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From December 27 to 30, FSFE will host an 'assembly' during the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress to offer a common space to discuss, meet, hack and organise. There will also be several self-organized sessions every day about various specific Free Software projects, GnuPG, certificates, decentralization and federated social networks. You can see the schedule and every other information on the dedicated FSFE page in the CCC-wiki. We also offer all kind of our current promotion material and merchandise. Pass by and join our community.
This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in
the Metalab, located in the
Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be
there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting
at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested
in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing
you there!
On Saturday, December 12, 2015, starting at 7:00 pm, the local FSFE group in Franconia will have its next meeting at the local Hackerspace in Bamberg. All friends of Free Software are invited to come!
Am Samstag, 12. Dezember 2015 ab 19:00 Uhr hat die lokale Gruppe der FSFE in Franken im Hackerspace Bamberg ihr nächstes Treffen. Alle Freunde Freier Software sind herzlich eingeladen!
Jonas Öberg, FSFE's executive director, will give the keynote at
FOSSCon Korea, talking about how massive collaboration between
individuals and business have shaped the free software
environment in recent years, and how this explosion of activity,
properly nurished and given the right scaffolding, is an
opportunity to shape the standards for free software in the future.
FOSSCon Korea is organised by the Korean National IT Industry
Promotion Agency.
Yearly Netherlands Fellowshipmeeting in Eindhoven, the Netherlands
28 November 2015
This year, the Netherlands Fellowshipmeeting will be at . T-DOSE is a free and yearly event
held in The Netherlands to promote use and development of Open Source
Software. This year's event will be held on 28 and 29 November 2015 at
the Fontys University of Applied Science, Rachelsmolen 1, in Eindhoven.
FSFE Netherlands will be there with a booth on both days. The yearly
Fellowshipmeeting will start on 28 November at 16:00h. This
invitation is for everyone interested in the FSFE or Free Software.
We're looking forward to meeting you there!
/ Update: The event has been cancelled due to the
Paris shootings. /
FSFE will be pleased to join the Toulouse event “Le Capitole du Libre”
for the first time. With a booth, FSFE activists are looking forward
to meeting other associations and individuals. FSFE's French Coordinator
and Legal Team member Hugo Roy will give two talks, one is an introduction
to free software licenses, the other is a talk about the Skype case,
reverse engineering and decompilation law in France and Europe.
The FSFE will be present with a booth organised by the Vienna Fellowship
group at the 17th "Linuxday" in Dornbirn in the border region of Austria,
Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland on November 21, 2015. In three
parallel tracks, there will be talks on Free Software for Novices, Experts
and Managers.
This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in
the Café Sperlhof. We'll be
there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting
at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested
in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing
you there!
On Wednesday 18 November from 16:00 to 17:15 FSFE's President Matthias
Kirschner will participate in a workshop at the "Open IT Summit". It
will take place in the Abgeordnetenhaus Berlin, Niederkirchnerstr. 5,
10117 Berlin. Registration
is required.
FSFE will be at the brandly new “Open Source Summit” near Paris, in
La Plaine Seint-Denis. With a booth, we are looking forward to meeting
the participants and discussing policy, legal and other issues in
Free Software.
Guido Arnold, FSFE's edu-team coordinator, will give a talk about
"Free Software in education – A glance at Europe" at FSCONS in
Gothenburg, Sweden. The talk will discuss a few examples how Free Software is
being used in Europe, how its use is politically backed, why the decision was
made to migrate and which challenges were encountered.
CopyCamp is an international conference aiming to understand the social Impacts of copyright and is located in Warsaw, Poland. Matija Šuklje, coordinator of the FSFE legal team, is giving a talk about the "Implications of the EU Copyright Reform on Free Software". If not talking you can meet him as well as FSFE community coordinator Erik Albers at the FSFE booth.
On Tuesday 3 November at 14:00 FSFE's President Matthias Kirschner
will give a talk about “An endangered species: the computer as a
universal machine”. The event takes place at Kultur Brauerei, Schönhauser
Allee 36, 10435 Berlin – Prenzlauer Berg. Tickets start at 50€.
Round tables: “Free Software, Open Source and Software Patent
Non-Aggression, European Context”, October 2015 in Berlin,
Germany and Warsaw, Poland
21 – 22 October 2015
Successful collaboration, Free Software license compliance
and innovation management go hand-in-hand for large and small
innovators. FSFE and Open
Invention Network, with the participation of the
Legal Network
and the Asian
Legal Network, are inviting to round table events with
presentations and panel discussion of industry and community
speakers, titled "Free Software, Open Source and Software Patent
Non-Aggression, European Context".
The events will be held in
Berlin
on October 21 and
Warsaw
on October 22. Attendance is limited – please confirm your
attendance until October 14 to
Nicola Feltrin.
This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in
the Metalab, located in the
Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be
there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting
at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested
in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing
you there!
On Friday 16 October 2015 at 18:00 Fellow Michael Stehmann will give
a lecture about "Free Software Licences" at the Labortagen 2015 in
Bochums Hackerspace.
Birthday party in Berlin: 30 years Free Software Foundation
03 October 2015
On 3 October 2015 Free Software Foundation Europe invites you for the 30th birthday party of the Free Software Foundation. While the main event will take place in Boston/USA, there will be several satellite birthday parties around the world to celebrate 30 years of empowering people to control technology, and one of them will be in Berlin.
The Free Software Foundation was founded in 1985 and since then promotes
computer users' rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer
programs. It also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues
of freedom in the use of software.
The birthday party in Berlin, organised by FSFE, will take place from
15:00 to 18:00 on 3 October 2015 at: Endocode AG, Brueckenstraße
5A, 10179 Berlin.
To make sure that FSFE's donor Endocode can provide enough birthday cake and coffee, please register before 15 September 2015 for the event by sending us an e-mail with the subject "FSF30".
Join us on 3 October, celebrating 30 years of working for software freedom!
Next regular Fellowship meeting in Düsseldorf will take take place on
30th September, at 19:30 in Chaosdorf
(Hüttenstr. 25, 40215 Düsseldorf). Wolf-Dieter Zimmermann, the frequent
30th September, at 19:30 in Chaosdorf
participant of our meetings, will speak about promoting Free Software
in Mülheim/Ruhr. The "official" part will start at 20:00.
Guests are always welcome!
On Saturday, 19 September, the Fellowship group Rhein/Main
will inform visitors of the Rotlintstraßenfest in Frankfurt. Stop by and have a chat with us!
On Saturday, September 19, 2015, from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, the local
FSFE group in Franconia will have a booth at Maxplatz, Bamberg for
the Software Freedom Day. Afterwards (starting at approximately 6:30 pm),
we will have a shorter Fellowship meeting at the local Hackerspace.
All friends of Free Software are invited to come!
On September 18 / 19 are the "Kieler Open Source und Linuxtage", the annual Free Software conference in Kiel, Germany. Dominic Hopf will give a presentation about FSFE's "Free Your Android" campaign and the FSFE will be present with a booth. A good opportunity to meet fellows and the FSFE community. We are looking forward to meet you and answer your questions.
This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in
the Metalab, located in the
Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be
there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting
at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested
in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing
you there!
On August 29, there will be the Freedom not Fear Demonstration coming to Cologne, Germany. The local group will represent FSFE with a booth and information material. If you like to meet us or know more about Free Software and the FSFE, please pass by.
On Friday, August 28 at 7:00 pm, the local FSFE group in Franconia meets at Kopernikus-Biergarten in Nürnberg. You can find a map at our local group page at http://www.fellowship-franken.org. All friends of Free Software are welcome to join us!
FrOSCon is a Free Software conference, organised by the computer science department of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, supported by the "Linux/Unix User Group Sankt Augustin" (LUUSA) and FrOSCon e.V. Visitors will be offered an exciting program with talks and workshops for visitors of all ages. The FSFE will be present with a booth and is looking forward to meet interested visitors.
This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in
the Metalab, located in the
Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be
there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting
at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested
in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing
you there!
DebConf is the annual Debian developers meeting, an event filled with discussions, workshops and coding parties – all of them highly technical in nature. DebConf15, the 16th Debian Conference, will be held from the 15th to the 22nd of August 2015 at Heidelberg International youth hostel in Heidelberg, Germany. FSFE will be there with a booth at the weekend of 15th to 16th August.
On August 13 - 17 there will be the Chaos Communication Camp, close to Zehdenick, Germany, organised by the Chaos Computer Club. The camp presents itself as "an international, five-day open-air event for hackers and associated life-forms". FSFE will be present with an own village throughout the days to welcome every interested person, friend and sustaining members. The village will offer promotion material, merchandise and contact with people from the FSFE. You can use the village as a meeting point, to hangout or to have a chat about current activities as well as your own ideas. You will find power supply and ethernet connectivity as well. You can also use our village for a self-organised session, please contact eal@fsfe.org to plan any activity.
On Friday 7 August at 13:45 FSFE's Vice President Matthias Kirschner
will give a keynote at GUADEC titled “An endangered species: the
computer as a universal machine”. GUADEC 2015 takes place in Gothenburg
from the 7 to 12 August, the first three days in the Folkets Hus the
others at the IT University.
On Saturday, July 25 at 7:00 pm, the local FSFE group in Franconia will meet again. The Fellowship meeting will take place in Bamberg's Hackerspace "Backspace" which is conveniently located near the train station and the downtown area, Spiegelgraben 41. All friends of Free Software are welcome to join us!
