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title: General Assembly 2017: new members, new roles and new directions
uri: General-Assembly-2017-new-members-new-roles-and-new-directions
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171107-01.html
content:
General Assembly 2017: new members, new roles and new directions<p>The members of the Free Software Foundation Europe held their General Assembly on October 15 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The annual meeting is held to discuss strategies for the upcoming year and set the course for the overall direction of the organisation. Amongst other things an overall Code of Conduct for the FSFE was adopted, Patrick Ohnewein was elected as the new Financial Officer, and six new members joined the association.</p><p>After years of dedicated work <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/Fellows/reinhard">Reinhard Müller</a> stepped down from his role as the FSFE's Financial Officer. The organisation thanked him for his long time contributions to the FSFE and is happy about his ongoing support as a valued member of the FSFE's financial team. Reinhard was replaced in the role of Financial Officer by Patrick Ohnewein who was elected for office during the 2017-2019 term. The FSFE's incumbent president <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/kirschner/kirschner">Matthias Kirschner</a> and vice president <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/repentinus/repentinus">Heiki Lõhmus</a> were both re-elected for their roles during the 2017-2019 term.</p><img src="media/e8982d80.20171015-GA-meeting-Edinburgh-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/20171015-GA-meeting-Edinburgh-800px.jpg"/><p>From left to right: Nikos Roussos, Mirko Böhm, Reinhard Müller, Heiki Löhmus, Polina Malaja, Max Mehl, Matthias Kirschner, Amandine "Cryptie", Björn Schiessle, Jonas Öberg, Patrick Ohnewein. Not in the photo is Albert Dengg who also participated in the assembly.</p><p>Aside from the official elections, the <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/team#general-assembly">General Assembly</a> also took some important decisions for the future of the FSFE. You can read the full <a href="media/d90794c2.minutes-2017-10-15.en.pdf" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/about/legal/minutes/minutes-2017-10-15.en.pdf">official minutes</a> online and a summary about the accepted proposals hereafter</p>On directions:
		To increase diversity and to make sure the FSFE is an organisation people like to get involved in, a <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/KnowHow/FSFELife/CodeOfConduct">Code of Conduct</a> for all FSFE events, online and offline was adopted.

		The executive was asked to make a proposal for the 2018 budget for identifying strategies for increased diversity in the FSFE community and the FSFE membership, by having a budget for counseling on diversity and a time budget for staff to get involved in this issue.

		The FSFE applies as a member of <a href="https://edri.org/">European Digital Rights (EDRi)</a>.

		The FSFE should create an explicit financial reserve ("Rücklage") of 100.000 Euro. (Due to a generous heritage towards the FSFE, the association received an extraordinary surplus in 2016. These circumstances allow a financial reserve that is otherwise not allowed for a charitable organisation.)
	On structure<p>Several proposals were received and discussed prior to the assembly, two of which were adopted and agreed to by the members. The proposals instruct the organisation's executive to prepare necessary changes to the constitution that reform the organisational structure. Specifically, it was agreed that a constitutional change to remove the <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/legal/constitution#id-fellowship-seats">Fellowship seats</a> should be prepared. These Fellowship seats were introduced to give the FSFE’s sustaining donors access to the General Assembly. But instead, we like to <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2017/11/06/background-for-future-changes-to-membership-in-fsfe-e-v/">bring in more of our active volunteers</a> into the FSFE's General Assembly. Means the Fellowship seats will be implicitly replaced with a structure and procedures to accommodate a wider base of active members and a separation between membership and the governing organs (introducing a board of directors or enlarging the executive council, or similar). The exact details of those changes should be prepared and proposed for adoption by the members at the 2018 general assembly.</p>On membership:
		Pablo Machón and Martin Gollowitzer withdrew their membership. The Chair thanked them for many years of active work for the organisation.

		Amandine "Cryptie", Polina Malaja, Ulrike Sliwinski, Jan-Christoph Borchardt, Max Mehl and Erik Albers have been granted membership.
	<p>Twelve out of 28 members attended the assembly in 2017. Eleven members were absent but represented by members present by delegating their votes. </p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20171109-01.en.xml
title: 32 European ministers call for more Free Software in governmental infrastructure
uri: 32-European-ministers-call-for-more-Free-Software-in-governmental-infr
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171109-01.html
content:
32 European ministers call for more Free Software in governmental infrastructure<p>On 6 October, 32 European Ministers in charge of eGovernment 
  policy signed the Tallinn Declaration on eGovernment that calls for more 
  collaboration, interoperable solutions, and sharing of good practices 
  throughout public administrations and across borders. Amongst other things, 
  the EU ministers recognised the need to make more use of Free Software 
  solutions and Open Standards when (re)building governmental digital 
  systems with EU funds.</p><p>The <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/document.cfm?doc_id=47559">Tallinn Declaration</a>, 
  lead by the Estonian EU presidency, has been adopted on 6 October 2017. 
  It is a ministerial declaration that marks a new political commitment 
  at European Union (EU) and  European Free Trade Area (EFTA) level on 
  priorities to ensure user-centric digital public services for both citizens 
  and businesses cross-border. While having no legislative power, the ministerial 
  declaration marks a political commitment to ensure the digital transformation 
  of public administrations through a set of commonly agreed principles 
  and actions.</p><p>The FSFE has previously submitted its <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170710-01.html">input 
  for the aforementioned declaration</a> during the public consultation 
  round, asking for greater inclusion of Free Software in delivering truly 
  inclusive, trustworthy and interoperable digital services to all citizens 
  and businesses across the EU.</p><p>The adopted Tallinn Declaration proves to be a forward-looking document 
  that acknowledges the importance of Free Software in order to ensure the 
  principle of 'interoperability by default', and expresses the will of 
  all signed EU countries to:</p>
	  <p>"make more use of open source solutions and/or open standards when 
	  (re)building ICT systems and solutions (among else, to avoid vendor 
	  lock-ins)[...]"</p>
  <p>Additionally, the signatories call upon the European Commission to:</p>
	  <p>"consider strengthening the requirements for use of open source 
	  solutions and standards when (re)building of ICT systems and solutions 
	  takes place with EU funding, including by an appropriate open 
	  licence policy – by 2020."</p>
  <p>The last point is especially noteworthy, as it explicitly calls for 
  the European Commission to make use of Free Software and Open Standards 
  in building their ICT infrastructure with EU funds, which is in line with 
  our <a href="https://publiccode.eu">"Public Money, Public Code" campaign</a>
  that is targeted at the demand for all publicly financed software developed 
  for the public sector to be publicly made available under Free Software licences.</p><a href="https://publiccode.eu">
				</a>
			What's next?<p>The Tallinn Declaration sets several deadlines for its implementation 
  in the next few years: with the annual presentation on the progress of 
  implementation of the declaration in the respective countries across 
  the EU and EFTA through the eGovernment Action Plan Steering Board. 
  The signatories also called upon the Austrian Presidency of the Council 
  of the EU to evaluate the implementation of the Tallinn Declaration in 
  autumn 2018.</p>
  <p>"The Declaration expresses the political will of the EU and 
  EFTA countries to digitise their governments in the most user-friendly 
  and efficient way. The fact that it explicitly recognises the role of 
  Free Software and Open Standards for a trustworthy, transparent and open 
  eGovernment on a high level, along with a demand for strengthened reuse 
  of ICT solutions based on Free Software in the EU public sector, is a 
  valuable step forward to establishing a <a href="https://publiccode.eu">"Public Money, Public Code"</a>
  reality across Europe",  says Polina Malaja, the FSFE's policy analyst.</p>
  <p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20171108-01.en.xml
title: FSFE makes copyrights computer readable
uri: FSFE-makes-copyrights-computer-readable
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171108-01.html
content:
FSFE makes copyrights computer readable<p>
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is proud to release its next version of our REUSE practices designed to make computers understand software copyrights and licenses.
</p><p>
The <a href="https://reuse.software/">REUSE practices</a> help software developers make simple additions to license headers which make it easier for a computer to determine what license applies to the various parts of a programs source code. By following the REUSE practices, software developers can ensure their intent to license software under a particular license is understood
and more readily adhered to.
</p><p>
Together with the updated practices, which mostly clarify and make
explicit some points, the FSFE is also releasing a set of
developer tools and examples which show the REUSE practices in action.
Three example repositories, together with an example walkthrough of the
process used to make the cURL project REUSE compliant, are complemented
with a simple tool to validate whether a program is REUSE compliant.
</p>
<p>
With our REUSE initiative, we hope to inspire software developers to
think about writing copyright and license information -- the metadata of
software -- in ways which make them easier to parse programmatically.
</p>
<p>
says Jonas Öberg, Executive Director of the FSFE.
</p>
<p>
The new REUSE practices and related documentation and examples can
be found on: <a href="https://reuse.software/">https://reuse.software</a>.
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20171114-01.en.xml
title: 2018 internship positions as student interns
uri: 2018-internship-positions-as-student-interns
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171114-01.html
content:
2018 internship positions as student interns<p>
FSFE is a charity dedicated to empowering users to control technology.
We are working to build freedom in digital society. We operate in a lively
environment with volunteers from many countries. We are looking for
students who can join our team in Berlin for three months or more as a
mandatory part of their studies or before graduation.</p><p>
What we can offer is:

A challenging and exciting time with a dynamic NGO working internationally
A close-up view of organisational and community processes
A chance to take the initiative and put your own ideas into practice
The opportunity to meet and work with Free Software advocates across Europe 


</p><p>
What you'll do:

        
          Contribute to <a href="http://fsfe.org/work.html">FSFE's ongoing projects</a>, working with one or more of our staff and volunteers.
        
        
          Communicate with contacts from the FSFE community, NGO, industry, and public administrations.
        
        
          Coordinate volunteers and others in the work on various projects.
        
        
          General office tasks.
        
        
          Find your own strengths, and do something you care about.
        

</p><p>
Be sure to read our pages about <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/internship">internships</a>
in general before applying!
</p>Basic details<p>
Location: Berlin, Germany.  Please note the FSFE has no ability to help
with accommodation or travel, you will need to cover this yourself and
arrange this prior to your internship.</p><p>Duration: 3 months full time at 35 hours per week, starting as agreed. If the internship is a mandatory part of your education, the internship duration can be longer.</p><p>Compensation: This internship is salaried with a basic salary of €450 per month.</p>Qualifications<p>
You should have some experience or a considerable interest in Free Software.
Your field of study doesn't matter, but you should be able to relate it to
our work. Traditionally, a lot of interns in the FSFE have a legal or
political science background, but we've also had interns working with us
with a more technical or other social science background.
</p>Formal requirements<p>
You must be fluent in English and will be required to show that you
can legally work in Germany; either by being an EU citizen, or
by having a residence and work permit for the duration. The FSFE
can not help you in getting either of these documents, but we will
accept them if you have them.
</p><p>
The internship must be a formal part of your education, or, if you
do the internship on a voluntary basis, you must do the internship
before you graduate and in direct connection with your studies.
</p><p>
You must also have a German tax number which you get by registering
with the residents registration office (Einwohnermeldeamt) in Germany.
This should ideally be done before starting the internship, or at
latest on the first days of your internship.
</p><p>
If the internship is a formal part of your education, you also need
health insurance which is valid in Germany, for example the European
Health Insurance Card.
</p>Application deadline<p>
There is no fixed application deadline for these positions. We accept
interns regularly throughout the year, but to facilitate with our planning
and to increase the chances of us being able to accommodate you for an
internship, you should ideally send your application at least six months
before your intended starting date.
</p>How to apply<p>
Send your application containing a letter of motivation, a CV by e-mail
to office@fsfe.org. Please make sure to write clearly you apply for
the internship position with reference SI-2018. We prefer to receive
your documents in PDF format.
</p>Contact persons<p>
If you have any questions about the position or any administrative
details in connection with it, you're welcome to contact:
</p><p>

 Jonas Öberg about the positions themselves, and the work involved
 Ulrike Sliwinski for any administrative questions

</p><p>
Both will be reading and responding if you send your question to the
contact@fsfe.org address. We look forward to reading your application!
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20171116-01.en.xml
title: Welcome supporters (and goodbye smartcard)
uri: Welcome-supporters-(and-goodbye-smartcard)
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171116-01.html
content:
Welcome supporters (and goodbye smartcard)<p>
Earlier this year, after a public consultation, we took the decision to
change the name of our supporter program, the Fellowship of the FSFE,
and talk about our supporters by their true name: Supporters. This
is an exciting change for us, as it brings our Supporters much closer
to the organisation, by making them an integral part of the FSFE. Today,
with the change almost complete, we're also taking the opportunity to
say goodbye to the Fellowship Smartcard, which has been a part of
FSFE life for more than ten years.
</p><p>
These changes do not come easy for us. They have been a part of the FSFE
for as long as many of us, and many of us have at times identified as being
part of the Fellowship. But what's become apparent is in creating the
Fellowship, we also introduced an artificial divide between the FSFE and its
supporter program.
</p><p>
In order to have a closer connection to the FSFE, anyone who has felt part of
the Fellowship should, and will, be encouraged to think of themselves as a
part of the FSFE. Rather than talking about Fellowship Groups, meeting
locally to discuss Free Software, we're now talking about FSFE groups.
Instead of being a Fellow of the Fellowship program of the FSFE, you will
be a Supporter of the FSFE.
</p><img src="media/015cf356.supporter-patch.m.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/miscellaneous/supporter-patch.m.png"/><p>A photo of the brand new FSFE supporter patch which all new (and old!) supporters will receive, as an exclusive gift for supporters.</p><p>
This connection between our supporters, volunteers, and the FSFE is 
important to us: as a volunteer organisation, anyone who participates in
our work, regardless of whether they support us financially or through
volunteer contributions, should feel a part of the FSFE. You can choose
to do either, or both.
</p><p>
By changing the name we also make clear that a Supporter is someone who
contributes to the FSFE, not someone who gets funded by the FSFE (as some
have thought it to mean to be a Fellow).
</p><p>
At the same time as we're completing this change, we're also decomissioning
our old Fellowship SmartCard, an OpenPGP SmartCard which all our Fellows have
traditionally received as a thank you for joining. As we say goodbye to the
Fellowship, we also say goodbye to the SmartCard, but for different reasons.
</p><p>
We love the SmartCard, and many of us still use it. But the number of
of supporters who actually use it is small. The fact it requires
a SmartCard reader, which most people do not have in their computers,
further limits its use, especially amongst the non-technical supporters
who increasingly join us. Most of the questions we receive about the
SmartCard are also about how to use it. Which we would love to help with,
but the FSFE is not setup to handle support inquiries related to OpenPGP
smartcards.
</p><p>
Since the FSFE is not the only provider of these SmartCards, we've decided
to stop offering them to new Supporters. These days, you can get similar
SmartCards and other crypto devices from
other vendors for those of our Supporters who still want to get a hand on
one.
Without the SmartCard, the FSFE can focus its ressources better at what
is at the core of our mission: Promoting Free Software. It's also a way
for us to be more welcoming towards new Supporters: you don't need deep
technical skills to become a Supporter.
</p><p>
So with this, it's time for us to say; Goodbye Fellows! Welcome Supporters!
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___nl___nl-201711.en.xml
title: FSFE Newsletter - November 2017
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-November-2017
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201711.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter - November 2017The FSFE presents modernised Fiduciary Licensing Agreement 2.0<p>The FSFE's Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA) was initially introduced in 2002, to address the challenge of managing rights and content within a Free Software project over long periods of time. The FLA is a well-balanced contributor agreement, which gives the trustee, responsible for managing the rights within a Free Software project, power and responsibility to make sure the contributed software always remains free and open. This way the project, together with all the respective contributors, is protected against any possible misuse of power by a new copyright holder.</p><p>However, the last review of the initial FLA was back in 2007 and we are happy to present an <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171013-01">improved and modernised version - FLA-2.0</a>. The biggest improvements are that the FLA-2.0 now also covers patents and enables more practical licensing options directed towards third parties – including referencing an external licensing policy. In addition, the new wording is much improved both in its compatibility with more jurisdictions as well as being easier for everybody to understand and apply.</p><p>For FLA-2.0, the FSFE joined forces with ContributorAgreements.org and integrated the FLA-2.0 into its Copyright Licensing Agreement (CLA) chooser/generator, in order to make the use of the FLA easier both for projects and for developers. As a side-effect, all CLA on ContributorAgreements.org have been updated as well, following some of the improvements from the FLA.</p>General Assembly 2017: new members, new roles and new directions<p>The members of the Free Software Foundation Europe held their General Assembly on October 15 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The annual meeting is held to discuss strategies for the upcoming year and to set the overall direction of the organisation. Amongst other things, the General Assembly prepared a route to some reforms of the organisational structure and adopted an overall Code of Conduct for the FSFE. Patrick Ohnewein was elected as the new Financial Officer, and six new members joined the association. You can read more details in the <a href="media/d90794c2.minutes-2017-10-15.en.pdf" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/about/legal/minutes/minutes-2017-10-15.en.pdf">official minutes</a> and a summary about the accepted proposals in the <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171107-01">corresponding news-item</a>.</p>
			<img src="media/e8982d80.20171015-GA-meeting-Edinburgh-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/20171015-GA-meeting-Edinburgh-800px.jpg"/>
			<p>Participants of the General Assembly 2017.</p>
		<p><a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-11">Help us grow and make a difference in 2017</a></p>What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE
The Free Software Foundation Europe <a href="/news/2017/news-20171108-01">released its next version of REUSE practices</a> to make computers understand software copyrights and licenses. The REUSE page now also <a href="http://reuse.software/">comes with an explanatory video</a> as well as a <a href="https://reuse.software/dev/">set of developer tools</a> and examples which show the REUSE practices in action.

The FSFE's Vice President Heiki Lõhmus explains the <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/repentinus/english/2017/11/06/background-for-future-changes-to-membership-in-fsfe-e-v/">background about decisions for future changes to FSFE membership</a> and the removal of the Fellowship Representatives during the General Assembly 2017.

As in previous editions of the Chaos Communication Camp, the FSFE will set up an assembly during 34C3 for all friends of Free Software and is running a <a href="/news/2017/news-20171024-01">call for participation</a> until November 19.

At the beginning of October, 32 European Ministers signed the Tallinn Declaration on eGovernment. The FSFE's policy analyst Polina Malaja <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171109-01">writes about</a> FSFE's input and the good process involved in this declaration.

The FSFE's Executive Director Jonas Öberg blogs about the <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/a-reuse-compliant-curl/">steps he took to make cURL REUSE compliant</a>.

André Ockers <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2017/10/28/dutch-coalition-agreement-wheres-the-trust-in-free-software/">analyses the Dutch coalition agreement</a> on the matter of software and misses any support of Free Software within. 

Tarin Gamberini <a href="https://www.taringamberini.com/en/blog/fsfe/adoption-of-free-software-pdf-readers-in-italian-regional-public-administrations-fifth-monitoring/">evaluates</a> that in the last semester, eight Italian Regions have reduced advertisement of proprietary PDF readers on their website, and that one region has increased its support for Free Software PDF readers. 

Hannes Hauswedell explains how to use <a href="http://git.fsfe.org/">FSFE's Gitea</a> and/or Github to <a href="https://hannes.hauswedell.net/post/2017/10/21/blog-comments/">host comments in statically generated blogs</a> and in a privacy-friendly way. 

The FSFE was present at the Open Source Summit 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic. The FSFE's president Matthias Kirschner gave a talk about "Limux: The Loss of a Lighthouse", and Polina Malaja about "DSM, EIF, RED: Acronyms on the EU Level and Why They Matter for Software Freedom".

Jonas Öberg was at the Open Source Strategy Forum in New York to present updates to FSFEs' REUSE practices.    

The FSFE's country coordinator Germany <a href="http://ichbinbaff.de/multibaff/ww17/events/digitale-abhaengigkeit-vermeiden-mit-freier-software-fuer-gute-bildung-und-eine-starke-und-unabhaengigen-wirtschaft-sorgen/">Björn Schiessle gave a talk about how to avoid digital dependencies</a> at the Fellbacher Weltwochen. 

The FSFE's country coordinator Italy, Natale Vinto, gave a talk about Public Money? Public Code! at Linux Day Milano to celebrate Linux Day, a national manifestation to discuss about Linux and free software.
Do not miss it! Upcoming events with the FSFE<p>Always find the FSFE's future events listed on our <a href="https://fsfe.org/events/events">events page</a>.</p>Contribute to our newsletter<p>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!</p><p>Thanks to our community, all the <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">volunteers</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">supporters</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donors</a> who make our work possible. And thanks to <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators">our translators</a>, who enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.</p><p>Your editor, 
   Erik Albers</p><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-11">Help us grow and make a difference in 2017</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20171130-01.en.xml
uri: EU-Copyright-review-The-FSFE-joins-more-than-80-organisations-asking
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171130-01.html
title:
EU Copyright review: The FSFE joins more than 80 organisations asking the EU member states to reject harmful Article 13

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EU Copyright review: The FSFE joins more than 80 organisations asking the EU member states to reject harmful Article 13<p>A new copyright proposal is currently discussed by the EU co-legislators. Part of this proposal is Article 13 which can hamper our ability to collaborate with each other online as it imposes new monitoring obligations and installation of arbitrary upload filters on every code hosting and sharing provider. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) today raises its voice to save code sharing and joins 80 other organisations in an open letter towards the EU Council.</p><p>Free Software development often relies on code hosting platforms to build software together. Current ongoing EU copyright review, and in particular its <a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52016PC0593">Article 13</a> however, could hamper our ability to collaborate online with each other by imposing <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171005-01.html">new obligations</a> on every code hosting and sharing provider to prevent any possible copyright infringement in the form of arbitrary upload filters. In addition, the proposed Article 13 will oblige online platforms to monitor their users and actively seek for possible copyright infringements. However, there are no known filtering technologies that could accurately and reliably identify whether any Free Software is being shared in accordance with its terms and conditions. That means with such an Article 13 as currently proposed in the Council of the European Union (EU Council), software developers’ ability to share and collaborate in the development of source code would be limited. </p><p>Together with over 80 organisations, the Free Software Foundation Europe <a href="media/c3e026f9.Open-Letter-COMPET-Council-30-Nov-online.pdf" data-original-source="http://copybuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Open-Letter-COMPET-Council-30-Nov-online.pdf">calls</a> the EU member states to acknowledge the danger that Article 13 of the current EU Copyright Directive proposal poses to fundamental  rights and  freedoms, our economy, our education, our innovation, and our culture. And in order to address the issues Article 13 specifically poses on Free Software, the FSFE together with Open Forum Europe already launched <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a> and has published a <a href="media/b43fc5cc.hitePaper-ImpactofArticel13onSoftwareEcosystem-SaveCodeShare.pdf" data-original-source="https://savecodeshare.eu/static/assets/WhitePaper-ImpactofArticel13onSoftwareEcosystem-SaveCodeShare.pdf">White Paper</a> to explain how Article 13 endangers our ability to build and share software online. We also ask individuals, organisations and companies to sign our <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Open Letter</a> addressed to EU legislators to prevent harmful impact of Article 13 on collaborative software development and Free Software.  </p><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/join">Support us today</a> so we can make the voice of Free Software developers heard in this policy process. </p>Background on the policy<p>The main parliamentary effort in the copyright reform led by the Legal Affairs committee (JURI) will be voted upon in January 2018. However, several other parliamentary committees have issued their opinions on the matter. The most recent one by  the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), <a href="www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&amp;reference=PE-604.830&amp;format=PDF&amp;language=EN&amp;secondRef=02">proposes</a> to remove the most harmful provisions from Article 13, which means:</p>
			no to upload filters;
			no to general monitoring obligation to actively seek for any possible copyright infringement on their platforms.
		<p>As a result, the LIBE opinion goes in the right direction to make sure that no content, including source code, is taken down because of 'potential' copyright infringement decided by the arbitrary filters. While LIBE's vote did not reject the harmful Article 13 as a whole, it still sends a clear message to the rest of the European Parliament that there is no place for arbitrary code filters when it comes to sharing Free Software online.</p><p>While European Parliament's main negotiating position regarding the EU copyright directive is yet to come, the co-legislator EU Council consisting of the EU member states representatives, however, seems to be taking a completely diverging direction, evident from their revised <a href="data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-14482-2017-INIT/en/pdf">presidency compromise proposal</a> on Article 13. EU Council's compromise proposal reinforces arbitrary removal of works hosted online.</p><p>In particular, the EU council proposal reinforces the European Commission's proposal to oblige online platforms, such as code sharing platforms, to prevent any copyright infringement on their platforms. It explicitly mandates to delete and block any content, including code uploads, as soon as the platform is notified of a potential infringement without any meaningful redress mechanism for users to contest that decision. Furthermore, it makes it an explicit responsibility of a platform to make sure that the same content is not being available elsewhere on the same platform, including for example all other projects that might have incorporated the same source code into their software. As a result any code repository or project can be disabled or taken down from online code hosting services at any time.</p><p>The EU Council's text is even more inconsistent in its proposals. Not only are platforms obliged to pre-block content, but they have to make sure the "preliminarily blocked content"' is made publicly available so the relevant rightsholders can "enforce their rights with regard to infringing works". The proposal mandates at the same time to both pre-block content upon uploading, and to make the same content publicly available simultaneously, in order to expand the number of possible copyright infringers for rightsholders to go after. Only then, platforms cannot be held liable for actions of their users, while demanding mutually exclusive actions from them. As a result, the EU Council's compromise proposal is introducing more legal uncertainty for online platforms and their users when it comes to sharing works online, including software. </p><p>Please <a href="https://fsfe.org/join">become a supporter of the FSFE now</a>, and enable our work!</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Dutch government publishes large project as Free Software
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Dutch government publishes large project as Free Software<p>
The Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
released the source code and documentation of Basisregistratie Personen (BRP), a
100M€ IT system that registers information about inhabitants within the
Netherlands. This comes as a great success for Public Code, and the FSFE
applauds the Dutch government's shift to Free Software.
</p><p>Operation BRP is an IT project by the Dutch government that has been in the
works since 2004. It has cost Dutch taxpayers upwards of 100 million Euros and
has endured three failed attempts at revival, without anything to show for
it. From the outside, it was unclear what exactly was costing taxpayers so much
money with very little information to go on. After the plug had been pulled from
the project earlier this year in July, the former interior minister agreed to
publish the source code under pressure of Parliament, to offer transparency
about the failed project. Secretary of state Knops has now gone beyond that
promise and released the source code as Free Software (a.k.a. Open Source
Software) to the public.</p><p>In 2013, when the first smoke signals showed, the former interior minister
initially wanted to address concerns about the project by providing limited
parts of the source code to a limited amount of people under certain restrictive
conditions. The ministry has since made a complete about-face,
releasing <a href="https://github.com/MinBZK/OperatieBRP">a snapshot of the
(allegedly) full source code and documentation</a> under the terms of the GNU
Affero General Public License, with the development history soon to follow.</p><p>In <a href="https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/brieven/2017/11/10/afschrift-brief-over-openbaarmaking-broncode-brp">a
letter to Dutch municipalities</a> earlier in November, secretary of state Knops
said that he is convinced of the need of an even playing field for all parties,
and that he intends to "let the publication happen under open source
terms". He went on to say: "What has been realised in operation BRP
has namely been financed with public funds. Software that is built on top of
this source code should in turn be available to the public again."</p><p>These statements are an echo of the Free Software Foundation
Europe's <a href="https://publiccode.eu/">Public Money, Public Code</a>
campaign, in which we implore public administrations to release software funded
by the public as Free Software available to the citizenry that paid for it.</p><p>The echoes of 'Public Money, Public Code' do not stop
there. In <a href="https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/kamerstukken/2017/11/29/kamerbrief-over-openbaarmaking-meest-recente-versie-broncode-brp">a
letter to the Dutch parliament</a> Wednesday 29 November, the secretary of state
writes about the AGPL: "The license terms assure that changes to the source code
are also made publicly available. In this way, reuse is further supported. The
AGPL offers the best guarantee for this, and besides the GPL (General Public
License), sees a lot of use and support in the open source community.</p><p>"Publication will happen free of charge so that, in the public interest,
an even playing field is created for everyone who wants to reuse this
code."</p><p>This is big news from the Netherlands and an unprecedented move of
transparency by the Dutch
government. Following <a href="https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2017/10/11/onderzoek-open-source-software">a
report</a> to the Ministry of the Interior about publishing government software
as Free Software (Open Source Software), it seems that this will happen more
often. In it, Free Software is described as making the government more
transparent, lowering costs, increasing innovation, forming the foundation for a
digital participation society, and increasing the quality of code.</p><p>"We applaud the Dutch government for releasing the source code
for BRP.  We have been asking for this method of working since 2001, and it is
good to see that the government is finally taking steps towards Free Software.
In the future, we hope that the source code will be released during an earlier
stage of development, which we believe in this case would have brought issues to
light sooner", says Maurice Verheesen, coordinator FSFE Netherlands.</p><p>If you like our campaign "Public Money, Public Code",
please <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate">become a supporter today</a> to enable
our work!</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Yearly Report 2017
uri: FSFE-Yearly-Report-2017
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171207-01.html
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FSFE Yearly Report 2017<p>
The yearly report of the Free Software Foundation Europe gives you a breakdown
in one document of important things we have done and achieved during the last 12
months. Read on to find out about our activities, the campaigns we have run, the
events we have visited or organised, the groups we have helped, and what
resources we counted on to do it.
</p>
	  <p>Table of content</p>
	    
	      <a href="#done">What we have done in 2017</a>
	      <a href="#number">FSFE's 2017 in numbers</a>
	      <a href="#people">The people behind FSFE</a>
	      <a href="#end">At the end</a>
	    
	What we have done in 2017Public Money, Public Code<p>In September, we launched our Public Money, Public Code campaign. The idea is
simple: Software created using taxpayers' money should be available under a free
licence for everybody.</p><p>To drive our campaign, we have set up <a href="https://publiccode.eu/">a
campaign site</a>and published an open letter that everyone can sign to support
our demand. To boost virality and help everyone understand the benefits of
public bodies publishing their source code under free licences, we made a video
(<a href="https://publiccode.eu/#about">Webpage</a> /
<a href="http://download.fsfe.org/videos/pmpc/">Download</a> /
<a href="https://vimeo.com/232524527">Vimeo</a> / <a href="https://youtu.be/iuVUzg6x2yo">YouTube</a>)
explaining the situation. So far it is available in
<a href="https://publiccode.eu/#about">English</a>,
<a href="https://publiccode.eu/de/#about">German</a> and
<a href="https://publiccode.eu/fr/#about">French</a>, with more languages to come.</p>                  
        
        
        
            
                                                        
             <p>This campaign is ongoing and still in its early stages. In fact, we intend to
continue it well into 2019 at least, so as to raise awareness among candidates
for the elections to the European Parliament. At the moment of writing, we have
collected <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/all-signatures/">over 14,000
signatures</a> of our <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter">open
letter</a>. Among the signatories are national
representatives and European Parliament Members, and we have received
<a href="https://publiccodde.eu/#organisations">endorsements from over 100
organisations</a> and prominent players in the IT field, including security
expert Edward Snowden.</p><p>Our goal is to get elected officials to commit to policy and legislations that
make publicly funded software free software by default. To that effect, we
contacted ~1000 candidates for the German Federal Parliament elections and asked
the addressees to "implement legislation requiring that publicly financed
software developed for public sector [...] be made publicly available under a
Free and Open Source Software licence." from the candidates who contacted us that they support our claim, 19 are now members of parliament. Beside that the whole parliamentary group of the
German Green
party <a href="https://www.gruen-digital.de/2017/09/public-money-public-code-wer-es-nicht-glauben-mag-schaue-sich-die-software-zu-den-bundestagswahlen-an/">responded
to our campaign in a public letter</a>, stating their support for our demand.</p><a href="https://publiccode.eu">
        </a>
        <p>We will keep raising awareness for our demand in upcoming elections. To help us, <a href="https://publiccode.eu/#action">sign the open letter</a>
yourself, <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#pmpc">spread the word</a>
about the campaign and <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">increase our funding</a>.</p>Save Code Share<p>A new copyright proposal is currently being discussed by the EU
co-legislators. Part of this proposal is Article 13, an item that will hamper our
ability to collaborate with each other online. Article 13 mandates that all
online hosting service providers must install an upload filter that blocks any
works from being uploaded that may constitute a copyright violation and must monitor
their users as well as actively seek possible copyright infringements. These
fundamentally flawed filtering algorithms will ultimately decide what code
developers should be allowed to share. Beside all the problems upload
filters come with, there are no known filtering technologies that could accurately and
reliably identify whether Free Software code is being shared in accordance with
its terms and conditions.</p><a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">
        </a>
        <p>To combat this legislation, we launched a website
to <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a> in collaboration with
Open Forum Europe. We aim to raise awareness of the topic and work to change the
proposed legislation. We published
a <a href="media/b43fc5cc.hitePaper-ImpactofArticel13onSoftwareEcosystem-SaveCodeShare.pdf" data-original-source="https://savecodeshare.eu/static/assets/WhitePaper-ImpactofArticel13onSoftwareEcosystem-SaveCodeShare.pdf">white
paper</a> to explain Article 13's impact on free software developers and
communities, and an <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Open Letter</a> that has already been
signed by more than 6000 individuals, organisations and companies.</p><p>While the European Parliament prepares to vote on its main negotiating
position regarding the EU copyright directive proposal in the beginning of 2018,
several parliamentary committees have already issued their opinions on Article
13. Together with Open Forum Europe, we put pressure on the vote in Civil
Liberties Committee that rejected the use of upload filters when it comes to
hosting works online. Now, we have to make sure that the main parliamentary
effort takes our concerns into consideration, and rejects Article 13 from its
negotiating position with the co-legislators in the EU Council.</p>REUSE Initiative        <a href="https://reuse.software/"/> <a href="https://reuse.software/">REUSE Initiative</a><a href="https://reuse.software/practices/">best practices for
conveying copyright and licence information</a><p>The website hosts a video (<a href="https://reuse.software/">Webpage</a> /
<a href="http://download.fsfe.org/videos/reuse/">Download</a> /
<a href="https://vimeo.com/241079418">Vimeo</a>) that explains the three simple
steps involved in making a project REUSE compliant. Developers will also find
<a href="https://reuse.software/dev/">extra resources</a>. To demonstrate the ease of
making a project compliant in practice, we host a <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/reuse">number of
repositories]</a> that are REUSE compliant.</p>
<p>
  
    
    
    
    
 </p>
<p>Furthermore, the FSFE is writing and
providing <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/reuse/reuse">a tool that will help
developers</a> make their software REUSE compliant. The goal is to
package the tool into the repositories of the most popular GNU/Linux
distributions, so that the barriers for adoption are as low as possible.</p>                <p>Do you like what we are doing? Then <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/yearlyreport">become a supporter</a> and help us to make a difference in 2018!</p>                10th Legal and Licensing Workshop<p>Free Software licences are just as important as free code. The Free
Software movement would not survive without the legal documents that allow and
enforce software to be freely shared and modified. The Legal and Licensing
Workshop (LLW) is probably the most important Free Software event you have never
heard of. It is aimed at the niche made up by legal experts and professionals
that work with the legal system supporting Free Software.</p><p>In 2017 we held <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/legal-conference.en.html">the
workshop's 10th edition</a> in Barcelona. For us this is a landmark because we
have managed to get the top legal experts from a wide variety of communities,
public institutions and industries travel from all over the world to come
together in an event like no other in the Free Software sector. This year's LLW
compliance track was all about the tools used to enforce licences and how
companies can support them.</p><p>Free Software in public administrations was another important topic discussed
during the event. The aim was to discover ways of how public administrations
could be more transparent and more responsible with the funds when financing the
development of software. The ideas legal professionals walked away with will
deeply affect society as a whole.</p>Fiduciary Licence Agreement 2.0<p>The FSFE acknowledges that the licensing of code has been well served by Free
Software licences, but managing rights and content within a project over long
periods of time is still a complex issue. To fix this, the FSFE has drafted the
Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA), a well-balanced contributor agreement which
gives the trustee, responsible for managing the rights within a Free Software
project, power and responsibility to make sure the contributed software always
remains free and open. This ensures that the project, together with all the respective
contributors, are protected against any misuse of power by a new copyright
holder.</p><p>This year we have <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171013-01">updated the Fiduciary
Licence Agreement (FLA) to version 2.0</a> which now also covers patents, and
has been reworded to be compatible with more jurisdictions and to be easier to
read.</p><p>We have joined forces with <a href="http://contributoragreements.org">ContributorAgreements.org</a>
and integrated the FLA-2.0 into its Copyright Licensing Agreement (CLA)
chooser/generator. This makes the use of the FLA easier both for projects
and for developers</p>

        <img src="media/4bfbc57a.20170610-R2D2-with-IloveFS-at-FSFE-booth.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/20170610-R2D2-with-IloveFS-at-FSFE-booth.jpg"/>

                <p>FLA 2.0 makes it easier to ensure that contributed software always remains free.</p>        

        European Free Software Policy Meeting<p>Apart from travelling with our booth to the community's favourite event, the
day before the opening of FOSDEM, we hosted the second European Free Software
Policy Meeting. We met with Sebastian Raible, parliamentary assistant to Julia
Reda, MP of the EU for the German Pirate party; Pierre Damas, Head of Sector,
Digital Services at the Directorate General of Information Technologies of the
European Commission; Jaana Sahk-Labi from the Estonian Permanent Representation
to the EU; Laurent Joubert from the French government; and members of other Free
Software advocating organisations.</p><p>Together we discussed the progress of the Free and Open Source Software Audit
(or FOSSA) programme, some of the Commission's plans for updating its Open
Source Software Strategy, and national projects to promote Free Software in
public administration and businesses.</p>Ask your candidates<p>The FSFE's community participated in  the political campaigns during the Dutch
general elections, the state of North-Rhine Westphalia as well as the German
federal elections.</p><p>Our team from the Netherlands developed <a href="https://freedomvote.nl/">freedomvote.nl</a> to give voters
orientation on internet policies and Free Software. A similar tool was developed
by the FSFE together with a "Free Knowledge Coalition" for the German
federal elections;
the <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170829-01">"Digital-o-Mat"</a>. This tool made it into the news of multiple national media agencies as well as
the public television and attracted tens of thousands of visitors to inform
themselves about internet policy topics and Free Software.We also <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170905-01">asked political parties
in the German elections</a> about their position on Free Software in our
"Ask your candidates" campaign-framework.</p><a href="https://digital-o-mat.de/">
        </a>
        <p>Do you like what we are doing? Then <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/yearlyreport">become a supporter</a> and help us to make a difference in 2018!</p>New git hosting service: git.fsfe.org<p>Sharing knowledge and collaboration are two of the  core principle in the Free Software society. To encourage both, This
year, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170616-01.html">the FSFE opened
a Git hosting service</a> for our supporters with Gitea as a web
interface.</p><p>By visiting <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/">git.fsfe.org</a>, you can share
and collaborate on a platform that fully respects your freedoms. Using the
graphical web interface, you can open issue reports for bugs or feature
requests. git.fsfe.org can host individual projects; complex multi-project
repositories for organisations, or act as a mirror for another Git repository
hosted elsewhere, like on GitHub or GitLab.</p> 

        <img src="media/5836466b.201708-SHA-village-freedombox-installfest-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/201708-SHA-village-freedombox-installfest-800px.jpg"/>

