Activités liés à « Public Money? Public Code! »
Depuis sa fondation en 2001, la FSFE travaille chaque jour pour faire avancer la
promotions du logiciel libre en Europe et au-delà. Outre les activités mentionnées ci-dessous,
une partie importante de notre travail consiste en un engagement continu
et un travail de fond, notamment en participant à des événements
et en répondant aux questions et aux demandes d’informations relatives à la liberté logicielle.
Notre vision : que tous les financements publics destinés aux logiciels soient exclusivement consacrés aux logiciels libres.

Pourquoi les logiciels créés grâce à l’argent du contribuable ne sont-ils pas distribués en tant que logiciels libres ?
Nous souhaitons la mise en place d’une législation qui impose que les logiciels financés par le contribuable
et développés pour eux soient mis à disposition sous une licence de Logiciel Libre.
Si l’argent provient de fonds publics, le code devrait lui être public.
Un logiciel financé par le peuple doit être accessible par le peuple !
Plus d’activités liés à « Public Money? Public Code! »

What could be a better time to ask politicians about their stance on Free
Software and Open Standards than the run-up to an election? We believe we
can and should raise these issues in all elections, European, national,
regional and local. Depending on the electoral system and culture, we use
different strategies and tools.

An initiative to bring Free Software in the education sector by increasing
the digital sovereignty and competence of students and teachers. Created by the
Zurich chapter, 'Lernen wie die Profis' was awarded the DINAcon Award. The activity is in German.
The PDFreaders initiative aims to shine a spotlight on government
organisations that promote proprietary PDF readers. With the help of
activists across Europe, we have contacted these organisations and told
them how they can improve their websites to respect our freedom. On
pdfreaders.org
we present Free Software PDF readers for all major operating systems.
The Slovak company EURA faced fines of 5600 euros for not purchasing and use
Microsoft Windows operating system for submitting electronic tax reports.
The Slovak tax administration gave EURA the option to either buy and use
Microsoft Windows or face the fines. The FSFE assisted in this case
advocating for platform-neutral solutions for such procedures. Unfortunately,
the court ruled against Free Software and Open Standards, but we were able to
raise awareness about these wrongdoings in Slovakia and beyond.
This activity was specifically targeted at the Dutch education sector, with
the aim of enabling citizens to have free access to education and public
institutions, both online and offline. By promoting the mandatory use of
Open Standards and platform-independent access to all materials, students
and parents will be able fulfil their potential for personal growth and
development without being dependent on a company.
Since the beginning of the standardisation process for Microsoft's Office
Open XML - OOXML (hereafter MS-OOXML), the FSFE has raised serious doubts
about whether MS-OOXML can be considered open. FSFE was the first to raise
the issue in the community, led the movement against the standardisation
of MS-OOXML, and has been closely following developments over the years.