A4 information sheet: --------------------- Join the Fellowship and protect your Freedom! The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is standing up to protect our freedom to shape, participate, and co-operate in an information society that respects liberty and privacy. The resistance to software patents has shown that it is possible to change things. However, it has also shown that we need to do more. The Fellowship directly supports the activities of FSFE. The Fellowship of Free Software Foundation Europe provides an easy and effective opportunity to do more. With their contribution, Fellows empower FSFE to sustain and to strengthen their activities to put our common goals into practise. Fellows themselves decide how much they can do. The suggested Fellowship contribution is 120 EUR per year (minimum 60 EUR). The Fellowship is a community for digital freedom. The Fellowship is a community of people united by their interest in Free Software and freedom in all aspects of the digital age, and who seek to change things for the better. It is the place where the Fellows of Free Software Foundation Europe meet, where professionals and interested parties come together to share ideas, collaborate on projects, and inform each other about what is going on in the world of Free Software. - Every Fellow receives an @fsfe.org email address, a visible sign of his affiliation to the Free Software Foundation Europe. - Every Fellow receives a personal login and customisable home page on fsfe.org, where he may write blogs and keep up to date with news. - Every Fellow receives access to our instant messaging system, through which he can meet other Fellows to co-operate and exchange experiences. - As a highlight, every Fellow receives a unique personalised OpenPGP crypto-card, putting him at the spearhead of those who are aware of issues of privacy, security and digital self-determination. Using this card, Fellows can logon and communicate securely and privately. The Fellowship is the easiest and most direct way to get involved and to become part of the work of the Free Software Foundation Europe. \u201eDefending our collective freedom is something we need to do together. Consider this your call to arms\u201c Georg C. F. Greve, President of FSFE Join the Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org info card, front side --------------------- Join The Fellowship of fsfe Your participation in a digital society in the future depends on many decisions that are taken today. Your abilities to communicate with others, to study and to work are worth defending, as are your abilities to freely read, write and use software. Those who take these freedoms for granted are destined to lose them. Fellows of the Free Software Foundation Europe help defend these freedoms and build a society based on freedom and equality. Fellows stand together and communicate through the Fellowship portal, Jabber and their @fsfe.org email address. info card, back side -------------------- Joining the Fellowship When you join, your contribution of EUR 120 per year (minimum EUR 60) will help sustain the work of the FSFE, and with your personalised Fellowship crypto card you will be able to protect your own freedom, and visibly display how you help protect the freedom of others. http://www.fsfe.org/join To receive digital sign-up information on how to join the Fellowship, please fill in your email address and return the card to the FSFE.