Welcome to Software Freedom Day 2025.

I'll be posting highlights from the day as well as information about ongoing events here. I'll also share ways you can participate even if you don't have a local SFD 2025 event. Want more in depth chatter about Software Freedom Day? Join the #SoftwareFreedomDay channel on Matrix for live conversations.

If you or your group is participating in SFD 2025, please send me links to any multimedia you want to share related to your events. I'll be adding highlights from events this year to this page. Also, please post information about Software Freedom Day to the social media channels you participate in using the #SFD2025 and #SoftwareFreedomDay2025 hashtags. The DFF will boost any related posts they say with those tags.

Opening Video for SFD 2025

Here's the opening talk for Software Freedom Day 2025. It's a video on the Early Beginnings of Software Freedom Day:

While the board members and teams have changed over the years, one thing has not. Our love of Free Software has remained a constant in all the SFD events over the years.

Free Software Links

I'd like to start things off by offering some lists of Free Software resources. Feel free to share them with others.

• For people who can't install software on their computers but would like to try out FOSS projects, Libre Projects has a list of online FOSS:
  https://libreprojects.net/
  It's an older project that hasn't been updated recently but it still has some nice suggestions.
• Here's a list of FLOSS educational games I put together:
  https://codeberg.org/lmemsm/delightful-educational-games
  Some of them can even be played online for Software Freedom Day. If you have suggestions for other educational Free Software I may have missed, please send them to me.
• AI has been a very hot topic. So here's a list I've been maintaining on C/C++ FLOSS machine learning related libraries and resources:
  https://lmemsm.dreamwidth.org/16168.html
• You can also check out a completely FLOSS and privacy friendly AI implementation from OpenEd Tech:
  https://github.com/openedtech/edubot
  Plus, you can try chatting with it live on Matrix:
  https://app.element.io/#/room/#edubot:openedtech.global

How to find SFD events to attend

Want to find out if there's a local Software Freedom Day event in your area? Check our map of events:
https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/archive?view=list

If you can't find a local event, there are also some virtual events going on and I'll be sharing links to them here:
https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/events/pbsfg-virtual-sfd-2025

Another hybrid SFD2025 event. Check out the NJ SFD Owncast live.

Watch the HSBXL Livestream to view their Software Freedom Day event online.

DFF board member and leader Jurgen Gaeremyn will be giving an opening talk for Software Freedom Day 2025 online this year. Preregister to attend virtually here: https://luma.com/e1gz9zpy Just in case you can't make it live, you can hear the recording here: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/software-freedom-day/blog/sfd-2025-seeds-of-understanding.

Another virtual event - this one is in Italian on September 18th, 4:30 PM GMT:
https://pretix.eu/fsfeItaly/freesoftwareday/

Be sure to check back here for any other last minute information on events, online activities and FLOSS resources.

SFD Multimedia and Resources Links

The rest of this post will be dedicated to sharing SFD groups' multimedia and FOSS resource related links.

Designs for printable SFD logos are available here:
https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/sfd/blog/software-freedom-day-artwork-and-examples
If you have a printer and some printable mailing label sheets, you can create your stickers with them as needed.

Sam organized for Software Freedom Day last year. This year he wrote a Digital Freedom Song. Please share your Free Software related multimedia creations here as well. The license is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 so feel free to share the video at your local Software Freedom Day events.
https://spectra.video/w/mNieEJNJbV2Xg5zmUnsFsG

Check out the incredible photos and videos from SFD at Gosaikunda.

Public Knowledge Project's posts about the importance of Free Software.

NOSK Software Freedom Day Celebration video on Facebook.

Cool Caturday post for #SFD2025.

Blog post Tribute to CDLibre in honor of Software Freedom Day.