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[Janet Hawtin]

It depends what your focus of humane is Ingmar.
There are many projects which have this goal but approach it from
different perspectives. This speech by Lawrence Lessig communicates
well what the free software and free culture people are aiming for:
http://www.linuxworld.com/events/keynotes/lwsf06-lessig.html

I am Janet Hawtin.
I live in Adelaide Australia.
I train people in using ubuntu which is a free (liberty)
software distribution (linux)
http://www.ubuntu.com/community

This last week we had software freedom day world wide.
http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams

This day is a celebration of free as in liberty software.
This software enables people all around the world to
be able to use and to contribute to the development of free software
and to access information and share ideas.

There is also a free culture student group called freeculture.org
http://freeculture.org/

Both groups are interested in having information and computing and
culture accessible and not controlled by specific companies.

These groups are opposed to the DMCA and EUCD which
defends rights for large IP owning corporations at the expense of
basic freedoms for people around the world.

It also protects large pharaceutical companies and makes it possible for them
to protect their patents on treatment for AIDs, causing millions of
people to die because they are not allowed to access cheap generic
versions.
The medicines sans frontieres group is posting about that.

Many of these intellectual property laws sound harmless initially but their
impact is wide and will be very limiting for people who share and collaborate.
These are rights which are not based on public benefit.

There are a lot of people trying to change these pressures on
our freedoms and I'm sure that the german teams would love to hear from you.
http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/germany.

If computing based humanity isnt your cup of tea no problem.
There is much need for humane perspectives in all our endeavours and I'm sure
you will find communities which are interested directly in the things which
are important to you.

We certainly appreciate the great work that you contribute to the
campaign wiki.

Cheers

Janet