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  2. <html newsdate="2016-03-02" type="newsletter">

  3. <head>

  4. 	<title>FSFE Newsletter - March 2016</title>

  5. </head>

  6. <body class="newsletter article" microformats="h-entry" id="nl-201603">

  7. 	<h1 class="p-name">FSFE Newsletter - March 2016</h1>

  8. 

  9. 

  10. <h2 id="i-love-free-software-day-2016">"I love Free Software" Day 2016</h2>

  11. 

  12. <p newsteaser="yes">For the 6th time in a row we asked everyone to express their gratitude 

  13. and appreciation towards Free Software contributors on Valentine's Day. 

  14. Check out our #ilovefs 2016 report and see <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160222-01.en.html">who got acknowledged 

  15. this year through countless blog posts, pictures, artwork, memes, personal 

  16. notes and many more</a>. Don't forget to mark next year's 14 February as 

  17. "I love Free Software" Day to continue this nice tradition of acknowledging 

  18. the people and hard work of everyone behind Free Software. We thank all 

  19. participants who found time to say "thank you" and for making #ilovefs 

  20. 2016 such a success!</p>

  21. 

  22. <h2 id="no-cloud-went-viral">"No cloud" went viral</h2>

  23. 

  24. <p>Just before "I love Free Software" Day, <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/the-reddit-effect-more-orders-in-24-hours-than-usually-in-6-months/">thanks to a spontaneous Reddit post we received over 200 orders of 

  25. our promotional material</a> in the time span of 48 hours. In comparison, 

  26. in 2015 we had around 370 orders in total. After 24 hours we had more 

  27. orders than usual in 6 months. The majority of orders requested "no cloud"

  28. material but beside that people also ordered our leaflet with basic 

  29. information about Free Software, the GnuPG leaflet, and our F-Droid leaflet.</p>

  30. 

  31. <h2 id="european-free-software-policy-meeting-2016">European Free Software 

  32. Policy Meeting 2016</h2>

  33. 

  34. <p>In the end of Janury we organised, together with Open Forum Europe, 

  35. <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160205-01.en.html">a 

  36. pre-FOSDEM policy meeting in Brussels with the active Free Software 

  37. policy groups around Europe</a>. The purpose of the meeting was to learn 

  38. about each other's activities and exchange views, with an emphasis on public 

  39. policy related actions. In total, 19 organisations participated in the 

  40. meeting. In addition, Member of the European Parliament Julia Reda, and a representative of the IT department of the European Commission, Pierre Damas, 

  41. attended the meeting to present the work of EU institutions in the field 

  42. of Free Software.</p>

  43. 

  44. <h2 id="from-the-community">From the community</h2>

  45. 

  46. <ul>

  47. <li><p>February was dedicated to the sweet love declarations to Free 

  48. Software in the light of #ilovefs day. Check out our #ilovefs 2016 report 

  49. above for more detailed information about different blogposts, and get 

  50. inspired for the next year's celebrations by following 

  51. <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/floriansnow/2016/02/13/make-your-own-personal-banner-for-i-love-free-software-day/">Florian Snow's idea for DIY #ilovefs banners</a>.</p></li>

  52. 

  53. <li><p>Paul Boddie combined retrocomputing with Python programming and 

  54. wrote how to <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1233">make Python 

  55. programs faster with Shedskin</a>.</p></li>

  56. 

  57. <li><p>Marcus Moeller gave tips about <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mmoeller/2016/02/03/getting-started-with-gnu-social/">getting started with the federated social network GNU social</a>.</p></li>

  58. 

  59. <li><p>Björn Schießle contemplated about the future of GitHub and 

  60. <a href="http://blog.schiessle.org/2016/02/12/the-next-generation-of-code-hosting-platforms/">the next generation of code hosting platforms</a>.</p></li>

  61. </ul>

  62. 

  63. <h2 id="what-else-have-we-done">What else have we done?</h2>

  64. 

