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Why I love mpd, ncmpcpp, and MPDroid
Today we celebrate the I love Free Software Day, and it was a difficult to decide what I want to write about. Finally I decided to dedicate it to the developers of Music Player Daemon, ncmpcpp and...
View ArticleGerman FSFE activities in 2013
Looking back to 2013, the German FSFE team had an active year. Lots of volunteers spent their time to promote Free Software at events, meetings, by giving speeches, or online. Some highlights of our...
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Why Open Standards aren’t enough: the minimal principle
Although a good data-format can only be an Open Standard, FSFE’s Bernhard Reiter argues that this requirement alone is not enough. Originally written for last year’s Document Freedom Day in German, the...
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Comic and quotes: why you should use Open Standards
In a few hours Document Freedom Day will start with the event in Tokyo organised by the Japanese LibreOffice team. During the whole day, people around the world will explain why Open Standards matters....
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Teenagers teach how to program robots with Free Software
Four years ago, I helped organising a FreeDroidz workshop with the goal to enable more people to held workshops, teaching children how to program with Free Software. Unfortunately due to several...
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How to generate a new wifi password the mobile friendly way
After Torsten showed me how to generate a qrcode for a wifi password, I also wanted to do it. Today I finally had some time and finished it for my private home network. First of all I generated a new...
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Support hardware computing platform for hackers and Free Software drivers NOW
Last week I gave a talk about threats for the universal computer (e.g. non-free software, Digital Restriction Management, and secure boot) at the Cyber Security Day. There are still a lot of people...
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Consumer protection for mobiles: Is it a torch light or a spy in your pocket?
On Friday 15 May, I was at an event in the German Parliament about the power of consumers in the digital world, organised by the Green party. I participated because part of the event was a workshop...
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FSFE’s German speaking team meeting 2014
From 13 – 15 June 2014 FSFE had its German speaking team meeting in the Linuxhotel in Essen. The participants had some problems to travel there because of the chaos resulting from a heavy thunderstorm...
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An invisible part of the Free Software Foundation Europe
In all organisations you have people, who do crucial work which is invisible to the public. But without them, the organisation would not function. In the FSFE, one of this people who takes care of a...
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New stickers and leaflets: No cloud and e-mail self-defense
This week we received new additions for our information materials in the Berlin office. First of all, the English version of the “e-mail self-defense” leaflet. In September Erik layouted and printed a...
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I love Free Software: Thanks to all the GnuPG contributors
Today is “I love Free Software”-Day. A day to thank all the hard working people behind Free Software. Beside initiating #ilovefs I also try to write a short thank you note to one project every year....
View ArticleUnexpected turn at panel discussion on software patents and Free Software
On Monday 17 March 2015, I participated in a panel discussion organised by the European Patent Office at the Cebit in Hannover. The title of the discussion was “Patents, Standards, and Open Source — a...
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Spread the message with Free Software merchandise
Our "There is no cloud, just other people's computers" bag For those of you, who are not not subscribed to our newsletter: During the last weeks, many people ordered our “There is no cloud, just other...
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Final PDFreaders advertisement squashing
We currently wrap-up the PDFreaders campaign, and we need your help to measure our success. Started in 2009 FSFE’s goal with the campaign was to get rid of advertisement for proprietary PDF readers. We...
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Sharing multiple links on Android
Did you try to share several URLs at once on Android before? Until now I copied and pasted each one of the links step-by-step into an e-mail or a text. While checking F-Droid for new programs last...
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My interview for the keynote at Akademy published
I am invited to give a keynote at KDE’s Akademy on Saturday 25 July. In the preparation for the conference Devaja Shah interviewed me, and his questions made me look up some things in my old mail...
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Dissolving our association
When a group of dedicated hackers founded Free Software Foundation Europe there was no usable legal basis for establishing a European wide legal entity, and it is still difficult to do so. The founders...
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Birthday party in Berlin: 30 years Free Software Foundation
On 3 October 2015 Free Software Foundation Europe invites you for the 30th birthday party of the Free Software Foundation. While the main event will take place in Boston/USA, there will be several...
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Happy birthday to the Free Software Foundation
On 4 October 1985 Harold Abelson, Robert J. Chassell, Richard M. Stallman, Garald Jay Sussman, and Leonard H. Tower, Jr. incorporated the Free Software Foundation, Inc. The application included also...
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