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<title>FSFE Yearly Report 2017</title>
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<h1>FSFE Yearly Report 2017</h1>
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<p newsteaser="yes">
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The yearly report of the Free Software Foundation Europe gives you a breakdown
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in one document of important things we have done and achieved during the last 12
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months. Read on to find out about our activities, the campaigns we have run, the
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events we have visited or organised, the groups we have helped, and what
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resources we counted on to do it.
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</p>
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<h2>What we have done in 2017</h2>
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<h3>Public Money, Public Code</h3>
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<p>In September, we launched our Public Money, Public Code campaign. The idea is
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simple: Software created using taxpayers' money should be available under a free
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licence for everybody.</p>
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<p>To drive our campaign, we have set up <a href="https://publiccode.eu/">a
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campaign site</a>and published an open letter that everyone can sign to support
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our demand. To boost virality and help everyone understand the benefits of
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public bodies publishing their source code under free licences, we made a video
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(<a href="https://publiccode.eu/#about">Webpage</a> /
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<a href="http://download.fsfe.org/videos/pmpc/">Download</a> /
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/232524527">Vimeo</a> / <a href="https://youtu.be/iuVUzg6x2yo">YouTube</a>)
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explaining the situation. So far it is available in
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<a href="https://publiccode.eu/#about">English</a>,
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<a href="https://publiccode.eu/de/#about">German</a> and
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<a href="https://publiccode.eu/fr/#about">French</a>, with more languages to come.</p>
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<video controls="controls" poster="/img/poster.jpg" crossorigin="crossorigin" width="100%">
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/pmpc/pmpc_desktop.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' media="screen and (min-device-width:1000px)" />
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/pmpc/pmpc_desktop.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' media="screen and (min-device-width:1000px)" />
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/pmpc/pmpc_mobile.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' media="screen and (max-device-width:999px)" />
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/pmpc/pmpc_mobile.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' media="screen and (max-device-width:999px)" />
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<track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_en.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="en" label="English">
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<track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_de.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="de" label="Deutsch">
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<track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_es.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="es" label="Español">
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<track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_eo.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="eo" label="Esperanto">
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<track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_fr.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="fr" label="Français">
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<track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_hu.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="hu" label="Magyar">
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<track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_it.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="it" label="Italiano">
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<track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_nl.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="nl" label="Nederlands">
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<track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_nb.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="nb" label="Norsk (bokmål)">
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<track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_pt.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="pt" label="Português">
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<track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_sk.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="sk" label="Slovenský">
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<track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_sv.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="sv" label="Svenska">
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<track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_tr.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="tr" label="Türkçe"> <track src="https://publiccode.eu/video-subs/webvtt/pmpc_zh.vtt" kind="subtitles" srclang="zh" label="正體中文(臺灣)">
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</video>
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</center>
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<p>This campaign is ongoing and still in its early stages. In fact, we intend to
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continue it well into 2019 at least, so as to raise awareness among candidates
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for the elections to the European Parliament. At the moment of writing, we have
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collected <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/all-signatures/">over 14,000
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signatures</a> of our <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter">open
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letter</a>. Among the signatories are national
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representatives and European Parliament Members, and we have received
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<a href="https://publiccodde.eu/#organisations">endorsements from over 100
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organisations</a> and prominent players in the IT field, including security
|
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expert Edward Snowden.</p>
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Our goal is to get elected officials to commit to policy and legislations that
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make publicly funded software free software by default. To that effect, we
|
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contacted ~1000 candidates for the German Federal Parliament elections and asked
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the addressees to "implement legislation requiring that publicly financed
|
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software developed for public sector [...] be made publicly available under a
|
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Free and Open Source Software licence." The whole parliamentary group of the
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German Green
|
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party <a href="https://www.gruen-digital.de/2017/09/public-money-public-code-wer-es-nicht-glauben-mag-schaue-sich-die-software-zu-den-bundestagswahlen-an/">responded
|
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to our campaign in a public letter</a>, stating their support for our demand.
