Free Fellowships at FSFE
Nov 10, 2009From November 2009, the Free Software Foundation Europe will be offering three free Fellowships each month to open source activists.
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more »Smoother Going with KDE 4.3.3
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more »Mysterous Mail: Will Skype Become Open Source?
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