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La CDU veut du code public +++ Meeting de la communauté +++ 36C3

mardi 17 décembre 2019 à 00:00
La CDU veut du code public +++ Meeting de la communauté +++ 36C3

La dernière lettre d'information de l'année apporte une excellente nouvelle pour le Logiciel Libre : le parti conservateur le plus important d'Europe, la CDU allemande, a approuvé le principe selon lequel le logiciel développé avec de l'argent public doit être sous licence Logiciel Libre. Nous vous invitons aussi à lire ce que la FSFE a effectué et réalisé durant les 12 derniers mois et de plonger dans le compte-rendu de Florian Snow pour notre Meeting Annuel 2019. Vous trouverez aussi un aperçu de notre participation à la plus importante conférence relative au hacking en Europe, la 36C3 ainsi qu'un appel à votre soutien et votre aide afin de continuer notre mission d'aider les utilisateurs à maîtriser les technologies.

Le parti conservateur le plus important d'Europe s'aligne sur notre demande de code public

Lors de la dernière semaine de novembre, le parti conservateur Allemand "CDU" a tenu sa 32e conférence annuelle à Leipzig. Lors de cet évènement, le parti a mis à jour sa convention et y a inclus un hommage envers le Logiciel Libre dans leur chapitre pour l'innovation numérique. Avec cette mise à jour, la CDU s'est montrée résolue à joindre la FSFE en exigeant que le logiciel développé avec de l'argent public soit disponible pour tous sous forme de Logiciel Libre.

La résolution de la convention du parti de la CDU mentionne : "[...] C'est pourquoi le principe suivant devra s'appliquer à tous les projets (publics) de passage au numérique en Allemagne dans le futur : l'attribution de contrats et de financements sera sujette à la conformité aux principes de source et standards libres. Le logiciel financé par des fonds publics doit servir tous les citoyens. De plus, des APIs libres et gratuites devraient faciliter l'accès aux développements indépendants." (traduction fournie par la FSFE)

Nous sommes ravis de voir que l'énergie et les ressources que la FSFE consacre à la création, la traduction et la promotion des objectifs de la campagne continuent à augmenter le soutien reçu des parties prenantes publiques. "Nous comptons désormais sur la CDU pour travailler immédiatement depuis l'intérieur du gouvernement pour établir les bases légales pour que le logiciel financé par l'argent public soit émis sous une licence de Logiciel Libre et Open-Source." annonce Matthias Kirschner, Président de la FSFE.

Rétrospective de fin d'année

En cette fin d'année, nous vous invitons à prendre un instant pour lire les résultats et réalisations majeures de la FSFE lors des 12 derniers mois. Dans notre Rapport Annuel récemment publié, nous couvrons les activités majeures et importantes de la FSFE en 2019. Vous y trouverez des appercus de nos campagnes et projets, de notre travail politique, de notre communauté et de ses membres.

Lisez par exemple comment le premier parlement en Europe a rejoint notre demande de code public ou comment nous visons à réunir les communautés environnementales et des droits numériques afin de leur faire découvrir la pérennité du Logiciel Libre. Vous serez peut-être intéressés par notre article sur la mise à jour de notre collection de bonnes pratiques dans le cadre de notre projet REUSE ou bien vous apprécierez de découvrir la communauté diverse qui constitue la FSFE... Quel que soit votre intérêt, appréciez la lecture, découvrez vos propres favoris et soyez assurés que nous continuons à militer pour la liberté du logiciel en Europe tout au long de l'année 2020 !

