Free Software Directory meeting

When : Fridays Time : 12:00 to 15:00 EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC) Topic : To help improve the Free Software Directory. Location : #fsf on libera.chat

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#Meeting,#FreeSoftware,#FSF,#FreeSoftwareDirectory

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MS Windows – End of Life support

October 14, 2025, sees the End of support for Windows 10.

This leaves users with Several choices

Upgrade to Windows 11 on current hardware. This may or may not work and will only work if your current hardware meets with Windows 11 requirements.

Option 1, Replace Windows with something Like Linux Mint, you can keep working, use Firefox, LibreOffice, cloud services e.g. Nextcloud (even Windows drive) etc. Option 2. Keep using Windows 10 without support, updates etc Option 3. buy new hardware just so you can run Windows 11.

Linux Mint is Free (as in freedom) software, but does have some closed source components to make things work, this is fine, at least from my view point as most users, just want things to work out of the box.

There is an active support community on the Open Communications platform Matrix [3].

Links

1. MS WIndows End of Life
2. LinuxMint
3. Matrix
   • Linux Mint community chat – Matrix
4. End of 10 – get help with installing a Linux distro
5. Article on The Register
6. End of 10: The Open Source alternative to forced obsolescence
7. KDE for Windows 10 Exiles
   • KDE Website
   • KDE Social

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#MSWindows,'#EndofLife,#Linux,#LinuxMint,#FreeSoftware, #NextCloud,#Cloud,#EndOf10

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Mission Libre

I am supporting this initiative so making this post to promote

We're Mission:Libre, a new project for teens that love free software!

We aim to get teens excited about software freedom and help them learn skills they'll need as they become tomorrow's free software contributors and activists.

We'll be spreading the word about free software to young people, building supportive communities where teens can explore technology with others, helping young people defend their right to use free software and encouraging them to take their interests further in higher education.

Updates

30/5/2025

Petition to ask Qualcom to release full free software drivers for wifi hardware, visit

Links

• MissionLibre Website
• Mastodon

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#Education,#Teens,#FreeSoftware,#Freedom,#Software, #Use,#Modify,#Share,#Study

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SFD

Saturday, 20 September 2025

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#FreeSoftware,#SoftwareFreedomDay,#Use,#Share,#Modify,#Study, #GNU,#FSFE,#FSF

Free Software Directory meeting

When : Fridays Time : 12:00 to 15:00 EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC) Topic : To help improve the Free Software Directory. Location : #fsf on libera.chat

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#Meeting,#FreeSoftware,#FSF,#FreeSoftwareDirectory

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I love free software day

Today it is I love free software day, a day to celebrate free software and why software freedom is important. I love free software day

Free software does not just mean free as in cost, free software gives us the freedom to Share, Modify, study and use software as we want to. This is important as knowing how software works helps, for example with transparency (what is it actually doing?). By being able to study how it works, having access to the code and the ability to modify we can change the software to our needs, so helps with translations for example. We can then share freely with others passing on that right to others so they, if they choose, can do the same.

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#fsfe.#FreeSoftware

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LibrePlanet 2024 – Schedule

Latest info for Libreplanet 2024

Location : Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA & online Dates : May 4 & 5, 2024 Website : LibrePlanet 2024 Schedule : Schedule
IRC : webchat 1. Enter a nickname 2. Channel : #libreplanet 3. Press Start

Keynotes

• Hayley Tsukayama will speak about grassroots activism at LibrePlanet 2024
• LibrePlanet 2024: “Cultivating Community” will feature a keynote by David Wilson
• Alyssa Rosenzweig, who spearheaded the reverse-engineering of Apple's GPU, to keynote LibrePlanet

Follow fsf on Mastodon : @fsf@hostux.social

Poster

Poster source

• Source files for poster

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#FSF,#LibrePlanet,#FreeSoftware,#Conference,#CallForSessions,#2024

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LibrePlanet 2024

We now have more details of the 2024 LibrePlanet conference, presented by the Free Software Foundation.

More details will be available in due course.

Links

• Free Software Foundation
  • LibrePlanet 2024
• Wentworth Institute of Technology

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#FreeSoftware,#fsf,#Conference,#Event

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LibrePlanet 2024 – call for sessions extended

• LibrePlanet call for sessions

Conference dates : To Be confirmed, March 2024

Updated on 18/10/2023 : You can now register to attend

Updated 24/10/2023

This has been extended until November 17th

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