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@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1">
- <p class="lead">The GnuPG Project needs your support to help
+ <p class="lead">GnuPG needs your support to help
keep you safer in a surveilled world.</p>
<p class="text-justify">Activists, journalists, lawyers, and many others rely on
<a href="https://www.gnupg.org/">GnuPG</a> to protect
@@ -135,14 +135,15 @@
nearly all free software-based operating systems (which
are used by more than two-thirds of the servers running
the Internet) rely on GnuPG to verify the integrity of
- downloads.</p>
- <p>To continue supporting and improving GnuPG, we are
- soliciting donations from the general public. Our
- primary goal is to raise <strong>15.000 Euros per
- month</strong> to fully fund 3 developers; our stretch
- goal is twice that, 30.000 Euros per month.</p>
+ system updates.</p>
+ <p>To continue supporting and improving GnuPG, we, the
+ main GnuPG developers, are soliciting donations from the
+ general public. Our <strong>primary goal</strong> is to
+ raise <strong>15 000 euros per month</strong> to fully
+ fund 3 developers; our <strong>stretch goal</strong> is
+ twice that, <strong>30 000</strong> euros per month.</p>
<p>Please consider donating to ensure that this critical
- piece of software continues to work.</p>
+ piece of software continues to work for everyone.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
@@ -169,113 +170,133 @@
<h2>GnuPG Needs Your Help!</h2>
<p class="text-justify">
<strong><a href="https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/1997-December/014131.html">For
- over 20 years</a>, GnuPG has helped protect online communication.</strong>
+ over 20 years</a>, GnuPG has helped protect online
+ communication.</strong>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/de/about/staff/cindy-cohn">Cindy
- Cohn<img src="/share/campaign/img/headshots/cindy-cohn.jpg"
- class="camp-headshot pull-right"></a>, Executive Director of
- the <a href="https://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier
- Foundation</a> (EFF), describes GnuPG as <i>"the way that I most
- often communicate with people who are in need around the
- world."</i> <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel">Sheera
- Frenkel<img src="/share/campaign/img/headshots/sheera-frenkel.jpg"
- class="camp-headshot pull-left"></a>, Foreign Correspondent
- for BuzzFeed News,
- relates: <i>"<strong>As a news organization, we're trained on using
- GPG.</strong> "It's about your sources and what happens to them when you
- leave the country and you publish that explosive story and the
- government is looking for the whistleblower that handed you that key
- piece of information."</i> And famously, GnuPG was Edward Snowden's
- tool of choice to securely communicate with journalists about the
- NSA mass surveillance leaks.
+ Cohn<img src="/share/campaign/img/headshots/cindy-cohn.jpg"
+ class="camp-headshot pull-right"></a>, Executive Director
+ of the <a href="https://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier
+ Foundation</a> (EFF), describes GnuPG as <i>"the way that
+ I most often communicate with people who are in need
+ around the
+ world."</i> <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel">Sheera
+ Frenkel<img src="/share/campaign/img/headshots/sheera-frenkel.jpg"
+ class="camp-headshot pull-left"></a>, Foreign
+ Correspondent for BuzzFeed News, relates: <i>"<strong>As a
+ news organization, we're trained on using GPG.</strong>
+ "It's about your sources and what happens to them when you
+ leave the country and you publish that explosive story and
+ the government is looking for the whistleblower that
+ handed you that key piece of information."</i> And
+ famously, GnuPG was Edward Snowden's tool of choice to
+ securely communicate with journalists about the NSA mass
+ surveillance leaks.
<p class="text-justify">
- But, GnuPG is not only used to encrypt email. <strong>GnuPG protects the
- software updates</strong> for nearly all free software operating systems,
- which power <a
- href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Market_share_and_uptake">two-thirds
- of all web sites</a>. And, GnuPG is widely used by organizations
- and companies. For instance, Arthur Jordan<img src="/share/campaign/img/headshots/arthur-jordan.jpg"
- class="camp-headshot pull-right">, Vice-President of
- Information Technology at 2U told us:
- <i>"when we reached out to universities about how they wanted to do
- secure file transfer, they were already using GPG encryption."</i>
+ But, GnuPG is not only used to encrypt
+ email. <strong>GnuPG protects software updates</strong>
+ for nearly all free software operating systems, which
+ power <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Market_share_and_uptake">two-thirds
+ of all servers on the Internet</a>. And, GnuPG is widely
+ used by organizations and companies. For instance, Arthur
+ Jordan<img src="/share/campaign/img/headshots/arthur-jordan.jpg"
+ class="camp-headshot pull-right">, Vice-President of
+ Information Technology at 2U, told us:
+ <i>"when we reached out to universities about how they
+ wanted to do secure file transfer, they were already using
+ GPG encryption."</i>
<p class="text-justify">
- Yet despite the critical role that GnuPG plays for journalists,
- activists, and lawyers in particular, but, more generally, anyone
- who uses the Internet, in 2012 GnuPG had a <strong>funding crisis</strong>. Due to a
- lack of contracts, Werner Koch, GnuPG's leader, was forced to
- lay off the only other person working on GnuPG full-time. And, by
- 2014, Werner had to take side jobs unrelated to GnuPG to
- supplement his income.
