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Lady Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was a 19th-century English mathematician who many consider the first programmer, because she published the most complete and in-depth description of the Analytical Engine, an early computer conceived of -- but never built -- by Charles Babbage. This year, to honor Ada Lovelace's legacy, we want to tell you more about Marina Zhurakhinskaya and Outreachy.

Marina Zhurakhinskaya and Karen Sandler, co-organizers of OPW (now Outreachy), with Richard Stallman, accepting the 2014 Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit for OPW.

Marina is an engineer -- she has worked at Red Hat for nearly a decade, and her work currently focuses on community diversity and inclusion. She also works with Outreachy, an internship program that aims to bring underrepresented groups into the free software community, which received the Free Software Foundation's Award for Free Software Projects of Social Benefit in 2014, under its previous name, the Outreach Program for Women.

Outreachy offers mentored, remote internships in free software. Participating projects include GNOME, Wikimedia, and Mozilla. Since 2010, the program has had nearly 250 participants, many of whom have moved on to jobs in tech, conference presentations, and giving back to the program by becoming mentors. We conducted an email interview with Marina to tell us a bit more.

Talk about your new role as senior outreach specialist of community diversity and inclusion at Red Hat. How did your own experience in the tech industry influence your career track at Red Hat? And how did you become involved with Outreachy (formerly the Outreach Program for Women)?

Working as a senior software engineer at Red Hat on the GNOME Project, I was very impressed by the talent of the project contributors, by how rewarding it is to work on free software, and by the feeling of connectedness one gets when collaborating with people all over the world. Yet, at GUADEC 2009, of approximately 170 attendees, I believe I was one of only eight women. Of the software developers working on the entire GNOME project at the time, I was one of only three.

Shortly after that GUADEC, the GNOME Foundation board of directors asked if I would be willing to lead an outreach effort for GNOME aimed at bringing women into the community and mentoring participants. I also got an invitation to participate in the Free Software Foundation's Women's Caucus and later attended the Women in Free Software track at LibrePlanet 2010. These events allowed me to learn about the efforts that already had taken place in free software to increase participation by women and allowed me to make connections with other people passionate about this topic. I created the Outreach Program for Women with the help and support of Stormy Peters – then GNOME Foundation executive director. Later, the next GNOME Foundation executive director, Karen Sandler, helped expand the program beyond GNOME to include many free software communities.

As the Outreach Program for Women grew, I switched to a role of community engagement lead at Red Hat, combining GNOME community management and coordination of the program. At the same time, I was gaining more experience in diversity by following the resources created by the Ada Initiative and others who wrote about diversity issues, attending AdaCamps, and later joining the board of advisors and board of directors for the Ada Initiative. In 2015, as coordinators of Outreach Program for Women, Karen Sandler and I have led the work to rename it to Outreachy, move it to Software Freedom Conservancy as its new organizational home, and, with the help of four new coordinators, expand it to be open to people of color underrepresented in tech in the U.S., while continuing to be open to cis and trans women, trans men, and genderqueer people worldwide.

The vast potential to empower more people from diverse backgrounds through participation in free software and to make our community stronger with more contributors motivated me to seek a full-time position focused on free software community diversity and inclusion. My senior outreach specialist role at Red Hat involves co-organizing Outreachy and providing support for Red Hatters who are looking to make their communities and teams more diverse and inclusive. At the core of this role is a recognition that while we need participation from all engineers as mentors and allies for diversity efforts, we should not primarily rely on minority engineers to take on the work of organizing these efforts or developing expertise on the issue, as this is an excessive burden. A major component of the role is organizing structured and meaningful opportunities to be mentors for all engineers, that draw on people's specialized skills, help them grow professionally, and only require a manageable time commitment from them.

How has winning a Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit in 2014 impacted Outreachy?

Winning a Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit was a very proud moment for Outreachy. It showed that the free software community valued and supported the effort to bring in more people from diverse backgrounds. It shone a light on the program and increased its recognition. Since then, such important communities as the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and X.Org have joined Outreachy.

I am also thankful to the Free Software Foundation for being a long-time sponsor of Outreachy.

Outreachy's scope has continued to expand: what's the latest?

The diversity data for the U.S. released by many tech companies shows that many of them only have 1-3% Black and 2-4% Hispanic employees in technical roles. The population of the U.S. is 13% Black and 17% Hispanic. We don't have any data like this for free software participation, but we can tell there is a lack of racial and ethnic diversity at conferences we attend.

For the upcoming December round, the program has expanded to be open to residents and nationals of the U.S. of any gender who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latina, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. It continues to be open to cis and trans women, trans men, and genderqueer people worldwide.

Cindy Pallares, Tony Sebro, and Bryan Smith joined Karen Sandler, Sarah Sharp, and me as Outreachy coordinators. With their experience as African American and Latina free software professionals and with the disparity shown by the diversity data, we knew that the targeted expansion to people of color underrepresented in U.S. tech was an appropriate next step for Outreachy. We know there are many other groups of people and parts of the world underrepresented in free software. While we expect it to take several rounds for us to manage the growth that will come with this expansion, we welcome input on what populations we should consider reaching out to next.

