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<h3 id="Highlights">Highlights from some of our projects</h3>

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  <p>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.</p>

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.

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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>

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