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(Notre Politique de confidentialité)
05 December 2018
Since 2001 the Free Software Foundation Europe empowers software users to exert control over the technology that is so deeply involved in every aspect of our lives today. As a non-profit organisation, our work is backed by the continuous and generous contributions of our supporters. From public campaigns to policy monitoring, from removing legal barriers to helping organisations in understanding how Free Software contributes to freedom, transparency, and self-determination, our supporters have helped to finance our work.
05 November 2018 – Erik Albers
"Software freedom in Europe" is the yearly report of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). In one document, it gives you a breakdown of important things the FSFE has done and achieved during the last 12 months. In the 2018 report, you will read about our electoral campaigns, our input on the European Union's copyright reform, and about our successful outreach in demanding publicly financed software be made publicly available under a Free Software licence. You will also get insights about the events we (co-)organised and about our community and groups that helped us with these achievements. Finally, we will display some numbers showing what resources we counted on, and giving an outlook for the next year.
24 October 2018 – Erik Albers, admin
In the context of the 35th Chaos Communication Congress happening from December 27th to 30th in Leipzig, the FSFE is happy to host an assembly again, acting as an information booth and a meeting point for our friends and all friends of Free Software. As in previous editions, we offer attention and a stage for self-organised sessions by and for our community, and this is our call for participation.
23 October 2018
In October Microsoft took a big step concerning its
software patents by joining the LOT
Network (LOT stands for "License on Transfer") and the Open Invention Network
(OIN). This is a clear sign of progress on the long road to handing
control of technology to the people, and the FSFE encourages Microsoft
to take additional steps in this direction.
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17 September 2018 – Erik Albers, Alexandra Busch
Oskari is a Free Software platform for browsing, sharing and analysing geographic information from distributed data sources. Its development is coordinated by the National Land Survey of Finland and is organised through the Oskari network with over 38 organisations from both the public and private sector. Oskari was awarded second prize in the cross-border category of the European Commission's Sharing and Reuse Awards Contest 2017 and is currently going through incubation phase to become an official Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) Project. To shed light on best practices regarding Free Software developed by public funds, we have conducted an interview with Timo Aarnio, GIS Expert at the National Land Survey of Finland’s SDI Services department.
07 September 2018 – Erik Albers
The Free Software Foundation Europe is happy to welcome our newest staffer Alexander Sander. Alexander is hired as our new EU public policy programme manager and works full-time in the FSFE's Berlin office. In this position, Alexander mainly works with us on policy topics covering Free Software and Open Standards issues at the EU and member state level and helps us identify and monitor EU policy developments to alert the FSFE's network on relevant issues.
05 September 2018 – George Brooke-Smith
Free Software is at risk! On the 12th of September the EU is getting ready to vote on a "Copyright Reform" package, which undermines the foundations upon which Free Software is built. The proposed Article 13 of the EU Copyright Directive targets every online service that allows its users to upload and share content with each other, including code hosting platforms.
26 July 2018 – Erik Albers, Max Mehl
La campagne Public Money? Public Code! a
bénéficié d'une série de mises à jour concernant les traductions, site
notament sur le site Web, la vidéo et la lettre ouverte. À cette fin, la
Free Software Foundation Europe a entrepris d'interrogé les
administrations publiques concernant les bénéfices d'un code public, ces
échanges sont maintenant disponibles sur notre site Web.
23 July 2018
We are looking for interns and trainees experienced in legal, policy or technical fields. The persons will work 35 hours per week with our team in the FSFE's Berlin office. There will be coordination with remote staff and volunteers, and depending on the work area opportunity to participate in events and meetings throughout Europe.
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(Notre Politique de confidentialité)
16 July 2018
We are looking for a project manager to support
our work to empower people to control technology. The person will work
35 hours per week with our team in the FSFE's Berlin office supporting
FSFE projects and managing larger FSFE events. There will be
coordination with remote staff and volunteers, as well as travels
to other countries.
05 July 2018 – Erik Albers
Barcelone, la seconde plus grande ville d'Espagne
est très active sur son agenda « Smart City » pour
façonner l'infrastructure et les technologies employées par la ville
pour répondre aux besoins des citoyens. La clé de ce plan est
l'utilisation et la promotion du Logiciel Libre comme bien social,
pour pemettre la collaboration entre les administrations et échapper à
l'enfermement chez un fournisseur. Barcelone est aussi la première
ville à avoir signé la lettre ouverte « Public Money? Public
Code! ». Pour mettre en lumière les bonnes pratiques de
Barcelone, nous avons mené un entretien avec Francesca Bria, la
directrice de l'innovation technologique et numérique au conseil de
Barcelone, pour discuter des innovations et du développement à
Barcelone.
13 June 2018 – Albert Dengg, Max Mehl
Vendredi matin, un de nos serveurs a eu un incident
matériel. Ceci a affecté une partie de notre infrastructure de
distribution des courriels et nos listes de diffusions. Tous les services
fonctionnent à nouveau normalement. Nous souhaitons vous informer à
propos de l'incident et des problèmes engendrés. Pour faire court
: assurez-vous que tous vos courriels ont été distribués, et vérifiez vos
paramètres SMTP.
