FOSSY CFP Extended to May 5th.
If you work with or support #OpenSource--or other open initiatives (#OER, #OpenScience, etc.) in #HigherEducation, @conservancy's annual #FOSSY Conference is an ideal place to share your work, find colleagues, and grow your network.
Please consider submitting a proposal to present your interests, ideas, and insights. Apereo is organizing a #FOSS for #Education for #HigherEd oriented projects, developers, faculty, and researchers.
We love to support new voices in FOSS, so if you have any questions about what it takes to put together a talk, let us know! You can email conference@sfconservancy.org or find us on IRC/ XMPP!
Submit by Monday May 5th https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
It's Sunday 🌞 great day to check out our recently publish Call for Presentations #cfp
May 5th is the new deadline, so get your submissions in by the end of the day (in your timezone).
Please drop by our IRC or XMPP chatroom if you have any questions. Or you can always reach out to conference@sfconservancy.org
We welcome new speakers - if you've never spoken at a conference before, this is a good place to start!
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
submissions are open until Monday, April 28th:
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/mar/17/liblouis-joins-software-freedom-conservancy/
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6481-when-is-it-right-to-say-no-to-funding-/
https://2025.fossy.us/call-for-booths/
We still have one slot for a sponsored booth, and are hoping to get more sponsors at every level!
https://sfconservancy.org/docs/2025-prospectus.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRyNeykjIiE
Denver talks about making the #OpenWrtOne, software freedom and SFC.
Caught Denver's #SCaLE22x keynote regarding the #OpenWrtOne and ended up ordering one after getting my hands on the ones at the @conservancy booth.
The aesthetics struck me as needing some tweaks to fit into my home, so I figure I can design #3DPrinting case/covers to fit it and help with its wider apeal.
Any places i should contact as I get going?
Last weekend the #SCALE Tech Team flashed 120 #OpenWrtOne APs with our latest build in preparation to bring you #SCALE22x powered by free software and open hardware. Thank you, #OpenWrt Project and the @conservancy, for your partnership
Caution Advised: Make sure the DCO fits your needs; adapt if necessary
One size doesn't fit all with the DCO, and, as the Samba project did, adapting it to suit your needs is advisable for various reasons discussed in Bradley's post:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb/2025-January/051720.html
"Users (and our government) should instead insist that, to operate in the USA, that ByteDance respect the software rights and freedoms of their users by releasing both the server and App components of the software under a “free and open source” (FOSS) license.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/jan/18/usa-should-require-bytedance-to-open-source-tiktok/
We did it! Thanks to everyone who donated and made this happened! And thank you for your patience while we've sent you emails and asked for your help. We will do everything we can to continue to use your donations and your partnership to work tirelessly for #softwarefreedom
If you are sad you missed the exciting finish to our @conservancy fundraiser, you can strive to make our overage amount a fun number (a prime?)
I'm going to sleep now, and will be back in a few hours, and will go see if there were any last minute paper checks that arrived for us in the last days to get a final number up :) Thank you again!, I'm so proud that people really care about this work.