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| {% extends "base_conservancy.html" %}
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| {% block subtitle %}Support Conservancy - {% endblock %}
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| {% block category %}supporter{% endblock %}
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| 
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| {% block head %}
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| <link href="/css/forms.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
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| {% endblock %}
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| 
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| {% block content %}
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| <div class="donate-sidebar">
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| <table style="background-color:#afe478;width:100%;">
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| <tr><td style="text-align:center;padding:10px;padding-bottom:10px;">
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| <div id="donate-box" class="toggle-unit"><h1 class="toggle-content">Support
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|     Now!</h1></div>
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| 
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| <h3 class="donate-box-highlight">Become a Supporter Now:</h3>
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| 
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| <p>Support us now!</p>
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| 
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| <h4><a href="#annual"><span class="donate-box-highlight">Annual supporter</span> via PayPal, ACH, or credit card.</a></h4>
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| <h4><a href="#monthly"><span class="donate-box-highlight">Monthly supporter</span> via PayPal, ACH, or credit card.</a></h4>
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| <h4><a href="#renewal"><span class="donate-box-highlight">Renewing Annual supporter</span> via PayPal, ACH, or credit card.</a></h4>
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|    
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| <span class="donate-box-highlight">Other annual supporters methods:</span>
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| <div class="toggle-unit">
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|     <h4 class="toggle-control" data-text="Wire Transfer" 
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|     data-expanded-text="Wire Transfer:">Wire Transfer</h4>
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|     <div class="toggle-content">
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|        Contact <a href="mailto:accounting@sfconservancy.org">Conservancy
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|             by email</a><br/> for wire transfer instructions.<br/>
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|             Include  currency & country.<br/>
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|     </div><!-- /.toggle-content -->
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| </div><!-- /.toggle.unit -->
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| 
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| <div class="toggle-unit">
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|     <h4 class="toggle-control" data-text="Paper Check" 
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|     data-expanded-text="Paper Check:">Paper Check</h4>
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|     <div class="toggle-content">
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|     Send paper check for $120 to:<br/>
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|     Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.<br/>
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|     137 MONTAGUE ST  STE 380<br/>
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|     BROOKLYN, NY 11201-3548   USA<br/>
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|     Please write <q>SUPPORTER</q>, t-shirt size, if you are renewing, and if
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|     you want public acknowledgment in memo line. 
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|     </div><!-- /.toggle-content -->
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| </div><!-- /.toggle.unit -->
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| 
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| <p><a href="/donate">Even More Ways to Donate</a></p>
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| <!-- Flattr end -->
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| </td></tr></table>
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| </div>
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| <div class="content-with-donate-sidebar">
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|   <h1 class="appeal"><img class="appeal-header" alt="Become a Conservancy Supporter!" src="/img/conservancy-supporter-header.png"/></h1>
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| 
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|   
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| <div class="supporter-type-selector">
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|   <strong>Become a Supporter Now:</strong>   <a id="annualSelector" href="#annual">Annual</a> | <a id="monthlySelector" href="#monthly">Monthly</a> | <a id="renewalSelector" href="#renewal">Annual Renew</a></div>
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| <div id="annual" class="supporter-type-selection">
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| <h3>Join as an Annual Supporter</h3>
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| <a id="annual"></a>
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| <p><strong>Note:</strong> annual supporter is not an automatic renewal
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|   relationship.  If you join today, you'll receive an email in about one year to remind you to
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|   optionally renew.</p>
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| <form id="annual" class="supporter-form" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" name="supporter">
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| <div class="supporter-form-inputs">
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|             <input type="hidden" name="return" value="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/thank-you.html" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="business" value="supporter@sfconservancy.org" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Conservancy Supporter, Annual" />
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|             <input id="no_shipping" type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0" />
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|   <label for="amount"><strong>Amount:</strong> $</label>
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|   <input id="amount" type="text" name="amount" size="7" minimum="120" value="120" />
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|   <span id="error" class="form-error-show">$120 is a minimum for Conservancy
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|   Supporters.  <a href="/donate">Donate smaller amounts here</a>.</span><br/>
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| 
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|                       <label for="wantGift"><strong>Do you want to receive a t-shirt? </strong></label>
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|                       <input type="radio" name="on0" value="wantGiftYes" />Yes
