Events

This year, FOSDEM will be held on the 31st of January and 1st of February 2015 in Brussels. FSFE will at least participate with a booth and there will be many fellows, coordinators and staffers.
As like every year, we're looking forward to many meetings and discussions and also to a very good time for all.

On Wednesday, 4 February, the Fellowship group Rhein/Main will meet in the Café Albatros in Frankfurt. We will meet there around 19:00 h.

Das nächste und erste diesjährige reguläre Fellowshiptreffen in Düsseldorf findet am 28.01.2015 ab 19:30 Uhr im Chaosdorf, Hüttenstr. 25, 40215 Düsseldorf,statt. Es ist das traditionelle Rückblicks- und Planungstreffen. Auf der Basis der im der Vergangenheit gewonnenen und nochmals reflektierten Erfahrungen planen wir unsere Aktivitäten im bereits begonnenen Jahr. Alle sind auch eingeladen, zu bedenken, ob sie, beispielsweise durch eine Vortrag, etwas zur Gestaltung unserer Aktivitäten im Jahre 2015 etwas beitragen können.

On Wednesday, January 21 2015, Erik Albers will give a lecture about Free Software and information ethics at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University in Dorotheenstraße 26, 10117 Berlin, Room 120. Start is at 12 am, language is English.

On the 21st of January the Fellowship Group in Hamburg, Germany, will have their regular monthly meeting. Everyone is welcome to join us at the Roxie Bar, Rentzelstraße 6, 20146 Hamburg

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On Wednesday, 7 January, the Fellowship group Rhein/Main will meet in the Café Albatros in Frankfurt. We will meet there around 19:00 h.

From December 27 to 30, FSFE will be present with a so-called “assembly” at the 31st Chaos Communication Congress. It will be a place to get to know FSFE and our mission as well as a place for every Fellow and friend of Free Software to meet, greet, connect or hack. There will be talks and workshops every day around 2pm, for example about GnuPG encryption with the Fellowship smart card / Android security and privacy with Free Software. Finally we bring a Free Software Free Scultpure - Artwork by Kai Mertens. Pass by and join our community.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Am Donnerstag, 11.Dezember, ist das nächste Berliner Fellowshipmeeting, wie immer in der e-lok (nähe Ostkreuz). Diesmal wird es kein Programm geben und auch keine Weihnachtsfeier. Stattdessen wollen wir die Tage nutzen noch einmal wie gewohnt zusammen zu kommen und über Freie Software zu philosophieren. In der e-lok gibt es gutes Essen und Getränke zu angenehmen Preisen, gute Stimmung ist kostenlos. Beginn ab 19.30.

Im dritten Teil der Developer-Reihe geht es an die moderne Art der Paketverwaltung, zu der uns Johannes die Grundlagen erklären wird. Das Treffen findet statt im Netzladen, Breite Straße 74 und ist offen für alle, die Interesse an Freier Software haben. Beginn 19 Uhr. Komm' vorbei, wir freuen uns auf Deinen Besuch!

On Wednesday, 3 December, the Fellowship group Rhein/Main will meet in the Café Albatros in Frankfurt. We will meet there around 19:00 h.

The German Federal Environmental Agency and the Öko-Institut present an expert discussion about "Sustainable software" on November 28, 2014. "Sustainable software" means software that helps to establish a sustainable IT-evolution by its own development, by its use and its shutting-down. Erik Albers will give a introductory speech about sustainability in and by Free Software. The event begins at 10am in the Öko-Institut, Schicklerstraße 5-7, 10179 Berlin. Registration required under veranstaltung-ps@oeko.de.

Das nächste reguläre Fellowshiptreffen in Düsseldorf findet am 26.11.2014 ab 19:30 Uhr im Chaosdorf, Hüttenstr. 25, 40215 Düsseldorf, statt. Es steht das Thema Gesundheitskarte auf der Agenda. Der Bonner Neurologe und Freund Freier Software Walther Koehler wird mit uns seine kritischen Gedanken hierzu diskutieren. Gäste sind wie immer herzlich willkommen.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Bernhard Reiter, GA-Mitglied der FSFE, hält am Mittwoch 19.11. in der Fachhochschule Münster, Campus Steinfurt, einen Vortrag mit dem Titel: "Freie Software und offene Standards sind gut für Dich (und den Rest der Welt)". Im Mittelpunkt steht die individuelle Bedeutung für von Software, die wir für jeden Zweck Verwenden, Studieren, Verbesseren und mit anderen Teilen können. Denn nur so können wir die Software kontrollieren und nicht umgekehrt. Aber auch die Gesamtwirtschaftliche Bedeutung Freier Software und Offener Standards. Abschätzungen für die EU gehen davon aus, das Unternehmen mehr als 1/3 ihrer Forschungs- und Entwicklungkosten durch den Einsatz Freier Software sparen können. Der Vortrag ist öffentlich, eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.

Members of the Fellowship Group Linz organize a Linux Workshop for beginners in Hagenberg, Austria. We will install beginner friendly GNU/Linux distributions as well as quick introductions to the most important programs to use GNU/Linux as your daily operating system. Our guides focus on and have been tested with hardware sold during the u:book promotion. For more information on that see www.ubook.at (German). Bringing your own hardware is a requirement. Find more information on the website or get in touch at contact@free-your-ubook.at

Free Thursday is a regular event for people in the Helsinki area interested in free software / open source software. We meet on the second Thursday each month, at 18:00, this time in Pub One Pint, Ruoholahti.

On Thursday, November 13, there will be the next Berlin Fellowship meeting, as usual in the e-lok (near Ostkreuz). This time, Hagen will give a talk about the interconnection between freedom of software and hardware: "No Free Software without Free Hardware". As usual, the Fellowship meeting is a good possibility to meet other Fellows as well as other Free Software enthusiasts. You can get good food and best drinks at e-lok for a reasonable price and good mood for no cost. Official start is at 19:30.

On 12th of November, Georg C. F. Greve, FSFE's founding president and CEO of Kolab Systems AG will give a talk about Free Software and its advantages in research and teaching in the University of Konstanz, room V 1001. The talk starts at 18:30 and addresses students, teachers, and IT authorities likewise. Admission is free, but please consider pre-registering on the event website.

Workshop: Bauen von Debian-Paketen Mit Unterstützung von Guido und anderen erfahrenen Paketbauern wollen wir Pakete für Debian erstellen. Welches Paket vermisst du ganz dringend in Debian? Bring es mit! Für die praktische Arbeit ist ein Laptop erforderlich!

On November, 7 and 8, there will be a booth the FIfFKon2014, organised by the "Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung" in the Technische Universität Berlin. The topics are around the role of Germany and Germany's secret services in the latest past - from Echelon to Prism until Eikonal. FSFE will be present with a booth to inform the public about the importance of Free Software - not just for security issues.

Members of the Fellowship Group Linz organize a Linux Workshop for beginners in Linz, Austria. We will install beginner friendly GNU/Linux distributions as well as quick introductions to the most important programs to use GNU/Linux as your daily operating system. Our guides focus on and have been tested with hardware sold during the u:book promotion. For more information on that see www.ubook.at (German). Bringing your own hardware is a requirement. Find more information on the website or get in touch at contact@free-your-ubook.at

On Wednesday, 5 November, the Fellowship group Rhein/Main will meet in the Chaos Computer Club in Mannheim. We will meet there around 19:00 h.

Das nächste reguläre Fellowshiptreffen in Düsseldorf findet am 29.10.2014 ab 19:30 Uhr im Chaosdorf, Hüttenstr. 25, 40215 Düsseldorf. Als Gast wird Landtagsabgeordneter Matthi Bolte erwartet, der über das Thema OpenNRW sprechen wird. Der offizielle Teil beginnt Um 20:00 Uhr, wer später kommt verpasst also was.

On October 25 and 26, there will be a booth at T-Dose, organised by the T-Dose Foundation in the Fontys University of Applied Science in Eindhoven. T-DOSE is a free and yearly event held in The Netherlands to promote use and development of Open Source Software. During this event Open Source projects, developers and visitors can exchange ideas and knowledge. FSFE will be present with a booth to inform the public about the importance of Free Software.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The FSFE Fellowship Group Hamburg meets in the bar Roxie, Rentzelstraße 6, 20146 Hamburg. Our meetings start at 20:00 (CET). Everyone, who is interested in the FSFE or free Software in general is invited to come to our meeting. We are pleased to meet you there.

Das nächste Bonner Fellowshiptreffen findet statt am Montga, 13. Oktober, 19 Uhr im Netzladen, Breite Straße 74, 53111 Bonn. Johannes Hubertz wird eine Einweisung in Unittests geben. Teilnehmer werden gebeten Geräte mitzubringen, auf denen Python installiert ist.

Many friends of Free Software will come to the LinuxCon Europe in Duesseldorf. Because of that, an extraordinary fellowship meeting and brunch will take place in Schwesterherz in Bilk (Bilker Allee 66, 40219 Düsseldorf). It will start at 11:00 CEST. Everybody is invited to join. If you like to join, it would be nice if you contact rk@office.fsfeurope.org or anwalt@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de so we have an overview how many people will come.

On Thursday, October 9, there will be the next Berlin Fellowship meeting, as usual in the e-lok (near Ostkreuz). This time, Tomás will give a talk about different licenses used for Free Software: What kind of licenses exist, in what points do they differ from each other? As usual, the Fellowship meeting is a good possibility to meet other Fellows as well as other Free Software enthusiasts. You can get good food and best drinks at e-lok for a reasonable price and good mood for no cost. Official start is at 19:30.

The Frankonian Fellows will meet at 19:00 at "Roter Ochs", Kirchplatz 3, 91301 Forchheim

On Wednesday, 1 October, the Fellowship group Rhein/Main will meet in the Café Albatros in Frankfurt. We will meet there around 19:00 h.

The next meeting of the Fellowship Group Linz will be held on September 26, 2014. We start the official agenda no later than 19:00 and end it no later than 20:00. Afterwards, participants are welcome to stay and socialize. If you want something to be added to the agenda, please follow the link to our wiki-page.

Das nächste reguläre Fellowshiptreffen in Düsseldorf findet im Chaosdorf, Hüttenstr. 25, 40215 Düsseldorf statt, offizieller Beginn um 20:00 Uhr. "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (deutsch: "Denn jede Sache, die durch Mitteilung an andere nicht verliert, besitzt man nicht, wie man soll, solange man sie nur selber besitzt, ohne sie wieder an andere weiterzugeben.") ist ein Motto der FSFE aus ihrer frühen Zeit. Diese Erkenntnis ist jedoch etwa 1600 Jahre alt. Ralf Peter Reimann, Diplom-Informatiker und Pastor, wird uns in seinem Vortrag Sinn und Inhalt dieses Satzes erläutern und auch seinen Urheber vorstellen. Gäste sind wie immer herzlich willkommen.

FSFE's Berlin group participates at BeLUG's Software Freedom Day event. Matthias Kirschner, Torsten Grote, and Nermin Canik from Istanbul will be there to talk with you about Free Software. Furthermore the FSFE website pool needs some overhaul, bug squishing, style cleaning and so on. Therefore we use SFD to meet for a FSFE website Hackathon on Saturday, 20 September 2014 from 2pm until open end at BeLUG, Lehrter Straße 53, Berlin. For everyone not in Berlin the meeting will take place on IRC. Join us in #fsfe on chat.freenode.net.
The hackathon will take place in parellel to the Software Freedom Day party of the Berlin Linux User Group (BeLUG). Come celebrate SFD with us while helping us maintain our pool of campaign sites.

On Software Freedom Day, Michael Stehmann explains the basics of modern cryptography and why cryptography needs Free Software. The talk is for newbies, you do not need more mathematical knowledge than in school.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The local Fellowship group Munich meets again to discuss various things like Corso Leopold, FSA14 and more. Every friend of Free Software is invited to come.

On September 11th, the local Fellowship group Zurich meets for the next time. The location still has to be found an announced, the topic will be "WeAgree", a Free Software Pact for next years Swiss elections.

On September 4th and 5th, parallel to the IGF2014, there will be held the Internet Ungovernance Forum (IUF) in Istanbul. FSFE officially supports IUF as a bottom-up conference, that likes to "reclaim the Internet as a fundamental infrastructure of our societies". FSFE will help to spread knowledge about the use and importance of Free Software and Open Standards for a Free Society. If you like to meet us, come to our booth.

On Wednesday, 3 September, the Fellowship group Rhein/Main will meet in the Weinhaus Stegmann in Aschaffenburg. We will meet there around 19:00 h.

As every year, FSFE will attend FrOSCon with a booth. Our education team will participate in the Froglabs program for kids, and on Saturday 11:15 our vice president, Matthias Kirschner, will give a talk about "An endangered species: the computer as a universal machine" (in German). The event takes place at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Science, Grantham-Allee 20, 53757 Sankt Augustin. Normal tickets are 5€ for both days, and can be bought onsite or soon in our presale (there is also the option for business tickets to support the event).

The FSFE Fellowship Group Linz meets in the Hackspace DevLoL, Hofgasse 19, 4020 Linz. Our meetings start at 18:30 (CEST) and the Agenda will start at 19:00 (CEST). Everyone, who is interessted in the FSFE or free Software in general is invited to come to our meeting. We are pleased to meet you there.

Wednesday, 6 August, the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in the Café Albatros in Frankfurt. We will meet there around 19:00 h.

Euskal Encounter is a huge lan party at the BEC in Bilbao. FSFE will have a booth there, informing about Free Software and offering merchandisie.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The FSFE Fellowship Group Linz meets in the Hackspace DevLoL, Hofgasse 19, 4020 Linz. Our meetings start at 18:30 (CEST) and the Agenda will start at 19:00 (CEST). Everyone, who is interested in the FSFE or Free Software in general is invited to come to our meeting. We are pleased to meet you there.

FSFE Fellows will run a booth at the RMLL/LSM event in Montpellier. Information, merchandise, and a friendly chat will be available. The event will take place at "Esplanade Charles de Gaulle", July 5 and 6th , and at "University of Montpellier II", from July 7th till 11th.

On July 9th, FSFE’s president, Karsten Gerloff will be visiting the Slovenian community. The Slovenian Fellowship meeting, which Karsten and Matija will participate in, will take place on July 9th, starting at 17:00 in Cyberpipe, Gosposvetska 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana.

On July 7th at 11:40 during the RMLL/LSM 2014, Erik Albers will give a speech about freedom on android devices, take back control over your data, and synchronizing them using free software. The talk is held in English, and will be held in Amphi 31 at University of Montpellier II.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On Saturday 14 June at 18:00 there will be a social event in the Linuxhotel in Essen. During the weekend the German speaking teams of FSFE will have an internal coordination meeting. On Saturday we invite all Fellows and Free Software activists to meet us at the Linuxhotel, discuss Free Software issues with us, and hopefully enjoy the good weather with a BBQ. Please let us know if you plan to come and if you can also bring some snacks, so we can keep that in mind when we buy food.

On Thursday, April 10, there will be the next Berlin Fellowship meeting, as usual in the e-lok (near Ostkreuz). This time, Andreas Pittrich will tell us about "The potential of Free Software in public administration". Andreas will report his insights and experience he made inside the Free Software comission in the Bezirksamt Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. We are looking forward to hear the outcome and the steps taken towards political influence. As usual, the Fellowship meeting is a good possibility to meet other Fellows as well as other Free Software enthusiasts. You can get good food and best drinks at e-lok for a reasonable price and good mood for no cost. Official start is at 19:30.

At the European Christian Internet Conference, FSFE's president Karsten Gerloff will deliver a keynote on "Free Software: the idea, the values, and where it's going."

MutterWare are like tupperware meetings for mutt users (mutters), sharing tips and hacks on mutt, the UNIX email client that lives in your terminal.
The 4th Paris MutterWare will take place at Enovance. Everybody is welcome to learn how to use it. More information on the wiki.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

FSFE Fellows will run a booth at the LinuxTag event in Berlin. Information, merchandise, and a friendly chat will be available. The event will take place at "STATION Berlin".

On 8 May at 20:30 during the Linuxtag, Matthias Kirschner will give a speech about computers as general purpose machines and the dangers of limiting the rights of their owners. The talk, in German, will be held at Stage 11 from 20:30 to 21:00. Attendence after 18:00 is free of charge.

On 7 May 10:00 Matthias Kirschner 10:25 Matthias Kirschner will give a speech at the 2nd Cyber Security Day in Dortmund. The event is organised by the Alliance for Cyber Security, which was initiated by the German Federal Office for Information Security.

Wednesday, 7 May, the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in Wiesbaden. We will meet there around 19:00 h.

On May, 3rd, Erik Albers will give a keynote about "Why we talk about Free Software" at OSCAL, the first Free Software conference in Tirana, Albania. Entrance is for no cost but seats are limited and the registration is closed. The conference is organised by OpenLabs, Tirana.

The FSFE Fellowship Group Linz meets in the Hackspace DevLoL, Hofgasse 19, 4020 Linz. Our meetings start at 18:30 (CEST) and the Agenda will start at 19:00 (CEST). Everyone, who is interessted in the FSFE or free Software in general is invited to come to our meeting. We are pleased to meet you there.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On Thursday, April 10, there will be the next Berlin Fellowship meeting, as usual in the e-lok (near Ostkreuz). This time, Michael aka "Majestyx" will tell us about security by using Free Sofware as well as in the use of Free Software. Before his talk there is a monthly review of FSFE's activities, after the talk we come together for a drink. As usual, the Fellowship meeting is a good possibility to meet other Fellows as well as other Free Software enthusiasts. You can get good food and best drinks at e-lok for a reasonable price and good mood for no cost. Official start is at 19:30.

At the Turkish Free Software and GNU/Linux Days 2014, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will discuss how we can take back control over our lives in a world where governments and companies are using technology to watch every step we take.

Karsten's talk starts at 11:00 in Room 1.

The FSFE Fellowship Group Linz meets in the Hackspace DevLoL, Hofgasse 19, 4020 Linz. Our meetings start at 18:30 (CET) and the Agenda will start at 19:00 (MEZ). Everyone, who is interessted in the FSFE or free Software in general is invited to come to our meeting. We are pleased to meet you there.

Free speech is a human right, and a cornerstone of any democratic society. To enable communication, it is important that documents can be opened and read by the people who are meant to receive them. In today's world, it is equally important that we have the ability to ensure that documents are read only by the people meant to receive them, to prevent a scenario where both censorship and self-censorship degrade the ability of citizens to speak freely to each other, develop new ideas, and drive the progress of our society.

For the fourth time, FSFE and the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament will celebrate Document Freedom Day together. The event, which includes a presentation of the DebianParl project, will run from 13:30 to 16:00. Attendance is free of charge. Pre-registration is required in order to enter the Parliament.

FSFE is present with an information and merchandise booth at the 13th "Linux-Infotag Augsburg". The event takes place on 23 March 2014 from 9:30 to 17:30 in the IT faculty of the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Admission is free.

Together with Stefano Zacchiroli (Debian) and Simon Phipps (Open Source Initiative, MariaDB Foundation), FSFE's Vice President Matthias Kirschner will discuss the challenges of Free Software. The panel discussion is from 17:00 until 18:00. The conference is organised by the European Pirates and MEP Amelia Andersdotter and takes place in the European Parliament and is free of charge.

For a change, the Vienna Fellowship meeting this month will be at the venue called "Tunnel", located in the Florianigasse 9 in the 8th discrict of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On March 16th at 10:00 during the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage, Matthias Kirschner will give a speech at the Technical University Chemnitz about computers as general purpose machines and the dangers of limiting the rights of their owners. The talk, in German, will be held in the central lecture buildung, room V1 at Reichenhainer Straße 90, Chemnitz.

On March 15th and 16th, there will be a FSFE booth during the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage, an event dedicated to everything about GNU/Linux and Free Software. Just pass by the booth to get to know people from the FSFE as well as other Fellows. The booth will also come with brand new merchandise and promotion material.

On Thursday, February 13, there will be the next Berlin Fellowshipmeeting, as usual in the e-lok (near Ostkreuz). This time, Paul and Richard will tell us about diverse possibilities of earning money with Free Sofware. Richard can give us theoretical background and Paul will share his own experience as a Free Software web developer. As usual, the Fellowship meeting is a good possibility to meet other Fellows as well as other Free Software enthusiasts. You can get good food and best drinks at e-lok for a reasonable price and good mood for no cost. Official start is at 19:30.

Some people argue that you have to protect innovations. FSFE's Vice President Matthias Kirschner attends a panel discussion organised by the European Patent Office which discusses several ways how to approach this aim. The topics range between copyright methods, software patents, and their implications for Free Software. The event takes place in hall 8 from 16:30 until 17:15 and is in English.

In a panel discussion together with representatives from Red Hat GmbH, DTAG, synetics GmbH and HMW Consulting Ltd., FSFE's Vice President Matthias will discuss several edge cases of Free Software. The main question to answer during the discussion will be whether Free Software differentiates from proprietary software in every case. The event takes place at CeBIT from 14:30 until 16:00 in hall 6, block H01 and will be in German.

On Thursday, March 6th, at 6pm there will be a first meet-up of the Zürich Fellowshipgroup since renewing. Invited are all supporters of Free Software as well as other interested persons. As this is the first meet-up, we will mainly discuss about self organisation and further activities. The meeting will be in Stampfenbachstrasse 69, E-Stock, ID-Lounge (ETH Zürich). Who will not be able to make it in time, is of course invited to join later.

The FSFE Fellowship Group Linz meets in the Hackspace DevLoL, Hofgasse 19, 4020 Linz. Our meetings start at 18:30 (CET) and the Agenda will start at 19:00 (MEZ). Everyone, who is interessted in the FSFE or free Software in general is invited to come to our meeting. We are pleased to meet you there.

Futurezone technology news is hosting the the first 3D-printing-conference in Austria. They invited Peter Bubestinger to represent the FSFE at a panel discussion about "legal grayzones" regarding this upcoming rechnology. The event is called print3Dfuture and takes place at the Odeon Theatre.

On February 22, 2014 the FSFE Bari Fellowship Group will participate to the Bari local Open Data Day event organized under the International Open Data Hackathon umbrella.

The Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments. The Bari Fellows will talk about OpenStreetMap and lead a OSM mapping mini-party in the area of the meeting.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On Thursday, February 13, there will be the next Berlin Fellowshipmeeting, as usual in the e-lok (near Ostkreuz). This time, Felix will inspire us with insights from his research about current web tracking technologies and how to best avoid them. As usual, the Fellowship meeting is a good possibility to meet other Fellows as well as other Free Software enthusiasts. You can get good food and best drinks at e-lok for a reasonable price and good mood for no cost. Official start is at 19:30.

MutterWare are like tupperware meetings for mutt users (mutters), sharing tips and hacks on mutt, the UNIX email client that lives in your terminal.
The 3rd Paris MutterWare will take place at Numa. Everybody is welcome to learn how to use it. More information on the wiki.

The local group of FSFE Manchester is running a week-long "I love Free Software" Festival, beginning from February 3rd until February 8. While the whole festival is about Free Software, each evening focusses on a specific topic: Bitcoin, Wordpress, Cryptoparty and Free Your Android. The events take place in the Madlab, Manchester. Participation is free of charge and it is a great possibility to meet friends and other likeminded people.

Wednesday, 5 February, the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in Darmstadt. We will meet there around 19:00 h.

This year, FOSDEM will be held on the 1st and 2nd of February 2014 in Brussels. FSFE will at least participate with a booth and there will be many fellows, coordinators and staffers.
As like every year, we're looking forward to many meetings and discussions and also to a very good time for all.

Das erste Fellowshiptreffen in Düsseldorf 2014 findet am 29.Januar ab 19:30 statt - wie üblich im Chaosdorf, Hüttenstr. 25, 40215 Düsseldorf. Auf diesem Treffen wollen wir das vergangene Jahr Revue passieren lassen und unsere Aktivitäten im Jahre 2014 planen. Gäste sind wie immer herzlich willkommen.

On January 27 will be the first Cologne Fellowship meeting since the newly arranged coordination. Meeting point will be the C4 (Chaos Computer Club Köln), meeting time will be 7pm. Drinks, Projector and Internet will be available. The C4 is happy about donations as a thank you for using their location. Topics will be planning and strategy of further Fellowship meetings, lobby activities in Cologne, computer courses and networking with other active and likeminded groups in Cologne, for example associations of the Cryptoparty movement, AK-Vorrat of Freifunker.

The European Commission (EC) has opened up copyright policy across the European Union for public comment. While the consultation attempts to cover all areas of user's and creators' experiences, some questions are specifically relevant for Free Software advocates.

At this meeting, we will have a look at the questions we find interesting, discuss them together and submit answers in our own name. We will meet at 19:00, FSFE Berlin office.

The FSFE Fellowship Group Linz meets in the Hackspace DevLoL, Hofgasse 19, 4020 Linz. Our meetings start at 18:30 (CET) and the Agenda will start at 19:00 (MEZ). Everyone, who is interessted in the FSFE or free Software in general is invited to come to our meeting. We are pleased to meet you there.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On January 9, there will be the next Berlin Fellowshipmeeting, as usual in the e-lok (near Ostkreuz). Luca will report about the Mobilize!-conference "Whatever happened to pivacy?" that happened in December and was organized by the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Next, Kai would like to discuss our main topic for this meeting: "Alternatives to Google search". Finally, we would like to plan an event for the Document Freedom Day, End of March, to run a joint activity. As usual, the Fellowship meeting is a good possibility to meet other Fellows as well as other Free Software enthusiasts. You can get good food and best drinks at e-lok for a reasonable price and good mood for no cost. Official start is at 19:30.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

At the Linux Foundation's Open Compliance Summit in Japan, Karsten Gerloff will relate FSFE's experience with building and running the world's largest network of legal experts on Free Software, and how the dialogue taking place there has a positive impact on industry practices.

