* 26 January 2011

A first installment of a <a href="/bulletins/gnustatus-2011-01.html">GNU
Status Report</a> is available.  This is a partial revival of the
original <cite>GNU's Bulletin</cite>, with the aim of providing
GNU-wide information from time to time, for as many packages as
possible.  <a href="/bulletins/bulletins.html">More info</a>.

* 9 December 2010

Savannah was down for a few days recently due to a password compromise
and then a disk failure.  Also, some Apache features have been turned
off for web pages.  <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/news/">Full news
items</a>.

* 16 November 2010

US citizens: Stop the Internet blacklist bill. Sign the petition at <a href="http://demandprogress.org/blacklist/">http://demandprogress.org/blacklist</a>, and see <a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/the-internet-blacklist-coica-is-back-take-action-before-thursday">the post on fsf.org</a> for more information.

* 29 September 2010

Interested in free video formats? We need your help! <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/interested-in-free-video-formats-we-need-your-help">The
FSF is looking</a> for a few volunteers willing to commit an average of a
few hours per week as reliable technical consultants helping people
transcode their videos to free formats like WebM and Ogg Theora.

* 30 June 2010

The June issue of the <cite>Free Software Supporter</cite> is out -- you can <a href="http://lists.fsf.org/archive/html/info-fsf/2010-06/msg00003.html">read it</a> and <a href="http://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter">subscribe</a> to receive future monthly issues by e-mail.

* 25 March 2010

GNU urges people working on free software to follow standards and guidelines for universal accessibility on GNU/Linux and other free operating systems with the release of <a href="http://www.gnu.org/accessibility/accessibility.html">the GNU Accessibility Statement</a>.

* 20 March 2010

FSF President Richard Stallman explains the dangers of Software as a Service
for free software in
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">a
new article</a>.

* 2 January 2010

All packages using <a href="/software/automake/">GNU Automake</a> to
produce distribution tarballs with <tt>make dist</tt> should update
to the 1.11.1 or 1.10.3 release, or otherwise work around <a
href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autotools.announce/131">the
problem</a>.

31 December 2009

The FSF is hosting a GNU Hackers' Meeting for GNU maintainers and
contributors from March 18th-21st as part of the LibrePlanet 2010
conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. <a
href="http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/LibrePlanet2010/GNUHackersMeeting">Read
the details and RSVP.</a>

* 23 July 2009

FSF president Richard Stallman explains the unintended interactions
between the Swedish Pirate Party's platform and free software -- and
proposes a solution -- in his new article, <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pirate-party.html">How the
Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software</a>.

* 27 May 2009

Help improve Canadian copyright law! The Globe and Mail has put C-61, a
copyright reform bill, on a wiki for editing. See <a
href="http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Canada/RewriteCanadianCopyrightLaw">the
LibrePlanet page</a> for information on participating.

27 May 2009

The FSF is hiring a new campaigns manager, to help with GNU and to run
DefectiveByDesign, PlayOgg, and other exciting free software campaigns. <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/news/campaigns-manager">Read about the job and how to
apply</a>.

* 7 May 2009

FSF has launched a new free software activist internship program. Applications
for the summer term are due Monday, May 25. <a
href="http://fsf.org/news/new-internship-program">Read the full
announcement.</a>

* 14 April 2009

Richard Stallman has given an interview to O'Reilly Media in which he talks 
about Free Software licencing and a number of other current issues including 
software patents, free device drivers, and the FSF's current campaigns. <a 
href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/speeches-and-interview.html">Read the
interview here.</a>

25 March 2009

CREDIL is hosting a contest where you can win prize money for working on free
software. It's been going for a couple of days already, but the deadline isn't
until Sunday, March 28th, so there's still time. <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/credil-contest-2009">Read more.</a>

* 24 March 2009

Wietse Venema and Creative Commons were announced as winners of the annual free
software awards at LibrePlanet last weekend. <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/news/2008_free_software_awards">Read more</a> about
their work and the awards.

* 23 March 2009

Help spring the <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">Javascript Trap!</a>
During the LibrePlanet conference, Richard Stallman announced a plan of action
for addressing the problem of non-free Javascript, Flash and Silverlight
programs. <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/javascript-trap">Read more</a> about
this threat to user freedom and how you can help.

7 March 2009

More and more students are considering whether a university teaches computer 
science and software development using Free Software when deciding where they 
will study. If you know of a Free-Software-oriented university then 
<a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org">email us</a>.

24 February 2009

New Zealanders, please support the <a href="http://creativefreedom.org.nz/">Creative Freedom Foundation</a>.

16 February 2009

Europeans, please attend <a 
href="http://www.greens-efa.org/cms/default/dok/270/270613.who_wants_to_control_the_internet@en.htm">this 
conference</a> on the Telecom package, called "Who wants to control the Internet?".

* 1 February 2009

PDF is a free format supported by free software but many PDF documents
instruct you to use a particular vendor's reader. Find out more about
free software PDF readers and their advantages at <a
href="http://pdfreaders.org/">pdfreaders.org</a>.

27 January 2009

The FSF has published a <a href="/licenses/gcc-exception.html">new GCC Runtime Library Exception</a> which will allow the entire <a href="/software/gcc/">GCC</a> codebase to be upgraded to GPLv3, and enable the development of a plugin framework for GCC.

9 January 2009

With the release of the Windows 7 public beta today, the FSF is declaring victory in its BadVista.org campaign. <a href="http://badvista.org">Read and share the full announcement.</a>