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@import "pages/blog.css"; @import "pages/paper.css"; +@import "pages/press-kit.css"; @import "pages/404.css"; \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/src/media-room/annual-report-factsheet.md b/src/media-room/annual-report-factsheet.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd71ea2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/media-room/annual-report-factsheet.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +layout: paper +hero: blue +lead: "Media & press resource · Swiss non-profit stiftung" +title: "2025 Annual Activity Report: Factsheet" +description: "Growth stats, operational maturation highlights, and engineering milestones from the foundation's inaugural annual report." +pdf: /assets/documents/annual-report-2025-11-jun-2026.pdf +noindex: true +--- + +## Headline figures + +- **CHF 8.84M total revenue:** Generated through commercial licensing partnerships and independent donations. +- **2.28M+ active households:** Home Assistant installations grew 28% year-over-year globally. +- **52 salaried staff:** Over 60% of total revenue is invested directly into human resources, engineering continuity, and operational security. +- **250+ governed open source projects:** Standards, drivers, and platforms protected from corporate buy-outs. + +## Inaugural annual report: Building an open source alternative to Big Tech + +Following its launch in 2024, the Open Home Foundation has released its inaugural annual report, documenting its first full year operating as an independent Swiss non-profit stiftung. The report outlines how the foundation established its core operational structure, and is investing in people to help fulfill its mission to build a smart home ecosystem with privacy, choice, and sustainability at its heart. + +### Engineering milestones & ecosystem wins + +The foundation expanded its software portfolio, hardware references, and core open standards to accelerate interoperability across the smart home landscape: + +- **High-profile project stewardship:** Accepted full ownership and governance of major community projects, including *Music Assistant*, *HACS*, *Z-Wave JS*, *matter.js*, and *microWake Word*. +- **Sendspin audio protocol:** Initiated development of this open source, multi-room audio standard designed to offer a local-control alternative to closed systems like Apple AirPlay and Google Cast. +- **Official Matter certification:** Earned official Connectivity Standards Alliance Matter certification for Home Assistant and the Open Home Foundation Matter Server. +- **Open hardware reference designs:** Co-developed and released the Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 (Z-Wave) and ZBT-2 (Zigbee/Thread) USB adapters with commercial partner Nabu Casa. +- **Smart home device database:** Initiated the development of a community-driven "Wiki" of smart home devices to help consumers make privacy-friendly purchases. + +### Community engagement & industry advocacy + +Beyond software development, the foundation deepened ties with its community, established core advocacy bodies, and funded external open-source infrastructure: + +- **Global Community Day:** Hosted the inaugural event with 82 local, community-led meetups and more than 1,600 registered attendees worldwide. +- **Policy & Principles Working Group:** Established an independent internal watchdog answering to the Board, and published the landmark position paper *"Privacy in the Smart Home."* +- **Open source infrastructure grants:** Awarded €24,000 in direct grants (€8,000 each) to foundational open source infrastructure projects: *aio-libs*, *Alpine Linux*, and *Buildroot*. +- **Open Community Syncs:** Initiated major internal project planning sessions to the public, giving volunteers and users a direct line into development roadmap discussions. + +### 2026 strategic priorities + +Looking ahead, the foundation is directing its operational momentum and financial surplus toward community infrastructure and transparent co-development: + +- **Dedicated Community Department:** Expanding a formal internal team to deepen integration, recognition, and support for volunteer contributors and non-technical users. +- **Building in the Open:** Focusing on transparent co-development practices between salaried staff, volunteer developers, and general consumers, with a roadmap that is available to all. +- **Surplus reserve allocation:** Directing financial surplus from 2025 into a dedicated reserve fund for 2026 community initiatives, events, and open source grants. diff --git a/src/media-room/boilerplates.md b/src/media-room/boilerplates.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b3d0927 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/media-room/boilerplates.md @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +--- +layout: paper +hero: blue +title: "Boilerplates" +description: "Standardized descriptions for the Open Home Foundation and our core projects: Home Assistant, ESPHome, and Music Assistant." +noindex: true +--- + +## About the Open Home Foundation + +Smart homes should be private spaces where people can be themselves – not sources of data for Big Tech seeking to monetize personal information. The Open Home Foundation offers an alternative: a smart home built on privacy, choice, and sustainability for everyone. + +Founded in 2024, the foundation is a tax-exempt Swiss non-profit that owns and governs more than 250 open source projects, including the Home Assistant home automation platform. It is funded by its commercial partners Nabu Casa and Apollo Automation, and independent donations. This structure