The Free Software Foundation Europe plans to celebrate Valentine's Day on 14th February as an "I love Free Software" - Day. Please help us in showing your support for Free Software by participating in our online campaign. Emails, blogs, microblogs, donations, everything is welcome! There are free banners to use for your website available, too. In addition, this year will also be an event to celebrate Free Software in the Unperfekthaus in Essen. We would love to see you there!
For our January fellowship interview we met Heiki Ojasild. He joined the Free
Software Foundation Europe in 2011, undertaking the task of translating fsfe.org
into Estonian, his mother tongue. He is currently developing an XChat add-on, as
well as a website for free SVG and JavaScript games. In 2010 he took part in the
Baltic Olympiad in Informatics. In this interview, he explains us his views
about copyright, Digital Restrictions Management, kopimism, and activism.
Read about European concerns with SOPA, dangers of Secure
Boot, Nokia's move to sell 450 patents to a patent troll, summary of Free
Software developments in 2011, web blocking in Germany and many more.
Together with dozens of other civil society organisations,
FSFE has signed a letter to US Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid, urging the Senate to stand up for human rights, defend
freedom of speech and the open internet, and reject the
SOPA and PIPA proposals currently before it.
In a reply to the BBC about proposed changes to the national
curriculum, Sam Tuke explains some of the ways
in which teaching Free Software programming skills in schools
is important to the future of Britain.
