Please consider joining the FSF as an associate member and donating whatever you can this holiday season:
* <http://www.fsf.org/appeal/2010/join> Watch a video message from FSF executive director Peter Brown: * <http://www.fsf.org/appeal/2010> Friends, Now is a crucial time for free software -- attacks such as digital restrictions management, software patents, and well-funded FUD threaten all of our freedoms. At the same time, awareness of the importance of free software is growing in many areas, presenting us with important opportunities. In 2011, together the FSF and GNU will take on the next wave of challenges to free software. We will be expanding our awareness campaign for non-technical users, and encouraging free software users from around the world to come together for the sake of freedom. We will be building our campaigns to protect your freedom, like Defective By Design and PlayOgg -- which now also promotes other free formats like WebM. We will be expanding our resources to help free software users, including our Free Software Directory, our Hardware Directory, and our Free Software Jobs listing. In March, we will be holding the third of our LibrePlanet conferences in Boston, bringing the leaders of free software projects together with the wider community for three days of discussion, activism and learning. On the foundation of progress made at last year's conference, we will again be emphasizing the need for a diverse free software community, and working together on strategies to achieve that. You can be a part of the year-round LibrePlanet community as well as the planning for this year's event: * <http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet2011> Like many organizations, we have suffered financially over the last few years due to factors in the economy. We are asking all of our supporters, associate members and donors to dig deep this year and give as much as possible so we can continue to do strong work in our key areas of GPL compliance, stewardship of the GNU Project, campaigns activism and educational publishing. Our FSF Bulletin continues to grow in both contributions and variety, and we are sending more copies to more countries than ever before, thanks to increased awareness of the GNU Project and our work. Additionally, we are now sending our email update on FSF and the GNU Project to over 35,000 people every month, and this number continues to grow at an outstanding rate. Please consider joining the FSF as an associate member and donating whatever you can this holiday season: * <http://www.fsf.org/appeal/2010/join> You can help even more by letting your friends know, by sharing and blogging both this email and the video appeal by Peter Brown: * <http://www.fsf.org/appeal/2010/join> * Share it with friends: <http://ur1.ca/2k74i> Thank you! Matt Lee Campaigns Manager info-fsf mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: http://lists.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/info-fsf
