Free Software Foundation Europe

The Free Software Foundation Europe ( FSFE short ) adopted on March 10, 2001 officially launched their job as European sister organization of the U.S. to the Free Software Foundation.

Financial, legal and personnel treated independently and organization of the North American FSF, she takes care of all aspects of free software with a focus on Europe. Together with other Free Software Foundation she cares about the global perspectives and for example, has very strong links to Asia and South America.

The Free Software Foundation Europe is a non-profit, non-government organization. Its president is Karsten Gerloff, Georg Greve replaced in his post in June 2009. Germany Coordinator Matthias Kirschner. The coordination takes place in Austria by Peter Bubestinger.

2010 received the FSFE the Theodor Heuss Medal for exemplary democratic behavior

Current campaigns carry the title " Document Freedom Day" ( to advertise the OpenDocument standards ), " Ask Your Candidates " ( questions to candidates for election, as they stand to free software ) and "I love free software " (Action on Valentine's Day ). Furthermore, the FSFE operates the websites PDFreaders.org where a list of free PDF viewer is published and DRM.info, where (DRM there "Digital Restriction Management " called ) enlightened.