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We're proud to announce the completion of the first LPC, a design competition of free software video games using only freely licensed art and media. The winner is Lurking Patrol Comrades, which, according to judges, is an "impressive MMORPG with a vast world, plenty of characters to speak to [and] both a melee and a magic based battle system."

The LPC was sponsored by the FSF, Mozilla, Creative Commons and OpenGameArt. Thank you to the donors who gave to the FSF to support this effort! The competition attracted a lot of attention in the free software community, and in fact there were so many submissions that the announcement of winners had to be postponed because judging took so long.

The prize-winning games have just been announced here. The winners of the earlier art-only phase of the competition are here.

And that's the end of the first Liberated Pixel Cup! We'd like to say thank you to everyone who put their passion for free software gaming into art, development and judging. We look forward to seeing further development on these games and, hopefully, more LPCs ahead!

Also see our press release announcing the winners.

27 new GNU releases this month (as of January 24, 2012):

autogen-5.17.1
gnunet-0.9.5
mtools-4.0.18
automake-1.13.1
groff-1.22.1
nettle-2.6
cgicc-3.2.10
gsrc-2013.01.06
parallel-20130122
freeipmi-1.2.4
help2man-1.41.1
pycdio-0.18
gawk-4.0.2
libcdio-paranoia-10.2+0.90
pyconfigure-0.1.1
gettext-0.18.2
libmicrohttpd-0.9.24
remotecontrol-1.0
glibc-2.17
libopts-37.0.12
sharutils-4.13.3
gnu-ghostscript-9.06.0
mifluz-0.25.0
sipwitch-1.5.0 gnun-0.7
motti-3.0.1
solfege-3.20.8

To get announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu. Nearly all GNU software is available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors (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.

We welcome Lucas Bonnet as a new co-maintainer of GNU EMMS, Stephen Dawson as the maintainer of the new package remotecontrol (first release already made), Holger Hans Peter Freyther as the new maintainer of GNU Smalltalk, Shaunak Shaha as the new maintainer of GNU DDD, and Jose Marchesi as the new maintainer of GNU sed (in addition to the many things he already does).

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. To submit new packages to the GNU operating system, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

As always, please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.

The price of the Bison Manual reduced to $13.

To make room for the updated version, GNU Press is slashing the price of the Bison Manual, version 1.875 by nearly 50%! The manual is great for C programmers or students interested in learning about and implementing a wide variety of language parsers.

If you can't find something in the store but think we should offer it, please add your suggestion to our Ideas page. And remember, associate members of the Free Software Foundation get a 20% discount on all purchases made through the GNU Press store, so if you are not a member already, join today!

To keep up with announcements about new products available in the GNU Press store, subscribe to the mailing list.

StatusNet is free software microblogging, similar to Twitter but without requiring nonfree JavaScript or trust in a single Web site. Unlike Twitter, we don't all have to be using the same server to read each other's messages, making it function more like email.

The Free Software Foundation has launched status.fsf.org, our own StatusNet instance. The new instance is part of our efforts to promote decentralized, federated communication using free software. And it has the added benefit of being licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License.

We are now posting exclusively from our accounts at status.fsf.org/fsf for FSF updates and status.fsf.org/dbd for the Defective by Design campaign. If you have been following us on identi.ca, or want to start following us now, you can follow these simple instructions to subscribe to our new accounts. Once you subscribe, our posts will appear in your identi.ca (or StatusNet instance) feed as usual.

1. Visit status.fsf.org/fsf.
2. Hit subscribe.
3. Enter username@identi.ca into the box that appears, and hit subscribe.
4. It will ask you to confirm. Hit 'Confirm'.
5. Repeat with status.fsf.org/dbd.

Many FSF staff members are also using status.fsf.org -- look for us individually there as well.

Thanks for subscribing! We'll do our best to keep you up-to-date on all the latest in the free software movement.

We're excited to announce that registration is now open for LibrePlanet 2013: "Commit Change."

LibrePlanet is a yearly conference where the global free software community comes together to learn from each other, face challenges and welcome newcomers. This year, the conference focuses on bringing together the diverse voices that have a stake in free software, from software developers to activists, academics to computer users. The theme is called "Commit Change," and it's about drawing ideas from everyone to create the software freedom we need.

If you're an FSF associate member, you can sign up now at no cost! Otherwise, we invite you to become a member for gratis admission and a host of other benefits, including an account on our brand new Jabber chat server. You can also attend the conference at the non-member rate.

We're excited to feature a keynote address by Karen Sandler, executive director of the GNOME Foundation and renowned software freedom advocate. The conference will also feature workshops in using free programs, talks and discussion panels with free software luminaries, plentiful networking opportunities and a pre-conference social gathering. In addition to Karen, the program includes sessions with Stefano Zacchiroli, Project Leader at Debian, Wendy Seltzer of the W3C, and our own Richard Stallman.

If you're interested in technology's role in struggles for justice, community, and freedom, then you will find a lot to be excited about at LibrePlanet. Join us at LibrePlanet 2013 and help Commit Change.

Register for the conference now or become a member to attend at no cost.

Hope to see you at LibrePlanet!

Zak Rogoff,
Campaigns Manager

PS: Today is the very last day of our recruitment drive, and we're very close to reaching our goal of 120 new members. If you become a member today, you'll help us shatter our goal and do more for software freedom in 2013.