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<h3 id="YearInReview">Our Year in Review</h3>
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<div data-read-more="Summary of our year…">
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<p>This past year we've all grown more conscious of our interconnected world.
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These events escalate the importance of free software tools that empower
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us all. Closed source and proprietary tools have overtaken many
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communication channels — particularly when we work from home. Even
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conferences and lecture series dedicated to “open source
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infrastructure” have been unable to escape the grasp of these closed
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systems. As we monitored these diffcult events, we prioritized support for
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those in our community that understand the crucial need
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for <a href="/blog/2021/feb/08/just-say-no-to-zoom/">conferences run
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solely with free software</a>. We have been pleased to support free
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communication tools to assist with these efforts. <b>Our commitment to
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using, developing, and supporting free software tools and communities has
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never been stronger.</b></p>
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<p>We are proud to tell you about the important work we've accomplished over
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the past 12 months. Software Freedom Conservancy continues to set the bar for
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promoting ethical technology and advocacy for software freedom. Whether it's
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continuing the tireless and incredibly important work of <a
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href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/">copyleft compliance</a>,
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growing and working with our many <a
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href="https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/">member projects</a>, or
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leading the way in promoting diversity and inclusion efforts with <a
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href="https://www.Outreachy.org/">Outreachy</a> and <a
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href="https://computinginresearch.org/">The Institute for Computing in
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Research</a>. This year was no different in showing our dedication to software
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freedom and critiques of those who oppose it.</p>
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<p>We are entering the second year of our <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html">lawsuit against Vizio</a>.
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While there's a long way to go in this groundbreaking suit, we've already
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attained an initial <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/16/vizio-remand-win/">historic victory</a>
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in succeeding to remand the case back from federal to state court.
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We've been grateful to see so much support from our Sustainers and communities
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around the promise our case holds for consumer rights. With the rise of the <a
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href="https://www.repair.org/">Right to Repair</a> movement, we've seen a
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growing desire from "everyday consumers" to have the ability to repair the
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software on their phones and other internet connected devices. Our projects
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like <a href="https://openwrt.org/">OpenWrt</a> and <a
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href="https://coreboot.org/">coreboot</a> are integral in giving people the
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freedom to choose what software runs (and can be repaired) on their own
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devices. (And speaking of our projects, there's a highlight of what some of
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projects did this year below!) We also pursued many other violations (that our
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<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles</a>
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don't permit us to disclose at the moment) and launched a <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/02/conservancy-launches-copyright-assignment-system/">self-service
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copyright assignment form</a> so that FOSS contributors can, without overly
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burdensome paperwork, entrust their copyrights to a nonprofit dedicated to
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software freedom and rights of users all over the world.</p>
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<p>Over the past year, we took on new work that would have
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been <em>impossible</em> without your support. Last month, we filed
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a <a href="/vizio">lawsuit against long time license violator Vizio</a>.
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Through that lawsuit and many non-litigation ongoing license enforcement
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actions, Software Freedom Conservancy leads the field: We stand up for
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license compliance and holding corporation accountable when others
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won't. Our focus in software licensing defends consumer rights. This novel and
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critical approach to license compliance culminates years of effort by our amazing policy and legal experts. We
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believe software freedom, when properly and actively upheld, enables everyone to hold
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technology providers accountable to the people most
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impacted by their actions.</p>
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<p>As software based technology becomes more pervasive in our lives, it's vital
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that we communicate the importance of software freedom to the wider population.
