Take Action
- Read and comment on proposed license
changes
- Please read and leave comments on
the current drafts of the GNU Free Documentation
License, and the GNU Simple Free Documentation License.
- Contribute to high priority free software
projects
- As listed on the FSF web site.
- Contribute to GNU libcdio
- Please contribute to CD/DVD-recording software development and
more in GNU
libcdio.
Contribute to the GNUstep Project
Please contribute as a user and developer
to GNUstep, a free
object-oriented framework for application development, and help it
achieve the status of a complete and featured desktop environment.
Sign EFF's petition in favor of
music sharing
There is one flaw in the wording of this petition. It is a
mistake to speak of “compensating musicians” for copying,
because that encourages the RIAA's dangerous pretense that they have
“lost” something when people copy. The appropriate goal
is not that musicians be “compensated”—it is to
support music and musicians. However, that is no reason not
to sign the
petition.
Support Public Knowledge against the
“broadcast flag”
Public Knowledge won a court case to overturn the FCC's
“broadcast flag” requirement. Now it needs your support
for the coming battle in
Congress. See http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/bfcase
for more information.
Call on WIPO to change its name and mission:
People are invited to support this declaration
calling on WIPO to change its name and mission.
http://fsfeurope.org/documents/wiwo.en.html
Oppose the WIPO Broadcast Treaty:
Please help the
Union for the Public Domain raise awareness of the danger of
the WIPO Broadcast Treaty, by asking your government officials
questions about it.
Help Fight Software Patents in Europe:
Please see
http://eupat.ffii.org/girzu/#hd003 for what you
can do to help fight against software patents in
Europe. (For more specific involvement see
http://kwiki.ffii.org/FfiiprojEn.)
Take over an unmaintained GNU package:
acct,
dotgnu-forum,
ffp,
gnuprologjava,
gnutrition,
gtkeyboard,
maverik,
speedx,
vmslib,
xmorph.
See the package web pages for specific information, and this general information about
GNU packages and maintenance, and then email maintainers@gnu.org if you have
time and interest in taking over one of these projects.
Of course, many
GNU projects are seeking other help of various kinds; see the GNU Task list.
Enhance the Free Software Directory:
We would like your suggestions for free software
packages to add to the Free Software
Directory. Please look up your favorite free software
packages there, and if one of them is not found, please
suggest it. Please
email us the package name and the URL for where
it can be found. You can also help even further by
writing a draft entry that we could start with.
Petitions to Sign:
Please sign both the
Petition Against Software Patents and the
Anti-DMCA Petition.
You can help the GNU Project, visit these links.
- For Development free software and
documents click here. And GNU Development
Resources
- If you need help for development, visit Get Help
- Start a GNU/Linux User Group in your town or country, and send us
group's name. Visit for more information GNU Users Groups
- Work in GNU projects.
Finally visit How You Can Help the GNU
Project for more information