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<h1>SFP#53: FSFE is turning 25! Come and celebrate with us!</h1>
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<div class="content-centered"><h1 class="post-title"><a>Back to the episode SFP#53</a></h1>
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Before we start with the podcast, we would like to say thank you to all of you who support
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show notes.
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Hello and welcome to the software freedom podcast.
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Thank you so much for listening to this podcast and this episode.
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Without you and your support, this podcast would not be possible.
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Thank you our dear listeners.
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This podcast is brought to you by the free software foundation Europe.
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We are a charity that empowers users to control technology.
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Today I'm here with my colleague Ana Galán.
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Hello Ana, nice to finally have you here on the software freedom podcast.
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Thank you very much.
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It's another to finally manage to be here with you.
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I think it's the first time, right?
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Yeah, it's my first time so, I know it never was, but I'm very, very happy.
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Really happy to make it into the cool people that are coming to this spot.
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Yes, since Alex is off right now, I'm getting on all my co-workers and all of them have
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never been here on the podcast and I like each episode.
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I'm like, oh, just the first time we're doing that together, right?
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But I have been doing that for quite a few times now.
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Why haven't you been here before?
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What went wrong, Ana?
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I guess, you know, when you do communications, there's always other colleagues who knows
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more about things than you do over the topics, right?
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At conferences, at least, you always know quite a lot about the booth.
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More than I can say sometimes about other activities that are not mine.
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So because you read all our news and you do all the communication and you're responsible
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for all the mastodon things and I'm proud to, no, I'm forget.
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But I will be doing a podcast about the Fediverse in the near future, so you will go into that
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topic.
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I can't wait.
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All right, but today we are not talking about social media.
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Even so, it's a very interesting topic.
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But we are talking about the FSFE turning 25.
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So that's quite a long time for the FSFE to be around.
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And you're responsible for the big party, so tell me more.
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So yeah, like you said, we are these years our 25th anniversary, which means that some
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of our interns are younger than us, never to be, I don't know if you thought about this,
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but yeah.
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Oh my goodness, I have never thought about that, and now I feel really old.
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So 25 years since we were founded here in Germany to empower people to use control, use
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and control technology in Europe and we want to celebrate with everyone who's been here
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in the last 25 years or from the some founders to all the new people and all the new donor
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supporters, staff, everyone, and we're going to have a great huge party in Krakow in
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Poland.
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Are you very much looking forward to that?
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Yeah, I mean, this is going to be great with a lot of surprises.
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For this, we decided to we talk with your Python, that will be also those that week in
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Krakow, and then we'll part of of your Python during the weekend, and we will have there
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like a conference with different talks from yeah, a lot of people who are related to the
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FSFE, like for example, like friends, a part of the community, founders, former presidents,
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former staffers, current staffs, a lot of volunteers, and ice cream, there will be ice cream,
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which is very important, some surprises, and then we will have a huge party because we want
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to celebrate with everyone, and the best way to do it is with a party, and a cake, hopefully,
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let's see, we're working on that.
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Well, I hear that you have pretty good baker and scones.
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Yeah, in this case, I'm not the one making the cake.
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Luckily for me, there's a lot of things to do, right?
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But there was going to be a lot of other surprises.
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So I don't want to say a lot, because oh no, you have to tell me one.
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You have to tell me one surprise that will be happening.
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Oh, at least give me a hint.
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Well, on the first day, we would end the conference with a super nice, in-person theater,
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of course, about free software.
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So okay, now I feel like I need to prepare.
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No, I mean, there will be some theater people doing it, don't worry, but yeah, maybe we
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can also bring some people and say it's a great idea.
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I'm prepared just in case.
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Okay, maybe after the official theater, we can have an office, you know, the amateur one.
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I will do that.
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I will get, I will fight somebody else.
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So, yeah, so it's going to be really, really great.
