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<p>Software Freedom Conservancy is an essential organization to free and

open source software. We are the home of over

<a href="http://git-scm.org">Git</a>,

<a href="http://inkscape.org">Inkscape</a>, <a href="http://samba.org">Samba</a>,

<a href="http://winehq.org">Wine</a>, <a href="http://www.seleniumhq.org/">Selenium</a>, the <a href="/copyleft-compliance/">GPL Compliance Project for Linux

Developers</a>, <a href="http://pypy.org">PyPy</a> and

<a href="http://sugarlabs.org/">Sugar Labs</a> just to name a few. Conservancy is a "fiscal sponsor plus",

providing everything that our projects need in a nonprofit. We help our

projects defend their trademarks, manage their assets, handle donations,

improve their community management, manage risk and assist them with all

legal needs they may have. While we do receive a portion of the revenue

donated to our projects, we keep that number low enough that it doesn't

even pay for a single staff member. <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">Help us</a> show that you care about

community-focused free software and help us be able to continue our

charitable work. Donating to Conservancy is a great non-technical way to

contribute to the cause.</p>

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download an official Supporter card and receive a Conservancy t-shirt<a id="return-footnote-shirts-when"></a>. If

this is out of reach, please donate at whatever level you can - it makes a

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way.</p>

<p>In addition to supporting our projects,

<ul>

<li>we share our expertise across communities. We speak at many

conferences, and publish materials to increase understanding about the

organizational, community and legal issues around free and open source

software. We advocate for free and open source software and provide

education around that mission.  We form partnerships across our

href="https://copyleft.org/">copyleft.org</a>

href="/news/2014/aug/12/tax-exempt-working-group/">

tax exempt working group</a>.</li>

source

software.  We've launched a <a href="https://npoacct.sfconservancy.org/">

nonprofits accounting project</a> to help all

nonprofits (in free software and in other fields) avoid paying millions

of dollars in licensing fees for subpar accounting software.</li>

<li>as part of Conservancy's partnership in the program, we support Karen as

  a co-organizer of the Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program.</li>

<li>we encourage and support our employees to do volunteer work in the

    community.  For example, Bradley and Karen together host an oggcast

    called <cite><a href="http://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a></cite> which

    discusses important legal and policy issues in open source and free

    software.</li></ul>

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<p>Sustainers help us do our work in a strategic, long-term way. We could not

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investigate their own devices for issues of license compliance, security,

and replacing the firmware on their TVs and routers. It's a key ability to

vet and replace software on devices we own and operate, so renewing this

exemption each time it comes up is very important for us all. The medical

device exemption was submitted by our Executive Director Karen Sandler in

partnership with others who are personally affected by proprietary medical

technology.</p>

<p>As software based technology becomes more pervasive in our lives, it's vital

that we communicate the importance of software freedom to the wider population.

In that vein <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/12/introduction/">we've created a video</a>

(narrated by our Executive Director Karen Sandler) that introduces

the ideas of software freedom, and specifically what Software Freedom

Conservancy does. We also did a lot of public writings about some of the

important issues this year. From <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/feb/09/kuhn-neo4j-purethink-expert-report/">our perspective on the Neo4j suit</a>

to <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/aug/15/exit-zoom/">highlighting problematic behavior from proprietary software companies</a> and calling for folks to Exit Zoom. We'd also like to

remind you that as a Sustainer, we will provide you with your own <a href="https://bbb.sfconservancy.org">BigBlueButton</a> account so that you can host your own video calls on a FOSS platform. Once

you have donated to us, you can fill our the new account signup and your

account will be approved.</p>

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<h3 id="NewStaff">New staff!</h3>

<div data-read-more="Click more for on our new staff&hellip;">

<p>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.</p>

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<h3 id="WritingAndSpeaking">Writing and Speaking</h3>

<div data-read-more="Find out about our writing and speaking engagements&hellip;">

<p>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

In November she spoke at <a href="https://www.sfscon.it/talks/the-history-of-and-path-forward-for-copyleft-and-the-gpl/">SFSCON about "The History of, and Path forward for, Copyleft and the GPL"</a>.</p>

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<p><a href="/videos/2023-02-02_Sandler-Karen_KU-Leuven_Honorary-Doctorate.mp4">Download Karen's talk</a>

  or <a href="https://youtu.be/zca7dOU7jfs">watch on YouTube</a></p>

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<p>Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn gave many conference talks and also represented SFC at many

government hearings and inquiries. Beginning the year at <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/speaker/bradley_m_kuhn/">FOSDEM</a>,

Bradley (and Karen) led the Legal and Policy DevRoom. He then spoke at SCaLE

20x giving a talk titled <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/learning-big-failures-improve-foss-advocacy-and-adoption">Learning From the Big Failures To Improve FOSS Advocacy and Adoption</a>.

As the host of a keynote discussion at FOSSY, Bradley facilitated a

<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jul/19/rhel-panel-fossy-2023/">

community discussion about the RHEL policy change</a>.

As a panel member, he was the only representative for the FOSS community on

the FTC's discussion <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/oct/04/ftc-ai-panel/">“Creative Economy and Generative AI“</a></p>

<p>Our Director of Compliance, Denver Gingerich, spoke at SFSCON talking about what it's really like to <a href="https://www.sfscon.it/talks/how-do-you-really-do-gpl-enforcement/">enforce the GPL</a>. His talk at FOSSY titled <a href="https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/84/">You don't carry a phone?! Improving societal acceptance of abnormal people</a>

was one of the most talked about from our own conference.

Pono represented SFC at <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x">SCaLE

19x</a> and <a href="https://seagl.org">SeaGL</a>, 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.</p>

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

<div data-read-more="Read more about our projects&hellip;">

  <p>We've raised, administered and/or facilitated $1.8 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>

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