The world today is powered increasingly by Free Software. But what many people don't realize is how much support is needed to keep all of these projects free and open. The work that we do every day ensures the success and the continued freedom of the projects that the developers of our member projects so tirelessly dedicate themselves to. Projects like Git, Samba, Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and dozens more [FIXME Link to nascar pic]

<li>We brought four new projects under the protection of the Conservancy:  <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jul/23/qemu-joins/">QEMU</a> - the generic machine emulator and virtualizer, <a href="https://www.bro.org/">The Bro Network Security Monitor</a>, the Godot Game Engine[FIXME] and <a href="http://outreachy.org">Outreachy</a>, a program dedicated to helping people from underrepresented groups get involved in free and open source software. We also worked with the Debian community to launch the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/aug/17/debian/">Debian Copyright Aggregation Project</a> at their request.</li>

<li>We conducted friendly discussions with companies out of compliance with the GPL, seeking non-litigious resolutions.</li>

<p>We're a unique organization - a staunch defender of copyleft (for Linux, Debian and many of our member projects), a source of education and champions of diversity for the community via Outreachy and other programs, and are the legal home to over 30 member projects that are essential to developing free software.</p>

<p>We have raised enough money to continue the VMware case but our overall enforcement work needs additional support to be able to continue.  As we state in the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.html">Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a>, we cannot prioritize profit in these actions without compromising on the end goals of that work which is to help companies become free and open source software users and contributors. 

<p>Moreover, we have lost committed general funding from companies explicitly because of our enforcement work. Continuing this work without individual support is no longer possible.</p>