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<title>FSFE - Thank you for your support!</title>
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<h1> Thank you for your support!</h1>
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<p>
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FSFE would like to thank everyone who supported our work in 2009. Your
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contributions as volunteer, Fellow or sponsor make FSFE's work possible.
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Distributed support secures FSFE's independence, which is why every small
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contribution is important!
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<p>
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But we also receive large contributions. Last year's top donors were the
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LinuxHotel, Black Duck Software, Intevation GmbH, freiheit.com
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technologies GmbH, and Tarent GmbH. Our sincere thanks and appreciation
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go to all of them, but two deserve a special mention.
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<p>
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We're looking forward to
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<a href="/news/2009/news-20091118-01.html">cooking</a> with Reinhard
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Wiesemann at his LinuxHotel. As our visionary patron, he has supported
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FSFE every single month since it was created and he also was the largest
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contributor over the past year. A special mention also goes to Intevation
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GmbH, which has not only donated at patron level, but has also sponsored
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working time and expenses for FSFE co-founder Bernhard Reiter, who over
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the years has put much time, effort and knowledge into the organisation.
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<p>
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The past year was both challenging and successful for FSFE. We have
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succeeded in something that no Free Software Foundation has attempted so
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far: A change in the organisation's leadership, with a
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<a href="/news/2009/news-20090624-01.html">new executive team</a>. The
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former president <a href="/about/greve/greve.html">Georg Greve</a> did
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splendid work in taking FSFE from its founding in 2001 to the
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internationally respected organisation that it is today, working very
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hard alongside many dedicated people. FSFE is designed to be bigger than
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any one person, and it's good to see that this design principle is
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working out in practice.
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</p>
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In 2009, we
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<a href="/news/2009/news-20091008-01.html">battled Microsoft's monopoly
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in the browser market</a>,
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<a href="/news/2009/news-20091127-01.html">pushed hard for Open Standards
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in the European public sector</a>, and helped to launch a
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<a href="http://www.ifosslr.org/">legal review on Free Software</a>. At
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the UN level, we worked to
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<a href="/activities/wipo/FSFE-20090501.pdf">have Open Standards and Free
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Software included [PDF]</a> in the global activities of the World
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Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). We
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<a href="/news/2009/news-20090908-01.html">asked candidates for the German
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federal elections</a> about their positions on Free Software, and
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helped the Fellowship to launch
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<a href="http://pdfreaders.org/">pdfreaders.org</a> as a campaign for
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free PDF readers. We were also happy to welcome a new
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<a href="/contact/local.html">FSFE country team</a> in Finland. All this
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work has helped to make 2009 a good year for Free Software.
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</p>
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The year 2010 brings many new challenges for Free Software, and a number
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of old ones still stand. In Brussels, we will push for competition, Open
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Standards and interoperability, and continue to fight proprietary
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monopolies. At the UN level, we will continue to drive the slow
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reorientation of the World Intellectual Property Organisation towards
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Open Standards and Free Software. We will make cooperation between FSFE's
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country teams more effective, and the relaunched Edu-Team will find ways
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to get more Free Software into schools and universities.
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</p>
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<p>
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We have successfully built the
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<a href="/activities/ftf/ftf.html">Freedom Task Force (FTF)</a> into
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Europe's foremost centre of Free Software legal and licensing knowledge.
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In 2010, we will use this knowledge to help both the community and
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industry to build governance models around Free Software. We are also
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making the FTF's knowledge available through our
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<a href="/activities/ftf/services.html">professional services</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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All these things are only possible because of people like you who are
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supporting FSFE by sharing their time, their resources, and their ideas.
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If there is an issue that you think FSFE should deal with, please don't
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hesitate to <a href="/contact/local.html">get in touch</a>. I invite you
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to work with us this year, and hope that we can count on your support
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also in 2010. Together, we can achieve great things for Free Software.
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Once again, thank you.
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</p>
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Best regards,<br/>
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Karsten Gerloff<br/>
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President<br/>
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<timestamp>$Date: 2007-08-10 20:50:28 +0200 (Fre, 10 Aug 2007) $ $Author: reinhard $</timestamp>
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