1. Looking back and forward 2. Georg Greve at "Nexell informiert" 3. Get Active: Join the Fellowship!
1. Looking back and forward
2006 was an exciting year for the Free Software community and for FSFE.
The Free Software Foundation Europe was and is involved in the preparation of the new version of the GPL, the world's most successful Free Software license, in the European Commission's efforts to stop Microsoft abusing their monopoly, in the UN World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the World Intellectual Property Organsiation (WIPO), and the EU funded project for Scientific Education and Learning in Freedom (SELF). Besides that, FSFE has taken the main initiative to launch drm.info, a portal about the dangers of Digital Restriction Management.
Probably the most important project for the next year will be the Freedom Task Force (FTF), which will provide licensing education, ficuciary activities and license enforcement in the field of Free Software.
2007 will be an important year for Free Software: With more and more big players (like Sun or Novell) shifting a growing share of their business activity towards Free Software, effects of a single move of one of these players get stronger for both good and bad decisions. The existence of an independent organisation like FSFE that keeps the focus on the long term goals is essential for the Free Software ecosystem to remain balanced.
2. Georg Greve at "Nexell informiert"
In Zurich, Georg Greve gave a lecture titled "What is Free Software and are Free Software solutions professional enough for our daily business?" during the "Nexell informiert". "Nexell informiert" is a meeting where experts are invited to talk and spread awareness about Free Software issues, organised by the Nexell, an independent team of international and multilingual CRM professionals.
3. Get Active: Join the Fellowship!
The Fellowship of FSFE is a community for digital freedom. Becoming a Fellow is the easiest and most direct way to support the Free Software Foundation Europe and Free Software in general. Fellows contribute in three ways: financially, through the weight they give to the voice of FSFE, and - if they want - through the work they do.
To help the Fellows in getting active, FSFE provides some infrastructure for them to meet and coordinate: blogspace on fsfe.org, an email address forwarding, a jabber account, and ad-hoc mailing lists - all available exclusively for the Fellows.
However, probably the nicest thing a Fellow gets from FSFE is the personalised OpenPGP conformant crypto card, so each Fellow can protect his freedom and privacy directly and immediately.
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