[FOSSY-attendees] Day 1 Wrap up and Day 2 preview

[FOSSY Organizers]

Day one of the first ever FOSSY has been a rousing success! We've had
lunch together, seen some great talks and workshops, and maybe even had
a cup of coffee together. Thank you all so much for your enthusiasm,
attention to our code of conduct and mask policy and general good
spirits. You are making this all worth it and we're just getting started
:) 

Tonight, we hope to see you all from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Punch Bowl
Social Portland for good conversation, refreshments, and games. The
address is 340 SW Morrison St Suite 4305, Portland, OR 97204.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7134560577 There will be groups of
people heading over there on the Max, so grab a buddy and meet us there!

Tomorrow, the registration desk and the Ginkoberry entrance south on MLK
(so you can avoid other events at the convention center)
https://sfconservancy.org/img/fossy-map.png will open at 9:00am and
remain open throughout the day. If you registered and picked up your
badge today, you do not need to check in again the rest of the
conference. The registration desk is also your resource for general
conference questions, contacting a Code of Conduct team member, picking
up a printed copy of the day's schedule, or returning a lost item.

Tomorrow's keynote is at 9:30am in the Portland Ballroom (upstairs next
to registration), featuring a panel discussion about Red Hat's recent
announcements concerning Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), led by
Software Freedom Conservancy's Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn, with benny
Vasquez of AlmaLinux, James (Jim) Wright of Oracle, and Jeremy Allison
of Rocky Linux. These announcements have been dominating recent news in
the free and open source software community, and this promises to be a
timely conversation you won't want to miss.

After the keynote, the Friday program includes continuation of the FOSS
For Education track, and introduces the Sustainable Open Source
Business, Community: Open Source in Practice, Copyleft and Compliance,
BSD Unix, and Wild Card tracks.

## Lunch and coffee

Morning and afternoon coffee (regular, decaf and tea) will be served
upstairs by the registration table, outside the Portland Ballroom. The
Ballroom is also available after the keynote if you are looking for a
place to work or sit and talk (as is E141 downstairs, the room with the
rounds).

For the **free** lunch at Spirit of 77 (across the street from the
convention center at 500 NE M L King Blvd), tomorrow's menu is *Brunch
Buffet*, so you might want to plan your breakfast accordingly. Scrambled
Eggs, Hashbrowns, Bacon, Veggie Sausage, Fresh Fruit Platter, Muffins,
Yogurt/Granola (GF), vegan option: vegan breakfast burritos

Lunch goes from 12:30pm to 2:00pm, and is included in your registration.
There is a back patio at Spirit of 77, and convenient takeaway boxes, so
if you'd like to eat outside you can easily do that at the restaurant, a
park, or anywhere else you might like.

## Wifi

The convention center network is only available on 5GHz devices. If you
are using a 2.4GHz device (such as a fully free X200) and unable to see
the FOSSY network, please see us at registration for network info that
will work for you.

## Online FOSSY chat

You can also join us in #fossy on libera.chat which is bridged to our
XMPP server: xmpp:fossy at chat.sfconservancy.org?join for online chat with
other attendees. And we've really enjoyed reading all the #FOSSY posts
on Mastodon, please keep them coming.

## Planning ahead for Friday evening activities

While there is no official conference social event on Friday night,
attendees have produced a very helpful list of restaurants:
https://2023.fossy.us/events/#crowdsourced People have been coordinating
in the conference XMPP/IRC channel.

## See you tomorrow at 9:00am!

We're so happy you have joined us and can't wait to share the rest of
the weekend with you!

-FOSSY Organizing Team