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<title>MP Explore +++ CRA questionnaire +++ DMA news</title>
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<body>
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<h1>MP Explore +++ CRA questionnaire +++ DMA news</h1>
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<p>In July we continued working to make the EC aware of the gatekeepers
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“excuses” to avoid compliance with the DMA and we are gathering your
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feedback about the Cyber Resilience Act. We have also developed a Free
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Software tool to help us reaching out to representatives in Parliaments
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across Europe. And more: SFP, FOSDEM...</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/35/62/25589d5e5706e6cb5706911ee02f.png"
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alt="Collage of pictures with a star shape: an illustration of a lock that is opened and is letting a bird fly away; a map of Europe; and an illustration saying send your feedback"/>
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</figure>
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<div class="toc">
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<p>Table of contents</p>
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<ul id="toc">
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<li><a href="#quote-of-the-month"><strong>Quote of the Month</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="#mpexplore"><strong>Help the FSFE to connect with representatives</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="#cra"><strong>CRA: Free Software stewards, maintainers and manufactures, share your input!</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="#dma"><strong>DMA: Google non compliance with the DMA and our Interoperability Survey</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="#sfp"><strong>SFP#36: Policy and EU: Call on the Commission to implement the AI Act</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="#fosdem"><strong>FOSDEM: give us your input for the Legal & Policy Devroom</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="#yh4f"><strong>YH4F: Time for reviewing the 2025 projects!</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="#conferences"><strong>Summer events!</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="contribute"><strong>Contribute to our Newsletter</strong></a></li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<h3 id="quote-of-the-month">Quote of the Month</h3>
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<blockquote>
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<p>“It was great spending the weekend at the Software Freedom Flat
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with the System Hackers! We came together to work on the FSFE's
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infrastructure, solve tech challenges, share laughs and tech
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discussions with the volunteers. Of course, we also made sure that the
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wonderful people working on policy and law to fight for software
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freedom could do so."</p><cite> Tobias Diekershoff, FSFE System
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Hackers coordinator - </cite>
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</blockquote>
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<h3 id="mpexlore">Help the FSFE to connect with representatives</h3>
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<p>Developed by the Free Software Foundation Europe, MP Explore is a
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Free Software tool to help us reaching out to representatives in
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Parliaments across Europe. <a href="/news/2025/news-20250731-01.html">We
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need your help! Contribute by adding your
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local, regional, and national parliament!</a></p>
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<p>MP Explore is a tool designed to retrieve official and publicly
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available up-to-date contact information about Members of Parliament
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(MPs). This information, alongside other capabilities, such as
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filtering, is important for our policy activities to effectively reach
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representatives. MP Explore allows to obtain this data from any number
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of sources, therefore becoming an effective tool to obtain such
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information of political representatives.</p>
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<h3 id="cra">CRA: Free Software stewards, maintainers and manufactures, share your
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input!</h3>
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<p>To assess how the EU Cyber Resilience Act may impact the Free
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Software ecosystem, the “Dialogue on Cybersecurity” project, of which
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the FSFE is part, <a href="/news/2025/news-20250717-01.html">have
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developed a questionnaire</a>. Its aim is to develop
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proposals for guidance.</p>
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<h3 id="dma">DMA: Google non compliance with the DMA and our Interoperability
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Survey</h3>
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<p>Under the DMA, the FSFE with a coalition of civil-society
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organisations, prompted the European Commission to open proceedings to
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investigate Alphabet's (the parent holding company of Google and several
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former Google subsidiaries) regarding the uninstallation of
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pre-installed apps in Android. Alphabet is arguing that they are
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complying with the law by allowing the end-user to disable these app. We
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disagree, deinstalling an applications means its complete removal from
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the operating system, not its disabling.</p>
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<p><a
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href="https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Joint-DMA-complaint-Alphabet-for-publication.pdf">Read
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our joint complaint</a> regarding Alphabet’s compliance with Art 6(3)
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and 13(4) DMA.</p>
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<p>If you are a Free Software developer who has or plans to request
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interoperability with the gatekeepers services, remember to <a
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href="/activities/deviceneutrality/interop-survey">fill in our
