"In a letter that recently came with Free Software Foundation's Bulletin Peter Brown poses an invitation to "help us build Libre planet - a base for free software activists and community" going on "your support will help launch Libre Planet by August 2007"."

I have a request from End Softare Patents' Ciarán O'Riordan. He'd like your help. He says VC good guy Brad Feld is interested in mailing out copies of the film Patent Absurdity to 200 people... he'd like to have some help from you coming up with a list of who best to send to.

The last few years has seen the company formerly known as Trolltech open their arms to one of the largest parts of their supporting community, KDE, in a new way: By offering a few members of the KDE community free admittance to the Qt Developer Days conference. This year is no different, and they have invited a number of people to attend this year&'s conferences.

"LibrePlanet Italia is the only italian free software activist group approved by the Free Software Foundation. Libre Planet is an FSF project to gather together all the people interested about digital freedom in the world..."

The new year is almost upon us, so it's a good time to wrap up the year 2009 and ruminate over the best open source software and hardware this year brought us. So without further ado, let me present my personal "Best of 2009" list in no particular order.

I am loathe to post this story as it seems like blatant attention-seeking, but it seems like we should keep informed of the saga. Paul McDougall is at it again, even after FSM's Ciaran O'Riordan called him out for his last article. And this doesn't seem to have slowed him down at all.

"I celebrated Software Freedom Day this year by giving a speech about the history, features, and costs of software freedom to an audience of about 70 people at the Philadelphia Area Computer Society (PACS). The event was co-sponsored by the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Ubuntu Local Communities.

FSF has now filed an amicus brief in Bilski, and they too ask the Supreme Court "to affirm that software ideas are not patentable":End Software Patents (ESP) executive director Ciaran O'Riordan explained, "Every software patent is a restriction on software developers and users of computers, and there are currently 200,000 software patents in the USA.

LINUS CALLS GPLv3 "A FINE CHOICE" - is a title that InformationWeek could have used for their article. It would have been very selective quoting, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for InformationWeek.
Nor does pretending that old emails are new emails, or misrepresenting people.