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Richard Stallman on 18.2. in Berlin

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Just wanted to let you that Richard Stallman helds a lecture in Berlin/Germany on 18th of February.

Here is the German announcement:

Richard Stallman, der Begründer und Vordenker der Freien Software Bewegung hält einen Vortrag über die Philosophie und Geschichte der Freien Software.

Der in New York lebende Richard Stallman ist der Begründer der Freien Software-Bewegung und Verfasser wegweisender Texte dieser Bewegung. Der Begriff der “Freien Software” stammt von ihm und steht für die Idee, dass Software von ihren Benutzern zu jedem Zweck ausgeführt, verändert und weiterentwickelt werden kann und darf. Dieses Recht – das die meisten Software-Firmen ihren Nutzern verweigern – begründet Stallman mit der Forderung, dass Wissen jedem Menschen frei zugänglich sein sollte. Stallman vergleicht das von ihm geforderte Recht auf Freie Software (free software) mit dem Recht der “Freien Rede” (free speach), die im Gegensatz zum “Freibier” (free beer), zu den Grundrechten einer freien Gesellschaft gehört.

Richard Stallman hat mit dem Betriebssystem GNU/Linux auch die Entwicklung des heute am weitesten verbreiten Betriebssystem vorangetrieben, das unter einer freien Lizenz steht. Mit der der GNU General Public Licence hat er darüber hinaus die rechtliche Grundlage für die Nutzung und Verbreitung Freier Software geschaffen. Um die Idee der Freien Software zu kommunizieren und zu verbreiten gründete Richard Stallman 1985 die Free Software Foundation (FSF), die mittlerweile auch Schwesterorganisationen in Europa (FSFE), Indien (FSFI) und Lateinamerika (FSFLA) hat.

Die Veranstaltung beginnt um 19:00 Uhr und findet im Atrium des media centre, Johannisstraße 20, 10117 Berlin statt.

Der Eintritt kostet 5 Euro.

More information can be found on the newthinking website and on the netzpolitik.org blog. See you there?

Ubuntu merchandising articles for people around Berlin

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In cooperation with ubuntu Deutschland, the Ubuntu Berlin team organizes a Ubuntu merchandising order. As the official „ubuntu Deutschland e.V.“ (the German LoCo) has a couple of merchandising stuff like posters, lanyards and stickers but does not deliver them to individuals we arranged a collected order. If you live around Berlin(Germany) and want some Ubuntu stuff check the wiki page and feel free to add your wishes. Please drop me a mail to „damokles at ubuntu dot com“ with your contact information so we can meet afterwards – maybe at one of our community meetings.

Please note: The prices mentioned on the web page are bounties that’ll be forwarded completely to „ubuntu Deutschland e.V.“.

If you want an Ubuntu mug, check Mugs from Germany for your LoCo team!

Packaging Jam session on 6th of February at Newthinking store Berlin/Germany

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Time to get a ticket to Berlin! As Daniel Holbach already mentioned on this blog, the „Ubuntu Berlin“ team is proud to present the first „Packaging Jam“ session in Germany (if not even in Europe).

On 6th of February between 19:00 and 21:00 you’ll have the possibility to attend a workshop with Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee Daniel Holbach who explains the essential steps towards Ubuntu packaging and answers development related questions. The workshop takes place at the Linux friendly „Newthinking store“ (thank you, guys!), Tuchholskystraße 48, 10115 Berlin, and will be, of course, free of charge.

Feel free to bring your notebook along in order to be able to check if Daniel is right about what he tells you 😉 If you don’t feel like carrying it around – you don’t have to. Just join us for a fine evening!

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Ubuntu LAN party

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While dealing with preparations for our already announced Hardy Heron release party we are currently planning an Ubuntu LAN party. What does that mean? The Ubuntu Berlin team came to the conclusion that network gaming is one of the major reasons for sticking to Windows based operating systems. There is of course an unmanageable amount of games of Windows machines out there – no doubt about it. But it seems to be a prejudice that you cannot have network based gaming fun on Linux. And I don’t mean running Wine, VmWare or similar here.

