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Scheduled Maintenance Between 15th of January and Days to Follow, Free Software Foundation (FSF) Looking to Add 43 More Members by 16th of January

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 12, 2026

"Next week we have some server maintenance (hypervisor)," the sister site has noted (it runs on the same physical server). "That might give us time to apply patches and quickly reboot."

This means that we might temporarily be inaccessible next week.

We've only just noticed that the FSF had 'recruited' 57 new associate members and then updated the progress bar accordingly. They aim to reach 100 by January 16.

People who value Software Freedom should consider joining to support the FSF. The others are fakes or opportunistic copycats on the payroll of oligarchs/surveillance giants. █

Image source: Illustriertes Prachtwerk samtlicher Taubenrassen

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