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From: Devin Ulibarri This annual report highlights the Foundation's activities and achievements in fiscal year 2017 (October 1, 2017 â September 30, 2018) and includes a detailed financial statement. Photo credit: Kori Feener, 2018. CC BY-SA 4.0 The FSF's Respects Your Freedom (RYF) product certification program
encourages the creation and sale of hardware that will do as much as
@@ -146,7 +135,7 @@ us closer to a free society. Credit: Kori Feener, 2018. CC BY-SA 4.0 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
@@ -165,7 +154,7 @@ Act,
a bill that will consolidate and decrease access to music recordings
online, and which will further entrench Digital Restrictions
Management (DRM) on the Internet. In late November, 2017, US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
chairman Ajit Pai unveiled plans to repeal net
neutrality. The
@@ -181,7 +170,8 @@ 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. The tenth annual LibrePlanet was held
at MIT's Stata Center on March 24-25, 2018. The theme of the
conference was "Freedom. Embedded." This theme was chosen to
@@ -195,7 +185,7 @@ and president Richard Stallman. At Stallmanâs traditional Saturday
evening keynote, he awarded the 2017 Free Software Awards to Public
Lab and to Software Freedom Conservancy executive director Karen
Sandler. In December 2017, we submitted
comments
in support of every proposed exemption to the Digital Millennium
@@ -215,7 +205,7 @@ 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, period. As part of our ongoing campaign against DRM, the FSF raised the call
on September 18,
2018
@@ -232,15 +222,15 @@ rights using DRM. Credit: Free Software Foundation, 2008. Public Domain Mark 1.0 "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." The FSF tech team maintains and improves the infrastructure that runs
both the Foundation's daily operations and the GNU
Project, continuing to demonstrate that complex
@@ -279,7 +272,7 @@ the Free Software Bulletin.
year, the team also contributed a new modal/popup window to the
fundraiser, and polished the responsive design of the fundraiser
banner. Credit: Kori Feener, 2018. CC BY 4.0 The new server cluster "Gnuhope" started to host critical servers,
starting with my.fsf.org and
mirror.fsf.org, to later host all critical
@@ -332,7 +325,7 @@ Press store. 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.
@@ -360,17 +353,16 @@ infrastructure, and fundraising expertise. These nine projects
received tens of thousands of dollars in direct support from the free
software community via the Working Together for Free Software
Fund. "Free software positively impacts my life every hour of every day." The following is a visualization of the Free Software Foundation's FY
2018 financial statement. The original documents can be found at
https://www.fsf.org/about/financial. 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. **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.FY2018 at a glance
+FY2018 at a glance
-Respects Your Freedom certification
+Respects Your Freedom certification
Threats to software freedom
+Threats to software freedom
Defending net neutrality
+Defending net neutrality
LibrePlanet conference celebrates its tenth anniversary
+### LibrePlanet conference celebrates its tenth anniversary
+
Some progress on DMCA, but not enough
+Some progress on DMCA, but not enough
International Day Against DRM
+International Day Against DRM
FY2018 at a glance
+FY2018 at a glance
-Free Software Supporter subscribers
+Free Software Supporter subscribers
LibrePlanet 2018
-
-
-Why I joined the FSF
Tech
-Infrastructure for free software development and activism
+Infrastructure for free software development and activism
What's GNU in FY2018
+What's GNU in FY2018
Infrastructure for free software development and activism
+Infrastructure for free software development and activism
FSF and GNU infrastructure includes:
+FSF and GNU infrastructure includes:
-Working Together for Free Software
+Working Together for Free Software
Why I joined the FSF
Financial Statement
-
+
Statement of Financial Position
+Statement of Financial Position
@@ -411,7 +403,7 @@ Fund.
Liabilities and Net Assets
+Liabilities and Net Assets
@@ -462,7 +454,7 @@ Fund.
Statement of Activities
+Statement of Activities
+
@@ -493,10 +485,11 @@ Fund.
Total Support and Revenue
-$2,619,845
+**$2,619
-
@@ -525,51 +518,52 @@ Fund.
-
-Change in Net Assets
$1,169,680
+
+
+
+
+
+
Donors
Institutional Support
-
-
-In-Kind Support
+Institutional Support
+In-Kind Support
-$5,000+
+$5,000+
-$1,000+
+$1,000+
-$500 to $999
+$500 to $999
"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."
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 @@ -789,92 +783,92 @@ Member. Learn more at https://fsf.org.
Founder and President
-Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT
-Senior Software Developer at AccuWeather
-Founder, CivicActions
-Assistant Professor of Communications at the University of Washington
-President and Distinguished Technologist, Software Freedom Conservancy
-Attorney
Executive Director
Deputy Director
Chief Technology Officer
Licensing & Compliance Manager
Copyright & Licensing Associate
Campaigns Manager
-Outreach & Communications Coordinator
-Program Manager
-Campaigns Manager +
Outreach & Communications Coordinator +
Program Manager +
Web Developer
-Senior Systems Administrator
-Web Developer + +
Senior Systems Administrator +
+Operations Assistant
-Assistant to the President
-Operations Assistant + +
Assistant to the President +
+ + +