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<title>#ilovefs Report 2015</title>
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<body class="press release">
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<h1>#ilovefs Report 2015</h1>
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<div class="captioned right" style="max-width: 600px; width: 50%;">
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<a href="/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.html"><img src="/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/photos/gallery/ilovefs-gallery-thumb-39.jpg" alt="Someone expressing her love for TOR, because it saves lives in Turkey." width="100%" /></a>
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<p>Someone expressing her love for TOR, because it saves lives in Turkey.</p>
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<p newsteaser="yes">On Saturday, 14 February 2015, people all over the world
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showed Free Software contributors their appreciation. It was the fifth year the
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Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) asked people to participate in the “I
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Love Free Software” day. This report shows a variety of love declarations that
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happened this day, including blog posts, pictures, comics, poems, and an
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#ilovefs Android library. The FSFE thanks everybody who motivated Free Software
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contributors this year, and ask everybody to mark 14 February in their
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calendars for next year's “I love Free Software” day.</p>
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<h2>Your cryptovalentine and our defenders of privacy</h2>
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<p>This year many people focused their activities on -- <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2015/02/13/i-want-to-love-the-future-thats-why-i-love-free-software/">what
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FSFE's president Karsten Gerloff described as</a> -- “powerful tools that help
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us defend and regain the freedoms we’ve lost, and the ones we’ve given up”: Our
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sister organisation encouraged people to ask someone they like -- romantically
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or otherwise -- <a
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href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/will-you-be-my-cryptovalentine">to be
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their “cryptovalentine”</a>. <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/ao/2015/02/14/i-love-free-software-day-gnupg/">André
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Ockers</a>, <a
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href="https://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/i-love-free-software-thanks-to-all-the-gnupg-contributors/">FSFE's
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vice president Matthias Kirschner</a>, and many people in our <a href="/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.html">photo gallery</a> expressed their
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appreciation to all the hardworking Free Software contributors who work for our
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privacy like GnuPG, Tor, Tails, Chatsecure and many others.</p>
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<p>In their <a
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href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/celebrating-ilovefs-why-eff-loves-free-software">blog,
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EFF explained why they love Free Software</a>:</p>
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<blockquote><p>“Without the freedom to fix security holes and share these
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changes with others, nonfree software leaves computer users to fend for
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themselves. Free software reintroduces a sense of solidarity amongst computer
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users. Rather than developing a dependency on a single vendor, users are free
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to collaborate with others to add features and fix bugs. In contrast, changes
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to proprietary programs depend on the whim of a program's
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owner.”</p></blockquote>
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<div class="captioned left" style="max-width: 300px; width: 50%;">
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<a href="http://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/gallery/ilovefs-gallery-35.jpg">
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<img
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src="/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/photos/gallery/ilovefs-gallery-thumb-35.jpg"
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alt="Maurice Verheesen expressing his love for GnuPG" width="100%" />
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</a>
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<footer>
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<p>Maurice Verheesen expressing his love for GnuPG</p>
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</footer>
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</div>
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<div class="captioned right" style="max-width: 300px; width: 50%;">
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<a href="http://download.fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/gallery/ilovefs-gallery-25.jpg">
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<img
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src="/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/photos/gallery/ilovefs-gallery-thumb-25.jpg"
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alt="Cryptie expressing her love for Chatsecure" width="100%" />
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</a>
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<footer>
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<p>Cryptie expressing her love for Chatsecure</p>
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</footer>
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</div>
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<h2>Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.</h2>
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<p>There were also many people who praised the value of working
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together in the huge amount of communities Free Software brought into the world.
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For example, <a
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href="https://colonelqubit.wordpress.com/2015/02/12/who-doesnt-love-free-software/">Robinson
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Tryon</a>, who already is a very active part in some projects and urges
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others to acknowledge the people behind Free Software. Similar messages
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come from successful Free Software communities themselves who build
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upon the shoulders of giants. <a href="https://twitter.com/debian/status/566646558712930304">Debian</a>,
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<a href="https://dot.kde.org/2015/02/14/we-love-projects-around-us">KDE</a>,
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<a href="http://megaglest.org/news/35/31/Why-we-love-Free-Software">MegaGlest</a>,
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<a href="https://twitter.com/openSUSE/status/566570111595999232">OpenSUSE</a>, <a
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href="https://owncloud.org/blog/we-love-free-software/">OwnCloud</a>, and others
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appreciate the many projects around them from which they can learn and
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give back to, but also the vast number of individuals who participate
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by coding, translating, writing documentation, and spending valuable time in general.
