diff --git a/www/conservancy/static/supporter/2016-supporter-appeal.html b/www/conservancy/static/supporter/2016-supporter-appeal.html index b2e00e39..946d6e64 100644 --- a/www/conservancy/static/supporter/2016-supporter-appeal.html +++ b/www/conservancy/static/supporter/2016-supporter-appeal.html @@ -283,20 +283,20 @@ Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and dozens more.

Software Freedom Conservancy has had a lot of major successes this year: @@ -349,11 +349,11 @@ software.

We undertake these critical programs because they are essential to the future of technology. We do them because they are right. But we cannot do -them without you. Last year you helped us to fundraising goals so that we not only did not have to shut our doors but instead were able to hire a new employee. Even with our additional employee, we do not yet have the resources to handle our existing workload.

+them without you. Last year you helped us to fundraising goals that didn't merely keep us running but even let us hire a new employee. Yet even this staffing level isn't enough+} to handle our existing workload.

Our fiscal sponsorship model is not financially self-sustaining by itself: we cannot afford even one staff member and basic overhead with the revenue we -take in from our projects. With over 1000 supporters, we can now sustain the basic +take in from our projects. With over 1,000 Supporters, we can now sustain the basic work and we will survive. But to thrive, and handle the really complex tasks like copyright and licensing advice, and license compliance, we need even more resources. That's why our final target is 2,500 Supporters. If you use @@ -373,10 +373,10 @@ Most recently, that has resulted in our funding of the suit against VMware, which is the first lawsuit on derivative works and the GPL (Christoph's case continues on appeal). While this work is extremely important to the continued long-term -success of software freedom and copyleft not to mention in the long term +success of software freedom and copyleft, not to mention in the long-term interest of the industry as a whole, it makes fundraising from companies very difficult. Some companies -have withdrawn from funding us and some have even successfully pressured +have stopped funding us and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our compliance work. 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 @@ -403,12 +403,12 @@ conferences, create and maintain educational resources, and raise awareness about how free and open source software is essential to a free and open source society.

-And, while we appreciate our corporate donors, we simply cannot depend +

While we appreciate our corporate donors, we simply cannot depend solely on grants from companies who may not find our mission to be compatible with shifting corporate strategies. We need you, the public as well. Simply put, we need 2,500 Supporters in order to maintain our staff, continue to provide a full range of administrative, bookkeeping, and legal -services to our member projects, educate the public, and +services to our member projects, educate the public, and undertake compliance efforts. We hope you will to help us achieve this. If we don't reach our goal, we will have no choice but to hibernate some of our activities — likely our compliance efforts — until we have the resources to resume them