In January’s Newsletter: Dortmund embraces #FreeSoftware and Belgium is working to ensure Router Freedom. A cryptographer analyses IT security. A digital health ecosystem adopts the REUSE tool. We are looking for an office coordinator. #FOSDEM is coming!
Chromebooks foisted on students? Teachers monitoring what children do outside of the classroom via nonfree software? Surveillance of children is common, and it's at your child's school, too. Support #FreeSoftwarehttps://u.fsf.org/32h
Now imagine being a GPU engineer at Evilcorp, and being forbidden by management to ask questions to the other Mesa developers...
Maybe you're smart enough to figure out everything on your own... but if you're really smart, why would you be working for Evilcorp when there are similar jobs at Valve, Intel, AMD, Qualc... err... never mind! 😏
@lightweight Indeed. Using the #GPL while signaling that all businesses are welcome to contribute.
Linus gets a lot of press for his rude emails, but there were other notable leaders in the #FreeSoftware movement who were actively fighting against Red Hat, Canonical and all the other businesses who played a crucial role in the success of #Linux.
An appeal to #FreeSoftware maintainers: if you're hosting your project on anything older than GitLab or GitHub, you're losing the majority of potential new contributors due to the high activation energy for sending the first patch.
Yes, I'm *especially* looking at you, Savannah: for years, you're been hurting #GNU projects even more than the GNU coding standards :troll:
In this issue we note the shift of the EU Digital Rights Declaration to an unclear, ambiguous text. #FreeSoftware chess engine wins its legal battle. Your contribution can help software freedom. The Greek team meets after a long time.
Care in process [giving time to resonate in person, in spaces, in listening, in translations] Care in conversations [speaking less, speaking slowly, listening deeply] Care in design [using only #FreeSoftware]
More than 100 European organisations and companies have already signed our #OpenLetter about the universal right to install any software on any device. Now, in the European Week for Waste Reduction, we open up the letter to be signed by individuals. Join us now and sign the letter yourself today: https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20221121-01.html
👗 Lara Croft is one of the skins you can unlock on our @Minetest server, "A.E.S.".
It comes with a fancy splash art (by me) and all the charm she's got, so.. what are you waiting for 💆♀️
Also, for the ones who don't know what Minetest is, it's basically what Mastodon is for Twitter, but for Minecraft: a platform belonging to the people, and not to some debatable company (who likes surveillance, innit Microsoft?). Also, completely free!