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Ne manquez pas : évènements à venir avec la FSFE La FSFE sera présente au congrès annuel Chaos Communication Congress, le 36C3, du 27 au 30 décembre à Leipzig. Nous y tiendrons notre propre assemblée et organiserons le groupe "about:freedom". Un groupe visant à réunir des organisations partageant les mêmes idées dans l'hémisphère des droits numériques et aussi des communautés environnementales au sein de notre groupe affilié "about:future". Comme d'habitude, la FSFE tiendra son propre axe avec de nombreuses sessions et groupes de travail, couvrant des sujets variés sur le Logiciel Libre. Plus d'informations dans notre annonce et si vous vous rendez au 36C3, vérifiez la page wiki régulièrement mise à jour. Comme tous les ans, la FSFE sera présente au FOSDEM, la conférence la plus importante d'Europe sur le Logiciel Libre, avec un stand et des discussions. Plus de détails sur notre participation à la FOSDEM à venir en janvier. Nos réalisations? Au sein et en dehors de la FSFE Le 28 novembre, le groupe local de la FSFE à Zurich a organisé un groupe de travail nommé "Il n'y a pas de cloud, juste d'autres ordinateurs particuliers". Les participants ont pu découvrir comment gérer "leur propre cloud" où ils peuvent stocker et partager des fichiers, des photos, des contacts, des calendriers et bien plus. Tous les participants ont eu la possibilité de tester différents services de stockage dans le cloud. Du 15 au 16 novembre, nous avons accueilli la 39e réunion de la communauté FSFE, composée de rencontres sociales, d'échappatoires, de planifications futures et d'un axe organisé par la FSFE comme élément officiel de la SFSCon. Si vous souhaitez ressentir les bonnes vibrations que nous avons ressenties, veuillez lire le rapport de Florian Snow. Et si vous souhaitez revoir les discussions et présentations que nous avons tenues, vous trouverez les slides et vidéos de la plupart des présentations en lien dans le même rapport. Le stand FSFE à la SFSCon. Photo: SFScon, licence CC BY-SA 2.0 Nous avons un nouveau t-shirt multi-langues dans notre boutique : vous pouvez désormais afficher votre amour pour le Logiciel Libre en 24 langues ! Obtenez-en un pour Noël ou au moins avant le prochain jour "I love Free Software" : ) Surprenez vos amis, votre famille ou vos collègues avec notre édition spéciale de cartes de Noël consacrées aux 4 libertés : utiliser, étudier, partager et améliorer. Le code financé par les citoyens devrait être disponible pour les citoyens ! Invitez d'autres à rejoindre la cause et affichez votre engagement avec notre t-shirt. Soyez actifs

2019 a été une année remplie de challenges et nous avons vu plusieurs changements dans l'environnement du Logiciel Libre. D'une part, l'utilisation de Logiciel Libre est large comme jamais et notre compagne "Public Money? Public Code!" ("Argent Public? Code Public !") a reçu beaucoup de soutien - d'autre part, le Logiciel Libre est constamment menacé. Des acteurs économiques majeurs investissent dans le Logiciel Libre et des politiciens créent des lois qui mettent directement en danger la liberté du logiciel. Sans oublier que chaque application développée par une autorité publique ou simplement mise à disposition sur une plate-forme propriétaire impose tous les jours aux citoyens de renier leur liberté. Et pour chaque application supplémentaire, le seuil pour s'affranchir du monde propriétaire et des restrictions commerciales devient plus élevé pour tout le monde.

Depuis 2001, la FSFE fait la promotion de la liberté du logiciel et nos avons réalisé beaucoup de choses dans cette voie - mais protéger la liberté ne s'arrête jamais. Aidez-nous à maîtriser les challenges à venir et soutenez la liberté du logiciel en Europe en envoyant vos dons maintenant : https://my.fsfe.org/donate

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Si vous souhaitez partager vos opinions, images ou informations, merci de nous les envoyer. Comme toujours, l'adresse est newsletter@fsfe.org. Nous sommes impatients de vous lire !

Si vous souhaitez aussi nous assister dans notre travail, rejoignez notre communauté et soutenez nous avec un don ou une participation mensuelle : https://my.fsfe.org/donate?referrer=nl-201912

Merci à notre communauté, à tous les volontaires, supporters et donatrices et donateurs qui rendent notre travail possible. Et merci à nos traductrices et traducteurs, qui vous permettent de lire cette lettre d'information dans votre langue maternelle.

