Free software grants?

Hi!

I am seeking to raise funds for a project I'm involved in:

http://www.openfontlibrary.org/funding.txt

Can anyone suggest grant programmes I might be able to apply to? 

(I know the AFFS used to run a grant program, but think the AFFS is defunct..?

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Stephen Fry introduces free software

For those who haven't seen it, The Free Software Foundation has released 
a video featuring Stephen Fry, explaining free software and GNU to those 
who might otherwise find it difficult to understand.

The video, published at http://gnu.org/fry
has caused quite a stir across the the F/LOSS atmosphere since it was 
released on Tuesday.

Up-and-coming Podcast, Freedom Socks, managed to grab an interview with 
Matt Lee, Campaigns manager at the FSF, who was behind the whole video.
The interview is quite interesting as the hosts put some quite difficult 
questions to him.

Freedom Socks Episode 7:
http://freedomsocks.co.uk/blog/2008/09/04/episode-7/

MP3: http://freedomsocks.co.uk/podcasts/FreedomSocks07.mp3

OGG: http://freedomsocks.co.uk/podcasts/FreedomSocks07.ogg

- Tim

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Manchester Free Software Talk: Dave Crossland - Free as in Profit

Next Meeting
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Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 16th September, 2008.

Dave Crossland, a well known free software advocate, is giving a talk
entitled 'Free as in profit (fonts and software freedom)'. Dave will
discuss the importance of fonts, how they count as free software and
how to contribute to existing free fonts, as well as how to make your
own. The talk will cover many important issues within free software,
including trademarks, patents and copyright.

Location
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The meeting will take place at 19:00 in the Manchester Digital
Development Agency on Portland Street. Access is via the doorbells at
the entrance. Wheelchair access via the lift is available to the left
of the main entrance.

MDDA provide complimentary Fair Trade tea and coffee.

Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA)
Lower Ground Floor
117-119 Portland Street
Manchester
M1 6ED

Directions are available on the MDDA web site[1]:

[1]: http://manchesterdda.com/directions/

Software Freedom Day Event on Saturday

Saturday 20th September is Software Freedom Day [1]. As many of you
will know, this is a worldwide event designed to promote software
freedom. I am proud to announce that Manchester Free Software (like
many other groups across the country and the world) will be hosting an
event  to celebrate.

As a group we like to celebrate software freedom everyday, but on
Saturday 20th September we will be getting together with a whole host
of people to talk about and demonstrate free software. The event will
take place at the Marbella Cafe [2] on Newton Street from 11am to 4pm.
Everyone is welcome and there will be plenty of people there who are
learning about free software for the first time. We will be giving
away CDs, leaflets and stickers. I'm also told that the Cafe serves
great food (veggie and vegan friendly).

We will have a number of Internet connected PCs available, which will
be used to demonstrate LTSP [3].  The Linux Terminal Server Project
(LTSP) is designed to be used on low powered machines and so is
brilliant for reusing old computers in schools or community projects.
We will have information available about how this is being used
successfully in schools, including one which went on to gain
specialist technology status as a result.

How you can help..
Spread the word! Please blog about this event, tell your family,
friends and school teachers, and mention us on your favourite news
websites.
Come along and help. If you know about free software you are welcome
to help us demonstrate the systems and explain what free software
means and its potential to interested people. Contact

3 days left until Welsh misses the debian-installer

Can anyone here give them a hand getting Welsh language support in the
debian installer, please?  It says the chances are low, but the
100-days projects shows that Welsh-language translators can do amazing
things sometimes.  See the email which follows:

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:23:17 +0200
From: Christian Perrier <bubulle <at> debian.org>
To: debian-i18n <at> lists.debian.org, debian-boot <at> lists.debian.org
Subject: 3 days left: 10 languages in danger in D-I (D-I string freeze
	status)
Message-ID: <20080918052317.GA10443 <at> mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org>

3 days left before the end of the string freeze

NEW for today: Slovenian completed for sublevels 1-3
	       Ukrainian completed for sublevels 1-3
	       Catalan back to full 100%
	       Big progress for Macedonian

Languages meeting the release criteria: 50
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Already activated and complete for level 1: 44
 Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Dzongkha, Greek,
 Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Galician, Gujarati,
 Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese,
 Georgian, Khmer, Korean, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian
 Bokmål, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese,
 Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil,
 Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Re: 3 days left until Welsh misses the debian-installer

On Thursday 18 September 2008 09:37, MJ Ray wrote:
> Can anyone here give them a hand getting Welsh language support in the
> debian installer, please?  It says the chances are low, but the
> 100-days projects shows that Welsh-language translators can do amazing
> things sometimes.  See the email which follows:

I think Dafydd Harries was doing the Debian work, and so far as I know he has 
stopped doing translations now.