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In that vein <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/12/introduction/">we've created a video</a>
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(narrated by our Executive Director Karen Sandler) that introduces
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the ideas of software freedom, and specifically what Software Freedom
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Conservancy does. We also did a lot of public writings about some of the
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important issues this year. From <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/mar/30/neo4j-v-purethink-open-source-affero-gpl/">interesting legal developments</a>
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to <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/01/biden-foss-security-sbom-copyleft-right-to-repair/">political outreach</a>
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as well as <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/jul/18/foss-for-sale-in-ms-app-store/">leading a conversation</a>
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standing up for developers and distributors of free software.</p>
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<p id="dmca-exemptions">This year, we filed more DMCA exemption requests than any organization in
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the country —
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and <a href="/news/2021/oct/28/2021-DMCA-final-exemptions-win/">we won on
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every single one</a>. We clarified the right to jailbreak of routers (an
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essential activity of our <a href="https://openwrt.org">OpenWrt
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project</a>), won a new right to safely investigate devices for license
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compliance, and helped solidify privacy-related research. Karen (our
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executive director) also participated with a coalition that achieved yet
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another exemption for medical devices! Our lawyer, Pam Chestek, <a href="https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2021/hearing-transcripts/210407-Section-1201-Public-Hearing-Class-15-7a-7b.pdf#page=13">testified</a> at the DMCA
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hearings on these exemptions, and confronted industry lobbyists directly as
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they sought to use their extreme
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wealth and legal power to harm consumers. We stridently fight their overreach — one bit at a time.</p>
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<div style="overflow: auto">
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<div class="picture-small right">
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<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/videos/sfc-introduction_1080p.mp4"><img src="https://sfconservancy.org/videos/sfc-introduction-video_poster.jpg" alt="Thumbnail of video showing a tree and Software Freedom" /></a>
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</div>
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<p>As software based technology becomes more pervasive in our lives, it's vital
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that we communicate the importance of software freedom to the wider population.
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In that vein <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/12/introduction/">we've created a video</a>
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(narrated by our Executive Director Karen Sandler) that introduces
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the ideas of software freedom, and specifically what Software Freedom
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Conservancy does. We also did a lot of public writings about some of the
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important issues this year. From <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/mar/30/neo4j-v-purethink-open-source-affero-gpl/">interesting legal developments</a>
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to <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/01/biden-foss-security-sbom-copyleft-right-to-repair/">political outreach</a>
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as well as <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/jul/18/foss-for-sale-in-ms-app-store/">leading a conversation</a>
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standing up for developers and distributors of free software.</p> </div>
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<p>We also started a campaign to <b><a href="https://giveupgithub.org">Give Up
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GitHub</a></b>. With more and more corporate interest and investment into FOSS,
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we see a trend of community resources being bought up and controlled by
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singular corporate entities. Having lived through multiple acquisitions and
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extinctions of gratis code forges before, GitHub is just the most recent holder
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of the title. Contrary to it's namesake project, <a href="https://git-scm.com/">git</a>
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GitHub remains a proprietary, centralized
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and hierarchical method of working on software. Stripping the underlying power
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and versatility that has allowed it to become the canonical tool for
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distributed software development. A single corporation controlling this piece
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of critical infrastructure is clearly a harmful idea, a corporation will always
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serve it's shareholders and not the community that it depends on growing and
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keeping within it's walled garden. Please check out our <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/">blog post</a>
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about the issue to find alternatives and other ways you can help this
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divestment effort.</p>
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</div>
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<h3 id="Highlights">Highlights from some of our projects</h3>
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<div data-read-more="Read more about our projects…">
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<p>Software Freedom Conservancy helped our projects engage in critical work
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this year. Overall, we raised, administered and facilitated <strong>$1.7 million</strong>
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to improve software freedom — this year alone! Those funds
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go <em>directly</em> to fund <acronym title="Free and Open Source Software">FOSS</acronym>
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contributors. We do the arduous work to sustain these FOSS communities:</p>
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<p>For the second year in a row, we've raised, administered and/or
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facilitated $1.7 million to improve software freedom directly! This
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includes contractors, interns and students, administrators, and grants
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for creation, distribution and maintenance of free software projects.
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Part of the unique position of our organization is the expertise
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necessary to do this kind of work.</p>
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<p>We helped <b>Outreachy</b> expand to its largest cohorts ever. Our last
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round accepted 71 interns, and we announced this week that the current round
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will have 62! (That's 133 interns — an <strong>27% growth</strong> from the previous two
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rounds!) We're grateful to be able support Outreachy to serve more
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communities who are committed to helping to push back against systemic
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underrepresentation in technology and software.</p>
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<p><b>Outreachy</b> accepted 61 interns in the December 2021 cohort, and 67 interns in
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the May 2022 cohort with over 30 Free and Open Source software communities.
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Bringing in new communities in the Open Science and Humanitarian spheres,
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Outreachy continues to lead the way in providing opportunities to historically
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excluded and under represented people in technology. With over 900 interns
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accepted to the program to date, Outreachy continues to grow and expand it's
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community. Outreachy also hired a new community manager, Omotola Omotayo.
