From info at sfconservancy.org  Thu Jan 10 15:41:18 2019
From: info at sfconservancy.org (Deb Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:41:18 -0500
Subject: Copyleft Conf: Registration is Open and the Schedule is Posted
Message-ID: <1547134878.10011.20.camel@sfconservancy.org>

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/jan/10/CCRegopen/

Conservancy is very excited to share [the schedule](https://2019.copyle
ftconf.org/schedule/) for the first ever Copyleft Conf with you!
Copyleft Conf is a one day event, taking place in downtown Brussels at
[Digityser](https://digityser.org/about/). Registration begins at
9:30am and we'll be finishing by 6pm. We'll have talks, a panel and
participatory discussions near the end of the day. 

Participants from throughout the copyleft world — developers,
strategists, enforcement organizations, scholars and critics — will be
welcomed for an in-depth, high bandwidth, and expert-level discussion
about the day-to-day details of using copyleft licensing, obstacles
facing copyleft and the future of copyleft as a strategy to advance and
defend software freedom for users and developers around the world.

*Logistics*

The venue has a finite amount of space and registration includes lunch
which will be provided onsite. Please [register in advance](https://201
9.copyleftconf.org/attend) so we can plan for everyone's needs --
including yours. Professional tickets are available for $100 and
tickets for student/unemployed/underemployed or non-profit employed
folks are $15. If $15 is still prohibitive or you plan to attend as
press, please drop us a line at copyleftconf at sfconservancy.org 

Coming in from out of town or wondering where to stay and whether
Copyleft Conf is walkable from your hotel? We've got you covered. All
the location information is [right here](https://2019.copyleftconf.org/
about/venue).

*Code of Conduct*

Copyleft Conf has a [robust Code of Conduct](https://sfconservancy.org/
blog/2018/oct/30/whyrobust/). We feel strongly that the future of free
software depends on an open, welcoming and evolving conversation around
licensing practices and compliance. The copyleft licenses that many of
the world's largest free software projects -- like Linux, Git, Drupal
and Wordpress -- rely on must be both well understood and used in good
faith. This conversation around copyleft is well overdue. We can't
afford to turn away those who would help us build the bridges to
increase adoption and achieve better compliance. 

*Sponsors Welcome*

Interested in sponsoring? The prospectus [is here](https://2019.copylef
tconf.org/sponsors/become-a-sponsor) and we'd be happy to answer your
questions via email, copyleftconf at sfconservancy.org.

Other questions? We'd be happy to talk to you about anything Copyleft
Conf related that isn't covered here. 
Just email us at copyleftconf at sfconservancy.org

-- 
Deb Nicholson <deb at sfconservancy.org>
Software Freedom Conservancy


From info at sfconservancy.org  Thu Feb 14 20:11:39 2019
From: info at sfconservancy.org (Deb Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:11:39 -0500
Subject: We're Hiring: Techie Bookkeeper
Message-ID: <1550175099.2999.42.camel@sfconservancy.org>

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/feb/14/techie-bookkeeper/

Thanks to the help of all of our donors and Supporters, Conservancy is
hiring for a critical position in our organization. Please help us
spread the word, and if this is a position you're interested in please
apply!

*Techie Bookkeeper*

Software Freedom Conservancy is looking for a new employee to help us
with important work that supports our basic operations. Conservancy is
a nonprofit charity that promotes and improves free and open source
software projects. We are home to almost 50 projects, including Git,
Inkscape, Etherpad, phpMyAdmin, and Selenium (to name a few).
Conservancy is the home of Outreachy, an award winning diversity
intiative, and we also work hard to improve software freedom generally.
We are a small but dedicated staff, handling a very large number of
financial transactions per year for us and our member projects.

We seek a fifth full-time employee who will help us with our day-to-day 
bookkeeping needs. Our bookkeeping system is unique in that it requires
technical skill to use. We hope that our new employee will help us with
our bookkeeping needs today and in the future grow and develop along
with the organization.

This is a full time salaried position with benefits (including health
insurance and paid time off), working remotely. Ideally, this employee
would be either in the Boston, MA or Portland, OR areas. Excellent
fluency in English, both oral and written, is required. You must also
be extremely details-oriented. This position will pay commensurate with
experience, but will be a typical salary for charities in smaller US
cities.

You must be comfortable using command-line tools and editing plaintext
files. You don't have to be proficient with these tools, but you should
have worked in them before and understand their basic concepts.
Ideally, you have also worked with a version control system, and
written computer scripts, but these skills are not required.

While we prefer that you already have some basic familiarity with
bookkeeping and accounting, we will train you if you do not. We are
especially interested in someone who likes to improve and document
systems as they go along. Folks who have been the volunteer bookkeeper
for a hobby or community project are especially encouraged to apply.

This position will interact with sensitive data and so you must be
trustworthy, thorough and able to keep confidential information. You
must be able to provide at least three references to this effect.

A laptop running Libreboot and Debian GNU/Linux will be provided.

Applications can be submitted via email to jobs at sfconservancy.org.
Please include a resume or CV, cover letter, and references. All
materials must be in a file format that can be easily viewed with free
software, such as a PDF viewable by Evince, Text, or LibreOffice
format.

We are open to candidates of a variety of backgrounds and experience
levels.

We are uncompromising in our mission and values, and happy to train a
high-potential but less experienced candidate.


-- 
Deb Nicholson <deb at sfconservancy.org>
Software Freedom Conservancy


From info at sfconservancy.org  Wed Mar 27 20:51:55 2019
From: info at sfconservancy.org (Software Freedom Conservancy)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:51:55 -0400
Subject: Deb Nicholson Receives the Award for the Advancement of Free Software
Message-ID: <d2e8fd50-e270-0c9b-c4b2-d4b53f307c85@sfconservancy.org>

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/mar/25/fsfawardDeb/

We are proud to announce that our Director of Community Operations, Deb
Nicholson, won this year’s Award for the Advancement of Free Software.
The award was presented on Saturday, March 23rd at LibrePlanet
<https://libreplanet.org/2019/>, the Free Software Foundation’s annual
conference at MIT’s Stata Center. The Free Software Foundation gives out
two awards each year
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSF_Free_Software_Awards>, one for the
Advancement of Free Software and one for Projects of Social Benefit.

Deb receives the Award for the Advancement of Free Software for her work
to bring free software to artists and musicians with GNU MediaGoblin as
a Community Liaison and as a founding board member of Open Hatch, whose
mission was to build a welcoming committee for free software. She’s also
a founding organizer of the annual Seattle GNU/Linux conference
<https://seagl.org/> aka SeaGL, which is committed to surfacing new
voices and she works with Conservancy’s many projects to help them
achieve their goals. She became part of the free software movement in
2006, when she accepted a job with the Free Software Foundation in
downtown Boston.

Deb joined the Conservancy team
<https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/may/01/deb-nicholson-director-community-operations/>
a little less than a year ago. “Free software is critically important
for autonomy, privacy and a healthy democracy — but it can’t achieve
that if it is only accessible for some, or if it is alienating for large
swathes of people. That’s why it’s so important that we continue
surfacing new voices, making room for non-coders and welcoming new
contributors into the free software community. I also find that in
addition to helping us build a better, bigger movement, the work of
welcoming is extremely rewarding,” said Nicholson.

John Sullivan, Executive Director at the Free Software Foundation adds,
“I couldn’t be happier about this opportunity for the FSF to publicly
honor and appreciate Deb Nicholson. In the many years I’ve known Deb, I
have seen her directly make so many positive changes in the free
software movement that I can’t keep track: successfully connecting
institutional and financial resources with free software projects that
need them, organizing impactful conferences, driving program user
interface improvements, and many other initiatives that have both
brought more users and developers to free software and helped everyone
get more work done in critical areas.”

“Deb’s contributions to the software freedom movement are longstanding
and impressive. We at Conservancy are thrilled to see her receive the
recognition she deserves,” commented Karen Sandler, Conservancy’s
Executive Director. Deb’s work is all the more laudable for her
commitment to contribute substantial volunteer hours over a long period
of time - even when it wasn’t part of her job to do so, she took on the
tough problems in free software to help shape a more effective and
inclusive movement.”

