Mon Dec 2 08:51:34 2024
EVENTS
 FREE
SOFTWARE
INSTITUTE

POLITICS
JOBS
MEMBERS'
CORNER

MAILING
LIST

NYLXS Mailing Lists and Archives
NYLXS Members have a lot to say and share but we don't keep many secrets. Join the Hangout Mailing List and say your peice.

DATE 2023-08-01

HANGOUT

2024-12-02 | 2024-11-02 | 2024-10-02 | 2024-09-02 | 2024-08-02 | 2024-07-02 | 2024-06-02 | 2024-05-02 | 2024-04-02 | 2024-03-02 | 2024-02-02 | 2024-01-02 | 2023-12-02 | 2023-11-02 | 2023-10-02 | 2023-09-02 | 2023-08-02 | 2023-07-02 | 2023-06-02 | 2023-05-02 | 2023-04-02 | 2023-03-02 | 2023-02-02 | 2023-01-02 | 2022-12-02 | 2022-11-02 | 2022-10-02 | 2022-09-02 | 2022-08-02 | 2022-07-02 | 2022-06-02 | 2022-05-02 | 2022-04-02 | 2022-03-02 | 2022-02-02 | 2022-01-02 | 2021-12-02 | 2021-11-02 | 2021-10-02 | 2021-09-02 | 2021-08-02 | 2021-07-02 | 2021-06-02 | 2021-05-02 | 2021-04-02 | 2021-03-02 | 2021-02-02 | 2021-01-02 | 2020-12-02 | 2020-11-02 | 2020-10-02 | 2020-09-02 | 2020-08-02 | 2020-07-02 | 2020-06-02 | 2020-05-02 | 2020-04-02 | 2020-03-02 | 2020-02-02 | 2020-01-02 | 2019-12-02 | 2019-11-02 | 2019-10-02 | 2019-09-02 | 2019-08-02 | 2019-07-02 | 2019-06-02 | 2019-05-02 | 2019-04-02 | 2019-03-02 | 2019-02-02 | 2019-01-02 | 2018-12-02 | 2018-11-02 | 2018-10-02 | 2018-09-02 | 2018-08-02 | 2018-07-02 | 2018-06-02 | 2018-05-02 | 2018-04-02 | 2018-03-02 | 2018-02-02 | 2018-01-02 | 2017-12-02 | 2017-11-02 | 2017-10-02 | 2017-09-02 | 2017-08-02 | 2017-07-02 | 2017-06-02 | 2017-05-02 | 2017-04-02 | 2017-03-02 | 2017-02-02 | 2017-01-02 | 2016-12-02 | 2016-11-02 | 2016-10-02 | 2016-09-02 | 2016-08-02 | 2016-07-02 | 2016-06-02 | 2016-05-02 | 2016-04-02 | 2016-03-02 | 2016-02-02 | 2016-01-02 | 2015-12-02 | 2015-11-02 | 2015-10-02 | 2015-09-02 | 2015-08-02 | 2015-07-02 | 2015-06-02 | 2015-05-02 | 2015-04-02 | 2015-03-02 | 2015-02-02 | 2015-01-02 | 2014-12-02 | 2014-11-02 | 2014-10-02 | 2014-09-02 | 2014-08-02 | 2014-07-02 | 2014-06-02 | 2014-05-02 | 2014-04-02 | 2014-03-02 | 2014-02-02 | 2014-01-02 | 2013-12-02 | 2013-11-02 | 2013-10-02 | 2013-09-02 | 2013-08-02 | 2013-07-02 | 2013-06-02 | 2013-05-02 | 2013-04-02 | 2013-03-02 | 2013-02-02 | 2013-01-02 | 2012-12-02 | 2012-11-02 | 2012-10-02 | 2012-09-02 | 2012-08-02 | 2012-07-02 | 2012-06-02 | 2012-05-02 | 2012-04-02 | 2012-03-02 | 2012-02-02 | 2012-01-02 | 2011-12-02 | 2011-11-02 | 2011-10-02 | 2011-09-02 | 2011-08-02 | 2011-07-02 | 2011-06-02 | 2011-05-02 | 2011-04-02 | 2011-03-02 | 2011-02-02 | 2011-01-02 | 2010-12-02 | 2010-11-02 | 2010-10-02 | 2010-09-02 | 2010-08-02 | 2010-07-02 | 2010-06-02 | 2010-05-02 | 2010-04-02 | 2010-03-02 | 2010-02-02 | 2010-01-02 | 2009-12-02 | 2009-11-02 | 2009-10-02 | 2009-09-02 | 2009-08-02 | 2009-07-02 | 2009-06-02 | 2009-05-02 | 2009-04-02 | 2009-03-02 | 2009-02-02 | 2009-01-02 | 2008-12-02 | 2008-11-02 | 2008-10-02 | 2008-09-02 | 2008-08-02 | 2008-07-02 | 2008-06-02 | 2008-05-02 | 2008-04-02 | 2008-03-02 | 2008-02-02 | 2008-01-02 | 2007-12-02 | 2007-11-02 | 2007-10-02 | 2007-09-02 | 2007-08-02 | 2007-07-02 | 2007-06-02 | 2007-05-02 | 2007-04-02 | 2007-03-02 | 2007-02-02 | 2007-01-02 | 2006-12-02 | 2006-11-02 | 2006-10-02 | 2006-09-02 | 2006-08-02 | 2006-07-02 | 2006-06-02 | 2006-05-02 | 2006-04-02 | 2006-03-02 | 2006-02-02 | 2006-01-02 | 2005-12-02 | 2005-11-02 | 2005-10-02 | 2005-09-02 | 2005-08-02 | 2005-07-02 | 2005-06-02 | 2005-05-02 | 2005-04-02 | 2005-03-02 | 2005-02-02 | 2005-01-02 | 2004-12-02 | 2004-11-02 | 2004-10-02 | 2004-09-02 | 2004-08-02 | 2004-07-02 | 2004-06-02 | 2004-05-02 | 2004-04-02 | 2004-03-02 | 2004-02-02 | 2004-01-02 | 2003-12-02 | 2003-11-02 | 2003-10-02 | 2003-09-02 | 2003-08-02 | 2003-07-02 | 2003-06-02 | 2003-05-02 | 2003-04-02 | 2003-03-02 | 2003-02-02 | 2003-01-02 | 2002-12-02 | 2002-11-02 | 2002-10-02 | 2002-09-02 | 2002-08-02 | 2002-07-02 | 2002-06-02 | 2002-05-02 | 2002-04-02 | 2002-03-02 | 2002-02-02 | 2002-01-02 | 2001-12-02 | 2001-11-02 | 2001-10-02 | 2001-09-02 | 2001-08-02 | 2001-07-02 | 2001-06-02 | 2001-05-02 | 2001-04-02 | 2001-03-02 | 2001-02-02 | 2001-01-02 | 2000-12-02 | 2000-11-02 | 2000-10-02 | 2000-09-02 | 2000-08-02 | 2000-07-02 | 2000-06-02 | 2000-05-02 | 2000-04-02 | 2000-03-02 | 2000-02-02 | 2000-01-02 | 1999-12-02

Key: Value:

Key: Value:

