Participate in supporting the FSD by adding new entries and updating existing ones. We will be on IRC in the #fsf channel on irc.freenode.org.

Tens of thousands of people visit directory.fsf.org each month to discover free software. Each entry in the FSD contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions, to providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info that has been carefully checked by FSF staff and trained volunteers.

While the FSD has been and continues to be a great resource to the world over the past decade, it has the potential of being a resource of even greater value. But it needs your help!

This week's theme is focusing on software devoted to web authoring. The ubiquity and importance of the web in modern society is hard to understate. It is the medium for many of the conversations conducted in regards to the status of society. Whether it's a what you see is what you get editor, a full site management system, or a bookmark platform, these web authoring tools are of paramount importance. Tools such as these enable one to not just listen passively to the conversation, but rather it provides users the freedom to lead the conversation, without sacrificing user freedom.

If you are eager to help and you can't wait or are simply unable to make it onto IRC on Friday, our participation guide will provide you with all the information you need to get started on helping the FSD today! There are also weekly FSD Meetings pages that everyone is welcome to contribute to before, during, and after each meeting.

The FSF receives thousands of licensing questions a year from free software users and developers. The staff on the FSF Compliance Lab would not be able to handle all these requests on their own. That is why we are so grateful to our volunteers who assist us in our efforts. Volunteers are one of the most important resources an organization can muster.

The license volunteers are an amazing group of people, but they are often working behind the scenes. With all the hard work they do, they really deserve some time in the spotlight. That is why this installment of our licensing resource series is focusing on the Compliance Lab Team. Here you can find out a little bit more about the volunteers, their backgrounds, and areas of interest. These volunteers assist in handling free software licensing questions submitted by the public to licensing@fsf.org. Volunteers also review licensing publications and aid in keeping our educational materials relevant. In addition, volunteers collaborate in investigating alleged GNU General Public License (GPL) violations reported to license-violation@gnu.org. We wanted to take a moment to publicly thank our volunteers and share their work with the rest of the world.

If you're interested in becoming a licensing volunteer just write to licensing@fsf.org and tell us a bit about your background, both legal and within the free software world. Please also take the GPL quiz and let us know how you did. Once accepted, and suitably trained, volunteers join the team and are on the front line answering free software questions from the public.

We hope you take a chance to meet our volunteers, and possibly consider joining the team. But even if you're not ready to be a licensing wizard, there's plenty of other ways to help. Here's what you can do:

• You can keep up to date on this series and more free software news by subscribing to our newsletter, the Free Software Supporter and subscribing to our RSS feed.

• You can help fund our work in creating these licensing resources by becoming a member or by making a donation.

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• auctex-11.90
• datamash-1.1.1
• ed-1.14.1
• freetalk-4.1
• gcal-4.1
• gdb-7.12.1
• glpk-4.61
• gnupg-2.1.18
• gnutls-3.5.8
• gperf-3.1
• kawa-2.3
• libtasn1-4.10
• linux-libre-4.9.5-gnu
• m4-1.4.18
• mcsim-5.6.6
• nano-2.7.4
• parallel-20170122
• screen-4.5.0
• sed-4.3
• userv-1.2.0
• vc-dwim-1.8

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To download: nearly all GNU software is available from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors from https://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html. You can use the url https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ to be automatically redirected to a (hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.

This month, we welcome Alex Naumov as a new co-maintainer of Screen, Graham Percival as a new co-maintainer of Lilypond, Arash Esbati as a new co-maintainer of AUCTeX, and Yijun Yu as a new co-maintainer of Bison.

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance: please see https://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html.

If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

As always, please feel free to write to us at maintainers@gnu.org with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.

Every week free software activists from around the world come together in #fsf on irc.freenode.org to help improve the Free Software Directory. This recaps the work we accomplished at the Friday, January 27th, 2017 meeting.

This past week the meeting was about getting new entries added to the directory. Towards that end, we focused on shrinking the backlog of submitted but unapproved pages. While the meeting was sparsely attended, mangeurdenuage and others were able to process a large chunk of the backlog. The unapproved pages backlog declined by over thirty during the course of the meeting. There was also a lot of work done outside the meeting by people who couldn't make it this week. There are still more entries seeking entry to the FSD, however a sizable chunk appear to be actually approved pages that are showing as unapproved due to being moved. We'll investigate the issue and continue working to add more and more entries until the backlog is gone.

If you would like to help update the directory, meet with us every Friday in #fsf on irc.freenode.org from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC).

Participate in supporting the FSD by adding new entries and updating existing ones. We will be on IRC in the #fsf channel on irc.freenode.org.

Tens of thousands of people visit directory.fsf.org each month to discover free software. Each entry in the FSD contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions, to providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info that has been carefully checked by FSF staff and trained volunteers.

While the FSD has been and continues to be a great resource to the world over the past decade, it has the potential of being a resource of even greater value. But it needs your help!

This week's theme is going to focus on adding new packages to the FSD. We've done a lot of work on cleaning up various categories and improving the FSD, but we have to keep it growing! This week we'll work on approving pages that have been added, but also getting more packages into the FSD as well.

If you are eager to help and you can't wait or are simply unable to make it onto IRC on Friday, our participation guide will provide you with all the information you need to get started on helping the FSD today! There are also weekly FSD Meetings pages that everyone is welcome to contribute to before, during, and after each meeting.