                <p>FreedomBox Install Fest in the FSFE Village during SHA 2017.</p>        

        Investigate Europe<p>We supported a network of journalists to
uncover <a href="http://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/new-investigation-europes-dire-dependency-on-microsoft/">the
degree at which Europe's public infrastructure is dependent on proprietary
software from one single provider: Microsoft</a>. Published in 13 newspapers,
magazines and online media outlets in nine different languages, the report laid
bare how one company has a stranglehold on our public institutions and the
negative impact this has on our budgets and freedoms. The FSFE provided the
investigative journalists with leads, data and testimonials we had accumulated
over years and that served as the backbone to the story.</p>LiMux: A Lighthouse goes Dark<p>This year Munich's new mayor, Dieter Reiter, a self-confessed "fan of
Microsoft", went out of his way to undermine the work carried out by the
administration to migrate away from their proprietary IT framework and pushed
for a return to proprietary software on all levels. The FSFE president Matthias
Kirschner explained the background to this decision in several talks, for
example <a href="http://k7r.eu/recording-for-limux-the-loss-of-a-lightouse/">at
the openSUSE Conference 2017 in May</a>, with the intent of spreading insight
and awareness to other organisations and Free Software advocates.</p><p>Along with The Document Foundation, KDE, and OSBA, we campaigned to keep
Free Software in the city of Munich. We reached out to all members of the city
council prior to the public hearing and we sent a call for action to our German
speaking supporters, asking them to get in contact with politicians. The
reaction was phenomenal. During the public hearing, politicians quoted some of
our questions, and said that they had never received as much input from citizens
and the press before. Unfortunately, all this public pressure did not alter their decision to transition away from LiMux, Microsoft Exchange had been phased in during the talks, and the decision to switch back to proprietary software has been taken.</p><a href="https://publiccode.eu"> 

        </a>

                <p>Taking the "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign out onto the streets of Berlin.</p>        

        <p>Although this is sad to see, we should use this as an opportunity to evaluate the LiMux case, and see what we -- as the Free Software Community can learn from it -- for future migrations in the public administration. In his talks <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/737818/">Matthias raised questions to support an evaluation by the Free Software community</a>.</p>               <p>Do you like what we are doing? Then <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/yearlyreport">become a supporter</a> and help us to make a difference in 2018!</p>                FSFE's 2017 in numbers<p>Having precise data will help you visualise what resources we use to carry
out our activities. With that in mind, the next section reduces FSFE's 2017 to
figures and numbers. (As a sidenote: A lot of the data in this section, for
example the number from our budget, refers to 2016 because it only became
available when 2016 was over, that is, in 2017.)</p>Booth, events and PR<p>The FSFE has attended <a href="https://fsfe.org/events/events">no less than
75 events in the last twelve months</a>. The events we attended were of all
sizes, from meetups organised by local Free Software groups, to big fairs set up
by public institutions and industries, to outdoor non-profit camps. Many take
our representatives all over Europe and, in the last year, the FSFE has attended
events in 11 countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy,
France, Spain, Albania, Austria, Sweden, Portugal, Belgium, Greece and the
USA. Apart from speaking and listening to others speak, we also set up our booth
at 15 venues.</p><img src="media/286cf88d.20170807-village-and-team-at-SHA2017-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/20170807-village-and-team-at-SHA2017-800px.jpg"/>                                      <p>The FSFE village during SHA Camp 2017 in the Netherlands.</p>                                          <p>At our booth you can also get <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html">stickers, flyers and balloons</a>. These promote
Free Software, warn about clouds, advise on using free formats, and so on. In
fact, you don't have to visit our booth to get your hands on these goodies: you
can ask us yourself for a boxful
for <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html">your own event at
no cost</a>. In the last 12 months we have sent out 233 boxes for the
recipient. Since we are talking about rather big boxes, this amounts to
literally thousands of stickers, flyers and other goodies.</p><a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html">
        </a>

        Budget<p>In 2017 we got the final data for the 2016 budget and can reveal now that,
over the last four
years, <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.html">FSFE's income came to
between 350,000 and 450,000 euros</a>, but in 2016 the amount went up to
nearly <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/2016.html">650,000 euros</a>, which
was a nice surprise. That is over a 45% increase with regard to 2015. Most of
the growth can be attributed to extraordinary donations from our generous
sponsors (up by over 83%), including an inheritance from a person who wants to
stay anonymous, but the supporters contributions have also increased and have
done so every year, not even flagging in the worst of the economic crisis.</p><p>That said, at the FSFE we try to be as a frugal as possible and, although
costs went up a bit in 2016, the increase didn't reach 9% with regard to
2015. The biggest costs in 2016 were in our efforts to increase public
awareness, where we spent 142,965 euros; our basic infrastructure costs that includes among other things 
our personell and office costs for management and administration where we spent 130,082 euros and our legal 
work where we spent 117,336 euros.</p><a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.html"> 

        </a>

                <p>FSFE's costs in recent years.</p>        

        <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.html"> 

        </a>

                <p>FSFE's revenues in recent years.</p>        

        <p>Proportionally, the biggest growth in costs happened in the Merchandising
department, which grew 16%, from 32,142 euros in 2015 to 37,464 euros in
2016. This is in line with the amount of merchandising we gave and sold to our
friends and followers, which increased by 13% from 2015. This is good news,
since, as our main aim for merchandising is to spread our message as far and
wide as possible, this shows that year after year, the number of people that are
made aware of our campaigns and activities grows.</p><p>Our best selling garment is without a
doubt <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order#tshirt-nocloud-black">the black
"There is no cloud..." T-shirt</a>. So far in 2017 we have sold 450 of
this smart and relevant item of clothing. But clothes are far from the only kind
of <a href="https://fsfe.org/order">merchandising the FSFE distributes</a>.</p>




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The people behind FSFE<p>Beyond events and numbers, FSFE is about the people that make up our
community. In this sections we would like to introduce you to our comunity and
some of our members that too often don't get all the credit they deserve.</p>

        <img src="media/990dbc16.20161125-community-meeting-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/20161125-community-meeting-800px.jpg"/>

                <p>Attendees of FSFE community meeting 2017.</p>        

                      <p>Do you like what we are doing? Then <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/yearlyreport">become a supporter</a> and help us to make a difference in 2018!</p>                Our community<p>There are 5 full time employees at the FSFE: Ulrike Sliwinski is our Office
Manager and the person you are most likely to talk to if your phone our office;
Polina Malaja is the coordinator of the legal team and our Policy
Analyst; Erik Albers is our communications and community coordinator; Jonas
Öberg is the FSFE's executive director; and, finally, there's Matthias Kirschner
who is the president. We also employ 1 part-time employee: Max Mehl, who is our
program manager and deputy coordinator of translations. This team is joined
by <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#interns">interns</a> for three or more
months to work on specific projects and help out in general as well as
occasional contractors for specific tasks. This year our interns have been: Olga
Gkotsopoulou, Fernando Sanjurjo, Erik da Silva, Jonke Suhr, Carmen Bianca Bakker
and Kristi Progri.</p><p>The <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#council">Executive Council</a> is
the body that actually executes the wishes of the members. Currently, there are
4 members in the Council: Matthias Kirschner (President), Jonas Öberg (Executive
Director), Patrick Ohnewein (Financial Officer) and Heiki Lõhmus (Vice President
and Translations Coordinator).</p><p>The <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#general-assembly">FSFE's formal
members</a> are responsible for planning, budgeting, setting the agenda and
electing and recalling of the Executive Council and the Financial
Officer. During 2017, we counted on 28 members, including the the 2 prior
presidents, Georg Greve and Karsten Gerloff, and the 4 members of the Executive
Council.</p><p>Then we have <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#eu-core-team">our European
Core Team</a>, consisting of the formal members plus another 15 individuals from
all over Europe, and they are the people that carry out the day-to-day tasks of
the organisation on a voluntary or paid basis on core issues and coordinate the
many volunteers that support Free Software.</p><p>Finally we have the all important supporters. Supporters are sympathisers
that have decided to officially support the FSFE
by <a href="https://fsfe.org/join">joining our supporter program</a>. During
2017 we surpassed the 1,600 mark and now have supporters in more than 40
countries around the world, including most European countries as well as the
Unites States and Australia.</p>Introducing some of our individualsReinhard Müller        <img src="media/b4b23b23.20170203-reinhard-mueller-300px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/20170203-reinhard-mueller-300px.jpg"/> <p>Reinhard is from Lustenau, Vorarlberg, in Austria and has been part of the
FSFE for over more than 10 years. Reinhard has always carried out anonymous,
often ungrateful tasks that don't get much visibility, but, without which, the
FSFE would grind to a halt.</p><p>He started out maintaining the FSFE's website, coordinating the translation
team and taking care of the Fellowship database. Then, from 2007 to 2017, he
took over the financial side as FSFE's official Financial Officer. In that role,
Reinhard has done everything related to managing the Foundation's money, from
okaying invoices, to filing out our taxes.</p><p>However, that hasn't made Reinhard an antisocial hermit, always poring over
dusty books with ink-stained fingers. Quite the contrary: if there is something
Reinhard enjoys more than columns and columns of figures it is direct contact
with people at events. Reinhard loves participating in fairs and tradeshows at
the FSFE booth. Next time you are at Linuxtage or FOSDEM, be sure to come by and
say hello. You may get lucky and witness Reinhard's legendary T-shirt folding
capabilities in action and live. Something worth beholding.</p>Ulrike Sliwinski        <img src="media/71972703.sliwinski.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/about/sliwinski/sliwinski.png"/> <p>But, talking of booth service and merchandise, if there is one person you can
always rely on to get you sweaters and stickers, that is Ulrike. Ulrike joined
the FSFE as an office assistant in 2014 on part-time contract. When we realised
how much she brought to the job, we quickly asked her to become our full time
office manager.</p><p>Ulrike, as Reinhard, carries out tasks that are largely invisible to the
outside world, but without which the FSFE simply wouldn't be able to run. If you
phone the FSFE up for any reason, it will probably be Ulrike who solves your
problem. If you ask for one of our boxes of stickers and flyers for you event,
it is Ulrike who packs it and sends it off.</p><p>Ulrike has been described by some of her colleagues as the
"personification of German efficiency" and as someone who will not
leave a task alone until it is completed to her entire satisfaction. But Ulrike
is also kind, helpful and friendly, making her the perfect host for our office
and booth.</p>André Ockers<p>One of the FSFE's main missions is to raise awareness among the general
public, in companies, in the public sector, and among politicians. Stating the
obvious, the first step towards effectively raising awareness, is putting out
your messages in the language of your target audience.</p><p>That is where people like André come
in. André <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/">translates</a>
most, if not all, FSFE's output into Dutch, and he does so unprompted. André
translated more than 80% of FSFE's site into Dutch, and you can expect him to
have a translation of every news item or press release we put out within eight
hours.</p><p>André represents all of those selfless heroes that year in and year out help
us reach people of all countries in their native languages.</p>At the end<p>We like to send a big big thank you out to our community, all the countless <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">volunteers</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">supporters</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donors</a> who who made the work of FSFE possible in 2017. Your contributions are priceless and we do our best to keep the good work going in 2018.</p><p>If you like what we are doing, <a href="https://fsfe.org/join">join the FSFE as a supporter</a> and help us working for Free Software!</p><p>Your Free Software Foundation Europe</p> 

        <img src="media/010adfc2.20170703-FSFE-team-at-RMLL-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/20170703-FSFE-team-at-RMLL-800px.jpg"/>
                <p>FSFE in action! (Picture CC-BY-SA 2.0 by Julie Missbutterflies)</p>        
        <p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20171207-02.en.xml
title: Open position as office assistant
uri: Open-position-as-office-assistant
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171207-02.html
content:
Open position as office assistant<p>
FSFE is a charity dedicated to keeping the power over technology in your hands. We are working to build freedom in a digital society and operate in a lively environment with volunteers from many countries. We are looking for an assistance supporting the office manager with for instance:
</p><p>

Sending out information material, merchandise-articles and welcome-letters for new supporters
Packing and posting packages for  FSFE’s information-booths
Keeping office and staff’s kitchen tidy

</p>Basic details<p>
Location: FSFE’s office in Berlin (Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin.</p><p>Duration: unlimited, 10 hours per week attending at least twice a week once at beginning of the week and once at the end of the week.</p><p>Compensation: 8,84 € per hour as Minijob</p>Qualifications<p>
Basic knowledge with computers, fluent in English and German.
</p>Application deadline<p>
Please apply by 07.01.2018.
</p>How to apply<p>
Send your application containing a letter of motivation, a CV by e-mail
to contact@fsfe.org. Please make sure to write clearly you apply for
the office assistant position with reference A-2018. We prefer to receive
your documents in PDF format.
</p>Contact persons<p>
If you have any questions about the position or any administrative
details in connection with it, you're welcome to contact:
</p><p>

 Jonas Öberg about the work of the FSFE,
 Ulrike Sliwinski for any questions about the work itself.

</p><p>
Both will be reading and responding if you send your question to the
contact@fsfe.org address. We look forward to reading your application!
</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20171211-01.en.xml
title: Equip yourself for 2018: Get FSFE's new t-shirt celebrating the 100 freedoms of Free Software!
uri: Equip-yourself-for-2018-Get-FSFE-s-new-t-shirt-celebrating-the-100-fr
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171211-01.html
content:
Equip yourself for 2018: Get FSFE's new t-shirt celebrating the 100 freedoms of Free Software!<p>
Wear this t-shirt as an icebreaker to explain binary counting and Free Software
to your friends—and look good doing it!
</p><p>The t-shirts are available in geeky green-on-black and in a softer pink or
orange.  The t-shirts are 100% organic and fair trade.</p><p>Check out the new t-shirts in <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/">our online
shop</a> or at <a href="https://fsfe.org/events/">one of our booths</a>.</p><img src="media/0f002a42.2017-11-18-tshirt-black.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/miscellaneous/2017-11-18-tshirt-black.jpg"/><img src="media/a7cab6d4.2017-11-18-tshirt-pink.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/miscellaneous/2017-11-18-tshirt-pink.jpg"/><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20171212-01.en.xml
title: Radio Lockdown: Current Status of Your Device Freedom
uri: Radio-Lockdown-Current-Status-of-Your-Device-Freedom
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171212-01.html
content:
Radio Lockdown: Current Status of Your Device Freedom<p> For more than two years the Free Software 
Foundation Europe has worked on the issue of <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/">Radio Lockdown</a> introduced by a 
European directive which may hinder users to load software on their 
radio devices like mobile phones, laptops and routers. We have informed 
the public and talked to decision makers to fix critical points of the 
directive. There is still much to do to protect freedom and IT security 
in our radio devices. Read about the latest proceedings and the next 
steps. </p>
  <img src="media/2cd338a1.radiolockdown-cage.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/img/radiolockdown-cage.jpg"/>
<p>In 2014, the European Parliament passed the <a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A32014L0053">Radio 
Equipment Directive</a> which, among other regulations, make vendors of 
radio hardware responsible for preventing users from installing 
software which may alter the devices' radio parameters to break 
applicable radio regulations. While we share the desire to keep radio 
frequencies clean, the directive's approach will have negative 
implications on users' rights and Free Software, fair competition, 
innovation and the environment – mostly without equal benefits for 
security.</p>[R]adio equipment [shall support] certain features in order 
to ensure that software can only be loaded into the radio equipment 
where the compliance of the combination of the radio equipment and 
software has been demonstrated. 
– Article 3(3)(i) of the Radio Equipment Directive 2014/53/EU<p>This concern is shared by more than 50 organisations and businesses 
which signed our <a href="http://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/statement.html">Joint Statement 
against Radio Lockdown</a>, a result of our ongoing exchange and 
cooperation with the Free Software community in Europe and beyond.</p><p>The Radio Equipment Directive was put in effect in June 2017, but 
the classes of devices affected by the controversial Article 3(3)(i), 
which causes the Radio Lockdown, have not yet been defined. This means 
the directive doesn't concern any existing hardware yet. The definition 
of what hardware devices are covered will be decided on by the European 
Commission through a delegated act and is expected to be finished at 
the earliest by the end of 2018.</p>
The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance 
with Article 44 specifying which categories or classes of radio 
equipment are concerned by each of the requirements [...] 
– Article 3(3), paragraph 2 of 2014/53/EU
<p>However, that list is already being prepared in the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&amp;groupID=3413">Expert 
Group on Reconfigurable Radio Systems</a>, a body of member state 
authorities, organisations, and individuals whose task is to assist the 
European Commission with drafting the delegated acts to activate 
Article 3(3)(i). The FSFE applied to become a member of this committee 
but was rejected. The concerns that the members of the Expert Group do 
not sufficiently represent the civil society and the broad range of 
software users has also been raised during a <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/committees/video?event=20171121-1430-COMMITTEE-IMCO">recent 
meeting in the European Parliament</a>.</p><p>Nevertheless, we are working together with organisations and 
companies to protect user freedoms on radio devices and keep in touch 
with members of the expert group. For example, we have shared our 
expertise for case studies and impact assessments drafted by the group 
members. We are also looking forward to a public consultation phase to 
officially present our arguments and improvement suggestions and allow 
other entities to share their opinion.</p><p>All our activities aim to protect Free Software and user rights on 
current and future radio devices. This is more important than ever 
since only a few members of the expert group seem to understand the 
importance of loading software on radio devices for IT security, for 
example critical updates on hardware which is not or only sporadically 
maintained by the original vendor. We will continue our efforts to make 
decision makers understand that Free Software (a.k.a. Open Source 
Software) is crucial for network security, science, education, and 
technical innovation. Therefore, broad exceptions in the class 
definition are necessary.</p><p>Conducting such lengthy policy activities requires a lot of 
resources for non-profit organisations like the FSFE. Please consider 
helping us by joining as an <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">individual supporter 
today</a> or a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate">corporate donor</a> to enable our 
work.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2017___news-20171219-01.en.xml
title: FSFE releases refreshed set of REUSE practices and a tool to help developers comply
uri: FSFE-releases-refreshed-set-of-REUSE-practices-and-a-tool-to-help-deve
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171219-01.html
content:
FSFE releases refreshed set of REUSE practices and a tool to help developers comply<p>
    The REUSE Initiative has received an updated set of practices that simplify
    the process of declaring copyright and licence information.  To help
    facilitate developers with updating their projects, the FSFE has also
    published a tool that verifies whether a project is compliant.
  </p>
    <a href="https://reuse.software/">
      
    </a>
  <p>
    Copyright and licensing is difficult.  Finding out the exact copyright and
    licence of a piece of code is often times more difficult than it should be.
    Missing or scattered licence information makes it very labour-intensive to
    verify whether you can legally use a piece of code.  For a thorough legal
    review, you have to manually check every file for licence information, and
    every file has a different way of declaring its copyright and licence.
  </p><p>
    But what if we could automate this?  That is what
    the <a href="https://reuse.software/">REUSE Initiative</a> postulates.  By
    defining a standard for copyright and licence declaration, the legal process
    of complying with licences becomes a lot easier.  Simply include a standard,
    computer-readable header tag to every file, and extracting the licence
    information should be as simple as running a parser.
  </p><p>
    Earlier in October, we released a set of practices towards that end.  Now,
    we have <a href="https://reuse.software/practices/2.0/">updated those
    practices</a> to streamline them some.  To accompany the streamlined
    changes, we have published
    <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/reuse/reuse">a tool</a> for developers to
    check whether they comply with our recommendations.
  </p><p>
    The primary change between the old version and the new is that you no longer
    need to declare two tags; only one.  'License-Filename' has been deprecated,
    and instead its functionality has been rolled into
    'SPDX-License-Identifier'.  This is more in line with existing projects, and
    is less effort to boot.
  </p><p>
    Complying with the REUSE recommendations is very simple.  Why not give it a
    spin?  We would love to hear from you.
  </p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___nl___nl-201712.en.xml
title: FSFE Newsletter - December 2017 / January 2018
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-December-2017-January-2018
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201712.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter - December 2017 / January 20182017: A year full of Free Software<p>The Free Software Foundation Europe looks back on a very exciting year. While on one hand we managed to take our regular campaigns like <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170315-01">I love Free Software</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170829-01">Ask Your Candidates</a> to a new level with extraordinary activities, we also started three new major activities this year that will keep running in 2018 and beyond. These are <a href="http://publiccode.eu/">Public Money Public Code</a>, <a href="http://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a> and the <a href="http://reuse.software/">Reuse Initiative</a>. </p><p>In the legal field we held the <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/legal-conference">10th Legal and Licensing Workshop</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171013-01">updated the Fiduciary Licence Agreement</a> to version 2.0. In the technical field, we set up <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs">new tools for our community</a> and (co-)developed <a href="https://github.com/freedomvote/freedomvote">new tools for our campaigns</a>. All of them are Free Software, of course.</p><p>2017 was also a very good year for our outreach. Our community attended 75 events in 11 countries with talks, workshops and booths. In our Berlin office we have welcomed six interns from six different European countries, and our message keeps spreading with new <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/">merchandise items</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword">promotional material</a>. </p><p>As a result of our joint efforts, we have seen growth in many sectors: in funds, in media attention, and in our community, with the latter being the most important point. The Free Software Foundation Europe could not pursue its mission without the people that make up our community and spread our message. This is a big thank you to all of you:  the countless volunteers, supporters and donors who were part of or who made the work of FSFE possible in 2017. Your contributions are priceless and we are doing our best to keep the good work going in 2018!</p><p>If you are interested in more details about our activities in 2017, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171207-01">read our yearly report</a>. If you like what we are doing, <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2017-12">join the FSFE as a supporter</a> and help us to continue our work for Free Software!</p>
			<img src="media/77ba88a1.20171125-community-meeting-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/20171125-community-meeting-800px.jpg"/>
			<p>Participants at the FSFE community meeting 2017.</p>
		<p><a href="httpsfsfeorgjoinnl201712">Help us grow and make a difference in 2018</a> </p>What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE
Part of a new copyright proposal currently discussed by the European Union is Article 13, which imposes the installation of arbitrary upload filters on every code hosting and sharing provider. Together with over 80 organisations, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171130-01">the FSFE called the EU member states to reject the harmful Article 13</a> and to <a href="http://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a>.

The Dutch government released the source code and documentation of "Basisregistratie Personen", a 100 million Euro IT system that registers information about inhabitants within the Netherlands. The FSFE <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171206-01">applauds the Dutch government's move</a> towards releasing publicly financed code as Free Software. 

Max Mehl, project manager of the FSFE, explains the <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171212-01">current status of the FSFE's work on proposed European Radio Lockdown</a>. While the FSFE was not accepted as member of committee, which assists the European Commission with drafting the delegated acts, we keep raising our demand to save users' rights and Free Software, backed by more than 50 civil society organisations.

The FSFE submitted its <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/2017/12/13/fsfe-asks-to-include-software-into-the-list-of-re-usable-public-sector-information/">response to the public consultation on the Directive on the re-use of public sector information</a>. In our response we argue that source code needs to be added to the list of 'documents' that governments and other public bodies need to make available for re-use in an open and machine readable format. When it comes to <a href="http://publiccode.eu/">publicly financed software, it should be released to the public under Free Software licences</a>.

Thanks to April, the French Free Software association, we now have a <a href="https://www.april.org/version-audio-francaise-de-la-video-argent-public-code-public">French translation of our "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign video</a>.

Erik Albers wrote a report of the FSFE's community meeting and the common spirit with some pictures (http://blog.3rik.cc/2017/12/report-about-the-fsfe-community-meeting-2017/)

Earlier this year, after a public consultation, we took the decision to change the name of our supporter program, the Fellowship of the FSFE, and talk about our supporters by their true name: Supporters. At the same time as we're completing this change, we're also <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171116-01">decommissioning our old Fellowship SmartCard in favor of a brand new FSFE supporter patch</a>.

Matthias Kirschner, President of the FSFE, <a href="https://k7r.eu/2-percent-discussion-free-software-or-open-source-software/">argues in a blogpost</a> as a reply to Scott Peterson from Red Hat, that the terms "Open Source Software" and "Free Software" are referring to the same kind of software but only differ in their emphasis. And that it is challenging to impossible and maybe even unnecessary to find a "neutral" term.

Jonas Öberg, Executive Director of the FSFE, <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/introducing-forms/">introduces the FSFE's forms API in a blogpost</a>, a way to send emails and manage sign-ups on web pages used in the FSFE community.

Daniel Pocock, community representative of the FSFE, <a href="https://danielpocock.com/hacking-with-posters-and-stickers">shared a picture of the fixme.ch hackerspace</a> in Lausanne which promotes the FSFE. 

Michael Kappes blogs about a group of supporters from the Berlin local FSFE group who <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/majestyx/2017/11/03/fsfe-berlin-goes-fiff-konferenz-2017/">went to the FIfF-Konferenz in Jena to set up a booth for the FSFE</a>.

Björn Schiessle, German team co-coordinator, blogs about how to achieve practical <a href="https://www.schiessle.org/articles/2017/11/14/software-freedom-in-the-cloud/">software freedom in the cloud</a>.

We welcome our new <a href="https://fsfe.org/associates/associates">associate</a>: <a href="https://openlabs.cc/en/">Open Labs</a>, Albania

FSFE has <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171211-01">a new t-shirt celebrating the 100 freedoms of Free Software</a>. Also, we have a lot of other nice shirts and merchandise in <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/">our online shop</a> - for Christmas or for any other reason.

Thanks to our growing community and the big demand by people around the world to spread the word about the FSFE and Free Software, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171207-02">we are looking for an office assistant as a part-time job</a> to help us with packing and posting. 

In 2018, again, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171114-01">we are looking for students who can join our team in Berlin</a> for three months or more as a mandatory part of their studies or before graduation.
Do not miss it! Upcoming events with the FSFE<p>As in recent years, the FSFE will be present with an <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe">FSFE assembly at the Chaos Communication Congress</a>, one of the biggest technology related events in Europe. The assembly will be equipped with current merchandise and promotional material, run a Free Software track, invite people to play a Free Software game or to join us in several Free Software song sing-along sessions. After all, the assembly shall be a place for our community to get together and connect with each other. If you are attending Chaos Communication Congress too, use this opportunity to meet and get to know the people behind FSFE, including volunteers and staffers.</p><p>As usual, find all the other future events with or by the FSFE <a href="https://fsfe.org/events/events">listed on our events page</a>.</p>Get Active<p>Use the vacation time to <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171207-01">read our yearly report</a> and share it among your friends. Let people know about the importance of Free Software and why they should care about it. Tell them that people around the world form communities with the aim to bring technological freedom, transparency, knowledge and emancipation to everyone. <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword">Spread the word</a> about the four freedoms and if possible, help others to exercise their freedoms too. 
<a href="http://fsfe.org/join">Join our cause</a>.</p>Contribute to our newsletter<p>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!</p><p>Thanks to our community, all the <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">volunteers</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">supporters</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donors</a> who make our work possible. And thanks to <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators">our translators</a>, who enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.</p><p>Your editor,
   Erik Albers</p><p><a href="httpsfsfeorgjoinnl201712">Help us grow and make a difference in 2018</a> </p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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FSFE Yearly Report 2017<p>
The yearly report of the Free Software Foundation Europe gives you a breakdown
in one document of important things we have done and achieved during the last 12
months. Read on to find out about our activities, the campaigns we have run, the
events we have visited or organised, the groups we have helped, and what
resources we counted on to do it.
</p>
	  <p>Table of content</p>
	    
	      <a href="#done">What we have done in 2017</a>
	      <a href="#number">FSFE's 2017 in numbers</a>
	      <a href="#people">The people behind FSFE</a>
	      <a href="#end">At the end</a>
	    
	What we have done in 2017Public Money, Public Code<p>In September, we launched our Public Money, Public Code campaign. The idea is
simple: Software created using taxpayers' money should be available under a free
licence for everybody.</p><p>To drive our campaign, we have set up <a href="https://publiccode.eu/">a
campaign site</a>and published an open letter that everyone can sign to support
our demand. To boost virality and help everyone understand the benefits of
public bodies publishing their source code under free licences, we made a video
(<a href="https://publiccode.eu/#about">Webpage</a> /
<a href="http://download.fsfe.org/videos/pmpc/">Download</a> /
<a href="https://vimeo.com/232524527">Vimeo</a> / <a href="https://youtu.be/iuVUzg6x2yo">YouTube</a>)
explaining the situation. So far it is available in
<a href="https://publiccode.eu/#about">English</a>,
<a href="https://publiccode.eu/de/#about">German</a> and
<a href="https://publiccode.eu/fr/#about">French</a>, with more languages to come.</p>                  
        
        
        
            
                                                        
             <p>This campaign is ongoing and still in its early stages. In fact, we intend to
continue it well into 2019 at least, so as to raise awareness among candidates
for the elections to the European Parliament. At the moment of writing, we have
collected <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/all-signatures/">over 14,000
signatures</a> of our <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter">open
letter</a>. Among the signatories are national
representatives and European Parliament Members, and we have received
<a href="https://publiccodde.eu/#organisations">endorsements from over 100
organisations</a> and prominent players in the IT field, including security
expert Edward Snowden.</p><p>Our goal is to get elected officials to commit to policy and legislations that
make publicly funded software free software by default. To that effect, we
contacted ~1000 candidates for the German Federal Parliament elections and asked
the addressees to "implement legislation requiring that publicly financed
software developed for public sector [...] be made publicly available under a
Free and Open Source Software licence." from the candidates who contacted us that they support our claim, 19 are now members of parliament. Beside that the whole parliamentary group of the
German Green
party <a href="https://www.gruen-digital.de/2017/09/public-money-public-code-wer-es-nicht-glauben-mag-schaue-sich-die-software-zu-den-bundestagswahlen-an/">responded
to our campaign in a public letter</a>, stating their support for our demand.</p><a href="https://publiccode.eu">
        </a>
        <p>We will keep raising awareness for our demand in upcoming elections. To help us, <a href="https://publiccode.eu/#action">sign the open letter</a>
yourself, <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#pmpc">spread the word</a>
about the campaign and <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">increase our funding</a>.</p>Save Code Share<p>A new copyright proposal is currently being discussed by the EU
co-legislators. Part of this proposal is Article 13, an item that will hamper our
ability to collaborate with each other online. Article 13 mandates that all
online hosting service providers must install an upload filter that blocks any
works from being uploaded that may constitute a copyright violation and must monitor
their users as well as actively seek possible copyright infringements. These
fundamentally flawed filtering algorithms will ultimately decide what code
developers should be allowed to share. Beside all the problems upload
filters come with, there are no known filtering technologies that could accurately and
reliably identify whether Free Software code is being shared in accordance with
its terms and conditions.</p><a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">
        </a>
        <p>To combat this legislation, we launched a website
to <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a> in collaboration with
Open Forum Europe. We aim to raise awareness of the topic and work to change the
proposed legislation. We published
a <a href="media/b43fc5cc.hitePaper-ImpactofArticel13onSoftwareEcosystem-SaveCodeShare.pdf" data-original-source="https://savecodeshare.eu/static/assets/WhitePaper-ImpactofArticel13onSoftwareEcosystem-SaveCodeShare.pdf">white
paper</a> to explain Article 13's impact on free software developers and
communities, and an <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Open Letter</a> that has already been
signed by more than 6000 individuals, organisations and companies.</p><p>While the European Parliament prepares to vote on its main negotiating
position regarding the EU copyright directive proposal in the beginning of 2018,
several parliamentary committees have already issued their opinions on Article
13. Together with Open Forum Europe, we put pressure on the vote in Civil
Liberties Committee that rejected the use of upload filters when it comes to
hosting works online. Now, we have to make sure that the main parliamentary
effort takes our concerns into consideration, and rejects Article 13 from its
negotiating position with the co-legislators in the EU Council.</p>REUSE Initiative        <a href="https://reuse.software/"/> <a href="https://reuse.software/">REUSE Initiative</a><a href="https://reuse.software/practices/">best practices for
conveying copyright and licence information</a><p>The website hosts a video (<a href="https://reuse.software/">Webpage</a> /
<a href="http://download.fsfe.org/videos/reuse/">Download</a> /
<a href="https://vimeo.com/241079418">Vimeo</a>) that explains the three simple
steps involved in making a project REUSE compliant. Developers will also find
<a href="https://reuse.software/dev/">extra resources</a>. To demonstrate the ease of
making a project compliant in practice, we host a <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/reuse">number of
repositories]</a> that are REUSE compliant.</p>
<p>
  
    
    
    
    
 </p>
<p>Furthermore, the FSFE is writing and
providing <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/reuse/reuse">a tool that will help
developers</a> make their software REUSE compliant. The goal is to
package the tool into the repositories of the most popular GNU/Linux
distributions, so that the barriers for adoption are as low as possible.</p>                <p>Do you like what we are doing? Then <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/yearlyreport">become a supporter</a> and help us to make a difference in 2018!</p>                10th Legal and Licensing Workshop<p>Free Software licences are just as important as free code. The Free
Software movement would not survive without the legal documents that allow and
enforce software to be freely shared and modified. The Legal and Licensing
Workshop (LLW) is probably the most important Free Software event you have never
heard of. It is aimed at the niche made up by legal experts and professionals
that work with the legal system supporting Free Software.</p><p>In 2017 we held <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/legal-conference.en.html">the
workshop's 10th edition</a> in Barcelona. For us this is a landmark because we
have managed to get the top legal experts from a wide variety of communities,
public institutions and industries travel from all over the world to come
together in an event like no other in the Free Software sector. This year's LLW
compliance track was all about the tools used to enforce licences and how
companies can support them.</p><p>Free Software in public administrations was another important topic discussed
during the event. The aim was to discover ways of how public administrations
could be more transparent and more responsible with the funds when financing the
development of software. The ideas legal professionals walked away with will
deeply affect society as a whole.</p>Fiduciary Licence Agreement 2.0<p>The FSFE acknowledges that the licensing of code has been well served by Free
Software licences, but managing rights and content within a project over long
periods of time is still a complex issue. To fix this, the FSFE has drafted the
Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA), a well-balanced contributor agreement which
gives the trustee, responsible for managing the rights within a Free Software
project, power and responsibility to make sure the contributed software always
remains free and open. This ensures that the project, together with all the respective
contributors, are protected against any misuse of power by a new copyright
holder.</p><p>This year we have <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171013-01">updated the Fiduciary
Licence Agreement (FLA) to version 2.0</a> which now also covers patents, and
has been reworded to be compatible with more jurisdictions and to be easier to
read.</p><p>We have joined forces with <a href="http://contributoragreements.org">ContributorAgreements.org</a>
and integrated the FLA-2.0 into its Copyright Licensing Agreement (CLA)
chooser/generator. This makes the use of the FLA easier both for projects
and for developers</p>

        <img src="media/4bfbc57a.20170610-R2D2-with-IloveFS-at-FSFE-booth.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/20170610-R2D2-with-IloveFS-at-FSFE-booth.jpg"/>

                <p>FLA 2.0 makes it easier to ensure that contributed software always remains free.</p>        

        European Free Software Policy Meeting<p>Apart from travelling with our booth to the community's favourite event, the
day before the opening of FOSDEM, we hosted the second European Free Software
Policy Meeting. We met with Sebastian Raible, parliamentary assistant to Julia
Reda, MP of the EU for the German Pirate party; Pierre Damas, Head of Sector,
Digital Services at the Directorate General of Information Technologies of the
European Commission; Jaana Sahk-Labi from the Estonian Permanent Representation
to the EU; Laurent Joubert from the French government; and members of other Free
Software advocating organisations.</p><p>Together we discussed the progress of the Free and Open Source Software Audit
(or FOSSA) programme, some of the Commission's plans for updating its Open
Source Software Strategy, and national projects to promote Free Software in
public administration and businesses.</p>Ask your candidates<p>The FSFE's community participated in  the political campaigns during the Dutch
general elections, the state of North-Rhine Westphalia as well as the German
federal elections.</p><p>Our team from the Netherlands developed <a href="https://freedomvote.nl/">freedomvote.nl</a> to give voters
orientation on internet policies and Free Software. A similar tool was developed
by the FSFE together with a "Free Knowledge Coalition" for the German
federal elections;
the <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170829-01">"Digital-o-Mat"</a>. This tool made it into the news of multiple national media agencies as well as
the public television and attracted tens of thousands of visitors to inform
themselves about internet policy topics and Free Software.We also <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170905-01">asked political parties
in the German elections</a> about their position on Free Software in our
"Ask your candidates" campaign-framework.</p><a href="https://digital-o-mat.de/">
        </a>
        <p>Do you like what we are doing? Then <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/yearlyreport">become a supporter</a> and help us to make a difference in 2018!</p>New git hosting service: git.fsfe.org<p>Sharing knowledge and collaboration are two of the  core principle in the Free Software society. To encourage both, This
year, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170616-01.html">the FSFE opened
a Git hosting service</a> for our supporters with Gitea as a web
interface.</p><p>By visiting <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/">git.fsfe.org</a>, you can share
and collaborate on a platform that fully respects your freedoms. Using the
graphical web interface, you can open issue reports for bugs or feature
requests. git.fsfe.org can host individual projects; complex multi-project
repositories for organisations, or act as a mirror for another Git repository
hosted elsewhere, like on GitHub or GitLab.</p> 

        <img src="media/5836466b.201708-SHA-village-freedombox-installfest-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/201708-SHA-village-freedombox-installfest-800px.jpg"/>

                <p>FreedomBox Install Fest in the FSFE Village during SHA 2017.</p>        

        Investigate Europe<p>We supported a network of journalists to
uncover <a href="http://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/new-investigation-europes-dire-dependency-on-microsoft/">the
degree at which Europe's public infrastructure is dependent on proprietary
software from one single provider: Microsoft</a>. Published in 13 newspapers,
magazines and online media outlets in nine different languages, the report laid
bare how one company has a stranglehold on our public institutions and the
negative impact this has on our budgets and freedoms. The FSFE provided the
investigative journalists with leads, data and testimonials we had accumulated
over years and that served as the backbone to the story.</p>LiMux: A Lighthouse goes Dark<p>This year Munich's new mayor, Dieter Reiter, a self-confessed "fan of
Microsoft", went out of his way to undermine the work carried out by the
administration to migrate away from their proprietary IT framework and pushed
for a return to proprietary software on all levels. The FSFE president Matthias
Kirschner explained the background to this decision in several talks, for
example <a href="http://k7r.eu/recording-for-limux-the-loss-of-a-lightouse/">at
the openSUSE Conference 2017 in May</a>, with the intent of spreading insight
and awareness to other organisations and Free Software advocates.</p><p>Along with The Document Foundation, KDE, and OSBA, we campaigned to keep
Free Software in the city of Munich. We reached out to all members of the city
council prior to the public hearing and we sent a call for action to our German
speaking supporters, asking them to get in contact with politicians. The
reaction was phenomenal. During the public hearing, politicians quoted some of
our questions, and said that they had never received as much input from citizens
and the press before. Unfortunately, all this public pressure did not alter their decision to transition away from LiMux, Microsoft Exchange had been phased in during the talks, and the decision to switch back to proprietary software has been taken.</p><a href="https://publiccode.eu"> 

        </a>

                <p>Taking the "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign out onto the streets of Berlin.</p>        

        <p>Although this is sad to see, we should use this as an opportunity to evaluate the LiMux case, and see what we -- as the Free Software Community can learn from it -- for future migrations in the public administration. In his talks <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/737818/">Matthias raised questions to support an evaluation by the Free Software community</a>.</p>               <p>Do you like what we are doing? Then <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/yearlyreport">become a supporter</a> and help us to make a difference in 2018!</p>                FSFE's 2017 in numbers<p>Having precise data will help you visualise what resources we use to carry
out our activities. With that in mind, the next section reduces FSFE's 2017 to
figures and numbers. (As a sidenote: A lot of the data in this section, for
example the number from our budget, refers to 2016 because it only became
available when 2016 was over, that is, in 2017.)</p>Booth, events and PR<p>The FSFE has attended <a href="https://fsfe.org/events/events">no less than
75 events in the last twelve months</a>. The events we attended were of all
sizes, from meetups organised by local Free Software groups, to big fairs set up
by public institutions and industries, to outdoor non-profit camps. Many take
our representatives all over Europe and, in the last year, the FSFE has attended
events in 11 countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy,
France, Spain, Albania, Austria, Sweden, Portugal, Belgium, Greece and the
USA. Apart from speaking and listening to others speak, we also set up our booth
at 15 venues.</p><img src="media/286cf88d.20170807-village-and-team-at-SHA2017-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/20170807-village-and-team-at-SHA2017-800px.jpg"/>                                      <p>The FSFE village during SHA Camp 2017 in the Netherlands.</p>                                          <p>At our booth you can also get <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html">stickers, flyers and balloons</a>. These promote
Free Software, warn about clouds, advise on using free formats, and so on. In
fact, you don't have to visit our booth to get your hands on these goodies: you
can ask us yourself for a boxful
for <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html">your own event at
no cost</a>. In the last 12 months we have sent out 233 boxes for the
recipient. Since we are talking about rather big boxes, this amounts to
literally thousands of stickers, flyers and other goodies.</p><a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html">
        </a>

