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However, things took a turn for the worse this month when the US government's Department of Homeland Security and local law enforcement intimidated the library into shutting down the relay (also known as a node). In response, the FSF, the ACLU of Massachusetts, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and others signed a public letter supporting the library and its Tor initiative. Even more importantly, local patrons of Kilton Library crammed a public hearing yesterday to express their conviction that the relay should be reactivated. The campaign worked and, as of this morning, the relay is running again!

Tor relies on thousands of relay servers worldwide, which route traffic in tricky ways to dodge surveillance and circumvent censorship. The more relays, the stronger and faster the network, and more are always needed. That's why Alison Macrina of the Library Freedom Project and Nima Fatemi, a Tor developer, are working to launch nodes in American libraries. Kilton was the pilot for this project.

This isn't the first time that law enforcement has worked to shut down a Tor relay -- in fact, it's common for those who run relays to be harassed by police. The stated justification is usually that anonymity software can be used by criminals, but by that argument, roads should also be illegal because some people drive drunk.

The FSF has long supported the Tor project in its effort provide free software-based anonymity. We run a Tor middle relay on one of our servers, and have been partners with Tor and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in holding the Tor Challenge, an initiative to encourage people to run Tor nodes. In 2010 we awarded Tor the Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit.

Our support for Tor is connected to our work to fight bulk surveillance and its pernicious effects on computer users' rights. This is a historic moment in that battle, and a major success. Expect to see more Tor relays in libraries soon! If you think your local library would be interested in running a relay, check out the Library Freedom Project's resources to get started.

About 75 million Web sites depend on WordPress. If you are one of its many users who recently upgraded to Version 4.3, you may have noticed something new. Recently, a coop worker-member, Pea, informed me that this version includes a new tab with a reference to the GNU General Public License. With some quizzical interest, I ran the upgrade on a WordPress instance I maintain.

I eagerly waited for the upgrade to finish. When it loaded, what I saw was typical for a WordPress upgrade, a description of the version's new features. Then I saw a tab prominently named "Freedom." I clicked on it, and boom: right there were the four freedoms of free software, starting with Freedom 0. Take a look for yourself.

When the developers of software like WordPress make an effort to promote free software, explicitly informing their community about the importance of the freedom underlying their software, they educate countless users. The more people who are aware of the GPL and the four freedoms, the more opportunities we all have to build support for and advance our work fighting for user freedom.

Thank you WordPress! And thank you to Pea from Glocal.coop for bringing this to our attention.

FSF 30 Commemorative Shirt

Commemorate the Free Software Foundation's 30th anniversary with this limited edition tee-shirt. The high-quality cotton, charcoal shirt is double-sided with the FSF 30 Years Propelling User Freedom slogan. We have unisex and women's sizes. The shirts are manufactured by Bella Canvas, a WRAP-certified company, meaning they comply with ethical, health, and safety standards in manufacturing.

Free Software, Free Society, 3rd Edition

We are excited to announce the launch of the third edition of Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman,. Most of the essays of the second edition that were kept have been updated, and a third of them are new. The publication of the book is timely, not only because it marks thirty years of fighting for software freedom, but also because, with the evolving list of threats to both our freedom and our privacy, free software is now more important than ever.

I hope this book can show you how you might lose your freedom, teach you how to protect it, and inspire you to value it.

- from the preface, by Richard Stallman

The book is available for pre-ordering, both in paperback and in hardcover, and proceeds from its sale will go to fund our efforts to protect and promote computer users' freedom.

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Join the Free Software Foundation and friends in Boston, MA to celebrate the culmination of our 30th year fighting for computer user freedom, powered by supporters like you. There will be plenty of social time for catching up with old friends and making new ones, and an address by FSF founder Richard Stallman as the centerpiece of the party.https://fsf.org/fsf30/celebration.

