GNU Spotlight May 2014

Originally published on the Free Software Foundation's community blog:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry: 22 new GNU releases!

22 new GNU releases in the last month (as of May 26, 2014):

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This month, we welcome:

  • Mohammed Isam Mohammed, author and maintainer of the new package GnuDOS.
  • Edscott Wilson, author and maintainer of the new GNU package libdb.
  • Vaibhaw Pandey, new maintainer of GNU groff.
  • Sebastien Diaz, new maintainer of gnukart, along with his work on many other GNU packages.
  • Amadeusz Slawinski, new co-maintainer of GNU screen.

Thanks to all.

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance: please see https://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to the GNU operating system, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

As always, please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.