It has been a while since we have done a round of updates on what we are working on. We have a number of projects that are currently active and more starting up. Throughout 2019 we expect to finish more than twice as many total projects and to continue with…
OSTIF is Registered and Verified on Benevity Benevity is a charity donation platform that allows employees at participating companies to directly donate to causes that they support. Hundreds of large companies use Benevity to help their employees with charitable giving. (Google, Apple, Microsoft, ADP, Prudential, Samsung, and many others) Our…
2017 Financial Report for the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc. In 2017 OSTIF experienced substantial growth, and expanded our reach to multiple new areas of computing and software safety. We conducted an audit of OpenVPN 2.4.0 in partnership with QuarksLab and launched our bug bounty program. This document is…
OSTIF in 2018 - Our Plans for the Future 2017 was a wild ride, with OSTIF raising roughly double the funds that we did the year prior. We've learned a lot along the way, and are working hard to get even more done in 2018. These plans include widening support…
The OSTIF Public Books Have Been Updated - October 2017 We have updated our 2017 Books to current, and they can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OqWBlNwk5be2c74cRlmYOdhLWPeCjCBAALxYCdMwIaM Highlights since the last major update of the books: -Private Internet Access has become our first Platinum Sponsor. This means that they have committed to…
Welcome to Private Internet Access for Becoming our First Platinum Sponsor! We are welcoming Private Internet Access to the OSTIF family, as they have became our first platinum sponsors. Their commitment to free and open software has been tremendous, first funding two OpenVPN code review projects and now the OpenSSL…
OSTIF's 2017 Open Books Have Been Updated Our commitment to keep our financial transactions fully transparent continues. We have updated our public books to current. You can view them here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OqWBlNwk5be2c74cRlmYOdhLWPeCjCBAALxYCdMwIaM/ Our biggest items of note in 2017 so far are the donations and expenses related to the OpenVPN 2.4 fundraiser.…
Open Source Technology Improvement Fund's Open Books for 2017 We have been late to the party on updating our open books for 2017. I have gone through and updated them finally today. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OqWBlNwk5be2c74cRlmYOdhLWPeCjCBAALxYCdMwIaM The big items of note: -The OpenVPN Fundraiser has concluded and we beat our goals by a…
2015 and 2016 financial report for the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc. 2016 was a year of rapid growth for OSTIF. We've met or exceeded all of our goals and have two major successes under our belts, the fundraising and auditing of VeraCrypt 1.18 and the fundraising and auditing…
After our successful fundraiser for OpenVPN, we are now moving forward with getting shirts for our supporters printed and shipped out. You can see the designs here. We have sent emails out to our individual contributors that have made qualifying donations already. Check your emails! Some of you donated through anonymous…