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RMS was in the US state of Michigan this month, to give stand-along speech on three different campuses. He was…
…at Kalamazoo College, in Kalamazoo, MI, on January 30the as a guest of the college's Department of Physics, and Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, to give his speech “Computing, Freedom, and Privacy” to the local students and faculty and to some computer professionals from the Kalamazoo community.
…at Wayne State University, in Detroit, MI, on January 31st, he gave his speech “Freedom for Computer Users: Free Software” to WSU students, other people from of the local community, as well as to students from the University of Windsor's Department of Computer Science in Toronto, Ontario, via live stream. Professor Loren Schweibert, interim chair of WSU's computer science department, shared that he wanted to host RMS as a speaker,
because I think there is not a general understanding of the extent to which proprietary software undermines our privacy, but even I was not aware of some of the examples presented. I think there were a lot of good questions from the audience, which indicated that they also care about these issues. It definitely gave people food for thought. And, I know that it has encouraged people to make more effort toward making sure that the software developed here is released as free software.
He added, “The only significant software project I have was already released with a license of Version 3 of the GPL Version or later, based on the recommendations of your website.”
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(Photo under CC BY-SA 3.0 and courtesy of Loren Schwiebert.)
…and at Calvin College, in Grand Rapids, MI, where RMS gave his speech “Free Software and Your Freedom” to about 350 people, on February 1st. After the talk, the Department of Computer Science's Professor Keith VanderLinden said,
We invited RMS to speak at Calvin College because of his long-standing, compelling work on behalf of free software, and he delivered a talk that was both engaging and challenging. We're very pleased to have hosted him. I believe that his talk motivated a number of students to consider working on free software. And although the institutional inertia strongly favors the use of commercial software in our courses, our department is considering making an effort to move to free platforms.
Please fill out our contact form, so that we can inform you about future events in and around Kalamazoo, Detroit, and Grand Rapids. Please see www.fsf.org/events for a full list of all of RMS's confirmed engagements, and contact rms-assist@gnu.org if you'd like him to come speak.
Thank you to everyone who made these appearances possible!
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Friday Free Software Directory IRC meetup: February 10th starting at 12 p.m. EST/17:00 UTC
jeudi 9 février 2017 à 16:47Participate 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!
This week again we are focusing on adding entries to the FSD. We have been making great progress on improving and updating existing entries, but we want to keep the FSD growing even as it improves. There is still a backlog of entries awaiting approval that we need to get through, and new packages are announced every day 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 FSD today! There are also weekly FSD Meetings pages that everyone is welcome to contribute to before, during, and after each meeting.
Free Software Directory meeting recap for February 3rd, 2017
mercredi 8 février 2017 à 15:44Every 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 3rd, 2017 meeting.
Last week's theme focused on web authoring tools. These are the programs that enable users to shape the contours of web. With over five hundred entries in the web authoring tools category alone, there was no way that a single meeting could cover all the entries. The meeting, while lightly populated, got right down to work on the weekly theme. Time was spent looking at light web servers as well as web proxy programs. The entry review spread to cover web site management programs too. By the end, entries were consolidated, others updated, and a few removed. This was all done with the goal of improving the Directory.
If you would like to help improve 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).
Friday Free Software Directory IRC meetup: February 3rd starting at 12 p.m. EST/17:00 UTC
jeudi 2 février 2017 à 20:32Participate 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!
This week's theme is focusing on software devoted to web authoring. The ubiquity and importance of the web in modern society is hard to understate. It is the medium for many of the conversations conducted in regards to the status of society. Whether it's a what you see is what you get editor, a full site management system, or a bookmark platform, these web authoring tools are of paramount importance. Tools such as these enable one to not just listen passively to the conversation, but rather it provides users the freedom to lead the conversation, without sacrificing user freedom.
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.
Licensing resource series: the FSF Compliance Lab Team
jeudi 2 février 2017 à 19:55The FSF receives thousands of licensing questions a year from free
software users and developers. The staff on the FSF Compliance Lab
would not be able to handle all these requests on their own. That is why
we are so grateful to our volunteers who assist us in our efforts.
Volunteers are one of the most important resources an organization can
muster.
The license volunteers are an amazing group of people, but they are often working behind the scenes. With all the hard work they do, they really deserve some time in the spotlight. That is why this installment of our licensing resource series is focusing on the Compliance Lab Team. Here you can find out a little bit more about the volunteers, their backgrounds, and areas of interest. These volunteers assist in handling free software licensing questions submitted by the public to licensing@fsf.org. Volunteers also review licensing publications and aid in keeping our educational materials relevant. In addition, volunteers collaborate in investigating alleged GNU General Public License (GPL) violations reported to license-violation@gnu.org. We wanted to take a moment to publicly thank our volunteers and share their work with the rest of the world.
If you're interested in becoming a licensing volunteer just write
to licensing@fsf.org and tell us a bit about your background, both
legal and within the free software world. Please also take the GPL
quiz and let us know how you did. Once accepted, and suitably
trained, volunteers join the team and are on the front line answering
free software questions from the public.
We hope you take a chance to meet our volunteers, and possibly consider joining the team. But even if you're not ready to be a licensing wizard, there's plenty of other ways to help. Here's what you can do:
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