Report on APRIL - FSF France - MTIC meeting (in french)
25 May 2001. Here is a report of the meeting of 22/05/2001 at the Mission interministérielle de soutien technique pour le développement des technologies de l'information et de la communication dans l'administration (MTIC - French government agency about ICT development) between reprensatatives of MTIC, APRIL and FSF France. |
FSF France activity report
24 May 2001. The FSF Europe presence in France started its activity on April 12, a little more than a month ago. We worked hard to launch the core activities that will allow us to implement the goals of the FSF and the FSF Europe : provide Free Software for everything and everyone and protect its existence when it is threatened. |
Loïc Dachary's interview on NewsForge
23 May 2001. Loïc Dachary, FSF Europe's vice-president was interviewed by Julie Bresnick for NewsForge. This interview details Loïc's resume as well as explaining the reasons of his involvement in the Free Software movement. |
Free Software leaders stand together
18 May 2001. The most prominent evangelists of the Free Software sign an open letter in response to the recent attacks of Microsoft against Free Software. An indisputable unanimity against Microsoft's practices, that reaffirms the importance of Freedom as a federating value of the Free Software movement and the Open Source movement. |
Benjamin Drieu about de french translation of the GNU GPL (french)
17 May 2001. In the interview, Benjamin Drieu gives us an update on the process of translating and adapting the GNU GPL license to french law. The project started on request of Richard M. Stallman who gave its responsability to Mélanie Clément-Fontaine. The FSF France provides its assistance under coordination of Frédéric Couchet. |
Libre et Vie Locale
16 May 2001. APRIL and FSF Europe have a booth at the conference Freedom and regional life. Development, usage, legal protection of Free Software are actively discussed. Loïc Dachary gives his side of the story for the first day of the conference. |
Brave GNU World issue #27
15 May 2001. The latest issue of Georg's Brave Gnu world is out. This month's items : The "GNU/Linux TerminalServer for Schools"-Project which tries to provide an easy means for the installation and administration of a GNU/Linux based terminal server; GNU HaliFAX, which has the goal to create a complete and comfortable fax environment in the GNU Project; the "GOSSIP Simulation Environment", a simulation environment for use in communications engineering and digital signal processing; Jude, a toolkit or framework for application development that allows the implementation of solutions for the "Data-Management" and "Workgroup Application" areas while being simple to use for users and developers at the same time; and finaly HyperBuilder, a tool to manage big static web sites with more than 100 pages. Read the article. |
Meeting with Technopole Logiciel Libre
10 May 2001. One hundred kilometers from Paris a technopole unlike any other is created : it is dedicated to Free Software. Frédéric Couchet and Loïc Dachary went to Soisson to establish a first contact between the technopole and the Free Software Foundation Europe. |
Free Software Foundation Europe aiming for more coordination between Free Software Developers. (PR. FSF Europe)
7 May 2001. Free Software Foundation Europe aiming for more coordination between Free Software Developers. On May 6th 2001, the first general assembly of the Free Software Foundation Europe took place at the Villa Vogelsang in Essen, Germany. It was the first meeting of the members of the recently founded sister organisation of the FSF (Boston,USA). Representatives from France, Germany and Sweden agreed on future areas of engagement for the FSFE. See also photos by Olivier Berger and photos by Peter Gerwinski. |
The (french only) guide Unix + network goes to GFDL
6 May 2001. At the very time of the first general assembly of the Free Software Foundation Europe in Essen (Germany), the french guide "Short information about the Unix system and computer networks" (in french "Courte information sur le système Unix et les réseaux téléinformatiques") by Marc Schaefer goes to GNU Free Documentation License. The decision was made on the IRC channel #fsfeurope (openprojects.net) after a discussion between Marc Schaefer and a french member of the FSF Europe who was present in Essen (Note: for the moment, only the LaTeX source of the document was updated). Now the guide is under GNU FDL, come a good time to make updates to it; Marc awaits your comments. |
The GNU General Public License Protects Software Freedoms (PR. FSF USA)
4 May 2001. The GNU General Public License Protects Software Freedoms. Richard M. Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, and Professor Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free Software Foundation, issued statements addressing points raised in remarks by Craig Mundie of Microsoft. Stallman and Moglen focused on the importance of freedom for software users and programmers, how the GPL protects those freedoms, and Microsoft's attempt to cast such freedoms in an unfavorable light. |
They know their freedom
4 May 2001. During the First Thursday, 23 persons accurately enumerated the four fundamental freedom of Free Software. The FSF France officialy thank them now and forever. Join them and become a part of the family. |
Savannah Machine
1 May 2001. The new machine for Savannah arrived today in the FSF office in Boston. Financed by donations relayed by FSF France it will allow to open the service to all Free Software projects. |
Donations to FSF
30 April 2001. Donators who contributed to the FSF thru the FSF France now have their page. Donations are used by the FSF Europe or the FSF to advance the GNU project or protect the Free Software movement worldwide. Around 45 000 FF were recieved during the month of April. |
News syndication
27 April 2001. The news published by FSF France are now integrated in SomeNews They are therefore displayed on all the web sites using this plugin. |