On December 12 will be the next Berlin Fellowshipmeeting in the e-lok (near Ostkreuz). Erik will discuss with us different possibilities about how to "Save online content and read it while you or the content is offline". Included is a live-presentation of the software "Zotero". In addition, there will be a report about FSFE's official activities during the last month. As usual, the Fellowship meeting is a good possibility to meet other Fellows as well as other Free Software enthusiasts. You can get good food and best drinks at e-lok for a reasonable price and good mood for no cost. Official start is at 19:30.

On December 11, 17:00, participants will present Free Software projects needing funding and discuss how to support them for the best. Come, present your work and meet FSFE volunteers who will attend the event!

At FOSSCon Korea 2013 in Seoul, South Korea, FSFE's President will summarise current Free Software policies in Europe, and discuss what lessons we can draw from them.

Nermin Canik, together with volunteers, organises the first FSFE booth in Turkey. On November 23, during the Free Web Technology Days ("Özgür Web Teknolojileri Günleri") in Yeditepe University, İstanbul. You are welcome to visit FSFE's booth and to meet local people behind our movement.

Christian Kalkhoff, Fellowship Coordinator Munich, gives a presentation about "The work of the FSFE in Europe, Germany and Munich" during Munichs "Open-Source-Treffen". Content will be the work of FSFE and its affiliate activists on all levels of politic and society. Kalkhoff will show Munichs Fellowship group as an example of how principles and campaigns of the FSFE can be realised on a local level. The event begins at 6 pm.

On the 19th of November there will be a second session of the MutterWare, which Hugo started back in March.

The MutterWare is a meeting of users of the mail client mutt, either long-time experts, just beginners, or even not-yet-users. It's about discussing the functionalities, exchanging tips and hacks, and enjoying a good talk.

The meeting will take place in Mozilla's Parisian new offices near the Grands Boulevards, starting at 8p.m.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On November 14 there will be next Berlin Fellowship meeting that is going to take place at e-lok (next to Ostkreuz). Silvan will discuss variuos opportunities with us to use Free Software for your calender management. In addition we will talk about FSFE's last months activities.

As usual, the Fellowship meeting is a good possibility to meet other Fellows as well as other Free Software enthusiasts. You can get good food and best drinks at e-lok for a reasonable price and good mood for no cost. Official start is at 19:30.

As in the last years FSFE will have a booth at the Open Rhein Ruhr. Beside the FSFE's Vice President Matthias Kirschner will give a talk about 7 misunderstandings about Free Software on Saturday at 12:20, and a talk about an endangered species: the universal computer. The event will take place at the Rheinisches Industriemuseum in Oberhausen, Germany. Entrance fee is 5 EUR.

On 29 October Bernhard Reiter will give an introduction to Free Software at the PRTR capacity-building workshop, initiated by the German Federal Environment Agency. The workshop will take place from Tuesday 29 October 2013 (all day) to Wednesday 30 October 2013 (morning only) in Berlin, Germany.

On Saturday 26 October 2013 from 14:00 to 19:00 compliance volunteers will check devices' compliance with the GNU GPL. Harald Welte from gpl-violations.org, and one of our lawyers will support the volunteers during the day in FSFE's Berlin office. The event is by invitation only, if you want to participate contact Matthias Kirschner.

At LinuxCon Europe in Edinburgh, Karsten Gerloff will discuss how technology is shifting power in our society, and what we need to do in order to put it where it belongs: With the citizens.

Karsten's talk will start at 16:40 in room Lammermuir 1.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

For the second time in FSFE's history, the General Assembly will take place in Vienna, Austria. As usual, there will be a social event on Saturday evening. Please join us at Metalab, Vienna's finest hackerspace, on Saturday, October 12, starting at 20:00 CEST. You will have the chance to discuss Free Software issues over drinks and beats with many of FSFE's GA members. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On October 4, FSFE president Karsten Gerloff will give two talks at the Paris conference Open World Forum. With five other speakers he will firsty lead the track Meshed Society and Freedom to Innovate, before presenting the talk "Public procurement: Free Software's wild frontier".

The GNU project started on September 27, 1983. This month, its anniversary is celebrated around the world by the GNU community and Free Software activists. The Berlin Fellowship group, staff members and volunteers will meet in the Berlin Hackerspace C-base on September 28, to celebrate 30 years of GNU. Join and take action everyday with GNU-a-Day, six more software freedom actions until the end of September.

From September 27 to September 29 there will be FSFE's first European Coordinators Meeting to connect our Fellowship community activities. Participation is limited to active volunteers and Fellows that receive an invitation but there will be a public event to meet on Saturday, 28.

On September 21st, the "Dia de la LLibertat Programari" (Software Freedom Day) Daniel Marti, Intern at FSFE, will give a talk about F-Droid and the "Free Your Android" campaign in Barcelona, Spain. The talk will be given at the "Centre Cultural Les Corts" and starts at 10 a.m.

Daniel Marti, Intern at FSFE, gives a talk about the "Free Your Android" campaign in Palma de Cervello, Spain. More information about time and location is to come.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On September 12, the FSFE will host a panel discussion "Internet policy - Only with Free Software?" including representatives from the biggest youth organisations of the political parties that run for the Bundestag in 2013. The panel discussion will be from 19 - 21 hours with a following stand-up reception. The event takes place in the Büro 2.0, Weigandufer 45, 12059 Berlin. The event is public and attendance for no cost.

FSFE will welcome you at the Free Village on August 31 and September 1 in Lille. Information, meetings and interesting discussions forseen!

On Saturday, 17th of August 2013, Daniel Martí, F-Droid developer and FSFE summer intern, will be hosting the second F-Droid workshop open to the public. It will take place at Büro 2.0 at 2 PM.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Wednesday, 7 August, the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in Mainz. We will meet there around 19:00 h.

On Saturday, 3rd of August 2013, Daniel Martí, F-Droid developer and FSFE summer intern, will be hosting the first F-Droid workshop open to the public. It will take place at IN-Berlin at 2 PM.

On Saturday, 3rd of August 2013, Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and the Free Software movement, will be inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society association. The induction ceremony is open to the public, but as seats are limited, you need to register.

Karsten Gerloff will give a keynote at the Euskalencounter festival in Bilbao, Spain. His talk, "All watched over by machines of loving grace", will be in Spanish, starting at 20:00 on Friday July 26.

On 3 September 2013 Matthias Kirschner will give a talk "Trusted Computing from point of Free Software developers". It is part of a one day workshop on Trusted Computing, the German Government's white paper on this topic, and what it means for companies. The event takes place at the Ministry of Economics, Invalidenstraße 48, 10115 Berlin and is invitation only.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

From July 6-11, 2013, several thousand people will come to Brussels from all over Europe to participate in the Libre Software meeting, one of Europe's largest conferences for Free Software developers, technology entrepreneurs and civil society activists. FSFE will be present with two booths, a great panel discussion and a talk by Karsten Gerloff. Come and meet us!

FSFE at the 14th edition of the Libre Software meeting in Brussels. On July 9 FSFE organises a discussion panel on Technology, Power and Freedom with some of the world's foremost advocates of digital freedom and leading members of the European Parliament (MEP) on digital issues. Participants will be Karsten Gerloff (FSFE), Eben Moglen (Columbia University), Judith Sargentini (MEP Greens/EFA), Christel Schaldemose (MEP S&D -tbc), Richard M Stallman (FSF), Nils Torvalds (MEP ALDE), Ioannis A. Tsoukalas (MEP EPP)

On Monday 24th June the Bitkom working group for Free Software is organising an event under the banner "Take home benefits". It will start at 10:00 and last until 17:15. At 16:00 Matthias Kirschner will take part in a panel discussion about the question how many Free Software organisations we need. Other participants on the panel moderated by Dr. Oliver Diedrich (heise) are Peter Ganten (OSB Alliance), Richard Seibt (OSBF e.V.), and Dr. Johannes Loxen (LA Software, BITKOM e.V.). The event will take place in the Kalkscheune, Johannisstraße 2, 10117 Berlin. Information about registration are available on the Bitkom event page.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On Saturday, June 15th, the Fellowship group Rhein/Main will be present with a booth at FUXCON, a community event that invited all usergroups in and around Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

For the first time, FSFE will participate in the Coliberator conference in Bucharest, Romania.

At the invitation of FSFE's associate organisation Ceata Karsten Gerloff will speak about technology, power and control. He will also describe FSFE's work to build public awareness for Free Software, and to create the foundations of a free information society.

Am Mittwoch, den 29. Mai, wird die Düsseldorfer Fellowship-Gruppe aktuelle Herausforderungen der Netzpolitik diskutieren. Der CDU-Bundestagsabgeordnete Thomas Jarzombek wird über "Aktuelle Themen der Netzpolitik und Herausforderungen für die nächste Legislaturperiode" referieren.

Danach freut sich MdB Jarzombek auf "ungestüme, ungefilterte und echte politische Meinung". Das Treffen findet ab 19:30 Uhr im Chaosdorf, Hüttenstr. 25, 40215 Düsseldorf statt.

FSFE will have a booth at the Toulouse Hacker Space Factory (THSF) from Mai 22 to 26, in Toulouse, France. The THSF is one of France's biggest general public meeting dealing with creative and political uses of technology. The event will take place at Mix'art Myrys.

FSFE will have several talks and a booth at Linuxtag 2013 in Berlin this year. Information, merchandising and a friendly chat will be available at our booth at Berlin's exibition ICC.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Next Friday, 17th of May, from 9.30 to 13 it will take place in Milan the "Software Etico" meeting, promoted by Joomla!Lombardia. Diego Zanga, Fellow of FSFE, will cover the subject "Free Software in Public administration" Free Software, thanks to the communities linked to projects, is today a big and accountable reality, able to give to industry and to community more advantages than propietary software. The main aim of the meeting is to show to local stakeholders - local administration, firms, associations, family groups, etc - that Free Software is viable, thanks to the sustainability of its business model, and is socially ethical and fair. The meeting will be held in Italian.

On Friday, May 17th, Michael Stemann will speak on the event #opennrw about "OpenDate through Open Standards". The talk will start at 11:45 hrs in the parlieament of North Rhine Westphalia in Dusseldorf, Germany.

FSFE will participate in the Croatian Open Systems Conference in Zagreb.

FSFE's president Karsten Gerloff will speak about technology, power and control (May 15, 11:00), and discuss FSFE's work to build a free information society (May 16, 9:00). Matija Šuklje, FSFE's legal coordinator, will hold a clinic to answer questions on licensing and other legal aspects of Free Software.

Në veprimtarinë vjetore gjithëditore në Grac, mjaft biseda paraqitjeje dhe stenda informacioni u ofrojnë vizitorëve mundësinë të përditësohen me informacion rreth GNU/Linux-it, Software-it të Lirë dhe projektesh ngjashme. Veprimtaria zhvillohet në FH Joanneum dhe duhet parë patjetër nga cilido i interesuar rreth këtyre temave.
FSFE-ja do të jetë e pranishme me një stendë informacioni dhe 2 biseda:

• Albert Dengg: "Free your Android: How free is this system really, and what can you do to improve the situation?"
• Peter Bubestinger: "Record. Mix. Master: professional audio production with Free Software!"

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The first official meeting of FSFE's Fellowship group in Bari will Will be held on Saturday, April 13th at 16:00. The meeting will be at Hotel Parco dei Principi, Viale Europa 6 (a short distance from the airport Bari-Palese). All Fellows, new and old, are invited to participate and to establish the new group and to plan our work. The meeting room is booked in the name of Marco Brushes.

On 11th of April there will be the next Berlin Fellowship meeting and it is going to take place at e-lok (next to Ostkreuz). Various topics will be discussed, among them the DFD, the Berliner Linuxtage as well as a coordinators meeting.

As usual, the Fellowship meeting is a good possibility to meet other Fellows as well as other Free Software enthusiasts. You can get good food and best drinks at e-lok for a reasonable price and good mood for no cost. Official start is at 19:30.

FSFE is present with an information and merchandise booth at the 12th "Linux-Infotag Augsburg". The event takes place on 23 March 2013 from 9:30 to 17:30 in the IT faculty of the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Admission is free.

The "Chemnitz Linux Days" is a conference that deals with GNU/Linux and Free Software. It is open for everyone, novizes and experts alike. The FSFE will be presented with a booth where you can inform yourself about our work and to get to know the people behind FSFE. Another way of presentation are two talks which will be given by Matthias Kirschner and Erik Albers.

Matthias Kirschner's topic is "Vom Aussterben bedroht: Die Universalmaschine Computer" and will talk on Saturday (16/03) at 14:00 in room V2; Erik Albers's "All about FreeYourAndroid!" will be discussed on Sunday (17/03) at 14:00 in room V1.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On 14th of March there will be the next Berlin Fellowship meeting and it is going to take place at e-lok (next to Ostkreuz). Karsten Gerloff, President of the FSFE, will be visiting the Fellowship meeting and is looking forward to meet you. On this occasion we are celebrating a GnuPG-Key-signing party with the slogan: "Key Signing Party - Have it signed by the President!"

Besides that we will discuss Berlin's DFD award that now turned into Germany's DFD award. If you like to take part in the awarding ceremony, don't miss to come to the Fellowship meeting to discuss all details.

As usual, the Fellowship meeting is a good possibility to meet other Fellows as well as other Free Software enthusiasts. You can get good food and best drinks at e-lok for a reasonable price to spend a happy evening. Official start is at 19:30.

On Tuesday, March 5th, Erik Albers gives a presentation at the CeBIT Open Source Forum about "Get full control of your device - Free Your Android". The presentation begins at 4 p.m. with a discussion afterwards. The Forum is in Hall 6, Stand F02.

Am Montag dem 4. März hält Matthias Kirschner bei der Fliegergruppe der Bundespolizei einen Vortrag zum Thema "Die zehn größten Mythen zum Thema Freier Software" mit anschließender Diskussion zur Beschaffung Freier Software. Die Veranstaltung findet um 10:00 Uhr in Sankt Augustin für Anghörige der Bundespolizei statt.

The Hackerspace in Jena, "Krautspace", is organising a "Free Your Android" workshop. Erik Albers from the FSFE will come and give the workshop. Afterwards, the participants will be able to host FYA workshops on their own and will do so in April.

The event will take place in the 'Krautspace', Jena, on 23.02. beginning at 15 hours. Please register before.

Richard Stallman, the president of the Free Software Foundation, will give a speech in the Aula Magna, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest in February 22nd. He will be speaking about "Free Software and Your Freedom". The event is organised by Fundația Ceata, a group of people based in Bucharest that fights for computer users' freedom which is now the first Romanian Free Software foundation.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On 14th of February there will be the next Berlin Fellowship meeting and it is going to take place at e-lok (next to Ostkreuz). There will be the possibility to meet other Fellows as well as other Free Software enthusiasts. This can be quite some fun, especially as it is "I love Free Software" day. In addition, you can get good food and best drinks at e-lok to spend a happy evening. Official start is at 19:30.

There is the idea of contributing to #IloveFS by presenting/spreading awesome Free Software. If you have a good software in mind, you would like to share with us and you can explain it in 3 minutes, you are welcome to promote it at our meeting!

Manchester's FSFE Fellowship group will be meeting in 'Common' at 19.30 for their monthly social exchange. All welcome.

This year, FOSDEM will be held on the 2nd and 3rd of February 2013 in Brussels. FSFE will participate with a booth and three talks. Henrik Sanklef, Vice president of FSFE, will speak about Searduino Searduino on Saturday afternoon (at 14:20); Otto Kekäläinen, our finnish fellowship coordinator, will speak about fixing public procurement on Sunday afternoon (at 16:00); Eric Albers, Outreach coordinator, will speak about Free Your Android - phone liberation parties on Sunday (at 14:00). As like every year, we're looking forward to many meetings and discussions and also to a very good time for all.

Alexander Alvaro, Vice President of the European Parliament, is hosting a "Free Your Android" event on February 1st, at 16h00. There will be talks given by Erik Albers, Dimitrios Symeonidis and Cheryl D. Miller. If you are thinking about liberating your phone, you shouldn't miss this event. And 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.

The event will take place in the 'Altiero Spinelli building', elevator G, 5th floor, room A5G375. You have to register, but registration is open and public.

At an event in France's Ministry of Economics, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will summarise the approaches that different European countries are taking towards Free Software.

To begin the GNU year, FSFE fellows and free software activists will gather for a meeting in Paris to discuss topics such as how to promote freedom and privacy-respecting Android mobile systems, and engage a debate on how to deal with social networks in the internet age with the GNU Consensus initiative. But it is also a nice opportunity for a relaxed and informal moment together, open to everybody. [See you at La Mutinerie.org, 19:00!]

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Fellow Miriam Seyffarth und der stellvertretende Deutschlandkoordinator Torsten Grote, halten ein Grundlagenseminar "Freie Software" für die Grüne Jugend Thüringen. Das Seminar beginnt um 10:30 Uhr und wird bis etwa 17.30 Uhr in der Landesgeschäftsstelle, Lutherstr. 5 in Erfurt stattfinden. Teilnahme ist kostenlos, aber die Teilnehmer müssen sich, bis Sonntag 2. Dezember registrieren.

Miriam spricht am Vormittag über Herausforderungen für Freie Sofware, vor allem im politischen Bereich. Anschließend wird Torsten das Thema vertiefen.

For this year's last Berlin Fellowship meeting, we've prepared something special for all Fellows and friends: We'll meet at the Emmaus Church near Goerlitzer Bahnhof to enjoy a talk by Volker Grabsch. Volker, having 100 CACert Assurance Points, gives us insights on daily security using encryption, key-signing and certificates!

Also, there's going to be a nice retrospective about the Free Software Year 2012. If this is still not enough: Free Gluehwein for everyone! As always, you'll find more details about the location and time at GriCal.

On December 11th at 18.00 hours, Erik Albers will give a speech about FSFE's FreeYourAndroid campaign at the Institut für Informatik, FU Berlin. The talk is organized by Spline Talks and is open for public at no charge. The talk, in German, will be held in Raum K60, Takustr. 9, 14195 Berlin.

Next weekend, on 8th and 9th December,Hannes Hauswedell, FSFE fellow and Germn Team coordinator for pdfreaders.org, is organising a mini-hackaton to finish YAFFS2-support. The event, hosted at IN-Berlin e.V., will run from Saturday (from 11) to Sunday (until 18). If you want to help, join us in Lehrter Straße, 53.

Club Mate and pizza will be provided!

The "Berliner Spindel" a group of junior staff in the Berlin administration organises an evening discussion about E-Government, Open Data, and Free Software on December 15th from 18:00 to 20:00. Matthias Kirschner is invited as an expert on Free Software, to talk about the role of Free Software for the public administration. The event takes place at the Senatsverwaltung für Gesundheit und Soziales, room 1.125 (Oranienstraße 106, 10969 Berlin)

On December 4th, Erik Albers will give a speech about FSFE's FreeYourAndroid campaign at the Netzpolitischer Abend der Digitalen Gesellschaft. The talk, in German, will be held at c-base and is open for public at no charge.

Albert Dengg of the Austrian team of the FSFE will hold a talk about the "Free Your Android" campaign at the "Linuxday" at HTL Dornbirn on November 24 at 11:00 CET.

The FSFE will be present with a booth organised by the Vienna Fellowship group at the 14th "Linuxday" in Dornbirn in the border region of Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland on November 24, 2012. In three parallel tracks, there will be talks on Free Software for Novices, Experts and Managers.

In November, FSFE will be present at the French event JDLL in Lyon, France. Every year, this event regroups organisations advocating Free Software and people giving talks over a complete week end in the center of Lyon. We'll be there the entire time from the 17th to the 18th. One of our interns, Léopold Baillard, will even be there the whole week if you want to meet with him. He will also give a talk about the Free Your Android campaign. The event takes place in Maison pour Tous - Salle des Rancy. We are looking forward to see you there!

At the South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFScon), there will be a FreeYourAndroid workshop. If you would like to attend, please register and write an email to Erik Albers . The workshop will be on November 16th at the TIS Innovation Park in Bolzano.

In the context of the South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFScon), a FreeYourAndroid "training for trainers" workshop will take place at the TIS Innovation Park in Bolzano. Attendees of this workshop are supposed to give workshops themselves. If you like to attend, please register and write an email to Erik Albers

On November 15th at 18.30, Matthias Kirschner will give a speech at the university of Jena, about computers as general purpose machines. The talk, in German, will be held in the main building (UHG), room 235 at Fürstengraben 1, Jena.

FSFE will organise the "General Purpose Computing" track. Despite the fact that computers and - more and more - portable devices are universal machines, todays hardware often comes with anti-features or Digital Restrictions Management. This track by the FSFE will focus on this ongoing and increasing process of users restrictions. Thereby it concentrates on current trends and what we are in need of to stop them.

The Fellowship of the FSFE Berlin is going to have another evening of Free Software Love on Thursday, 08 November 2012. This time, we meet again at our new default location IN-Berlin.

As always, location details can be found on the GriCal event page.There is no fixed agenda for the meeting, so expect a free-minded, happy come-together! If you have any general discussion topics or announcements they are also welcome. Please come and join, it's free for all and everyone is welcome!

On November 8, at 6.30 PM, at the Department of Computer science of the University of Milan (Via Comelico 39, 20135 Milan), it will take place a Fellowship Meeting, during which we will discuss about next Fellowship activities in Lombardia. The Meeting is open to the public.

In preparaton for the Manchester Central by-election, political candidates will answer questions on issues effecting Manchester's digital indistry. This event, organised by FSFE, the Open Rights Group, the National Union of Journalists, and No2ID, will provide an opportunity for the public to get answers to questions concerning digial policy and investment in Britain's "second city".

On November 7, Richard Stallman will give the talk "Copyright vs. Community"at the Reykjavik University . The speech will start at 19:30 ( 1, Room M101).

On November 6, Richard Stallman participates in the ICT Goes International in Helsinki. He will give a talk about "Trends in programming: Free Software and practices" at 13:50. The event is organized by HAAGA-HELIA, the University of Applied Sciences and will be held at the Auditorium, Pasila campus (Ratapihantie 13).

Richard Stallman will give another speech, in the same venue, that evening at 18:00 about "How to Begin Contributing to a Free Software Project and Do a Good Job".

Karsten Gerloff, FSFE president, will give a talk about general purpose computing as a question of power and control on Novenber, 6th in Barcelona (spain) at the LinuxcConEurope. Entitled as "All watched over by machines of loving grace?", the speech will be at 13:20 at the Hotel Fira Palace

On November 3rd at 14.00, Matthias Kirschner will give a speech at Brandenburger Linux-Infotag 2012, about computers as general purpose machines. The talk, in German, will be held at 14.00 in the University of Potsdam, at room HS2 of the 'Institut für Informatik'.

FSFE will be present at the Brandenburger Linux-Infotag 2012 with a booth. Feel free to pass by and meet the staff of FSFE. In addition, there will be a Phone Liberation Workshop as part of our FreeYourAndroid campaign. If you are interested in liberating your phone please pass by the FSFE booth at 13 hours.

On October 26, Richard Stallman participates in the Free/ Libre Culture Forum in Barcelona. He will attend and comment the presentation of the Positive Agenda for Copyright reform in Europe, a collaborative system. The event will take place in the Centro Cultural Ars Santa Monica (Las Ramblas, 7) at 13.00.

Besides, that evening he will be at the Sala magna of the Universidad de Economía de Barcelona giving a talk about "El Movimiento del Software Libre y GNU" and "Por una sociedad Digital Libre"

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Torsten Grote will give a talk about the campaign Free Your Android at the Libre Software World Conference 2012, in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). The speech will be on October 18th at 16.30 in the Cidade da Cultura City of Culture), where the event is being held.

On October 18th, Otto Kekäläinen, FSFE coordinator Finland, will explain the current status of the adaptation of LibreOffice in Finland, at the Berlin 2012 LibreOffice Conference. The talk will explain the current problems and will point out other countries experiences relevant to take into mind for Finland's LibreOffice future development. Also, it will cover Helsinki innitiatives, like Helsinki OpenOffice pilot in 2011.

Karsten Gerloff, FSFE president,will give a talk about general purpose computing as a question of power and control on October 18th in Bergen (Norway). Entitled as "All watched over by machines of loving grace?", the speech is being organised by the Bergen Linux User Group and it will be held at the Bergen public libary (Strømgaten 6)

The Fellowship of the FSFE Berlin is going to have another evening of Free Software Love on Thursday, 11 October 2012. This time, we'll be hosted by LinuxWorks! Friedrichshain at the E-Lok Jugendclub near Ostkreuz.

As always, location details can be found on the GriCal event page.
Please come and join, it's free for all and everyone is welcome!

Fellowship meeting at 19.00 in MadLab. Lightning talks followed by "hack and tell". All Fellows and non-Fellows are cordially invited to attend.

A Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00. Special guest is the deputy fellowship coordinator Erik Albers from Berlin. Erik will talk about how to organize and perform FreeYourAndroid workshops.
As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The Finnish think tank Visio organizes in Helsinki on 25th of September at 13:00-16:00 a seminar on the state of software systems in the public sector, and solve the typical quality and price issues using Free Software. FSFE is an co-organizer in the event. More information at the Finnish FOSS calendar

On September 25 at the 22nd IFIP World Computer Congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Karsten Gerloff will participate in a panel discussion on patents in software. The discussion about whether "patents enable innovation in the computer software field" is organised by the European Patent Organisation.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

We are in the middle of an intense battle about who will control the computers we'll use tomorrow. At the OpenMind conference in Helsinki, Finland, Karsten Gerloff will explain why the general-purpose computer is worth fighting for. The event is co-located with the Open Knowledge Festival. Karsten's talk starts at 11:30.

During Finland's Openmind conference, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will speak about "Free Software in the public sector: Getting it right and getting value". He will focus on migrations, procurement, and overcoming common obstacles. The event is co-located with the Open Knowledge Festival.

On September 15th the Berlin Fellowship group will held a FreeYourAndroid workshop at BeLUG's Software Freedom Day event.

On September 15th, FSFE and supporters will held a FreeYourAndroid workshop at Kiberpipa's Software Freedom Day event.

The Vienna fellowship group will hold a booth in the very busy city centre of Vienna on the corner of the Mariahilfer Staße and the Museumsquartier. From 10am until 7pm we will be answering questions at our information desk and giving out leaflets and live CDs from different free operating systems. Many of them with a specially produced CD-edition identifying the FSFE fellowship as provider of the copies. We will bring notebook computers as well to show interested passers-by how well Free Software works and how good it looks.

Fellows in Manchester will meet to determine how best to voice and video chat using Free Software. Between 14.00-17.00 in Madlab Hackerspace advocates will test which programs are compatible with which, and publish a table of results for public use.

On September 9th, Erik Albers will give a FreeYourAndroid workshop at the Software Freedom Kosova 2012. The workshop is open for all attendees of the conference.

On September 4th, Erik Albers will give a FreeYourAndroid workshop at the SmartDevCon in Katowice, Poland. The workshop is open for all attendees of the conference.

The Department of Computer Science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg is organising a conference all about Free Software in 2012 again with help of Fachschaft of Computer Science, LUUSA and FrOSCon e.V.

FSFE will again maintain a booth. Coordination is done via the the Fellowship Wiki.

Torsten Grote will explain at Campus Party the FSFE campaign "Free Your Android" as part of the Campus Party Europe event, held in Berlin. The talk will be at 16.30 at the Socrates Stage.

On August 24, Matthias Kirschner will give a speech at Campus Party. "The FSFS- Fighting for your freedom, since 1985" is the topic of this talk that will be held at 14.30 at the Socrates Stage, of this event organized in Berlin.

On August 22, Matthias Kirschner will be at Campus Party talking about "An endangered species: computer as a universal machine". The speech, at 14.30, will be held at the Socrates Stage of this event organized in Berlin.

On August 22, Hugo Roy will be at Campus Party talking about " Why Free Software needs Network Neutrality?". The speech, at 11 a.m., will be held at the Socrates Stage of this event organized in Berlin.

FSFE will once again be present at Ogg Camp with information, merchandise, leaflets, and the opportunity to join. Come and talk to FSFE's UK Fellows and Coordinator.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Fellowship meeting at 19.00 in MadLab. Fellow Francis Southern will provide an introduction to Emacs - the original Free Software text editor powerhouse. All Fellows and non-Fellows are cordially invited to attend.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

In July, FSFE will be at RMLL (Libre Software Meeting) the yearly non commercial conference with talks, workshops and round tables about Free Software and its uses. The RMLL goal is to provide a place for exchange between Free Software developers, users and stakeholders. For the first time, RMLL will be in Switzerland; at Geneva's Plainpalais. We're looking forward to meeting many of you!

More transparency in the heart of Europe: The European Parliament has built a software tool which lets the people working there track the development of proposals into laws. The Parliament is going to release this program, called AT4AM, as Free Software.

At an event in the European Parliament, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will discuss what Free Software means for democracy. FSFE's General Counsel Carlo Piana will talk about choosing the right license for AT4AM.

Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required in order to enter the Parliament building. The event is organised by the European Parliament Free Software User Group (EPFSUG), and hosted by MEP Marie-Christine Vergiat.

On July 11, Richard Stallman gives a talk talk about "Copyright vs. Community" at Campus Garching, Munich. Focus of this talk will be threats deriving from actual copyright law on scientific publishing. The event will take place in the "Rudolf-Diesel Hörsal MW 2001" of Campus Garching and starts at 6 PM.

On July 10 a delegation from the FSFE Berlin office will be present at Richard Stallman's talk about "The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System" in Dresden. We are looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible. The event will take place in room "INF E023" of the Faculty of Computer Science of the Technical University of Dresden and will start at 1.30 PM.

On July 9, Richard Stallman gives a talk about "Free software, GNU and GCC" at GNU Tools Cauldron 2012, Prague. The event will take place at room S9, Department of Maths and Physics, Charles University, Malostranske Namesti 25, Prague from 10.00 to 10.45.

On July 06, Richard Stallman gives a talk about "The New Techonological Models" at the 5th Congress of Young Entrepreneurs, Vigo. The event will take place at the Palacio de Congresos Mar De Vigo, Avenida de Beiramar 59, Vigo, Spain from 12.30 to 14.30. Please, register in order to attend the event.

On July 4th, FSFE Fellow Heiki "Repentinus" Ojasild will host a PDF readers sprint in Tallinn, Estonia, at Akademy 2012, the KDE summit. Everyone is invited to partake and help locate, remove, and replace advertisements for proprietary software on the websites of public bodies.

The event is part of our effort to stop public bodies from restricting the users' freedom and unfairly distorting the competition in favour of certain proprietary software makers. As part of the event, participants will be introduced to finding offending sites, contacting offending sites, listing offending sites on our web site, and keeping track of responses to the memoranda to offenders.

On June 27, Richard Stallman gives a talk about "Free Software and education" in Marly-le-Roi. The event will take place at the Cinéma le Fontenelle - Place de la gare, Marly-le-Roi from 10.00 to 12.00. Please, register in order to participate in the event.

On June 26, Richard Stallman gives a talk about "Free Digital Society" at the School of Computer Science of Manchester University. The event will take place at the room 1.10, Kilburn Building (School of Computer Science), University of Manchester, Manchester, UK from 17.00 to 18.30.

On June 23, Richard Stallman gives a talk about "The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System" at De Montfort University, Leicester. The event will take place at the Hawthorn Building of De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH from 13.30 to 15.30.

On June 22, Richard Stallman gives a talk about "Copyright vs. Community" at Forward company venue, Camden. Focus of this talk will be threats deriving from actual copyright law on scientific publishing. The event will take place at the Forward company venue, 19 Mandela Street, Floor 2, Centro 3, Camden, London from 14.00 to 16.00. Please, register in order to participate in the event.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Please note, that this month the Berlin Fellowship meeting will not be in the office but our friends at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. have invited us to meet at their new office at Obentrautstr. 72, Berlin 10963. We're going to meet at 19:30. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Matthias Kirschner, Coordinator of the German team, will held a public lecture on June 11th, 2012, in the HTWG Hochschule Konstanz. Topic of the lecture will be "An endangered species: computer as a universal machine" and it deals with different aspects that endanger users Freedom in the digital era. The lecture will begin at 17:30 in the Thurgau-Saal in the library of the HTWG Konstanz. Admission is free.

Fellowship meeting at 19.00 in MadLab. Jonathan Porter will present ways to combine data with Free mapping, including powerful Free Software geographical information systems (GIS) such as Quantum GIS. All Fellows and non-Fellows welcome.

The Cabinet Office will consult businesses in the North West of England on the proposed changes to UK Open Standards policy, in MadLab Hackerspace, 15.30-17.30. UK Coordinator Sam Tuke will be participating.

Torsten Grote gives a talk about how to regain control of your Android device and your data by running (almost) exclusively Free Software on your phone at the LinuxTag Berlin, Saturday 26.05.2012, 10:30 am. Torsten Grote is a member of FSFE and initiator of FSFE's freeyourandroid.org campaign. LinuxTag Berlin is a Free Software conference and exhibition in Berlin.

FSFE Fellows will run a booth at the LinuxTag event in Berlin. Information, merchandise, and a friendly chat will be available. The event will take place at "Messegelände unter dem Funkturm"

Matthias Kirschner, Coordinator of the German team, will represent the advantages of Free Software in a panel discussion at Treffpunkt WissenWerte in the Amerika-Haus Berlin. Participation is free of charge but limited by its size. Therefore, registration is requested. The panel discussion will be recorded by Inforadio (rbb) 93,1; broadcast is on 27 May at 9.22 a.m.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

FSFE is holding its annual General Assembly in Lisbon this year, and we would love to party with you! Please join us on Saturday April 28 at for a relaxed evening of drinks and conversation.

We will meet at 21:30 at Lisbon metro station Estação Baixa Chiado, exit Largo do Chiado. From there, we'll move to Galeria Zé dos Bois around 22:00.

Further details and a map are available at the website of our associate organisation ANSOL.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Fellowship meeting at 19.00 in MadLab. A report from the Web Sprint 2012 last weekend will be presented, as and important news concerning UK education and Open Standards policy will be discussed. All Fellows and non-Fellows are cordially invited to attend.

The FSFE Web team will meet to work on FSFE's websites in Manchester, UK. Focus will be on consolidating the fsfe.org experience and campaign websites, and a slew of new improvements will be applied.

Please notify the Web mailing list if you're attending.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On April 12 and 13, FSFE will be organizing its fifth edition of Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop in Amsterdam, which brings together legal experts from all over the world to discuss the future of Free Software, its licenses and the best practices in the field.

On Thursday, April 12th, at 19:30, the Berlin fellows will meet at the Berlin FSFE office (Linienstrasse 141) for a discussion on various Free Software topics. Come and join us!

On Thursday, April 11th, at 19:30, the Berlin fellows will meet at the Berlin FSFE office (Linienstrasse 141) for a discussion on various Free Software topics. Come and join us!

The British Computer Society is hosting this series of talks between 10:00 - 17:00 in central London. UK Coordinator Sam Tuke will open the event with an international historical perspective on the use of Free Software in the public sector.

FSFE Fellows have pioneered a link up between the Green Light and Chorlton Big Green festivals. There will be a Free Software talk and booth at each event and a live link up bringing environmentalists together via Free Software systems.

Fellowship meeting at 19.00 in MadLab. Bob Ham, GNU/Linux audio developer will give a talk about using the advanced JACK audio server. A report from Document Freedom Day will also be presented with followind discussion. All Fellows and non-Fellows are cordially invited to attend.

The Document Freedom Day (DFD) is the global day for document liberation. It is a day which is dedicated to promote the importance of Open Document Formats and Open Standards in general. Various kind of activities are planned by a grassroot movement all over the world. If you like to participate, look how you can get involved.

FSFE Fellows will run a booth at the UK's leading digital civil liberties community event. Information, merchandise, and a friendly chat will be available.

FSFE is present with an information and merchandise booth at the 10th "Linux-Infotag Augsburg". Further Björn Schießle will give a talk about the prospective challenges for Free Software. The event takes place on 24 March 2011 from 9:30 to 17:30 in the IT faculty of the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Admission is free.

At Maastricht University's Faculty of Law, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will participate in a round table on "New Copyright Business Models in the Age of Filesharing". He will join Meir Pugatch, Senior Lecturer, University of Haifa; Director of Research, Stockholm Network; and Claudia Zuidema, deLex publishers, Amsterdam.

The event will take place from 16:00 to 19:00 at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Feestzal (C1.306).

Manchester Fellows will meet at Arcspace Community Centre to work on the Mailpod community hosting project, inspired by Fripost. The project aims to provide local community run Free Software based email hosting with strong privacy and security.

Martin Husovec, our current legal intern will be giving presentation at workshop V 4 paradigm shift in copyright organized by Asimov Foundation. The talk "Use of FLA outside of the Free Software Communities?" will discuss whether Fiduciary License Agreemnet can be potentially of an inspiration also for the other artistic communities than Free Software one (abstract).

The "Chemnitz Linux Days" is a conference that deals with GNU/Linux and Free Software . It is open for everyone, novizes and experts alike. The FSFE will be present with a booth where you can inform yourself about our work and to get to know the people behind FSFE. In addition, Matthias Kirschner – Fellowship Coordinator and Coordinator of the German team – will give a talk about "Non-free software advertisement presented by your government" on Saturday, 17.03. at 16:30 in Raum V1.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On Thursday, March 8th, at 19:30, the Berlin fellows will meet at the Berlin FSFE office (Linienstrasse 141) for a discussion on various Free Software topics. Come and join us!

Wednesday, 7 March, the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in the Hotel Sandelmühle, Frankfurt/Main. We will meet there around 20:00 h.

As every year for Valentine's Day, the FSFE is planning an online campaign to celebrate this day as an "I love Free Software" - Day. Our online campaign aims at rising awareness to Free Software and the passionate, hard-working people behind it. You can participate in our campaign from all over the world. Show them that you appreciate their work – it could make all the difference!

This year on Valentine's Day, the FSFE organises an "I love Free Software" event at the Unperfekthaus in Essen. We would like to invite all supporters of Free Software to celebrate this day together with us. During the day, there will be workshops and talks concerning various topics about Free Software. In the evening there will be a live concert with four bands that are willing to play in support of Free Software. For more information have a look at our event-page.

On Thursday, February 9th, at 19:30, the Berlin fellows will meet at the Berlin FSFE office (Linienstrasse 141) for a discussion on various Free Software topics. Come and join us!

On February 4 and 5, FSFE will be present at FOSDEM in ULB Campus Solbosch, Brussels, Belgium. Like every year, we're looking forward to many great meetings and discussions, and a very good time for all.

Today, on 17 January 2012, Matthias Kirschner - Fellowship Coordinator of FSFE - gives a talk about "Secure/Zensur Boot: Wer kontrolliert den Computer?". The presentation takes place in the c-base (Rungestrasse 20, 10179 Berlin), and is part of the "Netzpolitische Abend", hosted by the Digitale Gesellschaft - an interest organisation concerned about internet politics and pro digital civil rights. The speech is in German. Admission is free. Event begins at 20:00.

Want to do something for Free Software? Know some HTML and CSS? Then you can help us make FSFE's website better!

Join us for our regular Web Friday today from 15:00 UTC+1. We'll meet on Jabber (conference@jabber.fsfe.org, channel: fellowship) and on IRC (#fsfe on freenode). From 15:00 to 15:30, FSFE's webmasters will explain how the build system for FSFE's website works, and get you all set up.

Afterwards, it's "pick a bug and squash it"! Drop in, enjoy great company, and meet people who are as passionate about Free Software as you are.

Whether today or at any other time, you're always welcome to contribute to the web team's work. Read here to find out how stuff works. We're looking forward to seeing you around!

On 7 December 2011 at 19:00 Reinhard Müller gives a talk about “Sustainable IT through Open Standards”. The presentation takes place in the ETH Zurich, Building HG (Rämistrasse 101), Room F33.5, and is hosted by [project 21], a student organisation concerned with sustainability. The speech is in German. Admission is free.

At the 23rd session of WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, FSFE will work with national delegates from around the world to improve conditions for the sharing of knowledge. Negotiations will center on a possible "Broadcasting Treaty", a plan to introduce a new kind of copyright which companies can acquire merely by distributing a movie, image, text or program. Please check the info about this meeting on Copyright and Related Rights.

Fellowship meeting at 19.00 in MadLab. Discussion will take place about plans for a community decentralised software hosting project, making use of a local community centre for hosting. All Fellows and non-Fellows are cordially invited to attend.

The next Fellowship meeting takes place in Leipzig, 22 November. The meeting starts at 19:30 in sublab , Karl-Heine-Str. 93. Matthias Kirschner, Germany and Fellowship Coordinator will talk about FSFE's work concerning runing and future campaigns.

Dieses Mal findet das Wiener Fellowship-Treffen im Seminarraum 188/2 (HD0407) der TU Wien, Favoritenstraße 9-11, 1040 Wien, statt. Wir treffen uns ab 18:00 Uhr - die Agenda starten wir um 19:00 Uhr. Wie immer richtet sich die Einladung an alle, die sich für die FSFE oder für Freie Software interessieren. Wir freuen uns auf eine große Teilnehmerzahl!

In November the Hamburg FSFE Fellows meet at the Roxie, Rentzelstraße 6. We will welcome Matthias Kirschner as a special guest to that Meeting, he will talk about current and planned FSFE activities.

As usual, you will find more detailed information on the wiki page.

For regular meetings, we recommend you to have a look at the wiki page and maybe also to subscribe to the mailing list.

FSFE will organise the "Free Software and Politics" track. Want to know more about Free Software on the UN level, in the European Union, and at the local level? Or learn more about FSFE's activities in the education sector or FSFE's campaigns in general? Than this is the track for you. Registration is still possible on fscons.org, Fellows obtain a 10 Euro discount on the Registration fee.

During the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit, we will have a Fellowship meeting. Help us with your ideas, get some stuff done and give us feedback.

At 16.10 Richard Stallman will speak about "The Danger of Software Patents". FSFE will have a booth at the event with information and merchandise.

At LinuxCon Europe, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will talk about current issues in Free Software policy. The talk will take place at 10:45 in the Taurus room.

Contact will seek to explore and realize the greater promise of social media to promote new forms of culture, commerce, collective action, and creativity. Technologists, artists, activists, businesspeople, funders, and other stakeholders have been invited to discuss the networked future, and come together to hatch new ideas, connect with new collaborators, and forge an ongoing community for innovating social media and beyond.

Jeremy Bennett will give a presentation on the Free Software and open hardware OpenCores architecture at the BCS Central London Offices, with a talk entitled "Open Source Software Meets Open Source Hardware: OpenCores and the OpenRISC 1000 architecture".

On Thursday, October 13th, at 19:30, the Berlin fellows will meet at the Berlin FSFE office (Linienstrasse 141) for a discussion on various Free Software topics. Come and join us!

FSFE will have a booth at the annual conference of FLOSS UK (formerly UKUUG), the UK's oldest Open Systems User Group, will take place at Manchester Conference Centre.

Matthias Kirschner will give a talk on common misunderstandings about Free Software, for instance 'You cannot earn money with Free Software', 'You cannot have copyright with Free Software', 'Free Software is only useful for programmers', 'If you change Free Software you have to give your changes to the community', 'The GNU GPL only works in the US'. This event will take place as part of Informatik 2011, organized by the Technische Universität Berlin, in in the TU main building Room H 0112, Straße des 17. Juni, EG, from 10 to 11 a.m.

At the EuropeanaTech in Vienna, a conference about exploring the technical challenges of making digital cultural and scientific information easily accessible for the public, Peter Bubestinger will give a talk titled: "Free Software and Open Formats: virtual immortality and independence for digital archives".

The conference will take place at the National Library in Vienna.

Fellowship meeting at 19.00 in MadLab. Gerry Gavigan, chairman of the Open Source Consorium, will travel from London to open the meeting with a talk. All Fellows and non-Fellows are cordially invited to attend.

At the launch conference for a database project on open innovation IT research projects, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's President, will speak on „Free Software and its role in building an innovative economy”. The event will take place at Pl. Politechniki 1, 00-661, Warsaw, Poland.

At 19.00 UK Coordinator Sam Tuke will speak about Freedom Boxes at an event organised by Manchester Free Software Society.

On Saturday, the 17th of September 2011, Software Freedom Day Events are celebrated all around the world, therefore the Vienna Fellowship is inviting you to a Software Freedom Party. The evening will be opened by a talk about legal aspects in Free Software, held by FSFE's new legal coordinator Matija Šuklje. Following this opening everybody is invited to have a nice evening at the Metalab with us. Registration is requested, but not mandatory.

The Software Freedom Day on 17th of September will also be celebrated in Hamburg in Germany. There will be a program with some talks and several free software projects as exhibitors as well as examinations of the Linux Professional Institute. Everyone is welcome to visit us, no matter if you're beginner or already have some free software knowledge.

Detailed information in german language can be found at http://sfd-hamburg.de/.

Software Freedom Day will be celebrated by FSFE Fellows in Manchester at MadLab Hackerspace together with other local Free Software groups. Expect booths and workshops in the afternoon.

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free Software. Its goal is educational, teaching people why Free Software is the best choice when it comes to using Software. Organised and coordinated by the Software Freedom International, SFD invites everyone to participate and take action on a local level.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Two FSFE representatives will be present at the cross party discussion in Edinburgh, discussing Free Software and Open Standards with a wide range of other public and private organisations.

Do you wish to learn how to check devices' compliance with GPL specifics and become a volunteer in this important campaign? Armijn of gpl-violations.org will give a one-day workshop, with an introduction by our lawyers. The event is by invitation only, if you want to participate contact Matthias Kirschner.

FSFE will take part at the Master on Free Software: September Open Sessions organized by Igalia. 9-24 September 2011 (Friday afternoon and Saturday morning during three weekends) at Edificio para la Obra Social de Novacaixagalicia, Policarpo Sanz St. number 24-26, Vigo (Spain).

On the 9th of September, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will give a talk about Software patents.

As a closure of the Master on Free Software the event will include workshops, talks and round tables with experts from the FLOSS world.

It is open to the public, no admission fee.Registration is required.

On Thursday, September 8th, at 19:30, the Berlin fellows will meet at the Berlin FSFE office (Linienstrasse 141) for a discussion on various Free Software topics. Come and join us!

From 16.00 FSFE will be holding events, including talks on Free Software philosophy, Free Software and women, and an Open Street Map workshop.

The Braderie of Lille is a popular event every year in the streets of Lille (north of France). Read all the information about the event. FSFE will have a booth there to introduce the general audience to Free Software. Don't hesitate to join us!

The booth is located Place du Vieux Marché aux Chevaux and will be animated by fellows from France, and also FSFE's President, Karsten Gerloff. If you plan to come and see us, let us know!

The Düsseldorf Fellows will have their monthly meeting at 19:30 at "Brauhaus Fuchsjagd", Gumbertstr. 181, 40229 Düsseldrf-Eller. Karsten Gerloff, President of FSFE, will visit the meeting to answer questions of the Fellows. Guests are welcome!

At 18.00 Richard Stallman will speak about "Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks". FSFE will have a booth at the event.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

FSFE will have a booth at OggCamp: a free two-day unconference for anyone who loves anything related to technology, data, culture, community, or Free Software.

Come and meet some Fellows, and pick up some leaflets and merchandise.

Join Free Software advocates on Saturday between 15.00-17.30 at MadLab hackerspace to find and remove UK Government adverts for non-Free PDF Readers. Cake and Pizza provided!

On Thursday, August 11th, at 19:30, the Berlin fellows will meet at the Berlin FSFE office (Linienstrasse 141) for a discussion on various Free Software topics. Come and meet up with a new intern!

FSFE will take part at the Desktop Summit, a joint conference organised by the GNOME and KDE communities in Berlin, Germany, 6 - 12 August 2011 at the Humboldt University.

On the 8th of August, FSFE's president Karsten Gerloff will give a talk on Free desktops for Europe's public sector (10:20-10:50, Rm 3038), FSFE's co-founder Bernhard Reiter will talk about Daily Melee: paid people within Free Software initiatives - How they tick, how to keep them and the art of behaving if you are one (14:00-14:30, Rm 2002).

Fellowship meeting at 19.00 in MadLab. All Fellows and non-Fellows are cordially invited to attend.

FSFE will have a booth at Euskal Encounter, a lan party with some 4.096 attendees. Additionally, there will be talks and an exhibition erea. Any help is welcome. At Sunday, the 24th there will be a Meeting of Fellows and friends at 17:00 at the FSFE booth. We would like to found a Fellowship Group at Basque Country/Cantabria/Galicia.

The Hamburg FSFE Fellows meet, depending on the weather, either at Cafe Sternchance or at Roxie. Please have a look at the wiki page for more detailed information.

It is recommended to pay attention on the hints at the wiki page and may also to subscribe to the mailing list.

FSFE will take part in many ways at the RMLL, one of the biggest Free Software events in France, from July 9th to 14th. While of course present with its famous information booth both during the week-end ("journées grand public") and during the week, FSFE also proposes some talks this year.

President Karsten Gerloff will give a talk on Centralised Internet Services and Problems of Power (13.07., 15:20), France Coordinator Hugo Roy will talk about the battle fought by Free Software for HTML5 online videos, UK coordinator Sam Tuke will speak about the FreedomBox concept and practical applications. Several other speakers have also been invited to talk about topics around the decentralisation of the Internet.

Whether at the booth, at the conferences or for a drink on evenings, we look forward to seeing you there!

On Thursday, July the 14th, at 19:30, the Berlin fellows will meet at the C-Base (Rungestrasse 20) for a discussion round on various topics. Come and debate with us!

On Thursday July 7, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will speak about Free Software to Members of the European Parliament. The presentation together with a representative of APRIL will take place at the first meeting of the Parliament's Intergroup on Free Software and new media in Strasbourg.

Matthias Kirschner, FSFE coordinator for activities in Germany, will present the successful PDFReaders campaign started last Autumn. The concept – removing advertisings for non-free software from public sector organisations' websites – will be explained in detail, as well as the keys to succeed in a similar action.

The talk will take place in "room 41-A fisl 1" on the 1st of July, at 16:00 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

FSFE will have a booth at this year's OKCon in Berlin, on the 29th and 30th of June. Many international speakers such as Richard Stallman will be present and give talks on open knowledge, open data and Free Software.

Fellowship meeting at 19.00 in MadLab. All Fellows and non-Fellows are cordially invited to attend.

