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<title>"I Love Free Software Day": Free Software
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games and a SharePic generator</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>"I Love Free Software Day": Free Software games
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and a SharePic generator</h1>
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<p>Since 2010 the Free Software Foundation Europe has been
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organising the yearly "I Love Free Software Day". Together
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with hundreds of Free Software enthusiasts we celebrated our love for
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Free Software on the 14th of February. To all of you who took part
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and celebrated the "I Love Free Software Day", we would
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like to thank you so much.</p>
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<p>In 2022 we have worked very hard on creating something new
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and fun for this year's "I Love Free Software Day". So we
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have set a topic for the day and focused on Free Software games.
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Besides the special podcast episode about the Free Software game <a
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href="/podcast/episode-13.html">"0 A.D.: Empires
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Ascendant"</a> with its project leader, Stanislas Dolcini,
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we have organised an event dedicated to Free Software games.</p>
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<figure>
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<img
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src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/9bf392a8fe0b6b7ee5731a2f9e97efbe.png"
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alt="I Love Free Software Day: gaming event logo in blue"
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/>
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</figure>
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<h3>The "I Love Free Software Day: gaming event"</h3>
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<p>For our two hour event the Free Software Foundation Europe
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has hosted four speakers, who took us into the world of Free Software
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games. Afterwards we started to play the Free Software game <a
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href="https://veloren.net/">Veloren</a>. Our first
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talk was from Justin Jacobs , the engine developer and campaign
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designer of the game <a href="https://flarerpg.org/">Flare</a>.
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Our next speaker was Kati Baker,, with who we discovered the
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organisation of <a href="https://godotwildjam.com/">Godot
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Wild Jams</a>, and with Joel Uckelman we learned about the
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development of the game engine <a
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href="https://vassalengine.org/">Vassal</a>.
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Last but not least Forest Anderson introduced us to the game Veloren.
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Roughly 60 people joined the event; around half of them joined us in
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our <a href="https://conf.fsfe.org">own
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BigBlueButton</a> instance and the other half in the stream we
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provided. For the technical set up of our stream and BigBlueButton
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instance we had great support by our system hacker Alvar Penning and
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our <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Teams/System-Hackers">System
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Hackers</a> coordinator Max Mehl.</p>
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<figure>
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<img
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src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/6485fb0fc9ea026e92efb49600bd9b67.jpeg"
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alt="Kati Baker presenting Godot Wild Jams during the
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ilovefs gaming event" />
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</figure>
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<p>We enjoyed the gaming event a lot and would like to say
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thank you to all of you who participated and supported the event. The
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recordings of the event are available on our <a
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href="https://media.fsfe.org">Peertube instance</a>
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or on our <a
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href="https://www.youtube.com/c/FreeSoftwareFoundationEurope">YouTube
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channel</a>.</p>
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<h3>Show your love for Free Software</h3>
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<p>For this year's "I Love Free Software Day" we have
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also introduced some more creative ways to express your gratitude to
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Free Software contributors. Therefore the FSFE has released a series
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of new videos for this special day. In the videos staffers and
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volunteers alike say their thanks to different Free Software
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projects. Among others, Lina Ceballos has <a
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href="https://media.fsfe.org/w/sPVNgFumLjdtyGnTw34mZP">thanked
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the Free Software projects "AntennaPod" and "funkwhale"</a>
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for their great work, and FSFE's Financial Officer, Patrick Ohnewein,
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has expressed his gratitude <a
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href="https://media.fsfe.org/w/ivu4RA68z3BwbxG1wb5gdx">to
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all of those who contribute</a> to Free Software. For more
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inspirational videos and quotes have a look at our updated <a
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href="/activities/ilovefs/whylovefs/whylovefs.html">"Why
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they love Free Software"</a> page.</p>
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<figure>
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<figcaption>Marlene Kietreiber is saying thank you to
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the Free Software project "Blender"</figcaption>
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<video width="100%" crossorigin="crossorigin"
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poster="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/0025aab97e8c78b823a711c221a2aa3b.png"
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controls="controls">
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<source type="video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E,
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mp4a.40.2""
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src="https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/videos/marlene-kietreiber-short-intro.mp4"></source>
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<source type="video/webm; codecs="vp9,
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opus""
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src="https://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/videos/marlene-kietreiber-short-intro.webm"></source>
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</video>
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</figure>
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<p>Finally yet importantly,
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the FSFE together with the system hacker Alvar Penning has created
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our very own <a href="https://sharepic.fsfe.org/">SharePic
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generator</a>. With this tool everyone can easily make their
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own SharePic and share it via the various social media channels. Let
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your creativity run free and show your support for software freedom.
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This would not have been possible without the work on the SharePic
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design by our volunteer Florian Snow and our former intern Marlene
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Kietreiber.</p>
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<figure>
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<img
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src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/big/5a087946919a989183d1551878a00412.png"
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alt="sharepic for #ilovefs by Niharika Singhal"/>
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<figcaption>Niharika Singhal showing her love for Free
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Software</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h3>Celebrating our love for software freedom</h3>
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<p>As in previous years, #ilovefs has been the number one in
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the Fediverse network, with over 47 thousand mentions and over 20
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thousand users talking about their love for Free Software.</p>
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<figure>
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<img
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src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/big/1cf8f43b87f8d438785f0450b78b117b.png"
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alt="Fediverse, #ilovefs number one" />
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<figcaption>Fediverse, #ilovefs number one</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p>People and organisations have also celebrated their love for
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Free Software outside the various social media channels. As can bee
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seen by O’Reilly, the publisher of Matthias Kirschner's children's
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book <a href="/activities/childrensbook/">"Ada
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& Zangemann"</a>, who have also participated and
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shared their love for software freedom.</p>
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<figure>
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<img
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src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/bd3da97c76e8c22c53ff813df9a39d43.png"
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alt="Publisher O'Reilly is sharing their love for software
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freedom"/>
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<figcaption>Publisher O'Reilly is sharing their love for
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software freedom</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p>Another creative way to express their thanks and love for
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Free Software has been used by the German association <a
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href="https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2022/i-love-free-software-day">Digitalcourage</a>.
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They have written a whole bunch of love letters to different Free
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Software projects.</p>
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<figure>
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<img
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src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/ddfba11750c89925279d0d6f40eb1e56.jpg"
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alt="Love letters to Free Software projects written by
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Digitalcourage"/>
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<figcaption>Picture: Markus Hamid <a
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href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">cc-by
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4.0</a>, Digitalcourage e.V. is sharing their love letters to
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Free Software projects</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p>Those are just some of the people who have shown their love
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for Free Software on the “I Love Free Software Day”. Many more
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have participated by sharing their love and gratitude via different
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social media channels.</p>
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<p>In case you missed your opportunity to thank your favourite
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project, mark February 14 as "I Love Free Software Day" in
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your calendar for next year. But remember, you can always and without
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any special occasion express your gratitude and appreciation
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throughout the entire year. You do not need a special day, as there
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is simply no wrong time for that!</p>
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<p>We would like to thank everyone involved in and contributing
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to this day, as well as the countless developers, translators,
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community managers, artists and anyone else involved in Free
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Software.</p>
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</body>
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<tags>
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<tag key="front-page"/>
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<tag key="ilovefs">I Love Free Software</tag>
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</tags>
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<discussion href="https://community.fsfe.org/t/815"/>
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<image alt="Screenshot of Veloren game"
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url="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/bae852774f6be07c61b828856cd3b816.png"/>
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