Software Freedom Conservancy

If you are a donor or sustainer of @conservancy, we invite you next week Wednesday the 28th 22:00 UTC to join @karen and Bradley M. Kuhn.
We will also host a session Thursday the 29th at 15:00 UTC to catch other timezones.

There are lots of ways to donate including PayPal, wire transfers, and don't forget to check with your employer about their match program! With the end of the year coming up it's a great time to squeeze in some more tax deductible donations! https://sfconservancy.org/donate/

If we can raise $1,000 a day until January 15th, we'll be over our goal! If you donate at the $120/yr or more level you will receive our sustainers only tshirt: https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

We've blown past the halfway point in our fundraiser! 🥳 Thanks for helping us raise over $72,000. There are 32 days until January 15th to get your donation matched (up to our goal of $104,579) so it goes further in supporting software freedom! https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

Our Policy Fellow, Bradley M. Kuhn, is always active in the FOSS community! Check out this thread where he's engaging with license review work to deep dive on“choice of law” clauses in FOSS licenses:
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2022-December/005287.html
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2022-December/005277.html

Our longtime sustainer Jondale Stratton was recently interviewed about why he supports @conservancy
You can read the interview here: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/dec/12/supporter-interview-jondale-stratton/

@brainwane @fenndev Thanks so much for reposting your video and blog. It's all thanks to supporters like you that we are able to continue our work :)

If you are interested in sponsoring the conference, we have a variety of sponsorship tiers and special levels for providing food, coffee, scholarships and a completely open WiFi stack to attendees. Please get in contact with us at conference@sfconservancy.org if you are interested https://sfconservancy.org/docs/Fossy-Prospectus.pdf

Inspired by @fosdem, we will have multiple tracks including licensing and legal, community development, and FOSS development. As we ramp up into track applications, we will send out another call for volunteers interested in leading or moderating sessions.

This conference will focus on community building and providing a safe environment for meeting in person. We are dedicated to making sure we take the health and safety of our attendees seriously. (We'll be publishing a detailed policy)

Mark your calendars, July 13th-16th SFC will be hosting the first annual FOSSY Conference in Portland, OR! A conference dedicated to the communities of people who use, make and love software freedom. https://fossy.us

Denver Gingerich has been appointed SFC's first Director of Compliance!
He will continue leading our mission to ensure all users have the rights granted by copyleft.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/dec/05/director-of-compliance-denver-gingerich/

@chrisjrn So long as you have an active sustainership (or better yet, renew while we are matching donations!) you can get the new shirt.
And please email if you want to check your address or sizing on record.

We are almost to $15k just over a week into our fundraiser! You've got 45 days left to get your donation matched!

If you become a sustainer at the $120/yr level, you'll get the limited edition 2022 tshirt
https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

Our first donor matcher interview for the fundraising season is up! https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/nov/30/interview-justin-flory/
We talked with Justin W. Flory about why he donates to @conservancy and how he got into FOSS.

@pono reflects on his work in FOSS and how #GivingTuesday provides an opportunity to reconnect people to our mission: 
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/nov/29/giving-tuesday-pono-appeal/

Our expertise in license compliance, source code review and the legal intricacies of FOSS are just one facet of what you support when you donate to our organization. Until January 15th, all donations will be matched up to $104,759, so be sure to donate and support software freedom: https://sfconservancy.org/donate/

This amicable settlement showed that our The Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement are useful for all parties in resolving licensing issues. Thanks to the team at @stockfishchess for all their hard work and we wish them the best of luck with their newly appointed Free Software Compliance Officer.

@conservancy was named as a trusted party for source code review in the recent settlement case of Stockfish https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/nov/28/sfc-named-trusted-party-in-gpl-case/

This is a very interesting idea! Something like identifying historical bubbles of failure so we could learn from them.
And agreed, migration with Mastodon has been a much easier process that if we designed system to have, could alleviate a lot of the stress and work of these consolidated options.