        Budget<p>In 2017 we got the final data for the 2016 budget and can reveal now that,
over the last four
years, <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.html">FSFE's income came to
between 350,000 and 450,000 euros</a>, but in 2016 the amount went up to
nearly <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/2016.html">650,000 euros</a>, which
was a nice surprise. That is over a 45% increase with regard to 2015. Most of
the growth can be attributed to extraordinary donations from our generous
sponsors (up by over 83%), including an inheritance from a person who wants to
stay anonymous, but the supporters contributions have also increased and have
done so every year, not even flagging in the worst of the economic crisis.</p><p>That said, at the FSFE we try to be as a frugal as possible and, although
costs went up a bit in 2016, the increase didn't reach 9% with regard to
2015. The biggest costs in 2016 were in our efforts to increase public
awareness, where we spent 142,965 euros; our basic infrastructure costs that includes among other things 
our personell and office costs for management and administration where we spent 130,082 euros and our legal 
work where we spent 117,336 euros.</p><a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.html"> 

        </a>

                <p>FSFE's costs in recent years.</p>        

        <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.html"> 

        </a>

                <p>FSFE's revenues in recent years.</p>        

        <p>Proportionally, the biggest growth in costs happened in the Merchandising
department, which grew 16%, from 32,142 euros in 2015 to 37,464 euros in
2016. This is in line with the amount of merchandising we gave and sold to our
friends and followers, which increased by 13% from 2015. This is good news,
since, as our main aim for merchandising is to spread our message as far and
wide as possible, this shows that year after year, the number of people that are
made aware of our campaigns and activities grows.</p><p>Our best selling garment is without a
doubt <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order#tshirt-nocloud-black">the black
"There is no cloud..." T-shirt</a>. So far in 2017 we have sold 450 of
this smart and relevant item of clothing. But clothes are far from the only kind
of <a href="https://fsfe.org/order">merchandising the FSFE distributes</a>.</p>




<a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order#tshirt"/>
<a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order#tshirt"/>
<a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order#tshirt"/>
<a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order#girlie"/>
<a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order#hooded"/>
<a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order#hooded"/>



The people behind FSFE<p>Beyond events and numbers, FSFE is about the people that make up our
community. In this sections we would like to introduce you to our comunity and
some of our members that too often don't get all the credit they deserve.</p>

        <img src="media/990dbc16.20161125-community-meeting-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/20161125-community-meeting-800px.jpg"/>

                <p>Attendees of FSFE community meeting 2017.</p>        

                      <p>Do you like what we are doing? Then <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/yearlyreport">become a supporter</a> and help us to make a difference in 2018!</p>                Our community<p>There are 5 full time employees at the FSFE: Ulrike Sliwinski is our Office
Manager and the person you are most likely to talk to if your phone our office;
Polina Malaja is the coordinator of the legal team and our Policy
Analyst; Erik Albers is our communications and community coordinator; Jonas
Öberg is the FSFE's executive director; and, finally, there's Matthias Kirschner
who is the president. We also employ 1 part-time employee: Max Mehl, who is our
program manager and deputy coordinator of translations. This team is joined
by <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#interns">interns</a> for three or more
months to work on specific projects and help out in general as well as
occasional contractors for specific tasks. This year our interns have been: Olga
Gkotsopoulou, Fernando Sanjurjo, Erik da Silva, Jonke Suhr, Carmen Bianca Bakker
and Kristi Progri.</p><p>The <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#council">Executive Council</a> is
the body that actually executes the wishes of the members. Currently, there are
4 members in the Council: Matthias Kirschner (President), Jonas Öberg (Executive
Director), Patrick Ohnewein (Financial Officer) and Heiki Lõhmus (Vice President
and Translations Coordinator).</p><p>The <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#general-assembly">FSFE's formal
members</a> are responsible for planning, budgeting, setting the agenda and
electing and recalling of the Executive Council and the Financial
Officer. During 2017, we counted on 28 members, including the the 2 prior
presidents, Georg Greve and Karsten Gerloff, and the 4 members of the Executive
Council.</p><p>Then we have <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#eu-core-team">our European
Core Team</a>, consisting of the formal members plus another 15 individuals from
all over Europe, and they are the people that carry out the day-to-day tasks of
the organisation on a voluntary or paid basis on core issues and coordinate the
many volunteers that support Free Software.</p><p>Finally we have the all important supporters. Supporters are sympathisers
that have decided to officially support the FSFE
by <a href="https://fsfe.org/join">joining our supporter program</a>. During
2017 we surpassed the 1,600 mark and now have supporters in more than 40
countries around the world, including most European countries as well as the
Unites States and Australia.</p>Introducing some of our individualsReinhard Müller        <img src="media/b4b23b23.20170203-reinhard-mueller-300px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/20170203-reinhard-mueller-300px.jpg"/> <p>Reinhard is from Lustenau, Vorarlberg, in Austria and has been part of the
FSFE for over more than 10 years. Reinhard has always carried out anonymous,
often ungrateful tasks that don't get much visibility, but, without which, the
FSFE would grind to a halt.</p><p>He started out maintaining the FSFE's website, coordinating the translation
team and taking care of the Fellowship database. Then, from 2007 to 2017, he
took over the financial side as FSFE's official Financial Officer. In that role,
Reinhard has done everything related to managing the Foundation's money, from
okaying invoices, to filing out our taxes.</p><p>However, that hasn't made Reinhard an antisocial hermit, always poring over
dusty books with ink-stained fingers. Quite the contrary: if there is something
Reinhard enjoys more than columns and columns of figures it is direct contact
with people at events. Reinhard loves participating in fairs and tradeshows at
the FSFE booth. Next time you are at Linuxtage or FOSDEM, be sure to come by and
say hello. You may get lucky and witness Reinhard's legendary T-shirt folding
capabilities in action and live. Something worth beholding.</p>Ulrike Sliwinski        <img src="media/71972703.sliwinski.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/about/sliwinski/sliwinski.png"/> <p>But, talking of booth service and merchandise, if there is one person you can
always rely on to get you sweaters and stickers, that is Ulrike. Ulrike joined
the FSFE as an office assistant in 2014 on part-time contract. When we realised
how much she brought to the job, we quickly asked her to become our full time
office manager.</p><p>Ulrike, as Reinhard, carries out tasks that are largely invisible to the
outside world, but without which the FSFE simply wouldn't be able to run. If you
phone the FSFE up for any reason, it will probably be Ulrike who solves your
problem. If you ask for one of our boxes of stickers and flyers for you event,
it is Ulrike who packs it and sends it off.</p><p>Ulrike has been described by some of her colleagues as the
"personification of German efficiency" and as someone who will not
leave a task alone until it is completed to her entire satisfaction. But Ulrike
is also kind, helpful and friendly, making her the perfect host for our office
and booth.</p>André Ockers        <img src="media/d09c563a.20171208-andre-ockers-profil-300px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/20171208-andre-ockers-profil-300px.jpg"/> <p>One of the FSFE's main missions is to raise awareness among the general
public, in companies, in the public sector, and among politicians. Stating the
obvious, the first step towards effectively raising awareness, is putting out
your messages in the language of your target audience.</p><p>That is where people like André come
in. André <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/">translates</a>
most, if not all, FSFE's output into Dutch, and he does so unprompted. André
translated more than 80% of FSFE's site into Dutch, and you can expect him to
have a translation of every news item or press release we put out within eight
hours.</p><p>André represents all of those selfless heroes that year in and year out help
us reach people of all countries in their native languages.</p>At the end<p>We like to send a big big thank you out to our community, all the countless <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">volunteers</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">supporters</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donors</a> who who made the work of FSFE possible in 2017. Your contributions are priceless and we do our best to keep the good work going in 2018.</p><p>If you like what we are doing, <a href="https://fsfe.org/join">join the FSFE as a supporter</a> and help us working for Free Software!</p><p>Your Free Software Foundation Europe</p> 

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feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180111-01.de.xml
title: Wie das besondere elektronische Anwaltspostfach (beA) noch zu retten ist
uri: Wie-das-besondere-elektronische-Anwaltspostfach-(beA)-noch-zu-retten-i
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180111-01.html
content:
Wie das besondere elektronische Anwaltspostfach (beA) noch zu retten ist<p>Das <a href="http://bea.brak.de/">Besondere elektronische
Anwaltspostfach</a> sollte eigentlich seit Anfang 2018 verschlüsselte
Kommunikation mit und unter Rechtsanwälten ermöglichen. Allerdings sorgen
zahlreiche Sicherheitslücken dafür, dass der Dienst vorerst offline bleiben
muss. Die Free Software Foundation Europe empfiehlt der auftraggebenden
Bundesrechtsanwaltkammer (BRAK), durch die Veröffentlichung des Programmcodes
unter einer <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/basics/freesoftware.html">Freie-Software- und
Open-Source-Lizenz</a> verloren gegangenes Vertrauen wiederherzustellen.</p><p>Zahlreiche Skandale und ein fragwürdiges Sicherheitsverständnis prägen das
Projekt, das sich schon seit einigen Jahren in Entwicklung befindet. Eigentlich
müssen Rechtsanwälte seit dem 1. Januar 2018 über diese Software erreichbar
sein, doch wegen <a href="ttps://www.golem.de/news/bea-noch-mehr-sicherheitsluecken-im-anwaltspostfach-1801-131942.fr.html">bekannt
gewordener Sicherheitslücken</a> wurde die Plattform auf unbestimmte Zeit
vorerst abgeschaltet. So wurde etwa die verschlüsselte Verbindung der Anwender
nicht nur über das beA, sondern auch zu sämtlichen anderen Webseiten
ausgehebelt. Vor allem aber ist die Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung, eigentlich
Hauptmerkmal der Software, grundlegend gefährdet, da die
Bundesrechtsanwaltkammer offenbar Zugang zu allen privaten Schlüsseln und damit
den eigentlich vertraulichen Nachrichten ihrer Rechtsanwälte hat. Es steht zu
befürchten, dass durch die ebenfalls öffentlich gewordene Implementierung
zahlreicher längst veralteter und anfälliger Komponenten weitere
Sicherheitslücken existieren.</p><p>Obwohl bereits 2015 eine Sicherheitsprüfung durch eine beauftragte Firma
stattgefunden hat, dessen Reichweite und Ergebnis allerdings bis heute nicht
veröffentlicht wurde, ist die ganz Tragweite der fehlerhaften Programmierung
erst kürzlich bekannt geworden. Damit hat das Projekt, das die Rechtsanwälte
bisher etwa 38 Millionen Euro kostet, bereits jetzt sein Vertrauen verspielt.
Angesichts der zahlreichen Fehler ist die Vertraulichkeit der gesendeten
Nachrichten nicht mehr zu gewährleisten – und das, wo die Nutzung der Software
ab 2022 für den gesamten Dokumentenverkehr mit Gerichten Pflicht wird.</p>Freie Software als Grundlage für die Zukunft<p>An den zahlreichen Problemen des besonderen elektronischen Anwaltspostfachs
besteht kein Zweifel. Doch anstatt weiter ihre Mitglieder im Unklaren zu lassen
und unabhängige Sicherheitsforscher auszuschließen, sollte die
Bundesrechtsanwaltkammer nun die gesamte Software unter einer Freie-Software-
und Open-Source-Lizenz veröffentlichen und den weiteren Entwicklungsprozess
transparent machen. Nur dadurch kann der erschütterte Vertrauen der Nutzer,
also aller Rechtsanwälte, Behörden und Gerichte, langsam wiederhergestellt
werden. Die Offenlegung des Programmcodes ermöglicht unabhängigen IT-Experten,
bereits frühzeitig potenzielle Sicherheitslücken zu melden, damit diese behoben
werden; dass eine Geheimhaltung des Quellcodes und der in Auftrag gegebenen
Audits nicht zum gewünschten Ergebnis führen, hat sich nun ein weiteres Mal
erwiesen.</p><p>Ohnehin ist fraglich, warum nicht von Anfang an auf bereits verfügbare
Softwarekomponenten gesetzt wurde, die unter einer Freie-Software-Lizenz
verfügbar sind. Für verschlüsselte E-Mails existiert beispielsweise das
etablierte und vielfach geprüfte GnuPG, welches sich nahtlos in
Mailingprogramme wie Thunderbird einbinden lässt. Spezielle Anforderung wie
etwa die verschlüsselte Weiterleitung an Vertretungen und Assistenzen könnten
auf dieser Basis ebenfalls als Freie Software veröffentlicht werden und
dieselben Vorteile der Transparenz genießen. Warum Freie Software generell für
öffentliche digitale Dienste Standard sein sollte, zeigt die FSFE in ihrer
aktuellen <a href="https://publiccode.eu/de">Public Money, Public
Code</a>-Kampagne.</p><p>Ganz gleich ob die Bundesrechtsanwaltkammer sich für eine komplette
Neuentwicklung der Software oder erhebliche Verbesserungen der jetzigen Lösung
entscheidet, die Veröffentlichung unter einer freien Lizenz ist unumgänglich,
um das Projekt überhaupt noch zu retten und die Sicherheitserwartungen zu
gewährleisten.</p><p>Sie sind Rechtsanwalt und möchten, dass das beA Freie Software wird? Bitte
<a href="https://fsfe.org/contact/">melden Sie sich bei uns</a>.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180119-01.de.xml
uri: Organisationen-und-Juristen-fordern-Das-besondere-elektronische-Anwal
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180119-01.html
title:
Organisationen und Juristen fordern: Das besondere elektronische Anwaltspostfach muss Freie Software werden

content:
Organisationen und Juristen fordern: Das besondere elektronische Anwaltspostfach muss Freie Software werden<p>Das Vertrauen in das <a href="http://bea.brak.de/">besondere elektronische Anwaltspostfach</a>
(beA) hat nach bekannt gewordenen Sicherheitslücken und erheblichen
technischen Mängeln das Vertrauen von Juristen und Mandanten verloren.
Die Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) übermittelt heute ihren <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/publiccode/bea.html">Offenen Brief mit Empfehlungen
und Forderungen</a> an die auftraggebende Bundesrechtsanwaltkammer
(BRAK) zusammen mit drei weiteren bekannten zivilgesellschaftlichen
Organisationen und 21 Juristen.</p><p>Obwohl es der Anspruch des bisher 38 Millionen teuren Projektes ist,
eine sichere Ende-zu-Ende-verschlüsselte Kommunikation im Rechtsverkehr
zu bieten, wurde spätestens Ende 2017 öffentlich, dass <a href="https://www.golem.de/news/bea-noch-mehr-sicherheitsluecken-im-anwaltspostfach-1801-131942.html">akute
Sicherheitsmängel</a> und <a href="https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Fataler-Konstruktionsfehler-im-besonderen-elektronischen-Anwaltspostfach-3944406.html">grundlegende
Konstruktionsfehler</a> vorliegen. Auch eine bis heute geheim gehaltene
Sicherheitsprüfung von 2015 hat offenbar nicht zu einer ausreichenden
Verbesserung beigetragen.</p><p><a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/publiccode/bea.html#zeichner">Die Unterzeichner
der Forderungen</a>, neben der FSFE der Chaos Computer Club,
Digitalcourage, The Document Foundation und eine Vielzahl
deutschlandweit aktiver und bekannter Juristen, erwarten daher von der
BRAK:</p>
  die Veröffentlichung der bisherigen und zukünftigen Entwicklung
  der beA-Software unter einer gängigen Freie-Software-Lizenz,
  öffentliche Audits des gesamten Programmcodes durch unabhängige
  IT-Sicherheitsforscher,
  Kompatibilität der Software zu allen aktuellen Betriebssystemen
  (u.a. GNU/Linux, Windows, MacOS).
<p>Ohne diese Voraussetzungen kann das Vertrauen in die Software und
somit das ganze Projekt nicht mehr gerettet werden. Mandanten erwarten
eine vertrauliche Kommunikation und Juristen benötigen diese, um ihre
anwaltliche Pflicht der Verschwiegenheit erfüllen zu können. Zudem
stellen die Unterzeichner fest, dass die bisherige Geheimhaltung von
Software und Sicherheitsüberprüfungen auch in diesem Fall der
IT-Sicherheit mehr geschadet als genutzt hat. Stattdessen hätte von
Anfang an auf etablierte Freie-Software-Komponenten und einen
transparenten Prozess gesetzt werden sollen.</p><p>Dass Freie Software generell für öffentliche digitale
Dienstleistungen Standard sein muss, fordert die FSFE auch in ihrer
Kampagne "<a href="https://publiccode.eu/de/">Public Money, Public
Code</a>", die bereits von über 16.000 Personen und mehr als 100
Organisationen und Institutionen, <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-vs-linux-open-source-beats-microsoft-to-win-barcelonas-backing/">darunter
der Stadt Barcelona</a>, unterzeichnet wurde.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Join the I Love Free Software Day 2018
uri: Join-the-I-Love-Free-Software-Day-2018
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180212-01.html
content:
Join the I Love Free Software Day 2018<p>
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 <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170315-01.html">committed with offline activism</a> 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.</p>
  <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html#ilovefs">
    
  </a>
  
    <p>Sticker for people loving Free Software (<a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#ilovefs">order</a>)</p>
  
<p>Free Software is built upon collaboration and the desire for constant improvement. But over all these bug reports and milestones we sometimes forget to express our gratefulness to all the people making our daily lives so much easier and freer: developers, translators, designers, testers, or documentation writers, for large software suites or small helper tools.</p>Show your love for Free Software<p>You don't have to be a techie to benefit from the often invisible work of these people. Take a moment to think about which software made you enjoy your work and private life. Done? Then tell the world! Our <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/">campaign website</a>, the <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170315-01.html">last year's report</a>, or the updated <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.html">gallery of Free Software lovers</a> may give you some inspiration.</p><p>Spread the word in the offline world with your friends and colleagues and be part of the #ilovefs crowd in online networks and blogs. Let's enjoy a lovely day packed with thankfulness and creativity!</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180215-01.en.xml
uri: European-Free-Software-Policy-Meeting-2018-more-joint-activities-impo
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180215-01.html
title:
European Free Software Policy Meeting 2018: more joint activities important for Free Software in Europe

content:
European Free Software Policy Meeting 2018: more joint activities important for Free Software in Europe<p>
 Following the <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170214-02.html">well-established tradition</a> 
 of gathering active Free Software groups before FOSDEM kicks off, the 
 FSFE once again partnered up with <a href="http://www.openforumeurope.org/">OpenForum Europe</a> 
 for the third edition of European Free Software Policy Meeting in Brussels, 
 the heart of European decision-making.</p>
      <img src="media/6f27fe7f.pmpc-eu-foss.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/graphics/pmpc-eu-foss.jpg"/>
  <p>This time the purpose of the meeting was to shed light on topics important 
for Free Software in public policy all over Europe, not only within the 
European Union; and to exchange experience for any policy action within 
different regions in case similar concerns for Free Software pop up. Practice 
shows that they often do, and this is why it is important to be informed 
about similar actions in other parts of Europe, in order to be able to 
address corresponding concerns in a timely and effective manner.</p><p>17 different groups were represented at the European Free Software Policy 
Meeting 2018: from national Free Software groups to public sector representatives, 
and international organisations. Our participants deemed to be a diverse 
group, yet similar in the challenges we face on both national and European 
level.</p>Common challenges for Free Software in Europe and beyond<p>EU Copyright reform: Article 13 of the current copyright 
directive proposal <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">can seriously hamper</a>
collaborative software development, and especially Free Software, imposing 
the use of mandatory upload filters, and illegal monitoring of their users. 
As a result of this proposal code repositories can be arbitrarily removed online. 
The directive proposal is currently being discussed by co-legislators in 
the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, which both 
are struggling to reach an agreement on <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171130-01.html">controversial</a> 
Article 13. Action within the Member States to "#savecodeshare" is needed 
more than ever, in order to make sure that decision-makers understand the 
repercussions of Article 13 for Free Software.</p><p>Software patents: while the EU legislation to 
impose patents on software was rejected back in 2005, patentability of 
software insinuates itself into policy discussions through other means. 
In particular, the Unitary Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) may in practice 
impose the patentability of software in the EU. By now 15 Member States 
have ratified the UPCA, without such Member States as post-Brexit UK and 
Germany whose support is necessary in order for the Unitary Patent Court 
system to start to function. A <a href="http://www.nounitarysoftwarepatents.uk/">petition</a> 
against UPCA ratification was run in the UK, however, there is a need for 
remaining Member States to be aware of the practical ramifications of UPCA 
for innovation and especially software business in Europe.</p><p>Open Standards: standardisation policies are still 
being infiltrated by closed standards <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/msooxml.html">disguised as "open"</a>, 
and tricky patent licensing practices that are only called "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory"
(<a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/why-frand-is-bad-for-free-software.html">FRAND</a>)
in the name of greater innovation. In fact, these practices only dilute 
the discourse. It is time the term <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/os/os.en.html&gt;">"open standards"</a> 
is used in accordance with the Free Software definition defined through 
<a href="https://fsfe.org/about/basics/freesoftware.html">4 freedoms</a>,
and appropriate Free Software licences as approved by 
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html">Free Software Foundation</a>
and <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical">Open Source Initiative</a>. 
Otherwise, we will continue facing misconceptions about (un)equal treatment 
of Free Software in public procurement, where Free Software can be de facto 
excluded as a result of policies prescribing business models.</p><p>Public Money, Public Code: "All publicly funded 
newly-established software should be made publicly available under Free 
Software licence". This is the <a href="https://publiccode.eu/">demand</a> 
that the FSFE together with ca 116 other organisations and Free Software 
projects, as well as more than 16 000 individuals are asking from politicians. 
The campaign is aimed at gathering evidence about public expenditure on 
software and other IT services in public sector, to provide information that is
easily understandable for decision-makers, and to equip Free Software activists 
all over the world with tools to <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/elections/index.html">ask their politicians</a>
during national elections to make sure that software paid with taxpayers money 
is made freely available to the public.</p>Ways to move forward<p>The meeting once again proved that there is a need to continuously 
exchange ideas, update each other on concerns and victories for Free Software, 
and experience we gather while pursuing our mutual goals to maintain the 
ecosystem for Free Software to flourish. More collaboration and staying 
informed is necessary in order to establish the "smart network" of Free 
Software activists all over Europe and beyond, where more joint activities 
can take place. We will continue to build on that resource to share information, 
and update each other on activities crucial for Free Software, and to 
establish meaningful collaborations to address common challenges for Free 
Software.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Italy asks political parties about their positions on Free Software
uri: FSFE-Italy-asks-political-parties-about-their-positions-on-Free-Softwa
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180219-01.html
content:
FSFE Italy asks political parties about their positions on Free Software<p>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.</p>
		<img src="media/a7c28230.ballot-box.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/graphics/ballot-box.png"/>
	<p>At the Free Software Foundation Europe, we believe that we can and should make Free Software and Open Standards an issue in all elections, be they on a European, national, regional, or local level. That is why the FSFE uses the time in the runup to elections to ask politicians about their stance on Free Software and Open Standards in <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates">our Ask Your Candidates framework</a>. </p><p>Recently, the FSFE country team Italy sent multiple questions to the participating parties in the Italian general election, happening on March 4th. The questions are about the parties' positions on the use of Free Software and Open Standards within public administrations and their willingness to replace proprietary formats. More questions are about the use of Free Software in public education and about their stand on Art. 68 and 69 of the "Codice Amministrazione Digitale" as well as on net neutrality. We will publish and analyse their answers once we receive them. </p><p>"With this campaign we like to remind Italian politicians about the importance of Free Software and the execution of Article 68 and 69 of the Codice Amministrazione Digitale that public administrations are obliged to comply with." says Natale Vinto, FSFE's coordinator Italy. "On the other hand we like to give Italian voters a chance for this election to easily know about the participating parties positions on Free Software."</p><p>Background: Art 68 and 69 of the "Codice Amministrazione Digitale" require public administrations in Italy to prefer internally made solutions and Free Software solutions over proprietary ones. Also, they have the duty to share the source code and documentation of self-developed software with public money. Unfortunately, these requirements still lack implementation a lot of times.</p><p>These are the questions that have been sent to the participating parties:</p>

What is your position on the use of Free and Open Source Software within the public administration?
Are you in favour of making the use of open standards obligatory for public administrations?
Are you in favour of introducing the expansion and development of  Free and Open Source Software into the school and university curricula?
What is your stand in respect to the Digital Administration Code (in particular Art. 68 and 69: "Reuse of open solutions and standards") and in case of agreement, would you still modify anything in it?
What is your position or that of your party on net-neutrality?


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feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___nl___nl-201802.en.xml
title: FSFE Newsletter - February 2018
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-February-2018
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201802.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter February 2018Barcelona is the first city council to join the FSFE's "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign<p>"Funds that come from the citizens have to be invested in systems that can be reused and open to a local ecosystem" says Francesca Bria, Commissioner of Digital Technology and Innovation of Barcelona. She is the driving force behind the City's Digital Transformation Plan, which - among other things - aims to establish the use of Free Software and open data in the city's administration.</p><p>Step by step, all key applications shall be replaced with Free Software solutions until the city finally replaces its currently running Windows-system with a suitable GNU/Linux-system. Therewith, Barcelona is heading to achieve and guarantee <a href="http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/en/digital-transformation/technology-for-a-better-government/open-software">"complete technological sovereignty"</a> for the municipality. By spring of 2019, when its municipal term of office ends, the City Council has planned to spend 70 percent of its software budget on open-source software.</p><p>With this in mind, Barcelona has been the first city council to sign the <a href="https://publiccode.eu/#action">Open Letter</a> of our "Public Money Public? Code!" campaign. The FSFE is very pleased to see one of European's biggest metropolitan areas moving to Free Software, and we wish Barcelona much success!</p>I love Free Software Day<p> Every year, our community celebrates "I Love Free Software Day" on February 14. Our report from this year's celebration is coming soon but we like to say thank you for hundreds of love declarations via social media channels, pictures of people celebrating their favourite Free Software projects like <a href="https://twitter.com/developersITA/status/964060999899860992">Developers Italia</a>, beautiful artworks <a href="media/59aa9d43.tad_024_ilovefs.jpg" data-original-source="https://grisebouille.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/tad_024_ilovefs.jpg">like the one from Grise Bouille</a> as well as multiple blog posts informing about the benefits of Free Software. We even found people <a href="https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete/issues/866">opening issues on project's development platforms</a>, just to say "Thank You!" on "I love Free Software Day". </p><p>Thank you for celebrating with us and stay tuned for the detailed report coming soon.</p>
      <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/"/>
	<p>People celebrating <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/">#IloveFS</a> 2018</p>
  <p><a href="http://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-02">Join our community of freedom fighters.</a></p>What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE
	The day before FOSDEM, the FSFE once again partnered up with OpenForum Europe for <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180215-01">the third edition of European Free Software Policy Meeting</a> to discuss the most important current policy issues on European level regarding Free Software.  
	The FSFE country team Italy is running an <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180219-01">"Ask your candidates" campaign</a> and sent a set of questions about the use and promotion of Free Software to the participating parties of the Italian national elections, happening on March 4.
	The "besondere elektronische Anwaltspostfach (beA)" is publicly financed software aiming to establish a secure communication between lawyers in Germany from January 2018. Its usage, however, is currently being withheld  for multiple security issues. The FSFE <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/publiccode/bea">published an open letter</a> to demand the full publication of beA under a Free Software license.
	At the 34th Chaos Communication Congress the FSFE, together with EDRi, set up a cluster called “Rights &amp; Freedoms” with its own freedom related track. Erik Albers <a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2018/02/fsfe-assembly-at-34c3-wir-taten-was/">wrote a report about it on his blog</a>.
	Daniel Pocock, the FSFE community representative, writes about <a href="https://danielpocock.com/everything-you-didnt-know-about-fsfe-in-a-picture">Everything you didn't know about FSFE in a picture</a> in which he analyses overlapping relationships between staffers, Council, community and the General Assembly. 
	Vanitasvitae <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/vanitasvitae/">reports</a> about his trip to XSF-summit, FOSDEM and the importance of XMPP libraries
	Daniel Pocock distributed an <a href="https://danielpocock.com/our-future-relationship-with-fsfe-2018">email to the FSFE community</a> in that he reflected the GA membership process, the FSFE's identity process and his personal travels.
	Sebastian Schauenburg shares his insides on sharing <a href="https://www.schauenburg.nl/posts/2018/01/26-local-osmand-and-geo-urls/">local OsmAnd and Geo URL's</a>
	Polina Malaja, the FSFE's policy analyst, writes about our <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/polina/2017/12/13/fsfe-asks-to-include-software-into-the-list-of-re-usable-public-sector-information/">response to the PSI Directive public consultation</a> that in short asks to include source code into the list of re-usable public sector information.
	Do not miss it! Upcoming events with the FSFE<p>We are happy to see a first local FSFE meet-up happening in Madrid, Spain, on <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2018/0222-encuentro-local-madrid#head-03d1f2ac6d4d5cbd79007a7f665302c522d7d2b4">February 22</a> and on <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2018/0303-encuentro-grupo-local-madrid#head-3778ef44968968dd3aaa71135b6e78f7b37dc6d0">March 3</a>. We wish all participants to spend their time at the meet-up in a positive and fruitful manner. If you are from the area, do not miss it. </p><p>By the way: If you miss a local FSFE group in your area but you like to start one, get in contact with our community coordinator <a href="http://fsfe.org/about/albers/albers">Erik Albers</a> who is happy to help you with the first steps. </p>Get Active<p>Have you found an interesting Free Software story online that you would like to share? Maybe you have a question that you like to discuss with other Free Software activists? Or you like to announce your upcoming Free Software event or report about a recent one? Then post it on one of our public mailing lists and share it with the community! We currently have active public mailing lists in <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion">English</a>, <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-de">German</a>, <a href="https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/spain">Spanish</a>, and <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/admin/fsfe-el">Greek</a>.</p><p>If you live in Italy, contact your local candidates during their current election-campaigns, point them towards our "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign and ask them <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180219-01">the questions that we have also sent to the participating parties</a> or similar ones. </p>Contribute to our newsletter<p>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!</p><p>Thanks to our community, all the <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">volunteers</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">supporters</a> and <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donors</a> who make our work possible. And thanks to <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators">our translators</a>, who enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.</p><p>Your editor, 
   Erik Albers</p><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-02">Join our community of freedom fighters.</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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uri: Ask-Your-Candidates-Italian-parties-offer-progress-towards-the-use-of
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180302-01.html
title:
Ask Your Candidates: Italian parties offer progress towards the use of Free Software in public entities

content:
Ask Your Candidates: Italian parties offer progress towards the use of Free Software in public entities<p>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". </p><p>Since many years, at the FSFE, we run <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates">Ask Your candidates campaigns</a> to send a set of questions to political parties and collect information about their standing towards Free Software and to make it easier for voters to compare their positions. Main objective of the campaign is to know the degree of attention and support of candidates and parties towards Free Software and those topics that are important for our work for Free Software like Open Standard formats, digital freedoms and net neutrality. </p><p>FSFE Italy in particular wishes to inform interested voters and citizens about the parties' positions and candidates on the use of Free Software in public administrations, a subject already present in the Italian jurisprudence by <a href="http://www.agid.gov.it/cad/art-68-analisi-comparativa-soluzioni">Article 68</a> and <a href="http://www.agid.gov.it/cad/art-69-riuso-soluzioni-standard-aperti">Article 69</a> of the <a href="https://cad.readthedocs.io/it/v2017-12-13/">Code of the Digital Administration (CAD)</a>. Unfortunately, the implementation of these articles is still in continuous evolution due to the nature of the software and of the current political will.</p><p>Today, we <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201803-italy-general-elections">publish the full answers</a> that we received. In summary, the campaign had a positive response by "Movimento 5 Stelle" and the "Liberi e Uguali, Partito Democratico and Potere al Popolo".  Unfortunately, we did not receive any answers by +Europa, Forza Italia, Fratelli d'Italia, Lega Nord. In the following, you find our analysis of the responds given, sorted chronologically in the order we received the answers:</p>Results and analysis<p>Federico D'Incà and Anna Laura Orrico, both candidates for Movimento 5 Stelle, declare Free Software to be a benefit for the public administration because it helps in "independence from suppliers, security and the accessibility to all its information assets". The same benefits, so they say, are within the adoption of Open Standards. Both candidates are in favor of introducing Free Software and Open Standards in schools and universities, and they consider the Digital Administration Code to be an exhaustive rule but whose implementation is necessary to monitor. Finally, both candidates are clearly in favour of net neutrality which is also part of the official program of Movimento 5 Stelle, that considers net neutrality to be a "necessary and indispensable prerequisite for freedom of expression".</p><p>Luca Casarini, candidate for Liberi e Uguali, not only supports Free Software but also supports a top-down model with an "enforced migration by law from proprietary software to Free Software and Open Source in the public administration". Casarini also understands the adoption of Free Software in school and university courses as "a real strategic and educational choice towards an emancipation from the use and dependency of proprietary programs". The candidate of Liberi e Uguali strongly supports the Digital Administration Code and is committed to monitor its renewal to avoid being further weakened in favor of compromises not in line with the original spirit of the law. Such as "the weakening of the art.68 in particular, but also the repeal of Article 50-bis" during the last CAD reform. Liberi e Uguali are totally in favor of net neutrality, to support "information pluralism", citizen rights and liberties. </p><p>Paolo Coppola, candidate for the Partito Democratico, highlights the use of Free Software in public administrations as well as the Code of the Digital Administration as a pivotal tool that is already in place to promote and support its use. Coppola also points out that, with regards to software commissioned by public administrations, Partito Democratico's position "is the one expressed by Article 69 of the CAD: it must be available as open source code and free of charge". For the introduction of Free Software and open formats in school and university courses, article 68 of the CAD is still valid, which says that in public tenders Free Software has to be favored over proprietary software. Coppola considers CAD to be a good legislative framework, and as a next step proposes the publication of guidelines that aim at ensuring compliance. Coppola confirms the importance of net neutrality and says that "network and digital platforms must be neutral".</p><p>Potere al popolo state to be very much in line with some principles that are related to Free Software and wish for "the use and introduction of any vision based on copyleft licenses will contribute to the protection of workers by decentralizing the authority of multinationals". So they declare themself certainly in favor of the adoption of open formats and Free Software within the public administration. Potere al popolo even quotes Richard Stallman in arguing that "if the school teaches the use of Free Software, they can graduate citizens ready to live in a free digital society". However, unlike the other interviewed parties, Potere al popolo finds the Articles 68 and 69 of the CAD to be insufficient and they wish for more intransigent rules that fully exclude the use of proprietary software. Finally, the party shows full adherence towards net neutrality, including criticism of the European BEREC entity considered "insufficient in defining the rules for the network."</p>Conclusion<p>This has been the first time FSFE Italy had run such an Ask Your Candidates campaign. Fortunately, all parties and candidates that have answered our questions - Movimento 5 Stelle, Liberi e Uguali, Partito Democratico and Potere al Popolo - are in favor of the adoption and the extended use of Free Software and open formats in the public administration as well as in public education. Such a big consensus across these parties, that in current polls together have more than 50% of the votes, opens up a lot of possibilities for progress towards the use of Free Software on state level in Italy and the FSFE's demand of <a href="https://publiccode.eu/">Public Money? Public Code!</a>. The latter can be realized by enforcing already existing legal laws, that are in particular "Article 68" and "Article 69" of the Code of the Digital Administration. Again, with an exception of Potere al popolo, all parties claim to be in favor of enforcing these articles. If it would be for Potere al popolo, they would set even stricter rules. Finally, all parties in this sample support the existence and enforcement of net neutrality. </p>"It is great to see that many political parties nowadays understand the importance and the benefits deriving from Free Software" says Natale Vinto, FSFE country coordinator Italy and "in case they run successful for government, the FSFE is happy to help with the necessary implementation processes." On the other hand, Vinto points out, that "the lack of responses from the other parties can be understood as a desinterest in digital topics which is anachronistic in today's information society."<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180308-01.fr.xml
title: #ilovefs Report 2018
uri: ilovefs-Report-2018
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180308-01.html
content:
#ilovefs Report 2018
    <a href="media/035bdd48.ilovefs-developersitalia.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/graphics/ilovefs-developersitalia.jpg">
      
    </a>
    
       <p>Des développeurs en Italie fêtant le jour I Love Free Sofware</p>
    
  <p>Mercredi 14 février, notre communauté a fêté le jour
  "<a href="https://ilovefs.org">I love Free Software</a>".  Un jour pour
  déclarer son amour aux communautés les importantes à vos yeux et pour dire
  "Merci" aux projets de Logiciels Libres qui nous utilisons au quotidien.
  La Free Sofware Foundation Europe veut également remercier tout le monde qui
  a acclamé et contribué pour rendre ce jour aussi spécial qu'il pouvait
  l'être.</p><p>Nous avons compté des centaines de Tweets, Toots et Posts ainsi que des
  dizaines d'articles de blog, photos et dessins tous montrant de l'affection
  pour les innombrables personnes qui contribuent au Logiciel Libre tous les
  jours, que ça soit sous la forme de code, traductions, documentation, travail
  communautaire, conception ou gestion. Merci beaucoup à tous !</p>Les premiers signes d'amour au FOSDEM
    <a href="media/e2e6fd41.ilovefs-xmpp-loves-freespeech.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/graphics/ilovefs-xmpp-loves-freespeech.jpg">
      
    </a>
    
      <p>XMPP en tant qu'outil pour la liberté d'expression</p> 
    
  <p><a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170315-01.html">Tout comme l'année
  dernière</a>, nous avons déjà rencontré beaucoup de gens voulant montrer
  leur amour au FOSDEM. En plus des gros projets comme GNOME, Debian,
  Firefox, Python, Linux ou VLC, beaucoup de gens ont également mentionné
  des projets plus petits ou non commun ainsi que de l'amour pour le
  Logiciel Libre en général et des valeurs que l'on trouve en général dans
  les communautés de Logiciel Libre: "Ouverture", "Liberté", "Choix",
  "Volonté propre" sont les termes que nous avons souvent entendus.  Si
  vous voulez voir plus de gens exprimant leur amour pour le Logiciel Libre,
  regarder <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.html">l'album complet</a>.</p>
    <a href="media/78f84d3b.ilovefs-centos-opensuse.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/graphics/ilovefs-centos-opensuse.jpg">
      
    </a>
    
       <p>CentOS et OpenSUSE ont un amour partagé pour RPM.</p>
    
  <p>Les projets au FOSDEM ont également eu la chance de remercier leurs
  communautés pour avoir contribué, rapporté des bugs et aidé.  En plus de ça,
  ils ont également été capable de regrouper plusieurs projets ensemble pour
  trouver des similarités (ou différences) qu'ils apprécient et ont montré
  leur amour partagé pour le Logiciel Libre</p>Le jour I Love Free Software
    <a href="media/2b8a9331.ilovefs-wordcloud.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/graphics/ilovefs-wordcloud.png">
      
    </a>
    
      <p>Tous les projets mentionnés sur Twitter et la Fediverse</p>
    
  <p>Quand le jour est finalement arrivé, on a reçu un énorme nombre de
  messages de la communauté, s'exprimant elle-même, remerciant leurs projets
  et développeurs favoris ou faisant la promotion du Logiciel Libre en
  général</p><p>Pour analyser les nombreux messages d'amour et les contributions arrivant
  pour le jour I Love free Software chaque année, nous avons également monté
  d'un cran de notre côté. Notre stagiaire Jan a écrit un scraper avec GNU R
  qui nous a aidé à ne pas manquer un seul poste #ilovefs et à donner à chaque
  projet la gratitude qu'il mérite. Une partie n'aurait pas été possible sans
  l'aide de Vincent, notre deuxième stagiaire.  Un encouragement à la
  collaboration et encore une autre preuve que le Logiciel Libre est formidable
  !</p><p>En regroupant Twitter et la Fediverse, nous avons compter exactement 439
  messages "I Love Free Sofware" par 243 comptes individuels contenant le tag
  #ilovefs, mentionnant 95 projets et développeurs.  Vous pouvez
  trouver quelques visualisations montrant les résultats de notre collection
  de données</p>
    <a href="media/e526ff05.ilovefs-participation-time.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/graphics/ilovefs-participation-time.png">
      
