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Matthias Kirschner | 9 Feb 11:05
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Goal for February 14th: More love reports than bug reports! #ilovefs

  (If you are reading FSFE's newsletters [1] (and you should when you
  have not yet given me feedback what I could improve ;) ), and you
  already use one of our banners [2], you can skip this post because I
  copied and pasted it. Else please continue.)

Let us admit it, the Free Software community is often very critical.
Wewrite bug reports, tell others how they can improve the software, ask
them fornew features, and to not spare with criticism. Sometimes we
forget to say "thank you, for all your work". As in the last years, we
want to change this, at least for one day. So on Tuesday the 14th of
February we will celebrate the "I love Free Software" - Day [3].

Get active, buy your favourite developer a drink or give them a hug (ask
forpermission first), write an e-mail/letter [4] expressing your
feelings, create nice pictures, donate to a Free Software initiative,
use another of our suggestions [5] or be create yourself to show how you
appreciate people, working hard to enlarge or defend our freedom.
Beside that help us to promote the activity with our banners [6], by
e-mail, (micro)blog or in your (distributed?) social networks.

New this year is a whole day  event in the Unperfekthaus in Essen
(Germany) [7] and that all our Fellows automatically get an
login@... e-mail alias.

So let's make sure that on February 14th there are more love reports,
than bug reports!

All the best,
Matthias
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Matthias Kirschner | 8 Feb 16:58
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Re: A pan-European DFD activity proposal

* Jelle Hermsen <jelle@...> [2012-02-08 15:53:10 +0100]:

> You could give away Lemote Yeeloong as a prize, they are running 100%
> Free Software, including the bios. I know tekmote.nl imports them in
> the Netherlands.

If you have contacts to them, you can ask them if they would give that
to us as a prize or how much it would cost us.

Regards,
Matthias

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Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild | 3 Feb 16:18
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A pan-European DFD activity proposal

Hello,

I proposed organizing a student essay competition on Free Software and
Open Standards topics.

The original letter to the DFD mailing list:
> I would like to propose organizing an essay competition for European
> high school students on Free Software and Open Standards issues. This
> would have several benefits: it would encourage people to think about
> Free Software and Open Standards; it would expose more young people to
> the issues of Free Software and Open Standards (I am of the opinion
> that educational institutions would rather advertise a student essay
> competition than distribute, say, FSFE leaflets); it would popularize
> Free Software; we would probably get new good texts to promote Open
> Standards and Free Software; if we announced the winners on the DFD
> using an Open Standard, we would celebrate it in a very suitable
> fashion and would further publicize the DFD.
>
> I am now going to propose some ideas that could be developed into
> topics if you agree it is a good idea.
> -> What am I going to do on the DFD to advance Open Standards and
> promote Free Software?/What would my ideal DFD experience be?
> -> What should be done to promote Open Standards?
> -> What am I going to do to ensure that my government will use open
> document formats?
> -> Open standards vs proprietary specifications
>
> Should you agree that such an activity would be nice, we would have to
> act pretty fast. If we wanted to announce the winners on the DFD, the
> deadline for sending essays would have to be the 14th of March at the
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Erik Albers | 2 Feb 15:57
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"I love Free Software" Day und Veranstaltung in Essen


Dear Follower,

sorry but the following mail is in German only because it is about an
event in Germany during the "I love Free Software" Day. Obviously this
event might not be of interest for you if you are not living in Germany.
But you are welcome ton join our online-campaign if you have a look at
ilovefs.org

+++ beginning of the message: +++

Liebe Fellows und Freunde,

wie ihr wahrscheinlich wisst, ruft die Free Software Foundation Europe
(http://www.fsfe.org) jährlich alle Unterstützer Freier Software dazu
auf, den Valentinstag zu nutzen um seine Liebe für Freie Software
auszudrücken und so gemeinsam einen "I love Free Software"-Day zu
zelebrieren. Dazu gibt es wieder eine Mitmach-Kampagne, für die ihr
Material und Ideen auf ilovefs.org findet.
Dieses Jahr wird es außerdem erstmalig auch eine "I love Free
Software"-Veranstaltung im Unperfekthaus geben
(http://unperfekthaus.de), ein Künstlerdorf in der Innenstadt Essens.
Im Unperfekthaus können Künstler, Gründer und Gruppen kostenlos Räume,
Technik, Bühnen uvm. bekommen. Es gibt hier CoWorking Plätze und eine
Ladengemeinschaft, außerdem steht das Haus Besuchern offen. Der
Veranstaltungsort wurde ausgesucht, weil die offene Atmosphäre zum
Feiern einlädt und das große Angebot an Erlebnismöglichkeiten viel Spaß
für jedermann verspricht.

