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Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. Mastodon engagement ≠ endorsement - https://fsfe.org
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After the city of #Barcelona and the Parliament of #Asturias now the Municipality of #Benigànim, #Spain, commits to the principles of our #publiccode campaign by publishing any publicly financed software development as #FreeSoftware. They also plan to gradually switch to Free Software in all municipal facilities.
In our sixth episode of the Software Freedom Podcast we invited Dr. Miriam Ballhausen to talk with us about copyright enforcement. She is a German lawyer with the focus on software, #DataProtection, copyright law and specifically #FreeSoftware copyright.
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The German city of Bühl created "Palim! Palim!" as a #FreeSoftware #video #conferencing platform on top of #Jitsi. The feedback they received is encouraging:
"Many citizens express their personal thanks to us and we have stopped counting how many municipalities have approached us with great interest. I believe that Free Software is currently experiencing an incredible boost and that the sensitivity for data sovereignty is growing rapidly."
@boud @freedcreative @loke Please note that the FSFE, unlike our North-American sister organisation, does not have any official relationship with the GNU project.
@matiaslavik Oh damn. Is the official argumentation similar as in Denmark? Do they also follow the decentralised approach?
Against strong recommendations by #WHO, #Denmark does not publish their #Corona tracing app as #FreeSoftware. This is counterproductive: keeping the app proprietary eliminates transparency, effective reviews and trust.
@rumblestiltskin aaaand it's fixed, thanks for the report!
@shiftee It isn't the first time that 20xx may feel a lot like 1984 🙄
@rumblestiltskin Oh, thanks for pointing this out! Will fix that today, needs some slight rework of the site.
Router Freedom in Europe +++ Hamburg pro Free Software +++ European Parliament too
In our June #Newsletter read among other things about #RouterFreedom in #Europe, about a new coalition agreement in #Hamburg that puts a focus on #FreeSoftware and about the #EuropeanParliament demanding #publiccode. As always, also read about our diverse community activities.
Available in EN, ES, FR, IT, NL
++ Hamburg wants to focus more on Free Software ++
In #Hamburg, the #SPD and the #Greens are stating in their coalition agreement to focus more on #FreeSoftware during their future term. Although the coalition agreement contains several loopholes, for example for procurement procedures and diffuse justification to protect proprietary software vendors, the #FSFE still welcomes the step forward and will critically monitor its implementation.
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.
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Am Wochenende wurde mein Vortrag "Wie wir #FreieSoftware zum #Wahlkampf #thema machen können" von den Kieler #OpenSource und Linux Tage online gestellt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-Zt0bYYd2E
Der Vortrag war zwar schon 2017, ist aber immer noch einen Blick wert, denn das Thema ist zeitlos und Wahlen könnten immer wieder kommen. Zum Beispiel nächstes Jahr die Bundestagswahlen.
Danke @kielux !
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!
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
@Mr_N So, aber nun ist eine deutsche Übersetzung des brandneuen Artikels online. Bitte gerne teilen! :)
https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/freesoftware.de.html
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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.
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:
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Würde mich freuen, wenn ihr das an interessierte Menschen weiterleiten könnt:
Die @fsfe stellt ein: Assistenz der Geschäftsleitung
Wir suchen ab sofort eine Assistenz der Geschäftsleitung, die der unserem tollen Team dabei hilft, Menschen im selbstbestimmten Umgang mit Technik zu unterstützen. #Familienfreundlich #Arbeitssuche
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Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. Mastodon engagement ≠ endorsement - https://fsfe.org
Joined Jun 2018
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