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We are excited to announce that the Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom will be returning for FOSDEM 2025! Join this DevRoom at the biggest annual Free Software event in Europe. This is your opportunity to submit proposals for a talk or a panel about Free Software legal and policy topics.
Join this new episode of our Software Freedom podcast in which Bonnie Mehring and Alexander Sander discussing current topics affecting Free Software in the European Union. In this episode we focus on the 27 million euros cut of funding of the Next Generation Internet initiative (known as NGI). Alex and Bonnie shed some light on the history of this European project and share the newest developments in this case.
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The FSFE called on the community to participate in a consultation on the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme and demanded long-term sustainable funding for Free Software after recent budget cuts. Results show its success.
Hearing "Open Source" in Berlin, Germany
14:15 – 16:15 UTC
04 December 2024
EMI-FORUM: FOSS - Free Open-Source Software in Amberg, Germany
17:30 – 19:30 UTC
16 December 2024
Flörgåsbord 2024! (free tenpin bowling all evening!) in Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
18:00 – 22:00 UTC
17 December 2024
Software is becoming more and more a fabric which permeates our society. We are more and more unaware of the ways in which it influences, sometimes forces our decisions. That's why software freedom concerns fundamentally and very concretely our society. That's why I am convinced that groups like the FSFE are vital for the evolution of a free society.
In a world where software influences virtually every single aspect of our lives, Free Software is a precondition for a free society.
I became a supporter of the FSFE because I'm seeing more and more that writing free code is ultimately not enough to foster a culture where Free Software is seen as an integral part of society. Free software should not be a fringe topic supported solely by geeks.
