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Read and share online: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2024/june
Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software
Foundation's (FSF) monthly news digest and action update -- being read
by you and 231,448 other activists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FSF adds three provisional board members
- We need your help to release the LibrePlanet 2024 videos
- Reporting back from day one of LibrePlanet: Cultivating Community
- Sharing day two of LibrePlanet 2024: Cultivating Community
- Free Software Awards winners announced: Bruno Haible, code.gouv.fr, Nick Logozzo
- All Italian-language schools in South Tyrol migrated to free software
- Why Epic’s lawsuit against Apple just won’t quit
- GCC 13 Release Series
- Georgia prosecutors stoke fears over use of encrypted messengers and Tor
- Ada goes to the set: Let’s make an animated movie
- May GNU Emacs news
- Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
- LibrePlanet featured resource: Boot Software
- May GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Eleven new GNU releases!
- FSF and other free software events
- Thank GNUs!
- GNU copyright contributions
- Translations of the Free Software Supporter
- Take action with the FSF!
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FSF adds three provisional board members
From June 3
The FSF has advanced in its new governance process: We have installed
three provisional board members, who have been participating in board
meetings since March 23. The board committed to this approach in January
2022. The voting members reviewed the discussions that associate members
conducted with potential board candidates, then had weeks of discussion
with each individual candidate and selected the candidates to advance.
Those selected have joined the board's discussions, but as yet without
the authority to vote. Updates about these provisional members will
follow once their probation period is over.
We need your help to release the LibrePlanet 2024 videos
From May 14
We need your help to release the LibrePlanet 2024 videos. While all
talks were streamed as planned, some were not recorded due to a disk
error. We're aware that many people in our community record the
streams locally -- as is their right, and in this moment, also our
hope. If you are one of these people, then you can help us complete
the sessions we are missing and bring them to the rest of our
community.
Reporting back from day one of LibrePlanet: Cultivating Community
From May 4
Read about the first day of the FSF's annual LibrePlanet conference
with an opening keynote by David Wilson, a keynote by FSF's executive
director Zoë Kooyman, the 2023 Free Software Awards ceremony, and many
intriguing sessions.
Sharing day two of LibrePlanet 2024: Cultivating Community
From May 5
This article recaps the second day of the FSF's sixteenth edition of
the LibrePlanet conference. Read a summary of the exciting program,
among which the keynotes delivered by Hayley Tsukayama and Alyssa
Rosenzweig were just two of the highlights.
Free Software Awards winners announced: Bruno Haible, code.gouv.fr, Nick Logozzo
From May 4
The FSF announced the recipients of the 2023 Free Software Awards,
which are given annually at the FSF's LibrePlanet conference to
groups and individuals in the free software community who have made
significant contributions to the cause for software freedom. This
year's recipients of the awards were Bruno Haible, Nick Logozzo,
and the French Free Software Unit of the French government. Read
the announcement and get inspired by these projects.
All Italian-language schools in South Tyrol migrated to free software
From May 20 by Paolo Dongilli
The Free Upgrade for a Digitally Sustainable School (FUSS) Project
accomplished the migration of Italian public schools in South Tyrol
to free software. For this purpose, the FUSS Project developed a
complete GNU/Linux distribution called FUSS, a solution for servers,
clients, and desktops based on Debian for managing an entire school
network. The choice to use free software was an ethical and political
choice based on the values of computing freedom, access to information,
and knowledge sharing. In this article, read about the project, the
results, and what other schools can learn from the experience of the
FUSS Project when migrating to free software.
Why Epic’s lawsuit against Apple just won’t quit
From May 28 by Lauren Feiner
Earlier this year, Apple was forced to create a way for developers to
link to alternative payment methods for in-app purchases as a result
of the antitrust violations lawsuit Epic Games had started in 2020.
The goal was to allow developers to set up their own payment
processing system to avoid granting Apple the up-to-30 percent they
take when payments are made through Apple systems. However, Apple
rendered this innovation irrelevant by charging up-to-27 percent for
payments through alternative payment methods. As a result, Epic and
Apple are back in court now. Apple subjugates users and developers
gloabally, depriving them of their freedom. Besides limiting
developers financially, they can also not distribute free software
via Apple. It's time to brave their monopoly and liberate users and
developers. Governments need to take measures and proper legislation
needs to be established for free software developers to distribute
and fund their work, and for the freedom for users to control our own
devices, to install and to run the software we choose. You can read
more about the Epic Games v. Apple lawsuit, Apple's exploitative
system and attempts to defy it on fsf.org.
GCC 13 Release Series
From May 21 by GCC
The GCC developers announced the release of GCC 13.3. This release
is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 13.2
relative to previous releases of GCC. Read about the changes and
the documentation.
