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Raspberry Pi Foundation Annual Review 2018 Raspberry Pi Foundation Annual Review 2018 1 Annual Review 2018 ANNUAL REVIEW 2 Annual Review 2018 CONTENTS Our mission 4 Introductions 5 Computers 10 Outreach 14 Community 28 Learning 32 Governance and partnerships 44 Annual Review 2018 3 OUR MISSION ur mission is to put the power network of volunteer-led of computing and digital clubs, exciting competitions Omaking into the hands of and events, and partnerships people all over the world. We do this with youth organisations so that more people can harness this power for work, to solve problems n We provide training and that matter to them, and to express support to educators, themselves creatively. volunteers, and parents who want to help young people Our strategy: learn these skills n We provide low-cost, high- n We build and support performance single-board communities of young computers and free software people, parents, volunteers, through Raspberry Pi Trading businesses, and educators that Ltd, so that computing and share our mission digital making are accessible to all Since launching our first product in February 2012, we have sold n We help young people acquire more than 22 million Raspberry computing and digital making Pi computers and have helped to skills through compelling establish a global community of learning resources, a thriving digital makers and educators. We help young people acquire computing and digital making skills 4 Annual Review 2018 INTRODUCTION FROM THE CHAIRMAN DAVID CLEEVELY 018 was a remarkable year for opportunities for even more people to the Foundation. Millions of gain computing skills. people used the educational While the Foundation continues 2projects on our website. We engaged to be funded in part by our Trading with hundreds of thousands of young subsidiary, we also now receive people through Code Clubs and substantial support from many CoderDojos every week. We supported partners, donors, and sponsors. We tens of thousands of educators will keep on forging new partnerships through our training. I am immensely around the world, our growth rooted proud of the team’s role in winning in our identity as the organisation the bid to deliver the National Centre that can help young people develop for Computing Education in England, the digital skills they need for and this will greatly help us as we the future. continue to deliver on our mission to I am privileged to work with help people all over the world create exceptional Trustees, Members, and been supporting and shaping the with computers. Directors as Chairman of the Boards Foundation since the early days. At Raspberry Pi Trading Limited has of the Raspberry Pi Foundation the Annual General Meeting, the had a fantastic year, with more than and Raspberry Pi Trading Limited. Members elected Caroline Brown 22 million Raspberry Pi computers These groups ensure that both to the Board of Trustees. Caroline sold by the end of 2018, including organisations are well governed, brings a wealth of experience from a the new Pi 3 Model B+ and Pi 3 Model and the people in them are great wide range of company Boards, and A+ launched this year. People are advocates for our mission. her contribution to governance will using Raspberry Pi computers in In 2018 David Braben and Louis be invaluable. education, in industry, and in their Glass stepped down as Trustees My thanks to everyone who has homes, and I continue to be surprised of the Foundation, and I’d like to contributed to Raspberry Pi in 2018. by the inventive things people thank them for their incredibly 2019 is already looking to be another accomplish with our products. All of valuable contributions to our work exciting year, and I look forward to these sales fund the educational work over many years. David was one of working with you all over the next of the Foundation and let us create the Founding Members, and has twelve months. Annual Review 2018 5 INTRODUCTION FROM FOUNDATION CEO PHILIP COLLIGAN elcome to our Annual young people to learn how digital Review for 2018. It has tools can help them shape their W been another fantastic experiences of the outdoors and year for the Raspberry Pi Foundation of teamwork. The National Citizen and our mission to help more young Service is the UK’s fastest-growing people learn how to create with youth movement for 15- to 17-year- digital technology. olds, and we’re working with the We have continued to grow our organisers to help young people reach and impact worldwide, with learn how to use digital skills and millions of people using our free tools to solve social problems. educational content, and hundreds of We’re looking forward to developing and the British Computing Society, thousands of young people involved similar partnerships outside the UK. and with a wide group of other in our programmes every week, At the end of the year, we received partners, including the University including Code Club and