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Mission Libre

Posted on 2025-05-13 by Paul Sutton

Mission Libre

Mission:Libre is a new, independent project for teens all over the world who love free software. We aim to help teens learn about software freedom and develop the skills they’ll need as they become tomorrow’s contributors and activists. Mission:Libre will help spread the word about free software.

<a href=”https://missionlibre.org/”>Mission Libre</a>

Early days with this yet, but the idea is ambitious and innovative. Hopefully this will be successful.

There are lots of projects, resources and tutorials out there and any inititive to help bring people together under a common cause is always welcome.

Lets see what happens and if there will hhe a few people from the South west getting involved with this.

Posted in 2025, 4 freedoms, advocacy, coding, Developer, development, education, freedom, FreeSoftwareFoundation, fsf, Learning, programming, promotion, Social, Software, workshoo | Leave a comment |

LibrePlanet 2023

Posted on 2023-02-21 by Paul Sutton

LibrePlanet 2023 Poster

LibrePlanet 2023 Conference

Posted in 2023, education, FreeSoftwareFoundation, Libreplanet | Leave a comment |

South Devon Tech Jam Meeting

Posted on 2021-01-01 by Paul Sutton
South Devon Tech Jam – Virtual Meeting
We are back,  Just virtually using Big Blue Button – video conferencing
Saturday, January 9, 2021
11:00 AM
to 2:00 PM GMT
Details from our Meetup page.
contact e-mail for more details  : info AT sdtj DOT org DOT uk
Posted in 2021, advocacy, Arduino, ARM Development, coding, development, documentation, education, hacking, Hardware, HTML5, Internet Safety, Learning, programming, Raspberry pi, Scratch 3, South Devon Tech Jam | 2 Comments |

OggCamp 2019

Posted on 2019-09-24 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/

 

Posted in 2019, 4 freedoms, advocacy, Courses, documentation, education, Events, Food, freedom, fsf, GNU, gpg, hacking, Hardware, help, Kernel, Libreoffice, Linux, Meeting, Oggcamp, presentations, Privacy, programming, promotion, Social, Software, support, Testing, workshop | Leave a comment |

South Devon Computing at School

Posted on 2019-09-21 by Paul Sutton

South Devon Computing at School

Work to restart the South Devon Computing at School Community seems to be going well, we could do with some more teachers and other staff to get in touch and say how you would like to be supported.

Twitter @compatsch

e-mail : compatsch@bcs.uk – The local contact is Claire Davenport

  1. Computing At School Website
Posted in advocacy, coding, Computing at School, development, documentation, education, programming, promotion, Scratch, Scratch 2, Scratch 3, Social, Software | Leave a comment |

Libreoffice : How to help

Posted on 2019-09-20 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/

Posted in 4 freedoms, advocacy, base, calc, coding, development, documentation, education, fsf, hacking, help, impress, Libreoffice, office, presentations, programming, promotion, support, writer | Leave a comment |

DATES FOR LUG MEETS, CODE CLUB & TECH JAM etc IN SEPTEMBER

Posted on 2019-09-01 by Paul Sutton

DATES FOR LUG MEETS, CODE CLUB & TECH JAM etc IN SEPTEMBER 2019

Sat 7th September – Code Club (Contact paignton.library@​librariesunlimited.org.uk)

Sat 14th September – South Devon Tech Jam (info@sdtj.org.uk)

Sat 21th September – Code Club

Sat 21th September – North Devon DCGLUG Meeting (Holsworthy)

Please contact Neil W via list

Sat 28th August – Plymouth DCGLUG Meeting

Please contact Andy / Grant via list

Posted in Code Club, coderdojo, coding, education, Lug Meet, lug news, Meeting, Monthly calendar, Scratch 3, South Devon TechJam | Leave a comment |

Copyright Directive – EU safeguards Free Software at the last minute

Posted on 2019-03-28 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

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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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Posted in 4 freedoms, coding, copyright, copyright directive, debian, development, education, freedom, fsf, GNU, news, Privacy, respect, Security, Software, trust | Leave a comment |

SAFER INTERNET DAY 2019

Posted on 2019-02-05 by Paul Sutton

Today is Safer Internet Day 2019

https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/2019

Posted in education, Events | Leave a comment |

Paignton Code Club 5

Posted on 2018-11-28 by Paul Sutton

CODE CLUB PAIGNTON

The next Paignton code club is this Saturday 1st December 2018.   Paignton Library at the usual time.     Please visit https://www.codeclub.org.uk/ for more information about Code Club and please contact Paignton Library and Information Centre for more information about the Paignton sessions.  Places are limited.

You can also contact Paul Sutton via the DCGLUG mailing list.

Torqauy Library also run sessions.  Please contact  https://www.torbay.gov.uk/libraries/find-a-library/torquay-library/ 

Places are limited

Posted in Code Club, coding, Courses, development, education, Scratch, Scratch 2, Scratch 3, Software | Leave a comment |
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