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<div id="donate-box" class="toggle-unit"><h1 class="toggle-content">Support
Now!</h1></div>
<h3 class="donate-box-highlight">Become a Supporter Now:</h3>
<p>Support us now!</p>
<h4><a href="#annual"><span class="donate-box-highlight">Annual supporter</span> via PayPal, ACH, or credit card.</a></h4>
<h4><a href="#monthly"><span class="donate-box-highlight">Monthly supporter</span> via PayPal, ACH, or credit card.</a></h4>
<span class="donate-box-highlight">Other annual supporters methods:</span>
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<h4 class="toggle-control" data-text="Wire Transfer"
data-expanded-text="Wire Transfer:">Wire Transfer</h4>
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Contact <a href="mailto:accounting@sfconservancy.org">Conservancy
by email</a><br/> for wire transfer instructions.<br/>
Include currency & country.<br/>
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<h4 class="toggle-control" data-text="Paper Check"
data-expanded-text="Paper Check:">Paper Check</h4>
Send paper check for $120 to:<br/>
Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.<br/>
137 MONTAGUE ST STE 380<br/>
BROOKLYN, NY 11201-3548 USA<br/>
Please write <q>SUPPORTER</q> and t-shirt size in memo line.
<p><a href="/donate">Even More Ways to Donate</a></p>
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<h1 class="appeal"><img class="appeal-header" alt="Become a Conservancy Supporter!" src="/img/conservancy-supporter-header.png"/></h1>
<h4>Software Freedom needs your help. </h4>
<p><em>Conservancy must move to a
Supporter-driven organization so we can focus on critical free software
issues that nobody else is tackling. Stand up for the GPL, support great
member projects, and make your voice heard in support of free software.
<a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">Donate today!</a></em></p>
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<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 dedicate themselves to. Projects like Git, Samba,
Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and dozens more.</p>
<p>We are asking for you
to <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">join us and become a
Conservancy Supporter</a> but this is more than our usual annual
fundraising appeal. As described in more detail below, after the events
of 2015, we must substantially increase our individual support to be able
to continue defending software freedom for our member projects and the
entire free and open source software community. We need at least 750
of you to become annual Supporters just to continue our basic community services.
We need 2,500 of you to become annual Supporters now to continue
our work enforcing copyleft licenses. If you don't become a Supporter now,
we will be forced to radically restructure and wind down a substantial portion
of our operations.</p>
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<h4>2015 successes</h4>
<a href="/img/conservancy-staff-photo.jpg"><img class="appeal-right" src="/img/conservancy-staff-photo.jpg"/></a>
Software Freedom Conservancy has had a lot of major successes this year:
<ul>
<li>We brought four new projects under the protection of
Conservancy: <a href="/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 <a href="http://www.godotengine.org/">Godot Game Engine</a>,
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="/news/2015/aug/17/debian/">Debian
Copyright Aggregation Project</a> at their request.</li>