[Trad Gnu] February Supporter

[stephen mahood <mv AT fsf.org>]

Hey folks,

I am attaching the February version of the supporter. Thank you for you
time and effort.


~mv

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stephen mahood
outreach & communication
free software foundation
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91C4 5FE4 259E 7CF9 305D# Free Software Supporter
Issue 106, February 2017

Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's (FSF)
monthly news digest and action update -- being read by you and 134,587
other activists. That's 6,159 more than last month!

### Computing is changing -- so is the FSF's High Priority Projects List

*From January 17th*

In response to the changing computing landscape, and with extensive
input from the free software community, the Free Software Foundation
updated its High Priority Free Software Projects list with six
new project areas that need your support.

  * 
<https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/computing-is-changing-so-is-fsfs-high-priority-projects-list>


## TABLE OF CONTENTS

* The U.S. Copyright Office should end the broken DMCA anti-circumvention 
exemptions process
* FSF Europe reports back on their experience at the 33rd Chaos Communication 
Congress (CCC)
* Summary Report: Internet Governance Forum, 2016 December in Jalisco, Mexico
* Free FPGA: Reimplement the primitives models
* January Free Software Directory meeting recaps
* Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
* LibrePlanet featured resource: Lobbying your government
* GNU Spotlight with Brandon Invergo: Twenty-two new GNU releases!
* Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
* Thank GNUs!
* GNU copyright contributions
* Take action with the FSF!

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### The U.S. Copyright Office should end the broken DMCA anti-circumvention 
exemptions process

*From January 17th*

The DMCA has some particularly nasty provisions, creating legal
penalties for avoiding Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) or for
sharing the tools to do the same. The law is a damaging blight on
users' rights. It comes, however, with a process for exempting limited
uses from its harm. But as we explained long ago, the process is
completely broken. Join our Defective by Design mailing list to keep
up to date on the latest in the fight against DRM.

  * 
<https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/us_copyright_office_should_end_broken_dmca_anticircumvention_exemptions_process>

### FSF Europe reports back on their experience at the 33rd Chaos 
Communication Congress (CCC)

*From January 27th by FSF Europe*

CCC is Germany’s biggest annual meetup of hackers and political
activists that share knowledge concerning the most burning issues on
the Internet, like data retention and data leeches, hatespeech,
whistleblowing and space travel.

  * <https://blog.3rik.cc/2017/01/worked-for-us-thank-you-33c3/>

### Summary Report: Internet Governance Forum, 2016 December in Jalisco, 
Mexico

*From January 7th by Software Freedom Law Centre of India*

This is a report from the 11th annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
which was held from the 6th to 9th of December, 2016 in Jalisco,
Mexico, with the overall theme of “Enabling Inclusive and Sustainable
Growth”. The mandate for the IGF is contained in 2005′s Tunis Agenda
of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and the first
IGF was convened in Athens in 2006 by the United Nations Secretary
General. It is meant primarily as a facilitating forum for dialogues
amongst participants, to identify emerging issues, bring them to the
attention of the relevant bodies and the general public, and where
appropriate, make recommendations.

  * 
<http://sflc.in/summary-report-internet-governance-forum-2016-6-9-december-jalisco-mexico/>

### Free FPGA: Reimplement the primitives models

*From March 18th 2016*

Elphel added the AHCI SATA controller Verilog code to the rest of the
camera Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) project. Together they now
use 84% of the Zynq slices. Building the FPGA bitstream file requires
proprietary tools, but all the simulation can be done with just free
software. Please help us to free the FPGA devices for developers by
re-implementing the modules under GNU GPLv3+ license. Take a look at
the models we are looking for!

  * 
<http://blog.elphel.com/2016/03/free-fpga-reimplement-the-primitives-models/#Models_we_are_looking_for>

### January Free Software Directory meeting recaps

Check out the great work our volunteers accomplished in the month of
January Free Software Directory meetings. Every week free software
activists from around the world come together in #fsf on
irc.freenode.org to help improve the Free Software Directory.