MESSAGE
DATE 2023-08-01
FROM From: "Free Software Foundation"
SUBJECT Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Free Software Supporter -- Issue 184, August 2023
From hangout-bounces-at-nylxs.com Tue Aug 1 16:25:33 2023
Return-Path:
X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com
Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com
Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (www2.mrbrklyn.com [96.57.23.82])
by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A2A1640A1;
Tue, 1 Aug 2023 16:25:29 -0400 (EDT)
X-Original-To: hangout-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com
Delivered-To: hangout-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com
Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000)
id 476CB16409E; Tue, 1 Aug 2023 16:25:24 -0400 (EDT)
Resent-From: Ruben Safir
Resent-Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 16:25:24 -0400
Resent-Message-ID: <20230801202524.GA9395-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com>
Resent-To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
X-Original-To: ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com
Delivered-To: ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com
Received: from mailout0p.fsf.org (mailout0p.fsf.org [209.51.188.184])
(using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits))
(Client did not present a certificate)
by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8A51816406E
for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2023 12:40:34 -0400 (EDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=fsf.org;
s=mailout0p-fsf-org; h=Date:To:Subject:From:MIME-Version:in-reply-to:
references; bh=Q+ImVh80OEZAV5FrKDoFyILGgLaFVTosRP1cHmcWHBU=; b=QOcWVKZxKXHTzI
+iVPqyeG4E8Cdiqrmlhul8Ltm124j5MwGyVB0g1CmWFGNSSpjYJGDJcw2yfddIcnAkf2xE4ccOzjW
gBAFFt500jpv4Yhe9UzNJcinmw5X81Krh0kuOnsScDc0JQ5+vjGTOWCoDgf8zp3XRvBOEo6+fmqmf
qbc2zDCSkQd84TvPmP+qRkzf1/L1YsA2NYcZkhC3KjS1IEfrbWwbA2sNmt8T4m10CCcyY1FZ92W8g
Z9j18k1RibDZjzkrsRJhnQyQb3r5bkx+Skc4Co/53UniGEQBtdrePXOOKXTRa2iH+LdnwWR/zgRTk
tP2bnXibLYyN9LBp2l5A==;
Received: from crmserver2p.fsf.org ([2001:470:142:5::223])
by mailout0p.fsf.org with esmtps (TLS1.2) tls
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93)
(envelope-from )
id 1qQsQD-00Fsck-Eo
for ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com; Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:40:33 -0400
Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=my.fsf.org)
by crmserver2p.fsf.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1)
(envelope-from )
id 1qQsQD-000666-5v
for ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com; Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:40:33 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: "Free Software Foundation"
job_id: 167343
To: Ruben Safir
Precedence: bulk
X-CiviMail-Bounce: crmmailer+b.167343.84132775.1c5eaaca05e39203-at-fsf.org
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:40:33 -0400
Message-Id:
Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Free Software Supporter -- Issue 184, August 2023
X-BeenThere: hangout-at-nylxs.com
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.30rc1
List-Id: NYLXS Tech Talk and Politics
List-Unsubscribe: ,

List-Archive:
List-Post:
List-Help:
List-Subscribe: ,

Reply-To: Free Software Foundation
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0783302050=="
Errors-To: hangout-bounces-at-nylxs.com
Sender: "Hangout"

--===============0783302050==
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="=_e747e129bcf8f67c3704ceab627f8321"

--=_e747e129bcf8f67c3704ceab627f8321
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

*Please consider adding to your address book, which
will ensure that our messages reach you and not your spam box.*

*Read and share online: *

Welcome to the *Free Software Supporter*, the Free Software
Foundation's (FSF) monthly news digest and action update -- being read
by you and 231,664 other activists.

### When we work together, we achieve our goals

*From July 31*

July 28, 2023 marked the end of our most recent associate member
drive. We appreciate the community that helped us extend our reach,
are proud of every single associate member who is supporting our work,
and are immensely thankful for all the donations we received. This
membership drive started slow, so we called for your help, and you
answered our call: we saw a surge of forty-five new associate members
in the week of the extension -- for a total of 111 new members joining
since the launch of the member drive. This shows once more: **when we
work together we can achieve our goals.** A big thank you to all those
who shared our appeal, put our banner on their websites, and/or gifted
memberships to their friends or family members. Every new member is
one person more who proudly carries the free software message into the
world.

*
*

## TABLE OF CONTENTS

* "Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet
* From pro-democracy activists to minorities: Why people use Tor and encrypted chats
* The campaigns team and the community work together for free software
* The second round of FSF board candidate discussions started July 24
* Spring *Bulletin*: From privacy-respecting browser extensions to natural disaster relief
* Look behind the scenes of the FSF tech team
* Working together for free software licensing
* RISC-V finds its foothold
* Software freedom & trademarks: Examining Rust's new policy through the lens of free software history
* July GNU Emacs news
* Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
* LibrePlanet featured resource: LibrePlanet Pages that Need Work
* July GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Ten 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!

View this issue online here:

Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience by
adding our subscriber widget to your website.

* Subscribe:
* Widget:

Miss an issue? You can catch up on back issues at
.

Want to read this newsletter translated into another language? Scroll
to the end to read the *Supporter* in French or Spanish.

### "Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet

*From July 28*

Using a free browser is now more important than ever. The so-called
"Web Environment Integrity" (WEI) API, which is poised to restrict
users via their browsers, is the worst stunt we've seen from Google in
some time. Beginning its life as an innocuous, if worrying, policy
document posted to Microsoft GitHub, Google has now fast-tracked its
development into their Chromium browser. At its current rate of
progress, WEI -- which basically amounts to *Digital Restrictions
Management (DRM) in the browser* -- will be upon us in no time. Read
why WEI is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's
latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to
explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.

*

### From pro-democracy activists to minorities: Why people use Tor and encrypted chats

*From July 27*

Read the stories of people who are protecting their privacy with free
software, why they choose freedom and privacy, and why we must
continue to fight to protect our freedoms. Learn about a political
activist who was harassed by her government for speaking up; how
people in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China use the Tor network to access
censored websites like Wikipedia; and how members of the queer
community in Egypt, for example, are increasingly resorting to
encrypted chats in order to keep their communication hidden from the
prying eyes of the police.

*

### The campaigns team and the community work together for free software

*From July 25*

This month, we published three new *Working Together for Free
Software* profiles. While their voices may be those of just a small
fraction of the community, we hope their outstanding dedication to the
free software movement will inspire you. We hope that you'll share
them with others, too, under the #WorkingTogether hashtag. Our first
profile follows two developers, Adrien and Sébastien, from the Free
Software Award-winning GNU Jami project, a free as in freedom solution
for private videoconferencing. Next, we hear from fellow Free Software
Award winner Protesilaos Stavrou on what motivates his work on GNU
Emacs. We round out the updates to the *Working Together* profiles
with an interview of Ali Miracle, a developer with the Uruk
project. Each of these three new profiles comes with an accompanying
article with complete responses to interview questions posed by our
campaigns team.

*
*
*
*

### The second round of FSF board candidate discussions started July 24

The FSF board has chosen a second round of candidates as part of its
board process. All eligible associate members can participate in this
discussion to get involved in the FSF's ongoing search for new board
members. The second round candidates are Luis Guzmán, Maria Chiara
Pievatolo, Markus Schmidt, and Jason Self. As documented in the board
process, FSF associate members are invited to discussions considering
these candidates in the nominee discussion forum. This discussion
round opened on July 24 and is planned to close six weeks
later. Participants must pledge to abide by the participation
agreement.

