Notices by Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@mastodon.technology)

Do you have *strong* opinions about free software licenses -- that you'd like to respectfully share & discuss with other license aficionados? We have just the CFP for you! #CopyleftConf Feb. 3rd in Brussels, https://2020.copyleftconf.org/program/call-for-proposals

The fight for diversity, equality and inclusion is the fight for software freedom. Our movement will only be successful if it includes everyone. RMS does not speak for these values.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-speak-for-us/

Episode 0x68 of Free as in Freedom has: Moly De Blanc's keynote from first annual #CopyleftConf on 2019-02-04 & then an *exclusive* interview w/ Molly about her intersectional activist approach to software freedom. bkuhn & @o0karen0o give their frank opinions too, of course. http://faif.us/cast/2019/may/31/0x68/

New #Outreachy round is announced, Deb's #libreplanet talk, plus news from Selenium and Northbay Python! https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/may/28/may2019RU/

Congratulations to our Director of Community Operations @freedeb for receiving this year's Award for the Advancement of Free Software at #LibrePlanet this weekend! https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/mar/25/fsfawardDeb/

We could not be more proud of our Director of Community Operations, @freedeb for winning the @fsf's #FreeSoftware Award for all of the amazing work she has done over the years promoting user freedom and making the #softwarefreedom community more welcoming!

We are uncompromising in our mission and values, and happy to train a high-potential but less experienced candidate -- and we strongly encourage applications from people who are members of any marginalized communities. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/feb/14/techie-bookkeeper/

Has Friday got you feeling like you could use a new job? Does a free software job sound like just the thing? Well, you're in luck! We've got an opening *right now* so get in touch, https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/feb/14/techie-bookkeeper/

We believe the free software movement must include everyone; women, men of color, non-binary people, LGBTQ people as well as veterans, immigrants and neuro-divergent folks. We strongly encourage applicants from URG's. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/feb/14/techie-bookkeeper/

Debian Clojure contributor, Python packager and Conservancy supporter Elana Hashman talks about the fediverse, how she got started in #freesoftware and sustainability, https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/dec/27/elanahashman/

We love processing the software development work invoices of #ReproducibleBuilds developers. They're the only contractors who attach GPG signatures, sha256sums and the like for all their documentation. Apparently, they're also working on #ReproducibleBilling as well.

"Backdrop CMS is a lightweight, easy to deploy Drupal fork specifically designed for small businesses and non-profits." Just one of the projects we welcomed this year that specifically helps other non-profits. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/dec/19/newpeople/

Our Distinguished Technologist, Bradley M. Kuhn, wrote an in-depth discussion of the dangers of #MongoDB's attempt to control the future of #copyleft, with suggestions on what license drafters must do to respect the community & ease #OSI's burden. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/oct/16/mongodb-copyleft-drafting/

Last 40 hrs in #Lerna project provided an opportunity to reconsider an important philosophical & policy question: "How should software freedom activists engage with other political causes through their projects?" Read @bkuhn_ebb_org 's blog post about it: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/aug/30/big-tent/

Don't let your Open Source get ##commonsclaused! Read about how the #CommonsClause restricts your software freedom. Despite the opposition's rhetoric, #FOSS *is* sustainable without turning it into proprietary software; it's what we do here at #Conservancy. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/aug/22/commons-clause/

Our amazing board member @wonderchook hanging out for the final stretch of booth at #OSCON

Congratulations to our member project @SeleniumHQ! The @w3c is adding their WebDriver to its list of recommendations as of today, great news for web testing and #freesoftware! https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/may/31/seleniumW3C/

We are excited that #Tesla has moved their #Linux compliance work to the public so the community can work together to help them comply with #GPL requirements.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/may/18/tesla-incomplete-ccs/

Conservancy is thrilled to have @baconandcoconut join as our Director of Community Operations! https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/may/01/deb-nicholson-director-community-operations/

We welcome our newest member project @commonwl! The Common Workflow Language describes computational data analysis workflows for data-intensive sciences like bioinformatics. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/apr/11/cwl-new-member-project/