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jeopardises its goals in standardisation with FRAND licensing</h2>
<p>As a part of the Digital Single Market strategy, the European Commission
has <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/communication-ict-standardisation-priorities-digital-single-market">published the communication on ICT standardisation
priorities</a> as one of the key factors in the digital economy. FSFE
welcomes the overall approach taken in the communication in favour of
more open standards and a greater inclusion of Free Software communities
into standardisation processes.</p>
has <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/communication-ict-standardisation-priorities-digital-single-market">published
the communication on ICT standardisation priorities</a> as one of the
key factors in the digital economy. FSFE welcomes the overall approach
taken in the communication in favour of more open standards and a greater
inclusion of Free Software communities into standardisation processes.</p>
<p>However, the document lacks proper understanding of licensing conditions
of standard-essential patents in order to include Free Software into
standard setting processes. In particular, FSFE <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160428-02">expresses
its concerns in regard to the promotion of so-called "fair, reasonable,
and non-discriminatory (FRAND)licensing terms</a> that in practice are
and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing terms</a> that in practice are
incompatible with Free Software. This way, the document jeopardises every
effort set by the European Commission to integrate Free Software communities
into standardisation.</p>
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<p>On April 20, the European Commission
<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-16-1506_en.htm?locale=en">outlined
its charges in regard to Google's businesses practices relating to the
its charges in regard to Google's business practices relating to the
Android operating system</a>. According to the Commission, Google is
abusing its dominant market position by pre-installing and setting Google
Search, Google Play Store and Google Chrome as the default on most Android
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<h2 id="what-else-have-we-done">What else have we done?</h2>
<ul>
<li><p>We have been running the eighth annual election for a Fellowship
<li><p>We ran the eighth annual election for a Fellowship
representative who is to represent our community and the FSFE's Fellowship
in <a href="https://fsfe.org/about/team.en.html#general-assembly">FSFE's
general assembly</a>. Although we only had one candidate, we like to
general assembly</a>. Although we only had one candidate, we would like to
<a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160502-01">thank
and congratulate Mirko Boehm to run for the office and being elected</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>We have now over 30 organisations and companies who joined us in
<li><p>We now have over 30 organisations and companies who joined us in
proposing measures to EU institutions and EU member states to avoid negative
implications on users' rights and Free Software imposed by the
<a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/statement">EU
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<li><p>A lot of our initial structure and founding documents have not
been updated ever since the FSFE grew from being a small circle of volunteers
into an organisation with hired staff, with a Fellowship program and a
community of thousands of people. We now begun to <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=60">revise our "Self Conception"</a>, to better reflect our grown
decision-making process. Jonas Öberg, FSFE's executive director, is sharing
his thoughts on and insights about <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=50">potential future steps to FSFE's structure and membership</a>on his blog.</p></li>
community of thousands of people. We now begun to <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=60">revise
our "Self Conception"</a>, to better reflect our grown decision-making process.
Jonas Öberg, FSFE's executive director, shared his thoughts on and insights
about <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=50">potential future steps
to FSFE's structure and membership</a> on his blog.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/jonas/?p=65">On the backend of our
work, we have been introducing a ticket system built on OTRS</a>.
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this, our whole communication will profit over time from higher control
of our workflow. Also, it shall be opened to be used by volunteers as well.</p></li>
<li><p>13 - 15 April FSFE's annual legal licensing workshop LLW took place
in Barcelona, Spain. The event is dedicated to gather legal practitioners from all over the world to dicuss the most challenging issues in and around Free Software
licensing. This year it had a record number of participants, showing the
increasing interest and importance of Free Software in software licensing.</p></li>
<li><p>From 13 - 15 April, FSFE's annual legal licensing workshop LLW
took place in Barcelona, Spain. The event is dedicated to gather legal
practitioners from all over the world to dicuss the most challenging issues
in and around Free Software licensing. This year it had a record number
of participants, showing the increasing interest and importance of Free
Software in software licensing.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="take-action">Take Action</h2>
<p>From September 2 – 4, 2016, there will be happening the first summit
of FSFE, an event dedicated to our community. To make it a unique and
appealing experience for everyone, we sent out a <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/Summit2016/CallForParticipation">Call for
Participation</a> last week to all our Fellows and on our mailing lists.
<p>From 2 - 4 September, 2016, the first summit of FSFE will take place,
an event dedicated to our community. To make it a unique and appealing
experience for everyone, we sent out a <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/Summit2016/CallForParticipation">Call
for Participation</a> last week to all our Fellows and on our mailing lists.
Take your chance and be part of FSFE's main event in 2016 by becoming a
speaker or a volunteer, by hosting a workshop or another event.</p>
<h2 id="good-free-software-news">Good Free Software news</h2>
<p>Spain's Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spain-publishes-file-archive-tool-open-source">published its web-based solution for archiving electronic files under
Free Software license</a>. France is also not lagging behind and recently
<a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-unveils-source-code-income-tax-application">published the source code of the fiscal calculator used by the
French fiscal administration to calculate the income taxes of individuals
in France</a> as an outcome of the legal case in Paris' administrative
court that concluded that a source code of a software written by and for
public authorities can be considered as a public information that can be
freely accessed.</p>
<p>Spain's Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spain-publishes-file-archive-tool-open-source">published
its web-based solution for archiving electronic files under a Free Software
license</a>. France is also not lagging behind and recently
<a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-unveils-source-code-income-tax-application">published
the source code of the fiscal calculator used by the French fiscal
administration to calculate the income taxes of individuals in France</a>.
This was an outcome of the legal case in Paris' administrative court that
concluded that a source code of a software written by and for public
authorities can be considered as a public information that can be freely
accessed.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the
<a href="/contribute/contribute.html">volunteers</a>

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