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Key signing with caff

I don’t go to key signing parties very often, and every time I do, I have a hard time to learn how to use caff.

Caff is part of the keysigning-party package on Debian based systems. Setup is easy and explained numerous times in the web, what I did not find is how to feed […]

Free Software in Education News – March

Here’s what we collected in March. If you come accross anything that might be worth mentioning in this series, please drop me a note, dump it in this pad or drop it on the edu-eu mailinglist!

FSFE Edu-Team activities

We are still working on our edu pages

Former FSFE vice preseident Henrik Sandklef on Education […]

#ilovefs Thank you to Carsten Dominic and Bastien Guerry, developers of org-mode

Today is “I love Free Software Day” again. I used to have a little more to say on this occasion, but on the other hand there is not much more to say:

This year, my thanks go to Carsten Dominik, Bastien Guerry and all the others who helped them developing org-mode which made my […]

Free Software in Education NEWS – December

Here’s what I collected in December. If you come accross anything that might be worth mentioning in this series, please drop me a note, dump it in this pad or even better: drop it on the edu-eu mailinglist!

FSFE Edu-Team activities

We’ve still been working on the NL Edu campaign and restructuring on the education […]

Free Software in Education NEWS – November

Here’s what I collected in November. If you come across anything that might be worth mentioning in this series, please drop me a note or, even better: drop it on the edu-eu mailinglist!

Edu-Team:

We, and most of all Kevein, are still working behind the scenes on the NLedu campaign.

The German Open Source Business […]

Free Software in Education News – August 2013

Another month passed without me noticing it. There is currently so much going on, that I did not find as much time collecting edu news as usual. If you come accross anything that might be worth mentioning in this series, please drop me a note or, even better, drop it on the edu-eu mailinglist!

FSFE […]

Free Software, journalism and democracy

The article is quite old, but t’s nice to see that more and more professors discover the value(s) of Free Software.

Dr. Andrea Hickerson (Rochester Institute of Technology):

“The values that underlie open source, like transparency and open communication, are the same values that underlie journalism and democracy,” Hickerson said. “It seems like a natural […]

Free Software in Education news – July 2013

FSFE Edu-Team activities Sebastian warns in a blog post to put the cost argument in front My last edu news summary was well received on the edu-eu mailinglist and let to the idea of creating an edu news planet. Anybody interested to join? We are working on updating the NLEDU campaign page as there […]

Free Software experience in Westcliff High School, England

I just want to recommend reading a blog post I found on KDE: A school in the southeast of England, began switching its student-facing computers to GNU/Linux. Stuart Jarvis interviewed the school’s Network Manager, Malcolm Moore. I think it’s an excelent case study to refer to.

Here are some gems:

To the question what caused […]

Looking for an XMPP webclient

I’ve been looking for a web based XMPP client and found about 20 in the list on xmpp.org. I skimmed through them and as a Free Software license is mandatory for me, I was left with 7 clients. I haven’t had the time to try any of them on my own machine yet, but […]