Software Freedom Conservancy @conservancy@mastodon.technology
Software Freedom Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) public charity that acts as a non-profit home for Free, Libre, and Open Source Software projects.
Joined Nov 2017
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Supporting Conservancy is an investment in the future of #FOSS. Help us help more member projects, offer more services, and keep advocating for the issues that affect us all. Become a Supporter today! https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/
It's #GivingTuesday & we know that many charities are asking for your support on this day. We know it's a tough decision to select among so many good causes, but we hope you'll consider us in your giving plans. Here's a summary of our 2020 accomplishments: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/
We launched a public drafting process for the DMCA Cooperation Pledge — wherein copyright holders promise to wait 30 days before issuing DMCA takedowns against legitimate FOSS projects (ala GPLv3§8¶3). All policy wonks welcome to our transparent process! https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/nov/30/dmca-pledge/
We realize 🦃,🍗(or, for vegan/vegetarian folks like our Policy Fellow bkuhn, 🥗) & 🥧 may have our USA colleagues distracted today. If you're elsewhere in world or just taking a break from 👩🍳 duty, join our irc.freenode.net #conservancy weekly chat in 10 minutes!
We’ve been challenged by a group of amazing individuals to raise a total of $111,029 during our annual fundraiser. Help us get there & have your donation doubled! Please renew or begin your Conservancy support today!
https://sfconservancy.org/supporter
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/nov/24/annual-match-2020/
ICYMI: Late last week, #GitHub processed another §1201 #DMCA takedown of a #FOSS project; we made a proposal for change about how #copyright enforcement gets done in https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/nov/13/widevine-dmca-takedown/ … We hope to see this story widely discussed, as DMCA attacks continue.
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Wow! https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/nov/02/2020-11-hiring/
@conservancy Software Freedom Conservancy, one of the most important organizations in #FLOSS #opensource #freesoftware , is hiring a full-time employee. Remote, not limited to the United States. Really interesting, flexible job description.
Amazing team, critical mission. In an alternate universe where I was putting my consulting on hiatus and looking for a full-time job, I would be applying for this RIGHT NOW. Check it out & boost!
A highlight in election week: Massachusetts passed a #RightToRepair measure! Denver shares his thoughts and the email we sent to The MA Attorney General's office with advice for the implementation.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/nov/06/helping-each-other-right-to-repair/
We're hiring, spread the word! Apply to join our dedicated team, fighting for #softwarefreedom.
Our weekly "stay in touch during COVID" IRC chat is in one hour — 18:00 UTC. We're going to discuss the difficult situation that DMCA technical measure restrictions creates for #FOSS, such as the youtube-dl situation in the last week. Join #conservancy on irc.freenode.net
You probably heard @RIAA used #DMCA to get @microsoft's @GitHub to remove youtube-dl, but did you know Microsoft funds RIAA as a member? We call on Microsoft (& any organizations who purports to support #FOSS) to resign from RIAA in protest.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/oct/26/microsoft-github-riaa-youtube-dl/
Conservancy is excited to announce we've received a grant from ARDC to pursue a new #copyleft compliance strategy to help people take more control over our devices. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/oct/01/new-copyleft-strategy-launched-with-ARDC-grant/
MicroBlocks just released their 1.0 beta! Now's a great time to try out this fun blocks programming language. Congratulations to the team! https://MicroBlocks.fun/
Join us for our weekly #conservancy chat on freenode.net this Thursday 2pm Eastern/6pm UTC! This week we'll discuss the #DeclarationOfDigitalAutonomy w/@mdb@kith.kitchen and our own @o0karen0o.
You can read their draft at https://techautonomy.org/ , watch their talk from debconf: https://debconf20.debconf.org/talks/97-introducing-the-principles-of-digital-autonomy/ ,and interview with @FLOSSWeekly: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/597
In 40 minutes, catch our executive director @o0karen0o with @mmillions talking about the Declaration for Digital Autonomy live on @FLOSSWeekly! Tune into the stream at https://twit.tv/live
In 10 minutes, join irc.freenode.net on #conservancy. We'll continue our discussion on the #DMCA exemptions that we filed last week, how they relate to our new member project, #OpenWrt, and any software freedom issue that you'd like to discuss with our staff & supporters.
Conservancy requested three new #DMCA exemptions to help ensure people control the devices they own. Learn more about our requests and the process: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/sep/16/dmca-exemptions-2020/
#OpenWrt joined Conservancy today! We'll help OpenWrt with fiscal sponsorship and all other issues so that users can regain control over their own routers. We're announcing more next week about recent work toward software freedom on wireless devices! https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/sep/10/openwrt-joins/
Exclusive: join us for our weekly community chat on http://irc.freenode.net #conservancy @ 1800 UTC today. We'll discuss important action Conservancy took to fight for software freedom. Only those who show up on IRC will hear about it today; the rest have to wait until next week!
Software Freedom Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) public charity that acts as a non-profit home for Free, Libre, and Open Source Software projects.
Joined Nov 2017
