http://www.gnu.org/whatsnew.htmlWhat's new at the GNU project(C) Free Software Foundation 200406 July 2005The European Parliament has voted (648 to 14) against an attempt to impose software patents in Europe!06 July 2005 21 June 2005The FSF is hiring for a Senior GNU/Linux Systems Administrator and Programmer position. http://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/fsf-sysadmin.html21 June 2005 21 June 2005Richard Stallman's article Patent Absurdity, calling on the European Parliament to reject rules allowing software patents, appears in the Guardian.http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1510566,00.html21 June 2005 13 May 2005Free Software loving Christians might be interested in taking a look at Penguin in the Pew, a book by Don Parris which expands on the philosophies from a Christian perspective. (Note that this is a third party work and thus not the official view of the FSF.)http://www.lulu.com/dcparris/13 May 2005 10 May 2005 The Free Software, Free Society (FSFS) Conference, organized by Government and civil society organizations from Brazil, Italy, Venezuela and India, is scheduled for 28-30 May 2005 in the Southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), the capital of the province of Kerala.http://fsfs.hipatia.net/10 May 2005 06 May 2005 The FSF is looking for volunteers to build, test and package fully free versions of OpenOffice.org 2.0 that use GCJ as a replacement for the non-free Java platform. Please look at this page for a list of bugs, patches and feature requests needed for better support and instructions for testing and reporting bugs to the GCJ and OpenOffice.org teams.http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/OpenOffice2GCJ406 May 2005 04 April 2005There is a vital need to draw the Free Software community's attention to the ongoing development work on Free Flash and Free Java platforms. These projects are important because computer users are continually being seduced into using non-free software, because there is no adequate free replacement.http://www.fsf.org/news/free-java-and-flash.html04 April 2005 08 March 2005FSF associate members should RSVP for this year's annual meeting. Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, Lawrence Lessig and more will be speaking.http://www.gnu.orgmailto:membership@fsf.org08 March 2005 18 February 2005The FSF is hiring a full-time Program Assistant. http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-program-assistant-news.html18 February 2005 16 February 2005There will be a demonstration against software patents in Brussels http://wiki.ffii.org/DemoBrussels050217En16 February 2005 16 February 2005The FSF has appointed a new Executive Director and got a new, distinct website.http://www.fsf.org/news/new-executive-director.html16 February 2005 22 January 2005URGENT: The European software patent directive is being introduced at the Council for Agriculture and Fishery on January 24. More info here. Immediate action is necessary! More information can be found on Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure's website.http://kwiki.ffii.org/Fish0501En22 January 2005 14 January 2005 Free Software Magazine is the free magazine for the free software world, available on paper and in electronic format. The first issue of this new magazine has become available now!http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/14 January 2005 04 January 2005 Current FSF associate members will receive a customized message recorded by RMS or Eben Moglen, suitable for use as the greeting on their answering machine, voicemail or home page, when they inspire three new people to join as annual members!http://member.fsf.org/referral-200404 January 2005 03 January 2005We have revised the music to the Free Software Song. The Lilypond are here and here.http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html03 January 2005