    </a>
    
        <p>Participation avec le hashtag #ILoveFS sur les réseaux sociaux</p>
    
  
    <a href="media/8ad1e264.ilovefs-participation-platform.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/graphics/ilovefs-participation-platform.png">
      
    </a>
    
      <p>Participation avec le hashtag #ILoveFS sur Twitter et la Fediverse</p>
    
  <p>Les outils que nous avons écrit sont également libre et disponible à
  tous pour <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/janwey/ilfs-data">utiliser, étudier, partager et améliorer</a> ! Mais ce n'est pas
  seulement des statistiques et des données. La chose importante derrière
  tous ces nombres : le message que ces gens veulent faire passer et les
  sentiments d'une communauté de gens tellement diversifiés mais pourtant avec
  le même état d'esprit quand il s'agit d'ouverture, d'acceptation, d'empathie
  ou d'acceptation de ce que que nous pouvons créer ensemble</p>
    <a href="media/2d412466.ilovefs-gbouille.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/graphics/ilovefs-gbouille.jpg">
      
    </a>
    
      <p>#iLoveFS par Grise Bouille</p>
    
  <p>Il y a plusieurs exemples de ça, comme <a href="https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete/issues/866">l'incroyable
  message sur le tracker de bug de StreetComplete par rugk</a>, où un
  utilisateur a remercié le projet et son /  ses développeur(s) dans un
  long texte et a également reçu une belle réaction en retour ! <a href="https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete/issues/866">L'article
  de blog de Sebastian Schauenburg</a> où il demande encore plus de
  sympathie et communication entre les développeurs et parmi les
  communautés elles-mêmes.  Quelques projets ont également publiés des
  articles de blog, par exemple Nextcloud nous montrant <a href="https://www.schauenburg.nl/posts/2018/02/14-i-love-free-software-day-2018/">
  comment les 4 Libertés du Logiciel Libre ont rendu possible leur
  existence</a>. Ensuite il y a des dessins créatifs par exemple <a href="https://grisebouille.net/ilovefs/">par Grise Bouille</a> ou <a href="https://twitter.com/developersITA/status/964060999899860992">
  cette photo cool postée par Developpers Italia</a> (La communauté
  italienne de développeurs de services publics) célébrant le Logiciel
  Libre, <a href="https://twitter.com/wikidata/status/963691059669807104">WikiData
  montrant comment exprimer votre amour pour le Logiciel Libre</a> et
  plein, plein d'autres que nous ne sommes pas capable de montrer dans ce
  court article.</p>Garder la date en mémoire !<p>Au cas où vous avez manqué votre chance de remercier votre projet
  favori, marquez la date du 14 février en tant que "I Love Free Software
  Day" dans vos calendrier pour l'année prochaine. Cependant, vous ne
  devriez pas penser que c'est le seul jour où vous êtes autorisés à montrer
  votre affection. Il est évident que nous devons montrer notre
  appréciation et gratitude tout au long de l'année - il n'y a simplement
  aucun mauvais moment pour le faire !</p><p>Nous remercions tout le monde qui a participé et contribué à ce jour,
  ainsi que les innombrables développeurs, traducteurs, managers de
  communauté, artistes et tout ceux qui participent au Logiciel Libre.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___nl___nl-201803.fr.xml
title: FSFE Newsletter - mars 2018
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-mars-2018
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201803.html
content:
FSFE Lettre d'information  - Mars 2018
      L’Italie à l'avant-garde de la législation européenne pour le code public<p>Avec la campagne <a href="https://publiccode.eu"> Public
      Money? Public Code!</a> de la FSFE nous ne demandons pas seulement que le code
      financé par le peuple soit disponible pour le peuple. Nous voulons également mettre
      en lumière de bon exemples pour que ceux qui prennent les décisions en tire des
      leçons. Un très bon exemple est l' <a href="http://www.agid.gov.it/cad/art-68-analisi-comparativa-soluzioni"> Article
      68</a> et l' <a href="http://www.agid.gov.it/cad/art-69-riuso-soluzioni-standard-aperti">
      Article 69</a> de la "Codice Amministrazione Digitale", une loi
      italienne qui impose aux administrations publiques en Italie de préférer les
      solutions développées en interne et les solutions utilisant le Logiciel Libre
      aux logiciels propriétaires. De plus, ces administrations ont le devoir de
      partager le code source et la documentation des logiciels conçus avec de
      l'argent publique; Ces lois placent l'Italie à l'avant garde de la législation
      européenne en matière de code public.</p><p>Malheureusement, la loi manque une implémentation correcte. Dans ce
      contexte, l'équipe Italie de la FSFE a lancé une <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/askyourcandidates">
        campagne Ask Your Candidates</a> dans laquelle ils <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180219-01">ont demandé aux
      parties politiques leurs positions sur le Logiciel Libre</a> et
      l'implémentation de l'article 68 et 69 après les élections nationales le 4
      mars.</p><p>FSFE Italie a reçu des réponses très positives et plusieurs parties <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180302-01.html">ont pris une
      position favorable envers le Logiciel Libre</a>. Un tel consensus avec tous ces
      parties donne l'espoir de créer de nombreuses possibilités de progrès pour
      l'utilisation des Logiciels Libres au niveau de l’État en Italie et une
      meilleur implémentation des articles 68 et 69 de la "Codice
      Amministrazione Digitale". Pour faire écho à cela, l'équipe
      "Developers Italia" qui est en charge de la future implémentation de
      l'Article 68 et 69 <a href="https://twitter.com/developersITA/status/964060999899860992">ont montré
      leur amour pour le logiciel libre</a> pour le jour I love Free Software.</p>Lisez notre rapport détaillé sur IloveFS<p>Comme promis dans la dernière lettre d'information, nous avons maintenant
      un <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180308-01">rapport détaillé à propos de notre
      campagne IloveFS en 2018</a>. Dans ce rapport, vous lirez pas seulement
      quelques faits marquants qui se sont produits cette année IloveFS. Grâce à
      notre stagiaire actuel Jan, nous disposons également d'une analyse et d'une
      visualisation des 439 messages I Love Free Software contenant le hashtag
      #IloveFS. Le scrapper que Jan a utilisé pour son analyse est écrit
      avec GNU R et <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/janwey/ilfs-data"> publié en tant que Logiciel
      Libre</a>.</p><p>Alors que chaque année nous sommes heureux de voir tant de gens célébrer le
      jour I love Free Software, nous vous encourageons également à exprimer votre
      amour du Logiciel Libre tous les jours :)</p><p><a href="http://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-03">Rejoignez notre communauté de combattants pour la liberté</a></p>Quoi d'autre a été fait ? A
    l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de la FSFE
      Paul Boddie reflète
        <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1978">l'attitude du loisir
et de la personne volontaire </a> de beaucoup de projets de Logiciel Libre et ce que ça signifie pour
l'évaluation du travail qui est fait en prenant pour exemple le développement
du langage Python
      Isabel Drost Fromm
        <a href="http://blog.isabel-drost-fromm.de/posts/proxies-considered-harmful.html">
        argumente contre les personnes</a> qui agissent en tant que médiateurs entre les employeurs et un projet de Logiciel Libre
      Carmen Bianca Bakker
        <a href="https://www.carmenbianca.eu/en/post/2018-03-09-how-we-conduct-ourselves/">
        réfléchie sur le Code de Conduite de FreeBSD récemment mis à jour</a>,
examine les dangers de discrimination positive et montre comment par
opposition un Code de Conduite accueillant et impartial peut aider les chiens et
les chats à vivre heureux pour toujours.
      Daniel Pocock
        <a href="https://danielpocock.com/swisspost-swissid-another-nail-in-the-coffin-sovereignty">
        médite sur la nouvellement présentée carte d'identité suisse</a>, ses
dangers potentiels pour la vie privé et les référendums publics.
      Erik Albers a demandé à notre communauté, sur plusieurs canaux, de
permettre à la FSFE d'être au courant des événements à venir sur les Logiciels Libres en 2018 qui sont
        dans l'intérêt de la communauté de la FSFE. Grâce à notre stagiaire actuel
        Vincent, ils ont tous fini sur le <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events">
        calendrier du wiki de la FSFE</a> donc nos équipes et la communauté peut
les utiliser pour organiser leurs présences à ces événements.
      Björn Schießle, le coordinateur de l'Allemagne de la FSFE
a fait une conférence sur
        <a href="https://www.schiessle.org/articles/2017/11/14/software-freedom-in-the-cloud/">
        la liberté des logiciels dans le cloud</a> at "Chemnitzer
        Linuxtage" à Chemnitz, en Allemagne.
      Erik Albers a fait
        <a href="https://platform.internetfreedomfestival.org/en/IFF2018/public/schedule/custom/478">
        une conférence à propos de Public Money? Public Code!</a> au 'Internet Freedom
        Festival' à Valence, en Espagne.
      Le nouvellement créé groupe local de la FSFE à Madrid a eu ses
premières réunions le 
        <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2018/0222-encuentro-local-madrid">
        22 février</a> et le 
        <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2018/0303-encuentro-grupo-local-madrid">
        3 mars</a>.
      La FSFE a été présente avec un stand au "Chemnitzer Linuxtage" à 
  Chemnitz (en Allemagne), au T3cgfest à Madrid (en Espagne) et au Internet
  Freedom Festival à Valence (en Espagne).
    Soyez actifs<p>Si vous ne l'avez pas encore fait, faites-nous savoir quel est votre
      événement sur le Logiciel Libre préféré, qui, selon vous, est ou devrait
      être dans l'intérêt de la communauté de la FSFE de monter un kiosque ou
      participer à une conférence ou à un atelier. La manière la plus simple de
      faire cela est d'envoyer un email à <a href="mailto:contactATfsfeDOTorg">
      contact@fsfe.org</a> avec pour sujet "Free Software event 2018".
      Merci d'expliquer quel est le sujet de l’événement, combien de participants
      sont attendus, et la langue principale. Avant de nous informer, merci de
      vérifier si nous n'avons pas déjà cet événement <a href="http://blog.3rik.cc/2018/03/free-software-events-in-europe-in-2018/">dans
      notre liste</a>.</p><p>Si vous allez à d'autres événements régulièrement ou bientôt, que ça soit
      une grande conférence ou un rassemblement local, équipez-vous du
      matériel de promotion de la FSFE que vous pouvez <a href="http://fsfe.org/promo">commander
      gratuitement</a>.</p>Contribuez à notre lettre d'information<p>Si vous voulez partager des idées, des images ou des nouvelles, envoyez les
      nous. Comme toujours, l'adresse est<a href="mailto:newsletterATfsfeDOTorg">
      newsletter@fsfe.org</a>. Nous havons hâte d'avoir de vos nouvelles !</p><p>Merci à notre communauté, tous les 
      <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">volontaires</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">
      supporters</a> and <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">et donateurs</a> qui rendent notre travail possible. Et merci à
      <a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators">nos traducteurs</a>, qui vous permettent de lire cette lettre d'information dans votre langue maternelle.</p><p>Vos éditeurs, 
      Erik Albers et Max Mehl</p><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-03">Rejoignez notre équipe de combattants pour la liberté.</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title:
Call for Participation: FSFE Track About "Digital Education" During the Libre Software Meeting in Strasbourg, France

content:
Call for Participation: FSFE Track About "Digital Education" During the Libre Software Meeting in Strasbourg, France<p>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.</p><p>The Free Software Foundation Europe is happy to align with
  Hackstub, the Strasbourg hackerspace that is organising the Libre
  Software Meeting 2018, and to generate an own FSFE track. With the
  main topic being "Digital Education: building captivity or new
  empowerment?" we would like to concentrate on the golden cages that
  surround us and that rope more and more people in every day. For us
  at the FSFE, digital education is not just about college education.
  It is also about the digital literacy we need to spread within the
  digital society.</p><p>We have seen a lot of new forms of social exchange and
  collaboration coming up in the past decade and are in a stage where
  there is hardly any day passing at our work place, in our social
  network or our daily environment that does not require the
  interaction with software in any form. A lot of this software is
  proprietary or interacts with other proprietary software. Every day,
  new people teach themselves or are told how to use these proprietary
  services - be it by order of their employer, by peer-pressure in
  their networks or even enforcement by administrations. In some way or
  the other, every day new people get their own "digital
  education".</p><p>In the FSFE's track we look for ways that do not rope us in but
  empower us instead. Free Software solutions that give us the liberty
  to keep sovereignty of our data, to collaborate on new technologies
  and to help everyone to understand the technology behind. You know
  about a good piece of software that other people can learn from or
  use in their daily interactions? You have insights on administrative
  or educative processes? You can explain contexts that lead to
  dependencies or empowerment?</p><p>Then apply for the FSFE track in one of the four categories:
  "Initiation", "Tech", "Society" or "Culture &amp; Art". We are
  looking for talks and workshops. You can find more detailed
  information about the different topics on the <a href="https://2018.rmll.info/">LSM2018 pages</a>. The deadline to
  apply is 15 April.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180414-01.html
title:
Call for Participation: FSFE Community Meeting and FSFE track at the Libre Software Meeting in Strasbourg, France

content:
Call for Participation: FSFE community meeting and FSFE track at the Libre Software Meeting<p>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, <a href="https://rmll2018.info/conferences/RMLL2018/program/proposals/new">apply now!</a></p>        <img src="media/010adfc2.20170703-FSFE-team-at-RMLL-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/20170703-FSFE-team-at-RMLL-800px.jpg"/>
                <p>FSFE at RMLL 2017 (CC-BY-SA 2.0 Julie Missbutterflies)</p>         <p>The Free Software Foundation Europe is happy to align with Hackstub, the Strasbourg hackerspace that is organising the <a href="https://2018.rmll.info/">Libre Software Meeting 2018</a> (also known as Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre / RMLL). That means that the FSFE's community meeting 2018 will be part of the LSM and vice versa. As the LSM is a big community-driven event by itself, this cooperation offers an exciting environment for the FSFE community to meet up itself as well as to connect with the broader and international Free Software community. More details of the meeting will come in the next weeks but you can already be assured that the content of the meeting will be made by and for the community. There will be a dedicated FSFE room during the weekend days of 7 and 8 of July and a full-day agenda on Monday, July 9. The registration form for the community meeting is still to come, stay tuned.</p><p>Besides the community meeting, the FSFE is also organising its own track. 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, better <a href="https://rmll2018.info/conferences/RMLL2018/program/proposals/new">apply now!</a> (choose "Free Software Foundation Europe" when asked about "Track")</p><p>One topic of our track will be "Digital Education" - a topic that ranges from school education via code literacy to understanding of ethical concepts behind information technology. But you are free to propose other topics. Generally, we are looking forward for inspiring talks and workshops covering golden cages and user's liberation - in educational environments as well as in our everyday lives. You can also find more details in our <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180322-01">previous announcement</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Newsletter - April 2018
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-April-2018
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201804.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter April 2018More than 11.000 signatures handed over to the EU legislators asking to change dangerous copyright reform proposal<p>On March 19, the Free Software Foundation Europe together with OpenMedia, jointly delivered a petition signed by more than 11.000 individuals, who ask European politicians to save internet from the  irreversible dangerous impact of the ongoing copyright reform, and in particular <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171130-01">Article 13</a>, which imposes preventive blocking of online code repositories. These signatures were addressed to the EU co-legislators: the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, and received by MEP Julia Reda, the shadow rapporteur in the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) which drives the main parliamentary effort in the current copyright reform. </p><img src="media/296138fe.201803-malaja-reda-petition-article13-800px.jpeg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/201803-malaja-reda-petition-article13-800px.jpeg"/>
			    	  <p>MEP Julia Reda receives more than 11.000 signatures against the dangerous impact of Article 13 from the FSFE's policy coordinator Polina Malaja.</p>
					  <p>All signatures have been collected jointly by our <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a> campaign that highlights the threats that current EU copyright reform imposes on Free Software, and <a href="https://savethelink.org/">Save the Link</a> that highlights how current proposals aim at censoring online links. </p><p>Although it seems to be difficult to finally achieve a complete deletion of Article 13, we have seen some positive developments in the position of JURI when it comes to revising the <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/proposal-directive-european-parliament-and-council-copyright-digital-single-market">initially proposed text</a> by the European Commission. The proposed compromise amendments say, among other things, that code sharing services will be excluded from an obligation to install arbitrary upload filters and monitor its users' activities. However, in the current text, this only applies for code sharing services which act for "non-commercial" purposes. Such references to "non-commercial" services still leave plenty of room for legal uncertainty when it comes to liability of online code hosting services. In conclusion, Article 13 continues to be a threat to Free Software that is not in any definition connected to being "non-commercial". </p><p>Together with Open Forum Europe and other allies we keep on working hard to ensure that legislators understand the differences and needs of Free Software in Europe. If you like to support our work, <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/#sign-letter">sign our letter</a>, tell other people about it or help us with your <a href="http://fsfe.org/join/savecodeshare">financial support</a>. </p><p><a href="http://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-04">Join our community of freedom fighters.</a></p>What else have
      we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE
		Our system hackers set up <a href="https://community.fsfe.org/">Discourse</a> as a new volunteer-run service provided by the FSFE. It is still in a beta phase and currently serves as a test case for specific topics. Over time we will evaluate whether it fits in the FSFE’s communication setup and community. We would like to invite you to become part of this new service, help us improving it and enjoy the discussions: <a href="https://community.fsfe.org/">community.fsfe.org</a>
		Isabel Drost-Fromm <a href="http://blog.isabel-drost-fromm.de/posts/my-board-nomination-statement-2018.html">published her own nomination statement</a> to the Apache Software Foundation board to help bring more transparency to people outside the foundation. 
		Jens Lechtenbörger explains how he uses meta-data files and emacs-reveal to <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2018/04/01/oer-figures-with-license-meta-data-in-emacs-reveal/">automatically display</a> proper licensing and attribution information in his presentations.
		Daniel Kulesz <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/kuleszdl/2018/04/02/looking-for-a-secure-smartphone-running-only-free-software-good-luck/">compares different ROMs</a> for Android phones regarding questions of freedoms included, security, support and more aspects.
		The FSFE team Italy was present at "Merge-it" with a session about our "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign and the current state of its implementation in Italy and EU. 
		The <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/System-Hackers">System Hackers</a> held a meeting during Easter, to talk about how to improve its internal workflow and the digital services provided by the FSFE. The team was able to set new policies regarding services maintenance, add more documentation, define the steps needed to comply with the GDPR, and agreed on long-term goals.
    Get Active<p>The FSFE's community meeting 2018 will be part of the Libre Software Meeting (LSM, also known as RMLL) in Strasbourg and vice versa. LSM is maybe the biggest community-driven Free Software meeting in France and therefore offers an exciting environment for the FSFE community to meet up itself as well as to connect with the broader Free Software community. On this occasion, the FSFE will also organise an own track on the first days of LSM, on 7/8/9 of July. The <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180414">call for participation</a> is running until April 30. Do not miss it. This is your chance to combine taking part in the FSFE's community meeting and to give a talk at the LSM 2018 at the same time. 
  So, before you forget it, <a href="https://rmll2018.info/conferences/RMLL2018/program/proposals/new">apply now</a>!</p><p>One of our topics will be <a href="https://2018.rmll.info">"Digital Education"</a> - a topic that ranges from school education via code literacy to the understanding of ethical concepts behind information technology. But you are free to propose other topics. Generally, we look forward for inspiring talks and workshops covering golden cages and user's liberation - in educational environments as well as in our everyday lives. </p>Contribute to our newsletter<p>If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to
      us. As always, the address is <a href="mailto:newsletterATfsfeDOTorg">
      newsletter@fsfe.org</a>. We're looking forward to hearing from
      you!</p><p>Thanks to our community, all the
	<a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">volunteers</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">
	supporters</a> and <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donors</a> who make our
	work possible. And thanks to
	<a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators">our translators</a>, who
	enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.</p><p>Your editors, 
	Erik Albers and Polina Malaja</p><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-04">Join our community of freedom
      fighters.</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Newsletter - May 2018
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-May-2018
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201805.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter May 2018LLW2018: The FSFE brings together top legal experts to debate about legal and licensing issues around Free Software<p>Following a more than a decade long tradition, the FSFE once again led its annual <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/legal-conference.en.html">Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop</a> (LLW) in Barcelona, Spain, as a meeting point for world-leading legal experts to debate over issues and best practices surrounding Free Software licences. This year we decided to bring the event back to its roots and to emphasise the "Workshop" part in its original title. Our 3-day conference attracted around 120 legal experts and came with an unprecedented amount of parallel tracks and interactive sessions designed to dive into the most contentious topics in the legal world of Free Software.</p><p>Some of the topics covered during the conference included an update on how to build a successful <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/752485/">legal defense strategy</a> against a copyright troll, recommendations on how to tackle <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/752982/">challenges of compliance in container images</a>, as well as an overview of what decades of Free Software licensing can teach us in <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/753648/">data sharing</a>. A more detailed report of this important event is to come during the next weeks.</p><img src="media/e92909d2.20180419-polina-malaja-at-llw-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/20180419-polina-malaja-at-llw-800px.jpg"/><p>Polina Malaja, the FSFE's legal coordinator, moderating during LLW 2018</p>
					  The FSFE community as a case study<p>Since more than 15 years, the FSFE is an enduring non-profit organisation with a distributed network of people, who contribute their time and effort into <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/mission">our common mission</a> to empower users to control technology. That is why <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/poderi/?p=38">Giacomo Poderi chose the FSFE community</a> as one of his cases for his research in the <a href="http://poderi.eu/research/issp/">“Infrastructuring SuStainable Playbour“ (ISSP) project</a>. This project investigates the sustainability of collaborative spaces, as commons, and it focuses on participants’ continuous contribution to the maintenance and development of such ‘places’.</p><p>If you are contributing or contributed in the past to the FSFE's mission and you feel fine with being interviewed, please get in touch with Giacomo Poderi. No automated data gathering is involved in this research and no sensitive data are expected to be collected. Furthermore, anonymity of participants will be preserved in any dissemination activity related to this research.</p><p><a href="http://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-05">Join our community of freedom fighters.</a></p>What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE
	While you better not start using Facebook in the first place, currently many people decide to move away from Facebook. Sebastian Schauenburg writes about his own experience of <a href="https://www.schauenburg.nl/posts/2018/04/12-disconnecting-from-facebook/">"Disconnecting from Facebook"</a>.
	Evaggelos Balaskas <a href="https://balaskas.gr/blog/2018/05/13/usbguard/">blogs about USBGuard</a> and other measurements to protect your system from the harmful attach of an unknown USB device.
	Daniel Pocock runs a crowdfunding campaign to <a href="https://danielpocock.com/powering-a-ham-radio-demo-oscal-2018">help run a ham radio station at OSCAL 2018</a> and <a href="https://danielpocock.com/gofundme-beware-bait-and-switch">blogs about initial problems with GoFundMe</a> beforehand.
	Erik Albers was on a <a href="https://greenbuzzberlin.de/event/sustainable-side-technology/">panel about "The Sustainable Side of Technology"</a>, organized by GreenBuzz in Betahaus in Berlin, Germany.
	Matthias Kirschner gave a talk at the Internet policy forum of the social-democratic party in Germany in Berlin, Germany. 
	The FSFE has been present with a booth at the OpenTechSummit and at Netzfest in Berlin (Germany) and Corso Leopold in Munich (Germany)
Get Active<p>We have been running a <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180414-01">call for participation</a> for the FSFE track during the Libre Software Meeting 2018 and the FSFE's community meeting from July 7 to 9 in Strasbourg, France. Thanks to numerous submissions we still need to set the last details of the agenda, but you can already get a first glance of our track as well as the most important information about accommodation and organisation <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/LSMandCommunityMeeting2018">on our wiki-page</a>. </p><p>If you like to join the Libre Software Meeting and our community meeting be quick to organise your trip and book a suitable hotel. We expect many people to attend the event, while Strasbourg attracts a lot of visitors during the summer weekends in general. </p>Contribute to our newsletter<p>If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to
      us. As always, the address is <a href="mailto:newsletterATfsfeDOTorg">
      newsletter@fsfe.org</a>. We're looking forward to hearing from
      you!</p><p>Thanks to our community, all the
	<a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">volunteers</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">
	supporters</a> and <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donors</a> who make our
	work possible. And thanks to
	<a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators">our translators</a>, who
	enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.</p><p>Your editor, 
	Erik Albers</p><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-05">Join our community of freedom
      fighters.</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE simplifies membership procedures for contributors
uri: FSFE-simplifies-membership-procedures-for-contributors
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180526-01.html
content:
FSFE simplifies membership procedures for contributors<p>During <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171107-01">last year's General Assembly</a> the FSFE's Council was asked to prepare a constitution change to remove the so-called "Fellowship seats". This motion was adopted with 20:3 votes and zero abstentions. Today the FSFE's General Assembly approved in an extraordinary meeting the removal of the Fellowship seats. In future, access to membership of the FSFE shall be facilitated through the normal membership procedures for  active FSFE contributors.</p><p>Initially, <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/legal/constitution#id-fellowship-seats">elections for Fellowship seats</a> were introduced to give the FSFE’s sustaining donors access to the <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#general-assembly">General Assembly</a> and therewith a voice on strategic decisions inside the FSFE. However, the FSFE's General Assembly now sees the downside of such elections despite its initially good intentions.  As the community would never accept similar representation for corporate donors it is inappropriate to have such representation for any purely financial contributor.</p><p>Evaluating our <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election">nine elections</a>, the positive aspects of these elections have been that many of the former representatives have become permanent members and valuable additions to the FSFE's General Assembly. The negative side was that we forced active contributors to run against each other in elections where the final decision on the membership was solely taken by financial contributors without reference to proved dedication and expertise of our candidates. This unfortunate mechanism discouraged active community members from applying for membership in the past.</p><p>Based on the fact that all new members who joined through Fellowship elections had already been active contributors before they were elected, we believe that the better way to grow our membership is by encouraging active contributors to become GA members, without the downsides of the elections. Even more, it gives room to integrate more than just one member a year.</p><p>During today's extraordinary general assembly it was decided by 21 votes to 1 to remove the Fellowship seats. Now  we will work to further improve <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute">the documentation about how to contribute to the FSFE</a> and how to  <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/GA">become a member of the FSFE</a>. </p><p>If you want to speak with us in person or become an active contributor we encourage you to participate at this years <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/LSMandCommunityMeeting2018"> community meeting</a> from July 7 to 9 during the Libre Software Meeting in Strasbourg, France. We look forward to meeting you there.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE is hiring: EU public policy programme manager
uri: FSFE-is-hiring-EU-public-policy-programme-manager
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180529-01.html
content:
    FSFE is hiring: EU public policy programme manager
  <p>We are looking for a programme manager for our policy work. The person will work 35 hours per week with our team in the FSFE's Berlin office. There will be coordination with remote staff and volunteers, as well as regular travels to Brussels and other countries..</p>About the FSFE<p>Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives; and it is important that this technology empowers rather than restricts us. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt and share software. These rights help support other fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, press and privacy.</p><p>The FSFE helps individuals and organisations to understand how Free Software contributes to freedom, transparency, and self-determination. It enhances users' rights by abolishing barriers to Free Software adoption, encourages people to use and develop Free Software, and provides resources to enable everyone to further promote Free Software in Europe.</p><p>Our main policy topics cover Free Software and Open Standards issues on the EU and member state level. Currently the main focus is on <a href="https://publiccode.eu">"Public Money Public Code"</a> campaign, <a href="http://savecodeshare.eu/">"Save Code Share"</a>, <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/">"EU Radio Lockdown directive"</a> </p><p>We work together with the European Commission and Parliament, as well as with politicians and civil servants in EU countries. This work is either done directly by staff or together with volunteers, as well as other Free Software and digital rights associations around Europe.</p>Main responsibilities
		Identify and monitor EU policy developments and alert the FSFE's network on relevant issues;

		Lead or support policy campaigns by the FSFE

		Prepare and organise events and meetings with the community and policy makers;

		Ad-hoc research on diverse policy areas;

		Contribute to the delivery of EU projects and actively monitor further opportunities;	

		Support the creation of communication materials;

		Represent the FSFE towards policy makers and other actors on all levels in EU institutions.
Qualifications
		Knowledge of EU's political environment, plus ability to understand or learn the policy environment of Member States on demand. Ideally demonstrated by work experience.

		Strong written and verbal communication skills, ideally public speaking skills. * Ability to find compromises when working within the team and with other partner organisations.

		Good knowledge about the Free Software field and affinity with the FSFE's values and mission

		Being able to explain technical issues to policy makers and policy issues to a mainly technical community

		Fluency in written and spoken English; other EU languages (ideally French or German) are considered an asset

		Experience in campaigning for social and political issues

		Knowledge and/or experience in understanding the non-profit sector, especially experience in working with volunteers.

		Work experience in the policy related field

		Knowledge how to use a GNU/Linux laptop is a plus.
	Attitude<p>We are looking for a reliable team player who is passionate about
driving new initiatives to make the world a better place for further
generations. While working patiently and discreetly on concrete mid-term
improvements you should do this in a sustainable way and keep the
long-term focus on the FSFE's mission.</p>How to apply<p>To apply please send a maximum one-page cover letter including a salary
proposal for a 35 hour week and a maximum two-page CV (only PDFs are
accepted) by email to jobs@fsfe.org subject "Policy" (your personal data
will be deleted 3 months after we took a decision). Closing date for
applications is 24 June 2018. Interviews with selected candidates
will take place in early July. Start date for the job would be ~15
August 2018.</p><p>Free Software is meant to serve everyone regardless of their age,
ability or disability, gender identity, sex, race, religion, or sexual
orientation. Hence, we encourage applications from all backgrounds and
promise to judge all applications on merit, without reference to any of
the characteristics listed.  To promote diversity and equality in the
Free Software community, we will give preference to applicants who
identify as part of traditionally underrepresented demographic groups in
technology for applications of equal strength.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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uri: LLW2018-The-FSFE-brings-together-top-legal-experts-to-debate-about-cr
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180530-02.html
title:
LLW2018: The FSFE brings together top legal experts to debate about
cross-cutting legal and licensing issues around Free Software

content:
LLW2018: The FSFE brings together top legal experts to debate about
cross-cutting legal and licensing issues around Free Software<p>Following more than a decade long tradition, the
FSFE once again led its annual Free Software Legal and Licensing
Workshop (LLW) in 2018: a meeting point for world-leading legal experts
to debate issues and best practices surrounding Free Software licences.
This year we decided to bring the event back to its roots and emphasise
the "Workshop" part in its original title: around 120 legal experts
gathered for a 3-day conference in Barcelona, Spain with an
unprecedented amount of parallel tracks and interactive sessions
designed to dive into the most contentious topics in the legal world of
Free Software.</p><p>Traditionally, the whole event is covered under the
  <a href="https://www.chathamhouse.org/chatham-house-rule">Chatham House
Rule</a>, enabling confidential discussions under fair terms for all the participants.
However, the part of the conference not covered by Chatham House Rule
(as explicitly stated by speakers) was reflected in a series of articles
by Jake Edge from LWN.net, who wrote about the following discussions
that had taken place during the LLW2018:</p><p>Marcus von Welser and Armijn Hemel gave an overview of the recent GPL
compliance <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/752485/">case</a>  in Germany, where
Patrick McHardy claimed that the company Geniatech violated his
copyright in Linux kernel.  The regional court in Cologne (Germany),
where the case was brought into action in 2017 initially granted McHardy
the injunction and obliged Geniatech to stop from distributing any
version of the kernel. Geniatech appealed the injunction on the grounds
of being too broad and restrictive, as Patrick McHardy cannot be
perceived as a co-author of Linux kernel, as he claimed.  In fact, his
contributions to Linux kernel under GPL v.2 could only be considered as
adaptations under German copyright law which gives him right to claim
the discontinuation of distributing kernel versions with his
modifications only. According to Marcus von Welser, there are more than
100 officially released versions of the kernel that do not include any
contributions from McHardy. By ordering Geniatech not to distribute any
version of the kernel, the court was covering kernels that were not even
part of the dispute with McHardy. After an oral hearing at the higher
regional court of Cologne in March 2018, McHardy eventually withdrew his
application for an injunction. The case shows that there is a need for a
wider information exchange on how to build adequate legal defense
strategies against copyright trolls.</p><p>Dirk Hohndel presented the <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/752982/">challenges of compliance of container
images</a>. With containers being a hot
topic, there are many issues with container images and their compliance,
according to Hohndel. Primarily, it is a common practice to just copy a
container image from random internet locations, ignoring licences.
According to Hohndel, such practice is not only a security nightmare but
also a "rabbit hole" in terms of identifying what is actually shipped in
such containers.  While it is already hard to figure out which packages
are included in the build, it is even harder to fix any compliance
issues after you have identified any. The version and which patches are
applied are also difficult to determine.  Beyond that, the licences
under which those packages are distributed are not obvious. This is why
it is important to train software developers about the pitfalls of the
container build systems, according to Hohndel. Additionally, containers
need to be built with good compliance practices in mind: for example,
starting from a base that has known-good package versions, corresponding
source code, and licences. Needles to say, the anti-pattern of
installing container images from random internet locations has to be
avoided.</p><p>Mike Dolan <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/753648/">presented</a> the Community
Data Licence Agreement, a legal instrument to enable sharing relevant
data for applications like machine learning, blockchains, and open
geolocation, similarly to how Free Sofware licences work for software.
The idea behind the CDLA is to share data openly using the knowledge
acquired from decades of sharing source code. There are two types of
agreements in CDLA inspired by copyleft and non-copyleft licences for
software. Solely applying Free Software licences to data is not optimal,
as there are fundamental differences between data and source code, and
this is why a separate legal instrument is needed in order to address
issues that are data-specific. For example, data can be perpetual and
this is why it might be impossible to recreate the same conditions under
which such data was gathered. That means the license under which such
data is released may be critical to how it can be used decades or even
centuries from now.</p><p>Participants were also updated about recent developments and the
Appeal's court's reasoning in the on-going legal battle between Oracle
and Google over latter's use of Java application programming interfaces
(APIs) in its Android operating system. It is long-standing tradition to
borrow APIs from different products in software development in order to
ensure compatibility between programs. In short, an API allows two or
more programs to speak to each other by using common specifications.
Oracle brought a legal action against Google back in 2012 claiming its
copyright violation over the use of APIs written in Java. In 2012, a
district court ruled that APIs are not subject to copyright. That
decision was overturned by an appeals court and returned to the same
district court. In 2016, the jury ruled that Google’s use of the Java
APIs qualified as permitted "fair use" under US law. Oracle appealed the
jury decision, stating that Google copied former's APIs solely for
commercial purposes, copied thousands more lines of code than necessary,
as well as lured Oracle's customers from licensing Java SE to switching
to Android because Google provided free access to it. In March 2018, the
appeals court sided with Oracle and ruled that Google's use of Java APIs
in question was not fair as a matter of law. While the case is far from
over, as Google can further appeal the decision in the Supreme court, it
may set a precedent for software development in general.</p><p>Artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision making and its
connection to Free Software in the 21st century was another topic for a
debate during the conference. When it comes to generalisation of
automated decision making, we need to look beyond a Free Software
licence to meaningfully address all the issues affecting users' rights.
In the workshop discussion, participants concluded that automated
decision making raises points that are not easy to solve. In particular,
we expect every automated decision that affects humans to be accompanied
by a human understandable explanation of why this decision was made. For
machine learning techniques, and in particular deep learning, there is
little understanding on how to ensure that AI is explainable, and it is
currently an active area for research. There are also challenges when it
comes to transparency and accountability of decision making processes.
In particular cases, this criterion is impossible to achieve, e.g. by
providing full access to medical history of a population used to train
certain algorithms.</p><p>In another interactive workshop session, the participants gathered
to identify and address the common legal pitfalls for public
procurement of Free Software. The participants first identified a few
real-life cases on how Free Software procurement process can be
regulated. A legal requirement to prioritise procurement of Free
Software (like it is the case in <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140116-01.en.html">Italy</a>) is a good option for more Free Software in
public sector in law and theory. However, the Italian case lacks the
practical implementation, as the law does not foresee sufficient
sanctions in case of non-compliance. Another case comes from town of
Barcelona, Spain, where advanced policies and guidelines for procuring
Free Software for public sector are adopted on the local municipality
level. In case of Barcelona, the decision to move towards more Free
Software in public sector is made by procuring public authorities
themselves, rather than by a top-down legislative requirement. The
downside of such a "soft law", however, is the uncertainty of positive
procurement policies once the mandate of politicians runs out.  There
is, therefore, a need for a culture change in public administrations
and a strong political will to change existing preconditions in public
procurement.</p><p>The workshop would not have been possible without the generous support
of all the event's sponsors. In particular, we would like to thank our
Platinum Sponsors: Intel, Red Hat, and The Linux Foundation.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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How Spanish administrations reuse software - an interview with Elena Muñoz Salinero about best practices.

