Hi all, I am not sure who of you has seen it already, so let me briefly introduce it: The Free Software Foundation Europe has started its Fellowship campaign a few weeks ago, which allows people to support the work of the FSFE both financially and politically, as well as become part of the FSFE.
Another central part of the Fellowship is to help people find others who are interested in issues of digital freedom -- as well as spread that awareness outside the circle of "usual suspects." It is largely about helping people become active. As we have Werner Koch (author of GnuPG) as member of FSFE, we also felt it would be a good idea to use that knowledge to promote the awareness for privacy and security by giving each fellow an OpenPGP SmartCard, nicely designed and personalised with the capability of having keys generated on the card signed by FSFE. You can find more information at http://www.fsfe.org Roughly 300 SmartCards have been shipped to their Fellows already and are now awaiting use, so now they have the tool, but need to be able to use it. That is why we have several people work on improving the documentation -- more help with this is always welcome. Also, they will need SmartCard readers that actually work easily entirely with Free Software. This is the typical vendor problem and the shortage of people who can write drivers. Both areas seem to be what the M.U.S.C.L.E. project is working on, in fact there seems to be a lot of parallel interest -- so I wondered whether people here had an interest in cooperating on this aspect of the Fellowship. Let me know what you think. Also, I have a question: Is there _any_ PCMCIA SmartCard reader that is actually working with a recent kernel (so 2.6.x) and has a Free Software only driver that allows to use the OpenPGP card with GnuPG? I fear the answer to this is no, but would like to be positively surprised. So my second question is: Which are the best candidates to get to this point? What would be required to get there and what are the show-stoppers? Regards, Georg -- Georg C. F. Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfeurope.org) Join the Fellowship and protect your freedom! (http://www.fsfe.org)
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