The Open Home Foundation is a non-profit organization that stewards open-source smart-home projects, most notably Home Assistant, to advance privacy, choice, and sustainability in home automation. It holds and governs the intellectual property of these projects, funds development, and protects them from commercial capture. Its mission centers on local-first, user-controlled home technology rather than cloud-dependent proprietary platforms.
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- The Foundation holds project IP, funds maintainers, and resists commercial capture of community-built tooling. Its emphasis on local processing over cloud dependence shapes the governance and technical direction of the smart-home projects it oversees.