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[Office-commits] r10021 - trunk/free-software-supporter/2009 |
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Author: www-data
Date: Tue Oct 6 15:25:51 2009
New Revision: 10021
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web commit by holmes
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trunk/free-software-supporter/2009/october.mdwn
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# Free Software Supporter
-Issue NUMBER, MONTH YEAR
+Issue 19, October 2009
Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's
monthly news digest and action update -- being read by you and
-BIG_IMPRESSIVE_GROWING_NUMBER other activists.
+25612 other activists.
Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience by
adding our subscriber widget to your web site.
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
TABLE OF CONTENTS
+*
* GNU spotlight with Karl Berry
* Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
* Take action with the FSF!
@@ -26,10 +27,135 @@
CAMPAIGN NEWS ITEMS
+## Software Freedom Day 2009: Thanks for coming to celebrate with us!
+
+<p>It was a nice, crisp fall day outside, but we had a great group of
+people gathered inside
+at <span class="link-external"><a href="http://www.encuentro5.org">Encuentro
5</a></span> in Chinatown
+for <span class="link-external"><a
href="http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Boston_Software_Freedom_Day">Boston's
+Software Freedom Day</a></span>. There were talks on hacking your blog, women
+in free software, free software on mobile devices,
+and <span class="link-external"><a
href="http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/economics-of-foss-slides/">how
+free software economics works.</a></span> </p>
+
+ * <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/postsfd2009>
+
+## Summit Women in Free Software: One giant step for free software womankind!
+
+Body
+
+ * <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/minisummitnotes>
+
+## Mac OS X mistakes and malfeatures
+
+While Apple has not, it seems, imposed changes by force, it has a record of
making users install harmful changes on pain of losing functionality, and
misleading users about what these changes do.
+
+ * <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/mac-osx-mistakes-and-malfeatures>
+
+## 25 years of GNU - support software freedom!
+
+We mark the end of our year-long celebration of the 25th anniversary of the
GNU Project.
+
+ * <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/25-years-of-gnu>
+
+## Xander Vedejas is the GNU Generation member of the month!
+
+Xander has primarily been working on Valix, a new operating system with a
simple and integrated approach. Working in assembler and C, he has begun
creating an operating system that already has an integrated graphics system and
a programming language in the works.
+
+ * <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gg-sep2009>
+
+## Lest CodePlex perplex
+
+Many in our community are suspicious of the CodePlex Foundation. Someday we
will be able to judge the organization by its actions (including its public
relations). Today we can only try to anticipate what it will do, based on its
statements and Microsoft's statements.
+
+ * <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/microsoft-codeplex-foundation>
+
+## Submit your nominations for the 2009 Free Software Awards
+
+Nominations are requested by 31 October 2009.
+
+The Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software is
presented annually by FSF president Richard Stallman to an individual who has
made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software,
through activities that accord with the spirit of free software.
+
+ * <http://www.fsf.org/news/2009FSAwardsCall>
+
+## Sugar Labs and FSF announce joint efforts to promote learning platform for
children
+
+The FSF has upgraded its hosting services support of Sugar Labs to keep pace
with its growth. As part of the ongoing relationship, Bernardo Innocenti, a
member of the Sugar Labs Oversight Board, is working at the FSF offices.
+
+ * <http://www.fsf.org/news/sugar-labs>
+
+## FSF announces new bounty program, offering "GNU Bucks" for finding nonfree
works in free distributions
+
+The Free Software Foundation will begin rewarding those who find and report
any nonfree components in free software operating system distributions with
public recognition and “GNU Bucks.” Those qualifying for the award will receive
a “GNU Buck” bank note, in the amount of pi and signed by Free Software
Foundation president and “Chief GNUisance” Richard Stallman.
+
+ * <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/gnu-bucks">
+
+## FSF files brief in Bilski case calling on the Supreme Court to eliminate
software patents
+
+The Free Software Foundation submitted an amicus curiae brief calling on the
Supreme Court to affirm that software ideas are not patentable. After outlining
the positive impact that the free software movement and the GNU General Public
License (GNU GPL) have had on computer use, the brief explains how software
patents are an obstacle and a danger to software developers.
+
+ * <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/bilski-supreme-court-brief">
+
## GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry
+Here are the recent GNU software releases:
+
+coreutils-7.6 dfarc-3.4 freedink-1.08.20090918
+freeipmi-0.7.13 gengen-1.4.1 gengetopt-2.22.3
+global-5.7.6 gnash-0.8.6 gnutls-2.8.4
+gxmessage-2.12.4 gzip-1.3.13 icecat-3.5.3
+ignuit-0.0.15 mailutils-2.1 octave-3.2.3
+pem-0.7.8 pexec-1.0rc8 plotutils-2.6
+solfege-3.14.8 source-highlight-3.1.1 wget-1.12
+zile-2.3.12
+
+I'd like to specially note the first new release of gzip (the
+longstanding GNU compression package) in many years. Thanks to the new
+co-maintainer, Jim Meyering, for reviving this. And thanks also to Jim
+for actively maintaining GNU coreutils and other fundamental GNU
+packages for many years.
+
+To get announcements of most new GNU packages, 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>).
+
+This month we welcome Jean-Michel Sellier's new package dionysus,
+intended to provide access to scientific constants. Jean-Michel also
+maintains the GNU packages archimedes and aeneas for submicron
+semiconductor design.
+
+Several 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, <address@hidden>, with any
+GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.
+
## Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
+* 2009-10-08 | The Danger of Software Patents -- Wellington, New Zealand -
Victoria University of Wellington, RHLT 2, in the Rutherford House on the
Pipitea Campus. Richard Stallman will explain how software patents obstruct
software development.
+
+ * <http://www.fsf.org/events/20091008wellington>
+
+* 2009-10-09 | A Free Digital Society -- Wellington, New Zealand - HULT 220,
Hunter Building, Kelburn Parade. Richard Stallman speech. To make a digital
society worthy of being included in, we must overcome six menaces to freedom:
surveillance, censorship, restricted data formats, proprietary software,
software as a service, and the War on Sharing.
+
+ * <http://www.fsf.org/events/20091009wellington>
+
+* 2009-10-12 | Copyright vs. Community -- Christchurch, New Zealand -
Christchurch Town Hall, 86-95 Kilmore Street. Richard Stallman speech.
Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit
with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the
copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian
punishments can enforce it.
+
+ * <http://www.fsf.org/events/20091012christchurch>
+
+* 2009-10-25 | The Free Software Movement -- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Asia
Pacific University College of Technology and Innovation (UCTI) Malaysia, Lot 6,
Technology Park Malaysia (TPM), Bukit Jalil (http://foss.my/2009/venue/).
Richard Stallman speech.
+
+ * <http://www.fsf.org/events/20091025kualalumpur>
+
+2009-10-28 | The Free (Bebas) Software Movement -- Jakarta, Indonesia - BPPT
Building II, M.H. Thamrin Street. Richard Stallman, founder of the free
software movement (gerakan perangkat lunak bebas) and leader of development of
the GNU operating system (with which the kernel Linux is typically used) will
give a speech to explain the ethical and political ideas of free software,
which differ from the ideas of open source, and explain how GNU was developed
to realize these ethical goals. Registration is required.
+
+ * <http://www.fsf.org/events/20091028jakarta>
+
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