28 Marsh 2012 Çmimin mbi Lirinë e Dokumenteve. Me Çmimin mbi Lirinë e Dokumenteve, FSFE-ja dhe FFII dëshirojnë të nderojnë institute ose ndërmarrje që kanë dhënë një kontribut të jashtëzakonshëm në përhapjen dhe përdorimin e Standardeve të Hapura. Çmimin mbi Lirinë e Dokumenteve jepet çdo vit gjatë Ditës së Lirisë së Dokumenteve, dita ndërkombëtare që kremton rëndësinë e Standardeve të Hapura Lexoni më tepër… (2012-01-10) FSFE-ja bën thirrje për përmirësim të Ligjit Sllovak mbi të Drejtat e Kopjimit FSFE-ja bën thirrje për një përmirësim që do të lejonte përdorimin nga qytetarët sllovakë të lejeve për Software të Lirë dhe Creative Commons. Hëpërhë, këto leje konsiderohen të pavlefshme për shkak të mungesës së një forme të shkruar të tyre dhe problemeve me formulimin e kontratës. Sllovakia është kështu një nga pak vendet ku këto mjete popullore licencimi ende ndeshen me kuadër ligjvënës të ngurtë. Lexoni më tepër… (2012-01-09) Lajme ligjore mbi Software-in e Lirë Lexoni mbi hedhjen në qarkullim të lejes Mozilla Public License 2.0, padinë e re të Microsoft-it kundër një shoqërie që shet kompjutera e cila po furnizon CD për rikthimin e kompjuterit në punë, kthesën e bërë nga qeveria e Mbretërisë së Bashkuar larg Standardeve të Hapura dhe më tepër. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-12-23) Fellowship Interview with Paul Boddie Paul Boddie is a developer in the bioinformatics domain. In this interview, he explains his conception of Free Software, which has a lot to do with sustainable computing and with the ability to use, maintain and develop solutions indefinitely. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-12-20) Free Software legal news Read about ground-breaking decision of the Court of Justice of EU, AGs opinion in awaited European interoperability ruling, two software patent cases and much more. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-12-13) Read about our work in 2011 This was an exciting year for Free Software, and for FSFE. We fought against software patents and the way they restrict Free Software and competition. We helped to defend the GPL against those who would take away our freedom to study and modify the software on our computers, and worked on many other important issues. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-12-13) Helsinki city officials highly satisfied with Free Software City officials in Helsinki, Finland, are overwhelmingly satisfied after trying out the Free Software office suite OpenOffice.org on their laptops. 75% of 600 officials have been using OpenOffice.org exclusively since February, as part of a pilot project where the city installed the program on 22,500 workstations. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-12-08) Nortel patent sale: FSFE defends Free Software, competition Competition authorities in the US and Europe are currently investigating the sale of 6000 patents from Nortel, a bankrupt telecommunications equipment manufacturer, to a consortium of Apple, Microsoft and four other companies. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-12-06) FSFE provides input to EUs 80 billion EUR R and D funding program The European Commission has adopted a set of proposals for its next framework program. Called Horizon 2020, this program will provide 80 billion EUR for research and development projects from 2014 to 2020. Prior to finalisation of the proposal, FSFE had provided input to the Commission in order to make the program accessible for Free Software research and projects. Our input also aims at making the results of publicly funded research available as widely as possible. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-12-01) Verdict in the case of AVM vs. Cybits confirmed the view of FSFE In the dispute between the companies AVM and Cybits the written reasoning for the decision of the Regional Court of Berlin (PDF, German) is now available. The court confirmed FSFEs view that users of GNU GPLed software are allowed to modify and install it even if it is shipped as a part of an embedded devices firmware. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-11-28) Web Search By The People, For The People: YaCy 1.0 The YaCy project is releasing version 1.0 of its peer-to-peer Free Software search engine. The software takes a radically new approach to search. YaCy does not use a central server. Instead, its search results come from a network of currently over 600 independent peers. In such a distributed network, no single entity decides what gets listed, or in which order results appear. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-11-23) Fellowship Interview with Mirko Boehm Mirko Boehm currently works as a researcher at the Technical University of Berlin, focusing on the subject of Free Software and copyright and patents. For a long time he has been involved with KDE. In our November Internship Interview he talks about interactions between Free Software communities and “corporate” world, and the role of Free Software at universities and in education. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-11-22) 7 civil society groups ask for transparency on ACTA The controversial ACTA treaty will be discussed tomorrow in the a closed meeting of the European Parliaments committee on international trade (INTA). Together with six other civil society organisations, FSFE has urged the Parliament to make the committee session public, so that European citizens can form their own opinions on ACTA. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-11-17) Free Software Legal News The patent litigation between Microsoft and Barnes & Nobles is taking a new turn, with the revelation of Microsofts patent strategies against Android: FUD, invalid patents, etc. according to Barnes & Nobles. Also, new questions arise on exact scope of the copyrightability of software, with the litigation between Oracle and Google, again on Android, exploring new issues on linking, user-space and APIs specifications. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-11-14) Swedish activist receives Nordic Free Software Award 2011 Erik Josefsson is the winner of the Nordic Free Software Award 2011. With the award, the Swedish Foundation for Free Culture and Free Software (FFKP) honours Josefsson for his achievements as a campaigner for freedom in the information society. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-11-07) Unlocking education, for growth without limits The Dutch government wants to tie the countrys schools to a single software vendor for years to come. Dutch students using Free Software or devices without Silverlight-support will find themselves locked out of schools online systems due to the use of proprietary technology and closed standards. Marja Bijsterveldt, the secretary of education, recently said that she is unwilling to enforce the Dutch governments own Open Standards policy on educational institutions. Instead, the government will accept long-term vendor lock-in of educational institutions. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-11-07) Court rejects AVM´s claims opposing third party modifications of GPL software On November 8th the Regional Court of Berlin [Landgericht Berlin] issued its decision in the previously reported case AVM Computersysteme Vertriebs GmbH (AVM) v. Cybits AG (Cybits). In this case, AVM was essentially trying to stop Cybits from modifying GNU GPL licensed Free Software inside of their AVM Fritz!Box products. Yesterday, the court dismissed this principal claim. Thus, it also confirmed that users of embedded devices with pre-installed Free Software have the legal freedom to make, install, run and distribute modifications to this Free Software. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and gpl-violations.org, both welcome this decision. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-10-25) Song Wettbewerb zum Ich ♥ Freie Software-Tag Zusammen mit Jamendo suchen wir drei Bands, die zum Ich ♥ Freie Software-Tag am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2012 zwischen 19 Uhr und 22 Uhr im Unperfekthaus in Essen ein Live-Konzert geben. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-10-23) Fellowship Interview with Rikard Fröberg Rikard Fröberg works at the The Society for Free Culture and Software, and contributes this year to the FSCONS organisation for the third time. In the October Internship Interview he considers the importance of having an active and engaged community of users, which, thanks to events like FSCONS, have the opportunity of direct interaction. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-09-28) Blog: Facebook updates - time to switch to a decentralised social network? Last week Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Next Big Thing (TM) for Facebook: OpenGraph. Facebook intends to act as its own private Internet, but fortunately there are lots of projects out there that will do the same things that Facebook does, and much more. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-09-22) Fellowship Interview with Stefan Kangas Stefan Kangas is the President of the recently started Fripost, the Free Email Association, which proposes itself to deliver a free and reliable Email service. This service, which is running since February, represents an alternative to proprietary Email providing services, which may limit users freedom and privacy. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-09-19) Freie Software in den schweizer National- und Ständeratswahlen Im Rahmen der am 23. Oktober 2011 stattfindenden National- und Ständeratswahlen in der Schweiz hat die Zürcher Fellowshipgruppe der FSFE eine Politikerbefragung zu Freie Software durchgeführt. Lexoni më tepër… (2011-09-12) Berlin - Hauptstadt der Freien-Software-Parteien: Ja zu Offenen Standards. Nein zu Softwarepatenten. Die Free Software Foundation Europe veröffentlicht heute ihre Freien-Software-Wahlprüfsteine für die Wahl zum Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin am 18. September. Die Parteien konnten Stellung nehmen zu Fragen über die generelle Förderung von Freier Software, dem Problem der Herstellerabhängigkeit bei unfreier Software, Offenen Standards, dem Einsatz von Freier Software in der Bildung, Werbung für unfreie Software auf Webseiten der öffentlichen Verwaltung sowie zu Softwarepatenten. Lexoni më tepër…
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