Therefore we set up a small and incomplete list with games that you can play under Linux. Some of them are actually Windows games that can run under Wine – but only some (and they are a kind of compromise for some of our members). Quite enthusiastic discussions occurred in conjunction with games like „Battle for Wesnoth„, „Armagetron„, „OpenArena“ and „Nexuiz„. All of them are available through Ubuntu package repositories and – even better – not all of them are shooters.

So we are happily looking towards our first lan party within the next weeks which will be located at c-base or newthinking store if one them lets us in. I hope that we also have time to do some bug reporting afterwards if necessary – it should be a great possibility to do some network game stress tests.

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Ubuntu Hardy Heron Release Party – 26th of April at c-base/Berlin (Germany)

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Yes, guys, we are fast. While you might be trying the alpha 2 release of Ubuntu Hardy Heron, the so called „Ubuntu +1“, meaning the next release which is scheduled for 24th of April 2008, the „Ubuntu Berlin“ user group is already busy with preparing its release party. After our last two release parties took place at the well known c-base – a sunken star ship – and reached an audience of eigthy to hundred people, we are pleased to announce that the next party will become even bigger.

As last time several lectures will be held. Due to the public interest especially in technical information we moved our party from Friday to Saturday and are going to start earlier in the afternoon so we can provide more input for visitors while still being able to have the dj(s) do their work in the evening and probably some barbecue.

So if you live around Berlin (Germany) – save the date – and feel free to help us with the preparation. You are welcome on the mailing list or our other communication channels that you can find on our wiki page. If you are just interested in attending the lectures or just want to hang around at the party, you invited to join our moderated, low traffic announcement mailing list.

Ubuntu on 24C3 Congress summary

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24C3, the annual hacker congress at Berlin/Germany, is nearly over and there is not so much to say about Ubuntu. Though there had been a small Debian booth – marketing materials and stuff – there was nothing similar for Ubuntu. We discussed that earlier and actually most people thought, it’d not make that much sense as Ubuntu is not known for being the hacker favorite operating system. I guess, we should think about this next year again, as this conference gives the possibility not only to contact users but also a great bunch of possible developers.

In spite of that, this year you could notice dozens of Ubuntu driven notebooks around the congress. I met some folks interested in Ubuntu contacts and even helped out a Brazilian girl from linuxchix.org.br (greetings!) with an Ubuntu cd. So what you can summarize is the fact that Ubuntu is just a part of common usage around and that is what we like, don’t we?

Ubuntu on OLPC XO anonye?

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While waiting for the delivery of my One Laptop per Child OLPC XO, ordered through the great Give one Get One program (you can order until 31. of December and yes, you can do it from outside U.S. e.g. Europe too, as the FAQ shows you), I’s nearly unhappy to see a lot of guys walking around with an OLPC XO at the annualy ccc hacker convention 24C3 while being nearly jealous :) Despite of dozens of OLPCs around here, at this time, nobody could answer my question whether there already had been serious efforts to bring Ubuntu to the little green thingy with the official bunny ears.

As far as Google knows, there exists an Ubuntu launchpad blueprint entitled „Ubuntu for the One Lap Top Per Child Project„, that brings up some hope but to be honest, there are dozens of interesting blueprints. So is anybody of you right now dealing with an installation of Ubuntu on the XO or knows someone around who does so?

(And yes, I know, that the Eeepc is a nice tool, too. But it just has no bunny ears, you know.)

Meeting Ubuntu folks at 24C3

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It’s chaos congress time! The annual hacker congress taking place at Berlin(Germany) from 27. to 30. of December has opened its doors for hundreds of hackers, nerds, geeks and people who just like to talk about tech stuff at the of the year. If you are around Berlin, consider taking a ride there and check out the schedule for talks and workshops.

Of course Ubuntu people will hang around there, too. If you like to meet at least a couple of them: We will meet today, 27. of December at 15:15 at the info desk. Don’t expect dozens but definitely more than one. Some of us are native Berlin folks so this is a good situation for retrieving information about local stuff.

Meet you there!

We will probably organize another meeting. Join the Ubuntu Berlin mailing list or the not so up to date wiki for more details. We have an irc channel #ubuntu-berlin on Freenode, too.