HPR1452: HPR Coverage at FOSDEM 2014 Part 3

Summary: HPR Coverage at FOSDEM 2014 The following are a series of interviews recorded at FOSDEM 2014. FOSDEM is a free event that offers open source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. For more information see the website https://fosdem.org/2014/, where you can watch a recording of the many talks http://video.fosdem.org/2014/ A properly stocked fridge. Day 1 Part 3, Day 2 Part 1 00:00:30 The TOR Project The next on our list of booths to visit was the Tor project at the Mozilla stand. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Links https://www.torproject.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network) 00:13:22 EPFSUG, Free Software User Group inside the European Parliament Next we spoke to the Erik Josefsson about the need for as many people as possible to register as a Supporter of Free Software on the spfsug website. Please take some time to do that now. The European Parliament Free Software User Group is an open community of staff, assistants and Members of the European Parliament, and of supporters from the free software community. Its goals are to: Assist people interested in using free software in the European Parliament Drive adoption of free software in the European Parliament's information infrastructure Push for use of open standards, to ensure equal access for citizens using free software Work in cooperation with like-minded groups in Europe and around the world Links http://epfsug.eu/ http://www.greens-efa.eu/36-details/josefsson-erik-138.html Debian for use in Parliaments: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianParl http://epfsug.eu/become-a-member-or-a-supporter 00:27:07 KDE Over at the KDE booth, I managed to track down Jonathan Riddell about the KDE project. From Wikipedia: KDE (/ˌkeɪdiːˈiː/) is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and OS X systems. It is known for its Plasma Desktop, a desktop environment provided as the default working environment on many Linux distributions, such as openSUSE, Mageia and Kubuntu and is default desktop environment on PC-BSD a BSD operating system. The goal of the community is to provide basic desktop functions and applications for daily needs as well as tools and documentation for developers to write stand-alone applications for the system. In this regard, the KDE project serves as an umbrella project for many standalone applications and smaller projects that are based on KDE technology. These include Calligra Suite, digiKam, Rekonq, K3b, and many others. KDE software is based on the Qt framework. The original GPL version of this toolkit only existed for the X11 platform, but with the release of Qt 4, LGPL versions are available for all platforms. This allows KDE software based on Qt 4 to also be distributed to Microsoft Windows and OS X.