Feedback appreciated for "There is no Free Software company - But!"

e it was a mistake to think about businesses as a whole before and that if we want to take the next big steps we should think about Free Software business offers / activities – at least until we have a better name for what I described above. We should help companies that they are not deluded by pe

Idea: science packs for schools?

d "Jugend hackt" -- youth is hacking -- Is there something similar on a EU level? Or are there other ideas?) Thanks for your feedback, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered a

Re: Article "FRAND And The Clash Of Industries"

make something more > clear. Just to clarify: you're talking about Simon's article, not the one on fsfe.org, right? Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered

Re: Idea: science packs for schools?

* Matthias Kirschner [2016-11-25 14:32:25 +0100]: > If you like it, do you have an idea how you could make sure that > children who are interested in that are connected around Europe? (E.g. > in Germany there is something called "Jugend hackt" -- youth is hacking > -- Is t

Re: Feedback appreciated for "There is no Free Software company - But!"

t for the functionality, and you legally cannot publish it under a Free Software license. That should not be on the same level as important pieces of functionality missing. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Ber

Re: Feedback appreciated for "There is no Free Software company - But!"

olate fundamental rights (let's say torture). That can be quite dangerous for Free Software. It would violate one of the core four principles of software freedom. Related to that see: http://k7r.eu/podcast-on-non-military-use-clause-in-gnu-gpl/ Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - Pre

Re: Feedback appreciated for "There is no Free Software company - But!"

Dear Giel, * Giel van Schijndel [2016-11-17 15:11:13 +0100]: > The difference between this definition is and "EXCELLENT" is not clear to > me. [...] Thanks for your feedback on the categories. We will try to make that clearer in the future. Regards, Matthias -- Ma

France and Germany promote Free Software in indudstry

Here an interesting news: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/157872 Let's see if there will be real action connected with it... Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Register

Re: Feedback appreciated for "There is no Free Software company - But!"

it, if enough people support us. But the thinking was that by doing so, others can learn how to evaluate it themselves. So it is more a knowledge transfer than a "buy whatever we put the label on without thinking yourself". Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Fre

Free Software contributors threatened as individuals with patents?

threatened with patents, but about threats to individual contributors. If so, would you be able to ask them to get in contact with me? I will of course handle all of that confidential. Currently I am mainly interested how often that happens and in which areas. Thank you, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner

Re: France and Germany promote Free Software in indudstry

* Matthias Kirschner [2016-12-21 14:00:41 +0100]: > Here an interesting news: > https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/157872 > > Let's see if there will be real action connected with it... I forgot to follow-up here. Thank you all for your feedback. I agree actions matter more th

Technical Research required for Sharing and Reuse Award 2017

gards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join) Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) - Weblog (k7r.eu/blog

Re: Technical Research required for Sharing and Reuse Award 2017

urce code I can not run the software. Thanks Thomas, could you contact them via the contact info on the website and ask? (Maybe we get a reply in the next days.) Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-

Re: Technical Research required for Sharing and Reuse Award 2017

* Paul Boddie [2017-03-17 16:51:58 +0100]: > > That would be very helpful in the preparation and communication by us > > about the event. > > I hope this helps. Yes, it already did. If everybody checks a few, we will have the information we're looking for. Thanks,

Re: Technical Research required for Sharing and Reuse Award 2017

* Laura Arjona Reina [2017-03-17 17:11:22 +0100]: > I've reviewed the Spanish ones: [...] Thanks Laura for checking them all. Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-

Re: Technical Research required for Sharing and Reuse Award 2017

Thank you David. Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join) Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) - Weblog (k7r.eu

Update about research, missing ones (was: Re: Technical Research required for Sharing and Reuse Award 2017)

e Comments: Does anyone here have time to have a look at those above, and maybe also the "shared services" missing? Thanks, Matthias * Matthias Kirschner [2017-03-17 14:48:14 +0100]: > On 29 April there will be the Sharing and Reuse Award from the European > Commission in Lisbon. T

Re: Update about research, missing ones (was: Re: Technical Research required for Sharing and Reuse Award 2017)

* Thomas Doczkal [2017-03-22 09:37:17 +]: > Thanks Matthias for the heads up. > > meanwhile I got a reply yesterday night. They will check my issue with > the OSiP download and get back 'soonest'. ;) So let's see what soonest will be ;) -- Matthias Kirschner

Winners announced - some still to be checked (was: Re: Update about research, missing ones (was: Re: Technical Research required for Sharing and Reuse Award 2017))

o any of the province's municipalities to use. ) 4. Antwerp City Platform as a Service (ACPaaS) (not checked) https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/159274 Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-3

Re: accounting software used by FSFE and other associations

er for the cultivation of Technology" <https://techcultivation.org/>. Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join) Co

Books explaining Free Software for Children

-- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join) Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) - Weblog (k7r.eu/blog.html

ASF on bug bounties

s - a Panacea?" in https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/free_and_open_source_security Would be interested what people here think about that. Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-3

