[Trad Gnu] March 2018 Free Software Supporter for translation

[Dana Morgenstein <danam AT fsf.org>]

The March issue of the Supporter is attached and ready for
translation. Thank you so much for your help!

-- 
Dana Morgenstein // Outreach & Communications Coordinator
Free Software Foundation
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# Free Software Supporter
Issue 119, March 2018

Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's (FSF)
monthly news digest and action update -- being read by you and 185,621
other activists. That's 804 more than last month!

### Help us translate the Free Software Supporter into Spanish!

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## TABLE OF CONTENTS

* LibrePlanet 2018 is on the way: check out the talks and register! 
* Inside the FSF: Our FY2016 Annual Report is here 
* OneMoreVote is needed to save net neutrality 
* Thank you, Linux Conf Australia! 
* Join GNU Guix through Outreachy or Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
* John Perry Barlow, Internet pioneer, 1947-2018
* EFF vs IoT DRM, OMG!
* The catalog of missing devices
* Eric Lundgren, "e-waste" recycling innovator, faces prison for trying to 
extend life span of PCs
* Sorry, Federal Communication Commission (FCC): Charter will lower 
investment after net neutrality repeal
* Facebook funded most of the experts who vetted Messenger Kids
* China's dystopian tech could be contagious
* dtrace for linux: Oracle does the right thing
* Data and dating: Who else wants your love?
* HomePod is the ultimate Apple product -- in a bad way
* Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory
* LibrePlanet featured resource: Free Javascript Action Team
* GNU spotlight with Mike Gerwitz: 25 new GNU releases!
* GNU Toolchain update: Support GNU Toolchain
* Richard Stallman's speaking schedule 
* Thank GNUs!
* GNU copyright contributions
* Take action with the FSF!

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### LibrePlanet 2018 is on the way: check out the talks and register! 

*From February 20*

On March 24th and 25th, 2018, the free software community will come
together at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to learn,
exchange ideas, catch up with friends, and plan the future of the
movement. Will you join us?

 * 
<https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/libreplanet-2018-is-on-the-way-check-out-the-talks-and-register>

### Inside the FSF: Our FY2016 Annual Report is here 

*From February 28*

Because we deeply value transparency and accountability, we are
publishing our latest Annual Report, which covers the 2016 fiscal year
of October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016. The report is the
result of a full external financial audit, along with a focused study
of program results. It offers a look at the Foundation's activities,
accomplishments, and financial picture. You will also read about the
impact of our programs and FY2016's major events.

 * 
<https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/inside-the-fsf-our-fy2016-annual-report-is-here>

### OneMoreVote is needed to save net neutrality 

*From February 22*

Protecting net neutrality in the United States is one of the most
important issues facing digital rights activists and advocates here
and abroad. After the Federal Communication Commission (FCC)
shamefully revoked the common carrier classification of Internet
Service Providers (ISPs), members of Congress finally took notice and
started working on a Congressional Review Act (CRA), which would allow
them to overturn a policy decision. At the time of this writing, 50
Senators were pledged and one more was needed; on February 27, we were
part of an Internet-wide push to get one more Senator on board.

 * 
<https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/onemorevote-is-needed-to-save-net-neutrality>

### Thank you, Linux Conf Australia! 

*From February 8*

LCA is Australasia's grassroots free software conference, organized by
Linux Australia. Even though GNU wasn't recognized in the name of the
event (which we would love to see!), the spirit of software freedom
was felt in sessions covering topics from F-Droid to Australian
Computing Academy's programs to teach free software languages to
students. You can see FSF talks in the links below: "A division of
labor in free software," by Molly de Blanc, and "Freedom embedded:
devices that respect users and communities," by John Sullivan.

 * <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/thank-you-linux-conf-australia>
 * 
<https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/a-division-of-labor-in-free-software-linuxconfau-2018-sydney-australia/>
 * 
<https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/freedom-embedded-devices-that-respect-users-and-communities-linuxconfau-2018-sydney-australia/>

### Join GNU Guix through Outreachy or Google Summer of Code (GSoC)

*From February 19*

We are happy to announce that for the first time this year, GNU Guix
offers a three-month internship through Outreachy, the inclusion
program for groups traditionally underrepresented in free software and
tech. Interns may choose to work on improving the user experience for
the Guix package command-line tool, or enhancing Guile tools for the
Guix package manager. Eligible persons should apply by March 22nd.

