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Eko K. A. Owen, New Outreach and Communications Coordinator for the FSF

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 30, 2024

Eko Kai Alanah Owen

Recent: FSF Looking to Raise Money by Adding 200 New Members by July 19

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From: Eko K. A. Owen Subject: Help us fight for software freedom! The FSF’s spring fundraiser has begun Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:23:03 -0500 User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

   Good afternoon everyone,

My name is Eko K. A. Owen and I'm the new Outreach and Communications Coordinator. I'm really excited to be here and to advocate for free software.
I'm also really excited to announce that our 2024 Spring Fundraiser has now begun!
We need your help to reach our goal of 200 new associate members by July 19th. You can help us immensely by spreading the message to everyone you know about why they should join us in our fight for software freedom.
If you're not yet an associate member, or your membership has lapsed, you can help us reach this goal, and we will give you a FSF travel mug!
If you’re on any microblog sites, we’d also greatly appreciate you sharing the link [1]https://www.fsf.org/appeal/2024-spring/we-urgently-need-your-financi al-support/ and tagging #BecomeAnFSFAssociateMember.
As always, y’all have our eternal gratitude for your continued support – we couldn’t do this work without each and every one of you. Thank you,
-- Mx. Eko K. A. Owen (they/them pronouns) Outreach & Communications Coordinator Free Software Foundation [2]ekokao@fsf.org
We urgently need your financial support: [3]http://www.fsf.org/join
Give the gift of an FSF associate membership: [4]https://my.fsf.org/gift-a-membership
Follow the FSF on Mastodon: [5]https://hostux.social/@fsf
Sign up for the FSF's newsletter: [6]https://www.fsf.org/fss
References
1. https://www.fsf.org/appeal/2024-spring/we-urgently-need-your-financial-support/ 2. mailto:ekokao@fsf.org 3. http://www.fsf.org/join 4. https://my.fsf.org/gift-a-membership 5. https://hostux.social/@fsf 6. https://www.fsf.org/fss

Nice to see many new additions to the FSF's team.

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