The FSF's [Licensing and Compliance
Lab](https://www.fsf.org/licensing/) defends free software through
-license enforcement and enforcement support, certification and
-endorsement programs, and educational resources.
+license enforcement and support, certification and endorsement
+programs, and educational resources.
In FY19, the Lab hired a new staff member, Craig Topham, as copyright
& licensing associate and guided one intern, Jake Glass. We hosted our
-first Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar since 2014, at Berkeley
-Law.
+first Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar since 2014, at UC
+Berkeley School of Law.
In addition to being the steward of the GPL, the FSF holds copyright
on much of the [GNU operating system](https://www.gnu.org/). The
{.credit}
</div>
+
+***
+
<div class="col2" markdown="1">
### FY2019 at a glance
251
-: copyright assignments and disclaimers accepted
+: copyright assignments and disclaimers accepted
34
: countries from where copyright assignments were received
: devices certified to Respect Your Freedom
1
-: continuing legal education seminar conducted in California
+: continuing legal education seminar, conducted in California
16,163 packages
: packages in the Free Software Directory
encourages the creation and sale of hardware that will do as much as
possible to respect your freedom and privacy.
-In FY19, we created a new RYF Web site together with the tech team.
+In FY19, we created a new RYF website together with the tech team.
We also:
+
* certified a mainboard and workstation from Vikings, and seven
peripheral devices from ThinkPenguin.
* certified six peripheral devices from ThinkPenguin, as well as a new
router from ThinkPenguin, bringing the total number of certified
- devices to 46.
-* Seven different retailers have gained certification on at least one
- device at this time.
+ devices to forty-six.
+* certified seven different retailers on at least one device.
</div>
## Campaigns
The FSF campaigns team identifies important opportunities for free
-software adoption, education, and development, empowers people against
-specific threats to their freedom, and implements strategies to move
+software adoption, education, and development; empowers people against
+specific threats to their freedom; and implements strategies to move
us closer to a free society. This year welcomed two new members to the
campaigns team, Greg Farough and Zoë Kooyman.
We had two community meetups:
- * **Bellingham, Washington, on Saturday, April 27:** This event was
+ * **Bellingham, Washington, Saturday, April 27:** This event was
timed to welcome attendees of the LFNW conference, which was in
- Bellingham that week. 32 people RSVP'd, and around 20 people were
- at the venue at any one time. We also received a $250 donation on
- site. Hosted by John Sullivan and Donald Robertson.
-
- * **Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, July 18:** This event was timed
- to welcome attendees of the Oscon conference, which was in
- Portland that week. We received only a few RSVPs, but around ten
- people showed up. Hosted by Donald Robertson and Craig
- Thompson. Bradley Kuhn, and Joshua Gay were also present to field
+ Bellingham that week. Thirty-two people RSVP'd, and around twenty
+ people were at the venue at any one time. We also received a $250
+ donation on site. This meetup was hosted by John Sullivan and
+ Donald Robertson.
+
+ * **Portland, Oregon, Thursday, July 18:** This event was timed to
+ welcome attendees of the OSCON conference, which was in Portland
+ that week. We received only a few RSVPs, but around ten people
+ showed up. This meetup was hosted by Donald Robertson and Craig
+ Thompson. Bradley Kuhn and Joshua Gay were also present to field
any questions from free software supporters.
-Efforts have begun to create more local community
-activities. Currently, campaigns manager Greg Farough and licensing
-and compliance associate Craig Topham are scheduled to do a
-presentation at the Artisan's Asylum makerspace in Somerville,
-Massachusetts, on September 12.
+Efforts have begun to create more local community activities.
+Currently, campaigns manager Greg Farough and licensing and compliance
+associate Craig Topham are scheduled to do a presentation at the
+Artisan's Asylum makerspace in Somerville, Massachusetts, on September
+12.
+
+<!-- Leave out, since HPP hasn't met for a while?
