Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 74,210 other activists. That's 1,702 more than last month!View this issue online here: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2013/december
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Build us up! Free software is a cornerstone of a free society
Register for LibrePlanet today!
Defective by Design visits an Apple store (with photos)
Gluglug X60 Laptop now certified to Respect Your Freedom
LibrePlanet for all!
FSF responds to Microsoft's privacy and encryption announcement
Chirp along with us on your microblogging service of choice
FSF: Reform corporate surveillance
Windows 8: A “certifiable flop”
Ask reddit to upvote user freedom by serving no nonfree JavaScript
Upcoming changes for Ututo
Interview with Frank Karlitschek of ownCloud
Spring 2013 FSF Bulletin now available online
Celebrate Computer Science Education Week with free software
GNU Press announces gray GPLv3 hoodies
Avoiding surveillance
More Libre.fm news — server move, new design, kittens
GnuPG – Sixteen years of protecting privacy
GNU MediaGoblin 0.6.0 released
Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
LibrePlanet featured resource: LibreDWG
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 20 new GNU releases!
Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 71,727 other activists. That's 1,011 more than last month!
Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 70,716 other activists. That's 1,090 more than last month!
FSF seeks full-time senior GNU/Linux systems administrator
Questions about DRM? Visit our new FAQ
GNU's big “three-o”
New iPhones put more polish on Apple's restrictions
Interview with Caleb James DeLisle of cjdns
Recap of New Haven Software Freedom Day Cryptoparty
June 2013 – Torreón, Mexico – RMS at the Museo Arocena
Show your allegiance to GNU at the office with this GNU polo shirt!
Celebrate GNU's 30th birthday with this commemorative mug!
Twenty-one organizations ask Italian Data Protection Authority to publish readable documents
Jamaica Ministry of Health adopts GNU Health
LibreOffice migration in Valencia, Spain complete
MediaGoblin 0.5.0: Goblin Force
LibrePlanet featured resource: GNU 30th media
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 23 new GNU releases!
GNU Toolchain Update
Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
Thank GNUs!
Take action with the FSF!
FSF seeks full-time senior GNU/Linux systems administrator
From September 24th
The FSF seeks a full-time senior systems administrator. The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded GNU/Linux systems administrator who enjoys learning and problem-solving. (S)he will be familiar with the free software community and how it works, and will be more interested in making a substantial contribution to software freedom and having employment consistent with ethical ideals than obtaining the highest salary.
The anti-DRM team at Defective by Design has compiled a Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) FAQ, or “Frequently Asked Questions” list, to address the most common misconceptions regarding DRM.
This past weekend, the FSF celebrated thirty years of GNU with free software supporters around from the world at our event in Cambridge, MA and at satellite events being held in eighteen different cities.
New iPhones put more polish on Apple's restrictions
From September 10th
As with previous iPhones, apps and devices come with a kill switch, third party peripherals are arbitrarily restricted, books and other media purchased from iTunes come with DRM, and all software must be cryptographically signed and approved by Apple. The iPhone 5s and 5c succeed in leaving their users at the mercy of Apple.
This is the latest installment of our Licensing and Compliance Lab's series on free software developers who choose GNU licenses for their works. In this edition, we talk to Caleb James DeLisle of cjdns, a mesh networking application.
Recap of New Haven Software Freedom Day Cryptoparty
From September 26th
Joshua Gay, FSF licensing and compliance manager, helped host and run a Software Freedom Day event in New Haven, Connecticut where he currently lives and works.
June 2013 – Torreón, Mexico – RMS at the Museo Arocena
From September 25th
On June 13th, 2013, RMS was at the Museo Arocena, in Torreón, Mexico, to give a speech hosted by the GULAG (the La Laguna GNU/Linux User Group) for their seventh Free Software Conference, to students, professors, and the general public.
Show your allegiance to GNU at the office with this GNU polo shirt!
From September 26th
Polo shirts featuring the new GNU head logo are now available in the GNU Press store for $35. Also available are limited edition GNU 30th anniversary travel mugs for $25.
Celebrate GNU's 30th birthday with this commemorative mug!
