**Have more reliable and steady sources of income**: We created a page presenting our past and present sponsors and hopefully inciting more companies and individuals to make substantial donations.
We answered 122 bug reports on average each month through our *help desk* and helped many people being safer online. Each user request costs us 6€ on average to proceed. In 2017 our help desk was paid entirely out of donations.
We maintain and update our **infrastructure**. You might not see this effort, but it constitutes a crucial part of our work to verify that everything is functioning correctly, build ISO images, test, make it possible to publish emergency releases faster.
Organizing our own **meetings** and attending conferences in our field is critical to keep our community alive and relevant. But this is usually hard to get funded by grants, so donations help us a lot here.
In 2017, we attended **conferences** and connected to free software and Internet freedom communities in 8 different countries: OTF Summit (USA), 33C3 & Reproducible Builds world summit (Germany), FOSDEM (Belgium), IFF (Spain), Tor dev (Netherlands), GUADEC (United Kingdom), DebConf (Canada), CryptoRave (Brasil).
**If you can, we'd love for you to sign up for monthly donations at whatever level suits you ($5 = formidable. $10 = wonderful. More money = magnificent.)**