With June of this year, the Hamburg Fellows start a new kind of Meeting, where the day in the month and the location may change from month to month. Thus it is important to pay attention on the hints at the Wiki-Page and may also to subscribe to the mailing list.

The next Meeting of the Hamburg Fellows will take place in the bar Big Easy at Osterstraße 173 in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel.

Detailed information can be found on the fellowship wiki (german only): http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Hamburg

The UK’s leading event for government ICT will be held in London at ExCeL

Come and celebrate your freedom in Ljubljana! During FSFE's annual strategy retreat in Slovenia's capital, Free Software fans will party with the members of FSFE's General Assembly and our executive at Cyberpipe [OpenStreetMap]. Starting at 21:00, we will enjoy a lively exchange of ideas over drinks and beats.

Please drop us a line to president-assist@fsfeurope.org to let us know you're coming. See you there!

For this month's fellowship meeting, Michiel de Jong, who also recently gave us an interview, will talk about his project: "Unhosted: How free software can compete with today's hosted software" (in English). Unhosted is a highly significant Free Software project for the future of personal data as well as online applications!

Please be welcome to come and listen to his talk, as well as to take part in the following discussion. Meeting is next Thursday, June the 9th, at 7:30 p.m., at the c-base.

Zusammen mit LUKi präsentiert sich die FSFE auf dem Markt der Möglichkeiten während des Evangelischen Kirchentages. Wir sind am Stand M3 G04 zu finden und freuen uns auf interessante Gespräche. Eine herzliche Einladung an alle, die sich schon immer über Freie Software informieren wollen oder die konkrete Fragen zum Einsatz von Freier Software (nicht nur) im kirchlichen Umfeld haben. Hoffentlich können wir viele von den Vorteilen Freier Software überzeugen!

At the 5th European meeting of Green local councillors in Berlin, Germany, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will hold a workshop on Free Software in the public sector. Together with a practicioner from a city that bases its administration on Free Software, Green local councillors from across Europe will discuss how they can make use of Free Software in their own towns.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Fellowship meeting at 19.00 in MadLab. All Fellows and non-Fellows are cordially invited to attend.

On Sunday, May the 22nd, FSFE offers a robots workshop in its Berlin office, Linienstraße 141, 10115 Berlin.

Flashed with Free Software, these robots can be programmed very easily to explore the room, follow a black line on the ground, avoid obstacles… The aim being that the participants can then offer such a nice workshop in schools.

See also the freedroidz website maintained by people at tarent, who initiated and co-organises the event.

OpenTech 2011 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference on slightly different approaches to technology, transport and democracy

From Thursday, May 19th, to Saturday, May 21st, in Settala (Milan, Italy) there will be the "Brain Jumble", an event for wider distribution of Free Software in businesses and public administrations. Diego Zanga, a member of the FSFE Italian group, will attend the event in the mornings of May 19th and 20th with a talk for businesses "Benefits for small and medium-sized businesses using Free Software" and a talk for public administrations "Free Software in public administrations". The event will be held in Giuseppe Verdi 8/c, Settala (MI), from 9:00 to 15:30.

The World Information Society Day is a worldwide event dedicated to societal changes brought about by the Internet and new technologies. Take this opportunity to share with your community the advantages of Free Software and the empowering tools that it can offer citizens. Send in your planned and proposed activities to celebrate this day.

FSFE will have a stand at the LinuxTag in Berlin. Of course, everyone is invited to meet us at the booth and have a chat. Furthermore, on Thursday evening, May the 12th, we invite everyone to join us around 7 p.m. to go eat or drink something all together. This will be our Fellowship meeting for May.

On Saturday 30.04.11 (NOT 23.04. as first announced) at 19:00 the first Fellowship meeting in Augsburg will take place, and you're very welcome to the event! The meeting will be held in the Café Bistro Bismarck, Bismarckstr. 7, 86159 Augsburg. There is no fixed program but many ideas and topics to discuss! We simply want to get together and chat about Free Software.

At Ignite Amsterdam 8, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will present the ideas of Free Software and explain why Freedom matters in the digital society. The Ignite event will take place at Mediamatic Bank, Vijzelstraat 68, 1017 HL Amsterdam . Doors open at 20:00.

Tickets cost 7€ (students 50% discount, 65+ free entrance).

On 20. April the Hamburg Fellows will meet again. The meeting will take place in Roxie on the Rentzelstraße 6. Guests are very welcome.

Detailed information can be found on the fellowship wiki (german only): http://wiki.fsfe.org/groups/Hamburg

On Thursday, April the 14th, at 7:30 p.m., the Berlin fellows will meet at FSFE's Berlin office (Linienstraße 141) for a discussion round on various topics. Come and debate with us!

At the annual all-day event in Graz, lots of presentation talks and information booths offer visitors the possibility to catch up on information about GNU/Linux, Free Software and related projects. The event location is the FH Joanneum and the event is an absolute 'must see' for everyone interested in those topics.
FSFE will be present with a information booth, and Peter Bubestinger holds a speech titled "Free Software and art(ists): Here be dragons!"

At this year's "Landesjugendkongress", organised by the youth wing of the German Green Party, Björn Schießle will hold a workshop about Free Software. The workshop will take place in Würzburg, Germany.

A public conference and panel discussion about Free Software will be hosted by Germany's SPD party. The meeting takes place (in German) at the Bundesparteizentrale, Wilhelmstraße 141 / Ecke Stresemannstraße, at 7 p.m.

Bernhard Reiter, an experienced & long-standing FSFE member will deliver a speech, the theme of the event is "Cost-effectiveness improvement through Free Software implementation". Nicolas Jean will attend with further information materials.

Manchester's first local Fellowship meeting takes place this Thursday at 19.00, and the first Thursday of each following month! All Fellows and non-Fellows are cordially invited to attend MadLab, who have generously agreed to host us. This initial meeting will be used to plan topics and activities for future meetings.

FSFE is getting 10 years this month. A good age to celebrate with you. In Berlin we start on Thursday evening at 21:00 in the C-Base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin (S+U Jannowitzbrücke). All Free Software supporters are invited to join the party. Please send a short e-mail to Matthias Kirschner, so we know how many people to expect.

"You are a software company or start-up in this field and wish to have an overview of your possibilities to earn woney with Free Software?". This question is the starting point of the "Earn Money With Free Software" conference, organised by the Technologiestiftung Berlin. They want to bring many people with different backgrounds to offer a large panel of answers. FSFE Co-founder Georg Greve and FSFE current President Karsten Gerloff, among others, will hold talks there starting at 6 p.m. For more information and registration, please see this page.

In Munich on March 30? Come and celebrate Document Freedom Day with us at Café Netzwerk, Luisenstr. 11, 80333 München (U-Bahn: Königsplatz). Starting at 18:30, there will music, short talks from FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff, Florian Effenberger of the Document Foundation, and others, and a good time for all!

If you're coming, please drop us a mail at dfd2011-munich@fsfe.org. Registration isn't required, but we'd like to have a rough idea of how many people will attend. Further information is available here.

Talk by Sam Tuke for Document Freedom Day will be held in the Friends Meeting House in the center of Manchester at 19.00.

Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It is a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Open Document Formats and Open Standards in general.

FSFE is present with an information and merchandise booth at the 10th "Linux-Infotag Augsburg". Further Björn Schießle will give a talk about the prospective challenges for Free Software. The event takes place on 26 March 2011 from 9:30 to 17:30 in the IT faculty of the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. Admission is free.

After the "Linux-Infotag" in Augsburg, Fellows from the region meet in the restaurant Alt-Athen, where the Linux-Infotag's social event also takes place. All Fellows are cordially invited. If you want to join, please add yourself to the list of attendees at the wiki page for the social event.

Free Software's biggest celebrity will be speaking at six venues on a brief UK tour. Registration is open and required. Dates:

• Cambridge on Tuesday, 1st March 2011
• Preston on Wednesday, 2nd March 2011
• Dundee on Thursday, 3rd March 2011
• Sheffield on Saturday, 5th March 2011
• London on Monday, 7th March 2011
• Brighton on Tuesday, 8th March 2011

FSFE President Karsten Gerloff will give a talk at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. He will speak about "Freedom, Software and Power" on March the 3rd, at 15:30. His talk will take place in Hall 2, booth F40.

FSFE will present a booth with information and merchandise. Sam Tuke will present a talk and be available for questions.

Members of FSFE's British Team will attend the UK's first ODF Plugfest in Maidenhead, near London. The goal of the event is to improve interoperability between ODF implementations, and discuss new and proposed features of the ODF specification.

The Berlin Fellowship group will meet in the Berlin office of FSFE, in the Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin. We'll be there from 19:30. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On February 5 and 6, FSFE will be present at FOSDEM in ULB Campus Solbosch, Brussels, Belgium. Like every year, we're looking forward to many great meetings and discussions, and a very good time for all. FSFE will share its booth with the GNU project. Karsten Gerloff will speak about "Power, Freedom, Software", while FSFE Fellowship Coordinator Matthias Kirschner will discuss the PDFreaders campaign.

At a seminar (it) held in the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Trento, Italy, FSFE's president Karsten Gerloff will discuss policy issues relating to Free Software and Open Standards in Europe and around the world. His talk will take place Room 9, from 4pm. to 6pm. The event is open to the public.

A Fellowship meeting takes place on 18 November 2010 in Zurich. We meet at 18:30 in the ID-Lounge, Stampfenbachstrasse 69. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

This month, the Berlin Fellowship group will meet in the Berlin office of FSFE, in the Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin. We'll be there from 19:30. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Am Mittwoch den 15. Dezember 2010 wird Matthias Kirschner beim Fellowship-Treffen in Hamburg einen Vortrag über „Demokratie braucht Freie Software“ halten. Dabei geht es darum, uns zu fragen: Lassen wir uns aus Bequemlichkeit zentral kontrollieren? Oder nutzen wir Freie Software, um Systeme zu schaffen, in denen die Macht bei uns allen liegt? Wir freuen uns, euch ab 19:30 Uhr in den Räumen des Attraktor e.V., Mexikoring 21, Hamburg City Nord zu sehen!

Die FSFE-Fellowship-Gruppe Leipzig lädt ein ins Kulissenzimmer des sublab zu seiner „Montagsrunde: Freie Software“ zum kennenlernen, diskutieren, socializen und lekker Vorträge hören. Am 13.12.2010 um 20:00 Uhr geht es allgemein um Freie Software. Ein Vortrag führt in das Thema ein, die anschließende Diskussion bietet viel Raum für eigene Fragen und Gedanken. Mehr Infos zur Anfahrt und Themen finden Sie auf dem Wiki oder auf der Seite der Leipziger Fellowship-Gruppe. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen, die den Themenbereich „Freie Software – Freie Gesellschaft“ spannend finden. Wir freuen uns darauf, Sie dort zu sehen!

This month again, the Berlin Fellowship meeting will be in the Newthinking Store, in the Tucholskystr. 48, 10117 Berlin. We'll be there from 19:30. Ali Gündüz will make a presentation there on "Free Software GSM". The talk will be aimed at those without any prior knowledge of GSM protocols. "You have gotten used to the idea of Android and Meego? Let's see what you'll think about the possibility of Free Software handling what your cell phone is primarily made for" announces Ali Gündüz. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

At a conference in Badajoz, in the Spanish region of Extremadura, public administrations from across Europe are exchanging experiences and plans regarding Free Software. FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff has been invited to share recent developments in European policy concerning Free Software and Open Standards.

At WIPO's committee on development and "intellectual property", WIPO's member states will debate how rules for copyright, patents and trademarks can help to promote social and economic development. FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff and intern Maelle Costa will participate to give FSFE's input to the discussion. Topics on the agenda include collaborative projects and patents.

Technology standards are a powerful tool to promote or stifle software innovation. For Free Software, it is critical that even patented technologies which are included in standards can be implemented without restrictions. At a conference in Brussels organised by the European Commission, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will participate in a panel on Free Software and standardisation.

A Fellowship meeting takes place on 18 November 2010 in Zurich. We meet at 18:30 in the "Pausenraum" of the "Spielwerkstatt Murmel", Kanonengasse 16, first floor (Zeughaus 5, old barracks in Zurich's city center, upstairs, down the corridor until the end). As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

FSFE's edu-team will organize a jabber meeting on Wednesday 17th of November to prioritize the activities to come and discuss the recent developpment in the field of Free Software in education. From 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., you are warmly invited to participate in the fellowship-jabber meeting to join the discussion on the future of the education activity. What is your opinion on Free Software and education? Got any ideas? You can easily find details on how to join the chat on the wiki.

Wissen ist Macht – vom Mittelalter bis heute. Wer die Strukturen beherrscht, über die wir Wissen austauschen, kontrolliert unsere Kommunikation. Darüber wird Matthias Kirschner in seinen Vortrag „Freiheit, Macht, Software“ reden. Um 12:20 fängt er an, und ihr seid alle herzlich eingeladen, zu kommen. Das OpenRheinRuhr findet im Rheinischen Industriemuseum in Oberhausen statt. Der Eintritt kostet 3€ für einen Tag und 5€ für die zwei Tage.

At this year's South Tyrol Free Software Conference, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will speak about Free Software and business innovation. Henrik Sandklef of FSFE's Swedish team will give an overview of the situation regarding Free Software in Sweden.

Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required.

FSFE has been invited by the Berlin Debating Union to make a speech at its first Knowledge Sharing Evening of the year. Matthias Kirschner's speech will begin at 7p.m., and then the public will have time to ask questions. on 8.15p.m., a debate around the topic of Free Software will start. Therefore, the Berlin Fellowship meeting of November 11th will exceptionnally take place in the Humboldt University's main building, in the Orbis Humboldtianus, above the Audimax (entrance Dorotheenstr 17). The Knowledge Sharing Evening will attract students from all the universities of Berlin, we hope to see you there too !

Die FSFE fellowship Gruppe Leipzig lädt ins Kulissenzimmer des sublab ein zum kennenlernen, diskutieren, 'socializen' und lekker Vorträge hören. Ab 8.11.2010 (20:00 Uhr) heißt es jeden 2. Montag im Monat: Bühne frei für Freie Software. Die "Montagsrunde: Freie Software" ist eine offene Veranstaltung rund um sozio-kulturelle Fragen Freier Software. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen, die den Themenbereich "Freie Software - Freie Gesellschaft" spannend finden. Mehr Infos finden Sie auf dem Wiki oder auf der Seite der Leipziger Fellowship Gruppe.

FSFE is co-organising the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS). 'Divide and Reconquer: Regaining Control Of Our Communications' will be FSFE's own track, including five talks exploring freedom and control in everyday online communication.

The Fontys University of Applied Science in Eindhoven hosts the 5th edition of T-DOSE on November 6-7 2010. FSFE will present a booth with information and materials about Free Software. The precise schedule of the event is available online. We are looking forward to see you there !

The University of Potsdam hosts the 7th Brandenburger Linux Information day (BLIT). FSFE will present a booth with information and materials about Free Software in higher education, and in the workplace. Additionally, the FSFE will have a debating workshop open to the public where people will have the possibility to reflect and debate about the stakes of Free Software and Open Standards. Entry to this event is free of charge. Bring your questions about Free Software with you!

Wednesday, 3 November, the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in the Hotel Sandelmühle, Frankfurt/Main. We will meet there around 20:00 h.

The European Commission's Diretorate General Information Society is organising a day of workshops to develop "Big Ideas" for the Commission's Digital Agenda. FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will participate to explore possibilities for a free cloud.

Georg Greve, FSFE's Founder, will speak at the TEDxRheinNeckar event in the university of Mannheim, Germany. Georg's talk will deal with the "Meaning of Free Software for society". If you are interested in attending the TEDxRhienNeckar, just take some time to register (registration fee to be paid).

At the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva, the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents meets for its 15th session. Topics to be discussed include the patentability of software and the relation between patents and standards. FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff is participating in the meeting in order to help create rules, laws and practices that are favourable to Free Software.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

This month again, the Berlin Fellowship meeting will be in the Newthinking Store, in the Tucholskystr. 48, 10117 Berlin. We'll be there from 19:30. Torsten Grote will do a presentation on "Centralised Internet Services and Problems of Power". This talk will illustrate the trend towards centralised services and explain the reasons for this trend. It will conclude with some solutions and strategies that can help users to remain in control of their computing and their data. Other topics for this meeting are the ongoing PDF readers campaign, and the two events to come : FSCONS and BLIT, both on the 6th of November.

As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Over the week-end, the FSFE web team will meet to work on FSFE's website. A new design for the FSFE will be implemented, and a slew of new improvements will be applied. For this unique gathering, we need Developers (HTML, CSS, XSLT, Perl), good English speakers/writers and translators (of all languages). For more details on the activities that will be undertaken, please consult the schedule

The Web sprint will take place in FSFE's Berlin Office, in the Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin. Contributors get free snacks and refreshments. If you want to spend some time with the web team but not distract their work, join us for dinner - departing from Linienstr. at 19.00 on Friday and Saturday, and 18.00 on Sunday.

Wednesday, 6 October, the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in the kp-21, Bachmannstraße 2-4, 60488 Frankfurt/Main. We will meet there around 20:00 h.

At the IRILL conference on Free Software research taking place in Paris, France, both FSFE's current President Karsten Gerloff and founding President Georg Greve will speak during the opening session. Karsten's talk is titled "Enlightening! Free Software research in context". Georg will discuss "Free Software and the playing field". Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required.

At the Westminster eForum Seminar on September 23, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will deliver a keynote address on "Free Software in business and in government." More information can be found here.

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free Software. Take this opportunity to share with your community the advantages of Free Software in business, education, the public sector and at home. Visit the SFD website for more details of events in your area, ideas for activities, and to register your participation.

To celebrate Software Freedom Day, Karsten Gerloff will give a talk at a celebration in the Royal Library of The Hague, Netherlands. The event will take place on the 18th of September, for more information you can have a look at the agenda.

If you want to know more about FSFE's involvment in the SFD 2010, please consult our information page.

On 17 and 18 September 2010, the first FrOSCamp will take place on the premises of the ETH Zurich in the CHN building of the Zentrum campus, Universitätsstrasse 16, Zurich. Reinhard Müller will hold a speech titled "Free yourself - how to save the world in five easy steps" (in German), and FSFE will present its work and the Fellowship at an information booth. Admission to the event is free of charge, and no registration is required.

Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's President, will speak at a workshop of this year's Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Vilnius, Lithuania. The subject is "Data in the Cloud: Where do Open Standards fit in?". The workshop will take place on Thursday, September the 16th, from 14:15 to 16:15. FSFE has been involved in the IGF since its first edition in 2006, and is part of the Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards.

The Berlin Linux User Group – BeLUG – meets on the 15th of September, 2010, at 18:00 for a presentations evening. Torsten Grote (FSFE) will speak about Cloud Computing & Software as a Service (SaaS). The presentations, meetings and workshops are free of charge. The meeting is open to all GNU/Linux enthousiastics. We meet at the IN-Berlin, Lehrter Str. 53, 10557 Berlin-Mitte More Information is to be found here.

Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's President, will speak at the TEDxEutropolis event in Heerlen, Netherlands, organized by the TEDx program of the TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design). The Eutropolis intends to gather the brightest ideas to forge an economic and cultural centre out of border regions of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Karsten's talk will start at 11:35. If you are interested in attending the TEDxEutropolis, just take some time to register (registration fee to be paid).

The Braderie of Lille is a popular event every year in the streets of Lille (north of France). FSFE will have a booth there to introduce the general audience to Free Software. Don't hesitate to join us!

The booth is located Place du Vieux Marché aux Chevaux and will be animated by fellows from France, and also FSFE's President, Karsten Gerloff and Rainer Kersten. If you plan to come and see us, let us know!

Wednesday, 1 September, the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in Frankfurt: We are going to meet in the kp-21, Bachmannstraße 2-4, 60488 Frankfurt/Main. We will meet there around 20:00h. Further details can be found in the wiki.

The KDE e.V. and FSFE office in Berlin invites you to their office BBQ and KDE 4.5 release party from 17.30 on Friday 27 August in the Linienstr. 141. The office is in the backyard.

We will take care of the drinks, the bread, salad and the grill. Please bring yourself and your prefered food!

If you plan to attend, let us know before 20 August.

This month again, the Berlin Fellowship meeting will be in the Newthinking Store, in the Tucholskystr. 48 10117 Berlin. We'll be there from 19:30. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On Friday, 6 August 2010, at 19:00, a Fellowship meeting will take place in the restaurant “Roter Ochs” in Forchheim. Everybody interested in an exciting discussion in restaurant with a good network connection is invited. Please tell us at dus@office.fsfeurope.org if you are planning to attend.

In connection with the GUADEC 2010 conference, GNU contributors are invited to attend the European GNU Hackers Meeting at the Hague in Netherlands. The special focus of the meeting will be “building decentralized GNU applications” with an emphasis on privacy and security. Attendees are requested to register.

At FISL 11 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, FSFE's President will talk about how to carry the ideas of software freedom into the world of cloud computing and software as a service. The talk starts at 18:00 local time.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

At 12:00 Karsten Gerloff, President of FSFE, will talk about Haciendo mas - El Software Libre en la empresa at Parque teconogico Zamudio, Edificio ESI, Room no 204, Zamudio. No entrance fee, guests are welcome.

At 16:00 misc. Fellows and representatives of organisations from northen Spain and FSFE's president Karsten Gerloff will meet at Universidad de Deusto, Campus Bilbao, Faculdad de Ingeneria, 2o pisto, 211bis, Sala de Videoconferencias. Whoever is interested, should feel invited to join.

Please join us for the first Fellowship meeting in Bilbao with FSFE's president Karsten Gerloff. At 21:00 we'll meet at Bar “Bilbao”, Plaza Barria, Bilbao. Guests are very welcome, Fellow or not. If you're coming, please send a quick email to rk@office.fsfeurope.org.

At 20:00 the first Fellowship meeting at Donostia/San Sebastian will take place at the Restaurant “Kaska Zuri”, Paseo de Salamanca, Donostia/San Sebastian. FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will meet with Fellows and other Free Software supporters from the region. Everyone is welcome. The restaurant is located 2 min from the central bus station at the Boulevard. If you're coming, please send a quick email to rk@office.fsfeurope.org.

The 2010 Libre Software Meeting is a non commercial conference with talks, workshops and round tables about Free Software and its uses. The LSM provides a place for exchange and meeting between Free Software developers, users and stakeholders. This year, it will be at Bordeaux 1 University.

Update: The FSFE will present its activities at a booth. We are still looking for helpers at that booth. Whoever is interested to join should contact rk@office.fsfeurope.org.

A Fellowship meeting takes place on 8 July 2010 in Zurich. We meet at 18:30 in the "Pausenraum" of the "Spielwerkstatt Murmel", Kanonengasse 16, first floor (Zeughaus 5, old barracks in Zurich's city center, upstairs, down the corridor until the end). As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

This time, the Graz Fellowship meeting will be in Realraum, located in the Jakoministraße 16, 8010 Graz. We'll be there from 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

On Wednesday, June 30 2010, the first Aachen Fellowship meeting will take place at the "Labyrinth", Pontstr. 156, 52062 Aachen. FSFE's president Karsten Gerloff will also attend. At this evening, no worldcup match is scheduled. Guests are welcome!

Every time the members of FSFE's general assemblyhave their annual meeting, we have a get-together with the local community on Saturday evening. We would like to meet you, have a lot of Free Software discussions with you, and talk with you about your perception of the Free Software situation in Italy and what we can do. When: Saturday June 19 2010, 18:00. Where: Hotel Bemelmans Post, Ritten/Renon, Bolzano, Italy. Information to get there.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

“LinuxTag” is one of the largest exhibitions on Free Software in Europe. This year, Matthias Kirschner will talk about “The 8 misunderstandings of Free Software” and Torsten Grote with Karsten Gerloff, President of FSFE, will talk about Cloud Computing. The event will take place at the Berlin fairgrounds, Messedamm 22, 14055 Berlin, Entrance: Hall 7. Visitors must book a ticket (more information).

Topic: OpenStreetMap - the Wikipedia of maps
When: Thursday 10.06.2010 18:00
Where: Demola, Väinö Linnan aukio 15 (3rd floor) Tampere
GIS-expert Jukka Rahkonen tells about the OpenStreetMap-project and how you can contribute to it with your own GPS-device and how you can use OSM-data to make your own maps and GIS-services that comply with the OGC-standards.
Admission to the event is free. No registration is required, but if you plan to attend, please drop us a line at finland at fsfeurope.org.

The next in our series of regular Fellowship Meetings in Göteborg takes place on Thursday, June 3. The location is Gnutiken in Övre Husargatan 27. Everyone is welcome to attend.

On 2 June at 20:00 there will be a Fellowship meeting in the restaurant "Schwarzes Schaf", Erzstraße 46, 57076 Siegen. Christian Holz, FSFE's Executive Director, will be there, too. Guests are welcome.

Due to organisational issues, this meeting is delayed to Wednesday June 23rd. Our apologies for the inconvenience. Julia Klein, the newly elected Fellowship representative, organises a jabber meeting together with Torsten Grote, German Coordinator Matthias Kirschner and French Coordinator Hugo Roy to answer fellows' questions about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Everybody who would like to ask her/his questions about ACTA or FSFE's position on this issue is invited to our next Jabber Meeting, online at our fellowship chat room on Wednesday, 2nd June at 20:00 CEST.

Numerous talks for beginners and experts will take place at the University of Applied Science Eisenstadt, with a focus on Free Software in education. FSFE will be present with a information booth, and Peter Bubestinger holds a speech titled "Freedom of education in the digital age? Free Software!"

FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will give "A policy update from the European Union" regarding Free Software and Open Standards during a webinar organised by Red Hat, titled "Open Your World". The webinar will be streamed from 14:45 CET (13:45 UTC), and Karsten will speak from 15:45 CET. He will share the virtual stage with OFE's Graham Taylor.

A Fellowship meeting takes place on 20 May 2010 in Zurich. We meet at 18:30 in the "Pausenraum" of the "Spielwerkstatt Murmel", Kanonengasse 16, first floor (Zeughaus 5, old barracks in Zurich's city center, upstairs, down the corridor until the end). As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The Department of Business Information Management and Logistics of the Technical University Tampere and the Agora Center of the University Jyväskylä have done a study about Free Software in Finnish schools. On 12 May 2010 at 18:00 in Demola, Väinö Linnan aukio 15, 3rd floor, Tampere, researcher Kimmo Wideroos will present the results and conclusions, and afterwards there will be an open discussion about the potential and possibilities of Free Software in schools.
Admission to the event is free. No registration is required, but if you plan to attend, please drop us a line at finland at fsfeurope.org.

For three days, the old Vienna town hall hosts this year's "Linuxwochen" event with many interesting talks, information booths and workshops. FSFE will be present with a information booth, and Peter Bubestinger holds a speech titled "Freedom of education in the digital age? Free Software!"

FSFE is receiving this year's Theodor Heuss Medal. On Friday, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will speak on "Capitalism and Responsibility" during a colloquium organised by the Theodor Heuss Foundation. Gesine Schwan, a former candidate for the President of Germany, will open this event on "The social market economy and globalisation". The award ceremony will take place on Saturday from 10:30 to 12:15. It will be recorded by the German TV channel Phoenix. Both events are by invitation only. We have a small number of invitations left. Please contact the German team if you would like to join us. Friday's event will take place from 14:00 to 18:00 at Literaturhaus Stuttgart. The award ceremony on Saturday will take place at the Alte Reithalle Stuttgart.

The Stuttgart Fellowship group will meet at Cafe Stella, Hauptstätter Straße 57, 70178 Stuttgart on 06 May 2010 at 8.00. We will celebrate the Theodor Heuss Medal together with Matthias Kirschner (Germany- and Fellowship-Coordinator). Everybody is welcome to celebrate with us.

On 6 May it is once again time for a Fellowship-meeting in Gothenburg. The meeting will be held at Gnutiken in Övre Husargatan 27, and will commence at 6 pm. Everyone are invited.

Date and time: 26.05.2010 19:30 CEST
Location: "Friedrichskrone" Talstraße/Kirchfeldstraße in Dusseldorf
Topics: Everything the participants like to
Guests are very welcome.

Starting at 9:00am, the Donau-Universität Krems invites teachers, pupils, parents and everyone interested to inform themselves about the benefits of using Free Software and GNU/Linux in school environments. The FSFE will be present with a stand, and Peter Bubestinger will give a speech titled "Freedom of education in the digital age? Free software!" (in German).

On 25 April 7pm Matthias Kirschner will explain what Free Software is, talk about its importance for society and why politicians should bother about this topic. Organiser of the event is the youth organisation of the Green party. Everybody interested is invited to join the presentation and the discussion afterwards. The speech takes place in the "Kreishaus der Jugendarbeit", Marktstraße 48, 71522 Backnang.

A whole day at the FH Joanneum stuffed with presentations and talks offers the possibility for interested users, system administrators and software developers to extend their knowhow about GNU/Linux and Free Software. FSFE will be present with a information booth, and Peter Bubestinger holds a speech titled "Freedom of education in the digital age? Free Software!"

On 21 April 6pm Matthias Kirschner will give a talk at the BLUG in Berlin to talk about the importance of Free Software for our society. The speech takes place in the Lehrter Straße 53, 10557 Berlin-Mitte. Everybody interested in Free Software is invited to the speech.

The Hamburg Fellowship group meeting will take place at 19:30 at the Roxie, Rentzelstr. 6, 20146 Hamburg (near university). For details see Hamburg Fellowship group.

The event at the University of Arts in Linz offers workshops, hacklabs, presentations and performances in the area of digital arts and culture. FSFE is present with a booth where everybody is welcome to talk about Free Software over a nice cup of coffee.

The Finnish team coordinator Otto Kekäläinen holds a presentation (in Finnish) about the Free Software Foundation Europe, which after the evening continues with informal discussion about free software.

The meeting is open to all and there is no compulsory registration. However, we recommend you drop us a line at finland@fsfeurope.org so that we can reserve enough refreshments for everybody.

Location: Demola, 3rd floor, meeting room GAIA (Väinö Linna's square 15, Tampere)
Time: wed 14 April 2010 at 6 pm

The Freedom Task Force, FSFE's legal and licensing department, will hold the third European Licensing and Legal Workshop on the 8th and 9th of April 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This conference will provide legal experts a forum for discussions on supply chain management, compliance procedures, licence management and other legal issues related to the growth of the European Free Software market. There is limited space available at the event and attendance for non-network members is by invitation only.

The local Fellowship group will meet on april 8th. The location is as always the NewThinkingStore at Tucholskystraße 48. Lena will talk about “Women, Equality and (Free) Software”. Guests are welcome to join in and chat about issues around Free Software.

On 8 April it is once again time for a Fellowship-meeting in Gothenburg. The meeting will be held at Gnutiken in Övre Husargatan 27, and will commence at 6 pm. Everyone are invited.

On March 31, people and groups around the world will celebrate Document Freedom Day to raise awareness for Open Standards and open document formats. The campaign takes place for the third time under FSFE's stewardship. The campaign website lists ideas for getting active. Come and celebrate document freedom with us!

This time, the Graz Fellowship meeting will be in Realraum, located in the Jakoministraße 16, 8010 Graz. We'll be there from 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

ACTA is an international agreement on copyright and patents which several developed countries are currently negotiating in secret. While no official texts have been published, numerous leaked documents indicate that the treaty would further restrict our freedom to share and re-use knowledge. The European Commission's DG TRADE is holding a stakeholders' consultation meeting to inform Europeans about the state of play of the negotiations. FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will attend the meeting and represent the interests of Free Software.

The event is open to the public, but registration is required. The European Commission promises to make a web stream of the event available.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

A Fellowship meeting takes place on 18 March 2010 in Zurich. We meet at 18:30 in the "Pausenraum" of the "Spielwerkstatt Murmel", Kanonengasse 16, first floor (Zeughaus 5, old barracks in Zurich's city center, upstairs, down the corridor until the end). As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The initial Hamburg Fellowship group meeting will take place at 19:30 at the Roxie, Rentzelstr. 6, 20146 Hamburg (near university). For details see Hamburg Fellowship group.

FSFE will have a booth at “LinuxTage”, one of the most important event about Free Software in Germany. The event will feature Martin Gollowitzer's OpenPGP smartcard workshop, and talks by Lena Simon on Women and Free Software, FSFE's German Coordinator Matthias Kirschner about 8 misunderstandings of Free Software and FSFE's President, Karsten Gerloff, will speak of Strategic Licensing. As in the last years a ticket for the conference will cost € 5. Reduced fee will be € 3. Tickets are valid on both days and can be bought directly at the entrance to the conference. A reservation is neither necessary nor possible. A ticket pre-sale is also not planned. The event takes place at Hörsaal- und Seminar-Gebäude der Technischen Universität Chemnitz, Reichenhainer Straße 90, 09126 Chemnitz.

Am 11.03.2010 um 19:30 trifft sich die Berliner Fellowshipgruppe im NewthinkingStore in der Tucholskystraße 48. Diesmal berichtet Karsten Gerloff, Präsident der FSFE, von seiner aktuellen Arbeit und beantwortet Fragen. Außerdem geht es um die Organisation des diesjährigen Document Freedom Days. Gäste bei dem Treffen sind wie immer herzlich willkommen.

At this year's CeBIT, FSFE is represented with two speakers, bringing new insights and taking a look ahead at what the future holds. On Wednesday at 13:00, FSFE's Germany coordinator Matthias Kirschner will present "8 Misunderstandings about Free Software - or are they lies?" On Thursday at 14:00, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will speak about "Opening up the market for Free Software: The battle for Interoperability". Both talks will take place in Hall 2. Registration for the event is possible.

Starting Wednesday, March 3, the Gothenburg FSFE team is reviving its Fellowship group with monthly meetings. The meetings will take place in Gnutiken at 18:00, and are open to everyone.

FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will speak about "Free Software: 10 Myths and the Truth" at the Eupen Center for Further Education (ZAWM). The talk will be in German. Afterwards, there will be lots of space for questions and discussion. The event is public, please register with schneider AT zawm.be.

During February Fellows can elect a second representative for FSFE's General Assembly. The Fellow who will be elected will serve a two year term.

This time, the Graz Fellowship meeting will be in Realraum, located in the Jakoministraße 16, 8010 Graz. We'll be there from 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The Berlin Fellowship group will meet at the NewthinkingStore at 7.30 pm in Tucholskystraße 48. Ali Gündüz will talk about complete free GNU/Linux Distributions. Another topic will be the FOSDEM 2010 and the DFD organisation. Guests are always welcome.

The Stuttgart Fellowship group will meet at Sophies Brauhaus on 11 February 2010 at 8.00 pm in Marienstraße 28. Thomas Jensch will talk about FSFEs Edu-Team. Another topic will be the re-start of a regular Fellowship meeting in Stuttgart.

FSFE will have a booth at FOSDEM, the ultimate European event organized by the community, for the community. The goal of this meeting is to provide Free Software developers a place to meet. No registration necessary. The event takes place at ULB Campus Solbosh, 50 Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles.

Björn Schießle from the German team will give a speech at the Stuttgart Open Fair. His talk "Free Software - More than just a Development strategy" will be part of a workshop. The workshop will take place at Saturday, 30. January, 11-13 o'clock. Location: Forum3, Gymnasiumstr. 21, Stuttgart, Germany.

For Free Software, a lot depends on the way in which standardisation organisations deal with patented technologies. The WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents is the highest level forum dealing with this question. For FSFE, Karsten Gerloff and Hugo Roy will participate in the meeting to advance the interests of Free Software.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The Berlin Fellowship group will meet at the NewthinkingStore on 14 January 2010 at 7.30 pm in Tucholskystraße 48. Alina Mierlus will talk about the upcoming Document Freedom Day and how Fellows can help out. Another topic will be the "Chemitzer Linux Tage" 2010. Guests are always welcome.

Since September KDE and FSFE have a joint office in Berlin. On December 12th we will celebrate that at Linienstr. 141, 10115 Berlin with a nice year-end party starting at 6pm. If you plan to come please sent a note before December 7th to Matthias so that there is enough to drink. You can help us by bringing some Christmas cookies, too.

The Fellowship Group Berlin will meet on December 10th at 19:30. As usual, the location is the NewThinkingStore, Tucholskystraße 48.
Hugo Roy will give a presentation about "EIFv2: Tracking the loss of interoperability." Other topics will be: brainstorming for DFD (Document Freedom Day), 26C3: Here Be Dragons, Fellowship Election 2010, Cooking for Freedom.
Guests are welcome to join in and chat about issues around Free Software.

With the growing interest attached to Free Software law issues, the second edition of the EOLE will take place in Brussels, in the prestigious confines of the European Parliament. Among other specialists, Adriaan de Groot, FTF Coordinator, will hold a conference entitled "Use the Source -- but what is it?" The event is accessible on registration only.

Am 6.12. findet das Gründungstreffen der Leipziger Fellowship-Gruppe der FSFE statt. Zeit und Ort: Sonntag (6.12.), 16:00 Uhr im sublab (Karl-Heine-Straße 93, Westwerk) (http://sublab.org) Nach einer kurzen Vorstellung der Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. und einem Einblick in die aktuellen Themen wollen wir v.a. gemeinsam über Freie Software in Politik und Gesellschaft nachdenken und diskutieren. Wie kann Freie Software ins Gespräch gebracht werden? Welche konkreten Aktionen bieten sich an? In welcher Form können die Fellowship-Treffen stattfinden? Für Mate ist gesorgt - bis Sonntag!

FSFE President Karsten Gerloff will give a speech about “Welcome to the mainstream: Free Software in Europe” on December 2nd. The Free Software World Conference is jointly organised by the Spanish regional governments of Extremadura and Andalusia. The event is public.

The European Commission's project on interoperability for eGovernment services is organising and information day on the European Interoperability Strategy. FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will participate in the discussions to make sure that the voice of Free Software and Open Standards is heard.

The monthly Fellowship meeting in Dusseldorf will take place on 25 November in the Restaurant “Friedrichskrone”, Talstraße/Kirchfeldstraße.

Topics: review of the past activities in 2009, and first plannings for 2010.

FSFE will be present with a booth at this years Brandenburger Linux Info Tag (BLIT). The Fellowship Group Berlin will man a booth to inform visitors about various aspects of Free Software. Also T-shirts and books about Free Software will be sold. The event starts at 10 am and takes place at the University Campus Griebnitzsee in Potsdam. Admission is free as in free beer.

Thanks the consistent support by FSFE and other organisations, the WIPO Development Agenda is finally on the way to implementation. FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will participate in the meeting of the Committee on November 16th to 20th to make sure that Free Software and Open Standards take their place in this process. FSFE is a registered observer to WIPO. The event is not open to the public.

After some time of inactivity the edu-team went back to work. Therefore you are warmly invited to participate in the Fellowship jabber meeting to join the discussion on the future of the education activities.

FSFE is sponsoring the international meeting for GNU hackers and contributors, in which Karsten Gerloff, FSFE President, and Adriaan de Groot, FTF Coordinator, will participate. The event takes place at the IT University, Patricia Building, Vin Cerf Room, Forskningsgången 6, Gothenburg from Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 November 2009 and at FSCONS from Saturday 14 to Sunday 15. On registration only. More information on GNU.org

This year's FSCONS (Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit) takes place on November 13-15 and is co-organised by Fellows of FSFE. More than simply a conference, FSCONS is a meeting place for social change, focussing on the future of Free Software and how to build a Free Society on its principles. Please visit the FSCONS Wiki if you have ideas for the event or wish to get involved in any way.

The local Fellowship group will meet on november 12th. The location is as always the NewThinkingStore at Tucholskystraße 48.

Topics will be: Fellowship @ BLIT, brainstorming for DFD (Document Freedom Day), activities with the “OpenSource Networks Berlin”.

Guests are welcome to join in and chat about issues around Free Software.

OpenRheinRuhr 2009 in Bottrop is the largest exhibition concerning Free Software in Germany's Ruhr Area. Some of our German Fellows help to organize this convention or present Free Software projects they are working on. Hence FSFE will not miss the opportunity to contribute to this event with a booth. On November 7 and 8 we bring the idea of Free Software and its related topics to the public again. This time we intent to cross the border from IT into the Arts by providing a discussion lounge to broach the issues of "Software as a cultural technique" and "Coding as an art". In addition to the booth a social event for Fellows will be held on 2009-11-07. Further information about the booth and how to volunteer can be found in the wiki. Coordination is handled via the booth mailing list.

Karsten Gerloff and Adriaan de Groot will both speak on topics around Free Software: procurement, the FSFE itself, and licensing and governance for your projects.

The Fellowship meeting will take place at 20:00 at the Brotfabrik Beueler. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Adriaan de Groot, FTF coordinator, will speak about "What the FTF can do for your Free Software Project."

Unfortunatly the talk has been canceled. However, the Fellowship meeting afterwards with Karsten Gerloff will take place as planned.

Where: Les Halles, Pfingstweidstr. 6, Zurich
When: 8pm

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

Unlike proprietary software, the Free Software requirements are not about remuneration, but about maintaining the Freedom of users of the software to use, study, modify and distribute. That places some interesting requirements on manufacturers of devices that use this software.

Adriaan de Groot talks about Software Licensing and compliance at this years Embedded Linux Conference in Grenoble, France.

Karsten Gerloff hält im Rahmen der Fachtagung der Fachgruppe UBIT Wien und der Experts Group Open Source einen Vortrag zu "Interoperabilität und Wettbewerb in Europa: Die Perspektive Freier Software".
Beginn: 14:30 Uhr in der Floridsdorfer Hauptstrasse 1, Florido Lounge, Wien

On October 10 Torsten Grote is invited to an event from the working group on digital democracy from the Linkspartei. The working group deals with policy of the information age. At the beginning of the event Torsten Grote will give a speech about Free Software and afterwards participate in the discussion. The event takes place in the Kopenhagener Str. 9, 10437 Berlin from 10 am to 6 pm. Everybody interested is invited. The attendance is free of charge.

Am 8. Oktober um 19:30 Uhr trifft sich die Berliner Fellowshipgruppe im NewthinkingStore in der Tucholskystraße 48. Diesmal wird die Bundestagswahl 2009 und deren Einfluss auf Freie Software ausgewertet. Andere Themen sind der 26C3 und das Fellowship Jabber Treffen. Gäste sind wie immer herzlich willkommen.

Wednesday, 7 October, the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in Frankfurt: We are going to meet in the "Club Voltaire", Kleine Hochstraße 5 (2 minutes from "Alte Oper"), 60313 Frankfurt/Main. We will meet there around 19:00h. Further details can be found in the wiki.

The Library of Alexandria, Egypt, is holding a three-day workshop to introduce judges, lawyers, and researchers from Egypt and the Arab world to new tools for the dissemination of knowledge. With representatives of Egypt's supreme court in attendance, FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff will be leading two sessions in the workshop, one on the history and basic concepts of Free Software, and the other on Free Software licensing.

The Vienna Fellowship Group invites you to celebrate the Software Freedom Day with us at Metalab. The four freedoms are celebrated with free music (as in freedom) and gratis snacks (which unfortunately are not free). We are looking forward to many visitors!

From September 18-19 Matthias Kirschner will be in Leipzig to participate at the Software Freedom Day. The celebration starts on Friday at 6 pm in the sublab, Karl-Heine-Straße 93 04229 Leipzig. There will be cake and everything else you need to celebrate Free Software. On Saturday 2 pm Matthias will give a talk about Free Software and the Software Freedom Day at the street festival. This speech will also take place in the Karl-Heine-Straße 93. Afterwards there will be a small FSFE booth, to answer questions around Free Software. Everybody is invited to join.

The so-called "Braderie de Lille" (Lille's flea market) is a big outside-event which has taken place every year since the 12th century during the first week-end of september. chtinux, a Linux User Group which is installed around there, has proposed to the Fellowship, as it did last year, to take part in the Braderie. The FSFE, and especially the Fellowship's stand, will get much visibility, since millions of people of numerous nations take a walk on Lille's streets. Come to discover this beautiful city and to eat some Braderie's culinary specialities like clams ! And above all, come in order to support the Fellowship ! Fellowship's stand will be situated on Place du Vieux Marché aux chevaux. If you want more information about this event please send an email to Benjamin: morant@fsfeurope.org

As part of the OpenRuhr initiative the "Uploadparty" takes place on September 5. The goal of the monthly uploadparties is to enlarge free culture in the Ruhr area. At this event everybody can bring his own paper pictures from the area, scan them, and make them available under the Creative Commons By license. Matthias Kirschner is participating at the event which takes place at 6pm in the Unperfekthaus, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 18, 45127 Essen.

On 26th August the Zurich Fellows are proud to invite you to a Free Software BBQ. Fernanda Weiden, the new Vice-President, will give an overview of the changes discussed at this years General Assembly. As usual one can find the details (location, time) on the wiki page.

The Department of Computer Science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg is organising a conference all about Free Software in 2009 again with help of Fachschaft of Computer Science, LUUSA and FrOSCon e.V.

FSFE will again maintain a booth. Coordination is done via the booth@ mailing list and the Fellowship Wiki.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The local Fellowship group will meet on august 13th at 7:30p.m. at the NewThinkingStore at Tucholskystraße 48. We will hear a report about the OE-Tag and start planning for the Software Freedom Day. Guests are welcome to join in and chat about issues around Free Software.

Wednesday, 5 August, the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in Frankfurt: We are going to meet in the "Club Voltaire", Kleine Hochstraße 5 (2 minutes from "Alte Oper"), 60313 Frankfurt/Main. We will meet there around 19:00h. Further details can be found in the wiki.

About a half year ago we had a joint event between KDE and the Fellowship of FSFE to celebrate the release of KDE 4.2. Because of the success of the event and the upcoming release of KDE 4.3 we decided to invite you again to a KDE release party and Fellowship meeting in Stuttgart. We will meet on Saturday, 1. August at 19:00, Restaurant Wartburg Tol(l)eranz, Gutenbergstrasse 87, 70197 Stuttgart. See here (German) for more details.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. This time Matthias Kirschner, FSFE's Fellowship coordinator, will be there to answer questions about the Fellowship and FSFE. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The 10th RMLL, Rencontre Mondial de Logiciel Libre (LSM, Libre Software Meeting) is taking place at Nantes. Rainer Kersten will organise a FSFE booth there.

RMLL is the most important Free Software event at France. This year, GNU/Linux User Group Nantes is expecting some 5000 visitors at the University of Nantes.

Whoever would like to come and help, is highly welcome. Please contact dus@office.fsfeurope.org for coordination.

The local Berlin Fellowship group will meet on 9 July at 7.30 pm at the Newthinking Store located in Tucholskystraße 48.

This time there will be a discussion with representatives from political party youth organisations about free software.

As always, guests are welcome to join.

FSFE will be present with a booth (hall 72B, booth 124) at LinuxTag 2009. It takes place at Berlin's Expo Center. FSFE's booth crew will explain visitors the importance of Free Software for society and economy.

FSFE invites everybody to join the Social Event in the evening of 20th June in Miraflores, Spain.
You are also invited to participate in the afternoon side event on the future of Free Software in Spain. This is a great opportunity to meet the General Assembly of FSFE, discuss bits and bytes of freedom and enjoy an entertaining evening with friends and Fellows.

It is time to dive deeper into action! FSFE's Spanish team is proud to invite everybody to a special meeting in the afternoon (16:30 h.) of 20th of June at Residencia La Cristalera near Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid. In the evening participants will join with the General Assembly of FSFE for a social event.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

After a long time of planning the Styrian Fellowship group is proud to announce their first Fellowship meeting, which we hope to turn into a regular event. The meeting starts at 19:00 in the Realraum, Jakoministraße 16, Graz. It's a joint meeting with the Realraumgruppe. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The local Fellowship group will meet on June 11th at 7.30pm at the NewThinkingStore at Tucholskystraße 48.

Sabine Stengel from cartogis will give a presentation about the free OpenStreetMap project, outlining its progress, motivating people to join. After the presentation, the topics Linuxtag and our campaign regarding the “Bundestagswahl” will be discussed.

As always, guests are welcome to join in.

As one of the biggest events of its kind in Eastern Europe, eLiberatica discusses and demonstrates the advantages of adopting, using and developing Free Software solutions. Georg Greve, president of the FSFE, will talk about the challenges of the traditional standardisation system, the role of patenting and the mechanisms that allow us to cope with legal issues.

On Friday 8. May, the next Fellowship meeting in Zurich will take place. A lot is going on in Zuerich and Switzerland and we will discuss what is on the menu for this year. Further datails you can find in the wiki.

On Thursday 7. May, Bernhard Reiter will give a talk at the University of Stuttgart (campus Vaihingen) about "Professional Free Software in Economy and Politics" as part of the lecture "Free/Libre and Open Source Software Engineering". He will talk about Free Software in general, categories of Free Software licenses, software patents, Open Standards and more. The talk will start at 11:30 lecture room V55.01.

On Wednesday 6. May, the next Fellowship meeting in Stuttgart will take place. This time Bernhard Reiter, FSFE's coordinator Germany, will attend. We will meet at Unithekle Stuttgart/Vaihingen. The exact time will be published in the wiki. Here you can also find further details.

For the first time a Free Software event will take place in the region of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Georg Greve, president of the FSFE, will take that opportunity to talk about Free Software business basics, its strategies and implications.
The TILT 2009 aims at presenting specific solutions made in Portugal as well as inspiring young people to get involved.

The event at the Kunstuniversität Linz (university of art) offers workshops, hacklabs, presentations and performances in the field of digital art and culture productions. The FSFE will be present with an info table stand, so feel free to come by for a cup of coffee and a nice chat about Free Software!

A whole day stuffed with presentations and talks at the FH Joanneum gives interested desktop-users, administrators, software developers and others, the possibility to enhance their know how about GNU/Linux and Free Software. The FSFE will be present with a stand, and Peter Bubestinger will give a speech titled "Safely into the Future with Free Software".

The second European Licensing and Legal Workshop organised by the Freedom Task Force of the FSFE will be held at the Hotel Okura on the 23rd and the 24th of April 2009 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This conference will provide a forum for discussions on supply chain management, compliance procedures, licence management, community interaction, and other legal issues related to the growth of the European Free Software market. More information in the press release.

For 3 days, Vienna's city hall will be hosting this year's Linux weeks with lots of interesting talks, stands and workshops. The FSFE will be present with a stand, and Peter Bubestinger will give a speech titled "Safely into the Future with Free Software". The speech is in German and targeted at everybody interested in Free Software.

On 15 April, Fellows and other interested parties are invited to attend an open planning meeting and get-together to discuss FSCONS 2009. The meeting starts at 19:00 in Delirium Café, Kronhusgatan 2B.

