Fellowship News
Blogs upgraded
October 23rd, 2011
The Fellowship blogging platform has been upgraded to the latest release of WordPress (3.2.1); we also upgraded all plugins and the atahualpa theme.
You can find more information about using the blogs on the “Blogs” page of our wiki, and send your suggestions for improvements to fellowship-hackers (at) fsfeurope (dot) org
Happy blogging!
Blog service upgrade
October 18th, 2011
Dear Fellows, the Fellowship blog service blogs.fsfe.org will be in read-only mode for system maintenance on Sunday 23 October at 21.00 CET for about 1 hour.
Thanks for your patience!
Blogs upgraded! More information on the wiki
November 26th, 2010
The upgrade of the blogging platform has been performed successfully, thanks for your patience!
Warning: depending on the level of customisation of your blog, you might need to make some adjustments: please read the intructions at the page http://wiki.fsfe.org/Blogs/WP3.
You can find general information about the Fellowship blogs service at
http://wiki.fsfe.org/Blogs.
Happy blogging!
Blog service upgrade
November 25th, 2010
Dear Fellows, after last week’s upgrade of the Fellowship wiki and jabber services, we are now going to upgrade the Fellowship blog service blogs.fsfe.org.
On Friday 26 November, starting from 18.00 CET and for about 3 hours, the blog system will be in read-only mode. This will also affect our blog aggregator at planet.fsfe.org.
Additional information will be posted here on the Fellowship News blog.
Thanks for your patience!
Fellowship Jabber meeting about FSFE’s education activities – Wednesday 17 November 20:00 CET
November 4th, 2010
Dear Fellows,
a year has passed since the edu-team went back to work. That isn’t much in light of all the work still ahead of us, but we can also look back at successes and highlights.
The jabber meeting is a good place to discuss all this. Share your stories, challenges, the decision-making processes in your country and other news. What is your opinion on Free Software and education? Gany ideas? What do you want us to focus on? Let us know your concerns!
Join the jabber-meeting: Wednesday 17 November 2010, from 20.00 – 21.00 CET.
See you there,
Thomas Jensch – edu-team coordinator
Web Fridays
September 17th, 2010
As part of an increased focus on improving FSFE’s websites, each Friday afternoon from this point on will be dedicated to working through issues and improvements to these services.
FSFE’s Berlin office staff, in addition to key members of the web team, will be available on the fellowship jabber channel for live discussion about web issues.
Web Fridays are a great opportunity to work along side other FSFE staff and fellows, and are a good time to learn about how to contribute code and improvements to our websites.
To get involved:
Join fellowship@conference.jabber.fsfe.org (fellowship chat channel)
Join https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/web (web team mailing list)
Register at https://trac.fsfe.org/fsfe-web (technical issue tracker)
Server and mailing list outage, May 4-17
May 20th, 2010
Dear all,
on the evening of Tuesday May 4, the data center which hosts our web and mail servers suffered a power failure. As a consequence, the servers running FSFE’s mail services – the @fsfe.org forwarding, mailing lists and FSFE’s internal mail system – suffered hardware damage.
In the evening of Wednesday May 5, related problems caused FSFE’s web server to go offline.
Since the problems started, our system administrators have been working hard to fix the problem, reinstate basic mail services, and get FSFE’s website back online.
Recovering the mailing lists proved to be a trickier task. Only this Monday evening (May 17) were we able to get the mailing lists back online.
Mails sent to our mailing lists during the outage were stored on the server, and are now being delivered.
This sort of outage clearly shouldn’t happen. As a consequence, we have moved our servers to a different hosting facility with more reliable services. We are now reviewing and adapting our setup to make sure that outages will be extremely rare in future, and that we are able to recover more quickly from those outages that do occur.
Please accept our sincere apologies for this prolonged outage. Thank you for your understanding, and for your continued support of our work.
Kind regards,
Karsten Gerloff
President, Free Software Foundation Europe
E-mail currently down
May 5th, 2010
After a power failure yesterday at the data centre that hosts FSFE’s servers, the mail server did not reboot correctly. As a consequence, mails sent to @fsfe.org addresses are bouncing at the moment. FSFE’s system administrators are working hard to fix the issue. We apologise for the inconvenience.
As soon as we have a good estimate for when services will be restored, we will post it here.
Guest accounts for Fellowship wiki
March 18th, 2010
It is now possible to have guest accounts on wiki.fsfe.org. This helps a lot so more people can contribute to the wiki and work together with Fellows on activities. Thanks to Cri our sysadmin for implementing it! To register a guest account:
- Go to https://wiki.fsfe.org and click on the “Login” link in the upper-right menu bar
- Click the “request a guest account” link below the login form and you will get a registration form.
- Fill in all the registration form fields; please note that a “Guest-” prefix will be automatically prepended to your chosen username) and save your password in a secure place.
- Your account must be manually approved by one of our administrators; you will receive an e-mail message as soon as this is done.
- When you receive the confirmation e-mail message, you can log into the wiki, using the username contained in the message, and the password you chose at registration time.
A good start might be the Video or the audio section. Compared to the transcripts they lack more content and structure. So help us improving the infomation.
Fellowship Jabber meeting “Meet the candidates”, Wednesday 17 February 19:00 CET
February 3rd, 2010
Hello Fellows,
all of you should now have received the voting e-mails for the second Fellowship seat in FSFE’s General Assembly (GA). You will have
time until the end of February to vote.
To give you the possibility to ask Julia and Björn questions which are not answered on the election pages about their candidature we will held a jabber meeting on:
Wednesday 17 February at 19:00 – 20:30 CET
How to participate in the Jabber meeting:
- login with your jabber account (see Jabber Howto)
- Join the multi user chat (MUC) room “fellowship” at the server conference.jabber.fsfe.org
- Ask your questions
We encourage you to test connecting to the MUC before the actual meeting so you can contact us in case you have any difficulties.
Looking forward to see you at the meeting,
Matthias