🏳️FSFE - Free Software Foundation Europe

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Non profit organisation working to create general understanding and support for software freedom. Includes news, events, and campaigns. 

Free Software is key for fair competition. We advocate for a strict and effective enforcement of the Digital Markets Act in a developer friendly way. [Help us with a donation to achieve that!](/donate/donate.html>)

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Free Software Foundation Europe

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Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology.

Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. Free Software gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share software. These rights help support other fundamental rights like freedom of speech, freedom of press, and privacy. [Learn more...](/freesoftware/index.en.html)

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### [Share “Ada & Zangemann” with your friends: spread this animated movie and gift the book!](/news/2025/news-20250317-01.en.html)

News

Thanks to our supporters and volunteers, the inspiring story of **_Ada & Zangemann_** has been translated into several languages! While we work, and gather funds, to publish the book and the animated movie in even more languages, we need your help: share the movie with your friends and post it around! The book is also a perfect gift for local libraries and schools.  [](/news/2025/news-20250317-01.en.html)

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### [FSFE symposium: Public Money? Public Code! in practice](/news/2025/news-20250310-01.en.html)

News

Free Software is indispensable for public authorities to overcome dependencies and achieve technological sovereignty. Therefore, the need of the hour is "Public Money? Public Code!" The Free Software Foundation Europe's symposium in Essen on 08 April 2025 will open up practical perspectives on how administrations can move forward in this direction.  [](/news/2025/news-20250310-01.en.html)

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### [DMA & Free Software: what Free Software organisations need to know](/news/2025/news-20250306-01.en.html)

News

On 24 March the FSFE will conduct an online Q&A session about the Digital Markets Act and its importance for representatives of Free Software organisations. The DMA was designed to limit the power of the "gatekeepers" and boost fairer digital markets. But what does its enforcement mean for Free Software? Join us for this strategic discussion.  [](/news/2025/news-20250306-01.en.html)

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Upcoming Events  

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[Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2025 in Chemnitz, Germany](/events/index.en.html#event-20250322-01)  

09:0022 – 18:00 UTC 23 March 2025

[DMA & Free Software: what Free Software organisations need to know (online)](/events/index.en.html#event-20250324-01)  

16:30 – 17:30 UTC 24 March 2025

[Denmark Premiere of the Ada & Zangemann Film in Aarhus, Denmark](/events/index.en.html#event-20250327-01)  

12:00 – 16:00 UTC 27 March 2025

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The FSFE does great work to further software freedom locally, nationally and in the EU and I enjoy the podcast and the News RSS so it felt natural to become a supporter. I also want to be more involved with the free software community.

[Einar Mostad (English teacher, musician, IT student)](/about/people/testimonials.en.html#mostad)

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If software is licensed as free software, we can audit it, and be sure that it does what it's intended to do (and nothing else). Public institutions develop software, and hire companies to make it, and the citizens should own and reuse all that code. I contribute to Free Software with translations, user help desk, finding free software alternatives at the University... but I cannot reach the policy-makers, nor people and institutions in other countries.

[Laura Arjona Reina (IT Assistant at Technical University of Madrid and Debian contributor)](/about/people/testimonials.en.html#arjona)

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The most fun part about engaging for FSFE is meeting real people and exchanging substantial information about relevant issues. These can be anything from rooting your cell phone, to learning Git, to understanding Free Software based business, to speaking up for the use of open standards in public organisations.

[André Ockers (Logistics)](/about/people/testimonials.en.html#ockers)

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