Promoting and protecting Free Software

Image illustrant l'April

Founded in 1996, April is the main French advocacy association devoted to promote and protect Free/Libre Software. With its 5350 members (4904 individuals, 446 businesses, associations and organizations), April is a pioneer of Free Software in France. Since 1996, it is a major player in the democratization and the spread of free software and open standards to the general public, professionals and institutions in the French-speaking world. It also acts as a watchdog on digital freedoms, warning the public about the dangers of private interests keeping an exclusive stranglehold on information and knowledge.

Membership campaign: "Ubuntu-fr asks Ubuntu users to join today the April association"

Ubuntu-fr, the community of French-speaking users of Ubuntu, supports April's membership campaign started on November 12th, 2008 and ask the users of Ubuntu to join today April.

Free Software Festival 2009

Started in 2001 by April, the Free Software Festival is organized this year again: with the coming of spring, many events aiming at having the general public discover free software and the Free movement as a whole will be organized throughout France, on or around March 21st, 2009 in a dynamic and friendly fashion.

April's general assembly on February 14th, 2009

April's general assembly was held on February 14th, 2009 at the EFREI school in Villejuif near Paris. With it, a whole week-end of meetings for the members was organized.

The President's message

Image of Benoit Sibaud «The goal of April is to set a structure capable of promoting and defending free software with means consistent with the stakes involved. In order to achieve this, April needs your support.

Joining April doesn't require that you be an active member of the association. But thanks to its thousands of members, it will be far easier for April to be heard from elected people, from the government and from social and economic decision-makers. Thanks to your donations and subscriptions, it shall be capable of paying for its permanent employees and employing new people, as required by April's actions and long-term issues that are getting every day more complex.» Benoît Sibaud

Join today
to support free software

image illustrating joining the association Your subscription does make a difference. We need you. A minute and a half long explanation on why supporting April and on how to do so: