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TABLE OF CONTENTS

* LibrePlanet 2010 free software community conference: March 19-21
* Join the Document Freedom Day, March 31st 2010
* Day Against DRM: Tuesday, May 4th 2010
* Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube
* Why I Will Not Sign the Public Domain Manifesto
* Free software, or masking tape on your kid's webcam.
* FSF is hosting GNU Hackers' Meeting, 2010
* Send us your questions for new W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe
* FSF Comment for the USTR's 2010 Special 301 Review
* DefectiveByDesign.org updates
* GNU spotlight with Karl Berry
* Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
* Take action with the FSF!

## LibrePlanet 2010 free software community conference: March 19-21

LibrePlanet 2010 will feature workshops on the most widely used free
software tools for working with the web, video, graphics and software
development. You can learn about the latest developments in the GNU
Project, free network services, digital radio, voice-over-IP,
encryption, software licensing, media formats, and view the premiere
of a new film on software patents. Plus at this year's LibrePlanet
we'll be discussing how you can successfully engage with free
software communities, mentor free software projects, and how
non-coders can take up important roles in free software projects.

The three-day conference will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at
the Harvard University Science Center, from March 19th to March 21st,
2010.

* <http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/LibrePlanet2010>

## Join the Document Freedom Day, March 31st 2010

The yearly event for promoting OpenDocument formats is taking place on
March 31st, 2010. The FSF encourages people to attend their local
events to push free formats and free standards adoption.

* <http://www.documentfreedom.org/>

## Day Against DRM: Tuesday, May 4th 2010

As part of its Defective by Design anti-DRM campaign, the Free
Software Foundation will be helping to coordinate anti-DRM activists
all over the world on May 4th, 2010 to mobilize the public against DRM.
Organizations and individuals that want to be involved can contact
<info@defectivebydesign.org> or visit <http://defectivebydesign.org/> to
sign up and follow the campaign.

* <http://www.fsf.org/news/may-4-day-against-drm>

## Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube

The FSF has published an open letter to Google asking them to release
their newly-bought video codec as a free one and push its use
via YouTube to replace existing proprietary standards.

> If you care about free software and the free web (a movement and
> medium to which you owe your success) you must take bold action to
> replace Flash with free standards and free formats. Patented video
> codecs have already done untold harm to the web and its users, and
> this will continue until we stop it.

* <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/goog ... r-youtube/>

## Why I Will Not Sign the Public Domain Manifesto

Richard Stallman wrote about his objections on the Public Domain
Manifesto and why he refused to sign it.

> The Public Domain Manifesto tries to defend our freedom within the
> walled garden of the public domain, but abandons that freedom outside
> it. This is not enough.

* <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/public-domain-manifesto>

## Free software, or masking tape on your kid's webcam.

Appalled by the Lower Merion School District's remote monitoring of
students? Help the Free Software Foundation build a wiki database of
school districts that provide students with laptops, so that we can
campaign against mandatory, proprietary laptops.

What future will we as a society choose? A future based on free
software, or one where high school students have to cover their
webcams with tape?

*
<http://www.fsf.org/blogs/choose-your-fu ... ids-webcam>

## FSF is hosting GNU Hackers' Meeting, March 18th-21st, 2010

The FSF is hosting a GNU Hackers' Meeting for GNU maintainers and
contributors from March 18th-21st as part of the LibrePlanet 2010
conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

* <http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/LibrePlanet2 ... ersMeeting>

## Send us your questions for new W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe

Jeff Jaffe, the new CEO of W3C, will attend a session in this
weekend's conference, LibrePlanet. He will take questions about the
free software community participation in making standards and W3C
work and plans in general.

If you have something you want to ask Jeff about, please write to us.
We will select the best questions we receive.

* <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/w3c>

## FSF Comment for the USTR's 2010 Special 301 Review

FSF has sent a comment for United States Trade Representative special
review request. The comment focused on the pressure made on other
countries to adopt laws similar to the DMCA that harm free software
development.

* <http://www.fsf.org/licensing/2010-02-ustr-comment.html>

## DefectiveByDesign.org updates

FSF's anti-DRM DefectiveByDesign.org campaign had an active month.
Here are some updates:

### iPad petition

We sent the second batch of iPad petition signatures to Apple.
10,000 signed our petition in a short period of time!

* <http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad-10000-signatures>

### When Ubisoft takes a break, your games break

Ubisoft video games require a constant connection to the Internet only
to make sure that you are using a version they approve. That is not
the only problem. Last week, their severs went down and many people
were unable to use their games.

