Our **help desk** is helping hundreds of Tails users each month. Each user request costs us 6€ on average to proceed. In 2016 our help desk was paid entirely out of donations.
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.Since 2015, we attended more than 15 international conferences on free software (DebConf), Internet freedom (IFF), hacking (32C3), human rights (RightsCon), and journalism (Logan CIJ). And organized more than 10 internal in-person meetings and development sprints.