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How Spanish administrations reuse software - an interview with Elena Muñoz Salinero about best practices.<p>The Technology Transfer Centre (CTT) is an initiative run by the Spanish government whose goal is to facilitate sharing and reuse of software and services among public administrations. To shed light on this best practice, we have conducted an interview with Elena Muñoz Salinero, head of CTT, to ask her about the legal, political and technological background of the CTT.
</p><p>In a first interview of a series related to our <a href="http://publiccode.eu/">Public Money? Public Code! campaign</a>, we have asked <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/sharing-and-reuse-it-solutions/elena-munoz-salinero">Elena Muñoz Salinero</a>, Head of Telematics Systems Area within the General Secretary of Digital Administration in the Ministry of Finance and Public Function of Spain. In this role, she leads the Technology Transfer Centre of the Spanish Government, whose objective is to favor the re-use of software solutions between public administrations by publishing code under Free Software licenses. Read about the juridical and technical background of the CTT as well as obligations on the Spanish administration to use and reuse Free Software, about license questions and how other administrations and users even outside of Spain can benefit.</p>
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<p>Elena Muñoz graduated in Telecommunications Engineering at Polytechnics University of Madrid and joined the General State Administration in 2003. Now she is Head of Telematics Systems Area within the General Secretary of Digital Administration in the Ministry of Finance and Public Function of Spain. Since 2007, among other activities, she has worked in the field of reuse of applications and services provided by public administrations and she leads the initiative of the Technology Transfer Centre of the Spanish Government.</p>
<p>FSFE: You are leading the Technology Transfer Centre 
 (CTT) of the Spanish Government, whose goal is to favor the re-use of 
 software solutions between public administrations. Can you explain in 
 short the legal and political background of the CTT and what you are 
 doing exactly to achieve this goal?</p><p>As you have said, the <a href="http://administracionelectronica.gob.es/ctt">Technology Transfer Centre (“CTT”)</a> publishes a repository of software solutions provided by Spanish public administrations (local, 
 regional and national levels). It also allows the 
 collaborative development of information technology programs for 
 e-government in the <a href="https://github.com/ctt-gob-es">CTT-Forge</a>, right now integrated in GitHub.</p><p>The CTT origin dates back to 2007, as the answer to the legal 
 mandate established by Article 46 of the 11/2007 Law for Citizens 
 Electronic Access to Public Services. At that time it was already seen 
 that having electronic public services at all administrations levels 
 was only possible, in an efficient way, if public administrations 
 could share their progress. The reuse requirements were extended in 
 our National Interoperability Framework.</p><p>And finally, in 2016, entered into force new requirements updated (and increased) in 
 articles 157 and 158 of the new law 40/2015 of legal regime of public 
 sector, the basic law for all the Spanish public sector which defines 
 how public administrations should work. As you can see, the sharing 
 and reuse of ICTs concept in Spain is a fundamental basis.</p><p>FSFE: Is CTT only offering Free Software solutions, meaning 
 code that is published under a Free Software or Open Source license? 
 If so, do you know what is the most favorited software license used by 
 Spanish administrations?</p><p>From the beginning, we thought that “sharing and reuse” is a broader
 concept than “free software”. For us, 
 this concept has always also been linked to the reuse of services, the 
 nowadays called “cloud services”.</p><p>In the CTT, you can find many different kinds of reusable solutions:
 applications, common services, semantic assets, etc.
 Even the applications can be totally open source, only “open source” 
 for public administrations or only for use in the public sector.
 It is a decision of the provider.</p><p>Our general recommendation and preferred licence is the EUPL 
 (European Union Public Licence). Although of course we accept any 
 other open source licence.</p><p>FSFE: Within the Technology Transfer Centre are you hosting the code of software yourself or do you mainly run kind of a database of available  solutions and than you route visitors to the other project's code  hosting platform?</p><p>In this case the answer is “both”. We are a 
 “kind of database” of available solutions but you can choose between 
 hosting the code in the CTT, hosting it in the CTT-forge (in GitHub) 
 or hosting it in any other platform. We are very flexible.</p><p>"The main concept is that Public 
Administrations should share their own developed
applications if another Public Administration asks for them."</p><p>FSFE: Is it obligatory for a public administration to 
 consider CTT and to favor a reusable Free Software solution over other 
 solutions, including even cheaper options of proprietary software? In 
 practice, how is the obligation implemented?</p><p>The main concept is that Public Administrations should share their own developed 
 applications if another Public Administration asks for them. Of 
 course, they must have the intellectual rights to doing so.</p><p>The new law also says that, before developing something new, Public 
 Administrations should check if there is an application or service 
 similar in the CTT. And in that case they must reuse it.</p><p>However, if you can justify that there is a cheaper option for your 
 organization using any other solution (open source or proprietary) you 
 can go ahead with it.</p><p>FSFE: Do you also help other administrations pro-actively
 or in case they ask you to find a solution for them, that fits?
 Or do they have to find a solution on 
 their own? Do you offer any kind of service help?</p><p>Each solution is responsible for offering its own support but it is not 
 compulsory. They are contributing it for free so it is up to them 
 whether to provide support or not. Our ministry is indeed one of the 
 biggest providers of reusable solutions for other public 
 administrations. We provide many open source applications and many 
 cloud services to all public administrations, we try to cover the 
 major needs for the provision of e-government services. In these 
 cases, we provide support for anyone trying to use them.</p><p>FSFE: What about Software that is still developed by 
 administrations inside Spain or that has been developed but maybe is 
 not yet Free Software? Are you helping these administrations to free 
 their software and put it into your repository? Do you offer legal or 
 community support?</p><p>We help public administrations trying to free their software in different ways. For them, we have developed a very interesting guide <a href="http://administracionelectronica.gob.es/PAe/NTinteroperabilidad#REUTILIZACIONYTRANSFERENCIA">Asset Reuse - Guide to Asset Publication and Licensing</a>. The CTT also offers a support service where you can ask questions about the process, how to choose the license, etc. And of course, we are intensive users of the support of the European Commission regarding EUPL available in JOINUP. </p><p>FSFE: In this year's Share and re-use conference, Spain was awarded 
 best with four awards in three categories for four different Free 
 Software solutions. Do you think that Free Software is an important or 
 growing topic inside the administrative culture of Spain?</p><p>These awards are just the proof and the recognition of all the efforts that 
 have been carried out for many years in Spain. Free software is not 
 just a growing topic in Spanish administrative culture but a 
 consolidated fact.</p><p>FSFE: How is the general acceptance and feedback towards 
 CTT across the administrations throughout Spain?</p><p>The feedback is very positive in all senses. We have many providers and many reusers.</p><p>"There is still needed a major cultural change, bear in 
 mind, from scratch, that the software developed should be reusable in 
 the future"</p><p>However the general complaint is the diversity of open source licenses. If we had 
 only an extremely reduced set, the analysis for freeing the software 
 will be much simpler and many more providers will be eager to freeing 
 their solutions having all the guarantees.</p><p>The other drawback is that software reuse is not easy. The bigger the product the more 
 difficult it is to reuse it. All products produced in public 
 administrations (and in any other big company) are much customized for 
 the specific characteristics and behavior of that organization. In 
 general, they have not been developed bearing in mind that any other 
 could reuse it, therefore, there is always needed some efforts 
 (sometimes quite a big one) to adapt it to the new environment.</p><p>There is still needed a major cultural change, bear in 
 mind, from scratch, that the software developed should be reusable in 
 the future.</p><p>FSFE: Would it be possible 
 for an administration outside Spain to find help in your service or to 
 add software solutions to it?</p><p>Any public administration, from 
 inside or outside Spain, can be a user and a contributor to any of our 
 open source solutions. However, we only provide support and add 
 solutions from Spanish public administrations.</p><p>FSFE: Is there any way for our readers who do not work in a 
 Spanish administration to help and contribute to the repository of CTT 
 or the software solutions offered?</p><p>Yes, of course. Many of the solutions are already in GitHub
 where you can help and contribute as you do to any other one. 
 Additionally, some of the open source solutions are working as an 
 established open source community where anyone can contribute.</p><p>Interviewer: Erik Albers</p>With our <a href="http://publiccode.eu/">Public Money? Public Code! campaign</a>, the FSFE demands that publicly financed software developed for the public sector shall be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. In order to help understand our call and its benefits, we run a series of interviews that highlight good examples and use-cases as best practices. Our interview partners will be policy makers and decision takers, authorities and developers, that in one way or another are already implementing public code. <p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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Comment les administrations espagnoles réutilisent les logiciels - Interview avec Elena Muñoz Salinero sur leurs meilleures pratiques.

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Comment les administrations espagnoles réutilisent les logiciels - Interview avec Elena Muñoz Salinero sur leurs meilleures pratiques.<p>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.</p><p>Pour cette première interview de notre série pour la campagne
        <a href="http://publiccode.eu/">Public Money? Public Code!</a>,
        nous avons demandé à <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/sharing-and-reuse-it-solutions/elena-munoz-salinero">Elena Muñoz Salinero</a>,
        Directrice du Pôle des Système Télématiques au sein du Secrétariat
        Général de l'Administration Numérique du Ministère des Finances
        et de la Fonction Publique d'Espagne. Pour ces fonctions, elle
        dirige le Centre de Transfert Technologique du Gouvernement
        Espagnol dont le but est de promouvoir la réutilisation de solutions
        logicielles entre les administrations publiques, par la publication
        du code sous licence Logiciel Libre. Nous allons discuter ici des
        travaux juridiques et techniques du CTT, de l'obligation par les
        administrations espagnoles d'utiliser et réutiliser les Logiciels
        Libres, des questions de licences, de combien les autres administrations
        et utilisateurs même en dehors de l'espagne peuvent en bénéficier.</p>
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        <p>Elena Muñoz est diplômée d'Ingénierie en Télécommunications de
        l'Université Polytechnique de Madrid, et a rejoint l'Administration
        Générale d'État en 2003. Elle est désormais directrice du Pôle des
        Systèmes Télématiques  au sein du Secrétariat Général de l'Administration
        Numérique du Ministère des Finances et de la Fonction Publique d'Espagne.
        Depuis 2007, entre autres activités, elle a travaillé dans le domaine de
        la réutilisation des applications et services fournis par les
        administrations publiques, et dirige le Centre de Transfert Technologique
        à l'initiative du gouvernement espagnol.</p>
<p>FSFE  Vous dirigiez le Centre de Transfert
        Technologique (CTT) du gouvernement espagnol, dont le but est de
        promouvoir la réutilisation des solutions logicielles entre les
        administrations publiques. Pouvez-vous nous donner un aperçu des travaux
        légaux et politiques du CTT, et de ce que vous faites pour accomplir ce
        but ?</p><p>Comme vous l'avez dit, le <a href="http://administracionelectronica.gob.es/ctt">Centre de Transfert
        Technologique (« CTT »)</a> publie un répertoire des solutions
        logicielles fournies par les administrations publiques espagnoles (au
        niveau local, régional ou national). Ceci permet aussi développement
        collaboratif de programmes informatiques pour le gouvernement numérique
        dans la <a href="https://github.com/ctt-gob-es">CTT-Forge</a>, aujourd'hui
        intégrée à GitHub.</p><p>Le CTT a vu le jour en 2007, comme réponse aux mandat légal établi
        par l'article 46 de la loi 11/2007, dite Pour l'Accès Numériques des Citoyens
        aux Services Publics. À cette époque il avait déjà été constaté qu'il
        n'était possible d'avoir des services publics électroniques transverses
        efficaces que si les administrations publiques partageaient leurs avancées.
        Les exigences de réutilisations ont été étendues sous forme de Cadre
        National d'Interopérabilité.</p><p>Finalement, en 2016, de nouvelles exigences ont été mises à jour et
        renforcées dans les articles 157 et 158 de la nouvelle loi 40/2015 sur
        le régime légal du secteur public, la loi élémentaire du secteur public
        espagnol qui régit comment les administrations publiques doivent travailler.
        Comme vous pouvez le constater, le partage et la réutilisation des
        technologies d'information et de communication en Espagne est un concept
        fondamental.</p><p>FSFE : Est-ce que le CTT ne propose que des
        solutions libres, c'est à dire dont le code est publié sous
        licence Logiciel Libre ou licence Open Source ? Si oui, savez vous
        quelle est la licence mise en avant par les administrations
        espagnoles ?</p><p>Depuis le début du projet, nous pensons que « partager et
        réutiliser » est un concept plus large que le Logiciel Libre.
        Pour nous, ce concept a toujours été lié à la réutilisation des
        services, qu'on appelle de nos jours les « services cloud ».</p><p>Au CTT, on peut trouver des solutions réutilisables de tous types :
        applications, services communs, données sémantiques, etc. Les applications
        peuvent être complètement « open source », ne l'être que pour les
        administrations publiques, ou réservées à l'utilisation au sein du secteur
        public. Cette décision revient au fournisseur.</p><p>Notre recommandation et licence favorite est l'EUPL (European Union
        Public Licence, la Licence Publique de l'Union Européenne), bien que nous
        acceptons évidemment toutes les autres licences open source.</p><p>FSFE : Hébergez-vous le code des logiciels vous-mêmes
        au Centre de Transfert Technologique, ou êtes vous plutôt une sorte de base
        de données des solutions existantes, qui redirige ses visiteurs vers les hébergeurs
        du code des autres projets ?</p><p>La réponse est « les deux ». Nous sommes à la fois une
        « sorte de base de données » des solutions existantes, mais vous
        pouvez choisir d'héberger le code au CTT, l'héberger à la CTT-forge (sur
        GitHub), or l'héberger sur n'importe quelle autre plateforme. Nous sommes
        très souples.</p><p>« Le concept principal est que les
        Administrations Publiques doivent partager ce qu'elles ont développé elles-mêmes
        si une autre Administration Publique leur demande. »</p><p>FSFE : Est-il impératif pour une administration
        publique de passer par le CTT et d'employer une solution Logiciel Libre,
        plutôt que d'autres solutions, comme des alternatives moins chères basées
        sur des logiciels privateurs ? En pratique, comment cette obligation
        se traduit elle ?</p><p>Le concept principal est que les Administrations Publiques doivent
        partager ce qu'elles ont développé elles-mêmes si une autre Administration
        Publique leur demande. Bien sûr, elles doivent avoir les droits de
        « propriété intellectuelle » pour le faire.</p><p>La nouvelle loi stipule qu'avant de développer quoi que ce soit de
        nouveau, les Administrations Publiques doivent vérifier s'il existe une
        application ou un service similaire répertorié au CTT. Si c'est le cas,
        elles doivent le réutiliser.</p><p>Toutefois, si elle peut justifier qu'il existe une alternative
        adaptée à son organisation qui utilise n'importe quelle autre solution
        (open source ou privatrice), elle peut l'utiliser.</p><p>FSFE : Aidez-vous les autres administrations
        de manière pro-active, ou si elles vous demandent de trouver une solution
        qui correspond à leurs besoin ? Doivent elles trouver la solution
        elles-mêmes ? Proposez vous de l'aide, quelle qu'elle soit ?</p><p>Chaque solution est responsable de son propre support, mais il
        n'est pas obligatoire. Elles contribuent gratuitement, donc c'est
        à elles de décider si elles fournissent du support ou non. Notre
        ministères est effectivement l'un des plus gros fournisseurs de
        solutions réutilisables pour les autres administrations publiques.
        Nous fournissons beaucoup de solutions open source, et beaucoup
        de services cloud pour toutes les administrations publiques. Nous
        essayons de couvrir les besoins principaux pour fournir les services
        du gouvernement numérique. Dans ce cas, nous fournissons du support
        à quiconque essaye de les utiliser.</p><p>FSFE : Qu'en est-il des logiciels qui
        sont toujours développés par les administrations espagnoles ou
        qui ont été développés mais qui ne sont pas encore des Logiciels
        Libres ? Aidez-vous ces administration à libérer leur
        logiciel, et à le mettre sur votre dépôt ? Mettez-vous à

            disposition une aide juridique ou un support communautaire ?</p><p>Nous aidons les administrations publiques de différentes
        manières dans leur effort de libération de leur logiciels. Nous
        avons développé un guide très intéressant pour elles :
        <a href="http://administracionelectronica.gob.es/PAe/NTinteroperabilidad#REUTILIZACIONYTRANSFERENCIA">
        Réutilisation des ressources - Guide de la publication et des
        licences des ressources</a>. Le CTT propose aussi un service de
        support où il est possible de poser des questions sur les procédures,
        comment choisir une licence, etc. Bien sûr, nous sommes de grands
        utilisateurs du support de la Commission Européenne au sujet de
        la licence EUPL disponible sur JOINUP.</p><p>FSFE : Lors de la conférence
        « Partager et réutiliser » de l'année dernière,
        l'Espagne a été récompensée par quatre prix dans trois catégories
        pour quatre solutions Logiciel Libre différentes. Pensez-vous que
        le Logiciel Libre est un sujet d'ampleur, ou d'importance
        croissante au sein de la culture des administrations
        espagnoles  ?</p><p>Ces prix sont simplement la preuve et la récompense de tous
        les efforts menés depuis plusieurs années en Espagne. Le Logiciel
        Libre n'est pas un sujet d'importance croissante dans la culture
        administratives espagnole, mais un fait avéré.</p><p>FSFE : Comment est perçu le CTT par les
        diverses administrations espagnoles ?</p><p>Les retours sont très positifs, dans tous les sens. Nous avons
        beaucoup de fournisseurs, et beaucoup de réutilisateurs.</p><p>« Il y a encore besoin d'un
        changement de culture d'ampleur, de garder en tête que les logiciels
        développés doivent être réutilisables à l'avenir. »</p><p>Néanmoins, la remarque la plus fréquente est la diversité des
        licences open source. Si nous n'avions qu'un jeu de licences plus
        réduit, l'analyse pour libérer le logiciel n'en serait que plus
        simple et les fournisseurs seraient plus enclins à libérer leurs
        solutions.</p><p>L'autre point noir est que la réutilisation logicielle n'est
        pas aisée. Plus un produit est gros, plus il devient difficile
        de le réutiliser. Tous les produits créés par les administrations
        publiques (et dans toutes les autres grosses entreprises) sont
        personnalisés pour les besoins spécifiques d'une organisation.
        En général, ils n'ont pas été développé de sorte à ce que
        n'importe qui puisse les réutiliser. Il y a donc toujours des
        efforts à faire (parfois beaucoup) pour les adapter à un
        nouvel environnement.</p><p>Il y a encore besoin d'un changement de culture d'ampleur,
        de garder en tête que les logiciels développés doivent être
        réutilisables à l'avenir.</p><p>FSFE : Serait il pour une administration
        en dehors de l'Espagne de trouver de l'aide auprès de vos
        services, ou d'y ajouter ses solutions logicielles ?</p><p>Toute administration publique, qu'elle soit en Espagne ou
        ailleurs peut être utilisatrice et contributrice de toutes nos
        solutions open source. Nous ne fournissons du support et
        n'ajoutons néanmoins des fonctionnalités que pour les
        administrations publiques espagnoles.</p><p>FSFE : Y a-t-il possibilité pour
        nos lecteurs qui ne travaillent pas dans une administration
        espagnole de contribuer au répertoire des solutions logicielles
        du CTT ?</p><p>Bien sûr. Une grande partie de nos solutions sont déjà sur
        GitHub, où vous pouvez aider et contribuer comme vous le
        feriez avec n'importe qui. Certaines de nos solutions open source
        ont déjà une communauté active où tout le monde peut contribuer.</p><p>Entretien mené par : Erik Albers</p>Avec sa <a href="http://publiccode.eu/">campagne Public Money?
        Public Code!</a> (Argent Public ? Code Public !), la FSFE
        demande à ce que les logiciels financés par de l'argent public soient
        publiés sous licence Logiciel Libre. Pour faire comprendre notre demande,
        nous faisons une série d'interviews qui mettent en lumière les exemples
        de réussites et de meilleures pratiques. Les personnes que nous allons
        interroger sont des femmes et hommes politiques ou des décisionnaires,
        des figures d'autorité ou des développeurs, qui d'une manière ou d'une
        autre participent au code public.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180613-01.en.xml
title: Technical Note: Mail Issues on June 8
uri: Technical-Note-Mail-Issues-on-June-8
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180613-01.html
content:
Technical Note: Mail Issues on June 8<p>On Friday morning, one of our servers had a fatal 
hardware crash. This affected parts of our mail infrastructure and 
mailing lists. Meanwhile, all services are back to normal. We would 
like inform you about what happened and which problems it caused. In a 
nutshell: Please make sure your emails arrived and check your SMTP 
settings.</p><p>Unfortunately, due to the downtime, a small number of mails sent 
during this time to some of our <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/">mailing lists</a> may have been lost 
while most have just been delayed. Please make sure that your mails 
sent on 8 and 9 June arrived their destination by checking the 
archives, and resend them if necessary. If you still experience 
problems, please <a href="http://fsfe.org/contact/">get in touch with us</a>.</p><p>Background: The said server lost one of its hardware components for 
which we weren't able to get a replacement at short notice. This forced 
us to migrate the setup and data to a new host. We have been able to 
bring the most critical service back to life within the course of the 
day, others were reestablished during the weekend.</p><p>At the same time, we modernised large parts of the mail 
infrastructure, for instance anti-spam measurements. This also involves 
a change in our SMTP setting for people using this service: From now on 
we will no longer accept mails delivered to port 25. Please make sure 
to use port 587 if you would like to send emails, and make sure the 
settings in your email clients match <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/SMTP">our recommendations</a>.</p><p>Please excuse the inconveniences this caused. We will work hard to 
prevent such a long downtime of a critical service in the future. If 
you would like to support our technical team, please don't hesitate to 
reach out to our <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/System-Hackers/">System 
Hackers</a>.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180613-01.fr.xml
title: Note technique : problèmes d'e-mail le 8 juin
uri: Note-technique-problèmes-d-e-mail-le-8-juin
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180613-01.html
content:
Note technique : problèmes d'e-mail du 8 juin<p>Vendredi matin, un de nos serveurs a eu un incident
matériel. Ceci a affecté une partie de notre infrastructure de
distribution des e-mails 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 e-mails ont été distribués, et vérifiez vos
paramètres SMTP.</p><p>Malheureusement, à cause de la période d'indisponibilité, un petit
nombre de mail envoyés pendant cette période à nos <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/">listes de diffusion</a> peuvent ne pas
avoir été distribués, bien que la plupart aient seulement été
distribués en retard. Assurez-vous que les e-mails envoyés les 8 et 9
juin sont arrivés à leurs destinataires en inspectant les archives et
en les renvoyant si nécessaire. Si vous êtes toujours confrontés à des
problèmes, <a href="http://fsfe.org/contact/">contactez-nous</a>.</p><p>Post-mortem : ledit serveur a perdu un de ses composants
matériels que nous n'étions pas en mesure de remplacer rapidement. Ceci
nous a forcé à migrer la configuration et les données vers une nouvelle
machine. Nous avons pu rétablir les services les plus critiques au cours
de la journée, tandis que d'autres ont été rétablis pendant le weekend.
</p><p>À cette occasion, nous avons modernisé des pans entiers de
l'infrastructure d'e-mails, tels que les mesures anti-spam. Ceci
implique également des modifications dans les paramètres SMTP pour les
personnes utilisant ce service : à partir de maintenant nous
n'acceptons plus les mails arrivant sur le port 25. Assurez vous que vous
utilisez le port 587 si vous souhaitez envoyer des e-mails, et
assurez-vous que vos paramètres correspondent à <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/SMTP">nos recommandations</a>.</p><p>Nous vous prions de bien vouloir nous excuser pour la gêne
occasionnée. Nous allons faire en sorte de ne plus être soumis à de si
longues périodes d'indisponibilité à l'avenir. Si vous souhaitez soutenir
notre équipe technique, n'hésitez pas à rejoindre les <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/System-Hackers/">System 
Hackers</a>.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180530-02.fr.xml
uri: LLW2018-La-FSFE-réunit-les-meilleurs-experts-pour-un-débat-su
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180530-02.html
title:
LLW2018 : La FSFE réunit les meilleurs experts pour un
    débat sur les problèmes de licences et de droit intersectoriel
    autour du Logiciel Libre

content:
LLW2018 : La FSFE réunit les meilleurs experts pour un débat
  sur les problèmes de licences et de droit intersectoriel autour du
  Logiciel Libre<p>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.</p><p>D'ordinaire, cet événement est couvert par la <a href="https://www.chathamhouse.org/chatham-house-rule/translations">Règle de Chatham House</a>, ce qui permet des
  discussions confidentielles sous des conditions équitables pour tous
  les participants. Toutefois, les conférences qui n'ont pas été
  dispensées sous couverture de la Règle de Chatham House (ainsi
  qu'indiqué explicitement par les conférenciers) ont été traduites en
  une série d'articles par Jake Edge de LWN.net, qui a écrit au sujet
  des discussions suivantes lors du LLW2018 :</p><p>Marcus von Welser et Armijn Hemel ont donné un aperçu de l'<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/752485/">affaire
  récente</a> de conformité à la GPL en Allemagne, dans laquelle Patrick
  McHardy accusait la société Geniatech de violer son droit d'auteur sur
  le noyau Linux. La cour régionale de Cologne (Allemagne), où le
  dossier a été étudié en 2017, a dans un premier temps accordé à
  McHardy une injonction et obligé Geniatch à arrêter la distribution de
  toutes les versions du noyau. Geniatech a fait appel de l'injonction
  au motif qu'elle était trop large et trop restrictive, et que Patrick
  McHardy ne pouvait être considéré co-auteur du noyau Linux comme il le
  prétendait. Dans les faits, ses contributions au noyau Linux sous
  licence GPL v2 peuvent seulement être considérées comme des
  adaptations, ce qui ne lui permet au regard de la loi Allemande de ne
  demander que l'arrêt de la distribution de noyaux contenant ses
  modifications. Selon Marcus von Welser, il existe plus de 100 versions
  du noyau parues qui ne contiennent aucune des contributions de 
  McHardy. En ordonnant à Geniatech de ne distribuer aucune version du
  noyau, la cour couvrait les noyaux qui n'étaient pas mis en cause par
  McHardy. Après une audience orale à la Cour d'Appel Provinciale de
  Cologne en Mars 2018, McHardy a finalement retiré sa demande
  d'injonction. Ce dossier montre qu'il existe un vrai besoin d'étendre
  les échanges d'informations sur comment construire une défense solide
  face aux « copyright trolls ».</p><p>Dirk Hohndel a présenté les défis de conformité que représentent
  <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/752982/">les images
  de conteneurs</a>. Les conteneurs sont un sujet d'actualité, et avec
  leur utilisation vient une série de problèmes de conformité selon
  Hohndel. Tout d'abord, il est courant de simplement copier une image
  de conteneur depuis n'importe quel endroit d'internet, sans
  considération pour les licences. Selon Hohndel, il ne s'agit pas
  seulement d'un cauchemar d'un point de vue sécurité, mais également
  d'une catastrophe quand il s'agit d'identifier ce qui est réellement
  embarqué dans ces conteneurs. S'il est compliqué de déterminer
  exactement quels « packages » sont contenus dans
  ces images, il est encore plus dur de les mettre en conformité une
  fois les entorses à la licence identifiées. La version employée et les
  patches appliqués sont également difficiles à identifier. Au-delà de
  tout ceci, les licences sous lesquelles de tels
  « packages » sont distribués sont loin d'être
  évidentes à récupérer. Toutes ces raisons démontrent l'importance
  d'entraîner les développeurs de logiciels à éviter les pièges des
  systèmes de « build » de conteneurs, selon Hohndel.
  De plus, les conteneurs doivent être construits en gardant les bonnes
  pratiques de conformité en tête : par exemple, prendre une base
  de travail qui a des « packages » dont les
  versions, le code et les licences sont connues. Il va sans dire que la
  mauvaise pratique d'installer des images de conteneurs téléchargées
  depuis n'importe quel endroit d'internet doit être évitée.</p><p>Mike Dolan a fait <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/753648/"> une présentation</a> au sujet du « Community
  Data Licence Agreement » (CDLA, l'Accord de Licence sur les
  Données Communautaires), un instrument légal pour permettre le partage
  des données pertinentes pour des usages tels que le
  « machine learning » (apprentissage automatique),
  les « blockchains », l'« open
  geolocation », de la même manière que les Licences Libres
  fonctionnent pour le logiciel. L'idée derrière le CDLA est de partager
  ouvertement ses données en se basant sur le savoir faire de plusieurs
  dizaines d'années de partage de code source. Il existe deux types
  d'accord dans le CDLA, inspirés par les licences logicielles copyleft
  et non-copyleft. Appliquer simplement les licences Logiciels Libres
  aux données n'est pas optimal, du fait des différences fondamentales
  entre les données et le code source, d'où la nécessité d'un instrument
  légal distinct pour adresser les problématiques propres aux données.
  Par exemple, les données peuvent être perpétuelles. C'est pourquoi il
  peut être impossible de recréer les mêmes conditions que lors de la
  collecte. Ceci signifie que la licence sous laquelle les données sont
  livrées peut être déterminante quant à leur usage des dizaines ou
  centaines d'années plus tard.</p><p>Les participants ont été informés des développements du
  raisonnement de la Cour d'Appel concernant la bataille juridique
  opposant Oracle à Google quant à l'utilisation d'APIs Java par ce
  dernier dans ses systèmes Android. Il est courant en développement
  logiciel de réemployer les APIs de différents produits pour garantir
  une certaine compatibilité entre les différents programmes. De manière
  simple, une API permet à plusieurs programmes de communiquer ensemble
  en se basant sur des spécifications communes. Oracle a lancé une
  procédure juridique contre Google en 2012, l'accusant de violation de
  « propriété intellectuelle » de par l'utilisation d'APIs
  écrites en Java. En 2012, un tribunal fédéral a acté que que les APIs
  n'étaient pas sujettes au copyright. Cette décision a été cassée par
  la cour d'appel, et retournée au même tribunal fédéral. En 2016, le
  jury a acté que l'utilisation par Googgle d'APIs Java rentrait dans le
  cadre d'un usage acceptable (« fair use ») selon la
  loi des États-Unis. Oracle a fait appel de la décision du jury,
  opposant que Google avait copié d'anciennes APIs dans un seul but
  commercial, avait copié des milliers de lignes de code source de plus
  que nécessaire, ainsi que trompé les clients d'Oracle utilisateurs de
  Java SE en les poussant à basculer vers Android au motif que Google y
  garantissait un accès gratuit. En Mars 2018, la cour d'appel a pris
  position pour Oracle et acté que l'utilisation des APIs Java en
  question par Google ne rentrait pas dans le cadre d'un usage 
  acceptable (« fair use ») au regard de la loi. Ce
  dossier est loin d'être clos, car Google peut faire appel de la
  décision devant la cour suprême. Ceci peut créer un précédent pour le
  développement logiciel de manière générale.</p><p>Pendant les conférences, un débat sur le lien entre Intelligence 
  Artificielle (AI), prise de décision automatique et Logiciel Libre a 
  également été animé. Lorsqu'il s'agit de généraliser la prise de
  décision automatisée, nous devons porter notre regard au delà des
  licences libres pour répondre de manière pertinente aux problématiques
  affectant les droits des utilisateurs. Dans cet atelier, les
  participants ont conclu que la prise de décision automatique soulève
  des questions auxquelles il n'est pas facile de répondre. Plus
  particulièrement, nous nous souhaitons que toute décision prise 
  automatiquement qui affecte les êtres humains soit accompagnée d'une
  explication compréhensible par un humain, exposant les raisons pour
  lesquelles cette décision a été prise. Pour ce qui est des techniques
  de « machine learning », et plus  particulièrement
  de « deep learning », peu d'éléments tendent à
  permettre de prouver que les décisions d'une IA sont explicables.
  C'est un champ  de la recherche très actif. D'autres défis se posent
  lorsqu'on s'intéresse à la transparence et la responsabilité du
  processus de prise de décision. Dans certains cas particuliers, ces
  critères sont impossibles à atteindre, par exemple lorsqu'il est
  nécessaire d'obtenir l'accès au dossier médical complet d'une
  population pour entraîner certains algorithmes.</p><p>Lors d'un autre atelier interactif, les participants ont rassemblé,
  identifié et traité les principaux pièges juridiques pour les
  Logiciels Libres dans les marchés publics. Les participants ont
  identifié quelques scénarios plausibles dans lesquels les marchés
  publics gagneraient à être régulés. Une contrainte légale poussant à
  prioriser le Logiciel Libre (comme c'est le cas en <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2014/news-20140116-01.html">Italie</a> est théoriquement une bonne option pour
  l'adoption du Logiciel Libre par le secteur public. Néanmoins, en
  Italie la loi n'est pas respectée, car il n'existe pas de sanction
  dissuasive en cas de non-respect. Un exemple intéressant également est
  celui de Barcelone, en Espagne, où les politiques de marché public
  en faveur du Logiciel Libre pour le secteur public sont adoptées au
  niveau municipal. À Barcelone, la décision de migrer vers plus de
  Logiciel Libre est faite par les entités publiques gérant les marchés
  publics, plutôt que par contrainte législative émanant d'instances
  plus hautes. L'inconvénient d'une telle loi est que les retombées
  positives de telles politiques publiques n'auront pas forcément lieu
  durant le mandat des politiciens à l'origine de la décision. Il
  existe un vrai besoin de changement de culture dans les
  administrations publiques, et une vraie volonté politique de changer
  les modalités des marchés publics.</p><p>Ces ateliers n'auraient pas été possibles sans le soutien généreux
  de tous ses sponsors. Nous voulons particulièrement remercier nos
  sponsors Platine : Intel, Red Hat et la Fondation Linux.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180529-01.fr.xml
title: La FSFE recrute un gestionnaire de programme de politique publique européenne
uri: La-FSFE-recrute-un-gestionnaire-de-programme-de-politique-publique-e
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180529-01.html
content:
    La FSFE recrute un gestionnaire de programme de politique publique
    européenne
  <p>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.
  </p>À propos de la FSFE<p>
    La Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE - Fondation
    Européenne pour le Logiciel Libre) est une organisation non
    gouvernementale à but non lucratif cherchant à redonner le contrôle
    aux utilisateurs sur la technologie qu'ils utilisent. L'accès au
    logiciel est déterminant dans tous les aspects de nos vies ; il
    est important que la technologie nous renforce plutôt qu'elle ne
    nous restreigne. Les Logiciels Libres donnent à chacun le droit
    d'utiliser, comprendre, adapter et partager les logiciels. Ces
    droits sont le socle d'autres libertés fondamentales comme la
    liberté d'expression, la liberté de la presse et le droit à la
    préservation de la vie privée.
  </p><p>
    La FSFE aide les individus et les organisations à comprendre comment
    le Logiciel Libre contribue à leur liberté, à la transparence et au
    droit à l'auto-détermination. Elle améliore les droits des
    utilisateurs en faisant tomber les barrières à l'adoption des
    Logiciels Libres, encourage les personnes à utiliser et développer
    des Logiciels Libres et fournit des ressources pour permettre à
    chacun de promouvoir le Logiciel Libre en Europe.
  </p><p>
    Les sujets politiques principaux que nous couvrons relèvent de
    l'ordre des problématiques liées au Logiciel Libre et aux Standards
    Ouverts au niveau de l'Europe ou de ses États membres. Nous
    concentrons nos efforts sur nos campagnes <a href="https://publiccode.eu">« Public Money? Public
    Code! »</a> (Argent Public ? Code Public !), <a href="http://savecodeshare.eu/">« Save Code Share »</a>
    (Protéger le partage de code), et la <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/">directive de l'UE
    sur le verrouillage des radiocommunications</a>.
  </p><p>
    Nous travaillons avec la Commission et le Parlement Européen, ainsi
    qu'avec les responsables politiques et les fonctionnaires des pays
    de l'UE. Ce travail est fait soit directement par notre équipe, soit
    en coordination avec des bénévoles, ainsi que d'autres associations
    défendant le Logiciel Libre et les droits numériques en Europe.
  </p>Responsabilités principales
    Identifier et surveiller les évolutions des politiques de l'UE
        et alerter le réseau de la FSFE sur les sujets
        pertinents ;
    Mener ou soutenir les campagnes politiques de la
        FSFE ;
    Préparer et organiser les événements ainsi que les rencontres
        avec la communauté et les législateurs ;
    Effectuer des recherches ad-hoc sur différents sujets
        politiques 
    Contribuer à l'aboutissement de projets de l'UE et surveiller
        les opportunités futures ;        
    Soutenir la création de supports de communication ;
    Représenter la FSFE auprès des législateurs et des différents
        acteurs, à tout niveau des institutions de l'UE.
  Qualifications
    Connaissance du milieu politique de l'UE. Capacité à comprendre
        ou apprendre le milieu politique des autres États membres
        rapidement. Ces connaissances et capacités seront idéalement
        démontrées par une expérience professionnelle pertinente.
    Excellentes capacités de communication écrite comme orale,
        idéalement pour la prise de parole en publique.
    Capacité à trouver des compromis lors du travail en équipe et
        avec des organisations partenaires.
    Bonne connaissance du Logiciel Libre, adhésion aux valeurs
        et à la mission de la FSFE.
    Capacité à expliquer les problématiques techniques aux
        législateurs et les problématiques politiques ou juridiques à
        des audiences essentiellement techniques.
    Anglais écrit et oral courant ; les autres langues
        (idéalement Français ou Allemand) sont un plus.
    Expérience de militantisme pour des problématiques sociales et
        politiques.
    Connaissance et/ou expérience dans la compréhension des
        organisations non gouvernementales à but non lucratif, et plus
        particulièrement dans le travail avec des bénévoles.
    Expérience professionnelle dans un milieu lié à la
        politique.
    Utilisation courante d'un ordinateur portable sous GNU/Linux
        idéalement.
  Posture<p>
    Nous cherchons une personne fiable, capable de travailler en équipe
    et qui aspire à conduire de nouvelles initiatives pour léguer aux
    générations futures un monde meilleur. Travaillant avec patience et
    discrétion sur des enjeux de moyen-terme, vous devrez le faire de
    manière durable tout en gardant en tête la mission de long-terme de
    la FSFE.
  </p>Comment postuler<p>
    Pour postuler, envoyez une lettre de motivation d'une page maximum,
    en prenant soin d'inclure vos prétentions salariales pour un travail
    de 35 heures par semaine, ainsi qu'un CV (seuls les PDFs sont
    acceptés) par email à <a href="mailto:jobs@fsfe.org">jobs@fsfe.org</a>, avec pour objet
    « Policy ». Vos données personnelles seront supprimées 3 
    mois après que nous ayons pris une décision. La date limite pour 
    postuler est le 24 juin 2018. Les entretiens avec
    les candidats retenus se dérouleront début juillet. La date
    d'embauche se situe aux alentours du 15 août 2018.
  </p><p>
    Le Logiciel Libre est destiné à tous, sans distinction d'âge, de
    handicap, d'identification à un genre, de genre, d'origine, de
    religion ou d'orientation sexuelle. De ce fait, nous encourageons
    les personnes à postuler quel que soit leur parcours de vie, et
    promettons d'apprécier toutes les candidatures en fonction du mérite
    seul, sans aucune considération pour les caractéristiques
    sus-citées. De sorte à favoriser la diversité et l'égalité dans la
    communauté du Logiciel Libre, notre préférence ira vers les
    candidats issus d'une population sous-représentée dans le milieu
    technologique à candidature égale sur tous les autres aspects.
  </p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: La FSFE simplifie la procédure d'adhésion pour ses contributeurs
uri: La-FSFE-simplifie-la-procédure-d-adhésion-pour-ses-contributeurs
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180526-01.html
content:
La FSFE simplifie la procédure d'adhésion pour ses contributeurs<p>Durant <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171107-01">l'Assemblée
  Générale de l'année dernière</a>, 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.</p><p>En premier lieu, <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/legal/constitution#id-fellowship-seats">les
  sièges de Fellow</a> ont été mis en place de sorte à donner accès aux
  donateurs principaux à <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#general-assembly">l'Assemblée
  Générale</a>. Cet accès permettait auxdits donateurs d'exprimer leur
  voix sur les décisions stratégiques de la FSFE. Néanmoins, l'Assemblée
  Générale de la FSFE se trouve aujourd'hui face aux effets pervers de
  cette décision, en dépit de ses bonnes intentions initiales. En tant
  que communauté, nous n'autoriserions jamais un tel poids de
  représentation de donateurs du secteur privé. Nous ne pouvons donc pas
  décemment permettre une telle représentation des donateurs contribuant
  exclusivement financièrement.</p><p>Après <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election">neuf
  élections</a>, il ressort que l'aspect positif de ces élections est
  l'accès au statut de membre permanent pour la plupart des anciens
  Fellows élus, ajoutant autant de valeur à l'Assemblée Générale de la
  FSFE. Il ressort également que les contributeurs actifs devaient
  concourir les uns face aux autres à chaque élection, où l'acceptation
  de l'adhésion était finalement considérée seulement au regard des
  contributions financières, sans considération pour la détermination ou
  l'expertise des candidats. Ce mécanisme a découragé certains membres
  actifs de la communauté d'adhérer à la FSFE.</p><p>Considérant que tous les membres nous ayant rejoint par le biais
  des élections Fellowship avaient déjà été des contributeurs actifs
  avant leur élection, nous pensons que le meilleur moyen de faire
  croître notre communauté de membres est d'encourager les contributeurs
  actifs à devenir membres de l'Assemblée Générale, sans les effets
  pervers des élections. Ceci nous permet également d'intégrer plus d'un
  membre par an.</p><p>Au cours de l'Assemblée Générale de ce jour, il a été décidé par 21
  votes contre 1 de supprimer les sièges de Fellow. Nous allons
  désormais améliorer la <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute">documentation sur les moyens de
  contribution à la FSFE</a> et <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/GA">comment
  devenir membre de la FSFE</a>.</p><p>Si vous souhaitez en parler avec nous, en personne, ou devenir un
  contributeur actif, nous vous encourageons à participer
  <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/LSMandCommunityMeeting2018">aux
  RMLL de cette année</a>, du 7 au 9 Juillet à Strasbourg, en France.
  Nous sommes impatients de vous rencontrer.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Lettre d'information - Juin 2018
uri: FSFE-Lettre-d-information-Juin-2018
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201806.html
content:
FSFE Lettre d'information - Juin
    2018
    Rejoignez-nous lors de la rencontre communautaire des RMLL2018<p>Du 7 au 9 juillet, la FSFE va organiser sa rencontre annuelle
    avec la communauté lors des <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/LSMandCommunityMeeting2018">RMLL
    </a> à Strasbourg, en France. Nous sommes ravis de vous annoncer que
    le weekend du 7 au 8 juillet, nous allons dérouler notre track
     avec des interventions des membres de notre communauté pour
    couvrir plusieurs sujets brûlants concernant le Logiciel Libre.
    Notre track couvre les sujets attenant aux entreprises,
    tels que les services autour du Logiciel Libre et le financement des
    projets axées sur le Logiciel Libre. Seront également débattus les
    sujets politiques portant sur les actions auprès de Bruxelles ainsi
    que les facteurs de succès de l'implémentation de Logiciel Libre
    dans le service public, mais aussi des questions plus contemporaines
    ayant trait à la diversité de manière générale dans le Logiciel
    Libre, la liberté logicielle dans le cloud, et bien
    d'autres thèmes seront également couverts. Vous trouverez un aperçu
    de nos sujets sur la <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/LSMandCommunityMeeting2018#Join_our_track_at_the_Libre_Software_Meeting">
    page wiki dédiée</a>.</p><p>Le 9 juillet nous invitons notre communauté à nous rejoindre
    toute <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/LSMandCommunityMeeting2018#Join_community_meeting_and_the_FSFE_Assembly">
    une journée</a> afin de se rapprocher et préparer les prochains
    mois. La réunion incluera des sessions « Open Space »
     et « Ask us anything » (Posez nous toutes
    les questions). Un espace de réflexion sera également disponible
    pour discuter de nos activités en cours, et de bien-être.</p><p>Lors de l'événement, va se dérouler l'assemblée de la FSFE, à
    l'instar de celles ayant eu lieu lors du CCC, le CCCamp
     et le SHA camp. Cette assemblée a vocation de servir
    d'espace permettant à notre communauté de se retrouver et
    d'apprendre à se connaître, ou encore de commencer à travailler sur
    des projets communs.</p>Présentation de l'équipe
    CARE de la FSFE<p>La Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) et sa
    communauté cherchent à créer un environnement amical et bienveillant
    pour toutes les personnes participant aux  événements de la FSFE,
    que ce soit en-ligne ou hors-ligne. Dans cette optique, l'<a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171107-01">Assemblée
    Générale 2017</a> a adopté un <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct">code de conduite</a>
    propre à la FSFE. Pour s'assurer de son application nous avons créé
    une équipe central CARE. Si vous avez rencontré ou avez
    entendu parler de comportements contraires aux principes détaillés
    dans le code de conduite, nous vous remercions de bien vouloir
    rapporter ces incidents à votre équipe CARE locale ou
    centrale dès que possible.</p><p>L'<a href="https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct#CARE">équipe 
    central CARE</a> peut être contactée par e-mail à l'adresse
    <a href="mailto:care@fsfe.org">care@fsfe.org</a> mais vous pouvez
    également contacter ses membres de manière individuelle. Ceci peut
    se faire par e-mail chiffré et indifférament en six langues. Ayez la
    certitude que vos messages seront toujours traités de manière
    confidentielle.</p><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-06">Rejoignez notre
    communauté de défenseurs des libertés.</a></p>Quelles
    sont nos dernières réalisations ? À l'intérieur ou à
    l'extérieur de la FSFE
      Dans la continuité d'une tradition qui perdure depuis plus
      d'une dizaine d'années, la FSFE organise à nouveau son <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180530-02">atelier
      juridique annuel</a> pour 2018, le Legal and Licensing
      Workshop (LLW), le point de rencontre d'experts juridiques de
      renommée mondiale pour débattre des problématiques et des
      meilleures pratiques concernant les licences gravitant autour des
      Logiciels Libres.
      Le Centre de Transfert Technologique (CTT) est une initiative
      dirigé par le gouvernement en Espagne, dont le but est de
      faciliter le partage et la réutilisation des logiciels et services
      au sein des administrations publiques. Pour mettre en lumière ces
      bonnes pratiques, nous avons <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180601-01">interrogé Elena
      Muñoz Salinero</a>, directrice du CTT, sur les questions
      juridiques, politiques et technologiques dans le contexte du
      CTT.
      La mission du Software Heritage est de récupérer,
      préserver, et rendre directement accessible le code source de tous
      les logiciels jamais écrits, de sorte à préserver la connaissance
      embarquée dans le code source et le rendre disponible à grande
      échelle. Depuis le 7 juin, le <a href="https://www.softwareheritage.org/2018/06/07/opening-the-door/">
      Software Heritage archive est ouvert au public</a>.
      Diderik von Wingerden a initié <a href="http://think-innovation.com/blog/do-european-governments-publish-open-source-software/">
      une liste des organismes publics</a> en Europe, et en particulier
      aux Pays-Bas, qui publient les logiciels développées par leurs
      soins sous licence libre.
      vanitasvitae a écrit un article de blog sur <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/vanitasvitae/2018/06/11/summer-of-code-evaluation-and-key-lengths/">
      une première évaluation</a> de ses recherches sur l'évolution de
      la taille des messages chiffrées avec OpenPGP.
      Daniel Pocock <a href="https://danielpocock.com/pmpc-for-fsfe-itself">
      propose de donner un prix annuel</a> aux organisations à but
      non-lucratif qui font preuve d'exemplarité dans l'utilisation de
      Logiciels Libres au sein de leur organisation.
      La FSFE <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180526-01">
      simplifie sa procédure d'adhésion</a> pour les contributrices et
      contributeurs en supprimant les sièges de Fellows. À l'avenir,
      l'adhésion en tant que membre de la FSFE se fera au travers de
      procédures classiques d'adhésion pour les personnes actives de la
      FSFE.
      Vendredi matin, un de nos serveurs a subi un incident
      matériel. Cela a affecté une partie de notre infrastructure de
      distribution des courriels et nos listes de diffusion. Tous les
      services fonctionnent à nouveau normalement. À cette occasion, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180613-01">nous avons
      modernisé des pans entiers de l'infrastructure de messagerie</a>,
      tels que les mesures anti-spam. Ceci implique également des
      modifications dans les paramètres du SMTP pour les personnes
      utilisant ce service : à partir de maintenant nous ne
      traitons plus les courriels arrivant sur le port 25. À ce titre
      veuillez vous assurer que vous utilisez bien le port 587 si vous
      souhaitez envoyer des courriels, et assurez-vous que vos
      paramètres correspondent à <a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/SMTP">nos recommandations</a>.
      La FSFE, représentée par Matthias Kirschner, Max Mehl et Erik
      Albers a dispensé des conférences concernant la souveraineté
      technologique, la pérennité dans les usages numériques, et
      concernant la campagne « Public Money? Public Code! »
       à <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2018/FSFERM-talk-kirschner-in-DA">
      Darmstadt</a>, Berlin, <a href="https://www.ow2con.org/view/2018/">Paris</a>, et <a href="https://openexpoeurope.com/session/public-money-public-code/">
      Madrid</a>.
      La communauté de la FSFE a tenu des stands au FOSS
      Backstage et à la Maker Fair à Berlin, en Allemagne,
      ainsi qu'à l'OpenExpo de Madrid en Espagne.
    La FSFE recrute<p>Nous cherchons une personne pour la gestion de notre programme
    politique. Les sujets politiques principaux que nous couvrons
    relèvent de l'ordre des problématiques liées au Logiciels Libres et
    aux Standards Ouverts au niveau de l'Europe ou de ses États membres.
    Nous travaillons de manière coopérante avec la Commission et le
    Parlement Européen, ainsi que les responsables politiques et les
    fonctionnaires des pays de l'UE. Ce travail s'effectue soit avec
    notre personnel, soit en coordination avec des bénévoles, ainsi que
    d'autres associations défendant le Logiciel Libre et les droits
    numériques en Europe.</p><p>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. Si cela vous intéresse, de plus amples détails sont
    disponibles sur notre <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180529-01">offre d'emploi</a>.</p>Aidez nous à améliorer notre
    lettre d'information<p>Si vous souhaitez partager vos idées, des illustrations ou des
    nouvelles, vous pouvez nous les soumettre. Comme toujours, l'adresse
    est <a href="mailto:newsletter@fsfe.org">newsletter@fsfe.org</a>.
    Nous nous réjouissons d'avoir de vos nouvelles !</p><p>Merci à notre communauté, à tous les <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">bénévoles</a>, <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">soutiens</a> et <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donateurs</a> qui rendent
   notre travail possible. Merci à <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators">nos
   groupes traductions</a> grâce à qui vous pouvez lire ce bulletin
   d'information dans votre langue maternelle.</p><p>Votre éditeur,
      Erik Albers
    </p><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-06">Rejoignez notre
    communauté de défenseurs des libertés.</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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uri: Utiliser-le-Logiciel-Libre-pour-construire-une-société-numérique
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180705-01.html
title:
Utiliser le Logiciel Libre pour construire une société
  numérique plus démocratique, inclusive et durable - Interview avec
  Francesca Bria, directrice de l'innovation technologique et numérique
  de Barcelone

