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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Coffee/tea break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T091500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T094500
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DESCRIPTION:Breakfast and coffee break
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Coffee/tea break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T091500
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DESCRIPTION:Breakfast and coffee break
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Coffee/tea break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T091500
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DESCRIPTION:Breakfast and coffee break
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
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SUMMARY:Assessing and Managing threats to the Nonprofit Infrastructure of
FOSS
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Allen Gunn\nFree and Open Source Software has long r
elied on a robust network of nonprofit organizations set up to support its
development and advocacy. In recent years\, this infrastructure has been
tested as funding has declined and the uncertainties related to running th
ese organizations have increased\, resulting in closures or reductions in
staff at many orgs. In this keynote\, Pono Takamori will host a conversati
on with Allen Gunn of Aspiration about the current challenges facing fisca
l sponsorship organizations\, how the decline in funding for these organiz
ations will impact FOSS generally and how to assess a variety of threats
in the US and globally..
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/362/
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SUMMARY:FOSS in A/V: How Open Signal uses FOSS to further their mission in
a closed source industry
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T103000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chris Polanco\nOpen Signal is a media arts center in
Portland\, Oregon\, with a mission\nto nurture the change-making power of
community media in service of a\njust and equitable world. In this convers
ation with Chris Polanco\, their\nProduction Services Production Manager\,
we'll talk about how and why\nOpen Signal chooses open source as much as
they can in a world of SaaS\nand proprietary products. They do this not ju
st while partnering with\nus to do audio/video for FOSSY\, but across thei
r work with local youth\nand other media makers. We'll talk about some of
the hardware and\nsoftware they use\, how those choices are informed by th
eir mission\,\nand what sort of future they are working toward.
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/367/
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SUMMARY:Q&A on SFC's lawsuit against Vizio
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T094500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T103000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bradley M. Kuhn\nThere's a reason that some of the mo
st popular shows on television for generations have been courtroom dramas.
Court cases are dramatic by their nature!\n\nCome ask us anything at all
about the Software Freedom Conservancy's lawsuit against Vizio. The tria
l is only 6 weeks away\, so hear about everything and get yourself ready t
o go down to Los Angeles and attend the trial.
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/365/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Registration
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T101500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Registration Open
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Keynote Session
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T102500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T103500
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DESCRIPTION:Presentation of the Distinguished Service Award in Software Fr
eedom
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
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SUMMARY:Lightning Talks!
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T103000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T123000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Pono Takamori\n1. Vagrant Cascadian: An Impatient App
lication of Reproducible Builds\n2. Josh Lee: The OSS Hero's Journey\n3. J
ulia Zimmerman: Quantifying Sky Signals: Simulating Visibility Correlation
s in Radio Interferometry\n4. Zhi Qu: BLuE CRAB: RSSI Detection Pattern An
alysis for Flagging System Development\n5. Andrew Washburn: Using Quantum
Computers to Detect Continuous Gravitational Waves\n6. Audrey Evergreen: A
voiding Desk Neck While Coding\n7. Neal Gompa: X.Org Foundation and SFC\n8
. Mark Davis: H.U.G.E. Announcement\n9. Alya Abbott: Choosing Software tha
t Won't Screw You\n10. Emily Soward: What and Why we Need AI Preparedness\
n11. Brendan Conoboy: Command Line Control\n12. Eric Schultz: Glasgow Embe
dded Code of Conduct
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/368/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:PostgreSQL’s Rise to Power: Why the Open Source Giant is Dominat
ing the Database Landscape
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T104500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kellyn Gorman\nPostgreSQL has quietly\, but powerfull
y risen to become one of the most trusted and widely adopted database plat
forms in the world. Once considered a niche solution back in it's days as
it's predecessor\, Ingres\, PostgreSQL now leads the charge in the open-so
urce database movement\, challenging and often surpassing traditional ente
rprise heavyweights like Oracle and SQL Server. \nIn this session\, we’l
l explore the technical\, strategic\, and cultural reasons behind PostgreS
QL’s rapid ascent. From its robust standards compliance and extensibilit
y to its vibrant development community and compatibility with modern cloud
-native architectures\, PostgreSQL delivers enterprise-grade performance w
ithout the steep licensing costs. \nWe'll also examine how PostgreSQL’s
innovation is influencing other platforms like MySQL\, MongoDB\, and SQLit
e\, and why developers and architects are increasingly choosing it as the
foundation for their mission-critical workloads. This session will cover
everything from high availability options\, most popular extensions and fe
atures that keep PostgreSQL the choice among database technologists\, no m
atter if traditional transactional\, analytical or even AI workloads. We'
ll also discuss the limitations around migrations and how to best take on
the challenges or moving large\, enterprise\, multi-tier systems over to o
pen-source solutions.\nWhether you're considering migration\, multiplatfor
m strategy\, or just want to understand the open-source momentum\, this se
ssion will provide deep insights into PostgreSQL’s success and what it m
eans for the future of data.
