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# Free Software Foundation Members (and potential members) talk about the FSF and Debian

## FSF general

  * High Priority Projects List
  * Respects Your Freedom
  * Reverse engineering...
  * LibrePlanet - next one in March (2017). CfP opens in Sept/Oct.
  * Fiscal sponsorship
  * License education (seminars, copyleft.org)
  * License enforcement
  * Resources for GNU and others -- hardware refresh
  * Campaign against DRM -- Encrypted Media Extensions
  * Free JavaScript
    - WebAssembly?
  
### Pies in the skies

  * GNU Hacker in Residence
  * Free Software Parent Teacher Association
  
## Areas for collaboration

  * Maintaining h-node.org -- database of hardware that works with main
    - mention on www.d.o/distrib/pre-installed https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn ?
  * Advocacy toward hardware manufacturers / distributors
    - add suggestions to d-i?
    * Wifi
    * Graphics
    * CPU microcode
    * Hard drive / SSD firmware
    * Management Engine and the like
    * BOF last year -- did anything happen from it?
  * Free Software Directory (directory.fsf.org)
    * Popcon data
    * Importing package data
  * Extension repositories -- can be end-run around Debian policy (Mozilla, language specific)
  * Free software advocacy
    * Shared set of materials that could be packaged
  * Technical projects?
  * Properly packaging ath9k/carl9170.fw?
    https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware
    ath9k not in main
    - patched toolchain for xtensa required
    https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170.fw
    carl9170.fw in the firmware-linux-free package but not built from source
    - SH2 compiler required
      - SH2 compiler is interesting for j-core too
  * Package libreboot/coreboot?
    - Install libre bootloaders from d-i???
  * JavaScript licensing
  * Making non-free/contrib smaller
    - Documentation
    - Hardware support (microcode, firmware, drivers)
    - File format, compression & codec support
    - ?
  * Hardware strategy?
    - (Auto-)certification to direct users toward more-free hardware
    - Talk to hardware makers to create more free hardware
    - Talks on Software Freedom to hardware industry groups/conferences to influence more makers
    - Reverse engineering
      http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack
      https://we.riseup.net/riseup+colo/foss-bmc-firmware

## FSF endorsement
  * non-free / contrib too close, too much confusion
    * GFDL invariant sections problem (what would effect be if FSF/GNU changed?)
    * Make non-free a nonissue by working together upstream
    * popcon data for nonfree?
      http://popcon.debian.org/contrib/by_inst
      http://popcon.debian.org/contrib/by_vote
      http://popcon.debian.org/non-free/by_vote
      http://popcon.debian.org/non-free/by_inst
    * apt prompts?
  * A name to reflect Debian's unique position?
  * Commitment from FSF to celebrate steps (like with squeeze)
  * How to harden Debian against non-free once users make a choice
    * Subset non-free to reduce exposure of users to non-free,
      especially for d-i installing non-free firmware
    * apt --enable-non-free option

## Going forward

  * Use the mailing list more -- fsf-collab-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org
  * I hope you'll become an FSF member -- https://fsf.org/join
  * Free Software Directory meetings every Friday in #fsf on freenode, and directory-discuss mailing list, https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/directory-discuss