Recent blog posts
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate women's contributions to science and technology.
GNU MediaGoblin offers what you've been missing in an Internet media-sharing system
Today the Free Software Foundation is proud and excited to assist the GNU MediaGoblin project in its fundraising effort. MediaGoblin's volunteer team is working on a next-generation social web system where users will share their experiences through photos, videos and audio, all without running proprietary software. This project is ambitious, not just because it will support multiple media types, but also because it will use a special new network system called federation, which unifies a group of separately-owned servers into a single interface for the user. This means that anyone wishing to start a MediaGoblin server will be able to do so, optionally customizing the code to their needs and offering unique options to users.
Hampshire College distributes free software bundle to all incoming students
Hampshire student and FSF campaigns organizer Kira shares the success of their ambitious project to help fellow students get started with free software. The achievements of Kira's organization, LibrePlanet/Students for Free Culture, is exciting and replicable outside of Hampshire. Kira provides suggestions to help other students realize the same changes at their schools.
Hi, I'm Zak (one of the new campaigns managers)
I just started here at the FSF, so I thought I'd introduce myself on the blog.
Stop software patents from muscling in on Europe
If the corrupt European Patent Office succeeds in imitating America's software patent system, it will be a disaster for software development. Join April, the FSF's French ally, in calling for strong legislation against software patents in Europe.
Celebrate Software Freedom Day 2012 in Cambridge, Massachusetts!
Software Freedom Day 2012 is Saturday, September 15th at Cambridge College, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
Guest Post: Why schools should refuse iPads
My name is David and I'm 24 years old, and I was born and educated in Minnesota. My high school exclusively used Apple computers.