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SUMMARY:Things I've Learned as a Linux Kernel Maintainer
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Darrick J. Wong\nI spent seven years serving as the m
aintainer of the XFS filesystem and iomap filesystem library in the Linux
kernel. Whilst on that journey\, I learned a lot about steering technical
direction of those two projects\, but also the limitations of managing a
community without authority. I intend this talk to be most helpful for pe
ople who are current FOSS maintainers or are mid to senior level developer
s contemplating taking on such roles.\n\nThese are the seven skills that I
found most helpful and grew the most in those seven years:\n * Concocting
a strategy from which to build a development roadmap\n * Defining roles f
or people to take on\n * Negotiating staffing and budgets with managers\n
* Coaching people who are trying to get their efforts across the finish li
ne\n * Dealing with external shocks in as principled a manner as possible\
n * Steering your way out of burnout\, aka Replacing Yourself\n * Supporti
ng\, but getting out of the way of\, the new leaders you cultivate\n\nFor
each of these areas\, I'll share how that skill fits into the Linux commun
ity (they didn't always fit well!) and what happened when I tried to make
things happen in those areas. I will target spending about 4-5 minutes ta
lking about each of those points and leave 20-25 minutes at the end for an
audience discussion.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Discussion: Which Way Do We Go? Understanding Sustainable Pathways
for Academic Open Source
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T104500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stephanie Lieggi\nNote: this will be a group discussi
on format with participation from anyone who wishes to join.\n\nMany impac
tful open source projects begin as ideas in academic research labs\, as hi
ghlighted by the wide adoption of projects like Ceph\, RISC-V and Jupyter.
However\, so much of what is created in universities doesn’t find broad
er adoption and struggles to be sustainable in the long-term. This is a lo
st opportunity that can have a broad impact on scientific communities\, in
dustry and society at large. This BoF session aims to explore the differen
t pathways for academic open source projects to find their way to sustaina
bility and adoption. As with most things open source – there is no one-s
ize-fits-all. This session will provide those with experience in building
and maintaining academic open source projects an opportunity to share that
experience with those looking for the right pathway for their own project
. It will also provide those working or supporting academic Open Source Pr
ogram Offices (OSPOs) an opportunity to highlight how they are helping pro
jects on their campus become sustainable and best serve the research and e
ducational goals of their institutions.
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URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/335/
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
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SUMMARY:Open Source Software in Higher Education: A Community Report
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Patrick Masson\nReports highlighting the adoption of
open source software (OSS) are ubiquitous. Yet studies specific to higher
education are limited\, perhaps leaving campuses unprepared to manage thei
r edtech portfolios.\n\nThe Apereo Foundation\, in partnership with other
open source software foundations and global universities\, will present pr
eliminary data from the Open Source Software in Higher Education Community
Report. This report offers unique insights into the perceptions of OSS di
scovered through a survey of IT leaders undertaken at EDUCAUSE 2025\, as w
ell as the prevalence of OSS in use across academic enterprises through pr
ofiling and analysis of .edu domains. The 2025 data is then compared to hi
storical data to provide historical trends\, compare current practices\, a
nd identify areas of future impact.
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SUMMARY:Never Mind the Checkboxes\, Here's Reproducible Builds!
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T104500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Vagrant Cascadian\nThere are numerous policy complian
ce and regulatory processes being developed that target software developme
nt... but do they solve actual problems? Does it improve the quality of so
ftware? Do Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) actually give you the inform
ation necessary to verify how a given software artifact was built? What is
the goal of all these compliance checklists anyways... or more importantl
y\, what *should* the goals be? If a software object is signed\, who shoul
d be trusted to sign it\, and can they be trusted ... forever?\n\nCould yo
u imagine a world with many bureaucratic compliance checks being replaced
with verifiable processes performed by arbitrary third parties?\n\nLet me
introduce you to Reproducible Builds\, a set of best practices which allow
you to verify that software artifacts were built from the source code\, a
llowing auditing for license compliance\, providing security benefits\, an
d remove the need to trust arbitrary software vendors.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Starting an Open Mentorship Handbook!
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T104500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T113000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Pono Takamori\nTechnology communities committed to tr
ansparency and openness (like free and open source software\, or FOSS\, co
mmunities) adopt sets of practices to facilitate their collaboration. In o
rder to work together developing software\, practicing open science and fa
cilitating open data\, collaborators must build robust communities to publ
icly discuss and improve their projects. Healthy communities that continu
e productively into the future must find ways to engage and nurture new co
ntributors in order to maintain and grow their communities. Some communiti
es struggle to attract new contrinbutors in the first place\, while other
communities attract many new contributors\, but struggle to coach those co
ntributors on how to become leaders\, reviewers\, and maintainers of their
community's work.\n\nOpen mentorship programs provide a safe space for in
terns to learn how to work in an open\, public manner with open communitie
s\, and how to create and maintain public works. Unfortunately\, documenta
tion on how to be a mentor in an open mentorship program is often non-exis
tent\, out of date\, or scattered across many different resources. The Out
reachy team is launching an Open Mentorship Handbook\, to gather best prac
tices in mentorship and to provide a collaborative way to share the knowle
dge that we've amassed in this area.\n\nCome learn about this initiative a
nd participate in a collaborative session about the Handbook and Open ment
orship!
