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Hosting freedom: A behind-the-scenes tour with the Savannah Hackers

Wait. GNU/FSF hosts a forge? What's a forge? Who are these hackers? Will there be a quiz later? In this 30 minute talk we'll answer these questions and raises others as we introduce an often overlooked free software development resource and the "smiling faces" behind it.

Presented by: Corwin Brust

Corwin Brust joined the Savannah Hackers in 2020. He completed his apprenticeship in 2023. He is also a core organizer for EmacsConf and a volunteer for GNU Emacs. His rarely updated blog, where he writes mostly about Emacs, is corwin.bru.st. You can reach him by sending email to corwin@bru.st or in #savannah on https://libera.chat IRC.

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This talk was presented at LibrePlanet.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.