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These positions are unpaid, but the FSF will provide any appropriate documentation you might need to receive funding and school credit from outside sources. We also provide lunch expense reimbursement and a monthly transportation pass that will give you free access to local subways and buses (MBTA). We place an emphasis on providing hands-on educational opportunities for interns, in which they work closely with staff mentors on projects that match their skills and interest.

Interns can choose from the following fields of work:

• Campaigns team interns might focus on privacy, encryption, or expanding and updating our outreach. Or, the International Day Against DRM (IDAD) offers a great opportunity to design and run a large part of a full campaign.

• Licensing team interns might assist with the Respects Your Freedom hardware product certification program. Or, they might work to improve the Free Software Directory or analyze the compatibility of other licenses with the GPL.

• Tech team interns may choose from our current list of projects, or suggest one of their own. A past sysadmin intern did extensive work to set up a GNU social instance; others created HUBAngl for easy video streaming, worked on porting LibreJS to WebExtensions, penetration tested our network, and researched Ceph distributed object storage and the freedom status of single board computers.

Summer internships start in June and typically run for a period of twelve weeks. We prefer candidates who are able to work in our Boston office, but may consider remote interns. The deadline to apply is April 30.

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One of the most important questions that free software is facing in the year 2019 is: how do we make the world of free software accessible to broader audiences? Vast numbers of people are using software every day -- how do we relate our message to something that is important to them, and then welcome them into our community? In order to achieve our mission, we need to invite people and get them to use, create, and proliferate ethical software, until it replaces until all technology is free.

Many of the best talks at LibrePlanet 2019 echoed a message for the free software community to focus on building a culture that's respectful and encouraging for new people, respecting a wide variety of personalities and values. The first way to get people invested in the culture of free software is to make it fun, and that was the focus of the morning keynote, "Freedom is fun!", delivered by free software veteran Bdale Garbee. A prominent name in the free software world for decades, Bdale talked about how he has a habit of turning all of his hobbies into free software projects, starting with model rockets.

He detailed how some of the most prominent changes made to free software are made by people working through one particular problem and creating a unique solution that is valuable to them. The joy of experimenting and the magic of constantly improving systems through "people scratching their unique itches" provide far greater benefits than any company could ever create through the closed model of proprietary software. Bdale also stressed the value of inviting new people, as well as thanking people for their contributions. He urged all free software users and contributors to have fun, use your hobbies and interests as a way to experiment and develop, and to not hoard these new ideas... instead, share them!

Other morning sessions included Kate Chapman's presentation on the history and future of Free Software Award-winning OpenStreetMap, as well as Micah Altman's introduction to the important possibilities presented by the free software redistricting application DistrictBuilder. In another talk, on "Right to Repair and the DMCA," Nathan Proctor outlined how our right to repair and maintain products is a free software issue as well as an environmental issue. The throwaway culture is a direct consequence of the manufacturer's choice to restrict diagnostics and repair of any product owned by the individual.

In her talk on the "meta-rules for codes of conduct," Katheryn Sutter returned to the theme of inclusiveness by prying open many distinctions in the ways that free software enthusiasts and other communities can communicate well, and communicate poorly, and enumerating some of the ways we can come together in respectful and productive ways. Although we all agree on many values within the free software community, we may disagree on others, and it's hard to create codes of conduct that will satisfy everyone, across a variety of experiences and backgrounds. The idea of the code of conduct, then, is not to eliminate all disagreement or stifle participants; Sutter emphasized that the goal is to "create and protect safe places for conflict."

Sunday afternoon, Free Software Award winner and community-building champion Deborah Nicholson delivered a talk on "Free software/utopia," using examples from her work on GNU MediaGoblin, Outreachy, and other free software initiatives to demonstrate how to create and maintain projects that attract and welcome newcomers, and reward the time and care invested by contributors. She highlighted her efforts to consciously sustain a positive development environment; in her opinion, it's better for a project to lose one big contributor whose behavior is detrimental to the community than any small contributor who treats others with consideration.

Next came the Lightning Talks session, which provided attendees with an opportunity to give a five-minute presentation on their work and their ideas. Topics ranged from how we're facing an existential crisis because fewer hardware and firmware products fully support the use of free software, to how Purism managed to design a fully functioning Librem 5 Dev Kit with 100% free software. Projects shared included Mission Possible, a primary school program teaching children the four freedoms the FSF promotes, and Vegan on a Desert Island, a free software video game project answering the common question of what a vegan would do when stranded on a desert island. Blueprint, a team of UC Berkeley students working pro bono for nonprofits, talked about the mobile app that they're building for the Free Software Foundation. All of these talks gave a glimpse into the knowledge and creativity shared by the free software community -- the scheduled conference talks only scratch the surface of all of the multifaceted work that our supporters do every day!

