"Public Money? Public Code!"
Europe's path to digital sovereignty!
Bonnie Mehring works as Junior Project Manager at the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). She manages various teams and activities and represents the FSFE at international conferences with booths and talks. She loves to get in contact with technical communities through joint campaigns and workshops. Bonnie takes part in the “Public Money? Public Code!” Initiative and there works on getting people involved on a local level. She is co-host of the FSFE's Software Freedom Podcast in which she already interviewed numerous experts and pioneers of the Free Software community.
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‘Public Money? Public Code!’ under this slogan thousands of individuals and hundreds of organisations come together and advocate for Free and Open Source Software in public institutions. Together with over 230 organisations the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is calling for public institutions to publish publicly financed software under a Free and Open Source Software license - If it is public money, it should be public code! The long-term goal of the initiative is to recognise and reduce the software dependency and vendor lock-in of public administration and to make public administrations digitally independent and sovereign.
In this short talk, Bonnie Mehring introduces the "Public Money? Public code!" initiative by the FSFE and discusses how Free Software is the way to achieve digital sovereignty. Bonnie will discuss how public administrations can become digitally independent and benefit from Free Software.
- Date:
- 2025 June 26 - 10:15
- Duration:
- 30 min
- Room:
- Gallerie
- Conference:
- openSUSE Conference 2025
- Language:
- Track:
- Community
- Difficulty:
- Easy
- One Project, Shared Purpose
- Start Time:
- 2025 June 26 10:15
- Room:
- Saal
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- Start Time:
- 2025 June 26 10:15
- Room:
- Seminar Room 2
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- Start Time:
- 2025 June 26 10:15
- Room:
- Seminar Room 1