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Valentine’s greetings to “remind” by David F. Skoll #Ilovefs

It’s too late for my current location, but it’s still Valentines Day in some parts of the world.

Inspired by the #ilovefs campaign of FSFE, I want to say thank you to David F. Skoll who maintains remind so gallantly. His patience and friendliness on the mailing list to any newbie is exemplary as […]

EURO2012 in Free Software – Look East!

The wiki pages for our little tournament have just been updated according to the latest results. Sorry for the delay, oher things pushed this task further down in my ToDo list, but now it’s done.

Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow (cc by-sa 2.0)

Since we have to wait until March 25, 2011 for any further […]

FreeDroidz workshop with tarent

Not too long ago, I mentioned a workshop with FreeDroidz in this blog. I heard about these robots before, saw them at fairs and haven’t known much about our host, except that they are the sponsor of the Fellowship grant. Matthias asked me if I was interested in leading such a work shop at schools […]

EURO 2012 in FS – qualification day #8

Croatia fan truck by by Alison Ratcliffe (cc-by-2.0)

The last two qualification matches of this year took place today:

Finland vs. San Marino 2:0 (well, in soccer they won 8:0!)

This was easy since we have no entries for San Marino in our wiki.

Croatia vs. Malta 2:1

But this was a tough decision […]

Upcoming Jabber-meeting on Free Software in Education

In two weeks, there will be a Jabber meeting about the activities of FSFE’s Edu-Team. We will ask for opinions on Free Software and education and the future of the edu team. Got any ideas?

Well, I thought it might help if I post some of my thoughts beforehand to discuss, even if you don’t […]

Euro 2012 in Free Software – qualification day #7 Moules Frites vs. Sachertorte

Here are todays results of our EURO 2012 in Free Software and open standards. This time, I found the match Belgium vs. Austria the most challenging.

Moules Frites (cc by-sa 2.0)

Sachertorte (cc by-sa 3.0)

It looks easy considering only the public administration page where we have the following:

In Vienna, they […]

Euro 2012 qualification day #5 and the sick man of Europe

Another qualification day for the EURO2012 in Free Software with proposed results.

sick man (cc-by 2.0)

FSFE president Karsten Gerloff recently wrote a blog post about the situation in the UK. He writes “Britain is the sick man of Europe in terms of Free Software adoption.” The results below agree with this. I think […]

EURO 2012 qualification day 3

Another day of the qualification of the UEFA EURO 2012 in regards to Free Software usage and Open Standards came to its end. Most interesting to me was the match Norway vs. Portugal. On the wiki page for public administration, Portugal looks much weaker than Norway, but we have a lot of good news from […]

EURO2012 qualifying: preparing for day #2

waiting for the matches (cc-by click for source)

As announced in a previous posting, I’ll compare the participating countries of the UEFA EURO 2012 in regards to Free Software usage and Open Standards. On September 3rd, the next qualification matches will take place. And it is going to be a busy day: 22 pairings. […]

Education systems in Europe – Eurodice

In the last few months I was busy gathering information about Free Software in education. My list of bookmarks grew longer and longer since there are a million interesting pages out there.

Collecting, and just collecting will not produce any results. Thus, I declare this introductory phase as over and will review what I have […]