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<title>Consider donating your conference budget</title>
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<h1>Consider donating your conference budget</h1>
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<p>The biggest financial impact the FSFE faces in these times
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of physical distancing is the cancellation of Free Software conferences,
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including our own events. To keep the software freedom movement solid and
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alive, please consider to <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">donate a part of
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your conference budget to Free Software organisations, including the
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FSFE</a>.</p>
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<p>Last week we wrote <a href="/news/2020/news-20200327-01.html">about how the
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SARS-CoV-2 virus affects the FSFE</a>. Booths and talks have been some of the
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main channels over which we inform people about software freedom and the FSFE’s
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work. Losing these due to cancellation of events also means a heavily limited
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visibility for our topics and our organisation.</p>
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<p>For example, last year <a
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href="/news/2019/news-20191022-01.html#events2019">we participated in over 60
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events</a> in 11 European countries. This is more than one per week on average,
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with every event contributing to spreading our message and growing our
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community. These events are some of our best opportunities to explain and
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discuss Free Software issues in personal conversations. This is the same
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situation with our information material and merchandise: last year, we sent out
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over <a href="/news/2019/news-20191022-01.html#outreach">800 information
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material packages around the world and sold over 1.100 shirts and hoodies.</a>
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For the last few weeks we are no longer able to participate in events or
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effectively handle requests for our information materials and merchandise - and
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it is unclear how long this situation will last.</p>
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<p>In the case of our events, like the <a
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href="/activities/ln/llw.html">annual Legal and Licensing
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Workshop</a> or the <a
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href="https://registration.fsfe.org/Digitale-Verwaltung-2020">“Public Money?
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Public Code!” conference</a>, it is a direct financial burden we take due to
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missing sponsorships, non-refundable costs and work that we have already
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invested.</p>
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<p>In a time when humanity needs to work together to find solutions for a
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crisis, we cannot afford to reinvent the wheel again and again. Global problems
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need global solutions! It is Free Software that enables global cooperation for
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code development. We will keep doing our best for software freedom and
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humanity, even while staying home. We will keep our campaigns running and start
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new ones, take part in consultations, produce our Software Freedom Podcasts and
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inform more on our digital channels.</p>
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<p>We know these are difficult times for everyone: many others are struggling
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as well, and some even more seriously. But if you are in the position to do
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so, please support the future of our movement by <a
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href="https://my.fsfe.org/donate">donating a part of your conference budget to
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organisations for software freedom; including the FSFE.</a></p>
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<figure>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/c2dae610ff67340f2e0642ed6088cb5c.jpg" alt="A Gnu and Tux cuddling with eacht other in front of an IloveFS card and besides a donation box for the FSFE" />
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</figure>
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<p>In these difficult times specifically, but also in general, we would like to
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thank our volunteers who form the foundation of the FSFE with their invaluable
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contributions, and our supporters and donors who enable our work for Free
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Software.</p>
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<p>Your help is highly appreciated. <em>Thank you so much!</em></p>
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</body>
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<tag key="corona">Coronavirus</tag>
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