From: Fellowship of FSFE <fellowship@fsfeurope.org>\r\nTo: Christian Weiske <cweiske@fsfe.org>\r\nSubject: FSFE Newsletter - July 2014\r\nDate: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 17:17:10 +0200\r\nSender: Reinhard Mueller <mueller@fsfeurope.org>\r\n\r\n = FSFE Newsletter \u2013 July 2014 =\r\n\r\n[ Read online: https:\/\/fsfe.org\/news\/nl\/nl-201407.en.html ]\r\n\r\n == Privacy cafe: e-mail encryption as the main course! ==\r\n\r\nImagine you take some friends to a cafe, but instead of hot and cold\r\nbeverages, the menu features information on measures of ensuring digital\r\nprivacy. Like "https everywhere"; as a starter, "GnuPG e-mail\r\nencryption"; for the main course, and "tosdr.org"; (information about\r\nterms of services) as dessert. Such cafes already exist in the\r\nNetherlands. At the German speaking FSFE meeting in Essen, Felix\r\nStegerman, our Deputy coordinator from the Netherlands, presented his\r\nplans to set up more privacy cafes and why he thinks it is the right\r\ntime and a good opportunity for Free Software, to do so in other places\r\nas well.\r\n\r\nThis is, because most of the people that go to a privacy cafe are\r\nalready aware of issues around privacy and freedom. But it gives local\r\nvolunteers a good opportunity to talk about Free Software, and the\r\nimportance of using Free Software for privacy issues. For example, by\r\nasking the participants "who controls the software?" Read Felix's blog\r\npost for more details about the cafes and future plans[1].\r\n\r\n == E-mail self-defence goes multilingual ==\r\n\r\nGood information material about encryption and Free Software is crucial\r\nfor the privacy cafes just mentioned. Fortunately, our sister\r\norganisation, the FSF, published the e-mail self-defence guide[2] and\r\nvolunteers translated the guide and the infographic in 6 other languages\r\nincluding English, German], Brazilian, Portuguese, French, Russian,\r\nTurkish, and Japanese. This guide explains the installation of the\r\nnecessary programs for e-mail encryption under GNU\/Linux, MacOS, and\r\nMicrosoft Windows as well as the key generation, the web of trust and\r\nthe usage of those programs. All you need is a computer with an Internet\r\nconnection, an email account, and about half an hour. For information\r\nhow you can help to spread information about e-mail self-defence, see\r\nthis edition's "get active" section.\r\n\r\n == What to use instead of WhatsApp and Threema? ==\r\n\r\n"How can I encrypt my e-mail" was one of the most common questions we\r\nreceived in the last months. Thanks to the e-mail self-defence guide we\r\nnow have a good answer. Another questions about encryption and privacy\r\nwe were asked frequently was: "is there a secure and free WhatsApp\r\nalternative?"\r\n\r\nWhatsApp is a messaging program for smartphones that allows you to send\r\n(text) messages free-of-charge. After WhatsApp's recent acquisition by\r\nFacebook and in the face of the NSA revelations, many of the WhatsApp\r\nusers are looking for secure and trustworthy alternatives.\r\n\r\nBecause this effects so many people, we at the Free Software Foundation\r\nEurope would like to be able to promote an alternative that respects\r\nyour freedom and privacy. Therefore we decided to do some research and\r\nto hold a workshop on WhatsApp alternatives during our latest FSFE team\r\nmeeting in Essen. Hannes Hauswedell and Torsten Grote summarised the\r\nresults[3].\r\n\r\n == Something completely different ==\r\n\r\n- Local group activities: FSFE had professional outdoor booths at the\r\n vegan summer festival in Vienna[4], as well as at Corso Leopold in\r\n Munich[5]. At the Free Software meeting in Athens FSFE's our local\r\n group discussed how to build your own home server. Nikos Roussos\r\n documented how to setup a home server with Fedora and Beagle Bone\r\n Black[6]. Our local group in Frankfurt focused on crypto topics[7],\r\n and Hugo Roy, coordinator of local group in Paris, gave a talk at the\r\n local Ubuntu party[8].