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Well, maybe we can’t call it our May Pledge Drive any more. We’ve extended our IndieGoGo fundraising campaign, which was scheduled to end a week from tomorrow. The campaign will now remain active until Monday, June 15. We’re doing this, of course, in order to have a better shot at reaching our $6,000 goal. So far we’ve raised $1,030. With the extension, we can do this, but much work needs to be done.

This is important. This money will be necessary if we are to live up to our name and become a legitimate force in the FOSS world (sorry, we couldn’t resist). For those of you who don’t already know about our campaign, all of the money will be used to pay the writers and journalists who get down in the trenches and get the story told — the stories that are important to the FOSS community.

If you’ve already contributed to our campaign, we thank you. If not, please know that we are depending on those who value our site to make a contribution, so we can offer you even more than we do now. As our writer Larry Cafiero said in a Facebook post a few weeks back: the time has come for us to ramp up our coverage.

If you visit our IndieGoGo fundraising page, you’ll see that we’re offering some pretty cool perks — so you can get something beyond the mere satisfaction of being a big help if you want. In fact, we just added a really nice perk today, and lowered the asking price on some others.

Although an excellent article by Linux pundit Carla Shroder, spelling out what’s wrong with what often passes for journalism on the Internet and explaining why…

During the five years we’ve been publishing FOSS Force, I’ve never spoken to you while wearing my publisher or editor hats, because I don’t want…

Late yesterday afternoon, we very quietly went live with our first ever Indiegogo fundraising campaign. We did so with no advance warning, although Larry Cafiero…