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| <h3 id="YearInReview">Our Year in Review</h3> | ||||
| <div data-read-more="Summary of our year…"> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>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 <a href="/blog/2021/feb/08/just-say-no-to-zoom/">conferences run | ||||
|    solely with free software</a>.  We have been pleased to support free | ||||
|    communication tools to assist with these efforts. <b>Our commitment to | ||||
|    using, developing, and supporting free software tools and communities has | ||||
|     never been stronger.</b></p> | ||||
| <p>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 <a | ||||
| href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/">copyleft compliance</a>, | ||||
| growing and working with our many <a | ||||
| href="https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/">member projects</a>, or | ||||
| leading the way in promoting diversity and inclusion efforts with <a | ||||
| href="https://www.Outreachy.org/">Outreachy</a> and <a | ||||
| href="https://computinginresearch.org/">The Institute for Computing in | ||||
| Research</a>. This year was no different in showing our dedication to software | ||||
| freedom and critiques of those who oppose it.</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>We are entering the second year of our <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html">lawsuit against Vizio</a>. | ||||
| While there's a long way to go in this groundbreaking suit, we've already | ||||
| attained an initial <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/16/vizio-remand-win/">historic victory</a> | ||||
| 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 <a | ||||
| href="https://www.repair.org/">Right to Repair</a> 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 <a href="https://openwrt.org/">OpenWrt</a> and <a | ||||
| href="https://coreboot.org/">coreboot</a> 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 | ||||
| <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles</a> | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| copyright assignment form</a> 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.</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>Over the past year, we took on new work that would have | ||||
|   been <em>impossible</em> without your support. Last month, we filed | ||||
|   a <a href="/vizio">lawsuit against long time license violator Vizio</a>. | ||||
|   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.</p> | ||||
| <p>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 <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/12/introduction/">we've created a video</a> | ||||
| (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 <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/mar/30/neo4j-v-purethink-open-source-affero-gpl/">interesting legal developments</a> | ||||
| to <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/01/biden-foss-security-sbom-copyleft-right-to-repair/">political outreach</a> | ||||
| as well as <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/jul/18/foss-for-sale-in-ms-app-store/">leading a conversation</a> | ||||
| standing up for developers and distributors of free software.</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p id="dmca-exemptions">This year, we filed more DMCA exemption requests than any organization in | ||||
|   the country — | ||||
|   and <a href="/news/2021/oct/28/2021-DMCA-final-exemptions-win/">we won on | ||||
|   every single one</a>.  We clarified the right to jailbreak of routers (an | ||||
|   essential activity of our <a href="https://openwrt.org">OpenWrt | ||||
|   project</a>), 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, <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 | ||||
|   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.</p> | ||||
| <div style="overflow: auto"> | ||||
| <div class="picture-small right"> | ||||
|   <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> | ||||
| </div> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>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 <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/12/introduction/">we've created a video</a> | ||||
| (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 <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/mar/30/neo4j-v-purethink-open-source-affero-gpl/">interesting legal developments</a> | ||||
| to <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/01/biden-foss-security-sbom-copyleft-right-to-repair/">political outreach</a> | ||||
| as well as <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/jul/18/foss-for-sale-in-ms-app-store/">leading a conversation</a> | ||||
| standing up for developers and distributors of free software.</p> </div> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>We also started a campaign to <b><a href="https://giveupgithub.org">Give Up | ||||
| GitHub</a></b>. 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, <a href="https://git-scm.com/">git</a> | ||||
| 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 <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/">blog post</a> | ||||
| about the issue to find alternatives and other ways you can help this | ||||
| divestment effort.</p> | ||||
| </div> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <h3 id="Highlights">Highlights from some of our projects</h3> | ||||
| <div data-read-more="Read more about our projects…"> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|   <p>Software Freedom Conservancy helped our projects engage in critical work | ||||
|   this year. Overall, we raised, administered and facilitated <strong>$1.7 million</strong> | ||||
|   to improve software freedom — this year alone!  Those funds | ||||
