Summary: Highlighting activities and detailed financials for Fiscal Year 2018
Date: 2018-12-05 10:20
Slug: fy2018
-Dates: (October 1, 2016 - September 30, 2017)
+Dates: (October 1, 2017 - September 30, 2018)
{% comment {
- Copyright (c) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (c) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
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> The Free Software Foundation is a leader in the international movement for computer user freedom. We defend the rights of all software users and encourage the development and use of free ["as in freedom"]() software.
-> This annual report highlights the Foundation's activities and achievements in fiscal year 2017 (October 1, 2016 — September 30, 2017) and includes a detailed financial statement.
+> This annual report highlights the Foundation's activities and achievements in fiscal year 2017 (October 1, 2017 — September 30, 2018) and includes a detailed financial statement.
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-<div class="caption" markdown="1">Free software community members at [LibrePlanet 2017](https://lp).</div>
+<div class="caption" markdown="1">Free software community members at [LibrePlanet 2018](https://libreplanet.org/2018/).</div>
<div class="credit">Credit: Kori Feener, CC BY 4.0</div>
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## Licensing and Compliance
-The FSF's Licensing and Compliance Lab defends free software through license enforcement and enforcement support, a rigorous product certification, and educational resources.
-
-In FY17, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL). This is the free software copyleft license that ensures the user's right to run, study, share, and modify software. In addition to being the steward of the GPL, the FSF holds copyright on much of the GNU operating system. The licensing team spent the year accepting copyright assignments from software developers and corporations, investigating GPL violations, and answering licensing questions from the community.
-
-We championed copylefted projects, publishing another seven installments in an ongoing series of conversations with free software developers who choose GNU licenses for their work. We also certified a record number of devices under our Respects Your Freedom certification program, which identifies devices that do as much as possible to respect user freedom.
-
-Along with answering hundreds of licensing questions from the public, dedicated volunteers continued to expand and improve the Free Software Directory for nearly two million annual visitors, and we made inroads with government, helping the US Department of Defense to distribute free software. We also organized volunteers to create a workaround for Web site maintainers who want to register as an agent under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) while avoiding the nonfree JavaScript the process currently requires.
-
-
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-Denver Gingerich, a developer of packages under the AGPLv3 and other GNU licenses, speaking at LibrePlanet 2017 about free software for mobile phones.
+The FSF's [Licensing and Compliance
+Lab](https://www.fsf.org/licensing/) defends free software through
+license enforcement and enforcement support, certification and
+endorsement programs, and educational resources.
+
+In FY18, the Lab restarted its [Continuing Legal Education
+seminars](https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/sign-up-for-the-fsfs-next-seminar-on-gpl-enforcement-and-legal-ethics-1)
+on the [GNU General Public License
+(GPL)](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html). This is the free
+software copyleft license that ensures the user's right to run, study,
+share, and modify software.
+
+In addition to being the steward of the GPL, the FSF holds copyright
+on much of the [GNU operating system](https://www.gnu.org/). The
+licensing team spent the year accepting copyright assignments from
+software developers and corporations, investigating GPL violations,
+and answering licensing questions from the community.
+
+We continued to grow our [Respects Your Freedom
+(RYF)](https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom)
+certification program, which identifies devices that do as much as
+possible to respect user freedom. We also revamped and updated our
+process for endorsing fully free [GNU/Linux
+distributions](https://www.gnu.org/distros/), in order to better help
+users to find an operating system they can trust. Along with a
+dedicated group of volunteers, we continued to expand and improve the
+[Free Software Directory](https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page),
+helping nearly two million annual visitors to find individual free
+software packages.
+
+Finally, we improved and updated our existing published licensing
+materials, adding reviews of new licenses and [answers to common
+questions](https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/?b_start:int=10), and
+published timely [articles](https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing) on
+current topics and issues in free software licensing.
+
+{: .image-process-article-image}
+
+Dave Thompson, a developer, speaking at LibrePlanet 2018 about Guix.
{.caption}
-CREDIT: Kori Feener, CC-BY 4.0
+CREDIT: ???, CC-BY 4.0
{.credit}
-### FY2017 at a glance
+### FY2018 at a glance
-331
-: copyright assignments and disclaimers accepted
+261
+: copyright assignments and disclaimers accepted
-670
-: licensing questions fielded from the public
+17
+: articles and blog posts published
-54
-: reports of GNU license violations investigated
+667
+: licensing questions fielded from the public
-18
-: devices certified to Respect Your Freedom
+102
+: reports of GNU license violations investigated
-1.8 million
-: visitors to the Free Software Directory
+2
+: devices certified to Respect Your Freedom
+
+1
+: continuing legal education seminar conducted in California
+
+1.9 million
+: visitors to the Free Software Directory
### Respects Your Freedom certification
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-The FSF's Respects Your Freedom product certification program encourages the creation and sale of hardware that will do as much as possible to respect your freedom and privacy.
+The FSF's Respects Your Freedom product certification program
+encourages the creation and sale of hardware that will do as much as
+possible to respect your freedom and privacy.
-In FY17, fifteen devices from Technoethical became RYF certified: six laptops, two docking stations, a mainboard, three WiFi USB adapters, two internal WiFI devices, and a Bluetooth USB adapter. RYF certification was also awarded to three devices from Vikings: a USB stereo sound adapter, a mainboard, and a laptop, bringing the number of RYF certified devices to twenty-seven.
+In FY18, we certified two devices, the Zerocat Chipflasher and the
+Minifree Libreboot X200 Tablet.
</div>
+<div class="pagebreak"></div>
{% separator {
"title": "Why I joined the FSF",
- "quote": "To fight the dystopia of a DRM-overgrown world."
+ "quote": "The FSF supports the freedom to use devices I own as I see fit, and to be secure in the knowledge that the software I'm using isn't compromising my privacy."
}%}
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-
-34th Street Wall, Gainesville, Florida
-{.caption}
-
-Credit: Gavin Baker, CC-BY-SA 4.0
-{.credit}
-
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## Campaigns
-### Fighting DRM wherever it's found
-In the past year, we've fought back against Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) on multiple fronts.
-International Day Against DRM
-
-On July 9, 2017, International Day Against DRM (IDAD) focused on Web-based community involvement, with more than twenty organizations raising their voices in support of a world without DRM. From blog posts to special sales, to parties and movie showings around the world, people came out to celebrate DRM-free media, and raise awareness of the threats we face from DRM.
-
-### DMCA exemptions
-
-The licensing team continued to raise the alarm about legislative issues like the US federal government's continued insistence on forcing supporters of user freedom to fight for exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) anti-circumvention restrictions.
-
-The DMCA is a particularly egregious example of legislative endorsement of DRM. It destroys user freedom, and concentrates control over the production and distribution of digital media, giving DRM peddlers the power to carry out massive digital book burnings and conduct large scale surveillance over people's media viewing habits. Even the process for getting exceptions to the anti-circumvention rules for the purposes of research or use of assistive technologies is draconian, resetting every three years and requiring nonfree JavaScript in order to submit a comment on the process, unless you get special permission to comment in another way.
+The FSF campaigns team identifies important opportunities for free
+software adoption, education, and development, empowers people against
+specific threats to their freedom, and implements strategies to move
+us closer to a free society.
-Along with our own comments, we rallied the free software community to submit their own comments in favor of anti-circumvention exemptions — and passionate critiques of the entire process.
+{: .image-process-article-image}
-### EME in Web standards
-
-Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) is just another way to dress up DRM. The FSF and the free software community organized to oppose a proposal by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make EME a Web standard. We called and wrote W3C president Tim Berners-Lee, asking him to keep the Web free. While we lost this battle, and EME became a Web standard, we're looking at our options for next steps. We are not giving up hope for a free Web, even if its inventor did.
+Kat Thornton giving a talk on "Pathways for discovery of free software"
+{.caption}
-### Free people, free net
+Credit: ???, CC-BY-SA 4.0
+{.credit}
-Internet freedom in the United States found itself on the national stage in 2017. Over the course of the year, Ajit Pai became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and instigated a war against net neutrality. The FSF joined with dozens of other organizations to raise awareness and organize in support of net neutrality.
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+### Threats to software freedom
+
+Over the course of 2018, corporate and government threats to user
+freedom continued to stack up, including the passage, in September, of
+the disastrous European Union (EU) Copyright Directive. Automatic
+tracking technology to detect copyrighted material is a threat to free
+speech, free culture, and free software, since it will automatically
+filter out source code that is legally being used under free software
+licenses. We joined in [encouraging EU free software
+supporters](https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-a-stand-before-july-5th-contact-your-mep-today)
+to contact government officials and spread the word about these
+dangers.
+
+We also raised the alarm about the [US FISA Amendments Reauthorization
+Act of
+2017](https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/undermine-mass-surveillance-with-free-software-and-your-phone-calls),
+which renewed and expanded bulk email surveillance, and urged our
+supporters to [resist the passage of the CLASSICS
+Act](https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-action-tell-us-congress-not-to-pass-the-classics-act),
+a bill that will consolidate and decrease access to music recordings
+online, and which will further entrench [Digital Restrictions
+Management (DRM)](https://www.defectivebydesign.org/) on the Internet.
+
+### Defending net neutrality
+
+In late November, 2017, US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
+chairman Ajit Pai unveiled plans to repeal [net
+neutrality](https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-action-for-net-neutrality). The
+FSF was part of a protest to defend net neutrality at the Verizon
+store in Boston on December 7, and we encouraged our US audience to
+call their congressional representatives. However, Pai's plan, which
+would enable Internet Service Providers to control your access to the
+Internet, was officially codified in February, 2018, with rules taking
+effect in 2018. [We
+supported](https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/its-not-over-take-action-for-net-neutrality-today)
+the legislative action under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to
+reverse the repeal, and a motion to restore net neutrality passed in
+May 2018. Various states, including California, Maine, and New York,
+have ongoing legal and legislative efforts to restore net neutrality.
-Sumana Harihareswara gives the closing keynote at LibrePlanet 2017
+<div class="pagebreak"></div>
+### LibrePlanet conference celebrates its tenth anniversary
+
+The [tenth annual LibrePlanet](https://libreplanet.org/2018/) was held
+at MIT’s Stata Center on March 24-25, 2018. The theme of the
+conference was “Freedom Embedded”: proprietary software’s sinister
+aspects are embedded in our software and digital devices, while
+freedom is embedded and intrinsic in free software.
+
+Keynote speakers at the conference were FSF board member Benjamin Mako
+Hill; Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff technologist Seth
+David Schoen; free software activist Deb Nicholson; and FSF founder
+and president Richard Stallman. At Stallman’s traditional Saturday
+evening keynote, he awarded the 2017 Free Software Awards to Public
+Lab and to Software Freedom Conservancy executive director Karen
+Sandler.
