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Category Archives: 4 freedoms

May Meeting

Posted on May 8, 2021 by Paul Sutton

DCGLUG virtual meeting (jitsi) Day / Date: Saturday 15/5/2021 Time: From 12:00 Location: Online – Meeting jit.si link

See meetings page for more info or ask on IRC / Mailing list.

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LibrePlanet 2021

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Paul Sutton

LibrePlanet 2021

Empowering users

March 20-21, 2021

Virtual Conference

https://libreplanet.org/2021/

 

IRC LINK : #libreplanet

Server : chat.freenode.net

Webchat : webchat.freenode.net

Registration (benefits, the Participant tier is gratis)

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Debian Firmware

Posted on January 29, 2021 by Paul Sutton

As Debian is a fully free Operating System. This means that if your hardware has any non free firmware, the drivers may not be available during the install. There are several ways round this.

  1. Use the non-free ISO
  2. Create a media that has the drivers available so that the installer can scan and install the appropriate firmware drivers during install. The instructions for this are available here.

Another option is to use hardware that does not contain proprietary firmware. Some links below may be helpful.

  • USB Wifi Dongle USB 2.0 Wireless 802.11n USB Wifi Adapter
  • FSF Certified Wifi hardware (article)
  • List of computer hardware that works with free software
    • WiFi cards
    • Ethernet cards

 

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About the DCGLUG

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Paul Sutton

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DEVON AND CORNWALL GNU/LINUX USER GROUP


The aims of the Devon and Cornwall GNU / Linux user group are :

  • Promote, advocate and support the use of Free software and GNU / Linux within the Devon and Cornwall region and beyond.
  • We run an active e-mail discussion list.
    • Please visit our join page for more details
  • Due to the current pandemic, all physical meetings are cancelled but we are meeting up on line
    • please see meetings page for details.
    • Meeting details will also be posted to the blog and mailing list.

 

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OggCamp 2019

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Paul Sutton

OggCamp 2019

OggCamp is an unconference celebrating Free Culture, Free and Open Source Software, hardware hacking, digital rights, and all manner of collaborative cultural activities and is committed to creating a conference that is as inclusive as possible.

We’re at The Manchester Conference Centre in the Pendulum Hotel near Picadilly Station the weekend of October 19th and 20th 2019.

https://www.oggcamp.org/

 

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Libreoffice : How to help

Posted on September 20, 2019 by Paul Sutton

LibreOffice : How to help

LibreOffice is a well featured free and open source office suite.  As with any project contributors are welcome and encouraged to get involved. There are lots of different jobs to do, so not everything is about coding.   Please see the following link for more information, and see how you may be able to help.

https://whatcanidoforlibreoffice.org/

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Copyright Directive – EU safeguards Free Software at the last minute

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Paul Sutton
Latest update and comments from the FSFE.
Hello,

in our last press release on the EU Copyright Directive, Alexander Sander says:

“The exclusion of Free Software code hosting and sharing providers from this directive is crucial to keep Free Software development in Europe healthy, solid and alive”

How do we come to this conclusion? We can probably give thanks to Microsoft for their good lobby work, that they could get an exception for GitHub (maybe the purchase of GitHub had finally probably something good):

“Open source software developing and sharing platforms like GitHub should remain out of scope.” [1]

Finally, I don’t think this will help us. Other open source platforms, such as Mastodon instances, have to install upload filters if they don’t want to end up in court. I am not a lawyer and I can’t find a section in the directive that contains the opposite or can dispel my concerns about this. Can our legal team tell us what does

“Providers of services such as open source software development and sharing platforms,[…] are also excluded from this definition” [2]

in the “EU Copyright Directive” exactly mean for free and open source software projects that are not “software development and sharing platforms”?

