You know, I almost forgot! Not only do we do general #freesoftware advocacy, #copyleft enforcement, fiscal sponsorships and internships, we also run an annual conference #FOSSY, where people come together to talk about #softwarefreedom! This year will be in Vancouver, Canada August 6-9!

https://2026.fossy.ca/

Every penny you donate to @conservancy goes so far. We're the scrappiest org!

Please help us over our last hurdle, we've got less than $3k to raise today! We can do this, right?

You know, I almost forgot! Not only do we do general #freesoftware advocacy, #copyleft enforcement, fiscal sponsorships and internships, we also run an annual conference #FOSSY, where people come together to talk about #softwarefreedom! This year will be in Vancouver, Canada August 6-9!

https://2026.fossy.ca/

Every penny you donate to @conservancy goes so far. We're the scrappiest org!

Please help us over our last hurdle, we've got less than $3k to raise today! We can do this, right?

Making P2P apps with #Spritely Goblins -- Diana Bell @ Fossy 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O75_GBFOmtE

#FOSSY #p2p #guile #scheme #lisp #fedi

Making P2P apps with #Spritely Goblins -- Diana Bell @ Fossy 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O75_GBFOmtE

#FOSSY #p2p #guile #scheme #lisp #fedi

It's 01:27 in my TZ. #FOSSY25 wrap party ended about 2 hrs ago. But, sadly, after a near week of so much stuff to do in #Vizio case & #FOSSY, even though I'm exhausted I just can't sleep.

So I came home, & as I mentioned I an #MST3K lifelong fan. I turn on the 24/7 stream to help me sleep.

… #Manos … theeeee hands of Fate … can't imagine a better episode to be on at this moment.

Hard core MSTies know to only enter the “non-Torgo” division of cosplay at conventions. Always E_TOO_MANY_TORGOS.

Thank you, Open Signal PDX (https://www.opensignalpdx.org/), for your support of @conservancy's #FOSSY Conference AND for all your work developing completely Free and Open Source Software solutions for video/media production. Your work serves as a proof of concept for those who doubt the capabilities of #opensource as an "industry standard."

Thank you, Open Signal PDX (https://www.opensignalpdx.org/), for your support of @conservancy's #FOSSY Conference AND for all your work developing completely Free and Open Source Software solutions for video/media production. Your work serves as a proof of concept for those who doubt the capabilities of #opensource as an "industry standard."

Congratulations to @ramereth from @osuosl who just received the first Distinguished Service Award in Free Software from @conservancy at #FOSSY!

#FOSSY2025#FOSSY25 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Learned about @bluehats - Public servant advocates for software freedom at #FOSSY 🤘🎉

At #FOSSY25, I participated in a panel¹ discussion w/ @allison (SFC's Board Chairperson), Denver Gingerich, & Rick Sanders (SFC'S GC) about SFC's #Vizio case…
https://sfc.ngo/vizio
… There were lots of interesting questions both during the session & from the crowd that gathered afterward.

If you are not at #FOSSY & have questions of your own, feel free to ask them in this thread.

Also, come to the trial!!
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/jul/24/travel-grants-for-vizio-trial-to-foss-community/

¹ Sadly @karen couldn't travel here due to recent ❤️surgery.

Learned about @bluehats - Public servant advocates for software freedom at #FOSSY 🤘🎉

#FOSSY25 licensing panel: I ask:“Why are your corporate clients refusing to give complete, corresponding source&just lie re:‘how hard it is to give us complete,corresponding source’? Budgets are moral documents & no CCS is merely a decision to defund #copyleft compliance?”
Kate Downing's disingenuous answer: compliance is too hard & only reason for noncompliance is confusion. Kate's good at capitalist rhetoric,but that's all it is. #Vizio alone to proves her wrong. https://sfc.ngo/vizio
#FOSSY

#FOSSY25 licensing panel: I ask:“Why are your corporate clients refusing to give complete, corresponding source&just lie re:‘how hard it is to give us complete,corresponding source’? Budgets are moral documents & no CCS is merely a decision to defund #copyleft compliance?”
Kate Downing's disingenuous answer: compliance is too hard & only reason for noncompliance is confusion. Kate's good at capitalist rhetoric,but that's all it is. #Vizio alone to proves her wrong. https://sfc.ngo/vizio
#FOSSY

On the panel at #FOSSY25,
@wwahammy is meanwhile absolutely rocking a different perspective and way of thinking about licensing and collaboration with Big Tech.

Eric is doing a great job taking to task these three corporate lawyers with him on the panel.

@mccoysmith did what these corporate shills always do: coopt activists for “embrace, extend, extinguish” on right to repair. Eric didn't miss a beat in calling it out!

@josh, moderating, also made sure the other side was heard on it!

#FOSSY

https://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/361/#FOSSY25 invites people we disagree with to talk to us. @mccoysmith is back this year on a panel, even after I won so completely in our debate last year:
https://2024.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/280/index.html

I respect that McCoy was willing to come back. I disagree with almost everything he's saying in the panel but his willingness to come present his ultra-capitalist, corporate apologist ideas again to the most unfriendly audience imaginable shows how people who disagree can & should talk.

#FOSSY