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Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share software. These rights help support other fundamental rights like freedom of speech, freedom of press, and privacy. Learn more...
Software Freedom Podcast
Fall is finally here, and so is our next episode for the Software Freedom Podcast! In this episode Bonnie Mehring meets with Dario Presutti, FSFE's project manager working on different policy and legal topics. Together, they talk about software freedom and why the Digital Networks Act (DNA) is an opportunity to gain control over the devices connecting us to the internet.
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In 2026 we turned 25 years old! We continued enforcing and contributing to the development of DMA and followed up the technological sovereignty debates across Europe explaining why only Free Software gives public institutions control over the digital infrastructure. Ada & Zangemann and YH4F continued bringing software freedom to younger audiences.
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For all Italian students, we are coming with an exciting project for you! Italian pupils can gain credit points for their extra curriculum while developing Free Software projects and competing in Youth Hacking 4 Freedom. As the FSFE’s programming competition is, from now on, integrated in the Italian extra school credit points system.
SFP#56: Policy and EU: All about the DNA
2026-10-10
Software Freedom in Europe 2026
2026-10-01
FSFE's Community infrastructure clinic workshop at the PrivacyCamp 2026 in Brussels, Belgium
10:25 UTC – 11:30 UTC
13 October 2026
2nd Install Party Pesaro (online)
16:00 UTC – 18:00 UTC
14 October 2026
Linux Presentation Day in Berlin, Germany
10:00 UTC – 15:00 UTC
17 October 2026
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