* <http://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/u ... -creed-drm>

### The Decade in DRM

A summarized history of DRM was published showing how it developed
from a theory, to be supported by the law and finally to be a
widespread tool against computer users.

* <http://www.defectivebydesign.org/decade-in-drm>

## GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry
Here are the recent GNU software releases:

acct-6.5.4 freeipmi-0.8.4 mtools-4.0.13
archimedes-0.9.1 global-5.8.1 myserver-0.9.2
auctex-11.86 glpk-4.43 nano-2.2.3
autogen-5.10.1 gnash-0.8.7 parted-2.2
binutils-2.20.1 gnubatch-1.2 sharutils-4.9
commoncpp2-1.8.0 gnunet-0.8.1b sipwitch-0.7.2
cppi-1.14 gnuspool-1.6 solfege-3.14.11
denemo-0.8.14 gsasl-1.4.1 units-1.88
dfarc-3.6 libgsasl-1.4.1 xorriso-0.5.0
diffutils-2.9 libidn-1.18 zile-2.3.15
electric-8.11 m4-1.4.14
enscript-1.6.5.1 mit-scheme-9.0

I'd like to specially note two things this month. First, the first new
release of patch in many years. Thanks to the new co-maintainer, Jim
Meyering, for reviving it (among all his other core work). Second, the
new GNU package xorriso, a modern (and compatible) equivalent to
mkisofs. Thanks to the maintainer, Thomas Schmitt, and his colleagues
for doing all the work to make it possible to include this in GNU.

To get announcements of most new GNU packages, subscribe to the info-gnu
mailing list: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu>. Nearly
all GNU software is available from <http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/>, or
preferably one of its mirrors (<http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html>). You
can use the url <http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/> to be automatically
redirected to a (hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.

This month we welcome Thomas Schmitt as the maintainer of the new
package xorriso, and Peter Simons as the maintainer of the new package
autoconf-archive (another notable new entry!).

We also welcome Aleksander Morgado and Reinhard Mueller as a new
co-maintainers of GNU PDF, Albert Chu as co-maintainer of freeipmi,
Vladimir Serbinenko as co-maintainer of grub, Thien-Thi Nguyen as
co-maintainer of RCS, and previous maintainer Giuseppe Scrivano for also
taking on gcal.

Several GNU packages are looking for maintainers and other assistance.
Please see <http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint> if you'd
like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at
<http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html>. To submit new packages to GNU, see
<http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html>.

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

## Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events

2010-03-19 | Libre Planet 2010

* <http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/LibrePlanet2010>

2010-03-26 | El Movimiento del Software Libre
Merida, Venezuela

* <http://www.fsf.org/events/20100326merida>

2010-04-24 | Keynote speech
Ewing, NY

* <http://www.fsf.org/events/20100424trenton>

2010-05-01 | The Free Software Movement
San Francisco, CA - 1675 Owens Street, Mission Bay Conference Center
at UCSF

* <http://www.fsf.org/events/20100501sanfrancisco>

2010-05-11 | Free Software in Ethics and in Practice
Frascati, Rome

* <http://www.fsf.org/events/20100511frascati>

### Take action with the FSF

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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
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<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, free software adoption, OpenDocument, RIAA and more.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, March 25, 2010 -- The Free
Software Foundation (FSF) has responded to the United States executive
Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) Joint Strategic
Plan.

The FSF argues that the government should use free software to provide
more freedom and transparency to its constituents and reduce the need
to engage in costly copyright enforcement activities on behalf of
proprietary software companies. The FSF states that "the most
egregious harms to the public interest in the areas of copyright and
patents come not from a lack of enforcement, but from extraordinarily
excessive enforcement."

"For a government that's supposed to be accountable to its citizens,
it's clear that using free software should be a natural choice," said
Brett Smith, license compliance engineer at the FSF. "With free
software, government can be sure their computers work on behalf of the
people, instead of some proprietary software company. And it also
offers an opportunity for unparalleled transparency: agencies can
release the source code of software they use to help illustrate what
they're doing."

The creation of IPEC and the Joint Strategic Plan are mandated by the
"PRO-IP Act," which became law in 2008. The Joint Strategic Plan is
intended to provide broad policy recommendations to increase
enforcement of copyright, patent, trademark, and anti-counterfeiting
laws both at home and abroad.

