On August 30, 2024 the Free Software Foundation will close its office for the last time as the organization goes all remote.
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Professional shaman Holly Million, who became Gnome's executive director in October, has evidently participated in a banishing ritual and will disappear from Gnome at the end of this month.
Cory Doctorow will be playing emcee, and writer and security expert Tarah Wheeler will be offering last minute down-and-dirty tips on how to play the game. Have fun; maybe win a little money; maybe lose some. It's for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a good cause that benefits us all.
The Free Software Foundation might be getting itself back on track as the radical watchdog for copyleft and free software with the appointment of free software activist and pioneer John Gilmore to its board of directors.
The Gentoo Linux distribution is in the process of shuttering its Gentoo Foundation now that it's become a Software in the Public Interest project, which gives it tax exempt status and much, much more.
Foundation members will be voting to elect a total of three board members. One will be to fill a seat that was vacated when its holder stepped down. The others are completely new seats.
Two new seats on EFF's board are filled by Erica Astrella and Yoshi Kohno, who bring valuable experience in diversity, equity, inclusion, security research, and data privacy to the table.
Lordy! Lordy! Lordy! Gnu’s turning 40! The Free Software Foundation is pulling out all of the stops for a birthday celebration hack day on October…
The software industry plays a large role in Ukraine's economy, with many Ukrainian developers working remotely from Ukraine for software vendors located in the EU, UK, and US. Training manuals in the Ukrainian language will help veterans of Ukraine's military struggles against Russia take advantage of this opportunity.
Pushing the end of voting back by one day assures there will be no confusion about when the polls close, which could have cost some OSI members their votes.
For Good Reason, Apache Foundation Says ‘Goodbye’ to Iconic Feather Logo
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The Apache Software Foundation is making changes in an attempt to right a wrong it unintentionally created when it adopted its name 25-years ago.