Georgia prosecutors stoke fears over use of encrypted messengers and Tor
From May 20 by Bill Budington and José Martinez
In an indictment against Defend the Atlanta Forest activists in
Georgia, state prosecutors cast suspicion on the defendants’ use
of encrypted messengers and Tor. Use encryption and showcase that
resisting bulk surveillance is not suspicious but self-defense.
Our Email Self-Defense guide can help you to send and receive
encrypted emails.
Ada goes to the set: Let’s make an animated movie
From May 15 by FSFE
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is making an animated movie
about the story of Ada & Zangemann! The story written by Matthias
Kirschner has helped awaken kids' interest in free software. See how
you can help.
May GNU Emacs news
From May 27 by Sacha Chua
In these issues: beframe version 1.1.0, Auctex version 14.0.5, playing with boxes, Org Mode tutorial for newbies, and more!
Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
Tens of thousands of people visit directory.fsf.org each month to
discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth
of useful information, from basic category and descriptions to version
control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing. The Free Software
Directory has been a great resource to software users over the past
decade, but it needs your help staying up-to-date with new and
exciting free software projects.
To help, join our weekly IRC meetings on Fridays. Meetings take place
in the #fsf channel on Libera.Chat, and usually include a handful of
regulars as well as newcomers. Libera.Chat is accessible from any IRC
client -- Everyone's welcome!
The next meeting is Friday, June 7 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00
to 19:00 UTC). Details here:
LibrePlanet featured resource: Boot Software
Every month on the LibrePlanet
wiki, we highlight one
resource that is interesting and useful -- often one that could use
your help.
For this month, we are highlighting Boot Software, which provides
information about boot software projects, their usage, and the
hardware they can support. You are invited to adopt, spread and
improve this important resource.
Do you have a suggestion for next month's featured resource? Let us
know at [email protected].
May GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Eleven new GNU releases!
Eleven new GNU releases in the last month (as of May 31, 2024):
For a full list with descriptions, please see: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/may-gnu-spotlight-with-amin-bandali-eleven-new-gnu-releases-1
For announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu
mailing list: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu.
To download: nearly all GNU software is available most reliably from
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/. Optionally, you may find faster download
speeds at a mirror located geographically closer to you by choosing
from the list of mirrors published at
https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html, or you may use
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ to be automatically redirected to a
(hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.
A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a
whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see
https://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to
help. The general page on how to help GNU is at
https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html.
If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like
to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see
https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
As always, please feel free to write to me, [email protected],
with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.
FSF and other free software events
- June 7-9, 2024, Sheraton Charlotte Airport, Charlotte, NC, SELF
- July 1, 2024, online, Workshop: Free software & legislation: How we win by Ciarán O’Riordan
- July 12-14, 2024, St. John's University, Queens, NYC, HOPE
- July 19-24, 2024, Denver, CO, GUADEC 2024
- July 28 - August 4, 2024, Busan, South Korea, DebConf24
- August 1-4, 2024, Portland State University, Portland, OR, FOSSY
- August 27-31, 2024, FAIR, Darmstadt, Germany, European GNU Radio Days
- September 14-16, 2024, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, GNU Tools Cauldron
- October 27-29, 2024, Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, NC, ATO
- November 8-9, 2024, Online and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, SeaGL
Thank GNUs!
We appreciate everyone who donates to the Free Software Foundation,
and we'd like to give special recognition to the folks who have
donated $500 or more in the last month.
This month, a big Thank GNU to:
- Adarsh Melethil
- Anush Veeranala
- Arthur Gleckler
- Dario Armani
- David Klann
- I2P Maintainers Team
- Mikael Taipale
- Reynaldo Cordero
- Richard Ellwood
- Ron Hume
You can add your name to this list by donating at
https://donate.fsf.org/.
GNU copyright contributions
Assigning your copyright to the Free Software Foundation helps us
defend the GNU GPL and keep software free. The following individuals
have assigned their copyright to the FSF (and allowed public
appreciation) in the past month:
- Andrei Pikas (GDB)
- Ammar Almorsi (GnuCOBOL)
- Artem Iurchenko (GNU AUCTeX, GNU Emacs)
- Charalampos Mitrodimas (GNU Emacs)
- Felix Lechner (GNU Emacs)
- Giacomo Lorenzetti (GNU Astro)
- Ignacio Ruiz Cejudo (GNU Astro)
- Johan Sternerup (GDB)
- Rens Oliemans (GNU Emacs)
- Robert Burks (GNU Emacs)
- Sergei Golovin (GNUstep)
- Toshihiro Umehara (GNU Emacs)
Want to see your name on this list? Contribute to GNU and assign your
copyright to the FSF.
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