Sincères salutations,

Erik Albers

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CDU wants public code +++ Community Meeting +++ 36C3

mardi 17 décembre 2019 à 00:00
CDU wants public code +++ Community Meeting +++ 36C3

The last Newsletter of the year ends with exciting news for software freedom: the biggest conservative party in Europe, the German CDU, endorsed the principle that software developed with public money should be under a Free Software License. We further invite you to to read about the FSFE has done and achieved during the last 12 months and to dig into Florian Snow's report of our Annual Community Meeting 2019. Also you find an outlook on our participation at the biggest hacking related conference in Europe, the 36C3 and a call for your support and help to continue our mission towards empowering users to control technology.

Biggest conservative party in Europe aligns with our demand for public code

During the last week of November, Germany's conservative party "CDU" had their 32nd Annual Conference in Leipzig. As part of the event, the party updated their convention and included a tribute towards Free Software in their Chapter for Digital Innovation. With this update, the CDU resolved to join the FSFE in demanding that software developed with public money should be publicly available as Free Software.

The CDU's party convention resolution states: "[...] This is why the following will apply to all (public) digitalisation projects in Germany in the future: the awarding of contracts and funding will be subject to compliance with the principles of open source and open standards. Software financed by public funds should serve all citizens. In addition, free and open APIs should facilitate access for independent developments." (Translation provided by the FSFE)

We are happy to see that the good energy and resources the FSFE community dedicates on creating, translating and promoting the campaign's objectives keeps increasing support from major public stakeholders. "We now expect the CDU to immediately work within the government to create the legal basis for publicly funded software to be released under a Free- and Open-Source Software license." says Matthias Kirschner, President of the FSFE.

End of the Year Retrospective

At the end of this Year, we are inviting you to take a moment to read about the important things the FSFE has done and achieved during the last 12 months. In our recently published Annual Report we cover the biggest and most important activities of the FSFE in 2019. You will find insights about our campaigns and projects, about our policy work, our community and its members.

Read for example about the first Parliament in Europe who joined our demand for public code or about how we aim at bringing together environmental communities and digital rights communities to discover the sustainability of Free Software. Maybe you are interested in our write-up of the updated set of best practices within our REUSE project or you like to discover the diverse community who form the FSFE ... Whatever you are most into, enjoy the read, discover your personal favourites and be assured that we keep on advocating for software freedom in Europe throughout 2020!

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Do not miss: upcoming events with the FSFE The FSFE will be present at the annual Chaos Communication Congress, the 36C3, happening from 27 to 30 December in Leipzig. We will host our own assembly and organize the cluster "about:freedom". A cluster that brings together like-minded organizations from the digital-rights hemisphere and also from the environmental communities within our child-cluster "about:future". As usual the FSFE is running its own track with many sessions and workshops, covering various topics regarding Free Software. Find more info in our event announcement and If you are going to 36C3, check out the regularly updated wiki page. As every year, the FSFE will be present at FOSDEM, Europeans biggest Free Software conference with a booth and talks. More details about our participation at FOSDEM will follow in January. What have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE On November 28, the Local Group of FSFE in Zurich organised a workshop under the name "There is no cloud, just other people's computers". The participants were shown how to run "their own cloud" where they can store and share files, photos, contacts, calendars and more. All attendies were given the opportunity to try different cloud services. From November 15 to 16 we have been inviting to this year's FSFE Community Meeting that was composed of social meetups, breakout-sessions, future-plannings and an official track organised by the FSFE as part of the SFSCon. If you like to get a feeling of the good vibe we had, read the report by Florian Snow. But also if you like to catch up on the talks and presentations we had, you find slides and videos of most of the presentations linked from the same report. FSFE Booth at SFSCon. Photo credit: SFScon, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 We have a new multilingual t-shirt in our shop: Now you can show your love for Free Software in 24 languages! Get one for Christmas or at least before the next "I love Free Software"-Day : ) Surprise your friends, families or colleagues with our special edition of Christmas cards dedicated to the 4 freedoms to use, study, share, and improve. Code paid by the people should be available to the people! Ask others to join the cause and show your commitment with our t-shirt. Get Active