#### High Priority Projects:
working on building a new timeline for the annual review, which will
likely be in August every year, with a half-yearly review point
coinciding with the LibrePlanet conference. In the meantime, we have
-identified steps to be taken, most importantly:
+identified steps to be taken; most importantly:
- * Commission member outreach - in review phase
+ * Commission member outreach -- in review phase
* Review HPP status
* Publication
+-->
+
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
+
### LibrePlanet
LibrePlanet 2019's theme was "Trailblazing Free Software." In 1983,
the free software movement was born with the announcement of the GNU
Project. Free software contrasts from nonfree software in that it
emphasizes a community-oriented philosophy of sharing code freely,
-enabling people to understand how the programs they used worked, to
-build off of each other's code, to pay it forward by sharing their own
-code, and to create useful software that treated users fairly.
+enabling people: to understand how the programs they use everyday
+work; to build off of each other's code; to pay it forward by sharing
+their own code; and to create useful software that treated users
+fairly.
During the conference, Free Software Award winners OpenStreetMap and
-Deb Nicholson both shared their work talking about "OpenStreetMap"
+Deb Nicholson both shared their work, talking about "OpenStreetMap"
mapping developments and the free software community challenges we
-face in "Free software/utopia,"respectively.
+face.
+
+</div>
+
+***
+
+<div class="col2" markdown="1">
### International Day Against DRM
stranglehold these publishers put on something as fundamental as one's
education. The Defective by Design (DbD) coalition organized local and
remote hackathons on free culture educational materials and organized
-an in-person protest of Pearson Education on Saturday, October 12th.
+an in-person protest of Pearson Education for Saturday, October 12th.
We also designed a dust jacket you can slip over any "dead tree" book
that you are reading to warn others about the looming threat of
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
{% separator {
- "title": "Thank you for the Bulletin",
- "quote": "I received FSF Bulletin last week and would like to thank you! I really enjoyed reading it, I know it may be costly to produce such a things, but In my opinion they are important."
+ "title": "Thank you for the *Bulletin*",
+ "quote": "I received the *FSF Bulletin* last week and would like to thank you! I really enjoyed reading it. I know it may be costly to produce such a things, but, in my opinion, they are important."
}%}
<div class="col2" markdown="1">
* Email server upgrades: GNU Mailman servers at lists.fsf.org and
lists.gnu.org were upgraded
-* New RYF Web site: <https://ryf.fsf.org/>
+* New RYF website: <https://ryf.fsf.org/>
* CIVICRM upgrade: We recently upgraded CiviCRM to its latest
- version. We worked on a script that helps to streamline the process
- of rebasing our custom patches onto CiviCRM core.
-* We upgraded the diskless machines used by many FSF staff to
- Trisquel 8. They are now managed by Ansible rather than CFEngine,
- which makes managing them much easier than before.
-* GDPR compliance: "The main compliance work was done as of the last
- board report. Since then, we've completed a compliance audit and all
- outstanding work except finalizing staff policy and data retention
- changes in CiviCRM."
-* Three interns: Hrishikesh Barman (Ansible configs, etc); Lei Zhao
- (Pagure & GitLab); and Valessio Brito (LibreBoot twenty-five
- laptops)
+ version. We worked on a script that helps streamline the process of
+ rebasing our custom patches onto CiviCRM core.
+* System upgrades: We upgraded the diskless machines used by many FSF
+ staff to Trisquel 8. They are now managed by Ansible rather than
+ CFEngine, which makes managing them much easier than before.
+* GDPR compliance implementation: "The main compliance work was done
+ as of the last board report. Since then, we've completed a
+ compliance audit and all outstanding work except finalizing staff
+ policy and data retention changes in CiviCRM."
+* Intern coordination: Hrishikesh Barman (Ansible configs, etc); Lei
+ Zhao (Pagure & GitLab); and Valessio Brito (who installed LibreBoot
+ on twenty-five laptops for a local outreach project)
### What's GNU in FY2019
average of 343,000
: emails per day sent for @gnu and @nongnu.org
+<!--
+
{: .image-process-article-image}
Vendors showcase every year at the annual LibrePlanet conference.
