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<title>FSFE to award 36 Fellowship grants over the next 12 months!</title>
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<h1>FSFE to award 36 Fellowship grants over the next 12 months!</h1>
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<p newsteaser="yes">Starting in November 2009, Free Software Foundation
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Europe (FSFE) will award three people with a Fellowship grant every month
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for the coming year. Everybody who is actively working for Free Software
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but cannot afford the Fellowship contribution can apply for the grant.</p>
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<p>Despite financial constraints many people in the Free Software
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community devote a great deal of their time to Free Software activities.
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For example programming, translating, administrating, organising events,
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giving talks or advocating Free Software principles at public events.
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FSFE has now found a way to recognise their efforts and let them become
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part of the Fellowship.</p>
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<p>Matthias Kirschner, FSFE's Fellowship coordinator, says: "The
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<a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/">Fellowship</a> is the primary way people
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can identify with and support FSFE. It has always consisted of three aspects:
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financial support, political weight, and active engagement. We are offering the
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Fellowship grant for people who have shown their dedication to the cause of
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Free Software. We won't allow financial problems to hold anyone back from becoming
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part of the Fellowship community."</p>
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<p>The Fellowship grant is made possible by <a href="/donate/thankgnus-2009.html">FSFE's supporters</a>.
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Thanks to a generous donation from tarent GmbH, FSFE is finally able to offer the
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Fellowship grant to Free Software activists as a reward for exceptional
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work. Thanks to these donations, 36 new Fellows will be joining the
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Fellowship over the next 12 months.</p>
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<p>Elmar Geese, CEO at tarent GmbH says: "We grew closer to the Fellowship of
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FSFE since some of our employees are already Fellows. We know that being a
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Fellow is a great way to become involved with FSFE and make a real
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difference for Free Software. We are glad that our contribution will allow
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other enthusiastic people to become part of the Fellowship."</p>
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<p>Dedicated Free Software supporters can apply for a Fellowship grant by
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writing an e-mail to contact@fsfe.org, explaining what they are
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doing to promote Free Software. Each month, FSFE will select outstanding
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candidates and announce the decisions at the beginning of the following
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month.</p>
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<li><a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/grant.en.html">More information about the Fellowship grant</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/login/join.php">Join the Fellowship here!</a></li>
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