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The FSFE collects money to fund their lobbying the European Commission and its public relations work for free software in the coming year can.
The non-profit Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has a fundraising campaign started to finance their work in the coming year can. An emphasis will be stepping up lobbying the European Commission. FSFE sees opportunities in the areas of software procurement, standardization and control over their own devices to improve the conditions for free software and open standards.
In addition, the organization wants their public relations outside the Free Software community to expand. The FSFE relies on its network of local groups that you want to provide them with information in local languages.
In order to implement the planned measures will the Free Software Foundation Europe solicit 190,000 euros in donations to a total budget of 420,000 euros to come. 230,000 euros have already met on support members, regular donations and merchandising.
If you want to support the FSFE can do that as a fellow from 10 € per month or € 60 per year; in recognition obtained a crypto chip card with an OpenPGP key. In addition, one-time donations are possible. The FSFE it is important to get as many (small) donations, because you do not want to become dependent on large individual donors themselves.
[Update 3:12. 13:00] In the first version of this report it was said that one could FSFE as a Fellow from 5 euros monthly support regularly. The donation page FSFE offers this option also; Choose from them, we learn, however, that the monthly minimum donation is 10 Euro. (odi)
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