DMA survey +++ SFP ++++ Summer Meeting
Summer has arrived, and with it came our annual Summer Meeting, where
we spent time with our community. Learn more about the latest
developments surrounding the Digital Markets Act, take a few minutes
to share your perspective in our Interoperability Survey, and listen to
the newest episode of our podcast. You can also read the latest news
about Ada & Zangemann and Youth Hacking 4
Freedom.
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Quote of the Month
“Coming together with fellow volunteers and staff at the Software
Freedom Flat in Berlin this summer filled me with joy and hope.
Sharing stories, ideas, and laughter with people who care so deeply
about software freedom always reminds me why I do this work and it
recharges my FSFE batteries. It was especially exciting to meet some
people for the first time – your presence meant a lot. I left feeling
energized, and I can’t wait to see everyone again and welcome even
more next time.”
Florain Snow, FSFE volunteer.
DMA: tell us how gatekeepers are handling your
interoperability requests
Free Software developers: your voice
is needed! The FSFE has launched the DMA Interoperability
Survey, aimed
at collecting crucial input from Free Software developers who have
tried, or plan to try, to request interoperability from companies like
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon under Article 6(7) of the DMA.
We want to monitor how gatekeepers are handling the interoperability
requests submitted by Free Software developers. We want to hear the
developers’ experiences and to make sure their voices are heard when
gatekeepers fall short of their obligations.
If you are a Free Software developer and made or plan to make an
interoperability request under Article 6(7) of the DMA, we need your
help! Whether your request was successful, delayed, denied, or ignored:
your insights are valuable. Please, take a look at the
survey or share
it with anyone for whom this might be relevant.
SFP#35: Policy and EU: Tech sovereignty vote in the ITRE
Committee
Our episode number 35 of the Software Freedom Podcast
comes with our monthly update on policy decisions, votes and
discussions in the European Union! Together Bonnie Mehring and
Alexander Sander talk about one specific policy topic in regard to Free
Software. This month they sat down and covered the vote on the Tech
sovereignty INI in the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
(ITRE).
Listen to it now!
"YH4F provides teenagers with a platform to
express their ideas and develop skills that are crucial for their
future careers"
The 2025 Youth Hacking 4 Freedom programming
period come to an end at the end of June, marking the start of the
evaluation phase. Among the jury members is Alexios Zavras, who has
been involved since the very first edition of the contest. Let us hear
his insights on the YH4F competition and what motivates him to be part
of the jury.
Find out more!
Ada & Zangemann: thanks to our
volunteers we can now enjoy the book and the movie in Danish!
You should know by now: our volunteers are really amazing! Thanks to our
Danish local group, the story of Ada & Zangemann can be also found
in Danish in both the book and the movie.
The Danish translation as
well as the voice recording for the film was done on a voluntary basis
by Øjvind Fritjof Arnfred, and the production of the Danish edition of
the film was kindly sponsored by PROSA (the Danish IT Worker's Union)
and David Heinemeier Hansson. The Danish version of the
film had its premiere on March 27, 2025, in the cinema Øst for Paradis
in Århus – followed by a Q&A and debate with the author, FSFE
President Matthias Kirschner. The book was officially
published on June 16, 2025, on which day an official book launch and a
second screening of the film took place in the Empire Cinema in
Copenhagen – followed by a Q&A with the translator and a panel
debate about
digital sovereignty through Free Software featuring, among others, FSFE
Senior Policy Project Manager Johannes Näder.
Learn more about
the publishing process through the
blog post of Carsten Agger, one of the volunteers behind this.
Join us as an intern and contribute to software freedom!
We are looking for passionate interns to join our team and help us achieve software freedom! Whether you're a coder, a policy enthusiast, eager to sharpen your communication skills, or ready to dive into the world of Free Software licensing, there’s a place for you to contribute and grow. This is your chance to learn from our team of experts and see how your daily work can make a real-world impact.
From the stages to your
screen: videos from the latest conferences
We really enjoy
attending conferences, and over the past few weeks, we’ve been quite
busy. The recordings from our talks at DevConf.CZ 2025 in Brno, DORS/CLUC
2025, and the openSUSE 2025
Conference are already online and can be watched at media.fsfe.org. We also attended
T-DOSE, MERGE-It, and OpenSouthCode!
On the last
weekend of June, we also celebrated our annual FSFE Summer Meeting with
some of our volunteers in Berlin. It was a pleasure to spend time with
some of you there, although we also missed others who couldn’t make
it.
The 2025 Summer Meeting took place at the Software Freedom
Flat, where we had interesting discussions about our current projects
and our volunteers’ work, as well as amazing food and Italian homemade
ice cream!

The FSFE team and volunteers at the Software Freedom Flat terrace during Summer Meeting 2025
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