Software Freedom Conservancy

Software Freedom Conservancy | @conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org

Software Freedom Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) public charity that acts as a non-profit home for Free, Libre, and Open Source Software projects.

https://sfconservancy.org

Check out the great speaker lineup for #FOSSY at https://2024.fossy.us/schedule/ ! Register to join a bunch of amazing folks working on and learning about free software โ€“ tickets are at https://2024.fossy.us/attend/tickets/

Who do I know who is going to ? I'm considering going still although I may have to miss the first day. Curious to see what's going on around the event and who I would be able to see!

#FOSSY24 coming up in just under 3 weeks! Today is the last day to book one of our hotels https://2024.fossy.us/travel/ so be sure to book!

This week our Executive Director @karen participated again in the UN's OSPOs for Good event. Great to see the UN highlighting the important issue of software freedom.
Karen Sandler during the UNs OSPOs for Good event. Remy DeCausemaker CC-BY-SA-4

The #FOSSY24 schedule is out! https://2024.fossy.us/schedule/

We're so excited for all the incredible speakers and can't wait to see you all in a few weeks!

You can register here: https://2024.fossy.us/attend/tickets/ and be sure to do so soon so we can make you a snazzy badge ๐Ÿคฉ

We're at #Teardown2024 by @crowdsupply today. Excited to be in the space with all these amazing people creating and sharing open hardware projects! ๐Ÿค–

Last day to get your FOSSY submissions in! Due in 10 hours from now, you can submit after making an account on the FOSSY site: https://2024.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

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 ๐Ÿ˜‰๏ธ 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/

Excited to say my friends Aparna, Danielle, and I have volunteered to run a community track at the @conservancy conference this year "Supporting User Groups" - the CfP is very short so please don't hesitate in submitting your ideas! https://2024.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

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.

Exciting news! @conservancy has selected to lead the "FOSS in Education" track at , Aug 1-4 at @Portland_State University. Join us to discuss the role of in , !

https://2024.fossy.us/

@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!

@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).

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!

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