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Help improve the Free Software Directory by adding new entries and updating existing ones. Every Friday we meet on IRC in the #fsf channel on irc.freenode.org.

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 providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info that has been carefully checked by FSF staff and trained volunteers.

When a user comes to the Directory, they know that everything in it is free software, has only free dependencies, and runs on a free OS. With over 16,000 entries, it is a massive repository of information about free software.

While the Directory has been and continues to be a great resource to the world for many years now, it has the potential to be a resource of even greater value. But it needs your help! And since it's a MediaWiki instance, it's easy for anyone to edit and contribute to the Directory.

After a fantastic weekend attending LibrePlanet 2018, we're back at the Directory again. After getting a chance to chat with some new volunteers at the conference, we want to spend this upcoming meeting talking about Project Teams. There's some new excitement for existing projects, and also some proposals for new projects as well.

If you are eager to help, and you can't wait or are simply unable to make it onto IRC on Friday, our participation guide will provide you with all the information you need to get started on helping the Directory today! There are also weekly Directory Meeting pages that everyone is welcome to contribute to before, during, and after each meeting.

The second day of LibrePlanet 2018 began on a contemplative note with Seth Schoen's keynote speech, "Incompossibilities: Ubiquitous Engineering Tradeoffs." No, that's not a typo: "incompossible" describes multiple things that can't exist at once -- conditions in which it's impossible to satisfy every requirement.

Schoen, who is a Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, explored the impossibility of creating absolutely perfect software, discussing how the inherent tradeoffs in software development echo those in political science, ethical philosophy, and more.

Other morning sessions included a roundup of device and personal privacy technology; a workshop on free software desktops for kids; a talk on the progress the free software community has made on diversity (and how we still have a way to go); a talk about the necessity of ethical standards in the free software world; and more.

Sunday afternoon, attendees gave a series of five-minute lightning talks, which provide attendees with an opportunity to give a speedy presentation on their work and their ideas. Topics ranged from Visual Bash and TechnoRubble to the metaphorical relationship between biking and free software. Projects shared included a role-playing game developed with Python and Sphinx, the Autocrypt "end-to-end encrypted email for humans" project, and the upcoming EduCode conference in Brussels, Belgium, which aspires to train teachers and school administrators to use and build free software.

These talks gave a fun glimpse into the knowledge and creativity shared by the free software community -- the scheduled conference talks only scratch the surface of all of the fascinating work that our supporters do every day!

The afternoon workshops also were highly community-oriented: Micky Metts and Chris Thompson, members of Agaric, a worker-owned technology cooperative, introduced attendees to methods that can engage schools and broader communities in the cooperative creation and maintenance of beneficial free software platforms and tools. In the next workshop, Walter Bender and Devin Ulibarri put the spotlight on kids, helping the audience enjoy a hands-on lesson in fun, musical coding with their program, Music Blocks.

Finally, FSF board member, social scientist, technologist, and activist Benjamin Mako Hill took stock of the state of the free software community and online cooperation in a closing keynote that acknowledged many of the challenges we'll have to face in the coming years -- but many of the opportunities, as well.

Over 300 people participated in LibrePlanet 2018, which was powered by 56 amazing volunteers, who ensured that everything from video streaming to IRC chats went smoothly. We also gave away raffle prizes generously donated by Aeronaut Brewing, Aleph Objects, JMP, No Starch Press, and Technoethical, and we're extremely grateful to our generous sponsors, including Private Internet Access, Red Hat, Purism, StickerYou, and Savoir-faire Linux.

Between Saturday and Sunday, there were sixty-one speakers and over fifty sessions. Videos will be posted soon at https://media.libreplanet.org, so keep an eye out for announcements -- whether you were here in Cambridge, watched the livestream, or missed LibrePlanet entirely, there's so much more you'll want to see!

Photo credits: Pictures of Seth Schoen, attendees of the Free Software Desktops workshop, and speaker Kat Thornton, copyright © 2018 Kori Feener, photos licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

LibrePlanet started as the annual meeting of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) membership. Ten years later, that meeting has transformed into a vibrant two-day conference that brings together hundreds of new and longtime members of the free software community from all parts of the world.

This year's conference kicked off on Saturday, March 24th with a keynote by Deb Nicholson, a free software policy expert and Community Outreach Director for the Open Invention Network, who posited the question: how do we make free software last forever? How does our community bring in, welcome, and train the new young people who will keep the flame of the free software movement alive? And, how do we create a technological future that bears more resemblance to the techno-utopia of Wakanda (the homeland of the film Black Panther's titular character) than to the techno-dystopias imagined in cyberpunk narratives? Videos of this talk and others will be available soon, at the LibrePlanet GNU MediaGoblin page.

Throughout the day, there were over two dozen talks, spanning a wide range of topics relating to software freedom and user freedom. Jeremiah Foster introduced the issues around nonfree software in networked vehicles, and discussed some potential solutions; Brett Smith from the Software Freedom Conservancy delineated some barriers to use of the GPL, keeping it from being applied as often as it should be (leading to an immediate commitment from FSF president Richard Stallman to explore and solve some of these issues). A panel led by Morgan Lemmer-Webber laid out some of the advances in bringing free software to academia, and talked about why it's still not in common use. Other talks addressed how free and nonfree software impact our lives everywhere from our mobile phones to the US military; how free software can be made sustainable, and how to broaden our communities; and how to use and proliferate various free software programs.