+
+### Some progress on DMCA, but not enough
+
+In December 2017, [we submitted
+comments](https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/help_fight_against_dmca_anticircumvention_rules_december_15th)
+in support of every proposed exemption to the [Digital Millennium
+Copyright Act’s
+(DMCA’s)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act)
+anti-circumvention provisions. The DMCA creates draconian legal
+penalties for any attempt to try and take back the control that DRM
+seizes on your software. It violates your legitimate rights to use
+copyrighted works, and criminalizes the sharing of tools and
+information that you can use to take back that control.
+
+Some small victories were won in this round: nine of the twelve newly
+proposed classes of exemption [were adopted or
+expanded](https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/2018_dmca_anticircumvention_exemption_process_some_progress_not_enough),
+the process for supporting existing exemptions was simplified, and all
+preexisting exemptions were renewed. The US Copyright Office also
+explicitly denounced other governmental agencies trying to use DRM to
+restrict users based on regulations having nothing to do with
+copyright. Nevertheless, our goal continues to be [to end
+DRM](https://www.defectivebydesign.org/), period.
+
+### International Day Against DRM
+
+As part of our ongoing campaign against DRM, [the FSF raised the call
+on September 18,
+2018](https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/thank_you_participating_international_day_against_drm_2018)
+for supporters to send a message to the world: DRM is just wrong, and
+we can live in a society without it.
+
+Hundreds of activists participated by sharing their opposition online
+to how DRM restricts our freedom as a user of software and media, and
+seventeen organizations participated, including April, Creative
+Commons, The Document Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
+and more. Here in Boston, we visited the Apple Store and talked with
+shoppers about their digital rights and how Apple devices abuse those
+rights using DRM.
+
+{: .image-process-article-image}
+
+Two attendees of LibrePlanet 2018 working on their computers in the hallway
{.caption}
-Credit: Kori Feener, CC-BY 4.0
+Credit: ??, CC-BY 4.0
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-### Free Software Supporter subscribers
+### FY2018 at a glance
-119,299
-: October, 2016
+137
+: blogs published
+
+2,433,854
+: unique site vists
+
+### Free Software Supporter subscribers
159,068
-: September, 2017
+: October, 2017
+
+192,853
+: September, 2018
</div>
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-### LibrePlanet 2017
+### LibrePlanet 2018
-353
+339
: attendees
-56
+38
: sessions
-32
+33.5
: hours of streamed and recorded videos
</div>
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
{% separator {
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- "quote": "To fight the dystopia of a DRM-overgrown world."
+ "quote": "The movement [against] net neutrality being abolished inspired me to join the FSF and help out other foundations to help ensure a free Internet and free world."
}%}
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### Infrastructure for free software development and activism
+The FSF tech team maintains and improves the infrastructure that runs
+both the Foundation’s daily operations and the [GNU
+Project](https://www.gnu.org/), continuing to demonstrate that complex
+software projects and modern nonprofit organizations can succeed and
+thrive using solely free software.
-This year, the FSF's tech team made some crucial infrastructure upgrades that improve both the Foundation's daily operations and the GNU Project. The changes included running more services on hardware that is Respects Your Freedom certified, including a Librebooted BIOS and running Trisquel GNU/Linux, proving that complex software projects and modern nonprofit organizations can succeed relying on free software.
+Routine annual projects include participation in the yearly
+LibrePlanet conference, for which the tech team provides livestreaming
+and recording infrastructure, and twice-yearly fundraisers, for which
+the tech team prints over 10,000 letters to accompany the mailing of
+the [*Free Software Bulletin*](https://www.fsf.org/bulletin). This
+year, the team also contributed a new modal/popup window to the
+fundraiser, and polished the responsive design of the fundraiser
+banner.
-The tech team and its volunteers also power LibrePlanet, the annual free software conference. Its livestream and recording infrastructure reduce barriers to access for those who are not able to attend the conference in person. Volunteer-monitored IRC channels for each talk and workshop room increase the opportunity to contribute to the conversation. Recordings are archived on the FSF's GNU MediaGoblin instance shortly after the event. And it's all done with free software!
+### What's GNU in FY18
-Additionally, this three-person team runs the GNU shell server, oversees the security of GNU software distribution and infrastructure, and works with volunteers to maintain savannah.gnu.org. They also maintain many services used by staff, volunteers, and the free software community, including the FSF's CiviCRM server, fsf.org, libreplanet.org, defectivebydesign.org, the Free Software Directory, XMPP servers for staff and members, mailing lists, apt mirrors, git repositories, internal wikis, a GNU social server, a Single Sign-On server, email servers, DNS servers, internal site monitoring systems, a Request Tracker instance, and the FSF shop.
+*Note: Some data seems to be
+[[/fundraising/annual-report/fy2018/tech-team-update/draft_submitted_by_team/]],
+but why does it seem to be the same as FY17 ???*
-### What's GNU in FY17
+4
+: new dedicated volunteers
-~400
+318
: GNU packages
-234
+~610
: new GNU releases
-432K
-: emails per day on lists.gnu.org and lists.nongnu.org
-
-average of 1.2M
+average of 1.3M
: monthly unique visitors to gnu.org
-And the team collaborates with the free software community, maintaining gnu.org with the help of volunteers, and working with interns who are advancing their skills and knowledge in working with and creating free software.
+average of 457,976
+: emails per day sent for @gnu and @nongnu.org
-The team introduced some new infrastructure using distributed Ceph storage and multiple KVM hosts for our new virtual machines. They started the next round of upgrades, including the implementation of a new mail server stack supporting over three thousand free software project mailing lists, and improving the LibrePlanet conference streaming setup by using Ansible to manage the laptops used for streaming, introducing new hardware, and using HUBAngl (streaming software created by an FSF intern).
+And the team collaborates with the free software community,
+maintaining gnu.org with the help of volunteers, and working with
+interns who are advancing their skills and knowledge in working with
+and creating free software.
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+### Infrastructure for free software development and activism
-The tech team maintains the free software infrastructure for all FSF operations, including the annual LibrePlanet conference.
+The new server cluster Gnuhope started to host critical servers,
+starting with [my.fsf.org](https://my.fsf.org/) and
+[mirror.fsf.org](https://mirror.fsf.org/), to later host all critical
+services. It was later expanded and upgraded with a third redundant
+data storage server, a new network design, and an improved
+firewall. In the process, the team decommissioned our largest legacy
+server hosting critical services, pyxis.fsf.org.
+
+The team also noticed a misconfiguration that allowed some personal
+information to be accessible at
+[defectivebydesign.org](https://www.defectivebydesign.org). The team
+promptly took action to correct the problem, inform anyone affected,
+and publish a transparency report on the problem. During the 2018
+period, a big effort was made to renew the deployment and automated
+system using Ansible, to help prevent similar situations in the
+future.
+
+Special effort was made to keep up with CPU-level vulnerabilities
+discovered during the fiscal year, such as Meltdown and Spectre, which
+led to some software updates, configuration changes, and a all-new
+method for managing cryptocurrency wallets for the foundation.
+
+The main infrastructure firewalls were redesigned with a much more
+strict set of policies, including blocking all unexpected outgoing
+traffic.
+
+{: .image-process-article-image}
+
+The tech team maintains the free software infrastructure for all FSF operations, including the annual LibrePlanet conference. Speakers use free software on computers used for their presentations.
{.caption}
-Credit: Kori Feener, CC-BY 4.0
+Credit: ???, CC-BY 4.0
{.credit}
-### Defending user freedom with free software
-FSF and GNU infrastructure includes:
+In preparation for
+[GDPR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation)
+going into effect on May 25, 2018, the tech team researched their
+response and policy changes by consulting with a pro-bono lawyer. They
+determined that GDPR is only applicable to personal data related to
+donations, FSF mailing lists (not discussion lists), and the [GNU
+Press store](https://shop.fsf.org/). The team decided that they will
+treat everyone as a EU resident for the purpose of privacy policies,
+drafted and applied a new privacy policy, and added links to it from
+all relevant pages and sites.
-over 100
+#### FSF and GNU infrastructure includes
+
+over 110
: virtual machines
-11
+9
: physical machines
3
: data centers & some in-house hosting
-396
-: volunteer maintainers
-
0
: Amazon EC2 instances
[](https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=36){.logos}
[](https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=10){.logos}
[](https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=16){.logos}
+[](https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=21){.logos}
[](https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=57){.logos}
[](https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=19){.logos}
[](https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=58){.logos}
-The FSF acts as fiscal sponsor for free software projects and events whose scope and purpose align with the FSF’s mission. Participating projects benefit from the FSF’s nonprofit status, administrative infrastructure, and fundraising expertise. In FY17, these eight projects received $67,130 in direct support from the free software community via the Working Together for Free Software Fund.
+The FSF acts as fiscal sponsor for free software projects and events
+whose scope and purpose align with the FSF’s mission. Participating
+projects benefit from the FSF’s nonprofit status, administrative
+infrastructure, and fundraising expertise. In FY18, these nine
+projects received ~~$67,130 FIXME: What is this number???~~ in direct
+support from the free software community via the [Working Together for
+Free Software Fund](https://www.fsf.org/working-together/fund).
</div>
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{% separator {
"title": "Why I joined the FSF",
- "quote": "To fight the dystopia of a DRM-overgrown world."
+ "quote": "Free software positively impacts my life every hour of every day."
}%}
+
## Financial Statement
{%
%}
-The following is a visualization of the Free Software Foundation's FY 2017 financial statement. The original documents can be found [here]().
+The following is a visualization of the Free Software Foundation's FY
+2018 financial statement. The original documents can be found
+[here](https://www.fsf.org/about/financial).