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<p>We will keep raising awareness for our demand in the upcoming European
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elections. To help us, <a href="https://publiccode.eu/#action">sign the open letter</a>
|
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yourself, <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword#pmpc">spread the word</a>
|
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about the campaign and <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">help our funding</a>.</p>
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<h3>Save Code Share</h3>
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<p>A new copyright proposal is currently discussed by the EU
|
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co-legislators. Part of this proposal is Article 13, which will hamper our
|
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ability to collaborate with each other online. The article mandates that any
|
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online hosting service provider must install an upload filter that blocks any
|
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works from being uploaded that it thinks are a copyright violation, must monitor
|
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their users and must actively seek for possible copyright infringements. These
|
||||
fundamentally flawed filtering algorithms will ultimately decide what code
|
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developers should be allowed to share. Beside general criticism towards upload
|
||||
filters, there are no known filtering technologies that could accurately and
|
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reliably identify whether any Free Software is being shared in accordance with
|
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its terms and conditions.</p>
|
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|
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<p>To combat this legislation, we launched a website
|
||||
to <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Save Code Share</a> in collaboration with
|
||||
Open Forum Europe. We aim to raise awareness of the topic and work to change the
|
||||
proposed legislation. We published
|
||||
a <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/static/assets/WhitePaper-ImpactofArticel13onSoftwareEcosystem-SaveCodeShare.pdf">white
|
||||
paper</a> to explain the Article 13's impact on free software developers and
|
||||
communities, and and <a href="https://savecodeshare.eu/">Open Letter</a> that is
|
||||
signed by more than 6000 individuals, organisations and companies.</p>
|
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|
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<p>While the European Parliament prepares to vote on its main negotiating
|
||||
position regarding the EU copyright directive proposal in the beginning of 2018,
|
||||
several parliamentary committees have already issued their opinions on Article
|
||||
13. Together with Open Forum Europe, we put pressure on the vote in Civil
|
||||
Liberties Committee that rejected the use of upload filters when it comes to
|
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hosting works online. Now, we have to make sure that the main parliamentary
|
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effort takes our concerns into consideration, and rejects Article 13 from its
|
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negotiating position with the co-legislators in the EU Council.</p>
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|
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<h3>REUSE Initiative</h3>
|
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|
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<div class="captioned right" style="max-width: 300px; width: 30%;"> <a href="https://reuse.software/"><img src="/picturebase/miscellaneous/201709-reuse-logo.png" alt="Reuse logo" /></a> </div>
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|
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We launched our <a href="https://reuse.software/">REUSE Initiative</a>, which
|
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advocates <a href="https://reuse.software/practices/">best practices for
|
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conveying copyright and licence information</a> for software in a standardised
|
||||
way which not only humans can read, but computers as well. This is a big step
|
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forward which can help automate many of the processes involved in working with
|
||||
Free Software licences, especially for large software projects with many
|
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repositories.
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|
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The website hosts a video (<a href="https://reuse.software/">Webpage</a> /
|
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<a href="http://download.fsfe.org/videos/reuse/">Download</a> /
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/241079418">Vimeo</a>) that explains the three simple
|
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steps involved in making a project REUSE compliant. Developers will also find
|
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<a href="https://reuse.software/dev/">[extra resources](). To demonstrate the ease of
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making a project compliant in practice, we host a [number of
|
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repositories](https://git.fsfe.org/reuse) that are REUSE compliant.
