ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 Raspberry Pi Foundation UK registered charity 1129409 ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 raspberrypi.org ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 1 ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 Raspberry Pi provides the opportunity for kids all over the world to learn computer science DAVID CLEEVELY . 3 EBEN UPTON . 4-5 CLIVE BEALE . 6 LIZ UPTON . 7 RACHEL RAYNS . .8 DAVE HONESS. .9 CARRIE ANNE PHILBIN . 10-11 COMMUNITY - ANDREW MULHOLLAND . 12-13 JEREMY SCHWARTZ CONTENTS COMMUNITY - . .14-15 2 RASPBERRY PI ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 FROM THE CHAIRMAN David Cleevely CBE, FREng, FIET The Foundation wants to make learning computer science fun and exciting, through hands-on computing projects he Raspberry Pi Foundation and secondary teachers, open computing, and we will be extending is a charity, funded by one to individuals around the world, all these forms of partnership in the Tof the most innovative described by one recently graduating coming year. In total the Raspberry ideas in computing: the idea that teacher as “the best CPD I have ever Pi Foundation spent about £1.85m on a $35 computer can enable a new had the pleasure of undertaking”. charitable activities in 2014. generation to learn how to program The basis for this success was laid and use computers creatively. In the Part-funded by you down by the original Trustees and future, the ability to generate and But we don’t do this on our own. Founders of Raspberry Pi: Jack Lang, manipulate information will be as We are funded mostly by our David Braben, Eben Upton, Alan important as the ability to generate wholly-owned trading subsidiary, Mycroft, Louis Glass, Rob Mullins and control electricity was in the Raspberry Pi Trading, which gifts its and Pete Lomas, ably assisted in past, creating a societal and economic profits to the Foundation – about the Foundation by Lance Howarth need to encourage improvement £1.5m in 2014. The Foundation and in Trading by Eben Upton – the in computing and related skills. also undertakes funded projects latter helped by the wise advice of Raspberry Pi provides the opportunity for companies and other Sherry Coutu and Hermann for kids all over the world to learn organisations who Hauser. I began my new role computer science. share the Foundation’s as Chairman of both the Education is at the core of the goal of encouraging Trading Company and the Foundation’s mission, and developing children to learn Foundation in September resources to support that mission about computer 2014, taking over is a major part of the Foundation’s science, and from Jack Lang, whose activities. The Foundation wants these amounted contribution to Pi has been to make learning computer science to almost £400k in immeasurable. Lance will fun and exciting, through hands-on 2014. In addition, the be leaving the Foundation in computing projects. The Foundation Foundation works with April, having provided focus also recognises that we need to train other organisations, and process for the mission, the trainers, so it runs the Raspberry facilitating the training and the organisation and we Picademy, a free professional of teachers, outreach to are all hugely grateful for his development experience for primary pupils and global access to contribution. A BRIGHT YEAR AHEAD Philip Colligan, our new CEO (formerly Deputy CEO of Nesta) joins us in July, and has a wealth of experience to bring to the Foundation. I have been and continue to be amazed at the talent and enthusiasm at Raspberry Pi, and I am looking forward to working both with him and the great teams in Trading and the Foundation on the next stage of the journey. ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 3 EBEN UPTON Chief Exective Officer We sold over two million Raspberry Pi computers, bringing our lifetime sales to a remarkable five million units 014 was a busy and profitable Raspberry Pi 2 continued to invest in increasing year for Raspberry Pi Trading. Much of our internal hardware the performance and stability of 2We sold over two million engineering effort was directed at the Raspberry Pi software platform. Raspberry Pi computers, bringing our the Raspberry Pi 2 project, which Our own engineers have delivered lifetime sales to a remarkable five became public at the start of February improved USB and SDIO stacks, million units. Our popular first-party 2015. The Broadcom SoC used by comprehensively revised the user accessories, the Raspberry Pi visible- this product arrived in May, and experience, and are progressively light and infrared cameras, continue by the end of the summer we had eliminating proprietary elements to sell well, generating significant functioning prototypes. Final tweaks of our board support in favour of incremental revenue. to the design were complete by the standards-based alternatives. On the hardware side, we start of December, allowing our We continue to