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News
- Fifteen new devices from Technoethical now RYF-certified to respect your freedom
- SecureDrop and Alexandre Oliva are 2016 Free Software Awards winners
- LibrePlanet free software conference returns to MIT this weekend, March 25-26
- FSF Job Opportunity: Outreach & Communications Coordinator
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Blog Posts
- Friday Free Software Directory IRC meetup: June 30th starting at 12:00 p.m. EDT/16:00 UTC
- Free Software Directory meeting recap for June 23rd, 2017
- Twenty-three new GNU releases in the month of June
- Friday Free Software Directory IRC meetup: June 23rd starting at 12:00 p.m. EDT/16:00 UTC
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- Call the inventor of the Web to demand free, user-respecting Web standards
- Stand up for your freedom to install free software; sign the pledge against Restricted Boot
- Protect your freedom and privacy; join us in creating an Internet that's safer from surveillance
- Free a computer from Windows
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Events
- Richard Stallman - "Logiciel Libre: La clé de ta liberté et ta vie privée quand tu utilises les ordinateurs et les téléphones" (Saint-Etienne, France)
- Richard Stallman - "Logiciel Libre: ce que le programmeur doit savoir" (Saint-Etienne, France)
- Richard Stallman - "Free Software: Freedom, Privacy, Sovereignty" (Boston, MA)
- Richard Stallman to speak in Chicago, IL
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