\r\n\r\n- "Free Software needs a strong community. If we fail to attract\r\n everyone willing to work for Free Software, we\u2019re shooting ourselves\r\n in the foot." wrote Karsten Gerloff in his blog post "Four social\r\n rules for a 'No Asshole Zone'"[9]. Our local group coordinators have a\r\n similar discussion, and started with a code of conduct for FSFE's\r\n discussions[10]. We are interested in your feedback on the pad.\r\n\r\n- The Free Software community now has 33 supporters in the European\r\n Parliament. All of them signed the Free Software pact for the European\r\n elections[11], and we are sure there will be times in which we will\r\n remind them on their promise they have given, and ask them to support\r\n our cause.\r\n\r\n- Our president Karsten Gerloff was delivering a keynote at the European\r\n Christian Internet Conference[12]. Afterwards he was asked by a pastor\r\n to comment on a draft strategy to move the churches in his region\r\n towards Free Software, which Karsten did[13].\r\n\r\n- From 7 to 8 June 2014 Funda\u021bia Ceata, an associated organisation of\r\n FSFE, organised the second Coliberator conference in Bucharest. At the\r\n first edition FSFE president Karsten Gerloff gave the keynote, and at\r\n this edition it was the Richard Stallman, president of FSF. The first\r\n batch of talks are already published on the conference's website[14].\r\n\r\n- Guido Arnold provides the news from Free Software in education - May\r\n 2014[15].\r\n\r\n- Public administration: Joinup reports that the complexity of\r\n proprietary software licences is encouraging the uptake of Free\r\n Software in the Greater London Authority[16], that the Extremadura\r\n health care has switched to Free Software[17], and that the German\r\n city of Leipzig already migrated 2792 of the city's 4300 workstations\r\n to the Free Software office suites Apache OpenOffice and\r\n LibreOffice[18]. They expect "that in the first five years the\r\n anticipated savings will be swallowed by the exit costs associated\r\n with the proprietary software used by the city."\r\n\r\n- From the planet aggregation[19]: \r\n\r\n - More female speakers at the conference and ATMs running GNU\/Linux.\r\n Torsten was giving a talk about Free Your Android at FISL in\r\n Brazil[20]?\r\n\r\n - Under the slogan "your data at the intelligence services" the\r\n German Humanistische Union organised a "blog parade", asking\r\n organisations to participate with a blog post. Erik Albers wrote a\r\n post "Protection against surveillance through encryption with Free\r\n Software" (in German)[21].\r\n\r\n - The Randa Meetings, a collection of sprints that make KDE software\r\n better needs your help for this year's edition. Mario Fux asks\r\n everyone to spread the word, help, donate and\/or support them[22].\r\n\r\n - Hugo Roy lists some "awesome tools" he uses but are little\r\n known[23].\r\n\r\n - Bdale Garbee wrote about TeleGPS, an easy-to-use tracking-only\r\n board providing GPS location[24].\r\n\r\n - Photography: Hannes started to publish a photo of the month[25],\r\n edited with the Free Software Darktable, and Paul Boddie explains\r\n how he was tuning digiKam\u2019s picture previews[26].\r\n\r\n - Bj\u00f6rn Schie\u00dfle describes how to integrate the todo list software\r\n "ToDo.txt" into Claws Mail[27].\r\n\r\n - Former FSFE employee Sam Tuke explains how to backup multiple\r\n e-mail accounts automatically on GNU\/Linux[28].\r\n\r\n == Get active: Spread the e-mail self-defence guide! ==\r\n\r\nThe FSF's e-mail self-defence guide[29] and the corresponding\r\ninfographic[30] is good material to explain e-mail encryption to wider\r\naudience. For some time now FSFE ships Free Software information\r\nmaterials to activists[31]. Beside general information about Free\r\nSoftware, Open Standards, Digital Restriction Management, or F-Droid, we\r\nwould like to distribute the infographic in future.