Notices by Free Software Foundation Europe (fsfe@mastodon.social), page 19

Why should you care about #FreeSoftware? 🤔

ℹ️ The answers are in our “What is Free Software?” video, currently available in 14 languages!

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

We want to help you to free your router! 🆓📶

ℹ️ Our #RouterFreedom tech wiki guides you towards Router Freedom.

‼️Want to help us bringing #SoftwareFreedom to our society? Support us or contribute to our work!

#RouterFreedom #FreeSoftware

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

‼️ Major news: REUSE 3.0.0 is out! 🎉

ℹ️ What is #REUSE? 👀
It is an initiative aimed at making licensing easy for humans and machines alike.

💡 What is new in this version? 🤔
It is meant to be a comprehensive polishing and improvement of many little things.

Check it out!

https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool/releases/tag/v3.0.0

#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware

The @NGIZero consortium, of which the :fsfe: #FSFE is a partner, has just unveiled the #NGI0 Commons Fund! 🏦

Are you developing any #FreeSoftware tech improving the Internet❓

This fund is for you! It will award 21.6 million euro 💶 to small and medium R&D projects developing #FreeSoftware technologies.

Learn more here:

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240117-01.html

#SoftwareFreedom

We are starting 2024 with a lot of energy 💥, looking for a policy intern, and with great news: two new SFP episodes 🎙️, the Router Freedom tech wiki and the ‘Ada & Zangemann’ ebook is free of charge in French 🇫🇷.

We are looking forward to celebrating ‘I Love Free Software Day’ with you on 14 February! 💕

💌 Check out our January newsletter!

https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202401.html

“Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream” is available and purchasable in 🇫🇷 French!

Gabriel Attal, the current Prime Minister, gave it to the members of the assemblée parlementaire franco-allemande when he was in charge of the French education ministry 👀.

@kirschner

https://media.fsfe.org/w/opzZJm8SAYLQYz5gTXBeJ9

https://ada.fsfe.org

⁉️ They are silent, quite ugly, and they are forgotten in a dark corner until our connection dies… what are they? 👀

Routers! 📶

Although easy to overlook, routers are critical to connecting us to the internet every day, and because they run software, it should be #FreeSoftware!

What? How? 🤔

Check out our tech wiki to get all your questions answered! 💡 And special thanks to our volunteers who helped us create it!

https://docs.fsfe.org/en/teams/router-freedom-tech-wiki

@governa Thanks for noting that!

🤔 What is the Interoperable 🇪🇺 Europe Act? Is it a game-changer? 👀

💡 Watch @linaceballos@mstdn.party explain its main points in this talk!

#SFSCon #SoftwareFreedom #IEA

https://media.fsfe.org/w/jXmCVHJtv7s1wo2q33ehND

📣 #Our Android devices are not free! 😡

Did you know that devices running Android, such as your smartphones, come bloated with proprietary software that are getting your data?

‼️ You can root them to install #Freesoftware systems and apps that give you control over your device 🤩

🤔 Check out our videos that help you how to flash your devices

https://media.fsfe.org/w/p/u4Ki6gTKu4dr2FKs7yiu14

@sohm we are currently updating it! Check it again on Monday 😉 ! We will have sizes up to 4XL

ℹ️ Do you have a valuable idea in the area of digital commons and networked technology, that will contribute towards achieving a more open information society and the next generation of the internet? 🧑💻

‼️ And are you looking for financial means to make those ideas come to life? Or do you have an existing project that requires additional funding? Submit your proposal to @NGIZero before February 1st!

#SoftwareFreedom #funding #NGI #FreeSoftware

https://nlnet.nl/news/2023/20231201-call.html

Are you also a #FreeSoftware love? Tell the whole world about it 📣 We can help you do it 💪, and with style! 😎

You can:
- Request promotion material such as stickers and flyers
- Buy cool merchandising (new merch coming soon!) 👀
- Get our support to organize a booth.

#SoftwareFreedom

https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.html

Every year, on 14 February, the :fsfe: #FSFE, together with #FreeSoftware organizations around the globe, celebrates “I Love Free Software Day” 💕: a special day of appreciation to all the contributors to Free Software projects, large or small. 🥰

Join us!

#SoftwareFreedom

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240109-01.html

💡 Did you know that #UNESCO recognizes software, source code, and hardware as open scientific knowledge, and recommends that it be made available under a license that allows “access, reuse, repurposing, adaptation and distribution”?

But why do we care about Open Science at the :fsfe: #FSFE?

Christian Busse, FSFE Volunteer and #OpenScience Coordinator answers this questions in this talk:

https://media.fsfe.org/w/cLSKf9oReoxLPj8CpNarHV

"I joined FSFE as an intern because I have always been interested in European politics and because the slogan "Public Money? Public Code!" resonated deeply with my beliefs. The experience at FSFE has been great: I have learned how to make our voices heard and I am proud to be part of a community of many amazing people working for software fre edom.” - Dario, former FSFE intern-

📣 Wanna be our next policy intern? We are looking for people like you!

https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231211-01.html

Have you already listen to our latest Software Freedom podcast episode? 🎧

In 'SFP#23: What is Free Software?' our colleagues explain, in a fun and playful way, some basic term related to #freesoftware

https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-23.html

New year, new #FSFE merchandise!
New stickers, a new t-shirt design, our traditional cloud t-shirt in a really nice turquoise (officially petrol 😉) and I love #FreeSoftware socks!!!

You will soon be able to order them from our website and of course we will be bringing everything to #fosdem24 !

@grillchen Ja! Wir haben neue Artikel, wie Socken und neue T-Shirt. Wir werden in FOSDEM mit allen sein. auch, neue Aufkleber!

Let’s finish 2023 with what @pluralistic said about “Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream”!

“A rousing tale of self-reliance, community and standing up to bullies, no matter how powerful they may be.”

Remember that the book is now available in English, German, Italian, and French!

#RightToRepair