Credit: Rubén Rodríguez, 2019. CC BY-SA 4.0
{.credit}
+-->
+<!--
</div>
<div class="col2" markdown="1">
-
+-->
### Infrastructure for free software development and activism
-
+
+The tech team implemented a new [associate member
+forum](https://www.fsf.org/blogs/membership/introducing-our-new-associate-member-forum). The
+forum software we chose to use is Discourse. The JavaScript is free
+software, and a link to all source code can be found in the footer of
+the website.
+
{: .image-process-article-image}
Every year at LibrePlanet, technical voluteers and staff work together to keep the conference running smoothly and free.
Credit: Anonymous, CC BY 4.0
{.credit}
-The tech team implemented a new [associate member
-forum](https://www.fsf.org/blogs/membership/introducing-our-new-associate-member-forum). The
-forum software we chose to use is Discourse. The JavaScript is free
-software, and a link to all source code can be found in the footer of
-the site.
-
+<!--
</div>
-
+-->
+<!--
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
{% separator {
"title": "New associate member forum",
- "quote": "The purpose of this member forum is to provide a space where members can meet, communicate, and collaborate with each other about free software, using free software. While there are other places on the Internet to talk about free software, this forum is unique in that it is focused on the common interests of FSF members, who care very much about using, promoting, and creating free software."
+ "quote": "While there are other places on the Internet to talk about free software, this forum is unique in that it is focused on the common interests of FSF members, who care very much about using, promoting, and creating free software."
}%}
-
+-->
+<!--
<div class="col2" markdown="1">
+-->
### Working Together for Free Software
[](https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=50){.logos}
<h2 id="licensing-and-compliance">Licensing and Compliance</h2>
<p>The FSF's <a href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing/">Licensing and Compliance
Lab</a> defends free software through
-license enforcement and enforcement support, certification and
-endorsement programs, and educational resources.</p>
+license enforcement and support, certification and endorsement
+programs, and educational resources.</p>
<p>In FY19, the Lab hired a new staff member, Craig Topham, as copyright
& licensing associate and guided one intern, Jake Glass. We hosted our
-first Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar since 2014, at Berkeley
-Law.</p>
+first Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar since 2014, at UC
+Berkeley School of Law.</p>
<p>In addition to being the steward of the GPL, the FSF holds copyright
on much of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/">GNU operating system</a>. The
licensing team spent the year accepting copyright assignments from
<p class="caption">ThinkPenguin exhibitor table at LibrePlanet 2019. ThinkPenguin offers many products with RYF certification.</p>
<p class="credit">Credit: Free Software Foundation 2019. CC BY-SA.</p>
</div>
+<hr/>
<div class="col2">
<h3 id="fy2019-at-a-glance">FY2019 at a glance</h3>
<dl>
<dt>251</dt>
-<dd>copyright assignments and disclaimers accepted </dd>
+<dd>copyright assignments and disclaimers accepted</dd>
<dt>34</dt>
<dd>countries from where copyright assignments were received</dd>
<dt>12</dt>
<dt>13</dt>
<dd>devices certified to Respect Your Freedom </dd>
<dt>1</dt>
-<dd>continuing legal education seminar conducted in California</dd>
+<dd>continuing legal education seminar, conducted in California</dd>
<dt>16,163 packages</dt>
<dd>packages in the Free Software Directory</dd>
</dl>
<p>The FSF's Respects Your Freedom (RYF) product certification program
encourages the creation and sale of hardware that will do as much as
possible to respect your freedom and privacy.</p>
-<p>In FY19, we created a new RYF Web site together with the tech team.</p>
-<p>We also:
-* certified a mainboard and workstation from Vikings, and seven
- peripheral devices from ThinkPenguin.
