Last week I travelled from Liverpool to Berlin for three days to step up preparations for Document Freedom Day 2012. I arrived on Tuesday afternoon and went straight to the FSFE offices. Over the next two days I had meetings with other Document Freedom Day organisers, added a new web page, two new features, and Read more »
Sent to the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA)in support of a funding application made by MadLab Manchester Hackerspace. Dear AGMA, I am writing in support MadLab in their request for AGMA funding. I have been running Free Software Foundation Europe events at MadLab since January2011, and have made use of their facilities on both Read more »
Download and install the following packages in the order shown: http://dl.atrpms.net/all/libdvdcss2-1.2.11-6.fc16.i686.rpm (Shared libraries for package libdvdcss) http://dl.atrpms.net/all/libdvdcss-1.2.11-6.fc16.i686.rpm (A portable abstraction library for DVD decryption) More information about these packages can be found here: http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/f16/libdvdcss/
This French article is reproduced from Framablog[2], and is a translation of my article “Will teaching children basic programming skills have a political impact?“. Apprendre les rudiments de la programmation aux enfants aura-t-il un impact politique ? La BBC m’a envoyé un courrier électronique la semaine dernière pour me demander mon avis sur la rumeur actuelle Read more »
At FOSDEM, FSFE’s page about how to free Android devices was officially launched by Torsten Grote, leaflets were handed out, and over the course of the weekend news of this hit hackernews.ws, causing a ‘slashdot’ effect resulting in 12,00+ hits. Great going in such a short time, and goes to show what an impact sharing Read more »
This year four things particularly struck me about the annual Free and Open Source Developer’s European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels. Lots of new software Attending FOSDEM is always a great opportunity to find awesome new Free Software projects to make your life and work easier, and with more than 420 speakers in the “dev rooms” Read more »
Device: BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01) This is the built-in wifi on the Lenovo B570 (and many other laptops). [UPDATE: As of updates applied on 15.04.12, wifi is again broken (curse you Fedora and your inadequate testing suites!) – I’m currently working on finding a fix ] [UPDATE: The fix is to connect temporarily Read more »