🚀 Registrations for the 2026 edition of #YH4F are officially OPEN! 🎉

http://yh4f.org/register

If you’re a young European who knows how to code or is just starting to, this is your competition!

💡 Build a project you believe in with #FreeSoftware
🤝 Meet inspiring young developers across Europe
🏆 Compete, learn, and grow

📢 Help spread the word by boosting and sharing, and don’t forget to apply!

#YH4F #SoftwareFreedom

Do you know our programming competition Youth Hacking 4 Freedom ( #YH4F)? 👾

Aimed at European teenagers, YH4F spreads the values of #FreeSoftware and helps young people develop their own ideas while learning project management, problem-solving, and, of course, programming! 💡💻

Curious why you should support it and what our current sponsors think?

🔗 https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251120-01.en.html

⚠️ Registration for the new edition is now open!

🚀 Registrations for the 2026 edition of #YH4F are officially OPEN! 🎉

http://yh4f.org/register

If you’re a young European who knows how to code or is just starting to, this is your competition!

💡 Build a project you believe in with #FreeSoftware
🤝 Meet inspiring young developers across Europe
🏆 Compete, learn, and grow

📢 Help spread the word by boosting and sharing, and don’t forget to apply!

#YH4F #SoftwareFreedom

Do you know our programming competition Youth Hacking 4 Freedom ( #YH4F)? 👾

Aimed at European teenagers, YH4F spreads the values of #FreeSoftware and helps young people develop their own ideas while learning project management, problem-solving, and, of course, programming! 💡💻

Curious why you should support it and what our current sponsors think?

🔗 https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251120-01.en.html

⚠️ Registration for the new edition is now open!

@fsfe Mario, one of the winners of #YH4F thanking the people who created the software he used in his scroll wheel project ( https://github.com/Mallo321123/Scroll-Wheel ):

@FreeCAD + @kicad + @kubuntu +
@vscode + #platformio

Also from my side thank you to all involved for providing tools which enabled a teenager to accomplish this!! 👏 #ilovefs

@postmarketOS
And just now the @kde 's president and #YH4F jury member @AleixPol joining them to get #postmarketos running on the
@Fairphone 🤗

@postmarketOS
And just now the @kde 's president and #YH4F jury member @AleixPol joining them to get #postmarketos running on the
@Fairphone 🤗

We are really enjoying the evening, but as you are waiting for our news let's find out the rest of our 2025 #YH4F winners 🏆:

✨ Awesome Hacker Award: Mario with Scroll Wheel

🔥 Elite Hacker Award: Pingu & Tuxilio with custom rom list

💥 Ultimate Hacker Award: Marius & Jonas with OpenLingu

😊 Thanks to our wonderful jury, who not only faced the tough task of evaluating all the projects but are also here with us today at the ceremony and presenting the winners!

#freesoftware #softwarefreedom

The three first winners have just presented their 🚀 projects at the 2025 YH4F awards ceremony!!!

Wanna know more?
⬇️⬇️⬇️

🤖 Green Robot Award: Vinicius with Smart Plant Watering Robot

🔢 Beautiful Math Award: Corentin with Hyper – A Hyperbolic Rendering Engine

📦Thinking Out of the Box Award: Augustin with dcg

Can't wait to know the rest of the winners and more about the projects !🤠

#YH4F #SoftwareFreedom #freesoftware

The was an amazing day. Winners of this year #YH4F award are a the developers of a language learning platform, a custom ROM page, a scroll wheel, a smart watering robot, a hyperbolic rendering engine, and a version control system.

Was so great to spend the time with the winners, their families, jury members, and the great @fsfe team organising the award 🥰

I am confident, that the winners will in future make many more great contributions to our society.

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251025-01.en.html

@bernard_dub @fsfe Yes, it was a pleasure to be there. And all possible
thanks to our amazing donor, Reinhard Wiesemann, and sponsors, Proxmox, OpenSSF and the SUSE Open Source Network. They make #YH4F !

@fsfe Nice venue, too! Isn't this BELvue, right by the royal palace? #YH4F

We are really enjoying the evening, but as you are waiting for our news let's find out the rest of our 2025 #YH4F winners 🏆:

✨ Awesome Hacker Award: Mario with Scroll Wheel

🔥 Elite Hacker Award: Pingu & Tuxilio with custom rom list

💥 Ultimate Hacker Award: Marius & Jonas with OpenLingu

😊 Thanks to our wonderful jury, who not only faced the tough task of evaluating all the projects but are also here with us today at the ceremony and presenting the winners!

#freesoftware #softwarefreedom

The three first winners have just presented their 🚀 projects at the 2025 YH4F awards ceremony!!!

Wanna know more?
⬇️⬇️⬇️

🤖 Green Robot Award: Vinicius with Smart Plant Watering Robot

🔢 Beautiful Math Award: Corentin with Hyper – A Hyperbolic Rendering Engine

📦Thinking Out of the Box Award: Augustin with dcg

Can't wait to know the rest of the winners and more about the projects !🤠

#YH4F #SoftwareFreedom #freesoftware

What do Youth Hacking 4 Freedom participants do about an hour before the award ceremony for the winners? They sit in the hotel's lobby and try to get the #FreeSoftware operating system @postmarketOS running on a @Fairphone version 2. 🤗 #YH4F

Great to meet all the winners of the @fsfe's Youth Hacking 4 Freedom 2025 in Brussels this weekend. Awesome group!! Currently some tinkering is going on 🤗 #YH4F