Software Freedom Conservancy

Denver Gingerich, our Director of Compliance, was interviewed on @richlitt podcast SustainOSS at #FOSSY. A great listen if you want to learn about recent compliance developments at SFC and hear about some of Denver's other work. Thanks so much to Rich for bringing SustainOSS to #FOSSY https://podcast.sustainoss.org/195

We Call on FOSS Contributors to “Exit Zoom”!
After the recent change of the terms of service to Zoom, Software Freedom Conservancy seeks to bring light to corporate abuse of power and focus on making FOSS solutions to these proprietary requirements.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/aug/15/exit-zoom/

Our Director of Compliance discusses the Rust Foundation's (draft) trademark policy by looking at what we can learn from the sometimes too exciting history of software freedom trademark policies

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jul/27/trademark-history-and-rust/

The first video from #FOSSY is out! 🎉 If you have been following our writing, you know our Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn wrote about the recent RHEL policy change. As a continuation of that discussion, he led a keynote panel at the conference to discuss the issue with representatives from AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and Oracle.

You can view the video and more information here: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jul/19/rhel-panel-fossy-2023/

@icedquinn It's marked as proprietary software with 🙅! Our speaker policy required speakers to label all proprietary software, and this one was no different.

Pono from @conservancy talks about how he used free software to plan his wedding at #FOSSY
No room for proprietary software here!

It's the last day of #FOSSY 😭
We are so thrilled with how many of you came out and celebrated software freedom, community building and an introspective look at our communities.
Our final keynote today at 9:30 local time will host @karen @sphakos @anna talking about Outreachy and their 1000th intern!

At #FOSSY, Denver Gingerich explains cultural changes needed to improve acceptance of those who make abnormal but important choices for their privacy & software rights. Denver posed with his preferred “phone” — which generates no e-waste (it's compostable!) & does not have the typical anti-features most modern phones have.

At #FOSSY, Kevin O'Reilly frames the right to repair as a truly pro-USAmerican cause: historically, folks in the USA love to fix our stuff and make it work. The right to repair movement seeks to bring back a culture of fixing devices rather than giving into the planned obsolesce of Big Tech.

@linux_mclinuxface @benjaminhollon @pymander We will!

Learning about the free and open values of Knox Makers https://knoxmakers.org/ from @conservancy 's own Tracy Homer!

At #FOSSY, SFC's @sphakos talks about all the #FOSS that you can use to safely, respectfully, and enjoyably observe and document natural wonders.

On #FOSSY's FOSS in Education track, Gregory Hislop and Heidi Ellis finish out the day telling us how little their CS students know about #FOSS, and explain how the #FOSS community can help faculty better educate students about #FOSS.

@richlitt If you can't follow us from our site, maybe you can try from this one? https://mastodon.social/@conservancy@sfconservancy.org

In his #FOSSY 2023 talk, @spot goes above and beyond to comply with our “disclose all proprietary software before mentioning it in presentation”, & creates a slide of all the proprietary software at AWS that he knows about. spot notes: “this slide is also to remind us all when we think #FOSS is winning, how many fronts we still have so much work to do.”

@neptune22222 We hope to have them online soon after the conference!

#FOSSY in Portland, Oregon has begun! Free and Open Source software has returned to the Oregon Convention Center in July 2023.

Community-focused FOSS discussion on XMPP, FOSS in education, FOSS gaming, and AArch64/ARM64 on servers is going on.

https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/#thursday

@bradk @bugbear @mos_8502
Heya! We are a non-profit focused on ethical technology. Besides being the only organization currently doing copyleft license enforcement, we are focusing efforts on the software right to repair movement and we have a wide range of diversity and inclusion efforts including @outreachy
We're happy to help support the FOSS community in creating a fair and just technological society!

@rydia No live streaming this year but we are recording all the talks and will post them after the conference!