FSF Announces Photo Contest Honoring 40 Years of Free Software (fsf.org)
(Saturday August 23, 2025 @05:34PM (EditorDavid)
from the join-us-now dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/23/0436210/fsf-announces-photo-contest-honoring-40-years-of-free-software
- Source link: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf40-photo-contest
The Free Software Foundation announced [1]a special photography contest honoring its 40th anniversary :
> The technology we use every day has changed dramatically since our founding nearly forty years ago, including the way we interact with it... We're incredibly grateful for the countless hours that developers and users have put into the free software programs that exist today. Without all the people who cared enough to make and use software that respects the four freedoms four decades or even a year ago, we wouldn't have much to celebrate.
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> We want to honor the hard work that has gone into free software and its development with the FSF40 Photo Contest. Starting on August 14, 2025, we're inviting free software supporters worldwide to share how they use free software on a daily basis. While we can think of hundreds of ways that free software can be used, there's almost certainly many of you who have thought of much more creative ways to involve libre software every day!
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> Shortly after the photo contest closes on August 31, 2025, we will invite you and other free software supporters to vote for your favorite of the #FSF40Photos... We will be displaying the winning photos at [2]our fortieth [anniversary] celebration in Boston, MA on October 4, 2025 — we hope you get to see them on a big screen with us!
Earlier this month the FSF also [3]shared 40 links from around the FSF and GNU sites "that give a sense of what we've been doing all this time as we work for your freedom." (For example, 2007's [4]announcement of the GNU General Public License, version 3 .)
[1] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf40-photo-contest
[2] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf40-celebration-registration
[3] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/40-links
[4] https://www.fsf.org/news/gplv3_launched
> The technology we use every day has changed dramatically since our founding nearly forty years ago, including the way we interact with it... We're incredibly grateful for the countless hours that developers and users have put into the free software programs that exist today. Without all the people who cared enough to make and use software that respects the four freedoms four decades or even a year ago, we wouldn't have much to celebrate.
>
> We want to honor the hard work that has gone into free software and its development with the FSF40 Photo Contest. Starting on August 14, 2025, we're inviting free software supporters worldwide to share how they use free software on a daily basis. While we can think of hundreds of ways that free software can be used, there's almost certainly many of you who have thought of much more creative ways to involve libre software every day!
>
> Shortly after the photo contest closes on August 31, 2025, we will invite you and other free software supporters to vote for your favorite of the #FSF40Photos... We will be displaying the winning photos at [2]our fortieth [anniversary] celebration in Boston, MA on October 4, 2025 — we hope you get to see them on a big screen with us!
Earlier this month the FSF also [3]shared 40 links from around the FSF and GNU sites "that give a sense of what we've been doing all this time as we work for your freedom." (For example, 2007's [4]announcement of the GNU General Public License, version 3 .)
[1] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf40-photo-contest
[2] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf40-celebration-registration
[3] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/40-links
[4] https://www.fsf.org/news/gplv3_launched
Here is my entry: (Score:1)
by Tablizer ( 95088 )
[1]https://www.usgbc.org/sites/de... [usgbc.org]
[1] https://www.usgbc.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/2(23).jpg
Perhaps a photo ... (Score:2)
... of Stallman's couch? :)
Re: (Score:3)
His beard. That thing must be long as hell 40 years without shaving or taking a shower can you imagine?
Re: (Score:2)
Well, I would like a [1]Stallman garden gnome. [reddit.com]
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programminghumor/comments/1mya1t9/