<div class="nocollapse" style="clear:both" markdown=1>
<div class="column3" markdown=1>
+
### Statement of Financial Position
Assets ||
----|--
-Cash and Cash Equivalents | $1,191,910
-Accounts Receivable and Inventory | $28,425
-Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets | $4,038
-Investments | $239,645
-Property, Equipment | $19,169
+Cash and Cash Equivalents | $2,105,315
+Accounts Receivable and Inventory | $17,027
+Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets | $16,609
+Investments | $456,158
+Property, Equipment | $34,915
Non-Current Assets | $13,228
-*Total Assets* | *$1,496,415*
+*Total Assets* | *$2,646,904*
</div>
<div class="column3" markdown=1>
+
### Liabilities and Net Assets
Liabilities ||
----|--
-Accounts Payable | $16,335
-Accrued Expenses | $106,435
-**Total Current Liabilities** | **$122,770**
+Accounts Payable | $8,844
+Accrued Expenses | $94,735
+**Total Current Liabilities** | **$103,579**
Net Assets ||
----|--
-Unrestricted | $1,186,690
-Temporarily Restricted | $186,955
-**Total Net Assets** | **$1,373,645**
-*Total Liabilities and Net Assets* | *$1,496,415*
+Unrestricted | $2,251,152
+Temporarily Restricted | $292,173
+**Total Net Assets** | **$2,543,325**
+*Total Liabilities and Net Assets* | *$2,646,904*
</div>
<div class="column3" markdown=1>
+
### Statement of Activities
Support and Revenue ||
----|--
-Contributions | $1,294,697
+Contributions | $2,711,515
In-Kind Contributions | $3,600
-Earned Revenue | $70,406
-Interest and Other Income | $8,471
-Gain/(Loss) on Investments | ($14,899)
-**Total Support and Revenue** | **$1,362,275**
-
-Functional Expenses ||
-----|--
-Program Services | $1,076,394
-Management and General | $95,105
-Fundraising | $65,639
-**Total Functional Expenses** | **$1,236,994**
-*Change in Net Assets* | *$125,281*
+Earned Revenue | $51,028
+Interest and Other Income | $6,262
+Gain/(Loss) on Investments | ($152,560)
+**Total Support and Revenue** | **$2,619,845**
+
+Functional Expenses ||
+--------------------------------|-----------
+Program Services | $1,289,926
+Management and General | $93,474
+Fundraising | $66,765
+**Total Functional Expenses** | **$1,450,165**
+*Change in Net Assets* | *$1,169,680*
</div>
</div>
## Donors
-This list includes our patrons, in-kind supporters, and those who receive ThankGNUs for donations totaling over $500 in a year. The FSF appreciates and thanks the thousands of individual donors, members, and corporate patrons worldwide who make our work possible.
+This page is a snapshot of donors to the FSF. The majority of the
+organization's support each year comes from individuals giving less
+than $200 each per year. We thank the thousands around the world who
+care so much about free software.
### Institutional Support
-
<div class="donors col2" markdown=1>
-* Private Internet Access
-* Alibaba Group
-* Craigslist Charitable Fund
-* 2A Foundation
-* Bloomberg
-* Google
-* Skowronski Family Foundation
-* Bibliotek-Systemer As IUT Béziers (Université Montpellier 2)
-* Purism
-* Audeo
-* GitHub
-* Open Invention Network
+ * 2A Foundation
+ * Alibaba Cloud (Singapore) Private Limited
+ * Bern University of Applied Sciences, IT Services
+ * Bibliotek-Systemer AS
+ * Bloomberg
+ * Blue Systems
+ * C&CZ IT Department, Faculty of Science, Radboud University
+ * craigslist Charitable Fund
+ * Decode Detroit
+ * GitHub
+ * Google
+ * Hand Family Fund
+ * Handshake Development Inc.
+ * IBM
+ * Igalia
+ * IUT Béziers (Université Montpellier 2)
+ * Shirley & William S McIntyre Foundation
+ * Lee & Heidi Newberg Fund of The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region
+ * Opas Qua Foundation
+ * Pineapple Fund
+ * Private Internet Access
+ * Purism
+ * Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Savoir-faire Linux
+ * Skowronski Family Foundation
+ * William I. Smith Family Foundation
+ * Tegonal GmbH
+ * The Tripling Elephants
+ * Emanuel & Anna Weinstein Foundation
+ * WKO
### In-Kind Support
-
-* Bytemark
-* Markley Group
-* TowardEX
-* Technoethical
-* Aleph Objects
-* No Starch Press
-* ThinkPenguin
-
-### $5000+
-
-* Cristian Frâncu
-* Julian Graham
-* Gregory Maxwell
-* James Wilson
-
-### $1000+
-
-* Aleph Objects, Inc
-* Jean-Francois Blavier
-* Alain Brenzikofer
-* Shawn C [a.k.a “citypw”]
-* Colin Carr
-* Antonio Carzaniga
-* Jeffrey Cliff
-* Steven Dick
-* Robert Dionne
-* Alexey Eromenko
-* Cătălin Frâncu
-* Matteo Frigo
-* René Genz
-* Richard Harlow
-* Douglas Hauge
-* Matthias Herrmann
-* Jonathan Howell
-* Stephen Ippolito
-* Brewster Kahle
-* Donald and Jill Knuth
-* Nikolay Ksenev
-* Russell McManus
-* Trevor Menagh
-* Nebion AG
-* Seungwon Park
-* Sreeram Ramachandran
-* Daniel Riek
-* Peter Rock
-* Luis Rodriguez
-* Inouye Satoru
-* Steve Sprang
-* John Sullivan
-* Puduvankunnil Udayakumar
-* C&CZ IT Department, Faculty of Science, Radboud University
-* Kat Walsh
-* Philipp Weis
-* Marinos Yannikos
-
-### $500-$999
-
-* Jean-Louis Abraham
-* Ben Abrams
-* Bashar Al-Abdulhadi
-* Xavier ALT
-* Iñaki Arenaza in memory of Mr. Mauricio Saint-Supery
-* Matthew Armstrong
-* AskApache
-* Salim Badakhchani
-* Alexandre BLANC
-* Blue Systems
-* Mark Boenke
-* Wade Brainerd
-* Nicolae Carabut
-* Alison Chaiken
-* Conan Chiles
-* Yidong Chong
-* Judicaël Courant
-* Donald Craig
-* Allen Curtis
-* Dangerous Thing
-* Henrique Dante de Almeida
-* Paul Eggert
-* Markus Fischer
-* Edward Flick
-* Andrew Fox
-* Arthur Gleckler
-* Elyse Grasso
-* Aaron Grothe
-* Sam Halliday
-* Steven Hay
-* Michael Henderson
-* Håkon A. Hjortland
-* Brett Holleman
-* Daniel Hoodin
-* Clifford Ireland
-* Martin Jansche
-* Christian Johansen
-* Uday Kale
-* Chase Kelley
-* David Klann
-* Colin Klingman
-* Adam Klotblixt
-* Warren Knight
-* Øyvind Gard Knudtzen
-* Martin Krafft
-* Peter Kunze
-* Adam Lewis
-* Morten Lind
-* Denis López
-* Shyama Mandal
-* Christopher Marusich
-* Miromico AG
-* David Moews
-* Kyohei Moriyama
-* Bill Newcomb
-* Pablo Adrian Nieto
-* Freddie O'Connell
-* jeffrey oconnell
-* Stephanie Ogden
-* Marcus Pemer
-* Donnie Pennington
-* Roland Pesch
-* Valerio Poggi
-* David Potter
-* Nicolas Pottier
-* Ed Price
-* Vivek Ramachandran
-* Norman Richards
-* francisco rodriguez
-* Tyler Romeo
-* Leah Rowe
-* Sean Russell
-* Minoru Sekine
-* Ben Simmonds
-* Bijan Soleymani
-* Trevor Spiteri
-* Gary Stimson
-* 悟高田
-* Micah Tombli
-* David Turner
-* Rob Vens
-* Spencer Visick
-* Paul Wang
-* ivo Welch
-* Eric West
-* Jim Wright
-* hiroo yamagata
-* Adam Ymeren
+ * Aeronaut Brewing Co.
+ * Aleph Objects
+ * Bytemark, Inc.
+ * JMP.chat
+ * Markley Group
+ * No Starch Press
+ * StickerYou
+ * Technoethical
+ * TOWARDEX
+ * Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.
+ * Whole Foods Market
+
+### $5,000+
+ * Cristian and Andreea Frâncu
+ * Julian Graham
+ * Jonathan Howell
+
+### $1,000+
+ * Jean-Francois Blavier
+ * Rick and Betsy Bronson
+ * Shawn C [ a.k.a "citypw"]
+ * Colin Carr
+ * Deke Clinger
+ * Jason Compton
+ * Alban Deniz
+ * Robert Dionne
+ * Electric Embers Cooperative
+ * Charles Erwin
+ * Bret Fisher
+ * Catalina Frâncu
+ * René Genz
+ * John Gilmore
+ * Richard Harlow
+ * Douglas Hauge
+ * The Huisking Foundation
+ * Stephen Ippolito
+ * Brewster Kahle
+ * Donald and Jill Knuth
+ * Nikolay Ksenev
+ * Russell McManus
+ * Florian Moser
+ * Terence O'Gorman
+ * Neal Pawar
+ * Ben Pfaff
+ * Daniel Riek
+ * Inouye Satoru
+ * Michael Sherback
+ * Anthony Stieber
+ * Dr. Robert Strandh
+ * Michael and Amy Tiemann
+ * Gabe Toth
+ * Thomas Weeks III
+ * Steve Wickert
+ * James Wilson
+ * Martin Yannikos
+
+### $500 to $999
+ * 巩, 炳辰
+ * Ben Abrams
+ * Dara Adib
+ * Paul Allen
+ * Iñaki Arenaza
+ * Pete Batard
+ * Charles Birk
+ * Alexandre Blanc
+ * Mark Boenke
+ * Nathan Boy
+ * Daniel Broennimann
+ * Eric Brown
+ * Nicolae Carabut
+ * Antonio Carzaniga
+ * Alison Chaiken
+ * Victor Charpenay
+ * Deepak Ponvel Chermakani
+ * Conan Chiles
+ * Yidong Chong
+ * Daniel Church
+ * Lincoln Clarete
+ * Aaron Conole
+ * Donald Craig
+ * Judicaël Courant
+ * Stephen Day
+ * Bernard Deffarges
+ * Siva Dharmalingam
+ * Julian Doucette
+ * Matt Dugan
+ * Paul Eggert
+ * Clark Everetts
+ * FSp
+ * Markus Fischer
+ * James Fitzgerald
+ * Kevin Fleming
+ * Edward Flick
+ * Kevin Forsythe
+ * Andrew Fox
+ * Matteo Frigo
+ * Tom Gedra
+ * Arthur Gleckler
+ * Boone Gorges
+ * Kendall Griffith
+ * Aaron Grothe
+ * Nicholas Grove
+ * Rich Haase
+ * Thomas Hahn
+ * Sam Halliday
+ * Dwengo Helvetica
+ * Matthias Herrmann
+ * Håkon A. Hjortland
+ * Ralph Hockens
+ * Daniel Hoodin
+ * iFixit
+ * Clifford Ireland
+ * Michael Isenman
+ * Plamen Ivanov
+ * Faran Jessani
+ * Simon Josefsson
+ * Balta Katei
+ * David Klann
+ * Evan Klitzke
+ * Adam Klotblixt
+ * Warren Knight
+ * Joseph Kohler
+ * Martin Krafft
+ * Peter Kunze
+ * Claire Lackner
+ * Adam Lewis
+ * Morten Lind
+ * Mirko Lüdde
+ * Shyama Mandal
+ * Stefan Maric
+ * Emin Martinian
+ * Christopher Marusich
+ * Conner McKeeth
+ * Kevin Morenski
+ * Kyohei Moriyama
+ * Mridul Muralidharan
+ * Pablo Adrián Nieto
+ * Jeffrey O'Connell
+ * Laurent Ostiz
+ * David Palmer
+ * Luiz Paternostro
+ * Marcus Pemer
+ * Donnie Pennington
+ * Roland Pesch
+ * John Poduska
+ * Valerio Poggi
+ * Vladimír Pospíšil
+ * David Potter
+ * Nikhil Prabhakar
+ * Ed Price
+ * Clint Priest
+ * Guillaume Rembert
+ * Russell Rezaian
+ * Norman Richards
+ * Eric and Sara Richelson
+ * Peter Rock
+ * Elliot Rosenberger
+ * Lex Romanczuk
+ * Leah Rowe
+ * Christopher Samuel
+ * Minoru Sekine
+ * Guus Sliepen
+ * Christian Sperr
+ * Trevor Spiteri
+ * Steve Sprang
+ * Gary Stimson
+ * Beat Straehl
+ * Ben Sturmfels
+ * John Sullivan
+ * Ravi Swamy
+ * Hiroshi Takekawa
+ * Raphael Tremeaud
+ * David Turner
+ * Dean Ujihara
+ * Jelte van der Hoek
+ * Adam Van Ymeren
+ * Rob Vens
+ * Alessandro Vesely
+ * Tiago Vieira
+ * Spencer Visick
+ * Todd Weaver
+ * Philipp Weis
+ * Hiroo Yamagata
+ * Wenqing Yan
+ * Erwin Yükselgil
+
+ **This list includes our patrons, in-kind supporters, and those who
+ receive ThankGNUs for donations totaling over $500 in a year. The
+ FSF appreciates and thanks the thousands of individual donors,
+ members, and corporate patrons worldwide who make our work possible.