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|                       <input type="radio" checked="checked" name="on0" value="wantGiftNo" />No
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|                       <br />
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|                       <span class="t-shirt-size-selector">
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|                       <label for="tShirtSize"><strong>T-shirt size: </strong></label>
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|                       <select name="os0" id="os0">
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="MenS">Men's S</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="MenM">Men's M</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="MenL">Men's L</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="MenXL">Men's XL</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="Men2XL">Men's 2XL</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="StandardLadiesS">Standard Ladies' S</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="StandardLadiesM">Standard Ladies' M</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="StandardLadiesL">Standard Ladies' L</option>
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|                          <option name="os0" id="os0" value="StandardLadiesXL">Standard Ladies' XL</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="FittedLadiesS">Fitted Ladies' S</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="FittedLadiesM">Fitted Ladies' M</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="FittedLadiesL">Fitted Ladies' L</option>
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|                          <option name="os0" id="os0" value="FittedLadiesXL">Fitted Ladies' XL</option>
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|                       </select><br/></span>
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|                       <label for="publicAck"><strong>
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|                           Should we <a href="/sponsors#supporters">list you publicly</a> as a Conservancy Supporter? </strong></label>
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|                       <input type="radio" checked="checked" name="on1" value="publicAckYes" />Yes
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|                       <input type="radio" name="on1" value="publicAckNo" />No<br/>
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|             
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|                       <label for="joinList"><strong>Join Conservancy's
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|                       Low-Traffic Announcement Email List? </strong></label>
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|                       <input type="radio" checked="checked" name="os1" value="joinListYes" />Yes
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|                       <input type="radio" name="os1" value="joinListNo" />No<br/>
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|                       <br />
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|                       <br /></div>
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|                       <div id="annual" class="supporter-form-submit">
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|                       <input type="image"
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|                              src="/img/supporter-payment-button-annual.png"
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|                              height="81" width="188"
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|                              border="0" name="submit" alt="Become an Annual Supporter Now!">
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|                       <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
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| <br/><br/><small>Button above redirects to PayPal's site for credit
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|         card, bank account or PayPal balance payment methods.  Select options first.</small>
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|                       </div>
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| </form>
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| </div>
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| <div id="monthly" class="supporter-type-selection">
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| <h3>Join as an Monthly Supporter</h3>
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| <a id="monthly"></a>
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| <p>Monthly renewal is automatic.  Also, monthly supporters might not receive tangible Supporter benefits (such as
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|   the t-shirt) until they've reached at least $60 in monthly supporter
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|   donations.  However, they will be included immediately
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|   in the <a href="/sponsors/#supporters">Supporters' list</a>.</p>
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| <form id="monthly" class="supporter-form" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
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| <div class="supporter-form-inputs">
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|             <input type="hidden" name="business" value="supporter@sfconservancy.org" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Conservancy Supporter, Monthly" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="return" value="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/thank-you.html" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick-subscriptions">
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|             <input id="no_shipping" type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US">
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|             <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
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|             <input type="hidden" name="t3" value="M" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="p3" value="1" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="src" value="1" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="srt" value="0" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Conservancy Supporter, Monthly" />
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|   <label for="amount"><strong>Monthly Amount:</strong> $</label>
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|   <input id="amount" type="text" name="a3" size="5" minimum="10" value="10" />
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|   <span id="error" class="form-error-show">$10/month is a minimum for Conservancy
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|   Supporters.  <a href="/donate">Donate smaller amounts here</a>.</span><br/>
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|                       <label for="wantGift"><strong>Do you want to receive a t-shirt? </strong></label>
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|                       <input type="radio" name="on0" value="wantGiftYes" />Yes
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|                       <input type="radio" checked="checked" name="on0" value="wantGiftNo" />No
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|                       <br />
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|                       <span class="t-shirt-size-selector">
