[Acm] Free Software Supporter - Issue 2, April 2008

Thu Apr 10 21:47:50 PDT 2008

Hi all -

Some information from the Free Software Foundation.

Cheers -
Matt

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># Free Software Supporter 
>Issue 2, April 2008
>
>Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's
>monthly news digest and action update.
>
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>## In this issue
>* FSF Seeks Senior GNU/Linux Systems Administrator and Programmer
>* Free software jobs page gets a facelift
>* Free Software Awards
>* Associate members meeting
>* Amicus brief filed to end software patents
>* DefectiveByDesign.org: Help improve the guide to DRM-free living
>* DefectiveByDesign.org: Battling DRM in the Big Apple
>* GNU: Spotlight with Karl Berry
>* Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF speeches
>
>
>## FSF Seeks Senior GNU/Linux Systems Administrator and Programmer
>
>Please, pass this along to the qualified applicants you know!
>
>The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded, seasoned, experienced
>GNU/Linux systems administrator and programmer. (S)he will be
>intimately familiar with the free software community and how it works,
>and will be more interested in making a substantial contribution to
>software freedom than obtaining a high salary.
>
>For more details visit: http://www.fsf.org/news/sysadmin.
>
>
>## Free software jobs page gets a facelift
>
>A while back we realized that a search engine query of "software jobs"
>or "free software jobs" put our jobs page
>(http://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs) at the top of most search engine
>results. So, we have given the site a facelift to help the free
>software community connect with jobs in free software. Read the blog
>post to find out more:
>http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/jobsannounce.
>
>
>## Free Software Awards
>
>At this year's associate members meeting, the Award for Projects of
>Social Benefit and the Award for the Advancement of Free Software were
>given to Groklaw and Harald Welte, respectively. You can read more
>about the awards and their recipients at:
>http://www.fsf.org/news/2007_free_software_awards.
>
>
>## Associate members meeting
>
>We know many of you are eagerly awaiting recordings and photos from
>this year's associate members meeting and network services summit --
>they are coming soon. It was a great event, with over one hundred
>people attending!
>
>
>## Amicus brief filed to end software patents
>
>The End Software Patents campaign has filed an amicus brief for the
>rehearing of the Bilski case -- a case that could lead to the
>elimination of patents on software. You can read the press release,
>here: http://endsoftpatents.org/2008-04-08-amicus-bilski.
>
>
>## DefectiveByDesign.org: Help improve the guide to DRM-free living
>
>We realized that our Guide to DRM-free Living was a bit outdated.
>We've added some resources and could use your help to add more. You
>can submit new sites for the guide by emailing
>info at defectivebydesign.org.
>
>  Read the blog: http://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/1128
>  and the Guide: http://defectivebydesign.org/guide
>
>
>## DefectiveByDesign.org: Battling DRM in the Big Apple 
>
>This month, in the campaign against DRM, DbD's Joshua Gay gave a talk
>to the Library Association of the City University of New York
>discussing free software and DRM in libraries -- the most popular
>questions asked were: is the Boston Public Library going to drop DRM?
>(You can find out more about the BPL action:
>http://defectivebydesign.org/blog/1120).
>
>Two weeks later, DbD's John Sullivan visited the Princeton Club in NYC
>to discuss the tenth anniversary of the DMCA at the Copyright
>Society's monthly luncheon as part of a panel that included an
>attorney from Time-Warner and the CEO of emusic.com. In front of a
>high-powered audience well-suited to make change in the way the law is
>practiced, Sullivan advocated repealing the DMCA and treating DRM as a
>social and ethical problem.
>
>
>## GNU: Spotlight with Karl Berry
>
>GNU is participating in Google's Summer of Code program again this
>year -- all applications are in, and we look forward to sharing with
>you who our mentors and mentees will be next month.
>
>The notable new GNU releases for March 2008 include GCC and Emacs.  See
>the packages' announcements, web pages
>(http://www.gnu.org/software/PKGNAME) or the distributions themselves
>for details.  Nearly all are available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu, or
>preferably one of the mirrors: http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html.
>
>classpath-0.97.1    emacs-22.2      findutils-4.4.0    freefont-20080323
>gcc-4.3.0           gdb-6.8         global-5.7         glpk-4.27
>gnash-0.8.2         gnuradio-3.1.2  icecat-2.0.0.12-g1 libcdio-0.80
>libextractor-0.5.20 libidn-1.6      libmatheval-1.1.7  libtool-2.2.tar
>rpge-0.0.1          smalltalk-3.0.2 solfege-3.10.3     wget-1.11.1
>
>For example, PKGNAME=classpath would be:
>  http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath
>
>To get the announcements of most new GNU packages, subscribe to the
>info-gnu mailing list (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu),
>which is publicly archived (http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/info-gnu).
>
>The GNU gnutrition (nutrition-related functionality), and mifluz
>(inverted text index) packages are now looking for maintainers.  See
>each package web page at http://www.gnu.org/software/PKGNAME for
>details.
>
>Please feel free to write to me, <karl at gnu.org>, with any GNUish
>questions or suggestions for future installments.
>
>
>## Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF speeches
>
>Upcoming FSF and RMS speaking events can be found on the FSF events
>page: http://www.fsf.org/events.
>  
>04/08  Malaga, Spain -- "El Software Libre en la Etica y la Practica." 
>  Info: http://www.fsf.org/events/20080409malaga
>
>04/17 Colchester, Vermont -- "Copyright vs. Community." 
>  Info: http://www.fsf.org/events/colchester20080417
>
>04/18 Burlington, Vermont -- "The Free Software Movement." 
>  Info: http://www.fsf.org/events/burlington20080418
>
>04/19 Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico -- "Copyright vs. Community." 
>  Info: http://www.fsf.org/events/veracruz20080419
>
>05/02 Manchester, UK -- To be announced. 
>  Info: http://www.fsf.org/events/manchester20080502
>
>
>## Take action with the FSF
>
>Contributions from thousands of individual members enable the FSF's
>work. You can contribute by joining at http://www.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!
>  http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=2442
>
>The FSF is also always looking for volunteers
>(http://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 campaign section
>(http://www.fsf.org/campaigns) and take action on software patents,
>DRM, Vista, Opendocument, RIAA and more.
>
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