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Erik Albers | 2 Feb 2012 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

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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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Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild | 3 Feb 2012 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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Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild | 7 Feb 2012 10:08
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Re: A pan-European DFD activity proposal

No-one interested?

On 3 February 2012 15:18, Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild
<repentinus@...> wrote:
> 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
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Alessandro Polvani | 7 Feb 2012 11:13
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Re: A pan-European DFD activity proposal

Hi Heiki,

Sorry for the late reply, I had an incredibly busy week end at FOSDEM.

Il 07/02/2012 10:08, Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild ha scritto:

>> Following deliberation on the df-coordination <at> , we have come to the
>> agreement that it would be better to organize a blog post competition
>> and we should stick to a small number of countries (like 3) this year
>> due tto time constraints. Thus, as I would be able to coordinate and
>> publicize this in Estonia, I am looking for volunteers who would be
>> willing to run it in two additional countries.

I would be glad to run it in Italy. I don't know if I will be successful 
because I don't live in Italy at the moment, but I have a few contacts 
in high schools. I could also contact a website proposing this kind of 
initiative for students. Do you think it would be enough to spread the 
voice about this initiative?

Best,

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Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild | 7 Feb 2012 11:26
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Re: A pan-European DFD activity proposal

On 7 February 2012 10:13, Alessandro Polvani
<alessandro.polvani@...> wrote:
> I would be glad to run it in Italy. I don't know if I will be successful
> because I don't live in Italy at the moment, but I have a few contacts in
> high schools. I could also contact a website proposing this kind of
> initiative for students. Do you think it would be enough to spread the voice
> about this initiative?
Basically yes. We also need a jury and one more country would still be useful.

Sincerely,
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Andreas K. Foerster | 7 Feb 2012 14:52
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Re: Ask celebraties for Document Freedom Day quotes

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 09:21:24PM +0100, Matthias Kirschner wrote:

> 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!!

I don't think Schwarzenegger would be very believable, unless he really
uses Free Software, which I doubt.

Maybe it would also be a good idea to collect material, books, films, 
music, etc., where Free Software already plays a positive role.

I was fascinated by the book "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow, where the
GNU/Linux system plays a major part (although it's just called "Linux").

English book as free download:
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

German translation:
http://cwoehrl.de/files/lbdt_v1.pdf

German audio book:
http://www.archive.org/details/CoryDoctorowsLittleBrother-Kapitel1

P.S.: Okay, I admit it, I just listened to the audio book. ;-)
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judith | 8 Feb 2012 14:18
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Re: A pan-European DFD activity proposal


Hello,

I think that as we want to popularize Free Software and Open
> Standards, the prizes could be somehow related to the FSFE. The
prizes
> should be decided based on whether we want to primarily appeal to
> students who already have an inclination for Free Software or
students
> who do not. If we want to encourage people who have an affinity for
> Free Software to get active, then we could offer something from the
> FSFE shop, a FSFE Fellowship, or a Free Software book, etc... If we
> want to appeal to more students, we would probably have to offer
> monetary rewards or hardware. I am not sure which group we should
> target, thus prize ideas and suggestions would be welcome from other
> interlocutors.

What about about giving to the winner a laptop or desktop with
current freedom tools that one use in his day-today life - a freedom
box, Free Software social networks, browser and OS?

Judith Lukoki
+33 (0)6 15 94 50 23
http://www.movingyouth.eu
http://blog.ethicalsocialnetwork.org
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judith | 8 Feb 2012 14:21
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Re: A pan-European DFD activity proposal


>
> Hello,
>
> I think that as we want to popularize Free Software and Open
>> Standards, the prizes could be somehow related to the FSFE. The
> prizes
>> should be decided based on whether we want to primarily appeal to
>> students who already have an inclination for Free Software or
> students
>> who do not. If we want to encourage people who have an affinity
>> for
>> Free Software to get active, then we could offer something from
>> the
>> FSFE shop, a FSFE Fellowship, or a Free Software book, etc... If
>> we
>> want to appeal to more students, we would probably have to offer
>> monetary rewards or hardware. I am not sure which group we should
>> target, thus prize ideas and suggestions would be welcome from
>> other
>> interlocutors.
>

What about about giving to the winner a laptop or desktop with
current freedom tools that one use in his day-today life - a freedom
 box, Free Software social networks, browser and OS?

Judith Lukoki
+33 (0)6 15 94 50 23
http://www.movingyouth.eu
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Matthias Kirschner | 8 Feb 2012 14:40
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Re: A pan-European DFD activity proposal

* judith@...
<judith@...> [2012-02-08 14:18:55 +0100]:

> What about about giving to the winner a laptop or desktop with
> current freedom tools that one use in his day-today life - a freedom
> box, Free Software social networks, browser and OS?

This kind of hardware is a bit difficult for FSFE as a prize. Most of
the hardware relies on non-free drivers, and we would have to find
hardware that does not depend on that. I do not want to give something
to a winner, which forces him to use non-free software.

Regards,
Matthias

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judith | 8 Feb 2012 15:20
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Re: A pan-European DFD activity proposal


 I do not want to give something to a winner, which forces him to
use non-free software.

You are right.

What about putting his definition on the preface or the spine of a
book about Free Sofware history and philosophy?

Judith Lukoki
+33 (0)6 15 94 50 23
http://www.movingyouth.eu
http://blog.ethicalsocialnetwork.org
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