make significant released improved versions of partners to begin manufacture in use of external contract engineers our principal products, the Model mid-January. For the first time, we to provide software engineering B+ and Model A+, with the latter have made services, and to make small reducing our entry-level price from use of ODM contributions to open source $25 to $20. We also launched the partners projects on which we rely. SO-DIMM form factor Raspberry to deliver This year we have funded Pi Compute Module to support non-core improvements to the Kodi our growing industrial customer hardware media player, the Pixman base. We continued development components, and libav libraries, the PyPy of the 7” Wide VGA Raspberry Pi including a Python virtual machine, display board, targeting a launch branded power and the Scratch educational in the second quarter of 2015, and supply, mouse, programming language. Our provided engineering support for the keyboard, and USB largest external software project, Foundation’s Oracle weather station WiFi dongle. Epiphany, has delivered a and Astro Pi projects. We have PC-quality web browser with hardware-accelerated media Eben Upton announcing the decoding, for use on Raspberry Pi immediate availability of the Raspberry Pi 2 in February 1 and 2. Engineering base We started 2014 with four full-time employees in Raspberry Pi Trading and leave with ten, having acquired four software engineers, a hardware engineer, and an administrator. These acquisitions have increased the breadth and depth of our engineering base; we are already seeing some early output from their efforts. In January, we were joined by our first non-UK employee, Matt Richardson, who will act as a product evangelist in San Francisco. 4 RASPBERRY PI The Raspberry Pi 2 retains compatibility with the previous model The combination analogue audio and video port is particularly useful for developing countries that rely on legacy hardware 40 General Purpose Input and Output (GPIO) pins allow users to try physical computing - controlling real-world The Raspberry Pi is devices with their designed to plug code into any monitor or modern TV The 900MHz quad- core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU on the Broadcom BCM2836 SoC. 1GB of RAM sits on the rear of the board Raspberry Pi 2 uses the same ubiquitous USB port for power, meaning any Android smartphone or tablet power cable will work TAKING THE NEXT STEP 2015 promises to be another great year, as we capitalize on the launch of Raspberry Pi 2, and take the next steps in bringing affordable, general-purpose computing to the world. We hope you’ll join us. ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 5 CLIVE BEALE Educational Research and Pyrotechnics In 2014 outreach ranged from vast national and international events to small workshops in schools n November 2013 I presented expertise and creativity, all backed media including the BBC News, our short- and medium-term by Liz Upton’s consummate Daily Politics, Radio 4, the Times Istrategy to the Board of Trustees. management and communications Educational Supplement, and The action points were: expertise. This mix isn’t an accident, numerous magazines. and it’s why the Foundation is so n Build an educational website unique and so effective. raspberrypi.org n Create resources for both teachers Outreach is handled by the whole We’ve partnered with and and learners team, and in 2014 this ranged from supported many individuals and n Educate educators via CPD vast national and international organisations, as seen on our blog and training events such as BETT and World found at raspberrypi.org, and n Increase and improve outreach Maker Faire, to small workshops in we’ve also supported a wide range schools. We’ve trained and talked of projects and activities via our It was optimistic—I was the sole to a lot of people! Team members educational fund. member of the Education Team have also been busy on long-term, We have a dynamic website at the time—but these were the individual projects: Carrie Anne beautifully illustrated by Sam things that we felt were essential with Picademy; Alder and stuffed to achieve our charitable mission. Ben with full of educational Happily, the outstanding success the website resources for of the Pi has allowed us to expand and online teachers and the team and a year on, we’re proud resources; learners. We’ve to say that we have achieved all of Dave with the also trained 160 those things and more. weather station teachers and we’ve and AstroPi; talked to, supported The Education Team Rachel with and trained In January 2014 we welcomed three the Digital thousands of other new Education Team members: Creatives project people via national Dave Honess, Ben Nuttall, and and a number of add- and international Carrie Anne Philbin. Rachel Rayns, on boards; and Clive outreach. During 2014 our Artist in Residence, also on the (now complete) we supported and joined the Foundation formally as Google Pi project.