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<h3 id="YearInReview">Our Year in Review</h3> <h3 id="YearInReview">Our Year in Review</h3>
<div data-read-more="Summary of our year&hellip;"> <div data-read-more="Summary of our year&hellip;">
<p>We are proud to tell you about the important work we've accomplished over <p>This has been a big year for Software Freedom Conservancy in our tireless
the past 12 months. Software Freedom Conservancy continues to set the bar for efforts to promote ethical technology, increase diversity and inclusion in
promoting ethical technology and advocacy for software freedom. Whether it's FOSS, continuing to fight for your rights with <a
continuing the tireless and incredibly important work of <a
href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/">copyleft compliance</a>, href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/">copyleft compliance</a>,
growing and working with our many <a and support our incredible <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/">member projects</a>.
href="https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/">member projects</a>, or Our staff engaged in many invited speaking opportunities, we grew our staff,
leading the way in promoting diversity and inclusion efforts with <a and we continue to build community around important issues like the software
href="https://www.Outreachy.org/">Outreachy</a> and <a Right to Repair movement. We hosted our first large conference, <a href="https://fossy.us">FOSSY</a>,
href="https://computinginresearch.org/">The Institute for Computing in and while we finalize details for next year, we hope to see you there to join
Research</a>. This year was no different in showing our dedication to software us in community!</p>
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>. <p>We are entering the third 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 There is still a lot of work that needs to be done to ensure that all recipients
attained an initial <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/16/vizio-remand-win/">historic victory</a> of GPL'd software maintain rights as <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html#third-party-beneficiary">third-parth beneficiaries</a>,
in succeeding to remand the case back from federal to state court. but after a <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/oct/12/transcript-msj-hearing/">recent argument in the case</a>,
We've been grateful to see so much support from our Sustainers and communities but we are still moving in the right direction. With the rise of the <a
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 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 growing desire from "everyday consumers" to have the ability to repair the
software on their phones and other internet connected devices. Our projects software on their phones and other internet connected devices. Our projects
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devices. (And speaking of our projects, there's a highlight of what some of 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 projects did this year below!) We also pursued many other violations (that our
<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles</a> <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 don't permit us to disclose at the moment) and our <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 copyright assignment form</a> enables FOSS contributors to, without overly
burdensome paperwork, entrust their copyrights to a nonprofit dedicated to burdensome paperwork, entrust their copyrights to a nonprofit dedicated to
software freedom and rights of users all over the world.</p> software freedom and rights of users all over the world.</p>
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(narrated by our Executive Director Karen Sandler) that introduces (narrated by our Executive Director Karen Sandler) that introduces
the ideas of software freedom, and specifically what Software Freedom the ideas of software freedom, and specifically what Software Freedom
Conservancy does. We also did a lot of public writings about some of the 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> important issues this year. From <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/feb/09/kuhn-neo4j-purethink-expert-report/">our perspective on the Neo4j suit</a>
to <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/01/biden-foss-security-sbom-copyleft-right-to-repair/">political outreach</a> to <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/aug/15/exit-zoom/">highlighting problematic behavior from proprietary software companies</a>, you can find out more about our speaking engagements
as well as <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/jul/18/foss-for-sale-in-ms-app-store/">leading a conversation</a> below.</p>
standing up for developers and distributors of free software.</p>
<div style="overflow: auto"> <div style="overflow: auto">
<div class="picture-small right"> <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> <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> </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> </div>
<h3 id="Highlights">Highlights from some of our projects</h3> <h3 id="Highlights">Highlights from some of our projects</h3>
<div data-read-more="Read more about our projects&hellip;"> <div data-read-more="Read more about our projects&hellip;">
<p>For the second year in a row, we've raised, administered and/or <p>For the third year in a row, we've raised, administered and/or
facilitated $1.7 million to improve software freedom directly! This facilitated $1.7 million to improve software freedom directly! This
includes contractors, interns and students, administrators, and grants includes contractors, interns and students, administrators, and grants
for creation, distribution and maintenance of free software projects. for creation, distribution and maintenance of free software projects.
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the May 2022 cohort with over 30 Free and Open Source software communities. the May 2022 cohort with over 30 Free and Open Source software communities.
