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<p>Sustainers help us do our work in a strategic, long-term way. We could not
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  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">
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                                                  alt="Software Freedom Conservancy introduction video"></a><br/>
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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>We are proud to tell you about the important work we've accomplished over
the past 12 months. Software Freedom Conservancy continues to set the bar for
promoting ethical technology and advocacy for software freedom. Whether it's
continuing the tireless and incredibly important work of <a
href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/">copyleft compliance</a>,
growing and working with our many <a
href="https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/">member projects</a>, or
leading the way in promoting diversity and inclusion efforts with <a
href="https://www.Outreachy.org/">Outreachy</a> and <a
href="https://computinginresearch.org/">The Institute for Computing in
Research</a>. This year was no different in showing our dedication to software
freedom and critiques of those who oppose it.</p>

<p>We are entering the second year of our <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html">lawsuit against Vizio</a>.
While there's a long way to go in this groundbreaking suit, we've already
attained an initial <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/16/vizio-remand-win/">historic victory</a>
in succeeding to remand the case back from federal to state court.
We've been grateful to see so much support from our Sustainers and communities
around the promise our case holds for consumer rights. With the rise of the <a
href="https://www.repair.org/">Right to Repair</a> movement, we've seen a
growing desire from "everyday consumers" to have the ability to repair the
software on their phones and other internet connected devices. Our projects
like <a href="https://openwrt.org/">OpenWrt</a> and <a
href="https://coreboot.org/">coreboot</a> are integral in giving people the
freedom to choose what software runs (and can be repaired) on their own
devices. (And speaking of our projects, there's a highlight of what some of
projects did this year below!) We also pursued many other violations (that our
<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles</a>
don't permit us to disclose at the moment) and launched a <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/may/02/conservancy-launches-copyright-assignment-system/">self-service
copyright assignment form</a> so that FOSS contributors can, without overly
burdensome paperwork, entrust their copyrights to a nonprofit dedicated to
software freedom and rights of users all over the world.</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/blog/2022/mar/30/neo4j-v-purethink-open-source-affero-gpl/">interesting legal developments</a>
to <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/01/biden-foss-security-sbom-copyleft-right-to-repair/">political outreach</a>
as well as <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/jul/18/foss-for-sale-in-ms-app-store/">leading a conversation</a>
standing up for developers and distributors of free software.</p>

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<p>We also started a campaign to <b><a href="https://giveupgithub.org">Give Up
GitHub</a></b>. With more and more corporate interest and investment into FOSS,
we see a trend of community resources being bought up and controlled by
singular corporate entities. Having lived through multiple acquisitions and
extinctions of gratis code forges before, GitHub is just the most recent holder
of the title. Contrary to it's namesake project, <a href="https://git-scm.com/">git</a>
GitHub remains a proprietary, centralized
and hierarchical method of working on software. Stripping the underlying power
and versatility that has allowed it to become the canonical tool for
distributed software development. A single corporation controlling this piece
of critical infrastructure is clearly a harmful idea, a corporation will always
serve it's shareholders and not the community that it depends on growing and
keeping within it's walled garden. Please check out our <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/">blog post</a>
about the issue to find alternatives and other ways you can help this
divestment effort.</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>For the second year in a row, we've raised, administered and/or
     facilitated $1.7 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>

<p><b>Outreachy</b> accepted 61 interns in the December 2021 cohort, and 67 interns in
the May 2022 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 historically
excluded and under represented people in technology. With over 900 interns
accepted to the program to date, Outreachy continues to grow and expand it's
community. Outreachy also hired a new community manager, Omotola Omotayo.
Having recently <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/nov/16/omotola-sca-award/">won an
award at the She Code Africa Summit</a>, her work building up and promoting the
Outreachy community has been immensely successful.  Outreachy increased the
stipend it pays its interns this year, improved its documentation and held many
more opportunities for interns and applicants to learn about Outreachy, FOSS
and how to successfully engage in the tech industry.</p>

