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diff --git a/www/news/MANIFEST b/www/news/MANIFEST
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@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+news/leah-fundraiser.md
+news/libreplanet2018-workshop.md
+news/release-testing-20171221.md
 news/lenovo-recall.md
 news/alyssa-resignation.md
 news/talos.md
diff --git a/www/news/andrew-robbins-new-maintainer.md b/www/news/andrew-robbins-new-maintainer.md
index 50c43d3a..65fd8a3c 100644
--- a/www/news/andrew-robbins-new-maintainer.md
+++ b/www/news/andrew-robbins-new-maintainer.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ voted on by the maintainers with community input. These policies formalise our
 democratic standards.
 
 Today, we welcome Andrew Robbins (IRC nick `and_who` and
-[NotABug](https://notabug.org) user [kragle](https://notabug.org/kragle)) as
+[NotABug](https://notabug.org) user [and_who](https://notabug.org/and_who)) as
 our first new maintainer under the new policy. Going forward, Andrew will gain
 push access to Libreboot in order to review patches, as well as voting rights
 and IRC operator status.
diff --git a/www/news/leah-fundraiser.md b/www/news/leah-fundraiser.md
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+% Help Leah, founder of Libreboot, get Gender Reassignment Surgery
+% Leah Rowe
+% 19 April 2018
+
+I spoke with Andrew Robbins and Swift Geek on #libreboot IRC. These are two
+other members of the core Libreboot community. This news post was submitted to
+Pull Request, subject to their approval before publishing on libreboot.org.
+
+My name is Leah Rowe, and I'm the founder of the Libreboot project. I’m a 26
+year old British trans woman, living in the UK. After a lifetime of
+repression and denial, I came out as transgender in June 2016; I
+began living full-time as my true self for the first time. This was my coming
+out message to the Libreboot community:
+<https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-05/msg00004.html>
+
+I need help from the community in order to to pay for my Gender Reassignment
+Surgery. Here is my fundraiser:
+<https://vimuser.org/surgery/>
+
+I'm unable to pay for it myself. 2 years ago, I paid 90,000 USD to Raptor
+Engineering to port the ASUS KGPE-D16 and KCMA-D8 to Libreboot as well as 4000
+AUD to Damien Zammit for the Gigabyte GA-G41M-ES2L and Intel D510MO ports.
+Besides this, I've spent huge amounts of money in general on development of my
+own and I've dedicated countless hours to this project. I love Libreboot
+and I love working on it. For instance, I ported the ThinkPad X200 (later T400,
+T500 etc) to Libreboot myself, working alongside Steve Shenton to free it from
+the Intel ME firmware. Unfortunately, this has left me severely out of pocket
+and, even now, I can't afford to pay for the things I need for myself such as
+this.
+
+As a direct result of my contributions, the Free Software community is in a
+much better state than it was.
+The [Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org/) now hosts fsf.org and
+[gnu.org](https://www.gnu.org/), as well as
+[GNU Savannah](https://savannah.gnu.org/) (used by many GNU projects, for code
+hosting and collaboration) on ASUS KGPE-D16
+servers, running Libreboot. Additionally, both the Free Software Foundation and
+[Software Freedom Conservancy](https://sfconservancy.org/) use Libreboot laptops
+almost exclusively in their offices. Thousands of people now use Libreboot.
+Projects inspired by Libreboot have also appeared such as the
+[TALOS II workstation](https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/).
+
+I greatly appreciate any help that the community can give me, no matter how
+big or small. It will mean a great deal to me, and allow me to focus on my
+passions, including Libreboot.
diff --git a/www/news/libreplanet2018-workshop.md b/www/news/libreplanet2018-workshop.md
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+% Libreboot installation workshop at FSF LibrePlanet 2018 conference
+% Leah Rowe
+% 21 March 2018
+
+LibrePlanet is the annual conference held by the Free Software Foundation in
+Boston, MA, USA. This year, it's being held at MIT university on March 24th
+and 25th. More details about it are here:
+<https://libreplanet.org/2018/>
+
+The FSF isn't officially hosting a Libreboot workshop at LibrePlanet
+this year. At the 2015 and 2016 LibrePlanet conference, there were workshops
+there run by myself and Patrick McDermott, a former member of the Libreboot
+project. The FSF has confirmed that they don't have a dedicated room for it
+this year, due to increasing number of conference goers.
+
+Therefore, an unofficial workshop is being set up. I've already issued a news
+post about this on the libreplanet-discuss mailing list:
+<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2018-03/msg00037.html>
+
+With John Sullivan's blessing:
+<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2018-03/msg00039.html>
+
+If you, the reader, are attending LibrePlanet this year, and you would like to
+get a Libreboot system flashed for you, then take it with you to LibrePlanet.
+There will be knowledgeable people there who can flash Libreboot for you.
+
+Find one of the people on the list below (list will be updated if more people
+volunteer to flash). If it's Kurt, they'll flash for you at the Technoethical
+booth. If it's someone else, they can take you into the speakers' lounge (it does
+not matter if they're not a speaker). John Sullivan of FSF has approved this.