ensures its core projects can never be sold, with resources invested in developing and promoting open standards and tools that serve its community of users, not advertisers or shareholders. + +Beyond this work, the foundation advocates for the ethical use of smart home technology across the wider industry – engaging companies and the general public on the value of open standards and the vision of the Open Home. + +## Open Home Foundation key projects + +### About Home Assistant + +Home Assistant is an open source home automation platform trusted by over 2 million households worldwide. It is powered by a global community of contributors united by the principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability. + +Operating as the brain of the smart home, Home Assistant unifies devices and protocols from any brand under a single interface that runs locally. This means users can control their smart home without the risk of data harvesting or being cut off when a company ends cloud support. Because the tech is open source, users can also modify their setup to suit their needs, including extending the life of devices they already own instead of replacing them. And with dedicated hardware like Home Assistant Green, anyone can enjoy these benefits, regardless of technical expertise. + +As a core project of the Open Home Foundation, Home Assistant is legally protected from corporate buy-out, ensuring smart homes remain controlled by the people who live in them. + +### About ESPHome + +ESPHome is an open source system designed to empower everyone – from beginners to advanced makers – to build or repurpose their own smart home devices, tailored to their needs. By using simple configuration files, ESPHome makes it easier for people to program low-cost microcontrollers to power custom sensors, smart displays, voice satellites and more – all integrated locally with automation platforms like Home Assistant, or entirely standalone. + +Beyond DIY builds, ESPHome also enables users to reprogram commercial smart devices to run entirely on open software, freeing them from vendor lock-in, factory limitations, or cloud dependencies. The platform also powers Ready-Made Projects, offering plug-and-play hardware solutions that work straight out the box. + +As a core project of the Open Home Foundation, ESPHome is legally shielded from corporate acquisition, ensuring the hardware people build or reprogram stays under their control for as long as they choose to use it. + +### About Music Assistant + +Listening to music is a personal, often emotional, choice, and one that many people don't want Big Tech recording. Music Assistant is an open source system that puts control back where it belongs: with the listener. It brings every streaming service, local library, and podcast source together, playing them through whatever speakers people already own – no matter the brand or smart home setup. + +Users can build whole-home audio, sync playback across every room, and move music between speakers on the fly, all from one place, without being tied to a single app or ecosystem to do it. + +As a core project of the Open Home Foundation, Music Assistant is legally shielded from corporate acquisition, ensuring people are never forced to choose between the music they love and the speakers they already own. + +## Short-form boilerplates + +For use at the bottom of press releases. + +**The Open Home Foundation** +The Open Home Foundation is a Swiss non-profit organization that fights for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. Founded in 2024, it owns and governs over 250 open source projects, standards, and drivers – including the Home Assistant smart home automation platform – protecting them from corporate takeover. Funded through commercial partners that sell official, licensed products, as well as independent donations, the foundation advocates for an open alternative to Big Tech control of the smart home sector. + +**Home Assistant** +Home Assistant is the world's leading open source home automation platform, powering more than 2.2 million households globally. Operating as the "brain" of the smart home, Home Assistant unifies smart devices and protocols from thousands of brands under a single, private interface. It protects users from data harvesting, subscription fees, vendor lock-in, and helps prevent devices becoming e-waste when manufacturers discontinue support. Home Assistant is a core project governed by the Open Home Foundation. + +**ESPHome** +ESPHome is an open source system that enables users to create, customize, and reprogram smart home devices without writing complex code, and integrate them directly into automation platforms like Home Assistant. ESPHome also allows users to free their hardware from manufacturers' restraints by replacing proprietary software on microcontroller chips. From custom DIY builds to plug-and-play Ready-Made Projects, ESPHome helps ensure smart home devices remain private, functional, and under user control long term. ESPHome is a core project governed by the Open Home Foundation. + +**Music Assistant** +Music Assistant is an open source, privacy-first audio platform that unifies streaming services, local music libraries, and podcasts into a single interface. Designed to liberate home audio from Big Tech ecosystems, Music Assistant allows listeners to play music across existing speakers from any brand, manage multi-room sync, and retain complete control over their listening data without being locked into a single app or hardware vendor. Music Assistant is a core project governed by the Open Home Foundation. diff --git a/src/media-room/factsheet.md b/src/media-room/factsheet.