There are 266 fuzzy and 364 untranslated messages in the 5 files, which is not 
impossible to do in 3 days. However, doing it in a hurry might mean slightly 
different vocabulary being used in similar strings, and then people who like 
to whinge about such things would be annoyed   I'll be away for most of 
Fri and Sat anyway.

However, if anyone (Gareth?  Dafydd?) would like to share out the work, and/or 
check what I get done, then I'd be willing to give it a go.

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www.cymraeg.org.uk - Welsh-English autotranslator
www.klebran.org.uk - Gwirydd gramadeg rhydd i'r Gymraeg
www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg

FSFE Newsletter

The most exciting thing this month is the amount of Fellowship activity we
are seeing around Europe.  It's great to see more and more local meetings,
giving Free Software supporters a chance to hang out together and share
views.

I've been lucky enough to attend several of the recent gatherings and what
impresses me most is that our Fellows discuss such a broad range of topics.
People talk about their local area, concerns about digital rights, business
perspectives and ideas for future strategy.  It's a dynamic environment to 
be working in.  I'd love to see more meetings, especially in my own 'home'
countries of Ireland and the UK.  If you would like to be involved (whether
you are a Fellow or not) please visit http://fsfeurope.org/contribute/ or
send an email to team <at> fsfeurope.org.

						Shane, Zurich Office

1. FSFE welcomes KDE's adoption of the Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA)
2. FSFE at Akademy 2008
3. Swedish Fellows meet for talks and barbecue
4. Fellowship meeting in Nijmegen
5. Fellowship meeting in Duesseldorf
6. Zurich Fellowship meeting
7. New members of FSFE
8. Printable information material available for download

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

9. 'The strategic implementation of Free Software in business' speech at OpenExpo

1. FSFE welcomes KDE's adoption of the Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA)

PM petition to adopt Open Document Format at National Archives (instead of MS XML)

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page16957

"The National Archives does not currently plan to convert any records
to Microsoft Office Open XML format."

Seems to counter earlier announcements they made:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/164.htm

"The ongoing collaboration will also see The National Archives further
its innovative approach to sustaining the nation´s digital heritage,
by contributing their expertise and insight in digital preservation
towards the development of future releases of Microsoft products.
Having addressed some of the key format sustainability issues through
the implementation of the Ecma Open XML format in its latest products,
the announcement represents a further step in Microsoft´s commitment
to digital preservation."

Not surprising that Adam Farquhar, Head of eArchitecture at the
British Library is maintaining his independence by being co-chair of
the Microsoft Office OpenXML standards committee. Does he also have a
job with Microsoft?

Jon

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Fsfe-uk <at> gnu.org
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Re: PM petition to adopt Open Document Format at National Archives (instead of MS XML)

"Jon Grant" <jg <at> jguk.org> wrote:
> http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page16957
[...]
> Not surprising that Adam Farquhar, Head of eArchitecture at the
> British Library is maintaining his independence by being co-chair of
> the Microsoft Office OpenXML standards committee. Does he also have a
> job with Microsoft?

Now, now, there's no need to sling mud at British Library people -
they seem to be spending time trying to make money for their
organisation however they can, rather than distributing and sharing
knowledge with British citizens.

However, I also had a copy of that petition response and was in utter
disbelief that it doesn't *once* respond to the suggestion of ODF,
instead discussing PDF!  I've written to my (conservative) MP asking
his views and whether he'll help highlight the non-answer nature of
that response. I'll try to let the list know if I get a good reply.

Regards,
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DFEY-NW :: October 19th :: Marbella Cafe :: Digital Freedom in Education and Youth - North West

(Please forward this to anybody or any lists you think might be interested)

DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education & Youth - North West) is a group 
focusing on young people and issues of freedom in the digital world, 
based in the Northwest of England at the moment.

=== In Brief ===

WHERE: Meet near KFC, Upstairs, Piccadilly Station, Manchester

VENUE: Marbella Cafe, above Sunshine Studios, 52 Newton Street.

WHEN: Sunday 19th October, 12pm -> ~4pm

SIGN UP: http://dfey-nw.eventwax.com/admin/dfey-nw-october-meeting

CONTACT: Email - team at dfey dot freedomdreams dot net

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