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Upcoming first meeting of the Empowermentors Collective: intersectionally marginalized POC in free software & free culture! 15 Mar 2013 | 04:11 am
The Empowermentors Collective is a skillshare, activism, and discussion network for intersectionally marginalized people of color (for example people of color with disabilities, trans* people of color...
Register now for LibrePlanet and Free Culture X 2013! 15 Mar 2013 | 01:50 am
Two conferences are just around the corner that fellow free software and free culture advocates, hackers, curious technology users, and critical media participants won't want to miss. LibrePlanet and ...
The Future of Creative Commons: Examining defenses of the NC and ND clauses 20 Sep 2012 | 07:06 am
This is a follow-up to "Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0" but instead of focusing on the problems with NC and ND, the editorial draws upon defenses of NC and ND to hi...
Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0 27 Aug 2012 | 12:20 pm
This is crossposted from the Students for Free Culture blog: http://freeculture.org/blog/2012/08/27/stop-the-inclusion-of-proprietary-licenses-in-creative-commons-4-0/ Over the past several years, C...
Last chance to fund Tube, an upcoming Blender-animated film 13 May 2012 | 09:32 am
Blender's Open Movie Projects have already proved that it's possible to produce stunningly high-quality 3D animated films exclusively using free software in a studio setting. Now, a new animated short...
Join the FSF Now for a New Membership Benefit: Credit Union Eligibility! 29 Sep 2011 | 09:28 am
During my 2010 summer internship at the Free Software Foundation I was able to bring lots of new ideas to the table, get involved with campaigns and publicity, and take on leadership roles like organi...
Chaos: Some clarifications on Novacut 29 Jul 2011 | 03:44 pm
My post on the Novacut project stirred up quite a shitstorm, pardon my language. I can't even attempt to explain the whole point of my post—something that seemed to be misunderstood by anyone who didn...
Novacut: Not just vaporware. 26 Jul 2011 | 03:09 pm
I am not here to be a cynic and say that Novacut's funding efforts will fail (again). I am writing to say that the only way for the ideas behind Novacut to be realized is to stop pretending that throw...
Delete Your Facebook for Your Birthday 21 Jul 2011 | 06:35 pm
As the need for free (as in freedom) tools to communicate and socialize becomes increasingly urgent, more projects have been popping up to take up the challenge: GNU social and StatusNet, Crabgrass, A...
The Free Game Lag 20 Jul 2011 | 07:06 am
My article in the Free Software Foundation's Fall 2010 Bulletin, The Free Game Lag, was just posted online. In it, I explain why proponents of software freedom should not and need not dismiss gaming a...
