<html><head/><body><html><head/><body>This are the new year greetings I got from the Free Software Foundation Europe.<br>
Please read the annual report. You find the link in the forwarded email.<br>
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Late merry christmas and a happy new year to all supportes of free software in Tanzania!<br>
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<b>Von:</b> Fellowship of FSFE <fellowship@fsfeurope.org><br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Fri Dec 21 14:50:59 GMT+03:00 2012<br>
<b>An:</b> Andreas Tauscher <tauscher@fsfe.org><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Happy holidays from FSFE - thank you for your support!<br>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif; margin-top: 0px">Dear Fellow,<br /><br />Free Software is everywhere, but software freedom isn't. That, in<br />a nutshell, is the situation in which the year 2012 has left us.<br />We do much of our computing not on our own machines, but on<br />someone else's server. We have phones that run mostly Free<br />Software, but still limit what we can do with them. Facebook and<br />many others have used Free Software to build infrastructures of<br />control. <br /><br />These are the challenges we've dealt with this year. From Estonia<br />to Spain, from Norway to Kosovo, we carried the Free Software<br />message to people everywhere. Your role in this, as someone who<br />makes Free Software a part of your life, is crucial here. If more<br />and more people are starting to demand control over the computers<br />they use and the programs that run on them, that's because you and<br />many others like you
have taught them to raise their expectations<br />and take their digital affairs into their own hands.<br /><br />With the Free Your Android campaign, we are empowering people to<br />take charge of their mobile devices.We have pushed hard for your<br />freedom to install Free Software on the hardware that you have<br />bought and paid for. We helped persuade governments in the UK,<br />Italy, Spain and France to change buying rules for the public<br />sector in favour of Free Software and Open Standards.<br /><br />It is your support as a Fellow has made all this possible. We<br />couldn't have so much impact without your contributions in terms<br />of effort, time and money. Thank you! I invite you to have a look<br />at FSFE's annual report for 2012. You will see what we did with<br />your help, and what we're planning for the coming year:<br /><br /><a href="http://fsfe.org/news/2012/report-2012.en.html">http://fsfe.org/news/2012/report-2012.en.html</a><br /><br />I would like
to take this opportunity to introduce you to Erik<br />Albers, the latest addition to our staff. Erik's focus is on<br />supporting Fellowship activities at the local level. He is there<br />to help you if you want to organise a Free Your Android workshop<br />in your city. If you have an idea for promoting Free Software<br />where you live, he can help you develop it, connect you with<br />like-minded people nearby, and support you as you put your plan<br />into practice. Erik will also help you to set up a local<br />Fellowship group and make it grow. Whatever your idea is to make<br />Free Software grow, please get in touch with him at "Erik Albers"<br /><eal@fsfe.org>.<br /><br />This year we're sending you this overview of our work by email<br />rather than in a printed letter. It was always hard to fit a full<br />year's work on just a couple of pages. In 2012 we have been more<br />active and visible than ever before, so we figured it was time to<br />change the
format. <br /><br />In 2013, we want to do even more. We will continue to fight the<br />lockdown of general purpose computers. We need to protect Free<br />Software from the impact of software patents. We want the public<br />sector to make more use of Free Software. And we want to make<br />sure that when something is called "Free Software" it actually<br />gives you the freedom to use, study, share and improve it.<br /><br />2013 will be challenging and exciting. Thank you for your<br />continued support as we tackle these challenges, and do what we<br />need to in order to defend and promote software freedom. <br /><br />I wish you happy holidays, and all the best for the coming year.<br /><br />With kind regards, <br />Karsten Gerloff<br />President, Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.<br /><br />-- <br />Karsten Gerloff [ ] <gerloff@fsfeurope.org><br />Free Software Foundation Europe [ ][ ][ ] [<a
href="http://fsfe.org">http://fsfe.org</a>]<br />President | | +49 176 9690 4298<br />Your donation powers our work! [<a href="http://fsfe.org/donate">http://fsfe.org/donate</a>/]<br /><br />Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. is a German Verein registered<br />at the Registergericht Hamburg (VR 17030). <br /></pre></body></html></body></html>