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SUMMARY:How do sponsored open source ecosystems manage feature deployments
?
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matt Gaughan\nThe academic study of FOSS libraries of
ten assumes that projects are organized as communities of volunteer contri
butors. However\, the recent growth of sponsored open source libraries ---
projects stewarded by large\, formally incorporated organizations --- pro
vides new organizational relationships and processes to better understand
. One common form of this is constructed when an organization stewards a l
ibrary while also managing the library's primary implementation\; in this
model\, decision making around the library and its implementation are deep
ly interconnected\, yet may be governed differently. Examples of this mode
l include Apple’s use of WebKit in Safari\, BlueSky’s use of ATProto i
n BlueSky applications\, and the WikiMedia Foundation’s (WMF) use of Med
iaWiki libraries in\nWikimedia platforms. This ongoing work focuses on thr
ee feature deployments on Wikimedia platforms\, examining deployment proce
sses' impacts on the MediaWiki libraries utilized for feature development.
By analyzing commit activity\, work tasks\, and community discussions\, w
e provide greater insight into how certain deployment processes impact the
open source development of a critical open platform.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T113000
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Herding Hackers and Hawking Code: The Hustle of a Developer Advoca
te
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T113000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nate Boot\nYou may have heard of a developer advocate
. You might have even seen one on stage or met one at a conference booth s
linging stickers like they’re currency. Odds are you’ve probably seen
a YouTube video or read a blog post from a developer advocate\, talking ab
out why an API has changed or acting as an “explainer of stuff” for so
me new feature. Our lives are never boring\, but how can you tell if it’
s something you’d be interested in? Just what else are these folk up to?
\n\nThey are a must have if your particular open source project has regul
ar user groups. You might even consider them a kind of translation layer.
You see\, they usually have backgrounds in software engineering but instea
d of coding all day\, they're likely to be found talking about code all da
y. When your users are suffering from deficiencies and bring them to user
groups to be discussed\, these advocates can usually pinpoint what group o
f developers and/or repositories those code changes need to be made in. Th
ey are a bridge between development teams and user communities.\n\nI’d l
ove a chance to share my experience. If you have a passion for open source
projects and want to someday get involved in a pragmatic and supportive w
ay\, let me take you through my journey and share just what makes it speci
al to me and why it makes such a difference to the community of any open s
ource product.
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Break
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T114500
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T113000
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T123000
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Reimagining Online Deliberation: Why Open Source is Critical for C
ivic Infrastructure
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T123000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Samantha Shireman\nWhat if the tools we use for civic
engagement were as common as Google Docs\, but built on open source princ
iples? In today's polarized digital landscape\, creating space for thought
ful\, inclusive dialogue is more critical than ever.\n \nWithin Harvard's
Berkman Klein Center\, our Applied Social Media Lab is building Frankly\,
an open source video-based discourse platform that structures online face-
to-face conversations for meaningful outcomes.\nIt combines intelligent gr
oup matching with embedded discussion prompts\, enabling balanced groups t
o navigate complex topics without facilitators in order to make constructi
ve discourse and collaborative decision-making accessible and scalable.\n
\nThis session explores how we’re rethinking online discourse to better
support civic engagement and social connection\, and why democratic infras
tructure must be built on open source principles. Open source enables adap
tability to different contexts\, ensures longevity beyond any single insti
tution\, and provides the scrutinizability necessary for legitimate public
discourse.\n \nBy open-sourcing Frankly and collaborating with practition
ers\, we're developing civic technology that is transparent\, adaptable\,
and grounded in dialogue expertise. As we increasingly make collective dec
isions in digital spaces\, building deliberative infrastructure on open fo
undations isn't just technically superior—it's democratically essential.
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SUMMARY:More Scalability Through Open Source Hygiene
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T123000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ria Farrell Schalnat\nAs more attention is paid to SB
OMs through Executive Orders in the United States and legislation like the
European Union's Cyber Resilience Act\, being able to ingest\, identify\,
evaluate and approve open source packages will be critical to scaling com
pliance operations as well as empowering developers by giving them an earl
y heads up on the choices they are making in their solutions. SPDX identi
fiers provide a quick identification mechanism for the license utilized by
a component. ClearlyDefined provides important provenance data includin
g component source locations\, licensing\, attributions and more. GUAC p
rovides tooling to enhance SBOMs with security and vulnerability data. CH
AOSS provides health metrics associated with open source components. All
of these projects allow the development of policies and empower developer
s to align their choices with personal or company preferences. This ses
sion will touch on all these projects and then walk through the process to
assign an SPDX-ID to a license. When you leave\, you'll know how to enga
ge with the SPDX-Legal committee and how to respond to issues in their rep
o to get IDs assigned to licenses. Help US to help YOU to scale your open
source compliance!
