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<h1 class="p-name">FSFE Annual Report 2016</h1>
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<img src="/campaigns/15years/fsfe-15-badge.png" />
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<p>FSFE celebrating 15 years in 2016</p>
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<p newsteaser="yes">
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It has been a busy year for the FSFE. Upholding the principles of
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and designing and ordering T-shirts, squishy stress balls/hearts, and balloons,
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lots of balloons.</p>
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<p>What follows are just a few of the highlights from 2016.</p>
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@ -102,9 +107,6 @@ sometimes vague and some parts directly wrong. Despite our best efforts,
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the company employed to do the survey did not seem to know much about
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Free Software at all.</p>
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<p>Join the FSFE to support our legal and policy work in 2017: <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/an216"> https://fsfe.org/join </a></p>
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<p>That said, the EC and MEPs in charge of the project, were always open
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to our comments and able to push for improvements, although they were bound
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with their Internet provider. <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/CompulsoryRouters/Implementation/Germany">We published the results on our Wiki</a> to help others
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who are thinking of changing their devices.</p>
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<p>Join the FSFE to support our policy work in 2017: <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/an216"> https://fsfe.org/join </a></p>
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<h2 id="campaigns">Campaigns</h2>
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of people from all over Europe waving our "<3 Free Software"
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balloons.</p>
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<p>In a similar vein, we wanted to help the general media, local newspapers, radios
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and TV stations, to know more about Free Software. To this end we started
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our "Meet a Free Software Hero" campaign. Part of our larger <a href="https://fsfe.org/campaigns/15years/15years">15th Anniversary
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with us to comment on stories. This gives us more visibility and influence
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to affect changes in favour of Free Software.</p>
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<img style="margin: 1.5em" src="/campaigns/15years/fsfe-15-badge.png" />
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<p>FSFE booth at BalCCon 2016 (thanks to Nikola Todorovic)</p>
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<h2>Events</h2>
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T-shirts, bags and baby vests. We also collected contact information
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of people interested in our cause.</p>
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<img src="graphics/2016-09-ffm-rotlintstrassenfest_400.jpg" />
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<p>FSFE at the Rotlint street festival</p>
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<p>But we are prouder of the two big events we organised ourselves. In April
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we held our annual <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/legal-conference.en.html">Legal and Licensing Workshop</a>. This Workshop
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is set up by and for members of the FSFE's Legal Network. Legal experts
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proprietary software on voting machines was unacceptable.</p>
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<p>Booth at the FSFE Summit</p>
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<h2 id="network">Strengthening the Free Software Network</h2>
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<p>Which brings us to the subject of how we used events to make the network
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<h2 id="2017">Coming up in 2017</h2>
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<img src="/campaigns/15years/pictures/pmpc-group-500.JPG" />
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<p>FSFE campaign team preparing to show why public money should mean public code.</p>
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<p>But there is still a lot of work to do and 2017 is shaping up to be
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an interesting year. Although we have managed to get the ban on compulsory
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routers into law, we expect that ISPs will fight back, so we will have
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to be on guard for that. The threat of FRAND licensing and software
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patents is never far off and we will have to continue advising lawmakers
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on why these are dangerous for Free Software and the European software
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industry in general.Katharina Nucon, policy coordinator of the German
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industry in general. Katharina Nucon, policy coordinator of the German
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Pirate Party, will be helping us with this campaign.</p>
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<p>Most of our efforts, however, will most likely be spent pushing for
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the general public. Every European citizen must be allowed to regain
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control over the technology they use once and for all.</p>
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<hr />
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<p>Join the FSFE to support our work in 2017: <a href="https://fsfe.org/join/an316"> https://fsfe.org/join </a></p>
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<h2 id="tl">TL;DR</h2>
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