content:
Utiliser le Logiciel Libre pour construire une société
  numérique plus démocratique, inclusive et durable - Interview avec
  Francesca Bria, directrice de l'innovation technologique et numérique
  de Barcelone<p>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.</p><p>FSFE : Ces derniers mois vous avez participé
  à de  nombreuses expositions et conférences pour discuter de
  souveraineté numérique et standards numériques éthiques. Pouvez-vous
  nous expliquer rapidement ce qu'est la souveraineté numérique, et quel
  est le rôle du Logiciel Libre dans cette dernière ?</p><p>J'ai été nommée DTIN de Barcelone par la maire Ada Colau pour
  repenser la plannification numérique et technologique de la ville, en
  particulier la prétendue « plannification de la Smart
  City ». C'est par là que je commence : aujourd'hui,
  la plannification de la ville intelligente est faite principalement
  sous le prisme de la technologie. Plusieurs villes tombent entre les
  mains de vendors du secteur technologique qui cherchent à vendre leurs
  solutions technologiques au lieu de partir des besoins réels des
  citoyens et des problèmes d'urbanisme concrets. Ces villes finissent
  donc par devoir résoudre des problèmes d'ordre technologiques, car
  elles sont enfermées dans des logiciels propriétaires,
  des solutions non-interopérables et des modèles commerciaux non
  soutenables. Ma mission est au contraire de démocratiser les données
  et la technologie, et repenser leur gouvernance d'une manière qui
  puisse servir le peuple. Nous alignons la technologie avec les vrais
  enjeux politiques de la ville : le droit au logement, la
  transition énergétique, la création d'espaces publics, le combat
  contre le dérèglement climatique et la démocratie participative.</p>
    <img src="media/78cf978e.20180621-francesca-bria-barcelona-300px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/miscellaneous/20180621-francesca-bria-barcelona-300px.jpg"/>

    <p>Francesca Bria, est une chercheuse expérimentée et consultante en
    politique de la technologie et de l'innovation. Elle est titulaire
    d'un doctorat de l'Imperial College de Londres en économie
    de l'innovation et d'uun master en économie numérique de
    l'University College de Londres, Birkbeck. Francesca
    Bria est consultante pour la Commission Européenne pour la politique
    de l'Internet du Futur et de l'innovation. Elle est membre de la
    commission des technologies numériques et de l'innovationn de la
    ville de Barcelone, et dirige le <a href="http://decodeproject.eu">
    projet DECODE</a> sur la souveraineté des données en Europe.</p>
  <p>La transformation numérique ne traite pas que de changements
  technologiques, mais également de changements structurels,
  organisationnels et culturels. Nous devons coupler révolution
  numérique et révolution démocratique. Pour nous, il s'agit de repenser
  la relation entre les gouvernements et les citoyens, s'assurer que
  les citoyens peuvent reprendre le contrôle démocratique, et participer
  pleinement à la définition des politiques publiques. C'est pour cette
  raison que Barcelone fait une expérience forte de démocratie, une
  sorte de mélange hybride entre participation démocratique en-ligne
  et hors-ligne à large échelle. Nous impliquons des milliers de
  citoyens et leur donnons le pouvoir de proposer des actions politiques
  et des idées au travers d'une plateforme logicielle libre appelée <a href="https://www.decidim.org/">« Decidim »</a>.
  Aujourd'hui, notre feuille de route gouvernementale comprend 70% de
  propositions qui viennent directement des citoyens. Nous voulons
  changer la manière dont le gouvernement fonctionne, et le rendre plus
  ouvert, transparent, collaboratif et participatif.</p><p>Est-ce que le fait que « Decidim » soit
  un Logiciel Libre fait une vraie différence ?</p><p>Le Logiciel Libre fait toute la différence. Premièrement, le
  gouvernement investit de l'argent public, c'est la raison pour
  laquelle les citoyens devraient avoir la main sur le logiciel et la
  plateforme devrait rester dans le domaine public. « Decidim »
  est construite de concert avec une communauté appelée
  « Metadecidim ». C'est une communauté de développeurs
  logiciels, graphistes, organisations sociales, activistes, data
  scientists, chercheurs et community managers. Toutes
  ces personnes participent à la co-création de la plateforme, et la
  gèrent comme un bien commun.</p><p>Pour nous, la sensibilisation à la vie
  privée, la souveraineté des données, les technologies distribuées et
  le Logiciel Libre sont les éléments clé des infrastructures numériques
  de la ville.</p><p>Nous apprenons beaucoup de « Decidim Barcelona », car il
  s'agit de l'un des principaux projets de Logiciel Libre de Barcelone.
  Nous avons du changer nos standards d'appels d'offres publics pour
  introduire le Logiciel Libre et s'assurer que la législation
  permettait une plateforme gérée par le gouvernement et une communauté.
  Bien sûr, un autre avantage est que tout le code est accessible,
  réutilisable et auditable puisqu'il s'agit de Logiciel Libre.</p><p>Nous ajoutons un module à « Decidim Barcelona » grâce à
  un autre projet, appelé <a href="https://decodeproject.eu/">« Decode »</a>, qui cherche
  à redonner le contrôler de leurs données aux citoyens. Ce module est
  un portefeuille distribué incluant une couche cryptographique qui
  permet aux gens de contrôler leurs données. Nous nous assurons que
  les données sont stockées de manière sécurisée et anonyme, et les gens
  peuvent décider quelles données ils souhaitent donner à la ville et
  sous quelles conditions. Pour nous, la sensibilisation à la vie
  privée, la souveraineté des données, les technologies distribuées et
  le Logiciel Libre sont les éléments clé des infrastructures numériques
  de la ville. En particulier, lorsque la technologie est le vecteur de
  décisions démocratiques et façonne la pensée collective, nous devrions
  éviter le type de manipulation politique et de surveillance que l'on
  a pu constater avec les derniers scandales de Facebook et Cambridge
  Analytica.</p><p>En ce sens, quel est l'avantage principal du
  Logiciel Libre ?</p><p>L'intérêt de travailler de manière collaborative avec une
  communauté est de pouvoir étudier, auditer et inspecter le code. Vous
  pouvez apprendre à partir du code et le partager – vous
  pouvez aussi le réutiliser. Tout ceci est très important car vous
  minimisez alors les coûts, maximisez l'impact sur le public et
  permettez de faire passer les dépenses publiques de l'achat de
  licences de logiciels propriétaires chères à la création de nouvelles
  connaissances et de nouvelles capacités humaines.</p><p>Le Logiciel Libre nous permet de
  travailler avec les communautés, employer le talent des développeurs
  de Logiciel Libre et des industries locales, et collaborer avec
  d'autres villes sur des projets de Logiciel Libre.</p><p>Un autre argument fort pour nous est la souveraineté technologique.
  L'idée est d'éviter d'être otage d'un fournisseur et de la dépendance
  à de grosses entreprises (le plus souvent des sociétés étrangères),
  être capable de changer de fournisseurs, travailler avec les
  entrepreuneurs locaux et les sociétés qui respectent les droits et
  libertés des utilisateurs, et garder le contrôle sur nos données. Le
  problème avec les plateformes propriétaires est qu'elles ne permettent
  pas d'interopérabilité, elles ne vous laisseront pas migrer vos
  données depuis un fournisseur vers un autre, ce qui est aussi une
  raison pour laquelle nous avons perdu les connaissances et compétences
  critiques nécessaires pour administrer nos services et systèmes. Ces
  dernières années, les administration ont délégué la plupart de leur
  gestion informatique et technique à des fournisseurs externes et des
  cabinets de conseil en informatique. Il est important d'arrêter de
  financer les mêmes grosses sociétés technologiques, diversifier
  l'écosystème des fournisseurs, retenir la connaissance, et contrôler
  nos infrastructures techniques critiques.</p><p>Le Logiciel Libre nous permet de travailler avec les communautés,
  employer le talent des développeurs de Logiciel Libre et des
  industries locales, et collaborer avec d'autres villes sur des projets
  de Logiciel Libre. Au long terme, vous pouvez devenir plus autonome et
  indépendant, vous pouvez être plus transparent et, en publiant le code
  et les données dans le domaine public, nous pouvons créer de la valeur
  ajoutée publique et tirer le meilleur profit des impôts. L'écosystème
  des petites et moyennes entreprises et une autre problématique
  importante pour nous. La majorité des entrepreneurs locaux utilisent
  des Logiciels Libres ou Open Source et nous voulons nous assurer que
  la politique de marchés publics de Barcelone leur permet de travailler
  avec l'administration de la ville et de développer des applications et
  services qui peuvent améliorer notre ville.</p><p>Finalement, il s'agit d'une décision éthique et polique. Barcelone
  a un <a href="media/9dc0f6af.guia_adt_4_guia_sobre_sobirania_tecnologica_en_2017_af_9en.pdf" data-original-source="https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/sites/default/files/guia_adt_4_guia_sobre_sobirania_tecnologica_en_2017_af_9en.pdf">guide
  de la souveraineté technologique</a> et des normes d'éthique
  numérique – une loi qui stipule que les informations
  numériques et les infrastructures doivent être des biens publics,
  appartenant et contrôlés par les citoyens. Nous exigeons également
  le respect de la vie privée et de la sécurité by design et
  l'utilisaton du chiffrement en tant que droit de l'homme.</p><p>Un droit à la vie privée imposé par le secteur
  public ?</p><p>Exactement, la technologie construite avec les droits fondamentaux
  pour fondement. En parlant de Logiciel Libre, le <a href="http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/en/digital-transformation">plan de transformation numérique de Barcelone</a>
  s'est engagé à investir 70% de son budget dédié aux nouveaux services
  dans le développement de Logiciels Libres. Nous exécutons également
  un plan de migration progressive et avons un pilote sur la migration
  des postes de travail vers un système d'exploitation complètement
  libre. Aujourd'hui, ils tournent sous Ubuntu et toutes les
  applications qu'ils ont sont des Logiciels Libres.</p><p>Ces posted de travail font déjà partie de
  l'infrastructure ?</p><p>Oui, ils sont complètement intégrés à l'infrastructure de la ville 
  – nous suivons un projet pilote de 1000 postes de travail. Du
  reste, nous ne changeons pas les systèmes d'exploitation mais
  remplaçons toutes les applications et programmes possibles avec des
  Logiciels Libres sur des machines Windows. Nous migrons également
  notre service de messagerie vers <a href="https://www.open-xchange.com/">Open-Xchange</a>.
  Concrètement, toutes les choses qui sont remplacées sont remplacées
  par du Logiciel Libre, mais nous y allons progressivement pour pouvoir
  impliquer les fonctionnaires et créer de la confiance.</p><p>Dans cinq ans, comment voyez vous la situation
   ?</p><p>Barcelone développe en permanence des applications et outils
  logiciels. Quand nous partons d'une base vierge, notre préférence va
  vers l'utilisation de Logiciels Libres et Open Source. En
  l'occurrence, notre <a href="http://www.mobileid.cat/en">système e-ID</a> 
  (système d'identité numérique) va désormais devenir open source. Nous
  ouvrirons ensuite nos applications plus critiques, telles que la carte
  des événements de la ville, notre tableau de bord de la ville, le
  portail citoyens et notre réseau de sondes par exemple. Il ne s'agit
  pas « seulement » des postes de travail. C'est toute la
  structure de notre système d'information qui migre vers les standards
  ouverts, l'infrastructure ouverte et l'interopérabilité. Nous avons
  par exemple aussi des serveurs Linux dans nos centres de calcul. Mais
  bien sûr, Barcelone est verrrouillée par les mêmes habituelles
  sociétés que les autres villes. Même tout migrer progressivement n'est
  pas chose aisée, aussi sensé que ce soit.</p><p>Beaucoup de villes sont intéressées
  par ce que nous faisons et nous demandent de collaborer avec elles sur
  des projets de Logiciels Libres, et l'utilisation de normes d'éthique
  numérique.</p><p>Et nous ne sommes pas seuls : il y a cet exemple du service
  numérique du gouvernement britannique qui met en place un plan
  national de migration vers les Logiciels Libres et Open Source. Le
  gouvernement italien n'est pas en reste avec son équipe numérique qui
  emploie beaucoup d'outils open source. La suède procède à des
  ajustements dans sa politique de marchés publics en faveur des
  Logiciels Libres, tout comme l'Estonie qui utilise beaucoup de
  Logiciels Libres. Beaucoup de villes sont intéressées par ce que nous
  faisons et nous demandent de collaborer avec elles sur des projets de
  Logiciels Libres, et l'utilisation de normes d'éthique numérique.</p><p>Il est très important de migrer vers le Logiciel Libre, et je pense
  que ça va continuer après que nous ayons quitté le gouvernement. Je
  travaille avec ça en tête, car ces décisions ne doivent pas dépendre
  d'une personne, ou de l'orientation politique d'un gouvernement. C'est
  aussi une des raisons pour lesquelles nous documentons correctement
  ce que nous faisons. Bien sûr, nous devons susciter de l'engagement
  auprès des fonctionnaires, sans quoi cette bascule ne serait pas
  pertinente au long terme. Ils doivent s'approprier le processus d'une
  transformation qu'ils dirigent.</p><p>C'est un sujet important car, par exemple, nous
  avons eu le cas de Munich en Allemagne. Peu après avoir fini le plan
  de migration vers GNU/Linux, le gouvernement local a changé, et le
  nouveau gouvernement a décidé de rebasculer vers des logiciels
  propriétaires Microsoft. Que faites vous pour éviter cette situation
  à Barcelone ?</p><p>Eh bien, tout d'abord, dans le cas de Munich il s'est agit d'un
  choix politique, pas d'un problème technique. Ensuite, ils ont
  commencé il y longtemps, à une époque où le secteur technologique
  n'était pas du tout le même et a beaucoup évolué. Nous savons combien
  les entreprises du secteur technologique investissent dans le lobbying
  et l'étendue de leur influence, donc ce genre de changement n'est
  jamais facile.</p><p>Dans le cas de Munich il s'est agit
  d'un choix politique, pas d'un problème technique.</p><p>Pour ce qui est de Munich, je pense qu'il va être difficile de
  revenir à Microsoft, ça coûte de l'argent, et au final ça pourrait
  ne toujours pas fonctionner comme voulu. De manière générale, je pense
  que la meilleure manière de réaliser une transition si conséquente est
  de permettre au personnel de prendre la main sur ses outils,
  d'investir dans la formation et de créer des processus orientés autour
  du partage de la connaissance au sein des organismes. C'est ce que
  j'ai fait avec le personnel du City Hall, si bien qu'à la
  fin ils dirigeaient le process et la transformation.</p><p>Comme une approche ascendante de
  l'organisation ?</p><p>Oui, du point de vue du personnel. Pour que les changements soient
  durables, ce changement organisationnel est nécessaire. Nous sommes
  très clairs sur le fait que nous voulons une révolution numérique qui
  profitera au plus grand nombre et non pas à un petit groupe, et bien
  sûr nous voulons que la société toute entière en profite de
  différentes manières.</p><p>Avez-vous un peu d'expérience avec la
  réutilisation des Logiciels Libres que vous développez, tels que
  « Sentilo » par exemple ?</p><p><a href="http://www.sentilo.io/wordpress/">« Sentilo »</a> et « Decidim »
  sont utilisés dans de nombreuses villes. « Sentilo » est
  maintenu par un consortium disposant d'une bonne infrastructure de
  gouvernance. Il a été réutilisé en Italie, à Dubai, ux États Unis et
  dans d'autres pays d'Eruope. « Decidim » est utilisé dans
  de nombreuses villes désormais, et nous avons pour ambition de
  le répandre plus encore. Il y a aussi les autres logiciels comme
  digital ID (l'identité numérique), que nous partageons avec
  les plus petites villes de Catalogne. Nous faisons aussi des
  entretiens et de la recherche pour identifier les projets que d'autres
  villes peuvent avoir déceloppé et publié sous licence libre. En
  l'occurrence, Helsinki a développé une excellente application pour
  le partage de transports, et une autre application citoyenne comme
  la nôtre. Nous collaborons également avec Amsterdam, Turin, New York
  et d'autres. Il y a énormément de collaboration en cours, ce qui
  serait impossible sans le Logiciel Libre.</p><p>« Decidim » est utilisé
  dans de nombreuses villes désormais, et nous avons pour ambition de le
  répandre plus encore. [...] Il y a énormément de collaboration en
  cours, ce qui serait impossible sans le Logiciel Libre.</p>
  <p>Pour promouvoir la collabortation, la ville de Barcelone a créé un
  <a href="https://ajuntamentdebarcelona.github.io/foss-guide/ca/InfraestructuraTecnica.html">outillage politique</a> pour les administrations, qui
  comprend notre norme d'éthique numérique, et un guide explicant
  comment publier du code sur GitHub et maintenir ce code. Il sera très
  utile aux autres villes, car il permet une transition vers le prochain
  niveau de collaboration via GitLab, où vous pouvez gérer correctement
  toutes les contributions. C'est notre prochaine étape : rendre 
  facile le fait d'administrer des projets de Logiciel Libre de manière
  collaborative, et de développer des technologies déventralisées et
  respectueuses de la vie privée, utils aux gens et qui respectent leurs
  droits.</p><p>Barcelone est également la première ville dont le
  conseil a signé la lettre ouverte de la campagne « Public
  Money? Public Code! ». Pourquoi était-ce important pour
  Barcelone ?</p><p>Parce que nous avons besoin d'alliances. Nous voulons renforcer la
  légitimité du développement et de la publication de Logiciels Libres,
  nous voulons que d'autres villes nous rejoignent et nous aide à
  construire cette communauté. Nous avons besoin d'entrepreneurs dans
  l'Open Source, nous avons besoins d'entrerprises et nous avons besoin
  que la société civile prenne part à ce mouvement. Barcelone travaille
  sur les problématiques de licence avec des juristes qui font partie
  de la Free Software Foundation Europe et qui font partie
  du Free Software movement. Quand nous avons vous la campagne,
  notre plan de migration des villes avait déjà été approuvé et les
  objectifs de la campagne concordaient parfaitement avec les nôtres.
  Nous étions très content d'avoir pu construire cette coalition. Plus
  il y a de sensibilisation, mieux c'est.</p><p>Nous avons discuté un peu des sociétés locales
  avant que vous mentionniez que vous investissez 70% du budget des
  nouveaux développements dans le Logiciel Libre. Quel effet tout ceci
  a sur l'économie locale ?</p><p>Ça créé du Logiciel Libre local, et un écosystème technologique
  ouvert, qui renforcent l'économie de l'innovation collaborative. Les
  marchés publics peuvent aussi créer de nouveaux marchés et avantager
  l'industrie locale. Nous avons aussi lancé un fond pour promouvoir le
  développement de Logiciel Libre, le open hardware, l'open
  data et les technologies promouvant la vie privée ayant un impact
  social : nous appelons ceci la <a href="https://digitalsocial.eu/">Digital Social 
  Innovation</a> (innovation sociale numérique). L'un de nos plus
  importants projets technologique en cours de développement est <a href="http://cityos.io/">CityOS</a>. Nous l'avons
  développé au travers de contrats nécessitant l'utilisation de
  Logiciels Libres et Open Source, et sous méthodologie agile. Nous
  avons d'autres projets de développement logiciel en cours, auxquels la
  communauté du Logiciel Libre pourra prendre part et travailler main
  dans la main avec la ville. Pour rendre ceci possible, nous avons
  changé les clauses des contrats publics de sorte à permettre de moins
  mettre les acteurs en concurrence sur le prix mais plutôt sur des
  demandes comme l'utilisation et la publication du code sous licence
  libre et open source, et en ajoutant des clauses liées à la
  souveraineté des données et au respect de la vie privée et de la
  sécurité by design.
  </p><p>Ces contrats ont l'avantage de n'avoir aucun prérequis technique
  ou de lien forcé à un vendeur, dont quiconque a les compétences
  requises peut remporter ces appels d'offre. Nous espérons que les plus
  petites entreprises pourront répondre aux appels d'offre du
  gouvernement.</p><p>Nous voulons en arriver au point où le Logiciel Libre devient la
  norme. C'est pourquoi nous demandons aux représentants d'expliquer
  pourquoi ils ne choisissent pas le Logiciel Libre, si ça se produit.
  C'était la situation inverse auparavant, mais désormais ils doivent
  justifier pourquoi ils prennent de telles décisions sur les marchés
  publics.</p><p>Est-ce que tout ceci a aidé l'économie
  locale ? Est-ce qu'il y a un impact mesurable ?</p><p>Nous travaillons avec une de nos universités locales pour mesurer
  l'impact économique de ces projets open source, pour obtenir des
  statistiques, et montrer aux citoyens que leur argent est dépensé
  correctement. Il y a désormais plus de 3000 sociétés qui travaillent
  avec nous, dont plus de 60% sont des petites et moyennes entreprises.
  Nous voulons augmenter le nombre de sociétés qui utilisent les
  Logiciels Libres pour montrer que nous travaillons avec un plus grand
  nombre de sociétés, de tout type. Avec l'utilisation de GitLab, nous
  essayons de créer des communautés autour de la gouvernance du code et
  des projets. Il s'agit d'un changement majeur pour l'administration de
  la ville. Nous voulons promouvoir le mouvement local du Logiciel Libre
  et fournir une plateforme lui permettant de vivre et se développer.</p><p>Il y a désormais plus de 3000
  sociétés qui travaillent avec nous, dont plus de 60% sont des petites
  et moyennes entreprises.</p><p>Une dernière question. Vous avez déjà dit que les
  autres villes voient les avantages du Logiciel Libre, mais également
  que certaines administrations sont inquiètes. Comment essayeriez-vous
  de les convaincre ? Quel serait l'argument principal, ou le plus
  gros avantage ?</p><p>Je pense que c'est une bonne approche que de repenser la
  technologie au bénéfice des gens, et pour son émancipation.
  Premièrement, l'argent public est réinvesti dans l'écosystème des
  sociétés locales, ce qui redonne du poids à l'industrie et aux
  entrepreneurs locaux. Deuxièmement, nous pouvons améliorer notre
  capacité à collaborer avec d'autres villes sur des projets communs et
  aider les plus petites villes à tirer profit de ces projets.
  Troisièmement, nous conservons notre souveraineté numérique et le
  contrôle démocratique d'infrastructures, données, et services
  critiques. Finalement, nous pouvons émanciper les citoyens en faisant
  des applications et services qui répondent à leurs besoin réels et
  créent de la valeur ajoutée publique. Il est très important d'aller
  vers une société numérique plus démocratique, inclusive, et durable.</p><p>Entretien mené par : Erik Albers</p>Avec sa <a href="http://publiccode.eu/">campagne Public
  Money? Public Code!</a> (Argent Public ? Code Public !), la
  FSFE demande à ce que les logiciels financés par de l'argent public
  soient publiés sous licence Logiciel Libre. Pour faire comprendre
  notre demande, nous faisons une série d'interviews qui mettent en
  lumière les exemples de réussites et de meilleures pratiques. Les
  personnes que nous allons interroger sont des femmes et hommes
  politiques ou des décisionnaires, des figures d'autorité ou des
  développeurs, qui d'une manière ou d'une autre participent au code
  public.<p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE is hiring: project manager
uri: FSFE-is-hiring-project-manager
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180716-01.html
content:
    FSFE is hiring: project manager
  <p>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.</p>About the FSFE<p>Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to
  control technology. Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our
  lives; and it is important that this technology empowers rather than
  restricts us. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use,
  understand, adapt and share software. These rights help support other
  fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, press and privacy.</p><p>The FSFE helps individuals and organisations to understand how Free
  Software contributes to freedom, transparency, and self-determination.
  It enhances users' rights by abolishing barriers to Free Software
  adoption, encourages people to use and develop Free Software, and
  provides resources to enable everyone to further promote Free Software
  in Europe.</p><p>We are involved in legal, economic, political, and technical
  projects around Free Software (see <a href="https://fsfe.org/work.html">our work areas</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/campaigns.html">our
  campaigns</a>).</p><p>In the <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/ln.html">Legal
  network</a> we facilitate the discussion between legal and technical
  experts around Free Software legal and licensing questions. For this
  audience the FSFE also organises a yearly workshop for ~120 experts in
  this field.</p><p>In our work we build upon our volunteers in cooperation with other
  organisations, companies, and public administrations.</p>Main responsibilities
    Lead or support existing and new projects by the FSFE (for example FOSS4SMEs, <a href="http://reuse.software/">REUSE.Software</a>, or sub projects of <a href="https://publiccode.eu">Public Money Public Code</a>).
    Manage and organise larger FSFE events in the legal, economic, social or political field, and support volunteers in being successful in events they organise.
    Organise logistics, in particular around the Call for Paper process, and the execution of the <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/legal-conference.html">Legal and Licensing Workshop for ~120 people</a>, as well as community gatherings <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/LSMandCommunityMeeting2018">like the FSFE’s 2018 community meeting</a>.
    Communicate about the projects and events with our volunteers and the general public.
    Moderate and summarise discussions on mailing lists to enable process while making sure participants keep to <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct.html">the FSFE’s Code of Conduct</a>.
    Contribute to the delivery of EU funded projects and actively monitor further opportunities (currently we are involved in FOSS4SMEs, for former EU funded projects, have a look at <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/finished.html">STACS, SELF, or AGNULA</a>).
    Represent the FSFE at events and meetings.
  Qualifications
    Experience with project management, ideally state-funded projects and projects with the involvement of volunteers, demonstrated by work experience.
    Experience with organising larger events and meetings, demonstrated by work experience.
    Strong written and verbal communication skills, ideally public speaking skills.
    Experience with moderation in meetings. Experience in mailing lists and chat moderation are a plus.
    Ability to find compromises when working within the team and with other partner organisations.
    Good knowledge about the Free Software field and affinity with the FSFE's values and mission.
    Ablility to understand legal, economic, political, and slightly technical arguments about Free Software, and then being able to lead projects which involve people from those different backgrounds.
    Fluency in written and spoken English; other EU languages are considered an asset.
    Knowledge and/or experience in understanding the non-profit sector, especially experience in working with volunteers.
    Knowledge how to use a GNU/Linux laptop is a plus.
  Attitude<p>We are looking for a reliable team player who is passionate about
  driving new initiatives to make the world a better place for further
  generations. While patiently and discreetly making concrete mid-term
  improvements, you should work sustainably and keep the long-term focus
  on the FSFE’s mission.</p>How to apply<p>To apply, please send a maximum one-page cover letter including a
  salary proposal for a 35 hour week and a maximum two-page CV (only PDFs
  are accepted) by email to jobs@fsfe.org, with the subject “Project
  manager”. Please do not include pictures of you in the application. Your
  personal data will be deleted 3 months after we took a decision. Closing
  date for applications is 15 August 2018. Interviews
  with selected candidates will take place at the end of August. Start
  date for the job would be ~15 September or early October 2018.</p><p>Free Software is meant to serve everyone regardless of their age,
  ability or disability, gender identity, sex, race, religion, or sexual
  orientation. Hence, we encourage applications from all backgrounds and
  promise to judge all applications on merit, without reference to any of
  the characteristics listed. To promote diversity and equality in the
  Free Software community, we shall give preference to applicants who
  identify as part of a traditionally marginalised demographic in
  technology for applications of equal strength.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Lettre d'information - Juillet 2018
uri: FSFE-Lettre-d-information-Juillet-2018
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201807.html
content:
FSFE Lettre d'information - Juillet 2018Save Code Share<p>Ce 5 juillet, le Parlement Européen a rejeté la réforme
  controversée sur le copyright en ligne. 318 membres du Parlement
  Européen ont voté contre le projet de loi amendé par la Commission
  des Affaires Juridique (JURI), en opposition aux 278 favorables au
  texte. Le projet de loi est donc soumis à de nouveaux amendements
  avant d'être de nouveau soumis au vote en Septembre.</p><p>Ce rejet par une majorité des membres du Parlement Européen peut
  être perçu comme le triomphe de l'opposition créative et conséquente
  des citoyens et des associations de défense des droits civiques. La
  FSFE, en coordination avec l'Open Forum Europe, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171005-01">a expliqué</a>
  combien la mise à jour du droit d'auteur Européen menaçait
  considérablement le développement de Logiciels Libres en imposant aux
  dépôts de partage de code l'utilisation de filtres qui surveillent et
  retirent tout contenu pouvant potentiellement enfreindre les droits
  d'auteur, y compris des dépôts de code entiers. Par opposition, nous
  demandons à l'Union Européenne de « préserver le partage de code » via
  notre campagne <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a>.</p><p>Plus de 13 000 personnes ont déjà signé notre <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/#sign-letter">lettre ouverte</a>
  demandant de sauvegarder notre capacité à partager et faire du code en
  ligne. Beaucoup de défenseurs du Logiciel Libre ont fait entendre leur
  voix. C'est un vrai succès de constater que dans le rapport de la
  commission JURI les plateformes de partage de code de Logiciels Libres
  étaient exemptes de filtrage. Bien que la commission JURI ait proposé
  une telle exemption, les changements que le comité a essayé
  d'introduire pour le reste de l'environnement en-ligne présentaient un
  vrai danger pour le reste de l'écosystème d'Internet.</p><p>En Septembre, les membres du Parlement Européen vont voter à
  nouveau en séance plénière pour 1) promulguer le mandat tel que soumis
  par le commité, 2) l'amender, ou 3) le rejeter complètement. Ceci
  inclut la possibilité qu'une exemption du devoir de filtrage pour les
  plateformes de partage de code des Logiciels Libres ne soit pas dans
  les futures versions du projet de loi.</p><p>C'est ainsi que la FSFE, en coordination avec l'OFE, va continuer à
  faire entendre nos voix et à expliquer aux législateurs les impacts
  négatifs que la réforme du droit d'auteur aurait sur le Logiciel Libre.</p>Les rencontres communautaires
  2018 de la FSFE<p>Cette année nous avons eu le plaisir de nous coordonner avec <a href="https://hackstub.netlib.re/landpage/">hackstub</a>, l'organisme
  derrière les RMLL 2018, pour organiser une « track »
  politique pour la FSFE, et tenir notre <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/LSMandCommunityMeeting2018">
  rencontre communautaire</a> à la même conférence.</p><p>Ceci s'est avéré être une belle opportunité pour coopérer, et tous
  les participants ont tiré profit d'une convention bien équipée et bien
  organisée. Nous avons eu beaucoup de retours positifs et sommes
  impatients de mettre en œuvre toutes les bonnes idées et
  activités proposées lors de nos sessions. Nous adressions un énorme
  merci à hackstub et à toutes les personnes ayant participé !</p>
    <a href="media/60172117.201807-booth-at-rmll.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/201807-booth-at-rmll.jpg"/>
    <p>Les membres de la communauté au stand de la FSFE durant
    les RMLL 2018</p>
  <p><a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-06">Rejoignez notre
  communauté de défenseurs des libertés.</a></p>Quelles
  sont nos dernières réalisations ? À l'intérieur ou à l'extérieur
  de la FSFE
    C'est l'été en Europe, il y a moins d'activité car les personnes
    partent en vacances. Notre <a href="http://planet.fsfe.org/">planète</a>
    est plus silencieuse ces jours-ci, et seuls quelques événements et
    conférences se déroulent en Europe. Néanmoins, l'équipe <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct#CARE">CARE team</a> de la
    FSFE a rencontré les membres de la communauté durant une journée
    entière pour se former à notre <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct">code of conduct</a>
    (code de conduite).