</div>
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
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- "quote": "To fight the dystopia of a DRM-overgrown world."
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## Associate Membership
-###Join the Free Software Foundation
-
-Our mission is to promote computer user freedom and defend the rights of all software users, worldwide. Though free software is used more widely than ever, it is under threat from a wide range of interests that profit from controlling and surveilling computer users. You can help put control over computers back in the hands of the people who use them! Try a free software program, or switch to a free operating system. Make a donation, or make a long term commitment to free software by becoming a Free Software Foundation Associate Member. Learn more at fsf.org.
+### Join the Free Software Foundation
+
+Our mission is to promote computer user freedom and defend the rights
+of all software users, worldwide. Though free software is used more
+widely than ever, it is under threat from a wide range of interests
+that profit from controlling and surveiling computer users. You can
+help put control over computers back in the hands of the people who
+use them! Try [a free software
+program](https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Free_software_replacements),
+or [switch to a free operating
+system](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html). [Make a
+donation](https://my.fsf.org/donate), or make a long term commitment
+to free software by [becoming a Free Software Foundation Associate
+Member](https://my.fsf.org/join). Learn more at <fsf.org>.
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-
+{: .image-process-thumb}
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-
+{: .image-process-thumb}
#### John Hsieh
Deputy Director
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### Licensing
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-
+{: .image-process-thumb}
#### Donald Robertson
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-
+{: .image-process-thumb}
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Copyright and Licensing Associate
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### Campaigns
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+{: .image-process-thumb}
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-
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#### Dana Morgenstein
Outreach and Communications Coordinator
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+<div class="staff" markdown=1>
+{: .image-process-thumb}
+#### Georgia Young
+Program Manager
+</div>
### Tech
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-
+{: .image-process-thumb}
#### Andrew Engelbrecht
-Senior Systems Administrator
+Web Developer
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-
+{: .image-process-thumb}
#### Ian Kelling
Senior Systems Administrator
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+{: .image-process-thumb}
#### Rubén Rodríguez
Chief Technology Officer
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### Operations
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+{: .image-process-thumb}
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-<li><a class="active" href="https://my.fsf.org">PDF</a></li>
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<h1 class="title">FY2018 Annual Report</h1>
<div class="subtitle"><p>Highlighting activities and detailed financials for Fiscal Year 2018</p></div>
-<div class="dates"><p>(October 1, 2016 - September 30, 2017)</p></div>
+<div class="dates"><p>(October 1, 2017 - September 30, 2018)</p></div>
<div class="grid">
<div class="column">
<h4><a href="#licensing">Licensing</a></h4>
</div>
<blockquote>
<p>The Free Software Foundation is a leader in the international movement for computer user freedom. We defend the rights of all software users and encourage the development and use of free <a href="">"as in freedom"</a> software.</p>
-<p>This annual report highlights the Foundation's activities and achievements in fiscal year 2017 (October 1, 2016 — September 30, 2017) and includes a detailed financial statement.</p>
+<p>This annual report highlights the Foundation's activities and achievements in fiscal year 2017 (October 1, 2017 — September 30, 2018) and includes a detailed financial statement.</p>
</blockquote>
<div id="toc">
-<div id="tocbg" style="background:url(./images/toc-libreplanet_grad.jpg)">
+<div id="tocbg" style="background:url(images/toc-libreplanet_grad.jpg)">
<div id="toctext">
<div class="toc"><span class="toctitle">Table of Contents</span><ul>
<li><a href="#licensing-and-compliance">Licensing and Compliance</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="caption">
-<p>Free software community members at <a href="https://lp">LibrePlanet 2017</a>.</p>
+<p>Free software community members at <a href="https://libreplanet.org/2018/">LibrePlanet 2018</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="credit">Credit: Kori Feener, CC BY 4.0</div>
</div>
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
<div class="col2">
<h2 id="licensing-and-compliance">Licensing and Compliance</h2>
-<p>The FSF's Licensing and Compliance Lab defends free software through license enforcement and enforcement support, a rigorous product certification, and educational resources.</p>
-<p>In FY17, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL). This is the free software copyleft license that ensures the user's right to run, study, share, and modify software. In addition to being the steward of the GPL, the FSF holds copyright on much of the GNU operating system. The licensing team spent the year accepting copyright assignments from software developers and corporations, investigating GPL violations, and answering licensing questions from the community.</p>
-<p>We championed copylefted projects, publishing another seven installments in an ongoing series of conversations with free software developers who choose GNU licenses for their work. We also certified a record number of devices under our Respects Your Freedom certification program, which identifies devices that do as much as possible to respect user freedom.</p>
-<p>Along with answering hundreds of licensing questions from the public, dedicated volunteers continued to expand and improve the Free Software Directory for nearly two million annual visitors, and we made inroads with government, helping the US Department of Defense to distribute free software. We also organized volunteers to create a workaround for Web site maintainers who want to register as an agent under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) while avoiding the nonfree JavaScript the process currently requires.</p>
-<p><img alt="Photo of a man with light brown hair, glasses, and a brown, white, and red sweater, holding two small mobile phones in his hands." class="image-process-article-image" src="images/derivatives/article-image/licensing-gingerich_crop.jpg"/></p>
-<p class="caption">Denver Gingerich, a developer of packages under the AGPLv3 and other GNU licenses, speaking at LibrePlanet 2017 about free software for mobile phones.</p>
-<p class="credit">CREDIT: Kori Feener, CC-BY 4.0</p>
-<h3 id="fy2017-at-a-glance">FY2017 at a glance</h3>
+<p>The FSF's <a href="https://www.fsf.org/licensing/">Licensing and Compliance
+Lab</a> defends free software through
+license enforcement and enforcement support, certification and
+endorsement programs, and educational resources.</p>
+<p>In FY18, the Lab restarted its <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/sign-up-for-the-fsfs-next-seminar-on-gpl-enforcement-and-legal-ethics-1">Continuing Legal Education
+seminars</a>
+on the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html">GNU General Public License
+(GPL)</a>. This is the free
+software copyleft license that ensures the user's right to run, study,
+share, and modify software.</p>
+<p>In addition to being the steward of the GPL, the FSF holds copyright
+on much of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/">GNU operating system</a>. The
+licensing team spent the year accepting copyright assignments from
+software developers and corporations, investigating GPL violations,
+and answering licensing questions from the community.</p>
+<p>We continued to grow our <a href="https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom">Respects Your Freedom
+(RYF)</a>
+certification program, which identifies devices that do as much as
+possible to respect user freedom. We also revamped and updated our
+process for endorsing fully free <a href="https://www.gnu.org/distros/">GNU/Linux
+distributions</a>, in order to better help
+users to find an operating system they can trust. Along with a
+dedicated group of volunteers, we continued to expand and improve the
+<a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page">Free Software Directory</a>,
+helping nearly two million annual visitors to find individual free
+software packages.</p>
+<p>Finally, we improved and updated our existing published licensing
+materials, adding reviews of new licenses and <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/?b_start:int=10">answers to common
+questions</a>, and
+published timely <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing">articles</a> on
+current topics and issues in free software licensing.</p>
+<p><img alt='Photo of a man with long, light brown hair, glasses, and a T-shirt that says "Guix SD" with a chalkboard in the background.' class="image-process-article-image" src="images/derivatives/article-image/Thompson_02.jpg"/></p>
+<p class="caption">Dave Thompson, a developer, speaking at LibrePlanet 2018 about Guix.</p>
+<p class="credit">CREDIT: ???, CC-BY 4.0</p>
+<h3 id="fy2018-at-a-glance">FY2018 at a glance</h3>
<dl>
-<dt>331</dt>
-<dd>copyright assignments and disclaimers accepted</dd>
-<dt>670</dt>
-<dd>licensing questions fielded from the public</dd>
-<dt>54</dt>
-<dd>reports of GNU license violations investigated</dd>
-<dt>18</dt>
-<dd>devices certified to Respect Your Freedom</dd>
-<dt>1.8 million</dt>
-<dd>visitors to the Free Software Directory</dd>
+<dt>261</dt>
+<dd>copyright assignments and disclaimers accepted </dd>
+<dt>17</dt>
+<dd>articles and blog posts published </dd>
+<dt>667</dt>
+<dd>licensing questions fielded from the public </dd>
+<dt>102</dt>
+<dd>reports of GNU license violations investigated </dd>
+<dt>2</dt>
+<dd>devices certified to Respect Your Freedom </dd>
+<dt>1</dt>
+<dd>continuing legal education seminar conducted in California </dd>
+<dt>1.9 million</dt>
+<dd>visitors to the Free Software Directory </dd>
</dl>
<h3 id="respects-your-freedom-certification">Respects Your Freedom certification</h3>
<p><img alt="RYF Logo" class="align-left width-40" src="images/RYF-logo.png"/></p>
-<p>The FSF's Respects Your Freedom product certification program encourages the creation and sale of hardware that will do as much as possible to respect your freedom and privacy.</p>
-<p>In FY17, fifteen devices from Technoethical became RYF certified: six laptops, two docking stations, a mainboard, three WiFi USB adapters, two internal WiFI devices, and a Bluetooth USB adapter. RYF certification was also awarded to three devices from Vikings: a USB stereo sound adapter, a mainboard, and a laptop, bringing the number of RYF certified devices to twenty-seven.</p>
+<p>The FSF's Respects Your Freedom product certification program
+encourages the creation and sale of hardware that will do as much as
+possible to respect your freedom and privacy.</p>
+<p>In FY18, we certified two devices, the Zerocat Chipflasher and the
+Minifree Libreboot X200 Tablet.</p>
</div>
-<p><div class="quote-box-top"></div> <div class="quote-box"> <h4>Why I joined the FSF</h4> <blockquote><p>"To fight the dystopia of a DRM-overgrown world."</p></blockquote></div></p>
-<p><img alt="A photo of a wall in Florida. Spraypainted on the wall is 'DRM' with a red circle and crossed out." class="image-process-article-image" src="images/derivatives/article-image/campaigns-drm.png"/></p>
-<p class="caption">34th Street Wall, Gainesville, Florida</p>
-<p class="credit">Credit: Gavin Baker, CC-BY-SA 4.0 </p>
+<div class="pagebreak"></div>
+<p><div class="quote-box-top"></div> <div class="quote-box"> <h4>Why I joined the FSF</h4> <blockquote><p>"The FSF supports the freedom to use devices I own as I see fit, and to be secure in the knowledge that the software I'm using isn't compromising my privacy."</p></blockquote></div></p>
<div class="col2">
<h2 id="campaigns">Campaigns</h2>
-<h3 id="fighting-drm-wherever-its-found">Fighting DRM wherever it's found</h3>
-<p>In the past year, we've fought back against Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) on multiple fronts.
-International Day Against DRM</p>
-<p>On July 9, 2017, International Day Against DRM (IDAD) focused on Web-based community involvement, with more than twenty organizations raising their voices in support of a world without DRM. From blog posts to special sales, to parties and movie showings around the world, people came out to celebrate DRM-free media, and raise awareness of the threats we face from DRM.</p>
-<h3 id="dmca-exemptions">DMCA exemptions</h3>
-<p>The licensing team continued to raise the alarm about legislative issues like the US federal government's continued insistence on forcing supporters of user freedom to fight for exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) anti-circumvention restrictions.</p>
-<p>The DMCA is a particularly egregious example of legislative endorsement of DRM. It destroys user freedom, and concentrates control over the production and distribution of digital media, giving DRM peddlers the power to carry out massive digital book burnings and conduct large scale surveillance over people's media viewing habits. Even the process for getting exceptions to the anti-circumvention rules for the purposes of research or use of assistive technologies is draconian, resetting every three years and requiring nonfree JavaScript in order to submit a comment on the process, unless you get special permission to comment in another way.</p>
-<p>Along with our own comments, we rallied the free software community to submit their own comments in favor of anti-circumvention exemptions — and passionate critiques of the entire process.</p>
-<h3 id="eme-in-web-standards">EME in Web standards</h3>
-<p>Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) is just another way to dress up DRM. The FSF and the free software community organized to oppose a proposal by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make EME a Web standard. We called and wrote W3C president Tim Berners-Lee, asking him to keep the Web free. While we lost this battle, and EME became a Web standard, we're looking at our options for next steps. We are not giving up hope for a free Web, even if its inventor did.</p>
-<h3 id="free-people-free-net">Free people, free net</h3>
-<p>Internet freedom in the United States found itself on the national stage in 2017. Over the course of the year, Ajit Pai became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and instigated a war against net neutrality. The FSF joined with dozens of other organizations to raise awareness and organize in support of net neutrality.</p>
-<p><img alt="Sumana Harihareswara gives the closing keynote at LibrePlanet 2017" class="image-process-article-image" src="images/derivatives/article-image/campaigns-stats-lp_small.jpg"/></p>
-<p class="caption">Sumana Harihareswara gives the closing keynote at LibrePlanet 2017</p>
-<p class="credit">Credit: Kori Feener, CC-BY 4.0</p>
+<p>The FSF campaigns team identifies important opportunities for free
+software adoption, education, and development, empowers people against
+specific threats to their freedom, and implements strategies to move
+us closer to a free society.</p>
+<p><img alt="A photo of woman with curly hair speaking in an animated fashion in front of a chalkboard." class="image-process-article-image" src="images/derivatives/article-image/Thornton_02.jpg"/></p>
+<p class="caption">Kat Thornton giving a talk on "Pathways for discovery of free software"</p>
+<p class="credit">Credit: ???, CC-BY-SA 4.0 </p>
+<h3 id="threats-to-software-freedom">Threats to software freedom</h3>
+<p>Over the course of 2018, corporate and government threats to user
+freedom continued to stack up, including the passage, in September, of
+the disastrous European Union (EU) Copyright Directive. Automatic
+tracking technology to detect copyrighted material is a threat to free
+speech, free culture, and free software, since it will automatically
+filter out source code that is legally being used under free software
+licenses. We joined in <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-a-stand-before-july-5th-contact-your-mep-today">encouraging EU free software
+supporters</a>
+to contact government officials and spread the word about these
+dangers.</p>
+<p>We also raised the alarm about the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/undermine-mass-surveillance-with-free-software-and-your-phone-calls">US FISA Amendments Reauthorization
+Act of
+2017</a>,
+which renewed and expanded bulk email surveillance, and urged our
+supporters to <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-action-tell-us-congress-not-to-pass-the-classics-act">resist the passage of the CLASSICS
+Act</a>,
+a bill that will consolidate and decrease access to music recordings
+online, and which will further entrench <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/">Digital Restrictions
+Management (DRM)</a> on the Internet.</p>
+<h3 id="defending-net-neutrality">Defending net neutrality</h3>
+<p>In late November, 2017, US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
+chairman Ajit Pai unveiled plans to repeal <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-action-for-net-neutrality">net
+neutrality</a>. The
+FSF was part of a protest to defend net neutrality at the Verizon
+store in Boston on December 7, and we encouraged our US audience to
+call their congressional representatives. However, Pai's plan, which
+would enable Internet Service Providers to control your access to the
+Internet, was officially codified in February, 2018, with rules taking
+effect in 2018. <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/its-not-over-take-action-for-net-neutrality-today">We
+supported</a>
+the legislative action under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to
+reverse the repeal, and a motion to restore net neutrality passed in
+May 2018. Various states, including California, Maine, and New York,
+have ongoing legal and legislative efforts to restore net neutrality.</p>
+<div class="pagebreak"></div>
+<h3 id="libreplanet-conference-celebrates-its-tenth-anniversary">LibrePlanet conference celebrates its tenth anniversary</h3>
+<p>The <a href="https://libreplanet.org/2018/">tenth annual LibrePlanet</a> was held
+at MIT’s Stata Center on March 24-25, 2018. The theme of the
+conference was “Freedom Embedded”: proprietary software’s sinister
+aspects are embedded in our software and digital devices, while
+freedom is embedded and intrinsic in free software.</p>
+<p>Keynote speakers at the conference were FSF board member Benjamin Mako
+Hill; Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff technologist Seth
+David Schoen; free software activist Deb Nicholson; and FSF founder
+and president Richard Stallman. At Stallman’s traditional Saturday
+evening keynote, he awarded the 2017 Free Software Awards to Public
+Lab and to Software Freedom Conservancy executive director Karen
+Sandler.</p>
+<h3 id="some-progress-on-dmca-but-not-enough">Some progress on DMCA, but not enough</h3>
+<p>In December 2017, <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/help_fight_against_dmca_anticircumvention_rules_december_15th">we submitted
+comments</a>
+in support of every proposed exemption to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act">Digital Millennium
+Copyright Act’s
+(DMCA’s)</a>
+anti-circumvention provisions. The DMCA creates draconian legal
+penalties for any attempt to try and take back the control that DRM
+seizes on your software. It violates your legitimate rights to use
+copyrighted works, and criminalizes the sharing of tools and
+information that you can use to take back that control.</p>
+<p>Some small victories were won in this round: nine of the twelve newly
+proposed classes of exemption <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/2018_dmca_anticircumvention_exemption_process_some_progress_not_enough">were adopted or
+expanded</a>,
+the process for supporting existing exemptions was simplified, and all
+preexisting exemptions were renewed. The US Copyright Office also
+explicitly denounced other governmental agencies trying to use DRM to
+restrict users based on regulations having nothing to do with
+copyright. Nevertheless, our goal continues to be <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/">to end
+DRM</a>, period.</p>
+<h3 id="international-day-against-drm">International Day Against DRM</h3>
+<p>As part of our ongoing campaign against DRM, <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/thank_you_participating_international_day_against_drm_2018">the FSF raised the call
+on September 18,
+2018</a>
+for supporters to send a message to the world: DRM is just wrong, and
+we can live in a society without it.</p>
+<p>Hundreds of activists participated by sharing their opposition online
+to how DRM restricts our freedom as a user of software and media, and
+seventeen organizations participated, including April, Creative
+Commons, The Document Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
+and more. Here in Boston, we visited the Apple Store and talked with
+shoppers about their digital rights and how Apple devices abuse those
+rights using DRM.</p>
+<p><img alt="Two people, a woman and a man, working on their laptops at a table. The woman's laptop has many stickers, such as GNU and FSF." class="image-process-article-image" src="images/derivatives/article-image/Hallway_26.jpg"/></p>
+<p class="caption">Two attendees of LibrePlanet 2018 working on their computers in the hallway</p>
+<p class="credit">Credit: ??, CC-BY 4.0</p>
<div>
<div class="column2">
+<h3 id="fy2018-at-a-glance_1">FY2018 at a glance</h3>
+<dl>
+<dt>137</dt>
+<dd>blogs published </dd>
+<dt>2,433,854</dt>
+<dd>unique site vists </dd>
+</dl>
<h3 id="free-software-supporter-subscribers">Free Software Supporter subscribers</h3>
<dl>
-<dt>119,299</dt>
-<dd>October, 2016</dd>
<dt>159,068</dt>
-<dd>September, 2017</dd>
+<dd>October, 2017</dd>
+<dt>192,853</dt>