FSCONS, the annual conference on Free Software and Free Culture, will take place in Gothenburg 13-15 November, and is this year co-arranged by the Fellowship.

Starting at 8:45am, the Donau-Universität Krems invites teachers, pupils, parents and everyone interested to inform themselves about the benefits of using Free Software and GNU/Linux in school environments. The FSFE will be present with a stand, and Peter Bubestinger will give a speech titled "Freedom of education through Free Software" (in German).

Thursday, 2 April the next Fellowship meeting in Stuttgart will take place: We are going to meet in the "Unithekle", Allmandring 17 , 70596 Stuttgart. This time we want to talk about Free Software in education. Further details can be found in the wiki.

Wednesday, 1 April (no kidding!), the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in Frankfurt: We are going to meet in the "Club Voltaire", Kleine Hochstraße 5 (2 minutes from "Alte Oper"), 60313 Frankfurt/Main. We will meet there around 19:00h. Further details can be found in the wiki.

FSFE is present with an information and merchandise booth at the 8th Linux-Infotag Augsburg. The event takes place on 28 March 2009 from 9:30 to 17:30 in the IT faculty of the Augsburg University. Admission is free.

Reinhard Müller gives a speech called "5 most popular fallacys about Free Software (or are they lies?)". The speech is in German and targeted at everybody interested in Free Software.

From 25. to 28. March the "Frühjahrsfestival zum Datenschutz" will take place at the public library at Stuttgart, Germany. At Saturday 28. March 14:00 Björn Schießle will give a speech about "Free Software and Privacy". The speech ought to deliver a general introduction to Free Software and how it can help to improve privacy.

After the LinuxInfotag in Augsburg, Fellows from the region meet in the Restaurant Alt-Athen, where the LinuxInfotag's social event also takes place.

All Fellows are cordially invited. If you want to join, please meet the FSFE team at LinuxInfotag before 16:00 so we can inform the restaurant early enough.

Wednesday 25 March is the global day for document liberation. The day will be dedicated to promoting open document standards, with local events all across the globe. Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a grassroot movement promoting and raising awareness for Open Standards, and has over 220 teams across the world.

The European Legal Network facilitated by FSFE's Freedom Task Force will hold a special interest group meeting in Frankfurt to discuss linking. This meeting will be hosted at the WilmerHale offices and is invitation only.

This year's Linuxweeks in Austria start at the university in Klagenfurt. There will be plenty of interesting talks and several stands, including the FSFE. Peter Bubestinger will give a speech titled "Safely into the Future with Free Software". The speech is in German and targeted at everybody interested in Free Software.

As usual, we will attend at Chemnitz with a booth, which is manned by Isabel Drost, Uwe Zemisch and Rainer Kersten. Beside informations about our work we will offer devotionals.

On 12 March Torsten Werner and Michael Schinagl, who both participated in the standardisation process of the proprietary Microsoft OOXML standard, will talk about their experiences in this process. The Berlin Fellowship group invites all people interested to participate. We start at 19:30 in the Newthinkingstore, Tucholskystr. 48, Berlin. After that we will discuss future activities for this year.

The FSFE will be present with an information booth at the CeBIT in Hanover. The event takes place from 3 March 2009 to 8 March 2009. The booth will be located in hall 6/F50.

Bernhard Reiter, Coordinator Germany, will deliver a speech "Free Software, the sustainable alternative" at the CeBIT in Hanover. The speech is scheduled on 7 March 2009 at 14:20hrs in Hall 8 and will be delivered in German.

Shane Coughlan, FTF coordinator, will deliver a speech entitled "The strategic implementation of Free Software in business" at the CeBIT in Hanover (Hall 6, Open Source Forum). The speech is scheduled on 5 March 2009 at 16:15hrs and will be delivered in English.

Wednesday, 4 March, the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in Frankfurt: We are going to meet in the "Club Voltaire", Kleine Hochstraße 5 (2 minutes from "Alte Oper"), 60313 Frankfurt/Main. We will meet there around 19:00h. Further details can be found in the wiki.

Georg Greve, president of the FSFE will deliver a keynote speech entitled "To dare more freedom" at the CeBIT in Hanover (Hall 6, Open Source Forum). The keynote is scheduled on 3 March 2009 at 11:00hrs and will be delivered in English.

The European Legal Network facilitated by FSFE's Freedom Task Force will hold a special interest group meeting in London to discuss linking. This meeting will be hosted at the Kemp Little offices and is invitation only.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The local Fellowship Group will meet on 12 February, 19:30 at NewThinkingStore, Tucholskystraße 48. Jürgen Neumann from Freifunk-Berlin and Fabienne Serriere will give a talk about "Open Hardware" in English. Main questions are what Open Hardware is and why we need it. Afterwards there will be room for questions and a discussion. People interested in this topic and other guest are as always welcome to join us.

FSFE attends FOSDEM, a European Free Software developer conference organized by volunteers wich takes place from 7th - 8th of February in Brussels (Belgium).

The event promotes the widespread use of Free Software, to provide Free Software developers and communities a place to meet, to get in touch with other projects, and to promote the development and the benefits of Free Software solutions.

The FSFE will attend the event with a booth where visitors will be informed about recent activities (especially of FTF), Free Software itself and the Fellowship of the FSFE. As usual, the FSFE's merchandising articles will be sold as well.

Wednesday, 4 February, the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in Frankfurt: We are going to meet in the "Club Voltaire", Kleine Hochstraße 5 (2 minutes from "Alte Oper"), 60313 Frankfurt/Main. We will meet there around 19:00h. Further details can be found in the wiki.

As a joint event between KDE and the FSFE Fellowship we will have a Fellowship meeting and a KDE 4.2 release party at Friday 30th January in Stuttgart. Together with KDE we will celebrate the release, meet, talk and have fun. Of course we will have a presentation of KDE 4.2 and a introduction of FSFE and the Fellowship. Everyone interested in Free Software is invited. For more information please see here.

There will be an event to mark the release of KDE 4.2 in Zurich, Switzerland, on Wednesday 28th January. The event will be held at the Auditorium Maximum at the ETH Zurich, and starts at 17:30. The event is free to attend, and will feature an introduction by FSFE's President, Georg Greve, and a talk by Aaron Seigo of the KDE project. Food and drinks will be served afterwards. For more information please see the KDE 4.2 Release Party page on the KDE wiki.

The Berlin Fellowship group invites everybody to the KDE 4.2 release party on January 28th. This is a good occasion to celebrate Free Software on the Desktop. The party will be hosted by KDAB in its Berlin Office starting 20:00 at Adalbertstr. 7/8 (U Kottbusser Tor). If you want to join, please send an e-mail to the organisers, so it can be planned accordingly. The Fellowship group Berlin is looking forward to see you there.

the Vienna Fellowship group invites everyone to join to celebrate the release of KDE version 4.2! This evening event is hosted by the Metalab and thus guarantees a great atmosphere with lots of interesting people to meet. Including, of course: Vienna Fellows.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

The local Fellowship Group will meet on 8 January at 19:30 to welcome the New Year. The location is as always the NewThinkingStore at Tucholskystraße 48. Mario Behling will talk about LXDE, the LXDE community as well as the Free Software community in Asia, esp. Bejing, Taiwan, Shenzhen and Singapur. Guests are welcome to join in and chat about issues around Free Software.

Wednesday, 7 January, the next Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in Frankfurt: We are going to meet in the "Club Voltaire", Kleine Hochstraße 5 (2 minutes from "Alte Oper"), 60313 Frankfurt/Main. We will meet there around 19:00h.

Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will deliver a two day course entitled 'Free Software licenses and other questions' at the Digicomp Academy Zurich, Switzerland. The course is intended for project managers, developers and technicians who wish to become more knowledgeable regarding code distribution options.

This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in the Metalab, located in the Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing you there!

It is time for a new tradition! A Christmas get-together for Fellows and others in Gothenburg, with technical help for all those interested in Free Culture and Free Software. FFKP (Union for Free Culture and Software) and FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe) invite you to a get-together with glögg (spiced wine), coffee, cookies and cakes. There will also be a presentation of the FFKP and some of the avtivities planned for 2009. Jeremiah Foster will be there as well offering help for GNU/Linux and other Free Software to anyone who needs it.

The local Fellowship group will meet on the 11th of december. The location is as always the NewThinkingStore at Tucholskystraße. Since Christmas is almost there, we will do some handicraft to improve our booth material and the flyer for our projects.
Our are welcome to join us for a cup of tea and some cookies.

FSFE will be holding its regular Zurich Fellowship group meeting next Thursday, 11th December at 18:00 CET. We'll also be celebrating the upcoming holiday season with Glühwein (mulled wine) and other goodies! We hope to see you there. If you plan to attend please email the organiser, Graeme West at west@fsfeurope.org.

There will be a Fellowship meeting at the FSFE Zurich office from 18:00 until 19:00 on Friday the 21st of November. Some free (as in beer) beer will be provided and all Fellows nearby are invited to attend. It will be a good chance to get to know each other in person, to discuss ways of spreading the word about Free Software in Switzerland, and to generally have a good time. This meeting will be hosted by Graeme West, FSFE's intern at the Zurich office. If you plan to come to the meeting please let Graeme know by sending an email to west@fsfeurope.org.

On Tuesday, 18th november at 19.00 h again all fellows and people who want to support FSFE or simply want to inform about Free Software will gather at the Fellowship Meeting in Hallmackenreuther, Brüsseler Platz, Cologne.

On Saturday, 15th November at 14:00 h there will be a Fellowship meeting at the TIS Innovation Park of Bolzano. The meeting is open to Fellows and all persons interested in FSFE's work in Italy and the projects of the Fellowship. The meeting has two parts. First Patrick Ohnewein, coordinator of the Italian FSFE group, will talk about the activities of the FSFE and the Fellowship in Italy. In the second part the Fellows will be invited to make proposals for and discuss about future initiatives to promote and help Free Software.

The monthly Fellowship meeting is going to take place on the 13th of November. We will meet at 7:30pm at the NewThinking store in Berlin-Mitte (Tucholskystraße 48). Topics include: BLIT review, FSCONS report, "How can we collaborate with the different organizations around Free Software and Education?" and presentation 2009. We like to welcome you on the 13th.

The FSFE will be attending the NLUUG Autumn Conference on Thursday 6th November. This year's theme is 'mobility'. Feel free to come to our booth and ask about Free Software! Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will also deliver talk entitled 'The strategic implementation of free software in business' at the CELF Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2008 at the same location on the following day, Friday 7th November. The successful implementation of Free Software requires an understanding of the best policy and processes applicable to its context. Shane will discuss how FSFE's legal project and its European Legal Network have engaged with this issue by producing generic market knowledge for supply and purchasing contracts, work flow documents and deployment methodology. The location for both conferences is Hotel en Congrescentrum De Reehorst, Ede, Netherlands.

FSFE will be present with a booth at this years Brandenburger Linux Info Tag (BLIT). The Fellowship Group Berlin will man a booth to inform visitors about various aspects of Free Software. Also T-shirts and books about Free Software will be sold. The event starts at 10 am and takes place at the University Campus Griebnitzsee in Potsdam. Admission is free as in free beer.

Fellow Christof Raber will host a Fellowship meeting at Weltehof, Welte 1, 88250 Weingarten on Tuesday the 28th of October at 19:00. All Fellows and Free Software supporters nearby are invited to attend. It will be a good chance to get to know each other in person, discuss all Free Software and FSFE related topics and to generally have a good time.

For 2008, FSCONS is a collaboration of FSFE, Creative Commons, and Wikimedia Sweden. There will be three tracks (Free Culture, Free Software, Free Content), each lead by one of the main organisers. Topics will range from modern kernel design over citizen journalism all the way across to licensing in the 21st century.

From 21. October to 24. October the SYSTEMS will take place in Munich, Germany. SYSTEMS is a professional business-to-business exhibition for the ICT market and addresses business and technical decision-makers in commercial enterprises and the public sector.
For the first time FSFE will be present with a booth.

On Wednesday the 22th of October at 19:00 OpenOffice.org and FSFE will host together the OpenOffice.org regulars' table and the first Fellowship meeting in Munich, Germany. It will take place at the Augustinerkeller, Arnulfstraße, Munich (www.augustinerkeller.de)
All Fellows and Free Software supporters nearby are invited to attend. It will be a good chance to get to know each other in person, discuss all Free Software and FSFE related topics and to generally have a good time.

Benjamin Morant and Ciaran O'Riordan invite you to a FSFE meeting in Geneva on the Sunday 19th October on the evening. The plan is to meet each other in the restaurant "Les Brasseurs" at 17:00, and eat and drink there. Don't hesitate to let us know if you want to come. Please write a mail to Benjamin on morant@fsfeurope.org

On 17 October 2008, a Fellowship meeting takes place in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The discussions will start at 19:00.
Items on the agenda include our pages in the Fellowship wiki, our advocacy project, and some small organisational things. As always, the meeting is ended with a nice chat over a beer.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will deliver a two day course entitled 'Free Software licenses and other questions' at the Digicomp Academy Zurich, Switzerland. The course is intended for project managers, developers and technicians who wish to become more knowledgeable regarding code distribution options.

On Saturday 11. October FSFE's Berlin Fellowship group will have a booth at the "Freedom not Fear" demonstration. The booth will be ready about 13:00 at the Neptunbrunnen, Berlin Alexanderplatz. When the demonstration starts the booth will be reestablished at the Brandenburger Tor.

There will be a Fellowship meeting at the FSFE Zurich office from 19:00 until 20:30 on Friday the 10th of October. Some free (as in beer) beer will be provided and all Fellows nearby are invited to attend. It will be a good chance to get to know each other in person, to discuss ways of spreading the word about Free Software in Switzerland, and to generally have a good time. This meeting will be hosted by Benjamin Morant, FSFE's intern at the Zurich Office. If you are coming to the meeting please let Benjamin know by sending an email to morant@fsfeurope.org.

A Belgian Fellowship meeting will take place on Thursday August 7th in Brussels. We will meet at 20:00 in Café Walvis, 209 rue Antoine Dansaert, Brussels. It's an informal meeting, like the last meeting, so we'll mostly chat about whatever Free Software topics the attendees are interested in. We'll also continue the discussion of how to launch quarterly meetings, and Ciaran O'Riordan will give an update on OpenStreetMap. This meeting can be discussed on FSFE's Benelux mailinglist.

The Fellowship Group in Berlin will meet on the 10th October at 19:30. We will evaluate past actions like 25 years GNU and Software Freedom Day. For the future we will plan our attendance at the BLIT and talk about the pdfreaders campaign. The Location is as usual the New Thinking Store, Tucholsky Strasse.

Wednesday, 8 October, the first Fellowship meeting in the Rhein/Main area will take place in Frankfurt: We are going to meet in the "Club Voltaire", Kleine Hochstraße 5 (2 minutes from "Alte Oper"), 60313 Frankfurt/Main We will meet there around 19:00h.

The European Legal Network facilitated by FSFE's Freedom Task Force will hold a special interest group meeting in Brussels to discuss software patents and other legal issues. This meeting will be hosted at the Wilmer Hale law offices and is invitation only.

The GNU-project is turning 25 on the 27th of September. Therefore we will pop the corks at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. We will meet at 3pm. There will be champaign and some music to celebrate. See you on saturday.

Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will deliver a training course on Free Software in business and the public sector at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland.

Shane Coughlan, FTF coordinator, will deliver a speech entitled 'The strategic implementation of Free Software in business' at the OpenExpo conference in Winterthur, Switzerland, on the 25th of September.

On Saturday 20. September starting at 14:00 FFII and FSFE's Fellowship group from Berlin will have barbecue and an information booth. At the booth we will explain what Free Software is and why it is important for society. This event should give beginners a chance to get in contact with Free Software, GNU/Linux and the involved groups. Please bring your own dishes and drinks to the Mauerpark in the opposite of Gleimstr. 60.

Starting at 8pm, Vienna's Fellows celebrate the annual "Software Freedom Day" in a Pub called Pint Pub in Vienna. Highlight of the event will be the performances of the bands: "Club Valat" and "Klaus (from Fadin' to Whiteout)". Of course this event is also for non-computerfreaks.

Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will deliver a keynote speech at the Dutch Software Freedom Day event at Liefland College, Utrecht. The event will run from 10:00 until 17:00 and is organised by NLLGG, NLUUG and SoftwareFreedomDay.eu.

Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will host a three hour workshop entitled 'Licensing questions and Legal issues in the light of GPLv3' for the launch of the GPLv3 at the Univesity of Tilburg, The Netherlands on the 19th of September. This event is sponsored by NLnet.

Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will deliver a speech entitled 'Free Software licenses and other questions' at OSiM World at Berlin on the 17th of September. This talk will examine question of ownership, the goal of owning creative work, benefits to consumers and the community and the relationship between ownership and Free Software licences.

There will be a Fellowship meeting at the FSFE Zurich office from 19:00 until 20:30 on Friday the 12th of September. Some free (as in beer) beer will be provided and all Fellows nearby are invited to attend. It will be a good chance to get to know each other in person, to discuss ways of spreading the word about Free Software in Switzerland, and to generally have a good time. This meeting will be hosted by Benjamin Morant, FSFE's intern at the Zurich Office. If you are coming to the meeting please let Benjamin know by sending an email to morant@fsfeurope.org.

On 12 September at 16.00, Richard Stallman will give a speech on "Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks" at the "Libera Accademia di Belle Arti", in via D. Vender 66, Brescia (Italy).

The Fellowship Group in Berlin will meet on the 11th of September at 19:30. The Location is as usual the New Thinking Store, Tucholsky Strasse. The following topics will be addressed: Software Freedom Day, GNU's 25th birthday.

On 11 September at 16.00, Richard Stallman will give a speech on "Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks" at Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione - Università di Genova (via Dodecanneso 35, 5th floor).

The European Legal Network facilitated by FSFE's Freedom Task Force will hold a special interest group meeting in London to discuss business processes and supply chain management. This meeting will be hosted at the Canonical offices and is invitation only.

Shane Coughlan, FTF coordinator, will explain Free Software and the reasons behind Free Software licences at the OSS 2008 conference in Milan. He will sit on the 'NESSI Open Source Working Group' panel to discuss the European NESSI project.

The so-called "Braderie de Lille" (Lille's flea market) is a big outside-event which has taken place every year since the 12th century during the first week-end of september. chtinux, a Linux User Group which is installed around there, has proposed to the Fellowship to take part in the Braderie. The FSFE, and especially the Fellowship's stand, will get much visibility, since millions of people of numerous nations take a walk on Lille's streets. Come to discover this beautiful city and to eat some Braderie's culinary specialities like clams ! And above all, come in order to support the Fellowship ! Fellowship's stand will be situated on Place du Vieux Marché aux chevaux. If you want more information about this event please send an email to Benjamin: morant@fsfeurope.org

The Vienna Fellowship Group invites to a speech of Shane Martin Coughlan about "The Professionalisation of Free Software. Where we are going next." (in Englisch). The event which is organised in the context of a q/talk special takes place in Room D / quartier21, QDK / Electric Avenue, MQ Wien on 5 September 2008, starting at 20:00. Entrance is from 19:00. The speech will be finished around 21:15, after that there will be opportunity to ask questions. Admission is free.

At 18:30 on 30 August 2008, Duesseldorf Fellowship will meet in Gasttaette "Suedstern", Bilker Allee 66, 40219 Duesseldorf (5 min vom S-Bahnhof Bilk). Shane M. Coughlan, the coordinator of the FTF, will give a talk entitled "Professionalisation of Free Software projects" and there will be plenty of time for other discussions.

A Fellowship meeting will be held in Nijmegen on Thursday August 28th. Everyone interested in Free Software is welcome and invited to meet inside Café Jos, Daalseweg 309, at 20h00. Discussion of this meeting can take place on the public fsfe-bnl mailing list.

The Department of Computer Science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg is organising a conference all about Free Software in 2008 again with help of Fachschaft of Computer Science, LUUSA and FrOSCon e.V.

FSFE will again maintain a booth. Coordination is done via the booth@ mailing list.

There will be a Fellowship meeting at the Unithekle, Allmandring 17, 70596 Stuttgart on Friday the 22th of August at 19:00. This is the first Fellowship meeting in Stuttgart and all Fellows and Free Software supporters nearby are invited to attend. It will be a good chance to get to know each other in person, discuss the possibility of future Fellowship meetings in Stuttgart and to generally have a good time. More information.

A Fellowship meeting will be held in Dublin on Tuesday August 19th. Everyone interested in Free Software is welcome and invited to meet inside The White Horse at 20h00. This will also be the monthly meeting of Irish Free Software Organisation. Expected topics include Software Freedom Day, software patents, maybe OOXML or OpenMoko, and the usual talk of recent events. Discussion of this meeting can take place on the fsfe-ie mailing list.

On 15 August 2008, a Fellowship meeting takes place in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The discussions will start at 19:00.
Items on the agenda include preparations for Shane Coughlan's visit to Vienna, the Software Freedom Concert on Software Freedom Day, and the "Linuxwochenende" event in Vienna in September. As always, the meeting is ended with a nice chat over a beer.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

There will be a Fellowship meeting at the FSFE Zurich office from 18:00 until 19:30 on Friday the 15th of August. Some free (as in beer) beer will be provided and all Fellows nearby are invited to attend. It will be a good chance to get to know each other in person, to discuss ways of spreading the word about Free Software in Switzerland, and to generally have a good time. This meeting will be hosted by Shane Coughlan, the coordinator of FSFE's legal activities. However, he promises not to talk about licences unless someone asks. If you are coming to the meeting please let Shane know by sending an email to coughlan@fsfeurope.org.

Shane Coughlan, FTF Coordinator at FSFE, will participate in the 'Driving innovation with Open Desktop Technologies' at Akademy 2008 on Tuesday, 12 August 2008. Shane will also be available around the conference during the rest of the 12th and 13th along with Armijn Hemel from GPL-violations.org. They will be glad to answer any questions people may have regarding licence compliance best practice and issue resolution.

A Belgian Fellowship meeting will take place on Thursday August 7th in Brussels. We will meet at 20:00 in Café Walvis, 209 rue Antoine Dansaert, Brussels. It's an informal meeting, like the last meeting, so we'll mostly chat about whatever Free Software topics the attendees are interested in. We'll also continue the discussion of how to launch quarterly meetings, and Ciaran O'Riordan will give an update on OpenStreetMap. This meeting can be discussed on FSFE's Benelux mailinglist.

There will be a Fellowship meeting at the FSFE Zurich office from 18:00 until 19:30 on Friday the 18th of July. Some free (as in beer) beer will be provided and all Fellows nearby are invited to attend. It will be a good chance to get to know each other in person, to discuss ways of spreading the word about Free Software in Switzerland, and to generally have a good time. This meeting will be hosted by Shane Coughlan, the coordinator of FSFE's legal activities. However, he promises not to talk about licences unless someone asks. If you are coming to the meeting please let Shane know by sending an email to coughlan@fsfeurope.org.

On 18 July 2008, a Fellowship meeting takes place in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the bar "Käuzchen", Gardegasse 8 (Note: changed location!). The discussions will start at 19:00.
Items on the agenda include planning of Shane Coughlan's visit to Vienna, planning for the Software Freedom Concert on Software Freedom Day, and discussion about possible reactions on the WIENUX decision. As always, the meeting is ended with a nice chat over a beer.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

A lunch for Fellows of FSFE and Free Software friends in Barcelona from 14:00 until 16:00 with FSFE's Georg Greve, Jonas Öberg and Shane Coughlan. The meeting will be for informal and friendly discussions about FSFE, the Fellowship, the work of the Freedom Task Force, and everything else that you want to contribute to the discussion. If you plan to come to the meeting, please send email to fellowship@fsfeurope.org.

Shane will talk about the types of licence that provide and protect freedoms of use, study, sharing and improvement in both technology and educational text. He will review the main challenges that platforms like SELF may encounter from the legal point of view and what kind of mechanisms help support reliable legal infrastructure. He will also discuss the work of FSFE's Freedom Task Force in providing education and support services relating to legal support for Free Software in Europe.

SELF has contributed on various levels to freedom in software and education. The work of the SELF Legal Experts Group (LEG) has helped to evolve a better understanding of Open Standards and provided a reference line for free educational materials. The coordinator of the SELF LEG, FSFE president Georg Greve, will provide an insight on how SELF has helped advance the state of the art, and how the work done in the SELF consortium will provide lasting benefit to the Free Software community.

The local Fellowship group in Berlin will have a joined barbecue with the FFII on the 10th of July. The meeting will start at 7:30pm in FFII office, which is located at the Malmöer Straße 6 close to Bornholmer Straße. Don't forget to bring you favourite barbecue stuff. If the weather permits, we will go to the Mauerpark at around 9pm. We love to welcome you there.

A Belgian Fellowship meeting will take place on 10 July in Brussels. We meet at 19:00 in café Walvis, 209 rue Antoine Dansaert, Brussels. It's a chance to inform others about your activities in the Free Software community and there will be talk of gNewSence and GPLv3.
The meeting is open to Fellows and non-Fellows interested in Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will deliver a speech entitled 'The Community and Meeting Obligations' for BT at 14:30 on the 2nd of July at Adastral Park in Ipswitch, UK. He will also be present for presentations and workshop sessions to be delivered with other parties on the same day.

A local Fellowship meeting will be held in Dublin on June 24th. Everyone interested in Free Software is welcome and invited to meet inside The White Horse at 20h00. This will also be the monthly meeting of Irish Free Software Organisation. Expected topics include OOXML, software patents, gNewSense, and the Fellowship. Discussion can take place on the fsfe-ie mailing list.