CoderDojo. the amazing news that we had been of Cambridge. It is an immense In 2018 we took on responsibility selected by the UK government privilege and a huge responsibility to for Coolest Projects, the world’s to run the National Centre for be part of this initiative, and we are leading technology fair for young Computing Education and associated determined to have a big impact. people. At events in Dublin, London, programmes. Backed by £82m None of these achievements would and Southern California, thousands of government investment and be possible without the support of young people showcase amazing substantial industry support, this is from the community of makers, projects that they have built using the largest initiative of its kind in the educators, young people, volunteers, digital technologies. world and a once-in-a-generation parents, businesses, and policy- We also launched new opportunity to provide a world- makers we work with. I also want to partnerships with national youth leading computing education for pay a special tribute to the generous organisations in the UK to bring every young person in every school donors and sponsors that provide the digital skills into their programmes. in England. We are working as part resources that enable us to do such Our work with the Scouts is helping of a consortium with STEM Learning amazing work. Thank you. 6 Annual Review 2018 INTRODUCTION FROM TRADING CEO EBEN UPTON 018 has certainly been another October saw the release of the TV busy year for Raspberry Pi HAT, which turns a Raspberry Pi into Trading. We started the year a DVB-T2 digital terrestrial set-top 2with a bang, launching Raspberry box. Our official mouse and keyboard Pi 3 Model B+ on Pi Day (14 March). get an honourable mention, despite The most technically sophisticated slipping into the start of 2019. product we’ve ever designed, this The last product of 2018 was a added dual-band wireless networking poignant one for us. Raspberry Pi and much faster Ethernet to the 3 Model A+ is a cut-down version popular Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, along of the 3B+, with half the memory with a modest CPU speed increase and a single USB port, and is the significant improvements to media and improved thermal behaviour. final ‘classic’ Raspberry Pi product, playback and web browsing. Our The 3B+ also introduced one based on the Broadcom BCM270x publishing team launched a new entirely new feature: Power-over- line of chips. Wherever we go bi-weekly games magazine named Ethernet (PoE) support. In August, next will by necessity be less of an Wireframe, an official Beginner’s we launched the PoE HAT accessory, evolution and more of a revolution, Guide, and the first Code Club Book of which contains the electronics but with seven years of product Scratch; we also welcomed Custom PC needed to power your Raspberry Pi launches we can certainly feel we and Digital SLR Photography into the via an Ethernet cable. Unfortunately, got our money’s worth out of the Raspberry Pi Press family. a design defect relating to USB crept 40 nanometre process! At seven years in, with more than through our pre-launch testing, Alongside all this hardware work, 22 million units sold to date, we’re and for the first time we made the the rest of the organisation has been the UK’s most successful computer decision to take a product off sale keeping busy too. We’ve seen a steady company, and the third-most popular while we addressed it. Some heroic stream of enhancements to our general-purpose computing platform engineering from James Adams software stack, with regular releases in history. We think you’re going to got us back on track, but it was a of our Raspbian-based operating love what we have planned for 2019 chastening experience. system focusing on usability and and beyond. Watch this space. Annual Review 2018 7 PICADEMY Putting the power of computing into the hands of people and digital making all over the world. 8 Annual Review 2018 PICADEMY PICADEMY Putting the powerPutting ofthe computing power of computing into intothe thehands hands of ofpeople people and digital makingand digital making all overall over the the world. world. Annual Review 2018 9 ANNUAL REVIEW COMPUTERS 10 Annual Review 2018 THE RASPBERRY PI Achievements: COMPUTER n Launched the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, which has a 200MHz Our affordable, powerful computer gives people across increase in peak CPU clock the globe the opportunity to learn about and create speed over the Pi 3 Model B, software and physical computing projects three times the wired and wireless network throughput, and the ability to sustain high performance for much he Raspberry Pi is a low-cost, Activities: longer periods high-performance, credit card– There are now more than 22 million card–sized $35 computer and the T sized computer that people use Raspberry Pi computers being smaller form factor $25 model.
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