Dear discussion members,

from now on, there it is also possible to become a "supporter of FSFE", see http://fsfe.org/support. This way you can easily show that they care about Free Software and support the FSFE's activities.

*WHY* Reason for this is that a) we want to have a better measurement how many people care about our issues, and b) we also want to show others how many people support our mission. Others do this with Facebook "friends" or "followers", but we do not want to force anyone to register for an external service to show that they care about _our mission_.

*What does it mean* As said, you do not have to pay anything, and we will not publish the names or e-mail-addresses of our supporters. We will just publish the total number of them, and they may receive occasional important information from us, at most three times a year. If they like what we are doing, maybe some of them subscribe to our newsletter https://fsfe.org/news/newsletter.html, start dicsussion things like you on our public lists, do a one time donation http://fsfe.org/donate or become Fellows http://fsfe.org/join.

Two things you can do in less than 10 minutes to help us:

1. Go to http://fsfe.org/support and become a supporter!

2. Ask your friends and colleagues -- by e-mail, social networks, or in person -- if they also want to become a supporter. You can e.g. use an URL like http://fsfe.org/support/?YourFellowshipLoginName for this (like I do in my signature). This way you can see people who subscribe because of you on https://fsfe.org/support/stats?ref_id=YourFellowshipLoginName and the general progress on https://fsfe.org/support/stats.

Thanks a lot for your ongoing support! Matthias