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Having recently <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/nov/16/omotola-sca-award/">won an
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award at the She Code Africa Summit</a>, her work building up and promoting the
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Outreachy community has been immensely successful. Outreachy increased the
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stipend it pays its interns this year, improved its documentation and held many
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more opportunities for interns and applicants to learn about Outreachy, FOSS
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and how to successfully engage in the tech industry.</p>
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<p><b>Godot</b> has continued to push the boundary of what anyone thought was
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possible with an open source game engine. Godot's impressive team, funded
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through contracts with Software Freedom Conservancy, continues to building
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their community and their excellent codebase. We are so proud of their beneficial
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<a href="https://godotengine.org/community">focus on community</a>. Watch
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their fun, exciting,
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and <a href="https://godotengine.org/article/announcing-2021-godot-games-showreel">brand
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new showreel</a> to see what these cutting edge creators are making.</p>
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<p>A few of our projects put on or are planning to put on conferences. <b>Git</b>
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Merge was held in Chicago in September. It provided a great face to face space
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for the international group of developers to come together, decide on some
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technical directions and have other conversations that are greatly sped up by
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in person meeting. <b>Wine</b>Conf was held simultaneously with the X.Org developer's
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conference and FOSS XR in Minneapolis the first week of October. The twelfth <a
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href="https://con.racket-lang.org/">RacketCon</a> was run at the end of
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October. <a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/">Reproducible Builds</a> had their summit in the beginning of November in
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Venice. We're also working with the <b>Selenium</b> project on their <a href="https://seleniumconf.com/">upcoming conference</a>
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March 28-30 2023.</p>
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<p>Software Freedom Conservancy also proudly supports, with direct funding of
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contributors, the <b>Reproducible Builds</b> team. They ensure the
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security of computer systems of all shapes and sizes around the world.
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This necessary and vital project becomes even more essential in the age of
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direct attacks on technological
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infrastructure. The <a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/tools/">tools
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they've made</a> are freely available to help others increase
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reproducibility in their own projects.</p>
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<p><b>OpenWrt</b> just released <a href="https://openwrt.org/releases/22.03/notes-22.03.2">version 22.03.02</a>
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which added some more hardware support and fixed security bugs. This 22.03
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release had some major changes like moving from iptables to nftables, adding
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over 180 new devices to support over 1580 total devices! Some great quality of
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life enhancements like dark mode in LuCL (Pono, who's the primary author of
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this text, was really happy about this one) and they've solved Year 2038
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problem which if you remember Y2K, is a sigh of relief to not scramble to
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patch.</p>
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<p><b>OpenWrt</b> recently had their OpenWrt 21.02 release — which
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increases the default security options including optional SELinux
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and <acronym title="Address Space Layout Randomization">ASLR</acronym>.
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OpenWrt empowers users to run a free
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operating system on their routers. Combined with <a href="#dmca-exemptions">our DMCA exemption</a>,
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the landscape of free firmware is now much easier to explore and
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deploy. Meanwhile, another of our projects, <b>coreboot</b>, has further grown the supported hardware
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list for freeing your bootloader. These two projects are at the core of
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our <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html">firmware
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liberation initiative</a>. As our work continues, more companies will learn
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what most router companies already know: consumers
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prefer hardware that can run copylefted software and — contrary to
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popular belief — will gladly pay <em>more</em> for hardware that
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respects their rights and freedoms!</p>
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<p><a href="https://computinginresearch.org/">The Institute for Computing in
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Research</a> completed it's first round in Austin, Texas. Now providing
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training, education and real world software experience to high school students
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in 3 cities and exploring additional cities that may join next summer. These
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research internships are a great way for high school students to get involved
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in real academic research while also being exposed to the ideas and principles
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of software freedom.</p>
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<p>And in a happy close of a member project relationship, <a href="https://godotengine.org/">Godot</a>
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has <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/nov/01/godot-graduates/">graduated from Conservancy</a>
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to <a href="https://godotengine.org/article/godots-graduation-godot-moves-to-a-new-foundation">start its own foundation</a>.