"Everything about the PRO-IP Act, from the confused way it lumps
together various laws under the banner of 'intellectual property' in
its name, to its corrupted purpose of being another government
giveaway to the big incumbent copyright industries, is flawed" said
Peter Brown, executive director of the FSF. "It's unfair for
taxpayers to foot the bill for supporting the unethical business
models of a handful of companies. Our comment shows there's another
way: with relatively small steps, government can do the right thing
and use free software, make a better investment in our society, and
eliminate much of the need for enforcement of these laws."

The full text of the FSF's comment is available at
<http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf- ... tegic-plan>.

### About the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to
promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and
redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and
use of free (as in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating
system and its GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free
software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and
political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites,
located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are an important source of information
about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at
<http://donate.fsf.org>. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.

### About Free Software and Open Source

The free software movement's goal is freedom for computer users. Some,
especially corporations, advocate a different viewpoint, known as
"open source," which cites only practical goals such as making
software powerful and reliable, focuses on development models, and
avoids discussion of ethics and freedom. These two viewpoints are
different at the deepest level. For more explanation, see
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-sour ... point.html>.

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Why I'm rejecting your email attachment: for freedom and the good of the
web!

http://www.fsf.org/news/why-im-rejectin ... attachment

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, March 31, 2010 -- The Free
Software Foundation (FSF) today launched a campaign calling on all
computer users to start politely rejecting email attachments sent in
secret and proprietary formats: for freedom and the good of the web!

The campaign is in support of Document Freedom Day and the OpenDocument
format. OpenDocument is an ISO standard that allows anyone to create
software that supports it, without fear of patent claims or licensing
issues. Documents, spreadsheets and presentations sent in Microsoft Word
or Excel native formats, or documents created in Apple's iWorks, are
proprietary and incompatible with freedom and an accessible web.

"If we are serious about gaining freedom and accessibility for all users
of technology and the web, we must demand an end to proprietary document
formats. The best way to get started is for each of us to take
responsibility and begin rejecting their use. OpenDocument is available
now, as is free software such as OpenOffice.org that allows anyone to
create OpenDocument files at no cost. If we can convince the 300 Million
users who have already downloaded OpenOffice.org, to reject proprietary
formats we could quickly secure a victory. Let's do this for freedom and
the good of the web," said FSF executive director Peter Brown.

The campaign highlights ways in which emails that include attachments in
secret or proprietary formats can be politely rejected, and the issue
explained to the sender. Users can respond individually, or email
administrators can configure their systems to automatically reject such
messages.

FSF campaigns manager Matt Lee added, "For governments, businesses,
archivists and others, it's critical that documents be stored in a way
that guarantees they can be read for years to come. This hasn't been a
problem for printed matter, but proprietary digital file formats are
secretive by nature and get changed every few years, putting at risk
future access to needed documents. We must ensure that documents we
store on our computers and that are made available on the web are
accessible regardless of what computer you use."

The FSF is providing graphics that supporters can use to promote the
campaign at http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/spread.

Reject proprietary formats and use OpenDocument:
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/reject

Learn about OpenDocument: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument

Learn about Document Freedom Day: http://documentfreedom.org/

Independent filmmaker Luca Lucarini has just published his new film
'Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system'

http://patentabsurdity.com/

The film was supported by a grant from the Free Software Foundation and
made possible by the Associate Membership of the Free Software
Foundation http://www.fsf.org/associate/

What you can do to help:

* Watch the film and give feedback to the filmmaker at
http://news.swpat.org/2010/04/patent-absurdity/

* Please share news of the film with your friends using your online
social networks.

* Can you organize a public screening of the film near where you live?
Maybe at a local school or college. You can add details of your
screening at http://patentabsurdity.com/screening.html

* Donate to the FSF End Software Patents Fund
https://my.fsf.org/donate/directed-donations/esp or join the FSF as an
associate member https://my.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom

Your membership in the FSF helps make this work possible.

Thanks!

peter


--
Peter Brown
Executive Director
Free Software Foundation
www.fsf.org www.gnu.org

Time for nonprofits to leave proprietary fundraising software systems behind

(News item at: http://www.fsf.org/news/nonprofit-fundraising-civicrm)

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 -- The Free
Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that CiviCRM has earned its
recommendation as a fully featured donor and contact management system
for nonprofits. The FSF had highlighted the need for a free software
solution in this area as part of its High Priority Projects campaign
(http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/). With this
announcement, the FSF will also be adopting CiviCRM for its own use, and
actively encouraging other nonprofit organizations to do the same.