This year’s recipient of the Award for Projects of Social Benefit was
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team <https://www.hotosm.org/> aka HOT. The
award was accepted on behalf of the project by Kate Chapman, who served
as their first Executive Director. We’re well acquainted with Kate’s
free software work since she has been serving as a Conservancy Board
Director for the last three years. Outreachy
<https://www.outreachy.org/>, now a Conservancy project, won the Award
for Projects of Social Benefit for 2013 and our Executive Director,
Karen Sandler won the Award for the Advancement of Free Software last
year. We consider it a mark of deep respect that our colleagues think so
highly of our work to promote and share the message of software freedom.


      About Conservancy

Conservancy, a public charity focused on ethical technology, is the home
of nearly fifty member projects dedicated to developing free and open
source software. Conservancy acts as a corporate umbrella, allowing
member projects to operate as charitable initiatives without having to
independently manage their own corporate structure and administrative
services.

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From info at sfconservancy.org  Thu Jun 20 15:28:01 2019
From: info at sfconservancy.org (Deb Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:28:01 -0400
Subject: Rosanne DiMesio is Conservancy's New Technical Bookkeeper
Message-ID: <1561044481.2133.10.camel@sfconservancy.org>

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/jun/13/welcomerosanne/

We also blogged about our efforts to reduce bias in the hiring
process: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/jun/20/hiringprocess/


We're excited to announce that we've hired Rosanne DiMesio to be our
new Technical Bookkeeper. Rosanne is a longtime volunteer with the
[Wine project](http://www.winehq.org)(which was one of Conservancy's
founding member projects) where she focuses her efforts on making
things easier for users. She is also an [Outreachy](https://www.outreac
hy.org)(also a Conservancy project) graduate who completed her
internship working with Wine on improving their Applications Database
(AppDB). Rosanne has done many different things during her career,
including working as an English teacher and doing tech support for
emergency response services. She brings her passion for free software
and her care for new free software users to the role at Conservancy.

"Rosanne has been an incredible force for good within the Wine project.
I am delighted to know that my fellow Conservancy project members are
going to get the benefit of her organization and insight; this is a
huge win for Conservancy." says Jeremy White, a member of the
leadership committee for the Wine project and CEO of CodeWeavers.

Conservancy has grown from a one person operation to now five full-time 
people, one part-time staff person, a lawyer on retainer and many
generous volunteers who help us with everything from domain-specific
legal expertise to writing to staffing booths at events. The work load
at Conservancy has steadily increased over the last two years as we've
added more member projects and our existing member projects have become
more active, and thanks to our generous [Supporters](https://sfconserva
ncy.org/supporter/), we were able to expand in our most critical area.

Fiscal sponsoring involves lots of accounting and at the end of the
day, bookkeeping is one of our most time-consuming tasks. Our
accounting systems were custom-built by us in response to the lack of
free software (or any software) to solve this problem for us.
Conservancy's needs are fairly specialized; international, distributed
teams all engaged in different activities within a charitable setting
across dozens of different project funds. Rosanne's hire will help us
improve our systems without taking time away from our member projects'
daily accounting needs.

"Increasing full-time staff from four to five is big step for our small
organization." said Karen Sandler, Conservancy's Executive Director.
"Rosanne is uniquely qualified for the role. Her skills and experience
with free software communities will enable us to more efficiently serve
our member projects and help us grow in the coming years."

Because of the specialized systems we have now, the Technical
Bookkeeper role is an unusual one. It combines command line savvy and a
bookkeeper's attention to detail. Conservancy was overwhelmed by the
strong number of applications from people who were obviously passionate
about software freedom and our work. We felt so lucky to have a tough
time narrowing the field, but Rosanne was the clear standout. She comes
to us with technical expertise, bookkeeping experience and a great
understanding and appreciation of Conservancy's mission. Rosanne
started last week and is already answering accounting tickets,
tinkering with scripts and talking with member projects.

We hope you'll join us in welcoming Rosanne to the Conservancy team!


