Friday, March 30, 2012

Free Software Supporter, Issue 48, March 2012

Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update -- being read by you and 55,107 other activists. That's 1,161 more than last month!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • LibrePlanet 2012
  • 2011 Free Software Awards announced
  • Happy Document Freedom Day!
  • Happy Birthday GCC!
  • Free Technology Academy 2012 courses
  • Reports from the latest Trans-Pacific Partnership Stakeholder Forum
  • A passage to India
  • Restricted Boot Webcomic Contest
  • Brazilian patent office software patent consultation
  • "The problem with software patents? They don't scale..."
  • GNU spotlight with Karl Berry
  • Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
  • Take action with the FSF!

LibrePlanet 2012

Thanks to everyone who came to our LibrePlanet 2012 conference. We'll be publishing recordings, slides and further information in the coming weeks.

2011 Free Software Awards announced

Each year at LibrePlanet, two awards are given: the Award for the Advancement of Free Software to an individual who has made a great contribution to free software, and the Award for Projects of Social Benefit to a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society.

This year, Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby programming language, won the Award for the Advancement of Free Software for his contributions to free software in the past 20 years.

GNU Health, a free software project that works with health professionals around the world to improve the lives of the underprivileged, won the Award for Projects of Social Benefit.

Happy Document Freedom Day!

Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation that is celebrated on the last Wednesday of every March since 2008, and which is organized and funded by the Free Software Foundation Europe.

We proposed several ways to celebrate that day!

Happy Birthday GCC!

On March 22th, the GCC development team celebrated the 25th anniversary of the GNU Compiler Collection which was first released in 1987.

Happy birthday, GCC!

Free Technology Academy 2012 courses

The Free Technology Academy is a global community and network of academic and social organizations active in the fields of Free Software, Standards and Hardware.

The FTA expects to run two course modules for users and systems administrators who want to get started with GNU/Linux systems. A discount on Free Technology Academy courses is available for FSF associate members.

Reports from the latest Trans-Pacific Partnership Stakeholder Forum

FSF's compliance engineer Brett Smith went to Melbourne, Australia to advocate for software freedom at the latest round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.

He came back with good news: technology industry groups are now more vocally expressing their concerns and explicitly positioning themselves opposite big copyright companies.

A passage to India

During January and February, Richard Stallman was in India -- giving speeches about free software in Kochi, Angamaly, Kanpur, Delhi, Ghaziabad, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chennai, Tiruchengode, Coimbatore, and Hyderabad.

Thanks to all the people who attended and sent us some great photos from the events, we've published a gallery of images:

And if you went to any of these events, please visit the appropriate form linked from the gallery and give us your contact information, so we can tell you the next time RMS is coming to town.

Restricted Boot Webcomic Comic

At the end of February asked you make a webcomic to help us raise awareness and put pressure on Microsoft and computer makers about the Restricted Boot issue. We've received a bunch of submissions and we'll be judging them in the next week or two...

Brazilian patent office software patent consultation

Brazil's patent office has launched a consultation about granting software patents. The patent office's page about the consultation is here:

Our End Software Patents campaign has more information in English.

"The problem with software patents? They don't scale"

Timothy B. Lee and Christina Mulligan have published a good article at Ars Technica:

LibrePlanet featured resource: Document Freedom Day 2012

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 Document Freedom Day 2012, which provides information about activism supporting OpenDocument and other free formats. 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 campaigns@fsf.org.

GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

New releases from various GNU projects this month:

  • bzr-2.5.0
  • ccrtp-2.0.3
  • classpath-0.99
  • coreutils-8.16
  • dico-2.2
  • freeipmi-1.1.3
  • gcc-4.4.7
  • gcc-4.6.3
  • gcc-4.7.0
  • gcide-0.51
  • glibc-2.15
  • global-6.2.2
  • gnuchess-6.0.2
  • gnuhealth-1.4.4
  • gnupg-2.0.19
  • gnushogi-1.4.0
  • gnutls-2.12.18
  • gnutls-3.0.17
  • grep-2.11
  • help2man-1.40.7
  • libtasn1-2.12
  • linux-libre-3.3-gnu
  • parallel-20120322
  • parted-3.1
  • shishi-1.0.1
  • xboard-4.6.0
  • zile-2.4.7

To get announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu. Nearly all GNU software is available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html. You can use the url http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ to be automatically redirected to a (hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.

