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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 adding new packages to the FSD. With a new year, it's time to add some new packages. While the FSD already lists over 15,000 packages, there are more out there that need to be added. We want to start 2017 off with some fresh packages.

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.

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 on the Friday, December 30th, 2016 meeting.

Last week's theme was looking back on 2016 and working on some of the projects we started throughout the year. There was a good long discussion about improving tools for working on the Directory. Particularly, the need for a bug tracker for working on feature requests and reporting issues with the Directory. mattl offered to help set one up for the Directory. There was also Discussion about particular features that could be added to the Directory, such as the ability to upload pictures. More discussion will have to happen on these topics in deciding what new resources would be most useful.

ballpen also joined us and was trained on how to work on the Directory, and we look forward to them joining us again at future meetings. The meeting and year wrapped up with adding many new packages, which will be the theme of the first meeting of 2017.

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).

• 8sync-0.3.0
• coreutils-8.26
• denemo-2.0.14
• gcc-6.3.0
• global-6.5.6
• gmp-6.1.2
• gnucash-2.6.15
• gnuhealth-3.0.5
• gnumach-1.8
• gnupg-2.1.17
• grep-2.27
• gsl-2.3
• hurd-0.9
• icecat-45.5.1-gnu1
• libgcrypt-1.7.5
• libunistring-0.9.7
• linux-libre-4.9-gnu
• mailutils-3.1.1
• mig-1.8
• nano-2.7.3
• parallel-20161222
• taler-bank-0.2.0
• tramp-2.3.1
• unifont-9.0.06

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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 on the Friday, December 23rd, 2016 meeting.

Last week's theme was software for connecting people. We focused on software that foster connections among users of whatever sort that they might take. We had a very productive meeting, updating over 50 entries.

We also had numerous volunteers looking to update and create entries. mangeurdenuage, jorgesumle, ‎Alejandroindependiente and ‎Genium all contributed greatly. During the meeting there were discussions on asking the maintainer of LibreVideoJS to complete an entry for their project. The meeting wrapped up with mangeurdenuage committing to finish making changes the next day.

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).