Re: Linux Australia makes $10k donation to Software Freedom Conservancy

Linux Australia Vice President wrote:
> I'd like to especially thank Karen Sandler, Bradley M. Kuhn and Brett Smith
> of the Software Freedom Conservancy for being so patient on this piece -
> while we committed at linux.conf.au to donate, we've deliberately held off
> to see if the $AUD would rise against the $USD - it hasn't, and is unlikely
> to in the near future.

No worries at all!  We also debated on our end whether to keep the funds in
AUD or not (we could have opened an AUD account with our bank's world
currency desk), but not enough of our expenses are currently in AUD for it to
that to be financially useful. (Hopefully, more Australians will become
contributors to -- and thus have expenses with -- Conservancy member
projects, then we'd end up using AUD more in future. ;)

Anyway, we're all delighted to now have Linux Australia listed as a sponsor on:
https://sfconservancy.org/sponsors/

Both Karen and I are also very excited to be teaching a tutorial on copyleft
at LCA next month!

LCA is always such a wonderful conference to start the year.  As I always
say, I wish I'd gotten over my fear of the "big 15 hour flight" years ago --
I'm so sad to have missed all those pre-2015 LCA's. ;) At least this year,
FOSDEM didn't mess with the LCA schedule, so I don't have to do the crazy
"all the way from Belgium to Australia" in "one" day this time, *and* I'll
arrive in time for some of the Miniconfs, which I missed in previous years. :)

I don't remember if I sent it to the whole Linux Australia Council,
so, ICYMI, here's the blog post I wrote about LCA 2016:
   https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/aug/04/lca-2016/
--
   -- bkuhn
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