*
*

### Spring *Bulletin*: From privacy-respecting browser extensions to natural disaster relief

*From July 13*

The 2023 spring *Free Software Foundation Bulletin* is now online!
Read about free software's role in the right to repair movement,
privacy-oriented browser plugin JShelter, a freedom-enabled volunteer
rescue response to an earthquake, an overview of licensing talks from
this year's LibrePlanet, and a report from the FSF's tech team on how
this year's hybrid LibrePlanet was broadcast live with free software.

*

### Look behind the scenes of the FSF tech team

*From July 11*

This article gives a glimpse behind the scenes of recent work done by
the FSF tech team. Read about Prometheus network security, completion
of member data migration from an old system to a new system, system
software upgrades, and other work done by the team to keep critical
infrastructure running reliably every day.

*

### Working together for free software licensing

*From July 6*

Our copyright & licensing associate Craig Topham is continuously
working together with free software developers, lawyers, and
volunteers to assist the community with their licensing questions,
finding hardware that respects your freedom, and keeping the public
informed of interesting free software projects. In this article, Craig
shares some of the accomplishments the Licensing and Compliance Lab
achieved during the last six months.

*

### RISC-V finds its foothold

*From July 28 by Agam Shah*

RISC-V, a processor architecture under a free license, is improving at
an increasingly rapid pace since its debut nearly a decade ago. The
attention it is receiving by developers globally is encouraging to
those of us who use free software and care about their privacy since
it promises to empower us with a replacement for proprietary processor
architectures such Intel and AMD, which [give remote access to their
manufacturers by design](https://u.fsf.org/2fo). This article also
reports on the recent gains made to supporting free software generally
on RISC-V processing architecture.

*

### Software freedom & trademarks: Examining Rust's new policy through the lens of free software history

*From July 27 by Denver Gingerich*

This article, recently published by the Software Freedom Conservancy,
examines the programming language Rust's new trademark policy through
the lens of history. Other similar trademark policies in the past such
as Java's, PHP's, and Mozilla's have had consequences for the free
software community. Inform yourself about this relevant and important
topic by examining these case studies, and use this knowledge to
prepare yourself for the inevitable discussions ahead.

*

### July GNU Emacs news

*From July 31 by Sacha Chua*

In these issues: *What is GNU Emacs* for beginners, displaying an
analog clock and playing Tetris in GNU Emacs, editing Scalar Vector
Graphic (SVG) files, many new MELPA packages, and more!

* [2023-07-03](https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/07/2023-07-03-emacs-news/)
* [2023-07-10](https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/07/2023-07-10-emacs-news/)
* [2023-07-17](https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/07/2023-07-17-emacs-news/)
* [2023-07-24](https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/07/2023-07-24-emacs-news/)

### 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 Libera.Chat, and usually include a handful of
regulars as well as newcomers. Libera.Chat is accessible from any IRC
client -- Everyone's welcome!

The next meeting is Friday, August 4 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to
19:00 UTC). Details here:

*

### LibrePlanet featured resource: LibrePlanet Pages that Need Work

Every month on [the LibrePlanet
wiki](https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Main_Page), we highlight one
resource that is interesting and useful -- often one that could use
your help.

For this month, we are highlighting the LibrePlanet Pages that Need
Work page, which in itself needs some work! You are invited to add to
this page, which is a list of pages from the LibrePlanet wiki that
need work.

*

Also, please join our second ever LibrePlanet Wiki Edit Fest,
happening Wednesday, August 23 from 12:30 to 14:00 EDT (16:30 to
18:00 UTC). Details here:

*

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

### July GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Ten new GNU releases!

Ten new GNU releases in the last month (as of July 27, 2023):

* [dr-geo-23.06a](https://www.gnu.org/software/dr-geo/)
* [gcc-10.5.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/)
* [gcc-13.2.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/)
* [gnupg-2.4.3](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnupg/)
* [groff-1.23.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/)
* [parallel-20230722](https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/)
* [shepherd-0.10.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/)
* [swbis-1.13.3](https://www.gnu.org/software/swbis/)
* [tar-1.35](https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/)
* [tramp-2.6.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/)

*For a full list with descriptions, please see:
*

For announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu
mailing list: .

To download: nearly all GNU software is available most reliably from
. Optionally, you may find faster download
speeds at a mirror located geographically closer to you by choosing
from the list of mirrors published at
, or you may use
to be automatically redirected to a
(hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.

This month, we welcome Adrien Bourmault and Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
as co-maintainers of the new package GNU Boot, a free boot firmware
distribution for initializing your hardware and booting your operating
system.

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a
whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see
if you'd like to
help. The general page on how to help GNU is at
.

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

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

### FSF and other free software events

* August 23, 2023, Online, [LibrePlanet Wiki Edit Fest](https://www.fsf.org/events/2023-08-23-libreplanet-wiki-edit-fest)
* September 27, 2023, Volkhaus, Biel, Switzerland, [GNU 40](https://www.gnu.org/gnu40/)
* October 15-17, 2023, Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, NC, [ATO](https://2023.allthingsopen.org/)
* November 3-4, 2023, Online and Seattle, WA, [SeaGL](https://seagl.org/)
* November 10-11, 2023, NOI Techpark, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, [SFSCon](https://www.sfscon.it/)
* December 2-3, 2023, Online, [EmacsConf](https://emacsconf.org/2023/)

### 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.

*

This month, a big Thank GNU to:

* Antoine Mercadal
* Blue Systems
* Christian Sperr
* David Harding
* Donald Haase
* Eric Lewis
* Félicien Pillot
* Great old one Cthulhu
* John Keith Hohm
* Mr. Pete Batard
* René Genz
* Sondre Steinsland Hegdal

You can add your name to this list by donating at
.

### 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:

* Jeffrey Bencteux (GNU Inetutils)
* John Muhl (GNU Emacs)
* Matheus Branco Borella (GDB)
* Sergey Alexandrovich Bugaev (GCC, GDB, GNU C Library, GNU Hurd, GNU Mach, GNUstep)
* Wang Diancheng (GNU Emacs)

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

*

### Translations of the *Free Software Supporter*

El *Free Software Supporter* está disponible en español. Para ver la
versión en español haz click aquí:


**Para cambiar las preferencias de usuario y recibir los próximos
números del *Supporter* en español, haz click aquí:**


Le *Free Software Supporter* est disponible en français. Pour voir la
version française cliquez ici:


**Pour modifier vos préférences et recevoir les prochaines
publications du *Supporter* en français, cliquez ici:**


### Take action with the FSF!

Contributions from thousands of individual associate members enable
the FSF's work. You can contribute by joining at
. If you're already a member, you can help
refer new members (and earn some rewards) by adding a line with your
member number to your email signature like:

> I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom!
>

The FSF is always looking for
[volunteers](https://www.fsf.org/volunteer). From rabble-rousing to
hacking, from issue coordination to envelope stuffing -- there's
something here for everybody to do. Also, head over to our [campaigns
section](https://www.fsf.org/campaigns) and [take action on software
patents](https://endsoftwarepatents.org/), [Digital Restrictions
Management](https://www.defectivebydesign.org/), [free
software](https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Freedom_Ladder) adoption,
[OpenDocument](https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/download),
and more.

**Do you read and write Portuguese and English?** The FSF is looking
for translators for the *Free Software Supporter*. Please send an
email to with your interest and a list of your
experience and qualifications.

***

Copyright © 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit
.