Die Veranstaltung soll ein Vergnügen für die ganze Familie - von klein
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Matthias Kirschner | 24 Jan 22:25
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Re: Ask celebraties for Document Freedom Day quotes

* Jelle Hermsen <jelle@...> [2012-01-24 21:39:14 +0100]:

> Given the idea of six degrees of separation this theoretically
> shouldn't be that hard if we properly utilize our friends (I suggest a
> combination of chocolate and frightening tales of documents longing
> for freedom).

Methods authorised ;) Please Proceed!

Cheers,
Matthias

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Matthias Kirschner | 24 Jan 21:21
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Ask celebraties for Document Freedom Day quotes

Hi there,

as you have seen we got a quote from Stephen Fry for Document Freedom
Day. That's really cool! But we should we stop with that? Why shouldn't
we be able to get more cool quotes. So who of you will be able to get
another cool quote from a celebraty? 

Whoever is able to get Arnold Schwarzenegger saying "Your file 'll be
back. So better make sure to use Open Standards!"? will be my personel
hero for the next year!!

So, if you have any ideas, please contact them, explain them briefly
what Open Standards are and ask them for a quote. Believe me, it can be
fun finding a hook to explain Open Standards to different people.

Regards,
Matthias

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David Gerard | 24 Jan 12:29
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A modest proposal to stop INTERNET PIRACY in its tracks

Ban all copyrighted material from the Internet that is not under a free licence.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/104205134740204626607/posts/Riy9n4Fv2SW

Anyone want to get behind this one? :-D

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Matthias Kirschner | 23 Jan 18:54
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$YOURFREESOFTWARE.org supporting Document Freedom Day?

Hi all,

you are part of a Free Software group? Please a) become supporting
organisation of Docuemnt Freedom Day b) make an activity for DFD and C)
if you participate provide us a nice picture and quote, like we already
got from Stephen Fry:

  "Open standards makes sense. What makes no sense is that large
  companies in the field still do not understand this. It is time once
  and for all to end the pointless nonsense of one document sent on one
  platform being incomprehensible to the user of another." Stephan Fry
  http://documentfreedom.org/testimonials.en.html

Here more information on DFD (pass it along):

Document Freedom Day (DFD) <http://documentfreedom.org> is a global day
for document liberation. It is a worldwide event celebrating Open
Standards and raising general awareness about the need for their
adoption. DFD is actively redefining perceptions of Open Standards in
media, public administration and educational institutions. Thanks to
generous donations, in the last year we were able to:

- Organise 42 events in 14 different countries around the world, ranging
  from Brazil and Mexico, to Greece and Portugal, 
- Coordinate an important talk at the European Parliament with multiple
  speakers, and 
- Raise the profile of pioneering users of Open Standards, such as
  German news website 'tagesschau.de', by awarding certificates and
  prizes in view of the press.
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Matthias Kirschner | 16 Jan 19:54
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Re: Missing 15 signatures for PDFreaders

* Jelle Hermsen <jelle@...> [2012-01-16 19:44:16 +0100]:

> I've spread the word, hopefully it helps. I do seem to have a lot of
> "friends" out there on the microblogs :)

So let's see if your "friends" follow you on your decision to sign ;)
Matthias

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Matthias Kirschner | 16 Jan 18:59
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Missing 15 signatures for PDFreaders

Hi there,

we are just missing 15 signatures for our PDFreaders petition, than we
have 2000 individual signatures:
http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html

Can you distribute this a bit, so we are able to fill this gap.

Regards,
Matthias

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Matthias Kirschner | 16 Jan 09:17
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Your help until 29th January for the Standards Quartet

Hey everybody,

we are currently organising the next Document Freedom Day on March 28th
and therefore we wanted to produce a card game, called "Standards
Quartet" (a card game that is often played by little children usually
not comparing different facts about Open Standards but about cars,
dinosaurs, etc.). For this we need your help to collect all the
information that we need, maybe you could help us out:

Please have a look at this link: https://dfd.etherpad.fsfe.org/10 and
fill in as many facts as you know.

Basically we need:

32 cards, 4 groups (each consisting of 8 different cards) and categories
to compare those cards:

Examples for the groups:
- Text 
- Video/Audio
- Picture
- Network

Examples for the categories:
- Amount of words of the current standards
- Amount of implementations
- Exists since year XY
- Freedom level? (Give points from our Open Standard Definition)
- Uses XY other open standards
- Amount of money to lobby the standards
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