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|
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<p>Furthermore, the FSFE is writing and
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providing <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/reuse/reuse">a tool that will help
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facilitate developers</a> to make their software REUSE compliant. The goal is to
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package the tool into the repositories of the most popular GNU/Linux
|
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distributions, so that the barriers for adoption are as low as possible.</p>
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<h3>10th Legal and Licensing Workshop</h3>
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<p>Free Software licences are just as important as free code is. The Free
|
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Software movement would not survive without the legal documents that allow and
|
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enforce software to be freely shared and modified. The Legal and Licensing
|
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Workshop (LLW) is probably the most important Free Software event you have never
|
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heard of. It is aimed at the niche made up by legal experts and professionals
|
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that work with the legal system supporting Free Software. In 2017 we
|
||||
held <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/legal-conference.en.html">the
|
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workshop's 10th edition</a> in Barcelona. For us this is a landmark because we
|
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have managed to get the top legal experts from a wide variety of communities,
|
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public institutions and industries travel from all over the world to come
|
||||
together in an event like no other in the Free Software sector. This year's LLW
|
||||
compliance track was all about the tools used to enforce licences and how
|
||||
companies can support them.</p>
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|
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<p>Free Software in public administrations was another important topic discussed
|
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during the event. The aim was to discover ways of how public administrations
|
||||
could be more transparent and more responsible with the funds when financing the
|
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development of software. The ideas legal professionals walked away with will
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deeply affect society as a whole.</p>
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<h3>Fiduciary Licence Agreement 2.0</h3>
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<p>The FSFE acknowledges that the licensing of code has been well served by Free
|
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Software licences but managing rights and content within a project over long
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periods of time is still a complex issue. To fix this, the FSFE drafted the
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Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA) as a well-balanced contributor agreement which
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gives the trustee, responsible for managing the rights within a Free Software
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project, power and responsibility to make sure the contributed software always
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remains free and open. This way the project, together with all the respective
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contributors, are protected against any misuse of power by a new copyright
|
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holder. This year we
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have <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171013-01">updated the Fiduciary
|
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Licence Agreement (FLA) to version 2.0</a> which now also covers patents, and
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has been reworded to be compatible with more jurisdictions and to be easier to
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read.</p>
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<p>We have joined forces with <a href="http://contributoragreements.org">ContributorAgreements.org</a>
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and integrated the FLA-2.0 into its Copyright Licensing Agreement (CLA)
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chooser/generator, in order to make the use of the FLA easier both for projects
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and for developers</p>
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<div class="captioned" style="width:80%; margin: 1.5em auto;">
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<img src="/picturebase/booths/20170610-R2D2-with-IloveFS-at-FSFE-booth.jpg" alt="R2D2 with IloveFS" /></a>
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<footer> <p>FLA 2.0 makes it easier to ensure that contributed software always remains free.</p> </footer>
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</div>
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<h3>European Free Software Policy Meeting</h3>
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|
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<p>Apart from travelling with our booth to the community's favourite event, the
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day before the opening of FOSDEM, we hosted the second European Free Software
|
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Policy Meeting. We met with Sebastian Raible, parliamentary assistant to Julia