+<dd>September, 2018</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="column2">
-<h3 id="libreplanet-2017">LibrePlanet 2017</h3>
+<h3 id="libreplanet-2018">LibrePlanet 2018</h3>
<dl>
-<dt>353</dt>
+<dt>339</dt>
<dd>attendees</dd>
-<dt>56</dt>
+<dt>38</dt>
<dd>sessions</dd>
-<dt>32</dt>
+<dt>33.5</dt>
<dd>hours of streamed and recorded videos</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
-<p><div class="quote-box-top"></div> <div class="quote-box"> <h4>Why I joined the FSF</h4> <blockquote><p>"To fight the dystopia of a DRM-overgrown world."</p></blockquote></div></p>
+<p><div class="quote-box-top"></div> <div class="quote-box"> <h4>Why I joined the FSF</h4> <blockquote><p>"The movement [against] net neutrality being abolished inspired me to join the FSF and help out other foundations to help ensure a free Internet and free world."</p></blockquote></div></p>
<div class="col2">
<h2 id="tech">Tech</h2>
<h3 id="infrastructure-for-free-software-development-and-activism">Infrastructure for free software development and activism</h3>
-<p>This year, the FSF's tech team made some crucial infrastructure upgrades that improve both the Foundation's daily operations and the GNU Project. The changes included running more services on hardware that is Respects Your Freedom certified, including a Librebooted BIOS and running Trisquel GNU/Linux, proving that complex software projects and modern nonprofit organizations can succeed relying on free software.</p>
-<p>The tech team and its volunteers also power LibrePlanet, the annual free software conference. Its livestream and recording infrastructure reduce barriers to access for those who are not able to attend the conference in person. Volunteer-monitored IRC channels for each talk and workshop room increase the opportunity to contribute to the conversation. Recordings are archived on the FSF's GNU MediaGoblin instance shortly after the event. And it's all done with free software!</p>
-<p>Additionally, this three-person team runs the GNU shell server, oversees the security of GNU software distribution and infrastructure, and works with volunteers to maintain savannah.gnu.org. They also maintain many services used by staff, volunteers, and the free software community, including the FSF's CiviCRM server, fsf.org, libreplanet.org, defectivebydesign.org, the Free Software Directory, XMPP servers for staff and members, mailing lists, apt mirrors, git repositories, internal wikis, a GNU social server, a Single Sign-On server, email servers, DNS servers, internal site monitoring systems, a Request Tracker instance, and the FSF shop.</p>
-<h3 id="whats-gnu-in-fy17">What's GNU in FY17</h3>
+<p>The FSF tech team maintains and improves the infrastructure that runs
+both the Foundation’s daily operations and the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/">GNU
+Project</a>, continuing to demonstrate that complex
+software projects and modern nonprofit organizations can succeed and
+thrive using solely free software.</p>
+<p>Routine annual projects include participation in the yearly
+LibrePlanet conference, for which the tech team provides livestreaming
+and recording infrastructure, and twice-yearly fundraisers, for which
+the tech team prints over 10,000 letters to accompany the mailing of
+the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/bulletin"><em>Free Software Bulletin</em></a>. This
+year, the team also contributed a new modal/popup window to the
+fundraiser, and polished the responsive design of the fundraiser
+banner.</p>
+<h3 id="whats-gnu-in-fy18">What's GNU in FY18</h3>
+<p><em>Note: Some data seems to be
+[[/fundraising/annual-report/fy2018/tech-team-update/draft_submitted_by_team/]],
+but why does it seem to be the same as FY17 ???</em></p>
<dl>
-<dt>~400</dt>
+<dt>4</dt>
+<dd>new dedicated volunteers</dd>
+<dt>318</dt>
<dd>GNU packages</dd>
-<dt>234</dt>
+<dt>~610</dt>
<dd>new GNU releases</dd>
-<dt>432K</dt>
-<dd>emails per day on lists.gnu.org and lists.nongnu.org</dd>
-<dt>average of 1.2M</dt>
+<dt>average of 1.3M</dt>
<dd>monthly unique visitors to gnu.org</dd>
+<dt>average of 457,976</dt>
+<dd>emails per day sent for @gnu and @nongnu.org</dd>
</dl>
-<p>And the team collaborates with the free software community, maintaining gnu.org with the help of volunteers, and working with interns who are advancing their skills and knowledge in working with and creating free software.</p>
-<p>The team introduced some new infrastructure using distributed Ceph storage and multiple KVM hosts for our new virtual machines. They started the next round of upgrades, including the implementation of a new mail server stack supporting over three thousand free software project mailing lists, and improving the LibrePlanet conference streaming setup by using Ansible to manage the laptops used for streaming, introducing new hardware, and using HUBAngl (streaming software created by an FSF intern).</p>
-<p><img alt="A tiered classroom, filled with people. A person stands at the front of the room, beneath a large projection screen, giving a talk." class="image-process-article-image" src="images/derivatives/article-image/sysadmin-libreplanet.jpg"/></p>
-<p class="caption">The tech team maintains the free software infrastructure for all FSF operations, including the annual LibrePlanet conference.</p>
-<p class="credit">Credit: Kori Feener, CC-BY 4.0</p>
-<h3 id="defending-user-freedom-with-free-software">Defending user freedom with free software</h3>
-<p>FSF and GNU infrastructure includes:</p>
+<p>And the team collaborates with the free software community,
+maintaining gnu.org with the help of volunteers, and working with
+interns who are advancing their skills and knowledge in working with
+and creating free software.</p>
+<h3 id="infrastructure-for-free-software-development-and-activism_1">Infrastructure for free software development and activism</h3>
+<p>The new server cluster Gnuhope started to host critical servers,
+starting with <a href="https://my.fsf.org/">my.fsf.org</a> and
+<a href="https://mirror.fsf.org/">mirror.fsf.org</a>, to later host all critical
+services. It was later expanded and upgraded with a third redundant
+data storage server, a new network design, and an improved
+firewall. In the process, the team decommissioned our largest legacy
+server hosting critical services, pyxis.fsf.org.</p>
+<p>The team also noticed a misconfiguration that allowed some personal
+information to be accessible at
+<a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org">defectivebydesign.org</a>. The team
+promptly took action to correct the problem, inform anyone affected,
+and publish a transparency report on the problem. During the 2018
+period, a big effort was made to renew the deployment and automated
+system using Ansible, to help prevent similar situations in the
+future.</p>
+<p>Special effort was made to keep up with CPU-level vulnerabilities
+discovered during the fiscal year, such as Meltdown and Spectre, which
+led to some software updates, configuration changes, and a all-new
+method for managing cryptocurrency wallets for the foundation.</p>
+<p>The main infrastructure firewalls were redesigned with a much more
+strict set of policies, including blocking all unexpected outgoing
+traffic.</p>
+<p><img alt="Two people, with their backs turned to the camera wearing jackets look at a computer, which is slightly out of focus. The computer displays text." class="image-process-article-image" src="images/derivatives/article-image/Hallway_38.jpg"/></p>
+<p class="caption">The tech team maintains the free software infrastructure for all FSF operations, including the annual LibrePlanet conference. Speakers use free software on computers used for their presentations.</p>
+<p class="credit">Credit: ???, CC-BY 4.0</p>
+<p>In preparation for
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation">GDPR</a>
+going into effect on May 25, 2018, the tech team researched their
+response and policy changes by consulting with a pro-bono lawyer. They
+determined that GDPR is only applicable to personal data related to
+donations, FSF mailing lists (not discussion lists), and the <a href="https://shop.fsf.org/">GNU
+Press store</a>. The team decided that they will
+treat everyone as a EU resident for the purpose of privacy policies,
+drafted and applied a new privacy policy, and added links to it from
+all relevant pages and sites.</p>
+<h4 id="fsf-and-gnu-infrastructure-includes">FSF and GNU infrastructure includes</h4>
<dl>
-<dt>over 100</dt>
+<dt>over 110</dt>
<dd>virtual machines</dd>
-<dt>11</dt>
+<dt>9</dt>
<dd>physical machines</dd>
<dt>3</dt>
<dd>data centers & some in-house hosting</dd>
-<dt>396</dt>
-<dd>volunteer maintainers</dd>
<dt>0</dt>
<dd>Amazon EC2 instances</dd>
</dl>
<a class="logos" href="https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=36"><img alt="GNU MediaGoblin logo" src="images/mediagoblin.svg"/></a>
<a class="logos" href="https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=10"><img alt="GNU Octave logo" src="images/octave.svg"/></a>
<a class="logos" href="https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=16"><img alt="GNU Radio logo" src="images/gnuradio.svg"/></a>
+<a class="logos" href="https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=21"><img alt="GNUstep" src="images/GNUstep_logo.svg"/></a>
<a class="logos" href="https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=57"><img alt="GNU Toolchain logo" src="images/gnu-toolchain.svg"/></a>
<a class="logos" href="https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=19"><img alt="Replicant logo" src="images/replicant.svg"/></a>
<a class="logos" href="https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=58"><img alt="SeaGL logo" src="images/seagl.png"/></a></p>