01 June 2018 – Erik Albers
Le Centre de Transfert Technologique (CTT) est
une initiative du gouvernement espagnol, dont le but est de faciliter
le partage et la réutilisation des logiciels et services au sein des
administrations publiques. Nous avons interrogé Elena Muñoz Salinero,
directrice du CTT, sur les questions juridiques, politiques et
technologiques au cœur du CTT.
30 May 2018 – Polina Malaja
Dans la continuité d'une tradition longue de plus
d'une dizaine d'années, la FSFE a de nouveau organisé pour 2018 son
Legal and Licensing Workshop (LLW, Atelier Juridique et de
Licences) lié au Logiciel Libre en 2018. Il s'agit d'un rendez-vous
entre les meilleurs experts juridiques pour débattre des
problématiques et des des meilleures pratiques autour des licences du
Logiciel Libre. Cette année nous avons décidé de revenir aux sources
et mettre l'accent sur la partie atelier : 120 experts juridiques
se sont rencontrés pour 3 jours de conférences à Barcelone, en
Espagne, pour se plonger dans les sujet les plus litigieux du monde
juridique du Logiciel Libre en suivant un nombre de
« tracks » et de sessions interactives sans
précédent.
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29 May 2018
Nous cherchons un gestionnaire de programme pour
notre action politique. Cette personne travaillera 35 heures par
semaine au sein de notre équipe dans les bureaux de la FSFE à
Berlin. Un travail de coordination avec les équipes à distance ainsi
que les bénévoles est à prévoir, de même que des trajets réguliers à
Bruxelles et dans d'autres pays.
26 May 2018 – Erik Albers
Durant l'Assemblée
Générale de l'année dernière, il a été demandé au Conseil de la
FSFE de préparer un amendement à sa constitution pour supprimer les
sièges des « Fellows ». Cette motion a été adoptée par 20
votes pour, 3 votes contre et 0 abstention. Aujourd'hui, l'Assemblée
Générale de la FSFE a approuvé cette suppression lors d'une assemblée
générale extraordinaire. À l'avenir, l'adhésion en tant que membre de
la FSFE se fera au travers de procédures classiques d'adhésion pour
les contributeurs actifs de la FSFE.
14 April 2018
The Libre Software Meeting (LSM) is maybe the biggest community-driven Free Software meeting in France and in 2018 also serves as host of the FSFE community meeting. It takes place in Strasbourg and the FSFE will organise its own track on the first days of LSM, from 7 to 9 of July. This is your chance to be part in the FSFE's community meeting and to give a talk at the LSM 2018 at the same time. Deadline to apply for a talk is April 30 - and before you forget it, apply now!
22 March 2018
From 7 to 12 July there will be the Libre
Software Meeting in Strasbourg, France. The conference also known as
RMLL is annualy rotating and currently the biggest Free Software
event in France. This year, the main topic is "Digital Education:
building captivity or new empowerment?". With the FSFE track we are
looking for inspiring insights about golden cages and liberation not
only in educational institutions but in our everyday lives.
08 March 2018
Mercredi 14 février, notre communauté a fêté le jour "I love Free Software". Un jour pour
déclarer son amour aux communautés les plus importantes à vos yeux et pour
dire "Merci" aux projets qui œuvrent pour les Logiciels Libres que nous
utilisons au quotidien. La Free Sofware Foundation Europe tient également à
remercier toutes les personnes ayant contribué à rendre cette journée aussi spéciale
qu'elle pouvait l'être.
Recevez nos informations par email. Nos experts vous informent sur les
dernières actualités, événements, activités, et comment vous pouvez y contribuer.
(Notre Politique de confidentialité)
02 March 2018 – Erik Albers
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) publishes the results of the Ask Your Candidates campaign that FSFE Italy did run for the Italian election. Multiple questions have been sent to the major political parties that run for office in the national elections on March 4. We received positive statements by "Movimento 5 Stelle", "Liberi e Uguali", "Partito Democratico" and "Potere al Popolo". Unfortunately, there have been no answers by "+Europa", "Forza Italia", "Fratelli d'Italia" and "Lega Nord".
19 February 2018 – Erik Albers
In light of the upcoming elections in Italy on March 4th, the FSFE country team Italy sent out multiple questions to the participating parties to challenge them on their position about Free Software in public administration and education. We will publish and analyse their answers once we receive them.
15 February 2018 – Polina Malaja
Following the well-established tradition
of gathering active Free Software groups before FOSDEM kicks off, the
FSFE once again partnered up with OpenForum Europe
for the third edition of European Free Software Policy Meeting in Brussels,
the heart of European decision-making.
12 February 2018 – Max Mehl
The Free Software Foundation Europe calls on everyone to say "thank you" to all contributors to Free Software on 14 February. Last year the annual I Love Free Software Day has been committed with offline activism to tell people outside of our filter bubble about the importance of Free Software. This Wednesday, we will go back to our roots and focus on why this day has been invented in the first place: to celebrate the Free Software community.