|
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Reda, MP of the EU for the German Pirate party; Pierre Damas, Head of Sector,
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Digital Services at the Directorate General of Information Technologies of the
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European Commission; Jaana Sahk-Labi from the Estonian Permanent Representation
|
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to the EU; Laurent Joubert from the French government; and members of other Free
|
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Software advocating organisations.</p>
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|
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<p>Together we discussed the progress of the Free and Open Source Software Audit
|
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(or FOSSA) programme, some of the Commission's plans for updating its Open
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Source Software Strategy, and national projects to promote Free Software in
|
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public administration and businesses.</p>
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<h3>Ask your candidates</h3>
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<p>The FSFE's community did political campaigns in the forefront of the Dutch
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general elections, the state of North-Rhine Westphalia as well as the German
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federal elections. Our country team Netherlands
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developed <a href="https://freedomvote.nl/">freedomvote.nl</a> to give voters
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orientation on internet policies and Free Software. A similar tool was developed
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by the FSFE together with a "Free Knowledge Coalition" for the German
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federal elections;
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the <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170829-01">"Digital-o-Mat"</a>
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. This tool made it into the news of multiple national media agencies as well as
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the public television and attracted tens of thousands of visitors to inform
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themselves about internet policy topics and Free Software. In addition,
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we <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170905-01">asked political parties
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in the German elections</a> about their position on Free Software in our
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"Ask your candidates" campaign-framework.</p>
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<h3>git.fsfe.org</h3>
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<p>Sharing one's knowledge is a core principle in the Free Software society,
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collaboration is another. This
|
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year, <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170616-01.html">the FSFE opened
|
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a Git hosting service</a> for our supporters with Gitea as a web
|
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interface. Under <a href="https://git.fsfe.org/">git.fsfe.org</a>, you can share
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and collaborate on a platform that fully respects your freedoms. Using the
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graphical web interface, you can open issue reports for bugs or feature
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requests. git.fsfe.org can host individual projects; complex multi-project
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repositories for organisations, or act as a mirror for another Git repository
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hosted elsewhere, like on GitHub or GitLab.</p>
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<div class="captioned" style="width:80%; margin: 1.5em auto;">
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<img src="/picturebase/people/201708-SHA-village-freedombox-installfest-800px.jpg" alt="FreedomBox Install Fest in the FSFE Village" /></a>
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<footer> <p>FreedomBox Install Fest in the FSFE Village during SHA 2017.</p> </footer>
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</div>
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<h3>Investigate Europe</h3>
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<p>During the months of May and June, we supported a network of journalists to
|
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uncover <a href="http://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/new-investigation-europes-dire-dependency-on-microsoft/">the
|
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degree at which Europe's public infrastructure is dependent on proprietary
|
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software from one single provider: Microsoft</a>. Published in 13 newspapers,
|
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magazines and online media outlets in nine different languages, the report laid
|
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bare how one company has a stranglehold on our public institutions and the
|
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negative impact this has on our budgets and freedoms. The FSFE provided the
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investigative journalists with leads, data and testimonials we had accumulated
|
