From press at fsfe.org Fri Oct 23 12:26:35 2020 From: press at fsfe.org (press at fsfe.org) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 12:26:35 +0000 Subject: 35 years FSF +++ Participation at SFSCon +++ Technical job vacancy Message-ID: = 35 years FSF +++ Participation at SFSCon +++ Technical job vacancy = [ Lexojeni online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202010.sq.html ] Read in our October newsletter about FSF's thirty-fifth anniversary, our upcoming participation at SFSCon, our technical job vacancy, and our other diverse community activities. == Congratulations to the FSF on its thirty-fifth anniversary == 35 years ago [1], our sister organisation, the Free Software Foundation [2], was founded to work for users' freedoms to use, study, share, and improve software with the introductory line that *"Our work will not be finished until every computer user is able to do all of their digital tasks in complete freedom"*. That is a promise that holds true even after thirty-five years of working for software freedom and inspiring countless people and many organisations to take a stand for user freedoms. The FSFE's President, Matthias Kirschner, recorded a congratulatory speech [3] in which he reflected on the importance the FSF and our movement have had and continue to have over the years. == Participation at SFSCon == The South Tyrolean Conference for Free Software, SFScon, is one of the established annual conferences on Free Software in Europe. In recent years we have been represented with lectures, workshops and our information booth. Last year we also organised our Community Event in the context of SFSCON, so that we could meet our community and also many other interested people, and eventually reported about our work [4]. Due to the current situation, the 2020 edition of this event can only take place in blended mode: both online and at NOI Techpark, for a limited number of people. But of course, the FSFE is again contributing to the programme. We have organised seven lectures in which legal issues are clarified and current political developments are analysed. Concrete practical questions concerning compliance, for example for SMEs, will be addressed, as well as questions about machine learning and problems which arise in the development of a "free" smartphone. Here you find more information on our track and the SFSCon2020 [5] -------------------------------------------------------------------- The biggest financial impact the FSFE faces in these times of physical distancing is the cancellation of Free Software conferences, including our own events. To keep the software freedom movement solid and alive, please consider donating a part of your conference budget to Free Software organisations, including the FSFE [6]. -------------------------------------------------------------------- == Technical job vacancy == The FSFE is looking for a working student [7] to support our work to empower people to control technology. The person will work 10 hours per week in the Berlin office (home office possible at a later stage) and will support the FSFE's technical infrastructure by working closely together with our system administrators. Deadline to apply is Sunday, 15 November 2020. Please share this with others you know who might be interested. == Upcoming events == - At the OSSEU2020 Alexander Sander will talk [8] about how Free Software enables global solutions for global problems. - At the Privacy Week Alexander Sander will talk [9] about our "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign and why Free Software helps to tackle a global crisis. == What have we done? Inside and outside the FSFE == - For the seventh episode of our Software Freedom Podcast [10] we talked with Vincent Lequertier about transparency, fairness, and accessibility as crucial criteria for artificial intelligence (AI) and why it is important for our society to release AI software under a Free Software license. - In his keynote at Software Freedom Kosova 2020 [11] Alexander Sander, FSFE's EU Public Policy Manager, provided a brief overview of the FSFE's previous and ongoing activities to foster software freedom in Europe, on the levels of politics, legal work with enterprises, and general public awareness. The keynote was followed by a workshop two weeks later. - At the "openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference" (oSLO), Alexander Sander gave a talk [12] about the advantages of using Free Software in the public sector, about what we have learnt from the corona crisis, and why it is even more important to use Free Software now than ever before. - We are grateful to Lioh Möller who coordinated the FSFE country team Switzerland and welcome the new coordinator Gian-Maria Daffré with Ralf Hersel as vice-coordinator. The Swiss group is well known for their Free Software education portal Lernen wie die Profis (learning like a pro) [13] and the news-zine and podcast gnulinux.ch [14]. - The Berlin coordinator Erik Grun together with Katja Jäger gave a talk [15] about Free Software for the digital society in education at the re:publica campus in Berlin. == Contribute to our newsletter == If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, please send them to us. As always, the address is newsletter at fsfe.org. We are looking forward hearing from you! If you also want to support us and our work, join our community and support us with a donation or a monthly