*December 30th meeting*

  * 
<https://www.fsf.org/blogs/directory/free-software-directory-meeting-recap-for-december-30th-2016>

*January 6th meeting*

  * 
<https://www.fsf.org/blogs/directory/free-software-directory-meeting-recap-for-january-6th-2017>

*January 13th meeting*

  * 
<https://www.fsf.org/blogs/directory/free-software-directory-meeting-recap-for-january-13th-2017>

*January 20th meeting*

  * 
<https://www.fsf.org/blogs/directory/free-software-directory-meeting-recap-for-january-20th-2017-1>

*January 27th meeting*

  * 
<https://www.fsf.org/blogs/directory/free-software-directory-meeting-recap-for-january-27th-2017>

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

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

To help, join our weekly IRC meetings on Fridays. Meetings take place
in the #fsf channel on irc.gnu.org, and usually include a handful of
regulars as well as newcomers. Everyone's welcome.

The next meeting is Friday, February 3rd from 12pm to 3pm EDT (17:00 to
20:00 UTC). Details here:

  * <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Meetings>

### LibrePlanet featured resource: Lobbying government

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

For this month, we are highlighting lobbying government, which is
a resource on how to contact and share your opinions and ideas about
policy. You are invited to adopt, spread and improve this resource for
your country, region, city and local government.

  * <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Lobbying_government>

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

### GNU Spotlight with Brandon Invergo: Twenty-two new GNU releases!

* [8sync-0.4.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/8sync/)
* [auctex-11.90](https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/)
* [datamash-1.1.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/)
* [ed-1.14.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/)
* [freetalk-4.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/freetalk/)
* [gcal-4.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/gcal/)
* [gdb-7.12.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/)
* [glpk-4.61](https://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/)
* [gnupg-2.1.18](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnupg/)
* [gnutls-3.5.8](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/)
* [gperf-3.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/)
* [kawa-2.3](https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/)
* [libtasn1-4.10](https://www.gnu.org/software/libtasn1/)
* [linux-libre-4.9.5-gnu](https://www.gnu.org/software/linux-libre/)
* [m4-1.4.18](https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/)
* [mcsim-5.6.6](https://www.gnu.org/software/mcsim/)
* [nano-2.7.4](https://www.gnu.org/software/nano/)
* [parallel-20170122](https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/)
* [screen-4.5.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/)
* [sed-4.3](https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/)
* [userv-1.2.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/userv/)
* [vc-dwim-1.8](https://www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/)

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

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

This month, we welcome Alex Naumov as a new co-maintainer of Screen,
Graham Percival as a new co-maintainer of Lilypond, Arash Esbati as a
new co-maintainer of AUCTeX, and Yijun Yu as a new co-maintainer of
Bison.

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 us at <maintainers AT gnu.org>
with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.

### Richard Stallman's speaking schedule

For event details, as well as to sign-up to be notified for future
events in your area, please visit <https://www.fsf.org/events>.

So far, Richard Stallman has the following events this month:

  * February 1st, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, ["Free Software and Your 
Freedom"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20170201-grandrapids)
  * February 6th, Reykjavik, Iceland, ["Free Software: For Your Freedom and 
Privacy"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20170206-reykjavik)
  * February 8th, Rennes, France, ["Libre Software; Libre Hardware 
Designs"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20170208-rennes)
  * February 10th, Berlin, Germany, ["Free Software, Your Freedom, Your 
Privacy"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20170210-berlin)
  * February 13th, Munster, Germany, ["Free Software, Your Freedom, Your 
Privacy"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20170213-munster)
  * February 14th, Cologne, Germany, ["Free Software, Your Freedom, Your 
Privacy"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20170214-cologne)

### Other FSF and free software events

  * February 5th, Brussels, Belgium, ["Increasingly permissive or 
increasingly dismissive?
"](https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/permissive_or_dismissive/)
  * March 5th, Pasadena, CA, USA, ["Freedom 
Embedded"](https://www.fsf.org/events/john-sullivan-20170305-pasadena-scale-freedom-embedded)

### Thank GNUs!

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

  * <https://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/2017supporters.html>

This month, a big Thank GNU to:

* Andy Beverley
* Philipp Weis
* Adam Klotblixt
* Robert Dionne

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 GPL and keep software free. The following individuals have
assigned their copyright to the FSF in the past month:

* Kiso Katsuyuki (Emacs)
* Nickolas Tyler Lloyd (Emacs)
* Vijeth Tumkur Aradhya (wget)
* Boudewijn Roukema (Astro)

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

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

### Take action with the FSF!

Contributions from thousands of individual 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!
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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, Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), free software
adoption, OpenDocument, Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA), and more.

###

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