http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/6016 <pre>Goverment Open Standards consultation has just gone live. This is important stuff http://consultation.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/openstandards/ Please respond </pre> Glyn Wintle 2012-02-10T11:47:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/6013 <pre>Want to help fight UK software patents? Please take a few moments to comment on these patents. https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/peertopatentuk If there is some thing that prevents you from commenting, please point it out here. </pre> Glyn Wintle 2011-09-20T15:13:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/6011 <pre>Lucky the figures were provided in CSV format! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14765545 Can Whitehall open up to open source? What's Whitehall's attitude to software procurement? A cynic might sum it up as "nobody ever got sacked for buying Microsoft". The current government has vowed to change the civil service mindset that has always preferred to spend money with the biggest firms and has been conservative about open source software. The Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has vowed to create a level playing field for open source as part of a drive to cut costs. Now a BBC Freedom of Information (FOI) request has given us a glimpse of how big the challenge will be. We asked government departments for details of how much they had spent on proprietary software over the past year, and how much open source software they had acquired. The responses have been dribbling in for months now (available as a Google doc, an Excel spreadsheet or as separate .csv files below), and they've varied from det</pre> Jon Grant 2011-09-07T11:35:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/6010 <pre>The EU is consulting on cloud computing until 31 August at http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=cloudcomputing&amp;lang=en Cloud computing could be a great opportunity for free software, with potential for more users to take control of their computing infrastructure; but it could also be a great threat, which may make users even more vulnerable to proprietary lock-in at either server or service level. Have you answered this consultation? If so, anything you'd like to point out to other free software supporters before we undermine you? ;) Thanks, </pre> MJ Ray 2011-08-25T18:07:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/6009 <pre>Hi, I noticed that you had a stand at Oggcamp last week. On 24th-25th September we have PyCon UK 2011, in Coventry. website : http://pyconuk.org wiki: http://pyconuk.net Maybe fsfe-uk would like to come and have a stand, even better give a Talk. PyCon UK is being run on an Unconference basis this year, so please add a talk to the Talks page if you wish, you just need to create a login first - follow the 'Create an Account' link on the wiki home page. Best wishes, John -- </pre> John Pinner 2011-08-21T13:15:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5991 <pre>Already sent to other lists, but in case you missed it: _19.00, Wednesday 30th March, Friends Meeting House Manchester_ This Wednesday is Document Freedom Day - a global celebration of Open Standards and document liberation (http://documentfreedom.org). I shall give a talk at 19.00 entitled Preserving culture &amp; knowledge with Open Standards, describing the relationship between the three and examining threats to our cultural future. There will be a question and answer session at the end, and probably some drinks too. I hope to see Free Software, Open Data and of course Open Standards enthusiasts in the audience! The location is right next to Manchester Central Library. More info here: http://www.quakertrading.co.uk/central-manchester/getting-here Unfortunately I had trouble booking a venue which explains the short notice. Best Wishes, Sam. </pre> Sam Tuke 2011-03-29T13:56:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5987 <pre>Gov survey in open standards, please respond http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/UKGovOpenStandards </pre> Glyn Wintle 2011-03-08T15:14:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5981 <pre>http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreview/ipreview-c4e/ipreview-c4e-paper.htm "The Government has asked Professor Ian Hargreaves to lead a short review of the Intellectual Property (IP) framework (law and practice) to consider how it might be changed in the interest of promoting innovation and economic growth. The Review will take into account the conclusions and evidence provided to previous reviews in this area, but we invite fresh evidence on the extent to which the current IP system successfully promotes innovation and growth and how it could do so more effectively." "[...] the Review seeks economic data and related evidence which are methodologically sound, robust and clearly sourced. Responses relying on empirical data should clearly identify the methodology used and any critical assumptions relied upon, identify the source(s) of the data, and provide a copy of or a citation to each such source. At the same time, the Review welcomes evidence in the for</pre> MJ Ray 2011-02-21T12:26:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5969 <pre>Hello Everyone I have been trying to get a refund for the un-used/un-registered Windows7 which came with