Master's thesis</a> discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free

Software programming languages.  Kuhn received

the <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039">O'Reilly

Open Source Award in 2012</a>, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on

copyleft licensing.  Kuhn has <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/">a

blog</a> and co-hosts

the audcast, <a href="http://faif.us/"><cite>Free as in Freedom</cite></a>.

<h2>Mike Linksvayer</h2>

<p>Mike Linksvayer serves on the boards of AcaWiki and OpenHatch,

and on the Open Definition Advisory Council, and is Policy Director at GitHub.

Previously Mike was CTO, VP, and a Senior Fellow at Creative Commons, and a

co-founder of Bitzi, an early open content/open

data mass collaboration platform.</p>

<h2>Martin Michlmayr</h2>

<p>Martin Michlmayr has been involved in various free and open source

software projects for over 20 years.  He acted as the leader of the

Debian project for two years, served on the board of the Open Source

Initiative (OSI) for six years and currently serves on the board of

Software Freedom Conservancy.  Martin earned a PhD from the University

of Cambridge and he received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013 for

his contributions to the open source community.</p>

<h2>Allison Randal</h2>

<p>Over the course of multiple decades as a free software developer,

Allison has worked in a wide variety of projects and domains, from

games, linguistic analysis tools, websites, mobile apps, shipping

fulfillment, and talking smart-home appliances, to programming language

design, compilers, hypervisors, containers, deployment automation,

database replication, and operating systems.</p>

<p>She is a board member at the Perl Foundation, a board member at the

OpenStack Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for

free software community leaders. At various points in the past she has

served as president of the Open Source Initiative, president of the Perl

Foundation, board member of the Python Software Foundation, chairman of

the Parrot Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine,

Open Source Evangelist at O’Reilly Media, conference chair of OSCON,

Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical,

Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at HP, and

Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She collaborates in the Debian project,

and is currently taking a mid-career research sabbatical at the

University of Cambridge.</p>

<p>Tony currently serves as the Deputy General Counsel for

    the <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Home">Wikimedia

    Foundation</a>, where he manages the day-to-day operations of Wikimedia's

    legal department, and provide specific expertise on free and open source

    licensing, intellectual property, non-profit law, and privacy matters.

    Tony is also an organizer of

    Conservancy's <a href="https://outreachy.org">Outreachy</a> project,

    which provides paid internships in free and open source for people from

    groups traditionally underrepresented in tech.  Prior to joining

    Wikimedia, Tony served as General Counsel (and “Employee #2”)

    of Software Freedom Conservancy for over six years.  Tony has also spent

    time in the private sector with PCT Law Group and Kenyon & Kenyon, and as

    an intellectual property licensing and business development professional

    with IBM.  Tony received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2017.  Tony is

    an active participant in and supporter of the non-profit community, and

    lives in the Bay Area with his family.</p>

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<p>2020 has been a difficult year. We&rsquo;ve all scrambled to keep ourselves

and our loved-ones safe and healthy, coped with the isolation connected

to lockdowns and quarantines, and dealt with the

disconnection from our support networks — including friends, family

and even childcare. We worried about racial equality and hope the fight for

social justice will result in basic rights that everyone deserves.</p>

<p>Throughout all of this, Conservancy remained focused on its mission and on

the free and open source software community. While cheering those working to help prevent the

spread of COVID-19 and those fighting for racial equality, we know our

expertise, skills, and mission can only tangentially improve those situations. While

<a href="/blog/2020/apr/21/workduringcovid/">contributing

where we can</a>, we remain focused on the long-term nature of

software freedom. We keep working to grow and support FOSS

communities to plan for ethical technology down the road, so that software

freedom can be in the service of human freedom.</p>

<p>We&rsquo;re proud of how much we&rsquo;ve been able to accomplish in the last year,

even in the face of so many obstacles.</p>

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<p>We helped folks stay connected, even when travel

and in-person meetings could not happen. We gathered digitally every

Thursday with all who wanted to join since early March to discuss

important issues or just reach out to other people who care about software freedom. The topics of these chats varied widely from

helping family and friends to use FOSS tools to discussing impactful

presentations concerting copyleft to how to dismantle systemic racism in free software to

important software freedom policy issues like standing up to fight the

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<p>Our Outreachy internship program became even more essential during this

difficult time.  Everyone needs remote work now, <em>and</em> to learn how

to effectively work remotely.  This year, we achieved the most internships in

a single year yet!

We funded over 100 interns across two cohorts, generating

new code, new documentation, and essential FOSS contributions.  Outreachy

also prepares its interns for remote-work careers in FOSS, providing access to opportunities after their internship is over.

Since traveling is unsafe during a pandemic, interns could not use the Outreachy travel stipend for in-person conferences or events.

We moved quickly to pay all 127 active travel stipends simply as additional intern bonuses, helping both current interns and many alums during this stressful time.</p>

<p>We hear the news consistently that this pandemic has hit underrepresented groups harder for the same

reasons of systemic bias that we’ve talked about for years in Outreachy. We’ve worked to make the program more stable and to diversify its funding so that we can support even more internships going forward.

We&rsquo;re proud to help in our own small way.</p>