|   go <em>directly</em> to fund <acronym title="Free and Open Source Software">FOSS</acronym> | ||||
|   contributors.  We do the arduous work to sustain these FOSS communities:</p> | ||||
|   <p>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.</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>We helped <b>Outreachy</b> 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 <strong>27% growth</strong> 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.</p> | ||||
| <p><b>Outreachy</b> 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 <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/nov/16/omotola-sca-award/">won an | ||||
| award at the She Code Africa Summit</a>, 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.</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p><b>Godot</b> 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 | ||||
|   <a href="https://godotengine.org/community">focus on community</a>.  Watch | ||||
|   their fun, exciting, | ||||
|   and <a href="https://godotengine.org/article/announcing-2021-godot-games-showreel">brand | ||||
|   new showreel</a> to see what these cutting edge creators are making.</p> | ||||
| <p>A few of our projects put on or are planning to put on conferences. <b>Git</b> | ||||
| 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. <b>Wine</b>Conf was held simultaneously with the X.Org developer's | ||||
| conference and FOSS XR in Minneapolis the first week of October. The twelfth <a | ||||
| href="https://con.racket-lang.org/">RacketCon</a> was run at the end of | ||||
| October. <a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/">Reproducible Builds</a> had their summit in the beginning of November in | ||||
| Venice. We're also working with the <b>Selenium</b> project on their <a href="https://seleniumconf.com/">upcoming conference</a> | ||||
| March 28-30 2023.</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>Software Freedom Conservancy also proudly supports, with direct funding of | ||||
|   contributors, the <b>Reproducible Builds</b> 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 <a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/tools/">tools | ||||
|   they've made</a> are freely available to help others increase | ||||
|   reproducibility in their own projects.</p> | ||||
| <p><b>OpenWrt</b> just released <a href="https://openwrt.org/releases/22.03/notes-22.03.2">version 22.03.02</a> | ||||
| 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.</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p><b>OpenWrt</b> recently had their OpenWrt 21.02 release — which | ||||
|   increases the default security options including optional SELinux | ||||
|   and <acronym title="Address Space Layout Randomization">ASLR</acronym>.  | ||||
|   OpenWrt empowers users to run a free | ||||
|   operating system on their routers.  Combined with <a href="#dmca-exemptions">our DMCA exemption</a>, | ||||
|   the landscape of free firmware is now much easier to explore and | ||||
|   deploy.  Meanwhile, another of our projects, <b>coreboot</b>, has further grown the supported hardware | ||||
|   list for freeing your bootloader. These two projects are at the core of | ||||
|   our <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html">firmware | ||||
|   liberation initiative</a>. 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 <em>more</em>  for hardware that | ||||
|   respects their rights and freedoms!</p> | ||||
| <p><a href="https://computinginresearch.org/">The Institute for Computing in | ||||
| Research</a> 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.</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>And in a happy close of a member project relationship, <a href="https://godotengine.org/">Godot</a> | ||||
| has <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/nov/01/godot-graduates/">graduated from Conservancy</a> | ||||
| to <a href="https://godotengine.org/article/godots-graduation-godot-moves-to-a-new-foundation">start its own foundation</a>. | ||||
| 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.</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p><b>The Institute for Computing in Research</b> has furthered its mission. | ||||
|   After two successful rounds of interns in Santa Fe, New Mexico, | ||||
|   <acronym title="The Institute for Computing in Research">ICR</acronym> | ||||
|   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. </p> | ||||
| </div> | ||||
| 
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| <h3 id="NewStaff">New staff!</h3> | ||||
| <div data-read-more="Click more for on our new staff…"> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>At the end of last year, we | ||||
|   hired <a href="/news/2020/dec/02/sharp-newest-employee/">Sage Sharp</a> as | ||||
|   Senior Director of Diversity & Inclusion; they about to complete their | ||||
|   first year with us. Meanwhile, finishing up his first six months | ||||
|   is <a href="/blog/2021/may/18/pono-introduction/">Daniel | ||||
|   Pono Takamori</a>, our Community Organizer & Non-Profit Problem | ||||
|   Solver.  These two are very welcome additions to our team of <em>just five</em> | ||||
|   full-time employees, and <em>one</em> part-time employee. We are proud of the | ||||
|   breadth of skills and dedication of our team.</p> | ||||
| <p>SFC hired an additional employee this year! <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/about/staff/#tracy">Tracy Homer</a> | ||||
| 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!).</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>As a testament to “practice what you preach”, we undertook | ||||
|   what we consider a fair and equitable hiring process which our executive | ||||
|   director | ||||
