"Our annual meeting has now officially morphed into the LibrePlanet event. The date is set. March 21st and 22nd -- that's right, two whole days! LibrePlanet will be at the Harvard Science Center, right in Harvard Square on the MBTA's red line.

Dear free software supporter, At the 2007 annual Associate Members meeting held in March at MIT in Cambridge, the FSF board and staff gathered with members from around the world to discuss our activities and the tremendous successes we have had together in the past year.

"Come join the Free Software Foundation leadership and staff for a day of presentations and conversations! The Annual FSF Associate Membership Meeting will be on Saturday, March 15, 2008 from 9:15 AM - 5:50 PM in Cambridge, MA at MIT in Building 6-120. ..."

This is the first year that the Free Software Foundation’s Board Meeting and Associate Member meeting has been significantly opened and now anyone from the public can attend and participate. The conference is called LibrePlanet 2009 and is now getting underway on March 21 and March 22.

The Free Software Foundation is gearing up for a big event March 19th through 21st to be held in Cambridge, Mass. at Harvard's University Science Center. LibrePlanet 2010 is a three day event with workshops on using free software for everything from Web development to video editing and graphics.

"...Keynote speeches from FSF board members Mako Hill and Henri Poole and the director of the FSF-backed End Software Patents campaign Ben Klemens will each address the 2008 theme, "Tackling the Big Issues." They will look at the projects that will demand the Free Software Foundation's attention in 2008: from software patents to freedom for web services, from advancing free software adoption to the changing relations with the entertainment industry brought about by this year's Hollywood writers strike..."

OIN has just announced a new associate membership program, and Canonical is the first associate member:OIN Associate Members, such as Canonical, demonstrate support and commitment to limiting the effects of patent disputes in Linux.

"Philippe Aigrain of the Software Freedom Law Center has kindly agreed to organize a meeting between Eben Moglen, Executive Director of the SFLC, and "one of the world's most experienced GPL enforcers", and OW2 Members. This meeting will take place in Paris, France, on Thursday, June 5, 2-4pm, on the premisses of the Sopinspace company..."

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #132 for the week March 1st - March 7th, 2009.