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