contribution [16]. Thanks to our community and all the volunteers [17], supporters [18], and donors [19] who make our work possible. And thanks to our translators [20], who enable you to read this newsletter in your native languages. Your editors, Erik Albers and Alexander Sander -------------------------------------------------------------------- Support us with your donation [21] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Discuss this [22] -- Free Software Foundation Europe FSFE News Upcoming FSFE Events Fellowship Blog Aggregation Free Software Discussions 1: https://www.fsf.org/events/fsf35 2: https://fsf.org 3: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201009-01.sq.html 4: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20191205-01.sq.html 5: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201019-01.sq.html 6: https://my.fsfe.org/donate?referrer=nl 7: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201005-01.sq.html 8: https://osseu2020.sched.com/event/eCVu 9: https://cfp.privacyweek.at/pw20/talk/BU7HK9/ 10: https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-7.sq.html 11: https://sfk.flossk.org/ 12: https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSLO/program/proposals/3247 13: https://lernenwiedieprofis.ch/ 14: https://gnulinux.ch/ 15: https://campus.re-publica.com/en/session/freie-software-digitale-gesellschaft 16: https://my.fsfe.org/donate?referrer=nl-202009 17: https://fsfe.org/contribute 18: https://my.fsfe.org/support 19: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus 20: https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators 21: https://my.fsfe.org/donate?referrer=nl 22: https://community.fsfe.org/t/531 From press at fsfe.org Wed Nov 25 19:45:17 2020 From: press at fsfe.org (press at fsfe.org) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:45:17 +0000 Subject: Software Freedom 2020 +++ EU Open Source Strategy +++ New staffers Message-ID: = Software Freedom 2020 +++ EU Open Source Strategy +++ New staffers = [ Lexojeni online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202011.sq.html ] In our Newsletter November, we review our annual report "Software Freedom in Europe" and the new Free Software Strategy by the European Commission. We have new staffers, a new call for FSFE community projects, REUSE is taking off, the local group in Zurich received an award, and so much more has happened to discover. == Software Freedom in Europe 2020 == 2020 is a year to remember. While many may remember the pandemic, there have nevertheless been many positive changes in terms of Free Software in recent months. In fact, a lot has changed. You can now read in one document how busy our movement was in our annual report Software Freedom in Europe 2020 [1]. The EU and the WHO followed our arguments [2] that publicly funded Corona-related contact tracing apps should be published only under a Free Software license. Several cities, including Munich, promised to rely more on Free Software in the future. We convinced publicly funded hackathons to publish their results as Free Software, and the largest conservative party in Europe, the German CDU, resolved to join the FSFE in demanding that software developed with public money should be publicly available as Free Software. We convinced the Board of European Regulators for Electronic Communications to side with the FSFE's demand that any router and modem be under the full control of the user [3]. With our REUSE initiative, we aim to provide simple best practices and accompanying tools for machine- readable licensing. KDE, one of the largest and oldest projects in our community, adopted the REUSE guidelines in 2020. We now know of around 300 projects [4] which have benefitted from REUSE. We participated in multiple European public consultations, introduced a new way for our community to get their local community projects funded [5], moved from physical to online events [6], had many exciting guests in our regular Software Freedom Podcast [7], relaunched our website [8], produced a new multilingual Free Software shirt, and there have been many other activities to report. Enjoy reading our annual report [9] and discover your personal favorite success story of our community in 2020. This success is based on the shoulders of all the people and communities who support our work. Join our European movement now [10] and make our success your success. == New EU Free Software Policy misses concrete ideas or actions == The EU Commission published its new "Open Source Strategy". While the proposed strategy recognises the benefits of Free Software, it lacks concrete targets and indicators to implement the strategy. Instead of the hoped-for major step, which would reflect current developments around the debates on digital sovereignty and state of the art administration, the Commission has presented only a fig leaf. What the European Commission presented is simply too little for a strategy [11]. With a lack of clear task descriptions and processes or concrete guidelines for the implementation of wholehearted statements and indicators to monitor success, we worry that the strategy will end up accomplishing too little. >From a general perspective, the strategy mainly repeats previous commitments and activities; sustainable and verifiable approaches are sought in vain. And while the benefits of Free Software are fully emphasised and the Commission is on paper ambitious in its future use of Free Software, concrete goals are rare and a clear commitment to the use of Free Software is lacking. With this little engagement from the EU Commission it is once more clear to see how important civil society organisations like the FSFE are to make our solutions heard. In contrast to the uninspiring strategy by the central European technocratic institution, our direct bottom-up approach helped many public administrations in Europe find the road to freedom "by themselves" in 2020. Read in our annual report [12] about Munich, Hamburg, Beniganim and the Netherlands taking steps towards more software freedom. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Christmas is coming and our merchandise is a nice surprise for your loved ones or yourself. Order now [13] before we run short. -------------------------------------------------------------------- == New staffers: Linda Wagener and Lina Ceballos == Linda Wagener joined the FSFE team as our new office assistant. Linda has an M.A. in communication studies and is looking forward to supporting the organisation and accounting of the FSFE, because - as Linda states - /"I believe in the importance of the advancement of free access to information and the means to study and understand the world."/ Lina Ceballos is our new intern until March 2021. Lina is an attorney from Colombia with an M.A. in development and governance. Lina is looking forward to working with our community and says: /"I am quite excited to be part of this organisation, since one of my main drivers has been always the construction of a more transparent and free society, in this specific case in a digital society."/ == Call to apply for FSFE support for your local project == We are currently running our second call for FSFE community projects [14]. We happily support you with our expertise, our information material, our networks, or even financially. Participating is as simple as filling out a short online form [15] until 10 January 2021. Among the successful applications in the last round is GnuLinux.ch, which we support with promotion, a new logo, stickers, and a microphone set for their regular podcast. Another project we will support is Freedombox install events, which we will support with premises. If you need support for a FSFE community project, don't hesitate to apply. == Upcoming events == Together with a lot of other civil (digital) rights organisations, the FSFE forms the cluster "about:freedom" [16] during the annual Chaos Communication Congresses, which have become one of the biggest hacking- related events in Europe. The event takes place from the 27th to the 30th of December, this year for the first time online. We are currently reviewing the proposals we received in our call for participation to offer you a good choice of software freedom related content. == What have we done? Inside and outside the FSFE == - Our REUSE campaign is taking off. Some weeks ago KDE adopted the REUSE guidelines and a new screencast has been produced [17] to show how to make a repository REUSE compliant. Also the German Corona Warn App's iOS version is REUSE compliant now [18] and we helped almost a hundred projects so far that are supported by the FSFE's help in the NGI0 project [19] to do likewise. - The local FSFE group in Zurich created a website called "Learning like a pro" [20] (original German: "Lernen wie die Profis") that explains the needs and benefits of using Free Software in education. It proceeds describing individual Free Software solutions and how these solutions in particular can be used to make school learning efficient and easy. This project has now been awarded a special award by the Dinacon conference [21] - a conference on digital sustainability. The FSFE is proud of the Zurich local group's success and recommends that you look at other interesting local projects in 2020 in our yearly report [22] - Several sessions were organised by the FSFE for this year's SFScon [23]. We have a long-lasting relationship with that conference. Last year we also celebrated our annual community meeting at SFScon [24]. This year, we focused on talks in which legal issues are clarified and current political developments are analysed. Concrete practical questions concerning compliance were addressed as well as questions about machine learning and problems that arise in the development of a free smartphone. In talks from our own staffers, Alexander Sander talked about our "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign [25] and Lucas Lasota about the "Challenges ahead for software freedom in Europe" [26]. - The FSFE participated in the consultation by the European Commission regarding "Interoperable digital public services – European Interoperability Framework evaluation & strategy" [27] in that we highlighted the crucial role Free Software and Open Standards play for interoperability. - The FSFE demanded establishing Free Software as a standard for publicly funded software and concrete data-oriented monitoring of the adopted strategies with measurable reports of progress evaluation in our consultation feedback for "eGovernment services across the EU (ISA² programme) - final evaluation" [28] by the European Commission. - Germany tested their public alert system with an official warning day in September. The proprietary apps involved caused the event to become an official failure. We analysed the situation [29] and found more robust solutions that respect user