It’s the 15th day of the month, which means it’s time for our monthly donations. The organizations that we’re supporting this time have been selected by Grzegorz Błach.
Since Grzegorz is involved in the FreeBSD project, it was only natural for him to choose to donate to the FreeBSD Foundation, which is the organization behind that project (and which we already supported back when we were just starting this initiative of regular donations). We have been using FreeBSD on our company servers all through the nine years we’ve been in operation, and will happily continue to do so.
The second organization that we’re supporting this month is the “Panopticon” Foundation, which was formed in 2009 and is devoted to the protection of human rights in this age of rapidly developing technology. This is an excerpt from their mission statement:
Our mission is to protect human rights, in particular the right to privacy, in the clash with modern technology used for surveillance purposes. We want to analyse the risks associated with the operation of modern surveillance systems, monitor the actions of both public and private entities in this and intervene when human rights or democratic values are threatened.
We wish both the FreeBSD Foundation and the “Panopticon” Foundation all the best in their efforts.