"Excactly two years ago - on the 14th of January 2007 - LaTeX Community has gone online. Though nothing more than a simple bulletin board, its growth (about 14,000 posts, 3,000 registered users and 3,000 visits per day) has shown, that LaTeX users all over the world were already waiting for a place to find help and exchange their knowledge.

"...As we reach the 25th anniversary of the GNU project, I’d like to thank GNU and the thousands of free software developers and supporters, past and present.

"In a letter that recently came with Free Software Foundation's Bulletin Peter Brown poses an invitation to "help us build Libre planet - a base for free software activists and community" going on "your support will help launch Libre Planet by August 2007"."

"Coming this October, Exploring Freedom: the book. [...] Our first product will be our book, Exploring Freedom. Based on the articles from our blogs, plus new material from Matt Lee, Rob Myers and others..." --
* [FSF] Interview with Rob Myers by Matt Lee: http://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2007/fall/rob-myers/

PCLinuxOS Magazine, November 2007 (Issue 15) is available to download. the HTML version is simultaneously being published for low bandwidth users.

Nominations are officially open for the 7th annual Linux Medical News Freedom Award to be presented at the November 10th-14th AMIA Fall conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Deadline for entries is August 24th, 2007

## In this issue
* Software Freedom Day
* Happy Birthday to GNU!
* GNU Planet
* gNewSense 2.1 released
* Spring 2008 Bulletin available online
* Submit your nominations for the 2008 Free Software Awards
* On the savannah, where the gnu roam...
* DRM down under
* Free Hexen and Heretic!
* Malaysian Government Dept switches to OpenDocument

"The FSFE is organising the Free Software Conference Scandinavia (FSCONS), taking place in Gothenburg, Sweden on the 7th and 8th of December 2007. It is the first in its kind event in the region, inspired by the growing momentum around Free Software."

"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project announce the requests for nominations for the 10th annual 2007 Free Software Awards."