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Let's Encrypt has a neat annual report [pdf] (abetterinternet.org)
70 points by dfern on Nov 29, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 14 comments



As an accountant it somewhat irks me to open an “annual report” and it only to contain one page related to financials and mostly taken up by a single pie chart.

Gatekeeping is bad, but these annual PR pieces are trying to ride the good reputation that annual reports containing audited financials have.

On a side note the graphic design in this is amazing


As a non-accountant, I never assumed an "annual report" was the same as an "annual financial report," especially for a non-profit org.

If the purpose of your organization is to make money, then I can see a company's annual report needing to have detailed financials. Most readers will be interested in those details, given it is a corporation. But I don't think a non-profit's annual report needs more detailed financials that they gave in this one, because their purpose to improve the world, provide a public service, etc., and staying financially sustainable is just a means to that end.

If they had released an "annual financial report" like this, I could see your point.


Nobody is claiming this is an audited financial report, I have extremely serious doubts any significant amount of people are believing that.

It's explicitly a PR piece: "look at all the cool stuff we're doing and are involved in!"


It is super cool, who did it ? I love the colours, artwork, and the layout !


And the textured look is beautiful.


Can someone point me to the relevant papers for Divvi Up?


the TEXTURE ! I love the texture so much, how is this done?


Transparent PNG background image on the pages with other images Z-ordered below it.


RIP Peter Eckersley


All this neat presentation, but then they couldn't render the Unicode chars of their donors on the last slide properly ;)


Thanks for flagging! I’m an engineer on Let’s Encrypt and I’m helping our comms team fix this now :)


The document has been updated. Thanks again!


Wow, that's a quick and great response!


seems piping through `iconv -f utf8 -t macintosh` fixes them




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