SFC lawyers posing outside the courthouse - CC BY-SA 4.0 +
We are entering the third year of our lawsuit against Vizio. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done to ensure that all recipients of GPL'd software maintain rights as third-parth beneficiaries, @@ -130,74 +133,13 @@ below.
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-For the third 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.
- -Outreachy accepted 63 interns in the December 2022 cohort, and 64 interns in -the May 2023 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. Celebrating their 1000th -intern (!!!), there were celebrations all over the world and the participants -from all 17 years of it's history came out to be in community with each other. -
- -OpenWrt released version 23.05.0 -which continued adding hardware support for myriad devices, now supporting over -1790 devices, over 200 of which were added since last year! There is also now -support for various Rust packages, and major improvements to the core -components. OpenWrt remains one of the most important alternative firmware -projects, ensuring user rights in the ability to install (free) software on -your own devices.
- - -The Institute for Computing in -Research completed it's fifth year, supporting 32 students in 3 cities this -summer. 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.
- -Inkscape just celebrated their 20th -anniversary! Coinciding with their new 1.3.1 release, Inkscape is as active as ever and proving itself one -of the most vital free software projects, full of longevity and an ever -growing community. This year has been a big year of development, marking some -very exciting developments for the project. Creation of a new bug accelerator program, a migration to GTK4, another year of GSOC participation and new support for Adobe Illustrator import!
- -Our member projects had a range of in person and online events this year. -Inkscape hosted an in-person meeting in Bensberg, Germany. A great meeting -for the PLC and contributors to get together to plan and work on technical -challenges. The first back in-person Selenium conference was in Chicago this past -may. Attendence from over 10 countries, it was an incredible reunion for -the project contributors and users to get together. The Git -contributor summit was held online this year in September. Topics ranged from -ideas of new library support to how to better support for scaling with large -code forges and what the new contributor experience is like. A great mix of -code related and process related talks. The Reproducible Builds -annual summit was hosted in Hamburg featuring incredible -technical talks, project planning and continues to build the momentum and -reach for reproducibility.
- - -SFC hired two additional employees this year! General Counsel Rick Sanders -joins the team to help with our continued legal needs. Rick has over 20 years' +joins the team to help with our continued legal needs. Rick has over 20 years experience as a intellectual-property litigator. His expertise has been critical in helping our license compliance efforts and helping our organization take on the increasing needs from projects and new initiatives. SFC's new @@ -248,6 +190,75 @@ classroom to educate students about software freedom.
For the third 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.
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+ Group Picture: Outreachy interns, mentors, and community coordinators gathered to celebrate the 1,000 interns milestone in Lagos, Nigeria.
+Outreachy accepted 63 interns in the December 2022 cohort, and 64 interns in +the May 2023 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. Celebrating their 1000th +intern (!!!), there were celebrations all over the world and the participants +from all 17 years of its history came out to be in community with each other. +
+ +OpenWrt released version 23.05.0 +which continued adding hardware support for myriad devices, now supporting over +1790 devices, over 200 of which were added since last year! There is also now +support for various Rust packages, and major improvements to the core +components. OpenWrt remains one of the most important alternative firmware +projects, ensuring user rights in the ability to install (free) software on +your own devices.
+ + +The Institute for Computing in +Research completed it's fifth year, supporting 32 students in 3 cities this +summer. 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.
+ +Inkscape just celebrated their 20th +anniversary! Coinciding with their new 1.3.1 release, Inkscape is as active as ever and proving itself one +of the most vital free software projects, full of longevity and an ever +growing community. This year has been a big year of development, marking some +very exciting developments for the project. Creation of a new bug accelerator program, a migration to GTK4, another year of GSOC participation and new support for Adobe Illustrator import!
+ +Our member projects had a range of in person and online events this year. +Inkscape hosted an in-person meeting in Bensberg, Germany. A great meeting +for the PLC and contributors to get together to plan and work on technical +challenges. The first back in-person Selenium conference was in Chicago this past +may. Attendance from over 10 countries, it was an incredible reunion for +the project contributors and users to get together. The Git +contributor summit was held online this year in September. Topics ranged from +ideas of new library support to how to better support for scaling with large +code forges and what the new contributor experience is like. A great mix of +code related and process related talks. The Reproducible Builds +annual summit was hosted in Hamburg featuring incredible +technical talks, project planning and continues to build the momentum and +reach for reproducibility.
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