Conservancy Supporter Match Now Extended Through February

[Software Freedom Conservancy]

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2017/feb/13/02-17-extend/

Conservancy Supporter Match Now Extended 
Through February

15 Days Left to Double Your Support for Your 
Favorite Free & Open Source Software Projects

The next 89 Supporters to join Conservancy by 
the end of February will have their donation 
doubled! Join or renew today, at 
<https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/>!

After Conservancy signed up over 60 
Supporters in just one week, an anonymous 
donor has decided to extend their match 
through the end of Conservancy's fiscal year 
(ending on February 28). Our anonymous donor 
says, “It's important to expand Conservancy's 
base of support so that it has stable and 
predictable finances. It's a bit of a 
challenge to get people to pay attention to 
FOSS with a new horror here in the US every 
day, but free software is as important as 
ever--if not more so.”

We agree with this sentiment. We work hard to 
define our goals and focus on our most 
important issues.

The donations you inspire convert directly to 
the work that you want to see. The more 
Supporters we have, the more projects we can 
help with fiscal sponsorship, outreach, and 
compliance work. There are dozens of projects 
waiting to join Conservancy, but we don't 
invite them them to join until we know that 
we have the resources to help them. Our 
current projects have been coming forward too 
to urge Supporters to join. You can see 
statements of support by many of 
Conservancy's member projects, including:

* Git: <https://public-inbox.org/git/20170208183444.wlk4vjveg7cmmi5a@sigill.intra.peff.net/T/#u>
* Bro Network Security Monitor: <http://blog.bro.org/2017/02/software-freedom-conservancy-fund-drive.html>
* Twisted: <https://twitter.com/glyph/status/829874049509494784>
* Squeak: <http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2017-February/193064.html>
* Outreachy: <https://twitter.com/sarahsharp/status/828599711896522753>
* Godot Game Engine: <https://twitter.com/Akien/status/830080328500965377>
* Homebrew: <https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2017/feb/02/homebrew-year-in-review/>
* Selenium: <https://twitter.com/shs96c/status/830691658622705665>

If you're already a Supporter, please spread 
the word about this match to your friends and 
colleagues and encourage them to sign up (or 
renew early to be counted in this 
match). Please post to any appropriate 
mailing lists, blog and microblogging 
services. Thank you for supporting software 
freedom!