Shane Coughlan will represent FSFE's FTF at IOTC 2008 in Dublin, Ireland. He will deliver a speech to open the conference on Wednesday the 18th of June discussing Free Software in business. Other speakers include Graham Taylor from Open Forum Europe, Adam Jollans from IBM and Stephen McGibbon from Microsoft. Interesting discussions and debates are assured.

The twenty-third Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 20 June in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

The Fellowship Group Berlin is meeting on the 12th of June in the NewThinking Store. The meeting will start at 7:30pm in the store, which is located at Tucholskystr. 48, close to Oranienburger Straße. We love to welcome you there.

This year's General Assembly of FSFE takes place in Zurich, and as usual, there will be a social event where the members of the General Assembly meet Fellows and other local Free Software supporters.
Around 18:20 the crowd will leave from the FSFE office at Sumatrastrasse 25 and walk through the old town in direction to Bellview.
At 19:00 we will catch a ferry from Zurich Burkiplatz.
At 19:47 the ferry will arrive in Erlenbach where -- due to the weather conditions -- we will continue the evening with a nice dinner at the Restaurant Malabar Garden in Kuesnacht where we expect to be until at least 23:00.

As in the last years FSFE will be present with a booth (hall 7.2b, booth 122) at LinuxTag 2008. It takes place at Berlin's Expo Center under the Funkturm. FSFE will inform visitors about various aspects of Free Software, like the Freedom Task Force, software patents, the SELF project, GPLv3, our work in the United Nations, or the Fellowship of FSFE. Also it is planned to sell T-shirts from FSFE and books about Free Software.

The second eLiberatica takes place on 30 and 31 May 2008 in the World Trade Center Bucharest, Romania.
Following the huge public success the first edition of eLiberatica gained in 2007, the second edition will continue in the same tradition: to gather community and business leaders around the world to talk about the hottest Open and Free Technologies topics.
eLiberatica has its unique spirit and identity; you will learn and discover new things, meet international IT personalities, business people, high-tech professionals, you will make new friends, new partners, celebrate and truly enjoy a live event.
eLiberatica 2008 is intended to focus on:

• Business adoption - how to make/save money and gain profit using Open and Free Technologies
• Government, administration and public schools - the importance of Open and Free Technologies; Professional growth participating in the Free Software community
• Break the code - tips and tricks, things you will not find in IT books.

On Saturday 31th May 14-15 pm, Matthias Kirschner will give a speech at Linuxtag in Berlin. The talk is about the importance of the four freedoms to use, study, share and improve software and their influence in politics and economy. Target audience are beginners, or people who want to get some ideas how to explain this topic to beginners. The speech takes place at the BusinessForum (EG) and will be held in German.

Shane Coughlan, FTF coordinator, will deliver a speech entitled 'Strategic implementation of Free Software in business' at the eLiberatica conference in Romania on the 30th of May.

From 15 to 17 May, an event of the Linuxwochen Austria will take place in the building of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, Rudolf-Sallinger-Platz 1, 3rd district, Vienna.
A group of Fellows will be present with a booth where they inform about FSFE, the Fellowship, and Free Software in general.
Admission is free for the whole event.

The twenty-second Austrian Fellowship meeting is integrated in the Linuxwochen event in Vienna. Fellows and other interested people can meet at the FSFE booth during the whole event to discuss, and at the end of the last day of the event, we will join the Linuxwochen After-Show-Party.

On Saturday 19 April 2008 at 12:00, Reinhard Müller gives a speech about open standards and free document formats at Linuxwochen event at the University of Applied Sciences "Johanneum" in Graz.
The FSFE also has a booth at the event where it informs about its work and about Free Software in general.
Admission is free for the whole event.

The twenty-first Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place at the Linuxtag in Graz. Fellows and other interested people can meet at the FSFE booth during the whole event to discuss, and after the end of the event we will surely find some location where we can have some beer together :-)

On Tuesday 15 April 2008 at 16:15, Reinhard Müller gives a speech about open standards and free document formats at a Linuxwochen event at the Danube University Krems.
The FSFE also has a booth at the event where it informs about its work and about Free Software in general.
Admission is free for the whole event.

FSFE's Freedom Task Force will host the first European Licensing and Legal Workshop for Free Software on Friday the 11th of April in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The venue for this meeting is the InterContinental Amstel Hotel. The event is targeted towards large projects and medium to large enterprises wishing to discuss their existing licence compliance processes. Parties attending are expected to contribute to issues ranging from process development through to optimising purchasing contract language for the benefit of the European Free Software community. This workshop has limited space available and therefore attendance is by invitation only. Projects and companies interested in attending this event should contact the FTF at ftf at fsfeurope.org.

On the 2nd of April FSFE and its Freedom Task Force (FTF) will give a course on the Strategic implementation of Free Software in Business in collaboration with the Internet Academy. The course will take place in Stockholm, Sweden. Those wishing to come should register their interest beforehand through the FTF contact form.

Friday, 29 March, the first Fellowship meeting in Augsburg will take place.
We are going to meet in the "Thing" bar, Vorderer Lech 45, 86150 Augsburg, right after the GNU/Linux infoday Augsburg. We expect to be there around 18:30.
Anybody who does not know Augsburg very well or is at the GNU/Linux infoday anyway can just come to the FSFE booth at the end of the event, we can then go to the meeting together.

Shane Coughlan, FTF coordinator, will deliver a training course to introduce people to Free Software licensing concepts on Friday the 21st of March. The course will be delivered between 13:00-16:00 at the FSFE Zurich office. There is no cost to attend this course, but due to limited space all those wishing to come should register their interest beforehand through the FTF contact form.

The twentieth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 14 March in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
The main topic of the meeting will be the preparation of the Document Freedom Day.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

Shane Coughlan, FTF coordinator, will deliver a speech entitled 'Analysing Whether GPLv3 Has Improved Free Software Licensing' at OSiM USA on Tuesday the 12th of March in San Francisco. The speech will cover topics ranging from the creation of GPLv3 and its place in licensing through to examining the place of GPLv3 in tomorrow's market.

Shane Coughlan, FTF coordinator, will deliver a training course examining how Free Software can be used in the public sector on Friday the 7th of March. The course will be delivered between 13:00-16:00 at the FSFE Zurich office. There is no cost to attend this course, but due to limited space all those wishing to come should register their interest beforehand through the FTF contact form.

Shane Coughlan, the coordinator of FSFE's Freedom Task Force, will deliver the keynote speech at Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen at 13:00 on the 1st of March. The title of the keynote is 'Free Software in the ICT mainstream' on issues ranging from licensing through to Free Software on the desktop.

Shane Coughlan, the coordinator of FSFE's Freedom Task Force, will host a breakout session discussing licensing issues at the "Standards and the Future of the Internet" conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 26th of February. The conference will be held at the International Conference Centre and confirmed speakers include Vint Cerf, Carlo Piana, Thomas Vinje and Jeremy Allison.

FSFE attends FOSDEM, a European Free Software developer conference organized by volunteers wich takes place from 23rd - 24th of February in Brussels (Belgium).
The event promotes the widespread use of Free Software, to provide Free Software developers and communities a place to meet, to get in touch with other projects, and to promote the development and the benefits of Free Software solutions.
The FSFE will attend the event with a booth where visitors will be informed about recent activities, Free Software itself and the Fellowship of the FSFE. As usual, the FSFE's famous T-Shirts will be sold as well.

Shane Coughlan, FTF coordinator, will deliver a training course examining how Free Software can be used in business environments on Thursday the 21st of February. The course will be delivered between 13:00-16:00 at the FSFE Zurich office. There is no cost to attend this course, but due to limited space all those wishing to come should register their interest beforehand through the FTF contact form.

On Monday 18. February at 19:00 Richard M. Stallman, founder of the GNU project and the FSF, will give a speech at the mediacentre - Atrium, Johannisstrasse 20, in 10117 Berlin-Mitte. He will talk about the history and philosophy of Free Software. The Berlin Fellowship group will have a small booth there and inform visitors about the local groupd and FSFE's work in Germany and Europe. Admission starts at 18:30. The organisers suggest a donation of ~5 EUR to cover the costs.

The nineteenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 15 February in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

The SELF project, of which FSFE is a member, together with Internet Society Bulgaria, the French Cultural Institute and Linux for Bulgarians, are organising an international conference on Science, Education and Learning in Freedom on the 10th of February at the French Cultural Institute in Sofia, 2 Dyakon Ignatij Str., Sofia, Bulgaria.

Jonas Öberg, vice president of the FSFE, will give a talk entitled "How to do procurement of Free Software: the Swedish Example" during an event in Sofia, Bulgaria, on municipalities use of ICT. The event takes place at the Sheraton hotel on the 7th of february.

The eighteenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 21 December in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will deliver a two day course entitled 'Free Software licenses and other questions' at the Digicomp Academy Zurich, Switzerland. The course is intended for project managers, developers and technicians who wish to become more knowledgeable regarding code distribution options.

The FSFE is organising the Free Software Conference Scandinavia (FSCONS), taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden on the 7th and 8th of December 2007. It is the first in its kind event in the region, inspired by the growing momentum around Free Software.

On the 4th of December, the Free Software Foundation Europe is organising a workshop as part of the STACS project. The workshop will bring researchers and civil society together to encourage the formation of new joint research projects in the field.

The Duesseldorf Fellowship group proudly announces its next meeting on 28 November at 19:30 in the Pub "Südstern", Bilker Allee 66 in Düsseldorf. Shane Coughlan, the coordinator of the Freedom Task Force, will talk about Free Software licensing, business processes, and how the Free Software movement has moved deep into the mainstream of ICT deployment. Werner Koch will report about a public debate in the parliament of NRW regarding Security versus Freedom.

Shane Coughlan, FSFE's Freedom Task Force coordinator will be in Nijmegen on the 26th of November and we wish to propose a Fellowship Meeting at 6:00 pm that evening in Cafe Jos.
Shane Coughlan will talk about the work of the Freedom Task Force, and discuss current events in Free Software legal activities in Europe.
Rainer Kersten, a fellow from Duesseldorf will talk about the experiences of the Rheinland Fellowship group.
If you would like to attend that meeting please send a short note to rk (at) office.fsfeurope.org.

As for the 2006 edition, this year's SFScon – the annual South Tyrol Free Software conference – will be followed by the FSFE Fellowship meeting.
Both events will take place in Meran/o (South Tyrol, Italy), from November, 16th to 17th and from November, 18th to 21st respectively.
Entrance is free; registration is strongly encouraged.

The seventeenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 16 November in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

A number of Free Software related events will happen around the Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
On 11 November, a discussion oriented conference with the title "Digital Inclusion: Accelerating Global Participation and Access through Open ICT Standards" takes place from 8:30 to 17:30.
The Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards sponsors an Open Workshop titled "The Intersection of Open ICT Standards, Development, and Public Policy" on 12 November from 15:30 to 17:00, and a Best Practice Workshop on "Open ICT Standards for Greater Citizen Access: Best Practices in Government Policy and Procurement Practices" on 13 November from 16:30 to 18:00.
All these events take place in the Windsor Barra Hotel.

FSFE will have a booth at the Come2Linux, which takes place from 10 to 11 November in Essen, Germany. Michael Kesper from the German team and Dr Michael Stehmann from FTFs legal network will be available to answer questions. Also, T-shirts and other merchandise will be sold at the event as usual.

On the 8th of November, the FSFE and its Freedom Task Force (FTF), in collaboration with the Internet Academy in Sweden, will give a course on Strategic implementation of Free Software in businesses. The course will take place in Stockholm, Sweden and given predominantly in Swedish.

The FSFE will participate with a booth on Internetdagarna in Stockholm, Sweden, between the 5th and 6th of November. FSFE will inform visitors about various aspects of Free Software, like the Freedom Task Force, software patents, the SELF project, GPLv3, or the Fellowship of FSFE.

On the 3rd of November, Shane Coughlan from FSFE will speak at elce2007 about the business advantages inherent in Free Software and describe the licences that facilitate the freedoms it delivers. He will discuss the processes that help companies ensure they maximise benefit and minimise liability in Free Software deployment. He will also outline how Free Software and Open Standards work together to ensure a competitive marketplace.

On the 2nd of November, the FSFE and M6-IT are organising Free Software as a Social Innovation in London. This day long event will inform participants about Free Software and demonstrate its use in civil society organisations.

Shane Coughlan will deliver two talks at LinuxWorld NL. The first will take place on the 31st of October and discribe the work of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and some of our current projects. Shane will also provide an overview of Free Software software licences, practical compliance issues, the importance of truly Open Standards and and the work of FSFE's Freedom Task Force.

Shane Coughlan will deliver a talk about Quality Assurance, enterprise reliability and positive steps in Free Software to ensure it meets business requirements at a joint NLUUG/NLLGG event taking place in the same venue as LinuxWorld NL. The event kicks off at 18:30 and continues until 20:30.

FSFE president Georg Greve and vice-president Jonas Öberg will participate in the 5th annual OpenFest in Sofia, Bulgaria, to talk about the FSFE and the SELF project.

Ciaran O'Riordan will explain Free Software licences, pitfalls such as incompatibility, and what was learned during the GPLv3 drafting process about making the best licence possible.

Ciaran O'Riordan will give the opening keynote at this event, explaining the history of the GNU GPL, and why it has been successful in adoption and in protecting essential freedoms.

The sixteenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 23 October in Krems. We meet at 18:30 in the Restaurant Klinglhuber, Wiener Straße 10. A separate room is reserved for "BG Rechte Kremszeile".
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

On the 18. October from 14:00 to 15:30 Matthias Kirschner, FSFE's German deputy coordinator, will take part in a panel discussion at the Sustainable-IT conference. The topic of the discussion is "IT sustainability -- international. How can software contribute to resource protection and a fair distribution of knowledge". It takes place at the Kalkscheune, Johannisstraße 2 in Berlin. Registration on their website is required. Admission fee is 25 EUR, reduced 15 EUR.

On the 12th and 13th of October, the University of Lisbon will host the I Forum de Software Livre, where both academia and businesses will share their experiences with Free Software as a strong and credible technological alternative suitable for small, medium and big businesses. Georg Greve will be present, promoting the merits of Free Software, and its adequacy to modern technological needs.

On Wednesday 26 September 2007 at 19:30, Dr. Michael Stehmann gives a speech with the following topics:

• Why licenses?
• Criteria for Free Software licenses
• Which licenses do exist?

The event takes place in the Restaurant "Mi Dang", Fürstenwall 120, 40217 Düsseldorf and was organised by the local Fellowship group. After the speech, there will be an open discussion. Admission is free, although donations are of course welcome.

On the 25th of September, Jonas Öberg, vice president of the FSFE, will talk about and present the GNU General Public License version 3 at a meeting of the Swedish Computer Association in Malmö, Sweden.

Georg Greve, president of the FSFE, will be a keynote speaker at OpenExpo, a Free Software Exposition aimed at a corporate and technical audience. He will talk about the significance and strategic importance of Free Software and Open Standards in the business world.

Between the 18th and 19th of September, the FSFE in collaboration with the Internet Academy in Sweden will give a course on the strategic implementation of Free Software in Stockholm, Sweden. The course will be given in Swedish.

Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will deliver a two day course entitled 'Free Software licenses and other questions' at the Digicomp Academy Zurich, Switzerland. The course is intended for project managers, developers and technicians who wish to become more knowledgeable regarding code distribution options.

Between the 30th of August and 1st of September, the Fondation Sciences Citoyennes organises the 3rd Living Knowledge Conference where FSFE Swedish Team member Mathias Klang will participate to give a presentation on the SELF project.

The Department of Computer Science of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg is organising a conference all about Free Software in 2007 again with help of Fachschaft of Computer Science, LUUSA and FrOSCon e.V.

FSFE will again maintain a booth. Coordination is done via the booth@ mailing list.

The fifteenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 17 August in Vienna and in Dornbirn. We meet around 18:00 in the net.culture.lab Vienna in Museumsquartier, q21, Haupthof, the door vis-à-vis Museum Leopold, and in the net.culture.lab Dornbirn, Marktstraße 4. Both places will be connected via live stream. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

Between the 7th and 11th of August, Georg Greve, Jonas Öberg and members of the SELF project will participate in and give speeches at the 7th Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre in Córdoba, Argentina, as part of the work to promote the SELF project in the region.

The fourteenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 20 July in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will present a lunch briefing at the Digicomp Academy Zurich, Switzerland focused on Free Software in business and licensing issues.

On Tuesday the 4th of July at 17.00, the FSFE is organising a summer Fellowship meeting at its offices in Göteborg. The FSFE will inform about its activities and provide an opportunity for Fellows to meet each other.

On Thursday June 28th at 21h00, there will be the first Benelux meeting of the Fellowship. The aim will be to get to know each other and to discuss what each person would like to get active on in the coming year. There will also be a social session on the night of Saturday June 30th. Details about venues will be on the Fellowship site as the information becomes available.

Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will deliver a two day course entitled 'Free Software licenses and other questions' at the Digicomp Academy Zurich, Switzerland. The course is intended for project managers, developers and technicians who wish to become more knowledgeable regarding code distribution options.

Free Software Foundation Europe in collaboration with the European Training Centre for Social Affairs and Public Health (EIPA-CEFASS) is organising an International Conference: "FLOSS: A Valuable Opportunity for Public Administrations".
The Conference is designed for Civil servants, Senior Civil Servants (Directors & Unit Heads), lawyers and politicians in EU Member States and countries surrounding the EU who are involved in the procurement of IT solutions and in strategic decisions about innovation and eGovernment, and who provide legal advice on copyright and patents.
The conference will be held in Milan on 21-22 June 2007. Please find the full program and the registration form online at:

The thirteenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 22 June in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

Prof. Arturo Di Corinto will moderate two speeches on the ethics and practice of free, open source software, by Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software movement, and Bruce Perens, founder of the Open Source Initiative. The event, in collaboration with Free Software Foundation Europe, the italian Associazione per il Software Libero, Linux User Group La Sapienza, Wikimedia Italia, will be an opportunity to listen to the leading actors of the evolution of free/libre software.
The event will be held Thursday June 7th from 9.30am until 1.30pm at the Aula Magna della Caserma Sani, located in Via Principe Amedeo, 184. It is reachable walking from Termini Rail Station or by the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele metro station.
Admission is free for the whole event. Audio/Video streaming will be also available.

On Thursday June 7, 2007 at 3:30 pm in the V G Kulkarni Auditorium at Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) in Mumbai, India, Georg Greve gives a talk about Free Software and science.
Free Software and science share common roots, and benefit society in several similar ways. In his talk, Mr Greve will explain the concept of Free Software and how it relates to maintaining our scientific basis as a society. As a practical example of this collaboration, the talk will give a brief introduction of the Science, Education and Learning in Freedom project, in which the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research plays a crucial role. The talk will close with an overview of how all of this relates to the global political trends of knowledge monopolisation, and the Access to Knowledge initiative.

FSFE will be present with a booth at LinuxTag 2007, which takes place at Berlin's Expo Center under the Funkturm. FSFE will inform visitors about various aspects of Free Software, like the Freedom Task Force, software patents, the SELF project, GPLv3, or the Fellowship of FSFE. Also it is planned to sell T-Shirts from FSFE and books about Free Software. Please take the opportunity to get informed about Free Software and FSFE.

The biggest event in this year's Austrian Linuxwochen series takes place from 31 May to 2 June 2007 in the Urania building in Vienna. The FSFE is there during the whole event with a booth to inform people about its work and about Free Software in general.
On 31 May at 17:00 Reinhard Müller holds a speech titled "Free Software for a free society".
Admission is free for the whole event.

The eLiberatica Conference is the most important romanian event concerning Free Software. It will be held on the 18th and the 19th of May, in Braşov, Romania, and is organized by ROSI, a romanian assocition advocating Free Software, and by Agora Media, a romanian media group. eLiberatica's purpose is to unify pomotion of Free Software throughout Romania, and encouraging its adoption by business through grassroots organization. The conference therefore addresses programmers, university students, and business people. Georg Greve will deliver a talk on Open Standards and Free Competition.

On Saturday 19 May 2007 at 9:30, Reinhard Müller holds the keynote for the Linuxwochen event at the University of Applied Sciences "Johanneum" in Graz.
At 11:00 he gives another speech titled "Free Software for a free society" there.
As a part of the same event, the twelfth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place at 15:00. As usual, all people interested in FSFE or Free Software are invited to this meeting.
The FSFE also has a booth at the event where it informs about its work and about Free Software in general.
Admission is free for the whole event.

On thursday the 17th of may, the FSFE and Digifri, Sweden, invites you to attend a lecture by Richard Stallman on Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks. The lecture will take place at Linköping University, room C4 at 17.00.

On Wednesday the 16th of may, the FSFE and Göteborg University, Sweden, invites you to attend a lecture by Richard Stallman on Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works. Stallman will speak about the history and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, address how the ideas of Free Software do or don't extend to other kinds of published works and explain what the Pirate Party must change in its program to avoid unintended negative consequences in the software field.

FSFE will be present at the first Italian Conference on Free Software, a conference intended to examine the state of the art in Free Software. The conference wants to be the point of meeting of all the subjects that involved in the diffusion and in the use of the Free Software in Italy and all over the world, or undertaken, public corporate body, university, developers, researchers and impassioned, to know it and to start collaborations and projects. The conference will be a point of intersection for all of the subjects around Free Software both in Italy and world-wide. It will provide a forum for public bodies, universities, developers and researchers to network, collaborate and initiate projects.
This will be the first conference focusing on Free Software in science and is being organised by Hacklab Cosenza in collaboration of FSFE, University of Calabria.

On Saturday 12 May 2007 at 13:45, Karin Kosina gives a speech titled "Free Software for free people" as a part of the Linuxwochen event at the University of Applied Sciences in Eisenstadt. Admission is free.

Georg Greve and Ciaran O'Riordan will speak at the Libremeeting 2007 --the 1st International Free Knowledge Meeting of Madrid--. Georg will present the FSFE while Ciaran's speech will be about the GPLv3. The event is organized by our associated organization the Free Knowledge Foundation.

On Monday 7 May 2007 at 19:30, Shane M. Coughlan gives an introduction to Free Software Licensing and the Freedom Task Force in the Restaurant "Philipp" in Düsseldorf, Fürstenwall 120. The event was organised by the local Fellowship group. Admission is free.

On April 27th-29th 2007, the weekend of World "Intellectual Property Day", the Yale Information Society Project will hold its Second Annual Access to Knowledge (A2K) Conference. This A2K conference program focuses on mobilizing Industry, Civil Society, Governments and Technologists, around human rights, human development and the public interest in the domain of innovation and information policy, as well as understanding the theoretical underpinnings of access to knowledge issues. Georg Greve will be present, advocating Free Software, and will act as a moderator in the Mobilizing Technologists Panel.

Shane Coughlan, FSFE Freedom Task Force coordinator, will deliver a speech entitled 'Introduction to Free Software' at ETH Zurich during the "Linux-Day V" event for students. Shane will be speaking at 13:15 on the 27th of April at ETH Zentrum HG E33.1.

The eleventh Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 27 April in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

On April 4th, 18:00 pm, Georg Greve and Jonas Oberg will give three public talks. Georg will present the FSFE, and Free Software issues in e-government, and Jonas will talk about the SELF project. This event will take place in Belgrade, it will also be an opportunity for the Free Software community in Serbia to meet, with people also coming from Macedonia and Croatia.

On Sunday April 1st, at 17h00, in Brussels, Richard Stallman will present the current status of the global project to update Free Software's keystone licence: the GNU GPL. This talk will be Stallman's first since the release of discussion draft 3 - the draft crafted to block patent deals such as that of Novell+Microsoft. This draft has also been simplified, and the DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) and tivoisation clauses have also been altered significantly.

The Fellowship group in Düsseldorf has invited GnuPG's principal author Werner Koch to speak about the Fellowship crypto card and its practical use. The event starts on 28 March 2007 at 19:00 in the "Gaststätte Phillip" in Düsseldorf. Admittance is free, although donations for the FSFE are of course welcome.

The first Franconian Fellowship meeting takes place on 24 March 2007 in Forchheim. We meet at 16:00 in the restaurant "Roter Ochs". Jutta Horstmann speaks about Content Management Systems, Rainer Kersten from FSFE's office will give some info about FSFE, and the following discussion will certainly be interesting :-).

This will be the second meeting of fellows in the region of Bonn and Cologne. It will take place on 2007-03-20 at 19 o'clock (open end) in the restaurant/bar Aktuell Nachrichtentreff.
Everyone living in the region, please subscribe to the new Rheinland mailinglist where discussion about topics will take place as well as other things interesting for fellows in the "Rheinland" region.
If you want to come, please drop me a line so I can adjust the reservation.

The tenth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 16 March in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
A major topic this time is the planning of FSFE's participation in this year's Linuxwochen event series in Austria
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

The Fellowship group in Düsseldorf has invited Marcus Brinkmann to speak about restricted trust in computer systems. The event starts on 28 February 2007 at 20:00 in the "Gaststätte Phillip" in Düsseldorf. Admittance is free, although donations for the FSFE are of course welcome.

