Folks,
Tony at the Conservancy reached out to us to ask our help in spreading the word about Conservancy.
The Conservancy is our sponsoring organization, and they have been a great friend to Wine through the years.
As they requested, I'm sending an email blast to our mailing list to spread the word. I'd ask you to scan their email and if you can help them in any of the ways they ask, please help them. They're good people, and good for Wine.
Thanks,
Jeremy
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Conservancy projects: help us launch the Official Conservancy Supporter program! Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:17:47 -0500 From: Tony Sebro
Hi, all:
We at Conservancy are committed to doing whatever we can to support our member projects, and to help you produce great, freely-licensed software for the public's benefit. At this time, we could use the support of you, our member projects, as well.
Today, Conservancy launched the official Conservancy Supporter program (http://sfconservancy.org/supporter/). This is our first campaign to build awareness about Conservancy, and our first attempt to really engage the public in a fundraising campaign. While we're glad to help you organize project-specific revenue-generating activities (e.g., project fundraisers, conferences, etc.), we've kept the percentage of revenue we receive from member projects under our FSA so low that it doesn't even pay for a single Conservancy staff member. So, we need our member projects' help to get the word out about who we are, what we do, and how friends of free and open source software can become Conservancy Supporters.
Conservancy Supporters will receive: - an "Official Conservancy Supporter" badge for display on their personal websites; - a printable "Official Conservancy Supporter" card; and - a snazzy Conservancy T-Shirt. _ Ways__you can help spread the word_:
- Follow @Conservancy on Twitter and/or Identi.ca - Tweet/Dent/Microblog about the Conservancy Supporter program on your social media platform of choice, with a link to the campaign page (please use the #ConservancySupporter hashtag) - If your project has an official social media account, please use that to microblog as well - Send email blasts to your project's mailing lists - Write a blog post or a testimonial about Conservancy (we'd really appreciate it)
We thank you in advance for your support -- especially during this giving time of the year!
Best, -Tony