Some of you will notice that there is a new feature in the portal: a WYSIWYG editor for news, events and also articles. eZ Systems has released its Online Editor under the GNU GPL and we have soon implemented it on fsfe.org. We hope you appreciate the effort.

There are also two new items on the navigation menu: a FAQ to start addressing the concerns of Fellows regarding the portal, and a page for the external supporters of the Fellowship, companies and groups that have contributed to the Fellowship in significant forms.

The long awaited aggregation of all blog entries by the Fellows of FSFE is available on Planet. There are also RSS feeds in version 1 and 2. The work was done by Fellow Alejandro and the finishing touches were done during the eZ Publish workshop at the First International Meeting of Fellows in Bolzano with the help of Ekke

The aggregator was one of the most requested feature of the site and now that it's solved, all development team can move to the next step. During the Fellowship meeting many Fellows suggested to implement some features to enhance interaction between Fellows in the same region, to facilitate face to face meetings. We will work on it, that's for sure.

Local groups have often organized meetings in schools or local libraries to introduce the Free Software movement. With the Advocacy Project, Fellows can build on 20 years of experience advocating Free Software to bring the movement to newer generations.

The agenda of the meeting has been set by FSFE and by Fellows together.

Final agenda:

• Morning: eZ Publish workshop, with eZ experts
• 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
• Afternoon: Special announcement by FSFE
• A report from FSFE Team about ongoing issues
• Advancing the Advocacy project: improve the material, involve more Fellows and gather ideas for local actions
• Dinner with all Fellows present and FSFE Team members

More info is available here.

A (incomplete) list of participants is available here: add yourself to the list if you are coming.

Information on how to reach Bolzano and special deals for accomodation and food are online on this website.

The train station is Bolzano/Bozen (without other extensions).

Don't forget to look at the interactive map to get an idea of where to go for hotel/hostel and the conference venue once in Bolzano.

This means also that the first time you receive an email from somebody, there will be a delay in delivery (usually around 30 minutes, depending on the configuration of the sending email host). Afterwards email will go through immediately.

We hope this will be an acceptable price to pay for people to push back on the flood of spam that we've seen in the past week in particular. Some of us were simply drowning.

Yesterday we hit a major issue and had to restore the backups. Things are not set yet and but most (if not all) content should be safe. We will inform you when the crisis is over. We are looking for new hardware too.

Fellow Alejandro Serrano helped improve the event system by installing and customizing an agenda-like extension. Other feature are being added, next one will be the anti-spam system to enable anonymous comments to the blogs.

It's just been announced that the 5th international GPLv3 conference
will be held on November 21 and 22, in Akihabara UDX Conference Room
A+B, Tokyo, Japan.

The four previous international GPLv3 conferences were held in:

• August: Bangalore, India
  • Transcript of RMS's presentation
  • Audio recordings of Introductions, Richard Stallman, and Eben Moglen
• June: Barcelona, Europe
  • Transcript of RMS's presentation
  • Transcript of Eben Moglen's presentations
  • Audio and video of the whole two days
• April: Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • Transcript of RMS's presentation
• January: USA, North America
  • Transcript of Eben Moglen's presentation, with introduction and comments by RMS
  • Video recording of Moglen's presentation

All transcripts include the subsequent Q&A session except for
the January transcript, which is 90 minutes on its own.

After the successful 1.0 Distro, Pardus developers published the alpha ISO of the 1.1. version. I gave it a try yesterday, as usual on my test system. The look & feel effect is very fine and I am happy to see that even in alpha, the system is very stable. Well done people! Greetings meren.

We will try to minimise the downtime, but if you don't reach the services of fsfe.org (mail forwarding and web site) don't panic.

Thank you for your patience.