Free Program Launched to Encourage Women to Code

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Free Program Launched to Encourage Women to Code
V3.co.uk
(11/27/12) Rosalie Marshall

Entrepreneur First will offer a free program next summer in the United Kingdom that will teach women how to code. The goal of the program, Code First: Girls, is to get female graduates to think more about becoming tech entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur First is a nonprofit organization that assists U.K. graduates in launching tech startups. About 30 women will participate in the first course, receiving four hours tuition a week, including in-person lectures and tutorials. They will be assigned a female mentor from the industry who will provide support and guidance. The nonprofit says it decided to launch the program because its Entrepreneur First initiative has attracted only a few female participants. "We have met women on campuses and often one of the things holding them back from starting up a business is a lack of tech skills," says Entrepreneur First's Alice Bentinck. "We want to show women that even if they graduate with an arts subject, they can still pick up coding fairly easily."

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For immediate release: Free Software Foundation encourages shoppers to 'Give Freely' with new Giving Guide

Free Software Foundation encourages shoppers to 'Give Freely' with new Giving Guide

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, November 28, 2012 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its 2012 Giving Guide, a resource for people looking for ethical electronics gifts this holiday season. The 2012 Giving Guide, which can be found at http://www.fsf.org/givingguide, can be used to find great presents that also protect the recipient's freedoms as a technology user.

Many common electronics now ship with proprietary software that intentionally cripples what the device can do. This technique allows companies to do things like force people to use particular software on their devices or track the applications users download. It even allows purveyors of digital ebooks, music, and movies sold with Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) to remotely block or delete digital purchases without warning or explanation. The 2012 Giving Guide explains the ways in which these gifts are "Defective by Design" and provides givers with better alternatives.

"We created the Giving Guide to inspire people to consider ethical technology gifts this season, just as one might shop for environmentally friendly or locally made gifts for their loved ones. We're featuring laptops that come with fully free operating systems, ebooks that can be shared unfettered by DRM, and even a 3D printer that has been 'Respects your Freedom' certified by the FSF," said Zak Rogoff, campaigns manager for the Free Software Foundation.

"The most responsible gift this season might be a donation in honor of your loved one to a charity that is working to restore the freedoms that Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Sony, and others have been trampling on. For some devices, like tablets and ebook readers, the reason there aren't good options right now is that these companies are employing software patents, DRM, and other dirty tricks to prevent free replacements from emerging. The Giving Guide recommends some great charities working toward a better future," said FSF executive director John Sullivan.

The FSF plans to continue expanding and updating the Guide throughout the holiday shopping season.

About the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at http://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.

About Free Software and Open Source

The free software movement's goal is freedom for computer users. Some, especially corporations, advocate a different viewpoint, known as "open source," which cites only practical goals such as making software powerful and reliable, focuses on development models, and avoids discussion of ethics and freedom. These two viewpoints are different at the deepest level. For more explanation, see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html.

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Give freely this Cyber Monday

Dear Free Software Supporters,

On Black Friday, hoards of Americans battled their way into big box stores in search of the newest gadgets to bestow upon their loved ones.

Most of these "gifts" are trojan horses that will spy on their recipients, prevent them from doing what they want with their device, or maybe even block access to their favorite books or music.

The Free Software Foundation is proud to introduce the antidote: our 2012 Giving Guide. The Giving Guide features gifts that will not only make your recipients jump for joy, these gifts will also protect their user freedom.

You can give copies of the Giving Guide to friends and family to encourage them to get you gifts that respect your freedom. And as you do your own holiday shopping, think about giving the gift of free software, and the hardware that supports it, to your loved ones.

Here are some of the gift ideas based on the Giving Guide:

• Help your mom, dad, brother or sister upgrade to a laptop that comes preinstalled with GNU/Linux.
• Get yourself a Lulzbot AO-100 3D printer and make 3D-printed stocking stuffers for the whole family.
• Give a membership to the Free Software Foundation, or make a donation on behalf of a friend to another worthy organization, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation or Creative Commons.

