Mise à jour de la base de données, veuillez patienter...

Participate in supporting the FSD by adding new entries and updating existing ones. We will be 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 FSD 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.

While the FSD has been and continues to be a great resource to the world over the past decade, it has the potential of being a resource of even greater value. But it needs your help!

We are continuing our focus on adding new entries to the FSD. Over the last few weeks, we have chiseled away at the new entires waiting for approval. There are still quite a few programs looking to be added to the FSD. This Friday we will further whittle down the queue and expand the FSD.

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 FSD today! There are also weekly FSD Meetings pages that everyone is welcome to contribute to before, during, and after each meeting.

• ddrescue-1.22
• ed-1.14.2
• ggradebook-0.92
• glibc-2.25
• gnuhealth-3.0.6
• gnutls-3.5.9
• grep-3.0
• guile-2.0.14
• libiconv-1.15
• libsigsegv-2.11
• linux-libre-4.10-gnu
• nano-2.7.5
• octave-4.2.1
• parallel-20170222
• sed-4.4
• wget-1.19.1

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To download: nearly all GNU software is available from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors from https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html. You can use the url https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ to be automatically redirected to a (hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.

This month, we welcome Christopher Dimech as the maintainer of the new GNU package Behistun and Mathieu Lirzin as the new maintainer of Mcron and Automake.

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 us at maintainers@gnu.org with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.

Gordon Hall will be joining us at LibrePlanet 2017, sharing his analysis of mass surveillance and how it connects to other issues. He spoke with us recently about himself, his interests, and why free software.

Would you tell us a bit about yourself?

I wanted to be a filmmaker when I was young. I managed to win a sizable scholarship to attend an arts college in Atlanta in my junior year of high school for two short films I wrote, directed, and edited with friends. I switched my major at the last minute to graphic design and lasted a semester before dropping out and helping some friends who were opening a skate park with graphics and their website. This was what ultimately got me into hacking. Some years later, I married my wife Libby and we had our daughter, Ruby who refuses to be in a car unless she can listen to hardcore.

How did you get interested in the relationship between surveillance and ecology?

Murray Bookchin's critical theory of Social Ecology has been very influential for me. The assertion that most ecological problems stem from social problems provides a wealth of relationships to explore. Given that mass surveillance is such a pressing social issue right now, I thought it would be interesting to connect the dots between it and the ongoing destruction of the environment.

Additionally, I have been working on the Storj project for over a year now, which aims to replace the "cloud" with a peer-to-peer encrypted object storage network capable of running on low-power and outdated hardware. Given that this project's primary qualities are securing data and promoting ecological sustainability by reducing electronic waste, it seemed like a good case study for ways we can tackle these problems.

What are you looking forward to at LibrePlanet?

This will be my second LibrePlanet, my first being last year. I don't enjoy attending technology conferences. Walking into a place that's promoted as a place to learn and then walking into a host of vendors trying to sell their proprietary software strikes me as a very hostile environment for learning. LibrePlanet, though, is something very special. It's something we all engage in together constructively, not the ruthless marketing machines I have attended in the past. Last year I left LibrePlanet feeling energized and motivated to keep hacking the planet and I expect the same this time around!

Do you have any skills or talents you wish more people knew about?

I play the ukulele and the cajón in a "band" with my wife and friends called Pukulele. We also have another "band" called Jellyfist in which I just yell obnoxiously.

Interested in learning more? Join us at LibrePlanet 2017 to attend Gordon's talk as well as dozens of others! As always, FSF members and students attend gratis.

Every week free software activists from around the world come together in #fsf on irc.freenode.org to help improve the Free Software Directory. This recaps the work we accomplished at the Friday, February 17th, 2017 meeting.

We focused this past week on clearing the stack. The Directory continues to expand. This has led to a backlog of entries awaiting approval. Drilling through this backlog has been a reoccurring task for the Directory. Between us and progress were some seriously dense programs, in terms of their source code, which we powered through during the meeting. This cleared the way for simpler approvals in the future. A conversation came up regarding the user access controls for the Directory, and we also discussed the history of the formatting of licensing files.

If you would like to help update the directory, meet with us every Friday in #fsf on irc.freenode.org from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC).