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Ongoing work to improve governance at the FSF

From March 29th

Since the announcement that FSF founder Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS)
was returning to the FSF board of directors, the board has been working
hard on efforts to make the FSF more transparent and responsive to the
needs of the free software community. The changes in the operations
and leadership of the FSF are still ongoing as of this writing, and
new announcements will continue to be released over the coming weeks;
please watch https://www.fsf.org/news and FSF social media
accounts for continued updates. Changes to
the FSF's bylaws and structure need to be done with great care, but
the board is moving with urgency. We do read all of the feedback sent
to us at info@fsf.org.

• https://www.fsf.org/news/preliminary-board-statement-on-fsf-governance


• https://www.fsf.org/news/update-on-work-to-improve-governance-at-the-fsf


• https://www.fsf.org/news/welcoming-ian-kelling-to-staff-seat-on-fsfs-board-of-directors


• https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-from-the-fsf-board-of-directors-meeting-on-march-29-2021

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Free Software Awards winners announced: CiviCRM, Bradley Kuhn, and Alyssa Rosenzweig


• LibrePlanet 2021 day one: Taking action to empower users


• LibrePlanet day two: Empowering users in real and virtual space


• GNOME 40 release


• MediaGoblin 0.11.0: Punky Magmalian


• FSFE launches the Router Freedom Activity Package


• Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20,000 euros in damages


• Introducing Ingestum


• GNU Mes 0.23 released


• March GNU Emacs news


• Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory


• LibrePlanet featured resource: Hardware/Reverse Engineering


• GNU Spotlight with Mike Gerwitz: 14 new GNU releases!


• FSF and other free software events


• Thank GNUs!


• GNU copyright contributions


• Translations of the Free Software Supporter


• Take action with the FSF!

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Free Software Awards winners announced: CiviCRM, Bradley Kuhn, and Alyssa Rosenzweig

From March 20th

At the end of day one of the LibrePlanet conference, the FSF announced
the recipients of the 2020 Free Software Awards, which are given
annually to groups and individuals in the free software community who
have made significant contributions to the cause for software
freedom. This year's recipients of the awards are CiviCRM, Bradley
Kuhn, and Alyssa Rosenzweig. As the ceremony was conducted virtually
this year, each winner selected the person they wished to present them
the award.

• https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-awards-winners-announced-civicrm-bradley-kuhn-and-alyssa-rosenzweig

LibrePlanet 2021 day one: Taking action to empower users

From March 20th

Part of the purpose, and the joy, of a yearly conference is the
opportunity to create and reinforce personal connections across the
free software community. Lasting friendships and professional
relationships are born in conference hallways, and these relationships
are part of what has caused the free software movement to grow and
thrive over the last four decades. This is why, prior to 2020, we
always emphasized in-person attendance, and why it was crucial to add
social elements to the 2021 conference.

That’s why the 2021 conference included a new space called
LibreAdventure. Made using a fork of the most recent free version of
the WorkAdventure program, LibreAdventure provided virtual physical
session rooms and “hallway space,” as well as an exhibitor hall, which
popped up video chat when your adorable avatar bumps into another
avatar onscreen. Roaming the verdant little islands floating in space,
you might bump into the last person whose talk inspired you, or make a
new friend.

• https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/libreplanet-2021-day-one-taking-action-to-empower-users


• https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/virtual-libreplanet-is-full-of-space-to-explore


• https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/lets-get-excited-the-libreplanet-2021-schedule-is-here

LibrePlanet day two: Empowering users in real and virtual space

From March 21st

LibrePlanet 2021 got over 1,250 registrations, welcomed at least 450
attendees at once at the highest point, and saw up to 350 different
explorers in LibreAdventure alone. We also have some impressive
Minetest artworks to commemorate the experience. We owe tremendous
thanks to all of our attendees, our speakers, and our generous
sponsors and exhibitors.

Videos from LibrePlanet will be posted on our GNU
MediaGoblin and
PeerTube pages at
some point in the next few weeks.

• https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/libreplanet-day-two-empowering-users-in-real-and-virtual-space

GNOME 40 release

From March 24th by the GNOME Project

We are proud to announce the release of GNOME 40. This release is the
first to follow our new versioning scheme. It brings a new design for
the Activities overview and improved support for input with Compose
sequences and keyboard shortcuts, among many other
things. Improvements to core GNOME applications include a redesigned
Weather application, information popups in Maps, better tabs in Web,
and many more.

• https://foundation.gnome.org/2021/03/24/gnome-40-release/

MediaGoblin 0.11.0: Punky Magmalian

From March 10th by Ben Sturmfels

This release of MediaGoblin removes support for Python 2 and marks the
end of five years of concurrent support for both Python 2 and Python
3. That’s a major achievement, so congratulations to everyone who
contributed.

• https://mediagoblin.org/news/mediagoblin-0.11.0-release.html

FSFE launches the Router Freedom Activity Package

From March 30th by Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)

In the context of reform of telecommunication laws, European Union
member states are currently implementing legislation with direct
impact on router freedom. The FSFE has launched an activity package
for organizations and individuals to raise awareness and empower them
to advocate for users' device sovereignty in their countries.

• https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210330-01.en.html

Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20,000 euros in damages

From March 3rd by FSFE

In a historic judgment in Italy, in a case initiated by FSFE supporter
Luca Bonissi, Lenovo was ordered to pay 20,000 euros in damages for
abusive behavior in denying a refund of the price of a pre-installed
Windows license.

• https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210302-01.en.html

Introducing Ingestum

From March 21st by Sorcero

At the LibrePlanet conference on Sunday, Sorcero announced their
unified text ingestion framework that supports sourcing and
transformation of a wide variety of data and document types into a
uniform document format. Written in Python and built around reusable,
programmable pipelines, Ingestum is largely agnostic of both source
and output formats and is designed to be extended through the use of
plugins; it can be deployed as a command line tool or as a Web
service. Ingestion of content from a variety formats is a challenge
the Ingestum framework meets: it is methodical, reusable, extensible,
and scalable.

• https://www.sorcero.com/blog/introducing-ingestum

GNU Mes 0.23 released

From March 14th by Jan Nieuwenhuizen

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Mes 0.23, representing 125
commits over one year by four people. Mes was ported to ARM, and can
now be used in the GNU Guix Reduced Binary Seed bootstrap as described
here:
https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/.

• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-03/msg00002.html

March GNU Emacs news

From March 29th by Sacha Chua

In these issues: Emacs init performance analysis; the ins and outs of
setf; how to create your own color theme; evil motion training; a
short write up on org-mode; and more!

• 2021-03-29


• 2021-03-22


• 2021-03-15


• 2021-03-08


• 2021-03-01

Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory

Tens of thousands of people visit directory.fsf.org each month to
discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth
of useful information, from basic category and descriptions to version
control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing. The Free Software
Directory has been a great resource to software users over the past
decade, but it needs your help staying up-to-date with new and
exciting free software projects.

To help, join our weekly IRC meetings on Fridays. Meetings take place
in the #fsf channel on irc.freenode.org, and usually include a handful
of regulars as well as newcomers. Freenode is accessible from any IRC
client -- Everyone's welcome!

The next meeting is Friday, April 9, from 12pm to 3pm EST (16:00 to
19:00 UTC). Details here:

• https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page

LibrePlanet featured resource: Hardware/Reverse Engineering

Every month on the LibrePlanet
wiki, we highlight one
resource that is interesting and useful -- often one that could use
your help.

For this month, we are highlighting Hardware/Reverse Engineering,
which provides information about hardware that must be
reverse-engineered in order to be liberated. You are invited to adopt,
spread and improve this important resource.

• https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/ReverseEngineering

Do you have a suggestion for next month's featured resource? Let us
know at campaigns@fsf.org.

GNU Spotlight with Mike Gerwitz: 14 new GNU releases!

14 new GNU releases in the last month (as of March 25, 2021):

• bison-3.7.6


• denemo-2.5.0


• emacs-27.2


• gama-2.01


• gama-2.14


• help2man-1.48.2


• intlfonts-1.4.2


• mes-0.23


• mit-scheme-11.2


• nano-5.6.1


• nettle-3.7.2


• parallel-20210322


• poke-1.1


• zile-2.6.1

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

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

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a
whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance: please see
https://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to
help. The general page on how to help GNU is at
https://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
https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

FSF and other free software events

• July 21-25, 2021, online,
  GUADEC

Thank GNUs!

We appreciate everyone who donates to the Free Software Foundation,
and we'd like to give special recognition to the folks who have
donated $500 or more in the last month.

• https://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/2021supporters.html

This month, a big Thank GNU to:

• Adam Oberbeck


• Alan Stein


• Amir Taaki


• Andy Kopra


• Daniel de Vries


• David Lecompte


• Dmitrii Kashin


• Edgar Dragon


• James Wilson


• Jan Huwald


• Johannes Truschnigg


• Michael Taht


• Ole Tange


• Theodore Bugnet


• Yuchen Pei

You can add your name to this list by donating at
https://donate.fsf.org/.

GNU copyright contributions

Assigning your copyright to the Free Software Foundation helps us
defend the GNU GPL and keep software free. The following individuals
have assigned their copyright to the FSF (and allowed public
appreciation) in the past month:

• Anand Tamariya (Emacs)


• Andrew Whatson (Guile)


• Brian Cully (Emacs)


• Carlos Morales Socorro (Gnuastro)


• Miha Rihtarsic (Emacs)

Want to see your name on this list? Contribute to GNU and assign your
copyright to the FSF.

• https://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#dev

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