--
* Follow us on Mastodon at , GNU social at
, PeerTube at , and on Twitter at -at-fsf.
* Read about why we use Twitter, but only with caveats:
* Subscribe to our RSS feeds:
* Join us as an associate member:
* Read our Privacy Policy:

Sent from the Free Software Foundation,

51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02110-1335
United States


You can unsubscribe from this mailing list by visiting

https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=167343&qid=84132775&h=1c5eaaca05e39203.

To stop all email from the Free Software Foundation, including Defective by Design,
and the Free Software Supporter newsletter, visit

https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=167343&qid=84132775&h=1c5eaaca05e39203.
--=_e747e129bcf8f67c3704ceab627f8321
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

































Free Software Foundation







 

Please consider adding info@fsf.org to your address book, which
will ensure that our messages reach you and not your spam box.



Read and share online: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2023/august



Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software
Foundation's (FSF) monthly news digest and action update -- being read
by you and 231,664 other activists.





Photo of eleven of the FSF staff members during LibrePlanet 2023. From left to right: Jeanne, Michael, Greg, Anouk, Craig, Miriam, Devin, Dawn, Andrew, Ruben, Ian



When we work together, we achieve our goals



From July 31



July 28, 2023 marked the end of our most recent associate member
drive. We appreciate the community that helped us extend our reach,
are proud of every single associate member who is supporting our work,
and are immensely thankful for all the donations we received. This
membership drive started slow, so we called for your help, and you
answered our call: we saw a surge of forty-five new associate members
in the week of the extension -- for a total of 111 new members joining
since the launch of the member drive. This shows once more: when we
work together we can achieve our goals.
A big thank you to all those
who shared our appeal, put our banner on their websites, and/or gifted
memberships to their friends or family members. Every new member is
one person more who proudly carries the free software message into the
world.






TABLE OF CONTENTS




  • "Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet

  • From pro-democracy activists to minorities: Why people use Tor and encrypted chats

  • The campaigns team and the community work together for free software

  • The second round of FSF board candidate discussions started July 24

  • Spring Bulletin: From privacy-respecting browser extensions to natural disaster relief

  • Look behind the scenes of the FSF tech team

  • Working together for free software licensing

  • RISC-V finds its foothold

  • Software freedom & trademarks: Examining Rust's new policy through the lens of free software history

  • July GNU Emacs news

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

  • LibrePlanet featured resource: LibrePlanet Pages that Need Work

  • July GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Ten 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!




View this issue online here: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2023/august



Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience by
adding our subscriber widget to your website.






Miss an issue? You can catch up on back issues at
https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter.



Want to read this newsletter translated into another language? Scroll
to the end to read the Supporter in French or Spanish.



"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet



From July 28



Using a free browser is now more important than ever. The so-called
"Web Environment Integrity" (WEI) API, which is poised to restrict
users via their browsers, is the worst stunt we've seen from Google in
some time. Beginning its life as an innocuous, if worrying, policy
document posted to Microsoft GitHub, Google has now fast-tracked its
development into their Chromium browser. At its current rate of
progress, WEI -- which basically amounts to Digital Restrictions
Management (DRM) in the browser
-- will be upon us in no time. Read
why WEI is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's
latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to
explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.






From pro-democracy activists to minorities: Why people use Tor and encrypted chats



From July 27



Read the stories of people who are protecting their privacy with free
software, why they choose freedom and privacy, and why we must
continue to fight to protect our freedoms. Learn about a political
activist who was harassed by her government for speaking up; how
people in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China use the Tor network to access
censored websites like Wikipedia; and how members of the queer
community in Egypt, for example, are increasingly resorting to
encrypted chats in order to keep their communication hidden from the
prying eyes of the police.






The campaigns team and the community work together for free software



From July 25



This month, we published three new Working Together for Free
Software
profiles. While their voices may be those of just a small
fraction of the community, we hope their outstanding dedication to the
free software movement will inspire you. We hope that you'll share
them with others, too, under the #WorkingTogether hashtag. Our first
profile follows two developers, Adrien and Sébastien, from the Free
Software Award-winning GNU Jami project, a free as in freedom solution
for private videoconferencing. Next, we hear from fellow Free Software
Award winner Protesilaos Stavrou on what motivates his work on GNU
Emacs. We round out the updates to the Working Together profiles
with an interview of Ali Miracle, a developer with the Uruk
project. Each of these three new profiles comes with an accompanying
article with complete responses to interview questions posed by our
campaigns team.






The second round of FSF board candidate discussions started July 24



The FSF board has chosen a second round of candidates as part of its
board process. All eligible associate members can participate in this
discussion to get involved in the FSF's ongoing search for new board
members. The second round candidates are Luis Guzmán, Maria Chiara
Pievatolo, Markus Schmidt, and Jason Self. As documented in the board
process, FSF associate members are invited to discussions considering
these candidates in the nominee discussion forum. This discussion
round opened on July 24 and is planned to close six weeks
later. Participants must pledge to abide by the participation
agreement.






Spring Bulletin: From privacy-respecting browser extensions to natural disaster relief



From July 13



The 2023 spring Free Software Foundation Bulletin is now online!
Read about free software's role in the right to repair movement,
privacy-oriented browser plugin JShelter, a freedom-enabled volunteer
rescue response to an earthquake, an overview of licensing talks from
this year's LibrePlanet, and a report from the FSF's tech team on how
this year's hybrid LibrePlanet was broadcast live with free software.






Look behind the scenes of the FSF tech team



From July 11



This article gives a glimpse behind the scenes of recent work done by
the FSF tech team. Read about Prometheus network security, completion
of member data migration from an old system to a new system, system
software upgrades, and other work done by the team to keep critical
infrastructure running reliably every day.






Working together for free software licensing



From July 6



Our copyright & licensing associate Craig Topham is continuously
working together with free software developers, lawyers, and
volunteers to assist the community with their licensing questions,
finding hardware that respects your freedom, and keeping the public
informed of interesting free software projects. In this article, Craig
shares some of the accomplishments the Licensing and Compliance Lab
achieved during the last six months.






RISC-V finds its foothold



From July 28 by Agam Shah



RISC-V, a processor architecture under a free license, is improving at
an increasingly rapid pace since its debut nearly a decade ago. The
attention it is receiving by developers globally is encouraging to
those of us who use free software and care about their privacy since
it promises to empower us with a replacement for proprietary processor
architectures such Intel and AMD, which give remote access to their
manufacturers by design
. This article also
reports on the recent gains made to supporting free software generally
on RISC-V processing architecture.






Software freedom & trademarks: Examining Rust's new policy through the lens of free software history



From July 27 by Denver Gingerich



This article, recently published by the Software Freedom Conservancy,
examines the programming language Rust's new trademark policy through
the lens of history. Other similar trademark policies in the past such
as Java's, PHP's, and Mozilla's have had consequences for the free
software community. Inform yourself about this relevant and important
topic by examining these case studies, and use this knowledge to
prepare yourself for the inevitable discussions ahead.






July GNU Emacs news



From July 31 by Sacha Chua



In these issues: What is GNU Emacs for beginners, displaying an
analog clock and playing Tetris in GNU Emacs, editing Scalar Vector
Graphic (SVG) files, many new MELPA packages, and more!






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 Libera.Chat, and usually include a handful of
regulars as well as newcomers. Libera.Chat is accessible from any IRC
client -- Everyone's welcome!



The next meeting is Friday, August 4 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to
19:00 UTC). Details here:






LibrePlanet featured resource: LibrePlanet Pages that Need Work



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 the LibrePlanet Pages that Need
Work page, which in itself needs some work! You are invited to add to
this page, which is a list of pages from the LibrePlanet wiki that
need work.






Also, please join our second ever LibrePlanet Wiki Edit Fest,
happening Wednesday, August 23 from 12:30 to 14:00 EDT (16:30 to
18:00 UTC). Details here:






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



July GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Ten new GNU releases!



Ten new GNU releases in the last month (as of July 27, 2023):






For a full list with descriptions, please see:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/july-gnu-spotlight-with-amin-bandali-ten-new-gnu-releases



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 most reliably from
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/. Optionally, you may find faster download
speeds at a mirror located geographically closer to you by choosing
from the list of mirrors published at
https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html, or you may use
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ to be automatically redirected to a
(hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.



This month, we welcome Adrien Bourmault and Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
as co-maintainers of the new package GNU Boot, a free boot firmware
distribution for initializing your hardware and booting your operating
system.



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.



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



FSF and other free software events




  • August 23, 2023, Online, LibrePlanet Wiki Edit Fest

  • September 27, 2023, Volkhaus, Biel, Switzerland, GNU 40

  • October 15-17, 2023, Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, NC, ATO

  • November 3-4, 2023, Online and Seattle, WA, SeaGL

  • November 10-11, 2023, NOI Techpark, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, SFSCon

  • December 2-3, 2023, Online, EmacsConf




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.






This month, a big Thank GNU to:




  • Antoine Mercadal

  • Blue Systems

  • Christian Sperr

  • David Harding

  • Donald Haase

  • Eric Lewis

  • Félicien Pillot

  • Great old one Cthulhu

  • John Keith Hohm

  • Mr. Pete Batard

  • René Genz

  • Sondre Steinsland Hegdal




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:




  • Jeffrey Bencteux (GNU Inetutils)

  • John Muhl (GNU Emacs)

  • Matheus Branco Borella (GDB)

  • Sergey Alexandrovich Bugaev (GCC, GDB, GNU C Library, GNU Hurd, GNU Mach, GNUstep)

  • Wang Diancheng (GNU Emacs)




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






Translations of the Free Software Supporter



El Free Software Supporter está disponible en español. Para ver la
versión en español haz click aquí:
https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2023/agosto



Para cambiar las preferencias de usuario y recibir los próximos
números del Supporter en español, haz click aquí:

https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/create?reset=1&gid=34&id=59606&cs=877f2886f1d78544a642cce52dfb72c9_1690908033_168



Le Free Software Supporter est disponible en français. Pour voir la
version française cliquez ici:
https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2023/aout



Pour modifier vos préférences et recevoir les prochaines
publications du Supporter en français, cliquez ici:

https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/create?reset=1&gid=34&id=59606&cs=877f2886f1d78544a642cce52dfb72c9_1690908033_168



Take action with the FSF!



Contributions from thousands of individual associate members enable
the FSF's work. You can contribute by joining at
https://my.fsf.org/join. If you're already a member, you can help
refer new members (and earn some rewards) by adding a line with your
member number to your email signature like:



I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom!
https://my.fsf.org/join



The FSF is always looking for
volunteers. From rabble-rousing to
hacking, from issue coordination to envelope stuffing -- there's
something here for everybody to do. Also, head over to our campaigns
section
and take action on software
patents
, Digital Restrictions
Management
, free
software
adoption,
OpenDocument,
and more.



Do you read and write Portuguese and English? The FSF is looking
for translators for the Free Software Supporter. Please send an
email to campaigns@fsf.org with your interest and a list of your
experience and qualifications.






Copyright © 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.



This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.








--=_e747e129bcf8f67c3704ceab627f8321--

--===============0783302050==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

_______________________________________________
Hangout mailing list
Hangout-at-nylxs.com
http://lists.mrbrklyn.com/mailman/listinfo/hangout

--===============0783302050==--

--===============0783302050==
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="=_e747e129bcf8f67c3704ceab627f8321"

--=_e747e129bcf8f67c3704ceab627f8321
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

*Please consider adding to your address book, which
will ensure that our messages reach you and not your spam box.*

*Read and share online: *

Welcome to the *Free Software Supporter*, the Free Software
Foundation's (FSF) monthly news digest and action update -- being read
by you and 231,664 other activists.

### When we work together, we achieve our goals

*From July 31*

July 28, 2023 marked the end of our most recent associate member
drive. We appreciate the community that helped us extend our reach,
are proud of every single associate member who is supporting our work,
and are immensely thankful for all the donations we received. This
membership drive started slow, so we called for your help, and you
answered our call: we saw a surge of forty-five new associate members
in the week of the extension -- for a total of 111 new members joining
since the launch of the member drive. This shows once more: **when we
work together we can achieve our goals.** A big thank you to all those
who shared our appeal, put our banner on their websites, and/or gifted
memberships to their friends or family members. Every new member is
one person more who proudly carries the free software message into the
world.

*
*

## TABLE OF CONTENTS

* "Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet
* From pro-democracy activists to minorities: Why people use Tor and encrypted chats
* The campaigns team and the community work together for free software
* The second round of FSF board candidate discussions started July 24
* Spring *Bulletin*: From privacy-respecting browser extensions to natural disaster relief
* Look behind the scenes of the FSF tech team
* Working together for free software licensing
* RISC-V finds its foothold
* Software freedom & trademarks: Examining Rust's new policy through the lens of free software history
* July GNU Emacs news
* Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
* LibrePlanet featured resource: LibrePlanet Pages that Need Work
* July GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Ten 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!

View this issue online here:

Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience by
adding our subscriber widget to your website.

* Subscribe:
* Widget:

Miss an issue? You can catch up on back issues at
.

Want to read this newsletter translated into another language? Scroll
to the end to read the *Supporter* in French or Spanish.

### "Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet

*From July 28*

Using a free browser is now more important than ever. The so-called
"Web Environment Integrity" (WEI) API, which is poised to restrict
users via their browsers, is the worst stunt we've seen from Google in
some time. Beginning its life as an innocuous, if worrying, policy
document posted to Microsoft GitHub, Google has now fast-tracked its
development into their Chromium browser. At its current rate of
progress, WEI -- which basically amounts to *Digital Restrictions
Management (DRM) in the browser* -- will be upon us in no time. Read
why WEI is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's
latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to
explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.

*

### From pro-democracy activists to minorities: Why people use Tor and encrypted chats

*From July 27*

Read the stories of people who are protecting their privacy with free
software, why they choose freedom and privacy, and why we must
continue to fight to protect our freedoms. Learn about a political
activist who was harassed by her government for speaking up; how
people in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China use the Tor network to access
censored websites like Wikipedia; and how members of the queer
community in Egypt, for example, are increasingly resorting to
encrypted chats in order to keep their communication hidden from the
prying eyes of the police.

*

### The campaigns team and the community work together for free software

*From July 25*

This month, we published three new *Working Together for Free
Software* profiles. While their voices may be those of just a small
fraction of the community, we hope their outstanding dedication to the
free software movement will inspire you. We hope that you'll share
them with others, too, under the #WorkingTogether hashtag. Our first
profile follows two developers, Adrien and Sébastien, from the Free
Software Award-winning GNU Jami project, a free as in freedom solution
for private videoconferencing. Next, we hear from fellow Free Software
Award winner Protesilaos Stavrou on what motivates his work on GNU
Emacs. We round out the updates to the *Working Together* profiles
with an interview of Ali Miracle, a developer with the Uruk
project. Each of these three new profiles comes with an accompanying
article with complete responses to interview questions posed by our
campaigns team.

