Blogging thoughts

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 »

FSFE list for French-speakers

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 »

Update on gettext for static websites

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 »

FSFE campaign: pdfreaders.org

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 »

Fellowship seats on FSFE’s General Assembly

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 »