[Bradford] Fwd: About FSFE's work and success in 2012 - and our newsletter

[David Carpenter]

More seasonal Free Software News for you. This time from FSF Europe.

I've not had anyone telling me not to forward these to the group, so
until someone does I shall keep on doing it!

Cheers
David


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erik Albers <fellowship at fsfeurope.org>
Date: 17 December 2012 13:25
Subject: About FSFE's work and success in 2012 - and our newsletter
To: David Carpenter <caprenter at gmail.com>


Dear David,

You signed up as a supporter of the Free Software Foundation Europe. That is
why you receive a short email today that keeps you up-to-date about our most
important work in the year 2012.

We have been working hard throughout the year to prevent users from having
their hardware locked by a system that is called "secure boot" [1], with the
success that our demands were echoed by Germany's federal government [2]. In
addition to that, we launched our Free Your Android campaign [3] to help
users get in full control of their mobile devices, too. In June, the
European Court of Justice prove us right by fining Microsoft for practising
its near-monopoly position [4] - something FSFE was working for years to get
done. Together with other organisations, FSFE had its impact on UK
government to publish a new policy on Open Standards [5] and we managed to
celebrate the biggest Document Freedom Day [6] with more than 50 events in
more than 20 countries around the globe [7]. Generally, the whole year, we
worked hard to get the Free Software message out. We gave more than 50
talks, held more than 10 workshops across Europe and have been co-organising
FSCONS [8]. Read all the details about 2012 in our annual report [9].

All this success wouldn't be possible without the continuous help and
support of our Fellows all over Europe. You like what we do? You do not like
to wait another half of a year to read interesting Free Software news from
Europe? Then subscribe to our monthly Free Software newsletter now:

        http://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html
        (available in many languages)

Besides FSFE's work and events, in our newsletter you find information about
our Fellowship activities, as well as selected news from the Free Software
world and our Fellowship planet.

Now we wish you a happy Christmas and a happy GNU year 2013. Thank you very
much for supporting us,

        Erik Albers and your FSFE team

[1]
http://fsfe.org/campaigns/generalpurposecomputing/secure-boot-analysis.en.html
[2]
http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Themen/OED_Verwaltung/Informationsgesellschaft/trusted_computing_eng.html
[3] http://freeyourandroid.org
[4] http://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120627-01.en.html
[5] https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120425-02.en.html
[6] http://www.documentfreedom.org/
[7] http://www.documentfreedom.org/news/2012/news-20120403-01.en.html
[8] http://fsfe.org/events/2012/fscons-2012.en.html
[9] http://fsfe.org/news/2012/report-2012.en.html

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