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+news/lenovo-recall.md
+news/alyssa-resignation.md
+news/talos.md
+news/new-mailing-lists.md
+news/andrew-robbins-new-maintainer.md
+news/formalised-structure.md
+news/proposal-rejoin-gnu.md
+news/unity.md
diff --git a/www/news/alyssa-resignation.md b/www/news/alyssa-resignation.md
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+% Alyssa Rosenzweig has resigned from the Libreboot project
+% Leah Rowe
+% 1 September 2017
+
+Alyssa Rosenzweig has notified the rest of the team (Andrew Robbins, Paul
+Kocialkowski, Leah Rowe and Swift Geek) of her intention to step down from the
+core management team, as per [our management guidelines](../management.md),
+due to increased pressure from school studies which prevent her from having
+time to contribute.
+
+In her email, she wishes the Libreboot project well and states that she intends
+to continue contributing in the future.
+
+I, Leah Rowe, wish Alyssa all the best in life, and I'm sure that this will be
+felt by the other maintainers in Libreboot, and I'm extremely grateful for the
+numerous invaluable contributions that she made to the project.
+
+A note about the hosting infrastructure, and sysadmin tasks
+-----------------------------------------------------------
+
+Alyssa was previously acting as the system administrator for the Libreboot
+project, in charge of maintaining the project's infrastructure. Additionally,
+she was acting as Public Relations manager for the project; in particular, she
+was handling Libreboot's application to join the GNU project.
+
+I have since assumed these responsibilities, at least for the time being, and
+I will be working alongside the other members of the team going forward.
+Since Alyssa had stepped down, nobody was in place to maintain the hosting
+infrastructure for the project. Our old hosting provider was giving us issues,
+so we switched hosting provider; this means that I'm currently maintaining the
+hosting infrastructure for the project, since nobody else was willing to.
+
+The only piece of infrastructure currently missing is the mailing list. We now
+have a fully functional mail server, and I will finish studying and installing
+GNU Mailman version 3 (the software that will be used for handling the mailing
+list). There are currently no repositories available for it on the GNU+Linux
+distribution that libreboot.org uses (Debian), so we will have to maintain it
+ourselves.
+
+Swift Geek also works alongside me, for sysadmin tasks, and has been
+particularly helpful in advising on good practises for the setup of the new
+mail server. I myself haven't had time to work on it for a while, but it will
+be up soon. The mailing list that Alyssa created was only online for a week,
+before we had to switch hosting provider for the project, and nobody had
+started using it yet, so downtime for the mailing list hasn't been a huge
+issue; people use the Notabug instance, and IRC.
+
+I will issue another news post, once the new mailing list is online. For the
+time being, the links to it have been removed on the website.
+
+The mail server itself is online, so the 4 of us on the team now have
+libreboot.org email addresses; these are published on the
+[governance page](../management.md). If anyone wishes to contact a member of
+the project directly via email, we recommend that you use these email
+addresses.
+
+Of interest: the new hosting infrastructure for libreboot.org is entirely
+libre. The main router on that network is a Libreboot system, with the router software
+running on top of GNU+Linux. The server for libreboot.org (web and mail server)
+is also a Libreboot system with GNU+Linux; postfix and dovecot for the mail
+server, and nginx for the web server. DNS is also planned (the DNS hosting is
+currently outsourced).
+
+Of further interest: libreboot.org is now IPv6-ready. All services are
+dual stack IPv4+IPv6. Stronger encryption is used in the TLS configuration for
+nginx aswell, for HTTPS, and HSTS is enabled by default.
+
+The certificate authority used for TLS is Let's Encrypt. This is used for
+HTTPS and for encrypted connections to the mail server.
+
+The new hosting infrastructure is also much more secure than the previous one,
+not just because Libreboot powers it but because of special configurations made
+on externally accessible services (such as SSH and email).
+
+I am currently looking for a new colocation provider, but the hardware used
+for hosting should be stable from now on. I have found one, which I'm looking
+into, but I'm also considering other options.
diff --git a/www/news/lenovo-recall.md b/www/news/lenovo-recall.md
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+% Lenovo Battery Recall for ThinkPad Laptops
+% Johnny Rasnic
+% 14 September 2017
+
+[On 21 April 2015, Lenovo expanded a recall on Lenovo batteries found in ThinkPad models.](https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/cr/en/solutions/hf004122) 
+Libreboot-supported laptops that may be affected by this are the X200 and X200S. 
+To find out if you are affected, use [this Lenovo tool.](https://lenovobattery2014.orderz.com/) 
+Lenovo advises that owners of the recalled models "should turn off the system, remove the battery, 
+and only power your ThinkPad by plugging in the AC adapter and power cord." 
+Upon battery verification, Lenovo will replace recalled batteries free of charge. 
+Battery replacement instructions for the X200/X200s are found [on this page.](https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/cr/en/parts/pd003507/)
diff --git a/www/news/new-mailing-lists.md b/www/news/new-mailing-lists.md
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@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ The mailing list address is
 [development@libreboot.org](mailto:development@libreboot.org)
 
 Information about the mailing list and how to subscribe are
-[here](../lists/). Archives of discussion threads
-are [here](../pipermail/development/).
+on the [lists page](../lists/). Archives of discussion threads
+are in the [pipermail development directory](../pipermail/development/).
 
 This replaces the mailing lists that we had before. The mailing list software
 in use is [GNU Mailman](https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/), which is also
diff --git a/www/news/talos.md b/www/news/talos.md
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+% TALOS II Secure Workstation, from Raptor Engineering
+% Leah Rowe
+% 15 August 2017
+
+Recently, [Raptor Engineering](https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/) has launched
+a new series of workstation and server computers. These are high-end systems,
+using the libre IBM POWER9 architecture, and the boot firmware is entirely
+Free Software like Libreboot.
+
+This is the *first* OEM producing *high-end* systems, from the factory assembly
+line, with completely libre boot firmware. The boot firmware, operating system
+and everything else is entirely Free Software. While not technically libreboot,
+the boot firmware on TALOS II is Free Software, so it was decided that the
+TALOS II would be promoted here on libreboot.org.
+
+If you are in the market for a high-end, secure workstation or server with
+100% free boot firmware (like Libreboot) and operating system, produced by
+an OEM *hardware manufacturer* that cares about freedom, look no further than
+the TALOS II from Raptor Engineering!
+
+Their website for pre-orders is here:
+<https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/>
+
+An entry for the TALOS II has also been added to the
+[suppliers page](../suppliers.md) on libreboot.org.
+
+Raptor Engineering is the same company that ported the ASUS KFSN4-DRE,
+KPGE-D16 and KCMA-D8 motherboards to Libreboot. In addition, they added support
+for Hybrid Graphics on the ThinkPad T400 which Libreboot supports, enabling
+those laptops to be used in freedom (with the AMD GPU disabled, in favour of
+the Intel GPU which Libreboot has free video initialization for).
+
+In response to the TALOS II launch I, Leah Rowe, have removed the Libreboot D16
+(TALOS II's main competitor) from minifree.org, and removed the Minifree D16
+entries from the [suppliers page](../suppliers.md) on libreboot.org.
+I encourage Vikings and Technoethical, also present on that suppliers page, to
+do the same and discontinue their D16 products. The TALOS II is very important
+for the future of free, libre computing and indeed the free software community
+as a whole; if TALOS II fails, we will be stuck for a very long time without
+any viable high-end workstations that are libre. High-end hardware is necessary
+for modern software development.