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<title>Show your love for Free Software</title>
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<h1>Show your love for Free Software</h1>
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<div class="captioned left" style="max-width: 350px; width: 30%;">
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<img src="/activities/ilovefs/artwork/graphics/ilovefs-heart-px.png" alt="pixelated heart with the ilovefs hashtag" width="100%" />
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</div>
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<p>Every year on 14th February, the Free Software Foundation Europe
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asks all Free Software users to think about the hard-working
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people in the Free Software community and to show them their
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appreciation individually on this "I love Free Software"-Day.</p>
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<p><a href="/news/2014/news-20140221-01.html">Like last year</a> the
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campaign is dedicated to the people behind Free Software because they
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enable us to use, study, share and improve the software which enables
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us to work in freedom. This time the focus especially lies on the small
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contributions to the big picture of the Free Software community.</p>
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<blockquote><p>"When people think of the Free Software they need and
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admire, many think of large well-known applications. These softwares and
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the organisations behind it are very important indeed. But we should
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also think of the countless developers who spend their free or work
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time to write and improve the smaller bits of software we also rely
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on." says Max Mehl, this year's <a href=
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"http://ilovefs.org">#ilovefs</a> campaign manager. "Coders are no
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machines and their contributions deserve our respect and
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gratitude."</p></blockquote>
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<p>For I love Free Software Day 2015 FSFE has several suggestions how
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to show one's love to the people behind Free Software, for example:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Pictures</strong> A picture is worth thousand words. The
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Free Software Foundation Europe already <a
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href="/activities/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.html">collected some
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images</a> of people showing how they express their support for Free Software
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developers in public. That's a very individual way to
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participate.</li>
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<li><strong>Postcards</strong> If you rather prefer to clothe your
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thoughts in words the brand-new postcards enable you to do so. It's
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either suitable for your valentine or for developers which software
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you adore. The postcards <a
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href="/contribute/spreadtheword.html#ilovefs-campaign">can be
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ordered</a> for free just like FSFE's other promotion material.</li>
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<li><strong>#ilovefs</strong> always had great online impact so FSFE
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is once again looking forward to seeing a lot of messages on
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microblogs, social networks, mailing lists, and blogs in a variety of
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languages.</li>
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<li><strong>Donations</strong> to developers and organisations
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dedicated to Free Software are another way how to declare one's
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appreciation. Invite them for a drink or donate to their projects, <a
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href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">to FSFE</a> or to <a
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href="https://wiki.fsfe.org/DonateToFreeSoftwareProjects">other
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supporters of Free Software</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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<!-- look at https://fsfe.org/about/mission which is similar -->
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<blockquote><p>"Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. It is
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important that this technology empowers rather than restricts us.
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Free Software contributors give everybody else the freedom to use,
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understand, adapt, and share the software they have written. This way
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they help to support other fundamental freedoms like freedom of
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speech, freedom of press, and privacy." says Matthias Kirschner,
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FSFE's Vice President. "We should not underestimate the power of a
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simple "thank you" to motivate them in their important work for
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society. So say thank you on 14th February!"</p></blockquote>
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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="/activities/ilovefs/">#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="/activities/ilovefs/whylovefs/gallery.html">Photo gallery of people loving Free Software</a></li>
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<li><a href="/order/order.html">Order #ilovefs T-shirts</a></li>
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<li><a href="/activities/ilovefs/whylovefs/whylovefs.html">Why people love Free Software</a></li>
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<li><a href="/activities/ilovefs/artwork/artwork.html">Graphics to include on your website</a></li>
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</ul>
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</sidebar>
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<tag key="front-page"/>
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<tag key="ilovefs"/>
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