So take a look at the 2012 Giving Guide for some great, ethical gift ideas, and make sure everyone you care about sees it too. Please share the Giving Guide with your networks on identi.ca and other social media sites you use, using the hashtag #givefreely.

Thanks for helping us give the gift of free software this holiday season.

Happy Hacking,

Zak, Libby, and the rest of the FSF team

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Internet Freedom Remains U.S. Priority at U.N. Conference

IDG News Service (11/18/12) Grant Gross

The U.S. delegation to the U.N. International Telecommunication Union's (ITU's) upcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) will advocate for free speech online and oppose any broad new Internet regulations, says delegation head Terry Kramer.  The delegation is worried that some nations will lobby for telecom-style termination fees for Web traffic in order to raise funds for broadband implementation, while some countries might call for Internet censorship for cybersecurity reasons.  Kramer says the United States will oppose any attempt to impose online regulation.  Meanwhile, ITU's Gary Fowlie says the WCIT's regulations should be extended to support a "global information society."  Fowlie also says WCIT should investigate ways to ensure universal Internet affordability and accessibility.  However, he notes that Internet censorship efforts would run afoul of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which upholds freedom of expression "through any media and regardless of frontiers."  Syracuse University professor Milton Mueller advocates ITU jettisoning international telecom regulations, with such rules best left to private companies and civil society.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2014714/internet-freedom-remains-us-priority-at-un-conference.html

Scientists Find Cheaper Way to Ensure Internet Security

New York Times (11/20/12) John Markoff

Scientists at Toshiba and Cambridge University have used an advanced photodetector to extract weak photons from the torrents of light pulses carried by fiber-optic cables, in a technique that offers a less expensive way to ensure the security of the Internet.  Based on quantum physics, the approach would make it possible to safely distribute secret keys necessary to scramble data over distances up to 56 miles.  Although several quantum key distribution systems are commercially available, they rely on the need to transmit the quantum key separately from communication data, often in a separate optical fiber, which adds cost and complexity, says Toshiba Research Europe's Andrew J. Shields.  Weaving quantum information into conventional networking data will lower the cost and simplify coding and decoding data.  The system developed by Toshiba and Cambridge sends the quantum information over the same fiber, but isolates it in its own frequency.  "We can pick out the quantum photons from the scattered light using their expected arrival time at the detector," Shields says.  "The quantum signals hit the detector at precisely known times--every one nanosecond, while the arrival time of the scattered light is random."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/technology/fiber-optic-breakthrough-to-improve-internet-security-cheaply.html

Ten things Linux and open source have to be thankful for | TechRepublic

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Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market

"Gartner's released a report on worldwide numbers of 2012 3Q phone sales and the staggering results posted from Android have caused people like IW's Eric Zeman to call for sanity. Keep in mind these are worldwide numbers, which might be less surprising when you realize that the biggest growth market of them all is China, which is more than 90% Android. It's time to face the facts and realize that Android now owns 73% of the worldwide smartphone market. While developers bicker over which platform is best for development and earnings, the people of the world may be making the choice based on just how inexpensive an Android smartphone can be. This same time last year, Gartner reported Android at 52.5% of market share and it now sits at 72.4% market share with over 122 million units sold worldwide."

how to disable dnsmasq in ubuntu

Dnsmasq is a lightweight server designed to provide DNS (and optionally DHCP and TFTP) services to a small-scale network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines with DHCP-allocated addresses to appear in the DNS with names configured either in each host or in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq supports static and dynamic DHCP leases and BOOTP for network booting of diskless machines.

The developers of dnsmasq targeted home networks using NAT and connected to the internet via a modem, cable-modem or ADSL connection. But the system would function well in any small network where low resource-use and ease of configuration are important.


In ubuntu >12.04 dnsmasq is now running by default due to being hard coded into network manager.

Using dnsmasq as local resolver by default on desktop installations

That’s the second big change of this release. On a desktop install, your DNS server is going to be “127.0.0.1? which points to a NetworkManager-managed dnsmasq server.