rights. - Thomas Friese published a blog post [30] (DE) in which he tells the background story and gives insights on the creative work behind the Software Freedom Podcast [31] jingle. - A coalition of organisations in Switzerland produce the 7at7 event series. In its November edition, the FSFE's There is no cloud [32] campaign was part of a virtual exhibition on "campaigning for digital rights" [33]. - From October 2020 until March 2021 our legal expert Lucas Lasota is conducting a course on software licensing at Humboldt University of Berlin [34]. - Our policy expert Alexander Sander gave talks about our "Public Money? Public Code!" campaign at the openSUSE + LibreOffice Virtual Conference [35], at the Open Web Lounge / CMS Unconference [36], at the Open Source Summit Europe, [37] and at FOSSCOMM2020 [38]. - Our president, Matthias Kirschner, gave a talk about "The long road to freedom" [39] at the KNF Conference. - Like many local FSFE groups, the Dutch country team now started with regular online meetings. == Get Equipped (aka Get Active) == Christmas is coming and if you'd like to make a loved one happy and spread the message of Free Software at the same time, check out our online shop [40]. We have a new multilingual Free Software shirt for men and women, in beautiful colors and with a print of a big heart. Our "No Cloud" and "Public Money? Public Code!" shirts go very well in any professional setting, as well as in private. And our "100 Freedoms" puts a smile on any insider's face. We have buttons, magnets and for the parents we have our highly demanded baby bibs and kid's t-shirts stating "I am a fork ()". We cannot refill our stock before Christmas. So get your special present [41] before it is too late! == Contribute to our newsletter == If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, please send them to us. As always, the address is newsletter at fsfe.org. We are looking forward hearing from you! If you also want to support us and our work, join our community and support us with a donation or a monthly contribution [42]. Thanks to our community and all the volunteers [43], supporters [44], and donors [45] who make our work possible. And thanks to our translators [46], who enable you to read this newsletter in your native languages. Your editor, Erik Albers -------------------------------------------------------------------- Support us with your donation [47] -------------------------------------------------------------------- Discuss this [48] -- Free Software Foundation Europe FSFE News Upcoming FSFE Events Fellowship Blog Aggregation Free Software Discussions 1: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201110-01.sq.html 2: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201110-01.sq.html#europeanpolicies 3: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201110-01.sq.html#routerfreedom 4: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201110-01.sq.html#reuse 5: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201110-01.sq.html#communityprojects 6: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201110-01.sq.html#events 7: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201110-01.sq.html#podcast 8: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201110-01.sq.html#webpresence 9: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201110-01.sq.html 10: https://my.fsfe.org/donate 11: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201023-01.sq.html 12: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201110-01.sq.html 13: https://fsfe.org/order/order.sq.html 14: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201120-01.sq.html 15: https://fsfe.org/community/projects-call/projects-call.sq.html 16: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2019/wiki/index.php/Assembly:About:freedom 17: https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool#user-content-example-demo 18: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-ios 19: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20191022-01.sq.html#ngi0 20: https://lernenwiedieprofis.ch/ 21: https://awards.dinacon.ch/gewinner2020/ 22: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201110-01.sq.html#communityprojects 23: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201019-01.sq.html 24: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20191205-01.sq.html 25: https://www.sfscon.it/talks/public-money-public-code/ 26: https://www.sfscon.it/talks/challenges-ahead-for-router-freedom-in-europe/ 27: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12579-Interoperable-digital-public-services-European-Interoperability-Framework-evaluation-strategy/F1148140 28: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12311-eGovernment-services-across-the-EU-ISA-programme-final-evaluation/F1168719 29: https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201112-01.sq.html 30: https://tasmo.rocks/zwei-jingles/#der-jingle-zum-software-freedom-podcast 31: https://fsfe.org/news/podcast.sq.html 32: https://fsfe.org/contribute/spreadtheword.sq.html#nocloud 33: https://7at7.ch/nov2020/ 34: https://box.hu-berlin.de/f/9fc90637b3b9487c84db/ 35: https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSLO/program/proposals/3247 36: https://open-web-lounge.org/ 37: https://osseu2020.sched.com/event/eCVu 38: https://pretalx.2020.fosscomm.gr/fosscomm-2020/talk/V3GTG8/ 39: https://www.franken.de/veranstaltungen/kongress/knf-kongress-2020/ 40: https://fsfe.org/order/index.sq.html 