This month we welcome Michael Talbot-Wilson as the new maintainer of GNU Sather, and Imed Ben Heni as a new co-maintainer of GNU kopi. We also welcome Alexandre Oliva as the maintainer of linux-libre, the longstanding basis for the kernel component of most entirely-free GNU/Linux systems http://www.gnu.org/distros/, newly dubbed as an official GNU package.

We also welcome Jose Luis Garcia Pallero as the new maintainer of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL). Jose would very much appreciate additional volunteers! Please contact him through the usual GSL lists.

Several other GNU packages are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to GNU, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

As always, please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.

Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events

Take action with the FSF

Contributions from thousands of individual members enable the FSF's work. You can contribute by joining at http://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:

I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom! http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=2442

The FSF is also always looking for volunteers (http://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 (http://www.fsf.org/campaigns) and take action on software patents, DRM, free software adoption, OpenDocument, RIAA and more.

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Free Software Supporter, Issue 47, February 2012

Free Software Supporter

Issue 47, February 2012

Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update -- being read by you and 53,946 other activists. That's 704 more than last month!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • LibrePlanet 2012 registration is now open!
  • Free Your Android!
  • FaiF OggCast with John Sullivan: Is Copyleft Being Framed?
  • GNU/FSF servers are moving
  • Tell the US Trade Representative that strong-arming countries into US law isn't what you want
  • I ♥ Free Software 2012
  • FSF Supports Proposed Exemptions to DMCA Anti-Circumvention Rules
  • Anobii CEO urges publishers to drop DRM on ebooks
  • LibrePlanet featured resource: LibrePlanet2012/LightningTalks
  • GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry
  • Richard Stallman's speaking schedule
  • Other FSF and free software events
  • Take action with the FSF

LibrePlanet 2012 registration is now open!

Registration is now open for LibrePlanet 2012! For those of you who've been to one of our LibrePlanet conferences before, you know you can expect some of the best people in the free software community in a fantastic community setting. This year's conference is going to be larger than ever!

Don't delay, registration is now open, and as always, FSF associate members can attend for no extra charge as part of their membership -- excluding food and t-shirt costs.

Learn more about the schedule, info on local hotels, and join the mailing list for coordinating room sharing and carpooling.

Free Your Android!

Last Fall, Richard Stallman published an article in which he states that, "for a computer user that values freedom", the most important question to be asking yourself about the Android operating system is: "[t]o what extent does Android respect the freedom of its users?"

If you are interested in finding the answer to this question, then the Free Software Foundation Europe has just the resource for you! Their new campaign, Free Your Android, delves into issues of freedom, privacy, and control as they relate to the various services, markets, and apps for Android.

FaiF OggCast with John Sullivan: Is Copyleft Being Framed?

In this Free as in Freedom OggCast, Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn play and discuss John Sullivan's talk entitled Is Copyleft Being Framed? from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.

Summary:

Ogg download:

GNU/FSF servers are moving

The GNU/FSF servers are moving between February 22nd and March 1st, 2012. There will be service interruptions during that period. There will be a multi-hour outage for most services on February 28th, 2012, starting at 10am EST (UTC/GMT -5).

Identi.ca fsfstatus group:

If the FSF hosts a virtual machine for your organization, please contact sysadmin@gnu.org to plan the migration of your virtual machine.

Tell the US Trade Representative that strong-arming countries into US law isn't what you want

Sign a petition from our friends at Public Knowledge, telling the USTR to be wary of the interests of large media companies who don't represent the interests of most people in the US.

I ♥ Free Software 2012

"In the free software community, we exchange a lot of criticism. We write bug reports, tell others how they can improve the software, ask them for new features, and generally are not shy about criticising others. Sometimes we forget to say thank you, for all your work." — Matthias Kirschner, #ilovefs campaign manager

Learn more about the FSF Europe's "I ♥ Free Software 2012" day that took place on February 14th -- find out how you can still participate.

FSF Supports Proposed Exemptions to DMCA Anti-Circumvention Rules

The Free Software Foundation submitted comments to support exemptions to allow users to install free software on all kinds of devices, and view and play media encumbered with Digital Restrictions Management (DRM).

Anobii CEO urges publishers to drop DRM on ebooks

Speaking at the Digital Book World Conference in New York last week, Matteo Berlucchi, CEO of Anobii, urged major book publishers to abandon their use of DRM on ebooks. HarperCollins, Penguin, and Random House each have a stake in the ebook retail and social networking company based in the UK.

LibrePlanet featured resource: LibrePlanet2012/LightningTalks

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 the page for organizing Lightning Talks for the LibrePlanet 2012 Conference.