2019 was a year with a lot of challenges and we have seen quite some changes within the Free Software environment. On one hand Free Software usage is as widespread as never before and our "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign receives a lot of endorsement - on the other hand Free Software is constantly under threat. Big economic players buy into Free Software and politicians create laws that directly endanger software freedom. Not to forget that with every proprietary app developed by a public authority or solely offered on a proprietary platform, more citizens are forced every day to expel their freedom. And with every app more, the threshold gets higher for everyone to break free from the proprietary world and from vendor lock-ins.

Since 2001, the FSFE promotes software freedom and on this road we have achieved many things - but protecting freedom never ends. Help us mastering the upcoming challenges and support software freedom in Europe by donating to us now: https://my.fsfe.org/donate

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If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to us. As always, the address is newsletter@fsfe.org. We're looking forward to hearing from you!

If you also want to support us and our work, join our community and support us with a donation or a monthly contribution: https://my.fsfe.org/donate?referrer=nl-201911

Thanks to our community, all the volunteers, supporters and donors who make our work possible. And thanks to our translators, who enable you to read this newsletter in your native languages.

Best Regards,

Erik Albers

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Report from the 2019 FSFE Community Meeting in Bolzano, Italy

jeudi 5 décembre 2019 à 00:00
Report from the 2019 FSFE Community Meeting in Bolzano, Italy

This year's FSFE Community Meeting took place from Friday 15 November to Saturday 16 November 2019 as part of SFSCon - an annual Free Software event in the city of Bolzano in South Tyrol, Italy. As in previous editions, embedding our community meeting in another event gave us the opportunity to meet different parts of our own community as well as to connect with people from other communities.

On Friday, SFScon started officially and the NOI Techpark transformed into the interim capital of Free Software with talks and booths. Of course, the FSFE booth was also part of it and the booth team commandeered the whole area by installing a balloon chain and putting up posters. The rumours that the booth team gave away free pizza (not as in freedom) to gain more attention, are highly exaggerated, though.

Free Pizza (not as in freedom) lunch at the 2019 FSFE Community Meeting at SFScon. Photo by Patrick Masson

On Saturday we held many talks about software freedom, some of which were recorded by the SFScon team and are available to watch online. For instance, "Free Software and Open Standards in Tourism" by Patrick Ohnewein, "Challenges with Free Software Business Models" by Björn Schießle, and "Putting AI back into people's hands", and many more you can follow up with via our community event's page where you can also find their respective pdf presentations.

Patrick Ohnewein captivating the audience with how Free Software and Open Standards help the tourism industry. Photo credit: SFScon, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Björn Schießle on why it is important for large organisations to invest in Free Software innovations. Photo credit: SFScon, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Vincent Lequertier on how people can take the control over Artificial Intelligence back in their hands. Photo credit: SFScon, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

When the FSFE track and the Community Meeting started, the FSFE added another facet to the event with a variety of other talks, such as one on what MicroG is and what lies in its future, by Marvin W . In his talk, Marvin gave an overview of the Free Software replacements for Google services on Android that are available. In his session on sustainability of software, Erik Albers spoke on why it is important to preserve software heritage, as well as how communities and Free Software licensing help achieve that. In his talk "Free Software legal licenses 101", Carlo Piana introduced to the attendees, why it is important for them to have a license when developing Free Software and what the consequences of improper licensing could be. The FSFE's current intern Bonnie Mehring called out for support and actions from citizens to write letters to local administrations as part of our "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign.

