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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>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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<p>This has been a big year for Software Freedom Conservancy in our tireless
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efforts to promote ethical technology, increase diversity and inclusion in
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FOSS, continuing to fight for your rights with <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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and support our incredible <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/">member projects</a>.
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Our staff engaged in many invited speaking opportunities, we grew our staff,
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and we continue to build community around important issues like the software
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Right to Repair movement. We hosted our first large conference, <a href="https://fossy.us">FOSSY</a>,
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and while we finalize details for next year, we hope to see you there to join
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us in community!</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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<p>We are entering the third year of our <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html">lawsuit against Vizio</a>.
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There is still a lot of work that needs to be done to ensure that all recipients
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of GPL'd software maintain rights as <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html#third-party-beneficiary">third-parth beneficiaries</a>,
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but after a <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/oct/12/transcript-msj-hearing/">recent argument in the case</a>,
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but we are still moving in the right direction. 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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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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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
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copyright assignment form</a> enables FOSS contributors to, 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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(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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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>
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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
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below.</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>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>For the second year in a row, we've raised, administered and/or
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<p>For the third 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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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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excluded and under represented people in technology. Celebrating their 1000th
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intern (!!!), there were celebrations all over the world and the participants
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from all 17 years of it's history came out to be in community with each other.
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</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><b>OpenWrt</b> released <a href="https://openwrt.org/releases/23.05/notes-23.05.0">version 23.05.0</a>
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which continued adding hardware support for myriad devices, now supporting over
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1790 devices, over 200 of which were added since last year! There is also now
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support for various Rust packages, and major improvements to the core
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components. OpenWrt remains one of the most important alternative firmware
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projects, ensuring user rights in the ability to install (free) software on
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your own devices.</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><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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Research</a> completed it's fifth year, supporting 32 students in 3 cities this
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summer. Now providing training, education and real world software experience to
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high school students in 3 cities and exploring additional cities that may join
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next summer. These research internships are a great way for high school
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students to get involved in real academic research while also being exposed to
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the ideas and principles of software freedom.</p>
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<p><a href="https://inkscape.org">Inkscape</a> just celebrated their 20th
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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
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of the most vital free software projects, full of longevity and an ever
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growing community. This year has been a big year of development, marking some
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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>
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<p>Our member projects had a range of in person and online events this year.
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<b>Inkscape</b> hosted an in-person meeting in Bensberg, Germany. A great meeting
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for the PLC and contributors to get together to plan and work on technical
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challenges. The first back in-person <b>Selenium</b> <a
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href="https://seleniumconf.com/">conference</a> was in Chicago this past
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may</a>. Attendence from over 10 countries, it was an incredible reunion for
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the project contributors and users to get together. The <b>Git</b>
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contributor summit was held online this year in September. Topics ranged from
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ideas of new library support to how to better support for scaling with large
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code forges and what the new contributor experience is like. A great mix of
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code related and process related talks. The <a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/">Reproducible Builds</a>
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annual summit was hosted in Hamburg featuring incredible
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technical talks, project planning and continues to build the momentum and
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reach for reproducibility. </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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<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>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>SFC hired two additional employees this year! General Counsel Rick Sanders
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joins the team to help with our continued legal needs. Rick has over 20 years'
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experience as a intellectual-property litigator. His expertise has been
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critical in helping our license compliance efforts and helping our organization
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take on the increasing needs from projects and new initiatives. SFC's new
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systems administrator is Paul Visscher. With over 20 years experience with
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Linux and free software, Paul's belief in the power of free software to help
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people engage with technology in non-exploitative ways fits in perfectly to
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support our growing organizational needs and mission. Helping make sure we
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can provide solid FOSS replacements to proprietary technologies for all of us.</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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Our Executive Director Karen Sandler received an honorary doctorate from
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for her incredible work in FOSS leadership, and
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her advocacy and pursuit of software freedom and rights for all.
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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>
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<img src="/img/scalex19-booth.jpg" alt="Booth with banners and merch at SCaLEx19" />
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<video class="small-right" controls="" poster="/videos/2023-02-02_Sandler-Karen_KU-Leuven_Honorary-Doctorate_still.png" id="doctorate_vid">
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<source src="/videos/2023-02-02_Sandler-Karen_KU-Leuven_Honorary-Doctorate.mp4">
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<a href="/videos/2023-02-02_Sandler-Karen_KU-Leuven_Honorary-Doctorate.mp4">Download the talk video</a>
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or <a href="https://youtu.be/zca7dOU7jfs">watch on YouTube</a>
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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>Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn gave many conference talks and also represented SFC at many
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government hearings and inquiries. Beginning the year at <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/speaker/bradley_m_kuhn/">FOSDEM</a>,
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Bradley (and Karen) led the Legal and Policy DevRoom. He then spoke at SCaLE
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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>.
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As a panel member, he was the only representative for the FOSS community on
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the FTC's discussion <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/oct/04/ftc-ai-panel/">“Creative Economy and Generative AI“</a></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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<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>
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was one of the most talked about from our own conference.
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Pono represented SFC at <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x">SCaLE
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19x</a> and <a href="https://seagl.org">SeaGL</a>, which was great to be back
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at community centered conferences.
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SFC staffers also participate in key meetings to represent community interests
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in a variety of FOSS related discussions concerning security, governmental use
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of FOSS and in critical infrastructure discussions and also presented in
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classroom to educate students about software freedom.</p>
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