*
*
*
*

### The second round of FSF board candidate discussions started July 24

The FSF board has chosen a second round of candidates as part of its
board process. All eligible associate members can participate in this
discussion to get involved in the FSF's ongoing search for new board
members. The second round candidates are Luis Guzmán, Maria Chiara
Pievatolo, Markus Schmidt, and Jason Self. As documented in the board
process, FSF associate members are invited to discussions considering
these candidates in the nominee discussion forum. This discussion
round opened on July 24 and is planned to close six weeks
later. Participants must pledge to abide by the participation
agreement.

*
*

### Spring *Bulletin*: From privacy-respecting browser extensions to natural disaster relief

*From July 13*

The 2023 spring *Free Software Foundation Bulletin* is now online!
Read about free software's role in the right to repair movement,
privacy-oriented browser plugin JShelter, a freedom-enabled volunteer
rescue response to an earthquake, an overview of licensing talks from
this year's LibrePlanet, and a report from the FSF's tech team on how
this year's hybrid LibrePlanet was broadcast live with free software.

*

### Look behind the scenes of the FSF tech team

*From July 11*

This article gives a glimpse behind the scenes of recent work done by
the FSF tech team. Read about Prometheus network security, completion
of member data migration from an old system to a new system, system
software upgrades, and other work done by the team to keep critical
infrastructure running reliably every day.

*

### Working together for free software licensing

*From July 6*

Our copyright & licensing associate Craig Topham is continuously
working together with free software developers, lawyers, and
volunteers to assist the community with their licensing questions,
finding hardware that respects your freedom, and keeping the public
informed of interesting free software projects. In this article, Craig
shares some of the accomplishments the Licensing and Compliance Lab
achieved during the last six months.

*

### RISC-V finds its foothold

*From July 28 by Agam Shah*

RISC-V, a processor architecture under a free license, is improving at
an increasingly rapid pace since its debut nearly a decade ago. The
attention it is receiving by developers globally is encouraging to
those of us who use free software and care about their privacy since
it promises to empower us with a replacement for proprietary processor
architectures such Intel and AMD, which [give remote access to their
manufacturers by design](https://u.fsf.org/2fo). This article also
reports on the recent gains made to supporting free software generally
on RISC-V processing architecture.

*

### Software freedom & trademarks: Examining Rust's new policy through the lens of free software history

*From July 27 by Denver Gingerich*

This article, recently published by the Software Freedom Conservancy,
examines the programming language Rust's new trademark policy through
the lens of history. Other similar trademark policies in the past such
as Java's, PHP's, and Mozilla's have had consequences for the free
software community. Inform yourself about this relevant and important
topic by examining these case studies, and use this knowledge to
prepare yourself for the inevitable discussions ahead.

*

### July GNU Emacs news

*From July 31 by Sacha Chua*

In these issues: *What is GNU Emacs* for beginners, displaying an
analog clock and playing Tetris in GNU Emacs, editing Scalar Vector
Graphic (SVG) files, many new MELPA packages, and more!

* [2023-07-03](https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/07/2023-07-03-emacs-news/)
* [2023-07-10](https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/07/2023-07-10-emacs-news/)
* [2023-07-17](https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/07/2023-07-17-emacs-news/)
* [2023-07-24](https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/07/2023-07-24-emacs-news/)

### 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 Libera.Chat, and usually include a handful of
regulars as well as newcomers. Libera.Chat is accessible from any IRC
client -- Everyone's welcome!

The next meeting is Friday, August 4 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to
19:00 UTC). Details here:

*

### LibrePlanet featured resource: LibrePlanet Pages that Need Work

Every month on [the LibrePlanet
wiki](https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Main_Page), we highlight one
resource that is interesting and useful -- often one that could use
your help.

For this month, we are highlighting the LibrePlanet Pages that Need
Work page, which in itself needs some work! You are invited to add to
this page, which is a list of pages from the LibrePlanet wiki that
need work.

*

Also, please join our second ever LibrePlanet Wiki Edit Fest,
happening Wednesday, August 23 from 12:30 to 14:00 EDT (16:30 to
18:00 UTC). Details here:

*

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

### July GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Ten new GNU releases!

Ten new GNU releases in the last month (as of July 27, 2023):

* [dr-geo-23.06a](https://www.gnu.org/software/dr-geo/)
* [gcc-10.5.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/)
* [gcc-13.2.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/)
* [gnupg-2.4.3](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnupg/)
* [groff-1.23.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/)
* [parallel-20230722](https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/)
* [shepherd-0.10.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/)
* [swbis-1.13.3](https://www.gnu.org/software/swbis/)
* [tar-1.35](https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/)
* [tramp-2.6.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/)

*For a full list with descriptions, please see:
*

For announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu
mailing list: .

To download: nearly all GNU software is available most reliably from
. Optionally, you may find faster download
speeds at a mirror located geographically closer to you by choosing
from the list of mirrors published at
, or you may use
to be automatically redirected to a
(hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.

This month, we welcome Adrien Bourmault and Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
as co-maintainers of the new package GNU Boot, a free boot firmware
distribution for initializing your hardware and booting your operating
system.

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a
whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see
if you'd like to
help. The general page on how to help GNU is at
.

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

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

### FSF and other free software events

* August 23, 2023, Online, [LibrePlanet Wiki Edit Fest](https://www.fsf.org/events/2023-08-23-libreplanet-wiki-edit-fest)
* September 27, 2023, Volkhaus, Biel, Switzerland, [GNU 40](https://www.gnu.org/gnu40/)
* October 15-17, 2023, Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, NC, [ATO](https://2023.allthingsopen.org/)
* November 3-4, 2023, Online and Seattle, WA, [SeaGL](https://seagl.org/)
* November 10-11, 2023, NOI Techpark, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, [SFSCon](https://www.sfscon.it/)
* December 2-3, 2023, Online, [EmacsConf](https://emacsconf.org/2023/)

### 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.

*

This month, a big Thank GNU to:

* Antoine Mercadal
* Blue Systems
* Christian Sperr
* David Harding
* Donald Haase
* Eric Lewis
* Félicien Pillot
* Great old one Cthulhu
* John Keith Hohm
* Mr. Pete Batard
* René Genz
* Sondre Steinsland Hegdal

You can add your name to this list by donating at
.

### 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:

* Jeffrey Bencteux (GNU Inetutils)
* John Muhl (GNU Emacs)
* Matheus Branco Borella (GDB)
* Sergey Alexandrovich Bugaev (GCC, GDB, GNU C Library, GNU Hurd, GNU Mach, GNUstep)
* Wang Diancheng (GNU Emacs)

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

*

### Translations of the *Free Software Supporter*

El *Free Software Supporter* está disponible en español. Para ver la
versión en español haz click aquí:


**Para cambiar las preferencias de usuario y recibir los próximos
números del *Supporter* en español, haz click aquí:**


Le *Free Software Supporter* est disponible en français. Pour voir la
version française cliquez ici:


**Pour modifier vos préférences et recevoir les prochaines
publications du *Supporter* en français, cliquez ici:**


### Take action with the FSF!

Contributions from thousands of individual associate members enable
the FSF's work. You can contribute by joining at
. If you're already a member, you can help
refer new members (and earn some rewards) by adding a line with your
member number to your email signature like:

> I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom!
>

The FSF is always looking for
[volunteers](https://www.fsf.org/volunteer). From rabble-rousing to
hacking, from issue coordination to envelope stuffing -- there's
something here for everybody to do. Also, head over to our [campaigns
section](https://www.fsf.org/campaigns) and [take action on software
patents](https://endsoftwarepatents.org/), [Digital Restrictions
Management](https://www.defectivebydesign.org/), [free
software](https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Freedom_Ladder) adoption,
[OpenDocument](https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/download),
and more.

**Do you read and write Portuguese and English?** The FSF is looking
for translators for the *Free Software Supporter*. Please send an
email to with your interest and a list of your
experience and qualifications.

***

Copyright © 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit
.

--
* Follow us on Mastodon at , GNU social at
, PeerTube at , and on Twitter at -at-fsf.
* Read about why we use Twitter, but only with caveats:
* Subscribe to our RSS feeds:
* Join us as an associate member:
* Read our Privacy Policy:

Sent from the Free Software Foundation,

51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02110-1335
United States


You can unsubscribe from this mailing list by visiting

https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/unsubscribe?reset=1&jid=167343&qid=84132775&h=1c5eaaca05e39203.

To stop all email from the Free Software Foundation, including Defective by Design,
and the Free Software Supporter newsletter, visit

https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=167343&qid=84132775&h=1c5eaaca05e39203.
--=_e747e129bcf8f67c3704ceab627f8321
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

































Free Software Foundation







 

Please consider adding info@fsf.org to your address book, which
will ensure that our messages reach you and not your spam box.



Read and share online: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2023/august



Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software
Foundation's (FSF) monthly news digest and action update -- being read
by you and 231,664 other activists.





Photo of eleven of the FSF staff members during LibrePlanet 2023. From left to right: Jeanne, Michael, Greg, Anouk, Craig, Miriam, Devin, Dawn, Andrew, Ruben, Ian



When we work together, we achieve our goals



From July 31



July 28, 2023 marked the end of our most recent associate member
drive. We appreciate the community that helped us extend our reach,
are proud of every single associate member who is supporting our work,
and are immensely thankful for all the donations we received. This
membership drive started slow, so we called for your help, and you
answered our call: we saw a surge of forty-five new associate members
in the week of the extension -- for a total of 111 new members joining
since the launch of the member drive. This shows once more: when we
work together we can achieve our goals.
A big thank you to all those
who shared our appeal, put our banner on their websites, and/or gifted
memberships to their friends or family members. Every new member is
one person more who proudly carries the free software message into the
world.






TABLE OF CONTENTS




  • "Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet

  • From pro-democracy activists to minorities: Why people use Tor and encrypted chats

  • The campaigns team and the community work together for free software

  • The second round of FSF board candidate discussions started July 24

  • Spring Bulletin: From privacy-respecting browser extensions to natural disaster relief

  • Look behind the scenes of the FSF tech team

  • Working together for free software licensing

  • RISC-V finds its foothold

  • Software freedom & trademarks: Examining Rust's new policy through the lens of free software history

  • July GNU Emacs news

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

  • LibrePlanet featured resource: LibrePlanet Pages that Need Work

  • July GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Ten 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!




View this issue online here: https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2023/august



Encourage your friends to subscribe and help us build an audience by
adding our subscriber widget to your website.






Miss an issue? You can catch up on back issues at
https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter.



Want to read this newsletter translated into another language? Scroll
to the end to read the Supporter in French or Spanish.



"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet



From July 28



Using a free browser is now more important than ever. The so-called
"Web Environment Integrity" (WEI) API, which is poised to restrict
users via their browsers, is the worst stunt we've seen from Google in
some time. Beginning its life as an innocuous, if worrying, policy
document posted to Microsoft GitHub, Google has now fast-tracked its
development into their Chromium browser. At its current rate of
progress, WEI -- which basically amounts to Digital Restrictions
Management (DRM) in the browser
-- will be upon us in no time. Read
why WEI is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's
latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to
explore the Internet with browsers of our choice.






From pro-democracy activists to minorities: Why people use Tor and encrypted chats



From July 27



Read the stories of people who are protecting their privacy with free
software, why they choose freedom and privacy, and why we must
continue to fight to protect our freedoms. Learn about a political
activist who was harassed by her government for speaking up; how
people in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China use the Tor network to access
censored websites like Wikipedia; and how members of the queer
community in Egypt, for example, are increasingly resorting to
encrypted chats in order to keep their communication hidden from the
prying eyes of the police.






The campaigns team and the community work together for free software



From July 25



This month, we published three new Working Together for Free
Software
profiles. While their voices may be those of just a small
fraction of the community, we hope their outstanding dedication to the
free software movement will inspire you. We hope that you'll share
them with others, too, under the #WorkingTogether hashtag. Our first
profile follows two developers, Adrien and Sébastien, from the Free
Software Award-winning GNU Jami project, a free as in freedom solution
for private videoconferencing. Next, we hear from fellow Free Software
Award winner Protesilaos Stavrou on what motivates his work on GNU
Emacs. We round out the updates to the Working Together profiles
with an interview of Ali Miracle, a developer with the Uruk
project. Each of these three new profiles comes with an accompanying
article with complete responses to interview questions posed by our
campaigns team.






The second round of FSF board candidate discussions started July 24



The FSF board has chosen a second round of candidates as part of its
board process. All eligible associate members can participate in this
discussion to get involved in the FSF's ongoing search for new board
members. The second round candidates are Luis Guzmán, Maria Chiara
Pievatolo, Markus Schmidt, and Jason Self. As documented in the board
process, FSF associate members are invited to discussions considering
these candidates in the nominee discussion forum. This discussion
round opened on July 24 and is planned to close six weeks
later. Participants must pledge to abide by the participation
agreement.






Spring Bulletin: From privacy-respecting browser extensions to natural disaster relief



From July 13



The 2023 spring Free Software Foundation Bulletin is now online!
Read about free software's role in the right to repair movement,
privacy-oriented browser plugin JShelter, a freedom-enabled volunteer
rescue response to an earthquake, an overview of licensing talks from
this year's LibrePlanet, and a report from the FSF's tech team on how
this year's hybrid LibrePlanet was broadcast live with free software.






Look behind the scenes of the FSF tech team



From July 11



This article gives a glimpse behind the scenes of recent work done by
the FSF tech team. Read about Prometheus network security, completion
of member data migration from an old system to a new system, system
software upgrades, and other work done by the team to keep critical
infrastructure running reliably every day.






Working together for free software licensing



From July 6



Our copyright & licensing associate Craig Topham is continuously
working together with free software developers, lawyers, and
volunteers to assist the community with their licensing questions,
finding hardware that respects your freedom, and keeping the public
informed of interesting free software projects. In this article, Craig
shares some of the accomplishments the Licensing and Compliance Lab
achieved during the last six months.






RISC-V finds its foothold



From July 28 by Agam Shah



RISC-V, a processor architecture under a free license, is improving at
an increasingly rapid pace since its debut nearly a decade ago. The
attention it is receiving by developers globally is encouraging to
those of us who use free software and care about their privacy since
it promises to empower us with a replacement for proprietary processor
architectures such Intel and AMD, which give remote access to their
manufacturers by design
. This article also
reports on the recent gains made to supporting free software generally
on RISC-V processing architecture.






