Software Freedom Conservancy
Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for FLOSS projects. This allows FLOSS developers to focus on what they do best — writing and improving FLOSS for the general public — while Conservancy takes care of the projects' needs that do not relate directly to software development and documentation.
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Recent News
May 20, 2013
Conservancy Surpasses 50% on NPO Accounting Fundraiser
Conservancy announced today that after less than one month of fundraising, the half-way mark has been reached for the Conservancy's campaign to raise $75,000 to fund work on accounting software for non-profit organizations.
May 1, 2013
Conservancy Launches Fundraising Campaign for Non-Profit Accounting Software
Software Freedom Conservancy, a 501(c)(3) charity based in New York, announced today a fundraising campaign for an Open Source and Free Software non-profit accounting system. The campaign seeks to raise US$75,000 to fund a full-time developer for one year to first reevaluate existing Free Software solutions for their viability as a non-profit accounting system, and then improve and augment the best available system to create a new solution that will help non-profits around the world manage their finances better.
April 30, 2013
Conservancy's General Counsel's Fiscal Sponsorship Talk Covered on LWN
Earlier this month, Conservancy's General Counsel, Tony Sebro, delivered an engaging talk entitled The Value of Fiscal Sponsorship in the FLOSS Community about non-profit organizations, fiscal sponsorship models, and related concepts at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2013 (the slides of that talk are available). Today, Linux Weekly News published an feature article summarizing the key points from Tony's talk.