41: https://fsfe.org/order/index.sq.html 42: https://my.fsfe.org/donate?referrer=nl-202011 43: https://fsfe.org/contribute 44: https://my.fsfe.org/support 45: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus 46: https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators 47: https://my.fsfe.org/donate?referrer=nl 48: https://community.fsfe.org/t/550 From press at fsfe.org Wed Dec 16 17:43:10 2020 From: press at fsfe.org (press at fsfe.org) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:43:10 +0000 Subject: CWA without Google +++ International development cooperation +++ KDE interview Message-ID: = CWA without Google +++ International development cooperation +++ KDE interview = [ Lexojeni online: https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202012.sq.html ] In our December Newsletter, read about the German Corona Warn App being published independently to extend software freedom, learn about public code in international development cooperation, enjoy an interview with Cord-Landwehr from KDE about REUSE adoption, one about the Zurich local group receiving a DINACon award and much more. == German Corona tracing app available without Google services == Christian Grigis, Fynn Godau, Marcus Hoffmann and Marvin Wißfeld achieved what official bodies have been missing for months: They have made available the German "Corona Warn App" (CWA) for tracing Covid-19 risk contacts in a version that is completely free of dependencies on Google and is available in F-Droid, the Free Software app store. Initial release of the CWA was in June and the FSFE's demand that any Corona tracking app must be used voluntarily and be Free Software [1] has been followed. However, the implemented exchange of device keys via Bluetooth, on the basis of which the risk is calculated, is handled by an underlying interface called Exposure Notifications API, which was, significantly, developed by Apple and Google and was largely proprietary. One also had to use proprietary Google Play Services or the iTunes store to install it. So while on the one hand we were satisfied that the publicly funded CWA has been released as Free Software, we raised the question what is all this freedom worth if the solution depends on third-party proprietary blobs? [2] And if one has to use proprietary software to install them? === Indepently published in F-Droid === A first major improvement towards fixing this issue was provided by Free Software developer and FSFE supporter Marvin Wißfeld [3] in September. He built the exposure notification functionality into microG [4], a Free Software implementation of the proprietary Google services. This allowed at least people who owned a Google-free Android phone [5] and had microG installed to use various Corona apps. A few days ago, Christian Grigis, Fynn Godau, Marcus Hoffmann and Marvin Wißfeld went one step farther. They integrated the exposure notification component of microG directly into the German Corona Warn App [6]. This so-called Drop-In-Replacement enables even people who have neither the Google services nor their Free Software alternative microG installed, to use the CWA. They also made the app available on F-Droid [7], an app store with exclusively Free Software. We would like to thank all persons involved who made the use of the CWA in Germany possible without having to accept any loss of software freedom. Furthermore, the FSFE appeals to governments and administrations to publish developed software as Free Software, to break dependencies on Google's and Apple's app stores and instead make their apps installable from independent sources like F-Droid and to renounce proprietary dependencies. == FSFE demands public code in international development cooperation == International development cooperation is increasingly digitised. Whether in agriculture, industrial production, health care or public administration, the development and maintenance of modern social processes is no longer conceivable without software. Free Software thus is becoming a fundamental technology to reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. International development cooperation strives to achieve the UN sustainability goals by improving global conditions and the empowering of local partners. As in the case of Software Freedom in general, in international development cooperation existing dependencies should be reduced and new dependencies avoided at all costs. Together with experts in the field, the FSFE summarises these interrelations in an article [8] and demands that publicly funded software in international development cooperation be published as Free Software [9]. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Start the new year as a supporter of the Free Software Foundation Europe [10] -------------------------------------------------------------------- == Upcoming events == - Together with many other civil (digital) rights organisations, the FSFE forms the cluster "about:freedom" [11] during the annual Chaos Communication Congresses, which have come to be among the biggest hacking-related events in Europe. The event takes place from the 27th to the 30th of December. The schedule is not yet final but there will be many talks about various topics regarding software freedom. From the FSFE staffers, Lucas Lasota speaks about "Net neutrality 2.0: Router Freedom and device neutrality in Europe". - Our Pre-FOSDEM events [12] in the recent years have been highly successful thanks to your contributions. Now we will go one step further: integrate our fruitful exchange directly into FOSDEM! We are therefore pleased to announce that we will co-organise the upcoming Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2021 [13]. The event will take place online and we are looking forward to your exciting submissions. The Call for Participation [14] is running until 20 December 2020. == PMPC Video in Dutch == FSFE supporters from the Netherlands created a Dutch video translation of the popular Public Money? Public Code! campaign video. After a sneak preview on the 25th of November in the Netherlands online get-together, you can now watch it yourself [15]. Nico Rikken, the FSFE coordinator Netherlands who mainly coordinated the project, wrote a detailed blog-post about the whole process [16] - from subtitle translation to the audio recording to its final editing and mastering. Nico wrote it for your curiosity but also for you to pick it up: /"I wrote this blogpost, to encourage you to do it too and save you time by suggesting a methodology. In the process I learned some new skills and got to use some free software that was new to me."/ With the Dutch version, the Public Money? Public Code! campaign video is now translated and audio-dubbed in seven languages (DE, EN, FR, IT, NL, PT, RU) and subtitled in nine languages (DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, NL, PT, SK, RU). If you would like to see your language added to the list, get in contact with Nico or the FSFE. == What have we done? Inside and outside the FSFE == - In just three years, our REUSE initiative [17] has successfully changed licensing practices of over five hundred projects. In 2020 one of the biggest and oldest Free Software projects, the well-known KDE community, included REUSE in their licensing policy and migrated all their frameworks to the recommended standard. We took this opportunity to speak with Andreas Cord-Landwehr, development engineer at KDE, about REUSE adoption in the KDE community [18]. - In 2019, the FSFE's local group in Zurich launched the "Learn like the pros" campaign [19]. The goal of the campaign is to present solutions for the use of Free Software in education. Recently, the campaign was awarded the DINACon Special Award. On this occasion, we interviewed the local coordinators Ralf Hersel and Gian-Maria Daffré [20] about the background and the success of this campaign. - On the 25th of November the European Parliament adopted the resolution "Towards a more sustainable single market for business and consumers" [21] in which they call on the Commission "to establish a consumers’ ‘right to repair". The document acknowledges the problems of software obsolescence as a limitation to hardware's life-time longevity. Unfortunately, the document misses the chance to tackle the problem with solutions offered by Free Software licensing, e.g. the obligation to freely license software code after its support ends. The FSFE will follow the process and raise its voice for software freedom as a means towards a more sustainable IT. == From the Planet == - Bdale Garbee looks back on a long history of debian packaging and encourages other Debian package maintainers with the right skills and motivation to consider adopting some of his packages [22]. - Albert Astals Cid shows and explains software obsolescence he experienced with his Android phone OnePlus2 and how he solved it using the CustomROM LineageOS [23]. - Sebastian Schauenburg writes about his favorite terminals [24] and how he solved a bug for the st terminal emulator. == Get Active: 20 years of FSFE == This time we do not have a particular get active item for you but a general reminder that next year we shall have had 20 years of FSFE and we would like to celebrate that with you. So watch our news. There will be some interesting backgrounds on the FSFE's history. We will introduce you to some of our well-established community members and also dig into past success stories as well as some funny fails we made. In particular watch out for the several participative campaigns we are planning; we look forward to seeing many of you taking part. == Call to apply for FSFE support for your local project == We are currently running our second call for FSFE community projects [25]. We happily support you with our expertise, our information material, our networks, or even financially. Participating is as simple as filling out a short online form [26] until 10 January 2021. Among the successful applications in the last round is GnuLinux.ch, which we support with promotion, a new logo, stickers, and a microphone set for their regular podcast. Another project we will support is Freedombox install events, which we will support with premises. If you need support for a FSFE community project, don't hesitate to apply. == Contribute to our newsletter == If you would like to share any thoughts, pictures, or news, please send them to us. As always, the address is newsletter at fsfe.org. We are looking forward hearing from you! If you also want to support us and our work, join our community and support us with a donation or a monthly contribution [27]. Thanks to our community and all the volunteers [28], supporters [29], and donors [30] who make our work possible. And thanks to our translators [31], who enable you to read this newsletter in your native languages. 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