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It's also like a moment for us to say thank you to everyone who's been here during the
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last 25 years, as I said, you know, everyone has been supporting us.
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Our great donors, that's like everybody who took a long, and we have donors also, almost
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from the beginning, that are still like donating to us, so that's something that's a great
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moment to say thank you and be grateful for this.
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All our great supporters who, you know, are also really, really there, and we don't see
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their faces a lot, right?
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So, it will be also, that's why we're doing this.
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It's a great moment for everyone to join, to also to ask questions, like, I know some
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people might be wondering, okay, how was the beginning of the FSFE, right?
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So, that's the place to ask that question, that's the place to meet the founders and tell
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them why they decided to fund the FSFE.
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So, there will be quite a lot of people, I guess, that will join us because, I mean, like
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25 years, there must have been a lot of volunteer supporters, staffers that you said will join
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us, former staffers, who are now volunteers sometimes, so that's quite a lot.
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Yeah, we are expecting quite a lot, but there's just a place for more.
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So, yeah, like, a lot of people coming are, as I said, a former, former president and
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founders, a lot of volunteers, a witness, people from our community, some from our associations,
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but a lot of current volunteers, but of course, we also want to see more.
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So, everybody can join, but then it's going to have, like, can you tell me the dates?
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Yeah, so as we said, it's going to be in Kraków in Poland, and it's going to be that we came
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from the 17th to the 19th of July, so yeah, everyone is invited, the entry to the conference
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is free, of course, the entry to the parties is free, so everything is free.
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And, yeah, doing, as we said, like, doing the Saturday, we have some talks, and as part
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of your Python, it's what the part of what the error Python calls prints, so it will
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be at their venue, and then do people need to register so that, and for EuroPython or
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it's free, they don't need to register, also your Python, like from Monday to Friday,
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there's the needs ticket, but for the weekend, they don't, don't, so we also will be part of
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your Python on Friday, we'll, I mean, we will have a booth, so if you are so there doing the week,
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our booth will be there with our amazing merchandise, and then on Friday, also Matthias,
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our actual president will be giving a talk, but our proper celebrations will start on Saturday,
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when he's free, and you don't need to register. Okay, so for Saturday and Sunday, it's free,
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and they can also join us there, and also see some amazing talks, I hear. Yeah, we are still
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preparing and drafting the agenda, but I can tell you that besides maybe talking about the past,
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we will talk, of course, about the present, the future, about our current activities,
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what we expect, right, to in the next year, so our vision, and of course, how everyone can
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contribute, and also your willing to help. As a volunteer, we will also be there. Yeah.
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Oh, that's very nice. I see you're trying to accommodate everybody there again. Of course, I mean,
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with all the wishes, meeting for everyone. Yeah, but it's also a year of it. It's a bit of your
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character to be, to make sure that everybody feels welcome and comfortable, and enjoying the time,
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and has a good time. That's really you. You're a really great hostess. Thank you, I guess. I mean,
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you know, is we want everyone to get the most out of it, and also to have fun, because that's
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also the point, right, to have fun when doing what you believe in, and you know, enjoying the community,
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we are part of, and yeah, so it's basically what it is, like having fun. Well learning,
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my learning more about free software and the episode. I really liked that, because I just,
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I have been back from a conference, you know, that like yesterday I arrived back home,
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and you will be going to the next conference in just a few days, and at this conference, I was like,
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I reminded about how much I do care about free software, and how much everybody else
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cares about free software, as well, and was really inspiring to see like all those people coming
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together and to feel this energy, and also those worries that are around like, how will the future
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of free software look like? What will be happening next? I still had the feeling that there is a
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community that there is this broader movement for everybody caring about software freedom,
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and that was really inspiring. So now I have the feeling that this is also the case with
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our summer meeting, and that it will be like really a poor free software, and why we care so much about
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the software freedom and the curiosity behind learning, you know what I mean, like so, very, very much looking forward.