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SUMMARY:Power Dynamics\, Rug Pulls\, and Other Impacts on FOSS Sustainabil
ity
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T123000
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Dawn Foster\nPower imbalances are everywhere\, in
cluding in our FOSS projects. Corporations hold power over projects that r
esult in relicensing\, forks\, and other disruptions. This talk will cover
these power dynamics using research data from several case study projects
and suggest steps that we can take to make better decisions about which F
OSS projects to embrace.\n\nSince the beginning of time\, those in power h
ave been able to use that power against the weak\, often with little recou
rse. In feudalism\, the powerful ruling class controlled the land leading
to oppression and exploitation of the people doing the hard work of farmin
g and protecting the land. This may sound familiar\, since many FOSS proje
cts similarly have the power consolidated in the hands of the few even whe
n others with less power are doing most of the work. In today’s cloud na
tive world\, the power dynamics have gotten even more complex. Large cloud
providers have the most power and can create service offerings based sole
ly on FOSS projects while doing little to no real work on those projects.
Smaller companies who are doing a significant amount of the development on
a FOSS project have less power than the cloud providers\, but many still
have the power to relicense those projects. The many users\, contributors\
, and even maintainers who have less power can feel like the rug has been
pulled out from under them. We’ve recently seen an increase in relicensi
ng of FOSS projects and other tensions within communities that are directl
y related to imbalances in power that cause disruption within our projects
.\n \nWe have mechanisms\, like forks\, where those with less power can co
unter these power moves\, regardless of the forms they take. The Elasticse
arch\, Redis\, and Terraform relicensing resulted in the OpenSearch\, Valk
ey\, and OpenTofu forks. As part of an ongoing 1+ year research effort und
er the CHAOSS project\, this talk will dive into the data for these six pr
ojects to illustrate these power dynamics.\n\nAs maintainers\, contributor
s\, and users of FOSS\, we devote our most precious resource to these proj
ects\, time. We need for the projects that we spend time on to be sustaina
ble over the long term to avoid wasting this precious resource. There is n
o way to predict which projects will be sustained over time\, but this tal
k will contain detailed suggestions for how to look for warning signs. Who
holds the power in the FOSS projects that we use and contribute to? How d
o they use that power? What governance processes are in place to provide c
hecks and balances to avoid the misuse of that power? Beyond identifying w
arning signs\, this talk will contain suggestions for how we can work with
in projects to help them become more sustainable. This talk will not only
help people understand the power dynamics at play\, but will also provide
tangible steps that we can take as maintainers\, contributors\, and users
to make better decisions about focusing our precious time on making our pr
ojects more sustainable.
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SUMMARY:DRM\, security\, or both? How do we decide?
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Matthew Garrett\nAn easy way to define malware is "So
ftware that I don't want running on my computer". And one way to ensure th
at you're protected from malware would be to ensure that your computer onl
y runs software you want to run. But how is technology that allows that di
fferent to technology that allows someone *else* to choose what software y
our computer runs? Someone who isn't necessarily motivated by your best in
terests? How do we decide what is security\, and how do we decide what is
DRM?\n\nThis presentation will cover various technologies that allow gener
al purpose computers to become less general purpose\, and discuss whether
they are of net benefit to users or a net risk to their freedoms. It will
discuss whether TPMs are actually locking you down\, whether secure boot h
as been a success or a failure\, how immutable distros and app packaging p
lay into this\, and give you some hope that we can take the tools that wer
e made to restrict us and repurpose them to protect us.
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URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/325/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The Creative Trade-Off: Governance\, Conflict\, and Their Impact O
n Innovation In Open-Source Software
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T123000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:292@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Justin Ribeiro\, PhD\nSoftware development has al
ways been fueled by creativity but today\, efficiency metrics\, process-he
avy methods\, and the rise of AI now often box that creativity out. While
developers are drawn to solving tough problems\, modern practices can unin
tentionally prioritize small tweaks over bold breakthroughs. This tension
risks limiting not just individual potential\, but open source’s ability
to drive meaningful innovation.\n\nIn this talk\, we dive into how develo
pment approaches shape creativity at the project level\, drawing from a st
udy of 40 open source projects\, over 10\,000 releases\, and interviews wi
th developers across corporate and community-run efforts. Using multi-leve
l creativity theories\, we unpack how individual actions\, team interactio
ns\, and project governance can either spark or stifle innovative outcomes
.\n\nOur research challenges the myth of the lone “rockstar” developer
and highlights the crucial role of social interactions within the open so
urce community— especially during review stages such as pull requests an
d code reviews—in turning creative ideas into real-world innovations. We
show how cognitive conflict and governance models impact creative outcome
s and offer strategies for building more innovative\, collaborative open s
ource projects and communities.\nIf we want open source to keep leading th
e way\, we need development practices that empower creativity\, not constr
ain it. Let’s rethink how we build and unlock a more radical future for
open source software.