This was done to better support split DNS for VPN users and to better handle DNS failures and fallbacks. This dnsmasq server isn’t a caching server for security reason to avoid risks related to local cache poisoning and users eavesdropping on other’s DNS queries on a multi-user system.

The big advantage is that if you connect to a VPN, instead of having all your DNS traffic be routed through the VPN like in the past, you’ll instead only send DNS queries related to the subnet and domains announced by that VPN. This is especially interesting for high latency VPN links where everything would be slowed down in the past.

As for dealing with DNS failures, dnsmasq often sends the DNS queries to more than one DNS servers (if you received multiple when establishing your connection) and will detect bogus/dead ones and simply ignore them until they start returning sensible information again. This is to compare against the libc’s way of doing DNS resolving where the state of the DNS servers can’t be saved (as it’s just a library) and so every single application has to go through the same, trying the first DNS, waiting for it to timeout, using the next one.

If you don’t want a local resolver you can turn it off DNSMASQ using the following procedure

You need to edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf file

gksudo gedit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

and comment out the following line from

dns=dnsmasq

to

#dns=dnsmasq

Save and exit the file

Now you need to network-manager using the following command

sudo restart network-manager

Source from here

Hurry! Nominate your free software heroes by Thursday!

Dear Free Software Supporters,

This Thursday is the deadline to nominate someone for the 15th annual Free Software Awards. The Free Software Awards recognize people and projects who have advanced free software and used it to benefit humanity.

Each year, the Free Software Foundation carefully reviews nominations submitted by you, our supporters. There are so many dedicated people and inspiring projects to choose from, but we need you to nominate them. So please, in this week before Thanksgiving, take a few minutes to nominate the people and projects for which you are most thankful for the Free Software Awards.

Nominations are due on November 15th--that's this Thursday. To nominate an individual for the Award for the Advancement of Free Software or a project for the Award for Projects of Social Benefit, send your nomination along with a description of the project or individual to award-nominations@gnu.org.

Your nominations will be reviewed by our awards committee and the winners will be announced at LibrePlanet 2013.

So check out our submission guidelines and get those nominations in to award-nominations@gnu.org by November 15th.

Thanks,
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Free Software Supporter -- Issue 55, October 2012

Free Software Supporter

Issue 55, October 2012

Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update -- being read by you and 63,183 other activists. That's 1,414 more than last month!

View this issue online here:

• http://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2012/october

El Free Software Supporter estará disponible en castellano a partir de mañana (1ro de noviembre). Para ver la versión en castellano haz click aqui:

• http://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2012/octubre-espanol

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Free Software Supporter available in Spanish!
• GNUs trick-or-treat at Windows 8 launch
• Nominate your free software heroes
• Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
• GNU MediaGoblin offers what you've been missing in an Internet media-sharing system
• Jeremy Allison on why Samba switched to GPLv3
• Your right to own, under threat
• Update on the effort to defeat Restricted Boot
• Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
• Copyright Office fails to protect users from DMCA
• Summer 2012 trip to Europe: Photos from InterTice, in Marly-le-Roi
• LulzBot AO-100 3D printer now FSF-certified to respect your freedom
• LibrePlanet featured resource: Windows 8 Group
• GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 13 new GNU releases!
• GNU Toolchain update
• Richard Stallman's speaking schedule
• Thank GNUs!
• Take action with the FSF

Free Software Supporter available in Spanish!

From October 31st

Starting tomorrow (November 1st), Spanish speakers will be able read our monthly e-mail newsletter in their native language.

• http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-supporter-now-available-in-spanish

GNUs trick-or-treat at Windows 8 launch

From October 26

Last Thursday, the Free Software Foundation crashed the Windows 8 launch event in New York City. A cheerful GNU and her team handed out DVDs loaded with Trisquel, FSF stickers, and information about our new pledge, which asks Windows users to upgrade not to Windows 8, but to GNU/Linux.

• http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnus-trick-or-treat-at-windows-8-launch

Sign the pledge!

• http://www.fsf.org/windows8

Our press release for the action:

• http://www.fsf.org/news/activists-trick-or-treat-for-free-software-at-windows-8-launch-event-1

French version of the press release:

• http://www.fsf.org/fr/des-activistes-du-logiciel-libre-transforment-le-gala-de-lancement-de-windows-8-en-soiree-halloween

Nominate your free software heroes

From October 18th

The nomination window for the 15th annual Free Software Awards is open. Now is your chance to show some love for your favorite free software hero or an inspiring project that uses free software or free software principles to benefit humanity. November 15th is the deadline for nominations, so don't wait!

• http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/nominate-your-free-software-heroes

Our press release for the Free Software Awards is here:

• http://www.fsf.org/news/the-free-software-foundation-opens-nominations-for-the-15th-annual-free-software-awards

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

From October 16th

October 16th is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate women's contributions to science and technology.

Last year, FSF executive director John Sullivan wrote, "these stories are an important way to simultaneously highlight both the under-representation of women in these fields and — based on the achievements of women who are in these fields — the potential we could realize if barriers to participation can be named and removed." This year, FSF campaigns manager Libby Reinish takes this thought and builds on it.

• http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/happy-ada-lovelace-day

Apropos of this, Deb Nicholson, an organizer of the FSF's Women's Caucus, is quoted in a recent article on sexism in free software:

• http://ur1.ca/amp7b

GNU MediaGoblin offers what you've been missing in an Internet media-sharing system

From October 11th

Today the Free Software Foundation is proud and excited to assist the GNU MediaGoblin project in its fundraising effort. MediaGoblin's volunteer team is working on a next-generation social web system where users will share their experiences through photos, videos and audio, all without running proprietary software. This project is ambitious, not just because it will support multiple media types, but also because it will use a special new network system called federation, which unifies a group of separately-owned servers into a single interface for the user. This means that anyone wishing to start a MediaGoblin server will be able to do so, optionally customizing the code to their needs and offering unique options to users.

We'd also like to mention that right now all contributions to MediaGoblin are being doubled!

• http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-mediagoblin-offers-what-youve-been-missing-in-an-internet-media-sharing-system

Our press release for the fundraiser is here:

• http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-rallies-support-for-gnu-mediagoblin-to-make-media-publishing-free-as-in-freedom

Also check out MediaGoblin's beautiful intro video on this page:

• http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html

See pictures of the team and read about some of their design considerations:

• http://mediagoblin.org/news/fsws-2012-wrap-up.html

Jeremy Allison on why Samba switched to GPLv3

From October 31st

This is the second installment of our Licensing and Compliance Lab's series on free software developers who choose GNU licenses for their works.

• http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/jeremy-allison-on-why-samba-switched-to-gplv3

Your right to own, under threat

From October 28th

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments today in a case called Kirtsaeng v. Wiley, and their final decision could help shape the future of "first sale," a legal doctrine that underpins the right to sell, lend, or give away the things you buy, even if those things contain copyrighted elements.

• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/your-right-own-under-threat

Check out our blog post on the case:

• http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/play-it-again-sam-but-only-if-you-pay-for-it-again

Update on the effort to defeat Restricted Boot

From October 31st

Ubuntu has decided to stick with GRUB 2 after all; 48 organizations and over 37,000 people have signed the statement opposing Restricted Boot, but Microsoft's new tablet is hitting stores.

• http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/update-on-the-effort-to-defeat-restricted-boot

Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory

From October 30th

Tens of thousands of people visit directory.fsf.org each month to discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions, to providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info that has been carefully checked by FSF staff and trained volunteers.

While the Free Software Directory has been and continues to be a great resource to the world over the past decade, it has the potential of being a resource of even greater value. But it needs your help staying up to date with new and exciting free software projects.

To help, join volunteer leader Andrew Engelbrecht on Fridays from 2pm to 5pm EDT (18:00 to 21:00 UTC). Meetings take place in the #fsf channel on irc.gnu.org, and usually include a handful of regulars as well as new volunteers. Everyone's welcome.