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d957d7f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/media-room/factsheet.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +--- +layout: paper +hero: blue +title: "Open Home Foundation factsheet" +description: "Covering our mission, principles, background, scale, and leadership." +noindex: true +--- + +Your home is a sanctuary: a place of refuge free from prying eyes, where you can be yourself without compromising your data, ideals, or independence. + +To ensure technology respects this space, the Open Home Foundation fights for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes, and for every person who lives in one. + +## Our principles + +- **Privacy** — Control your data and share only what you want. True privacy requires smart home devices to work locally, with cloud services opt-in only. +- **Choice** — Mix and match devices across manufacturers without vendor lock-in. This requires devices and their data to operate via open standards and local APIs. +- **Sustainability** — Repurpose your hardware and reduce waste. This requires durable devices open to modification, backed by tools that optimize energy. + +## Our work + +The Open Home Foundation owns and governs more than 250 projects, standards, drivers, and libraries: including Home Assistant, ESPHome, and Music Assistant. By protecting them under a non-profit structure, we ensure they remain independent, secure, and community-driven for decades to come, no matter what changes in the commercial tech market. + +> "I want to make it clear what our intentions are to the world: that we're driven by a higher goal than money, and that we are not for sale." +> +> *— Paulus Schoutsen, Open Home Foundation President* + +## Our community + +We're powered by a passionate global community of developers, creators, and users who refuse to let Big Tech dictate how their homes operate. + +- **Collaborative:** Thousands of people working around the world to develop and maintain the ecosystem. +- **Rapid:** This massive scale ensures our projects evolve quickly to meet real-world needs. +- **Transparent:** Built in the open, users have visibility and control over how their technology works. + +This collective ownership ensures the future of the smart home belongs to the people who live in them, not corporations seeking to control them. + +## Our funding and partners + +The Open Home Foundation is funded by commercial partner fees and donations. + +Funding flows in a single direction: from partners and donors to the foundation. Commercial partners have no ownership or financial control over the foundation. Instead, they are contractually required to contribute a majority of their profits from selling licensed Open Home Foundation products (such as Home Assistant and the ESPHome Starter Kit) to the foundation. This revenue funds salaried staff working globally on core projects, supports external open source collaborations, and powers community initiatives. + +## The Open Home Foundation at a glance + +- **Launched:** 2024 +- **Legal structure:** Tax-exempt, non-profit Stiftung (foundation) +- **Headquarters:** Switzerland +- **Projects governed:** 250+ open-source projects, standards, drivers, and libraries (including Home Assistant, ESPHome, and Music Assistant) +- **Active users:** 2.28+ million households worldwide, with Home Assistant installations growing 28% year-over-year in 2025 +- **Operational scale:** 50+ full-time salaried employees globally +- **Commercial partners:** Nabu Casa, Apollo Automation +- **Board members:** Paulus Schoutsen (President), Pascal Vizeli (Treasurer), J. Nick Koston (Member), Trevor Schirmer (Rotating Partner Member) diff --git a/src/media-room/index.html b/src/media-room/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ca63d26 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/media-room/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +--- +layout: base +title: Media Room +description: Media resources, brand assets, and press contacts for journalists and creators covering the Open Home Foundation. +--- + +
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++ Media resources, brand assets, and press contacts for journalists + and creators covering the Open Home Foundation. +
++ Media inquiries: + + media@openhomefoundation.org + +
+About the Open Home Foundation
++ The Open Home Foundation fights for the fundamental principles of + privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. And for every + person who lives in one. It does this by supporting the development + of open source projects, and open connectivity and communication + standards. +
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++ Everything journalists and creators need to cover the foundation and + its ecosystem. +
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++ We publish all official announcements, technical deep-dives, and + foundation milestones directly on our blog. +
+President | Industry vision, foundation strategy, Big Tech alternatives, open source governance | +| **Franck Nijhof**
Lead of Home Assistant & Chair of Leadership Committee | Home Assistant releases, technical maintainability, developer community leadership | +| **Jean-Loïc Pouffier**
Lead of Product & UX | Smart home user experience, interface design, product roadmap, accessibility | +| **Marcel van der Veldt**
Lead of Ecosystem | Open standards (Matter, Z-Wave, Zigbee), hardware partner ecosystem, Music Assistant and Sendspin | +| **Melissa Thermidor**
