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The 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...
community
All spaceships need a control room and all control rooms need someone to run it. At the FSFE that is our System Hackers, a group of volunteers who are the backbone behind our IT infrastructure, the ones making sure that our blinking lights show green (and not red!). Since 2022, our colleague Tobias has been part of it. Let’s learn more about it with him!
Software Freedom Podcast
The Software Freedom Podcast is not going on holiday this summer! In our 54th Bonnie Mehring meets with Jithendra Palepu to learn about the Android Developer verification and how it may affect the Android operating system.
Community
The FSFE was founded in 2001 by a group of European Free Software advocates. 25 years later, this European charity has grown into one of the most respected organisations defending Software Freedom in Europe.
Working in the Engine Room of the FSFE
2026-08-17
FSFE Netherlands online get-together (online)
18:00 UTC – 20:00 UTC
26 August 2026
LibreOffice Conference in Pordenone, Italia
08:00 UTC 11. – 22:00 UTC
12 September 2026
FSFE information stall on Veganmania Danube Island in Vienna in Vienna, Austria
14:00 UTC 18. – 19:00 UTC
20 September 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!
