Re: Proposing that Linux Australia fund Software Freedom Conservancy
Andrew Bartlett <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 2015-11-27 at 21:59 -0800, Francois Marier wrote: > I'd like to propose that Linux Australia support the Software Freedom > Conservancy [1] as part of its grants programme. > > Their leadership team, Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn [2], are > members of our > community and have talked at LCA several times. Their organisation > represents a number of projects [3] that either originated in > Australasia or > have many contributors from this part of the world. In particular, > they are > the non-profit home of Samba and Outreachy, two projects that embody > very > well the values of Linux Australia. > > Since they are hoping to create a strong base of supporters to allow > them > the freedom (pun intended) to protect FOSS users and developers, it > would be > great to see Linux Australia become an annual supporter. > > The minimum monthly amount for individuals is $10 USD/month ($120 / > year) > but LA could certainly give more since Conservancy is putting that > money to > very good use. As a member of a Conservancy project, and a rep to the Conservancy on the Samba Team's project leadership committee, I see close-hand the great work the Conservancy does. It would indeed be great if Linux Australia could (substantially) support the Conservancy, preferably by some kind of annual grant. How can I help move this forward? Thanks, Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett https://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team https://samba.org Samba Development and Support, Catalyst IT https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus