Software Freedom Conservancy

Our incredible AV Team Open Signal PDX has started streaming our tracks! Bear with us while we continue testing and debugging, but join us at 16:30 and 17:30 tonight for a few more talks, and Saturday and Sunday we'll continue our best to stream all the tracks!

https://restreamer.opensignalpdx.org/

Good morning for day 2 of #FOSSY24! We'll be live streaming the keynote at 9:45 PT so if you can't join us in person, please join us there!

https://videos.trom.tf/w/284BmuwWaNHUku5GkSGpEe

We're off! After a fantastic opening keynote from @karen and Bradley M. Kuhn, talks have started and #FOSSY24 is officially underway 🥳

And we have live streaming for the opening remarks!

https://videos.trom.tf/w/pi2wdQYLLjJaRLoX8BkZwH

Registration for #FOSSY24 is open! We can't wait to see you all for the opening remarks at 13:45 PT.

#FOSSY24 is next week! Can't wait to see you all in Portland for a 4 days of community, software freedom and collectively building our digital future!

You can volunteer for a free ticket if you are in Portland, OR or buy a ticket here: https://2024.fossy.us/attend/tickets/

9 days until #FOSSY24 we can't believe we're almost there! If you are local and looking to attend, we still have plenty of volunteer spots left for a free ticket! https://nextcloud.sfconservancy.org/apps/forms/s/ZmRYXAoN9f3G4L6cDLdgcdNL

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 – tickets are at https://2024.fossy.us/attend/tickets/

#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.

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 🤩

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

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 😉️ 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/