 Hello and welcome to public money public code a campaign framework to promote software freedom My name is Bonnie Merring. I'm a junior program manager at the free software foundation Europe And I have been with the free software foundation Europe since 2019 and I have also worked on the public money public code campaign since 2019 yes Today I will introduce to you what are the aims of the public money public code campaign and also show you some possibilities How you as an individual or as a group could participate in the campaign framework and Use the campaign framework to promote software freedom Yes, so first of all, I will begin with what is free software as this is one of the basics So what is free software? Free software means software that is published under a free and open source software license Every free and open source software license includes the four freedoms And there are many free and open source software licenses out there Out there, but the important thing is that they're all of those have included for and grant the four freedoms The four freedoms are to use, study, share and improve the software To use means you can use the software for any purpose that you can think of so for any use case that you Want the software to use for you can use the software and there are no restrictions Then to share means you can share the software with everyone and there are no limitations in sharing the software so you could for example share the software with a company with your local government with a museum or a library a university Yes, so you are an individual so you could share the software with everyone and there are no limitations in sharing the software to study means you can study the software and analyze how the software works look at the code and Yeah, understand what the software does so you could study the software To improve means you can improve the software and of course this includes fixing box box But this also includes Modifying the software and adapting the software to your specific needs So for example, you could add a nice little or a big feature to a software and Yeah, adapt the software to your specific situation Then you could also pay somebody else to do this for you if you're not your a coder yourself You could pay a company for example or somebody an individual to add a nice little feature to the software and or a big feature to the software and Yeah, adapt the software to your needs through this and then you could also give something back to Community and share the software again So you could also share the improved version of our software those are the four freedoms that are granted by every free and open source software license and Software that is published under a free and open source software license is called free software Yes, so what has this to do with public money public code? Well, the public money public code campaign once legislation requiring That publicly financed software that is developed for the public sector should be made publicly available Under a free and open source software license. So software that is paid for by taxpayers monies and Used for the pop and developed for the public sector should be made available under a free and open source software License and thereby granting the four of freedoms Yes, this is the core aim of public money public code There are of course many reasons for this and there are also Loads of advantages and I will now give you a quick overview of some of those reasons for public code so Yeah, for example through public code you could save taxes in our middle and long-term perspective as For example similar applications would not need to be programmed from scratch every time But for example could be reused. So if one museum would develop a software Then another and publish the software under a free and open source software license and thereby making it available for everyone another museum for example could use the software and would not need to Pay again for developing a similar application So yeah in a middle and long-term perspective for example, you could save taxes Then you could also work together. So for example, if two Libraries say would need the same kind of software or something similar They can share expertise. They could share knowledge and yeah, just work together and collaborate and also share costs Then true public code You could also serve the public by giving something back to the people and the citizens of the city, for example or of the town And as the software would then be publicly available for everyone and yeah, it could be used by everyone and Also, if you make free software one of your core elements of the your digitalization agenda You could serve the local economy. For example in Barcelona made free software one of their core elements of their digitalization agenda and they invested into around 2019 70% of the new development budget Into free software and they had 3,000 companies working with them and 60% of those 3,000 companies were small and medium enterprises So you could serve the local area and the local economy by using free software and Purchasing free software as a public entity or for the public sector Then last but not least you could also force the innovation as similar applications would not need to be reinvented from Like you would not need to reinvent the wheel every time So if you have a software solution, then this solution could be used and develop further but would not need to be Reinvented so if you for example have a solution for a specific problem Then you could use the solution that was already invented out there Yeah, those are some of the reasons for public code and so that we could reach out to the people and Tell them about public money public code and the advantages of public code We made a public an open letter This open letter demands that publicly finance software which is developed for the public sector should be made publicly available under a free and open source software license and also lists some of the advantages and reasons of Yeah doing so and Making for software that was publicly financed available under free and open source software license So far this open letter has been signed by 30,000 individuals and if you haven't signed this letter yet, it's now your chance to do so and thereby supporting public money public code and Yeah, so Individuals are also always welcome and of next to those Over 30,000 individuals. We have over 200 civil organizations that have so far signed the open letter Among them are of course some well-known free software projects as You can see on this page there Of course, I'm sure there are some logos that you will recognize at least the open Susie logo. You will for sure recognize Mmm, and there are also some local hacker spaces that have signed the open letter and Yeah, there are also some museums and some five public administrations that have so far signed the open letter the public administrations are to Spanish cities the city of Barcelona and The city of Beniganim my Spanish is not really good. So I hope my pronunciation was correct then there is also the Spanish Parliament from Asturias, which has also signed the open letter and public entity the Swedish public entity chop tech development and Last but not least the German some commander outmarsh Yeah, those are the Five public administrations that have so far signed the open letter and that are in support of public money public code So just a quick overview of public money public code and now It's a question how you as an individual or as a group could participate in the public money public