This is the fourth year the FSF will partner with MIT's Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) to bring this two-day celebration of free software and software freedom to Cambridge, MA. Registration for LibrePlanet is now open, and admission is gratis for FSF members and students.

SIPB is MIT’s volunteer student group which has provided infrastructure and innovative services in computing since 1969. "SIPB has been an integral partner for LibrePlanet since 2014," said Georgia Young, FSF Program Manager. "The FSF deeply appreciates SIPB for extending their work with the MIT and Boston area community to include LibrePlanet."

MIT has a long history with free software. While at MIT, Richard Stallman first developed the GNU operating system, and later published the GNU Manifesto in 1985. In its 31 years of existence, several FSF board members have been affiliates of MIT.

LibrePlanet will be based out of the Stata Center, located in Cambridge, MA, near the Kendall stop on the MBTA Red Line.

About the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software – particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants – and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at https://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.

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Media Contacts

Georgia Young
Program Manager
Free Software Foundation
+1 (617) 542 5942
georgia@fsf.org