Free Software Supporter - Issue 66

# Free Software Supporter 
Issue 66, September 2013

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## TABLE OF CONTENTS

* FSF seeks full-time senior GNU/Linux systems administrator  
* Questions about DRM? Visit our new FAQ  
* GNU's big "three-o"
* New iPhones put more polish on Apple's restrictions  
* Interview with Caleb James DeLisle of cjdns  
* Recap of New Haven Software Freedom Day Cryptoparty  
* June 2013 - Torreón, Mexico - RMS at the Museo Arocena  
* Show your allegiance to GNU at the office with this GNU polo shirt!  
* Celebrate GNU's 30th birthday with this commemorative mug!  
* Twenty-one organizations ask Italian Data Protection Authority to publish readable documents  
* Jamaica Ministry of Health adopts GNU Health  
* LibreOffice migration in Valencia, Spain complete  
* MediaGoblin 0.5.0: Goblin Force  
* LibrePlanet featured resource: GNU 30th media  
* GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 23 new GNU releases!  
* GNU Toolchain Update  
* Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
* Thank GNUs!  
* Take action with the FSF!  

### FSF seeks full-time senior GNU/Linux systems administrator 

*From September 24th*

The FSF seeks a full-time senior systems administrator. The ideal
candidate will be a well-rounded GNU/Linux systems administrator
who enjoys learning and problem-solving. (S)he will be familiar
with the free software community and how it works, and will be
more interested in making a substantial contribution to software
freedom and having employment consistent with ethical ideals than
obtaining the highest salary.

  * <https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-seeks-full-time-senior-gnu-l...>

### Questions about DRM? Visit our new FAQ

*From September 9th*

The anti-DRM team at Defective by Design has compiled a Digital
Restrictions Management (DRM) FAQ, or "Frequently Asked
Questions" list, to address the most common misconceptions
regarding DRM.

  * <https://www.defectivebydesign.org/new-drm-faq>

### Celebrate GNU's big "three-o"
	
*From September 6th*

This past weekend, the FSF celebrated thirty years of GNU with free
software supporters around from the world at our event in Cambridge,
MA and at satellite events being held in eighteen different cities.

  * <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/celebrate-gnus-big-th...>  

### New iPhones put more polish on Apple's restrictions

*From September 10th*

As with previous iPhones, apps and devices come with a kill
switch, third party peripherals are arbitrarily restricted, books
and other media purchased from iTunes come with DRM, and all
software must be cryptographically signed and approved by
Apple. The iPhone 5s and 5c succeed in leaving their users at the
mercy of Apple.

  * <https://www.defectivebydesign.org/iphone5c-warning>

FSF statement on new iPhone models:  

  * <https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-stateme...>

### Interview with Caleb James DeLisle of cjdns 

*From September 25th*

This is the latest installment of our Licensing and Compliance
Lab's series on free software developers who choose GNU licenses
for their works. In this edition, we talk to Caleb James DeLisle
of cjdns, a mesh networking application.

  * <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/interview-with-caleb-...>

### Recap of New Haven Software Freedom Day Cryptoparty  

*From September 26th*

Joshua Gay, FSF licensing and compliance manager, helped host and
run a Software Freedom Day event in New Haven, Connecticut where
he currently lives and works.

  * <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/recap-of-new-haven-so...>

### June 2013 - Torreón, Mexico - RMS at the Museo Arocena

*From September 25th*

On June 13th, 2013, RMS was at the Museo Arocena, in Torreón,
Mexico, to give a speech hosted by the GULAG (the La Laguna
GNU/Linux User Group) for their seventh Free Software Conference,
to students, professors, and the general public.

  * <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/20130613-torreon>

### Show your allegiance to GNU at the office with this GNU polo shirt!

*From September 26th*

Polo shirts featuring the new GNU head logo are now available in
the GNU Press store for $35. Also available are limited edition
GNU 30th anniversary travel mugs for $25.

  *
<https://www.fsf.org/blogs/gnu-press/show-your-allegiance-...>

### Celebrate GNU's 30th birthday with this commemorative mug! 

*From September 27th*

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of GNU with this limited edition
commemorative travel mug. The side of the cup features the
outline of the new GNU mascot logo in front of a rising yellow
sun, and the lid is blue.

  * <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/gnu-press/celebrate-gnus-30th-b...>

### Twenty-one organizations ask Italian Data Protection Authority to publish readable documents

*By FSF Europe, from September 21st*

The Free Software Foundation Europe and twenty Italian civil
society organizations wrote a letter to the President of the
Authority for the Protection of Personal Data, asking the agency
to ensure that all documents published on its website can be read
and used with Free Software programs.

  * <https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120921.en.html>

### Jamaica Ministry of Health adopts GNU Health

*By GNU Health, from September 21st*

The Jamaica Ministry of Health and GNU Solidario have signed an
agreement to cooperate in the implementation of GNU Health as the
Free Health and Hospital Information System in this country.

  * <http://blog.gnusolidario.org/2013/09/jamaican-ministry-of...>

### LibreOffice migration in Valencia, Spain complete

*By Joinup, from August 22nd*

The Valencia autonomous region government expects to save around 1.5
million euro per year on proprietary software licenses since having
finished the migration to LibreOffice on all 120,000 desktop PCs of
the administration which includes schools and courts. More important
than the money, they have made a great advance toward user freedom.

  *
<https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/valencia-...>
  
### MediaGoblin 0.5.0: Goblin Force

*By Deb Nicholson, from September 6th*

GNU MediaGoblin 0.5.0 has been released and boasts multiple
bugfixes and new features, such as Mozilla Persona integration.

