Software Freedom Conservancy

What we call "firmware" has changed quite a bit over the years. How
should the free software movement address the issues raised by modern
firmware practices? Join the discussion with award-winning author
@kyle at #FOSSY in Portland on July 14:
https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/86/

Is your project worried about maintainer burnout? Needing to help
develop new leaders? Wanting better technical decision making
processes? Learn about these topics and more with @shauna
at #FOSSY in Portland on July 14:
https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/40/

One great way to help out at FOSSY is to sign up for volunteering: https://nextcloud.sfconservancy.org/apps/forms/s/GF8gkmQfSFdyHoaNPiTWeCCx
One 3 hour shift is all it takes to get a ticket to all 4 days of incredible talks and community building opportunities!

There's still time to book your hotel room for FOSSY! https://2023.fossy.us/travel/#hotels
Come visit Portland for 4 days of incredible FOSS talks, you can see our schedule https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/

Join us Thursday the 13th for registration and a welcome lunch, then there are 2 workshops and 3 tracks to choose from!
Grow Your Project Workshop, Free BSD Workshop, AArch64/ARM64 Servers and Open Source, FOSS For Education, XMPP

Friday the 14th we'll begin with a keynote and coffee and continue with FOSS For Education, Sustainable Open Source Business, Community: Open Source in Practice, FOSS at Play: Games, creative development, and open technology, and 2 half day tracks for BSD Unix and Copyleft and Compliance

Saturday the 15th has continuations for FOSS For Education and Community: Open Source in Practice also FOSS in Daily Life, Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS, Security, Issues in Open Work

Sunday the 16th rounds out the conference with day 2 of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and FOSS
and Software Worker Coops, Open Source AI + Data, Container Days, Science of Community

If you are looking to volunteer: https://2023.fossy.us/attend/volunteer/ we need help with setup/ cleanup, room hosting, code of conduct enforcement or any of the activities listed, please reach out to us here or conference@sfconservancy.org All volunteers will get a complimentary ticket, good for all 4 days of the conference.

If you haven't gotten your ticket yet, please register so we know how much lunch to order https://2023.fossy.us/attend/tickets/ and be sure to grab a room from our hotel block https://2023.fossy.us/travel/#hotels

And here's the schedule!! https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/ while the track days are set, talk times might be adjusted to accommodate speaker travel, so be sure to keep an eye on it if you are looking for a particular talk.
Thanks to all our fantastic track organizers and speakers for making this possible. We're incredibly excited to build and run this conference with you all. Can't wait to see you in Portland, OR July 13th-16th!

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/