One week till FOSSY in Portland, Oregon -- are you registered?

Thu Jul 6 22:32:10 UTC 2023

              One week till FOSSY in Portland, Oregon
                      Are you registered?

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/jul/06/fossy-next-week/

Social media:
  https://social.sfconservancy.org/notice/AXQmx0XdQnGNuATrNY
  https://twitter.com/conservancy/status/1677078355349483522

One week from today (July 13-16), we will be gathered at the Oregon
Convention Center for the first ever Free and Open Source Software
Yearly (FOSSY) conference, which will be an engaging, educational,
inspiring four days of presentations and conversations.  Whether you are
a long time contributing member of a free software project, a recent
graduate of a coding bootcamp or university, or just have an interest in
the possibilies that free and open source software bring, FOSSY will
have something for you.

Are you coming? It's not too late to join us. Even walk-up registrations
will be possible, *but* if you can register [0] online by tomorrow (July
7), you'll help us get accurate counts for the lunch we're providing and
enable us to have your badge ready for you. We sell tickets because the
event can't happen without funding, but please don't let that cost be a
reason you can't attend -- see below about ways to volunteer, or email
us at conference at sfconservancy.org.

If you've been leaning toward coming but haven't booked yet, now is the
time. If you're not sure which way you're leaning, please allow us to
give you a push with the following updates on what we have planned for
you:

*Keynotes announced!*

We have three timely keynote sessions, and they are all collaborative,
to highlight what people in this movement can achieve by working and
thinking together.

Friday's will be an in-depth discussion about Red Hat's recent
announcements concerning Red Hat Enterprise Linux led by Bradley M. Kuhn
with of a panel of very special guests close to the situation.

On Saturday, we'll talk with activists including Kyle Wiens of iFixit
and Juan Muro of Free Geek about current topics in Right to Repair and
how they impact free and open source software communities, from
participating in the "1201 process" for Digital Millennium Copyright Act
exemptions with the US Copyright Office, to strategies that might work
to increase Right to Repair legislation and bringing lawsuits to compel
companies to respect consumers' rights.

Sunday's session will invite all FOSSY attendees to come celebrate an
important milestone [1] thirteen years in the making: Outreachy
surpassed 1,000 interns with its current round of internships! Members
of the Outreachy organizers (Anna e só, Karen Sandler and Sage Sharp)
will be on stage to reflect on the program's evolution, its successes
and the people who have made it possible.

FOSSY is a community conference so of course there is no connection
between sponsorship and our keynote sessions. We are very grateful to
our sponsors for supporting the event.

*Schedule updated!*

Please check the schedule again [2] to see updates we've made over the
last couple weeks. We're very excited about the work our track and
workshop organizers have done to assemble sessions on FreeBSD; BSD Unix;
XMPP; FOSS for Education; Growing your Project; FOSS at Play;
AArch64/ARM64 Servers; Sustainable Open Source Business; Community: Open
Source in Practice; Copyleft and Compliance; Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion; Science of Community; FOSS in Daily Life; Issues in Open
Work; Right to Repair; Containers; Open Source AI + Data; Software
Worker Coops; Security -- and more!

The schedule is also available in the free mobile apps Giggity [3] and
Confy [4].

*Thursday night social event (July 13)*

Thursday night we will be hosting a social for all attendees at 7pm at
Punch Bowl Social Portland, 340 SW Morrison St Suite 4305, Portland, OR
97204 (thanks Josh Berkus for donating part of the cost!) which is a
quick ~15 minute Max ride from the convention center. We are providing
appetizers, and the bar will be open to purchase your choice of
beverages. All attendees and volunteers are invited!

*Volunteers, we appreciate you*

As a very small nonprofit, we can't make this event happen without
volunteers. We have a good crew in place, but we really could use more!
We appreciate our volunteers by thanking you profusely, and by providing
a gratis ticket for all four days. Volunteering is also a great way to
meet people and make connections. We're scheduling shifts so that you
can still have plenty of time to enjoy other parts of the conference
too. If you are able to pitch in a few hours to help make the first
FOSSY awesome, please sign up [5] and let us know what you'd like to
do.

*Hotel discounts*

There are still discounted rooms available at the conference hotel [6].
To be able to offer the discount, we committed to a block of rooms, so
booking here is actually another way to support the conference.

For additional travel and lodging info [7].

*Health and safety*

In-person events bring so much positive energy and inspiration. They
also do come with some risks. We are aiming to provide a welcoming and
safer environment for people who are immunocompromised, disabled,
elderly, have support needs, or are caregivers for children, and those
of us who share households with or caretake for people in those groups.
Face coverings will be required of everyone inside the conference venue.
If you are feeling sick or exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, or test
positive for COVID-19, prior to the start of the conference, or on any
day of the conference, please contact us at
<conference at sfconservancy.org> and we will issue you a refund. You can
read our full policy [8].

*Exhibit Hall*

We're proud to offer a carefully curated exhibit hall, which will
feature: GNOME [9], FreeBSD Project and Foundation [10], Apereo
Foundation [11], SeaGL [12], XMPP Software Foundation [13], Open Source
Initiative [14], and CHAOSS [15].

*Sponsors, it's not too late*

Thank you to the sponsors who have helped make the first FOSSY possible!

It's not too late to invite your employer to sponsor. Please share our
prospectus [17] with them, and email your commitment or questions to
conference at sfconservancy.org.

*If you can't make it*

We really hope to see you in-person next week. But, this movement is all about sharing, and we want to share these valuable sessions as widely as we can. While we could not pull off livestreaming this year, we are working hard to make session recordings available after the event. You'll also be able to follow along during the event via our posts on Mastodon.

**See you in a week!**

[0] https://2023.fossy.us/attend/tickets/
[1] https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/160/
[2] https://2023.fossy.us/schedule/
[3] https://f-droid.org/packages/net.gaast.giggity/
[4] https://confy.kirgroup.net
[5] https://nextcloud.sfconservancy.org/apps/forms/s/GF8gkmQfSFdyHoaNPiTWeCCx
[6] https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/PDXRP/G-SFCC
[7] https://2023.fossy.us/travel/
[8] https://2023.fossy.us/attend/health-and-safety/
[9] https://gnome.org/
[10] https://freebsdfoundation.org/
[11] https://www.apereo.org/
[12] https://seagl.org/
[13] https://xmpp.org/
[14] https://opensource.org/
[15] https://chaoss.community/
[16] https://2023.fossy.us/sponsorship/
[17] https://sfconservancy.org/docs/Fossy-Prospectus.pdf
[18] https://social.sfconservancy.org/users/conservancy