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|                       <label for="tShirtSize"><strong>T-shirt size: </strong></label>
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|                       <select name="os0" id="os0">
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="MenS">Men's S</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="MenM">Men's M</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="MenL">Men's L</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="MenXL">Men's XL</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="Men2XL">Men's 2XL</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="StandardLadiesS">Standard Ladies' S</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="StandardLadiesM">Standard Ladies' M</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="StandardLadiesL">Standard Ladies' L</option>
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|                          <option name="os0" id="os0" value="StandardLadiesXL">Standard Ladies' XL</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="FittedLadiesS">Fitted Ladies' S</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="FittedLadiesM">Fitted Ladies' M</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="FittedLadiesL">Fitted Ladies' L</option>
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|                          <option name="os0" id="os0" value="FittedLadiesXL">Fitted Ladies' XL</option>
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|                       </select><br/></span>
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|                       <label for="publicAck"><strong>
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|                           Should we  <a href="/sponsors#supporters">list you publicly</a> as a Conservancy Supporter? </strong></label>
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|                       <input type="radio" checked="checked" name="on1" value="publicAckYes" />Yes
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|                       <input type="radio" name="on1" value="publicAckNo" />No<br/>
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|                       <label for="joinList"><strong>Join Conservancy's
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|                       Low-Traffic Announcement Email List? </strong></label>
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|                       <input type="radio" checked="checked" name="os1" value="joinListYes" />Yes
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|                       <input type="radio" name="os1" value="joinListNo" />No<br/>
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|                       <br /></div>
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|                       <div id="monthly" class="supporter-form-submit">
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|                       <input type="image"
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|                       src="/img/supporter-payment-button-monthly.png"
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|                       height="81" width="188"
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|                       border="0" name="submit" alt="Become a Monthly Supporter Now!">
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| <br/><br/><small>Button above redirects to PayPal's site for credit
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|         card, bank account or PayPal balance payment methods.  Select
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|                       options first.</small>
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|                       </div>
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| </form>
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| </div>
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| 
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| <div id="renewal" class="supporter-type-selection">
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| <h3>Renew as an Annual Supporter</h3>
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| <a id="renewal"></a>
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| <p><strong>Note:</strong> This option is for existing annual supporters who
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|   seek to renew for another year.  The annual renewal is not automatic;
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|   annual supporters are emailed each year to invite them to optionally renew. </p>
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| <form id="renewal" class="supporter-form" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" name="supporter">
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| <div class="supporter-form-inputs">
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|             <input type="hidden" name="return" value="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/thank-you.html" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="business" value="supporter@sfconservancy.org" />
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|             <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Conservancy Supporter, Annual Renewal" />
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|             <input id="no_shipping" type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0" />
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|   <label for="amount"><strong>Amount:</strong> $</label>
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|   <input id="amount" type="text" name="amount" size="7" minimum="120" value="120" />
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|   <span id="error" class="form-error-show">$120 is a minimum for Conservancy
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|   Supporters.  <a href="/donate">Donate smaller amounts here</a>.</span><br/>
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| 
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|                       <label for="wantGift"><strong>Do you want to receive (another) t-shirt? </strong></label>
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|                       <input type="radio" name="on0" value="wantGiftYes" />Yes
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|                       <input type="radio" checked="checked" name="on0" value="wantGiftNo" />No
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|                       <br />
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|                       <span class="t-shirt-size-selector">
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|                       <label for="tShirtSize"><strong>T-shirt size: </strong></label>
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|                       <select name="os0" id="os0">
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="MenS">Men's S</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="MenM">Men's M</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="MenL">Men's L</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="MenXL">Men's XL</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="Men2XL">Men's 2XL</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="StandardLadiesS">Standard Ladies' S</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="StandardLadiesM">Standard Ladies' M</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="StandardLadiesL">Standard Ladies' L</option>
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|                          <option name="os0" id="os0" value="StandardLadiesXL">Standard Ladies' XL</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="FittedLadiesS">Fitted Ladies' S</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="FittedLadiesM">Fitted Ladies' M</option>