Finally, the day ended on a bracing and sobering note with a keynote speech from Micky Metts, a prominent free software activist and member of the Agaric Design Collective, the MayFirst.org leadership committee, and Drupal. In her speech "How can we prevent the Orwellian 1984 digital world?", Micky talked about what's truly at stake if we fail in our efforts to make all software free: corporate technological entities already are intruding into our private lives in some truly terrifying ways, and the situation will only get worse if our movement doesn't grow and change for the better. Ultimately, free software must form the foundation of a movement to regain our personal power.

Over 289 people participated in LibrePlanet 2019, which was powered by 53 amazing volunteers, who ensured that everything from video streaming to IRC chats went smoothly. We also gave away raffle prizes generously donated by Vikings GmBH, Technoethical, Aleph Objects, ThinkPenguin, JMP, Altus Metrum, LLC, and Aeronaut, and we're extremely grateful to our generous sponsors, including Red Hat and Private Internet Access.

Between Saturday and Sunday, there were 66 speakers and over 40 sessions. Videos will be posted soon at https://media.libreplanet.org, so keep an eye out for announcements -- whether you were here in Cambridge, watched the livestream, or missed LibrePlanet entirely, there's so much more you'll want to see! And if you were at the conference, please fill out the feedback form, so we can make next year's LibrePlanet even better.

Photo credits: Copyright © 2019 Free Software Foundation, by Madi Muhlberg, photos licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

On day one of LibrePlanet 2019, we welcomed 264 attendees to the Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Techology (MIT). The LibrePlanet conference has now entered its second decade, and as software infiltrates more and more of daily life, there are many new and important ethical, social, legal, and technological questions to answer. Today's sessions examined the theme of "Trailblazing Free Software" from many different angles, addressing how we can apply the practical advantages of free software while maintaining and defending the indispensable principles behind it.

LibrePlanet 2019 kicked off on Saturday, March 23rd with a moving, urgent keynote by Tarek Loubani, an emergency physician who splits his time between Canada and the Gaza Strip, focusing on the production and proliferation of free medical devices. Loubani's work involves gaining self-sufficiency and local independence for medical systems through the use of free techniques.

Dr. Loubani described his journey from seeing change as the work of superheroes to a point of understanding change as built by millions of "tiny ants," working collaboratively to improve how we live. Beginning with stethoscopes, Dr. Loubani and other determined medical professionals and designers created free designs to 3D print cheap but high-quality medical devices, which can save lives in Gaza and other war-torn regions around the world. While many of the stories he told were tragic, Dr. Loubani's talk ended on a hopeful note, celebrating the dignity and ingenuity of the Palestinian people, and connecting it to the vibrancy and importance of the free software movement.

Videos of this talk and others will be available soon, at the LibrePlanet GNU MediaGoblin page.

Throughout the day, there were over two dozen talks, spanning a wide range of topics relating to software freedom and user freedom. Chris Lamb and Do Yoon Kim addressed the importance of copyleft licenses in their talks "Redis Labs and the tragedy of the Commons Clause" and "GPL enforcement and customer benefits: Evidence from OpenWRT." Speakers introduced attendees to global frontiers (and barriers) of free software with their talks on "Sharing global opportunities for new developers in the Wikipedia community," "Hackerspace Rancho Electrónico," and "Australia's decryption law and free software." A panel of organizers, developers, and collaborators explored the possibilities opened up by the Internet for large, decentralized groups of people from around the world to collaborate with each other in "Large-scale collaboration with free software." And longtime LibrePlanet contributor Andrew Oram explained what he describes as the "seemingly unstoppable ascendance of a few large corporations in computing" in his talk, "Technical drivers of "cloud" centralization and megacorporate domination."

There was space for some more lighthearted discussion as well: in his talk "Free software for safe and happy chickens," Adam Monsen introduced the audience to his awesome free-software-powered chicken door, which of course utilizes only free software. You can, of course, purchase a light-activated chicken door online, but it's so much more fun to figure out how to make it work on your own, and get your kids involved too! Amanda Sopkin's talk on the colorful history of encryption methods was also full of fun factoids -- for instance, the bombe machine used by British and Polish cryptographers to decipher German messages during World War II weighed a ton and had 12 miles of wiring!

