Free Software Foundation Europe

Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology.

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...

German elections +++ I Love FS Day +++ DMA, Ada, Router Freedom

Newsletter

February started with FOSDEM! It was great to meet some of you there before we meet again for “I Love Free Software Day”! In recent weeks, we shared our demands for the coming German elections, great news about Router Freedom, and an update about DMA. Moreover, the Ada movie is now available in French and we published two podcast episodes.  

German parliamentary buildings. The Bundestag on the background and in the foreground, another German parliament building with the sentence Give Free Software a chance projected on that builiding walls

German Elections 2025: We demand public code, secure funding for Free Software, and transparent measurement of progress!

Press Release

The next German government must finally push for the controllability, security, and sovereignty of the public digital infrastructure. As Free Software is a prerequisite for this, the FSFE is making 4 key demands: "Public Money? Public Code!", securing long-term funding for Free Software, deepening Free Software knowledge in administrations, and monitoring progress. 

FSFE Booth during FOSDEM 2024: FSFE team and volunteers, male and female, posing behind the FSFE booth full of stickers and info material. One person, male, is also posing before the booth, with one of this arms on the booth table.

Join us at FOSDEM 2025!

News

FOSDEM 2025 is almost here, and guess what? We want you to be, once again, part of it! Mark your calendars for 1 and 2 February 2025. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) will be there with a keynote on our Apple court case, talks, devrooms, workshops, and of course, a booth where you can meet us, chat and share ideas. Stop by and say hello! 

Upcoming Events
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I Love Free Software Day Zürich, Switzerland
16:00 – 22:00 UTC 13 February 2025

I Love Free Software Day Nuermberg, Germany
17:00 – 22:00 UTC 13 February 2025

I Love Free Software Day in Poznań, Poland
17:00 – 22:00 UTC 13 February 2025

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The FSFE does great work to further software freedom locally, nationally and in the EU and I enjoy the podcast and the News RSS so it felt natural to become a supporter. I also want to be more involved with the free software community.

Einar Mostad (English teacher, musician, IT student)

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)

The most fun part about engaging for FSFE is meeting real people and exchanging substantial information about relevant issues. These can be anything from rooting your cell phone, to learning Git, to understanding Free Software based business, to speaking up for the use of open standards in public organisations.

André Ockers (Logistics)

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