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over years and that served as the backbone to the story.</p>
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<h3>LiMux: Three steps backwards</h3>
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|
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<p>This year Munich's new mayor, Dieter Reiter, a self-confessed "fan of
|
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Microsoft", went out of his way to undermine the work carried out by the
|
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administration to migrate away from their proprietary IT framework and pushed
|
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for a return to proprietary software on all levels. The FSFE president Matthias
|
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Kirschner was explaining the background to this decision in several talks, for
|
||||
example <a href="http://k7r.eu/recording-for-limux-the-loss-of-a-lightouse/">at
|
||||
the openSUSE Conference 2017 in May</a>, with the intent of spreading insight
|
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and awareness to other organisations and Free Software advocates.</p>
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|
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<p>Along with The Document Foundation, KDE, and OSBA, we have campaigned to keep
|
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Free Software in the city of Munich. We reached out to all members of the city
|
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council prior to the public hearing and we sent a call for action to our German
|
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speaking supporters, asking them to get in contact with politicians. The
|
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reaction was phenomenal. During the public hearing, politicians quoted some of
|
||||
our questions, and said that they had never received as much input from citizens
|
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and the press before.</p>
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<div class="captioned" style="width:80%; margin: 1.5em auto;"><a href="https://publiccode.eu">
|
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<img src="/news/2017/graphics/IloveFS-Projektionen.jpg" alt="IloveFS - PMPC" /></a>
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<footer> <p>Taking the "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign out onto the streets of Berlin.</p> </footer>
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</div>
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<p>After this public pressure, the mayor Dieter Reiter said in the city council
|
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meeting that they will just examine the option to switch, and that a final
|
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decision will later be taken by the city council. Despite that -- and for
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reasons not explained -- Microsoft Exchange was already introduced as new mail
|
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server and internally budgets were already moved around to make the switch
|
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easier. Although there will be a sham vote in the city council in the next
|
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months, the decision itself to switch back to proprietary software has already
|
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been taken.</p>
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<h2>FSFE's 2017 in numbers</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Having precise data will help you visualise what resources we use to carry
|
||||
out our activities. With that in mind, the next section reduces FSFE's 2017 to
|
||||
figures and numbers. <em>(As a sidenote: A lot of the data in this section, for
|
||||
example the number from our budget, refers to 2016 because it only became
|
||||
available when 2016 was over, that is, in 2017.)</em></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h3>Booth, events and PR</h3>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The FSFE has attended <a href="https://fsfe.org/events/events">no less than
|
||||
75 events in the last twelve months</a>. The events we attended were of all
|
||||
sizes, from meetups organised by local Free Software groups, to big fairs set up
|
||||
by public institutions and industries, to outdoor non-profit camps. Many take
|
||||
our representatives all over Europe and, in the last year, the FSFE has attended
|
||||
events in 11 countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy,
|
||||
France, Spain, Albania, Austria, Sweden, Portugal, Belgium, Greece and the
|
||||
USA. Apart from speaking and listening to others speak, we also set up our booth
|
||||
at 15 venues.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<div class="captioned" style="width:80%; margin: 1.5em auto;"><img src="/picturebase/booths/20170807-village-and-team-at-SHA2017-800px.jpg" alt="The FSFE village during SHA Camp 2017 in the Netherlands." /> <footer><p>The FSFE village during SHA Camp 2017 in the Netherlands.</p></footer> </div>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>At our booth you can also get stickers, flyers and balloons. These promote
|
||||
Free Software, warn about clouds, advise on using free formats, and so on. In
|
||||
fact, you don't have to visit our booth to get your hands on these goodies: you
|
||||
can ask us yourself for a boxful
|
||||
for <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html">your own event at
|
||||
no cost</a>. In the last 12 months we have sent out 233 boxes for the
|
||||
recipient. Since we are talking about rather big boxes, this amounts to
|
||||
literally thousands of stickers, flyers and other goodies.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h3>Budget</h3>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>In 2017 we got the final data for the 2016 budget and can reveal now that,