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/347/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Empowering Teams in Open Source EdTech Communities
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T123000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:298@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joshua Wilson\nJoin us to explore how Google's Projec
t Aristotle findings can empower teams of developers and educators in open
source educational technology. Through interactive exercises\, you'll lea
rn practical techniques for making teams more effective by ensuring equal
voice in feature discussions and developing social sensitivity in asynchro
nous communication. You'll leave with concrete strategies to build a team
dynamic that supports your FOSS project and create psychological safety th
at enables both developers and educators to admit knowledge gaps and learn
from each other.
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/336/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Up Against the WAL: The Write-Ahead Log in PostgreSQL
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T123000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:286@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christophe Pettus\nThe Write-Ahead Log in PostgreSQL
underlies a huge number of features: crash recovery\, binary replication\,
logical replication\, and backups. This talk is a dive into the internals
of the WAL\, including its format\, how it is written to storage\, how it
is used\, and what to do when you get one of the many terrifying errors a
bout WAL issues.
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/355/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Raising the bar on your conference presentation
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T123000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:325@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rich Bowen\nWe've all attended - or given - presentat
ions that put the audience to sleep\, or at least had most of them playing
Kwazy Cupcakes on their phones. In this presentation\, we talk about ways
that you can improve your conference presentations by making a few simple
changes.\n\nYou know the presentations I'm talking about. The slides are
73 lines of 12-point font\, and the speaker reads them to you with their b
ack turned. Ok\, maybe not that bad. But you want to leave the audience wa
nting more\, and eager to take the next step. Here's a few simple tips for
making your conference and meetup presentations engaging\, rather than so
porific.
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URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/282/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T114500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T123000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:337@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Lunch break (on your own)
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T123000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T134500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:226@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:<em>Lunch break (on your own)</em>
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Lunch break (on your own)
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T123000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T140000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:224@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:<em>Lunch break (on your own)</em>
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Lunch break (on your own)
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T123000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T140000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:225@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:<em>Lunch break (on your own)</em>
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Opening Remarks
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T134500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T140000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:227@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Opening Remarks
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Intro to Unconferences
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T134500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T140000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:397@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Aaron Wolf\nAn unconference fits a middle-ground betw
een planned talks and casual hallway chat. In an unconference\, participan
ts collaboratively set up a schedule for topical conversations. Anyone can
propose a topic. A schedule-board organizes which topics will happen when
and where. Everyone can join (or just listen in on) whichever conversatio
ns they like.\nNever been to one? We'll give a brief overview of the rooms
and times so you can build your schedule.
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/360/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Nurturing the Next Generation of Open Source Contributors
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:299@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tyler Menezes\nMany open source projects are grapplin
g with a crucial issue: finding future contributors and maintainers. This
talk explores the hurdles and solutions in bridging academia and open sour
ce. We discuss what mental barriers students face when it comes to coding
and contributing to open source\, how to craft mentorship resources\, and
what resources projects need to build lasting relationships with students.
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/330/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Cooking Up Community: Build the Fire\, Embrace Every Ingredient\,
Always Stir the Pot
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:332@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rick Turoczy\nBuilding a thriving open source communi
ty isn’t just about setting up the right infrastructure — it’s about
lighting the fire\, welcoming every ingredient\, and making sure the pot
stays stirred.\n\nIn this talk\, Rick Turoczy — longtime startup communi
ty builder\, Silicon Florist writer\, and semi-professional stirrer-of-pot
s — shares practical\, heartfelt lessons on how open communities nourish
creativity\, innovation\, and resilience. Drawing inspiration from campfi
res\, communal kitchens\, and a few questionable recipes\, Rick explores w
hat it really takes to keep the flame alive without burning out the chefs.
\n\nTopics include:\n- Building the Fire: Creating the conditions where co
ntributors of all kinds feel warmth\, safety\, and purpose\n- Embracing Ev
ery Ingredient: Recognizing and celebrating every kind of contribution —
code\, documentation\, encouragement\, memes\, and moral support\n- Alway
s Stirring the Pot: Keeping communities dynamic\, curious\, and welcoming
to new flavors and ideas — without letting things get scorched\n\nWhethe
r you're tending a tiny new project or helping stir a massive community st
ew\, you'll leave with a renewed sense of why open source isn't just about
code — it's about collaboration\, nourishment\, and shared possibility.
LOCATION:328
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/298/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:GNU/Linux Loves All
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:308@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Timmy James Barnett\nGNU/Linux Loves All is an experi
ence that makes microtonal music accessible through FLO software. Timmy wr
ites FLO software music tools for all people. At this concert\, you will h
ear musical intervals from across millennia on violin\, microtonal guitar\
, and microtonal keyboards\, running through FLO software music tools on G
NU/Linux\, the greatest operating system of all time.
