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Free Software Foundation Europe — благодійна організація, яка надає користувачам можливість контролювати технології.
Програмне забезпечення глибоко залучене в усі аспекти нашого життя. Вільне програмне забезпечення надає кожному право використовувати, розуміти, адаптувати та ділитися програмним забезпеченням. Ці права допомагають підтримувати інші основні права, наприклад свободу слова, свобода преси та приватність. Читати більше...
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In 2026 we turned 25 years old! We continued enforcing and contributing to the development of DMA and followed up the technological sovereignty debates across Europe explaining why only Free Software gives public institutions control over the digital infrastructure. Ada & Zangemann and YH4F continued bringing software freedom to younger audiences.
Software Freedom Podcast
The Software Freedom Podcast for September is out! In this episode Bonnie Mehring meets with Carsten Agger, the FSFE’s Danish Coordinator. Together, they talk about the Free Software community in Denmark, digital sovereignty, and the growing interest in Free Software within the public sector.
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For all Italian students, we are coming with an exciting project for you! Italian pupils can gain credit points for their extra curriculum while developing Free Software projects and competing in Youth Hacking 4 Freedom. As the FSFE’s programming competition is, from now on, integrated in the Italian extra school credit points system.
Software Freedom in Europe 2026
2026-10-01
The FSFE at the 11th edition of Software Freedom Kosova in Pristina, Kosovo
18:00 UTC 01. – 23:00 UTC
03 October 2026
FSFE local group meeting in Vienna in Vienna, Österreich
16:45 UTC – 18:30 UTC
02 October 2026
FSFE's Community infrastructure clinic workshop at the PrivacyCamp 2026 in Luxembourg
16:30 UTC – 18:00 UTC
07 October 2026
I believe Free Software needs a voice at the national as well as the EU level in politics: Software does not exist in an isolated bubble, it's heavily dependent on the ecosystem that it lives in. In my opinion Free Software as well as open standards are key to creating a society that provides equal access.
Isabel Drost-Fromm (Software Engineer and Member of the Apache Software Foundation)
I'm a supporter of the FSFE as I want to sustain their work to promote Free Software. As a person that uses computers quite heavily every day, I'm very concerned with the current trend of locking down computing which is taking control away from the users. This is increasingly problematic since people's lives are more and more dependent on computers for personal communications, managing finances, employment, etc. Free Software is a necessary requirement for retaining control over your computing.
What is the biggest benefit of Free Software? Freedom!