-* certified six peripheral devices from ThinkPenguin, as well as a new
+<p>In FY19, we created a new RYF website together with the tech team.</p>
+<p>We also:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>certified a mainboard and workstation from Vikings, and seven
+ peripheral devices from ThinkPenguin.</li>
+<li>certified six peripheral devices from ThinkPenguin, as well as a new
router from ThinkPenguin, bringing the total number of certified
- devices to 46.
-* Seven different retailers have gained certification on at least one
- device at this time.</p>
+ devices to forty-six.</li>
+<li>certified seven different retailers on at least one device.</li>
+</ul>
</div>
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
<p><div class="quote-box-top"></div> <div class="quote-box"> <h4>Why I joined the FSF</h4> <blockquote><p>"I've used GNU software for years and wanted to support the FSF in general."</p></blockquote></div></p>
<div class="col2">
<h2 id="campaigns">Campaigns</h2>
<p>The FSF campaigns team identifies important opportunities for free
-software adoption, education, and development, empowers people against
-specific threats to their freedom, and implements strategies to move
+software adoption, education, and development; empowers people against
+specific threats to their freedom; and implements strategies to move
us closer to a free society. This year welcomed two new members to the
campaigns team, Greg Farough and Zoë Kooyman.</p>
<p><img alt="A photo of a panel at LibrePlanet 2019." class="image-process-article-image" src="https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2199/friday-party-busy.jpg"/></p>
<p>We had two community meetups:</p>
<ul>
<li>
-<p><strong>Bellingham, Washington, on Saturday, April 27:</strong> This event was
+<p><strong>Bellingham, Washington, Saturday, April 27:</strong> This event was
timed to welcome attendees of the LFNW conference, which was in
- Bellingham that week. 32 people RSVP'd, and around 20 people were
- at the venue at any one time. We also received a $250 donation on
- site. Hosted by John Sullivan and Donald Robertson.</p>
+ Bellingham that week. Thirty-two people RSVP'd, and around twenty
+ people were at the venue at any one time. We also received a $250
+ donation on site. This meetup was hosted by John Sullivan and
+ Donald Robertson.</p>
</li>
<li>
-<p><strong>Portland, Oregon, on Thursday, July 18:</strong> This event was timed
- to welcome attendees of the Oscon conference, which was in
- Portland that week. We received only a few RSVPs, but around ten
- people showed up. Hosted by Donald Robertson and Craig
- Thompson. Bradley Kuhn, and Joshua Gay were also present to field
+<p><strong>Portland, Oregon, Thursday, July 18:</strong> This event was timed to
+ welcome attendees of the OSCON conference, which was in Portland
+ that week. We received only a few RSVPs, but around ten people
+ showed up. This meetup was hosted by Donald Robertson and Craig
+ Thompson. Bradley Kuhn and Joshua Gay were also present to field
any questions from free software supporters.</p>
</li>
</ul>
-<p>Efforts have begun to create more local community
-activities. Currently, campaigns manager Greg Farough and licensing
-and compliance associate Craig Topham are scheduled to do a
-presentation at the Artisan's Asylum makerspace in Somerville,
-Massachusetts, on September 12.</p>
-<h4 id="high-priority-projects">High Priority Projects:</h4>
-<p>The High Priority Projects list (HPP) is getting a fresh start. We are
+<p>Efforts have begun to create more local community activities.
+Currently, campaigns manager Greg Farough and licensing and compliance
+associate Craig Topham are scheduled to do a presentation at the
+Artisan's Asylum makerspace in Somerville, Massachusetts, on September
+12.</p>
+<!-- Leave out, since HPP hasn't met for a while?