Marvin W wows the public with what MicroG is and its future prospects. Photo credit: SFScon, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Carlo Piana explains why Free Software licenses are necessary. Photo credit: SFScon, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Bonnie Mehring says we need more publicly funded bodies to sign in the "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign. Photo credit: SFScon, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

At noon, the SFScon officially ended, but the FSFE Community Meeting continued throughout with talks about FSFE's involvement with the Next Generation Internet projects, where Gabriel Ku Wei Bin and Lucas Lasota presented the Open Calls the initiative launches and the licensing consultation they do for the participating software projects. The FSFE's coordinator for Zurich, Gian-Maria Daffré aka Giammi shared how the Swiss team was running the Freedomvote campaign for the Swiss elections. The aim of this tool is to increase not just citizen participation, but to also get the political candidates more involved and in touch with their constituencies. The FSFE dedicated an article to it back in October, which can give extra insights.

A nice part of the event was the more spontaneous activity sessions. One major part there were the lightning talks, of course, where the spotlight was taken by Christian Busse's input about European science and research benefitting from Free Software. A great energising session was the one where we encouraged all audience members to take the mic and briefly talk about their favourite Free Software. If you are curious to deploy more useful Free Software applications on your devices, some of those mentioned at this session were SuperTuxKart, KiCad, AntennaPod, and the Fedilab-App.

It is great to think of how far our movement has come over the past 35 years, especially as we face new challenges on a regular basis. Another productive session was when the audience split up and chose topics for breakout sessions, which included topics such as what kind of events the FSFE should organize or be a part of, Freedomvote in France, further steps for our REUSE initiative, and an on-the-fly system hackers meeting to improve the Jabber server to handle images in multi-user chats in future.

As always, at these community events, there was plenty of time for exchanging ideas outside of the official sessions and for socialising. Our booth team was busy answering questions about the FSFE's position on certain issues, about our work, and more general Free Software questions. Of course, they were also busy selling merchandise and distributing informative materials.

The FSFE Community meets SFScon visitors and answers their questions. Photo credit: SFScon, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

The evenings we spent dining together and debating important issues, sometimes late into the night, powered by amazing food and desserts, delicious fresh mountain spring water, and Hops smoothies from Bolzano.

The FSFE Community enjoying each others company over local food and drinks. Photo by the FSFE

On Sunday, part of the community explored the town of Bolzano and its historical sites together, and put a relaxing ending to a great event. A big THANK YOU goes to everyone who helped organise the event and to everyone who participated! We are very much looking forward to seeing even more of you in 2020.

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The last 12 months in the light of software freedom

jeudi 28 novembre 2019 à 00:00
The last 12 months in the light of software freedom

In the last 12 months, we have achieved a lot with the help of our volunteers, through their donations and hard work. Thanks to their support, we were able to successfully continue our PMPC campaign, simplify licensing practices through our REUSE initiative, and stand up for router freedom in Europe. We will be back in 2020 with even more vigour towards our work. Please help us with a donation so that we can continue our successful commitment to Free Software.

Some of our achievements in the past 12 months Our "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign: We will keep encouraging the public sector to use and procure more Free Software. With a strong alliance of the administration of Barcelona, the Parliament of Asturias, over 170 organisations, and more than 26,000 individuals, we demand that publicly financed software development should be made publicly available under Free Software licenses. We have released an expert brochure for decision makers, and are working on translations. Router Freedom: Some years ago, the FSFE successfully fought for router freedom in Germany. Now, the same debate reaches the European level, with Internet Service Providers (ISP) wanting to restrict users' direct access to their modems and routers even after selling them to end customers. The FSFE aims to counteract this restriction of freedom and to protect users' control of technology by monitoring the status of router freedom in several member states and spreading an "activity package" for people and organisations willing to advocate for router freedom. Our REUSE initiative: If you want to grant users the freedom to use, study, share, and improve your software, you need to make sure that your software is properly licensed. In August, we released an updated set of best practices together with more supplementary materials and tools. Now, a project can become REUSE compliant in only three simple steps.

You can find more details and other success stories in our report "Software Freedom in Europe 2019".

If you are not yet a supporter please become one; we need you to support our future work.

