Aktivitäten
Als gemeinnützige, nicht-staatliche Organisation arbeitet die Free Software Foundation Europe daran, ein allgemeines Verständnis und Unterstützung für Freie Software und Offene Standards zu schaffen. Die folgenden Aktivitäten sind konkrete Maßnahmen, die wir in den Bereichen öffentliches Bewusstsein, politische Lobbyarbeit und rechtliche Unterstützung ergreifen.
Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 2001 arbeitet die FSFE jeden Tag daran, Freie Software in Europa und darüber hinaus zu fördern. Mit unseren konkreten Aktivitäten, basierend auf den drei Säulen unserer Arbeit, konzentrieren wir uns auf den Schutz und die Erweiterung der Nutzerrechte. Einige unserer Aktionen laufen über viele Jahre, manche zielen auf kurzfristige Entwicklungen, aber alle sind Teil unserer Mission: Nutzer im selbstbestimmten Umgang mit Technik zu unterstüzten.
Ein weiterer großer Teil unserer Arbeit besteht aus kontinuierlichem Engagement und Hintergrundarbeit. Wir sind pro Jahr auf dutzenden Konferenzen präsent, unterstützen und pflegen eine exzellente Community und versorgen diese mit hilfreichen Ressourcen. Darüber hinaus sind wir eine prominente Anlaufstelle für alle Fragen und Anfragen rund um Software-Freiheit, Offene Standards und Nutzerrechte.
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Public Money? Public Code!
Why is software created using taxpayers' money not released as Free Software? We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well. Code paid by the people should be available to the people!
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Book "Ada & Zangemann"
The illustrated book "Ada & Zangemann - a tale of software, skateboards, and raspberry ice cream" by the FSFE, tells the story of the famous inventor Zangemann and the girl Ada, a curious tinkerer. Ada begins to experiment with hardware and software, and in the process realises how crucial it is for her and others to control technology.
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Youth Hacking 4 Freedom
Young people, from all over Europe, compete in Youth Hacking 4 Freedom to win cash prizes by creating programs of their choice licensed as Free Software. The six winners will be invited to the Award ceremony weekend. Youth Hacking for Freedom inspires people to learn programming and to collaborate.
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REUSE Software
The FSFE is running a project to make licensing easy for humans and machines alike. It solves a fundamental issue that Free Software licensing has at the very source: what license is a file licensed under, and who owns the copyright? REUSE provides easy recommendations in three steps that help users, developers and legal professionals.
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I Love Free Software
We often underestimate the power of a simple Thank You. Free Software contributors do important work for our society and the "I Love Free Software Day" on 14 February is the perfect opportunity for you to express your special gratitude. Since 2010, we have celebrated this wonderful annual event with an ever-growing and diverse community. ♥ ♥ ♥
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Device Neutrality
Although digital devices are ubiquitous today, the number of devices on which users cannot run Free Software is exponentially increasing. The consequence is an increased loss of control over users’ technology. Device Neutrality aims to enable end-users to bypass gatekeepers to have a non-discriminatory use of Free Software on their devices.
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Digital Markets Act
Device Neutrality is the policy concept to regulate monopoly over devices and re-establish end-user control over their digital equipment. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulates the economic activity of large digital platforms and introduces Device Neutrality in the EU legislation, fostering access to Free Sofware in Devices.
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Router Freedom
Although we should be free to choose the technical devices we use in our private lives, some European Internet Service Providers are dictating which device their customers have to use to connect to the Internet, or discriminating against owners of alternative devices. This undermines our basic freedom of choice.
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Free Your Android
Android is a mostly free operating system but unfortunately the drivers for most devices and most applications in the built-in store are not Free Software. This initiative helps you to regain control of your Android device and your data. We collect information about running an Android system as freely as possible and try to coordinate the efforts in this area.
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Next Generation Internet
The FSFE is a partner organisation of NGI, a coalition of non-profit organisations from across Europe. Funded by the EC, it provides grants to work on new ideas and technologies that contribute to the establishment of the Next Generation Internet. The FSFE provides legal support for these projects.
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Licence Questions
The FSFE’s Licence Questions mailing list is our group of volunteers dedicated to provide help with Free Software licences and compliance. If you need advice on what Free Software licence you should use, or if you want to know more about what rights you have over a piece of Free Software, you can contact us.
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The ZOOOM Initiative
The FSFE is part of these European consortium to promote and raise awareness about the importance of Free Software, Open Data, and Open Hardware among academia, business, industry, and innovation supporting organizations. As a big part of our work, we are promoting the REUSE specification as an important element for licensing compliance.
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Legal Network
The Legal Network is a neutral, non-partisan, group of experts involved in Free Software legal issues with currently several hundreds of participants from different legal systems, academic backgrounds and affiliations. The aim of the Legal Network is to promote discussion and foster better knowledge of the legal constructs that back Free Software.