Goverment Open Standards consultation has just gone live. This is important stuff http://consultation.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/openstandards/ Please respond
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Freedom of Association in the Networked Workplace: discussion workshop
Thursday 26th January 2012
1pm – 7pm
Rue Gallait – Gallaitstraat 80
1030 Brussels
Belgium
Participation is free, but places may be limited. Please contact us to
reserve a place.
Contact for more information or enquiries:
http://foa.strickdistro.org/contact/
Website: http://foa.strickdistro.org
Ongoing developments in IT and social media are changing the boundaries
and structure of the workplace, causing a blurring of distinctions
between private and work-related activities. This is raising new issues
in regard to the extent of surveillance applied by businesses towards
their employees. Attempts to control workplace communications are
however conflicting with a number of basic employment rights. This
workshop seeks to address these issues with a specific focus on the
potential impacts of emerging surveillance cultures on the rights of
Freedom of Association in the networked workplace. It aims to bring
together a range of researchers and union activists with a view to
building a more substantial network for investigation, analysis and
intervention.
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Want to help fight UK software patents? Please take a few moments to comment on these patents. https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/peertopatentuk If there is some thing that prevents you from commenting, please point it out here.
Lucky the figures were provided in CSV format! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14765545 Can Whitehall open up to open source? What's Whitehall's attitude to software procurement? A cynic might sum it up as "nobody ever got sacked for buying Microsoft". The current government has vowed to change the civil service mindset that has always preferred to spend money with the biggest firms and has been conservative about open source software. The Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has vowed to create a level playing field for open source as part of a drive to cut costs. Now a BBC Freedom of Information (FOI) request has given us a glimpse of how big the challenge will be. We asked government departments for details of how much they had spent on proprietary software over the past year, and how much open source software they had acquired. The responses have been dribbling in for months now (available as a Google doc, an Excel spreadsheet or as separate .csv files below), and they've varied from detailed accounts of software and expenditure, to refusals to provide any information on the grounds that it would cost too much. Our excellent FOI researcher Julia Ross has compiled a spreadsheet of(Continue reading)
The EU is consulting on cloud computing until 31 August at http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=cloudcomputing&lang=en Cloud computing could be a great opportunity for free software, with potential for more users to take control of their computing infrastructure; but it could also be a great threat, which may make users even more vulnerable to proprietary lock-in at either server or service level. Have you answered this consultation? If so, anything you'd like to point out to other free software supporters before we undermine you? ;) Thanks, -- -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work through http://www.software.coop/
Hi, I noticed that you had a stand at Oggcamp last week. On 24th-25th September we have PyCon UK 2011, in Coventry. website : http://pyconuk.org wiki: http://pyconuk.net Maybe fsfe-uk would like to come and have a stand, even better give a Talk. PyCon UK is being run on an Unconference basis this year, so please add a talk to the Talks page if you wish, you just need to create a login first - follow the 'Create an Account' link on the wiki home page. Best wishes, John --
Already sent to other lists, but in case you missed it: _19.00, Wednesday 30th March, Friends Meeting House Manchester_ This Wednesday is Document Freedom Day - a global celebration of Open Standards and document liberation (http://documentfreedom.org). I shall give a talk at 19.00 entitled Preserving culture & knowledge with Open Standards, describing the relationship between the three and examining threats to our cultural future. There will be a question and answer session at the end, and probably some drinks too. I hope to see Free Software, Open Data and of course Open Standards enthusiasts in the audience! The location is right next to Manchester Central Library. More info here: http://www.quakertrading.co.uk/central-manchester/getting-here Unfortunately I had trouble booking a venue which explains the short notice. Best Wishes, Sam. -- -- Sam Tuke British Team Coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe IM : samtuke <at> jabber.fsfe.org Contact the British team: uk <at> fsfeurope.org(Continue reading)
Gov survey in open standards, please respond http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UKGovOpenStandards
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview/ipreview-c4e/ipreview-c4e-paper.htm "The Government has asked Professor Ian Hargreaves to lead a short review of the Intellectual Property (IP) framework (law and practice) to consider how it might be changed in the interest of promoting innovation and economic growth. The Review will take into account the conclusions and evidence provided to previous reviews in this area, but we invite fresh evidence on the extent to which the current IP system successfully promotes innovation and growth and how it could do so more effectively." "[...] the Review seeks economic data and related evidence which are methodologically sound, robust and clearly sourced. Responses relying on empirical data should clearly identify the methodology used and any critical assumptions relied upon, identify the source(s) of the data, and provide a copy of or a citation to each such source. At the same time, the Review welcomes evidence in the form of case-studies and individual experiences which illustrate one or more of the issues under consideration." Submissions should be sent to the IP and Growth Review Team, by 4 March 2011. They prefer submissions to callforevidence <at> ipo.gov.uk Before we blunder into this minefield without a map, would anyone like to offer hints and tips about what would be best to submit? Thanks, -- -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer.(Continue reading)
Hello Everyone I have been trying to get a refund for the un-used/un-registered Windows7 which came with my Acer laptop. The retailer indicates only AcerUK can refund. Purchased on 6 Jan, I've been communicating about refund since mid Jan. Unfortunately AcerUK will only refund their cost (they said approx €30) if: A) I post the laptop to Plymouth at my expense. B) They wipe the HDD themselves (well.. already has Ubuntu on it now as it was wiped by me). I kept a few photos and records as I went, AcerUK indicate that is insufficient. If anyone has any suggestions, or examples how it has been achieved in the UK before I would love to hear. I found this old case, but was purchased direct from Dell: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6144782.stm Best regards, Jon
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an excellent annual opportunity to promote
the Free Software philosophy. SFD is not widely known about in the UK,
even among Free Software advocates! This needs to change. FFSUK is
pushing to get events in all areas of the UK and to assist events in
organising.
SFD2011 is on Saturday, 17th September 2011.
Current likely SFD2011 event locations in the UK:
* Dundee
o No 2011 page yet
* Newcastle
o No 2011 page yet
* Manchester
o No 2011 page yet
* Herefordshire
o No 2011 page yet
* Devon
o No 2011 page yet
* London
o No 2011 page yet
If there are any locations in the UK that are going to run a SFD2011
event then please let us know at iwanttohelp at ffsuk dot org dot uk.
FFSUK will focus on helping to start events in the following areas:
* Northern Ireland
* Yorkshire and the Humber
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