Our plans for 2020 The new European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to solidify her European digital agenda and we expect an updated "Open Source Strategy" by the European Commission. The FSFE will keep a close eye on these proposals to guarantee a safe environment for Free Software in Europe. We will continue to advocate for router freedom in Europe to help people stay in control of their technology. To help decision-makers better understand the impact Free Software has on security and digital sustainability, we are preparing analyses of these topics and their connection with Free Software. We recently introduced our new Software Freedom Podcast in which we will continue to deliver interesting insights into Free Software, once a month.

The FSFE is a charitable organisation and without your support, we would not be able to constantly raise awareness about Free Software -- in the public and private sectors, and among the general public.

A big thank you to all of you who support us currently and who have supported us in the past.

Many people around the world support our work; among them Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Kernel developer) who says:

"The 'Public Money? Public Code!' campaign, as well the 'REUSE Initiative' made me notice that the FSFE is an organization which supports the same ideals that I do. I want to help them do more great things, and so now I am a proud FSFE supporter."

If you are currently not a supporter, please become one now!

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FSFE Newsletter - November 2019

mercredi 27 novembre 2019 à 00:00
FSFE Newsletter November 2019

This month, we present our Portuguese friends from ANSOL and their success story on solving the problems DRM creates in their country and gives tips on how you can take similar actions in your country. Episode 2 of the FSFE's Software Freedom Podcast is out and we dedicate it to the KDE Community and the transformations and updates they are currently undertaking. You can discover upcoming events and interesting stories with visuals from the events where our community promoted Free Software across Europe. We offer a sneak peak into this year's FSFE Annual Community Meeting in Bolzano, Italy before the official report. In the Get Active section, we ask for your help with the new "Public Money? Public Code!" initiative. We need more municipalities and public sector bodies to embrace the principles and become part of the signatories.

How DRM was fixed in Portugal

DRM technologies restrict individuals from doing things with their media that are otherwise perfectly legal. For example we might not be able to put together a mix of music files we bought legally or to lend an e-book to a friend. Even backups can be restricted. Following up with the Day against DRM, in November we published a guest article by our friends from the Portuguese Association for Free Software (ANSOL), Paula Simões and Marcos Marado. Together with the Portuguese Association for Free Education (AEL) they were working towards resolving the DRM policies in Portugal for 15 years. They finally accomplished the solution they sought and in their article they shared with you the insights of that success. ANSOL and AEL have been able to show policy makers what was wrong with DRM and how its implementation hinders citizens and other actors from exercising their rights and take advantage of the legally foreseen copyright exceptions. Their story may inspire you to do the same in your country or simply learn insights on how policy-making can be influenced for the better.

Podcast Episode 2 - A closer look at the KDE community with Lydia Pintscher

The November episode of the newly launched Software Freedom Podcast is dedicated to the international Free Software Community KDE. At the FSFE we have some history of working together with KDE, whereof one of the biggest projects was the Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA), a topic that we also discuss in this Podcast. Our guest Lydia Pintscher is KDE's Vice President, and in this episode she shares how the KDE community developed and changed throughout time and how their team managed solving some of the most pressing social and generational challenges the KDE community is facing.

In addition, Lydia Pintscher talks about KDE's priorities. For example, their work on making their applications more consistent, so they run smoothly on your machines. Listen to the second Episode of the Software Freedom Podcast to learn how KDE sees their involvement with relation to Android and the mobile area. You will also hear how KDE places themselves in terms of technological sustainability or scenarios where the connected device is no longer a phone, tablet or desktop.