FSFE will attend FOSDEM 2007 which takes place from 24th - 25th of February in Brussels, Belgium. FOSDEM is a European Free Software developer conference organized by volunteers.
The FSFE will be present with a booth where visitors will be informed about recent activities, Free Software itself and the Fellowship of the FSFE. Georg Greve, president of FSFE, will do this year's Closing Keynote, on the topic of "Beyond GPLv3: Free Software today and tomorrow". Shane M. Coughlan will be giving a Lightning talk at FOSDEM about the Free Software licensing and the Freedom Task Force. As usual, T-Shirts will be sold as well.
The event promotes the widespread use of Free Software, to provide Free Software developers and communities a place to meet, to get in touch with other projects, and to promote the development and the benefits of Free Software solutions.

Georg Greve, president of FSFE, has been invited to act as an observer at the third session of the Provisional Committee on Proposal Related to a WIPO Development Agenda (PCDA); he already participated to the 1st and the 2nd session. The meeting will be held in Geneva, from February 19th to 23rd, 2007.

The nineth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 19 February (note: this is a Monday, not a Friday as usual) in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

FSFE will be represented by Ciaran O'Riordan at this computer science conference. Ciaran will speak on the topic of GPLv3, presenting the current state and the work ahead.

During the second leg of the SELF project, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR will organise the second BOARD meeting in Mumbai, India. The issues that will be discussed are related to SELF Support Programme (SSP), Finances and budget, Expert groups, and other strategic plans. The week long meeting comprises of two days workshop sessions, three days board meeting, one day SELF conference and one day for a social event. George Greve and Jonas Oberg, president and vice president of the FSFE, will be part of the Legal Experts Group.

Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force (FTF) coordinator, will attend the LIFT conference in Geneva, Switzerland. LIFT is a conference to explore the challenges and opportunities of technology in society. Shane will participate in the 'Legal issues and perspectives' workshop hosted by the Swiss lawfirm BCCC.

The eigth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 19 January in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

The seventh Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 15 December in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Library Room at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

Shane Coughlan, FTF coordinator, will be on IRC this Friday to answer questions about the Freedom Task Force, to discuss potential routes of involvement, and to chat in general about Free Software licensing in Europe. The discussion will take place on freenode in the #fsfeurope channel between 9am and 11am GMT time (10am to 12 noon CET).

The president of FSFE, Georg Greve, will give a lecture titled "What is Free Software and are Free Software solutions professional enough for our daily business?" during the "Nexell informiert", in Zurich. The lecture is starting on 4 December at 17:30 at "Schweizerisches Institut für Betriebsökonomie".
"Nexell informiert" is a meeting where experts are invited to talk and spread awareness about Free Software issues, organised by the Nexell, an independent team of international and multilingual CRM professionals, there to help customers find the right technologies, platforms and solutions to meet their needs and budgets.

FSFE president Georg Greve will participate as member of the jury at the Third Edition of the Trophées du Libre. The ceremony will take place the 30 November 2006 at Soissons (France). Trophées du Libre is an international competition rewarding the best free software projects among 6 categories: Security, Multimedia and Games, Company management, Educational, Applications for Public infrastructures and for communities, PHP.

The 5th international conference on GPLv3 will be a 2-day event held in Japan on November 21st and 22nd. Organised by Free Software Initiative Japan, this event will host experts and interested parties who will make presentations and participate in discussions about Free Software's cornerstone licence. FSFE will be represented by Georg Greve (President) and Ciarán O'Riordan. The joint goals are to maximise awareness of the GPLv3 process and to give attendees the information necessary to make informed comments on the licence drafts and to help them to explain the proposed changes to others.

The sixth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 17 November in Vienna. We meet around 18:00 in the Lounge at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district. The "official" agenda will start at 19:00.
Some of the Fellows that have been on the first international Fellowship meeting in Bolzano will be there to report from that event. The Freedom Task Force which was presented there will also be a topic for the evening.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

FSFE will be present with a booth at the "Linuxworld Conference and Expo", which takes place from 14 to 16 November in the "Koelnmesse" area in Cologne, Germany.

The Fellows of FSFE will meet in Bolzano at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference 2006 (SFSCon) on Saturday, November 11. Check the link for more up to date information.

The president of FSFE, Georg Greve, will give a lecture titled "Kommerzielle, praktische und gesellschaftliche Aspekte Freier Software" during the forthcoming OpenTuesday meeting, in Zurich. The lecture is starting at 18:00, 7th of November.
OpenTuesday meetings are monthly meetings where experts are invited to talk and spread awareness about Free Software issues.

Dublin, Ireland. Ciarán O'Riordan will give a presentation on GNU GPLv3 regarding the state of the discussion and the options open on DRM and tivoisation - using the Linux kernel as an example. This presentation will be part a day-long event for the ILUG AGM.

From 30 October to 2 November the UN is holding its first Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Athens, Greece. FSFE president Georg Greve is participating to discuss issues of software sovereignty and to participate in the high level panel on Access.

FSFE will be at the "LinuxWorld Expo" in London, on the 25th/26th of October. FSFE will have a booth at the event. Please come and visit us to learn more about Free Software, the work of the FSFE and the Fellowship.

At the Internet days 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden, FSFE vice president Jonas Öberg will participate in a panel discussion on open document formats. The FSFE will also be present with a booth during the event.

The fourth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 20 October starting at 18:00 in Vienna at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

This year's annual KDE conference will be held in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. FSFE will be represented by Ciaran O'Riordan who will deliver a keynote on Software Patents at 13:45 on Sunday the 24th, and will lead a Birds of a Feather session on GPLv3 from 19:00 to 20:00 on Tuesday th 26th. aKademy is generally technical in nature.

Fellows from Dusseldorf and the surrounding area meet on 27 September at 20:00 in the Cafe "Philipp", Furstenwall 120, Dusseldorf-Bilk. Please inform kersten (at) fsfeurope.org if you are planning to join.

Georg Greve, president of FSFE, will partecipate in a policy panel, at the workshop "IPR protection of software", to explain and make clear the advantages and benefits of Free Software licensing. The panel will take place on the second day of the workshop, the 22nd of September at 13:00. The venue is the Hotel Linna, Helsinki.

FSFE will organise a GPLv3 workshop at this year's Wizards of OS conference in Berlin on Friday, September 15th, from 17h00 to 19h00. Georg Greve and Ciaran O'Riordan will be joined by members of FSF Latin America, FSFE's sister organisation, to present the main changes proposed for GPLv3 and to examine to current state of the public discussion process.

The fourth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 15 September starting at 18:00 in Vienna at the Metalab, Rathausstraße 6, first district.
As usual, this invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

At the "Tiroler Linuxtag", the last event in the Austrian "Linuxwochen" series, both Reinhard Müller and Patrick Ohnewein hold a keynote. Reinhard Müller gives a general overview on Free Software and informs about the Fellowship, and Patrick Ohnewein speaks about CoCOS, a competence center about Free Software, and about Free Software in Southern Tyrol.
The event takes place on 9 September 2006 from 10:00 to 17:00 at the UMIT, a private university in Hall in Tyrol. Admission is free.

Ciaran O'Riordan will present, and will take questions on, the main changes being made for version three of the GNU GPL. The goal of this evening is to give members of the Free Software community information to help them make constructive criticism and to suggest improvements during the remainder of the year-long public consultation process.

At one of the regular networking meetings of Dataföreningen Region West, Jonas Öberg, vice president of FSFE, will give an overview of the GPL version 3, the proposed changes and the rationale of them.

The 4th international conference for drafting version 3 of the GNU GPL will take place in Bangalore, India on August 23rd and 24th. The goals of the international conferences are to raise awareness of the proposed changes for the GNU GPL, and to explain the public consultation process so as to encourage maximal participation. The 2nd draft of GPLv3, launched on July 27th, will be discussed at this conference.

The public kick off conference for the "Science Education and Learning in Freedom" (SELF) project, will take place in the Hague, Netherlands on the 10th of July. Georg Greve, president of FSFE, and Jonas Oberg, vice president of FSFE, will participate at the conference. Greve will be the keynote on the topic "Strategic implications of Free Software in the Netherlands and in Europe", and Oberg will lead the panel discussion about "The Open Content Revolution"

As part of FSFE's ongoing work to reform the global system for copyrights, patents and trademarks, Georg Greve, president of FSFE, is going to attend the 2nd session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda (PCDA), as he already participated to the 1st session on February 2006. The meeting will take place at the United Nations in Geneva.

Ciaran O'Riordan will give an overview of the current proposal for how v3 of the GNU GPL will differ from v2. Topics will include a description of the year-long public consultation process and how GPLv3 will strive to preserve freedom in spite of DRM, software patents, and a complicated legal World.

At this two day international conference, the experts on GPLv3 and Free Software licencing will present the proposed changes to Free Software's corner stone licence, the GNU General Public License. The experts will also take questions from attendees and topical discussions will be organised. The joint goals are to raise awareness of the GPLv3 process and to give attendees the information necessary to explain the proposed changes to others.

Free Software meets digital lifestyle: on Friday 16 June, Georg Greve will speak at the Dorkbot Swiss meeting at the Kunstraum Walcheturm in Zurich, Switzerland at 20:00. The event will focus mainly on social issues of digital freedom.

Austria's largest Free Software event takes place from Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 10:00, to Friday, 2 June 2006, 22:00, in the Urania building, Uraniastraße 1, First District, Vienna. Admission is free.
FSFE is present with a booth. On all three days of the event, members of the FSFE, Fellows, and volunteers are available at the booth to inform about the work of the FSFE and about the Fellowship.
On Wednesday 31 May at 20:00 Karin Kosina gives a speech titled "Free Software for free people" in which she introduces the Free Software Foundation Europe.

At the 5th System Administration and Network Engineering Conference in Delft, Georg Greve, president of FSFE, will give an introduction to the GPL version 3, the changes made, their reasoning and how to participate in the process to make sure GPLv3 will be the best GPL we can collectively create.

As every year, the FSFE will be present at the GNU/LinuxTag, one of the highlights of the Free Software year since 1996, with many volunteers and presentations to spread knowledge about Free Software and the work of FSFE. Meet many of the FSFE activists and visit their talks about WIPO, GPLv3, DRM, and other topics.

Federico Heinz will give two talks in Dublin, Ireland. One on "Free Software and Education", and one on "The Imperative for Free Software in Public Administration". This event is being organised by Ciaran O'Riordan with Irish Free Software Organisation. O'Riordan will also make a presentation about GPLv3: the process and the largest changes.

The Grand Jury of the EU Court of Justice is ready for the big hearing on the Microsoft Antitrust Case. The hearing will take place in the Grande Salle of the EU Court, from the 24th until the 28th of April. Georg Greve president of FSFE, Carlo Piana FSFE's lawyer on the case and Andrew Tridgell of the Samba Team will be present at the event to defend the Court from Microsoft's legal team efforts of circumventing once again their obligations.

At the first international conference on Access to Knowledge, held at Yale Law School, Karsten Gerloff will moderate a panel discussion on "Licensing Frameworks for Access to Knowledge". The goal of the conference is to come up with a new analytic framework for analysing the possibly distortive effects of public policies relying exclusively on copyright and patents. Participants will be looking for alternative ways to foster greater access to knowledge in the digitally connected environment.

The 7th edition of the Free Software Forum (FISL) will once more take place in Porto Alegre, Brazil and also host the second international conference on GPLv3. FSFE will be represented at this event by its president, Georg Greve, and FSFE's Brussels representative, Ciaran O'Riordan. Both will speak at the GPLv3 event, and participate during the main FISL event: Georg Greve will give one of the opening talks, titled "Free Software - Social Movement or Technological Revolution?" and Ciaran O'Riordan will talk about work against software patents. Both will also work with FSFE's sister association, the FSF Latin America and meet the local Free Software community to strengthen the international Free Software network.

Ciaran O'Riordan and Gareth Bowker will speak in London on why and what FSFE does to prevent legislative harm to software freedom - harm such as that caused by patenting software or distorting copyright. O'Riordan will also discuss the GPLv3 and its year-long public consultation process. Both will take questions.

On 18th March, Richard Stallman will talk in Turin about the future of Free Software, introducing the Italian audience to the updating process of the GNU General Public License ("the GPL"), the license that protects the freedom of about 100 million software users in the world, being the most used license for Free Software.

The third Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 17 March starting at 18:00 in Vienna at the Cafe Panoptikum, Schultergasse 4, first district.
This time Karin Kosina and Reinhard Müller want to give an overview of the various projects FSFE is working on, and also continue the discussion about Free Software in Austrian schools. Ideas for other topics are of course welcome, too.
This invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software. We are looking forward to many attendants!

As every year, the Free Software Foundation Europe will participate in the FOSDEM in Brussels, a European Free Software Developer Conference. As every year, the FSFE Team will be speaking with many people from the Free Software community, inform about its work and this year even present a little surprise.

After the Inter-Sessional Inter-Governmental Meetings (IIM) on the establishment of a Development Agenda at the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Georg C. F. Greve and Karsten Gerloff of FSFE will also participate in the 2006 WIPO Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda (PCDA) followup.

FSF Europe, represented by Georg C. F. Greve, Ciaran O'Riordan, and Stefano Maffulli, will participate in the presentation of a first discussion draft on version 3 of the GNU General Public License at the Free Software Foundation First International Conference on GPLv3, being held at the MIT in Cambridge, USA.

The second Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place on 13 January starting at 18:00 in Vienna in the Otto-Wagner Pavillion near Karlsplatz in the side room upstairs, right hand from the staircase. Like last time, Karin Kosina and Reinhard Müller will inform about FSFE's work, and we expect interesting discussions. A major discussion point this time will be "Free Software in education". This invitation addresses to all people interested in FSFE or Free Software.

At the Chaos Computer Club's 22nd Chaos Communication Congress, Karsten Gerloff will give a talk on Free Software, Access to Knowledge and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The talk is scheduled for Dec. 30th, 14:00.

Georg C. F. Greve, President of FSFE, will participate in panels about e-government and digital society at LACFREE II, a UNESCO sponsored conference on Free Software development and usage being held in the Brazilian cities Recife and Olinda.

Having been invited to the 5th Regional Free Software Days, Georg Greve will participate in this important Latin American event, which spans technical, social and cultural topics. He will also be a guest to the public part of the first general assembly of the Free Software Foundation Latin America, which is going to be held at this event.

In an event organised by FSFE's associate organisation Irish Free Software Organisation, FSFE's Brussels Representative, Ciaran O'Riordan, will speak about his work to prevent software patents, and what could be the road ahead. He, and the other speakers, will also discuss similar legislation, which is getting much less attention, such as IPRED2.

The second phase of the United Nations (UN) World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will be held between 14th and 18th November in Tunis. Georg C. F. Greve, President of FSFE, will be working to promote digital freedom and equality in discussions and side-events with other participants from Governments, Civil Society, the Private Sector and the United Nations.

From 15. to 17. November, FSFE will be at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2005. FSFE will be present with a booth. Please take the opportunity to get informed about Free Software, the work of the FSFE and the Fellowship. There will also be the chance to get informed about the OpenPGP smartcard.

The World Summit on the Information Society and the role of Local Authorities is held in Bilbao, Spain between the 9th and 11th of november. Jonas Öberg will participate in the workshop on Free Software on the 10th of november at 16.45 to discuss the importance of Free Software in government administration.

Georg C. F. Greve, President of FSF Europe, will be speaking at Tweakfest 2005 - Visions of Digital Life Style on Nov 10th 2005 in Zürich, a congress organised by the local Academy of Design and Art.
The topic of his talk will be "Who owns the Information Society? - Open source is not enough!"

On 4 November, starting at 18:00, a Fellowship meeting will take place in the "Käuzchen" in Vienna, Gardegasse 8. Karin Kosina and Reinhard Müller will inform about the work of the FSFE and discuss with interested people. The invitation is adressed at everybody who is interested in the FSFE, wants to get active himself or just likes Free Software and wants to get in contact with other enthusiasts, not only at those who are part of the Fellowship. If you want to join us there, please send a short mail to austria (at) fsfeurope.org so we can reserve a big enough table.

The Swedish Internet infrastructure foundation is organising the conference Internetdagarna 2005 at the Clarion Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, between the 24th and 25th of october. Several issues will be discussed during the conference, including a discussion on Sweden's IT policy and the dangers of a digital divide. FSF Europe's Jonas Öberg will participate throughout the conference

At the Third Conference on Free Software in the Amazonas, Georg Greve will meet with local and international Free Software activists to work on questions related to Free Software and Development.

Stefano Maffulli, Italian Chancellor, will be speaking at the biggest professional conference of the Hungarian Internet users. The event will see participants from the communication and financial experts, from governmental institutions, and representatives of Telkom, ISP and other service institutions. The subject of this year's conference is: what possibilities are there on the Internet for the media and communication industry, and what sort of business activities can be carried out with the help of the Internet, with special attention to those economic activities.

On the 3rd of October, Jonas Öberg will participate in a workshop on the World Summit of the Information Society, focused on Internet Governance and Human Rights. The workshop is organised by the Collegium for Development Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden, and will be held at the Hammarskog Conference Centre, Sweden.

FSFE's president Georg Greve has been invited to speak at the Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Development and Use of Free Software. He will talk about Free Software as a social movement and its interaction in the political field, in particular on United Nations level, such as WIPO. Georg Greve is also looking forward to a session on the Free Software Foundations with participants from FSF Latin America, FSF India and FSF Europe. During this event he will share with the audience some of the work that FSFE has done in the past years.

FSFE will take part in this final preparatory meeting for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). We will contribute the perspective of Free Software to the various meetings and negotiations.

Stefano Maffulli, Italian Chancellor, will be speaking at the OpenOffice.org Conference 2005 in Koper - Capodistria (Slovenia). Participants are invited to register (free of charge).

London, August 13th is the Annual General Meeting of UK-based Association For Free Software (AFFS). This year Ciaran O'Riordan will be giving a talk about what has been achieved and what we must do to prepare for the future battles over software patentability.

At the What the Hack! outdoor conference, Georg Greve will give a talk on FSFE's work and the Fellowship project. Karsten Gerloff will hold a lecture on WIPO and the Development Agenda.

Following up on FSFE's activities during the first two part of WIPO's Meetings on a Development Agenda, Georg Greve and Karsten Gerloff will work to make sure the needs of Free Software are taken into account in any WIPO agreements.

The "Jornades des Programari Lliure" is a Free Software conference in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia. Karin Kosina will give an introduction to 3D programming with Coin3D on 7 July at 15:30 and hold a speech about making money with Free Software on 8 July at 11:30.

At the GNU/Linuxtag 2005, world's biggest GNU/Linux fair, FSFE will present itself with two booths, several talks and a large number of people. Please take the opportunity to get informed about FSFE and Free Software. Details about FSFE's many activities are listed on a separate page, reached via the link below.

For the second part of World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)'s Intersessional Intergovernmental Meeting, FSFE will again send a delegation to Geneva. In coordination with other Civil Society Actors, FSFE will work to direct WIPO's work towards increasing intellectual wealth and addressing the needs and demands of Free Software.

On 8th June 2005 FSFE will be present at the round table "Art culture knowledge democracy". Italian chancellor Stefano Maffulli will be there with other participants like Brasilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil, Italian Creative Commons Public Lead, Juan Carlos De Martin and many more.

At the WSIS Contributory Conference in Vienna, Georg Greve will hold a speech "Free Software as intellectual wealth for the information society". The conference aims to come to a "Vienna Declaration on Creativity" which will call attention to the fact that creativity is a natural resource of the human mind.

Staring 14h30, after a street demonstration against software patents, FSFE will be organising a Freedom Party to celebrate digital freedom as part of its Fellowship campaign. The venue hasn't been set yet, but it will be close to Square de Meeus, where the street demonstration ends. Square de Meeus is a grassy square that sits on either side of Rue de Luxembourg, half-way between the European Parliament and Trone metro station.

Karin Kosina will open the event with a keynote on May 24th, and will speak about the importance of the term "Free Software" on May 26th. Georg Greve will give a talk about Free Software in B2B and public administrations on May 25th. Both will also take part in panel discussions.

Georg Greve will participate in a Conference on Access to Knowledge (A2K), organised by the group Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue. At the London event, consumer representatives, librarians, experts from governments, international and civil society organizations will work on proposals for an Access to Knowledge Treaty.

At the invitation of the World Bank, Georg Greve will speak to IT and procurement professionals attending a training in procurement of information systems. He will signal the specific advantages of Free Software for development projects.

From 12. April to 15. April, the FSFE will participate in the inter-sessional intergovernmental meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva. As only permanent observers were invited to participate, most Civil Society organisations will not be allowed to attend this highly critical meeting on the future agenda of WIPO. The FSFE delegation so far consists of Georg Greve, Karsten Gerloff and Volker Grassmuck. Together with other Civil Society actors, they will work to see WIPOs mission reoriented towards increasing intellectual wealth and see Free Software questions properly addressed.

LinuxForum 2005 will be held in Copenhagen during the weekend between the 4th and 5th of March. FSF Europe will be represented by Henrik Sandklef, together with the Danish organisation IT-Politisk Forening that is working for information freedom in Denmark.

A conference on Free Software will be held at Istanbul Bilgi University on March 4th and 5th 2005. The focus will be on the opportunities Free Software offers for the Turkish economy. On March 4th, Georg Greve will deliver a speech on commercial, practical and sociological aspects of Free Software and the GNU Project.

Between the 2nd and 4th of March, Karin Kosina and Jonas Öberg will give talks at the Free and Open Source Software Workshop in Damascus. Karin will talk about the economic aspects of Free Software and Jonas will talk about formal education on Free Software on a university level.

Between the 26th and 27th of February, this years installment of FOSDEM will take place in Brussels. The FSF Europe will be represented by several members and volunteers, and will also sell t-shirts and other merchandise.

FSFE is planning to participate in the Preparatory Committee (2. PrepCom) meeting of the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Georg Greve intends to be in Geneva, Switzerland from 17. - 25. February 2005.

On Friday, 18th February, Georg Greve will give a talk at LOTS at the University of Bern, Switzerland. In his lecture, he will talk about the origins and the advantages of Free Software. Gratis admission for people who have registered until 31th of January, else you have to pay CHF 10.

FSFE is going to participate in the World Social Forum from 26th to 31st January 2005 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. On 26th January, Georg Greve will participate at an event with the topic "Digital Revolution: Knowledge Sharing x Impresionment on Information Society". The event will take place in Room A105 from 15:30 am to 18:30 am.

On Friday, Jan 14th 2005 at 19:30, Georg Greve will hold a talk about the challenges of Free Software in the digital age and about the work of the Free Software Foundation Europe. The talk will be held in Theatre Q, Arts Block on the UCD campus on January 14th and will be open to the public.

From November 26th until November 28th, 2004, the SFScon will take place in Bolzano, Italy. Two members of the Free Software Foundation Europe will give three different lectures: Werner Koch will speak about "Privacy and encryption techniques", Alessandro Rubini will present "Free Software in teaching" and gives an "Introduction to kernel programming".

The Congresso Internacional de Software Livre (CONISLI) -- a Free Software conference organized entirely by the Free Software community in Brazil -- will take place in the Anhembi Convention Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Georg Greve will open the congress with a keynote on Thursday.

On Saturday, Oct 9th 2004 16:00 pm, Georg Greve will participate at a round-table about Free Software at aLANtejo. The event is public, registration is required on the events website (only in Portuguese).

On Tuesday, Oct 5 2004, at 14:00 Georg Greve will speak about visions for Free Software. The speech will be delivered in German.

On Friday, Oct 1st 2004, Georg Greve will participate at the event about "autonomy and freedom of knowledge in the information society. Political, economical, and cultural consequences". The conference will start at 9:00 am and will end in the evening. The Event is designed for administrative directors, department chiefs, directors of office from South Tyrol as well as business people, interested organisations, and citizens. The event is public with no admission fee, but registration is required until Sep 30th on the events web site.

On September 23rd Georg Greve will participate to the Expert Meeting on Free Software. He will speak about Free Software and its role in advancing the information society, in particular developing countries.

On Monday, Sept 6 2004, Georg Greve will participate in a discussion round "digital commons" among Lawrence Lessig, the initiator of the prizewinning project "Creative Commons". Questions of the discussion will be: To whom does knowledge belong and how free are Free Software, content and infrastructure?

On Monday, July 22 at 10:00 Georg Greve holds a speech about the Free Software Foundation Europe. He also participates at round table discussions on the topic "Must governments support Free Software?" on Wednesday, July 21 from 12:30 to 13:30 and from 13:30 to 14:30 and on the topic "Software Patents in Europe" on Thursday, July 22 at the same time. The speeches will be delivered in English.

GNU/LinuxTag is one of the major Free Software events. Like every year, the FSF Europe will man a booth. Several of our team members will be there to answer questions about our activities, and we will sell merchandise like t-shirts and pins for the benefit of our work for Free Software. Bernhard Reiter and Georg Greve will hold talks about Free Software and its licenses Wednesday, 16:00, Thursday, 14:00, and Saturday, 13:00.

Within the "Wizards of OS 2004", a workshop with the title "Where next for copyright in Europe?" will be held. The list of speakers also includes Georg Jakob, Member of the FSF Europe, who will talk about winners and losers from the "Intellectual Proprerty Rights Enforcement Directive".

From May 20th, 2004 until June 10th, 2004, Georg Greve was touring South America, visiting the local Free Software community in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to support them in their struggle for freedom and share experiences collected in the work of the FSFE.

Henrik Sandklef will hold a 30 minute talk on Free Software in the Public Interest during the EuroPython 2004 conference. The talk will be held in Room 1 at 09:30 on the 8th of june.

Jonas Öberg and Henrik Sandklef will participate in a panel discussion on "Licensing your Python Applications" during the EuroPython 2004 conference. The discussion will take place in Room 3 at 16:00 on the 7th of june.