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 title: "The Kodi Foundation: Who We Are, What We Do"
-date: 2024-12-14T12:58:29.091Z
+date: 2024-12-18T19:38:20.537Z
 author: Team Kodi
 tags:
   - Community
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 **The Kodi Foundation and the Board of Directors**
 
-Kodi has a legal personality. We're incorporated in the US as the Kodi Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit - or an NGO, in common European parlance. This is the "company", it's the entity that receives donations, signs hosting agreements, protects our trademarks, and owns any assets and intellectual property. However, we don't have any of the trappings of a regular company: we have no employees, minimal assets, and no property. We're wholly run by volunteers and a few carefully-chosen outside agents for e.g. legal work.
+Kodi has a legal personality. We're incorporated in the US as the Kodi Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit - or a type of NGO, in common European parlance. This is the "company", it's the entity that receives donations, signs hosting agreements, protects our trademarks, and owns any assets and intellectual property. However, we don't have any of the trappings of a regular company: we have no employees, minimal assets, and no property. We're wholly run by volunteers and a few carefully-chosen outside agents for e.g. legal work.
 
 The Kodi Foundation is then made up of members of Team Kodi. It's not mandatory to join - you can be a Team member and not join - but it's the Foundation members who get a vote on major decisions. Probably the most regular of those decisions is the appointment of our Board of Directors - again, Team members, all volunteers, each of whom serves a two-year term as part of a Board of five members. The Board then manages Kodi: funds, publicity, taxes, lawyers, copyright bodies, banks, sponsors, non-profit oversight, and so on. There's also a whole raft of internal administrivia - member lists, permissions, access rights, what's filed where, who's responding to what, why are we getting these emails, no we don't want your adverts.
 
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 We generate a few tens of thousands of dollars a year. Most of that comes directly from donations - that little orange button in the top right; some comes from merchandise sales such as T-shirts or royalties on branded Flirc goods; and the rest comes from corporate sponsorship, which is an ephemeral beast at best. You'll perhaps notice that we've always steered clear of advertising, so there are no popups on this site, no banner ads, and nothing within the application itself: that's very deliberate, and we work hard to keep it like that.
 
-On that note, we'd like to give a huge shout out to FLIRC right now, as they've just started selling a [Raspberry Pi 5 branded Kodi case](https://kodi.tv/article/flirc-case-for-raspberry-pi-5-kodi-edition/). This is the only company authorised to use our brand on a product, and the only company who gives us royalties: we get a small amount for every case sold. They've been consistently helping us out financially the last few years and without them, we would be attending many fewer conferences. 
+On that note, we'd like to give a huge shout out to Flirc right now, as they've just started selling a [Raspberry Pi 5 branded Kodi case](https://kodi.tv/article/flirc-case-for-raspberry-pi-5-kodi-edition/). This is the only company authorised to use our brand on a product, and the only company who gives us royalties: we get a small amount for every case sold. They've been consistently helping us out financially for the last few years and, without them, we would be attending many fewer conferences. 
 
-And where does it go to? We have hosting costs, professional service fees (lawyers, copyright specialists, accountants), banking fees. While we sometimes get sponsored hardware, we have to pay for servers, discs, bandwidth. If someone is working on a feature and they need a particular piece of hardware that we can't get donated, we'll buy them something (e.g. to assist with porting Kodi to a new platform). Perhaps our biggest costs are conferences: the Open Source world thrives on community, so we have tried to get people representing us at FOSDEM, Embedded Linux Conference, OSS Summit, SCALE, and the Open Source Leadership Summit - although the majority of funds goes to getting as many members as possible to attend our annual developer conference, Kodi Devcon. 
+And where does the money go? We have hosting costs, professional service fees (lawyers, copyright specialists, accountants), banking fees. While we sometimes get sponsored hardware, we have to pay for servers, storage, bandwidth. If someone is working on a feature and they need a particular piece of hardware that we can't get donated, we'll buy them something (e.g. to assist with porting Kodi to a new platform). Perhaps our biggest costs are conferences: the Open Source world thrives on community, so we have tried to get people representing us at FOSDEM, Embedded Linux Conference, OSS Summit, SCALE, and the Open Source Leadership Summit - although the majority of funds goes to getting as many members as possible to attend our annual developer conference, Kodi Devcon. 
 
 We think we do pretty well on limited funds, and we've had some big donations in the past, but unfortunately those are drying up, so we're starting to have to make hard decisions on not covering our volunteers costs to represent us at some of the conferences.
 
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 **What's Needed**
 
 * More hosting is always appreciated. We get by nearly entirely from free hosting and can't thank our sponsors such as OSUOSL and Leaseweb enough, but can always use more diversity.
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 * We always need volunteers to work on stuff! Social Media and someone to manage our store are two that come to mind, but platform-specific development experience (e.g. Android) is always good.
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 * Sponsorship! if you think you have a good fit for a sponsor who aligns with our interests, please, reach out! 
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 * If you have any corporate matching, Kodi is registered as a corporate nonprofit beneficiary with the [Benevity](https://benevity.com/) platform.
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 * And lastly, monetary donations go a long way too. As stated, we are a 501(c)(3), so these donations are tax deductible in the US. If you have a few dollars, pounds, euros or equivalent going spare, you can [really help us out](https://kodi.tv/donate/). Thank you!
 
 We always want to keep some money in the bank, and we have a rule: we need to be able to cover the next Devcon before we hold this one and, unfortunately, 2025 may be the last year for a couple years at the current rate of donations. We spend less than US$30k for the entire event, including flying our team from around the world to attend plus all hotel/food/conference room costs, but our current finances just won't support this after next year's conference unless something changes, such as a new sponsor (or the RPi5 case becomes exceedingly popular and sells out!).
 
 Thank you very much in advance for anything you can do to help.
 
--- Team Kodi
+\-- Team Kodi