Our ex-intern Asa Ritz <ahref="http://blogs.fsfe.org/asawritz/2015/11/04/sony-rootkit-still-making-headlines-10-years-later-2/">summarised</a> in his blogpost the media coverage we received.</p>
<h2id="what-else-have-we-done">What else have we done?</h2>
<ul>
<li>FSFE president <ahref="http://berlin2015.codemotionworld.com/talk-detail/?detail=1958">Matthias Kirschner gave a talk about the computer as a universal machine</a> at
Codemotion Berlin, and ran a <ahref="http://www.gruene-fraktion-berlin.de/offener-it-gipfel">workshop
about restrictions on technical restrictions at the "Open IT Summit"</a>
in Berlin. In a podcast, <ahref="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/podcast-on-non-military-use-clause-in-gnu-gpl/">Matthias argued against a "non-military clause" in Free Software
licenses</a>.</li>
<li>FSFE community coordinator Erik Albers and FSFE legal team coordinator
Matija Šuklje participated at <ahref="http://copycamp.pl/en/">Copycamp
Warsaw</a> to host a booth and Matija to gave a talk about "Implications
of the EU Copyright Reform on Free Software".</li>
<li>FSFE was present at <ahref="https://fscons.org/2015/">FSCONS</a> in
Goteborg, Sweden. Christian Kalkhoff <ahref="https://blogs.fsfe.org/softmetz/?p=63">wrote
about his FSCONS experience</a> in a blogpost.</li>
<li>FSFE had its booths also at <ahref="http://www.opensourcesummit.paris/">Open
Source Summit in Paris</a>, at <ahref="http://www.linuxday.at/">Linuxday
<li>If you like to meet us in person, you will meet members, staff and
community of the FSFE at our booth at <ahref="https://fosdem.org/2016/">FOSDEM</a>.
And if you go to <ahref="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Main_Page">this
year's Chaos Communication Conference, #32C3</a>, then do not miss to pass by
the <ahref="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2015/wiki/Assembly:Free_Software_Foundation_Europe">FSFE assembly</a>, participate in one of our sessions or simply take a break
in our "Free Software lounge".</li>
<li>The FSFE Education team is redesigning its educational leaflet. If
you like to join or share ideas, feel free to participate on the <ahref="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Reasons_for_schools_to_use_Free_Software">wiki page</a>.</li>
<li>In our Free Your Android campaign we highlight the importance of
Replicant as a 100% free Android-based operating system. We are happy to
see that business grows, that start to sell <ahref="https://tehnoetic.com/tehnoetic-s2-phone-replicant">phones with replicant pre-installed</a> and we hope there are more
companies who follow this example.</li>
<li>If you like what we have done in 2015 and you like us to continue
the good work in 2016 or even grow stronger, then consider to
<ahref="https://fsfe.org/donate/donate">support us with a donation</a>
or to <ahref="https://fsfe.org/join">become a sustainable member</a>.
Funding is crucial to our existence.</li>
</ul>
<h2id="out-of-the-community">Out of the community</h2>
<ul>
<li>A new team got established: North Rhine-Westphalia is the biggest
state of Germany with currently three local FSFE groups. This month, they
had an <ahref="https://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1629">inaugural meeting
of a state-wide action group, the Team NRW</a>. Besides coordination,
the <ahref="http://blogs.fsfe.org/wromey/2015/11/22/grundungssitzung-des-nrw-teams-der-free-software-foundation-europe/">primary tasks shall be the education of teachers</a>.</li>
<li>At the local meeting of FSFE Düsseldorf, <ahref="http://blogs.fsfe.org/stehmann/?p=1592">Andreas Schreiber talked about the open source strategy of Germany’s Aerospace
Centre DLR</a> and this event was <ahref="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/147875">picked
up by the European Open Source Observatory</a></li>
<li>After offering pre-flashed Libreboot Laptops at <ahref="https://freie.computer/">freie.computer</a> the local group <ahref="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2015/11/27/flashdays-are-coming/">FSFE
Zurich now decided to start doing Flashdays</a></li>
<li>Daniel Pocock reports about <ahref="http://danielpocock.com/building-teams-around-sip-and-xmpp-in-debian-and-fedora">team
building around SIP and XMPP communication in Debian and Fedora</a>, and
<li>Marcus Möller <ahref="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2015/11/04/freed-ora-23-workstation-available/">customised Fedora 23 in a Freed version</a>, which includes linux-libre
kernel and Icecat webbrowser. All proprietary firmware has been removed.</li>
the Commission for the <ahref="https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20151110-01.en.html">systematic
replacement of proprietary software by verifiable Free Software in all
the EU institutions</a>. In <strong>Italy</strong>, the <ahref="http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500256578/Free-software-gains-ground-in-the-Italian-public-administration">Italian Ministry of Defence is replacing Microsoft Office with
LibreOffice</a> on 150,000 PCs in what is Europe’s second largest
LibreOffice implementation. Meanwhile, the second most important industrial
city in Southern Italy, <ahref="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/146281">Bari,
is about to complete its transition to LibreOffice</a> and the ODF. At
the same time in <strong>Switzerland</strong>, the <ahref="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/bern-council-demands-transition-open-source">council
of Bern ordered the IT department to end its dependence on proprietary
software</a>, and replace proprietary software by Free Software solutions.
The same example was followed in <strong>Denmark</strong> where the city of Aarhus <ahref="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/denmark%E2%80%99s-aarhus-insists-open-it-standards">is requiring the use of open IT standards for all of its future IT projects</a>
in order to rid itself of IT vendor lock-in. Lastly, recent study in
<strong>France</strong> confirmed that <ahref="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/147785">country's administration is still a large enabler of Free Software in France</a>.