Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit organization centered around ethical technology. Our mission is to ensure the right to repair, improve and reinstall software. We promote and defend these rights through fostering free and open source software (FOSS) projects, driving initiatives that actively make technology more inclusive, and advancing policy strategies that defend FOSS (such as copyleft). Learn more.
Use The Source!
SFC recently launched a new software right to repair tool, which lets you submit and comment on source candidates that device manufacturers are required to give you. With your help, we can find and improve the source candidates for your devices, so you can fix, modify, and improve your devices as their software authors intended! Check it out!
News
FOSSY is back in Portland - August 1-4th at Portland State University
March 28, 2024
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Join us at FOSSY this year, Thursday August 1st - Sunday August 4th at the Portland State University Smith Memorial Student Union. We're looking forward to convening another conference that shows the multiple facets of what it means to work with, advocate for, and build free software in community. Last year we had over 300 attendees from over 10 countries! There was an incredible diversity of community led tracks, covering FOSS for Education, Right to Repair, Worker-Owner Co-ops that write and use FOSS, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and FOSS, to name a few. This year we hope to see a return of some of the great tracks and ideas that inspired us and an introduction of new tracks. If you would like to host a track, please consider applying to our community track proposals. We will be hosting office hours at 19:00 UTC on Tuesdays and Thursdays on our XMPP/ IRC channel if you would like to chat with someone about your proposal.
Use the Source! A Revolution in Grassroots Software Right to Repair
February 3, 2024
2023 Fundraiser met and exceeded!
January 18, 2024
Outreachy 2023: Year in Review
January 11, 2024
Articles
Prioritizing software right to repair: engaging corporate response teams
by on February 3, 2024
Supporter Interview with Elijah (and Oliver!) Voigt
by on January 15, 2024
Is Tesla open source? Roadster certainly isn't...
by on December 21, 2023
A Note from Our Executive Director: 2023 and my personal quest for software freedom
by on December 19, 2023
Sourceware thanks Conservancy for their support and urges the community to support Conservancy
by on November 27, 2023
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