Software Freedom Conservancy

FOSSY is a month out! A great time to book your hotel in our block and finalize travel plans: https://2023.fossy.us/travel/
Look forward to the schedule very soon, we've finalized the tracks and are just waiting on speaker acceptances!

@zana We're sending acceptances out today and tomorrow!

We're getting close to setting the schedule for FOSSY!
Our block of rooms is available until June 21st so be sure to get your ticket and book your hotel soon :)
https://2023.fossy.us/travel/

@baconandcoconut Thursday the 13th will be around 11am - 6:30pm PT and Friday-Sunday will be 9am-6:30pm. Let us know if you have any other questions!

@mattcen @northbaypython
Sounds like a nice morning! There's always the Wild Card track for more main track or topics outside the specific tracks :)

Tomorrow is the end of our CFP for FOSSY. Come by IRC or Libera at the top of the hour (19:00 UTC), or ask any questions here!
We've gotten some great proposals and are so excited to go through them and get the schedule out (hopefully next week!).
https://2023.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

Just over 2 days left to submit to the FOSSY CFP! We'll be hosting office hours again tomorrow at 19:00 UTC in IRC/ XMPP if you have any questions about your talks or the conference in general.
https://2023.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

@conservancy announces today that Sourceware, the longtime home to many critical FOSS projects is joining SFC as a member project!
We're so excited that this will bring together our communities and create a legal home for all the projects hosted under the Sourceware name.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/may/15/sourceware-joins-sfc/

@paigerduty We haven't reached out to them, but that's a good idea. Getting more local folks involved would be great. Thanks for letting us know!

Another FOSSY office hours happening now (Wednesdays 19:00 UTC) on IRC and XMPP!
Come talk through your proposal or bring any questions you have about Portland, conference safety or anything else you are curious about :)

The CFP for FOSSY has been extended until Thursday May 18th (next week!).
If you have any questions or want help submitting or crafting your abstract, drop by our office hours tomorrow 19:00 UTC in IRC/ XMPP.
https://2023.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

The CFP for FOSSY has been extended until Thursday May 18th (next week!).
If you have any questions or want help submitting or crafting your abstract, drop by our office hours tomorrow 19:00 UTC in IRC/ XMPP.
https://2023.fossy.us/pages/call-for-proposals.html

There is now also a Right to Repair track! Given Conservancy's increasing cooperation with the Right to Repair movement, we'd like to foster more conversations and interplay between the shared experience of advocating for consumer and technological rights
https://2023.fossy.us/pages/tracks/#repair

We've already had some great submissions to the FOSSY CFP: https://2023.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
You can join us on Wednesday's in XMPP or IRC for FOSSY office hours, or feel free to email conference@sfconservancy.org with questions (or as here!).

We are hosting office hours for FOSSY in 1 hour at 19:00 UTC in #conservancy on libera.chat which mirrors xmpp:general@chat.sfconservancy.org
Come join us if you have any questions about our CFP or the conference itself!

Whether you are a first time speaker, an expert talk giver, or looking to get more experience, we are looking to hear from you! FOSSY is a community first conference and we are looking forward to learning from your expertise and working together to build a great conference.

CFP and ticket sales for FOSSY are open today! We have an incredible line up of tracks curated by our amazing track organizers. Deadline for submission is May 14th you can find more information here: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/apr/24/fossy-cfp-open/ and submit directly here: https://2023.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

New FOSSY website just dropped: https://fossy.us 🔥
And a reminder that there are 2 days left to submit community track proposals! We're so excited and inspired by the ones we've seen and can't wait to share them with you!

Farmers, please reach out to us at compliance@sfconservancy.org
Let's reclaim the ability for farmers to repair farm tools again, either for themselves or by using a friend or shop of choice, improving the lives of everyone on earth who depends on farmers every day!

Our Director of Compliance Denver Gingerich talks about his farming background and calls on John Deere to resolve its outstanding #GPL and LGPL violations, across all lines of its farm equipment. Farmers deserve the right they are owed to repair their tools. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-violations/