Help us make 2013 a great year for free software!
We hope you enjoy this special New Year's issue of the Supporter, complete with an impressive piece of holiday ASCII art by FSF member Chris Webber. As you can hopefully tell, that's a gnu toasting the new year with Gavroche, the adorable goblin mascot of the GNU MediaGoblin project that so many of you generously supported this year.
All of you care about free software, and our job at the FSF is to make your voices heard. In 2013, our goal is to turn up the volume and reach more people than ever before with the message that all software can and should be free. To make this possible, we want to raise $350,000 by January 31st. If you've been following the progress bar on our homepage, you know we're about halfway there. Can you help us reach our goal?
Click here to donate to the FSF or become a member now.
This holiday season, support computer-user freedom by giving an FSF membership to your loved ones. Membership support makes up the lion's share of the FSF's operating costs, and an FSF membership will help fund our work to defend and promote computer-users' freedom.
This is the latest installment of our Licensing and Compliance Lab's series on free software developers who choose GNU licenses for their works. Calibre is a free ebook library management application developed by users of ebooks for users of ebooks, distributed under GPLv3.
Keep cozy this winter in our navy blue beanies with GNU embroidered in white on the side. Now available from the shop!
A group of 45 free software organisations, including FSFE, have signed a legal complaint to Italy's Ministry of Education, warning that it is putting free software at an unfair disadvantage in Italy's schools.
On December 11th, the European Parliament adopted a proposal to create a unified patent system for Europe. Unfortunately, instead of productively simplifying Europe's patent laws, this "unitary patent" will leave Europe with a system that is both deeply flawed and prone to overreach.
The next meeting is Friday, January 11th from 2:00pm to 5:00pm EDT (19:00 to 22:00 UTC). Keep an eye on http://www.fsf.org/blogs for a post in the week before the meeting.
After this meeting, you can check http://fsf.org/events to see the rest of January's weekly meetings as they are scheduled.
For this month, we are highlighting the Free Software in Government page. Share your knowledge of free software in government and swap ideas for ways to improve it.
We welcome Daiki Ueno as the new maintainer of GNU Gettext (and thank Bruno Haible for his long-time development of gettext and many other packages, some still continuing). We also welcome Aleksey Demakov as the maintainer of the new package libjit, now split as a separate package from DotGNU.
January 17, 2013, 04:15 PM, Ann Arbor, MI, "A Free Digital Society"