+ Yet, despite the critical role that GnuPG plays for
+ journalists, activists, and lawyers in particular as well
+ as anyone who uses the Internet in general, in 2012 GnuPG
+ had a <strong>funding crisis</strong>. Due to a lack of
+ contracts, Werner Koch, GnuPG's lead developer, was forced
+ to lay off the only other person working on GnuPG
+ full-time. And, by 2014, Werner had to take side jobs
+ unrelated to GnuPG to supplement his income.
<p class="text-justify">
- The situation looked so bad that <strong>Werner was ready to give up. But,
- friends convinced him to give crowd funding one more shot.</strong> The
- response was amazing. Not only did the donation campaign raise
- enough money to fund Werner, but <strong>it pulled in 250.000 Euros in small
- donations</strong>, and Stripe, Facebook and the Linux Foundatation each
- committed to donating about 50.000 Euros per year.
- </p>
- <div class="text-center">
- <img src="https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/media/openpgp.conf/2016/gnupg-team-small.jpg" id="camp-openpgp-conf">
- <p id="camp-caption-openpgp-conf">The GnuPG Team at OpenPGP.conf 2016</p>
- </div>
- <p class="text-justify">
- <strong>Given this amazing response, Werner decided to grow the team again.</strong>
- To date, he has hired 5 developers, and the past two years have seen
- a number of improvements to GnuPG and the surrounding ecosystem.
- For instance, we've worked on simplifying key discovery, adopted a
- set of Python bindings, contributed some improvements to Enigmail,
- and supported the GnuK project—a free source and free hardware
+ The situation looked so bad that <strong>Werner was ready
+ to give up. But, friends convinced him to give a donation
+ campaign one last shot.</strong> The response was
+ amazing. Not only did he receive enough money to fund
+ himself, but <strong>he pulled in
+ 250 000 euros in small donations</strong>, and
+ Stripe, Facebook and the Linux Foundatation each committed
+ to donating about 50 000 euros per year.
+ </p>
+ <div class="text-center">
+ <img src="https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/media/openpgp.conf/2016/gnupg-team-small.jpg" id="camp-openpgp-conf">
+ <p id="camp-caption-openpgp-conf">The GnuPG Team at OpenPGP.conf 2016</p>
+ </div>
+ <p class="text-justify">
+ <strong>Given this amazing response, Werner decided to
+ grow the team again.</strong> To date, he has hired 5
+ developers, and the past two years have seen a number of
+ improvements to GnuPG and the surrounding ecosystem. For
+ instance, we've worked
+ on <a href="https://www.gnupg.org/blog/20160830-web-key-service.html">simplifying
+ key discovery</a>, adopted a set
+ of <a href="https://gnupg.org/blog/20160921-python-bindings-for-gpgme.html">Python
+ bindings for GPG</a>, contributed some improvements
+ to <a href="https://www.enigmail.net/index.php/en/">Enigmail</a>,
+ and
+ supported <a href="https://www.fsij.org/category/gnuk.html">the
+ GnuK project</a>—a free source and free hardware
security token.
<p class="text-justify">
- <strong>Unfortunately, the money from the donation campaign is now nearly
- exhausted.</strong> So, to secure our medium-term future, we've decided to
- again turn to the community. Our sense is that if we have to feel a
- responsibility to someone—and it is impossible not to feel that
- way towards someone who gives you money—then it should be towards
- the public and not a few corporations. <strong>This time, however, our
- focus is on recurring donations</strong> and not one-time donations, like
- last time.
+ <strong>We want to continue this work in the long
+ term.</strong> But, we want to do so in such a way that
+ our first loyalty is unambiguously to the general public.
+ This means making sure that a majority of our funding
+ comes from individual donors, and not corporations.
+ Further, to ensure long-term stability, our focus is on
+ recurring donations and not one-time donations, like last
+ time.
<p class="text-justify">
- <strong>Our primary goal is to get donation commitments for 15.000 Euros per
- month—enough to fund 3 developers</strong>. We can reach this goal if just
- 2000 people donate 5 or 10 Euros each month.
+ <strong>Our primary goal is to get donation commitments
+ for 15 000 euros per month—enough to
+ fund 3 developers</strong>. We can reach this goal if
+ just 2000 people donate 5 or 10 euros each month,
+ the equivalent of just 2 or 3 cups of coffee.
<p class="text-justify">
- This money will firstly allow us to continue our maintenance of
- GnuPG. It will also be used to fund our work on the GnuK security
- token,
- <div class="pull-right" style="width: 40%;">
- <img src="/share/campaign/img/gnuk.jpg" id="camp-gnuk">
- <p id="camp-caption-gnuk" class="text-center">The GnuK Token</p>
- </div>
- and some other
- work in the broader ecosystem including continued improvements to
- Enigmail. One major new project that it will fund is a book called
- "An Advanced Introduction to GnuPG." This handbook has three
- principle audiences: developers who want to integrate GnuPG into
- their programs, and need to understand the various concepts, the
- important security tradeoffs, and common pitfalls; digital security
- trainers who need to understand GnuPG to be able to make sound
- recommendations to their students; and enthusiasts.