Software freedom & trademarks: Examining Rust's new policy through the lens of free software history



From July 27 by Denver Gingerich



This article, recently published by the Software Freedom Conservancy,
examines the programming language Rust's new trademark policy through
the lens of history. Other similar trademark policies in the past such
as Java's, PHP's, and Mozilla's have had consequences for the free
software community. Inform yourself about this relevant and important
topic by examining these case studies, and use this knowledge to
prepare yourself for the inevitable discussions ahead.






July GNU Emacs news



From July 31 by Sacha Chua



In these issues: What is GNU Emacs for beginners, displaying an
analog clock and playing Tetris in GNU Emacs, editing Scalar Vector
Graphic (SVG) files, many new MELPA packages, and more!






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 Libera.Chat, and usually include a handful of
regulars as well as newcomers. Libera.Chat is accessible from any IRC
client -- Everyone's welcome!



The next meeting is Friday, August 4 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to
19:00 UTC). Details here:






LibrePlanet featured resource: LibrePlanet Pages that Need Work



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 the LibrePlanet Pages that Need
Work page, which in itself needs some work! You are invited to add to
this page, which is a list of pages from the LibrePlanet wiki that
need work.






Also, please join our second ever LibrePlanet Wiki Edit Fest,
happening Wednesday, August 23 from 12:30 to 14:00 EDT (16:30 to
18:00 UTC). Details here:






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



July GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Ten new GNU releases!



Ten new GNU releases in the last month (as of July 27, 2023):






For a full list with descriptions, please see:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/july-gnu-spotlight-with-amin-bandali-ten-new-gnu-releases



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 most reliably from
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/. Optionally, you may find faster download
speeds at a mirror located geographically closer to you by choosing
from the list of mirrors published at
https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html, or you may use
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ to be automatically redirected to a
(hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.



This month, we welcome Adrien Bourmault and Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
as co-maintainers of the new package GNU Boot, a free boot firmware
distribution for initializing your hardware and booting your operating
system.



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.



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



FSF and other free software events




  • August 23, 2023, Online, LibrePlanet Wiki Edit Fest

  • September 27, 2023, Volkhaus, Biel, Switzerland, GNU 40

  • October 15-17, 2023, Raleigh Convention Center, Raleigh, NC, ATO

  • November 3-4, 2023, Online and Seattle, WA, SeaGL

  • November 10-11, 2023, NOI Techpark, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, SFSCon

  • December 2-3, 2023, Online, EmacsConf




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.






This month, a big Thank GNU to:




  • Antoine Mercadal

  • Blue Systems

  • Christian Sperr

  • David Harding

  • Donald Haase

  • Eric Lewis

  • Félicien Pillot

  • Great old one Cthulhu

  • John Keith Hohm

  • Mr. Pete Batard

  • René Genz

  • Sondre Steinsland Hegdal




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:




  • Jeffrey Bencteux (GNU Inetutils)

  • John Muhl (GNU Emacs)

  • Matheus Branco Borella (GDB)

  • Sergey Alexandrovich Bugaev (GCC, GDB, GNU C Library, GNU Hurd, GNU Mach, GNUstep)

  • Wang Diancheng (GNU Emacs)




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






Translations of the Free Software Supporter



El Free Software Supporter está disponible en español. Para ver la
versión en español haz click aquí:
https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2023/agosto



Para cambiar las preferencias de usuario y recibir los próximos
números del Supporter en español, haz click aquí:

https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/create?reset=1&gid=34&id=59606&cs=877f2886f1d78544a642cce52dfb72c9_1690908033_168



Le Free Software Supporter est disponible en français. Pour voir la
version française cliquez ici:
https://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2023/aout



Pour modifier vos préférences et recevoir les prochaines
publications du Supporter en français, cliquez ici:

https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/create?reset=1&gid=34&id=59606&cs=877f2886f1d78544a642cce52dfb72c9_1690908033_168



Take action with the FSF!



Contributions from thousands of individual associate members enable
the FSF's work. You can contribute by joining at
https://my.fsf.org/join. If you're already a member, you can help
refer new members (and earn some rewards) by adding a line with your
member number to your email signature like:



I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom!
https://my.fsf.org/join



The FSF is always looking for
volunteers. From rabble-rousing to
hacking, from issue coordination to envelope stuffing -- there's
something here for everybody to do. Also, head over to our campaigns
section
and take action on software
patents
, Digital Restrictions
Management
, free
software
adoption,
OpenDocument,
and more.



Do you read and write Portuguese and English? The FSF is looking
for translators for the Free Software Supporter. Please send an
email to campaigns@fsf.org with your interest and a list of your
experience and qualifications.






Copyright © 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.



This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.








--=_e747e129bcf8f67c3704ceab627f8321--

--===============0783302050==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

_______________________________________________
Hangout mailing list
Hangout-at-nylxs.com
http://lists.mrbrklyn.com/mailman/listinfo/hangout

--===============0783302050==--

  1. 2023-08-01 From: "Free Software Foundation" <info-at-fsf.org> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Free Software Supporter -- Issue 184, August 2023
  2. 2023-08-07 Gabor Szabo <gabor-at-szabgab.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] [Perlweekly] #628 - Have you tried Perl v5.38?
  3. 2023-08-07 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] New windowmaker is out
  4. 2023-08-09 Touro Graduate School of Technology <info.gst-at-touro.edu> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Upcoming 3D Printing Workshop
  5. 2023-08-09 Touro Graduate School of Technology <info.gst-at-touro.edu> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Teaching Transformed : AI and Computational
  6. 2023-08-10 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Physics
  7. 2023-08-10 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Edward Snowden On Artificial Intelligence &
  8. 2023-08-11 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] ms w11 shocker
  9. 2023-08-11 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Section 702 an agregous sin
  10. 2023-08-11 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] CVS - Theives Profit
  11. 2023-08-14 From: "=?US-ASCII?Q?NYS_Department_of_Labor?=" <NYSDOL-at-info.labor.ny.gov> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] =?iso-8859-1?q?Attend_the_New_York_City_Jobs_a?=
  12. 2023-08-14 Gabor Szabo <gabor-at-szabgab.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] [Perlweekly] #629 - Are we afraid of other
  13. 2023-08-16 Touro Graduate School of Technology <info.gst-at-touro.edu> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Domestic Informational Session
  14. 2023-08-16 From: "Miriam Bastian, FSF" <info-at-fsf.org> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Parents, domestic violence victims,
  15. 2023-08-16 Ruben Safir <mrbrklyn-at-panix.com> Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Parents, domestic violence victims,
  16. 2023-08-18 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Patent Trolls lobby for patent law changes to
  17. 2023-08-20 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Singing Klingons
  18. 2023-08-22 Touro Graduate School of Technology <info.gst-at-touro.edu> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] ITP Workshop : Introduction to Chat GPT for
  19. 2023-08-22 Touro Graduate School of Technology <info.gst-at-touro.edu> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Upcoming 3D Printing Workshop
  20. 2023-08-25 Ruben Safir <ruben-at-mrbrklyn.com> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Good Newws for the Moth of Elul
  21. 2023-08-27 Ruben Safir <ruben.safir-at-my.liu.edu> Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Fwd: Informational Message: Scholarships

NYLXS are Do'ers and the first step of Doing is Joining! Join NYLXS and make a difference in your community today!