compliance, and helped solidify privacy-related research. Karen (our
executive director) also participated with a coalition that achieved yet
another exemption for medical devices! Our lawyer, Pam Chestek, <a href="https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2021/hearing-transcripts/210407-Section-1201-Public-Hearing-Class-15-7a-7b.pdf#page=13">testified</a> at the DMCA
hearings on these exemptions, and confronted industry lobbyists directly as
they sought to use their extreme
wealth and legal power to harm consumers. We stridently fight their overreach — one bit at a time.</p>
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<h3 id="Highlights">Highlights from some of our projects</h3>
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<p>Software Freedom Conservancy helped our projects engage in critical work
this year. Overall, we funded <strong>$1.7 million</strong> in work to
improve software freedom &mdash: this year alone! Those funds
this year. Overall, we raised, administered and facilitated <strong>$1.7 million</strong>
in work to improve software freedom &mdash: this year alone! Those funds
go <em>directly</em> to fund <acronym title="Free and Open Source Software">FOSS</acronym>
contributors. We do the arduous work to sustain these FOSS communities:</p>
<p>We helped <b>Outreachy</b> expand to its largest cohorts ever. Our last
round accepted 71 interns, and we announced this week that the current round
will have 62! (That's 133 interns — an <strong>27% growth</strong> from the previous two
rounds!) We're grateful to be able support Outreachy to serve more
communities who are committed to helping to push back against systemic
underrepresentation in technology and software.</p>
<p><b>Godot</b> has continued to push the boundary of what anyone thought was
possible with an open source game engine. Godot's impressive team, funded