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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
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<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>