Software Freedom Conservancy

SFC releases an aspirational statement on generative AI for programming. We highlight the need for respecting user freedom, for reproducibility, and guaranteeing that such systems are truly Free and Open Source Software (FOSS):

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/oct/25/aspirational-on-llm-generative-ai-programming/

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/