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|                         <option name="os0" id="os0" value="FittedLadiesL">Fitted Ladies' L</option>
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|                          <option name="os0" id="os0" value="FittedLadiesXL">Fitted Ladies' XL</option>
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|                       </select><br/></span>
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|                       <label for="publicAck"><strong>
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|                           Should we <a href="/sponsors#supporters">list you publicly</a> as a Conservancy Supporter? </strong></label>
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|                       <input type="radio" checked="checked" name="on1" value="publicAckYes" />Yes
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|                       <input type="radio" name="on1" value="publicAckNo" />No<br/>
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|             
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|                       <label for="joinList"><strong>Join Conservancy's
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|                       Low-Traffic Announcement Email List? </strong></label>
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|                       <input type="radio" checked="checked" name="os1" value="joinListYes" />Yes
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|                       <input type="radio" name="os1" value="joinListNo" />No<br/>
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|                       <br />
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|                       <br /></div>
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|                       <div id="renewal" class="supporter-form-submit">
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|                       <input type="image"
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|                              src="/img/supporter-payment-button-renewal.png"
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|                              height="81" width="188"
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|                              border="0" name="submit" alt="Renew as an Annual Supporter Now!">
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|                       <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
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| <br/><br/><small>Button above redirects to PayPal's site for credit
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|         card, bank account or PayPal balance payment methods.  Select options
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|   first.  Choosing options here will change any previous settings.</small>
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| </div></form></div>
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| <span id="form-correction-needed" class="form-error">Please ensure all form data above is correct.</span>
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| 
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| <hr style="clear: both;"/>
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| <h4>Software Freedom needs your help.</h4>
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| 
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| <p><em>Conservancy must move to a
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| Supporter-driven organization so we can focus on critical free software 
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| issues that nobody else is tackling.  Stand up for the GPL, support great 
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| member projects, and make your voice heard in support of free software.  
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| <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">Donate today!</a></em></p>
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| 
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| <!--- FIXME scale this properly like on VMware page -->
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| 
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| <a href="/img/member-project-logos.png"><img class="appeal-left" src="/img/member-project-logos.png"/></a>
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| 
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| <p>The world today is powered more and more by Free Software. But what many
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| people don't realize is how much support is needed to keep all of these
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| projects free and open. The work that we do every day ensures the success and
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| the continued freedom of the projects that the developers of our member
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| projects dedicate themselves to. Projects like Git, Samba,
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| Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and dozens more.</p>
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| 
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| <p>We are asking for you
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|   to <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">join us and become a
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|     Conservancy Supporter</a> but this is more than our usual annual
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|   fundraising appeal.  As described in more detail below, after the events 
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|   of 2015, we must substantially increase our individual support to be able 
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|   to continue defending software freedom for our member projects and the 
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|   entire free and open source software community.  We needed at least 750 
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|   of you to become annual Supporters just to continue our basic community
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|   services, and we thank you so much that you responded.  But 
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|   we still need 2,500 (total) of you to become annual Supporters now to continue
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|   our licensing work, including enforcing copyleft licenses.  If you don't become a Supporter now,
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|   we will be forced to radically restructure and wind down a substantial portion
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|   of our operations.</p>
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| 
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| <h4 style="clear: left;">2016 successes</h4>
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| 
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| <p>
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| Software Freedom Conservancy has had a lot of major successes this year:
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| <ul>
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| 
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| <li>We brought three new projects under the protection of Conservancy: <a href="https://forums.librehealth.io/">LibreHealth</a>, a critical initiative for health in free and open source software; <a href="https://www.spec-ops.io/">Spec-Ops</a>, a project dedicated to creating of open standards in critical areas, including payments and identity;
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| and <a href="http://brew.sh/">Homebrew</a>, a software package manager for Apple's OS X. </li>