[Until 30 June] Participate in survey to improve the ICT patent framework for responsible innovation

ion and your opinions in order to support the further development of an innovation-friendly patent regime for ICT in the European Union. Please fill out the survey under <https://inno.limequery.com/228186> and feel free to spread this e-mail with others interested in that topic. Best Rega

Re: ASF on bug bounties

the author. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join) Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner

Re: [Until 30 June] Participate in survey to improve the ICT patent framework for responsible innovation

* André Ockers [2017-06-17 09:14 +0200]: Op vrijdag 16 juni 2017 08:17:52 schreef Matthias Kirschner: Until 30 June you can participate in a survey for "CIFRA: Challenging the ICT Patent Framework for Responsible Innovation", a project within Horizon 2020 of the European Commission.

Re: Fwd: [libreplanet-discuss] cataloguing free software events globally and locally

just remembered http://grical.org/ but I don't know how active it is anymore. (I heard from an organisation that they are currently planing to create a new aggregator for events about surveillance, privacy, Free Software, Open Hardware, etc. in Germany.) Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner -

Re: [Until 30 June] Participate in survey to improve the ICT patent framework for responsible innovation

, Matthias * Matthias Kirschner [2017-06-16 10:17 +0200]: Hello everybody, as you know the FSFE, as well as many of you, has been involved in the software patent topic for many years. Now there is another way to get active in this area. Until 30 June you can participate in a survey for "

Re: [Until 30 June] Participate in survey to improve the ICT patent framework for responsible innovation

* Thomas Doczkal [2017-07-10 16:06 +0200]: Is this free for everyone to participate in the survey? I am not aware about any restrictions. -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at

Paper "Security record of open source and free software"

" The workshop included contributions from Matthias Kirschner (Free Software Foundation Europe), Kathrin Noack (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Projekt secUnity), Michael Kranawetter (Microsoft) and Carl- Daniel Hailfinger (German Federal Office for Information Security). https://www.esmt

Effective campaigning (was: Re: negative campaigning?)

e Can Transform the World Book by Tina Rosenberg". Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join) Contact (fsfe.org/about

Public Money - Public Code: Helping with the campaign

ering of Free Software, IMHO the sexyness of this campaign is that people immediately understand the request even if they do not care about software: that public money should lead into a public good is an easy and understandable request. Happy hacking, Erik -- Matthias Kirschner - President -

Re: Paper "Security record of open source and free software"

use "free of approbation". Thank you very much. I am contacting the authors about that. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |

Re: FSFE launches a new campaign today: Public Money? Public Code!

16.html * https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Kampagne-Public-Code-Software-fuer-die-Verwaltung-soll-frei-sein-3830705.html * https://netzpolitik.org/2017/kampagne-oeffentliches-geld-oeffentlicher-code/ Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15236686 -- Matthias Kirschner - President

Re: Meetup in Barcelona?

He Carsten, I'll introduce you to the people from the Barcelona Free Software group, which is an associate of the FSFE. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Register

Re: FSFE launches a new campaign today: Public Money? Public Code!

it otherwise (which also makes kind of sense for a file like that): https://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/about/license/ Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgeric

Job at European Commission for FOSSA 2 in Brussels

/jobs/view/449625627/ (yes, I know Linkedin) Please feel free to forward this to other people who you think might be interested. It would be very helpful for Free Software if they find a good candidate for the project. Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software

Re: Job at European Commission for FOSSA 2 in Brussels

* Matthias Kirschner [2017-11-01 15:58 +0100]: The European Commission was looking for a project coordinator for their "Free and Open Source Software Audit" (FOSSA) project. They did not find someone through their own channels, and now asked Atos/Airbus to make public advertising abo

LWN article on Limux / WiMue and PMPC

lso interesting. I especially like this one: "The title lured me into reading what I thought would be a religious article or some kind of flamewar. But then I found myself reading all this common sense. Very disappointed, I want my money back! :-)" Best Regards, Matthias -- Matth

Re: LWN article on Limux / WiMue and PMPC

become a subscriber. It seems that until now that works quite well for them. As I highly appreciate LWN I therefore changed my behaviour. Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290

The 2% discussion - "Free Software" or "Open Source Software"

on an important topic. Would be interested in your views. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join) Contact (fsfe.o

PDFreaders monitoring in Italy

nal-public-administrations-fifth-monitoring/ The following monitoring shows that, in the last semester, eight Italian Regions have reduced advertisement of proprietary PDF readers on their website, and that a Region has increased its support for Free Software PDF readers. Best Regards, Matthias -

Re: "Joining" vs "becoming a supporter"

asily help with, and had an "activity" issues tracker for some time.) Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.org/join) Con

Re: "Joining" vs "becoming a supporter"

st, 3 abstentions See our vice president's blog post http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2017/11/06/background-for-future-changes-to-membership-in-fsfe-e-v/ for more information. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10

Re: FSFE launches a new campaign today: Public Money? Public Code!

tarts already to be the case with research funded via the Horizon 2020 research fund. Yes, absolutely. Please have a look at https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170105-01.en.html and the referenced paper, where we ask for that. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Found

Re: Shouldn't we try to give a boost to the PMPC campaign?

em, that if they agree, they should sign the Open Letter https://publiccode.eu/#action Gergely, thanks for being part of the PMPC campaign! Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-275952

Re: Shouldn't we try to give a boost to the PMPC campaign?

g politicians. * More public administrations: we did not approach any until now, but the City of Barcelona heard about it and signed the open letter, and yesterday a local authority from Germany asked how to sign. Hope that helps to understand the reasoning. Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschn

Radio Lockdown: Current Status of Your Device Freedom

our friends and colleges as well as Free Software related groups you are active in? Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 | (fsfe.or

Re: minutes from Extraordinary General Meeting on 26 May 2018?

meeting. Already at RMLL, but I just uploaded the minutes and added the links on the corresponding page: https://fsfe.org/about/legal/legal.en.html so everybody has access to the information. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7

Prototpye Fund - Public Money for public code

ds, Matthias PS: For transparency reasons I want to mention that I was a jury member of the prototype fund, except for the last round. -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht

Annual report "software freedom in Europe 2018"

ontributed as volunteers to the FSFE's activities, as well those of you who have donated to the FSFE, or support us regularly financially as supporters. Looking forward to another 12 months in which we will improve the situation for software freedom. Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias K

Further facts about data breach

further the development of Free Software. Best Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.org/support) Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner)

Voting and Free Software

broader audience: $youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svEuG_ekNT0 -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.org/support) Contact (fsfe.org/about

Re: Voting and Free Software

* Richard Stallman [2019-11-06 04:33 +0100]: > I am against using computers to enter votes. > See stallman.org/evoting.html. Thank you for the pointer. I did not know about that page. Best regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser

Podcast about mobile phone communication with Harald Welte

Hello all, In this third episode of our software freedom podcast we speak with our guest is Harald Welte about mobile phone communication and the general status of Free Software in this area: https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-3.en.html Best regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner

Re: Podcast about mobile phone communication with Harald Welte

* Bernhard E. Reiter [2020-02-03 12:50 +0100]: > Am Freitag 20 Dezember 2019 19:35:55 schrieb Matthias Kirschner: >> about mobile phone communication and the general >> status of Free Software in this area: >> https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-3.en.html > &g

Re: Free Software for live streaming

o have a look at: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/how-to-livestream-a-conference-in-just-under-a-week https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2019/Streaming Best regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Be

FSFE20 interview with Reinhard Müller

regards, Matthias PS: The first interview in the series was with Georg Greve, our founding president. In case you have missed it, you can read it here: https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210204-01.html -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7

Re: RCS a standard to supercede SMS and Threema?

believe in it anymore... Best regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.org/support) Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) Weblog

Re: Youth Hacking 4 Freedom

nagers in future to get involved in the software freedom movement. Best regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.org/support) C

Help with gathering resources for how to learn programming for children book

me help, and if possible with resources that don't teach programming with non-free software. Kind regards and have a nice Ada Lovelace Day, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Register

Re: Help with gathering resources for how to learn programming for children book

he use of the name Scratch. I am not 100% sure about the best approach. What do you and others here think about it? Best regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgeri

Re: Help with gathering resources for how to learn programming for children book

nfo/trisquel-images/trisquel-sugar_9.0_amd64.iso.sha256 > > [6] https://nostarch.com/laurenipsum Best regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered a

NGI DAPSI -> grant programme, last call

cember 1st, more info: https://NLnet.nl/assure -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.org/support) Contact (fsfe.org/about/k

FSFE in Linux Unplugged

rtance of long term approaches for software freedom. https://player.fm/series/linux-unplugged/ep-510-thinking-in-decades Hope you enjoy listening. (The part with me starts at ~3:00 until around half of the time.) Best regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Softwar

Re: FSFE in Linux Unplugged

porters. Thanks Nico for your feedback; and of course for all the work you do for the FSFE! Best regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.

Re: Nextcloud payable providers that a partners (was: Cloud Storage service provider with Free Software?))

upport, was really good. Best regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsgericht Hamburg, VR 17030 |(fsfe.org/support) Contact (fsfe.org/about/kirschner) Weblog k

Nominate candidates for the F-Droid board

-droid.org/2024/02/28/help-advance-mobile-device-user-freedom-nominate-candidates-for-the-f-droid-board-of-directors.html Transparency: I am a current member of the F-Droid board of directors. Best regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser

Re: electronic invoices

t the topic as well https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4205-europe-s-way-to-mandatory-b2b-e-invoices/ Best regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - President - Free Software Foundation Europe Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany | t +49-30-27595290 Registered at Amtsg