You can help save freedom by donating a small amount to the Save Wifi publicity effort. Will you help? (yes you Trisquel users!)

* The amount ended up being a bit more than we were anticipating originally.

Couldn't donate much but more than happy to help out the cause.

Of course we will help, I think we want to be able to control our own technology.

You can count me on it :)

:) Thanks!

We're getting close to meeting the $7k goal. Hopefully we continue inching along. I think ultimately we're going to need to raise some serious cash to undo the damage that has already been done by prior rules coming into effect in June 2016. Looking back now we did a really poor job. Unfortunately I've got a day job and can only work so many 16 hour days as is the case for other highly active participants (some better equipped to focus on just this effort because they are paid or otherwise don't have day jobs for one reason or another- but rather are taking time off working on coding projects, etc).

What we should have done from the start is written up a short press release of sorts for the Save Wifi.org site. Then had people sign a statement endorsing the campaign, and had a 'status update' only mailing list, mainly to alert interested parties to future protests and/or directly related campaigns to keep our devices under our control. As it is now we're dependent on a media that doesn't get it and has its own interests at stake (profiting off the news) and that often conflicts with our interests (accurate reporting of our concerns).

On the plus side we're not alone and the larger community I think is behind the general goals of the campaign. As long as we keep things in line with freedom and just not "open source" we should be good (ie we need to fight proposals by some that say it's OK to separate wifi firmwares from mainboard firmwares and then leave the wifi firmware non-free- or something along those lines- similar to how it is in cell phones with GSM modems vs the rest of the system- but on the plus side we have very dedicated people like Dave Taht who isn't necessarily a free software person (I don't believe) and very active arguing for the complete release of code for security reasons rather than just "open source"- regardless of what he thinks of the ethical implications of it.

I donated. Always happy to help the cause :)

Congratulations on making up with Francis by the way.

Thanks everybody!

We're 80% now.

:) I just pushed us over the $7000 figure we were trying to raise. Costs covered! Yea!

Thanks everybody!