 * <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/join-gnu-guix-outreachy-gsoc/>

### John Perry Barlow, Internet pioneer, 1947-2018

*From February 7 by Cindy Cohn*

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) founder, visionary, and our
ongoing inspiration, John Perry Barlow, passed away quietly in his
sleep this morning. It is no exaggeration to say that major parts of
the Internet we all know and love today exist and thrive because of
Barlow’s vision and leadership. He always saw the Internet as a
fundamental place of freedom, where voices long silenced can find an
audience and people can connect with others regardless of physical
distance.

 * 
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018>

### EFF vs IoT DRM, OMG!

*From February 7 by Cory Doctorow*

Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) bans any
act that weakens or bypasses Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). We
don't know which designs and products will be successful in the
market, but we're dead certain that banning people from talking about
flaws in existing designs and trying to fix those flaws will make all
the Internet of Things' problems worse. This is why the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other allies to free software are trying
to liberate your smart speakers, and suing the US government over the
constitutionality of DMCA 1201.

 * <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/eff-vs-iot-drm-omg>

### The catalog of missing devices

*From February 5 by the EFF*

There’s a whole catalog of devices that are missing from our
world. Things we’d pay money for — things you could earn money with —
don’t exist thanks to the chilling effects of an obscure copyright
law: Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA
1201). That law makes selling a device that bypasses access controls
on copyrighted works illegal, with criminal penalties of five years in
prison (for a first offense!), and potential civil penalties in the
millions.

 * <https://www.eff.org/missing-devices>

### Eric Lundgren, "e-waste" recycling innovator, faces prison for trying to 
extend life span of PCs

*From February 15 by Tom Jackman*

Prosecutors said that Lundgren ripped off Microsoft by manufacturing
28,000 counterfeit discs with the company’s Windows operating system
on them. He was convicted of conspiracy and copyright infringement,
which brought a 15-month prison sentence and a $50,000 fine. But he
says this was no profit-making scheme. By his account, he just wanted
to make it easier to extend the usefulness of secondhand computers --
keeping more of them out of the trash.

 * 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/15/eric-lundgren-e-waste-recycling-innovator-faces-prison-for-trying-to-extend-lifespan-of-pcs/?utm_term=.fb6c717bc43a>

### Sorry, Federal Communication Commission (FCC): Charter will lower 
investment after net neutrality repeal

*From February 8 by Jon Brodkin*

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and his staff have repeatedly claimed that
broadband investment falls because of net neutrality rules, and rises
when net neutrality rules are repealed. This argument is what drove
the FCC's public defense of its decision to eliminate popular rules
that prevent ISPs from blocking, throttling, or speeding up Internet
traffic in exchange for payment. But Charter raised its capital
investment in 2017 while the net neutrality rules were in place. And
with the repeal soon to take effect, Charter says it is preparing for
a "meaningful decline" in spending on building and upgrading broadband
networks.

 * 
<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/sorry-fcc-charter-will-lower-investment-after-net-neutrality-repeal>

### Facebook funded most of the experts who vetted Messenger Kids

*From February 14 by Nitasha Tiku*

When Facebook launched Messenger Kids, an app for preteens and
children as young as 6, the company stressed that it had worked
closely with leading experts in order to safeguard younger users. What
Facebook didn’t say is that many of those experts had received funding
from Facebook.

 * 
<https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-funds-its-favorite-experts-but-skirts-tough-critics/>

### China's dystopian tech could be contagious

*From February 14 by Adam Greenfield*

The Chinese government has become convinced that a far greater degree
of social control is both necessary and possible. It now has access to
a set of tools for managing the complexity of contemporary life: known
by the anodyne name “social credit,” this system is designed to reach
into every corner of existence both online and off. It monitors each
individual’s consumer behavior, conduct on social networks, and
real-world infractions like speeding tickets or quarrels with
neighbors. Then it integrates them into a single, algorithmically
determined “sincerity” score.

 * 
<https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/chinas-dangerous-dream-of-urban-control/553097/>

### dtrace for linux: Oracle does the right thing

*From February 14 by Mark J. Wielaard*

Dtrace dropped the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
and switched to the GNU General Public License version 2.0 (or any
later version)! Dtrace is a whole system observability tool combining
tracing, profiling and probing/debugging techniques. It was previously
under the CDDL, a free yet unfortunately GPL-incompatible
license. With the license switch, Dtrace module sources can now be
integrated into the main kernel Linux tree. Resolving this
incompatibility is a great development for the package.