-<p>The FSF acts as fiscal sponsor for free software projects and events whose scope and purpose align with the FSF’s mission. Participating projects benefit from the FSF’s nonprofit status, administrative infrastructure, and fundraising expertise. In FY17, these eight projects received $67,130 in direct support from the free software community via the Working Together for Free Software Fund.</p>
+<p>The FSF acts as fiscal sponsor for free software projects and events
+whose scope and purpose align with the FSF’s mission. Participating
+projects benefit from the FSF’s nonprofit status, administrative
+infrastructure, and fundraising expertise. In FY18, these nine
+projects received ~~$67,130 FIXME: What is this number???~~ in direct
+support from the free software community via the <a href="https://www.fsf.org/working-together/fund">Working Together for
+Free Software Fund</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
-<p><div class="quote-box-top"></div> <div class="quote-box"> <h4>Why I joined the FSF</h4> <blockquote><p>"To fight the dystopia of a DRM-overgrown world."</p></blockquote></div></p>
+<p><div class="quote-box-top"></div> <div class="quote-box"> <h4>Why I joined the FSF</h4> <blockquote><p>"Free software positively impacts my life every hour of every day."</p></blockquote></div></p>
<h2 id="financial-statement">Financial Statement</h2>
<p><img "="" class="matplotlib" src="images/fa2018.png" type="image/png"/></p>
-<p>The following is a visualization of the Free Software Foundation's FY 2017 financial statement. The original documents can be found <a href="">here</a>.</p>
+<p>The following is a visualization of the Free Software Foundation's FY
+2018 financial statement. The original documents can be found
+<a href="https://www.fsf.org/about/financial">here</a>.</p>
<div class="nocollapse" style="clear:both">
<div class="column3">
<h3 id="statement-of-financial-position">Statement of Financial Position</h3>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Cash and Cash Equivalents</td>
-<td>$1,191,910</td>
+<td>$2,105,315</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Accounts Receivable and Inventory</td>
-<td>$28,425</td>
+<td>$17,027</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets</td>
-<td>$4,038</td>
+<td>$16,609</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Investments</td>
-<td>$239,645</td>
+<td>$456,158</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Property, Equipment</td>
-<td>$19,169</td>
+<td>$34,915</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Non-Current Assets</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Total Assets</em></td>
-<td><em>$1,496,415</em></td>
+<td><em>$2,646,904</em></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Accounts Payable</td>
-<td>$16,335</td>
+<td>$8,844</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Accrued Expenses</td>
-<td>$106,435</td>
+<td>$94,735</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Total Current Liabilities</strong></td>
-<td><strong>$122,770</strong></td>
+<td><strong>$103,579</strong></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Unrestricted</td>
-<td>$1,186,690</td>
+<td>$2,251,152</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Temporarily Restricted</td>
-<td>$186,955</td>
+<td>$292,173</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Total Net Assets</strong></td>
-<td><strong>$1,373,645</strong></td>
+<td><strong>$2,543,325</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Total Liabilities and Net Assets</em></td>
-<td><em>$1,496,415</em></td>
+<td><em>$2,646,904</em></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Contributions</td>
-<td>$1,294,697</td>
+<td>$2,711,515</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>In-Kind Contributions</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Earned Revenue</td>
-<td>$70,406</td>
+<td>$51,028</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Interest and Other Income</td>
-<td>$8,471</td>
+<td>$6,262</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gain/(Loss) on Investments</td>
-<td>($14,899)</td>
+<td>($152,560)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Total Support and Revenue</strong></td>
-<td><strong>$1,362,275</strong></td>
+<td><strong>$2,619,845</strong></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Program Services</td>
-<td>$1,076,394</td>
+<td>$1,289,926</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Management and General</td>
-<td>$95,105</td>
+<td>$93,474</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Fundraising</td>
-<td>$65,639</td>
+<td>$66,765</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Total Functional Expenses</strong></td>
-<td><strong>$1,236,994</strong></td>
+<td><strong>$1,450,165</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>Change in Net Assets</em></td>
-<td><em>$125,281</em></td>
+<td><em>$1,169,680</em></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
<h2 id="donors">Donors</h2>
-<p>This list includes our patrons, in-kind supporters, and those who receive ThankGNUs for donations totaling over $500 in a year. The FSF appreciates and thanks the thousands of individual donors, members, and corporate patrons worldwide who make our work possible.</p>
+<p>This page is a snapshot of donors to the FSF. The majority of the
+organization's support each year comes from individuals giving less
+than $200 each per year. We thank the thousands around the world who
+care so much about free software.</p>
<h3 id="institutional-support">Institutional Support</h3>
<div class="donors col2">
<ul>
-<li>Private Internet Access</li>
-<li>Alibaba Group</li>
-<li>Craigslist Charitable Fund</li>
<li>2A Foundation</li>
+<li>Alibaba Cloud (Singapore) Private Limited</li>
+<li>Bern University of Applied Sciences, IT Services</li>
+<li>Bibliotek-Systemer AS</li>
<li>Bloomberg</li>
+<li>Blue Systems</li>
+<li>C&CZ IT Department, Faculty of Science, Radboud University</li>
+<li>craigslist Charitable Fund</li>
+<li>Decode Detroit</li>
+<li>GitHub</li>
<li>Google</li>
-<li>Skowronski Family Foundation</li>
-<li>Bibliotek-Systemer As IUT Béziers (Université Montpellier 2)</li>
+<li>Hand Family Fund</li>
+<li>Handshake Development Inc.</li>
+<li>IBM</li>
+<li>Igalia</li>
+<li>IUT Béziers (Université Montpellier 2)</li>
+<li>Shirley & William S McIntyre Foundation</li>
+<li>Lee & Heidi Newberg Fund of The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region</li>
+<li>Opas Qua Foundation</li>
+<li>Pineapple Fund</li>
+<li>Private Internet Access</li>
<li>Purism</li>
-<li>Audeo</li>
-<li>GitHub</li>
-<li>Open Invention Network</li>
+<li>Red Hat, Inc.</li>
+<li>Savoir-faire Linux </li>
+<li>Skowronski Family Foundation</li>
+<li>William I. Smith Family Foundation</li>
+<li>Tegonal GmbH</li>
+<li>The Tripling Elephants</li>
+<li>Emanuel & Anna Weinstein Foundation</li>
+<li>WKO</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="in-kind-support">In-Kind Support</h3>
<ul>
-<li>Bytemark</li>
-<li>Markley Group</li>
-<li>TowardEX</li>
-<li>Technoethical</li>
+<li>Aeronaut Brewing Co.</li>
<li>Aleph Objects</li>
+<li>Bytemark, Inc.</li>
+<li>JMP.chat</li>
+<li>Markley Group</li>
<li>No Starch Press</li>
-<li>ThinkPenguin </li>
+<li>StickerYou</li>
+<li>Technoethical</li>
+<li>TOWARDEX</li>
+<li>Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.</li>
+<li>Whole Foods Market</li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="5000">$5000+</h3>
+<h3 id="5000">$5,000+</h3>
<ul>
-<li>Cristian Frâncu</li>
+<li>Cristian and Andreea Frâncu</li>
<li>Julian Graham</li>
-<li>Gregory Maxwell</li>
-<li>James Wilson</li>
+<li>Jonathan Howell</li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="1000">$1000+</h3>
+<h3 id="1000">$1,000+</h3>
<ul>
-<li>Aleph Objects, Inc</li>
<li>Jean-Francois Blavier</li>
-<li>Alain Brenzikofer</li>
-<li>Shawn C [a.k.a “citypw”]</li>
+<li>Rick and Betsy Bronson</li>
+<li>Shawn C [ a.k.a "citypw"]</li>
<li>Colin Carr</li>
-<li>Antonio Carzaniga</li>
-<li>Jeffrey Cliff</li>
-<li>Steven Dick</li>
+<li>Deke Clinger</li>
+<li>Jason Compton</li>
+<li>Alban Deniz</li>
<li>Robert Dionne</li>
-<li>Alexey Eromenko</li>
-<li>Cătălin Frâncu</li>
-<li>Matteo Frigo</li>
+<li>Electric Embers Cooperative</li>
+<li>Charles Erwin</li>
+<li>Bret Fisher</li>
+<li>Catalina Frâncu</li>
<li>René Genz</li>
+<li>John Gilmore</li>
<li>Richard Harlow</li>
<li>Douglas Hauge</li>
-<li>Matthias Herrmann</li>
-<li>Jonathan Howell</li>
+<li>The Huisking Foundation</li>
<li>Stephen Ippolito</li>
<li>Brewster Kahle</li>
<li>Donald and Jill Knuth</li>
<li>Nikolay Ksenev</li>
<li>Russell McManus</li>
-<li>Trevor Menagh</li>
-<li>Nebion AG</li>
-<li>Seungwon Park</li>
-<li>Sreeram Ramachandran</li>
+<li>Florian Moser</li>
+<li>Terence O'Gorman</li>
+<li>Neal Pawar</li>
+<li>Ben Pfaff</li>
<li>Daniel Riek</li>
-<li>Peter Rock</li>
-<li>Luis Rodriguez</li>
<li>Inouye Satoru</li>
-<li>Steve Sprang</li>
-<li>John Sullivan</li>
-<li>Puduvankunnil Udayakumar</li>
-<li>C&CZ IT Department, Faculty of Science, Radboud University</li>
-<li>Kat Walsh</li>
-<li>Philipp Weis</li>
-<li>Marinos Yannikos</li>
+<li>Michael Sherback</li>
+<li>Anthony Stieber</li>
+<li>Dr. Robert Strandh</li>
+<li>Michael and Amy Tiemann</li>
+<li>Gabe Toth</li>
+<li>Thomas Weeks III</li>
+<li>Steve Wickert</li>
+<li>James Wilson</li>
+<li>Martin Yannikos</li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="500-999">$500-$999</h3>
+<h3 id="500-to-999">$500 to $999</h3>
<ul>
-<li>Jean-Louis Abraham</li>
+<li>巩, 炳辰</li>
<li>Ben Abrams</li>
-<li>Bashar Al-Abdulhadi</li>
-<li>Xavier ALT</li>
-<li>Iñaki Arenaza in memory of Mr. Mauricio Saint-Supery</li>
-<li>Matthew Armstrong</li>
-<li>AskApache</li>
-<li>Salim Badakhchani</li>
-<li>Alexandre BLANC</li>
-<li>Blue Systems</li>
+<li>Dara Adib</li>
+<li>Paul Allen</li>
+<li>Iñaki Arenaza</li>
+<li>Pete Batard</li>
+<li>Charles Birk</li>
+<li>Alexandre Blanc</li>
<li>Mark Boenke</li>
-<li>Wade Brainerd</li>
+<li>Nathan Boy</li>
+<li>Daniel Broennimann</li>
+<li>Eric Brown</li>
<li>Nicolae Carabut</li>
+<li>Antonio Carzaniga</li>
<li>Alison Chaiken</li>