Do you have a suggestion for next month's featured resource? Let us know at campaigns@fsf.org.

GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

autogen-5.15 gnunet-0.9.2 libmicrohttpd-0.9.19 automake-1.11.3 gnupg-1.4.12 octave-3.6.1 emacs-23.4 gnutls-3.0.14 parallel-20120222 freeipmi-1.1.2 guile-2.0.5 sipwitch-1.2.3 global-6.2.1 gxmessage-2.20.0 stow-2.2.0 gmp-5.0.4 help2man-1.40.6 ucommon-5.2.1 gnash-0.8.10 icecat-10.0 xnee-3.12 gnuhealth-1.4.3 idutils-4.6 xorriso-1.2.0 gnun-0.5 ignuit-2.20.0 zile-2.4.6

To get announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu. Nearly all GNU software is available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors (http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html). You can use the url http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ to be automatically redirected to a (hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.

This month we welcome Anto Cvitic as the new maintainer of ggradebook, and Jose Luis Garcia Pallero as the new maintainer of the GNU Scientific Library (GSL). Jose would very much appreciate additional volunteers! Please contact him through the usual GSL lists.

Several other GNU packages are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to GNU, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

As always, please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.

Richard Stallman's speaking schedule

For detailed information for each of the events below, see: * http://www.fsf.org/events/rms-speeches.html

  • Mar 01, Madrid, Spain "Por una sociedad digital libre"
  • Mar 07, Sunnyvale, CA "Copyright vs. Community"
  • Mar 13, Republic of Singapore "Free Software and Your Freedom"
  • Mar 14, Republic of Singapore "For a Free Digital Society"
  • Mar 27, New York, NY "For a Free Digital Society"
  • Mar 29, West Lafayette, IN "The Free Software Movement"
  • Apr 03, Ashland, OR "Copyright vs. Community"
  • Apr 04, Ashland, OR "For a Free Digital Society"
  • Jul 10, Dresden, Germany "The Free Software Movement"

Other FSF and free software events

"Free Software and Law", Brett Smith from the FSF 5 March, 2012, 6 p.m. -- Melbourne, Australia

Northeast GNU/Linux Fest March 17, 2012 -- Worcester, Massachusetts

CiviCon San Francisco
April 02, 2012 -- Berkeley, CA

Take action with the FSF

Contributions from thousands of individual members enable the FSF's work. You can contribute by joining at http://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:

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The FSF is also always looking for volunteers (http://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 (http://www.fsf.org/campaigns) and take action on software patents, DRM, free software adoption, OpenDocument, RIAA and more.

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

[FSF] Enter the Restricted Boot Webcomic Contest: Defend user freedom on tablets and smartphones

In December, Microsoft apparently conceded to public pressure by quietly updating the Windows 8 logo certification requirements with a mandate that a desktop computer user must be able to control (and disable) the Secure Boot feature on any Windows 8 computer that is not based on ARM technology. This looks like a victory for free software users, as it will allow a person to install GNU/Linux or other free software operating system in place of Windows 8.

But, this is no time for celebration, because Microsoft has also added a treacherous mandate for makers of ARM-based computers — such as a tablets, netbooks, and smartphones — requiring them to build their machines with Restricted Boot technology. Such computers are designed to lock a user into only being able to run Windows 8, absolutely preventing her from being able to install a free software operating system on her computer. Since smartphones and tablets are some of the most commonly used computers, it's vital that we get straightforward and clear information about this threat out to the public.

Already know what this is about? Then take action now:

If this is the first you're hearing about this whole Restricted Boot vs. Secure Boot business, read the full story.

You can support this campaign and the rest of the FSF's work by joining as a member or making a donation today.

Sincerely,

Josh, John, Matt, and Richard
Free Software Foundation


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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

[FSF] FSF Europe Launches "Free Your Android"

Last Fall, Richard Stallman published an article in which he states that, "for a computer user that values freedom", the most important question to be asking yourself about the Android operating system is: "[t]o what extent does Android respect the freedom of its users?"

For help finding the answer to this question, the Free Software Foundation Europe has just the resource for you! Their new campaign, Free Your Android, delves into issues of freedom, privacy, and control as they relate to the various services, markets, and apps for Android. While there is only one distribution of Android that does not include some nonfree software — Replicant — the site does provide helpful information, as well as cautionary warnings on other, nonfree distributions of Android. The purpose of the site is to eliminate proprietary software for Android and replace it with free software — or, as they write: "Liberate your Android device: learn how to regain control of your data, with a free operating system and free apps!"