  * <http://mediagoblin.org/news/mediagoblin-0.5.0-goblin-forc...>

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

*From September 30th*

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, October 4th, from 2pm to 5pm EDT
(18:00 to 21:00 UTC). Details here:

  * <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/directory/friday-free-software-...>

After this meeting, you can check <https://www.fsf.org/events> to
see the rest of October's weekly meetings as they are scheduled.

### LibrePlanet featured resource: GNU 30th media

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 GNU 30th media, which is a
collection of videos and photos from GNU 30th celebrations. You
are invited to adapt, spread, and improve this important resource.

  * <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Category:GNU_30_media>

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

### GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 23 new GNU releases!

26 new GNU releases this month (as of September 29, 2013):  

* [alive-2.0.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/alive/)  
* [apl-1.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/apl/)  
* [aris-2.1.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/aris/)  
* [autogen-5.18.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/)  
* [denemo-1.0.8](https://www.gnu.org/software/denemo/)  
* [freeipmi-1.3.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/)  
* [gama-1.14](https://www.gnu.org/software/gama/)  
* [gcl-2.6.9](https://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/)  
* [gdb-7.6.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/)  
* [global-6.2.9](https://www.gnu.org/software/global/)  
* [gnuhealth-2.2.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuhealth/)  
* [guile-sdl-0.5.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile-sdl/)  
* [libmicrohttpd-0.9.30](https://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/)  
* [librejs-5.4](https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/)  
* [lightning-2.0.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/lightning/)  
* [linux-libre-3.11](https://www.gnu.org/software/linux-libre/)  
* [m4-1.4.17](https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/)  
* [mediagoblin-0.5.0](https://www.gnu.org/software/mediagoblin/)  
* [parallel-20130922](https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/)  
* [pspp-0.8.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/)  
* [pycdio-0.20](https://www.gnu.org/software/pycdio/)  
* [pyconfigure-0.2.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/pyconfigure/)  
* [sipwitch-1.8.6](https://www.gnu.org/software/sipwitch/)  
* [solfege-3.22.1](https://www.gnu.org/software/solfege/)  
* [texinfo-5.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/)  
* [xboard-4.7.2](https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/)  

To get announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu
mailing list: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu>. Nearly
all GNU software is available from <https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/>, or
preferably one of its mirrors (<https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html>). You
can use the url <http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/> to be automatically
redirected to a (hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.

This month we welcome Juergen Sauermann as the author and maintainer of
the new GNU APL package, a full APL interpreter, and Brian Tiffin, Simon
Sobisch, and Bernard Giroud as the maintainers of the new GNU Cobol
package.

Also welcome to Ludovic Courtes as the new maintainer of DMD, in
addition to his existing work on many other packages, notably Guile (the
GNU extension language) and GUIX (a functional package manager for GNU).
Although technically still an alpha release, GUIX 0.4 was released as
part of the GNU 30th birthday celebration,
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/>. A new version of GNU HURD (the GNU
kernel) and related packages was also released for the celebration,
<https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/>.

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>. To submit new packages to the GNU
operating system, see <https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html>.

As always, please feel free to write to me, <karl@gnu.org>, with any
GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments. 

### GNU Toolchain update

*From September 23rd*

The GNU toolchain refers to the part of the GNU system which is used
for building programs. These components of GNU are together often on
other systems and for compiling programs for other platforms.

This month features improvements to binutils, GCC, and other
programs.

  * <http://nickclifton.livejournal.com/14424.html>

### 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 in October:

  * Oct 08, 2013 07:00 PM, Oxford, OH, US, ["Richard Stallman to speak in Oxford,
OH"](https://www.fsf.org/events/20131008-oxford)
  * Oct 16, 2013 10:00 AM, Quito, Ecuador, ["El software libre y tu
libertad"](https://www.fsf.org/events/20131016-amaguana)
  * Oct 17, 2013 10:00 AM, Ibarra, Ecuador, ["Copyright vs
comunidad"](https://www.fsf.org/events/20131017-ibarra)
  * Oct 18, 2013 10:00 AM, Latacunga, Ecuador, ["Copyright vs
comunidad"](https://www.fsf.org/events/20131018-latacunga)
  * Oct 19, 2013 10:00 AM, Guaranda, Ecuador, ["Copyright vs
comunidad"](https://www.fsf.org/events/20131019-guaranda)
  * Oct 21, 2013 10:00 AM, Quito, Ecuador, ["El movimiento del software
libre"](https://www.fsf.org/events/20131021-quito)
  * Oct 22, 2013 10:00 AM, Quito, Ecuador, ["Copyright vs
comunidad"](https://www.fsf.org/events/20131022-quito)
  * Oct 23, 2013 10:00 AM, Quito, Ecuador, ["El software libre en la ética y en la
práctica"](https://www.fsf.org/events/20131022-quito)

### Other FSF and free software events

  * Oct 03, 2013 06:00 PM, Paris, France, ["John Sullivan to speak at the Open World Forum to mark
the 30th anniversary of the launching of the GNU
Project"](https://www.fsf.org/events/20131003-montrouge)

### Thank GNUs!

We appreciate everyone who donates to the Free Software Foundation,
but 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/2013supporters.html>

This month, a big Thank GNU to:

  * Stephen Koermer
  * Patric Buskas
  * Mark Clarke
  * Calum Robert Slee
  * Carina Buskas
  * Stephan Szabo
  * Daniel Watson

You can add your name to this list by donating at
<https://donate.fsf.org>.

### Take action with the FSF

Contributions from thousands of individual members enable the FSF's
work. You can contribute by joining at <https://www.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
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  I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom!
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The FSF is also 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 campaign section
(<https://www.fsf.org/campaigns>) and take action on software patents,
DRM, free software adoption, OpenDocument, RIAA and more.

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