Last week I travelled from Liverpool to Berlin for three days to step up preparations for Document Freedom Day 2012. I arrived on Tuesday afternoon and went straight to the FSFE offices. Over the next two days I had meetings with other Document Freedom Day organisers, added a new web page, two new features, and fixed several other bugs.… Read the rest
Letter supporting Manchester hackerspace funding application
Sent to the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA)in support of a funding application made by MadLab Manchester Hackerspace.
Dear AGMA,
I am writing in support MadLab in their request for AGMA funding. I have been running Free Software Foundation Europe events at MadLab since January2011, and have made use of their facilities on both a monthly basis for regular community meetings, and also on weekends for special local and national events.… Read the rest
Play CSS encrypted DVDs in Fedora 16
Download and install the following packages in the order shown:
http://dl.atrpms.net/all/libdvdcss2-1.2.11-6.fc16.i686.rpm (Shared libraries for package libdvdcss)
http://dl.atrpms.net/all/libdvdcss-1.2.11-6.fc16.i686.rpm (A portable abstraction library for DVD decryption)
More information about these packages can be found here: http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/f16/libdvdcss/
De l’impact politique d’apprendre aux enfants la libre programmation

This French article is reproduced from Framablog[2], and is a translation of my article “Will teaching children basic programming skills have a political impact?“.
Apprendre les rudiments de la programmation aux enfants aura-t-il un impact politique ?
La BBC m’a envoyé un courrier électronique la semaine dernière pour me demander mon avis sur la rumeur actuelle qui voudrait que le gouvernement britannique ajoute des compétences informatiques de base aux programmes scolaires en mettant l’accent sur un éventuel impact politique que ceci pourrait avoir sur la façon dont la société interagit avec les technologies.… Read the rest
Free Software Android page gets “slashdotted”
At FOSDEM, FSFE’s page about how to free Android devices was officially launched by Torsten Grote, leaflets were handed out, and over the course of the weekend news of this hit hackernews.ws, causing a ‘slashdot’ effect resulting in 12,00+ hits. Great going in such a short time, and goes to show what an impact sharing your knowledge on the fsfe wiki can have!… Read the rest