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<title>Free Software Foundation Europe Summit 2016 – Not a tech conference</title>
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<h1>Free Software Foundation Europe Summit 2016 – Not a tech conference</h1>
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<p>Free Software advocates from all over Europe will be meeting in Berlin
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from the 2nd to the 4th of September at the FSFE Summit 2016. Apart from
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working on furthering the adoption of Free Software in Europe, we will
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also be celebrating the FSFE's 15th anniversary.</p>
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<p> One of the main missions of the Free Software community in general, and
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the FSFE in particular, is to put users back into the driver's seat, and
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have the people control technology and not the other way around.</p>
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<p>So, even though this conference has the word "software" in its name,
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this is not a tech conference <a class="fn" id="fnref1" href="#fn1">1</a> as such. It is more a conference on how
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we are going to shape the world of tech, indeed, how we are going to try
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and shape the lives of computer, smartphone, and Internet users everywhere.</p>
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<p>This may seem like a lofty goal, but during its 15 years of existence,
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the FSFE has been instrumental in a successful <a href="/activities/ms-vs-eu/ms-vs-eu.html">antitrust case against a
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big software corporation</a>that intended to dominate the market of
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personal computers; we have managed to <a href="/activities/swpat/swpat.html">keep software from being
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patentable in Europe</a>, avoiding a veritable apocalypse for small and
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medium-sized tech companies; and we have <a href="/activities/ftf/activities.html">worked alongside
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gpl-violations.org to get free licenses enforced in German courts of
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law</a>, setting a ground-breaking precedent for the whole of the EU. </p>
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<p>It would not be an exaggeration to say that the FSFE has transformed the
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foundations of IT and that we have had a deep, positive impact on
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anybody who has sat in front of a computer, used a phone, or played on a
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tablet in the last decade or so.</p>
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<p>Each year, the number of members in our community grows, as does our
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influence. We now reach not only developers, but also academics,
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aficionados, lawyers, artists, marketers, businesspeople, and journalists.</p>
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<p>So, if you missed our prior events, we would like to invite you to
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attend<a href="/events/2016/summit/event-20160616-01.html"> the FSFE Summit 2016</a>. We look forward to welcoming you and remain
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at your disposal to help you organise your visit to our event.</p>
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<p>As part of our pre-event awareness campaign, we are also mobilising our
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community in your area. If you would like to talk to the people that run
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the local/national teams in your country/region/city and see how they
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have made a difference, contact us so we can help you get in touch with
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them.</p>
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<ol>
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<li id="fn1">Note that if you are also interested in bleeding edge high
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technology development, the FSFE Summit will be held as a part of <a href="https://qtcon.org/">QtCon</a>.
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This event brings together developers from several Free Software
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communities who are hard at work re-shaping human-facing interfaces. As
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a member of the press, you will also have free access to the whole of QtCon.<a href="#fnref1">↩</a></li>
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</ol>
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<tag key="front-page"/>
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<tag key="fsfe-summit">FSFE summit</tag>
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<tag key="anniversary">15 Years FSFE</tag>
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