-- 
Deb Nicholson <deb at sfconservancy.org>
Software Freedom Conservancy


From info at sfconservancy.org  Thu Sep 19 19:33:19 2019
From: info at sfconservancy.org (Software Freedom Conservancy)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 12:33:19 -0700
Subject: Conservancy Asks Trademark Office to Protect Applicant's Personal
 Privacy
Message-ID: <87tv982i9s.fsf@ebb.org>

CONSERVANCY ASKS TRADEMARK OFFICE TO PROTECT APPLICANT'S PERSONAL PRIVACY

Software Freedom Conservancy today submitted a petition to the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office (USPTO) asking that Office to reconsider recent
rulemaking that exposes trademark owners' personal addresses.  This
rulemaking has a direct impact on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
projects and charities (like Conservancy) that work to advance software
freedom.  FOSS is developed virtually, with limited budgets, and rarely does
a FOSS project have office space.  FOSS projects that register trademarks
should not be required to disclose the personal, residential, home address
of the project leaders.  Furthermore, software freedom organizations are
more likely to be full-telecommute organizations, in which case, the new
USPTO rule requires disclosure of officers and/or directors home addresses.

Our petition to the USPTO responds to a recent change the USPTO made to its
rules, which now require that individuals provide their residential address
in all trademark applications and keep that information current throughout
the life of the registration. In the past, the USPTO only required a mailing
address, and in particular post office boxes and other paper mail receipt
services were acceptable. The address information is available in a public
database freely searchable on the Internet. Therefore, this rulemaking opens
all trademark owners to a variety of negative consequences in our digital
age, and would be acutely felt by those who are most vulnerable. In addition
to FOSS project leaders without office-space budget, and who have no wish to
share their personal information unnecessarily, our member project Outreachy
gives software freedom opportunities to to people who are subjected to
systemic bias or who have been impacted by underrepresentation. We always
hope our Outreachy interns will later start new FOSS projects and otherwise
participate as FOSS project and charity leaders or FOSS business
owners. Accordingly, we must formally object to this new requirement, both
for ourselves and the FOSS constituencies we support and foster.

In the petition, Conservancy explains to the USPTO why mandatory disclosure
of residential addresses can be so harmful to applicants and paints a
complete picture of how essential it is for governmental agencies to take
better care in collecting and exposing this information. Anyone hoping to
start a new free software project, nonprofit community or new business
should strongly consider registering the trademark for their brand. But many
of these people will be working out of their homes, and the new rule would
unnecessarily require providing this basic, highly sensitive personal
information to the entire world — just to get started. Even worse, the
poorer the person, the fewer options available for avoiding it.

Conservancy's petition also exposes that the USPTO added this requirement
without following proper rulemaking procedure. Had they followed the correct
process, the public would have had the opportunity to inform the USPTO on
the substantial risk to personal safety the new practice creates, allowing
the USPTO to consider other approaches that might better protect privacy
interests.

Conservancy asks in its petition that the USPTO temporarily suspend the rule
and instead start a new round of rulemaking that will allow the public's
input on the requirement.  Watch our blog, news items, and social media for
updates to follow this story, as our petition is the first step in a
multi-stage effort to correct this error by the USPTO.

ANNOUNCEMENT URL:
  https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/19/uspto-personal-addresses/

SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:
  https://twitter.com/conservancy/status/1174766657635373056
  https://mastodon.technology/@conservancy/102820832693435108 

From deb at sfconservancy.org  Thu Oct 10 19:24:44 2019
From: deb at sfconservancy.org (Deb Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:24:44 -0400
Subject: Announcing the Second Annual CopyleftConf!
Message-ID: <fb840f1d-a778-a3aa-3fd2-c6ed432cc570@sfconservancy.org>

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/oct/10/secondcopyleftconf/

Last year’s event was the first ever CopyleftConf.
<https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/apr/30/copyleft-conf/> It was great
<https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/feb/22/1stCopyleftConf/>! We have
some videos up <https://2020.copyleftconf.org/video> and more are
coming. Also, our call for proposals is open now
<https://2020.copyleftconf.org/cfp>, through the end of the month — we’d
love to hear from you.

