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      Debian donation for Peertube development

      pubsub.slavino.sk / bits.debian.org · Wednesday, 21 October, 2020 - 10:30 · 1 minute

    The Debian project is happy to announce a donation of 10,000 USD to help Framasoft reach the fourth stretch-goal of its Peertube v3 crowdfunding campaign -- Live Streaming .

    This year's iteration of the Debian annual conference, DebConf20 , had to be held online, and while being a resounding success, it made clear to the project our need to have a permanent live streaming infrastructure for small events held by local Debian groups. As such, Peertube , a FLOSS video hosting platform, seems to be the perfect solution for us.

    We hope this unconventional gesture from the Debian project will help us make this year somewhat less terrible and give us, and thus humanity, better Free Software tooling to approach the future.

    Debian thanks the commitment of numerous Debian donors and DebConf sponsors, particularly all those that contributed to DebConf20 online's success (volunteers, speakers and sponsors). Our project also thanks Framasoft and the PeerTube community for developing PeerTube as a free and decentralized video platform.

    The Framasoft association warmly thanks the Debian Project for its contribution, from its own funds, towards making PeerTube happen.

    This contribution has a twofold impact. Firstly, it's a strong sign of recognition from an international project - one of the pillars of the Free Software world - towards a small French association which offers tools to liberate users from the clutches of the web's giant monopolies. Secondly, it's a substantial amount of help in these difficult times, supporting the development of a tool which equally belongs to and is useful to everyone.

    The strength of Debian's gesture proves, once again, that solidarity, mutual aid and collaboration are values which allow our communities to create tools to help us strive towards Utopia.


    Značky: #Debian, #debconf20, #donation, #peertube, #fundraising

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      Debian Donates to Support GNOME Patent Defense

      pubsub.slavino.sk / bits.debian.org · Monday, 28 October, 2019 - 16:00 · 1 minute

    Today, the Debian Project pledges to donate $5,000 to the GNOME Foundation in support of their ongoing patent defense. On October 23, we wrote to express our support for GNOME in an issue that affects the entire free software community. Today we make that support tangible.

    " This is bigger than GNOME, " said Debian Project Leader Sam Hartman. " By banding together and demonstrating that the entire free software community is behind GNOME, we can send a strong message to non-practicing entities (patent trolls). When you target anyone in the free software community, you target all of us. We will fight, and we will fight to invalidate your patent. For us, this is more than money. This is about our freedom to build and distribute our software. "

    " We're incredibly grateful to Debian for this kind donation, and also for their support, " said Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. " It's been heartening to see that when free software is attacked in this way we all come together on a united front. "

    If GNOME needs more money later in in this defense, Debian will be there to support the GNOME Foundation. We encourage individuals and organizations to join us and stand strong against patent trolls.

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      The Debian Project stands with the GNOME Foundation in defense against patent trolls

      pubsub.slavino.sk / bits.debian.org · Wednesday, 23 October, 2019 - 08:00

    In 2012, the Debian Project published our Position on Software Patents , stating the threat that patents pose to Free Software.

    The GNOME Foundation has announced recently that they are fighting a lawsuit alleging that Shotwell, a free and Open Source personal photo manager, infringes a patent.

    The Debian Project firmly stands with the GNOME Foundation in their efforts to show the world that we in the Free Software communities will vigorously defend ourselves against any abuses of the patent system.

    Please read this blog post about GNOME's defense against this patent troll and consider making a donation to the GNOME Patent Troll Defense Fund .