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Our relationship with Godot was built on a shared
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passion for community building in the free software space and we expect this
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will continue as they grow into their own. Modeling their governance on the
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system that we built together here are Conservancy, we are extremely proud of
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what they have become and expect great things to come out of their new
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organization and look forward to continue our relationship in an advisory
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capacity.</p>
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<p><b>The Institute for Computing in Research</b> has furthered its mission.
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After two successful rounds of interns in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
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<acronym title="The Institute for Computing in Research">ICR</acronym>
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expanded its intern cohort to include a selection of six high school
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students in Portland, Oregon. These unique paid internships introduce high
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school students to software freedom as part of a summer research position
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that focuses on introducing young scholars to computing in areas of
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physical science, life science, social science, arts, and
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humanities. Supported by academics at Portland State University, Reed
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College, and Oregon State University, the cohort in Portland has projects
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in computational biology, natural language processing, pure math, and AI
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and game theory. </p>
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</div>
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<h3 id="NewStaff">New staff!</h3>
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<div data-read-more="Click more for on our new staff…">
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<p>At the end of last year, we
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hired <a href="/news/2020/dec/02/sharp-newest-employee/">Sage Sharp</a> as
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Senior Director of Diversity & Inclusion; they about to complete their
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first year with us. Meanwhile, finishing up his first six months
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is <a href="/blog/2021/may/18/pono-introduction/">Daniel
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Pono Takamori</a>, our Community Organizer & Non-Profit Problem
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Solver. These two are very welcome additions to our team of <em>just five</em>
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full-time employees, and <em>one</em> part-time employee. We are proud of the
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breadth of skills and dedication of our team.</p>
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<p>SFC hired an additional employee this year! <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/about/staff/#tracy">Tracy Homer</a>
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is our new Operations Manager. Outside of Tracy's' work with SFC, she is
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studying GIS at the University of Tennessee and is a board member of her local
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hackerspace. We're so excited to have someone to with her set of skills help us
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build out our organization. Helping out with everything from international
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banking and tax questions, to conference planning, Tracy's been an incredible
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addition to our team. She rounds out our team to 7 people (largest we've ever
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been!).</p>
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<p>As a testament to “practice what you preach”, we undertook
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what we consider a fair and equitable hiring process which our executive
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director
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Karen <a href="/blog/2021/oct/15/equitable-hiring/">described
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in detail on our website</a>. We
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lead by example — with transparency and casting a wide net to avoid just hiring within our circles.</p>
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<p>We also updated our website — hopefully, you'll find it easier to
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use and that it better conveys our mission and work. Our chat platform moved
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to <a href="/blog/2021/jun/21/chat-options/">XMPP</a>. Bridging to IRC and
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Matrix is supported, so you are welcome to join with whatever client you like
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(unlike other “Loose” options). Throughout the seemingly-endless video
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chatting during the pandemic, we have been one of only two FOSS organizations
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who insist on using FOSS video chat platforms like Big Blue Button. We are
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committed to using free software for communication and demonstrating that
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organizations of all sizes can make the same commitment.</p>
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<h3 id="WritingAndSpeaking">Writing and Speaking</h3>
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<div data-read-more="Find out about our writing and speaking engagements…">
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<p>Software Freedom Conservancy team members published important writings
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this year to both share essential historical context and modern
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interpretations. Denver Gingerich wrote about
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the <a href="/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/">installation requirement for
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the GPLv2</a>. Bradley M. Kuhn documented the historical record in his
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related piece
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about <a href="/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-the-gpl-right-to-install/">“Tivoization”
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and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft</a>. Bradley also explained
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how <cite><a href="/blog/2021/jun/30/who-should-own-foss-copyrights/">It
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Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights</a></cite> — which
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garnered a lot of great community conversations. In another vein, Sage
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Sharp of Outreachy wrote a tremendous piece
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titled <cite><a href="/blog/2021/apr/20/how-to-apologize/">So you want to
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apologize… Now what?</a></cite> — which has helped explain the
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entire life cycle apologizing for your own behavior. We can all learn from
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this piece about how to act more humanely in our shared spaces of
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production.</p>
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<p>Our staff has been presenting and speaking about software freedom all year.
