## Focus: Framapetitions, a… petitions service! There are many petition platforms, but they are rarely based on free code. These platforms are also widely suspected of using your personal details (name, email, cause supported) for purposes other than adding your signature to a petition. For several years now, we've been supporting an open-source project called Pytition. It's functional, but still needs a lot of work on the visual aspects. Supporting us financially means that we can spend time working with the original developer to improve Pytition, in collaboration with the original developer, and in the medium term, to open an online store, in the medium term, to open up a truly free and open petitions platform, with a guarantee that your data will not be used for commercial purposes.
No! A donation to Framasoft supports all our actions. Donations to our association fund all our projects. The care work that we are planning with De-google-ify Tech Care is a long-term operation that it is impossible for us to quantify exactly. This care is human, so our calculations can only be estimates for a day's work when ‘everything is going well’! We know that additional maintenance will cost us time, and therefore money. We therefore estimate that in 2024 De-google-ify Tech Care will cost us €60,000 more than in a year when this care would not be a priority (‘estimate’, because it's very hard to put a precise figure on a care project), and we're challenging you to raise the money in 3 weeks, between now and 2 July.
Yes and no. Yes, because a donation at any time of year will fund Framasoft's actions. We can't thank you enough for this! And no, because we want to carry out 2 experiments using this collection: - This is the first test of our association's budget funding (96% of which is based on donations). Currently, around 50% of the year's donations are made in the last 3 weeks of December. ([figures for 2023](https://soutenir.framasoft.org/fr/stats/#2023)). So it's ‘a bit stressful’ for us at the end of the year, when we can't be sure⋅es to reach our provisional budget before the last days of December. Highlighting our actions during the year (as with this fundraiser) potentially makes you want to support us at a time other than the end of the year. We're experimenting with this aspect, and we'll let you know if the test is conclusive or not! - C’est aussi une manière pour nous de voir si ce dorlotage régulier de It's also a way for us to see if you're enthusiastic about this regular pampering of our services. Let's pamper ourselves, it's a labour of love, a little less attractive than a brand new project, but we think it's particularly important. Taking part in this fundraising campaign will also help us to know whether we're heading in the right direction (or not!).
