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Raspberry Pi Foundation Annual Review 2 16 RASPBERRY PI FOUNDATION ANNUAL REVIEW 2 16 Annual Review 2016 1 ANNUAL REVIEW 2 Annual Review 2016 CONTENTS About us 5 Introductions 7 Computers 10 Outreach 16 Learning 36 Governance and partnerships 52 Annual Review 2016 3 ANNUAL REVIEW We put the power of digital making into the hands of people all over the world 4 Annual Review 2016 Our mission Our mission is to put the power of digital making into the hands of ABOUT US people all over the world. We think this is essential so that people are: he Raspberry Pi Foundation digital making. We develop free works to put the power resources to help people learn about n Capable of understanding of digital making into the computing and how to make things and shaping an increasingly T digital world hands of people all over the world. with computers. We train educators We believe this is important so who can guide other people to learn. n Able to solve the problems that more people are capable of Since launching our first product that matter to them, understanding and shaping our in February 2012, we have sold both as makers and increasingly digital world; able to 12 million Raspberry Pi computers entrepreneurs solve the problems that matter to and have helped to establish a n Equipped for the jobs of them; and equipped for the work of global community of digital makers the future the future. and educators. We provide low-cost, high- We use profits generated from our We pursue our mission through performance computers that people computers and accessories to pursue three main activities: use to learn, solve problems, and our educational goals. We also n We provide low-cost, have fun. We provide outreach receive funding and in-kind support high-performance and education to help more from generous partners and donors computers that people use people access computing and who share our mission. to learn, to solve problems, and have fun n We make computing and digital making We believe this is important so that more more relevant and people are capable of understanding and accessible to more people through outreach and shaping our increasingly digital world educational programmes n We help people to learn about computing and how to make things with computers through resources and training Annual Review 2016 5 ANNUAL REVIEW The commercial success of Raspberry Pi continues to support our wider mission 6 Annual Review 2016 INTRODUCTION FROM THE CHAIRMAN DAVID CLEEVELY n the five years since the first exceptional group of Trustees, Raspberry Pi was launched, this Directors, and Members, who make a Ilittle computer has gone further significant contribution to our work than we ever imagined. We have and advocate for our mission. In now sold more than 12 million November 2016 the Members elected devices, giving people all over the Tilly Blyth, the Head of Collections world access to affordable tools and Principal Curator at the Science to solve problems, help their Museum in London, to serve as a communities, and learn about Trustee. I am delighted to welcome computing and digital making. Tilly to the Board. I am consistently amazed by As you will see in this Annual the creativity and ingenuity the Review, 2016 has been a year of Raspberry Pi has unleashed. growth in the reach and impact The commercial success of of both our commercial business Raspberry Pi continues to support and our education activities. It our wider mission. Our educational has also seen major change in the programmes and materials have organisation, with many talented given many more people the people joining, and a significant opportunity and support to learn expansion of our educational work how to create with technology. in North America and Europe. It is my great privilege to chair With the strength of our team, our 2016 has been a year of growth in the the boards of both the Raspberry partners, and our community, I am Pi Foundation and Raspberry Pi confident that we will build on the reach and impact of both our commercial Trading Limited. We benefit from progress we made last year, and business and our education activities the expertise and wisdom of an achieve even more in 2017. Annual Review 2016 7 INTRODUCTION FROM FOUNDATION CEO PHILIP COLLIGAN am excited to share with you Pioneers, our first programme our latest Annual Review. By focused on getting more teenagers I any measure, the Raspberry involved in computing and Pi Foundation has enjoyed an digital making. We developed our outstanding 2016. At the start of first online training courses for the year, we had just launched a educators, and published a new free new strategy and direction for the magazine for educators. Foundation, completed a merger We’ve also worked hard to bring with Code Club, and started to build more rigour to our work, publishing the capacities and capabilities that our digital making curriculum, we needed. gathering feedback from users, and We ended 2016 with millions of working with independent partners people using our free educational to evaluate our programmes. resources; almost 1,000 Certified I’ve been delighted to see our Educators trained through community continue to grow. We Picademy; more than 2,000 primary have a large group of partners and school teachers inspired by our sponsors who provide resources Code Club Teacher Training; and and expertise to support our efforts. hundreds of thousands of young We continue to mobilise thousands people engaged in our programmes. of volunteers and community We have been busy developing members every week, who support partnerships and launching new our mission in so many ways. resources. Our space programme, I want to say a huge thank you to Astro Pi, has been extended to everyone who has contributed to our the whole of Europe. We launched work this year. 8 Annual Review 2016 Raspberry Pi has become an international INTRODUCTION phenomenon. Over the last FROM TRADING CEO five years we’ve sold units in EBEN UPTON 128 countries his has been another Hebrew. The coming year will see incredible year for the the launch of our first original titles. T business of Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi has become an We launched the Pi 3 in February international phenomenon. Over 2016; already there are more than the last five years we’ve sold units 4 million in the wild. In April, we in 128 countries. Over 85 percent followed this with a new generation of Pi units are sold outside the UK, of visible-light and IR cameras, and with the US and Germany being our an updated Pi Zero with a camera largest export markets. connector. In October, we launched We’ve doubled the size of our our shiny new PIXEL desktop engineering staff, so we can design environment. To round things more hardware and software off, last week we released the $10 products. We’ve added editorial Raspberry Pi Zero W, which adds and design staff, to produce better wireless LAN and Bluetooth. support material. And we’ve started Our publishing efforts have gone to build a product management from strength to strength too: an team, to ensure Raspberry Pi is issue of The MagPi each month, available to more people, in more six new Essentials books, and a places, through more channels. second Projects book. A licensed For all that, so much of what we bi-monthly version of The MagPi do relies on you, the Raspberry is now available in Germany, and Pi community. With your help, we’ve launched our own 20-page we’re continuing to build a world translated MagPi Mini magazines where everyone has a chance to in French, Spanish, Italian, and understand the magic of computing. Annual Review 2016 9 ANNUAL REVIEW COMPUTERS We provide low-cost, high-performance computers that people use to learn, solve problems, and have fun 10 Annual Review 2016 THE RASPBERRY PI COMPUTER he Raspberry Pi computer free access to some of the world’s the Zero has been launched in February 2012 with most powerful educational software. incredibly popular T what now seems the modest this year. It soon grew goal of improving the applications to Baking a new Pi a camera connector, study computer science at Cambridge The Raspberry Pi computer keeps on perfectly timed to take University. We thought we might sell evolving, and 2016’s Raspberry Pi 3 is advantage of the new and ten thousand units, and encourage the most ambitious board yet. With improved eight-megapixel Raspberry some more young people to develop 50 percent more computing power Pi camera, launched this year. their computing skills before than its predecessor, it’s a low-cost Building your own wildlife cameras, university. With 12 million of our computer that can be used to learn, home-made security systems low-cost, high-power computers now and to build increasingly demanding and photo booths has never been sold, and people of all ages across the projects. With the Chromium browser so accessible. With the launch of the world using them to learn and solve and LibreOffice included, it can even $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W in early 2017, problems in their lives, our goals have replace many people’s day-to-day our ultra-low-cost computer now has become even more ambitious. computers. Raspberry Pi 3 also has wireless LAN and Bluetooth, opening wireless LAN and on-board Bluetooth, up even more possibilities for mobile Hardware and software making internet-connected projects and Internet of Things projects. We work hard to make sure that and Internet of Things gadgets Raspberry Pi computers are as low- accessible without extra hardware.
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