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Do not miss: upcoming events with the FSFE

As with every month, we are trying to spread the word and help individuals and organisations understand what Free Software is and how Free Software contributes to freedom, transparency, and self-determination. If you are interested in seeing us in action and to join our cause, keep in mind the following dates and locations in the coming weeks:

On November 28th, the Local Group of FSFE in Zurich will host a workshop under the name "There is no cloud, just other people's computers". People who decide to participate will learn how to run their own cloud to store and share files, photos, contacts, calendars and more, and have the opportunity to try different cloud services. The session is free of charge, but it requires a pre-registration. What have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE

Since the last newsletter we have been active in promoting the Free Software cause by helping individuals and organisations have a better understanding of what Free Software is and encouraging them to develop and implement it in their lives. We want to share with you the events we have photos, videos or other recordings below:

Between October 11th and 12th, the Greek FSFE Community joined the annual Free and Open Source Software Conference - FOSSCOM. This year the Greek town of Lamia took turn in hosting it and attracted Free Software enthusiasts from the area. The FSFE's booth attracted people interested in what Free Software technology could offer in comparison to the proprietary. Most questions were addressing the conversion into a more privacy-oriented use of cloud solutions and asked about Free Software alternatives to famous apps and services for their Android phones. The local FSFE group in Greece joined FOSSCOM in Lamia with an infobooth On 18 October the FSFE Local Group from Zurich was present with an infobooth at the 3rd Dinacon conference in Bern. People were visiting the FSFE stand to discuss and ask questions on Free Software Licensing and taking informative leaflets and stickers. Gian-Maria Daffré, coordinator of the FSFE's Local Group Zurich, talking about Free Software Licensing with a visitor The FSFE Community in The Netherlands hosted an information booth and gave a presentation at the LocHal Open Source event in Tilburg on 2 November. The Dutch FSFE coordinator Nico Rikken also gave a talk about the four freedoms we hold so dearly. He explained the concepts of each freedom, each illustrated with a cooking recipe analogy ,a software user example, and a business example. The FSFE's stand at the LacHol conference in Tilburg, The Netherlands This year, the FSFE's Community Meeting joined the SFScon - one of Europe's most established annual conferences dedicated to Free Software. The FSFE ran a fully dedicated track on Saturday, 16 November, that covered various topics:The policy activities FSFE works on and is developing further, such as the new action item part of the “Public Money? Public Code!” campaign. As part of this session we shed a light on how we contact mayors and municipalities across Europe. The Router Freedom session discussed the consultation we responded to, where we explain to Regulators why it is important for the users to be able to fully control their own routers. More practically oriented talks also gave insights to new knowledge about the use and benefits of Free Software and Open Standards in tourism, legal basics for Free Software Licenses and many more. The presentations from the talks are already available for downloading at the event's wiki page. We are publishing a full report with pictures from our Annual Meeting soon, so long stay tuned. Pizza lunch at the 2019 FSFE Community Meeting at SFScon in Bolzano, Italy Lucas Lasota prepared an activity package for people and organisations interested in Router Freedom, so they can advocate their own freedom of choice. To learn more about it, read his article Router Freedom: getting back the control over your own router. The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications(BEREC) wrote guidelines for the National Regulators across EU on Router Freedom. The FSFE provided them with a feedback on their public consultation, telling them why it is essential for users to have control over their own Routers. Editor's choice "New challenges for Free Software business models" is an article by Björn Schiessle, who gives useful information to people who want to make money with Free Software and build sustainable and strong Free Software companies. In their last newsletter, The Open Source Observatory (OSOR) explains how France and Italy work on linking their source code repositories with others and provides a picture of the current state of the Federation of EU repositories - a project launched and promoted by OSOR and the EU Commission. Get Active

The "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign launched an initiative looking for more publicly funded bodies (administrations, schools, hospitals and etc) to sign our open letter. This month, we kindly ask you to join the cause by sending emails and letters to mayors, municipalities, or any other head of administrations across cities in your country. You can use the example letter as a template, calling public sector administrations to sign in the campaign.

Contribute to our newsletter

If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to us. As always, the address is newsletter@fsfe.org. We're looking forward to hearing from you!

If you also want to support us and our work, join our community and support us with a donation or a monthly contribution: https://my.fsfe.org/donate?referrer=nl-201911

Thanks to our community, all the volunteers, supporters and donors who make our work possible. And thanks to our translators, who enable you to read this newsletter in your native languages.

Best Regards,

Galia Mancheva

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