my Acer laptop. The retailer indicates only AcerUK can refund. Purchased on 6 Jan, I've been communicating about refund since mid Jan. Unfortunately AcerUK will only refund their cost (they said approx €30) if: A) I post the laptop to Plymouth at my expense. B) They wipe the HDD themselves (well.. already has Ubuntu on it now as it was wiped by me). I kept a few photos and records as I went, AcerUK indicate that is insufficient. If anyone has any suggestions, or examples how it has been achieved in the UK before I would love to hear. I found this old case, but was purchased direct from Dell: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6144782.stm Best regards, Jon </pre> Jon Grant 2011-02-08T22:42:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5967 <pre> Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an excellent annual opportunity to promote the Free Software philosophy. SFD is not widely known about in the UK, even among Free Software advocates! This needs to change. FFSUK is pushing to get events in all areas of the UK and to assist events in organising. SFD2011 is on Saturday, 17th September 2011. Current likely SFD2011 event locations in the UK: * Dundee o No 2011 page yet * Newcastle o No 2011 page yet * Manchester o No 2011 page yet * Herefordshire o No 2011 page yet * Devon o No 2011 page yet * London o No 2011 page yet If there are any locations in the UK that are going to run a SFD2011 event then please let us know at iwanttohelp at ffsuk dot org dot uk. FFSUK will focus on helping to start events in the following areas: * Northern Ireland * Yorkshire and the Humber * Wales * East Midlands * East of England * London If you would like to help with start</pre> Michael Dorrington 2011-02-03T09:34:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5966 <pre> Richard Stallman, aka rms, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), GNU's Not Unix (GNU) and the Free Software Movement is doing a speaking tour of Great Britain (unfortunately, Northern Ireland is not included in the tour) at the beginning of March 2011. FFSUK recommends attendance. The individual events are being organised by local IET &lt;http://www.theiet.org/&gt; committees and *registration is required*. FFSUK will be present at all the events. If you would like to chat with us before or after an event then please let us know at iwanttohelp at ffsuk dot org dot uk. Locations with dates: * Cambridge on Tuesday, 1st March 2011 Registration open. Cambridge event details and registration: http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/east/cambridge/free-software.cfm * Preston on Wednesday, 2nd March 2011 Registration open. Preston event details and registration: http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/northwest/lancs-cumbria/freedigitalsocietyMarch2011.cfm * Dundee on Thursday, 3rd March 2011 Venue to be confirmed. * Shef</pre> Michael Dorrington 2011-02-03T09:29:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5960 <pre>Hi all, Am looking for some where to buy a new netbook/notebook for use with GNU+Linux (current dev machine, Compaq 702EA intel atom is on last legs) Found only two shops doing sans-microsoft laptops, linux emporium, and novatech. All of those on offer are pretty heavy, or netbooks from old gen intel atom with only 1GB RAM etc. Looking around, my current short list from regular retailers is: Samsung X125 11 inch Asus Eee PC 1215N 12 inch Asus Eee PC 1201N 12 inch HP Pavilion dv2-1127ea 12 inch Reading online sounds like Asus don't bother supporting linux kernel drivers anymore, so i may avoid them. Anyone have any tips!? Please reply ASAP if comments, as VAT is going up so I only have 22 hours left to order! Cheers, Jon </pre> Jon Grant 2011-01-03T02:26:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5958 <pre>Some of you may have seen the recent blog post http://blogs.fsfe.org/maelle/?p=60 about those government websites which link to Adobe's PDF reader which is also discussed at http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.europe.discussion/3597 I'm pretty sure that links are advertising. Lots of businesses would love an main-body link from .gov.uk and would probably pay for them. Heck, I get approaches offering to buy links on much less attractive sites that the co-op maintaines. However, does anyone know the law about advertising on ukgov websites? Are those adverts legal in the UK? Thanks for any info, </pre> MJ Ray 2010-10-07T09:09:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5956 <pre>Is anyone available and interested to do some GTK and Graphics programming for a project my company is going for? The work would be done on a full-time basis in London. We don't have anyone available currently so thought I would ask here. I realise this isn't a recruitment list, but thought I would try asking as it is GTK + Graphics programming work! While the APIs are GTK, and would be working on a GNU+Linux environment, the end product won't be GPL. So would need to be happy working on that basis. My company is well established, and well funded, so there would not be any problems getting paid promptly on time every month! Give me a quick email off list if anyone is interested in this. Best regards, Jon </pre> Jon Grant 2010-09-28T19:45:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5955 <pre>"UK Gov IT chief backs open source, small business" The UK government’s deputy Chief Information Officer has outlined plans to hand public sector IT contracts over to small businesses and suppliers of open-source and cloud-based solutions in an attempt to balance the books. http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/9/22/uk-gov-it-chief-backs-open-source-small-business/ </pre> Jon Grant 2010-09-23T22:27:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5939 <pre>_______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list Fsfe-uk&lt; at &gt;gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk </pre> Sam Tuke 2010-09-13T14:59:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5938 <pre>_______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list Fsfe-uk&lt; at &gt;gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk </pre> Michael Dorrington 2010-09-04T10:45:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5935 <pre>Thanks to Andrew who drew my attention to the message from Jon Grant re the OSS Watch newsletter. We've fixed the dodgy email link (ooops), it should be info &lt;at&gt; oss-watch.ac.uk Since Jon has never heard of us I imagine others here are in the same position. So I thought I'd introduce us. We are an advisory service to the UK Higher and Further education sector on all things Free and Open Source. That is we advise on legal issues, procurement and software development. For more information see http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/about/ Our relationship with FSFE and FSFE-UK is not as strong as it could be. Last year we updated our advisory committee and invited Phil Hands to represent the Free Software point of view. My understanding that Phil is a member of FSFE-UK. Unfortunately Phil has been unable to participate in any of our three advisory meetings to date. For more information about our advisory committee see http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/advisory/membership.xml I'm now subscribed to this list and I </pre> Ross Gardler 2010-08-16T15:07:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5933 <pre>People may be interested in this.. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: OSS Watch's August newsletter published Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:34:03 +0100 From: Elena Blanco &lt;elena.blanco&lt; at &gt;OUCS.OX.AC.UK&gt; Reply-To: Elena Blanco &lt;elena.blanco&lt; at &gt;OUCS.OX.AC.UK&gt; To: OSSWATCH-ANNOUNCE&lt; at &gt;JISCMAIL.AC.UK We are pleased to say that OSS Watch's August newsletter has been published at http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/newsletters/august2010.pdf As you know we are here to help you so why not put us to work? This month's featured article comes from Steve Lee who explains how to engage OSS Watch in support of your project bid. The full version of Steve's article, available on the OSS Watch website, also includes a checklist designed to be used as you work on your bid. In his blog piece Sander van der Waal talks about how OSS Watch has helped the Wookie project sustain itself beyond its initial funding period. To round us off Rowan Wilson brings us a chilling tale about what happens when the debates around software licensing </pre> Tim Dobson 2010-08-10T13:32:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5924 <pre>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Can open source be secure? http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.36428 And have a read of the comments on it. Cheers, Mike. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMUp26AAoJENdybD6q+OPvF4EQALNyNLb0F0kZm0+T8rDi+OsC d6kSoeTLM9V2qbXhqPQjUnsZDpMQPMnTuqy53tdyF3cH4LHNMj7BYcrhLFsXsk5S 2x+GJlP7Sib1j1yz20ZhCkHdJL0VJCntmFkEju4gmw6Nljs/v7i7dzVXe6NbxGtu 0vuOxkXXoCiqHJW0qXojnWatz3hI5+t/v7AmlMMNWBs42O0cYcpHR0noCUZr0BSS tXzdagKHXmBcFD2YdF4qA/eW+Z84/YHey0r8XSpIqcUf670BXPE4ytikpMjaWPYN 1unstaMCsC7M45WTh9Hhj3g+iszGQwUT+hJUXVoZi7gEzfIaCyovRp+DMjmVqt8H x7PQ1PagIWAL00/LKv4l2+EY0hZW7SKUVTQg5yykHIUkvtvrxU5ZAglST3bjYIR4 pm93DxS29pDfBubuN7xxys7mBvGvHSZ0Dm4/5TFTn50D+e+HylRKepkChY3nMK5h 4Bi8sgGgdabgt/M/V+dB+i7/0U6a+O5y3zWcHoiuzOevnsU3N8GtVm1OZ/je4D3y RC30yT51zc8B/lwp7PDsrthQMlDvj7g72N0Jhpdm2MdFPRIKY+EI2g5IxxElagck c4tmzJBhsD9sx7vnXjboHGJsD3Uv7NU6QLoqc17mfsiSQPie5uOyvss+HxBWXd</pre> Michael Dorrington 2010-07-30T09:39:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.fsf.uk/5922 <pre>(Please forward this email to anyone you think it might interest) This email is Manchester specific, but Young Rewired State is happening across the UK. :) - What is Young Rewired State? Young Rewired State (YRS) is a initiative that aims to support young developers and coders in using public data to build apps, websites and anything else that people may use. It is about mashing up and getting out there with data people may not have seen or experienced before. - Who can take part? Anyone aged between 15-18. - When is it? YRS will take place *next week* between Monday 2nd August and Friday 6th August 2010 - Where is it taking place? YRS is taking place at centres across the country - there are centres in Brighton, London, Norwich, Oxford, Birmingham and Manchester. In Manchester we will be based at the MadLab - a space well-known for digital collaboration in the city centre. - What will happen? We will meet on the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the MadLab and work together on ideas and devel</pre> Tim Dobson 2010-07-28T00:01:48 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.fsf.uk