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<title>"Public Money? Public Code!": more languages, more supporters, more awareness</title>
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<h1>"Public Money? Public Code!": more languages, more supporters, more awareness</h1>
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<div class="right" style="max-width: 506px; width: 30%;">
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<img src="/activities/publiccode/img/pmpc-logo.jpg" alt="The logo of the 'Public Money, Public Code' campaign" />
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</div>
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<p>The "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign has
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received an updated set of translations, including the website, open
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letter and video. The Free Software Foundation Europe has also
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conducted interviews to ask public administrations about the benefits
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of public code, which are now available on our website.</p>
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<p>Why is software, created using taxpayers' money, not released as Free
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Software? We've started raising this question with our <a href="https://publiccode.eu/">"Public Money?
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Public Code!"</a> campaign, and since then we've received a lot of international attention and support.</p>
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<p>One key element for reaching out to as many people as possible is to
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have translations into their native language. That's why, as of today,
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<a href="https://publiccode.eu">our campain website</a> is translated in
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18 languages, spoken in Europe and beyond. The corresponding and popular
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campaign video is dubbed into 6 different languages (English, French,
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Italian, German, Portuguese and Russian) and offers subtitles in a
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total of 16 languages. If you haven't done yet, be sure to check
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whether your language is already supported!</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, an important part of the campaign is the corresponding <a
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href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/">open letter</a>. Almost 18.000
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individuals and 150 organisations signed this letter, in which we
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demand that code, paid by the people, should be available to the
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people. Among the subscribers are very prominent Free Software and
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Internet user right's organisations, as well as a first public
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administration, the City Council of Barcelona. To understand the
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motivation behind the Council's decision, we conducted an <a
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href="/news/2018/news-20180705-01">interview with,
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Francesca Bria</a>, CTO of Barcelona, who explains how using Free
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Software helps to build a more democratic, inclusive and sustainable
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digital society.</p>
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<p>In another interesting interview, in relation to the PMPC campaign,
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we recently asked Elena Muñoz Salinero, who leads the Technology
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Transfer Centre of the Spanish Government, about best practices for the
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re-use of software solutions <a
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href="/news/2018/news-20180601-01.html">by publishing code under Free
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Software licenses</a> between public administrations.</p>
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<p>We will keep running our call for signatures until the European
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Elections 2019, which is less than a year away. So, now is the time to
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take action and let your political representatives know about the
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benefits of public code. If you have not yet done so, please help us by
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signing our <a href="https://publiccode.eu/openletter/">open
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letter</a>. After having signed it, do ask your friends, colleagues, or
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the buddies on your favourite social media channel to sign it too. </p>
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<p>Public Money? - Public Code!</p>
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