The response was really positive and we’re looking forward to putting on
a fantastic 2020 event. Because last year’s event was so well attended,
we’ve gotten a larger venue for this year.
<https://www.tricoterie.be/fr/?lang=en>

Participants from throughout the copyleft world — developers,
strategists, enforcement organizations, scholars and critics — will be
welcomed for an in-depth, high bandwidth, and expert-level discussion
about the day-to-day details of using copyleft licensing, obstacles
facing copyleft and the future of copyleft as a strategy to advance and
defend software freedom for users and developers around the world.

The event will provide a friendly and safe place for discussion of
copyleft as a key strategy for defending software freedom.

Conservancy encourages everyone to save the date of Monday 3 February
2020 in Brussels, Belgium for this second CopyleftConf. We’ve chosen the
date and location to ease travel for those already attending FOSDEM the
weekend preceding CopyleftConf.


        Important Dates

  * October 10th, 2019: CFP opens
  * November 3rd, 2019: CFP submission deadline
  * November 22nd, 2019: Conference schedule announced
  * February 3rd, 2020: Conference happens!

Watch Conservancy’s RSS feeds <https://sfconservancy.org/feeds/omnibus/>
for CopyleftConf announcements as those dates approach!

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From info at sfconservancy.org  Thu Oct 24 19:54:53 2019
From: info at sfconservancy.org (Deb Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:54:53 -0400
Subject: Karen Sandler Featured on Explained: Ethics in Software is Critical
Message-ID: <1571946893.2278.6.camel@sfconservancy.org>

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/oct/24/ksonexplained/


Our Executive Director, Karen Sandler was featured in today's episode
of ["Explained"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explained_(TV_series)
presented by Vox on the topic of Coding. The episode covers the history
of coding, how computing became ubiquitous and what that means for the
average non-coding computer user. It's a great piece for the lay
person, which is very handy for that friend or family member who
doesn't really understand what software actually is.

Karen highlighted the problems with code that is designed without
considering the full set of potential users -- a topic which is very
personal for her. Karen has [spoken](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF
ZGpES-St8) [many])https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW1h1s_ojpM)
[times](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2FNqXhr4c8) about the device
which she relies on for her life. Her frustration with the lack of
access to the source code -- to a device which regulates her very large
heart -- drives her work to pursue software freedom for everyone. It's
why she leads Conservancy, an organization dedicated to software
freedom and access to source code for all users.

If you choose to access Netflix[1], you can catch Karen weighing in on
the responsibility that software engineers have to serve their users
with compassion alongside other luminaries including; Allan Kay, Zeynep
Tufekci and David Bowie (yes, really!) We're grateful for the
opportunity to be part of the critical, growing conversation about
ethics in technology which must include software freedom,
responsibility to users, a thorough examination of bias and substantial
improvements in the diversity of teams that build software for general
use.


[1] While we are excited that Karen is reaching those who are not
already familiar with the issues around ethics and software and in
particular DRM, we'd much prefer to share this message via a free
platform.


-- 
Deb Nicholson <deb at sfconservancy.org>
Software Freedom Conservancy


From compliance at sfconservancy.org  Wed Oct 30 17:14:23 2019
From: compliance at sfconservancy.org (Denver Gingerich)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:23 -0700
Subject: Calling all Tesla owners: Let's discuss the source code for the GPLed
 parts of your car!
Message-ID: <87o8xyqhow.fsf@ebb.org>

Blog URL:     https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/oct/30/calling-all-tesla-owners/
Social Media: https://mastodon.technology/@conservancy/103052440503181559
              https://twitter.com/conservancy/status/1189590112436244480

                         Calling all Tesla owners:
       Let's discuss the source code for the GPLed parts of your car!


It has been many years since we started working with Tesla to help them
resolve their ongoing GPL violations. However, Tesla has still not provided
the necessary source code for their cars (a benefit of ownership enshrined
in the GPL, which Tesla chooses to use) and the incomplete versions of
source they have released are more than 17 months old (at the time of this
writing), despite new firmware being continuously delivered to Tesla
vehicles. There have even been several updates within the past month. We
know Tesla owners that care about software freedom are frustrated that they
cannot exercise theirs.

