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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...
Software Freedom Podcast
January is a busy month. We all come back from our relaxing (or in some cases rather stressful) holidays and what best to do with all the energy the New Year brings along? Of course, we have to advocate for Free Software! One way is advocating for the representation of Free Software in the initiatives the European Union is working.
Newsletter
As 2026 begins, we are excited to see the projects from the new edition of YH4F, kicking off this month, and to start preparing for FOSDEM! At the same time, we are looking back at the last month of 2025: from 39c3 in Hamburg to our two latest Software Freedom Podcast episodes, and our updates on the Cyber Resilience Act and our work in the Apple v. European Commission litigation.
Community
The first storytale about digital sovereignty is now also available to pre-order in Dutch. This effort involved a lot of work by our volunteer Nico Rikken and others. Be the first to get the book by buying it at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels in the weekend of 31 January or pre-order it online and help us to spread it widely. Read his story!
Treffen der lokalen Gruppe Berlin (online)
18:30 – 20:00 UTC
22 January 2026
Rhein/Main Regular Meeting in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
18:00 – 21:15 UTC
26 January 2026
FOSDEM '26 - Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom in Brussels, Belgium
09:30 – 18:00 UTC
31 January 2026
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)
I believe that Free Software can help us change our society fundamentally for the better and I believe the best way to do so is together with other volunteers from all over Europe!
Freedom is one of the core values of our Society and one of the basic concepts of Democracy. Supporting and spreading Free Software is one way to build creative alternatives for social inclusion and to protect our citizens from the digital exploitation. We are responsible to build a better World as a gift for our future generations.