|
||||
over the last four
|
||||
years, <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.html">FSFE's income came to
|
||||
between 350,000 and 450,000 euros</a>, but in 2016 the amount went up to
|
||||
nearly <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/2016.html">650,000 euros</a>, which
|
||||
was a nice surprise. That is over a 45% increase with regard to 2015. Most of
|
||||
the growth can be attributed to extraordinary donations from our generous
|
||||
sponsors (up by over 83%), including an inheritance from a person who wants to
|
||||
stay anonymous, but the supporters contributions have also increased and have
|
||||
done so every year, not even flagging in the worst of the economic crisis.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>That said, at the FSFE we try to be as a frugal as possible and, although
|
||||
costs went up a bit in 2016, the increase didn't reach 9% with regard to
|
||||
2015. The biggest costs in 2016 were in our efforts to increase public
|
||||
awareness, where we spent 142,965 euros; and to fund the day to operations of
|
||||
FSFE (salaries & rent), where we spent 130,082 euros.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
TODO: Graphics here https://cloud.quickfix.es/index.php/s/DDI0cGZBWYEk7Rb
|
||||
|
||||
<div class="captioned" style="width:80%; margin: 1.5em auto;"><a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.html">
|
||||
|
||||
<img src="/picturebase/miscellaneous/201711-infographic-fsfe-costs-in-recent-years.jpg" /></a>
|
||||
|
||||
<footer> <p>FSFE' costs in recent years.</p> </footer>
|
||||
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<div class="captioned" style="width:80%; margin: 1.5em auto;"><a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.html">
|
||||
|
||||
<img src="/picturebase/miscellaneous/201711-infographic-fsfe-revenue-in-recent-years.jpg" /></a>
|
||||
|
||||
<footer> <p>FSFE' costs in recent years.</p> </footer>
|
||||
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Proportionally, the biggest growth in costs happened in the Merchandising
|
||||
department, which grew 16%, from 32,142 euros in 2015 to 37,464 euros in
|
||||
2016. This is in line with the amount of merchandising we gave and sold to our
|
||||
friends and followers, which increased by 13% from 2015. This is good news,
|
||||
since, as our main aim for merchandising is to spread our message as far and
|
||||
wide as possible, this shows that year after year, the number of people that are
|
||||
made aware of our campaigns and activities grows.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Our best selling garment is without a
|
||||
doubt <a href="https://fsfe.org/order/order#tshirt-nocloud-black">the black
|
||||
"There is no cloud..." T-shirt</a>. So far in 2017 we have sold 450 of
|
||||
this smart and relevant item of clothing. But clothes are far from the only kind
|
||||
of <a href="https://fsfe.org/order">merchandising the FSFE distributes</a>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The people behind FSFE</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Beyond events and numbers, FSFE is about the people that make up our
|
||||
community. In this sections we would like to introduce you to our comunity and
|
||||
some of our members that too often don't get all the credit they deserve.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<div class="captioned" style="width:80%; margin: 1.5em auto;"><a href="https://fsfe.org/about/funds/funds.html">
|
||||
|
||||
<img src="/picturebase/people/20161125-community-meeting-800px.jpg" /></a>
|
||||
|
||||
<footer> <p>Attendees of FSFE community meeting 2017.</p> </footer>
|
||||
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<h3>Our community</h3>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>There are 5 full time employees at the FSFE: Ulrike Sliwinski is our Office
|
||||
Manager and the person you are most likely to talk to if your phone our office;
|
||||
Polina Malaja is the coordinator of the legal team and our in-house Policy
|
||||
Analyst; Erik Albers is our communications and community coordinator; Jonas
|
||||
Öberg is the FSFE's executive director; and, finally, there's Matthias Kirschner
|
||||
who is the president. We also employ 1 part-time employee: Max Mehl, who is our
|
||||
program manager and deputy coordinator of translations. This team is joined
|
||||
by <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#interns">interns</a> for three or more
|
||||
months to work on specific projects and help out in general as well as
|
||||
occasional contractors for specific tasks. This year our interns have been: Olga
|
||||
Gkotsopoulou, Fernando Sanjurjo, Erik da Silva, Jonke Suhr, Carmen Bianca Bakker
|
||||
and Kristi Progri.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#council">Executive Council</a> is
|
||||
the body that actually executes the wishes of the members. Currently, there are
|
||||
4 members in the Council: Matthias Kirschner (President), Jonas Öberg (Executive
|
||||
Director), Patrick Ohnewein (Financial Officer) and Heiki Lõhmus (Vice President
|
||||
and Translations Coordinator).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>The <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#general-assembly">FSFE's formal
|
||||
members</a> are responsible for planning, budgeting, setting the agenda and
|
||||
electing and recalling of the Executive Council and the Financial
|
||||
Officer. During 2017, we counted on 28 members, including the the 2 prior
|
||||
presidents, Georg Greve and Karsten Gerloff, and the 4 members of the Executive
|
||||
Council.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Then we have <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team#eu-core-team">our European
|
||||
Core Team</a>, consisting of the formal members plus another 15 individuals from
|
||||
all over Europe, and they are the people that carry out the day-to-day tasks of
|
||||
the organisation on a voluntary or paid basis on core issues and coordinate the
