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Velkommen til Free Software Foundation Europes hjemmeside. FSFE blev stiftet den 10. marts 2001 og understøtter alle europæiske afspekter ved fri software, særligt GNU-projektet. Vi støtter aktivt udviklingen af fri software og udbredelsen af GNU-baserede styresystemer som for eksempel GNU/Linux. Vores kompetencecenter for politikere, advokater og journalister, sikrer fri softwares juridiske, politiske og sociale fremtid.

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Seneste nyt FSFE Newsletter 2008-08-23 FSFE's activities have been varied over the last month. It's promising to see the increase of Fellowship activities across Europe. We are looking forward to seeing more local groups appear and to hearing about their activities on all levels. One of the most important parts of supporting Free Software is sharing knowledge in your own community. [Læs mere ...] FSFE welcomes KDE's adoption of the Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA) 2008-08-22 "We see the adoption of the FLA by KDE as a positive and important milestone in the maturity of the Free Software community," says Georg Greve, president of Free Software Foundation Europe. "The FLA was designed to help projects increase the legal maintainability of their software to ensure long-term protection and reliability. KDE is among the most important Free Software initiatives and it is playing a central role in bringing freedom to the desktop. This decision of the KDE project underlines its dedication to think about how to make that freedom last." [Læs mere ...] FSFE Newsletter 2008-07-08 Housekeeping items are the least popular of all tasks in any organisation, and any organisation that is working under pressure has a tendency of accumulating them. That is why after the intensive work of the past year to build up and grow the Freedom Task Force, work on antitrust and OOXML issues, and various other activities, FSFE had some of them as well. Fortunately, after substantial preparation and three intensive days, FSFE's General Assembly in June managed to take care of them and send everyone home highly motivated and with a full task list. The results of this will become slowly visible throughout the coming year. [Læs mere ...] Stabilisers for freedom: Wine 1.0 2008-06-18 "Of course, it should be in the users interest to 'ride their bicycles independently', i.e. not having to rely on training wheels. However, the training wheels keep children from falling and give freedom to both the children and their parents. Likewise Wine helped to give freedom and security to the users. It is for this we are thankful and we recognise their work." [Læs mere ...] GPL-Violations.org and FSFE's Freedom Task Force to work more closely together 2008-05-27 "It is a clear, legal fact that distributing Free Software means people must comply with the licences. GPL-Violations.org and the FTF are now building the long-term legal infrastructure for support and compliance" comments Harald Welte. Shane Coughlan adds "I believe our new agreement will help ensure sustainability for legal infrastructure to support Free Software in Europe." [Læs mere ...] Flere nyheder ... [RSS]

Kommende begivenheder Fellowship meeting in Nijmegen 2008-08-28 At 20:00 on 28 August 2008, a Fellowship meeting will take place in Café Jos, Daalseweg 309, 6523 CA Nijmegen, The Netherlands. This will be an informal meeting to get to know each other and to talk about what's happening already in the Netherlands, what would help the Dutch Free Software community, and how FSFE can help. Shane M. Coughlan (Coordinator of FTF) and Ciaran O'Riordan (FSFE Bruexelles) will attend as special guests. Dutch Fellowship meeting, Nijmegen 2008-08-28 A Fellowship meeting will be held in Nijmegen on Thursday August 28th. Everyone interested in Free Software is welcome and invited to meet inside Café Jos, Daalseweg 309, at 20h00. Discussion of this meeting can take place on the public fsfe-bnl mailing list. Fellowship meeting in Duesseldorf 2008-08-30 At 18:30 on 30 August 2008, Duesseldorf Fellowship will meet in Gasttaette "Suedstern", Bilker Allee 66, 40219 Duesseldorf (5 min vom S-Bahnhof Bilk). Shane M. Coughlan, the coordinator of the FTF, will give a talk entitled "Professionalisation of Free Software projects" and there will be plenty of time for other discussions. Fellowship's stand at the Braderie de Lille, Lille (France) 2008-09-06 2008-09-07 The so-called "Braderie de Lille" (Lille's flea market) is a big outside-event which has taken place every year since the 12th century during the first week-end of september. chtinux, a Linux User Group which is installed around there, has proposed to the Fellowship to take part in the Braderie. The FSFE, and especially the Fellowship's stand, will get much visibility, since millions of people of numerous nations take a walk on Lille's streets. Come to discover this beautiful city and to eat some Braderie's culinary specialities like clams ! And above all, come in order to support the Fellowship ! Fellowship's stand will be situated on Place du Vieux Marché aux chevaux. If you want more information about this event please send an email to Benjamin: morant@fsfeurope.org Explaining Free Software on the 'NESSI Open Source Working Group' panel 2008-09-07 Shane Coughlan, FTF coordinator, will explain Free Software and the reasons behind Free Software licences at the OSS 2008 conference in Milan. He will sit on the 'NESSI Open Source Working Group' panel to discuss the European NESSI project. Flere begivenheder ... [RSS]

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