Software Freedom Conservancy

Software Freedom Conservancy | @conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org

Software Freedom Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) public charity that acts as a non-profit home for Free, Libre, and Open Source Software projects.

https://sfconservancy.org

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If "community" to you means more than "the people using the software/service we own," you will find your people at #FOSSY. Talk
submissions are open until Monday, April 28th:
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

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As you plan your week ahead, don't forget to get your #FOSSY talk proposal in by Monday, April 28 (anywhere on Earth)! You can do it at https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/ . We are a small team putting this big event together and greatly appreciate your help in making sure everyone in your #freesoftware and #opensource circles knows about the opportunity and deadline! #portland

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The FOSSY CfP is up! Submit your proposal to speak at FOSSY (July 31-August 3rd in Portland, Oregon) before April 28 (AoE)!

https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

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We're so excited to welcome #liblouis, an essential copyleft tool for blind and visually impaired users, as SFC's newest member project!!

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/mar/17/liblouis-joins-software-freedom-conservancy/

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Our Executive DIrector @karen gave a talk about when to say no to funding at #FOSDEM25. While the financial climate is so difficult for FOSS projects and foundations, it's never right to compromise values or undermine your main goals to take in funding.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6481-when-is-it-right-to-say-no-to-funding-/

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FOSSY is coming up, July 31-August 3 in Portland Oregon! The call for nonprofit booths is open, and the CfP will be opening soon!

https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-booths/

We still have one slot for a sponsored booth, and are hoping to get more sponsors at every level!

https://sfconservancy.org/docs/2025-prospectus.pdf

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Did you miss our Director of Compliance's keynote at SCaLE this past weekend? The livestream content is up here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRyNeykjIiE

Denver talks about making the #OpenWrtOne, software freedom and SFC.

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@joncruz This sounds like a great idea. Definitely keep us posted as to what you design!

Jon A. Cruz joncruz@mstdn.social

Caught Denver's keynote regarding the and ended up ordering one after getting my hands on the ones at the @conservancy booth.

The aesthetics struck me as needing some tweaks to fit into my home, so I figure I can design case/covers to fit it and help with its wider apeal.

Any places i should contact as I get going?

socallinuxexpo socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizza

Last weekend the Tech Team flashed 120 APs with our latest build in preparation to bring you powered by free software and open hardware. Thank you, Project and the @conservancy, for your partnership

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The call for tracks for #FOSSY25 is open until March 1! You can join the FOSSY organizing team by leading a half day, full day or 2 day room of talks. Submit your track idea here: https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/community-tracks/

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Caution Advised: Make sure the DCO fits your needs; adapt if necessary
SFC's Policy Fellow, Bradley M. Kuhn, writes to the GDB email list in their thread this month about possibly switching to the DCO to advise caution.

One size doesn't fit all with the DCO, and, as the Samba project did, adapting it to suit your needs is advisable for various reasons discussed in Bradley's post:

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb/2025-January/051720.html

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Bradley and @karen published their thoughts about the TikTok ban yesterday:

"Users (and our government) should instead insist that, to operate in the USA, that ByteDance respect the software rights and freedoms of their users by releasing both the server and App components of the software under a “free and open source” (FOSS) license.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/jan/18/usa-should-require-bytedance-to-open-source-tiktok/

Karen Sandler karen@floss.social

We did it! Thanks to everyone who donated and made this happened! And thank you for your patience while we've sent you emails and asked for your help. We will do everything we can to continue to use your donations and your partnership to work tirelessly for

Karen Sandler karen@floss.social

If you are sad you missed the exciting finish to our @conservancy fundraiser, you can strive to make our overage amount a fun number (a prime?)

I'm going to sleep now, and will be back in a few hours, and will go see if there were any last minute paper checks that arrived for us in the last days to get a final number up :) Thank you again!, I'm so proud that people really care about this work.

https://sfconservancy.org/donate/

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If you believe in the waiting until the last minute, you have to make a donation right away to help us make our historic match challenge. Midnight AoE approaches.

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

Karen Sandler karen@floss.social

Is this maybe happening? The amount to raise is $8,933 now!

Did you see how we stood up for the AGPL in our recent amicus brief? We worked so hard over the holidays to make that happen...

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/jan/13/neo4j-amicus/

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$2^14 left! @karen is answering questions and keeping the rally going, so follow her and ask her anything about why donating to @conservancy is a great way to empower software freedom for all!

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@karen @pluralistic You can checkout the blog post and video here now! https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/jan/15/cory-doctorow-video-interview/

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Only $18,000 left to go on our fundraiser! We're so close to getting to 4 digits!! 🥳

If you want to donate by wire transfer, email us at info@sfconservancy.org and we will give you the wire instructions.

Otherwise donate via PayPal here: https://sfconservancy.org/donate/

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