+
+#### High Priority Projects:
+
+The High Priority Projects list (HPP) is getting a fresh start. We are
working on building a new timeline for the annual review, which will
likely be in August every year, with a half-yearly review point
coinciding with the LibrePlanet conference. In the meantime, we have
-identified steps to be taken, most importantly:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>
-<p>Commission member outreach - in review phase </p>
-</li>
-<li>
-<p>Review HPP status </p>
-</li>
-<li>
-<p>Submission period </p>
-</li>
-<li>
-<p>Review and discussion </p>
-</li>
-<li>
-<p>Yearly report submission </p>
-</li>
-<li>
-<p>Publication </p>
-</li>
-</ul>
+identified steps to be taken; most importantly:
+
+ * Commission member outreach -- in review phase
+
+ * Review HPP status
+
+ * Submission period
+
+ * Review and discussion
+
+ * Yearly report submission
+
+ * Publication
+
+-->
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
<h3 id="libreplanet">LibrePlanet</h3>
<p>LibrePlanet 2019's theme was "Trailblazing Free Software." In 1983,
the free software movement was born with the announcement of the GNU
Project. Free software contrasts from nonfree software in that it
emphasizes a community-oriented philosophy of sharing code freely,
-enabling people to understand how the programs they used worked, to
-build off of each other's code, to pay it forward by sharing their own
-code, and to create useful software that treated users fairly.</p>
+enabling people: to understand how the programs they use everyday
+work; to build off of each other's code; to pay it forward by sharing
+their own code; and to create useful software that treated users
+fairly.</p>
<p>During the conference, Free Software Award winners OpenStreetMap and
-Deb Nicholson both shared their work talking about "OpenStreetMap"
+Deb Nicholson both shared their work, talking about "OpenStreetMap"
mapping developments and the free software community challenges we
-face in "Free software/utopia,"respectively.</p>
+face.</p>
+</div>
+<hr/>
+<div class="col2">
<h3 id="international-day-against-drm">International Day Against DRM</h3>
<p>For IDAD 2019, themed "Right to read," we called on Pearson and other
similar companies to stop putting a lock on our learning, and
stranglehold these publishers put on something as fundamental as one's
education. The Defective by Design (DbD) coalition organized local and
remote hackathons on free culture educational materials and organized
-an in-person protest of Pearson Education on Saturday, October 12th.</p>
+an in-person protest of Pearson Education for Saturday, October 12th.</p>
<p>We also designed a dust jacket you can slip over any "dead tree" book
that you are reading to warn others about the looming threat of
DRM. Whether in school, in a coffee shop, or on the subway, it is an
</div>
</div>
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
-<p><div class="quote-box-top"></div> <div class="quote-box"> <h4>Thank you for the Bulletin</h4> <blockquote><p>"I received FSF Bulletin last week and would like to thank you! I really enjoyed reading it, I know it may be costly to produce such a things, but In my opinion they are important."</p></blockquote></div></p>
+<p><div class="quote-box-top"></div> <div class="quote-box"> <h4>Thank you for the <em>Bulletin</em></h4> <blockquote><p>"I received the <em>FSF Bulletin</em> last week and would like to thank you! I really enjoyed reading it. I know it may be costly to produce such a things, but, in my opinion, they are important."</p></blockquote></div></p>
<div class="col2">
<h2 id="tech">Tech</h2>
<h3 id="infrastructure-for-free-software-development-and-activism">Infrastructure for free software development and activism</h3>
<ul>
<li>Email server upgrades: GNU Mailman servers at lists.fsf.org and
lists.gnu.org were upgraded</li>
-<li>New RYF Web site: <https: ryf.fsf.org=""></https:></li>
+<li>New RYF website: <https: ryf.fsf.org=""></https:></li>
<li>CIVICRM upgrade: We recently upgraded CiviCRM to its latest
- version. We worked on a script that helps to streamline the process
- of rebasing our custom patches onto CiviCRM core.</li>
-<li>We upgraded the diskless machines used by many FSF staff to
- Trisquel 8. They are now managed by Ansible rather than CFEngine,
- which makes managing them much easier than before.</li>
-<li>GDPR compliance: "The main compliance work was done as of the last
- board report. Since then, we've completed a compliance audit and all
- outstanding work except finalizing staff policy and data retention