<p>A few of our projects put on or are planning to put on conferences. <b>Git</b>
Merge was held in Chicago in September. It provided a great face to face space
for the international group of developers to come together, decide on some
technical directions and have other conversations that are greatly sped up by
in person meeting. <b>Wine</b>Conf was held simultaneously with the X.Org developer's
conference and FOSS XR in Minneapolis the first week of October. The twelfth <a
href="https://con.racket-lang.org/">RacketCon</a> was run at the end of
October. <a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/">Reproducible Builds</a> had their summit in the beginning of November in
Venice. We're also working with the <b>Selenium</b> project on their <a href="https://seleniumconf.com/">upcoming conference</a>
March 28-30 2023.</p>

<p><b>OpenWrt</b> just released <a href="https://openwrt.org/releases/22.03/notes-22.03.2">version 22.03.02</a>
which added some more hardware support and fixed security bugs. This 22.03
release had some major changes like moving from iptables to nftables, adding
over 180 new devices to support over 1580 total devices! Some great quality of
life enhancements like dark mode in LuCL (Pono, who's the primary author of
this text, was really happy about this one) and they've solved Year 2038
problem which if you remember Y2K, is a sigh of relief to not scramble to
patch.</p>

<p><a href="https://computinginresearch.org/">The Institute for Computing in
Research</a> completed it's first round in Austin, Texas. Now providing
training, education and real world software experience to high school students
in 3 cities and exploring additional cities that may join next summer. These
research internships are a great way for high school students to get involved
in real academic research while also being exposed to the ideas and principles
of software freedom.</p>

<p>And in a happy close of a member project relationship, <a href="https://godotengine.org/">Godot</a>
has <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/nov/01/godot-graduates/">graduated from Conservancy</a>
to <a href="https://godotengine.org/article/godots-graduation-godot-moves-to-a-new-foundation">start its own foundation</a>.
Our relationship with Godot was built on a shared
passion for community building in the free software space and we expect this
will continue as they grow into their own. Modeling their governance on the
system that we built together here are Conservancy, we are extremely proud of
what they have become and expect great things to come out of their new
organization and look forward to continue our relationship in an advisory
capacity.</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 an additional employee this year! <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/about/staff/#tracy">Tracy Homer</a>
is our new Operations Manager. Outside of Tracy's' work with SFC, she is
studying GIS at the University of Tennessee and is a board member of her local
hackerspace. We're so excited to have someone to with her set of skills help us
build out our organization. Helping out with everything from international
banking and tax questions, to conference planning, Tracy's been an incredible
addition to our team. She rounds out our team to 7 people (largest we've ever
been!).</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 gave a remote keynote address at the 2022
Public Domain & Open Source SW License Conference in Seoul, Korea. We also
<a href="https://av.sfconservancy.org/vizio-update-from-karen.mp4">published a talk</a>
Karen gave to update folks on the Vizio law suit. Karen was also at
All Things Open for the <a href="https://2022.allthingsopen.org/sessions/open-source-law-policy-and-practice-book-panel/">Open Source Law Policy and Practice Book Panel</a>.
She was joined other experts who
contributed to <a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/44727">the book</a> and
they had a conversation about current state and best practice for legal policy
around free and open source software in addition to conducting a book signing
(You can check out another book that Karen contributed a chapter to along with
Marie Moe, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Modified-Living-Chris-Hables-Gray/dp/0815364016">"Modified: Living as a Cyborg"</a>,
which became more widely available this year.)</p>

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  <p>Pono took a photo of the SFC booth at SCaLEx19</p>
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<p>Pono gave a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrJX1XYICmc">keynote at
Git Merge</a> this October. Speaking on how the Git project is a canonical
model for free software development and the ways it teaches by leading the way.
He also boothed at <a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x">SCaLE
19x</a>, which was great to have the community centered conference back in
action.</p>


<p>Sage spoke at the September 2022 Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative EOSS, sharing
advice on how Outreachy has improved its own inclusive processes, and the group
discussed potential solutions for unresolved DEI issues in open science
communities. Karen and Bradley co-organized the FOSDEM Legal & Policy DevRoom,
which was held remotely. In addition to helping to organize the room, they also
participated in a panel with the other organizers about the most critical
topics facing FOSS today. 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="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 &mdash; through our hard work, creativity, and
  passionate dedication &mdash; 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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