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

  do this without the support and financial contributions of individuals like

  you. <a href="/sponsors/#sustainers">We list our Sustainers here</a>.</p>

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  Please watch this video to learn about what we do and why we need your support as

  a Sustainer:

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<video style="width: 50%; height: auto;" controls="" poster="/videos/sfc-introduction-video_poster.jpg">

                                                  alt="Software Freedom Conservancy introduction video"></a><br/>

<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>

<ul>

  <li>Standing up for consumer rights in <a href="/copyleft-compliance/">copyleft compliance</a></li>

  <li>Supporting <a href="https://outreachy.org">Outreachy</a> with its increasing number of interns</li>

  <li>Bringing <a href="/vizio">legal action against prolific license violators</a></li>

  <li>Hiring team members to get projects <a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/news/">like Reproducible Builds</a> to continue pushing the forefront of software reproducibility</li>

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<h3 id="YearInReview">Our Year in Review</h3>

<div data-read-more="Summary of our year&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

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>

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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>

</div>

<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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alt="Group Picture: Outreachy interns, mentors, and community coordinators gathered to celebrate the 1,000 interns milestone in Lagos, Nigeria." />

  <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>

</div>

<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>

<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

projects, ensuring user rights in the ability to install (free) software on

your own devices.</p>

<p><a href="https://computinginresearch.org/">The Institute for Computing in

Research</a> completed it's fifth year, supporting 32 students in 3 cities this

<p>Our member projects had a range of in person and online events this year.

<b>Inkscape</b> hosted an in-person meeting in Bensberg, Germany. A great meeting

for the PLC and contributors to get together to plan and work on technical

challenges. The first back in-person <b>Selenium</b> <a

href="https://seleniumconf.com/">conference</a> was in Chicago this past

may</a>. Attendance from over 10 countries, it was an incredible reunion for

the project contributors and users to get together. The <b>Git</b>

contributor summit was held online this year in September. Topics ranged from

ideas of new library support to how to better support for scaling with large

code forges and what the new contributor experience is like. A great mix of

code related and process related talks. The <a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/">Reproducible Builds</a>

annual summit was hosted in Hamburg featuring incredible

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 &ldquo;Zack&rdquo; 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 &mdash; 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

  software freedom that the world needs. <a href="/donate/">Please consider

  donating now!</a></p>

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