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On Saturday 25 July at 10:15 FSFE's Vice President Matthias Kirschner
will give the community keynote at KDE's Akademy titled “An endangered
species: the computer as a universal machine”. Akademy 2015 takes place
in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain from the 25 to 31 July. The organisers also
did an interview
with Matthias about his background, motivation, how he joined
Free Software, and some of his hobbies.
Euskal Encounter is a huge LAN-Party at Bilbao Exhibition Center at Barrakaldo/Bizkaia. More than 4000 gamers are filling a huge exhibition hall. Besides, there are some talks and an exhibition area. FSFE will attend with a booth, together with friends from safecreative.org and others.
This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in
the Metalab, located in the
Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be
there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting
at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested
in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing
you there!
On Thursday, July 9, Richard Stallman will talk about "Copyright vs. Community"
in the Goethe University Frankfurt/M., Germany. The event will start at 18:00h.
The Fellowship group Rhine/Main will be present with to inform and discuss the
subject with the interested audience and distribute information material.
On Wednesday, July 8, Richard Stallman will talk about "Free Software and Your
Freedom" in the Gallustheater Frankfurt. The event will start at 19:00h. The Fellowship group Rhine/Main will be present with a booth to inform and discuss with the interested audience.
As every year, FSFE will have an exhibition stand in the Libre Village of The Libre Software Meeting (RMLL).
It is a good occasion to meet us and inform you about Free Software!
On Saturday 27 June, the fellowship group Rhein/Main
will present Free Software and the FSFE with a booth
at an event organised by the Green party Hesse about
honorary/volunteer work (Ehrenamt). It takes place in
Spenerhaus in Frankfurt.
This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in
the Metalab, located in the
Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be
there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting
at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested
in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing
you there!
On Thursday, June 11, the local FSFE group Switzerland is going to meet in Zürich. Topics will be the "Freedom Voting", a campaign for this years elections and the recently released OSS Studie Schweiz. Please find all details about location and timing on our wiki-page.
Free Thursday is a regular event for people in the Helsinki area interested in free software / open source software. We meet on the second Thursday each month, at 18:00, in some bar. There is no formal program, and no sponsorship. You're welcome!
The next event will be on Thursday, June 11th, 2015 at 18:00, in Steam Hellsinki.
On Thursday, June 11 , there is the next local FSFE meeting Berlin, as usual in the e-lok (near Ostkreuz). This time we come together to think about FSFE's possibilites to encourage or support movements that work to establish Free Software inside our educational system. No presentation this time - just discussing. You can get good food and best drinks at e-lok for a reasonable price and good mood for no cost. Official start is at 19:30.
On 18th of May, Guido Arnold, FSFE's edu-team coordinator, will give a key
note titled: "Free Software in education – A glance at Europe" at DORS/CLUC in
Zagreb, Croatia. The talk will discuss a few examples how Free Software is
being used in Europe, how its use is politically backed, why the decision was
made to migrate and which challenges were encountered.
The Chaos Cologne is a conference for hacktivists, artists and makers and takes place in the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. The FSFE will be present with a booth and is looking forward to have interesting talks with you about Free Software and society.
This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in
the Metalab, located in the
Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be
there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting
at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested
in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing
you there!
On 14 May there will be the OpenTech Summit, a one-day conference about Free Software, free knowledge and open hardware in the Kalkscheune in Berlin. On this occasion the FSFE will be present with a booth to discuss Free Software with you. Beside that, our sustaining member Ricardo Wurmus will give a talk about “Functional package management with GNU Guix”.
From May 14 to 17 there will be the 3rd Commons Fest happening in Athens, Greece. Richard Stallman will give a keynote during these days and Nikos Roussos, FSFE's coordinator Greece, will run a cryptoparty. FSFE will also be present with an info booth. Details follow soon.
From May 9 to 10 there will be the second edition of the Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL). Peter Bubestinger, FSFE's coordinator Austria, gives a keynote about "FFmpeg's FFV1 lossless video codec: A Free Software success story" and insights about video editing using Free Software. FSFE will be present with an information booth.
The "Concurso Universitario de Software Libre" (CUSL) is a contest among students from different Universities in Spain. On May 7 and 8 there will be an awarding ceremony in the University of Zaragoza. Erik Albers gives a keynote about "Free Software, local economy and its political realization".
With more than 100 lectures and workshops the Linuxwochen Vienna in the FH Technicum is one of the biggest community-organized events in Vienna. The event offers a great variation of topics, including open source and hardware, 3D printing, system administration, software development and privacy & security. FSFE will be present with a booth and is looking forward to interesting discussions and informations about Free Software. The event takes place from the 7th to the 9th of May at the FH Technikum Wien. The admission is free.