People in free software work really hard to make their projects successful and recognizing them for their work shows the appreciation we have for it. Nominating a person or a project for a Free Software Award can help bring more attention to their mission and share with the world an inspiring free software success story. Finally, the recipients will enjoy attending LibrePlanet – a fantastic conference – and receiving their award from Richard Stallman as hundreds of free software enthusiasts cheer.

What are your hopes for the free software community in the next thirty years?

I hope that more developers and other technology contributors seek out opportunities to work on free software as their job. I would like to see more business, entrepreneurial, non-profit, academic, and government organizational infrastructure for free software development. In particular, all software developed or purchased with public funds should be free software. I would like to see free software in mainstream critical devices, such as medical and automotive, and in modern consumer products, such as mobile phones. Free software solutions need to offer a compelling user experience, so that people opt for them without having to compromise convenience. These compelling solutions will also help spread the message of software freedom. I hope that moving to free software as a default from the developer and consumer perspective, will incentivize existing companies to open the code of their core services and to allow verification and decentralization of them. Finally, I hope that free software contributors and enthusiasts will come from a variety of diverse backgrounds, and we will either no longer need Outreachy or will dramatically change who it's targeted toward.

To get us there, it's vital that free software supporters donate to organizations like the Free Software Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy, the GNOME Foundation, and others that are advocating for free software and providing organizational structure to free software projects we all know and love.

The application deadline for the upcoming round of Outreachy internships is November 2, and the internship dates will be from December 7 to March 7. Now is a great time to learn about the participating communities, work on the required contribution with the help of a mentor, and apply. You can encourage others to apply by using the prepared e-mail message, social network updates, and the flyer. You can get your company to sponsor Outreachy or make an individual donation to help it grow and fund more internships.

Thanks to Marina Zhurakhinskaya for this in-depth conversation. Please help us recognize standouts in the free software community: To nominate an individual for the Award for the Advancement of Free Software or a project for the Award for Projects of Social Benefit, send your nomination along with a description of the project or individual to award-nominations@gnu.org by November 1st, 2015. Apply here to present a session at the next LibrePlanet, which will take place March 19-20, 2016, in the Boston area -- submissions are due November 16, 2015, at 15:00 UTC. To read more about more women in free software, check out our previous Ada Lovelace Day posts from 2014, 2013, 2012, and 2011.

Sincerely,

Georgia Young Program Manager

You can view this post on the Web at https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/ada-lovelace-day-2015.

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On Thursday, October 8, Creative Commons (CC) announced the addition of the GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3) to the list of licenses compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. Compatibility means that a person can now take a work they received under the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0 and then distribute adaptations of that work under the terms of GPLv3. However, this compatibility is one-way only, meaning you can not release adaptations GPLv3-covered works under the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0.

The FSF provided extensive feedback throughout the drafting process of the 4.0 suite of CC licenses, and began discussing the possibility of one-way compatibility of CC BY-SA 4.0 and GPLv3 in 2011. As a steward of public licenses, CC has displayed tremendous leadership throughout the entire drafting process of the 4.0 license suite, and this leadership has continued through the license compatibility process. In January 2015, CC officially opened a public consultation on CC BY-SA 4.0 and GPLv3 compatibility. They facilitated this discussion via a public mailing list, and supported it by creating strong educational resources such as their analysis of GPLv3 and their analysis of BY-SA compatibility. One of the most important ways in which the community contributed to the compatibility discussion was by identifying various use cases in which a person may wish to combine a CC BY-SA licensed work with a piece of software or similar work. One increasingly common use case is with free hardware design projects, in which contributors to the project choose to put the entire repository (for example, an aggregate of art, design documents, and software) under the terms of the GNU GPL. Similar use cases are documented with games and the artwork distributed alongside the games.

While we do not anticipate that many people will choose GPLv3 for their adapted versions of CC BY-SA licensed works of art, we do expect compatibility will be especially useful for individuals working in niche areas where a creative work that is licensed under CC BY-SA needs to be adapted and melded into source code form and combined with some GPLv3-covered software. As Mike Linksvayer stated in CC's announcement, this important interoperability between two of the world's most popular copyleft licenses "not only removes a barrier, but helps inspire new and creative combinations of software and culture, design, education, and science, and the adoption of software best practices such as source control (e.g., through 'git') in these fields."

When combining works licensed under CC BY-SA with ones under GPLv3, individuals should use caution and make sure that they can actually comply with the source requirements of GPLv3, specifically that they are able to show that they can provide the source code, which is defined as the preferred form of the work for making modifications. Further, when licensing a CC BY-SA work under the terms of GPLv3, the FSF urges individuals to take advantage of Section 14 of the GNU GPLv3, which allows a licensor to specify a proxy to determine whether future versions of the GPL can be used, i.e., "GNU GPL version 3 or (at your option) any later version." Creative Commons has kindly provided instructions stating that "individuals can specify Creative Commons as their proxy (via http://creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses) so that if and when Creative Commons determines that a future version of the GPL is a compatible license, the adapted and combined work could be used under that later version of GPL."

