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<h1 class="p-name">FSFE Newsletter - September 2016</h1>
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<h2 id="words-from-your-editors">Words from your editors</h2>
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<p newsteaser="yes">
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Thank you for contributing to making the FSFE Summit
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this past weekend a huge success! We were excited to see so many
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familiar faces and we're eager to meet again soon. Of course, the
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FSFE Summit was not the only thing going on in the past month. In this
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newsletter you can read about our community's other activities.
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In the October newsletter, we will share more
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of what happened at the Summit. Stay tuned for more!
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</p>
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<h2 id="the-fsfes-15-years">The FSFE's 15 years</h2>
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<p>
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This year we are celebrating our <a href="/campaigns/15years/">15th
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anniversary</a> and the culmination
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of the official celebration took place during the FSFE Summit from the
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2nd to the 4th of September. But this celebration should continue throughout the year: let us
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use the coming weeks and months to highlight 15 years of our
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existence, and use this opportunity to spread the word about free
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software and our work. Let us highlight our biggest
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achievements, recall personal stories and share them through blog posts,
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social media, mailing lists, chats and in other ways.
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</p>
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<p>
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In order to get some inspiration about how you can contribute, you are
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welcome to visit <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Events/2016/FSFE-15years-birthday/spread-the-word">our
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wiki page</a> in which you will find examples and help to contribute. Some of the
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work we have carried out in the last 15 years is also available on the
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revised FSFE <a href="/timeline/timeline">timeline</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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One of our recent accomplishments has been the creation of our
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<a href="/campaigns/15years/15years">FSFE video</a> to commemorate our
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birthday. This video has subtitles in no less than 12
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languages, thanks to our amazing volunteer translators.
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Check out our new 15th anniversary sticker, which you can
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order from us to help <a href="/contribute/spreadtheword">spread the
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word</a>, not only for yourself.
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</p>
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<h2 id="from-the-community">From the community</h2>
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<p>
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<ul>
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<li>Thanks to our translators (mentioned now for
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the second time in this newsletter!), we are able to reach a wide
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multilingual audience! The help of our translators is crucial to our
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outreach. French translator Julien Pivotto has
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improved the existing translation process to be more efficient and
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accessible. He has written a proposal to change the <a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/TechDocs/Translations">principal concept behind the
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process</a>. Cryptie and
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André Ockers held a session about this <a href="https://conf.qtcon.org/en/qtcon/public/events/757">during the
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summit</a>.</li>
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<li>Paul Boddie <a href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1314">blogged
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about the EOMA68 Campaign and some of its criticisms</a>. The EOMA68
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campaign later succeeded in its fundraising and will now be put in
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production.</li>
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<li>André Ockers also <a href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2016/08/13/free-software-pdf-campaign-it-isnt-over-until-it-is-over/">convinced Dutch authorities to remove ads for a
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non-free PDF reader</a>
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from the official website Digid.nl used to access most of the public
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services in Netherlands. </li>
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<li>Matthias Kirschner blogged about a way to <a href="https://k7r.eu/setting-up-a-slightly-more-secure-solution-for-home-banking">set up a slightly more secure solution for home
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banking</a>,
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letting the browser you use for banking run separately from your other
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browser. In a separate post, he also wrote <a href="https://k7r.eu/free-software-in-the-berlin-election-programs/">an
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overview of the positive aspects</a> of Free Software included in
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parties' positions, for the forthcoming Berlin elections.</li>
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<li>Jonas Öberg wrote about the FSFE's group registration with IRC
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network Freenode, which makes it possible to <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/irc-cloaks-on-freenode-available/">request
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FSFE affiliated cloaks</a>.
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He also wrote about his <a href="http://blog.jonasoberg.net/the-woes-of-webvtt/">experience getting
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subtitles to work with our FSFE video using WebVTT</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<h2 id="what-else-have-we-done">What else have we done?</h2>
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<p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/news/2016/news-20160817-01">The FSFE joined the Advisory
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board of the Document Foundation, whilst the Document Foundation became
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an associated organisation of the FSFE</a>. With this mutual expression
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of support, both organisations will strengthen one another in their common
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goal to keep the general public in the technological driver's
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seat.</li>
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<li>Erik Grun and Erik Albers aligned in the name of the FSFE with several
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other organisations to run a <a href="/campaigns/ayc">Ask your
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candidates campaign</a> called "Wahlprüfsteine". Questions have been
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sent to most parties in the upcoming elections in
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<a href="/news/2016/news-20160823-01">Mecklenburg Vorpommern</a>
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and <a href="/news/2016/news-20160831-01">Berlin</a>.
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Their responses have been analysed and published
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for the voting public.</li>
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<li>Since August 1st, thanks to <a href="/news/2016/news-20160725-01">a
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new German law</a>, if you are the client of a German internet provider,
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you have the right to use an alternative router, ideally one
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running Free Software. Please provide us feedback whether you had any
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issues running a new router and help us to collect it in our
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<a href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/CompulsoryRouters/Implementation/Germany">wiki page</a>.
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In case you don't have an alternative device at hand, the FSFE's German
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Coordinator Max Mehl has already <a href="https://blog.mehl.mx/2016/erste-testgeraete-fuer-routerfreiheit-versendet/">sent the first Free Software routers to volunteers</a>
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for testing and we can provide more. </li>
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<li>The FSFE was present at FrOSCon 2016 in Sankt Augustin, where our
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Policy Analyst and Legal Coordinator Polina Malaja gave a talk about
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<a href="https://programm.froscon.de/2016/events/1797.html">"DSM, EIF,
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RED: Acronyms on the EU level and why they matter for software
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freedom"</a> (in English), and the German Coordinator Max Mehl gave talk about
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<a href="https://programm.froscon.de/2016/events/1738.html">"Routerzwang
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und Funkabschottung – Was Aktivisten davon lernen können"</a> (in
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German). Max <a href="https://blog.mehl.mx/2016/froscon-2016-ein-rueckblick/">blogged about
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his conference experience and included links to recordings of both
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talks</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<h2 id="take-action">Take action!</h2>
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<p>
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For our 15 year anniversary (there's a lot of this this month, as you
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can tell), we are organising the <a href="/campaigns/15years/15years">"Get
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to know your Local Free Software Hero" campaign</a>. The idea
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is to bring our community members in touch with the local press in the
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region where they live. Our local heroes explain how the Free Software
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community affects the people in their region, its benefits for
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education, health system, local economy and the daily life of the
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citizens. If you are a journalist, blogger, vlogger, podcaster, or
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anyone else who can help us to get in touch with a media outlet,
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please contact us and we will tell you who your local heroes are and
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how to meet them.
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</p>
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<h2 id="other-free-software-news">Other Free Software news</h2>
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<p>
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The Lithuanian police <a href="https://itsfoss.com/lithuanian-police-switches-libreoffice/">migrated
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over 8000 workstations from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice</a>. The
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Dutch government in its Digital Agenda for 2016-2017 is considering
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<a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/epractice/news/dutch-consider-mandatory-egovernment-standards">making the use of Open Standards mandatory
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for public administrations</a>, within the aim of providing businesses and
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citizens with easier access to eGovernment services. The city of
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Valencia (Spain) is <a href="https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/spain%E2%80%99s-valencia-reuses-greek-pc-lab-software">reusing Epoptes</a>,
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a software for managing school PC labs, developed as free software in
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Greece since 2008. The software is improved by staff members of the
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city’s IT department, who share their code publicly.
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</p>
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<h2 id="fsfe-in-the-press">The FSFE in the Press</h2>
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<p>
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In light of its 15th anniversary, the FSFE received press coverage
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concerning a number of topics. Here are some of these articles for
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further reading:
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</p>
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<p>
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<ul>
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<li>[EN] by William New, Matthias was quoted by an Intellectual Property
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Watch article about how the <a href="http://www.ip-watch.org/2016/08/22/new-us-government-source-code-policy-could-provide-model-for-europe/">New US Government Source Code Policy Could
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Provide Model For Europe</a>.</li>
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<li>[IT] [EN] by Sonia Montegiove, Tech Economy, <a href="http://www.techeconomy.it/2016/08/18/sostegno-alla-liberta-digitale-fsfe-intervista-doppia-matthias-kircker-alessandro-rubini/?platform=hootsuite">Support to the digital
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freedom with FSFE: a double interview with Matthias Kirschner and
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Alessandro Rubini</a>.</li>
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<li>[DE] [AT] by Patrick Dax, Future zone,
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<a href="https://futurezone.at/netzpolitik/bedenken-gegen-einschraenkung-alternativer-router-software/216.155.897">Concerns regarding the limitation of
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alternative router software</a>. In the article, there is a reference
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to the FSFE's campaign against compulsory routers.</li>
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<li>[EN] by Paul Brown, opensource.com, <a href="https://opensource.com/life/16/8/fsfe-summit-europe-2016?sc_cid=701600000011jJVAAY">First ever FSFE Summit celebrates free software
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successes</a>.</li>
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<li>[DE] by Hans-Joachim Baader, pro-linux.de, <a href="http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/23900/fsfe-vergleicht-parteipositionen-zu-freier-software-f%C3%BCr-wahl-in-mecklenburg.html">The FSFE compares the
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positions of the parties regarding Free Software for the elections in
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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern</a>.</li>
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<li>[DE] by Mirko Lindner, pro-linux.de, <a href="http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/23878/fsfe-und-tdf-arbeiten-enger-zusammen.html">FSFE
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und TDF arbeiten enger zusammen</a>.</li>
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<li>[EN] by Paul Brown, LiNUX.com, <a href="https://www.linux.com/news/first-fsfe-summit-will-focus-social-issues-and-strategies">First FSFE Summit Will Focus on Social Issues and
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Strategies</a>.</li>
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<li>[DE] by Jan Raehm, Deutschlandfunk, <a href="http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/computer-programme-ohne-zwaenge-kampf-um-freie-software.684.de.html?dram:article_id=364243">Computer programs without
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constraints - the battle for free software</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<p>Thanks to all the <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.en.html">volunteers</a>,
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<a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Fellows</a> and <a href="https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html">corporate donors</a> who enable our work,</p>
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<p>your editors Polina Malaja, Erik Albers, Olga Gkotsopoulou and
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Jonas Öberg, <a href="https://fsfe.org">FSFE</a></p>
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