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: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202503.en.html

We are still celebrating #ilovefs day with some events in Italy and Albania today!

While we gather all the pictures from the different events, we wanted to share with you an amazing video we received from the mother (and singer) of our colleague @sofiaritz

https://media.fsfe.org/w/gs8ZDniL6DHyV255qzkMGy

There are so many ways to say #thankyou to your favourite #FreeSoftware projects, what is yours?

#ilovefs Thank you Calibre

e-book management and reader: https://calibre-ebook.com/

Happy I Love Free Software Day [ilovefs.org]!

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 [tommi.space]
• @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 [pan.rent] 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 [tommi.space], 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 [inputs.tommi.space]
• @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 [tommi.space]
• @eleventy, for powering all the websites I maintain, above all the virtual representation of my mind [tommi.space], 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!

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

It's both Valentine's Day and #iLoveFS Day today, so I'll share some of the Free Software applications that I have loved using in the past year:

* @EndeavourOS, @archlinux [lemmy.ml] and @debian GNU/Linux;
* @kde Plasma Desktop and a lot of their apps, especially the Kate editor and Kontact suite;
* @libreoffice (Incredibly useful);
* @mozillaofficial Firefox (Linux and Android);
* @Mastodon and the @Tusky client (Tusky looks good, works well, and is feature-packed but accessible);

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I Love Free Software Day: Celebrate and Appreciate

Learn about the free software movement and when it all started on this day of celebration and gratitude for I Love Free Software Day!

Lets spread the love by giving a boost!

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/i-love-free-software-day-celebrate-appreciate/

@kev @mike @joel @carrotcypher [fosstodon.org] @grueproof @lulu_powerful @ru @wholesomedonut [fosstodon.org] @amolith @fsf @fsfe

#blog #Ilovefs #ILoveFreeSoftware
#OpenSource #FOSS #software #tech

We're feeling the love this #ilovefs day Who knows when I Love Free Software Day was started by the #FSFE?

#fsfe #fsf #valentine

Answer will be posted tomorrow morning.

Thank you everyone for celebrating I Love Free Software Day with us - we're so glad you're here