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  <img src="/img/2020-01-17_bkuhn_lca-2020.png" alt="Bradley on stage at LinuxConf Australia 2020" />

  <p><a href="/about/staff/#bkuhn">Bradley M. Kuhn</a>, delivering

  a <a href="https://lca2020.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/91/">talk with Karen</a> at LCA 2020.<br/>Photo &copy; by Linux Australia, licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA</a></p>

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<p>We participated in many exciting events organized by others. Before travel was canceled, we  presented multiple talks at LCA and on the FOSDEM main stage, helped organize the Legal &amp; Policy DevRoom at FOSDEM, spoke to students and faculty at Oxford University, ran a workshop at Open Source 101 and delivered keynotes at CHAOSScon, Git Merge and the OpenUK Healthcare event. Once in-person events were no longer possible, we participated in many virtual events, including GUADEC, DebConf, ÖzgürKon and State of the Source. Our Executive Director was a featured speaker at VentCon, a conference urgently organized in May for folks working on FOSS projects for ventilators at a time when making sure that hospitals had enough access to ventilators to treat the surge in COVID-19 patients was a top concern.</p>

<p>We also remain ready to continue our work of helping to sponsor travel for our member projects and their events when travel becomes safe again. Before we ceased our conferences and travel, we funded over $60,000 worth of travel to important events, on pace for what could have been one of our biggest travel sponsorship years.  We invested remaining travel funds into improving online infrastructure and planning

for how to keep FOSS engaged without these essential in-person events.</p>

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<h3 id="HelpUs">Help Us Continue our Mission</h3>

<p>We know this year brought unforeseen financial challenges.  Some of you have

faced unemployment, and many others are underemployed right now due to the

pandemic.  As you think about where to route your limited charitable

dollars this year, we ask that you think about how far your donation goes with Conservancy.  We’ve remained a small, agile organization (some

even have called us scrappy) precisely because we have the most experienced

non-profit management team in FOSS.  We couldn’t have predicted the

pandemic, but we did plan for the worst.  We’re frugal, careful, and we plan ahead, so you can know that every

dollar you give to Conservancy is used to support critical work.  While companies sell

you products this end of year season, we offer you a chance to donate to something much bigger. By becoming a Conservancy Supporter, you can put

your money to work fighting for the freedom and rights of all software

users.</p>

<h3 id="VintageT">Vintage T-Shirt Promotion</h3>

<div data-read-more="Would you like a last chance to receive a vintage Conservancy t-shirt?  Find out how&hellip;">

<p>If you're a Supporter, you've already received or will soon receive a

  t-shirt in our 2018 design shown here.   But,

would you like to take advantage of a last chance to get our vintage design — seen sported so often

by <a href="https://twitter.com/bensturmfels/status/599118574641262592">our earliest Supporters</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy/status/786480068512002048">conferences and events</a>?  If so, read on!</p>

<img src="/img/brett-in-2018-shirt.jpg" alt="Brett wears the 2018 t-shirt!" />

<p><a href="/about/staff/#brett">Brett Smith</a> wears the current t-shirt design.</p>

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<p>But first, as a note to how difficult this year has been, we know that many of our 2019 Supporters are still

awaiting their t-shirts, which have the wonderful 2018 design.   We've had difficulty working through

keeping our staff safe during the pandemic lock downs and making trips to the post office — historically,

we on staff all shared the post office trips, but we all have different COVID-19 risk factors and thus it's all moving

slowly.  We appreciate the patience of our Supporters waiting for t-shirts, and we do have plan to safely send out

the backlog by years' end.</p>

<p>As part of those preparations, we found a treasure trove and now have an exciting promotion for renewing

Supporters.  We found an old stash of <strong>vintage t-shirts</strong>, in the old style!  Supplies are limited,

but for those few supporters who would like to receive one, we have a special offer.  Supporters who give

$512 or more in 2020 can receive one of these vintage t-shirts!  To claim your vintage t-shirt, do the following:

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    <li>Renew as a <a href="/supporter/#annual">an annual supporter</a> for $512 or more. (Alternatively, if

      you already gave this year, make a <a href="/donate/">separate donation</a> so that your 2020 total is $512.)</li>

      <li> <a href="mailto:vintaget@sfconservancy.org">Email &lt;vintaget@sfconservancy.org&gt;</a> and include the email

      address and date(s) of your donation(s) that total $512 and your desired size.  (We have at least a few of all sizes in stock, but supplies are limited; we cannot necessarily guarantee your size selection, but we'll update here as sizes run out.)</li>

      </ul></p>

  <img src="/img/2020-12-04_lots-vintage-shirts.jpg" alt="A big stack of vintage Conservancy t-shirts!" />

  <p>Supplies won't last; give $512 and make one of these vintage shirts yours today!</p>

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<p>You too can look cool in the vintage design.  Or maybe your original has faded and you're ready to spruce up with a new one?  As we said,

supplies are limited so make a big donation today, support Conservancy, and show you've always been old-school — or just

want to look that way!</p>

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