code campaign so first of all For example, you could participate through translations so far we have 20 translations of the open letter and More translations are always will come as it's always helpful if you want to approach your local government or a local public administration if they If you would use the native language Yeah, so if you want to participate with a translation, you're very Welcome in doing so This is one possibility then another possibility You could also contact. I am your local decision maker so but How could you contact your local decision maker? Well for this we have first of all created a wiki page Which gives a nice overview and also lists some of the reasons for public money public code It's also available so far in three and four languages English Spanish French and Italian Yeah, and you can look at this Page and go through it because gives a detailed instructions how to contact a local decision maker step and Yeah, it is a step-by-step guide So yeah, and to contact your local decision maker You could Reach out to them via email or making a phone call or having a face-to-face meeting Of course in times of corona this might not best idea, but after corona I'm sure you can again have face-to-face meetings. At least that's what I hope for Mmm. Yeah in sending an email to the local decision maker that you want to reach out to first of all, it's important to tell them what is free software as Not everybody knows what free software is and explain to them what are the four freedoms and yeah talk to them about What free software? wants to achieve Yeah, and then you can also give them some of the reasons for public money public code Like it would give something back to the citizens of your city or it would also save long-term costs and Yeah, it would support the local economy and You could also include our expert brochure as our expert brochure gives a nice overview of the public money public code campaign and Also, let's tell the story of some best practice examples like for example the story of Barcelona So this would be a possibility to include this in the in the email or yeah in the dialogue that you have with them and you Could use our material from the campaign web page as well One is the question Who you could get in contact with so of course you could reach out to your local government This but this always needs some time. So this is not done within a month. So if you have some time Yeah, of course, you could reach out to the local government and also ask them to support public money public code but You could also reach out to a museum or a library or a University so it does not mean that you only could reach out to your local government, but there are many public entities and Public administrations that use public money to finance their software and You could reach out to them and ask them to support public money public code and ask them to sign the open letter Yeah, this would be some of those Public entities that you could reach out to and now I would like to tell you about two best practice examples The first example is from castle and the second example would be from Spain About the local hack club called pica pica which reached out to their local government in Asturias So I will start with the example of castle Castle is a German city in the middle of Germany and There was in 2019 there was a motion in the city parliament of castle which asked the government to Implement public money public code as a guiding principle for the purchase of new software this motion was brought to our attention by The person behind this motion and they asked us to support them and yeah to Talk to the members of the parliament about public money public code that's what we did and We reached out to each individual of the parliament and asked them to support the motion informed them about what is free Software and what are the aims of the public money public code campaign? What are the advantages of using public code? Etc. Etc. We also sent them our expert brochure and Yeah, give them some material from our campaign web page mmm this was not always quite easy as Not every mail address is publicly available and We also made phone calls and asked around and yeah eventually we reached out to every member of the parliament And I have also reached out to some members via Twitter Mmm. Yeah, this took us half a year and The motion was always postponed and then after half an year it was passed in the parliament And we have reached out to those members of the parliament multiple times and started a dialogue with them and yeah so This would be one best practice example because now in Kassel it's public money public code is a guiding principle for the purchase of new software and This was also achieved by One person from the parliament who just got active and yeah ask the parliament to Ask the city parliament to support public money public code Then my second best practice example is from Spain and in Spain in the Area in Asturias there is a local head club called pica pica and the people from pica pica decided that they also wanted to ask their local Parliament from Asturias to support public money public code How have they done this well they reached out to the members of the parliament via an email and Ask them for face-to-face meetings and also Yeah, explain to them what free software is and use the campaign material from the public money public code campaign web page And yeah started a dialogue with the members of the parliament and If they had a face-to-face meeting they also knocked on some doors afterwards and asked other members of the parliament to If they could talk to them about public money public code and free software After almost one year they have convinced enough decision makers in the local parliament from Asturias to support public money public code and then it was put to the parliament and asked if they would sign the open letter which they did and now they after they signed the open letter they Also implemented the Intention that for the purchase of new software it should be considered if done to use free software So it's not a law about an intention and yeah, so This is how the local head club from pica pica Got their local government their local parliament to support public money public code Yeah, and to summarize You could reach out to your local government to your local museum to your local library or university by sending an email to them and starting a dialogue asking a question and also asking for face-to-face meeting And yeah afterwards knock on some doors and talk to them again and again and also use our campaign material like our expert brochure and yeah this is And the important thing to remember is to be always friendly and kind to the members of the parliament or to the members of the Public entity or public administration that you want to reach out to Even if those people do not share your point with you um This is how you could for example support public money public code And then it's left for me to say that Many small people in many small places do many small things and that can alter the face of the world So if every one of us would reach out to the local government to the local university museum Library etc and ask them to support public money public code and think about free software We could change the face of the world and support public money public code and thereby also supporting software freedom And yeah, thank you for listening and thanks to all supporters of the fsfe I will be available for questions and Yeah, I'm I hope to hear about some success stories from you side Bye