    Francesca Bria, directrive de l'innovation technologique et
    numérique de Barcelone, façonne l'infrastructure et les technologies
    employées par la ville pour répondre aux besoins des citoyens. Nous
    avons mené un entretien avec elle à propos de <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180705-01">l'utilisation des
    Logiciels Libres pour construire une société numérique plus
    démocratique, inclusive et durable</a>.

    Le Logiciel libre est une question de partage de connaissances
    et de sources. C'est ce que Hook a fait ce mois-ci en publiant une
    <a href="http://matija.suklje.name/review-of-some-vahdams-masala-chai-teas">revue
    de certains thés Masala Chai de Vadham</a>.

    OW2 a publié une <a href="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kQGw25xG_5c">vidéo</a> avec Max
    Mehl, qui a présenté la conférence « Public Money? Public
    Code! » et discuté de la modernisation des infrastructures
    numériques publiques à l'OW2con'18.
  Engagez-vous<p>La réforme du droit d'auteur Européen est en pause pour l'été, mais
  reviendra en Septembre. L'article 13 initialement proposé dans la
  directive du droit d'auteur Européen vise tous les services en-ligne
  qui permettent aux personnes d'ajouter et partager du contenu entre
  elles, y compris les plateformes de partage de code. Aidez-nous à
  empêcher son implémentation, et à « préserver le partage de code » via
  notre campagne <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a>
  en signant notre lettre ouverte et demandant à votre entourage d'en
  faire autant.</p>Aidez nous à améliorer notre
  lettre d'information<p>Si vous souhaitez partager vos idées, des illustrations ou des
  nouvelles, vous pouvez nous les soumettre. Comme toujours, l'adresse
  est <a href="mailto:newsletter@fsfe.org">newsletter@fsfe.org</a>.
  Nous nous réjouissons d'avoir de vos nouvelles !</p><p>Merci à notre communauté, à tous les <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">bénévoles</a>, <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">soutiens</a> et <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donateurs</a> qui rendent
  notre travail possible. Merci à <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators">nos
  groupes traductions</a> grâce à qui vous pouvez lire ce bulletin
  d'information dans votre langue maternelle.</p><p>La FSFE vous souhaite un agréable été, et sera de retour avec la
  lettre d'informations de Septembre.</p><p>Votre éditeur,
     Erik Albers</p><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-06">Rejoignez notre
  communauté de défenseurs des libertés.</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180723-01.en.xml
title: FSFE is hiring: interns and trainees for legal, policy and technical areas
uri: FSFE-is-hiring-interns-and-trainees-for-legal-policy-and-technical-a
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180723-01.html
content:
FSFE is hiring: interns and trainees for legal, policy and technical areas<p>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.</p>About the FSFE<p>Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives; and it is important that this technology empowers rather than restricts us. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt and share software. These rights help support other fundamental freedoms like freedom of speech, press and privacy.</p><p>The FSFE helps individuals and organisations to understand how Free Software contributes to freedom, transparency, and self-determination. It enhances users' rights by abolishing barriers to Free Software adoption, encourages people to use and develop Free Software, and provides resources to enable everyone to further promote Free Software in Europe.</p><p>We drive numerous activities and campaigns to reach our targets, for example "<a href="https://publiccode.eu">Public Money Public Code</a>", "<a href="https://savecodeshare.eu">Save Code Share</a>" and the <a href="https://reuse.software">REUSE initiative</a>.</p>What we can offer<p>We work together with decision makers, licensing experts in the world's largest <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/ln.html">Legal Network</a> on these topics, facilitated by the FSFE, and <a href="https://fsfe.org/associates/associates.html">Free Software organisations</a> all over Europe and beyond. This work is either done directly by staff or together with volunteers, as well as other Free Software and digital rights associations around Europe.</p><p>You will enjoy:</p>
  A challenging and exciting time with a dynamic NGO working internationally.
  A close-up view of organisational and community processes.
  A chance to take the initiative and put your own ideas into practice.
  The opportunity to meet and work with Free Software advocates across Europe.
Your profile and responsibilities<p>We are looking for a reliable team player who is passionate about driving new initiatives to make the world a better place for further generations. You should have some experience or a considerable interest in Free Software. Your field of study doesn't matter, but you should be able to relate it to our work. Traditionally, a lot of interns in the FSFE have a legal or political science background, but we've also had excellent interns working with us with a more technical or other social science background.</p><p>In the day to day work, you will:</p>
  Contribute to FSFE's ongoing projects, working with one or more of our staff and volunteers.
  Communicate with contacts from the FSFE community, NGOs, industry, and public administrations.
  Coordinate volunteers and others in the work on various projects.
  General office tasks.
  Find your own strengths, and do something you care about.
Details and formal requirements<p>Location: Berlin, Germany.  Please note the FSFE has no ability to help with accommodation or travel, you will need to cover this yourself and arrange this prior to your internship.</p><p>Duration: At least 4 months full time at 35 hours per week, starting as agreed (earliest from October 2018). Longer periods are favoured.</p><p>Compensation: This traineeship is compensated with € 1340,73 gross per month.</p><p>You must be fluent in English. You will be required to show that you can legally work in Germany; either by being an EU citizen, or by having a residence and work permit for the duration. The FSFE can not help you in getting either of these documents, but we will accept them if you have them.</p><p>You must also have a German tax number, which you get by registering with the residents registration office (Einwohnermeldeamt) in Germany. This should ideally be done before starting the employment, or at latest on the first days of your employment.</p>How to apply<p>To apply please send a maximum one-page cover letter and a maximum two-page CV (only PDFs are accepted) by email to jobs@fsfe.org subject "Trainee/Intern 2018". Please do not include pictures of yourself in the application. There is no immediate closing date for applications but we recommend to apply as early as possible as the open positions are limited. We will conduct interviews with candidates as soon as possible for both sides. Your personal data will be deleted 3 months after we take a decision.</p><p>Free Software is meant to serve everyone regardless of their age, ability or disability, gender identity, sex, race, religion, or sexual orientation. Hence, we encourage applications from all backgrounds and  promise to judge all applications on merit, without reference to any of the characteristics listed. To promote diversity and equality in the Free Software community, we shall give preference to applicants who identify as part of a traditionally marginalised demographic in technology for applications of equal strength.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180725-01.en.xml
title: "Public Money? Public Code!": more languages, more supporters, more awareness
uri: Public-Money-Public-Code-more-languages-more-supporters-more-aw
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180725-01.html
content:
"Public Money? Public Code!": more languages, more supporters, more awareness
  <img src="media/c06db0ff.pmpc-logo.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/publiccode/img/pmpc-logo.jpg"/>
<p>The "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign has 
received an updated set of translations, including the website, open 
letter and video. The Free Software Foundation Europe has also 
conducted interviews to ask public administrations about the benefits 
of public code, which are now available on our website.</p><p>Why is software, created using taxpayers' money, not released as Free 
Software? We've started raising this question with our <a href="https://publiccode.eu/">"Public Money? 
Public Code!"</a> campaign, and since then we've received a lot of international attention and support.</p><p>One key element for reaching out to as many people as possible is to 
have translations into their native language. That's why, as of today, 
<a href="https://publiccode.eu">our campain website</a> is translated in 
18 languages, spoken in Europe and beyond. The corresponding and popular 
campaign video is dubbed into 6 different languages (English, French, 
Italian, German, Portuguese and Russian) and offers subtitles in a 
total of 16 languages. If you haven't done yet, be sure to check 
whether your language is already supported!</p><p>Meanwhile, an important part of the campaign is the corresponding <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/">open letter</a>. Almost 18.000 
individuals and 150 organisations signed this letter, in which we 
demand that code, paid by the people, should be available to the 
people. Among the subscribers are very prominent Free Software and 
Internet user right's organisations, as well as a first public 
administration, the City Council of Barcelona. To understand the 
motivation behind the Council's decision, we conducted an <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180705-01">interview with, 
Francesca Bria</a>, CTO of Barcelona, who explains how using Free 
Software helps to build a more democratic, inclusive and sustainable 
digital society.</p><p>In another interesting interview, in relation to the PMPC campaign, 
we recently asked Elena Muñoz Salinero, who leads the Technology 
Transfer Centre of the Spanish Government, about best practices for the 
re-use of software solutions <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180601-01.html">by publishing code under Free 
Software licenses</a> between public administrations.</p><p>We will keep running our call for signatures until the European 
Elections 2019, which is less than a year away. So, now is the time to 
take action and let your political representatives know about the 
benefits of public code. If you have not yet done so, please help us by 
signing our <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/">open 
letter</a>. After having signed it, do ask your friends, colleagues, or 
the buddies on your favourite social media channel to sign it too. </p><p>Public Money? - Public Code!</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180725-01.fr.xml
title: "Public Money? Public Code!": plus de traductions, plus de soutiens, plus de sensibilitation
uri: Public-Money-Public-Code-plus-de-traductions-plus-de-soutien
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180725-01.html
content:
"Public Money? Public Code!": plus de traductions, plus de soutiens,
plus de sensibilisation
  <img src="media/c06db0ff.pmpc-logo.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/publiccode/img/pmpc-logo.jpg"/>
<p>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.</p><p>Pour quelles raisons les logiciels crées avec les finances publiques
ne sont-ils pas distribués sous forme de Logiciels Libres ? Nous
avons soulevée cette question par le biais de notre campagne <a href="https://publiccode.eu/">Public Money? 
Public Code!</a> et depuis, nous ne cessons de recevoir des
encouragements et des soutiens du monde entier.</p><p>Un élément clé pour permettre d'atteindre le plus de personnes
possible, est de disposer de contenus traduits dans leur langue
maternelle. C'est pourquoi, à ce jour, le site de la campagne <a href="https://publiccode.eu">Public Money? Public Code!</a> est
traduit et retranscrit en 18 langues parlées en Europe et au-delà. La
vidéo correspondante a été doublée en 6 langues (narrations en Anglais,
Français, Italien, Allemand, Portugais et Russe) et dispose également de
sous-titres en 16 langues distinctes. Si ce n'est déjà fait, merci de
vérifier que votre langue est bien prise en charge !</p><p>Par ailleurs, une part importante de la campagne porte/repose sur la
<a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/">lettre ouverte</a> connexe.
Près de 18 000 personnes et 150 organisations ont signée cette lettre,
dans laquelle nous demandons que le code source des logiciels payés par
les citoyens soit accessible aux citoyens. Parmi Les signataires, il y a
des organisations de premier plan liées au Logiciel Libre et à la
défense des droits des utilisateurs d'Internet, ainsi qu'une première
administration publique, le conseil de la ville de Barcelone. Pour
comprendre la démarche du conseil, nous avons mené un <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180705-01">entretien avec Francesa Bria</a>,
directrice de l'innovation à Barcelone, qui explique comment
l'utilisation de Logiciels Libres permet de construire une société
numérique plus démocratique, inclusive et durable.</p><p>Dans un autre entretien lié à la campagne Public Money? Public
Code, nous avons interrogé Elena Muñoz Salinero, qui dirige le
centre de transfert Technologique du Gouvernement Espagnol, sur les
meilleures pratiques pour le réemploi des solutions logicielles entre
administrations publiques <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180601-01.html">en les publiant sous licence
Logiciel Libre</a>.</p><p>Nous allons poursuivre nostre efforts d'appel à signatures jusqu'aux
Élections Européennes 2019, qui vont se dérouler dans moins d'un an. Il
est donc temps de passer à l'action et d'informer vos représentants
politiques de l'intérêt du code public. Si vous ne l'avez pas encore
fait, aidez nous en signant notre <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/">lettre ouverte</a>. Après
l'avoir signée, demandez à vos proches, collègues ou contacts sur les
canaux de vos réseaux sociaux favoris de la signer également.</p><p>Public Money? - Public Code!</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180905-02.en.xml
title: "Call to Action: Save Free Software this September"
uri: Call-to-Action-Save-Free-Software-this-September
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180905-02.html
content:
Call to Action: Save Free Software this September<p>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.</p><p>Let’s call upon European policy makers to delete the threat posed against Free Software in the Copyright Directive.</p><p>The widespread reuse of Free Software is a foundation of the Internet, as code can be used, studied, shared and improved by each user. It would be wrong to take this freedom for granted. Since most of the internet medium is compiled and reused as Free Software, the ruling would dismantle the media ecosystem.</p><p>We are getting ready for the EU’s vote on a "Copyright Reform" package, in order to remove a section of its terms and conditions that looks to hamper Free Software development and code-sharing. Every Internet user, who shares information, media, and code with the public, has been targeted in the proposed directive. The idea in Article 13 is that Free Software is a cause for copyright violations and that, therefore, upload-filters should be created by internet platforms.</p>

<a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu/"/>
<p>Share graphics hand-made by Save Your Internet</p> 

<p>There are even a variety of types of governmental organisations, facilitated and powered by Free Software. In fact, on just one of the major code hosting platforms, <a href="https://government.github.com/community/">over 128 government organisations from over 17 European governments have, in total, licensed 4594 instances of Free Software on code-hosting platforms, at the time of writing</a>. They are, as follows: Open Government initiatives, Cutural heritage directories, Ecology research departments and agencies, Digitalisation projects, Emergency Services, Information Systems, Election Services, Transport networks, Education institutions, Energy services, Mapping and Geographical research institutes, Statistical bureaus, Business departments, Law courts, Security groups, and Departments of Finance.</p><p>So, for those inside the EU, now’s the time to do your bit and to communicate with an MEP, who represents your country, in order to notify your support for Free Software in the face of Article 13 in the Copyright Directive.</p><p>Do that at <a href="https://saveyourinternet.eu">saveyourinternet.eu</a>, where there are tips on who and how to address and send your message. When you’re ready, you can even <a href="https://www.liberties.eu/en/news/copyright-campaign-call-your-mep/14733">use a tool</a>, created by <a href="https://edri.org/">EDRi</a> and <a href="https://openmedia.org/">Open Media</a>, to directly call and e-mail your MEP.</p><p>Let’s call upon European policy makers to delete the threat posed against Free and Open Source Software in the Copyright Directive.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180907-01.en.xml
title: New FSFE staff member Alexander Sander: EU public policy programme manager
uri: New-FSFE-staff-member-Alexander-Sander-EU-public-policy-programme-man
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180907-01.html
content:
    New FSFE staff member Alexander Sander: EU public policy programme manager
  <p>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 on the EU and member state level and help us identify and monitor EU policy developments to alert the FSFE's network on relevant issues.</p>
	<a href="http://fsfe.org/about/sander/sander.html"/>
	
	    <p>Alexander Sander</p>
	
    <p>At the end of May, the FSFE <a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180529-01">has been looking</a> for a EU public policy programme manager to work with us full-time and found Alexander Sander to join our team now.</p><p>Alexander has studied politics in Marburg and later has been an MEP Assistant in Brussels for three years and the General Manager of Digitale Gesellschaft e.V. in Berlin for four years. Furthermore he is the founder NoPNR!, a campaign against the data retention of travel data. He is also a Member of the Advisory Board of the ZMI Gießen and the Initiative gegen Totalüberwachung. </p><p>We look forward to working with Alexander on our path towards a free society. You can directly get in contact with Alexander via <a href="mailto:alex.sander@fsfe.org">email</a> (<a href="http://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&amp;search=0x36411F3E916C2B2C">PGP</a>). </p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180913-01.de.xml
title: Bundesfreiwilligendienst bei der Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
uri: Bundesfreiwilligendienst-bei-der-Free-Software-Foundation-Europe-(FSFE
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180913-01.html
content:
Bundesfreiwilligendienst bei der Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
  <img src="media/d39d70a3.logo_bfd.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/graphics/logo_bfd.jpg"/>
<p> 
Wir suchen eine engagierte Person, die Interesse hat ihren <a href="https://www.bundesfreiwilligendienst.de/">
Bundesfreiwilligendienst</a> bei dem FSFE e.V. zu leisten. Die 
Bundesfreiwillige wird Vollzeit (35 Stunden wöchentlich) gemeinsam mit 
unserem Team in unserem Berliner Büro arbeiten.</p><p>(in dieser Anzeige gelten 
grammatisch feminine Personenbezeichnungen gleichermaßen für Personen 
männlichen und weiblichen Geschlechts)</p>Über den FSFE e.V.:<p>Der Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. 
ist ein gemeinnütziger Verein, der Menschen im selbstbestimmten Umgang 
mit Technik unterstützt. Software ist in vielen Aspekten unseres Lebens 
tief verankert. Es ist daher elementar, dass diese Technologie uns 
hilft, statt uns einzuschränken.
</p><p>Freie Software gibt allen das Recht, 
Programme für jeden Zweck zu verwenden, zu verstehen, zu verbreiten und 
zu verbessern. Diese Rechte stärken zudem Grundrechte wie das Recht auf 
freie Meinungsäußerung, die Pressefreiheit und das Recht auf 
Privatsphäre.
</p><p>Wir betreiben zahlreiche Projekte und  Kampagnen, um 
unsere Ziele zu erreichen, zum Beispiel <a href="https://publiccode.eu">"Public Money Public 
Code"</a>, <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu">"Save Code Share"</a> und die <a href="https://reuse.software">REUSE-Initiative</a>.
</p>Wir bieten:
  Einblick in die Arbeit und Organisationsabläufe einer europaweit agierenden NGO;
  Zusammenarbeit mit Unterstützerinnen von Freier Software aus ganz Europa;
  Ein engagiertes Team, das neue Ideen schätzt;
  Einen Mix aus inhaltlicher Arbeit zu Freier Software und technischen Aufgaben.
Folgende Aufgaben werden Sie erwarten:
  Unterstützung / Mitarbeit bei Kampagnen und Projekten des Vereins; 
  Verfassen von  Pressemitteilungen, Dokumentationen, Texten für Informationsmaterial, Artikeln, Blogbeiträgen sowie Inhalten für die Webseite;
  Recherchearbeiten;
  Übersetzungen;
  Betreuung von Informationsständen des FSFE e.V.;
  Verschicken von Informationsmaterial;
  Allgemeine Bürotätigkeiten; -Moderation von Mailinglisten;
  Kommunikation und Koordination mit Ehrenamtlichen und der Community. 
<p>Technische Aufgaben:</p>
  Technische Vorerfahrungen sind nicht notwendig, jedoch wird ein Interesse an technischen Aufgaben vorausgesetzt;
  Einrichtung der eigenen Arbeitsinfrastruktur (Betriebssystem, Festplattenverschlüsselung, E-Mail-Konto, E-Mail-Verschlüsselung) zu Beginn des Freiwilligendienstes; 
  Aktualisieren, Einfügen und Gestaltung von Webseiteninhalten mit Hilfe von HTML und CSS;
  Arbeit mit Git als Versionsverwaltungssystem für verschiedene Webseiten und Projekte des FSFE e.V.;
  Arbeiten mit dem zentralen Ticketsystem: Moderation, Zuweisung von externen Anfragen und Beantwortung einzelner eingehender Nachrichten;
  Dokumentation von technischen und nicht-technischen Vorgängen;
  Je nach Profil und Interesse tiefergreifende technische Unterstützung, etwa bei Webseitendesign, Serverinfrastrukur, Containerisierung (Docker) sowie weiterer  Dienste des FSFE e.V..
<p>Fachliche und persönliche Voraussetzungen:</p>
  Großes Interesse an Freier Software und Interesse für technische Aufgaben sollten vorhanden sein;
  Fließend Englisch in Wort und Schrift;
  Deutschkenntnisse sind für die Arbeit bei dem FSFE e.V. nicht notwendig, aber notwendig für die Fortbildungskurse des Bundesfreiwilligendienstes;
  Kenntnisse einer weiteren Sprache in Wort und Schrift sind wünschenswert, aber nicht notwendig;
  Kenntnisse im Umgang mit GNU/Linuxsystem sind wünschenswert aber nicht notwendig.
Details:<p>Der Dienstort ist Berlin.</p><p>Wir suchen eine Bundesfreiwillige für die Dauer von 6-12 Monaten.</p><p>Beginn: Spätestens Ende November 2018.</p><p>Für Fragen steht Ihnen Alexander Sander <a href="mailto:alex.sander@fsfe.org">alex.sander@fsfe.org</a> 
gerne als Ansprechpartner zur Verfügung.</p><p>Bitte bewerben Sie sich  bis zum 16. Oktober 2018.</p><p>Bitte senden Sie ein in englischer Sprache verfasstes Motivationsschreiben von maximal einer 
Seite und einen Lebenslauf von maximal zwei Seiten OHNE Foto an 
<a href="mailto:contact@fsfe.org">contact@fsfe.org</a> mit dem Betreff „Bundesfreiwilligendienst 2018“.</p><p>Wir akzeptieren nur Bewerbungen im PDF-Format. Die persönlichen Daten der 
Bewerbung werden drei Monate nach der Entscheidung gelöscht.</p><p>Freie Software soll jede unterstützen unabhängig von Alter, 
Fähigkeiten, Geschlechtsidentität, Geburtsgeschlecht, „Race“, Glauben 
oder sexueller Orientierung. Daher ermutigen wir alle, egal mit welchem 
Hintergrund, sich zu bewerben und wir versprechen, die Bewerberinnen 
lediglich aufgrund ihrer Qualifikationen zu bewerten. Um Vielfalt und 
Gleichstellung in der Freien-Software-Community zu fördern werden 
Bewerberinnen bei gleicher Qualifikation bevorzugt, die aus 
traditionell technikfernen Bevölkerungsgruppen stammen.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


feed_id: /srv/www/fsfe.org_git/news/generated_xml/news___2018___news-20180917-01.en.xml
uri: Go-open-today-there-s-no-excuse-not-to-interview-with-Timo-Aarnio
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180917-01.html
title:
"Go open today, there's no excuse not to" - interview with Timo Aarnio, GIS expert at National Land Survey Finland.

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"Go open today, there's no excuse not to" - interview with Timo Aarnio, GIS expert at National Land Survey of Finland.<p>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 <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/news/winners-sharing-and-reuse-awards-made-public_en">European Commission's Sharing and Reuse Awards Contest 2017</a> and is currently going through incubation phase to become an official <a href="https://osgeo.org">Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) Project</a>. 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. </p><p>FSFE: Could you briefly explain what “Oskari” is?</p><p>Timo Aarnio: <a href="http://oskari.org/">Oskari</a> is an open source web map application platform. It can be used to set up services that benefit from or require a map component. Oskari is designed to be used as a part of spatial data infrastructure so that the data is not stored in the Oskari instance but rather fetched from different APIs on-the-fly.</p> <img src="media/681eb37e.Timo_Aarnio.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/graphics/Timo_Aarnio.jpg"/> <p>Timo Aarnio works as a GIS Expert at the National Land Survey of Finland’s SDI Services department. With a background in IT Administration, Timo has a lot of experience with open source software especially on the server side. At NLSFI he has been working as a product owner for the Oskari open source software, with a focus on analysis and thematic mapping functions, and as an expert in the INSPIRE implementation with OGC compliant services. Timo’s biggest interests are agile development, user-centered design, and web applications.</p><p>What is the main target group for Oskari? Public administrations?</p><p>Public administrations are definitely one target group but not the only one. What we would like to see more in the Oskari community is companies offering Oskari related services and training. Most of the public sector organisations do not have the necessary know-how or resources available to set up this kind of a platform product. Companies can obviously benefit by generating revenue, but for others the benefits are wherever a map representation for a dataset can be useful. This is true in a plethora of use cases be it for planning purposes, spatial analysis or just for simply displaying locations of offices with routing integrated, and so on.</p><p>What was the initial idea behind creating Oskari?</p><p>The idea for Oskari came about when a new geoportal was being planned for Finland. Commercial solutions did not offer enough functionalities to fulfil the needs of the National Land Survey of Finland, so we decided to develop a new software utilising existing open source solutions as much as possible. There was also a desire to try new development methods, like Agile and Scrum.</p><p>How did the development of Oskari benefit from existing open source solutions or from collaboration with other projects?</p><p>For Oskari we’ve used as many readily available libraries and pieces of software as possible. We use, for example, GeoTools, GeoServer, OpenLayers, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Redis, just to name a few. Going further, all of our “production line” is based on Free and Open Source Software tools and our production servers also all run Linux. We’ve also been in contact with some similar projects and tried to find ways to collaborate.</p><p>All of our “production line” is based on Free and Open Source Software tools and our production servers also all run Linux.</p><p>Was there positive feedback from administrations in Finland so far? Do they find new software well fit for their needs?</p><p>I think most of the feedback has been positive, but then again I must be biased. If someone doesn’t find the software useful I guess they are not likely to send any feedback, they just move on to the next software. But as Oskari has a lot of organisations using it to fulfil different needs I can safely say that it has been found useful in many cases. Our web page lists <a href="www.oskari.org/examples ">multiple public administrations</a> that use Oskari as well as <a href="https://verkosto.oskari.org/en/faq-2/">community projects</a>.</p><p>In your demo version on demo.oskari.org, you offer a lot of thematic maps and visualised data. Are these based on open data? Where do you get the data from?</p><p>The statistical data currently available on <a href="http://demo.oskari.org/">demo.oskari.org</a> is open data from Statistics Finland. The data is utilized via an API. Like mentioned before, in typical cases no data is hosted in the Oskari instance itself.</p><p>Who are the people or the organisations behind Oskari and how is it financed?</p><p>In 2014, the network for Oskari users was established in Finland, today it consists of partners from all over the world, including organisations, individuals and developers. This incudes National Land Survey of Finland, Finnish Transport Agency, The City of Tampere, The Finnish Heritage Agency, Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority and many more. Most of the financing has so far come from public authorities.</p><p>In 2014, the network for Oskari users was established in Finland, today it consists of partners from all over the world, including organisations, individuals and developers. </p><p>With our campaign "Public Money? Public Code!" we demand that publicly funded software should be available to the public under a Free and Open Source Software license. What is your opinion on this matter?</p><p>It feels to me that it is quite usual in Finland to publish something as Free Software, but I don't have any data to back up that claim. Personally, I strongly believe that all data and software collected and produced by public administrations should be available as Open data / Free and Open Source Software whenever possible. It should simply be the default, always. </p><p>That said, I also understand that there are some cases, when it is simply not commendable  to release the source code or data for everyone to access, for example for safety reasons.</p><p>I strongly believe that all data and software collected and produced by public administrations should be available as Open data / Free and Open Source Software whenever possible. It should simply be the default, always. </p><p>What do you think is the major benefit of Oskari being Free Software?</p><p>The potential for re-use and further development, increased transparency and code quality to name a few.</p><p>How exactly does Free Software help code quality in your opinion?</p><p>I think in many ways, but from the top of my head: when a developer knows that her/his code is going to end up on GitHub she/he probably will be a bit more careful already when first writing the code. Our development process includes code reviews and public commenting, that’s another way for improving quality. Bugs are found faster when more people are able to see the code. I suppose this means they are also reported and verified more efficiently.</p><p>You took a Second prize in the cross-border category of the European Commission's Sharing and Reuse Awards Contest 2017. Can you already see many examples of Oskari being re-used across Europe? Is there a lot of interest from organisations and institutions?</p><p>Outside of Finland we don’t yet have that many cases of re-using Oskari. The national mapping agencies in Moldova and Iceland are the only ones I know of. I suppose the biggest reason for this is that there is no company selling Oskari yet internationally. So all the organisations interested in Oskari have had to use their own resources when trying to re-use the software. In the future this is probably going to change for the better as interest from companies is on the rise.</p>

<a href="http://demo.oskari.org/"/>
<p>Oskari software demo, image source: http://oskari.org/ </p> 

<p>Who are the active members of the community around Oskari? Is it composed of individuals or organisations?</p><p>Cooperation around Oskari in Finland is organised through the Oskari network, which coordinates the software development. Over 38 organisations from  both  public and private sector are members of it. The ones mentioned before are the currently most active contributors, but also the National Land Survey of Iceland, the National Land Survey of Moldova and Statistics Finland.</p><p>Is it possible for people outside, who are interested in the project, to contribute and, if so, how?</p><p>Of course, the contributions are welcome and guidelines can be found on <a href="http://oskari.org/documentation/development/how-to-contribute">our website</a>.</p><p>Did a lot of individuals contribute so far? Do you see collaboration with different software developers and other professionals as a big benefit of Free Software for Oskari?</p><p>Not that many contributions from individuals so far I’m afraid. We’ve received a couple of pull requests, however. Collaboration with developers from similar projects might be very beneficial as the challenges we face are often similar.</p><p>Go open today, there's no excuse not to. </p><p>Which recommendations would you give to other innovative projects that would like to follow your example?</p><p>Go open today, there's no excuse not to. Give the needed support to early adopters and users when documentation is not sufficient. Try and maintain a healthy ratio of developing new features and maintaining old code. If you aim to develop collaboratively or accept outside contributions use a well-defined process for that.</p><p>Interviewer: Erik Albers</p>With our <a href="http://publiccode.eu/">Public Money? Public Code! campaign</a>, the FSFE demands that publicly financed software developed for the public sector shall be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. In order to help understand our call and its benefits, we run a series of interviews that highlight good examples and use-cases as best practices. Our interview partners will be policy makers and decision takers, authorities and developers, that in one way or another are already implementing public code. <p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Newsletter - September 2018
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-September-2018
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201809.html
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FSFE Newsletter September 2018Limited exclusion for Free Software in the Copyright Directive<p>On September 12, the European Parliament rejected the mandate to fast-track the 
controversial legislation intended to reform online copyright. After its previous 
rejection in July,  they voted again on this package – and this time it was adopted. However, with amendment 143 and 150 of the current copyright reform proposal, we now have at least a limited exclusion for “open source software developing platforms (..) within the meaning of this Directive”. (<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2018-0337+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN">consolidated document</a>)</p><p>This exception is partially a result of our <a href="http://savecodeshare.eu/">SaveCodeShare Campaign</a>. 
Nearly 13.000 individuals have already signed our open letter asking to preserve the ability to share and build
software online, and lots of Free Software supporters raised their voice. Please continue to support this campaign as the debate is not over yet.</p><p>In the next step, the European Parliament and the Council are starting the
Trialogue, moderated by the European Commission. This debate will most likely continue until the beginning of next year. We will closely follow this process and will continue to raise our voice for Free Software. If you like to support our work, <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-09">join us as a supporter</a>. </p>"Go open today, there's no excuse not to"<p>Within our Public Money? Public Code! campaign, we run a series of interviews that highlight good examples and use-cases as best practices. This time we conducted an <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180917-01">interview with Timo Aarnio</a>, GIS Expert at the National Land Survey of Finland and product owner for Oskari software. Oskari is an award-winning Free Software platform for browsing, sharing and analysing geographic information from distributed data sources. Read about its background, its development practices and a network with over 38 organisations from both the public and private sector.</p>
      <a href="media/40cac60b.201808-community-meeting-rmll.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/201808-community-meeting-rmll.jpg"/>
	<p>From left to right: FSFE community members</p>
  <p><a href="http://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-09">Help us to demand Public Money? Public Code!</a></p>What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE
The FSFE is now official partner with the German "Bundesfreiwilligendienst", a successor of the former alternative civilian service. A paid volunteer can now work full time in our office and learn about Free Software and our community. We have an <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180913-01">open call</a> running for this position. Be our first "Bufdi" or spread the message to people who might be interested.

Until two years ago, the FSFE had <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/routers/">successfully defended</a> the user's right of free choice against compulsory routers introduced by Internet service providers in Germany. Recent numbers seem to acknowledge the importance of our activites, as they <a href="https://www.golem.de/news/vodafone-zahl-der-nutzer-der-routerfreiheit-hat-sich-verdoppelt-1808-136073.html">suggest (DE)</a> that the number of users who exercise their right of free choice have doubled since the law passed in 2016. Due to Tobias Platen's <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/tobias_platen/2018/08/01/two-years-of-terminal-device-freedom/">findings</a> however, users now have a “freedom of choice” but they do not have full “software freedom”, because many embedded devices still use proprietary software.

The FSFE is happy to <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180907-01.en.html">welcome Alexander Sander</a> as our new EU public policy programme manager.

OMEMO is an XMPP extension protocol, which specifies end-to-end encryption for XMPP clients and it is currently the de-facto standard for XMPP encryption. <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/vanitasvitae/2018/09/07/future-of-omemo/">In his blog</a>, Vanitas Vitae discusses its current problems and the foreseeable future of this protocol.

Paul Boddie <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=2307">argues</a> how Free Software advocates could improve understanding the significance of their message by augmenting the four software freedoms with some freedoms or statements of their own. 

Isabel Drost-Fromm posts a <a href="http://blog.isabel-drost-fromm.de/posts/froscon-2018.html">detailed summary</a> of the keynote by Lorena Jaume-Palasi given at FrOSCon about the intersection of ethics and technology: "Blessed by the algorithm - the computer says no!". 

At the 25th anniversary of Debian, Bits from the Basement <a href="http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/posts/Mixed_Emotions_On_Debian_Anniversary.html">writes</a> about Freedom, Aretha Franklin and Debian's birthday.

Diderik van Wingerden <a href="http://think-innovation.com/blog/should-you-donate-to-open-source-software/">estimates and calculates</a> how much Free Software projects would profit if people would donate 25% of the price of its equivalent proprietary alternative.

Torsten Grote <a href="https://blog.grobox.de/2018/building-briar-reproducible-and-why-it-matters/">explains</a> reproducible build processes, and why they matter for Briar.

Max Mehl, FSFE Program Manager, and Albert Dengg, FSFE System Administrator, participated in BalCCon with a talk about "Public Money? Public Code!" and a "Free Your Android" workshop.

