Notices by Karen Sandler (karen@floss.social)

You can read about my own health situation that inspires me to be passionate about the software we rely on. As a "cyborg lawyer" I know that we need to have real control over the software we use, and that it's not a matter of *if* our software will fail, it's about what we'll be able to do when it does fail.

This importance of this work is long term, but critically important. I hope you will support it.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/dec/19/a-note-from-karen-2023/

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Getting shocked by my defibrillator unnecessarily while pregnant (once I had time to process it) really stands for the proposition that our technology may not be made for our situation, despite the best of intentions by manufacturers. Things change, companies go out of business. Having access to the complete and corresponding source code (and the scripts to control compilation and installation) is a basic part of integrity in our critical technology.

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And because our technology has much less of a chance of being made *for* everyone if it's not made *by* everyone, it's important to have initiatives that help folks that face challenges from all different backgrounds get started in contributing to this field.

You can see the incredible work that our Outreachy team did this year.

https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2024-01-11/outreachy-2023-in-review/

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And, NPR style... donations are starting to come in! Please help us make our match goal today. If you are reading this, you are probably somewhat tech savvy and understand how important these issues are. We must do better with our technology infrastructure, and planning for an unknown future can only happen if we can modify our key software.

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Fediverse! You've done an incredible job getting our number down to $12,233! Can we raise that today? I think we can!

We don't have tote bags or mugs, but we do have t-shirts for our Sustainers, and, most importantly, every donation is a step forward for #softwarefreedom! We are a lean organization - no development staff, just people who care so much about free software that work as hard as we can to make real incremental progress every day for this cause.

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Today is the last day of @conservancy 's match challenge and we still have about $15k to raise. I'm going to make some posts NPR style today until we make progress against our goal! At this point, all amounts help move the bar and make getting to our goal attainable! I'm using #SFCdrive so folks can skip these posts if they want to!

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Big news on the Vizio case - the court rejected Vizio's arguments in their summary judgment motion. The decision cuts to the core of the case, with clear and conclusive language. Now on to *our* motion for summary adjudication...

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/jan/03/vizio-sj-rejected/

Don't forget that the deadline to submit a track to FOSSY is this Sunday! I'm so excited at how this is shaping up, we'd love for you to be a part of it!

https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/community-tracks/

@christi3k Not yet! We're working on it and actively reaching out to other conferences to hear what they did and how it worked out (and how they budgeted for what they did - we're just getting started with sponsors) but we also wanted to give ample time for input from track organizers. If there are items in a covid policy that would essential for you to run a track or if you just have a strong recommendation, we would be so grateful for you to note that in the proposal.