• http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/join-the-fsf-and-friends-in-updating-the-free-software-directory-7

Copyright Office fails to protect users from DMCA

From October 26th

The Copyright Office picked Sony over you and failed to expand DMCA anti-circumvention exemptions to devices other than cell phones, or to the sharing of anti-circumvention software.

• http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/copyright-office-fails-to-protect-users-from-dmca

Summer 2012 trip to Europe: Photos from InterTice, in Marly-le-Roi

From October 11th

RMS was in Marly-le-Roi, France, on 27 June, to deliver his speech "Logiciels Libres et éducation," at InterTice Logiciels Libres, a selection of practical workshops designed to present possible pedagogical uses of free software, to an audience of over 200 educational inspectors, teachers, school directors, and local authorities.

• http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/20120627-marlyleroi

LulzBot AO-100 3D printer now FSF-certified to respect your freedom

From October 9th

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today awarded its first Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the LulzBot AO-100 3D Printer sold by Aleph Objects, Inc. The RYF certification mark means that the product meets the FSF's standards in regard to users' freedom, control over the product, and privacy.

• http://www.fsf.org/news/hardware-certification-aleph-objects-lulzbot-3d-printer

LibrePlanet featured resource: Windows 8 Group

Every month on LibrePlanet, we highlight one resource that is interesting and useful -- often one that could use your help.

For this month, we are highlighting the Windows 8 group page, where people are sharing their concerns about the new proprietary operating system. You are invited to adopt, spread and improve this important resource. Ideas from this page will likely be used in a whitepaper and campaign about Windows 8.

• http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Windows_8

Do you have a suggestion for next month's featured resource? Let us know at campaigns@fsf.org.

GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 13 new GNU releases!

13 new GNU releases this month (as of October 29, 2012):

• binutils-2.23
• bison-2.6.4
• coreutils-8.20
• freeipmi-1.2.2
• gnuhealth-1.6.4
• gnutls-3.1.3
• libcdio-0.90
• libextractor-1.0.1
• parallel-20121022
• patch-2.7.1
• units-2.01
• xnee-3.14
• zile-2.4.9

To get announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu. Nearly all GNU software is available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors (http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html). You can use the url http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ to be automatically redirected to a (hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to the GNU operating system, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

As always, please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.

GNU Toolchain update

From October 29th

The GNU toolchain refers to the part of the GNU system which is used for building programs. These components of GNU are together often on other systems and for compiling programs for other platforms. This post on the GNU toolchain blogs covers developments from the last two months.

• http://nickclifton.livejournal.com/11573.html

Richard Stallman's speaking schedule

For event details, as well as to sign-up to be notified for future events in your area, please visit http://www.fsf.org/events.

Richard Stallman has the following events in November:

• November 6, 2012, 6:00 PM, Helsinki, Finland, "How to begin contributing to a free software project and do a good job"

• November 7, 2012, 7:30 PM, Reykjavik, Iceland, "Copyright vs. community"

• November 16, 2012, 9:00 AM, Santa Clara, California, "The danger of software patents"

Thank GNUs!

We appreciate everyone who donates to the Free Software Foundation, but we'd like to give special recognition to the folks who have donated $500 or more in the last month.

• http://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/2012supporters.html

This month, a big Thank GNU to:

• Stephen Compall
• Justin Frankel
• Thane Williams
• Taku Fujita
• Philipp Weis
• Vincent Povirk
• John Gilmore
• Vincent Launchbury
• Mason Smith
• Eric Rollins
• James H. McConville
• Michael Makuch

You can add your name to this list by donating at https://donate.fsf.org.

Take action with the FSF

Contributions from thousands of individual members enable the FSF's work. You can contribute by joining at http://www.fsf.org/join. If you're already a member, you can help refer new members (and earn some rewards) by adding a line with your member number to your email signature like:

I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom! http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=2442

The FSF is also always looking for volunteers (http://www.fsf.org/volunteer). From rabble-rousing to hacking, from issue coordination to envelope stuffing -- there's something here for everybody to do. Also, head over to our campaign section (http://www.fsf.org/campaigns) and take action on software patents, DRM, free software adoption, OpenDocument, RIAA and more.

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