\r\n\r\nBefore we print a larger amount and ship it to our local groups[32] and\r\nother activists around Europe, we would like you to test the\r\ninfographics with friends, family and colleagues. Try to find out if\r\nthey have problems understanding some parts and use our public\r\ndiscussion lists[33], so that we--together with our sister organisation\r\n--can modify them if necessary.\r\n\r\nThanks to all the volunteers[34], Fellows[35] and corporate donors[36]\r\nwho enable our work,\r\nMatthias Kirschner - FSFE\r\n\r\n-- \r\nFree Software Foundation Europe <https:\/\/fsfe.org>\r\nFSFE News <https:\/\/fsfe.org\/news\/news.en.rss>\r\nUpcoming FSFE Events <https:\/\/fsfe.org\/events\/events.en.rss>\r\nFellowship Blog Aggregation <https:\/\/planet.fsfe.org\/en\/rss20.xml>\r\nFree Software Discussions <https:\/\/fsfe.org\/contact\/community.en.html>\r\n\r\n 1. https:\/\/blogs.fsfe.org\/flx\/2014\/07\/01\/workshop-on-privacy-and-free-software\/\r\n 2. https:\/\/emailselfdefense.fsf.org\/\r\n 3. http:\/\/freedom-blog.net\/2014\/06\/what-to-use-instead-of-whatsapp-and-threema\/\r\n 4. https:\/\/blogs.fsfe.org\/franz.gratzer\/2014\/06\/11\/booth-on-the-vegan-summer-festival-in-vienna-2014\/\r\n 5. http:\/\/www.softmetz.de\/2014\/06\/14\/freie-software-offene-standards-und-freie-inhalte-beim-ersten-corso-leopold-2014\/\r\n 6. http:\/\/www.roussos.cc\/2014\/06\/23\/fedora-beaglebone-black\/\r\n 7. https:\/\/blogs.fsfe.org\/guido\/2014\/06\/report-from-fellowship-meeting-in-frankfurt-june-4\/\r\n 8. https:\/\/blogs.fsfe.org\/hugo\/2014\/05\/talk-about-the-fsfe-ubuntu-party-2014\/\r\n 9. https:\/\/blogs.fsfe.org\/gerloff\/2014\/06\/06\/four-social-rules-for-a-no-asshole-zone\/\r\n 10. https:\/\/public.pad.fsfe.org\/p\/CodeOfConduct\r\n 11. https:\/\/fsfe.org\/news\/2014\/news-20140528-01.html\r\n 12. https:\/\/blogs.fsfe.org\/gerloff\/2014\/06\/30\/talking-to-the-church-about-free-software\/\r\n 13. https:\/\/blogs.fsfe.org\/gerloff\/2014\/06\/30\/free-software-in-the-church-from-principles-to-practice\/\r\n 14. http:\/\/coliberator.ro\/\r\n 15. https:\/\/blogs.fsfe.org\/guido\/2014\/06\/free-software-in-education-news-may\/\r\n 16. https:\/\/joinup.ec.europa.eu\/community\/osor\/news\/london-complex-proprietary-licences-encourage-open-source\r\n 17. https:\/\/joinup.ec.europa.eu\/community\/osor\/news\/extremadura-health-care-has-switched-open-source\r\n 18. https:\/\/joinup.ec.europa.eu\/community\/osor\/news\/leipzig-switching-open-source-office-suites\r\n 19. http:\/\/planet.fsfe.org\r\n 20. http:\/\/blog.grobox.de\/2014\/liberte-seu-android-at-fisl15\/\r\n 21. https:\/\/blogs.fsfe.org\/eal\/2014\/06\/20\/verschluesselung-mit-freier-software\/\r\n 22. http:\/\/www.kde.org\/fundraisers\/randameetings2014\/index.php\r\n 23. http:\/\/hroy.eu\/tips\/awesome-tools\/\r\n 24. http:\/\/www.gag.com\/bdale\/blog\/posts\/TeleGPS_v1.0.html\r\n 25. https:\/\/blogs.fsfe.org\/h2\/2014\/07\/01\/photo-of-the-month-2014-07\/\r\n 26. https:\/\/blogs.fsfe.org\/pboddie\/?p=784\r\n 27. http:\/\/blog.schiessle.org\/2014\/06\/10\/combine-claws-mail-with-todo-txt\/\r\n 28. http:\/\/samtuke.com\/2014\/06\/backup-multiple-email-accounts-automatically-on-linux\/\r\n 29. https:\/\/emailselfdefense.fsf.org\/\r\n 30. https:\/\/emailselfdefense.fsf.org\/en\/infographic.html\r\n 31. https:\/\/fsfe.org\/contribute\/spreadtheword.en.html#promo-material\r\n 32. https:\/\/fsfe.org\/about\/localteams.en.html\r\n 33. https:\/\/fsfe.org\/contact\/community.en.html\r\n 34. https:\/\/fsfe.org\/contribute\/contribute.en.html\r\n 35. http:\/\/fellowship.fsfe.org\/join\r\n 36. https:\/\/fsfe.org\/donate\/thankgnus.en.html\r\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n