Bringing in new communities in the Open Science and Humanitarian spheres, Bringing in new communities in the Open Science and Humanitarian spheres,
Outreachy continues to lead the way in providing opportunities to historically Outreachy continues to lead the way in providing opportunities to historically
excluded and under represented people in technology. With over 900 interns excluded and under represented people in technology. Celebrating their 1000th
accepted to the program to date, Outreachy continues to grow and expand it's intern (!!!), there were celebrations all over the world and the participants
community. Outreachy also hired a new community manager, Omotola Omotayo. from all 17 years of it's history came out to be in community with each other.
Having recently <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/nov/16/omotola-sca-award/">won an </p>
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>A few of our projects put on or are planning to put on conferences. <b>Git</b> <p><b>OpenWrt</b> released <a href="https://openwrt.org/releases/23.05/notes-23.05.0">version 23.05.0</a>
Merge was held in Chicago in September. It provided a great face to face space which continued adding hardware support for myriad devices, now supporting over
for the international group of developers to come together, decide on some 1790 devices, over 200 of which were added since last year! There is also now
technical directions and have other conversations that are greatly sped up by support for various Rust packages, and major improvements to the core
in person meeting. <b>Wine</b>Conf was held simultaneously with the X.Org developer's components. OpenWrt remains one of the most important alternative firmware
conference and FOSS XR in Minneapolis the first week of October. The twelfth <a projects, ensuring user rights in the ability to install (free) software on
href="https://con.racket-lang.org/">RacketCon</a> was run at the end of your own devices.</p>
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><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><a href="https://computinginresearch.org/">The Institute for Computing in <p><a href="https://computinginresearch.org/">The Institute for Computing in
Research</a> completed it's first round in Austin, Texas. Now providing Research</a> completed it's fifth year, supporting 32 students in 3 cities this
training, education and real world software experience to high school students summer. Now providing training, education and real world software experience to
in 3 cities and exploring additional cities that may join next summer. These high school students in 3 cities and exploring additional cities that may join
research internships are a great way for high school students to get involved next summer. These research internships are a great way for high school
in real academic research while also being exposed to the ideas and principles students to get involved in real academic research while also being exposed to
of software freedom.</p> the ideas and principles of software freedom.</p>
<p><a href="https://inkscape.org">Inkscape</a> just celebrated their 20th
anniversary! Coinciding with their new <a href="https://inkscape.org/news/2023/11/18/big-small-release-inkscape-131-is-out/">1.3.1 release</a>, 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 <a href="https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/october-bug-accelerator-2023/">bug accelerator program</a>, a migration to <a href="https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/august-gtk4-migration-tavmjong/">GTK4</a>, another year of <a href="https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/customizable-canvas-controls/">GSOC participation</a> and new support for <a href="https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/may-ai-extension-2023/">Adobe Illustrator import</a>!</p>
<p>Our member projects had a range of in person and online events this year.
<b>Inkscape</b> 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 <b>Selenium</b> <a
href="https://seleniumconf.com/">conference</a> was in Chicago this past
may</a>. Attendence from over 10 countries, it was an incredible reunion for
the project contributors and users to get together. The <b>Git</b>
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 <a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/">Reproducible Builds</a>
annual summit was hosted in Hamburg featuring incredible
technical talks, project planning and continues to build the momentum and
reach for reproducibility. </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>
</div> </div>
<h3 id="NewStaff">New staff!</h3> <h3 id="NewStaff">New staff!</h3>
<div data-read-more="Click more for on our new staff&hellip;"> <div data-read-more="Click more for on our new staff&hellip;">
<p>SFC hired an additional employee this year! <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/about/staff/#tracy">Tracy Homer</a> <p>SFC hired two additional employees this year! General Counsel Rick Sanders
is our new Operations Manager. Outside of Tracy's' work with SFC, she is joins the team to help with our continued legal needs. Rick has over 20 years'
studying GIS at the University of Tennessee and is a board member of her local experience as a intellectual-property litigator. His expertise has been
hackerspace. We're so excited to have someone to with her set of skills help us critical in helping our license compliance efforts and helping our organization
build out our organization. Helping out with everything from international take on the increasing needs from projects and new initiatives. SFC's new
banking and tax questions, to conference planning, Tracy's been an incredible systems administrator is Paul Visscher. With over 20 years experience with
addition to our team. She rounds out our team to 7 people (largest we've ever Linux and free software, Paul's belief in the power of free software to help
been!).</p> people engage with technology in non-exploitative ways fits in perfectly to
support our growing organizational needs and mission. Helping make sure we
can provide solid FOSS replacements to proprietary technologies for all of us.</p>
</div> </div>
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<div data-read-more="Find out about our writing and speaking engagements&hellip;"> <div data-read-more="Find out about our writing and speaking engagements&hellip;">
<p>Our staff has been presenting and speaking about software freedom all year. <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 Our Executive Director Karen Sandler received an honorary doctorate from
Public Domain & Open Source SW License Conference in Seoul, Korea. We also Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for her incredible work in FOSS leadership, and
<a href="https://av.sfconservancy.org/vizio-update-from-karen.mp4">published a talk</a> her advocacy and pursuit of software freedom and rights for all.
