Volunteer Engagement Activities
Since its foundation in
2001, the FSFE has been working every single day to further software
freedom in Europe and beyond. Beside the activities below, a large part
of our work consists of continuous engagement and background work
contributing at events and answering
questions and enquiries around software freedom.
Our vision: that people enjoy to contribute to FSFE and feel
empowered and effective.

We onderschatten vaak de kracht van een eenvoudig bedankje. Bijdragers aan Vrije Software doen belangrijk werk voor onze samenleving en verdienen aandacht. De "Ik hou van Vrij Software dag" op 14 februari (ook bekend als Valentijnsdag) is voor u de perfecte mogelijkheid om uiting te geven aan uw speciale dankbaarheid. Sinds 2010 hebben we dit fantastische jaarlijkse evenement samen met een steeds verder groeiende diverse gemeenschap gevierd. ♥ ♥ ♥

This year, the FSFE turns 25 and we celebrate it on the 18th and
19th of July in Kraków. In this activity you will find and overview of
the agenda of the event, filled with talks, networking, and
plenty of fun.
More Volunteer Engagement Activities

In 2021, the Free Software Foundation Europe turned 20. Throughout
this time we have empowered users to use, study, share, and
improve software. In 20 Years FSFE, we thank everyone who helped
us along the way. Here you will find interviews discussing the
FSFE's progress as well as technological issues. You are welcome to
celebrate with us!
FOSS4SMEs was een twee jaren durend Erasmus+-samenwerkingsproject. De FSFE werkte samen met vijf andere organisaties met andere geografische en werk-achtergronden om de kennis van Vrije Software te verspreiden en uit te breiden. Om dit doel te bereiken ontwikkelde het project vrije online educatieve hulpbronnen voor managers en stafleden van kleine en middelgrote bedrijven ('SME's').
The Brave GNU World was a monthly column published from 1999 to 2004,
addressed at both technical and non-technical readers. Its aim was to
provide an insight into current projects and developments based on the
Free Software philosophy. The Brave GNU World was translated into 9
languages, making it probably the most widely distributed monthly column
in the world.
The GNU Business Network had the vision to network all companies,
developers and users in and around Free Software in a way that the
potential synergies are encouraged and informed decisions become possible.
The TUX&GNU@school column was a regular column about Free
Software in education written by by Mario Fux. It informed about
educational Free Software, useful web sites on the topic and
other interesting topics for teachers, students and all software
freedom advocates.
Free Software is often referred to as "Open Source". But we are
convinced that Free Software is the better term: easier to
understand, harder to abuse, well-defined, providing additional
value, and offering freedom. We connected companies,
organisations and even co-founders of the Open Source movement
that prefer to use the term Free Software.