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Digital Markets Act Interoperability Survey</a>. The FSFE is gathering
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first-hand experiences from developers requesting software
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interoperability to collect crucial input from Free Software developers
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who have tried, or plan to try, to request interoperability from
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companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon under Article 6(7)
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of the DMA. We want to monitor how gatekeepers are handling the
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interoperability requests submitted by Free Software developers. We want
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to hear the developers’ experiences and to make sure their voices are
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heard when gatekeepers fall short of their obligations. </p>
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<h3 id="sfp">SFP#36: Policy and EU: Call on the Commission to implement the AI
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Act</h3>
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<p>In August 2025 the first part of the European Artificial Intelligence
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Act enters into force. For our 36th episode of the Software Freedom
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Podcast Bonnie and Alex break down <a
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href="/news/podcast/episode-36.html">the current discussion about it and
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shed light on the arguments</a>.</p>
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<p>Moreover, thanks to one volunteer the Software Freedom Podcast has
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now transcripts, social interact, and more tags coming.</p>
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<h3 id="fosdem">FOSDEM: give us your input for the Legal & Policy Devroom</h3>
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<p>We’re already planning the Legal & Policy Devroom for FOSDEM 2026
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and want your input! What did you enjoy in 2025 (see the schedule)? What
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could be improved, and which topics should we feature if our devroom is
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accepted again? Share your feedback at <a href="mailto:contact@fsfeo.org">contact@fsfe.org</a> or on the
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Fediverse and contribute to shape next year’s program!</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/73/39/2ddbff1137da9583d83c5777f467.png"
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alt="Volunteers who attended the FSFE System Hackers posing in the terrace of the SFF"/>
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<figcaption>The annual FSFE System Hackers meeting took place in Berlin. During
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the weekend, the participants work on some maintenance tasks oon the
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network infraestrcture as well as removing some services, such as jitsi
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or discourse, and improving others, such as the ,onitoring of our
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systems</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h3 id="yh4f">YH4F: Time for reviewing the 2025 projects!</h3>
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<p>After six months of dedicated programming, the <a href="/activities/yh4f/jury.html">YH4F jury</a> is now set
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to evaluate the submitted projects. The jury consists of Free Software
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professionals from diverse backgrounds, who will review the projects
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over the coming weeks based on originality, creativity, and code
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quality. In the first voting round, the jury will select 12 projects
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that are placed on a shortlist and thus eligible for one of the cash
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prizes. During the upcoming weeks the young developers will be invited
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to an online interview in which they have the chance to present their
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work and answer questions before the final prize decisions are made.</p>
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<p>The winners will be announced at the YH4F Awards ceremony in
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mid-October in Brussels, where they will enjoy an all-expenses-paid
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weekend. Six participants will receive cash prizes ranging from €4,096
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to €1,024.</p>
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<h3 id="conferences">Summer events!</h3>
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<p>Summer is also a nice time to visit conferences and attending events.
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While we are busy in Berlin with End of 10 events, in where we help
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users to installs Linux on their devices, we will be also attending
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FrOSCon (Sankt Agustin, Germany) with a booth and several talks.
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Moreover, we will travel to Italy to the Scambi Festival 2025 to present
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FSFE's work and involvement in the Next Generation Internet
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initiative.</p>
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<p><a href="/events/events.html">Find out all our events at our event page!</a></p>
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<h3 id="contribute">Contribute to our Newsletter</h3>
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<p>We would love to hear from you. If you have any thoughts, pictures,
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or news to share, please send them to us at newsletter@fsfe.org. You can
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also <a href="/donate/donate.html">support us</a>, <a href="/contribute/contribute.html">contribute to our
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work</a>, and <a href="/about/groups.html">join our
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community</a>. We would like to thank our community and all the
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volunteers, supporters, and donors who make our work possible, with a
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special mention to our translators who make it possible for you to read
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this newsletter in your mother tongue. </p>
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<p>Your editor,<br/>
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Ana </p>
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<tag key="AI">Artificial Intelligence</tag>
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