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Dear friends, On Friday, February 1st at 16h00 I am hosting an event we have called "FREE YOUR ANDROID". It is on short notice, but we're lucky to have the opportunity to benefit from the expertise that is coming to FOSDEM this weekend. More than 5000 hackers will gather at ULB and elsewhere in Brussels, and my fellow EPFSUG Patron Ms Andersdotter is giving a keynote. Erik Albers from the Free Software Foundation Europe is an expert on Free Software on Mobile Devices and he will give a report on the current status of the global effort to run mobile phones with free software alone.
If you have already liberated your phone, there will be an opportunity for you as well as for everyone interested to make professional recordings of testimonials running free software on mobile devices. For the technically inclined there will also be a discussion on how to liberate any device (Replicant, F-Droid and CyanogenMod experiences), like tablets, ebook readers and other gadgets. You are all very welcome on 1 February! Alexander Alvaro Vice-President of the European Parliament & Patron of EPFSUG |
| Agenda for EPFSUG meeting 1 February 2013 16h00-19h00 in room A5G375 |
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| WELCOME | Alexander Alvaro, Vice-President of the European Parliament |
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| FREE YOUR ANDROID |
What is FYA? And how can I do it? | ||
| Erik Albers | |||
| Android is an operating system based on the Linux kernel that runs on most mobile devices that have been sold to this day. However, customers that buy an Android device today usually suffer from anti-features, loss of control and vendor lock-in, and are exposed to privacy risks. Since mobile devices - like smartphones - often serve as your most private computer, this is bad for your privacy as well as your freedom. That is why the Free Software Foundation Europe runs its "Free Your Android" campaign - to give back full control about your device and data to the only one who truly should be in possession of it: yourself! Erik Albers gives insights about the campaign, how you can get full control of your device and run it with Free Software solely. | |||
| BYOD TO THE PARLIAMENT |
Yet another boring technical note on the rules of the European Parliament. | ||
| Dimitrios Symeonidis | |||
| The Parliament's policies regarding equipment connected to the internal network is strict and enforced for good reasons. This was extensively explained at the last EPFSUG meeting. Nevertheless, the resources EP-EXT and EP-PRIV lets you connect also private equipment to the Parliament's wireless network. What are the EP's policies regarding such equipment, also known as BYODs (Bring Your Own Device)? Is a Free Android compatible with the rules of the Parliament? Dimitrios tries to find answers to these questions. | |||
| EVERYBODY NEEDS A HACKERSPACE |
Hackerspaces in Belgium! | ||
| Cheryl D. Miller and Cédric Lood | |||
| If you would like to try to free your Android among fellow hackers, there is no better space nor place for that than a Hackerspace! Hackerspaces are popping up all over the place - also in Brussels - and there is a good reason for that. Have you ever felt an urge to open up your latest gadget and try to figure out how it works rather then trying to read the manual (that you threw away anyway)? Have you ever felt like getting together with people who will be as excited as you are when you have figured it out? If so, you will feel right at home with us when we come together for exactly that purpose. We crave sharing knowledge and we desire to learn from each other. Cedric and Cheryl will tell you why they are excited about hackerspaces and why you should join one (or start one) in your neighbourhood. | |||