Software Freedom Conservancy

Our Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn will be on the FTC round table discussion discussion "Creative Economy and Generative AI" tomorrow. He's joining a panel of artists, policy makers, union organizers and other activists as the one to represent the FOSS and greater software communities. You can watch the webcast at 19:00 UTC: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events/2023/10/creative-economy-generative-ai

@clacke @michelin @josh Not yet, but we're in the process of trying to set it. We'll make an announcement when we're locked in!

@fell @anjan We just got the videos up! You can see our blog post here: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/sep/14/fossy-videos/

The FOSSY videos are up! Check out our blog post for more information here: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/sep/14/fossy-videos/

Thanks to all our speakers, AV team, volunteers and sponsors for making FOSSY happen. We can't wait to do it again next year!

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!