Lead of Community | Community initiatives, Global Community Day, contributor engagement, diversity in tech | + +To request an interview or organize podcast and event appearances with any of our spokespeople, please contact media@openhomefoundation.org with your topic, publication, and deadline. diff --git a/src/media-room/media-library.md b/src/media-room/media-library.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b83d15 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/media-room/media-library.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +layout: paper +hero: blue +title: "Media Library" +description: "Official, high-resolution media assets approved for editorial, journalistic, and broadcast use." +noindex: true +--- + +Below you will find official, high-resolution media assets approved for editorial, journalistic, and broadcast use. These materials are provided to assist press outlets, industry analysts, and content creators reporting on the Open Home Foundation, its governed open source projects, and hardware reference designs. + +[insert image gallery / download button] + +## Using and attributing these assets + +**Logo integrity** +Please do not alter logo colors, stretch proportions, or modify brand marks. Always maintain proper clear space around logos. + +**Photo credits** +Please credit photo usage to *"Courtesy of the Open Home Foundation"* (or *"Courtesy of Nabu Casa/Apollo Automation"* for hardware reference designs). + +**Media enquiries** +Need something not covered here? Contact our team at media@openhomefoundation.org. diff --git a/src/media-room/privacy-position-paper.md b/src/media-room/privacy-position-paper.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9eb7ff6 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/media-room/privacy-position-paper.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +--- +layout: paper +hero: blue +lead: "Media & press resource · Swiss non-profit stiftung" +title: "Privacy Position Paper: Factsheet" +description: "A press-ready summary of Privacy in the Smart Home, the foundation's position paper on data autonomy and legal protection for the connected home." +noindex: true +--- + +## Headline positions + +- Privacy is a human right +- Data autonomy must be mandatory +- Existing privacy laws fail the smart home +- Consumer privacy labeling is required + +## Overview: Drawing the line on surveillance capitalism + +Published in October 2025 by the foundation's Policy & Principles Working Group, Privacy in the Smart Home is a blueprint for the ethical smart home. The paper addresses how connected devices – from cameras and presence sensors to appliances – collect vast quantities of personal data that can be combined with AI to draw intimate behavioral insights. The foundation calls on legislators and the wider tech industry to mandate data autonomy and protect consumers from cloud-based surveillance and data harvesting. + +### Technical demands + +*The foundation outlines specific operational standards required to safeguard smart home privacy:* + +- **Local-first architecture:** Smart home devices must store, process, and execute data locally without requiring internet connectivity or external systems wherever possible. +- **Data ownership:** Data produced inside a home legally belongs to the people who live there or purchased the device, not the hardware manufacturer or platform provider. +- **Granular transparency:** Clear disclosure must be provided whenever data or control signals leave a home's local area network, specifying what is shared, with whom, and why. +- **Simple data deletion:** Users must be provided with non-technical methods to permanently delete their personal data in a timely manner across both local hardware and third-party systems. +- **End-to-end security:** Mandated strong end-to-end encryption for data transmitted beyond the local area network, and encryption-by-default for stored data. + +### Policy & regulatory recommendations + +*The Open Home Foundation calls on regulators and industry bodies to establish strict legal protections:* + +- **Local by default:** Require third-party data sharing to be turned off out of the box, requiring explicit, opt-in consent accompanied by clear explanations. +- **Consumer privacy labeling:** Institute a standardized labeling system (similar to point-of-purchase privacy indicators) so consumers understand a device's privacy implications before buying. +- **Regulation of side-channel access:** Scrutinize loopholes in unencrypted local network protocols (such as UPnP and mDNS) that allow third-party devices on a network to discover sensors, media streams, or metadata without explicit user permission. +- **Chain-of-transmission deletion:** Enforce financial penalties for third-party vendors that fail to delete stored data or fail to forward deletion requests down the entire distribution chain. + +### Scope & ongoing research + +*The position paper defines clear boundaries for current policy declarations while laying the groundwork for future ethical studies:* + +- **External boundary focus:** This position paper specifically tackles privacy between the smart home and external entities (cloud providers, Big Tech, advertisers). +- **Inter-household privacy:** The foundation is actively conducting primary research into the complex challenges of privacy between co-habitants inside the home (e.g., domestic safety and non-consensual tracking) to inform future policy work. + +*Privacy in the Smart Home is the first publication in an ongoing policy series produced by the Policy & Principles Working Group. The foundation is actively preparing its next two position papers dedicated to its remaining core principles: Choice and Sustainability.* + +