Comments for Fellowship Interviews

Comment on Fellowship Interview with Hugo Roy by Links 24/10/2012: Fortress 2 Comes to GNU/Linux, Raspberry Pi Opens ARMs | Techrights

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:35:04 +0000

[...] Fellowship Interview with Hugo Roy Since 2010 I’ve been representing FSFE in France. This involves getting involved in events and conferences, and occasionally acting as an interface between various organisations and FSFE — some very local, and some national. There is a very strong and organised Free Software community in France — for instance with the yearly conference RMLL (Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre) — so one of my ongoing jobs is to show a face for FSFE, make a personal connection and explain what we do and why we exist. Then on further levels, it sometimes gets into collaboration on campaigns or issues. For instance, one of my main area of activities in Free Software is legal and public affairs. At the moment I’m mainly working on setting up our Free Your Android campaign in France, with phone liberation workshops. I really believe in this project: I think mobile devices are becoming more and more important, and having control over them, and more importantly over the services that we run them with, is becoming more important too. [...]

Comment on Fellowship Interview with Bjarni Runar Einarsson by Bjarni Rúnar

Bjarni Rúnar — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:18:36 +0000

fsouthern: That is part of it for sure. The other key point is to be careful how you use online services, including those I provide.

What Macbroadcast is referring to is that if you use one of the names I provide (a DNS name ending in .pagekite.me), your online identity becomes dependent on access to my service, which costs money and is, like any other business, at risk of going bankrupt or getting sued or experiencing some other catastrophe.

So if you are concerned about independence, you don’t want to use a .pagekite.me name. But that is actually under your control: you can buy your own domain name and use that instead (our service supports this). And ultimately, since it’s open source, you can host the entire solution on your own hardware if that is what you want.

Of course, then you’re still relying on your DNS registrar… it’s actually quite hard to be completely independent on today’s Internet. We all have to decide how we balance independence vs. convenience and there’s no easy answer there.

The FreedomBox project and a few others are working on some of these issues, but they are really quite complicated.

Comment on Fellowship Interview with Bjarni Runar Einarsson by fsouthern

fsouthern — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:49:11 +0000

macbroadcast: But you are if Bjarni gives you everything you need to go and do it yourself (or find someone else to do it for).

Comment on Fellowship Interview with Bjarni Runar Einarsson by macbroadcast

macbroadcast — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:34:45 +0000

you aren’t independent if you rely on Bjarni….

Comment on Fellowship Interview with Heiki Ojasild by Links 24/1/2012: Extremadura’s 40,000 Free Software Desktops, ACTA in the European Parliament | Techrights

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:26:59 +0000

[...] Fellowship Interview with Heiki Ojasild Heiki Ojasild joined the Free Software Foundation Europe in 2011, undertaking the task of translating fsfe.org into Estonian, his mother tongue. He is currently developing an XChat add-on, as well as a website for free SVG and JavaScript games. In 2010 he took part in the Baltic Olympiad in Informatics. I talked to him about copyright, Digital Restrictions Management, kopimism, and activism. [...]

Comment on Fellowship Interview with Stefan Kangas by Linux Haber » 24 Eylül: Linux Dünyasından Göze Çarpan Haberler… Bu haberler sizi de çarpacak

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:33:21 +0000

[...] Fripost başkanı Stefan Kangas ile söyleşi http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=422 [...]

Comment on Fellowship Interview with Stefan Kangas by Links 23/9/2011: Linux Delay, GNU Health 1.3.3 | Techrights

Links 23/9/2011: Linux Delay, GNU Health 1.3.3 | Techrights — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:17:25 +0000

[...] Fellowship Interview with Stefan Kangas People have been using our email servers since around February. The systems are basically up and running, but at this point mainly on borrowed and donated hardware. We set our membership fee at 300 SEK per year (around 33 Euros) and that’s basically covering the running costs of an exclusive internet connection for the main server. Though it’s consumer grade at this point, we’re currently looking at a better solution; we want to be hosted in a more serious location. [...]

Comment on Fellowship interview with Guido Arnold by Jon @ How to read palms

Jon @ How to read palms — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:28:07 +0000

There’s a mass of Free Software out there that we don’t even know about. I learned about it since moving to Linux. Good luck convincing politicians about it!

Comment on Fellowship interview with Richard Shipman by Matthew Russell

Matthew Russell — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 18:19:51 +0000

Great interview, like the Hat Richard!
I’m still benefiting from Richard’s lectures in C and UNIX,
and to top it all, he’s a great bloke.

Matt

Comment on Fellowship interview with Bernhard Reiter by bookfoto

bookfoto — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:50:19 +0000

Great interview !!
Bernhard seems to be a great guy !