The day also included one workshop, in which 3D filmmaker Bassam Kurdali introduced attendees to the art of photogrammetry – the reconstruction of 3D information about objects from a photograph or multiple photographs – using only free software tools. Kurdali is known for their 2006 short, “Elephants Dream,” which was the first “free movie.”

At the end of the day, FSF president Richard Stallman announced the winners of the 2017 Free Software Awards, celebrating an individual's ongoing commitment to user freedom (the Award for the Advancement of Free Software) and the work of a free software project that has created significant social good (the Award for Projects of Social Benefit).

Karen Sandler, Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, received the Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Public Lab co-founders Liz Barry and Jeff Warren represented Public Lab, which received the Award for Projects of Social Benefit.

Public Lab is a community and non-profit organization with a goal of democratizing science to address environmental issues. Their community-created tools and techniques utilize free software and low-cost devices to enable everyday people to investigate environmental concerns.

In addition to her work with Software Freedom Conservancy, Karen Sandler is a perennial LibrePlanet speaker, friend to the FSF, and a passionate advocate for free software, best known for advocating for free software in implantable medical devices.

It has been a tremendous first day, thanks to our able staff and terrific volunteers. We hope that everyone, both in attendance today and watching from afar, is enjoying this celebration of free software as much as we are. See you tomorrow!

Photo credits: Copyright © 2018 Kori Feener, photos licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

Advance registration is now closed, but you can register on-site at LibrePlanet 2018, starting at 09:00 on the ground floor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA. Admission is gratis for FSF Associate Members and students, and for all others costs $60 for one day or $90 for both days.

If you are unable to attend, or know people who cannot attend LibrePlanet 2018 but want to participate, watch the livestream, which you can do using exclusively free software (an unfortunate rarity!)

We want to alert you to a schedule change: unfortunately, keynote speaker Gabriella Coleman had to cancel her LibrePlanet talk. She will be sorely missed, but we are glad to announce that free software technologist, social scientist, and FSF board member Benjamin Mako Hill will fill in. Check out the full schedule here -- to read full descriptions of each talk, click "Expand all" at the top of the page.

We are proud to present the tenth anniversary LibrePlanet conference, and there are lots of events to check out beyond the talk schedule, beginning Friday, March 23rd. Some of these events may recommend or require advance registration, so doublecheck the details to make sure you get a seat:

• On Friday, March 23rd, before LibrePlanet 2018 begins, the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) annual open house will take place at 51 Franklin Street, Boston, MA, 02110, from 17:00-19:30. All are welcome! Beat the Saturday morning rush by visiting the LibrePlanet advance registration and check-in table at the open house.

• On Friday at 19:45, at Hei La Moon, 88 Beach Street, Boston, IBM is generously sponsoring a dinner for all women, genderqueer, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people interested in free software -- the Welcome Dinner! You don't need to be registered for LibrePlanet in order to attend. Please RSVP, to allow us to book enough seating.

• If you would like to self-organize a dinner with other LibrePlanet attendees, please do so on the LibrePlanet wiki.

• On Sunday, March 25th, from 12:35-13:35, the annual FSF Associate Members meeting will be held in room 32-155 in the Stata Center. All FSF Associate Members are welcome. Please RSVP on the LibrePlanet wiki for lunch.

• On Monday, March 26th, Lothar Becker of The Document Foundation will host a LibreOffice Certification-focused workshop at the Boston Nonprofit Center, 89 South Street, Boston, MA, 02111, from 09:30-13:30. This workshop is open to FSF Associate Members gratis, but due to limited space, you must book your seat in advance by emailing certification@libreoffice.org.

• Also on Monday, Programmable Publishing: Digital Humanities for Everyone will be offered at the Red Hat office, 300 A Street, 4th floor, Boston, MA 02110, from 09:00-12:00. This workshop will teach basic programming skills to humanities students and scholars without a background in math or computer science. Using the Racket programming language, the user-friendly text editor DrRacket, and the markup language Scribble, participants will learn how to write an academic paper from start to finish, which can then be exported to HTML and PDF. Register and learn more here.

LibrePlanet 2018 is co-produced by the FSF and MIT's Student Information Processing Board, and is generously sponsored by Private Internet Access, Red Hat, and Purism.

Help improve the Free Software Directory by adding new entries and updating existing ones. Every Friday we meet on IRC in the #fsf channel on irc.freenode.org.

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 providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info that has been carefully checked by FSF staff and trained volunteers.

When a user comes to the Directory, they know that everything in it is free software, has only free dependencies, and runs on a free OS. With over 16,000 entries, it is a massive repository of information about free software.

While the Directory has been and continues to be a great resource to the world for many years now, it has the potential to be a resource of even greater value. But it needs your help! And since it's a MediaWiki instance, it's easy for anyone to edit and contribute to the Directory.

This weekend, LibrePlanet 2018 converges on Cambridge, MA. One fantastic feature of LibrePlanet is the accessibility and potential for remote attendance because of the livestream of events. Livestreaming concurrent events is no easy feat when considering the moving pieces; all this momentum pushes development from ABYSS to HumpBack Anglerfish. This week, while we work on adding new programs, we can also look back at our favorite LibrePlanet speeches from previous years.

If you are eager to help, and you can't wait or are simply unable to make it onto IRC on Friday, our participation guide will provide you with all the information you need to get started on helping the Directory today! There are also weekly Directory Meeting pages that everyone is welcome to contribute to before, during, and after each meeting.