Welcome to the Free Software Foundation Europe stand!

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Meet FSFE's team, get informed about our activities, and ask us anything!

💬 Matrix chat rooms: FOSDEM stand @ #fsfe-stand:fosdem.org launch / General FSFE space @ #fsfe:fsfe.org launch

About us

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

Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. It is important that this technology empowers rather than restricts us. 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.

Want to know more? Here's our mission ⭐, our activities 🚀, and how you can become part of all this 💪. And hey, if you would like to watch more videos, check out our Peertube instance 📺!

FSFE Updates

In the past year, we have made remarkable progress in a number of our activities. Some examples:

  • The FSFE turned 20 years! Take a look at the highlights!
  • Promotion of the principle Public Money? Public Code! to decision-makers in politics and public administrations. It's a powerful framework and open for participation and collaboration.
  • We have heavily engaged in the topic of sustainability of Free Software
  • Router Freedom is a pan-European topic. We are working together with organisations from many countries to safeguard user rights!
  • Making Free Software licensing and copyright easy for developers with REUSE. Now, it's simpler than ever before to declare conditions for reuse of your software.

Read the complete overview of our activities in 2021 – but take some time, it's been a lot! :)

Free Software Foundation Europe @ FOSDEM

Join our Devroom and Talks

This year at FOSDEM, the FSFE is co-organiser of the renowned Legal and Policy Devroom. We are excited and look forward to presenting you an interesting programme throughout the whole weekend.

FOSDEM's Legal and Policy Issues Devroom addresses important Free Software related policy and legal topics. Our community has substantial expertise in this area yet there are few venues to discuss these matters in a forum open to all. Hackers, developers, contributors, lawyers, policy experts, and community leaders all possess expertise in these matters. At the Legal and Policy Issues Devroom we come together for a fruitful exchange on these questions.

Special recommendations: join this talk on Saturday 15:00 to learn about Device Neutrality, a highly important topic for digital freedoms, by Lucas Lasota of the FSFE. Directly afterwards, the organiser of the devroom – FSFE's Alexander Sander and Max Mehl among them – will discuss the hot topics of the day and year.

FSFE's FOSDEM Booth

Get Your Gear!

Do you miss wandering around FOSDEM stands and equipping yourself with merchandise and information material? We can't offer you the real experience, but you don't need to wait for next year! Browse and order our stickers, flyer and posters and check out new and classic shirts and branded items.

Welcome to the Free Software Foundation Europe stand