|
||||
many volunteers that support Free Software.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Finally we have the all important supporters. Supporters are sympathisers
|
||||
that have decided to officially support the FSFE
|
||||
by <a href="https://fsfe.org/join">joining our supporter program</a>. During
|
||||
2017 we surpassed the 1,600 mark and now have supporters in more than 40
|
||||
countries around the world, including most European countries as well as the
|
||||
Unites States and Australia.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h3>Introducing some of our individuals</h3>
|
||||
|
||||
<h4>Reinhard Müller</h4>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Reinhard is from Lustenau, Vorarlberg, in Austria and has been part of the
|
||||
FSFE for over more than 10 years. Reinhard has always carried out anonymous,
|
||||
often ungrateful tasks that don't get much visibility, but, without which, the
|
||||
FSFE would grind to a halt.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>He started out maintaining the FSFE's website, coordinating the translation
|
||||
team and taking care of the Fellowship database. Then, from 2007 to 2017, he
|
||||
took over the financial side as FSFE's official Financial Officer. In that role,
|
||||
Reinhard has done everything related to managing the Foundation's money, from
|
||||
okaying invoices, to filing out our taxes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>However, that hasn't made Reinhard an antisocial hermit, always poring over
|
||||
dusty books with ink-stained fingers. Quite the contrary: if there is something
|
||||
Reinhard enjoys more than columns and columns of figures it is direct contact
|
||||
with people at events. Reinhard loves participating in fairs and tradeshows at
|
||||
the FSFE booth. Next time you are at Linuxtag or FOSDEM, be sure to come by and
|
||||
say hello. You may get lucky and witness Reinhard's legendary T-shirt folding
|
||||
capabilities in action and live. Something worth beholding.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h4>Ulrike Sliwinski</h4>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But, talking of booth service and merchandise, if there is one person you can
|
||||
always rely on to get you sweaters and stickers, that is Ulrike. Ulrike joined
|
||||
the FSFE as an office assistant in 2014 on part-time contract. When we realised
|
||||
how much she brought to the job, we quickly asked her to become our full time
|
||||
office manager.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Ulrike, as Reinhard, carries out tasks that are largely invisible to the
|
||||
outside world, but without which the FSFE simply wouldn't be able to run. If you
|
||||
phone the FSFE up for any reason, it will probably be Ulrike who solves your
|
||||
problem. If you ask for one of our boxes of stickers and flyers for you event,
|
||||
it is Ulrike who packs it and sends it off.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Ulrike has been described by some of her colleagues as the
|
||||
"personification of German efficiency" and as someone who will not
|
||||
leave a task alone until it is completed to her entire satisfaction. But Ulrike
|
||||
is also kind, helpful and friendly, making her the perfect host for our office
|
||||
and booth.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h4>André Ockers</h4>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>One of the FSFE's main missions is to raise awareness among the general
|
||||
public, in companies, in the public sector, and among politicians. Stating the
|
||||
obvious, the first step towards effectively raising awareness, is putting out
|
||||
your messages in the language of your target audience.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>That is where people like André come
|
||||
in. André <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/">translates</a>
|
||||
most, if not all, FSFE's output into Dutch, and he does so unprompted. André
|
||||
translated more than 80% of FSFE's site into Dutch, and you can expect him to
|
||||
have a translation of every news item or press release we put out within eight
|
||||
hours.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>André represents all of those selfless heroes that year in and year out help
|
||||
us reach people of all countries in their native languages.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>At the end</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>We like to send a big big thank you out to our community, all the countless <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute">volunteers</a>, <a href="http://fsfe.org/join">supporters</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus">donors</a> who who made the work of FSFE possible in 2017. Your contributions are priceless and we do our best to keep the good work going in 2018.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>If you like what we are doing, <a href="https://fsfe.org/join">join the FSFE as a supporter</a> and help us working for Free Software!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>Your Free Software Foundation Europe</p>
|
||||
|
||||
PICTURE OF CRYPTIE
|
||||
|
||||
<div class="captioned" style="width:80%; margin: 1.5em auto;">
|
||||
|
||||
<img src="/picturebase/people/20170703-FSFE-team-at-RMLL-800px.jpg" /></a>
|
||||
<footer> <p>FSFE in action! <em>(Picture CC-BY-SA 2.0 by Julie Missbutterflies)</em></p> </footer>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
<tags>
|
||||
<tag>front-page</tag>
|
||||
<tag content="Annual report">annual report</tag>
|
||||
<tag content="Public Money Public Code">pmpc</tag>
|
||||
<tag content="Save Code Share">savecodeshare</tag>
|
||||
<tag content="REUSE">annual report</tag>
|
||||
<tag content="Community">community</tag>
|
||||
<tag content="Transparency">transparency</tag>
|
||||
</tags>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<caption/>
|
||||
<note>- Additional remarks: our baby bib. eal@fsfe.org hast the xcf-file.