Next, Alexander says in our names:

“We call on the European Commission to promote the dissemination of Free Software filter technologies, including financial support, for instance”

No, I won’t do that and I completely disagree! I urge the FSFE to argue *against* uploadfilters and censorship. Because it doesn’t matter if the censorship machine has an open or a closed license, At the end of the day uploadfilters serve censorship and censorship has to be abolished. There’s already enough free  software being abused for purposes of oppression and to spy on privacy in the surveillance capitalism, we don’t need another one.

I hope that we will reconsider our goals we shared in this press release.

Christian Imhorst

[1] https://github.blog/2019-02-13-the-eu-copyright-directive-what-happens-from-here/
[2] https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Copyright_Final_compromise.pdf

——– Originalnachricht ——–
Betreff: [FSFE PR][EN] Copyright Directive – EU safeguards Free Software at the last minute
Datum: 26.03.2019 12:59
Von: press@fsfe.org
An: press-release@lists.fsfe.org

= Copyright Directive – EU safeguards Free Software at the last minute =

[ Read online: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190326-01.en.html ]

The European Parliament adopted the controversial Copyright Directive by
348 votes in favour, 274 votes against and 36 abstentions. Today’s vote
marks the end of years of debate in the European Union. Heated
discussions about the introduction of upload filters ended up in
protests of tens of thousands people in the streets all across Europe.
In a last minute action back in September 2018, the European Parliament
adopted an amendment and pushed it through the trilogue to at least
protect Free and Open Source Software.

“We are glad we were able to raise awareness and understanding of
what drives software development in Europe nowadays among many
policy makers. The exclusion of Free Software code hosting and
sharing providers from this directive is crucial to keep Free
Software development in Europe healthy, solid and alive. we are
dismayed that the EU missed the opportunity to renew copyright to a
reasonable extent. As upload filters are now introduced, we urge the
European Commission to avoid filtering monopolies by companies this
directive actually intended to regulate. We call on the European
Commission to promote the dissemination of Free Software filter
technologies, including financial support, for instance within the
framework of research programmes Horizon2020 and Horizon Europe.”
says Alexander Sander, Policy Manager of the Free Software
Foundation Europe.

The Free Software Foundation Europe and Open Forum Europe started a
campaign to “ Save Code Share [1] ” in 2017. More than 14.000 people
supported our call with an open letter which requests EU legislators to
preserve the ability to collaboratively build software online in current
EU Copyright Directive proposal.

1: https://savecodeshare.eu/

== About the Free Software Foundation Europe ==

Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to
control technology. Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our
lives; and it is important that this technology empowers rather than
restricts us. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use,
understand, adapt and share software. These rights help support other
fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, press and privacy.

The FSFE helps individuals and organisations to understand how Free
Software contributes to freedom, transparency, and self-determination.
It enhances users’ rights by abolishing barriers to Free Software
adoption, encourage people to use and develop Free Software, and
provide resources to enable everyone to further promote Free Software
in Europe.

http://fsfe.org
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GSoC March 2019 Update

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Paul Sutton

Google Summer of Code March 2019 update

Update on this round of  Debian / Google summer of code applications.

Debian is welcoming applicants for Outreachy and GSoC 2019

On Thu 28 March 2019 with tags announce gsoc outreachy
Written by Laura Arjona Reina and Lesley Mitchell

Debian is dedicated to increasing the diversity of contributors to the project and improving the inclusivity of the project. We strongly believe working towards these goals provides benefits both for people from backgrounds that are currently under-represented in free software, and for the wider movement, by increasing the range of skills, experiences and viewpoints contributing to it.

https://bits.debian.org/2019/03/call-for-applicants-outreachy-gsoc-2019.html

 

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Activity Pub now a standard

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Paul Sutton

News from the Free Software foundation is that ActivityPub is now a web standard thanks to the W3C.  If you are not sure what this is please check out the link below:-

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview

 

 

 

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Free Software Promotion

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Paul Sutton

For the November Tech Jam I should have some resources available for promoting both free software and e-mail self defence.

These were obtained from the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)

 

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