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The “Germany Stack” is a central digital-policy project of the German federal government. The FSFE calls for the Stack to be planned in close coordination with European partners and to be implemented entirely as Free Software, since only the four freedoms enable digital sovereignty.
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Youth Hacking 4 Freedom is the FSFE’s programming competition for teenagers aged 14 to 18 years from across Europe. Through YH4F the FSFE conveys the values and knowledge surrounding Free Software, provides the chance to develop your own project idea, learn valuable skills for project management, problem solving and of course: programming! Find out why it is worth for you to support us in this mission and what our current sponsors say about YH4F.
Software Freedom Podcast
Remember that from the 7 November until 8 November, the FSFE has been at the well known and established South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFSCON) in Bozen / Bolzano? Together with more than 1,000 participants, the FSFE discussed the current topics in the Free Software ecosystem and had a special focus on the main topic of this year's SFSCON: Ethics.
SFP#41: Policy and EU: Recap of SFSCON
2025-11-14
Info Booth at Lichtenberger Lichtermarkt, Berlin Germany
12:00 – 17:00 UTC
30 November 2025
End of the Year celebration FSFE Berlin, Berlin Germany
17:00 – 20:00 UTC
11 December 2025
Where2B Konferenz 2025 in Bonn, Deutschland
09:00 – 17:00 UTC
18 December 2025
If software is licensed as free software, we can audit it, and be sure that it does what it's intended to do (and nothing else). Public institutions develop software, and hire companies to make it, and the citizens should own and reuse all that code. I contribute to Free Software with translations, user help desk, finding free software alternatives at the University... but I cannot reach the policy-makers, nor people and institutions in other countries.
Laura Arjona Reina (IT Assistant at Technical University of Madrid and Debian contributor)
I believe that Free Software can help us change our society fundamentally for the better and I believe the best way to do so is together with other volunteers from all over Europe!
Freedom is one of the core values of our Society and one of the basic concepts of Democracy. Supporting and spreading Free Software is one way to build creative alternatives for social inclusion and to protect our citizens from the digital exploitation. We are responsible to build a better World as a gift for our future generations.
