You are a #FreeSoftware (#OpenSource) legal or policy nerd? We would love to get your submission for a talk or panel at #FOSDEM for the Legal and Policy Dev Room: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2024q4/003586.html (Deadline 1 December).
Finally a platform referencing all Free/Libre software actors in Europe! 🤩
https://www.openmindsproject.eu/?LesOrganiations&lang=en
All actors? Sadly no: the focus is on non-profit associations, social and cultural actors. Indeed, those have less financial means at their disposal, they deserve to find resources that can fit their budget.
https://tchafia.be/@Shapira03/113447166279491606
Please retoot 🐘 📢 🆓💻🔥
PS: you can add FOSS more actors ➕
We are intervening for #FreeSoftware in a court case involving @Apple and the @EUCommission Apple is trying to avoid obligations derived from the DMA 🤨
Find out more here: https://fsfe.org/activities/apple-litigation/index
⚠️ Check out what @pluralistic says about this:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/eu-apple-let-users-choose-their-software-apple-nah
The @EUCommission has cut important funds for #FreeSoftware in a non-transparent decision.
💥 Raise your voice and take part in an ongoing consultation to ask for sustainable long-term funds for software freedom!
We explain why and how: https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240911-02.html
I am delighted to announce that @osi has a new full-time staff member working in Brussels to advocate for and defend the #OpenSource community. Welcome @jmaris!
We love freedom 2, the freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others. Boost this post if you LOVE this freedom, and want others to know about it, too! Read about the four freedoms of #FreeSoftware: https://u.fsf.org/2cj