Karen gave to update folks on the Vizio law suit. Karen was also at In November she spoke at <a href="https://www.sfscon.it/talks/the-history-of-and-path-forward-for-copyleft-and-the-gpl/">SFSCON about "The History of, and Path forward for, Copyleft and the GPL"</a>.</p>
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>
<div style="overflow: auto"> <video class="small-right" controls="" poster="/videos/2023-02-02_Sandler-Karen_KU-Leuven_Honorary-Doctorate_still.png" id="doctorate_vid">
<div class="picture-small left"> <source src="/videos/2023-02-02_Sandler-Karen_KU-Leuven_Honorary-Doctorate.mp4">
<img src="/img/scalex19-booth.jpg" alt="Booth with banners and merch at SCaLEx19" /> <track src="/docs/2023-02-02_Sandler-Karen_KU-Leuven_Honorary-Doctorate.en.txt" kind="subtitles" srclang="en" label="English" />
<p>Pono took a photo of the SFC booth at SCaLEx19</p> <track src="/docs/2023-02-02_Sandler-Karen_KU-Leuven_Honorary-Doctorate.nl.txt" kind="subtitles" srclang="nl" label="Dutch (NL)" />
</div></div> <a href="/videos/2023-02-02_Sandler-Karen_KU-Leuven_Honorary-Doctorate.mp4">Download the talk video</a>
or <a href="https://youtu.be/zca7dOU7jfs">watch on YouTube</a>
</video>
<p>Pono gave a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrJX1XYICmc">keynote at <p>Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn gave many conference talks and also represented SFC at many
Git Merge</a> this October. Speaking on how the Git project is a canonical government hearings and inquiries. Beginning the year at <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/speaker/bradley_m_kuhn/">FOSDEM</a>,
model for free software development and the ways it teaches by leading the way. Bradley (and Karen) led the Legal and Policy DevRoom. He then spoke at SCaLE
He also boothed at <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x">SCaLE 20x giving a talk titled <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/learning-big-failures-improve-foss-advocacy-and-adoption">Learning From the Big Failures To Improve FOSS Advocacy and Adoption</a>.
19x</a>, which was great to have the community centered conference back in As a panel member, he was the only representative for the FOSS community on
action.</p> the FTC's discussion <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/oct/04/ftc-ai-panel/">“Creative Economy and Generative AI“</a></p>
<p>Sage spoke at the September 2022 Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative EOSS, sharing <p>Our Director of Compliance, Denver Gingerich, spoke at SFSCON talking about what it's really like to <a href="https://www.sfscon.it/talks/how-do-you-really-do-gpl-enforcement/">enforce the GPL</a>. His talk at FOSSY titled <a href="https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/84/">You don't carry a phone?! Improving societal acceptance of abnormal people</a>
advice on how Outreachy has improved its own inclusive processes, and the group was one of the most talked about from our own conference.
discussed potential solutions for unresolved DEI issues in open science Pono represented SFC at <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x">SCaLE
communities. Karen and Bradley co-organized the FOSDEM Legal & Policy DevRoom, 19x</a> and <a href="https://seagl.org">SeaGL</a>, which was great to be back
which was held remotely. In addition to helping to organize the room, they also at community centered conferences.
participated in a panel with the other organizers about the most critical SFC staffers also participate in key meetings to represent community interests
topics facing FOSS today. SFC staffers also participate in key meetings to in a variety of FOSS related discussions concerning security, governmental use
represent community interests in a variety of FOSS related discussions of FOSS and in critical infrastructure discussions and also presented in
concerning security, governmental use of FOSS and in critical infrastructure classroom to educate students about software freedom.</p>
discussions and also presented in classroom to educate students about software
freedom.</p>
</div> </div>