- changes in CiviCRM."</li>
-<li>Three interns: Hrishikesh Barman (Ansible configs, etc); Lei Zhao
- (Pagure & GitLab); and Valessio Brito (LibreBoot twenty-five
- laptops)</li>
+ version. We worked on a script that helps streamline the process of
+ rebasing our custom patches onto CiviCRM core.</li>
+<li>System upgrades: We upgraded the diskless machines used by many FSF
+ staff to Trisquel 8. They are now managed by Ansible rather than
+ CFEngine, which makes managing them much easier than before.</li>
+<li>GDPR compliance implementation: "The main compliance work was done
+ as of the last board report. Since then, we've completed a
+ compliance audit and all outstanding work except finalizing staff
+ policy and data retention changes in CiviCRM."</li>
+<li>Intern coordination: Hrishikesh Barman (Ansible configs, etc); Lei
+ Zhao (Pagure & GitLab); and Valessio Brito (who installed LibreBoot
+ on twenty-five laptops for a local outreach project)</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="whats-gnu-in-fy2019">What's GNU in FY2019</h3>
<dl>
<dt>average of 343,000</dt>
<dd>emails per day sent for @gnu and @nongnu.org</dd>
</dl>
-<p><img alt="A table display of computer components at LibrePlanet 2019." class="image-process-article-image" src="https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2191/table-display-1.medium.jpg"/></p>
-<p class="caption">Vendors showcase every year at the annual LibrePlanet conference.</p>
-<p class="credit">Credit: Rubén Rodríguez, 2019. CC BY-SA 4.0</p>
+<!--
+
+{: .image-process-article-image}
+
+Vendors showcase every year at the annual LibrePlanet conference.
+{.caption}
+
+Credit: Rubén Rodríguez, 2019. CC BY-SA 4.0
+{.credit}
+
+-->
+<!--
</div>
-<div class="col2">
+<div class="col2" markdown="1">
+-->
<h3 id="infrastructure-for-free-software-development-and-activism_1">Infrastructure for free software development and activism</h3>
-<p><img alt="The FSF tech team and several volunteers and attendees pose at LibrePlanet 2019." class="image-process-article-image" src="https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2192/tech-volunteers-hallway.medium.jpg"/></p>
-<p class="caption">Every year at LibrePlanet, technical voluteers and staff work together to keep the conference running smoothly and free.</p>
-<p class="credit">Credit: Anonymous, CC BY 4.0</p>
<p>The tech team implemented a new <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/membership/introducing-our-new-associate-member-forum">associate member
forum</a>. The
forum software we chose to use is Discourse. The JavaScript is free
software, and a link to all source code can be found in the footer of
-the site.</p>
+the website.</p>
+<p><img alt="The FSF tech team and several volunteers and attendees pose at LibrePlanet 2019." class="image-process-article-image" src="https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2192/tech-volunteers-hallway.medium.jpg"/></p>
+<p class="caption">Every year at LibrePlanet, technical voluteers and staff work together to keep the conference running smoothly and free.</p>
+<p class="credit">Credit: Anonymous, CC BY 4.0</p>
+<!--
</div>
+-->
+<!--
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
-<p><div class="quote-box-top"></div> <div class="quote-box"> <h4>New associate member forum</h4> <blockquote><p>"The purpose of this member forum is to provide a space where members can meet, communicate, and collaborate with each other about free software, using free software. While there are other places on the Internet to talk about free software, this forum is unique in that it is focused on the common interests of FSF members, who care very much about using, promoting, and creating free software."</p></blockquote></div></p>
-<div class="col2">
+{% separator {
+ "title": "New associate member forum",
+ "quote": "While there are other places on the Internet to talk about free software, this forum is unique in that it is focused on the common interests of FSF members, who care very much about using, promoting, and creating free software."
+}%}
+-->
+<!--
+<div class="col2" markdown="1">
+-->
<h3 id="working-together-for-free-software">Working Together for Free Software</h3>
<p><a class="logos" href="https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=50"><img alt="GNU Guix logo" src="images/guix.svg"/></a>
<a class="logos" href="https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=22"><img alt="GNU Mailman logo" src="images/mailman.svg"/></a>
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