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FOSDEM’13: Community development and legal issues devroom
Hello! I am at the FOSDEM, the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting, in Brussels. The flight here last night from Berlin was delayed, so I missed the pre-party. Instead I bumped...
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Fan-taz-tic: Document Freedom Germany Award goes to TAZ
taz café at Rudi-Dutschke-StrasseToday is the international Document Freedom Day. There are always local actors that serve as good examples for respecting document freedom and enabling users to...
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KDE e.V. General Assembly 2013
tl;dr: If you are a committed KDE contributor and not a KDE e.V. member, you are doing it wrong. If you are a KDE user, consider helping the KDE User Working Group. Read KDE e.V.’s quarterly reports....
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KDE Community Working Group is looking for a new member
The KDE Community Working Group is crucial to KDE’s open and inviting culture. It’s mission is to maintain an environment in which contributors feel welcome and get their work done comfortably. The...
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KDE rejects Fairsearch initiative claims: Free Software is competitive
The Fairsearch initiative is a Microsoft-led consortium that aims at activating European policy makers to indirectly achieve a competitive advantage against Google’s dominance as a search engine. Its...
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“Open Source in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft” an der Sommeruni 2013 des...
Jedes Jahr wieder findet die Sommeruni des evangelischen Studienwerks statt. In diesem Jahr mit dabei war das Seminar “Open Source in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft” von Mirko Boehm. Paul Adams...
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FLOSS in the Cloud: EOLE, Brussels, Dec 6
Happy Saint Nicholas day everybody! What better purpose could the day be used for to than to travel to Brussels through a storm, and attend the 2013 incarnation of EOLE, the “European Open Source &...
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KDE Frameworks 5 Tech Preview released, with updated ThreadWeaver
Today, the KDE Community released a tech preview of the upcoming KDE 5 Frameworks, the new, modularised incarnation of what was previously distributed simply as the KDE libraries. The new frameworks...
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Defensive Publications: Shedding Light on Innovation
The patent system is broken. The point of patents is to encourage innovation and inventiveness. Instead of promoting innovation, patent offices have awarded overly broad, vague, and unoriginal patents...
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KDE Frameworks Book Sprint at the Randa Meeting 2014
A couple of weeks before the KDE Randa Meeting of 2014, the meeting’s organizer Mario Fux suggested to have a book sprint to help developers adopt the newly released KDE 5 Frameworks. In the Open...
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How to contribute to the KDE Frameworks Cookbook
The annual KDE Randa Meeting, in itself already shock-ful of awesome, this year hosted the KDE Frameworks Cookbook sprint. Valorie, Cornelius and I already wrote a lot about it. Plenty of attention...
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The KDE Randa 2014 meeting, in easy-digestible video format!
In case you were wondering what was going on in Randa, here are some first hand impressions. The video was produced by Françoise Wybrecht (alias Morgane Marquis) and Lucie Robin, and the people in it...
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KDE Akademy 2014 – Welcome, new KDE board!
Akademy 2014 is still in full swing in Brno in the Czech Republic with the traditional hack week that started on Monday. At about 200 participants it was well attended and organized. This years...
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Birthday party at Endocode in Berlin: 30 years Free Software Foundation
On 3 October 2015 Free Software Foundation Europe invites you for the 30th birthday party of the Free Software Foundation. While the main event will take place in Boston/USA, there will be several...
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Round tables: “Open Source and Software Patent Non-Aggression, European...
Successful collaboration, Open Source license compliance and innovation management go hand-in-hand for large and small innovators. FSFE and Open Invention Network, with the participation of the Legal...
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How to campaign for the cause of software freedom
Super secret conspiracy workshop. Free Software communities produce tons of great software. This software drives innovation and enables everybody to access and use computers, whether or not they can...
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EU-FOSSA needs your help – A free software community call to action
The EU-FOSSA project’s mission is to “offer a systematic approach for the EU institutions to ensure that widely used critical software can be trusted”. The project was triggered by recent software...
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