  65. <ul>

  66. <li><p>After the adoption of the European Parliament's own-initiative 

  67. report "Towards a Digital Single Market" which included several positive 

  68. references to increase the use of Free Software in public sector, it 

  69. turned out that the meaning of "free" got lost in 

  70. translation. In particular the Italian version of the report referred to 

  71. Free Software as "gratis" as in free beer, instead of "libre" as in freedom. 

  72. We asked the staff of the member of the European Parliament Julia Reda 

  73. to help us and draw attention of the authors of the report to this mistake. 

  74. <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/now-italian-european-parliaments-dsm-report-speaks-about-freedom-not-price/">The mistake got fixed and the Italian version of the report 

  75. now rightfully refers to software freedom, and not the price</a>.</p></li>

  76. 

  77. <li><p>We've simplified a lot of our internal processes: no longer it is 

  78. necessary for someone helping us with our web pages or in other teams to 

  79. register a guest account in our systems. Instead they will now register 

  80. in the same system as our Fellows. It may not sound like much, but it's 

  81. a revolution in simplification which we're very happy with! Read about 

  82. how you too can 

  83. <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/">contribute to our work</a></p></li>

  84. 

  85. <li><p>We published a <a href="https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160224-01.en.html">report of our work in 2015</a>. From teaching people to use encryption 

  86. for their e-mail, to changing the direction of policy on a European level, 

  87. FSFE worked hard in 2015 to empower users to control technology. We saw 

  88. a lot of improvements in how we work, and we ended the year positively 

  89. with a lot to look forward to in 2016. We want to thank everyone for 

  90. helping us making the world a better place!</p></li>

  91. 

  92. <li><p>As hinted at in the previous newsletter, we've teamed up with KDE, 

  93. Qt, VideoLAN and others who are organising QtCon 2016 in Berlin 2-4 

  94. September 2016. We'll use the opportunity to host an FSFE summit during 

  95. QtCon, with more information forthcoming.</p></li>

  96. </ul>

  97. 

  98. <h2 id="take-action">Take Action</h2>

  99. 

  100. <p>We still have plenty of "no cloud" stickers and other informational 

  101. material in stock! Help us to spread the word about software freedom in 

  102. your local community by 

  103. <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.en.html">ordering our 

  104. leaflets, stickers, postcards and posters</a>.</p>

  105. 

  106. <h2 id="good-free-software-news">Good Free Software news</h2>

  107. 

  108. 

  109. <p>The French government is reviewing its existing Free Software support 

  110. contract, signed in 2011, and <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-involves-public-draft-support-contract">asks Free Software communities and the 

  111. public to help them draft their next multi-year framework contract for 

  112. Free Software services and support.</a> Meanwhile, the French Parliament

  113. has <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/france-assembly-encourages-use-free-software">approved a first draft law for a Digital Republic, which encourages 

  114. the use of Free Software by public administrations, and considers source 

  115. code of software developed by or for public administrations to be public information</a>. Schools in the capital of Estonia, Tallinn, <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/tallinn-schools-piloting-open-source-software">are gradually moving to Free Software after the city 

  116. administration decided to switch to Free Software</a> in January 2015. By 

  117. September 2015 more than 4000 workstations and laptops across the 50 

  118. schools in Tallinn are running on Free Software. In Germany, <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/open-source-largest-german-pension-fund">Federal Pension Insurance, which is the largest in the country, is 

  119. increasing the use of Free Software by publishing a call for tender 

  120. seeking assistance for its Free Software-based services</a>.</p>

  121. 

  122. <p>Thanks to all the

  123. <a href="/contribute/contribute.html">volunteers</a>

  124. ,

  125. <a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a>

  126. and

  127. <a href="/donate/thankgnus.html">corporate donors</a>

  128. who enable our work,</p>

  129. 

  130. <p>your editors Polina Malaja and Jonas Öberg <a href="/index.html">FSFE</a></p>

  131. </body>

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