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Another FSF (almost) come to life
These are exciting times here in Rosario, Argentina at the 5tas Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre. Despite (or because of?) the very typical Latin American experience in getting to the event, my keynote on Sunday was a lot of fun. … Continue reading
Tagged Conference, Free Software, FSF, Travel
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Can Blizzards be struck by lightning?
Usually I never find time to play games anymore; most of my conscious time is spent working for Free Software and related issues. The rest of my time generally goes to reading, riding my motorcycle or doing Aikido. Also I … Continue reading
Tagged Church of IPR, DRM, EU, Free Software, Politics, SWPAT
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Problems with e-waste? Send it to Africa!
The Basel Action Network (BAN) published an interesting report, titled "The Digital Dump: Exporting Re-Use and Abuse to Africa" in which they analyse the effects of many "ship your old computer to Africa" activities. Studying Nigeria as a role model … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, Idiocies, Microsoft, UN, WSIS
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Women in Free Software
It seems to me that the issue is discussed more often these days. My first contact with it was when talking to the organisers of the "Women in Free Software" workshop during the 4th Free Software Forum in Porto Alegre … Continue reading
Tagged Free Software, Politics
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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
Tagged Church of IPR, Fellowship, Free Software, FSF, Politics, Travel, UN, WIPO
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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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Struggling with alien artefacts
Do you know the movies where some people discover an alien artefact or space ship and try to find out what it does or get it to work? The scientists carefully examine the alien language, trying to understand strange symbols … Continue reading
Tagged Fellowship, Free Software
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