Notices by Free Software Foundation Europe (fsfe@mastodon.social), page 12

#FreeSoftware guarantees you the essential four freedoms to use, study, share, and improve the software.

https://media.fsfe.org/w/p/9gYSyoEYggsqBExLWjRejL

🗳️ #EUelection2024 is next week!
FSFE Netherlands Coordinator, emphasized the crucial role of #FreeSoftware in Amsterdam's Digital City Debate.

💥Now it's your turn! Get active and ensure #SoftwareFreedom enters the political debate. Make your voice heard!

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240530-01.html

The @EU_Commission @NGIZero Initiative envisions an Internet that is accessible & diverse, and respects the fundamental value of privacy.

The FSFE, as a partner organization, provides legal support to the projects granted by NGI.

https://fsfe.org/activities/ngi/ngi.en.html

Ada has already made it into homes and libraries around the world, and now she needs your help to reach even more kids!

📽 Help us make a film of this story to spark more kids’ interest in coding and tinkering!

#righttorepair #AdaZangemann #FreeSoftware

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240515-01.html

Publicly funded software has to be #FreeSoftware. While there are plenty of good reasons for this, many politicians don’t know about them yet.

This is where you can help! ✍️ Sign the open letter to give our message more weight!
https://media.fsfe.org/w/7cH6EATpmPwaMsEZN8vfyj

Only one month left!

The 3rd edition of #YH4F is about to enter its final month of coding! 💻

We can't wait to see what amazing projects our participants come up with this year! 💥

#freesoftware #youngcoding #itskills

Only one month left!

The 3rd edition of #YH4F is about to enter its final month of coding! 💻

We can't wait to see what amazing projects our participants come up with this year! 💥

#freesoftware #youngcoding #itskills

Are you attending @eslibre? We will be there :fsfe giving some talks!

If you see us around, stop us! We would love to meet you and talk about #FreeSoftware with you and give you some stickers 😉

💥 Have you already tried REUSE 3.0.0?

ℹ️ REUSE makes licensing easier for humans and machines alike.

It provides a set of recommendations to make licensing your #FreeSoftware projects easier.

💡Check it out!

https://reuse.software/

#softwarefreedom #licensing

"We need young generations to share Ada's enthusiasm, in order to take back control of everyday technology."

- @zacchiro Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Paris, co-founder of @swheritage , former #Debian Project Leader-

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240515-01.html

📻 @C_RadaR, die monatliche Radiosendung des #ChaosComputerClubs auf Radio Darmstadt ist online! In dieser Ausgabe war @lexelas zu Gast.

Er spricht über die kommenden Europawahlen und welche Rolle die Digitalisierung und #FreieSoftware dabei spielt

https://www.c-radar.de/2024/05/c-radar-mai-2024-gpn-netzpolitik-europawahl-archivierung-von-videotext/

#EUelections #softwarefreedom

@llas FSFE Legal Programme Manager is giving today a talk in #DORSCLUC2024 on "When our routers are not free: the challenges for an Open and Neutral Internet"
⏰ 11:00 am
📺 https://www.youtube.com/live/N5hKv3G8QaY?feature=shared

#ngi #routerfreedom #deviceneutrality

We are participating in #DORSCLUC2024 conference.

Watch the live streaming of @niharika_singhal Project Manager, talking on "Making AI Really Open: The Current Landscape of Free Software and AI Licensing":

https://youtube.com/watch?v=N5hKv3G8QaY

#ZOOOMProject #AI

🎥 This movie, released as an #OpenEducationalResource, will be a tool to encourage more kids, especially girls, to tinker and learn how to code, while fostering inclusiveness and accessibility.

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240515-01.html 🧵

🔥Thanks to individual and corporate supporters, Ada has already made it into homes and libraries around the world, and now she needs your help to reach even more kids!

https://my.fsfe.org/donate?mtm_campaign=adavideo&period=m

#righttorepair #AdaZangemann #SoftwareFreedom

What do the Prime Minister of France, the founder of #CreativeCommons, the COs of #RedHat and @opensuse and thousands of children have in common? They all love 💕 "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream"

💥 We want to go create an animated movie about Ada’s story!

🚀 To produce the movie in English, French, German, and Italian will cost us €40,000. Your donation will make a difference for many children who will be inspired by Ada!

https://my.fsfe.org/donate?mtm_campaign=adavideo&period=m

We are all haunted by sometimes intrusive, obnoxious, and omnipresent ads on many of the websites we visit. Luckily, #adBlockers exist, but is it legal to for us use them? 🤔

ℹ️ In this article, we try to answer this question !

#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware

https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231220-01.html

We should be free to choose the technical devices we use in our private lives.

🚨 Check out our Router Freedom tech wiki, which provides information on the necessary steps you need to use and connect your own router.

#freesoftware #softwarefreedom #routerfreedom

https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231214-01.html

"It's a hit -- in the first week my kid has read this book 3 or 4 times already, and says this book explains my work on software freedom finally in a way that's easily understandable."

@karen, Executive Director, @conservancy

May comes with legal news, we talked to two 2023 #YH4F participants and our Danish local group sent an #OpenLetter to their parliament.

Did you see that Ada & Zangemann won a prize and that the French e-book version is now available?

https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202405.html

#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware

For the 2nd year in a row, the Swedish city of Gothenburg hosted an edition of the #FreeSoftware Legal & Licensing Workshop, the annual conference for Legal Network members.
The 2024 edition brought new faces and great discussions and presentations on current legal and licensing issues related to technological developments such as AI:
https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240506-01.html