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Copyleft Conf Tickets On Sale Now!
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on December 16, 2019Tickets are now on sale for the Second Annual Copyleft Conf! Last year's event was so successful that we are doing it again. Please join us on February 3rd (right after FOSDEM) from 9:30am - 4:30pm.
Where's it happening? La Tricoterie, it's just 18 minutes southwest of Grande Place by tram. Folks who like to start the day with walk can get there in 30 minutes under their own power. By car, it's 13 minutes from Grande Place.
Who should attend? Developers, strategists, enforcement organizations, scholars, activists and critics — will be welcomed for an in-depth, high bandwidth, and expert-level discussion about the day-to-day details of using copyleft licensing, obstacles facing copyleft and the future of copyleft as a strategy to advance and defend software freedom for users and developers around the world.
Individual tickets are for students, or folks who are unemployed, under-employed, self-employed or working at a small charity. The ticket prices also cover coffee breaks and lunch. If $20 is a barrier, please get in touch. We could definitely use a few volunteers for the day and will waive the entrance fee in exchange for a bit of help onsite.
We want everyone to feel welcome at Copyleft Conf! We have a robust Code of Conduct that covers the behavior of our staff, board members and volunteers. The venue is wheelchair accessible, there will be a gender neutral bathroom available and food will be provided including options for gluten-free and for vegan diets. If there is anything that we can do to make attending Copyleft Conf more comfortable for you, please write to us.
Coming to Your Town? We'd Love to See You!
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on October 11, 2019Conservancy staff are on the road this month. Check and see if we're coming to your town!
WineConf in Toronto, Canada
Karen will keynote WineConf, please say hello if you're there.
All Things Open in Raleigh, NC
Deb will be at All Things Open on October 14th and 15th. We're having a Supporters event on Tuesday night at 8pm, at Humble Pie in downtown Raleigh.
LISA in Portland, OR
Conservancy has booth 12 at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront, during LISA -- taking place October 28 and 29. We could use your help between noon and 7pm on Monday the 28th and from 10am to 2pm on Tuesday the 29th.
If you can help with the booth at LISA please email us -- we'd really appreciate it!
Karen Sandler keynoted State of the Map on Saturday 2019-09-21
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on September 20, 2019Conservancy's Executive Director Karen Sandler delivered the keynote address on Saturday 2019-09-21 at the 2019 State of the Map Conference in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. State of the Map is the annual conference for all mappers and OpenStreetMap users.
Karen's keynote was recorded and is available on the CCC media server!
Karen discussed her personal journey in software freedom, the challenges we all face maintaining lives of software freedom, and how that relates to the freedom of maps and navigation software.
Conservancy News Round-up June
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on June 28, 2019Summer in the northern hemisphere means lots and lots of busy time with interns and quite a few FOSS events. We've got plenty of blog posts for your edifying summer reading and plenty of opportunities to catch up with Conservancy folks in person.
Recent Podcast
New FAIFcast episode: Bradley and Karen enjoy and discuss Molly De Blanc's keynote at the first annual CopyleftConf, entitled The Margins of Software Freedom, followed by an exclusive interview with Molly! This show was released on May 31st, 2019.
OSCON in Portland next month
We've got our pub night, two talks by staff and two days of expo floor. We hope to see you there!
Monday, July 15th
Join us from 7pm -10pm at McMenamin's Broadway Pub! The address is 1504 NE Broadway St, and it's about a 20 minute walk (or an 11 minute bus ride) from the Oregon Convention Center. Deb and Bradley will be there to meet with Supporters and to talk about software freedom! There is nothing we'd like more than to spend an evening talking about the future of free software and its toughest problems with supporters and friends. Light snacks will be provided.Expo Hall Hours
- Wednesday, July 17: 10:15am – 5:45pm / 5:45pm – 7:00pm (Sponsor Reception)
- Thursday, July 18: 10:15am – 4:15pm
Volunteers are essential to the success of a booth at a large event like OSCON. Let us know if you can help out by committing to a few hours of booth time. We'd really appreciate it!
Wednesday, July 17
Deb Nicholson, "FOSS governance: The good, the bad, and the ugly" at 2:35pm–3:15pmThursday, July 18
Bradley Kuhn, "If open source isn't sustainable, maybe software freedom is?" at 1:45pm–2:25pmMore upcoming talks from staff
Bradley Kuhn, our Distinguished Technologist will be at the Ninth Annual RacketCon in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 13 & 14, where he will give a talk titled, "Conservancy and Racket: What We Can Do Together!"
The 20th Debian Conference will be held in Curitiba, Brazil, from July 21st to 28th, 2019. Our Director of Community Operations, Deb Nicholson is giving two talks there and will be around for formal and informal discussions.
Deb is also speaking at the Mid-Atlantic Developer Conference on August 1st.
Our Executive Director, Karen Sandler, will be a featured speaker at Abstractions on August 21-23, 2019 in Pittsburgh, PA
Bradley is keynoting the 8th edition of Kernel Recipes in Paris on September 26 & 27. Conservancy is this year's featured non-profit beneficiary. Registration opened this week.
Outreachy: Blogs from this year's amazing interns
- The Mercurial Commands That Saved My Workflow By Danielle Leblanc-Cyr
- Outreachy : Understanding my project and contributing to Mozilla by Nupur Baghel
- Let’s talk mUzima by Priscillah
- Outreachy Week 5: What is debci? by Candy Tsai
- Outreachy Internship: Improve suricata-update by Vagisha Gupta
- Jaegertracing in Ceph 101 and my struggles till now by deepika
GSoC students are also working on Conservancy projects this summer
- Ghidra firmware utilities, week 5 by Asami (at Coreboot)
- Google Summer of Code ’19 With phpMyAdmin by Apoorv Khare
Even more code!
- Backdrop 1.13 Released
- BusyBox 1.31.0 (unstable)
- Security fix: phpMyAdmin 4.9.0 is released
- Samba 4.10.5 Available for Download
- Twisted 19.2.1 Released
- Wine 4.11 Released
Our Member Projects Have Been Busy
- Reproducible Builds in May 2019
- WebRTC support, progress report #3, includes tutorials, demos and a peek at future work.
- Homebrew shared some nice pictures from their first-ever maintainers meeting!