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/318/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Panel: Licenses\, corporations\, community\, and collaboration
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:333@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Josh Triplett\nConfirm or deny: Free and open source
software licenses\nshould provide a framework for collaboration between an
y and all\nindividuals and entities interested in working on and using the
covered\ncode\, including hobbyists\, freelancers\, corporations\, and no
nprofit\norganizations. If not true\, what should we do instead? If true\,
how is\nour current set of licenses performing in this area\, especially\
nconsidering wrinkles like SaaS and patents? Furthermore\, we've seen some
\nmodifications published as "additional terms" and as new licenses -- how
\nhave these efforts played out and do we expect to see more of them?\nWe'
ll hear from panelists with expertise in diverse related areas\, and\ninvi
te questions from the audience.
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URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/361/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Is There Really an SBOM Mandate?
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:319@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bradley M. Kuhn\nA consistent mantra of the Software
Bill Of Materials (SBOM) ballyhoo is\nthat various government entities aro
und the world have mandated SBOMs in\nvarious different places. From USA P
OTUS Executive Orders\, to EU Directives\,\nto USA NIST whitepapers — it
's often been repeated that these various\nsources mandate SBOMs as a mand
atory requirement.\n\nLet's look at the source material and find out what
these various orders and\ndirectives actually say\, and figure out what's
really mandated.
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/326/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:376@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:How to get people to care about FOSS\, exploring different sof
tware domains\n\n<a href="https://pad.sfconservancy.org/p/FOSSY25-ROOM-329
">Pad link</a>
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:315@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:366@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:AI issues - safety\, licensing\, etc.\n\n<a href="https://pad.
sfconservancy.org/p/FOSSY25-ROOM-328">Pad link</a>
LOCATION:328
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:An Adventure in Data Modeling
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:310@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mark Wong\nThis is a tale about one company's experie
nce with a database schema design refactor to use the Entity-Attribute-Val
ue (EAV) data model on its members. I will describe the original data mode
l and why there was a need to move to a new data model\, which the EAV was
chosen for. This decision was made without realizing that the EAV data m
odel is considered an anti-pattern for relational data modeling. There wa
s some stumbling along the way but the company recovered and succeeded in
implementing the EAV data model with some on-the-fly data transformation.
The moral of the story really is to not use the EAV data model\, but chan
ging the data models is not always trivial. Hopefully this story can sti
ll help make the EAV data model bearable for the short term.
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/363/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:362@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Whats next for academic Open Source and OSPO / Semantics in Ma
chine Learning Objective Functions\n\n<a href="https://pad.sfconservancy.o
rg/p/FOSSY25-ROOM-338">Pad link</a>
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Setting Up A Simple XMPP Server
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:355@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Root\nThis talk will showcase the simplicity and ease
of setting up your own XMPP server using the Snikket software\, walking s
tep-by-step through the process using slides. The end result will be a ful
ly functioning XMPP server that can be used throughout the remainder of th
e conference between all attendees. There will be a demonstration of the f
eatures available to a Snikket Instance including\, but not limited to\, i
nviting others to join your server\, group chats that are private or publi
c\, adding contacts\, managing and updating the instance as the admin\, cr
eating limited accounts for kids\, and steps for more secure end-to-end en
cryption. This talk will also dive into some personal privacy\, security\,
and persona considerations and how they will be affected by your threat m
odel.
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/286/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:287@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Riding Subiquity With No Handlebars
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:277@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Romeo S\nCanonical\, never happy with existing standa
rds\, wrote their own auto-installer just for Ubuntu. It has some "fun" us
age\, which we will cover in great detail. After this talk\, you will be a
ble to install Ubuntu Server with your hands tied behind your back\, wheth
er it be on a virtual machine or bare metal\, with or without a network co
nnection\, in a datacenter or in your lap. We will also have some fun talk
ing about the perplexing decisions that Canonical makes and some of the lo
ng-standing bugs in Subiquity\, along with workarounds.
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/305/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Popping kernels for Linux distributions
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:240@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Neal Gompa\nPackagers in Linux distributions do a lot
to ensure the software you use is up to date\, integrated in the platform
\, and most importantly: works! But one package stands out among the other
s in importance: the Linux kernel. Over the past few years\, I've become a
Linux kernel package maintainer for a couple of Linux distributions (nota
bly Fedora Asahi Remix and CentOS Stream Hyperscale). This talk will share
my experiences in becoming and being a Linux kernel package maintainer: t
he good\, the bad\, and the sometimes ugly.\n\nThis will be centered aroun
d two very distinct types of kernel packages: one where the kernel is most
ly upstream and low patching (CentOS Stream Hyperscale) and one where the
kernel has a significant downstream patch load (Fedora Asahi Remix). The c
ompare and contrast will demonstrate why Linux distributions make the choi
ces they do around package maintenance and concretely show why philosophie
s like "upstream first" and similar matter.