+There are tables, chairs and power sockets in that room.
+There are also tables and chairs outside the speakers' lounge, in the common
+area at the conference, but I highly recommend using the speakers' lounge.
+That's where I took people, on LibrePlanet 2015 and 2016 :)
+It's really comfy in there.
+
+John Sullivan of FSF has also confirmed that that there is a dedicated
+*alcohol-free social and hacking time* at the FSF office on Saturday 24th
+March, between 1900-2130 (7-9:30 PM). You could also flash someone's laptop for
+them there, in the conference room at the FSF, or on a table outside. Or the
+sysadmin room, if that's OK with them.
+
+I've been asking around. The following people have confirmed so far that they
+will be providing Libreboot flashing services at the conference:
+
+- Kurt from Technoethical, an FSF-endorsed Libreboot hardware seller. They will
+  also have their own samples. They'll be at the Technoethical booth there.
+  IRC nick sensiblemn\_ or sensiblemn on #libreboot IRC
+- zyliwax from #libreboot IRC - has confirmed that they will be there
+- Patrick McDermott (pehjota) of Libiquity. Patrick is also present at
+  LibrePlanet, and has brought flashing equipment. What Patrick said on the
+  libreplanet-discuss mailing list: look for the person that is wearing a
+  grey Libiquity polo shirt. They posted this picture on the mailing list,
+  so you know how to find this person:
+  <http://www.libiquity.com/media/images/patrick-mcdermott.jpg>
+  - of note: Patrick is bringing CH341A-based programmer, and can flash D8/D16
+- You could also find an FSF sysadmin and ask them to flash Libreboot for you.
+
+I would be grateful if anyone else would also be willing to provide flashing.
+I myself am not attending the conference physically, unfortunately.
+
+See mailing list post for more info. If you would like to help Kurt and
+zyliwax out, please either reply to that mailing list post on
+libreplanet-discuss or email me directly:
+[leah@libreboot.org](mailto:leah@libreboot.org) and I'll add your name in
+the above list.
+
+Basically, all you need for flashing someone's laptop at the conference is:
+
+- Portable SPI flasher (USB powered. SSH into it via your laptop, use the SPI
+  flasher's own 3v3, etc). Make sure to use the workaround-mx patch on
+  flashrom, so that you can use `--workaround-mx` on Macronix chips, if flashing
+  an X200, otherwise flashing will be unreliable (see mailing list post linked
+  above) - portability is important, in case you sit down with someone in
+  a place without power sockets.
+  See guides on libreboot.org for setting up SPI flashers, but ignore the notes
+  about external PSUs and instead just wire up the flasher's own 3v3 connection.
+  The workaround-mx patch is here:
+  <https://notabug.org/consts/libreboot/raw/2caaac00972d9ea56b0fcd7c95897e90283b05b8/projects/flashrom/patches/0005-Workaround-MX25-reliable-operation.patch>
+  apply this on flashrom src and build with that. To use it, just pass the
+  `--workaround-mx` option in flashrom.
+- Screwdrivers (phillips head 0 *and* 00 - sometimes labelled PH0 or PH00,
+  respectively)
+- Thermal paste and thermal cleaning material, for T400 flashing
+  - arctic mx-4 paste recommended. For cleaning material, use anti-static cloth
+  and isopropyl alcohol - as pure as possible! ideally close to 100%! 70%
+  rubbing alcohol is common in USA, and not suitable for electronics
+- Anti-ESD wrist/ankle strap, to protect against damage from electrostatic
+  discharge when working with circuit boards.
+
+Optionally:
+
+- Bring DIP8 25xx SPI chips with Libreboot, for ASUS KCMA-D8 or KGPE-D16, for the
+  conference goer to put in their D8/D16 when they get home. Also PLCC32 LPC
+  1MB (or bigger, with padding at the beginning) chips for ASUS KFSN4-DRE
+- Soldering equipment (knife tip, hot air, etc) for X200T flashing. NOTE: FSF has
+  soldering equipment in their office, you could ask them to lend it to you
+  if you're flashing a laptop there at the FSF office. NOTE2: Kurt from
+  Technoethical is also bringing soldering equipment.
diff --git a/www/news/release-testing-20171221.md b/www/news/release-testing-20171221.md
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+% Testers needed for a new upcoming Libreboot release
+% Leah Rowe
+% 21 Dec 2017
+
+We need testers, especially hardware testers, for a new upcoming release of
+Libreboot.
+
+Andrew Robbins, one of the developers, has done extensive work on the build
+system in Libreboot and now we are rebasing all boards in Libreboot onto the
+latest version of coreboot. Upstream coreboot has many bugfixes, which the
+version that Libreboot uses (an older revision) does not have.
+
+We are currently assembling a team of testers. If you wish to participate,
+then reply on this thread in our bug tracker:
+
+<https://notabug.org/libreboot/libreboot/issues/373>
+
+Any help would be appreciated. In general, testing is also needed (e.g.
+build testing, documentation testing/improvements, etc).