Items will arrive the first week of October. To claim an item at the event, please use the discount code FSFBDAY . If you are ordering to have the item shipped, please do not use this code as it will not be shipped. Order the shirt by September 18th, 7am EDT/11am UTC to guarantee availability in your size.

Nominations for the 18th annual Free Software Awards opened at LibrePlanet 2015, right after the most recent Free Software Awards were presented -- and we need you to nominate more projects by November 1st, 2015 at 23:59 UTC. 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.

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.

Award for the Advancement of Free Software

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.

Last year, Sébastien Jodogne was recognized with the Award for the Advancement of Free Software for his work on free software medical imaging with his project Orthanc

Award for Projects of Social Benefit

The Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented to the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life.

We look to recognize projects or teams that encourage people to cooperate in freedom to accomplish tasks of great social benefit, and those that apply free software ideas and lessons outside the free software community. A long-term commitment to one's project (or the potential for a long-term commitment) is crucial to this end.

This award stresses the use of free software in the service of humanity. We have deliberately chosen this broad criterion so that many different areas of activity can be considered. However, one area that is not included is that of free software itself. Projects with a primary goal of promoting or advancing free software are not eligible for this award (we honor individuals working on those projects with our annual Award for the Advancement of Free Software).

We will consider any project or team that uses free software or its philosophy to address a goal important to society. To qualify, a project must use free software, produce free documentation, or use the idea of free software as defined in the Free Software Definition. Projects that promote or depend on the use of non-free software are not eligible for this award. Commercial projects are not excluded, but commercial success is not our scale for judging projects.

Last year, Reglue received the award, in recognition of its work giving GNU/Linux computers to underprivileged children and their families in Austin, TX.

Eligibility

In the case of both awards, previous winners are not eligible for nomination, but renomination of other previous nominees is encouraged. Only individuals are eligible for nomination for the Advancement of Free Software Award (not projects), and only projects can be nominated for the Social Benefit Award (not individuals). For a list of previous winners, please visit https://www.fsf.org/awards.

Current FSF staff and board members, as well as award committee members, are not eligible.

The tentative award committee members are: Hong Feng, Marina Zhurakhinskaya, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Suresh Ramasubramanian, Fernanda Weiden, Matthew Garrett, Jonas Öberg, Wietse Venema, Vernor Vinge, Rob Savoy, Harald Welte, and Andrew Tridgell.

Instructions

After reviewing the eligibility rules above, please send your nominations to award-nominations@gnu.org, on or before Sunday, November 1st, 2015 at 23:59 UTC. Please submit nominations in the following format:

• In the email message subject line, either put the name of the person you are nominating for the Award for Advancement of Free Software, or put the name of the project for the Award for Projects of Social Benefit.
  

• Please include, in the body of your message, an explanation (forty lines or less) of the work done and why you think it is especially important to the advancement of software freedom or how it benefits society, respectively.
  

• Please state, in the body of your message, where to find the materials (e.g., software, manuals, or writing) which your nomination is based on.
  

Attend the Free Software Awards at LibrePlanet 2016

Want to be in the room when the winners are announced? Registration will open soon for the LibrePlanet conference, March 19-20 2016, in Cambridge, MA. You can meet the award winners and take part in a program devoted to the world of free software. Remember: Free Software Foundation members attend LibrePlanet gratis!

16 new GNU releases in the last month (as of August 24, 2015):

• ccaudio2-2.1.7
• ccscript-5.0.6
• easejs-0.2.6
• gama-1.16
• glibc-2.22
• gnupg-2.1.7
• gnu-pw-mgr-1.5
• gnutls-3.4.4
• guix-0.8.3
• icecat-31.8.0-gnu2
• libidn-1.32
• ncurses-6.0
• parallel-20150822
• sipwitch-1.9.9
• teseq-1.1.1
• ucommon-6.5.4

For announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu.

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

This month, we welcome Scotty Moran as the new maintainer of GNU sysutils and Arthur Schwarz as the maintainer of the new GNU package gSlip.

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a whole, 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.

If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see http://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.