diff --git a/www/conservancy/static/supporter/2016-supporter-appeal.html b/www/conservancy/static/supporter/2016-supporter-appeal.html index 113c626b8099ba8fa33c398646d284305170d4e3..10bd9b6e6fedb8d6b106c6fe030fb1f20a22c750 100644 --- a/www/conservancy/static/supporter/2016-supporter-appeal.html +++ b/www/conservancy/static/supporter/2016-supporter-appeal.html @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ and Homebrew, a software package manager for Apple
  • We supported the lawsuit Christoph Hellwig brought against VMware in Germany, the -first case on derivative works and the GPL. Christoph's case continues on appeal.
    • +first case on derivative works and the GPL. Christoph's case continues on appeal.
  • We helped Conservancy projects Bro, Buildbot, and Godot receive Mozilla MOSS grants. Another Conservancy project, phpMyAdmin successfully completed a thorough security audit as part of Mozilla's Secure Open Source Fund (no serious issues were found!)
    • @@ -297,13 +297,13 @@ first case on derivative works and the GPL. Christoph's case received an assignment of copyrights from the Yorba Foundation, including Shotwell and Geary, in order to safeguard those copyrights for the future
  • We conducted friendly discussions with companies out of compliance with -the GPL, seeking non-litigious resolutions in accordance with our Principles. We published our template agreements and also held two feedback sessions to evaluate and improve our compliance efforts. We also worked with other community members to bring clarity to international activities around GPL compliance and help make the ecosystem safer for free software adoption. We stayed committed to providing straight-forward analysis about the GPL.
    • +the GPL, seeking non-litigious resolutions in accordance with our Principles. We published our template agreements and also held two feedback sessions to evaluate and improve our compliance efforts. We also worked with other community members to bring clarity to international activities around GPL compliance and help make the ecosystem safer for free software adoption. We stayed committed to providing straight-forward analysis about the GPL. -
  • Our Executive Director, Karen Sandler, testified to the New York City Council Committee on Contracts in favor of the Free and Open Source Software Act and the Civic Commons Act which would increase the use of free and open source software by New York City departments and agencies. Karen later in the year also taught kids in London about free software.
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  • Our Executive Director, Karen Sandler, testified to the New York City Council Committee on Contracts in favor of the Free and Open Source Software Act and the Civic Commons Act which would increase the use of free and open source software by New York City departments and agencies. Karen later in the year also taught kids in London about free software.
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  • We launched a new initiative called ContractPatch to help provide information and understanding about employment agreements.
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  • We launched a new initiative called ContractPatch to help provide information and understanding about employment agreements.
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  • We commented on the OpenChain specification to help make sure that the initiative by companies to collaboratively come up with standards and shared materials around compliance also meets community expectations about how compliance obligations are satisfied.
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  • We commented on the OpenChain specification to help make sure that the initiative by companies to collaboratively come up with standards and shared materials around compliance also meets community expectations about how compliance obligations are satisfied.
  • We supported, helped coordinate, and financially backed volunteers from our member projects to organize seven conferences in three continents, where thousands of @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ software.

    We undertake these critical programs because they are essential to the future of technology. We do them because they are right. But we cannot do -them without you. Last year you helped us to fundraising goals so that we not only did not have to shut our doors but instead were able to hire a new employee. Even with our additional employee, we do not yet have the resources to handle our existing workload.

    +them without you. Last year you helped us to fundraising goals so that we not only did not have to shut our doors but instead were able to hire a new employee. Even with our additional employee, we do not yet have the resources to handle our existing workload.

    Our fiscal sponsorship model is not financially self-sustaining by itself: we cannot afford even one staff member and basic overhead with the revenue we @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ the Debian community, and members of the Linux kernel community. Most recently, that has resulted in our funding of the suit against VMware, which is the first lawsuit on derivative works and the -GPL (Christoph's case continues on appeal). While this work is extremely important to the continued long-term +GPL (Christoph's case continues on appeal). While this work is extremely important to the continued long-term success of software freedom and copyleft not to mention in the long term interest of the industry as a whole, it makes fundraising from companies very difficult. Some companies