“The Free Software Foundation Europe has announced a new
Fellowship program to defend freedom in the digital age. Loosely
modeled on the US-based Free Software Foundation’s Associate
Membership program, the FSFE hope to attract both more finances and
activists to support their work. At a time when the free software
movement is under a variety of threats, both legal, political and
market-based, the FSFE hope that its Fellowship will be seen as ‘a
call to arms.’“The Fellowship program was officially launched at FOSDEM–the
Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting–with the call to
‘stand up to protect our freedom to shape and participate in a
digital society that respects liberty and privacy…'”