Home Assistant is now part of the newly formed Open Home Foundation. It is a non-profit organisation that will "own and govern all of Home Assistant and its related entities". The board members all work on Home Assistant and their mission statement is to "fight against surveillance capitalism, and offer a counterbalance to Big Tech influence, in the smart home — by focusing on privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart home users". They're also expanding the Home Assistant Works With device certification program, building a locally-based voice assistant for Home Assistant and exploring "ways to improve its UI to make it easier for everyone in the home to use Home Assistant". God speed to them. Home Assistant is awesome.
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