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Our Executive Director Karen Sandler gave a remote keynote address at the 2022
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Public Domain & Open Source SW License Conference in Seoul, Korea. We also
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<a href="https://av.sfconservancy.org/vizio-update-from-karen.mp4">published a talk</a>
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Karen gave to update folks on the Vizio law suit. Karen was also at
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All Things Open for the <a href="https://2022.allthingsopen.org/sessions/open-source-law-policy-and-practice-book-panel/">Open Source Law Policy and Practice Book Panel</a>.
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She was joined other experts who
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contributed to <a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/44727">the book</a> and
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they had a conversation about current state and best practice for legal policy
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around free and open source software in addition to conducting a book signing
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(You can check out another book that Karen contributed a chapter to along with
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Marie Moe, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Modified-Living-Chris-Hables-Gray/dp/0815364016">"Modified: Living as a Cyborg"</a>,
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which became more widely available this year.)</p>
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<p>This was another long year of online conferences. While the traveling was
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easier (by not doing it), we miss the face to face relationship building
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that we've come to expect from our big
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conference gatherings. We can't wait to get back to a sense of normalcy and
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at least have a little less latency between us.</p>
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<div class="picture-small left">
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<img src="/img/scalex19-booth.jpg" alt="Booth with banners and merch at SCaLEx19" />
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<p>Pono took a photo of the SFC booth at SCaLEx19</p>
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</div></div>
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<p>Karen, our executive director, gave two keynotes this year, one at the <a href="/news/2021/mar/23/karen-lailec-2021/">Leuven AI Law & Ethics Conference</a> and another at <a href="https://conf.linuxappsummit.org/event/3/contributions/71/">Linux App Summit</a>. Karen also spoke with Marina Zhurakhinskaya at <cite>All Things Open</cite> about the 10+ year history of Outreachy. Karen was also an invited speaker at <a href="https://heales.org/2021/05/28/conference-big-data-a-i-and-healthy-longevity-how-to-progress-faster-and-better-for-all-scientists-thursday-september-9-2021/">Big Data, A.I. and Healthy Longevity: How to progress faster and better for all scientists</a>.</p>
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<p>Pono gave a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrJX1XYICmc">keynote at
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Git Merge</a> this October. Speaking on how the Git project is a canonical
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model for free software development and the ways it teaches by leading the way.
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He also boothed at <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x">SCaLE
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19x</a>, which was great to have the community centered conference back in
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action.</p>
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<p>Karen and Bradley were also co-organizers (with others) of the Legal &
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Policy Devroom at FOSDEM, where they also moderated panels and spoke.
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Daniel Pono Takamori gave a talk
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about <cite><a href="http://pdxlinux.org/2021-07-01-FreeSoftware-LegacyOfCommunication.pdf">How
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Free Software Continues the Legacy of Open Communication</a></cite> to the
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Portland Linux/ Unix Group.</p>
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<p>We were also a sponsor of the
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fantastic <a href="https://seagl.org/">SeaGL</a> event. A community focused
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conference that does an incredible job giving opportunities to first-time
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speakers (suitable for community members of all walks of life). They hosted
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their conference on the Matrix platform, which further proved it's possible
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to run a virtual conference with free software.</p>
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<p>Sage spoke at the September 2022 Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative EOSS, sharing
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advice on how Outreachy has improved its own inclusive processes, and the group
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discussed potential solutions for unresolved DEI issues in open science
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communities. Karen and Bradley co-organized the FOSDEM Legal & Policy DevRoom,
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which was held remotely. In addition to helping to organize the room, they also
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participated in a panel with the other organizers about the most critical
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topics facing FOSS today. SFC staffers also participate in key meetings to
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represent community interests in a variety of FOSS related discussions
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concerning security, governmental use of FOSS and in critical infrastructure
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discussions and also presented in classroom to educate students about software
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freedom.</p>
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software freedom that the world needs. <a href="/donate/">Please consider
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donating now!</a></p>
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<div class="picture-small right">
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<img src="/img/scaled-LLW-2015-Conservancy-Supporters-by-Carlo-Piana-CC-0.jpg" alt="Zack, Karen, John and Jim pose, mostly wearing the vintage t-shirt!" />
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<p>Vintage-shirt-wearing Sustainers pose with Karen! <br/>From left: Stefano “Zack” Zacchiroli, Karen M. Sandler, John Sullivan, and Jim Wright</p>
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</div>
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<div data-read-more="A note on t-shirts…">
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<p>We're all sick of hearing about supply chains, global shortages, and
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deliveries being delayed. But we must tell you up-front that since we have
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a small staff we try to batch our t-shirt orders, and given the realities
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of the pandemic, we are often a few months behind on t-shirt deliveries.
