Is your school forcing you to use #Zoom, #Skype, or other proprietary videoconferencing software to learn or teach? Freedom is important to education. Read about freedom-respecting choices at https://u.fsf.org/311

Have you visited our LibrePlanet wiki page lately? It's filled with free software information -- and it's an important tool for connecting with your fellow free software supporters. Check it out and **get involved!**

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How to connect community organizations and technological activists for software freedom? Share your experiences at this workshop at #LibrePlanet 2024 lead by Christina Haralanova:

LibrePlanet — Speakers

Nous sommes reconnaissants à chacune des personnes qui a fait un don à la #FSF, mais nous voudrions donner une mention spéciale à celles qui ont fait un don de 500$ ou plus le mois dernier: Ada Avery, Adam Oberbeck, Andy Kopra, Arthur Barlow et Judith Jonas, František Kučera, Fredrick Brennan, Joseph Pingenot, Kevin Runner, Raffael Stocker, R Scott Belford, Stéphane Bortzmeyer, Stephen Monslow, Tomas Stary, Uko Kokņevičs et Water Chika.

"What if my school might want to make my program into its own proprietary software product?" Read the suggestion on our #GNUGPLFAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about the GNU Licenses - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

Learn how to foster and renew community in a long-lived free software project with T. Kim Nguyen:

LibrePlanet — Speakers

More on the #LibrePlanet2024 schedule: https://u.fsf.org/434 #FreeSoftware #Conference

Chromebooks foisted on students? Teachers monitoring what children do outside of the classroom via nonfree software? Surveillance of children is common, and it's at your child's school, too. Support #FreeSoftware https://u.fsf.org/32h

How to connecting community organizations and technological activists for software freedom? Share your experiences at this workshop lead by Christina Haralanova:

LibrePlanet — Speakers

More on the #LibrePlanet2024 schedule: https://u.fsf.org/434 #FreeSoftware #Conference

#ThankGNU! to David Bruce, James Wilson, Stefan Antun, and Valerio Poggi for helping the FSF continue its goal of educating the public about #freesoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness:

Thank GNUs, 2023 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Joshua Branson, Matto Fransen, Marc Albert Fargas Esteve, Nidish Narayanaa Balaji, and Thorsten Alteholz for assigning their copyright to the FSF! More: https://u.fsf.org/3ht #CopyrightAssignments

Did you know that the FSF tech team published 133 web pages of their sysadmin documentation? Check it out at

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and read more about the tech team's recent work: https://u.fsf.org/41z #GNUBash #Bash #Manuals #LearnLibre

Wensheng Xie claims: "It is easy to contribute to GNU". Learn why at #LibrePlanet2024:

LibrePlanet — Speakers

More on this year's #LibrePlanet schedule: https://u.fsf.org/434 #FreeSoftware #Conference

Graduation coming up? Looking for a gift? Follow this link to give the gift of an FSF membership:

Gift a Membership | Free Software Foundation

#GNU #FreeSoftware #SoftwareLibre #Gifts #Birthday #Graduation #Celebration

Learn how to foster and renew community in a long-lived free software project with T. Kim Nguyen:

LibrePlanet — Speakers

More on the #LibrePlanet2024 schedule: https://u.fsf.org/434 #FreeSoftware #Conference

HW [...] chose GPLv3 for that purpose. The fact that we're still going today [...] is proof he made a good choice. If KOReader had been proprietary, it may have been unnecessarily abandoned -- a fate that is all too common for similar projects. Read more: https://u.fsf.org/3zi

Discuss how to empower youth in the digital age with Leonardo Champion:

LibrePlanet — Speakers

More on the #LibrePlanet2024 schedule: https://u.fsf.org/434 #FreeSoftware #Conference

#ThankGNU! to Christopher Rorvick, David Bruce, David Chapman, Makoto Nakai, Michael Henderson, Nardy Pillards, Robek World, and Steve Tuyizere for helping the FSF continue its goal of educating the public about #freesoftware See a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness:

Thank GNUs, 2023 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

At the FSF, we aim to make free software the norm. Read more: https://u.fsf.org/41z Support the FSF: https://donate.fsf.org #SoftwareFreedom

The Canadian *Bill C-26* gains momentum although civil rights groups warn that the Bill "risks undermining our privacy rights, and the principles of accountable governance and judicial due process which are the fabric of Canadian democracy."

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Joint Letter of Concern regarding Bill C-26 - CCLA

Government Bill (House of Commons) C-26 (44-1) - First Reading - An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts - Parliament of Canada

Government Bill (House of Commons) C-26 (44-1) - First Reading - An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making c...

Share this holiday fairy tale to teach your loved ones about free software:

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ShoeTool

ShoeTool is an animated fairy tale about an elf shoemaker who thinks he buys a machine to help him make shoes... only to find out that there are th...

#Shoetool #SoftwareFreedom #LearnLibre