FSFE had a booth at <a href="https://nllgg.nl/bijeenkomst/20180915">NLLGG Software Freedom Day 2018</a> in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and at <a href="https://www.froscon.de/">FrOSCon</a> in St. Augustin, Germany, 
Open positions at FSFE<p>We currently have open positions for an internship as well as for a "Bundesfreiwilligendienst". Read about internships, previous interns and currently open positions on our <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.html">internships page</a></p>Contribute to our newsletter<p>If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, send them to us. As always, the address is <a href="mailto:newsletterATfsfeDOTorg"> newsletter@fsfe.org</a>. We're looking forward to hearing from you!</p><p>Thanks to our community, all the
	<a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">volunteers</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">
	supporters</a> and <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donors</a> who make our
	work possible. And thanks to
	<a href="http://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators">our translators</a>, who
	enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.</p><p>Your editor, 
	Erik Albers</p><p><a href="http://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-09">Help us to demand Public Money? Public Code!</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Digital-O-Mat: Wie stehen die Parteien in Hessen zu Freier Software?
uri: Digital-O-Mat-Wie-stehen-die-Parteien-in-Hessen-zu-Freier-Software
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181010-01.html
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Digital-O-Mat: Wie stehen die Parteien in Hessen zu Freier Software?<p>Die Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) hat im Vorfeld der kommenden Landtagswahl in Hessen mit Hilfe eines "Digital-O-Mat" die Positionen der Parteien zu Freier Software unter die Lupe genommen. Auffällig sind vor allem gravierende Unterschiede bei den aktuellen Koalitionspartnern. Während die CDU sich für den Status quo ausspricht präsentiert sich die Partei Bündnis 90/Die Grünen als Unterstützer Freier Software und spricht sich explizit für den von der FSFE propagierten Grundsatz "Public Money, Public Code!" der gleichnamigen Kampagne aus.</p><p>Gemeinsam mit der Koalition Freies Wissen hat die FSFE einen <a href="https://www.digital-o-mat.de/">"Digital-O-Mat"</a> gestaltet, ein Online-Tool zur <a href="https://hessen.digital-o-mat.de/">Information der WählerInnen zur Wahl des Hessischen Landtags 2018</a>. Die zur Wahl antretenden Parteien mussten darin Stellung zum Einsatz Freier Software sowie der Veröffentlichung von mit steuergeldern finanzierter Software unter freien Lizenzen beziehen.</p><p>Neben dem eingangs erwähnten Bündnis 90/Die Grünen begrüßt auch Die Linke einen schrittweisen Umstieg der IT des Landes Hessen auf Freie und Open-Source-Software sowie eine gesetzliche Vorgabe, dass alle aus Landesmitteln finanzierte oder ko-finanzierte Software-Entwicklungen unter freien Lizenzen zu veröffentlichen sind.</p><p>Auch die Sozialdemokraten sprechen sich grundsätzlich für eine stärkere Nutzung von freier Software aus, insbesondere in der Verwaltung und öffentlichen Bildungseinrichtungen. Dies jedoch ohne zugleich eine entsprechende gesetzliche Grundlage zu fordern. Unklar hingegen verbleibt die Position der FDP, die sich zwar für eine Digitalisierung von Verwaltungsprozessen einsetzt, sich dabei aber nicht eindeutig zum Einsatz Freier Software bekennt. </p><p>Wenig überzeugend ist die Position der AfD, die sich mit einer wenn und aber Position versucht hinter den Einsatz Freie Software zu stellen, diesen aber gleichzeitig grundlegend kritisiert und damit zuweilen sogar hinter die konservative Position der CDU zurückfällt.</p>Fazit<p>In Hinblick auf die anstehende Landtagswahl ist davon auszugehen, dass sich in der kommenden Koalition mindestens ein Partner stärker für Freie Software einsetzten möchte. In einem neuen Koalitonsvertrag erwarten wir daher mindestens ein klares Bekenntnis zum verstärkten Einsatz Freier Software um Innovationen zu fördern, Grundrechte zu stärken und Steuergelder sinnvoll auszugeben.</p><p>Mehr zu der aktuellen FSFE Kampagne "Public Money? Public Code!", die von über 150 Organisationen, darunter die Stadt Barcelona, und mehr als 18.000 Einzelpersonen unterstützt wird, finden sie unter <a href="https://publiccode.eu/de/">https://publiccode.eu/de/</a>.</p><p>Den Digital-O-Mat gibt es auch für die <a href="https://bayern.digital-o-mat.de/">Landtagswahl in Bayern 2018</a>.</p>
        <a href="https://digital-o-mat.de/"> </a>
Was ist der Digital-O-Mat?<p>Der Digital-O-Mat macht die jeweiligen Parteipositionen zu netzpolitisch relevanten Themen sichtbar und erleichtert es den WählerInnen, auf dieser Grundlage eine für sie passende Partei zur Landtagswahl in Hessen zu finden. Sein Aufbau basiert auf dem bekannten Wahl-O-Mat. BenutzerInnen des Digital-O-Mat können insgesamt vierzehn Fragen beantworten und im Anschluss ihre eigene Position mit denen der
beteiligten Parteien vergleichen. Themen des Digital-O-Mat sind unter anderem Transparenz,  Überwachung, digitale Bürgerrechte und natürlich Freie Software. Befragt wurden AfD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, CDU, FDP, Die Linke und die SPD. <a href="https://github.com/dsstio/digital-o-mat">Der Digital-O-Mat ist Freie Software</a>.</p>Über die Koalition Freies Wissen<p>Die Koalition Freies Wissen ist ein Zusammenschluss aus mehreren zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen, namentlich des <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/">Bündnis Freie Bildung</a>, dem <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/">Chaos Computer Club e.V.</a>, dem <a href="https://digitalegesellschaft.de/">Digitale Gesellschaft e.V.</a>,  dem <a href="https://freifunk.net/">Förderverein freie Netzwerke e.V.</a>, der <a href="https://okfn.de/">Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V.</a>, <a href="https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Hauptseite">Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.</a> und der <a href="https://fsfe.org">Free Software Foundation Europe</a>.</p><p>Gemeinsames Ziel der Koalition Freies Wissen ist es, die politische Bildung zu den Themen Digital- und Netzpolitik voranzutreiben sowie digitale Bürgerrechte in Gesellschaft und Politik zu verankern und zu beleuchten.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Digital-O-Mat: Wat vinden de partijen in Hessen van Vrije Software?
uri: Digital-O-Mat-Wat-vinden-de-partijen-in-Hessen-van-Vrije-Software
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181010-01.html
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Digital-O-Mat: Wat vinden de partijen in Hessen van Vrije Software?<p>De Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) heeft voorafgaand aan de komende verkiezing voor de Landdag in Hessen met behulp van een "Digital-O-Mat" de posities van de partijen ten aanzien van Vrije Software onder de loep genomen. Opvallend zijn met name de zwaarwegende verschillen tussen de huidige coalitiepartners. Terwijl de CDU zich voor de status quo uitspreekt presenteert Bündnis 90/Die Grünen zich als ondersteuner van Vrije Software en spreekt zich expliciet uit voor het door de FSFE gepropageerde grondbeginsel "Publiek Geld, Publieke Code!" van de gelijknamige campagne uit.</p><p>Samen met de Koalition Freies Wissen heeft de FSFE een <a href="https://www.digital-o-mat.de/">"Digital-O-Mat"</a> georganiseerd: een online gereedschap voor het <a href="https://hessen.digital-o-mat.de/">informeren van kiezers over de verkiezing van de Hessische Landdag 2018</a>. De verkiesbare partijen moeten daarin stelling nemen ten aanzien van de inzet van Vrije Software en van de publicatie van met belastinggeld gefinancierde software onder vrije licenties.</p><p>Naast de genoemde Bündnis 90/Die Grünen verheugt ook Die Linke zich in een stapsgewijze verandering van de IT richting Vrije en Open Source Software in het bondsland Hessen, alsmede op een wettelijke richtijn om alle door het bondsland gefinancierde of mede-gefinancierde software-ontwikkelingen onder vrije licenties te publiceren.</p><p>Ook de sociaal-democraten spreken zich in principe uit voor meer gebruik van Vrije Software en in het bijzonder bij het beheer en publieke beeldschermwerkplekken. Dit zonder daarbij passende wettelijke grondslag te eisen. Daarentegen blijft het onduidelijk wat de positie van de FDP is, die zich welliswaar inzet voor een digitalisering van bestuursprocessen maar zich niet eenduidig uitspreekt over de inzet van Vrije Software.</p><p>Weinig overtuigend is de positie van de AfD, die zich in bochten wringt om zich achter de inzet van Vrije Software te stellen maar deze tegelijk fundamenteel bekritiseert en daarmee deels terugvalt tot achter de conservatieve positie van de CDU.</p>Samenvatting<p>Vooruitblikkend op de komende landdagverkiezing kan men ervan uitgaan dat er in de komende coalitie tenminste een partij 
zich sterker voor Vrije Software zal inzetten. Wij verwachten daarom in een nieuw coalitieverdrag tenminste een duidelijke verklaring voor een grotere inzet van Vrije Software om innovatie te eisen, grondrechten te versterken en belastinggeld zinvol te besteden.</p><p>Meer over de actuele campagne "Publiek Geld? Publieke Code!", die door meer dan 150 organisaties, waaronder de gemeente Barcelona, en meer dan 18.000 individuen ondersteund wordt, vindt u op <a href="https://publiccode.eu/de/">https://publiccode.eu/nl/</a>.</p><p>De Digital-O-Mat is er ook voor de <a href="https://bayern.digital-o-mat.de/">landdagverkiezing 2018 in Beieren</a>.</p>
        <a href="https://digital-o-mat.de/"> </a>
Wat is de Digital-O-Mat?<p>De Digital-O-Mat maakt partijstandpunten over netpolitiek relevante thema's zichtbaar en maakt het kiezers gemakkelijker om op basis hiervan een passende partij voor de landdagverkiezing in Hessen te vinden. Ze is gebouwd op basis van de bekende Wahl-O-Mat. Gebruikers van de Digital-O-Mat kunnen in totaal veertien vragen beantwoorden en daarna hun eigen standpunt met die van de deelnemende partijen vergelijken. De thema's van de Digital-O-Mat zijn onder andere transparantie, surveillance, digitale burgerrechten en natuurlijk Vrije Software. AfD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, CDU, FDP, Die Linke en de SPD zijn ondervraagd. <a href="https://github.com/dsstio/digital-o-mat">De Digital-O-Mat is Vrije Software</a>.</p>Over de Koalition Freies Wissen<p>De Koalition Freies Wissen ("Coalitie Vrij Weten", vert.) is een vereniging van meerdere burgerorganisaties, namelijk <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/">Bündnis Freie Bildung</a>, de <a href="http://buendnis-freie-bildung.de/">Chaos Computer Club e.V.</a>, de <a href="https://digitalegesellschaft.de/">Digitale Gesellschaft e.V.</a>, <a href="https://freifunk.net/">Förderverein freie Netzwerke e.V.</a>, de <a href="https://okfn.de/">Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V.</a>, <a href="https://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Hauptseite">Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.</a> en de <a href="https://fsfe.org">Free Software Foundation Europe</a>.</p><p>Het gemeenschappelijke doel van de Koalition Freies Wissen is de politieke educatie op het gebied van digitale- en netpolitiek te bespoedigen en om digitale burgerrechten in de samenleving en in de politiek een basis te geven en uit te lichten.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Free Software changing Microsoft's patent strategy
uri: Free-Software-changing-Microsoft-s-patent-strategy
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181023-01.html
content:
Free Software changing Microsoft's patent strategy<p>In October Microsoft took a big step concerning its
software patents by joining the <a href="https://lotnet.com">LOT
Network</a> (LOT stands for "License on Transfer") and the <a href="https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/">Open Invention Network
(OIN)</a>. 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.</p><p>The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) works towards a world
where software does what software users want it to do, and believes that
everybody should be able to participate in the development and
distribution of software, if they are interested to do so. Since its
foundation, the FSFE has <a href="http://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/swpat.html">raised
awareness about the dangers of software patents</a>, which among other
things add legal and financial risks to commercial Free Software
software development. In short, software patents are harming users,
developers, and society at large.</p><p>Since the 2000s, Microsoft has used software patents to slow down
Free Software adoption in businesses and public administration by
claiming patent infringement of important Free Software components and
taking billions of dollars from Free Software re-distributors, including
companies selling phones with Android systems.</p><p>However, in recent years Microsoft has published non-core software
under Free Software licenses, purchased Github (a platform used a lot
for Free Software development), and communicated more positively about
Free Software. Now, Microsoft joins LOT and the OIN, two organisations
that work to solve the problems created by software patents.</p><p><a href="https://lotnet.com/how-lot-works/">LOT strives</a> to
protect members against so-called "non-practicing entities", which are
companies that operate by extracting money from others through patents
that they hold, despite not developing products or services of their own
based on these patents. Non-practicing entities are not interested in
any cross-licensing of patents.</p><p>The OIN works to protect a defined set of Free Software technologies
from patent litigation. More than 2.600 members of the OIN have signed a
non-aggression agreement that covers a defined list of Free Software
packages called the <a href="https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/joining-oin/linux-system/">"Linux
system definition"</a>.  In a nutshell, this means that under the "Linux
system definition" all members of the OIN have a license for the patents
of all the others members. However, any member, including Microsoft, can
withdraw from the OIN agreement within 30 days.</p><p>It must be emphasized that joining LOT and the OIN does not
automatically solve the general problem of software patents, nor some
specific patent threats. Indeed, Microsoft has neither dismantled nor
freely licensed its entire patent portfolio, and would therefore still
be able to sue companies and projects not covered by LOT's and the OIN's
agreements.</p><p>The FSFE nevertheless welcomes Microsoft's steps, and encourages them
to continue in this direction. We join our sister organisation, the Free
Software Foundation (FSF), in <a href="https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-statement-on-microsoft-joining-the-open-invention-network">their
statement</a> that Microsoft should:</p>
"make a clear, unambiguous statement that it has ceased all patent
infringement claims on the use of Linux in Android";
"work within the OIN to expand the definition of what it calls the
"Linux System" so that the list of packages protected from patents
actually includes everything found in a GNU/Linux system"; and
"use the past patent royalties extorted from Free Software to fund
the effective abolition of all patents covering ideas in software".
<p>The FSFE will continue to support companies in their efforts to use
and develop more Free Software, and to end the problem of software
patents.</p><p>"The change of Microsoft's approach shows how crucial
persistence and patience are on the long road to software freedom. For
decades, thousands of Free Software contributors have explained the
advantages of software freedom to individual users and developers,
companies, and the public sector. Over time, this created more and more
demand for Free Software, a demand which companies wanting to stay
relevant in the future cannot ignore. To achieve the next steps, users
should continue to demand Free Software, and developers should use their
power to demand from potential employees that they show a strong
interest to work with Free Software", says Matthias Kirschner, President
of the FSFE.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Call for sessions at the FSFE assembly during 35C3
uri: Call-for-sessions-at-the-FSFE-assembly-during-35C3
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181024-01.html
content:
Call for sessions at the FSFE assembly during 35C3<p>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.</p><p>For our sessions at the FSFE assembly, we are looking for inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, community/developer/strategy meetings or any other public, informative or collaborative activities. Topics can be anything that is about or related to Free Software. We welcome technical sessions but even more we encourage to give non-technical talks that address philosophical, economical or other aspects of/about Free Software, in particular about growing diverse communities. We also enjoy sessions about related subjects that have a clear connection to Free Software, for example privacy, data protection, sustainability and similar topics. Finally, we welcome all backgrounds – from your private project to global community projects.</p><p>Do you have something different in mind?  For our friends, it is also possible to have informal meetings, announcements or other activities at our assembly.  In this case, get in touch and we will see what we can do.</p>
<img src="media/0f6b3f1e.g_a_session_about_secure_mobile_messengers_during_33C3-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/2016-12-Hannes_Hauswedell_giving_a_session_about_secure_mobile_messengers_during_33C3-800px.jpg"/>Formalities<p>If you are interested in hosting a session at the FSFE assembly, please apply before</p><p>** Sunday, November 18, 18:00 UTC **</p><p>by <a href="mailto:galia@fsfe.org">sending an email to Galia Mancheva</a> (<a href="http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&amp;fingerprint=on&amp;search=0x679622837CBFFE78">OpenPGP</a>) with the subject “Session at 35C3” and use the following template:</p>
	Title: name of your session
	Description: description of your session
	Type: talk / discussion / meeting / workshop …
	Tags: put useful tags here
	Link: (if there is a helpful link)
	Expected number of participants: 20 or less / up to 50 / up to 100 / beyond
	About yourself: some words about you/your biography 
	<p>You will be informed latest on Monday, November 26, if your session is accepted.</p>Important details
You do not need to be a <a href="https://fsfe.org/join">supporter of the FSFE</a> to host a session. On the contrary, we welcome external guests.

Please, note we do not guarantee you a ticket, nor can we take care of it even if your session at our assembly have been accepted by us! For tickets, please check the CCC- announcements and proceed according to their requirements.

If your session is accepted we will happily take care of its proper organisation, advertising and everything else that needs to be done. You are then welcome to simply come and give/host your session.
Related information:
For your inspiration to this call, see our sessions during <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe">34C3</a>, <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2016/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe">33C3</a> and <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe">32C3</a>.

Since the CCC moved to Leipzig, stage details still need to be sorted out, and you will be informed in time.
<p> Please, share this call with your friends and/or your favourite mailing list.</p>
<img src="media/13c05009.201712-booth-at-34c3-800px.jpeg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/booths/201712-booth-at-34c3-800px.jpeg"/><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: FSFE Newsletter - October 2018
uri: FSFE-Newsletter-October-2018
url: http://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-201810.html
content:
FSFE Newsletter October 2018Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network<p>Historically, Microsoft has used software patents to slow down Free Software adoption in businesses and public administration, by claiming patent infringement of important Free Software components and taking billions of dollars from Free Software re-distributors. In recent years, however, Microsoft approached themselves more and more with the Free Software community. In October, this led to Microsoft's next big step to join the LOT Network and the Open Invention Network (OIN), two organisations that aim to solve problems created by software patents towards the GNU/Linux systems.</p><p>LOT works to protect members against so called "non-practicing entities", while the OIN wants to protect a defined set of Free Software technologies from patent litigation, defined in their so-called <a href="https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/joining-oin/linux-system/">"Linux system definition"</a>.</p><p>The FSFE welcomes Microsoft's steps, and <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181023-02.html">encourages them to continue in this direction</a>. The FSFE aligns with our sister organisation, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in <a href="https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-statement-on-microsoft-joining-the-open-invention-network">their demand</a> that useful next steps should make a clear, unambiguous statement that Microsoft has ceased all patent infringement claims on the use of Linux in Android: to expand the list of packages protected from patents inside the definition of "Linux System",  to include every Free Software component found in a GNU/Linux system, and to use the past patent royalties, extorted from Free Software, to fund the effective abolition of all patents covering ideas in software.</p><p><a href="http://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-10">Join our community of freedom fighters!</a></p>What else have we done? Inside and Outside the FSFE
		
		From December 27th to 30th there will be the 35th Chaos Communication Congress and 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. For sessions at the FSFE assembly, we are looking for inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, community/developer/strategy meetings or any other public, informative or collaborative activities and have an <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181024-01">open call for sessions running until November 18</a>.
		
		On the first weekend of October, the FSFE held it's annual assembly in the Onion Space in Berlin. The general assembly are the members of the FSFE, responsible for strategic planning and budgeting. Besides the members, this year's general assembly welcomed our newest staffer Alexander Sander to attend as guest. Soon after this newsletter reaches you, a more detailed report, including the official minutes, will be published on our homepage. 

		We started onboarding two new staffers: <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/mancheva/mancheva">Galia Mancheva</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/ku/ku">Gabriel Ku Wei Bin</a> have joined as project managers. We are excited to see our team growing organically, and you will soon hear more from Galia's and Gabriel's work in this newsletter. 

		Prior to the elections in <a href="https://hessen.digital-o-mat.de/">Hessen</a> and <a href="https://bayern.digital-o-mat.de/">Bavaria</a>, the FSFE together with the "Free Knowledge Coalition", published another <a href="https://digital-o-mat.de/">"Digital-O-Mat"</a>. The Digital-O-Mat is one of our elections campaigns and an online tool to help voters to inform themselves on the parties positions about Free Software. Voters can use the Digital-O-Mat to compare their own views about internet related policies with the ones from the participating parties, and, this way, they are able to find their best match. To also help understand the parties positions in a broader context and raise public attention, the FSFE analysed and evaluated their positions in a <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181010-01.en.html">public statement</a>.

		The FSFE's president Matthias Kirschner gave a talk at <a href="https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2018/talks/democracy-requires-free-software/">Kernel Recipes</a> on the importance of Free Software and its role in protecting democracy.

		The FSFE's country coordinator Germany Björn Schießle gave a talk at the <a href="https://wiki.fsfw-dresden.de/doku.php/ringvorlesung/ws2018">“Free Software Free Knowledge as a Profession”</a> series of lectures organised and hosted by the dedicated working university group at TU Dresden.
	Do not miss: upcoming events with the FSFE<p>From November 15 to 17, part of the FSFE team will be present at the <a href="https://www.sfscon.it/">SFScon</a> in Bolzano, Italy. The FSFE's 	president Matthias Kirschner will give a talk and our EU public policy programme manager Alexander Sander will host a policy workshop. Also, we will run a booth, where we will present the findings of the <a href="https://reuse.software/">REUSE</a> software study - carried out by the University of Bolzano. If you are around, do pass by: we look forward to meeting you.</p>Get Active<p>To let as many people as possible know about software freedom and the FSFE's mission, it is beneficial to explain our cause to them in their mother tongue. Our team of <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/">translators</a> does an amazing job in making sure that a majority of Europeans can read our pages in their native language. Indeed, many parts of our homepage have been translated in more than 20 European languages. This is a priceless contribution to spreading software freedom and we are grateful to all contributors who helped us in this. </p><p>However, every homepage needs an update from time to time and we will refresh several parts of our homepage in the upcoming weeks - on top of our general publications and news, like this newsletter. This means new parts of our page that need translations. If you are a native speaker of any language apart from English and you like translating, please <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/">join our translator team</a> now, and help us to modernize our infrastructure by  getting our message out. Our translators team is very helpful and looks forward to welcoming new members. You can get in contact with the team via our <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/translators">mailing list</a> or with <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/">individual coordinators</a> listed on the translators page.</p>Open positions at FSFE<p>We currently have open positions for an internship as well as for a <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180913-01.en.html">"Bundesfreiwilligendienst"</a>. You an find more information about our internships, previous interns and currently open positions on our <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.html">internships page</a>.</p>Contribute to our newsletter<p>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!</p><p>Thanks to our community, all the <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">volunteers</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">supporters</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donors</a> who make our work possible. And thanks to <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators">our translators</a>, who enable you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.</p><p>Your editor,
	Erik Albers</p><p><a href="http://fsfe.org/join/nl2018-10">Join our community of freedom fighters!</a></p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


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title: Annual report of the Free Software Foundation Europe 2018
uri: Annual-report-of-the-Free-Software-Foundation-Europe-2018
url: http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20181105-01.html
content:
Software freedom in Europe 2018<p>"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.</p>About the Free Software Foundation Europe<p>The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is a charity that empowers people to control technology by enabling access to software and its source code. The rights to use, study, share, and improve this software are essential to guarantee equal participation in democracies of the 21st century.</p><p>We work for a world in which everyone has access to the source code of the software that runs in the products we own, or that is essential to the public infrastructure and services of the society we live in. Access to this code should be embedded in a legal environment where people are able to change technologies in a way that fulfills their needs - individually or collectively. Therefore, any software that is used to run public infrastructure or is publicly financed has to be made publicly available.</p><p>To shape the future this way, we help people to understand Free Software and its assets today. We would like everyone to understand the four freedoms to use, study, share and improve, and how these freedoms are essential to freedom in our society as a whole.</p><p>To help people understand our message, we use public campaigns and political lobbying, we provide expertise in talks and personal meetings, we set up informational booths and organise events, we produce promotion material and explanatory videos. To achieve our goals, we base our work and form our movement with the help of our community and friends, who ensure that our message gets out and is heard in as many diverse parts of our society as possible. We work in a transparent and cooperative way.</p><p>If you like to join our cause, <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">contribute</a> or <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/support">support us financially</a>.</p>
	  <p>Table of contents</p>
	    
			
	      <a href="#campaigns">Campaigns in 2018</a>
	      
			   
				<a href="#pmpc">Public Money? Public Code!</a>
				<a href="#article13">Free Software in the European Union's Copyright Directive</a>
				<a href="#REUSE">The REUSE Initiative</a>
				<a href="#ayc">Electoral campaigns</a>
				<a href="#ilovefs">I Love Free Software Day 2018</a>
			   
		   
		   
	      <a href="#eventsorganised">Events we organised and participated in</a>
	      <a href="#community">The FSFE Community</a>
	       
			<a href="#care">Code of Conduct and the CARE team</a>
			<a href="#people">Staffers and team</a>
			<a href="#members">The association and its members</a>
			
		  
	      <a href="#budgets">Budgets and expenses</a>
	      <a href="#prmaterial">Promotion material</a>
	      <a href="#merchandise">Merchandise</a>
	      <a href="#2019">Looking forward into 2019</a>
	    
	Campaigns in 2018Public Money? Public Code!<p>Why is software, created using taxpayers' money, not released as Free Software? We started raising this question with our <a href="https://publiccode.eu">"Public Money? Public Code!"</a> campaign, and received a lot of international attention and support. At the time of writing more than 18.500 individuals and more than 150 organisations signed our <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/">open letter</a> demanding that code paid for by the people should be available to the people. As another strong sign that now is the right time to ask for public code, we have found the first public administration to sign our open letter: the City Council of Barcelona.</p><p>On the other hand, little is known about how much public code is already a reality in many public administrations throughout Europe. To change this, we shed light on outstanding examples, to learn from each other and to put positive pressure on decision makers. We started a series of expert interviews in different areas to learn more about their experiences and their motivation, as well as their challenges: Francesca Bria, CTO of Barcelona, elaborates on how <a href="https://news/2018/news-20180705-01.html">Free Software helps build a more democratic, inclusive and sustainable digital society</a>; Elena Muñoz Salinero, who leads the Technology Transfer Centre of the Spanish Government, speaks about <a href="https://news/2018/news-20180601-01.html">best practices between public administrations in the re-use of software solutions</a>, by publishing code under Free Software licenses; and Timo Aarnio, GIS expert at National Land Survey of Finland which coordinates the development of Oskari, <a href="https://news/2018/news-20180917-01.html">explains development practices under public funding within a network with over 38 organisations from both the public and private sector</a>.</p><a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180705-01.html"/><p>As our next step, we are releasing a brochure with more than 20 pages to be used in the time before the European Parliament's election in mid-2019. The brochure is directed towards decision makers in politics and administrations: To help them understand Free Software, to explain the benefits of public code for democracy and IT security, and to point out the first steps to positively change procurement and legislation in favor of Free Software. We will not only use this brochure for the European Parliament's election, but also for distribution to decision-makers inside public institutions to help them understand the importance of Free Software in modernising our digital infrastructure. If you would like to support this and other "Public Money? Public Code!"-activities, sign the <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/">open letter</a> and help us with your <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/">donation</a>.</p><p>However, offering expertise to decision-makers is only one factor. It is just as important to apply pressure by raising awareness inside our society and offering people tools to explain the benefits of public code to each other. For the overall campaign's success, it is essential to empower activists and organisations from all over the world to become a part of this movement. One key to achieving this is to offer material and explanations in a person's mother tongue. Thanks to the priceless help of our outstanding volunteers, we have managed to translate the campaign website into 18 languages. The corresponding <a href="https://publiccode.eu/#about">popular campaign video</a> is dubbed into six different languages (English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese and Russian) and offers subtitles in a total of 15 languages. This way, we enable more than 1.5 billion people to learn about "Public Money, Public Code" in their language. </p><a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#pmpc"/><p><a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#pmpc">Get our "Public Money? Public Code!" stickers, card and poster</a> to help you spread the word!</p>Free Software in the European Union's Copyright Directive<p>One of the most controversial policy topics in the European Union 2018 was, and still is, the harmonisation of copyright with a new copyright directive. At the time of writing, and after two years of intense debates, the copyright reform is getting close to the final straight. For the well-being of software freedom, one of the most important debates was around Article 13.</p><p>Article 13 of the European Union's current copyright directive proposal can seriously hamper collaborative software development, and especially Free Software, by imposing the use of mandatory upload filters and monitoring of their users.  As a result of this proposal, Free Software code-hosting platforms and public code repositories can be arbitrarily removed online. </p><p>After a long and intense debate that we accompanied with our <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a> campaign, and after collecting more than 14.000 signatories for our open letter to avoid any negative impact for Free Software, we obtained some limited exclusion for Free Software in the text of the European Parliament's directive. With amendment 143 and 150 of the current copyright reform proposal, we now have at least an exclusion for “open source software developing platforms (..) within the meaning of this Directive”. However, the council proposed this exclusion to only be valid for “non-commercial open source software developing platforms”.</p><img src="media/296138fe.201803-malaja-reda-petition-article13-800px.jpeg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/201803-malaja-reda-petition-article13-800px.jpeg"/><p>MEP Julia Reda receives more than 11.000 signatures against the dangerous impact of Article 13 from the FSFE's policy coordinator Polina Malaja.</p><p>Since the beginning of October the European Parliament and the Council have been in the Trialogue in which we keep raising our voices and demanding for an appropriated exception of commercial as well as non-commercial Free Software in the upcoming Copyright Reform package. Most likely, this debate will continue until the beginning of next year, so if you have not yet done so, back our demand and help keep a healthy environment for Free Software development by <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/#sign-letter">signing our open letter</a> or <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/support">helping us finanicially</a>. </p>The REUSE Initiative<p>The FSFE aims to support developers by helping them understand the legal implications of reusing a given piece of Free Software, and how to comply with these legal requirements by adding copyright and license information. To achieve this, the FSFE has embarked on our <a href="https://reuse.software">REUSE Initiative</a>, which introduces a set of best practices for license information in ways not only humans can read, but computers as well, helping to automate licensing. These guidelines have been in place since December 2017.</p><p>In September, the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano published a study analyzing a fixed data-set of GitHub projects, and the extent to which these projects respect our REUSE Initiative guidelines, concluding that compliance with our guidelines is low. While low compliance can be attributed to the relatively recent availability of our guidelines, the study also found them overly complex, as they suggest a variety of options rather than a single simple method of compliance. Many of the recommendations in the guidelines are also worded to suggest that they are optional, which adds to the complexity for developers trying to understand and comply with the legal requirements of their repositories.</p><p>The study has also made suggestions for alternatives and/or improvements for some of our main guidelines, which includes the proposal to use the so-called <a href="https://github.com/idm-suedtirol/reuse">“flight rules” developed by IDM-Südtirol</a>. The FSFE takes these criticisms to heart and works to improve on these guidelines in order to see greater compliance in the future, and greatly appreciate all feedback that can help us make this a reality.</p><img src="media/1e97d060.2018-screenshot-investigate-europe2.png" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/miscellaneous/2018-screenshot-investigate-europe2.png"/><p>The FSFE helped <a href="https://www.investigate-europe.eu">Investigate Europe</a>, an independent journalistic team, to better understand concepts and benefits of Free Software and brought them in contact with experts from our network for their research for the TV documentary <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg">"Microsoft-Software: Safe for Europe?".</a></p>Electoral campaigns<p>At the FSFE, we believe that Free Software and Open Standards should be a topic in all elections, be they on a European, national, regional, or local level. To influence the discourse and the agenda pre-election in favour of Free Software, we run <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/elections">electoral campaigns</a>, where we collect and highlight information about the candidates and political parties who participate, and shed light on how they stand on Free Software. This practice can assist voters who care about Free Software and Open Standards with their voting decisions, by allowing them to understand which candidates support our cause towards a free society. After the elections, we will stay in contact with decision-makers and those who are committed to raising their voices for Free Software.</p><p>In 2018, the FSFE <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180302-01">ran an Ask Your Candidates campaign</a> in the forefront of the Italian elections by sending a set of questions to the participating political parties and <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/askyourcandidates/201803-italy-general-elections">publishing their answers</a> afterwards. These questions aimed to clarify the various parties' positions on the use of Free Software in public administrations, a subject already present in Italian jurisprudence by way of Article 68 and Article 69 of the Code of the Digital Administration.</p><p>In conclusion, all parties and candidates that answered the questions - Movimento 5 Stelle, Liberi e Uguali, Partito Democratico and Potere al Popolo - have claimed to be in favour of the adoption and the extended use of Free Software and open formats in public administration as well as in public education. In the running legislation period, the FSFE Italy will use this information to observe the government on whether they are delievering on their promises.</p>I Love Free Software Day 2018<p>Every year on February 14th, we celebrate <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/">"I Love Free Software Day"</a>, a day to say thank you to the contributors of the various Free Software you love: developers, translators, designers, testers, or documentation writers, of huge or smaller software projects. Again, all around the globe the message of 'I love Free Software' (#ilovefs) was spread on mass and social media, in communities and between people.</p><a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180308-01.html"/><p>We counted hundreds of messages on social media, as well as private and corporate blogs. Messages full of love declarations, sweetened with photos and artwork dedicated to the countless people out there contributing to Free Software every day, be it in the form of code, translations, documentation, community work, design, or management of projects. Thank you very much for having shared your love once more!</p><p>This year, to monitor the online popularity of the day's celebration, our intern Jan Weymeirsch wrote a scraper in GNU R to scrape trending data from social media and <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/janwey/ilfs-data">published it as a Free Software tool</a>. We used this scraper to compile results about the quantity of toots and tweets using the hashtag #ilovefs and analysed their corresponding metadata as well. We then used this data to create a word-board that showed which Free Software had been the most popular that users were sharing the love with.</p><a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180308-01.html"/><p>Again, there have just been too many  outstanding love declarations by individuals and organisations to be listed here. If you are interested in more details, read <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180308-01.html">this year's report</a> and do not miss #IloveFS-day in 2019!</p><p>If you would like to keep up to date throughout the year and read good news about Free Software and the people behind it, <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter-en">subscribe to our newsletter</a> and if you would like to help us spread the love about Free Software, <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/support">support us financially</a>.</p>Events we organised and participated in<p>The FSFE participates in public events to spread the message of Free Software. We are organising more and more successful events on our own, and extending our presence at events organised by others. In 2018 we participated with informative booths and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC68ldbHwL_-5qzETqOaAMWQ">talks</a> at <a href="https://fsfe.org/events/events.html">more than 40 events</a> in ten European Countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, Sweden).</p><p>In July, we combined <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/LSMandCommunityMeeting2018">our annual community meeting</a> with the FSFE's presence at the Libre Software Meeting (aka Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre) in Strasbourg, France. The Libre Software Meeting is a community-driven Free Software meeting in France, and the FSFE had the chance to run its own freedom-related track during the conference. Our community meeting is the annual event to bring together our community across Europe for a weekend to discuss and set the FSFE's agenda for the months to come. </p>
				
				
				
				
				
				
			  <p>In April, the FSFE led its <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180530-02">annual Free Software Legal and Licensing Workshop (LLW)</a>, a 3-day conference in Barcelona, Spain, and a meeting point for world-leading legal experts to remove legal barriers for Free Software adoption, as well as to debate issues and best practices surrounding Free Software licences. In 2018, an estimated 120 legal experts enjoyed an unprecedented amount of parallel tracks and interactive sessions designed to dive into the most contentious topics in the legal world of Free Software.</p><p>In January, the FSFE partnered up again with Open Forum Europe for <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180215-01">the third edition of the European Free Software Policy Meeting in Brussels</a>, at the heart of European decision-making. The aim of the meeting was to shed light on topics important for Free Software in public policy all over Europe, and to exchange experience for policy action within different regions to help political decision-makers understand how software freedom is related to other freedoms in our society, as well as the economic impact of Free Software. This year, 17 different groups were represented at the European Free Software Policy Meeting, from national Free Software groups to public sector representatives and international organisations.</p><a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe"/><p>Booth at the FSFE assembly during 34C3</p><p>In the days before New Year's Eve, the FSFE aligned with European Digital Rights (EDRi) and other friends to form a <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Cluster:Rights_%26_Freedoms">Cluster “Rights &amp; Freedoms”</a> at the 34th Chaos Communication Congress, one of the largest community-driven technology-events in the world. This cluster offered a stage with a full-time programme about digital rights and the FSFE Assembly forms an integral part of this program with <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2017/wiki/index.php/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe">our own Free Software track</a>.</p><p>If you would like to support our community in participating throughout events in Europe, please consider <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/support">supporting us financially</a>.</p>The FSFE Community<p>In the FSFE's community, we appreciate all the people who help us on different levels with their respective skills on our path towards a society where users are in control of their technology. With this in mind in 2018, some ten thousand people, from Europe and beyond, are supporting the FSFE by spreading our word, signing our open letters about <a href="https://publiccode.eu">Public Money? Public Code!</a> and <a href="http://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a>, subscribing to our <a href="https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter-en">newsletter</a>  and mailing lists, and joining <a href="https://fsfe.org/contact/community.html">our public discussions</a> about Free Software and FSFE. </p><p>For those who feel inspired by the FSFE and would like to help keep the FSFE running with their official support, we offer a supporter programme, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171116-01.html">previously known as the Fellowship programme</a>. The supporter programme includes a financial contribution to the FSFE and is crucial to our success. <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/support">Joining the supporters program</a> is as easy as any online transaction and it is said to bring good karma!</p>
			
			
			
			
			
			
		  <p>Last but not least, the FSFE is proud to have highly motivated people around Europe, without whose help the FSFE could not operate in the size and outreach that we have. These volunteers work in the core of our activities and are an integral part of our community. Some of them come together in our <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#eu-core-team">European Core Team</a>, others coordinate our <a href="lhttps://fsfe.org/about/localteams">country or local groups</a>, and countless volunteers <a href="https://fsfe.org/events/events">run FSFE booths and give talks</a>. They help spreading our <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword">promotional material</a> as well as telling friends, families and colleagues about Free Software in Europe. All of them shape the FSFE community. If you would like to become an integral part of our community <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">read about how you can contribute</a>.</p><a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/LSMandCommunityMeeting2018"/><p>Community members at the FSFE booth during LSM / RMLL 2018.</p>Code of Conduct and the CARE team<p>Disagreement and possible conflicts are part of any debate in every community. This is not inherently bad; quite the opposite, in the FSFE's community, we understand differences of opinions to be fundamental in the democratic process, and important to shape the directions of a community-driven organisation like the FSFE. But no matter the dispute at stake, all participants should at all times feel at ease to participate and express their opinion, and to do so without fearing any form of attack, reprisal, or harassment.</p><p>It has always been an aim for our community to offer a friendly and peaceful environment for every participant at the FSFE's events and in its infrastructure, online and offline. Since last year, we have officially codified this in our <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct">Code of Conduct</a>. To further ensure its availability and enforcement, we created a <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct#CARE">CARE team</a> at the beginning of this year. Whenever you encounter a situation in which our Code of Conduct was breached, do not hesitate to get in touch with our central CARE team.</p><a href="http://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct"/>Staffers and team<p>In the beginning of the year, Jonas Öberg left his position as the Executive Director, and later also Polina Malaja, our former Policy Analyst and Legal Coordinator. On the other hand, Max Mehl works full-time for FSFE since January, Francesca Indorato started in February as our new office assistant and, in August, <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/sander/sander">Alexander Sander</a> joined <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team">our team</a> as the FSFE's new EU public policy programme manager. At the beginning of October, <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/mancheva/mancheva">Galina Mancheva</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/ku/ku">Gabriel Ku Wei Bin</a> joined us as project managers. In total, the FSFE will employ seven full-time staffers and one part-time employee at the end of 2018. In addition, we constantly have two <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/internship.html">internship positions</a> in parallel that support our work. Throughout the year, our interns have been: Alexandra Busch, George Brooke-Smith, Jan Weymeirsch and Vincent Lequertier</p><p>As another addition to our team in 2018, it will be possible <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180913-01.de.html">to undertake Federal Volunteer Service</a> ("Bundesfreiwilligendienst") at the FSFE. </p>The association and its members<p>Formally, the FSFE is an association with charity status, registered in Germany. The charity is governed by its <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#general-assembly">formal members</a> who are responsible for planning, budgeting, setting the agenda, as well as electing and recalling the Executive Council and the Financial Officer. We have seen a growth of members with the general assembly in 2017 and welcome as new members since then: Amandine Cryptie, Polina Malaja, Ulrike Sliwinski, Jan-Christoph Borchardt, Max Mehl, Erik Albers and Florian Snow. Daniel Pocock resigned as a member. Currently, the FSFE e.V. has 28 members.</p><p>Daily operations are run by the <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#council">Executive Council</a>. This year, our long-time financial officer <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171207-01#id-reinhard-muller">Reinhard Müller</a> stepped down from his position after more than 10 years, and Patrick Ohnewein has been elected to take over the position. Reinhard continues to be a contributor to the FSFE in our technical backend and frontend, in particular as the lead organiser of the FSFE's biggest annual booth at FOSDEM. </p><p>In 2018, the General Assembly also <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2018/news-20180526-01">approved</a> the removal of the "Fellowship seats". In future, <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/GA">access to membership of the FSFE</a> shall be facilitated through the normal membership procedures for active FSFE contributors. The FSFE believes that encouraging active contributors to become GA members, without the downsides of the elections, is a better way to achieve our mission.</p><img src="media/0985e564.201810-general-assembly-participants-800px.jpg" data-original-source="http://fsfe.org/picturebase/people/201810-general-assembly-participants-800px.jpg"/><p>Participants at the FSFE's general assembly 2018.</p>Budgets and expenses<p>As soon as we have the final numbers for 2018, you will find them on our <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.html">funds list</a>. On a general note, we are always eager to increase our financial independence with an increase of individual supporters instead of major donors. We expect around one third of our budget in 2018 to be covered by our <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/support">financial supporter program</a>. Apart from the basic costs to run our infrastructure, we have the highest expenses in <a href="https://fsfe.org/work.html">Policy</a>, <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/campaigns.html">Public Outreach</a>, and <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/activities.html">Legal</a>. Currently, our biggest campaign is <a href="http://publiccode.eu/">Public Money? Public Code!</a>. The financial part of our Public Outreach covers the production and distribution of <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword">PR material</a>, <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order.html">merchandise</a> and the FSFE's presence at <a href="https://fsfe.org/events/">various Free Software events</a>.</p>Promotion material<p>The FSFE empowers people to promote digital freedom in the real world by offering a <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword">large set of promotion material</a>. You can find inspiration about the <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#100-freedoms-black-sticker">100 freedoms of Free Software</a> and why <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#nocloud">There is no Cloud, just other people's computers</a>, or leaflets to help you explain <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#fs-and-tools">Free Software</a>, <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#gnupg-leaflet">Email encryption</a>, the dangers of <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#drm-leaflet">DRM</a> and how to <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#f-droid">Free Your Android</a>. You can also find postcards, posters and stickers of our <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#pmpc">Public Money? Public Code!</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#ilovefs">I love Free Software</a> campaign. <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword">Order your own material</a> now and help us to spread the word!</p><p>In the last 12 months, we sent out 751 promotion orders around the world. This means literally thousands of stickers, leaflets, and posters have been given out to people, who are interested or are even hearing about Free Software for the first time . If you would like to support us in this direct action, consider <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/support">supporting us financially</a> or consider a donation along with <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#ilovefs">your personal PR material order</a>. The right leaflet at the right time to the right person can be the start of long-lasting change. </p>Merchandise<p>Besides promotion material, <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order.html">the FSFE sells</a> clothes, bags, baby bibs, and magnets as merchandise items. This year, we have newly released a <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order.htmltshirt-100freedoms-black">"100 Freedoms of Free Software"</a> shirt, a <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order.html#magnet-nocloud-white">"There is no Cloud just other people's computers" magnet</a>, and a <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order.html#bag-pmpc-natural">"Public Money? Public Code!" bag</a>. </p><a href="http://fsfe.org/order/order.html"/>Looking forward into 2019<p>2019 will be another exciting year for software freedom and the Free Software Foundation Europe. On the European level, the FSFE will start the year by further explaining to actors, who are involved in the copyright reform, that Free Software can always be commercial as well as non-commercial, thereby removing barriers for Free Software in Europe. Later in the year, and still before the European Parliament's elections, we will get in contact with the candidates running for office and explain to them the benefits of "Public Money? Public Code!". In parallel, we will raise our voices in the debate about the next European Framework Research Programme, called "Horizon Europe", to ensure that releasing publicly financed software under free licenses becomes an integral part of "Horizon Europe", as well as a general condition for publicly financed science inside the European Union.</p>
			
			
			
			
			
			
		  <p>On the member states level, there will be elections in many European countries, such as in Switzerland, Albania, Netherlands, Greece, and Spain. We want to accompany as many of them as possible with electoral campaigns to make sure political decision makers understand how Free Software contributes to freedom, transparency, self-determination, as well as economic well-being, and that they vote accordingly in future. </p><p>To bring more Free Software to small and medium-sized enterprises and its employees, we are part of <a href="http://foss4smes.eu">FOSS4SMEs</a>. Together with our partners, we are going to create e-learning courses for managers and workers to teach them about the origins and benefits of software freedom. Our goal is that SMEs can make an informed decision and, if SMEs want to use or develop software, that Free Software is their preferred choice. Stay tuned for first releases in 2019!</p><p>Preparations are already running for our annual legal conference "Legal Licensing Workshop" (LLW), as well as for our hackathons and annual community meeting. And, besides our own events, we will of course be present again at various Free Software related events, from FOSDEM to the Chaos Communication Camp. </p><p>Last but not least, in 2019 the FSFE will again use public awareness campaigns and political lobbying, provide our expertise, and produce promotion material and explanatory videos. To achieve our goals, we base our work and form our movement with the help of our community and friends, who ensure that our message gets out and is heard in as many diverse parts of our society as possible. </p><p>If you would like to join our cause, <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">contribute</a> or <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/support">support us financially</a>. </p><p>On this occasion, we like to send a big thank you to our community: all the <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">contributors</a>, as well as our financial <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">supporters</a>, and <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donors</a> who made the work of the FSFE possible during the last 12 months.</p><p>Thank you!</p><p>Your Free Software Foundation Europe</p><a href="https://my.fsfe.org/support"/><p>FSFE supporters at the community meeting 2018 in Strasbourg, France.</p><p>Support FSFE, <a href="https://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">join the Fellowship</a><br/>Make a <a href="http://fsfe.org/donate/donate.html">one time donation</a></p>


