Software Freedom Conservancy

FOSSY 2025 dates are out! Join us again in Portland, Oregon for the first weekend in August (July 31st-August 3rd) at Portland State University for 4 days of excellent community driven tracks.

Can't wait to see you again!

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/oct/17/FOSSY-2025-announcement/

Conservancy staff had a great time at Linux Plumbers! You can read our Director of Compliance's report highlighting some great conversations and thoughts about the future of GPL enforcement here: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/oct/03/linux-plumbers-and-gpl-enforcement/

The last talk of the conference is starting: Watson and Brandon Smith presenting on "Case Studies of Exploitation in Open Source". Two brilliant presenters closing us out! #FOSSY24

https://restreamer.opensignalpdx.org/

The last keynote of #FOSSY24 is start in 10 minutes: https://restreamer.opensignalpdx.org/playersite_47e6209d-3ae3-4c24-ae4b-d9b3a74630ff.html

Starting off the last day is a discussion about "FOSS Outside of Corporations" led by our Executive Director @karen featuring John Sullivan, Kate Chapman, Rosy Schechter, Sriram Ramkrishna.

AI Keynote by Denver Gingerich, Allison Randal, Joey Hess, julia ferraioli, Kat Walsh is live! https://restreamer.opensignalpdx.org/

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/