Paris, France - 23, avenue d'Italie, 75013 Paris

Cambridge, Massachusetts - Cambridge College, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue

Theme: Free Secure Networking and Decentralized Applications. This is a technical meeting; all GNU contributors are welcome.

Geneva, Switzerland - Uni-Mail, Plain Palais

Paris, France - IRILL, 23, avenue d'Italie, 75013 Paris

FSF is leading two day-long seminars on the GPL and Free Software licensing. The courses will be taught by Daniel Ravicher, Senior Counsel to FSF and Executive Director of the Public Patent Foundation; and Bradley Kuhn, FSF's Executive Director.

All FSF associate members are welcome to join FSF leadership and staff for a day of presentations and conversation.

The Massachusetts Senate Post Audit Committee has called for hearing to take place in hearing room A1 at the State House in Boston (on Beacon Street, look for the gold dome) regarding adoption of the OpenDocument format.

On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will officially release the GNU GPL version 3. Please, join us in celebration as we bring to a close eighteen months of public outreach and comment in revision of the world's most popular free software license. Beyond the creation of an improved license, the process of drafting version 3 has helped highlight vital issues for the community of free software users. This is a moment to thank both the thousands who participated by commenting on the license and those who represented stakeholders through the GPLv3 committee process. Now, with the release of GPLv3, we will see new defenses extended to free software. These defenses will continue the long history of fighting all efforts to make free software proprietary. Please, join us as we stream live footage of Richard Stallman announcing GPLv3 from Noon (EDT) at www.fsf.org. If you are in the Boston area you can also join us at the FSF offices from 11:30am. Please let us know at <info@fsf.org> if you would like to attend. -- Peter T. Brown Executive Director Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St. 5th Floor Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

This year's meeting will focus on the practical efforts underway to increase free software adoption and strengthen the free software movement. With the theme "Year of the upgrade", we will discuss the FSF campaigns and projects, and elicit a conversation with members about where we need to focus our efforts. Eben Moglen will set out a vision for the future with his speech “After GPLv3”, and a panel of FSF board members will lead an interactive discussion on the work of the FSF. Following on from the success of last years members forum, we have invited a few distinguished members to speak and discuss their work, and this year we welcome Mako Hill to talk about his work “Defining free culture”.