Tag Archives: Fellowship

FOSDEM and back

After two meetings at the United Nations in Geneva I made my way to Brussels to participate in FOSDEM, which took place at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles on Saturday and Sunday. As usual, FOSDEM was a place of great … Continue reading

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Authenticating SSH logins with the Fellowship crypto card

There is a German aphorism that would translate to "ask someone holes into their stomach." If that were true, Werner should have holes in his stomach from my questions — but at last the SSH login with the Fellowship crypto … Continue reading

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Fellowship crypto card: the cool way!

From the very first day we started planning the Fellowship about 1.5yrs ago, I always wanted a PCMCIA smart card reader for my notebook. Believe it or not: The design incorporated that idea from the start. When you plug the … Continue reading

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Fellowship signatures

I noticed that some people started using Fellowship signatures. Karsten Gerloff and myself go for the "keep it short & simple" approach: Join the Fellowship and protect your freedom! (www.fsfe.org)   Ciaran O’Riordan already goes for a little more fancy: … Continue reading

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Introducing: The Fellowship Bermuda-Shorts

As you know, I am currently in Porto Alegre, Brazil, waiting for the LACFREE conference in Recife, which is where I will be next week if they can finally get the tickets organized. As Fernanda was busy coordinating the printing … Continue reading

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I should grow a beard

After Karsten told me he was a Low-Ranking geek, I could not resist to try this myself. So I gave it a quick shot… and found out that I am only a High-Level Computer Geek: I should probably grow a … Continue reading

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busy week

…I’ll just briefly let you know that I can apparently still type. As you may have seen, we were quite busy processing the first batch of SmartCards. Unfortunately, before we could get to the printing and shipping, I had to … Continue reading

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Short stop in Hamburg

As you may have read in Karsten’s blog, the WIPO meetings in Geneva were indeed very exciting. It seems there is a realistic chance that WIPO will change fundamentally if the Friends of Development group keeps up the pressure and … Continue reading

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Catching up…

Alright, just trying to catch up a little bit on what happened during the past weeks. As you may have seen in the FSFE newsletter, just after our first Freedom Party, I have been visiting Boston, seizing the chance to … Continue reading

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Hacking for Freedom?

Georg in the Fellowship T-Shirt Picture taken by Michael Gottschalk during FOSDEM 2005. If you need commercial reproduction rights, you’ll need to contact info@michaelgottschalk.com It was our first-ever and soon-to-be-thoroughly-missed intern Matthias who came up with the idea of making … Continue reading

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