Free Software Foundation
Organization supporting the free software movement
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| September 1 2024 | Free Software Foundation establishes its new postal address at 31 Milk St # 960789, Boston, MA, operating fully remotely. |
| August 2024 | Free Software Foundation closed its physical headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and transitioned to a fully remote work model. |
| August 31 2024 | Free Software Foundation closes its physical headquarters and transitions to an all-remote work model, maintaining a USPS postbox at Milk Street Lobby post office. |
| 2023 | Associate members gained the ability to make board nominations, joining FSF staff and voting members in this process. |
| 2022 | Zoë Kooyman becomes the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, succeeding John Sullivan. |
| 2021 | Red Hat announced it would stop funding and supporting the Free Software Foundation in response to Stallman's return to the board. |
| 2021 | Richard Stallman returned to the FSF board of directors. |
| March 25 2021 | Kat Walsh resigns from the Free Software Foundation board of directors, stating her opposition to Richard Stallman's readmittance. |
| October 13 2019 | Bradley Kuhn ends his service as the Free Software Foundation board of directors. |
| October 1 2019 | Benjamin Mako Hill ends his service on the Free Software Foundation board of directors. |
| September 2019 | Richard Stallman resigned as president of the FSF after controversial comments about Marvin Minsky and Jeffrey Epstein. |
| August 28 2019 | Alexander Oliva becomes Vice President of the Free Software Foundation. |
| 2015 | Kat Walsh joins the Free Software Foundation board of directors. |
| October 16 2014 | Matthew Garrett begins serving on the Free Software Foundation board of directors. |
| October 2011 | Free Software Directory updated and reached 6,500 software packages. |
| September 2011 | The Free Software Directory was re-implemented as a wiki using MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki extension, enabling direct user contributions and modifications to its contents. |
| 2010 | John Sullivan takes over from Peter T. Brown as Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation. |
| March 25 2010 | Bradley Kuhn begins serving on the Free Software Foundation board of directors. |
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