@conservancy video session on "Phone freedom tips and related Q&A" is going on now
Info about loading FLOSS on Android from Director of Compliance
"about what's to come in the future of running your own software on Android"
The first week in #FDroid (TWIF) was posted 15 years ago:
* We celebrate the community and yes, that means YOU!
* #SoftwareFreedom #Conservancy will have a #BBB tomorrow, free yourself (while you can)
* #ReproducibleBuilds gathering soon
* #Conversations_IM enforces #TLSv1_3
+ 2 new apps
& 186 updates
Get thanked: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/04/twif.html

Images from a half day ramble around the Knepp Wildland project in West Sussex in April 2025. From Wikipedia: 'Knepp Wildland is the first major lowland rewilding project in England. It comprises 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres) of former arable and dairy farmland in the grounds of Knepp Castle, in West Sussex. Since 2000 when the conversion from intensive agriculture started, the land now supports many rare species including turtle doves, barbastelle bats, slow-worms and barred grass snakes; it has become a major nesting site for nightingales; a breeding hotspot for purple emperor butterflies; the site of the first white stork chicks raised in the wild in England for 600 years, and is home to the first beavers living in the wild in Sussex for 400 years.' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knepp_Wildland Main website: knepp.co.uk/
As the summer draws to a close, here’s a collection of photos I took on my first solitary ramble around West Sussex’s #Knepp Wildland project, just as spring was breaking out.
#rewilding #NatureBasedSolutions #conservancy #sustainability #nature
https://www.flickr.com/photos/globalismpictures/albums/72177720326358834/

Images from a half day ramble around the Knepp Wildland project in West Sussex in April 2025. From Wikipedia: 'Knepp Wildland is the first major lowland rewilding project in England. It comprises 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres) of former arable and dairy farmland in the grounds of Knepp Castle, in West Sussex. Since 2000 when the conversion from intensive agriculture started, the land now supports many rare species including turtle doves, barbastelle bats, slow-worms and barred grass snakes; it has become a major nesting site for nightingales; a breeding hotspot for purple emperor butterflies; the site of the first white stork chicks raised in the wild in England for 600 years, and is home to the first beavers living in the wild in Sussex for 400 years.' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knepp_Wildland Main website: knepp.co.uk/
@copiesofcopies asked:
> “where’s the blog post, Lebowski?”
It's down there somewhere 🚽…lemme take another look! <https://youtu.be/NlJGfFqYEms?si=1q4ftkD33hnRqOg0>
Seriously, for a different kind of look — a “look behind the curtain” of NGO policy — my #SFC colleagues are still debating whether it's policy that SFC agrees w/ enough to make it an official blog.
∴ I'm holding it until tomorrow “just in case” it'll be official from #SoftwareFreedom #Conservancy.
Odds are: it goes live on ebb.org tomorrow.
Cc: @sortova
Thanks to the buyer in Dousman, WI
#PheasantBranch #Conservancy 3, #Middleton, WI
https://4lakesphoto.com/saleannouncement.html?id=72112858f40f8fca33b568925e3aeafb

Two schools of thought about the purpose of copyleft have been at odds for some time. Simply put, the question is: are copyleft licenses designed primarily to protect the rights of large companies that produce electronics and software products, or is copyleft designed primarily to protect individual users' rights to improve, modify, repair, and reinstall their software?

Two schools of thought about the purpose of copyleft have been at odds for some time. Simply put, the question is: are copyleft licenses designed primarily to protect the rights of large companies that produce electronics and software products, or is copyleft designed primarily to protect individual users' rights to improve, modify, repair, and reinstall their software?