Free Software Foundation (FSF) Covers Quibble, Free Software for Secure Communications, in the FSF Summer Bulletin
Last year we got in touch with Free software activists/contributors from Georgia Tech (GT) - albeit primarily owing to a Dr. Richard Stallman (RMS) talk which took place there. We still have some upcoming stories related to that. We have a large and growing backlog of stories to cover.
It was the first such RMS talk in a US college since 2018. Some objections to RMS (from inwards, not just outwards) showed that he needed to break barriers or shatter obstacles. In that case, the "cancel culture" perished, turned cocky/sour after the talk, the RMS talk went "viral" online, and he then went on to give another talk in another college (in Texas). By doing so he made an important point [1, 2].
RMS must have had sincere gratitude for those who fought for him in GT. He still speak to them regularly. The relationship is mutual and mutually beneficial. "The GT Open-Source office just assigned two more unpaid student volunteer developers to the project," they recently told us, "adding another 5–15 hours of gratis labor per week to Quibble / Project Sine-Iugum. We now have four developers contributing in total, which feels like a real milestone :-)"
"To give you a bit of context on my end," one of them said, "I'm a fourth-year undergraduate Computer Engineering student at Georgia Tech, effectively serving as project manager for a team of Master's students building what we believe will be the world's most free, secure, and censorship-resistant chat application. Oh, and we have RMS and y'all as our mentors for the project - so I think we might be onto something here."
We recently learned that quite a few more people joined them and began helping them. The FSF has moreover put its weight behind Quibble's team.
"My article was just published in the FSF Summer Bulletin as well," we got told, and "I'm eagerly awaiting a digital link from [redacted] to share with y'all too."
Rianne linked to it about a week ago.
The Georgia Tech folks are bringing Free software education and contributions to one of the better known Computer Science hubs in the US (yes, GT is ranked highly for "CS" and it goes decades back). █