Software Freedom Conservancy
Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit charity that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for FLOSS projects. This allows FLOSS developers to focus on what they do best — writing and improving FLOSS for the general public — while Conservancy takes care of the projects' needs that do not relate directly to software development and documentation.
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Recent News
Xapian Joins Conservancy as a Member Project
June 19, 2018
Software Freedom Conservancy proudly welcomes Xapian as Conservancy's newest member project. Xapian is a probabilistic information retrieval library that allows developers to add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications.
Conservancy Welcomes Racket as its Newest Member Project
June 12, 2018
Software Freedom Conservancy and the Racket community are pleased to announce that Racket is Conservancy's newest member project. Racket is a general-purpose programming language as well as the world’s first ecosystem for developing and deploying new languages. Racket comes with special support for novices and for on-boarding beginners. Several popular online learning platforms include Racket courses. The Realm of Racket is also a great place for programmers who want to become familiar with the basics of the language.Selenium's WebDriver is now a W3C Recommendation!
May 31, 2018
We are really excited to announce that Selenium's WebDriver has become a World Wide Web Consortium *recommendation* today, May 31st.
Backdrop CMS is the Conservancy's Newest Member Project
May 8, 2018
Software Freedom Conservancy is excited to announce that Backdrop CMS has joined as its newest member project. Backdrop CMS is a lightweight content management system for small to medium sized businesses and non-profits.
Conservancy Blog
Connect with the Conservancy in Portland during CLS/OSCON
by on July 11, 2018
Most of Conservancy's small staff will be in Portland next week and we'd love to see you while we're there. Here are a couple of key opportunities to catch up during the week.
Highlights: Conservancy's Recent Free Software Development
by on June 26, 2018
Recent Contract Work done by Clojars, Godot and phpMyAdmin.
Sandler Invited to Korean Open Source Conference
by on June 21, 2018
If you are in South Korea, then you've got a chance to catch our executive director, Karen Sandler. She'll be speaking about community-driven GPL enforcement to a group of open source professionals in Seoul next week. The Public Domain & Open Source Conference is a one day event organized by the Korea Copyright Commission.
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