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<title>Freedom Food: FSFE to cook for its donors</title>
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<h1>Freedom Food: FSFE to cook for its donors</h1>
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<p newsteaser="yes">For this year's round of fund-raising, the Free Software
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Foundation Europe (FSFE) has cooked up something special. The biggest donor
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of 2009 will share a cooking session with FSFE's President and other
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members of the organisation's executive team. FSFE is looking to raise
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100,000 Euro during the last quarter of 2009.</p>
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<div class="actionbox">
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<p>For individuals:</p>
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<a href="/donate/donate.html">Donate now</a>
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<a href="http://fellowship.fsfe.org/join">Join the Fellowship</a>
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<p>For companies:</p>
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<a href="/donate/donate.html">Donate now</a>
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<a href="/com-pkg/com-pkg.html">Buy professional services</a>
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</div>
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<p>Free Software and cooking are both about creativity, skill and enjoying
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yourself. "Recipes can be used for any purpose, including sharing them with
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others, and making your own improvements. In these respects cooking is just
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like Free Software - you have the freedom to use, study, share and improve"
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says FSFE's President Karsten Gerloff.</p>
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<p>FSFE has been working for the Free Software community in Europe and beyond
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since 2001. Thanks to its supporters, the organisation has been able to
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break <a href="/activities/ms-vs-eu/ms-vs-eu.html">proprietary monopolies</a>
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, defend European developers and users against <a
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href="/campaigns/swpat/swpat.html">software patents</a>, and build the
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<a href="/activities/ftf">Freedom Task Force</a> into Europe's foremost
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expert group on legal aspects of Free Software.</p>
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<p>Many threats continue to face Free Software however - and FSFE continues to
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fight against them. Computer users in Europe are forced to use proprietary
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software on a daily basis. Closed standards build walls that restrict Free
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Software and its users. Interoperability in the European public sector is
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under attack, as proprietary software companies continue to push their
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agendas in Europe and around the world.</p>
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<p>These are just a few of the issues that donors are entitled to discuss with
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senior FSFE staff. "A lot of us at FSFE are passionate hobby chefs. We are
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looking forward to sharing a creative time with supporters of Free
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Software," says Gerloff.</p>
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<h2>The fine print</h2>
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<p>Current top 3 donors for 2009:</p>
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<li>Linuxhotel Villa Vogelsang</li>
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<li>Black Duck Software</li>
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<li>Intevation GmbH</li>
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</ol>
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</div>
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<ul>
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<li>Qualifying donations must be received between January 1 2009 and
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December 31 2009.</li>
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<li>A European location for the cooking event will be determined by
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discussion with the selected donor.</li>
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<li>At least two senior FSFE staff will cook for (and happily dine with) up
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to four persons chosen by the selected donor.</li>
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<li>Costs for accommodation and travel to the location of the dinner will
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be borne by FSFE.</li>
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<li>The list of the top three donors will be published on this website and
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updated regularly.</li>
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</ul>
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