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| 
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| <li>We <a href="/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">supported
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| the lawsuit</a> Christoph Hellwig brought against VMware in Germany, the
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| first case on derivative works and the GPL. Christoph's case <a href="/news/2016/aug/09/vmware-appeal/">continues on appeal</a>.</li>
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| 
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| <li>We helped Conservancy projects Bro, Buildbot, and Godot receive Mozilla MOSS grants. Another Conservancy project, phpMyAdmin, successfully completed a thorough security audit as part of Mozilla's Secure Open Source Fund (no serious issues were found!).</li>
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| 
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| <li>We <a href="/news/2016/may/10/yorba-assigns-copyrights/">received an assignment of copyrights from the Yorba Foundation</a>, including Shotwell and Geary, in order to safeguard those copyrights for the future.</li>
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| 
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| <li>We conducted friendly discussions with companies out of compliance with
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| the GPL, seeking non-litigious resolutions in accordance with our <a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles</a>. We <a href="/news/2016/nov/03/linux-compliance-agreements/">published our template agreements</a> and held two feedback sessions, at <a href="/blog/2016/oct/27/feedback-gpl/">Embedded Linux Conference EU</a> and <a href="/blog/2016/nov/16/2016-lpc-gpl-compliance-bof/">Linux Plumbers' Conference</a>, to evaluate and improve our compliance efforts. We also worked with other community members to <a href="/blog/2016/jul/19/patrick-mchardy-gpl-enforcement/">bring clarity to international activities around GPL compliance</a> and help make the ecosystem safer for free software adoption. We stayed committed to providing <a href="/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/">straightforward analysis about the GPL</a>.</li>
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| 
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| <li>Our Executive Director, Karen Sandler, <a href="/news/2016/feb/23/FOSSA-testimony/">testified to the New York City Council Committee on Contracts in favor of the Free and Open Source Software Act and the Civic Commons Act</a> which would increase the use of free and open source software by New York City departments and agencies. Karen later in the year also <a href="/news/2016/oct/26/karen-sandler-oscon-eu-2016/">taught kids in London about free software</a>.</li>
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| 
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| <li>We <a href="/blog/?tag=ContractPatch">launched a new initiative called ContractPatch</a> to help provide information and understanding about employment agreements.</li>
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| 
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| <li>We <a href="/blog/2016/jun/06/openchain-spec/">commented on the OpenChain specification</a> to help make sure that the initiative by companies to collaboratively come up with standards and shared materials around compliance also meets community expectations about how compliance obligations are satisfied.</li>
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| 
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| <li>We supported, helped coordinate, and financially backed volunteers from
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|   our member projects to organize seven conferences in three continents, where thousands of
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|   attendees learned about free and open source software.</li>
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| 
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| <li>We processed and paid reimbursementrequests to individuals doing work
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|   around the globe advocating for their free and open source software
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|   projects at conferences and other venues. We also paid contractors to
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|   improve our projects' software.</li>
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| 
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| <li>We gave keynotes
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| at <a href="/news/2016/oct/26/karen-sandler-oscon-eu-2016/">OSCON EU</a>, <a href="/news/2016/sep/14/brocon-keynote/">BroCon</a>, <a href="https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-conference-keynote-speakers-and-launch-event/">the NextCloud conference</>, <a href="/blog/2016/aug/16/guadec-2016/">GUADEC</a>, <a href="/news/2016/aug/08/guadec-opensym/">OpenSym 2016</a>, <a href="https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/57/">Debconf</a>, <a href"/news/2016/may/31/kuhn-sweden-norway/">OSS 2016</a>, <a href="https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/collection/companies-free-software-and-you/">LibrePlanet</a>, <a href="https://www.openwest.org/keynote/">OpenWest</a>
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| and participated many more conferences all over the world. We also
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| shared our expertise in initiatives
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| like <a href="https://copyleft.org/">copyleft.org</a>. We gave
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| interviews, published <a href="/blog/">blog posts</a>, and
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| Bradley and Karen released episodes of <a href="http://faif.us/">Free as in
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| Freedom</a>, all dedicated to discussing the important issues in software
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| freedom.</li>
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| 
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| </ul>
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| <p>And we did <strong>all of this</strong> with a tiny staff of only four full time employees.</p>
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| 
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| <p>We are focused on the most important ethical issues in software
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| freedom. We work tirelessly and don't shy away from difficult issues.</p>
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| 
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| <p>We're a unique organization — a staunch defender of copyleft (for Linux,
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| Debian and many of our member projects), a source of education and champions
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| of diversity for the community via Outreachy and other programs, and are the
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| legal home to 40 member projects that are essential to developing free
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| software.</p>
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| 
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| <p>We undertake these critical programs because they are essential to the
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| future of technology. We do them because they are right. <strong>But we cannot do