Here at the FSF, many of us are fortunate enough to own phones that are able to run Replicant. But, we have put Replicant on our list of High Priority Reverse Engineering Projects to encourage people to work on Replicant so it will be able to support more devices than just the HTC Dream and the Nexus One phones. Please support FSFE's campaign, and also stay tuned for more news very soon about the FSF and GNU working in the area of mobile device freedom!


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Friday, February 24, 2012

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Friday, February 17, 2012

Tell the US Trade Representative that strong-arming countries into US law isn't what you want

Sign a petition from our friends at Public Knowledge, telling the USTR to pay close scrutiny to the interests of large media companies who don't represent the interests of most people in the US.

Recently, as they do every year, the US Trade Representative compiles a list called the "Special 301 Report" -- essentially a list of other countries who aren't trying hard enough when it comes to enforcing American copyright laws locally. A list compiled from comments by the RIAA and MPAA.

Read our blog post: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/us-trade-rep-special-301

Take action, sign the petition!


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LibrePlanet 2012 registration is now open!

Registration is now open for LibrePlanet 2012! For those of you who've been to one of our LibrePlanet conferences before, you know you can expect some of the best people in the free software community in a fantastic community setting. This year's conference is going to be larger than ever! We have much more space than in previous years, and have made many improvements in response to the feedback you've given us in the past.

LibrePlanet 2012 -- March 24th/25th at the University of Massachusetts, Boston

  • Don't delay, registration is now open, and as always, FSF associate members can attend for no extra charge as part of their membership -- excluding food and t-shirt costs.

    http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet2012/Registration

  • Registration closes on March 7th. Anyone who wants to come after that can come on the day and pay, but we can't guarantee a shirt will be available and there might not be any lunch for you.

  • We have all the information you need about hotels, getting to Boston and getting around Boston on the LibrePlanet wiki. There's also a mailing list for coordinating room sharing and carpooling.

    http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet2012

The conference so far...

  • Everything starts at 9am, on Saturday March 24th at the University of Massachusetts, Boston -- a stunning campus on the waterfront, with glorious views of the Massachusetts Bay.

  • We're going to have a dedicated space on Saturday afternoon for Lightning Talks -- these will be limited to people who aren't otherwise speaking at the conference, so if you fancy talking for a few minutes about absolutely anything related to our community, this is your opportunity.

  • If you're looking to get some work done while you're here, we have a dedicated space for collaboration and hacking on projects -- the ideal place to hang out with your laptop and relax between talks.

Confirmed speakers

We're still putting the finishing touches to the schedule, but you'll be pleased to see the following speakers are already confirmed:

  • Richard Stallman
  • Eben Moglen (Freedom Box Foundation, Software Freedom Law Center)
  • Karen Sandler (GNOME Foundation)
  • Evan Prodromou (StatusNet, identi.ca)
  • Matthew Garrett (Linux)
  • Allison Chaiken
  • Eben Upton (Raspberry Pi Foundation)
  • Richard Fontana
  • Bradley Kuhn
  • Mike Linksvayer
  • David Sugar
  • ginger coons
  • Chris Webber

All speakers will be listed on our website: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet2012/Speakers

Food at LibrePlanet 2012

Lunch is available for a reasonable $10 on both days -- we have healthy options for everyone. We all benefit from having everyone together at lunchtime, so we've done our best to make food options as cheap as possible. Breakfast and coffee/tea/soft drinks will also be provided on both days.

The LibrePlanet 2012 t-shirt

We have a new shirt for this conference, incorporating the conference logo, in stylish yellow print on a dark-grey shirt. We've also made it easier to find staff at the conference -- we'll all be wearing off-yellow shirts with black print, with the same design. If you want one of these limited-edition yellow shirts, we're looking for a small number of volunteers during the conference who'll also get one for each day they volunteer.

But that's not all

For those of you in town a day early, there's a small open house at the Free Software Foundation office, so you can come meet the staff and the volunteers working behind the scenes to make the conference into a success. Come see where we work, and have your photo taken with the GNU Project mascot! Details will be posted on the wiki.

If you're hanging around after the conference, we're also planning a post-conference lunch at the office on Monday, a chance to reflect on the conference.

And with social events on Saturday and Sunday evening already up on the wiki, there's plenty to do outside of the conference.

http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet2012/SocialEvents

Looking forward to seeing you at the conference, and we hope you'll bring a friend and introduce them to free software!

Matt, Jasimin, Donald, Brett, Josh, John, Peabo and Ward
Your friends at the Free Software Foundation


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