[Linux-aus] Proposing that Linux Australia fund Software Freedom Conservancy

[Katie McLaughlin]

I also strongly support this proposal to financially support the Software
Freedom Conservancy

- Katie

On 29 November 2015 at 19:55, Andrew Donnellan <andrew at donnellan.id.au>
wrote:

> Support. SFC does very valuable work.
>
> Andrew
> I'd like to propose that Linux Australia support the Software Freedom
> Conservancy [1] as part of its grants programme.
>
> Their leadership team, Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn [2], are members of
> our
> community and have talked at LCA several times. Their organisation
> represents a number of projects [3] that either originated in Australasia
> or
> have many contributors from this part of the world. In particular, they are
> the non-profit home of Samba and Outreachy, two projects that embody very
> well the values of Linux Australia.
>
> Since they are hoping to create a strong base of supporters to allow them
> the freedom (pun intended) to protect FOSS users and developers, it would
> be
> great to see Linux Australia become an annual supporter.
>
> The minimum monthly amount for individuals is $10 USD/month ($120 / year)
> but LA could certainly give more since Conservancy is putting that money to
> very good use.
>
> I would also encourage other LA members to consider supporting the
> Conservancy if they are able to.
>
> Francois
>
> [1] https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/nov/23/2015fundraiser/
>
> [2] Who are also the hosts of the excellent Free as in Freedom "oggcast":
> http://faif.us/
>
> [3] https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/
>
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