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<a href="https://youtu.be/yCCxMfW0LTM">(watch on Youtube)</a>

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<p>Sustainers help us do our work in a strategic, long-term way. We could not

  do this without the support and financial contributions of individuals like

  you. <a href="/sponsors/#sustainers">We list our Sustainers here</a>.</p>

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  Please watch this video to learn about what we do and why we need your support as

  a Sustainer:

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                                                  alt="Software Freedom Conservancy introduction video"></a><br/>

<a href="https://youtu.be/yCCxMfW0LTM">(watch on Youtube)</a>

</video></p>

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<p><h3>The wide range of work we engage in is supported by people like you. </h3></p>

<p>We are so proud that we're funded by individuals and stay unbeholden to corporate interests and pressures. We stand up for developers, consumers and those who have been historically excluded. We work to make technology truly fair for all. </p>

<p>Thank you for helping making this work possible:</p>

<h3 id="WritingAndSpeaking">Writing and Speaking</h3>

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<p>Our staff has been presenting and speaking about software freedom all year.

Our Executive Director Karen Sandler received an honorary doctorate from

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for her incredible work in FOSS leadership, and

her advocacy and pursuit of software freedom and rights for all.

In November she spoke at <a href="https://www.sfscon.it/talks/the-history-of-and-path-forward-for-copyleft-and-the-gpl/">SFSCON about "The History of, and Path forward for, Copyleft and the GPL"</a>.</p>

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  or <a href="https://youtu.be/zca7dOU7jfs">watch on YouTube</a></p>

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<p>Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn gave many conference talks and also represented SFC at many

government hearings and inquiries. Beginning the year at <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/speaker/bradley_m_kuhn/">FOSDEM</a>,

Bradley (and Karen) led the Legal and Policy DevRoom. He then spoke at SCaLE

20x giving a talk titled <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/learning-big-failures-improve-foss-advocacy-and-adoption">Learning From the Big Failures To Improve FOSS Advocacy and Adoption</a>.

As the host of a keynote discussion at FOSSY, Bradley facilitated a

<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jul/19/rhel-panel-fossy-2023/">

community discussion about the RHEL policy change</a>.