From 04cd1a180c39d28de1afe49eb77cc55482e3cb26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Devin Ulibarri Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:16:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] 2019 after a readthrough --- content/2019.md | 146 +++++++++++++++++++--------------- output/FY2019.html | 189 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 2 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/2019.md b/content/2019.md index 4f82f8a..5a25f34 100644 --- a/content/2019.md +++ b/content/2019.md @@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ Color: --background: #f6faff; --brightaccent: #bde3ec; --darkaccent: #2870cc; -- 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 @@ -69,12 +69,15 @@ Credit: Free Software Foundation 2019. CC BY-SA. {.credit} + +*** +
### FY2019 at a glance 251 -: copyright assignments and disclaimers accepted +: copyright assignments and disclaimers accepted 34 : countries from where copyright assignments were received @@ -92,7 +95,7 @@ Credit: Free Software Foundation 2019. CC BY-SA. : 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 @@ -105,16 +108,16 @@ 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. -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.
@@ -129,8 +132,8 @@ We also: ## 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. @@ -146,24 +149,27 @@ Credit: Rubén Rodríguez, 2019. CC BY-SA 4.0 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. + + +
+ ### 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. + + + +*** + +
### International Day Against DRM @@ -212,7 +228,7 @@ contribute to collaborative and DRM-free textbooks, and resist the 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 @@ -273,8 +289,8 @@ Credit: Free Software Foundation, 2019. CC BY-SA 3.0
{% 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." }%}
@@ -286,20 +302,20 @@ In FY2019, we did this and more: * Email server upgrades: GNU Mailman servers at lists.fsf.org and lists.gnu.org were upgraded -* New RYF Web site: +* New RYF website: * 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 @@ -318,6 +334,8 @@ average of 1.4M average of 343,000 : emails per day sent for @gnu and @nongnu.org + + ### 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. + ![The FSF tech team and several volunteers and attendees pose at LibrePlanet 2019.](https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/2192/tech-volunteers-hallway.medium.jpg){: .image-process-article-image} Every year at LibrePlanet, technical voluteers and staff work together to keep the conference running smoothly and free. @@ -339,21 +365,19 @@ Every year at LibrePlanet, technical voluteers and staff work together to keep t 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. - + + + ### Working Together for Free Software [![GNU Guix logo](images/guix.svg)](https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=50){.logos} diff --git a/output/FY2019.html b/output/FY2019.html index 40e4843..4614973 100644 --- a/output/FY2019.html +++ b/output/FY2019.html @@ -78,12 +78,12 @@

Licensing and Compliance

The FSF's Licensing and Compliance Lab 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. The licensing team spent the year accepting copyright assignments from @@ -100,11 +100,12 @@ users to browse and search by categories and retailers.

ThinkPenguin exhibitor table at LibrePlanet 2019. ThinkPenguin offers many products with RYF certification.

Credit: Free Software Foundation 2019. CC BY-SA.

+

FY2019 at a glance

251
-
copyright assignments and disclaimers accepted
+
copyright assignments and disclaimers accepted
34
countries from where copyright assignments were received
12
@@ -116,7 +117,7 @@ users to browse and search by categories and retailers.

13
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
@@ -125,23 +126,24 @@ users to browse and search by categories and retailers.

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.

-

In FY19, we created a new RYF Web site 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 +

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.
    • +

Why I joined the FSF

"I've used GNU software for years and wanted to support the FSF in general."

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.

A photo of a panel at LibrePlanet 2019.

@@ -151,65 +153,67 @@ 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.

    + 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, 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 +

    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.

-

High Priority Projects:

-

The High Priority Projects list (HPP) is getting a fresh start. We are +

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.

+

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.

+
+
+

International Day Against DRM

For IDAD 2019, themed "Right to read," we called on Pearson and other similar companies to stop putting a lock on our learning, and @@ -220,7 +224,7 @@ contribute to collaborative and DRM-free textbooks, and resist the 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 DRM. Whether in school, in a coffee shop, or on the subway, it is an @@ -265,7 +269,7 @@ one).

-

Thank you for the Bulletin

"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."

+

Thank you for the Bulletin

"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."

Tech

Infrastructure for free software development and activism

@@ -273,20 +277,20 @@ one).

What's GNU in FY2019

@@ -301,24 +305,43 @@ one).

average of 343,000
emails per day sent for @gnu and @nongnu.org
-

A table display of computer components at LibrePlanet 2019.

-

Vendors showcase every year at the annual LibrePlanet conference.

-

Credit: Rubén Rodríguez, 2019. CC BY-SA 4.0

+ +

Infrastructure for free software development and activism

-

The FSF tech team and several volunteers and attendees pose at LibrePlanet 2019.

-

Every year at LibrePlanet, technical voluteers and staff work together to keep the conference running smoothly and free.

-

Credit: Anonymous, CC BY 4.0

The tech team implemented a 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.

+the website.

+

The FSF tech team and several volunteers and attendees pose at LibrePlanet 2019.

+

Every year at LibrePlanet, technical voluteers and staff work together to keep the conference running smoothly and free.

+

Credit: Anonymous, CC BY 4.0

+ + +

Working Together for Free Software

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