|
||||
- so far has been used (at/for/inside):
|
||||
-- Yearly report 2917: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170726-01
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
<category value="Promotion Material"/>
|
||||
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|
||||
<category value="Feedback"/>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
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|
||||
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|
||||
<caption>Hannes Hauswedell giving a session about secure mobile messengers during 33C3</caption>
|
||||
<note>- Author: Erik Albers
|
||||
- License: CC0
|
||||
- Contact: eal@fsfe.org
|
||||
|
||||
Additional remarks: also in Wikicommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannes_Hauswedell_giving_a_session_about_secure_mobile_messengers_during_33C3.jpg
|
||||
|
||||
so far has been used (at/for/inside):
|
||||
-- News item: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171024-01
|
||||
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
<place>33C3, Hamburg, Germany</place>
|
||||
<categories>
|
||||
<category value="Hannes Hauswedell"/>
|
||||
<category value="33C3"/>
|
||||
<category value="Talk"/>
|
||||
<category value="CCC"/>
|
||||
<category value="Indoor"/>
|
||||
<category value="Crowd"/>
|
||||
<category value="Chaos Communication Congress"/>
|
||||
<category value="CC0"/>
|
||||
</categories>
|
||||
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|
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
|
||||
<comment version="3.0">
|
||||
<caption>Hannes Hauswedell giving a session about secure mobile messengers during 33C3</caption>
|
||||
<note>- Author: Erik Albers
|
||||
- License: CC0
|
||||
- Contact: eal@fsfe.org
|
||||
|
||||
Additional remarks: also in Wikicommons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hannes_Hauswedell_giving_a_session_about_secure_mobile_messengers_during_33C3.jpg
|
||||
|
||||
so far has been used (at/for/inside):
|
||||
-- News item: https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20171024-01
|
||||
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
<place>33C3, Hamburg, Germany</place>
|
||||
<categories>
|
||||
<category value="33C3"/>
|
||||
<category value="Crowd"/>
|
||||
<category value="Indoor"/>
|
||||
<category value="Chaos Communication Congress"/>
|
||||
<category value="CC0"/>
|
||||
<category value="Hannes Hauswedell"/>
|
||||
<category value="Talk"/>
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
|
||||
<comment version="3.0">
|
||||
<caption/>
|
||||
<note>Author: Erik Albers
|
||||
License: CC0
|
||||
used at:
|
||||
- yearly report 2017</note>
|
||||
<place/>
|
||||
<time value="2017:11:25 15:43:08"/>
|
||||
<categories>
|
||||
<category value="Mirko Böhm"/>
|
||||
<category value="Max Mehl"/>
|
||||
<category value="Matthias Kirschner"/>
|
||||
<category value="Erik Albers"/>
|
||||
<category value="Polina Malaja"/>
|
||||
<category value="Community Meeting 2017"/>
|
||||
<category value="Carmen Bianca Bakker"/>
|
||||
</categories>
|
||||
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|
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
|
||||
<comment version="3.0">
|
||||
<caption/>
|
||||
<note>Author: Julie Missbutterflies
|
||||
License: CC-BY-SA
|
||||
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/missbutterfly/35267921804/in/album-72157684352342120/
|
||||
|
||||
used in:
|
||||
yearly report 2017</note>
|
||||
<place>RMLL</place>
|
||||
<categories>
|
||||
<category value="RMLL 2017"/>
|
||||
<category value="Black and White"/>
|
||||
<category value="FSFE team"/>
|
||||
<category value="Amandine "Cryptie""/>
|
||||
</categories>
|
||||
</comment>
|
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|
||||
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
|
||||
<comment version="3.0">
|
||||
<caption/>
|
||||
<note/>
|
||||
<place>Edinburgh</place>
|
||||
<categories>
|
||||
<category value="Jonas Öberg"/>
|
||||
<category value="Mirko Böhm"/>
|
||||
<category value="Reinhard Müller"/>
|
||||
<category value="General Assembly"/>
|
||||
<category value="Matthias Kirschner"/>
|
||||
<category value="Polina Malaja"/>
|
||||
<category value="Björn Schiessle"/>
|
||||
<category value="Max Mehl"/>
|
||||
<category value="Nikos Roussos"/>
|
||||
<category value="Amandine "Cryptie""/>
|
||||
<category value="Patrick Ohnewein"/>
|
||||
<category value="Heiki Löhmus"/>
|
||||
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|
||||
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