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Router Freedom challenged by new European rules

From 21 June a new set of rules will guide the implementation of Router Freedom in Europe. The internalisation of the rules by the 27 EU member states will face challenges with negative consequences for Router Freedom. The FSFE contributed to several improvements of the guidelines and will monitor compliance with them.

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200601-01.html

Hrvatski: dostupan! Web-stranica #publiccode dostupna je na još jednom jeziku zahvaljujući @mdimjasevic. Potpišite otvoreno pismo kako bi javan novac bio usmjeren u javan kôd i proširite glas!

https://publiccode.eu/hr/

The FSFE #Newsletter May is out including our demand to publish the results of publicly financed #hackathons as #FreeSoftware +++ #Munich supporting #publiccode +++ new #podcasts +++ Corona tracing apps under a FreeSoftware licence

https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202005.html

After the last government of SPD and CSU had distanced itself from the prior progressive #FreeSoftware strategy, the new coalition agreement in Munich commits to the principle of "Public Money? #PublicCode !". The FSFE welcomes this decision by the new government and will closely monitor the progress of the implementation.

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200506-01.html

The FSFE has joined the Advisory Board of #NGIPointer, an initiative from the #European #Commission to provide #funding and expertise to #FreeSoftware projects that help improve the Internet as a platform. Call for applications is open until 1 June 2020:

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200427-01.html

In an open letter to the Parliament, the #Dutch #minister for internal affairs Raymond Knops commits to a "#FreeSoftware by default" #policy and underlines its benefits for society. Current market regulations shall be reworded to allow publishing Free Software by the government.:

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200424-01.html

In our special episode of the Software Freedom Podcast we talk about some of the advantages of @gnuhealth and how as a Free health and hospital information system it can and already does help with the current Covid-19 pandemic.

https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-special-1.html

Wenn Dir #SoftwareFreiheit wichtig ist, dann spende bitte heute einen Teil Deines Konferenzbudgets für #FreieSoftware (#OpenSource) Organisationen:

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200411-01.html

If you care about #SoftwareFreedom please consider to donate a part of your conference budget to #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) organisations now:

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200411-01.html

Together with many Dutch civil rights defenders the FSFE has signed a statement to outlines 10 principles a contact tracing app should abide by #freesoftware #privacy

https://www.veiligtegencorona.nl/

In the current #softwarefreedom #podcast, we talk with Lawrence Lessig, founder of #CreativeCommons and Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, about regulation of society, offline as well as online, about the different means of regulation, and shed light on regulations through code:

https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-5.html

Derzeit gibt es viele Hackathons, um Tools zu entwickeln, mit deren Hilfe man verschiedene Probleme rund um die Corona Krise bewältigen kann. Es muss sichergestellt sein, dass die Ergebnisse dieser Hackathons global genutzt und lokal angepasst werden können, dass die Software verwendet, verstanden, verbreitet und verbessert werden kann. Überall. Wir fordern daher, die Ergebnisse unter einer Freien-Software-Lizenz zu veröffentlichen.

#FreeSoftware

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200408-01.de.html