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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 8 years ago 2015-12-01 03:19:44
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 <p>Software Freedom needs your help.</p>
 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]
 <p>Below, we ask for you
   to <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">join us and become a
     Conservancy Support now</a>.  However, this is more than our usual annual
   fundraising appeal.  After the events of 2015, we must substantially
   increase our support now to continue the excellent work defending software
   freedom for our member projects and the entire Open Source and Free
   Software community.  We need at least [750] of you to become regular,
   annual Supporters just to continue our most basic of community services.
   We need [2500] of you to become regular, annual Supporters now to continue
   our work enforcing copyleft licenses.  If you don't become a Supporter now,
   we began plans to wind down Conservancy's operations.</p>
 <h4>2015 successes</h4>
 This year has brought a myriad of major successes for Software Freedom
 Conservancy:
 <ul>
 <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>

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