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, @@ -130,6 +133,61 @@ below.
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+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 +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 +systems administrator is Paul Visscher. With over 20 years experience with +Linux and free software, Paul's belief in the power of free software to help +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.
+ + +Our staff has been presenting and speaking about software freedom all year. +Our Executive Director Karen Sandler received an honorary doctorate from +Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for her incredible work in FOSS leadership, and +her advocacy and pursuit of software freedom and rights for all. +In November she spoke at SFSCON about "The History of, and Path forward for, Copyleft and the GPL".
+ + + +Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn gave many conference talks and also represented SFC at many +government hearings and inquiries. Beginning the year at FOSDEM, +Bradley (and Karen) led the Legal and Policy DevRoom. He then spoke at SCaLE +20x giving a talk titled Learning From the Big Failures To Improve FOSS Advocacy and Adoption. +As a panel member, he was the only representative for the FOSS community on +the FTC's discussion “Creative Economy and Generative AI“
+ + +Our Director of Compliance, Denver Gingerich, spoke at SFSCON talking about what it's really like to enforce the GPL. His talk at FOSSY titled You don't carry a phone?! Improving societal acceptance of abnormal people +was one of the most talked about from our own conference. +Pono represented SFC at SCaLE +19x and SeaGL, which was great to be back +at community centered conferences. +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.
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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 it's history came out to be in community with each other. +from all 17 years of its history came out to be in community with each other.
OpenWrt released version 23.05.0 @@ -179,7 +243,7 @@ very exciting developments for the project. Creation of a new conference was in Chicago this past -may. Attendence from over 10 countries, it was an incredible reunion for +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 @@ -193,60 +257,7 @@ 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' -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 -systems administrator is Paul Visscher. With over 20 years experience with -Linux and free software, Paul's belief in the power of free software to help -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.
- - -Our staff has been presenting and speaking about software freedom all year. -Our Executive Director Karen Sandler received an honorary doctorate from -Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for her incredible work in FOSS leadership, and -her advocacy and pursuit of software freedom and rights for all. -In November she spoke at SFSCON about "The History of, and Path forward for, Copyleft and the GPL".
- - -Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn gave many conference talks and also represented SFC at many -government hearings and inquiries. Beginning the year at FOSDEM, -Bradley (and Karen) led the Legal and Policy DevRoom. He then spoke at SCaLE -20x giving a talk titled Learning From the Big Failures To Improve FOSS Advocacy and Adoption. -As a panel member, he was the only representative for the FOSS community on -the FTC's discussion “Creative Economy and Generative AI“
- - -Our Director of Compliance, Denver Gingerich, spoke at SFSCON talking about what it's really like to enforce the GPL. His talk at FOSSY titled You don't carry a phone?! Improving societal acceptance of abnormal people -was one of the most talked about from our own conference. -Pono represented SFC at SCaLE -19x and SeaGL, which was great to be back -at community centered conferences. -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.
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