+ <div class="pull-right" style="width: 40%;">
+ <img src="/share/campaign/img/gnuk.jpg" id="camp-gnuk">
+ <p id="camp-caption-gnuk" class="text-center">The GnuK Token</p>
+ </div>
+ This money will firstly allow us to continue our
+ maintenance of GnuPG. It will also be used to fund our
+ work on the GnuK security token. One new project that it
+ will enable is a book called "An Advanced Introduction to
+ GnuPG," which has three principle audiences: developers
+ who want to integrate GnuPG into their programs, and need
+ to understand the various concepts, the important security
+ tradeoffs, and common pitfalls; digital security trainers
+ who need to understand GnuPG to be able to make sound
+ recommendations to users; and, of course, enthusiasts.
<p class="text-justify">
- If we manage to double this number of donations—if 4000 people
- donate 5 or 10 Euros each month—then we will continue to grow the
- team. In particular, we will hire someone to work on GPG Tools,
- which so many activists and journalists rely on to secure their
- online communication. Further, ...
+ <strong>Our stretch goal is to double this number of
+ donations</strong>. If 4000 people donate just 5 or
+ 10 Euros each month, then we will continue to grow the
+ team, and dedicate them to helping other projects in the
+ GnuPG ecosystem. One project that we really want to
+ contribute to is GPG Tools, which many activists and
+ journalists rely on to secure their online communication.
+ We want to make sure that GPG integration in Apple's
+ mailer is supported as soon as a new version of macOS is
+ released.
<p class="text-justify">
- Now, maybe you don't use GnuPG to encrypt your email. Nevertheless,
- some journalists whose work you value rely on GnuPG to protect their
- sources, some activists fighting for a cause that you sympathize
- with rely on GnuPG to protect their communication, and some lawyers
- speaking with their clients rely on GnuPG to protect attorney-client
- conversations. And, free software-based operating systems use GnuPG
- to verify software updates.
+ Now, maybe you don't use GnuPG to encrypt your email.
+ Nevertheless, some journalists whose work you value rely
+ on GnuPG to protect their sources, some activists fighting
+ for a cause that you sympathize with rely on GnuPG to
+ protect their communication, and some lawyers speaking
+ with their clients rely on GnuPG to help protect
+ attorney-client conversations. And, free software-based
+ operating systems use GnuPG to verify software updates.
</p>
- <p style="font-size: 22px;">So, if you
- are convinced as we are that this work is essential to
- protecting democracy, then please help us to continue our
- work and stay independent, for just the cost of one coffee
- each month.</p>
+ <p style="font-size: 22px;">So, if you are convinced as we
+ are that this work is essential to protecting democracy
+ and privacy, then <strong>please help us to continue our
+ work and stay independent</strong>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
@@ -302,10 +323,10 @@
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6">
<div class="goal goal-3">
<h3><img src="/share/campaign/img/token.svg" style="height: 1em; vertical-align: baseline;" aria-hidden="true"/> GnuK</h3>
- <p>The GnuK is a free software and open schematic
- security token developed by Niibe. At the next level of
- support, we will invest more in the production and
- distribution </p>
+ <p>The GnuK is a fully free software and open
+ schematic security token developed by Niibe. We
+ plan to invest more in its production and
+ distribution.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
@@ -313,24 +334,25 @@
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6">
<div class="goal goal-2">
<h3><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-book" aria-hidden="true"></span> Book</h3>
- <p>Our next goal is to improve documentation. In
- particular, we are working on a book called <i>An
- Advanced Introduction to GnuPG</i>, which will explain
- how GnuPG works and best practices. It is targetted
- towards digital security trainers, programmers
- integrating GnuPG to their applications, and
- enthusiasts.</p>
+ <p>We want to improve documentation. In particular,
+ we are working on a book called <i>An Advanced
+ Introduction to GnuPG</i>, which will explain how
+ GnuPG works as well as best practices. It is
+ targetted towards digital security trainers,
+ programmers integrating GnuPG to their
+ applications, and enthusiasts.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6">
<div class="goal goal-4">
<h3><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-globe" aria-hidden="true"></span> Greater Ecosystem</h3>
- <p>Few people use GnuPG directly. Instead they interact
- with it via some tool. We hope to be able to help these
- tool developers better integrate GnuPG support. For
- instance, we want to make sure that GPG Tools, the
- plug-in for Apple's mailer, works as soon as a new
- version of OS X is released.</p>
+ <p>Few people use GnuPG directly. Instead they
+ interact with it via some tool. We hope to better
+ help these tool developers improve GnuPG
+ integration. In particular, we want to make sure
+ that GPG Tools, the GPG plug-in for Apple's
+ mailer, works as soon as a new version of
+ OS X is released.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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