We are looking for new ways to approach this issue. In particular, we are
hoping to engage with interested Tesla owners to determine how we can work
together and collectively improve the situation.

If you own a Tesla Model S, Model X, or Model 3, or know someone who does
(especially in Canada, where I live) and would be interested in joining a
discussion with Conservancy and other Tesla owners about this issue, please
email us indicating your interest in the Tesla discussion. We'll get back to
you in a day or two with details on how to join the conversation.

Please spread the word. Help us continue our work to bring meaningful
software freedom to new classes of hardware, one manufacturer at a time.


Related links:
   https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/may/18/tesla-incomplete-ccs/
   https://lists.sfconservancy.org/pipermail/ccs-review/2018-May/000000.html

-- 
Become a Conservancy Supporter Now: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/
  (And then ask a friend to become a Supporter, too! :)

From info at sfconservancy.org  Tue Nov 26 14:21:09 2019
From: info at sfconservancy.org (Deb Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:21:09 -0500
Subject: Donors Challenge Conservancy Supporters with Largest Match Yet
Message-ID: <1574778069.1956.1.camel@sfconservancy.org>

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/nov/25/match2019/

We’ve been challenged by a group of amazing individuals and Private
Internet Access to raise a total of $113,093 during this fundraising
season. These are folks who believe in software freedom and believe in
Conservancy. This illustrious group includes; Leslie Hawthorn, Daniel
Kahn Gillmor, Martin Krafft, Mark Wielaard, David Turner and Danielle
Sucher and Bdale Garbee -- you'll be hearing more about them in the
coming weeks on our blog.

[Sign up as a Supporter now and have your donation count twice!](https:
//sfconservancy.org/supporter/#annual)

This year we have a special bonus match for new Conservancy Supporters,
whose donations will be matched twice and therefore have **three times
the impact.** 

###Growth & Impact
At a scrappy org like Conservancy, the biggest limitation on our
capacity is staff. There are only so many hours in the day. This year
we went [from four to five full-timers](https://sfconservancy.org/news/
2019/jun/13/welcomerosanne/) and increased the hours of our part time
employee and it has been transformational. Bringing stability to our
ramped up operations and even exploring adding another much needed
employee would catalyze our ability to serve the free software
movement. That's why matches that challenge our donors to dig a little
deeper and bring in their friends are so critical. 

###Compliance & Funding 
There are a few companies that want to see a level playing field when
it comes to copyleft licenses but many are playing a long game. One
where they hope the entire software freedom community will just give in
and stop asking them to provide source for their products. Longtime
free software players, our donors, *people like you* who contribute to
community-driven free software projects know how critical it is to have
an [organization standing up for software freedom.](https://sfconservan
cy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html) But we need your help,
because shorter-sighted companies aren't going to fund [this
work.](https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/oct/30/calling-all-tesla-
owners/)

###Diverse & Vibrant
We're focusing on making the free software movement one that
[welcomes](https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/oct/30/whyrobust/)
everyone. To continue growing our development capacity, to bring in
more users to increase mindshare, we [must be
great](https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/sep/20/kernelLeaders/) at
[bringing in new
people.])https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/jun/20/hiringprocess/) We
have to build communities that they want to be part of. That's why we
are proud to support Outreachy, North Bay Python, Microblocks and
others that are doing the critical work of being someone's first
experience with free software. Diversity can't be an afterthought. This
crucial work needs funding and resources to get right.

###Communities & Development
Community-driven projects need support and a vendor-neutral home where
they can do their work in the public interest. They need help running
international conferences, someone to help them get their contractors
paid and someone to take care of their trademarks and other project
assets. These backend bits all need time and expertise. Conservancy
provides that expertise in a way that helps the project serve and
amplify software freedom.

[Sign up as a Supporter now and have your donation count twice!](https:
//sfconservancy.org/supporter/#annual)

This year we have a special bonus match for new Conservancy Supporters,
whose donations will be matched twice and therefore have **three times
the impact.** If you've been waiting for great time to invite a friend
or colleague to join you in supporting software freedom with
Conservancy -- this is it!


-- 
Deb Nicholson <deb at sfconservancy.org>
Software Freedom Conservancy