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<p><a href="/">Home</a> / <a href="/about">Who We Are</a></p>
<a href="https://youtu.be/yCCxMfW0LTM">(watch on Youtube)</a>
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<p><h3>The wide range of work we engage in is supported by people like you. </h3></p>
<p>We are so proud that we're funded by individuals and stay unbeholden to corporate interests and pressures. We stand up for developers, consumers and those who have been historically excluded. We work to make technology truly fair for all. </p>
<p>Thank you for helping making this work possible:</p>
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<h3 id="WritingAndSpeaking">Writing and Speaking</h3>
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<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
her advocacy and pursuit of software freedom and rights for all.
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>
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
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<p>Group Picture: Outreachy interns, mentors, and community coordinators gathered to celebrate the 1,000 interns milestone in Lagos, Nigeria.</p>
<p>You can view a <a href="https://diode.zone/w/p/25ifUPw9Lx42nrb14h41Ru">video of the celebration here.</a></p>
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<p><b>Outreachy</b> accepted 63 interns in the December 2022 cohort, and 64
interns in the May 2023 cohort with over 30 Free and Open Source software
communities. Bringing in new communities in the Open Science and Humanitarian
spheres, Outreachy continues to lead the way in providing opportunities to
people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in
technology. Celebrating our 1000th intern (!!!), there were celebrations
featuring alumni and current interns all over the world. </p>
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technical talks, project planning and continues to build the momentum and
reach for reproducibility. </p>
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<h3 id="HelpUs">Help us Continue this Work</h3>
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<p>Sustainers pose with Karen! <br/>From left: Stefano “Zack” Zacchiroli, Karen M. Sandler, John Sullivan, and Jim Wright</p>
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<p>We are beyond thankful for the ability to continue our work — which
only continues due to <strong>your financial contributions</strong>. We
recognize that not everyone has the same financial leeway to donate as they
have in the past. But please consider giving what you can so that our
organization can continue to advocate and support the rights of all
software users. We work hard and efficiently, and accomplish so much with
our small staff. We hope — through our hard work, creativity, and
passionate dedication — that we've demonstrated over the years how
Software Freedom Conservancy continues to be the beacon of change for