(CiviCRM http://civicrm.org/)

Nonprofits have historically relied heavily on proprietary or web-hosted
"software as a service" fundraising software such as Blackbaud's
Raiser's Edge or eTapestry. The nonprofit organizations using them are
locked in, have little control over the functionality of the software,
and are dependent on the whims of a single company. Nonprofits also face
costly migration if they wish to switch to a different proprietary
system, never achieving independence. These factors mean that tools
intended to enhance organizations' effectiveness have actually ended up
restricting their ability to accomplish their social missions.

CiviCRM, however, shares its software code so all organizations can see
how it works, have the option of commissioning anyone to make
customizations to it, and can host it on their own trusted servers.
Since the code and the data format are freely available, using the
system does not mean being locked into it. Because it runs on the free
GNU/Linux operating system, it eliminates the need for another frequent
nonprofit proprietary software dependency -- Microsoft Windows.

"The features now offered by CiviCRM will satisfy nonprofits seeking to
organize their relationships with donors, supporters, and the media. In
addition to storing contact information, it handles online fundraising,
event registration, membership management, and personalized paper and
electronic mailings. Best of all, it's free software distributed under
the GNU Affero General Public License, which means nonprofits can host
it themselves and retain the freedom they need to advance their missions
unfettered," said John Sullivan, FSF's operations manager.

Free software ideals encouraging sharing and modification have been
central to CiviCRM's growth. Developer Dave Greenberg explained, "The
CiviCRM project was started by a group of developers and project
managers who had been working together on a proprietary donation
processing application. As folks who were passionate about increasing
the impact and effectiveness of the nonprofits, we came to realize that
there was a need for a CRM application designed from the ground up to
meet the needs of civic sector organizations. From the beginning it was
clear that this should be free software -- community driven and
community owned. On a personal level I find the engagement with our
community of users to be intellectually stimulating and rewarding.
Seeing folks with expertise in a particular area step up and contribute
their time and ideas to help improve the product is quite exciting."

In making the switch, the FSF joins other organizations like Amnesty
International, Creative Commons, and the Wikimedia Foundation, who have
also been using CiviCRM.

Executive director Peter Brown described the FSF's use of the software
and intent to publicize it: "I look forward to encouraging other
nonprofit organizations to escape their current proprietary or 'software
as a service' systems and give CiviCRM a try. As a nonprofit, the FSF
manages over 40,000 contacts and 15,000 donation transactions per year,
a book publishing operation, online store, and several advocacy campaign
websites with associated mailing lists -- all with free software. A
general purpose donor and contact management system will be the final
piece of the puzzle for charitable organizations looking to operate
using only free software. We plan to publish a guide offering our
experiences as a resource for other nonprofits concerned with the social
implications of their technology."

Nathan Yergler, chief technology officer at Creative Commons, offered
further praise for the software: "CiviCRM is a critical part of Creative
Commons' infrastructure. We've seen the application mature and steadily
improve with new features and performance improvements coming in every
release. CiviCRM's developer community is accessible and responsive,
going beyond the normal call of duty to help when needed. I would
happily recommend CiviCRM to organizations like Creative Commons looking
for a CRM solution."

CiviCRM core team member Piotr Szotkowski noted that despite the
project's maturity, there is still rewarding work to be done: "We could
definitely use more helping hands. Being able to work on CiviCRM gives a
lot of non-direct benefits, like the very warm and fuzzy feelings of
great satisfaction and fulfillment: knowing that one’s code was used to
help the Katrina hurricane victims, that it helps organizations like
Amnesty International or Front Line fight for human rights defenders, or
that it helps organizations like the Wikimedia Foundation better
organize their great work on Wikipedia and all their other projects."

Further information about downloading, using, and contributing to
CiviCRM can be found at http://civicrm.org. An ongoing discussion of
comparisons between free software database options is on the FSF's
LibrePlanet wiki at
http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Donor_Transa ... act_System.

For a description of the dangers in relying on "software as a service,"
see "Who does that server really serve?".


About the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting
computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute
computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as
in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its
GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF
also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of
freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org
and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux.
Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at
http://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.


About Free Software and Open Source

The free software movement's goal is freedom for computer users. Some,
especially corporations, advocate a different viewpoint, known as "open
source," which cites only practical goals such as making software
powerful and reliable, focuses on development models, and avoids
discussion of ethics and freedom. These two viewpoints are different at
the deepest level. For more explanation, see
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-sour ... point.html.

Media Contacts

John Sullivan
Operations Manager
Free Software Foundation
+1 (617) 542 5942
campaigns@fsf.org

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