LOCATION:328
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/299/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:342@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Setting goals and spending money / Meta-crisis / Coordination
problem\n\n<a href="https://pad.sfconservancy.org/p/FOSSY25-ROOM-327">Pad
link</a>
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Open source your repository: a roadmap
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:293@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mike Jang\nThis is open source done right. Open sourc
ing existing software is more than just "pushing a button\," It involves s
erious preparation\, including:\n\n- Choosing reasons to go open source\n-
Auditing security\n- Scrubbing PII\n- Lawyers and the license\n- Deciding
what to do about commits\n- Setting ground rules for contributors\n- Shar
ing with your community\n- Follow-up hackathons\n\nWhen people look at ope
n source software\, they first look at documentation. When open source dev
elopers find a promising project\, they expect to get involved. One part o
f the process is with open source software.\n\nAttendees will come out of
this session with:\n\n- Access to a template repository\n- A checklist to
follow\, which addresses legal\, security\, and community requirements\n-
An understanding of the work required to move to open source\n- Tips for h
ackathons\, based on real-world experience with open source newbies\n\nInt
ernally\, we overcame barriers before we could "push the button." External
ly\, we helped open source newbies make substantive contributions\, well b
eyond the "typo fix."\n\nOver the past few days\, we've experienced the va
riety of issues that can come from a hackathon\, especially with Git newbi
es. However\, we've found that encouraging new Git users increases the qua
lity of contributions based on the diversity of experiences.
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/341/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:371@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Music and video games\n\n<a href="https://pad.sfconservancy.or
g/p/FOSSY25-ROOM-333">Pad link</a>
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Lessons from a Decade of Open Source Sustainability Research
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:349@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Igor Steinmacher\nSeveral FOSS projects struggle with
long-term sustainability. This talk walks through years of research and d
evelopment focused on addressing some of the most pressing challenges face
d related to the sustainability of FOSS communities: newcomer onboarding\,
maintainer burnout\, and project governance. I will begin by discussing i
nterventions to support newcomers' onboarding\, including community-driven
mentorship strategies\, structured contribution paths\, and other approac
hes\, designed to build confidence and skills early in the contribution pr
ocess. I will also present ongoing work exploring how Large Language Model
s (LLMs) can be used to create conversational agents that assist contribut
ors and reduce repetitive questions directed at maintainers\, helping scal
e mentoring while keeping community standards. I will also share insights
from longitudinal analyses of developer activity and engagement patterns\,
including the role of personal and project-level breaks in sustaining hea
lthy contribution cycles and how we may use this to plan. Throughout the t
alk\, I will reflect on how these align with broader structural improvemen
ts. In one example\, a governance shift in the data.table project was acco
mpanied by investments in multilingual documentation and structured issue
triage---steps that revitalized participation and distributed responsibili
ty. Together\, these threads present a holistic vision for building more s
ustainable\, inclusive\, and resilient FOSS communities\, combining techni
cal scaffolding\, community design\, and human-centered practices.
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/343/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:281@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Where Open Research Meets Open Source: The OSF as a Gateway to Aca
demic Collaboration
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T140000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T144500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:339@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daniel Steger\nThe Open Science Framework (OSF)\, dev
eloped and maintained by the Center for Open Science (COS) is a free\, ope
n-source platform that helps researchers around the world manage and share
their work openly and transparently. With more than 800\,000 users across
disciplines and continents\, the OSF supports a global community of schol
ars seeking reproducibility and openness in scholarship. But the OSF is al
so something more: a unique open-source ecosystem built to bridge the gap
between research needs and technical contributions.\n\nIn this session\, w
e’ll explore how OSF offers a low-barrier entry point for students\, edu
cators\, and developers who want to make a meaningful impact on the resear
ch world. Through its modular architecture and integration of microservice
s\, the OSF enables contributors to build tools that directly improve how
science is done\, supporting workflows from study planning through to publ
ication and sharing of any resource type. \n\nBeyond technical infrastruct
ure\, OSF fosters a “social open” environment that welcomes and suppor
ts new contributors. We offer active community spaces like our Discord ser
ver\, regular onboarding events\, transparent project boards on GitHub\, a
nd continually updated documentation and guides. We also collaborate acros
s open-source communities to stay aligned with shared values and best prac
tices in open development.\n\nAttendees of this presentation will learn an
d experience:\n-Highlighting the OSF as a free\, open platform that lowers
the barrier for sharing scholarly and educational materials for researche
rs around the world\n- Showcasing opportunities for researchers and educat
ors as both end-users and code\, feedback\, and feature contributors throu
gh the OSF open source community “help wanted board\,” showing tasks r
eady for all levels of developers. \n- Spotlighting our new open-source in
tegration ecosystem as a low-friction entry point for technical contributo
rs in academic settings that brings new users and expanded capabilities fo
r OSF and integrated tools and services\n- Provide real-time opportunities
for participants to grow their FOSS engagement through an interactive fee
dback and co-design activity\n- Examples of institutional collaborations a
nd feature feedback loops directly from OSF researchers and educators\n- D
emonstrate how the OSF builds and supports an open-source community commit
ted to reproducibility and access of academic research. \n\nGetting involv
ed is easy and impactful. Whether you're a small developer group\, a class
room exploring real-world FOSS engagement\, or an individual contributor\,
there are many ways to plug into our community. We’re always looking fo
r collaborators\, especially those excited about making tools that amplify
open science around the world. Whether you're a dev team exploring ways t
o contribute to the future of knowledge sharing\, an educator guiding stud
ents through real-world projects\, or simply someone passionate about buil
ding for impact\, the OSF community welcomes your contribution—and your
curiosity.
