industryterm:free software

The Free Software pact for the European elections!
▻http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2014/03/the-free-software-pact-for-the-european-elections

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In case you did not notice, the Free Software Pact is now available in even more languages. As explained in our press release, FSFE officially supports the Free Software Pact drafted by April. The aim is to get candidates to this year’s European Parliament elections to take a stand for free software by signing this little text. Thus, it’s important to get translations so that you can contact your local politicians and inform them about free software and why it’s important! A lot of the translating efforts have happened on our mailing list, so go subscribe there if you want to help proofread ongoing translations before uploading them on the wiki. The elections are coming (...)

Campaign on open source French local elections | Joinup
▻https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/campaign-open-source-french-local-elections#!

April, France’s free software advocacy group, has relaunched its campaign to make the country’s politicians aware of this type of ICT solution, aiming to gather support statements from candidates for the municipal elections of 23 and 30 March. The group want politicians to defend the rights of developers and users of free software. They also hope to encourage public administrations to use, create and distribute such software.

#logiciel-libre #free-software #activism #activisme

Lets defend free software and Richard Stallman !

He was treated disrespectfully on RT’s spotlight show and the behavior of the program host was despicable

Please help me get some signature for this campaign.

Français :
▻http://ow.ly/n8Tku
English :
▻http://ow.ly/n8jpG

Prism : comment déjouer la surveillance (petit vademecum)
▻http://www.davduf.net/+prism-comment-dejouer-la-surveillance-petit+

Opt out of PRISM, the NSA’s global data surveillance program. Stop reporting your online activities to the American government with these free alternatives to proprietary software.

#netManiaks

French Minister’s vibrant speech in favour of free software: ▻http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2013/06/17/french-ministers-vibrant-speech-in-favour-of-free-software - I don’t recall any French politician at minister level so plainly taking side with free software #France

Again, don’t depend on services that can be yanked from under you on a whim ! ▻http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130313/17262322315/killing-google-reader-highlights-risk-relying-single-provider.shtml

Joseph Reagle on the gender gap in geek culture
▻http://surprisinglyfree.com/2013/02/26/joseph-reagle-2

[Joseph Reagle] does not believe that being a geek or a nerd is in any way synonymous with being a sexist, he concludes that three things that he otherwise loves—geekiness, openness, and the rhetoric and ideology of freedom–are part of the problem inasmuch as they allow informal cliques to arise, dominate the discussion, and squeeze out minority views. Reagle also comments on a unintentional androcentricity he has observed even amongst free software community heroes, highlighting the ways in which this behavior can be alienating to women and prevents geek culture from growing beyond its traditional base.

Reagle prescribes a 3-step solution to sexism in geek culture: talking about gender; challenging and expanding what it means to be a geek; and not allowing the rhetoric of freedom to be used as an excuse for bad behavior.

Reagle further supports efforts to form female-only subcultures within the geek community, which opponents argue goes against the free software value of openness. Instead of the balkanization of their movement that opponents fear, these closed-group discussions actually strengthen geek culture at large, according to Reagle.

▻http://surprisinglyfree.com/wp-content/uploads/SFC-146-130226.mp3

▻http://www.firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381

#genre #femmes #geek #sexisme #informatique

Contributor Agreement | ownCloud.org
►http://owncloud.org/about/contributor-agreement

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Why do you require a contributor agreement now?

We thought a lot about the relationship between the company and community and about a solutions that is best for both parties. The company wants to have a business model so that the company can sell software, support and services to big companies. The revenue will be used to fund development of ownCloud, marketing, services, sponsoring and so on. The community wants to be sure that all the contributions and all the hard work stays free software. The free software community also benefits from the resources that the company invests into ownCloud which will guarantied stay free software. So we think that we found a solution here which is good for all parties.

Are there any examples for this model out there so that I can see how this works in practice?

It very similar to the way Trolltech/Nokia developed Qt. Contributor have to sign the contributor agreement so that Trolltech can sell the commercial version of Qt in parallel to the free software version. There is also the Free Qt foundation that guarantees that Qt will always be free software and the Trolltech/Nokia can´t make a proprietary product of that. That´s very similar to what we have here.

A negative example is Canonical where contributors have to sign the contributor agreement but don ´t have the guarantee that there contributions stay free.

Bruce Parents, the famous free software guy and former Debian project leader wrote this presentation a few month ago: He basically suggests the same system that we have here because it is fair for a free software perspective.

