[gull] Fwd: Help us achieve our spring fundraiser goal by July 15. Donate and share the Bulletin online!

[Miçhael Parchet]

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> Expéditeur: "John Sullivan, FSF" <info at fsf.org>
> Date: 10 juillet 2019 à 01:29:05 UTC+2
> Destinataire: Michael Parchet <mparchet at sunrise.ch>
> Objet: Help us achieve our spring fundraiser goal by July 15. Donate and share the Bulletin online!
> Répondre à: "John Sullivan, FSF" <info at fsf.org>
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> Read and share online: https://www.fsf.org/appeal?pk_campaign=fr_sp2019&pk_source=email2
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> Dear Michael Parchet,
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> The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the wider free software movement are now bigger in important ways than we've ever been before. We have more associate members, more staff working full time to protect your freedom, more volunteers, more software development infrastructure -- and more things to do.
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> Being primarily funded by thousands of individuals gives us strength and independence. We face financial requirements from the mundane and concrete, such as significantly increased server colocation expenses for the free infrastructure that supports hundreds of thousands of developers, to the aspirational and ideological, like the pressing need to refine and propagate our ethical standards and accompanying licensing expectations for network services. For this, we ask your support.
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> Thanks to the conviction and generous contributions of the free software community, we have built an efficient and effective global network, bringing people together to resist the constant threats to our freedom in the form of proprietary software seeking to subjugate us and our societies to crass commercial ends. We are proud of what we've accomplished together, but our work is not done.
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> In spite of the very public series of aggressive acts by the world's most well-known tech companies -- especially Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft -- we don't have global critical mass clamoring for free "as in freedom" software and ethical network services. Instead, pundits are focused on breaking up some of the companies, which, while possibly warranted for other reasons, won't fix the immoral power imbalance at the root of the privacy failures and other problems on everyone's minds.
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> Every day, we see that the real resistance is growing, but it may not be growing fast enough. As more people are casting about for ways to escape the digital horrors they read about, the FSF needs to be there with outstretched hands: making free software philosophy relatable; supporting ethical development of the software, hardware, and services they need; and helping them find and flex their political strength.
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> Already, our exceptionally generous community got us to where we are, in a position to succeed if we keep at it. Our spring fundraiser is nearly coming to an end, with only one week left, please consider a financial contribution to our cause. With your donation added before July 15th, you would help us to achieve our goal of 400 donations in 28 days.
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> Our fourteen hardworking staff use your donations wisely, earning yet another best possible rating of four stars from Charity Navigator this last year. You can read our financial statements, and our annual reports online.
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> We have now published our spring Bulletin online. We hope you enjoy reading about some of the great work we've done in collaboration with the global free software community. I'm especially excited about the lead article explaining the pilot program we just finished teaching free software in Boston-area public elementary schools, which we'd love to expand into a model usable around the world.
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> Please be vocal about your support for free software! When you're done reading, take a moment to share your passion for free software by posting your favorite article on your social media or blog using the #ISupportFreeSoftware hashtag, and use its contents as a conversation starter within your community to talk about why you support free software.
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> Individual financial contributions and spreading the word like this are forms of activism we need much more of if we're to overcome trillions of proprietary software dollars. We need to grow and diversify if we're to make respect for user freedom the default, rather than a constantly endangered niche. We've shown that with your support we can succeed together against far greater resources -- thank you for sticking with us and giving everything you can to bring about a brighter future.
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> Yours in freedom,
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> John Sullivan 
> Executive Director
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