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Those owed t-shirts from early 2021 renewals should receive them by years'
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end. Meanwhile, we're working on a new t-shirt design for this year; check
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back here for an announcement later in the fundraising season! All
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renewals during this fundraising season will receive the new shirt! We so
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appreciate everyone's patience! </p>
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</div>
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<h3 id="VintageT">Vintage T-Shirt Promotion</h3>
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<div data-read-more="Would you like a last chance to receive a vintage Conservancy t-shirt? Find out how…">
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<p>If you're a Sustainer, you've already received or will soon receive a
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t-shirt in our 2018 design shown here. But,
|
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would you like to take advantage of a last chance to get our vintage design — seen sported so often
|
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by <a href="https://twitter.com/bensturmfels/status/599118574641262592">our earliest Sustainers</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy/status/786480068512002048">conferences and events</a>? If so, read on!</p>
|
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<div class="picture-tiny left">
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<img src="/img/brett-in-2018-shirt.jpg" alt="Brett wears the 2018 t-shirt!" />
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<p><a href="/about/staff/#brett">Brett Smith</a> wears the current t-shirt design.</p>
|
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</div>
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|
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<p><strong>UPDATE: Just give $256 total for this year's fundraiser and
|
||||
receive an additional vintage T-shirt!</strong></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>But first, as a note to how difficult this year has been, we know that many of our 2019 Sustainers are still
|
||||
awaiting their t-shirts, which have the wonderful 2018 design. We've had difficulty working through
|
||||
keeping our staff safe during the pandemic lock downs and making trips to the post office — historically,
|
||||
we on staff all shared the post office trips, but we all have different COVID-19 risk factors and thus it's all moving
|
||||
slowly. We appreciate the patience of our Sustainers waiting for t-shirts, and we do have plan to safely send out
|
||||
the backlog by years' end.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>As part of those preparations, we found a treasure trove and now have an exciting promotion for renewing
|
||||
Sustainers. We found an old stash of <strong>vintage t-shirts</strong>, in the old style! Supplies are limited,
|
||||
but for those few sustainers who would like to receive one, we have a special offer. Sustainers who give
|
||||
$256 or more between 2020-01-15 and 2021-01-15 can receive one of these vintage t-shirts! To claim your vintage t-shirt, do the following:
|
||||
|
||||
<div class="picture-tiny right">
|
||||
<img src="/img/2019-08-26_Neil-alone_GUADECSupporterNight.jpg" alt="Neil McGovern, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation, wears the vintage t-shirt!" />
|
||||
<p>Neil McGovern wearing that stylish vintage shirt!</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li>Renew as a <a href="/sustainer/#annual">an annual sustainer</a> for $256 or more. (Alternatively, if
|
||||
you already gave this year, make a <a href="/donate/">separate donation</a> so that your 2020 total is $256.)</li>
|
||||
<li> <a href="mailto:vintaget@sfconservancy.org">Email <vintaget@sfconservancy.org></a> and include the email
|
||||
address and date(s) of your donation(s) that total $256 and your
|
||||
desired size. (We have all sizes <strong>except MenM</strong> in
|
||||
stock. Supplies <em>are</em> limited; we cannot necessarily guarantee
|
||||
your size selection, and we'll continue to update here as sizes run out.)</li>
|
||||
</ul></p>
|
||||
|
||||
<div class="picture-small left">
|
||||
<img src="/img/2020-12-04_lots-vintage-shirts.jpg" alt="A big stack of vintage Conservancy t-shirts!" />
|
||||
<p>Supplies won't last; give $256 and make one of these vintage shirts yours today!</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>You too can look cool in the vintage design. Or maybe your original has faded and you're ready to spruce up with a new one? As we said,
|
||||
supplies are limited so make a big donation today, support Conservancy, and show you've always been old-school — or just
|
||||
want to look that way!</p>
|
||||
</div>
|
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|
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