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Bradley M. Kuhn - 3 years ago 2020-11-26 03:14:35
bkuhn@sfconservancy.org
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@@ -99,25 +99,25 @@ 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>
 

	
 
<h3 id="StayingConnected">Staying Connected</h3>
 
<div data-read-more="Read more about staying connected">
 
<div data-read-more="Read more about staying connected&hellip;">
 
<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
 
DMCA.</p>
 
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<h3 id="PayingPeople">Paying People to Work on Software Freedom</h3>
 
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<div data-read-more="Read more about paying people to work on software freedom&hellip;">
 
<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
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@@ -137,13 +137,13 @@ directive.  Sure, companies write lots of FOSS, but they focus only on projects
 
benefit their profit motive and self-interest.  We fund FOSS development that benefits everyone and we
 
only fund software development that completely respects your software freedom and
 
rights.</p>
 
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<h3 id="Policy">Policy</h3>
 
<div data-read-more="Read more about our policy work this year">
 
<div data-read-more="Read more about our policy work this year&hellip;">
 
<p>This year, we expanded our plans and involvement on key issues of software
 
freedom policy.  We are known throughout the FOSS community as the
 
organization that knows the details of FOSS policy — from project governance, to licensing to Codes of
 
Conduct — and gets those details
 
right.  We help our projects with everything from minor disagreements among
 
leadership to major licensing challenges that threaten the future of their
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@@ -156,19 +156,19 @@ went even further this year, and applied for <a href="/blog/2020/sep/16/dmca-exe
 
that are now ubiquitous and used by everyone.  While we can only <a href="/blog/2019/oct/02/cambium-ubiquiti-gpl-violations/">occasionally discuss GPL enforcement matters publicly</a>, we launched this
 
year our <a href="/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-strategy.html">Strategic GPL Enforcement Plan</a>, and our companion <a href="/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html">Firmware Liberation Project</a>.  These two new initiatives have
 
just begun and they need your support and help to succeed.</p>
 
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<h3 id="NewMembers">New Member Projects and New Board Member</h3>
 
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<div data-read-more="Read more about our new member projects and board member&hellip;">
 
<p>In 2020, Conservancy welcomed two important new projects.  The <a href="/news/2020/jul/21/ICRjoins/">Institute for Computing in Research</a> runs a mentoring program designed to bridge inequities in tech by training teenage students to do rigorous scientific research using free software. <a href="/news/2020/sep/10/openwrt-joins/">OpenWrt</a> is a critical FOSS wireless router project that demonstrates the long lasting positive  results of strategic GPL enforcement. We also recognize that communities change over time. In addition to adding new projects, we took the time this past year to sunset some of our projects that no longer had a charitable focus.</p>
 
<p>We were also pleased to welcome <a href="/news/2020/jan/03/arandal/">Allison Randal</a>, a steadfast advocate of software freedom, to our Board of Directors.</p>
 
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<h3 id="Events">Events and Conferences</h3>
 
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<div data-read-more="Read more about our events and conferences&hellip;">
 
<p>FOSS events and conferences have always been an essential component of FOSS,
 
but this year, the pandemic thwarted our usual event system an infrastructure.
 
Conservancy has been at the center of transitioning events to online formats for
 
both our  member
 
projects and other third party  other FOSS conferences and event groups.  People around the world took huge losses in travel and event
 
cancellations, but we were adept.  We acted early and saved tens of thousands for
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