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<h1>#ilovefs Day report 2019</h1>
<p newsteaser="yes">On Wednesday 14th of February, many chose to acknowledge and celebrate the annual <a href="/news/2019/news-20190214-01.html">"I love Free Software Day"</a>. It was THE day to express your love for Free Software and gratitude for your favourite pieces of Free Software. The Free Software Foundation Europe would like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who joined and contributed to making this day special for everyone involved.</p>
<p newsteaser="yes">On Wednesday 14th of February, we acknowledge and celebrate the annual "I love Free Software Day". It is the day to express your love for Free Software and gratitude for your favourite pieces of Free Software. The Free Software Foundation Europe would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who participated and helped making this day a special one for everyone involved.</p>
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<p>Loving Free Software #ilovefs</p>
<p class="text-center">Loving Free Software #ilovefs</p>
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<h2 id="stats">What actually happened in numbers and pictures</h2>
<h2 id="stats">What happened in numbers and pictures</h2>
<p>We counted hundreds of Tweets and Posts both on Twitter and the Fediverse, and we are happy to announce that participation has increased a lot compared to <a href="/news/2018/news-20180308-01.html">previous years</a>
Some were inspired to come up with their own visuals, while others decided to use our balloons and posters to decorate and remind those in the offline world the importance of thanking on this day all those Free Software solutions that they use on a daily basis.</p>
<p>We counted hundreds of Tweets and posts both on Twitter and the Fediverse, and we are happy to announce that participation again has increased. Some were inspired to come up with their own visuals, while others decided to use our balloons and posters to decorate and remind those in the offline world about the importance of Free Software. And about the importance to send a big thank you at least once a year to all those Free Software solutions that we all use on a daily basis.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center">Spreading love for Free Software offline #ilovefs</p>
<p class="text-center">Spreading love for Free Software offline #ilovefs</p>
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<p style="text-align:center">Wikimedia spreading love for Free Software in Berlin</p>
<p class="text-center">People from Wikimedia spreading love for Free Software in Berlin</p>
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<p>People from all over the world joined with their own blog posts, news items, photos and artworks showing and encouraging others to join using the hashtag #ilovefs. As a result, Twitter, the Fediverse and even Facebook were flooded with love messages by people tagging their favourite Free Software projects. Thanks to our former intern and current volunteer <a href="https://www.jayvii.de">Jan Weymeirsch</a> who wrote a scraper to collect and analyse the data, accurately following each #ilovefs post, we have exact numbers and visuals to support them:</p>
<p>People from all over the world were showing their love with blog posts, news items, photos and artworks showing and encouraging others to join using the hashtag #ilovefs. As a result, Twitter, the Fediverse and even Facebook were flooded with love messages by people tagging their favourite Free Software projects. Thanks to our former intern and current volunteer <a href="https://www.jayvii.de">Jan Weymeirsch</a> who wrote a scraper to collect and analyse the data, we have concrete numbers and visuals to support them:</p>
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<p>Participation in #ILoveFS on Social Media through time</p>
<p class="text-center">Participation in #ILoveFS on Social Media through time</p>
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<p>Overall 667 distinct #ilovefs posts on Twitter and Fedeverse were counted, made by 530 individual accounts, mentioning at least 231 projects and developers. Posts on Twitter were coming from at least 230 different locations from all over the world in 16 different languages. There were many more "I love Free Software"; posts that did not use the hashtag #ilovefs.</p>
<p>Overall 667 distinct #ilovefs posts on Twitter and Fedeverse were counted, made by 530 individual accounts, mentioning at least 231 projects and developers. Posts on Twitter were coming from at least 230 different locations from all over the world in 16 different languages. In addition, there were many more "I love Free Software" posts that did not use the hashtag #ilovefs and cannot be part of this analysis, though.</p>
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<p>#ilovefs participation on Twitter, Fediverse and Reddit</p>
<p class="text-center">#ilovefs participation on Twitter, Fediverse and Reddit</p>
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<h2 id="community">The Free Software community at its best</h2>
<p>The important takeaway from all these numbers is the feeling of community that it generates; that such a diverse group of people can share common values and attitudes towards software. It shows how much we all love sharing, using, studying, and improving software for a better digital and analogue world!</p>
<p>The important takeaway from all these numbers is the community feeling that it generates; that such a diverse group of people can share common values and attitudes towards software. It shows how much we all love sharing, using, studying and improving software for a better digital and analogue world!</p>
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<p style="text-align:center">#ilovefs by <a href="https://chaos.social/@Elektrollart/101590920303111962">@Elektrollart</a></p>
