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The FSF tech team needs Spring 2018 interns! Apply by January 19, 2018
This is an educational opportunity to work with the organization that sponsors the GNU Project, publishes the GNU General Public License (GPL), and fights for software freedom.
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Take a look at the FSF tech team's recent accomplishments and support our plans for 2018!
Summer internship wrapup: Ethan Dorta, FSF sysadmin intern
Hi! I'm Ethan, known as Flarp in the IRC rooms at FSF. I was a Free Software Foundation tech team intern in the summer of 2017.
Free software video streaming: HUBAngl powered LibrePlanet 2017
During LibrePlanet 2016, the ABYSS package was used to livestream sessions from the conference. This year, at LibrePlanet 2017, we used a new version of this free package...with a new name.
Join us as a member to give back for the free software you use
At the FSF, we run our own infrastructure using only free software, which makes us stand out from nearly every other nonprofit organization. Virtually all others rely on outside providers and use a significant amount of nonfree software. With your support, we set an example proving that a nonprofit can follow best practices while running only free software.
ABYSS - the genesis of a fully free streaming software package used at LibrePlanet
This statement could be the leitmotiv of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) about the LibrePlanet conference.
Let's Encrypt: The FSF beta tests a new Certificate Authority
Let's Encrypt is a non-profit Certificate Authority (CA), run by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), which aims to make the process of getting X.509 certificates for Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption a trivial process, as well as cost-free.
Introducing Stephen Mahood, system administrator
Most you may not know who I am, though more folks in Latin America may. I started working for the FSF as a sysadmin at the end of November 2014.
Sysadmin adventures: When weather threatens our work
With summer fast approaching in Boston, I appreciate the FSF office's air conditioning system. It keeps us comfortable in the heat, but during the record-breaking snowfall this winter, the system broke down, and as a result I found myself on an unexpected adventure.