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💥 FSFE :fsfe: March Newsletter! 💥

🔸 In the last few weeks we published our first Legal Corner article and the recordings of our talks at #fosdem.

🔹 We were happy to see pictures from the #ilovefs Day celebrations and can't wait to meet you at CLT 2025!

🔸 We are organising an online Q&A session about the DMA and #freesoftware

🔹 The Ada & Zangemann movie is finally available in Spanish!

Find out more: fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202503.en.

Collage with an illustration from Ada & Zangemann; the PMPC logo; and a picture from a talk during FOSDEM 2025 where you can see the main stage from the back of the room, from the attendees perspective.
FSFE - Free Software Foundation EuropeLegal Corner+++ FOSDEM recap+++ Ada in Spanish - FSFEIn the last few weeks we published our first Legal Corner article and the recordings of our talks at FOSDEM. We were happy to see pictures from the I Love ...

On 14 February we celebrated the 'I Love Free Software Day 2025' 💕

This year we marked this special day with:
❤ 19 events in 11 different European countries
❤ hundreds of people and many organisations that joined us in the Fediverse with a special "Thank you!" note for Free Software projects and contributors.

To all who joined us this time: "Thank you" for participating in this 15th edition of the "I Love Free Software Day" ❤️❤️❤️!

#ilovefs day, gran bella giornata in quel di #Este, mattina in piazza ad incontrare i curiosi, nel pomeriggio talk sul software libero e i progetti minori ma meritevoli. Abbiamo concluso con un quiz a premi e i vincitori si sono portati a casa il libro "Liberare il mio smartphone per liberare me stesso" di @kenobit e le zine di consolazione per gli altri :)

It looks like we had a pretty even split of answers for when #ilovefs day was first started! We wish it had started as early the '90s, but the very first I Love Free Software Day was celebrated in 2012.

Thank you for playing #trivia with us this week ❤️ we hope you found lots of ways to celebrate why you love free software last week.

It’s “I love Free Software” day.

I was clinging to Windows until 2007 and then Ubuntu took over. Since then, Free Software has become the only meaningful way for me to use a computer. Being able (and allowed) to learn how things work is absolutely essential. The same goes for being able (and allowed) to adapt programs to my needs/taste.

I can’t imagine a life without Linux, OpenBSD, and all the userland tools anymore.

Thanks to everyone involved. 💚

Happy I Love Free Software Day! 💕

Unfortunately, this year I could not join nor organize any in-person celebration, BUT of course I want to share my gratitude to the many, countless #FreeSoftware services I don’t merely use, but actually depend on.

Last year, I decided to focus only on #YunoHost, because it would have been crazy to list all the projects I use and I love.

This time, even if I will most certainly forget someone, I am challenging myself to mention all the #LibreSoftware my life is powered by.

Without further ado, THANK YOU to:

  • @yunohost, for powering Nebuchadnezzar
  • @fedora, for running my beloved #Framework laptop
  • @frameworkcomputer, for designing and building repairable, #Linux-friendly and truly open hardware
  • @gnome and @GTK, for being just gorgeous
  • @calyxos (thus @LineageOS), for powering my #Fairphone5
  • #Obtainium, for making me directly download apps on my phone, and @fdroidorg for distributing them
  • #AuroraStore, for proxying the download of apps I am doomed to get from Google Play
  • @element, for developing #Synapse, even though the new proprietary Synapse Pro is VERY PROBLEMATIC AND DISAPPOINTING
  • #Fractal, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Matrix client ever
  • @signalapp, for keeping me connected with the people I love
  • @Mastodon, for also maintaining a feature-packed experimental fork (#GlitchSoc), that is what Pan runs
  • #Tuba and #Moshidon, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Mastodon clients ever
  • #Firefox, for still remaining the best possible #browser choice, despite #Mozilla’s governance messiness
  • @openstreetmap, for allowing us to find the right path, both literally and metaphorically!
  • @organicmaps, for being the simplest, cleanest, yet feature-rich #OSM client and navigation app
  • @protonvpn, for making me browse safely from/to anywhere in the planet and @protonprivacy #ProtonMail, for hosting my email, despite the latest alarming political statements…
  • @libreoffice, for allowing me to draft documents with ease, the last of which was my #CV
  • #LanguageTool, for preventing me from making embarassing spelling mistakes
  • @photoprism, for safely storing and indexing all my photographic memories, on Aby, and for providing stellar and friendly support too!
  • #Actual, for moderating the very likely risk of ending up completely broke, since it forces me to manage my finances consciously and coherently
  • @readeck, for storing and sorting ALL my varied and overwhelming inputs
  • @nextcloud, for storing and synchronizing my data, for its #calendar, its #tasks, and all its awesome apps
  • #Rustdesk, for preventing my friends and family members from going crazy, by allowing me to remotely connect to their devices and directly address the issues they have
  • #Listmonk, for sending out my newsletter
  • @eleventy, for powering all the websites I maintain, above all the virtual representation of my mind, and for being the only reason why I resist and try to continue learning #JavaScript
  • @forgejo, for giving us a chance to truly control and collectively develop the sources of our software, but most importantly @Codeberg, for RESISTING, RESISTING, RESISTING, despite the hatred and attacks nazi assholes throw at them
  • @musicbrainz for keeping music knowledge open and free, and @ListenBrainz for scrobbling the crazy music I listen to
  • The @fsfe, for promoting this celebration and fighting the good fight!

Lastly, but most importantly, the biggest thank you goes to all the free software libraries and dependencies the above mentioned #software are made of/built with, including #C, #JavaScript, #Python, #Rust, and all community-maintained programming languages.

I am super sorry if I forgot someone!

FSFE - Free Software Foundation EuropeI Love Free Software Day - FSFEOn the annual “I Love Free Software Day” we express our gratitude to all Free Software contributors. Join this special event and become part of a lovely community! #ilovefs

💗 It's no secret that #iLoveFS - and it's worth pausing for a moment today to share my gratitude to so many that help me (and many others) live a life free of the abuses of proprietary software.

What projects are you grateful for using regularly and take for granted? Here's my list of those on the Fediverse:

@fdroidorg @debian @fedora @gnome @matrix @signalapp @nextcloud @Mastodon @moshidon @thunderbird @GrapheneOS @prosodyim @inkscape @GIMP @Kodi @homeassistant