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| them without you.</strong> Last year you helped us to fundraising goals that didn't merely keep us running, but even let us <a href="/news/2016/aug/22/brett-joins/">hire a new employee</a>. Yet even this staffing level isn't enough to handle our existing workload.</p>
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| 
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| <p>Our fiscal sponsorship model is not financially self-sustaining by itself:
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| we cannot afford even one staff member and basic overhead with the revenue we
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| take in from our projects.  With over 1,000 Supporters, we can now sustain the basic
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| work and we will survive.  But to thrive, and handle the really complex tasks like
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| copyright and licensing advice, and license compliance, we need even more
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| resources.  That's why our final target is 2,500 Supporters.  If you use
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| or care about our <a href="/members/current/">member projects</a>, which
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| include some of the most widely used free software, you can help them all
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| by <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">signing up as a Supporter
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| today</a>.</p>
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| 
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| <h4>Fighting for the GPL</h4>
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| 
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| <a href="/img/gpl-heart.png" alt="We ♥ GPL"><img class="appeal-right"  src="/img/gpl-heart.png"/></a>
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| 
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| <p>Many consider our GPL compliance and enforcement controversial.   We don't
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| think it is:  we stand up for the GPL at the request of our member projects,
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| the Debian community, and members of the Linux kernel community.
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| Most recently, that has resulted in our funding
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| of the <a href="/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">suit
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| against VMware</a>, which is the first lawsuit on derivative works and the
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| GPL (Christoph's case <a href="/news/2016/aug/09/vmware-appeal/">continues on appeal</a>). While this work is extremely important to the continued long-term
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| success of software freedom and copyleft, not to mention in the long-term
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| interest of the industry as a whole, it makes fundraising from companies
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| very difficult.  Some companies
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| have stopped funding us and some have even successfully pressured
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| conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our compliance work. We do
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| this work because we think that it is good for everyone in the long run,
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| because we know it is the right thing to do, and because we know that we are
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| in the best position to do it. But that's not enough — you have to think it's
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| right too and <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">show us by
 | |
| becoming a Supporter now</a>.</p>
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| 
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| <img alt="Photo of Conservancy t-shirt that Supporters receive" class="appeal-left" src="/img/conservancy-t-shirt.jpg"/>
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| 
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| <h4>It's up to you</h4>
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| 
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| <p>Conservancy is deeply committed to supporting, promoting, developing, and
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| defending free and open source software.  We pursue our mission on various
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| fronts, and we're proud of what we've been able to accomplish in 2016.  To
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| do even more in 2017 and in the years to come, we need your help.</p>
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| 
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| <p>We believe 2017 will be a critical year for Conservancy, our member
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| projects, and our work.  We look forward to making huge strides in providing
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| software tools for public charities as well as services for developer
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| communities.  We will continue to champion the rights of the public and the
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| interests of copyright holders who have licensed their contributions to the
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| commons for the public's benefit.  We will continue to host and speak at
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| conferences, create and maintain educational resources, and raise awareness
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| about how free and open source software is essential to a free and open
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| source society. </p>
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| 
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| <p>While we appreciate our corporate donors, we simply cannot depend
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| solely on grants from companies who may not find our mission to be
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| 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, <strong>and</strong>
 | |
| undertake compliance efforts.  We hope you will <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">sign up as a Supporter</a> 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
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| properly at some point in the future.</p>
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| 
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| <img class="appeal-footer" alt="Supporters ♥ Conservancy" src="/img/conservancy-supporter-heart.png"/>
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| 
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| <p>If you care about Conservancy's mission, <a href="#donate-box"
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| class="donate-now">help us meet our goal</a> so we can stand up for software
 | |
| freedom together.</p>
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| 
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| <p>Please <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">join our Supporter program</a>
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| and spread the word!</p>
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| 
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