Hi Alexandre,<br><br>I am now working (since 5 minutes) on the translation. I hope its still necessarily. ok?<br>Leonardo<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alexandre Oliva</b> <
<a href="mailto:lxoliva@fsfla.org">lxoliva@fsfla.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br><br>Sorry that I'm so late in posting this. I was supposed to have posted
<br>it about 48 hours ago, but I've been ill and away from the computer :-(<br><br>Is there anyone available to translate this to Spanish before the year<br>is over, pretty please? :-)<br><br>Fernanda, if your translation to Portuguese is already done (barring
<br>the changes since the initial draft), please post it, so as to make<br>the translation to Spanish easier.<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br><br><br><br>FSFLA News<br>Issue #18<br>January, 2007<br><a href="http://www.fsfla.org/?q=en/node/?">
http://www.fsfla.org/?q=en/node/?</a>??<br><br>1. Editorial: Balance of 2006, Perspectives for 2007<br>2. News and Events<br>3. Help wanted<br><br><br>1. Editorial: Balance of 2006, Perspectives for 2007<br><br>Last year was not as great as we'd hoped, but it was a great year
<br>nevertheless.<br><br>By the end of 2005, we were aiming at establishing ourselves<br>juridically as a foundation in Argentina early in 2006.<br>Unfortunately, it became clear to us that some circumstances would<br>prevent us from operating in other Latin American countries,
<br>particularly Brazil, so we had to revisit our plans and our bylaws.<br>We expect to publish soon a draft constitution for public review.<br><br>In late 2006, we unfortunately lost 3 valuable members, just when we<br>expected to start reaching out to other Latin-American countries, with
<br>the (GNU)^2 initiative. This setback has slowed us down significantly<br>while we redistributed our efforts and started looking for new<br>members.<br><br>Our campaign against DRM, Entertained and Controlled, hasn't been
<br>launched yet. Even though the workgroup has come up with a great name<br>and a great logo, and offered us the domain names, we need more<br>volunteer work to set up the campaign web site and to create content<br>for it.
<br><br>Although we had some big setbacks, we've also collected many<br>successes.<br><br>We've also been invited more and more often to speak about Free<br>Software at conferences, and we've experienced growing interest in
<br>FSFLA's opinions in the news, both inside and outside Latin America.<br>We spoke at all but one of the International GPLv3 Conference, having<br>successfully organized one of them.<br><br>(GNU)^2 is picking up, even if slowly, but we already observe a
<br>significant growth in the number of people from several countries<br>interested in participating in FSFLA and helping it grow and become<br>stronger in this new stage of its history.<br><br>The campaign against "Softwares Impostos" in Brazil has reportedly
<br>been listened to and generated a lot of goodwill for the Free Software<br>cause in various departments in the Brazilian federal government.<br>Although no concrete actions have gone public yet, we expect major<br>developments throughout the next few years in Brazil in this front,
<br>and we hope volunteers from other Latin American countries will help<br>us line up similar campaigns in other countries.<br><br>We've got our first (informal) participation in a lawsuit in Brazil,<br>when IBDI (Brazilian Institute of Politics and Law on Informatics) was
<br>formally accepted as Amicus Curiæ, taking FSFLA's voice to the court.<br>As we establish juridic existence for FSFLA, expected in early 2007,<br>we may get more direct participation in legal actions.<br><br>We intend to make progress on our ongoing campaigns, and to start or
<br>get involved in others.<br><br>We will keep on publishing articles on themes relevant to Free<br>Software: there are two nearly ready, one on DRM, one on GPLv3. We<br>hope to keep on being invited to conferences and publications to
<br>spread the word on Free Software, to defend users' and developers'<br>freedoms regarding software, and to have more people on board and on<br>more Latin American countries to pursue our mission.<br><br>If you'd like to help us to this end, join our mailing lists,
<br>introduce yourself, display consistent commitment, interest and<br>participation, making yourself known to other volunteers, particularly<br>board members, and you may eventually become a workgroup leader, a<br>board observer and, if everything works out fine, a board member.
<br><br>We thank all those that have supported us, helped us and donated time,<br>effort and money to us.<br><br>We have no doubt that 2007 is going to be a great year for Free<br>Software. Nevertheless, there are going to be great challenges, and
<br>FSFLA shall live up to them.<br><br>Happy GNU Year!<br><br><br>2. News and Events<br><br>Alexandre Oliva presented two virtual lectures at UMeet 2006.<br><a href="http://umeet.uninet.edu/umeet2006/english/prog.html">http://umeet.uninet.edu/umeet2006/english/prog.html
</a> has the logs.<br><br>He will participate in a panel on Free Software and DRM at SENID<br>(National Digital Inclusion Seminar) as part of UNE's (National<br>Students Union in Brazil) Biennial Conference, from January 28 to
<br>February 1st, 2007, in Rio de Janeiro.<br><a href="http://livre.une.org.br/">http://livre.une.org.br/</a> (in Portuguese) shall soon have the details.<br>The official conference web site unfortunately requires and recommends
<br>proprietary software.<br><br>Fernanda G. Weiden and Alexandre Oliva published the article "DRM:<br>Defectis Repleta Machina" in the December issue of the on-line<br>magazine ComCiência. The article is being reworked into an official
<br>FSFLA statement for the Anti-DRM campaign Entertained and Controlled.<br><a href="http://www.comciencia.br/comciencia/handler.php?section=8&edicao=20&id=216">http://www.comciencia.br/comciencia/handler.php?section=8&edicao=20&id=216
</a><br>(in Portuguese)<br><br>In the same issue of ComCiência, an interview with Pedro A. D. Rezende<br>covered Internet control, DRM and electronic voting.<br><a href="http://www.comciencia.br/comciencia/handler.php?section=8&tipo=entrevista&edicao=20">
http://www.comciencia.br/comciencia/handler.php?section=8&tipo=entrevista&edicao=20</a><br>(in Portuguese)<br><br>FSFLA had a say in a news report about the revision of LPG-AP, a<br>software license created for the Brazilian state of Paraná.
<br><a href="http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/06/11/27/1756206.shtml?tid=147&tid=150">http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/06/11/27/1756206.shtml?tid=147&tid=150</a><br><br>We thank the Argentinian magazine "Users Linux" for republishing some
<br>of our editorials, even if their magazine title calls the GNU<br>operating system by the wrong name, and Franco Iacomella for having<br>arranged it. We reaffirm the permission for anyone to republish our<br>editorials, newsletters and articles, as per the policy set out in our
<br>web site.<br><br><br>3. Help wanted<br><br>FSFLA depends on voluntary work from Free Software enthusiasts. If<br>you can and want to help, please join our workgroups listed at<br><a href="http://www.fsfla.org/?q=en/node/121">
http://www.fsfla.org/?q=en/node/121</a>. If you'd prefer to work on<br>another workgroup we haven't set up yet, please bring it up at<br><a href="mailto:discusion@fsfla.org">discusion@fsfla.org</a>.<br><br><br>Copyright 2007 FSFLA
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<br>the URL in the beginning of the document, or that of each individual<br>section, is published in the beginning of the section.<br><br><br><br>--<br>Alexandre Oliva <a href="http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/">
http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/</a><br>FSF Latin America Board Member <a href="http://www.fsfla.org/">http://www.fsfla.org/</a><br>Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{<a href="http://redhat.com">redhat.com</a>
, <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org">gcc.gnu.org</a>}<br>Free Software Evangelist oliva@{<a href="http://lsd.ic.unicamp.br">lsd.ic.unicamp.br</a>, <a href="http://gnu.org">gnu.org</a>}<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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