+<li>Victor Charpenay</li>
+<li>Deepak Ponvel Chermakani</li>
<li>Conan Chiles</li>
<li>Yidong Chong</li>
-<li>Judicaël Courant</li>
+<li>Daniel Church</li>
+<li>Lincoln Clarete</li>
+<li>Aaron Conole</li>
<li>Donald Craig</li>
-<li>Allen Curtis</li>
-<li>Dangerous Thing</li>
-<li>Henrique Dante de Almeida</li>
+<li>Judicaël Courant</li>
+<li>Stephen Day</li>
+<li>Bernard Deffarges</li>
+<li>Siva Dharmalingam</li>
+<li>Julian Doucette</li>
+<li>Matt Dugan</li>
<li>Paul Eggert</li>
+<li>Clark Everetts</li>
+<li>FSp</li>
<li>Markus Fischer</li>
+<li>James Fitzgerald</li>
+<li>Kevin Fleming</li>
<li>Edward Flick</li>
+<li>Kevin Forsythe</li>
<li>Andrew Fox</li>
+<li>Matteo Frigo</li>
+<li>Tom Gedra</li>
<li>Arthur Gleckler</li>
-<li>Elyse Grasso</li>
+<li>Boone Gorges</li>
+<li>Kendall Griffith</li>
<li>Aaron Grothe</li>
+<li>Nicholas Grove</li>
+<li>Rich Haase</li>
+<li>Thomas Hahn</li>
<li>Sam Halliday</li>
-<li>Steven Hay</li>
-<li>Michael Henderson</li>
+<li>Dwengo Helvetica</li>
+<li>Matthias Herrmann</li>
<li>Håkon A. Hjortland</li>
-<li>Brett Holleman</li>
+<li>Ralph Hockens</li>
<li>Daniel Hoodin</li>
+<li>iFixit</li>
<li>Clifford Ireland</li>
-<li>Martin Jansche</li>
-<li>Christian Johansen</li>
-<li>Uday Kale</li>
-<li>Chase Kelley</li>
+<li>Michael Isenman</li>
+<li>Plamen Ivanov</li>
+<li>Faran Jessani</li>
+<li>Simon Josefsson</li>
+<li>Balta Katei</li>
<li>David Klann</li>
-<li>Colin Klingman</li>
+<li>Evan Klitzke</li>
<li>Adam Klotblixt</li>
<li>Warren Knight</li>
-<li>Øyvind Gard Knudtzen</li>
+<li>Joseph Kohler</li>
<li>Martin Krafft</li>
<li>Peter Kunze</li>
+<li>Claire Lackner</li>
<li>Adam Lewis</li>
<li>Morten Lind</li>
-<li>Denis López</li>
+<li>Mirko Lüdde</li>
<li>Shyama Mandal</li>
+<li>Stefan Maric</li>
+<li>Emin Martinian</li>
<li>Christopher Marusich</li>
-<li>Miromico AG</li>
-<li>David Moews</li>
+<li>Conner McKeeth</li>
+<li>Kevin Morenski</li>
<li>Kyohei Moriyama</li>
-<li>Bill Newcomb</li>
-<li>Pablo Adrian Nieto</li>
-<li>Freddie O'Connell</li>
-<li>jeffrey oconnell</li>
-<li>Stephanie Ogden</li>
+<li>Mridul Muralidharan</li>
+<li>Pablo Adrián Nieto</li>
+<li>Jeffrey O'Connell</li>
+<li>Laurent Ostiz</li>
+<li>David Palmer</li>
+<li>Luiz Paternostro</li>
<li>Marcus Pemer</li>
<li>Donnie Pennington</li>
<li>Roland Pesch</li>
+<li>John Poduska</li>
<li>Valerio Poggi</li>
+<li>Vladimír Pospíšil</li>
<li>David Potter</li>
-<li>Nicolas Pottier</li>
+<li>Nikhil Prabhakar</li>
<li>Ed Price</li>
-<li>Vivek Ramachandran</li>
+<li>Clint Priest</li>
+<li>Guillaume Rembert</li>
+<li>Russell Rezaian</li>
<li>Norman Richards</li>
-<li>francisco rodriguez</li>
-<li>Tyler Romeo</li>
+<li>Eric and Sara Richelson</li>
+<li>Peter Rock</li>
+<li>Elliot Rosenberger</li>
+<li>Lex Romanczuk</li>
<li>Leah Rowe</li>
-<li>Sean Russell</li>
+<li>Christopher Samuel</li>
<li>Minoru Sekine</li>
-<li>Ben Simmonds</li>
-<li>Bijan Soleymani</li>
+<li>Guus Sliepen</li>
+<li>Christian Sperr</li>
<li>Trevor Spiteri</li>
+<li>Steve Sprang</li>
<li>Gary Stimson</li>
-<li>悟高田</li>
-<li>Micah Tombli</li>
+<li>Beat Straehl</li>
+<li>Ben Sturmfels</li>
+<li>John Sullivan</li>
+<li>Ravi Swamy</li>
+<li>Hiroshi Takekawa</li>
+<li>Raphael Tremeaud</li>
<li>David Turner</li>
+<li>Dean Ujihara</li>
+<li>Jelte van der Hoek</li>
+<li>Adam Van Ymeren</li>
<li>Rob Vens</li>
+<li>Alessandro Vesely</li>
+<li>Tiago Vieira</li>
<li>Spencer Visick</li>
-<li>Paul Wang</li>
-<li>ivo Welch</li>
-<li>Eric West</li>
-<li>Jim Wright</li>
-<li>hiroo yamagata</li>
-<li>Adam Ymeren </li>
+<li>Todd Weaver</li>
+<li>Philipp Weis</li>
+<li>Hiroo Yamagata</li>
+<li>Wenqing Yan</li>
+<li>Erwin Yükselgil</li>
</ul>
+<p>**This list includes our patrons, in-kind supporters, and those who
+ receive ThankGNUs for donations totaling over $500 in a year. The
+ FSF appreciates and thanks the thousands of individual donors,
+ members, and corporate patrons worldwide who make our work possible.</p>
</div>
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
-<p><div class="quote-box-top"></div> <div class="quote-box"> <h4>Why I joined the FSF</h4> <blockquote><p>"To fight the dystopia of a DRM-overgrown world."</p></blockquote></div></p>
+<p><div class="quote-box-top"></div> <div class="quote-box"> <h4>Why I joined the FSF</h4> <blockquote><p>"The FSF gives me hope today, and by joining, I want to support not just free software, but also freedom, justice and equality throughout the world."</p></blockquote></div></p>
<div class="column2">
<p><img alt="An image of a keyboard" class="colortone" src="images/donors-opener.jpg"/></p>
</div>
<div class="column2">
<h2 id="associate-membership">Associate Membership</h2>
<h3 id="join-the-free-software-foundation">Join the Free Software Foundation</h3>
-<p>Our mission is to promote computer user freedom and defend the rights of all software users, worldwide. Though free software is used more widely than ever, it is under threat from a wide range of interests that profit from controlling and surveilling computer users. You can help put control over computers back in the hands of the people who use them! Try a free software program, or switch to a free operating system. Make a donation, or make a long term commitment to free software by becoming a Free Software Foundation Associate Member. Learn more at fsf.org.</p>
+<p>Our mission is to promote computer user freedom and defend the rights
+of all software users, worldwide. Though free software is used more
+widely than ever, it is under threat from a wide range of interests
+that profit from controlling and surveiling computer users. You can
+help put control over computers back in the hands of the people who
+use them! Try <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Free_Software_Directory:Free_software_replacements">a free software
+program</a>,
+or <a href="https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html">switch to a free operating
+system</a>. <a href="https://my.fsf.org/donate">Make a
+donation</a>, or make a long term commitment
+to free software by <a href="https://my.fsf.org/join">becoming a Free Software Foundation Associate
+Member</a>. Learn more at <fsf.org>.</fsf.org></p>
</div>
<div class="pagebreak"></div>
<h2 id="leadership-and-staff">Leadership and Staff</h2>
<div class="staffcolumn width-70 float-left">
<h3 id="leadership">Leadership</h3>
<div class="staff">
-<p><img alt="John Sullivan" src="images/john-sullivan_square_grad.jpg"/></p>
+<p><img alt="John Sullivan" class="image-process-thumb" src="images/staff/derivatives/thumb/johns.jpg"/></p>
<h4 id="john-sullivan">John Sullivan</h4>
<p>Executive Director</p>
</div>
<div class="staff">
-<p><img alt="John Hsieh" src="images/john-hsieh_square_grad.jpg"/></p>
+<p><img alt="John Hsieh" class="image-process-thumb" src="images/staff/derivatives/thumb/johnh.jpg"/></p>
<h4 id="john-hsieh">John Hsieh</h4>
<p>Deputy Director</p>
</div>
<h3 id="licensing">Licensing</h3>
<div class="staff">
-<p><img alt="Donald Robertson" src="images/donald-robertson_square_grad.jpg"/></p>
+<p><img alt="Donald Robertson" class="image-process-thumb" src="images/staff/derivatives/thumb/donald.jpg"/></p>
<h4 id="donald-robertson">Donald Robertson</h4>
<p>Licensing and Compliance Manager</p>
</div>
<div class="staff">
-<p><img alt="Craig Topham" src="images/craig-topham_square_grad.jpg"/></p>
+<p><img alt="Craig Topham" class="image-process-thumb" src="images/staff/derivatives/thumb/craig.jpg"/></p>
<h4 id="craig-topham">Craig Topham</h4>
<p>Copyright and Licensing Associate </p>
</div>
<h3 id="campaigns_1">Campaigns</h3>
<div class="staff">
-<p><img alt="Molly de Blanc" src="images/molly-de-blanc_square_grad.jpg"/></p>
+<p><img alt="Molly de Blanc" class="image-process-thumb" src="images/staff/derivatives/thumb/molly.jpg"/></p>
<h4 id="molly-de-blanc">Molly de Blanc</h4>
<p>Campaigns Manager</p>
</div>
<div class="staff">
-<p><img alt="Dana Morgenstein" src="images/dana-morgenstein_square_grad.jpg"/></p>
+<p><img alt="Dana Morgenstein" class="image-process-thumb" src="images/staff/derivatives/thumb/dana.jpg"/></p>
<h4 id="dana-morgenstein">Dana Morgenstein</h4>
<p>Outreach and Communications Coordinator</p>
</div>
+<div class="staff">
+<p><img alt="Georgia Young" class="image-process-thumb" src="images/staff/derivatives/thumb/georgia.jpg"/></p>
+<h4 id="georgia-young">Georgia Young</h4>
+<p>Program Manager</p>
+</div>
<h3 id="tech_1">Tech</h3>
<div class="staff">
-<p><img alt="Andrew Engelbrecht" src="images/andrew-engelbrecht_square_grad.jpg"/></p>
+<p><img alt="Andrew Engelbrecht" class="image-process-thumb" src="images/staff/derivatives/thumb/andrew.jpg"/></p>
<h4 id="andrew-engelbrecht">Andrew Engelbrecht</h4>
-<p>Senior Systems Administrator</p>
+<p>Web Developer</p>
</div>
<div class="staff">
-<p><img alt="Ian Kelling" src="images/ian-kelling_square_grad.jpg"/></p>
+<p><img alt="Ian Kelling" class="image-process-thumb" src="images/staff/derivatives/thumb/ian.jpg"/></p>
<h4 id="ian-kelling">Ian Kelling</h4>
<p>Senior Systems Administrator</p>
</div>
<div class="staff">
-<p><img alt="Ruben Rodriguez" src="images/ruben-rodriguez_square_grad.jpg"/></p>
+<p><img alt="Ruben Rodriguez" class="image-process-thumb" src="images/staff/derivatives/thumb/ruben.jpg"/></p>
<h4 id="ruben-rodriguez">Rubén Rodríguez</h4>
<p>Chief Technology Officer </p>
</div>
<h3 id="operations">Operations</h3>
<div class="staff">
-<p><img alt="Matt Lavallee" src="images/matt-lavallee_square_grad.jpg"/></p>
+<p><img alt="Matt Lavallee" class="image-process-thumb" src="images/staff/derivatives/thumb/mattlav.jpg"/></p>
<h4 id="matt-lavallee">Matt Lavallee</h4>
<p>Operations Assistant</p>
</div>
<div class="staff">
-<p><img alt="No photo" src="images/no-photo.png"/></p>
+<p><img alt="Jeanne Rasata" class="image-process-thumb" src="images/staff/derivatives/thumb/jeanne.jpg"/></p>
<h4 id="jeanne-rasata">Jeanne Rasata</h4>
<p>Assistant to the President </p>
</div>
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