@sourceware @conservancy - Year One
https://inbox.sourceware.org/20240529190215.GA26515@gnu.wildebeest.org
Communications (lots, also on the fediverse), New and updated services (snapshots server, email, public-inbox, cgit), Security (CVEs, git signing, autoregen builders, aging inactive users, secure supply chain), New and upgraded hardware (thanks Red Hat @osuosl StarFive), Finances (we spend hundreds and raised thousands of dollars!), Next year plans (more, bigger and isolated), Conclusion (Five Stars, Would Recommend).
If you've got any questions about our CFP: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/may/23/fossy-2024-cfp-announcement/
or our Call for Booths: https://2024.fossy.us/call-for-booths/ join us and ask some questions!
Join us at 19:00 UTC in our XMPP/ IRC room for office hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays if you have any questions. Or you can email conference@sfconservancy.org
You can find more information here as well: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/may/23/fossy-2024-cfp-announcement/
https://www.artificialworlds.net/goodrobotandys/2024/04/23/s11e08-karen-sandler-on-taking-back-control-through-software-freedom-the-good-robot-andys/
If you want to tune in at 2:30 PM ET you can find more information here under the "Register to Watch Public Hearings": https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2024/ (warning, required use of proprietary software to view the hearing).
We are so excited to host another conference and hear from *YOU* about what kinds of tracks and programming you want to see this year. Check out our announcement for more information about submitting to run a track.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/mar/28/fossy-2024/
☀️ We were at #FOSDEM at the beginning of February! 🤩
Not only we brought there our colourful and lively booth 🎈, but some of our team members hosted talks and discussions 🗨️, and we even co-organized the Legal & Policy Issues devroom with @conservancy 💡
💭 It was very insightful, and all the recordings are publicly available! ⏯️
Check them out ⤵️
https://media.fsfe.org/w/p/1vqJVwpmksnKpLdt77wPXs
We'll be having office hours over the next couple weeks for folks to pitch ideas and get help, so be on the lookout for those (official) announcements.
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/running-open-source-hackerspace
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https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/feb/03/ccirt-security-and-software-right-to-repair/
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/feb/03/use-the-source-launched/
“I don’t want money to compensate for infringement of my license, I want every user to have the freedom that I granted them by publishing #OpenSource software.” — Bradley M. Kuhn @conservancy
#FOSDEM
Use The Source is an elegant collaborative platform for users to catalog, find and test source code candidates for real products to verify their reproducibility and reinstallability. Users can discuss whether their device's software is repairable, so they know if the device can be fixed or updated, especially to fix security vulnerabilities or otherwise adapt it to their needs.
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You are a third-party beneficiary of the licensing terms."
"The history of copyleft as an activist strategy can only be understood through the lens of 20 years of cooption of FOSS into mainstream tech."