Lastly, the FSF is grateful to all of the individuals who helped contribute to the compatibility discussion and process, including the many emails and questions we received from members of our community, but most especially to those individuals directly involved over the past five years, including: Sarah Hinchliff Pearson, Diane Peters, Lawrence Lessig, Mike Linksvayer, Kat Walsh, and Christopher Allan Webber from Creative Commons; Joshua Gay, Donald Robertson, III, Brett Smith, Richard Stallman, and John Sullivan of the Free Software Foundation, along with Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center and Aaron Williamson (who is now an attorney at Tor Ekeland).

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On October 4, 1985, Richard Stallman founded the non-profit Free Software Foundation to support the free software movement, especially the GNU Project (begun in 1983), the GNU General Public License (created in 1989), and the four freedoms that define free software:

• the freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
• the freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1).
• the freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
• the freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3).

At thirty years old, the FSF was the first non-profit organization dedicated to free software, and is one of the oldest digital rights organizations in the world. This anniversary is a good reason to celebrate, and free software enthusiasts joined the festivities from all over, attending the party in Boston, watching the livestream of toasts by Allison Randal, Eben Moglen, Vernor Vinge, Karen Sandler, Bradley Kuhn, and Cory Doctorow, followed by an inspiring speech by Richard Stallman, and hosting their own celebrations by plugging in to our party network. We even surprised partygoers with a performance of "The Free Software Song" and the Bulgarian song from which it takes its melody, "Sadi moma bela loza," sung by members of the Boston-area Bulgarian groups Divi Zheni and Zornitsa.

   

The FSF also hosted a User Freedom Summit in Cambridge, with more than 80 attendees, who took part in a copyleft.org hackfest, an introduction to the decentralized Web, a discussion of the free software BIOS/UEFI replacement Libreboot, an intro to GnuPG email encryption, and Eben Moglen's look at the next fifteen years of the free software movement.

Our friends and supporters celebrated elsewhere, too. The Free Software Foundation Europe had a party in Berlin, with this beautiful cake, inspired by our 30th anniversary logo:

CC-BY-SA Matthias Kirschner

Alagoas:

CC-BY-SA Daniel Pimentel

and a ton in other locations.

If you organized an event to celebrate the FSF's thirtieth anniversary, tell us about it! Send your photos or blog posts to campaigns@fsf.org -- we'd like to share them!

So, what does the FSF have planned for the next thirty years? Plenty. We're going to continue to fight for user freedom, alerting the public to the dangers of nonfree software in tiny computers everywhere, enforcing the GPL, and encouraging more people to use free software every day. We just upgraded our CiviCRM instance, which makes staying in touch with you even easier, and we've got more technology upgrades planned, to make our work more efficient. We have added new staff positions in the past two years, and we'd like a few more -- a bigger team will help us expand our reach, share urgent information with you faster, and deepen our relationships in the free software community.

But to do that, we need you. We have over 3,400 members, and more than two-thirds of our funding comes from individuals -- members and one-time or occasional donors of sums large and small. We rely on the free software community's generosity, and there are many ways to give. The third edition of Richard Stallman's essay collection, Free Software, Free Society, is now available in hardcover and paperback. And we still have commemorative FSF30 t-shirts, as well! Members enjoy a 20% discount on all purchases in the GNU Press shop.

Thanks for celebrating with us. In the coming weeks, keep an eye out for recordings from the User Freedom Summity and party, more on LibrePlanet 2016 (you can submit a session proposal through November 16), a community survey that will help us shape the next thirty years of the FSF, and guidelines for repositories that host free software projects, authored by Richard Stallman.

You've got until Monday, November 16th, 2015 at 10:00 in the morning EST (15:00 UTC) to submit your proposals. We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Every year, LibrePlanet brings together developers, policy experts, activists, hackers and end users. It's a place to learn new skills, share accomplishments and face challenges to computer user freedom together as a community. If you're new to the community, check out last year's conference site and session videos for a taste of what's to come.

What kind of sessions are we looking for?

LibrePlanet is defined by its combination of technical talks with non-technical sessions on free software activism, culture and current events. We are especially interested to see proposals from people who use free software or apply its values for social benefit, from academic research to community organizing, education to medicine and the arts.

We're committed to increasing the participation of speakers belonging to groups traditionally underrepresented at free software conferences, including women and people of color. If you're comfortable sharing demographic information, there is an area for it on the proposal form, but your proposal will not be judged negatively if you leave those fields blank.

It's important to us to provide sessions that are friendly to newcomers, as well as those that help experienced hackers push their technical skills. Whatever your experience level or the experience level of your audience, we want to include your session! (As a corollary of this, we welcome sessions for kids or teens.)

What makes LibrePlanet so special is the amazing contributions from our speakers, exhibitors, and volunteers. We can't wait to hear your ideas. Submit a proposal now!

Nominations are still open for the Free Software Awards

If you know a free software contributor or project that deserves celebration, don't hesitate to nominate them! This is your opportunity to publicly recognize people and projects that have inspired you. Your nominations will be reviewed by our awards committee and the winners will be announced at LibrePlanet 2016.

Learn more about the free software awards and submit a nomination.

That's all for now. See you in March!

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