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<div class="expandable-section" id="2020-summary">

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  <img src="/img/2020_Sebro-Tony_CopyleftConf.jpg" alt="Tony Sebro speaks on stage in front of a slide comparing 1800&rsquo;s Eschatology and Golden Era Hip Hop">

  <p><a href="/about/board/#tony">Tony Sebro</a>, delivering the keynote

  address at <a href="https://2020.copyleftconf.org/">Copyleft Conf 2020</a>.<br/>Photo &copy; Remy DeCausemaker, licensed <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA</a></p>

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<p>2020 has been a difficult year. We&rsquo;ve all scrambled to keep ourselves

and our loved-ones safe and healthy, coped with the isolation connected

to lockdowns and quarantines, and dealt with the

disconnection from our support networks — including friends, family

and even childcare. We worried about racial equality and hope the fight for

social justice will result in basic rights that everyone deserves.</p>

<p>Throughout all of this, Conservancy remained focused on its mission and on

the free and open source software community. While cheering those working to help prevent the

spread of COVID-19 and those fighting for racial equality, we know our

expertise, skills, and mission can only tangentially improve those situations. While

<a href="/blog/2020/apr/21/workduringcovid/">contributing

where we can</a>, we remain focused on the long-term nature of

software freedom. We keep working to grow and support FOSS

communities to plan for ethical technology down the road, so that software

freedom can be in the service of human freedom.</p>

<p>We&rsquo;re proud of how much we&rsquo;ve been able to accomplish in the last year,

even in the face of so many obstacles.</p>

<a class="expander" data-expand-link-text="(Expand All Sections)"></a>

<h3 id="StayingConnected">Staying Connected</h3>

<div data-read-more="Read more about staying connected&hellip;">

<p>We helped folks stay connected, even when travel

and in-person meetings could not happen. We gathered digitally every

Thursday with all who wanted to join since early March to discuss

important issues or just reach out to other people who care about software freedom. The topics of these chats varied widely from

helping family and friends to use FOSS tools to discussing impactful

presentations concerting copyleft to how to dismantle systemic racism in free software to

important software freedom policy issues like standing up to fight the

DMCA.</p>

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<h3 id="PayingPeople">Paying People to Work on Software Freedom</h3>

<div data-read-more="Read more about paying people to work on software freedom&hellip;">

<p>Our Outreachy internship program became even more essential during this

difficult time.  Everyone needs remote work now, <em>and</em> to learn how

to effectively work remotely.  This year, we achieved the most internships in

a single year yet!

We funded over 100 interns across two cohorts, generating

new code, new documentation, and essential FOSS contributions.  Outreachy

also prepares its interns for remote-work careers in FOSS, providing access to opportunities after their internship is over.

Since traveling is unsafe during a pandemic, interns could not use the Outreachy travel stipend for in-person conferences or events.

We moved quickly to pay all 127 active travel stipends simply as additional intern bonuses, helping both current interns and many alums during this stressful time.</p>

<p>We hear the news consistently that this pandemic has hit underrepresented groups harder for the same

reasons of systemic bias that we&rsquo;ve talked about for years in Outreachy. We&rsquo;ve worked to make the program more stable and to diversify its funding so that we can support even more internships going forward.

We&rsquo;re proud to help in our own small way.</p>

<p>It&rsquo;s not just interns we fund.  Overall, Conservancy funded 27 contractors for a

total of about $650,000 and 16 grantees about $100,000 in the last 12 months.

That&rsquo;s three-quarters of a million dollars of funded FOSS work for the public good in just one year! And along with our internships, we spent a total of $1.5 million! The contractors spanned 15 projects and accomplished some impressive work. Our contractors report publicly on their work and you can see the <a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2020-10/">Reproducible Builds team</a> helping us know we can rely on the software we use, the <a href="https://sage.thesharps.us/2020/11/05/2020-10-outreachy-progress/">Outreachy team</a> organizing the complex and resource intensive internship program, <a href="https://github.com/mauriciofauth">phpMyAdmin</a>  continuing their longstanding work to maintain and improve one of the most popular MySQL administration tools and the <a href="https://godotengine.org/article/improvements-gpuparticles-godot-40">Godot team</a> as they work to make the best game engine ever.</p>

<p>Our contractors write, document, and share great

FOSS that benefits the general public; there is no other organization in

the world that pays contractors that much money with that as their primary

directive.  Sure, companies write lots of FOSS, but they focus only on projects that

benefit their profit motive and self-interest.  We fund FOSS development that benefits everyone and we

only fund software development that completely respects your software freedom and

rights.</p>

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<h3 id="Policy">Policy</h3>

<div data-read-more="Read more about our policy work this year&hellip;">

<p>This year, we expanded our plans and involvement on key issues of software

freedom policy.  We are known throughout the FOSS community as the

organization that knows the details of FOSS policy — from project governance, to licensing to Codes of

Conduct — and gets those details

right.  We help our projects with everything from minor disagreements among