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Yeah, no, indeed, that's interesting, because that's the conversation I've been coming in the last
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or so days, right? Like I'm one of my neighbors is using Linux since he was like 12 from 13,
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and yeah, I met him at another conference, and then we were talking all these things, and
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he was asking me, no, like this, why do you care about this? And I'm like, I think for the different
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reasons, don't do care. I mean, not at the beginning, right? That's also what I like about
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free software, like you don't need to be a developer, or you know, just like willing to
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take in the sense of understanding everything, you can also be like, we believe in software freedom,
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and in free software as a way to make the society a better place, you know, as a way to
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have more democracy, more transparency, so yeah, and then you talk without this super
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tech people, and then for them, of course it's about freedom, but you know, another different kind
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of freedom, but at the end of the day, we all have the same mission, right? We really want to
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make free software a reality that everyone else, so you can use, understand, and yeah, make their lives
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easier. That sounds really nice. I will take that as a closing. Thank you.
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All right, anything our listeners would need to know about the FSFE25,
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and basically our summer meeting this year, we have to date, we will be staying in Kraków,
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they can reach out to us, especially to you, your information is linked in the show notes,
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and there will be an amazing agenda with some impersonator, very much look forward to that,
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and even more surprises, anything else that we are missing to wrap every single one.
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No, just that feel free to come, join us, we really want to celebrate with all of you,
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even if you haven't been active in the last years, that's also not an excuse, join us.
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That's not an excuse.
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And he's Krakow, you know, he's an amazing city, I love Krakow, he has a dragon,
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so that's where the dragon is. He has a dragon, what? He has a dragon, the city, yeah, Krakow has a dragon.
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Okay, I'm very much looking forward to go there because I have never been there,
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so I never went to Krakow, so very much looking forward now. So basically is that, you know,
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nice city, nice conference, super nice people from Europe, Python, and of course,
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what can I say, we are so really nice, you are really nice, you will be there. So also our
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listeners can finally, you know, talk to you in person soon. That's also another good excuse.
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We should turn that I own, like not talk about me that much, but talking about you, I like that point a lot.
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Thank you.
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No, and yeah, and it's also a good moment to celebrate that we are still here, right?
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Wasn't the dream and the day of some, some people, they've our founders 25 years ago.
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Yeah, that they have 25 years ago, so they have these dream, they believe in this.
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And thanks to all our supporters, our donors, our volunteers, our,
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also our staff, yeah, our super nice colleagues that are really hardworking colleagues.
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Thanks to all of them, we are here 25 years later. And yeah, it might seem that
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the world was the same as it was 25, but we haven't maybe done a lot, but we have released in our
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timeline. And through our timeline, you can really really see that we've done a lot of
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great things. So even in these moments, when we are a bit more, you know, we have it under the
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weather and we are like, oh, the world is what's happening to the world. We can see that we achieve a
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lot. There's still a lot more to be done, but we are on the wood path. And yeah, hopefully we
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can celebrate 20, our 15 years, sorry, you know, 25 years. And then be the really, like the
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really, really, really old people. Exactly. And then the people will be coming to say hi to us
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to our founders. Okay, this is now a twist that I don't think we should go down that route too far.
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All right. Thank you, Ana. Thank you so much for joining me here. Thank you so much for
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walking me through the 25th anniversary. And now we really well prepared. Yeah. Thank you so
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much. Thank you. It was really nice to talk to you. Yeah. Hope to be here back soon.
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Definitely. This was the software freedom podcast. If you liked this episode, please
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recommend it to your friends and rate it. Stay tuned for more inspiring conversations that
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explore the importance of software freedom and its impact on our digital lives.
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This podcast is presented to you by the Free Software Foundation Europe. We are a charity
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that works on promoting software freedom. If you'd like our work, please consider supporting us
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for the nation. You find more information on the FSFE.org slash tonight. Thank you so much.
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Thank you so much for listening. Bye bye.
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