Free Software Foundation Europe
Free as in Freedom
Welcome to the home page of the Free Software Foundation Europe. The FSFE
was launched on 10 March 2001 and supports all European aspects
of Free Software; especially the
GNU Project. We are actively
supporting development of Free Software and furthering GNU-based
Operating Systems such as GNU/Linux. Also, we provide an assistance
centre for politicians, lawyers and journalists in order to secure the
legal, political and social future of Free Software.
FSFE's work is made possible by many individual contributions, in
particular to the Fellowship of FSFE.
One way to contribute is to
join now, and to encourage
others to do likewise.
Latest news
| FSFE for Freedom Not Fear |
2008-10-07 |
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The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) supports Free Software so that every citizen can play an independent, active and responsible part in our information society. However, censorship of content, violations of the principle of 'Net Neutrality' and increasing online surveillance do not fit with these goals. FSFE is therefore appealing for participation in the world-wide day of action "Freedom Not Fear", which takes place this Saturday, the 11th October.
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| Happy Birthday To GNU! - The FSFE Celebrates the GNU Project's 25th Birthday! |
2008-09-27 |
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Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the initial announcement of the
GNU Project, a pioneering initiative to develop an operating system that gives
all users the freedom to modify it and publish modified versions, individually
or working together. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) commends the
substantial achievements of GNU's first quarter-century and looks forward to
furthering their shared goal of facilitating software freedoms.
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| FSFE to make legal consolidation tool available in 10 languages |
2008-09-26 |
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The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) announced today that it plans
to make the Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA) available ten languages.
The selected languages are English, German, French, Italian, Swedish,
Serbian, Polish, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese.
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| FSFE Newsletter |
2008-09-24 |
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The most exciting thing this month is the amount of Fellowship activity we
are seeing around Europe. It's great to see more and more local meetings,
giving Free Software supporters a chance to hang out together and share
views.
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| 25 years GNU = 25% discount for 25 days |
2008-09-22 |
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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the GNU project FSFE will be
offering a 25% discount on merchandise from the 23th September until
the 17th October. Please note that this discount does not apply to
shipping costs.
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Upcoming events
| FSCONS 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden |
2008-10-24
2008-10-26 |
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For 2008, FSCONS is a collaboration of FSFE, Creative Commons,
and Wikimedia Sweden. There will be three tracks (Free
Culture, Free Software, Free Content), each lead by one of the
main organisers. Topics will range from modern kernel design
over citizen journalism all the way across to licensing in the
21st century.
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| Fellowship meeting in Weingarten, Germany |
2008-10-28 |
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Fellow Christof Raber will host a Fellowship meeting at Weltehof,
Welte 1, 88250 Weingarten on Tuesday the 28th of October at 19:00.
All Fellows and Free Software supporters nearby are invited to
attend. It will be a good chance to get to know each other in
person, discuss all Free Software and FSFE related topics and to
generally have a good time.
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| NLUUG Autumn Conference and CELF Embedded Linux Conference Europe, Ede, Netherlands |
2008-11-06
2008-11-07 |
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The FSFE will be attending the NLUUG Autumn Conference on Thursday 6th November. This year's theme is 'mobility'. Feel free to come to our booth and ask about Free Software!
Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will also deliver talk entitled 'The strategic implementation of free software in business' at the CELF Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2008 at the same location on the following day, Friday 7th November.
The successful implementation of Free Software requires an understanding of the best policy and processes applicable to its context. Shane will discuss how FSFE's legal project and its European Legal Network have engaged with this issue by producing generic market knowledge for supply and purchasing contracts, work flow documents and deployment methodology.
The location for both conferences is Hotel en Congrescentrum De Reehorst, Ede, Netherlands.
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| 'Licensing questions and other legal issues' workshop in Zurich, Switzerland |
2008-12-19 |
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Shane Coughlan, Freedom Task Force coordinator at FSFE, will deliver a two day course entitled 'Free Software licenses and other questions' at the Digicomp Academy Zurich, Switzerland. The course is intended for project managers, developers and technicians who wish to become more knowledgeable regarding code distribution options.
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