Correction 1:30pm eastern! Having lived on the west coast for almost all my life, I'm used to seeing the opposite coast time zone and subtracting 3. I also sometimes get east/west reversed, automatically thinking inland = east, coast = west.
You may have a unique opportunity to hear to oral arguments in USA federal court on a key legal issue re: #copyleft & the #GPL in our right-to-software-repair lawsuit against #Vizio. Mark your calendar for this Friday 2022-05-13 at 17:30 UTC. Read more: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/may/11/vizio-update-1/
There's a GPL court hearing listening party in #conservancy on Friday at 7:30 am eastern. Setting my alarm now https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/may/11/vizio-update-1/
I'll go first: My mom. My best friend.
Some who have opted out of this whole idea: Most of my coworkers, my significant other.
Free Software for /all/ users requires translation of user interface and documentation. FSF is hosting a LibrePlanet workshop about Computer Aided Translation with a focus on OmegaT, on May 2nd. Do some hands on learning by registering https://www.fsf.org/events/libreplanet-workshop-may-02-translators-and-free-software-a-practical-introduction-to-omegat
The Free Software Foundation, a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to protect computer user freedom, seeks a motivated Boston-based individual to be our full-time licensing and compliance manager. https://u.fsf.org/3la
Shoutout to a free software project: https://fai-project.org/ FAI - Fully Automatic Installation. All my bare-metal installs have been done via FAI for the last 4 years or so.
FSF is hiring. https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/ Ever considered moving to Massachusetts?
The FSF is hiring! Please see the following page for information about the Program Manager and part-time Bookkeeper positions. https://u.fsf.org/3l0
Selfie from speaker Amin Bandali, free/libre software activist and computing scientist, who gave a talk at this year's #LibrePlanet conference called "The Net beyond the web." Talks will be published on our PeerTube: https://u.fsf.org/3iq
Selfie of Rubén Rodríguez, lead maintainer of FSF-endorsed GNU/Linux distribution #Trisquel , speaking at this year's #LibrePlanet before giving his talk "Hacking my brain". Videos will be published soon on https://u.fsf.org/3it
LibrePlanet 2022 closing keynote starting shortly! https://libreplanet.org/2022
On my way to work for LibrePlanet 2022 day 2. Starting in 1 hour 47 minutes. I hope you join me. https://libreplanet.org/2022
On this Friday night a week before LibrePlanet. I miss the party we should be having next week, I last attended 3 years ago and have every expectation will happen next year. While we are still bringing people together, meeting in person is especially important for me, and I think many other people who care about free software.
In an "EARN-IT" world, simply using encryption can be used as a strike against you in a court of law. Read the new article by our campaigns manager, Greg Farough, and learn what you can do to help stop EARN-IT in its tracks: https://u.fsf.org/3il #encryption #privacy