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RASPBERRY PI FOUNDATION ANNUAL REVIEW 2 15 ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 1 2 RASPBERRY PI CONTENTS About us 4 Introductions 6 Computers We provide low-cost, high-performance computers that people use to learn, solve problems and have fun 10 Outreach We make computing and digital making more relevant and accessible to more people through outreach and educational programmes 15 Learning We help people to learn about computing and how to make things with computers through resources and training 24 Governance and partnerships 32 ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 CONTENTS 3 ANNUAL REVIEW 2 15 Our mission is to put the power of digital making into the hands of people all over the world 4 RASPBERRY PI ABOUT US he Raspberry Pi Foundation was Our mission established in 2008 as a UK-based Our mission is to put the power of digital T charity with the purpose “to further making into the hands of people all over the advancement of education of adults the world. and children, particularly in the field of computers, computer science, and related We think this is essential so that people are: subjects”. Through our trading subsidiary, Raspberry Pi Trading Limited, we invent n Capable of understanding and shaping and sell low-cost, high-performance an increasingly digital world computers that people use to learn, to n Able to solve the problems that solve problems, and to to have fun. Since matter to them, both as makers and launching our first product in February entrepreneurs 2012, we have sold eight million Raspberry n Pi computers and have helped to establish Equipped for the jobs of the future a global community of digital makers and educators. We use profits generated from We pursue our mission through three our commercial activities to pursue our main activities: educational goals; we also receive funding and in-kind support from generous n We provide low-cost, high-performance partners and donors who share our mission. computers that people use to learn, to solve problems, and have fun n We make computing and digital We invent and sell low-cost, high- making more relevant and accessible performance computers that people use to more people through outreach and educational programmes to learn, to solve problems, and to to n We help people to learn about have fun computing and how to make things with computers through resources and training ANNUAL REVIEW 2015 ABOUT US 5 INTRODUCTION FROM THE CHAIRMAN DAVID CLEEVELY t’s now four years since we launched the first Raspberry Pi computer, thinking I that perhaps we might sell a few tens of thousands and that maybe we could encourage more children to think about learning computer science. We have now sold over 8 million computers and helped many more people of all ages get interested in programming. We are part of a global movement of educators and makers who are changing the world. It’s an achievement of which the Founders, staff, partners, sponsors, and the wider community should all feel very proud. 2015 was a big year for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. We launched the Pi 2 and the Pi Zero. We recruited a new CEO – Philip Colligan – and have new clarity for our mission and strategy. We merged with Code Club so we can enable many more children to discover the fascinating and fun world of programming. ESA took two Raspberry Trustees and contribute to Pi’s success. This year will be very exciting for the We have now sold over 8 million whole community. computers and helped many more Alan Mycroft, one of the original Founders, stepped down as Trustee at the end of 2015 people of all ages get interested in and remains a Member. I’d like to thank programming him for all the help and support he has provided and look forward to working with him in his new role. I’d also like to welcome Pi computers to the International Space Sherry Coutu and Chris Mairs onto the Station, where astronaut Tim Peake is Board of Trustees, and Clare Sutcliffe and now running programs and experiments colleagues from Code Club to the Raspberry designed by schoolchildren. Pi Foundation. And, of course, to thank all And the pace has not slowed. The of you - founders, members, trustees, staff, Raspberry Pi 3, launched at the end of partners, sponsors, and the wider community February 2016, sets a new benchmark for – for making the Raspberry Pi Foundation an single board computers. We have great amazing success. plans for working with Code Club and other It is a privilege to continue to be chair partners as we help train teachers and get of the Trustees. It is also one of the most kids programming. We have welcomed interesting and exciting things I have done the first of our members: a diverse and in my career. I am really looking forward fascinating group who will help advise the to 2016! 6 RASPBERRY PI ANNUAL REVIEW 2 15 The Raspberry Pi 3, launched at the end of February 2016, sets a new benchmark for single board computers ANNUALANNUAL REVIEW REVIEW 2015 2015 INTRODUCTIONS 7 INTRODUCTION FROM THE FOUNDATION CEO PHILIP COLLIGAN ’m delighted to present the latest community, thinking about how we can annual review from the Raspberry best contribute to the movement of digital IPi Foundation. makers that is growing around the world. As you’ll see, it’s been a year of Hundreds of people contributed their ideas extraordinary achievements in terms of and in December the Board of Trustees both our products and our educational agreed the new strategy, which you can find mission. Creating the opportunity for on our website. schoolchildren to write code that will The new strategy involves two significant run on the International Space Station is shifts in emphasis. First, we are focusing on just one example of how we’re making digital making, meaning that we will help computing more relevant and accessible to people of all ages learn how to make things young people. You’ll find many more in the with computers. Second, we are becoming pages of this review. an operating foundation, meaning that What you’ll also find are stories about the we will achieve impact directly through extraordinary achievements of the people in programmes that we run in partnership the Raspberry Pi community - young people, with others. It feels like we’ve got some educators, volunteers, makers - who share real clarity about how we can make a our mission to empower people to shape difference and we’re excited to be putting it their world through digital technologies. into action. It is an incredibly generous and supportive As part of this new direction, the community that is a constant source of Foundation merged with Code Club at the inspiration for us at the Foundation. end of the year. With over 6,000 active Our mission - to put the power of digital clubs, Code Club is already the world’s making into the hands of people all over largest network of volunteer-led after the world - has never felt more relevant. school coding clubs, and we’re confident I joined the Foundation in July and one that we can see the reach and impact grow of my first tasks was to revisit our strategy further. It’s been great to welcome Code and priorities. I spent a lot of time with Club’s staff, teachers, and volunteers to the the team, trustees, partners, and the wider Raspberry Pi community. Our work is only possible because of the amazing community of people and Our mission - to put the power organisations that share our mission and contribute their ideas, expertise, and of digital making into the hands of resources. If you’re already part of that people all over the world - has never community, thank you, we simply couldn’t do it without you. If you’re not yet part of felt more relevant that community, get involved. 8 RASPBERRY PI INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION FROM THE FOUNDATION CEO FROM THE TRADING CEO EBEN UPTON his has been another fantastic year to seventy and then a hundred pages, and for Raspberry Pi. Hot on the heels of swiftly recruited Rob as features editor. After T Raspberry Pi 2, launched in February a brief digital-only hiatus, we returned to 2015, we introduced the official Raspberry print in July. The MagPi is now available in Pi case (which taught us more than we newsagents and supermarkets throughout ever wanted to know about the intricacies the UK, and in Barnes & Noble and Micro of injection moulding), the Sense HAT Center in the US. It has been joined by a (destined for great heights), and the 7” range of books, with more to come in 2016. touch-screen display (which vied with the Dominating everything else in 2015 were case for the title of our most troublesome the twin engineering efforts to produce product). We welcomed one or two new Raspberry Pi Zero, our $5 entry-level faces, and learnt a lot of new tricks. machine, and Raspberry Pi 3, with its There’s plenty to look forward to in 2016: new books, new software, and maybe even one or two new toys The Sense HAT was developed specifically integrated connectivity and 64-bit quad- to support the Foundation’s ‘Astro Pi’ core CPU. This was a full-team effort: Mike project. This flew two Raspberry Pi computers designed Zero; James designed Raspberry and Sense HATs in custom-designed Pi 3; Gordon, Phil, and Dom wrote the aluminium cases to the International Space drivers and firmware; Roger ran the wireless Station, and challenged UK schoolchildren conformance campaign; Simon and Serge to come up with experiments for British ESA made everything fit together on the software Astronaut Tim Peake to run during his six- side.
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