From September 27th
Celebrate the 30th anniversary of GNU with this limited edition commemorative travel mug. The side of the cup features the outline of the new GNU mascot logo in front of a rising yellow sun, and the lid is blue.
Twenty-one organizations ask Italian Data Protection Authority to publish readable documents
By FSF Europe, from September 21st
The Free Software Foundation Europe and twenty Italian civil society organizations wrote a letter to the President of the Authority for the Protection of Personal Data, asking the agency to ensure that all documents published on its website can be read and used with Free Software programs.
The Jamaica Ministry of Health and GNU Solidario have signed an agreement to cooperate in the implementation of GNU Health as the Free Health and Hospital Information System in this country.
The Valencia autonomous region government expects to save around 1.5 million euro per year on proprietary software licenses since having finished the migration to LibreOffice on all 120,000 desktop PCs of the administration which includes schools and courts. More important than the money, they have made a great advance toward user freedom.
Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
From September 30th
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 irc.gnu.org, and usually include a handful of regulars as well as newcomers. Everyone's welcome.
The next meeting is Friday, October 4th, from 2pm to 5pm EDT (18:00 to 21:00 UTC). Details here:
After this meeting, you can check https://www.fsf.org/events to see the rest of October's weekly meetings as they are scheduled.
LibrePlanet featured resource: GNU 30th media
Every month on LibrePlanet, we highlight one resource that is interesting and useful — often one that could use your help.
For this month, we are highlighting GNU 30th media, which is a collection of videos and photos from GNU 30th celebrations. You are invited to adapt, spread, and improve this important resource.
This month we welcome Juergen Sauermann as the author and maintainer of the new GNU APL package, a full APL interpreter, and Brian Tiffin, Simon Sobisch, and Bernard Giroud as the maintainers of the new GNU Cobol package.
Also welcome to Ludovic Courtes as the new maintainer of DMD, in addition to his existing work on many other packages, notably Guile (the GNU extension language) and GUIX (a functional package manager for GNU). Although technically still an alpha release, GUIX 0.4 was released as part of the GNU 30th birthday celebration, https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/. A new version of GNU HURD (the GNU kernel) and related packages was also released for the celebration, https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/.
As always, please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.
GNU Toolchain update
From September 23rd
The GNU toolchain refers to the part of the GNU system which is used for building programs. These components of GNU are together often on other systems and for compiling programs for other platforms.
This month features improvements to binutils, GCC, and other programs.
We appreciate everyone who donates to the Free Software Foundation, but we'd like to give special recognition to the folks who have donated $500 or more in the last month.
Contributions from thousands of individual members enable the FSF's work. You can contribute by joining at https://www.fsf.org/join. If you're already a member, you can help refer new members (and earn some rewards) by adding a line with your member number to your email signature like:
The FSF is also always looking for volunteers (https://www.fsf.org/volunteer). From rabble-rousing to hacking, from issue coordination to envelope stuffing — there's something here for everybody to do. Also, head over to our campaign section (https://www.fsf.org/campaigns) and take action on software patents, DRM, free software adoption, OpenDocument, RIAA and more.
Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update — being read by you and 68,680 other activists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FSF, other groups join EFF to sue NSA over unconstitutional surveillance
Donate to Replicant and support free software on mobile devices
New Internationalist adopts DRM-free label and over 50 others added to the DRM-free Guide
Windows 8: PRISM Edition
Introducing the Licensing team summer intern: Vinay Kumar Singh
Introducing Sankha, summer campaigns intern
Will Ubuntu Edge commit to using only free software?
Cancel Netflix if you value freedom
Customers streaming away from Netflix
A distress call from a company threatened by a patent troll
Interview with Shiv Shankar Dayal of Kunjika
RMS in San Miguel, El Salvador – “Gone Fishin”
May 2013 – Ciudad Madero, Mexico – RMS at the ITCM
Richard Stallman becomes a Hall-of-Famer
New Snowden leak: Storing your data at Microsoft is negligent
German Parliament elections: The parties' positions on free software
For the first time in France, the Parliament passes legislation that gives priority to free software
MediaGoblin 0.4.1 (bugfix release)
Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
LibrePlanet featured resource: Defective By Design's DRM FAQ
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 32 new GNU releases!
GNU Toolchain Update
Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events