#personal_cloud

I love #DRM : digital restrictions management scandals do more for free software than thirty years of advocacy - ►http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm

The eternal fight between carriers and proprietary software editors never gets old - this episode is only the latest: ►http://news.softpedia.com/news/Verizon-s-Windows-Phone-8-Devices-Could-Be-Delayed-or-Cancelled-2997 - One of the main reasons for the success of Android is that with free software there is no such rivalry - the carrier does whatever it pleases with the phones it sells.

Free Culture Pioneering: Lunatics - Linux Magazine Online
►http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Free-Culture-Pioneering-Lunatics

Terry Hancock and Rosalyn Hunter’s online series Lunatics is a reminder of what free software and culture are about. Contrary to what those of us involved in these fields often start to believe, they’re not just about applications and licenses – they’re about what we can do with the applications and licenses. Currently in pre-production and struggling to raise money, the series is one of many current experiments in just how far free software and crowd funding can go to lower the barriers to creativity.

#logiciel_libre #culture_libre #creative_commons #film

Pencil for Firefox is a new tool for drawing diagrams and graphical user interface mockups: ►http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/ScreenShots.aspx - free software and probably what I’m going to use next time I specify something.

As a user of Bibble on Linux, I am excited about Darktable - an upcoming raw photography processor: ►http://darktable.org - it is free software, under the GPLv3.

Autotools: a practitioner’s guide to Autoconf, Automake and Libtool
►http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/books/autotools_a_guide_to_autoconf_automake_libtool

There are few people who would deny that Autoconf, Automake and Libtool have revolutionized the free software world. While there are many thousands of Autotools advocates, some developers absolutely hate the Autotools, with a passion. Why?

The Liberated Pixel Cup
►http://lpc.opengameart.org

Liberated Pixel Cup is a two-part competition: make a bunch of awesome free culture licensed artwork, and then program a bunch of free software games that use it.

Liberated Pixel Cup brings together some powerful allies: Creative Commons, OpenGameArt, the Free Software Foundation, and you.

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Stallman: Facebook IS Mass Surveillance — RT

The father of free software philosophy spoke to RT on evil developers, spying social networks, the almost-legitimacy of Anonymous hacks and the condition under which he would take a proprietary program and a million dollars.

Stallman is the man behind the concept that every computer program must be free for users to study and modify as they want. This is the only way to ensure that by using the software users do not compromise their human rights, he says

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“Facebook does massive surveillance. If there is a ‘like’ button in a page, Facebook knows who visited that page. And it can get IP address of the computer visiting the page even if the person is not a Facebook user. So you visit several pages that have ‘like’ button and Facebook knows that you visited all of those, even if it doesn’t really know who you are,” he said.

►http://rt.com/news/richard-stallman-free-software-875

Is Android really free software? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/19/android-free-software-stallman

The non-release of two versions’ source code raises concern that Google might intend to turn Android proprietary permanently; that the release of some Android versions as free software may have been a temporary ploy to get community assistance in improving a proprietary software product. Let us hope does not happen.

Le point de vue de Stallman sur Android.

Is Android really free software? | Technology | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/sep/19/android-free-software-stallman

Is Android really free software?
Google’s smartphone code is often described as ’open’ or ’free’ – but when examined by the Free Software Foundation, it starts to look like something different

#Stallman, #Android, #linux, #GNU

Monty says: Oracle adding close source extensions to #MySQL
►http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2011/09/oracle-adding-close-source-extensions.html

Oracle has now officially announced that MySQL is not a full free software project anymore and that they will go for an Open Core model.

#open-source #business-models #mariadb

UNHOSTED - Freedom from web 2.0’s monopoly platforms
►http://unhosted.org

#Unhosted is a project for strengthening free software against hosted software. With our protocol, a #website is only source #code. Dynamic data is #encrypted and #decentralised, to per-user storage nodes. This benefits free software, as well as scalability, robustness, and online privacy.

#freedombox

#freedombox #foundation
►http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org

le nouveau projet d’Eben Moglen se structure un peu :

Freedom Box is the name we give to a personal server running a free software operating system, with free applications designed to create and preserve personal privacy.

Because social networking and digital communications technologies are now critical to people fighting to make freedom in their societies or simply trying to preserve their privacy where the Web and other parts of the Net are intensively surveilled by profit-seekers and government agencies. Because smartphones, mobile tablets, and other common forms of consumer electronics are being built as “platforms” to control their users and monitor their activity.

Freedom Box exists to counter these unfree “platform” technologies that threaten political freedom. Freedom Box exists to provide people with privacy-respecting technology alternatives in normal times, and to offer ways to collaborate safely and securely with others in building social networks of protest, demonstration, and mobilization for political change in the not-so-normal times.

(voir ►http://seenthis.net/messages/8120 )

RT @clochix