<p class="text-center">#ilovefs by <a href="https://chaos.social/@Elektrollart/101590920303111962">@Elektrollart</a></p>
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<p>There were also projects and individuals from all over the world dedicating special blog entries or news items, and we would like to share some of them with you. We were especially impressed by a student from Nepal, who used the occasion to <a href="https://sigdelsanjog.com.np/i-love-free-software">spread the word and explain this day</a> and the Free Software concept to those who are still unfamiliar.</p>
<p>There were also projects and individuals from all over the world dedicating special blog entries or news items, and we would like to share some of them with you. Unfortunately, we are not able to highlight all of them but pick just a few. There was a student from Nepal who used the occasion to <a href="https://sigdelsanjog.com.np/i-love-free-software">spread the word and explain IloveFS-day</a> and the Free Software concept to those who are still unfamiliar with it.</p>
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<p>The Open Project platform</p>
<p class="text-center">The Open Project platform</p>
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<p>The OpenProject went even further by expressing their affirmation for Free Software by <a href="https://twitter.com/openproject/status/1096036819945295872">integrating a #ilovefs banner into their platform</a>.</p>
<p>Befriended communities like <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia:Woche/2019-02-14">Wikipedia Deutchland</a>, <a href="https://opensource.com/article/19/2/why-i-love-free-software">Open Source.com</a>, <a href="http://www.openfest.org/2018/bg/2019/02/13/i-love-free-software-day/">Open Fest Bulgaria</a>, <a href="https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/02/14/lets-celebrate-i-love-free-software-day/">LibreOffice</a> and <a href="https://www.percona.com/community-blog/2019/02/14/ilovefs-valentines-day/">Percona</a>, as well as the news site <a href="https://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/26773/i-love-free-software-day.html">Pro-Linux</a> reminded their readers and appealed to their communities to join the celebration and spread the love and gratitude.</p>
<p>Befriended communities like <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia:Woche/2019-02-14">Wikimedia Deutschland</a>, <a href="https://opensource.com/article/19/2/why-i-love-free-software">Open Source.com</a>, <a href="http://www.openfest.org/2018/bg/2019/02/13/i-love-free-software-day/">Open Fest Bulgaria</a>, <a href="https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2019/02/14/lets-celebrate-i-love-free-software-day/">LibreOffice</a> and <a href="https://www.percona.com/community-blog/2019/02/14/ilovefs-valentines-day/">Percona</a>, as well as the news site <a href="https://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/26773/i-love-free-software-day.html">Pro-Linux</a> reminded their readers and appealed to their communities to join the celebration and spread the love and gratitude.</p>
<p>Our friends from <a href="https://bcnfs.org/">Barcelona Free Software</a> organised a very cheerful meet up at a local bar and imbued everyone with the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@BCNFreeSoftware/101612811244556062">love for Free Software.</a></p>
<p>Our friends from <a href="https://bcnfs.org/">Barcelona Free Software</a> organised a very cheerful meet up at a local bar and imbued everyone with the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@BCNFreeSoftware/101612811244556062">love for Free Software</a> vibe.</p>
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<p>As we strongly encourage companies to also get more active with spreading the #ilovefs word, Zalando hosted a special event dedicated to the "I love Free Software" Day, hosted at their premises in Berlin. There were some interesting discussions with speakers sharing their reasons for using, loving and developing Free and Open Source solutions. Videos from the gathering can be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf9bd23pftk-oYkS22pcW_wKBKmSczse6">watched in their YouTube channel</a>.</p>
<p>We are also happy about companies getting active with spreading the word about Free Software and #ilovefs, and Zalando hosted a special event dedicated to the "I love Free Software" Day, hosted at their premises in Berlin. There were some interesting discussions with speakers sharing their reasons for using, loving and developing Free and Open Source solutions. </p>
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<p>In case you missed your opportunity to thank your favourite project, mark February 14 as "I Love Free Software Day" in your calendar for next year. But remember, you can always and without a special occasion create an opportunity to express your gratitude and appreciation throughout the entire year. You do not need a special day, as there is simply no wrong time for that!</p>
<p>In case you missed your opportunity to thank your favourite project, mark February 14 as "I Love Free Software Day" in your calendar for next year. But remember, you can always and without any special occasion create an opportunity to express your gratitude and appreciation throughout the entire year. You do not need a special day, as there is simply no wrong time for that!</p>
<p>We would like to thank everyone involved in and contributing to this day, as well as the countless developers, translators, community managers, artists and anyone else involved in Free Software.</p>
<p>We hope that this year's "I love Free Software Day" has planted the seeds of Free Software passion in all of you, just like Sonja planted hers.</p>
<p>We hope that this year's "I love Free Software Day" has further planted the seeds of Free Software passion in all of you, just like Sonja planted hers.</p>
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