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

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

<p>And we did <strong>all of this</strong> with <strong>only three full time employees</strong>.</p>

<p>We are focused on the most important ethical issues in software

freedom. We work tirelessly and don't shy away from difficult issues.</p>

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 undertake these critical programs because they are essential to the

success of software freedom and copyleft, it makes fundraising from companies

harder. While enforcement of the protections around free and open source

software is in the long term interest of the industry, many companies are

reluctant to fund organizations that take on this enforcement task. We do

this work because we think that it is good for everyone in the long run,

because we know it is the right thing to do and because we know that we are

right too and <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">show us by

becoming a Supporter now</a>.</p>

<h4>It's up to you</h4>

<p>We have raised enough money to continue the VMware case but our overall