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2 | author: christel | |
3 | date: 2018-02-05 23:19:48+00:00 | |
4 | slug: foss-month | |
5 | title: Celebrating FOSS, and twenty years of Open Source | |
6 | category: community | |
7 | category: general | |
8 | category: freenode | |
9 | category: foss | |
10 | category: open source | |
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13 | For the last few days I (and several of the freenode volunteers) have had the absolute pleasure of spending time with a wide range of | |
14 | freenode users over at [FOSDEM](https://fosdem.org/2018/) in Brussels. FOSDEM has always provided us with an excellent opportunity to catch up, not only with one | |
15 | another but also with sponsors, group contacts and others. | |
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17 | I would like to extent heartfelt thanks to the incredible organisers and volunteers, speakers and attendees who make FOSDEM (and other | |
18 | such events) possible, and I would also like to thank those of you who took the time to speak with us, provide feedback, thoughts and | |
19 | words of appreciation. It is nice to be reminded that you appreciate the freenode project, and that you feel it adds some value. | |
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21 | We often find that a large proportion of our time is spent dealing with spam or other problematic behaviour, and | |
22 | it is all too easy to forget that the incredibly small minority of users that create issues are just that, a minority, and that the vast | |
23 | proportion of our userbase consists of amazing human-beings who collaborate on exciting, important and curious projects. And perhaps we | |
24 | also sometimes forget to show our appreciation of the incredible work you all undertake within the FOSS and peer-directed project spaces. | |
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26 | On Saturday, I joined [Laura Czajkowski](https://twitter.com/Czajkowski), [Leslie Hawthorn](https://twitter.com/lhawthorn), [Deb Nicholson](https://twitter.com/baconandcoconut), [VM Brasseur](https://twitter.com/vmbrasseur) and many others in | |
27 | song as we came together to sing Happy Birthday to Open Source to mark that it had been 20 years since the term was first coined. It felt | |
28 | fitting that this should take place not only during FOSDEM, but also during [Free and Open Source Software Month](https://nationaldaycalendar.com/free-and-open-source-month-february/). So once more, Happy Birthday | |
29 | Open Source! | |
30 | ||
31 | To celebrate Free and Open Source Software Month, [Private Internet Access](https://www.privateinternetaccess.com) is running a promotion this month, with savings of up to 62% if you take out an annual subscription [here](https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/foss-month). | |
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33 | We'd love to hear about, and help highlight any other similar promotions run by other companies that are doing something similar to celebrate | |
34 | FOSS month! Please do let us know (support@freenode.net) or via IRC if you are doing something cool, and would like us to share it with our | |
35 | community! |