 So hello everybody and thanks a lot for coming. I'm really happy that you are here at our FSFE summit a Summit which puts together challenging speakers a Summit with profound discussions about software freedom a summit with people with whom we can celebrate our 15th anniversary and This summit is for you Because without you the FSFE wouldn't be an organization with such a track record a Track record where I'm very proud of for example, we removed Over a thousand advertisements for proprietary software from websites of the public administration We prevented more damage We helped people to use more free software on their mobile phones and in general We helped more individuals and organizations to understand how free software contributes to freedom transparency and self-determination We did that together with you Who work in free soft in companies for free software? together with you who work in public administrations together with you who work in nonprofits and Together with you who donate to us and enable our work and Finally together with all of you who help families and friends to understand free software I am very thankful to all of you and Each one of you contributed a part in a Big change in our society I'm very proud that I can call myself a president of an organization with so many great individuals so Thank you all for being here to celebrate with us our 15th anniversary Thanks a lot and Before I hand over again to Eric. I would like to thank two people in particular Thank You Eric Thank You. Chalini Burji Jolini off to work Yeah, without the two of them this summit wouldn't be possible wouldn't have been possible like it is they did lots of work and so when you see them and you like what you see here thank them for that and Beside that yeah, I'm looking forward to have a great FSE summit with you. Thanks a lot So thank you for your kind words Like to add if you see me and you have a Question or you need some information or anything else then Talk to me ask me anything and I'm I do what I can do So We are here for the summit. What is the summit? the initial idea was to have a pan European or to have a like a gathering of our pan European community and What is Specific of our community. We said the summit is going most likely going to be and Not the usual tech conference because what the FVV is trying to do is to Highlight that software is not just about technology software is also about the social the political and economical issues and These are the three characteristics that we Tried to base the summit on so each day we made one topic Today is the economic topic today. Everything is about business business and free software is whatever I am I'm at the booth somewhere or We do some public activity or even in my private time people ask me So how is it possible to do business with free software? this seems to be a question that is running through many heads and That's why for a long time we were thinking about Educating people or bringing together people who do business with free software to learn from each other and Interesting when we were starting our call for participation The most submissions were for business in free software So there is actually business But why do so many people ask about business that shows even more that there is maybe just some gap that we need to fill in in knowledge and in sharing and teaching each other and I hope that today we can help to fill this gap and Really looking forward to very very interesting talks about business with free software today tomorrow is policy and community and And So we have a lot of talks about influencing politics about lobbying but also about governing communities about community work and We also are starting our community track. So we have we have some decent community talks tomorrow most of these talks are About engaging inside the FSFE about the difference team about the different teams that we have technical translators Policy teams So whenever you have been asking yourself, who are these nice and smart people behind the FSFE? tomorrow is a chance to get to know them and if you like to Engage politically engage inside the FSFE tomorrow is You can get to know basically all of us At the end tomorrow of the Of the summit there is an official session the 15 years of FSFE session It will be half past four in room B5 and 6 And which basically are two rooms normally, but they are put together in one room and You want us all Eberg our executive director will give an Exciting session about the 15 years of FSFE I don't not like to spoil so much here But I guess you will get to know a lot of phases and Then you can remember these phases like mine now also for example because after the session tomorrow we will meet in front of the BCC here and Then we walk together and to the sea base Which is the a really big and the famous hacker space here in Berlin Where we like to go on celebrating 15 years of FSFE It's a really nice atmosphere there. They have a garden. They have some water There will be drinks music and food so please Come with us and celebrate 15 years of FSFE There's just one small agenda point where we award some local heroes and all the rest is for you to relax and Enjoy and talk to each other Then on Sunday, we like to go one step ahead for a day we like to do not think of code or programming languages or operating systems We call this beyond code most of the talks on Sunday will be About the beautiful things we can do with software with free software and To show why are we why are we doing all this? Why what is the bigger point in free software for society? We will have interesting talks about search research about philosophy and So on again, we will have community talks on Sunday They will be there will be some trainings there will be about campaigning and there will be talks about open hardware Also really looking forward to hear them Then we have another specialty on Sunday. We have the show Europe on Sunday after lunch there there will be the show Europe which is one hour where we invited other national organizations that care about free software to present themselves to talk about their work about their mission and The idea was to hopefully inspire all of us To see that here in Europe. We have maybe different cultural backgrounds We maybe have different languages, but all of us we are talking with one message We are heading towards the same goals and if we tie together and work together We can change The to the better for the whole European Union and system And finally on Sunday We I'm very happy. We have Julia Radar here Julia Radar will give the ending keynote She is member of the European Parliament for the pirates She mostly focuses on copyright reform On Sunday, she will talk about the free and open source software audit Which is a European project to audit free software code and she will tell us why this is important and part of the Why the public's in charge of auditing software? So finally some rational Organization parts There will be Lunch every day lunch. I guess you already have seen this in the on-ground floor In the center on ground floor you there will be lunch provided as well. There will be also coffee break Tonight only there will be a dinner Then You get refreshments all the day at the same place and I like to highlight the FSFE booth Which just opened as I have seen it's Close to the eating place at the stairs This is a very unique booth because it does not only contain the current version dust material But also whatever we found from back in 15 years. So if you have a winter style and classical things and and Sellouts and leftovers You can get them Only this weekend here at the FSFE booth and now I wonder I'm going to finish but I wonder if Chilini is here or not, but it doesn't seem like Because Yeah, I want to thank Chilini Who is current intern of the FSFE who spent hundreds of hours of her lifetime with me to organize the summit and Yeah She always was a very We have this here on camera. I will show her Your applause No, I mean she is really friendly and without her and I mean as you know when you organize things like that Ups and downs and she was always very calm very good organized And nothing would be possible without her so, yeah That's Thank you and thank you of course for coming here. I'm really looking forward to enjoy a wonderful weekend with you and Yeah inspiring and fun weekend. Thanks