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<title>FSFE needs your donation to work for Free Software in 2016</title>
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<h1>FSFE needs your donation to work for Free Software in 2016</h1>
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<p>Lots of people and companies in our society benefit from
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Free Software. The Free Software Foundation Europe is empowering people to
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control technology since 2001. To make a difference in our work, we aim at
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140.000€ in donations until 31 January, of which we already received
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60.000€.</p>
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<p>Please help us to continue to work for Free Software by donating now:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>As an individual, please support us by <a
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href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">becoming a sustaining member of FSFE</a> (the
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average amount per sustaining members is 125€/y).</li>
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<li>As a company, please <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">support us with a
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donation</a>. You can become gold donor for 1000€/month, silver donor for
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200€/month, or bronze donor for 40€/month.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Our donors recently enabled us to achieve the following successes:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>We closed our six-year-long PDFreaders campaign after convincing 1125
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public administrations to remove advertisement for proprietary software from
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their websites.</li>
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<li>We helped end compulsory routers in Germany with a law that ensures users
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have the freedom to choose their own Free Software router. This should set an
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example across Europe, and we will support similar legislation wherever
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needed.</li>
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<li>We are active in the EU policy: our evaluation of the Digital Single Market
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Strategy for the European Commission was well received and we expect other EU
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institutions to follow our recommendations.</li>
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<li>On average we send out one promotional package per day. Our supporters use
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the multilingual material to inform more people about software freedom in their
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companies, universities, schools, in libraries and cafes, or at information
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booths.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>From next year on we want to focus on pushing our demand for <strong>all
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publicly funded software to be published as Free Software</strong>, and for
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<strong>everyone's right to experiment with their own hard- and
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software</strong>.</p>
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<p>To achieve those goals we will:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>provide training to our campaign volunteers in order to increase their
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effectiveness, and equip them with a greater diversity of promotional material;
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and</li>
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<li>initiate coordination between Free Software groups who are active on policy
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issues in the EU.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>In addition we will maintain our ongoing efforts to abolish barriers to
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software freedom and encourage people to use and develop Free Software.
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One essential activity remains guiding companies to move to Free
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Software by educating their legal departments to understand Free
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Software licences.</p>
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<p>Still, there are growing challenges: opaque international treaties and
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complex policy processes demand careful approaches to address software
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freedom effectively. We need to be able to keep up with such
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developments.</p>
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<p>That is why <strong>your support is crucial for us</strong>. So please
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support us as by <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">becoming a sustaining
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member</a> or with a <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">corporate donation</a>.</p>
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