Software Freedom Conservancy

Reminder that we extended the CFP for FOSSY to give folks the weekend. You've got until Tuesday the 18th to get your talks in: https://2024.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

We've gotten some feedback that some folks would like a couple more days to work on the CFP, so we're extending from Friday the 14th until next Tuesday the 18th at 23:59 (whatever your local time is).

Hopefully this helps and please let us know if you have any questions about the process or want any feedback on your submission!

https://2024.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

Office hours for FOSSY! We've already had some great submissions and you can find our CFP announcement is here: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/may/23/fossy-2024-cfp-announcement/

You can find the list of tracks here: https://2024.fossy.us/pages/tracks/

Monday is a great day to submit a talk to the FOSSY CFP 😉️ https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/may/23/fossy-2024-cfp-announcement/

We've already received some great talks, so make sure to get your talk in before Friday! Join us Tuesday or Thursday at 19:00 for our online office hours, or email conference@sfconservancy.org if you have any questions.

One week left for the CFP for FOSSY. We've already received some great talks, and can't wait to begin the review process!

@egallager That's great! We can't wait to see you. And would be very interested in hearing a talk about the legislature side of FOSS!

Ready for office hours!

Any questions about FOSSY (August 1-4th in Portland, OR): https://fossy.us

Our tracks: (proper subset) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, FOSS in Education, Licensing / Legal, Mobile Device User Freedom, Right to Repair, Reproducibility, https://2024.fossy.us/pages/tracks/

Be to start working on your talks for the FOSSY CFP: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/may/23/fossy-2024-cfp-announcement/

And given how popular our keynote panels were last year, if you have any ideas on facilitating something similar, be sure to submit something to the Keynote Panels track!

Also a reminder that tomorrow we'll be doing office hours at 19:00 UTC both on the Fediverse and IRC/XMPP.

@sourceware @osuosl

So proud of our collaboration with Sourceware. It's been such an honor to help a project that helps so many communities and has such a long history!

Also the OSUOSL has been stalwart in their support of free software infrastructure for over 20 years!

Don't forget we've got FOSSY Office Hours in our IRC/ XMPP channel today at 19:00 UTC.

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!

FOSSY CFP and ticket sales are now open! Be sure to submit your talk to one of our many incredible tracks before June 14th!

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/

@karen was just on an episode of @GoodRobotAndys talking about why control over our devices is so important, and how software freedom affects everyone. Be sure to check out the episode!

https://www.artificialworlds.net/goodrobotandys/2024/04/23/s11e08-karen-sandler-on-taking-back-control-through-software-freedom-the-good-robot-andys/

Our Director of Compliance is testifying tomorrow about Software Right to Repair for the DMCA in front of the Copyright Office. Supporting other Right to Repair organizations, and talking about the needs for copyleft and support of repairing our software.

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).

@philip Yes! We'll be publishing more information on how to volunteer soon :)

FOSSY is happening again in Portland, OR! Join us August 1-4th 2024 at Portland State University to celebrate and build community around software freedom.

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/

@geekygirldawn We're soft launching https://fossy.us for August 1-4th in Portland again! Be on the lookout for more information this week!

@linux_mclinuxface We're tentatively looking at Monday April 8th (as the website now reflects), for track submissions. We're looking forward to what the community wants to see this year, and are still so inspired from last years submissions and great range of topics and talks!

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.

@neptune22222 Hopefully it'll be up on SCaLE's Youtube page in a month or so! https://www.youtube.com/@socallinuxexpo or the live stream videos might be watchable as well.

Be sure to catch Tracy's talk: "Running an Open Source Hackerspace" at 17:30 PST to hear about how she uses @inkscape and all other kinds of free software to Make Things!

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/running-open-source-hackerspace

Come visit Tracy and Pono at the #SCaLE Exhibition Hall to find out what @conservancy has been up to!