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FSFE's <a
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href="http://matija.suklje.name/i-love-fs-2015">Matija Šuklje takes the
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same line</a> when saying that there are a lot of (not only) Free
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Software projects which inspire and impress him every day. And <a
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href="https://silkemeyer.net/ilovefs-2015-thank-you">Silke Meyer</a>
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also looks at the Free Software movement from a political viewpoint
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when stating that it is crucial for free communication between people
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and that we do not only need code but also the people who fight as
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activists for a free society:</p>
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<blockquote><p>"Thanks to all those who do not contribute to free
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software projects but who work on this by political intervention,
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campaigning, activism! We can’t win this by just developing free
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software. But we can’t win it without free software
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either."</p></blockquote>
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<h2>Love poems</h2>
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<p><a href="http://framablog.org/2015/02/14/on-love-logiciel-libre/">Framasoft
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published two beautiful but unfortunately untranslatable poems in French</a>
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and in <a href="http://nicorikken.eu/blog/dia-i-love-you/">Nico Rikken wrote a
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love poem</a> dedicated to the diagramming software “Dia”:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>
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Roses are red. Handles are green.<br />
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You’re the finest diagramming software I have ever seen.<br />
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Always there to help me out. And you ask nothing in return.<br />
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Creating things together is all I really yearn.<br />
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</p>
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<p>
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Dia I know we will be a great team.<br />
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We can work together even upstream.<br />
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So let this be my tag line:<br />
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Would you be my Valentine?<br />
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</p>
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</blockquote>
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<h2>What else happened?</h2>
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<div class="captioned right" style="max-width: 600px; width: 50%;">
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<a href="http://matija.suklje.name/i-love-fs-2015"><img src="/news/2015/graphics/robo-romeo.jpg" alt="hackerspace with #ilovefs posters, postcard, robot saying Romeo, oh Romeo" width="100%" /></a>
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<footer>
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<p>Hackerspace themed with #ilovefs, CC-BY 4.0 Matija Šuklje</p>
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</footer>
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</div>
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<p>There was a huge amount of messages in social networks, people expressed
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their love in pictures (e.g. <a
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href="/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.html">in our gallery</a>, or by <a
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href="https://twitter.com/ViGLug/media">members of the Vignate GNU/Linux user
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group</a>), posters were created (e.g. <a
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href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9ydnGXIQAADg0s.png:large">by Linda
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Martinez)</a>, the <a
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href="http://erack.org/blog/archives/51-I-Free-Software.html">Document
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Foundation themed their bug tracker</a>, and Anatolij Zelenin wrote an <a
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href="https://github.com/azapps/ilovefs-android">Android I love Free Software
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Day library</a> which is already included in the Android app Mirakel.</p>
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<p>Like in the last years we had many organisations and individuals thanking
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Free Software contributors in articles. Beside the others mentioned before, for
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example <a href="http://www.dariotordoni.eu/love-free-software/">Dario Tordoni
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thanked the F-Droid developers</a>, <a
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href="http://blogs.fsfe.org/jens.lechtenboerger/2015/02/14/i-love-free-software/">Jens
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Leuchtenbörger wrote why he loves learning vocabulary with AnkiDroid in
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combination with QuickDi</a>, and <a
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href="http://blog.mehl.mx/2015/i-love-taskwarrior-therefore-i-love-free-software/">Max
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Mehl thanked the contributors of Taskwarrior</a>, command-line task-management
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tool.</p>
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<p>We were happy to see many organisations expressing their love in other
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languages than English, for example: <a
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href="http://framablog.org/2015/02/14/on-love-logiciel-libre/">Framasoft (in
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French)</a>, <a
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href="http://blog.wikimedia.de/2015/02/14/wir-lieben-freie-software/">Wikimedia
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Germany (in German)</a>, <a
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href="http://www.kdeblog.com/amo-el-software-libre-ilovefs.html">KDE Spain (in
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Spanish)</a>
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<a href="http://gruen-digital.de/2015/02/we-free-software-2/">the German Green
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Party (in German)</a>, which also announced that they will soon hand in a
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parliamentary enquiry about Free Software.</p>
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<h2>Mark the date for next year!</h2>
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<div class="captioned right" style="max-width: 600px; width: 50%;">
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<a href="http://grisebouille.net/jaime-le-logiciel-libre/"><img src="/news/2015/graphics/ilovefs-comic-jaime-le-logiciel-libre-thumb.png" alt="Part of the comic strip" width="100%" /></a>
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<p><a href="http://grisebouille.net/jaime-le-logiciel-libre/">Comic strip “J’aime le logiciel libre” in French by Grise Bouille</a>.</p>
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</footer>
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</div>
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<p>We hope all Free Software contributors out there were motivated by this
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year's #ilovefs day. But maybe all the people, who participated this year,
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missed to thank <strong>your</strong> favourite Free Software program's
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contributors. That is not a bug, it is a feature! Add a reminder to your
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calendar for 14 February and thank those who have been forgotten this year. (Of
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course you can also show your appreciation for Free Software contributors
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during the rest of the year, too.)</p>
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</body>
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<sidebar>
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<h2>More about #ilovefs</h2>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="/campaigns/ilovefs/ilovefs.html">#ilovefs campaign 2015</a></li>
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<li><a href="/news/2014/news-20140221-01.html">#ilovefs 2014 Report</a></li>
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<li><a href="/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.html">Photo gallery of people loving Free Software</a></li>
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<li><a href="/campaigns/ilovefs/whylovefs/whylovefs.html">Why people love Free Software</a></li>
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<li><a href="/campaigns/ilovefs/artwork/artwork.html">Graphics to include on your website</a></li>
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<li><a href="/order/order.html">Get #ilovefs T-shirts</a></li>
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</ul>
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</sidebar>
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