[FSUG PD] Public Code: All these success stories are possible thanks to your support

[marco]

Hello,

For almost three years the FSFE has been working on the "Public Money? 
Public Code!"; an initiative [1] that requires that publicly financed 
software developed for the public sector should be made publicly 
available under Free Software licenses. Thanks to your support we have 
managed to get almost 200
organisations and administrations as well as more than 30.000 
individuals to sign our call. This demand is based on the four freedoms 
that Free Software offers: the freedom to use the software for any 
purpose, to study the software code without restrictions, to improve the 
software, and to share it along with any of its improvements.

Thanks to the joint work of our team and all those who have supported us 
we have been able to achieve a lot in these three years, that is why 
today we want to share with you some of our recent success stories.

Recently the city of Dortmund in Germany has committed itself to Free 
Software by passing unanimously the motion of using Free Software 
whenever possible and to make the software paid by public money, 
available for everybody [2]. This is
another example of an administration following the principle of "Public 
Money? Public Code!" - If it is public money then it should be public code.
Furthermore, a story of success not only for the citizens, public 
administrations but also for the economy is the case of the Canton of 
Uri and Bern in Switzerland. The Canton of Uri has used successfully 
Free Software for
several years to manage the administration of applications related to 
construction plans and it is pursuing to convince other Cantons to do 
the same by showing them all the benefits that Free Software offers. The 
Canton of Bern is a successful example of that. [3]
Lastly, we are happy to announce that our PMPC video is now also 
translated to
Swedish [4]. With this translation our video is now available in nine 
languages;
English, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian. Spanish, German 
and now
Swedish.
As said before, all these achievements have only been possible thanks to 
the support of our community. Therefore we want to thank you for 
supporting our
initiative. We would really appreciate if you can continue to let others 
know about our campaign by sharing it with your friends and community. 
All these success stories can serve as a reference of all the benefits 
that we can achieve with Free Software.
Thank you again for all the support and we are looking forward to coming 
back to you soon with some more new success stories.

Best,

Alexander Sander

PS: We highly appreciate additional support through contributions 
https://fsfe.org/contribute/contribute.html and/or donations 
https://my.fsfe.org/payonline/FC19085544P1
With your support you will contribute to a solid foundation on which we are
building our charitable work for freedom in the information society.


[1] https://publiccode.eu/
[2] https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210331-01.html
[3] https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210318-01.html
[4] https://publiccode.eu/sv/
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