 * 
<https://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/2018/02/14/dtrace-for-linux-oracle-does-the-right-thing/>

### Data and dating: Who else wants your love?

*From February 16 by the Tactical Technology Collective*

The data you give away when using dating apps might seem like a small
price to pay for the possibility of meeting someone new. But are you
aware of what’s happening in the background? The systems by which data
is collected, analyzed, sold, traded and reused might be more
complicated than you think.

 * <https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/20-data-dating/>

### HomePod is the ultimate Apple product -- in a bad way

*From February 12 by Adam Clark Estes*

It’s not like I’m surprised that Apple’s new audio hardware is firmly
rooted within the walled garden that the company has been building for
decades now. I just can’t believe there is a human who is so committed
to the Apple ecosystem that they would spend perhaps thousands of
dollars to outfit the rooms of their house with HomePods, only to be
stuck shoveling more money at Apple so that they can actually play
music with those speakers.

 * 
<https://gizmodo.com/homepod-is-the-ultimate-apple-product-in-a-bad-way-1822883347>

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

The next meeting is Friday, March 2, from 12pm to 3pm EST (16:00 to
19:00 UTC). Details here:

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

### LibrePlanet featured resource: Free Javascript Action Team

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 the Free Javascript Action Team,
which provides information about the FSF campaign to get important Web
sites working without proprietary JavaScript. You are invited to
adopt, spread and improve this important resource.

  * <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Free_Javascript_Action_Team>

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

### GNU spotlight with Mike Gerwitz: 25 new GNU releases!

25 new GNU releases in the last month (as of February 23, 2018):

* [bash-4.4.18](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/)
* [binutils-2.30](https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/)
* [ddrescue-1.23](https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/)
* [dico-2.5](https://www.gnu.org/software/dico/)
* [freeipmi-1.6.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/)
* [gcc-7.3.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/)
* [gcide-0.52](https://www.gnu.org/software/gcide/)
* [gdb-8.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/)
* [glibc-2.27](https://www.gnu.org/software/glibc/)
* [global-6.6.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/global/)
* [glpk-4.65](https://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/)
* [gnupg-2.2.5](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnupg/)
* [gnurl-7.58.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnunet/)
* [gnutls-3.6.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/)
* [less-530](https://www.gnu.org/software/less/)
* [libffcall-2.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/libffcall/)
* [libmicrohttpd-0.9.59](https://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/)
* [linux-libre-4.15.5-gnu](https://www.gnu.org/software/linux-libre/)
* [mpfr-4.0.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/mpfr/)
* [nano-2.9.3](https://www.gnu.org/software/nano/)
* [ncurses-6.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/)
* [parallel-20180222](https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/)
* [patch-2.7.6](https://www.gnu.org/software/patch/)
* [pycdio-2.0.0](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycdio/)
* [tack-1.08](https://gnu.org/software/ncurses)

For announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu
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To download: nearly all GNU software is available from
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<https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/> to be automatically redirected to a
(hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.

This month, we welcome Nathon Nichols as maintainer of GNU LibreJS, and Roel
Jansen and Ricardo Wurmus as maintainers of the new GNU GWL.

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.

### GNU Toolchain update: Support GNU Toolchain

Donate to support the GNU Toolchain, a collection of foundational
freely licensed software development tools including the [GNU C
Compiler collection (GCC)](https://gcc.gnu.org/), the [GNU C Library
(glibc)](https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html), and the [GNU
Debugger (GDB)](https://sourceware.org/gdb/).

* <https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=57>

### 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:

  * March 15, 2018, Rennes, France, ["Privacy by 
design"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20180315-rennes)
  * March 24, 2018, Cambridge, MA, USA, ["Free Software 
Awards"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20180324-cambridge-libreplanet)
  * April 10, 2018, Zacatecas, Mexico, ["El software libre y tu 
libertad"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20180410-zacatecas)
  * April 28, 2018, Burlington, VT, USA, ["Computing, freedom and 
privacy"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20180428-burlington)

### 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/2018supporters.html>

This month, a big Thank GNU to:

* Balta Katei 
* Evan Klitzke
* FSp
* James Wilson
* Kevin Forsythe
* Luiz Paternostro
* Nikhil Prabhakar
* Norman Richards

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:

* Akash Jaywant Rawal (Wget)
* Andres Sarnari (Emacs)
* Andriy Gelman (GNU Radio)
* Arun I (GNU Guile)
* Dmitry Safronov (Emacs)
* Jiading Guo (Wget)
* Kristian Maier (GNU Radio)
* Lukasz Jedrzejewski (Emacs)
* Oscar Blanco (Emacs)
* Ruslan Bukin (GCC) (GNU Binutils) (GDB)

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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