(UPDATE: if you’re looking for me, try my homepage: http://ciaran.compsoc.com ) I look back on 2008 as a year of personal achievement. I worked hard at learning French and Dutch, and having passed various exams, I’m now studying for a law degree through French. The course involves a lot of work, and with exams in Read more »
I always tell people to blog what they’re working on. "If it’s worth doing, it’s worth blogging!" I’ve put effort into blogging over the last three years, so here’s the advice that I give myself each time I start to blog something. This entry is long and isn’t very well layed out, but it’s been Read more »
We’ve set up a francophone FSFE list: https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discutons This breaks our tradition of setting up public lists based on country or regional borders. Europe is complex and the boundaries that history has drawn are not always ideal for community forming. So, if you know French-speaking people or communities in Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France, or anywhere Read more »
I got some helpful responses to my HOWTO use gettext for static websites. Here are three systems, based on GNU gettext, for building translated static websites: Políglota: the system used by getGNULinux.org. You can see how it works by looking at the source for that website. This tool takes care of updating internal links to Read more »
pdfreaders.org is a website with info, graphics, and links about free software PDF readers. Websites shouldn’t recommend Adobe’s non-free reader, so we’ve made an alternative site they can link to. The next Document Freedom Day is March 25th 2009, so it would be great to make a success of pdfreaders.org before then. You can help Read more »
The General Assembly is the top decision making body of FSFE, and from the annual meeting of 2009 onward, the Fellows will have their own directly elected representation. This follows from a constitutional change adopted unanimously by those represented at this year’s GA meeting. One will be elected in time for the 2009 GA meeting Read more »
Inside FSFE, we talk a lot about our legal department, the FTF. I was in the Zurich office a while ago with the FTF’s coordinator, Shane Coughlan, and took the opportunity to gather some info for anyone interested. The FTF works in five main areas: Building a European legal network Producing documentation GPL enforcement FLA Read more »
Recent fellowship meetings (Autumn 2008) In the last two months, I’ve been to Fellowship meetings in The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Ireland. These usually happen whenever I have another reason to go to a city. We organise a Fellowship meeting to make the trip it extra worthwhile. One purpose is to get to know Read more »
FSFE’s role in the antitrust case was to ensure that free software developers would be able to use any interoperability information that Microsoft would be forced to publish. After 5 years of work, the last court case was won last year. There were always doubts about whether Microsoft could really be pinned down, but from Read more »
The OSM board have just sent notice that they’ve set the end of 2008 as their deadline to produce the new licence for OSM. The current draft being discussed, which you might like to take a look at, is that of April 2008: open_database_licence_2008-04-10_draft.pdf And FWIW, the board meeting minutes have been put online too. Read more »