|   Karen <a href="/blog/2021/oct/15/equitable-hiring/">described | ||||
|   in detail on our website</a>. We | ||||
|   lead by example — with transparency and casting a wide net to avoid just hiring within our circles.</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>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 <a href="/blog/2021/jun/21/chat-options/">XMPP</a>. 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.</p> | ||||
| </div> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <h3 id="WritingAndSpeaking">Writing and Speaking</h3> | ||||
| <div data-read-more="Find out about our writing and speaking engagements…"> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>Software Freedom Conservancy team members published important writings | ||||
|   this year to both share essential historical context and modern | ||||
|   interpretations.  Denver Gingerich wrote about | ||||
|   the <a href="/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/">installation requirement for | ||||
|   the GPLv2</a>. Bradley M. Kuhn documented the historical record in his | ||||
|   related piece | ||||
|   about <a href="/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-the-gpl-right-to-install/">“Tivoization” | ||||
|   and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft</a>. Bradley also explained | ||||
|   how <cite><a href="/blog/2021/jun/30/who-should-own-foss-copyrights/">It | ||||
|   Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights</a></cite> — which | ||||
|   garnered a lot of great community conversations. In another vein, Sage | ||||
|   Sharp of Outreachy wrote a tremendous piece | ||||
|   titled <cite><a href="/blog/2021/apr/20/how-to-apologize/">So you want to | ||||
|   apologize… Now what?</a></cite> — 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.</p> | ||||
| <p>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 | ||||
| <a href="https://av.sfconservancy.org/vizio-update-from-karen.mp4">published a talk</a> | ||||
| Karen gave to update folks on the Vizio law suit. Karen was also at | ||||
| 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>. | ||||
| She was joined other experts who | ||||
| contributed to <a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/44727">the book</a> 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, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Modified-Living-Chris-Hables-Gray/dp/0815364016">"Modified: Living as a Cyborg"</a>, | ||||
| which became more widely available this year.)</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>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.</p> | ||||
| <div style="overflow: auto"> | ||||
| <div class="picture-small left"> | ||||
|   <img src="/img/scalex19-booth.jpg" alt="Booth with banners and merch at SCaLEx19" /> | ||||
|   <p>Pono took a photo of the SFC booth at SCaLEx19</p> | ||||
| </div></div> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <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> | ||||
| <p>Pono gave a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrJX1XYICmc">keynote at | ||||
| Git Merge</a> 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 <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x">SCaLE | ||||
| 19x</a>, which was great to have the community centered conference back in | ||||
| action.</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>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 <cite><a href="http://pdxlinux.org/2021-07-01-FreeSoftware-LegacyOfCommunication.pdf">How | ||||
|   Free Software Continues the Legacy of Open Communication</a></cite> to the | ||||
|   Portland Linux/ Unix Group.</p> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>We were also a sponsor of the | ||||
| fantastic <a href="https://seagl.org/">SeaGL</a> 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.</p> | ||||
| <p>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.</p> | ||||
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| 
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| </div> | ||||
| 
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|  | @ -274,77 +296,12 @@ to run a virtual conference with free software.</p> | |||
|   software freedom that the world needs. <a href="/donate/">Please consider | ||||
|   donating now!</a></p> | ||||
| 
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| 
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| <div style="overflow: auto"> | ||||
| <div class="picture-small right"> | ||||
|   <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!" /> | ||||
|   <p>Vintage-shirt-wearing Sustainers pose with Karen! <br/>From left: Stefano “Zack” Zacchiroli, Karen M. Sandler, John Sullivan, and Jim Wright</p> | ||||
| </div> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <div data-read-more="A note on t-shirts…"> | ||||
| <p>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! </p> | ||||
| </div> | ||||
| 
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| <h3 id="VintageT">Vintage T-Shirt Promotion</h3> | ||||
| <div data-read-more="Would you like a last chance to receive a vintage Conservancy t-shirt?  Find out how…"> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <p>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 <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"> | ||||
| <img src="/img/brett-in-2018-shirt.jpg" alt="Brett wears the 2018 t-shirt!" /> | ||||
| <p><a href="/about/staff/#brett">Brett Smith</a> wears the current t-shirt design.</p> | ||||
| </div> | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| <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> | ||||
| 
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| <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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