The state of free: revising the High Priority Projects list

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The state of free: revising the High Priority Projects list

Benjamin Mako Hill, Karen Sandler, Stefano Zacchiroli, and Matthew Garrett

The FSF High Priority Projects List guides volunteers and supporters to projects where their skills can be utilized, whether they be in coding, graphic design, writing, or activism.

Members of the committee convened to revise the list give an update on the review process so far, including some examples of suggestions received as part of the call for public feedback, and invite audience discussion.

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libreplanet.org LibrePlanet is the Free Software Foundation's annual conference. The FSF campaigns for free/libre software, meaning it respects users' freedom and community. We believe that users are entitled to this; all software should be free. gnu.org/important We do not advocate "open source". That term was coined to reject our views. It refers to similar practices, but usually presented solely as advantageous, without talking of right and wrong. gnu.org/not-open-source Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 by announcing development of the free operating system, GNU. By 1992, GNU was nearly operational; one major essential component was lacking, the kernel. gnu.org/gnu-begin In 1992, Torvalds freed the kernel Linux, which filled the last gap in GNU. Since then, the combined GNU/Linux system has run in millions of computers. Nowadays you can buy a new computer with a totally free GNU/Linux system preinstalled. gnu.org/gnu-and-linux The views of the speaker may not represent the Free Software Foundation. The Foundation supports the free software cause and freedom to share, and basic freedoms in the digital domain, but has no position on other political issues.

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