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Founded in 2001, Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFeurope) is a sister organisation to the US-based Free Software Foundation. The offices of FSFeurope are in Germany where it has one full time employee and a number of part time volunteers.
Most of FSFeurope's work involves the political defense of free software. This involves educating politicians about Free Software so that new laws of the digital age don't stifle it's use or development. FSFeurope is active at national, European, and world trade levels of politics. In 2003, a significant amount of it's time was devoted to the World Summit on the Information Society
FSF Europe was not the first Free Software organisation in Europe, but it aims to unite the existing organisations as well as encouraging the creation of new ones. To this end, it has created an "Official Associates" program.
