"I Love Free Software Day" 2024: Forging the future with Free Software
Together with hundreds of people and several organisations, we have
celebrated another "I Love Free Software Day" on 14 February! On this
day, we reached out to Free Software contributors to say Thank you! To
all who joined us this time: Thank you for participating in this 14th
edition of the "I Love Free Software Day" ❤️❤️❤️!
The "I Love Free Software Day" 2024 focused on younger generations and
how to introduce them into the Free Software community. Therefore, several
of our local groups celebrated this day with a meeting focused on
younger people. The rest just focused on the main "I Love Free Software
Day" idea: to acknowledge the amazing Free Software community, thanking
Free Software projects and sharing their love for Free Software. And
while several FSFE local groups - in Italy, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain,
England, Germany, and Switzerland - got together and celebrated their love
for software freedom in person, we were happy to see how other other members
of the Free Software community joined our call and
organised meetings, like the one in Portugal.
I Love Free Software Day celebrations 2024
For this year the FSFE planned a special gift for several
organisations and long-term volunteers to get them ready for 'I Love
Free Software' day. We gave them an acrylglas heart and an LED strip,
plus a microcontroller and some jump wires. The challenge? To tinker
around with these things and to upload a picture of the heart on 14
February. It turned out to be quite a
challenge, but a lot of fun!
For the celebrations in 2024, over a hundred people came together in 13 local meetings organised by either
FSFE local groups or other Free Software groups in seven different
countries. The celebrations were as different as the groups. The local
group in Aarhus, Denmark, organised a reading of the children's book "Ada & Zangemann", while the
Portuguese organisation esop
organised a translation of this book into Portuguese.

"'I Love Free Software Day' celebration in Zurich, Switzerland"

"'I Love Free Software Day' celebration in Potteries, England"

"'I Love Free Software Day' celebration in Bergamo, Italy"
There are many more thank you messages and blogposts out there
highlighting the work of Free Software contributors. It is touching to
see so many people, companies, and organisations joining us for this
special day and reaching out to the people who work for software
freedom. For a longer read we recommend the full "I Love Free
Software Day: Forging the future" report.
Thank you for joining this year's “I Love Free Software” celebrations ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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