Happy 15th Birthday jQuery! On January 14, 2006, the software engineer John Resig announced the creation of the jQuery JavaScript library at BarCamp NYC. webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-his… #jQuery #InternetHistory

Thanks to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) @[email protected] and thanks to Creative Commons for the licenses that made Wikipedia free

As part of our 35th anniversary celebration, we're revisiting important moments in the history of each FSF team. In today's blog, read some great stories about our licensing team, the guardians of the #GPL! u.fsf.org/38-

@johns_FSF unexpected campaign visibility strategy: have the same name as a trending politico scandalmonger...

37 years ago today, the Supreme Court ruled Betamax legal. As the studios predicted, it crushed the budding American film industry forever.

Nothing like USPS returning a donation from your own family member to your own org in your own org's preprinted envelope as undeliverable. If this happens to you, either re-send, or make the contribution online. We are receiving mail.

I thought that the @FSF was the home of GNU gnuhomes.com

"Some people are like blisters. They show up when the work is done."

FSF's 8th consecutive 4-star rating, first ever perfect score: charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=…, #4 on Charity Navigator list of "charities worth watching" charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=…

Learning vim every now and then. Is the equivalent to Emacs's M-q really ggip?

As if I didn't miss @FOSDEM enough, when I opened OsmAnd today, it started me at my hotel from Brussels in 2020.

Yep, we need free software for vacuums too: npr.org/2021/02/26/971… "go home roomba" "where's that?"

Congratulations to the winners of the Free Software Awards: CiviCRM, Bradley Kuhn, and Alyssa Rosenzweig! u.fsf.org/3bc

Day one of the #LibrePlanet conference was a success, connecting viewers from over 32 countries and offering a rousing call to action for a freer future: u.fsf.org/3bd

EFF's Senior Staff Technologist, Bill Budington @[email protected] is going to be speaking at this year's virtual #LibrePlanet! Be sure to check out this talk on Sunday, March 12 at 2:45 ET. eff.org/event/eff-libr…

No LibrePlanet organizers (staff or volunteer), speakers, award winners, exhibitors, or sponsors were made aware of Richard Stallman's announcement until it was public.

After 18 years with the Free Software Foundation, I've decided to resign my position as executive director, effective at the end of a transition period.

the chartreuse monks sent this out i’m losing my mind

Speaking tomorrow in the Legal and Policy Issues room, about free software's reckoning with app stores: fosdem.org/2023/schedule/…

Also will definitely be sticking around to see shortly after my talk, more about app stores and the EU fosdem.org/2023/schedule/…