To celebrate the Fellowship launch, FSFE and Newthinking – Network for Free Software – are having a Freedom Party in Berlin.

On 19 March 2005, Fellows and interested users will mix and mingle in a

relaxed environment at the Newthinking Store, Tucholskystr. 48,

Berlin-Mitte. Besides socialising, guests can catch up on the news

about Freedom in the digital society and Free Software.

At this opportunity, FSFE will present the CryptoCard that makes strong data protection available to all users.

[Download Flyer]

[Click here for info (in German)]

The CryptoCards, which will give all Fellows the power to use strong authentication and encryption are currently at the printer. They should be ready around 20 March 2005 and we will start personalising and shipping them immediately.

All things considered, you should hold your card in hands around the end of March.

As you will have noticed, some parts of the portal are still not fully functional, in particular the blogs are still having a permission problem. Together

with people from the Plone community we are working to get the

functionality up and running within the next days. We apologise for the

delay — if you think you can help with testing workflows, hack

portlets, integrate i18n, please get in touch with the list system-hackers@fsfeurope.org.