the <a href="/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/">installation requirement for

  the GPLv2</a>. Bradley M. Kuhn documented the historical record in his

  related piece

  about <a href="/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-the-gpl-right-to-install/">&ldquo;Tivoization&rdquo;

  and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft</a>. Bradley also explained

  how <cite><a href="/blog/2021/jun/30/who-should-own-foss-copyrights/">It

  Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights</a></cite> &mdash; which

  garnered a lot of great community conversations. In another vein, Sage

  Sharp of Outreachy wrote a tremendous piece

  titled <cite><a href="/blog/2021/apr/20/how-to-apologize/">So you want to

  apologize&hellip; Now what?</a></cite> &mdash: which has helped explain the

  entire life cycle apologizing for your own behavior. We can all learn from

  this piece about how to act more humanely in our shared spaces of

  production.</p>

<p>This was another long year of online conferences. While the traveling was

 easier (by not doing it), we miss the face to face relationship building

  that we've come to expect from our big

  conference gatherings. We can't wait to get back to a sense of normalcy and

  at least have a little less latency between us.</p>

<p>Karen, our executive director, gave two keynotes this year, one at the <a href="/news/2021/mar/23/karen-lailec-2021/">Leuven AI Law &amp; Ethics Conference</a> and another at <a href="https://conf.linuxappsummit.org/event/3/contributions/71/">Linux App Summit</a>. Karen also spoke with Marina Zhurakhinskaya at <cite>All Things Open</cite> about the 10+ year history of Outreachy. Karen was also an invited speaker at <a href="https://heales.org/2021/05/28/conference-big-data-a-i-and-healthy-longevity-how-to-progress-faster-and-better-for-all-scientists-thursday-september-9-2021/">Big Data, A.I. and Healthy Longevity: How to progress faster and better for all scientists</a>.</p>

<p>Karen and Bradley were also co-organizers (with others) of the Legal &amp;

<p>We were also a sponsor of the

fantastic <a href="https://seagl.org/">SeaGL</a> event. A community focused

conference that does an incredible job giving opportunities to first-time

speakers (suitable for community members of all walks of life). They hosted

their conference on the Matrix platform, which further proved it's possible

to run a virtual conference with free software.</p>

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