At the annual all-day event in Graz, lots of presentation talks and information
booths offer visitors the possibility to catch up on information about GNU/Linux,
Free Software and related projects.
The event location is the FH Joanneum.
FSFE will be present with a information booth.
This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in
the Metalab, located in the
Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be
there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting
at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested
in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing
you there!
Local FSFE meeting with a talk about video streaming with Free Software in Berlin, Germany
09 April 2015
On Thursday, April 9, there is the next local FSFE meeting Berlin, as usual in the e-lok (near Ostkreuz). This time, Gregor will talk about video streaming only using Free Software, about the potential of WebRTC and the built-in solution by Firefox (hello). Our meetings are a good possibility to meet other Fellows as well as other Free Software enthusiasts. You can get good food and best drinks at e-lok for a reasonable price and good mood for no cost. Official start is at 19:30.
On March 15th and 16th, there will be a FSFE booth during the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage, an event dedicated to everything about GNU/Linux and Free Software. Just pass by the booth to get to know people from the FSFE as well as other Fellows. The booth will also come with brand new merchandise and promotion material.
Guido Arnold will do a talk about "Freie Software in der Bildung – ein Blick auf Europa" (Free Software in Education - a View on Europe)
This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in
the Metalab, located in the
Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be
there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting
at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested
in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing
you there!
On March 20, FSFE's president Karsten Gerloff will discuss Free
Software and compliance at a seminar in Tokyo, Japan. As Free
Software permeates ever more areas of commercial activity,
it is important for companies to understand what they need to do in
order to fulfil their obligations under Free Software licenses, and
to develop best practices to manage the use of Free Software in
their products.
On 16 March 2015, Matthias Kirschner will participate in a panel discussion
about patents, standards and Free Software organised by the European Patent
Office. The discussion takes place at Cebit in hall 8 from 16:00 to 16:45.
The other people on the panel are Grant Philpott (Principal Director, EPO),
Brian Hinman (Chief Intellectual Property Officer, Philips), Gabriele
Mohsler (VP Patent Development IPR and Licensing, Ericsson), and Koen
Lievens (Director in ICT, EPO).
Fellows of the FSFE will have a vote for the seventh elections for FSFE's
Fellowship representative. Every Fellow who is allowed to
vote should have received an email from “FSFE Fellowship (CIVS poll supervisor)”
with the subject “Poll: Fellowship elections 2015”. Please find all
necessary information for you to vote inside this email.
The winner of the election will be publicly announced on March 16 on
FSFE's web page.
This year, you can vote for three outstanding candidates (in reverse
alphabetical order):
Felix Stegerman,
Max Mehl and
Nicolas Dietrich.
On Monday 23 February, Matthias Kirschner will participate in a panel
discussion about the necessary general framework to foster diversity and
competition in the digital economy. The panel discussion is part of an
event organised by the Green party about market power, competition, and
diversity in the digital economy (Marktmacht, Wettbewerb und Vielfalt in
der digitalen Wirtschaft). It takes place in the German Parliament,
Reichstagsgebäude, Room RTG 3 N 039, Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin
from 16:00 - 20:00.
This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in
the Metalab, located in the
Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be
there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting
at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested
in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing
you there!
This year, FOSDEM will be held on the 31st of January and 1st of February 2015 in Brussels. FSFE will at least participate with a booth and there will be many fellows, coordinators and staffers.
As like every year, we're looking forward to many meetings and discussions and also to a very good time for all.
Das nächste und erste diesjährige reguläre Fellowshiptreffen in Düsseldorf findet am 28.01.2015 ab 19:30 Uhr im Chaosdorf, Hüttenstr. 25, 40215 Düsseldorf,statt.
Es ist das traditionelle Rückblicks- und Planungstreffen. Auf der Basis der im der Vergangenheit gewonnenen und nochmals reflektierten Erfahrungen planen wir unsere Aktivitäten im bereits begonnenen Jahr.
Alle sind auch eingeladen, zu bedenken, ob sie, beispielsweise durch eine Vortrag, etwas zur Gestaltung unserer Aktivitäten im Jahre 2015 etwas beitragen können.
On the 21st of January the Fellowship Group in Hamburg, Germany, will have their regular monthly meeting. Everyone is welcome to join us at the Roxie Bar, Rentzelstraße 6, 20146 Hamburg
On Wednesday, January 21 2015, Erik Albers will give a lecture about Free Software and information ethics at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University in Dorotheenstraße 26, 10117 Berlin, Room 120. Start is at 12 am, language is English.
This month, the Vienna Fellowship meeting will be in
the Metalab, located in the
Rathausstraße 6 in the 1st district of Vienna. We'll be
there from 18:00, with agenda related discussions starting
at 19:00. As usual, this invitation is for everyone interested
in the FSFE or Free Software. We're looking forward to seeing
you there!