GNU Spotlight May 2016

Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Supporter - Issue 98, June 2016:
GNU Spotlight with Brandon Invergo: Twenty-seven new GNU releases!

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This month, we welcome Mohd Isam as the maintainer of the new package Fontopia, Peter Cherepanov as the new maintainer of GGradebook, Tom Cato Amundsen as a returning maintainer of Solfege, and Leah Rowe as the maintainer of the newly dubbed GNU Libreboot.

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