At the end of the day, Free Software Foundation (FSF) president Richard Stallman announced the winners of the 2018 Free Software Awards, celebrating an individual's ongoing commitment to user freedom (the Award for the Advancement of Free Software) and the work of a free software project that has created significant social good (the Award for Projects of Social Benefit).

Deborah Nicholson, dedicated community advocate and free software activist, received the Award for the Advancement of Free Software. And OpenStreetMap chairperson and co-founder of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), Kate Chapman, accepted the Award for Projects of Social Benefit on behalf of OpenStreetMap.

In addition to her role as the director of community operations at the Software Freedom Conservancy, Deborah has served as the membership coordinator for the Free Software Foundation. She’s done outstanding volunteer work with GNU MediaGoblin, a federated media-publishing platform, and OpenHatch, free software's welcoming committee, and she continues her work as a founding organizer of the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference, an annual event dedicated to surfacing new voices and welcoming new people to the free software community. Plus, she has delivered some truly terrific LibrePlanet talks, including last year's keynote speech, "Free software forever."

OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Founded by Steve Coast in the UK in 2004, OpenStreetMap is built by a community of over one million community members and has found its application on thousands of Web sites, mobile apps, and hardware devices. OpenStreetMap is the only truly global service without restrictions on use or availability of map information.

At the end of the Free Software Awards presentation, we presented raffle prize bundles to three lucky winners, which included a Technoethical S3 smartphone and a Technoethical T400S laptop! Congratulations, and thank you Technoethical, Vikings, and ThinkPenguin for donating these terrific prizes!

Don't forget, if you're not attending tomorrow, you can still participate via IRC through your IRC client or our Web IRC interface, powered by Kiwi IRC, or via voice chat on our Mumble server. You can also tune in to watch all of the LibrePlanet sessions at our livestream page.

We're so grateful to our amazing little army of volunteers, our exhibitors, and our generous sponsors, Red Hat and Private Internet Access, for helping us put on this yearly celebration of free software. We hope that all of our participants, both on-site at MIT and watching from afar, are having a fun and educational time at LibrePlanet. See you tomorrow!

Photo credits: Copyright © 2019 Free Software Foundation, by Madi Muhlberg, photos licensed under CC-BY 4.0.

It's almost time for LibrePlanet -- the Free Software Foundation annual conference and associate members' meeting -- and we couldn't be more excited! There is so much going on at the conference, great events in the evenings, a raffle, an exhibit hall, and an amazing collection of free software enthusiasts from around the world. We hope to see you there! Registration may be closed, but you can still register for the conference on-site, space permitting.

In the event you can't make it to LibrePlanet, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, there are ways to get involved! We have three ways to enable remote participation: IRC, mumble, and, of course, the livestream. We provide these resources, along with video streaming, so that free software supporters who are unable to travel to the US for economic and/or political reasons are still able to participate.

IRC

You can log onto IRC through your IRC client or our Web IRC interface, powered by Kiwi IRC. You have four options for channels: A general #libreplanet chat, and then a chat for each of our three session rooms. Volunteers will be on hand at the conference to help you ask questions submitted over IRC during the Q&A section of talks.

Mumble

If you prefer to talk over voice chat rather than typing, you can use Mumble to communicate with other free software supporters on-site or remotely. Mumble is a free software voice chat system, and we're hosting our own Mumble server for the duration of the conference. Rather than just typing to other in person and remote attendees, you can now chat over voice as well. There will be a dedicated computer that is set up and connected to Mumble in the exhibit hall at the conference, which you can use.

Livestream

As we do every year, we will be streaming and recording every session using our entirely free software system. You can watch the livestream online. recordings will be available after the conference via GNU Media Goblin.

T-shirts

Whether you're at the conference or watching from home, you can remember your LibrePlanet 2019 experience with this year's conference T-shirt. If you'll be there, you can pick it up in person. If you won't be in attendance, we can still ship you a shirt after the conference. Please note that quantities are limited, and we won't know until after the conference if we can fulfill every order.

Thank you to our sponsors!

LibrePlanet 2019 is supported by several generous sponsors. Big thanks to Red Hat and Private Internet Access!

We look forward to seeing you this weekend, whether in person or online.