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/338/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T144500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T150000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:244@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T144500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T150000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
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CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T144500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T150000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:245@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T144500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T150000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:247@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173350Z
UID:346@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Names are hard! What is a better word than "upstream" for dist
ros? / What it takes to build strong teams / Building better collaborators
\n\n<a href="https://pad.sfconservancy.org/p/FOSSY25-ROOM-327">Pad link</a
>
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:HAX Lab: FOSS community becomes the classroom
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:340@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bryan T Ollendyke\nThis talk is a case study in how f
using open source contribution with classroom teaching can directly lead t
o increases in contributors and improved developer experience! DX often co
mes down to new users being able to figure out your software and students
learning new technologies provide a great basis for building around.\n\nHA
X Lab is a collaboration between multiple colleges at Penn State. Informat
ion Sciences and Technology crossed with Arts and Architecture\, has provi
ded a playground to grow and sustain open source in a unique way I'd love
to share. Now there is an IST course (256) that teaches students modern we
b development through direct and indirect contribution to the platform\, H
AX Lab\, HAX The Club\, and collaborations across clubs directly and indir
ectly improving the ecosystem! You can learn more about the Student Innova
tion Pipeline here: https://haxtheweb.org/hax-lab/student-innovation-pipel
ine\n\nDirect contribution:\n- Labs solve entry level problems in the ecos
ystem\n- Course capstone projects help contribute to larger needs in the c
ommunity\n- HAX Lab allows students to go further via internships and inde
pendent studies\n- a student driven HAX Club allows them to take their kno
wledge to application in the larger university community\n\nIndirect:\n- S
tudents use the HAX cli in order to learn about modern web tooling. This p
rovides DX feedback to our community\n- Students often keep contributing a
fterwards by creating sites on the platform\n- Several students have conti
nued to contribute in the years after the course\n- Other groups internall
y are writing HAX into grants and building business plans that incorporate
HAX unique capabilities\n\nWhat you'll learn:\n- How our pipeline works\n
- Contribution timelines\, scale\, and quality of contributions\n- Example
s of additional ways to engage student communities to increase contributio
ns\n- How you can get involved with HAX and use it in your community\n\nMo
re about HAX:\nHAX is short for Headless Authoring eXperience\, it is a we
b based ecosystem that makes it easier to build websites and then provides
website-tonight style click and build software that you can take with you
\, download\, and remix easily. It was an idea and approach to make it eas
ier to develop web content online.
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/333/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Panel: Ongoing Things in the Kernel Community
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:248@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Darrick J. Wong\n- Kernel integration with mainline\n
- Upstreaming stuff from AsahiLinux\n- Containerizing filesystems\n- Awful
ness of vendor kernels\n- Adding Rust\n\nThere will also be room for audie
nce questions.
LOCATION:328
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/359/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Databases and Diversity
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T152000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:288@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stacey Haysler\nWhile we have great diversity in data
bases—from open source systems such as PostgreSQL and CouchDB\, to propr
ietary and heavily licensed ones such as Oracle— human diversity in the
database community is not nearly equivalent. Diversity (and lack thereof)
in the technical community has been a topic of increasing discussion the
past few years. While we have made some progress—even submitting a propo
sal for a talk on diversity to a conference is a significant change—we h
ave some distance to travel still. While won't get there in 25 minutes\, w
e will cover a fair amount of ground!\n\nWe will review current efforts in
the technical community to improve diversity\, as well as ideas that have
been discussed and need someone to develop them. \n\nYou will also learn
what you\, as one individual\, can do in your daily life to improve the di
versity of our community.
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/292/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Glue Work Makes the Community Work: Sustaining OSS Through Invisib
le Labor
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:350@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zixuan Steve Feng\nThe success of any OSS team projec
t\, be it OSS or proprietary\, depends on glue work to bind the project an
d its people together. Glue work\, such as writing maintenance code\, upda
ting documentation\, and responding to user queries\, is crucial but is of
ten invisible\, unglamorous\, and underappreciated. There is no guidance o
n how to characterize glue work in OSS and understand its influence on con
tributor experiences. OSS communities remain uncertain about what to contr
ibute\, what to acknowledge\, how to gauge the impact of glue work\, and w
hy these efforts deserve equitable appreciation.\n\nOver the past year\, o
ur cross-disciplinary team from Google\, Microsoft\, CNCF\, and Oregon Sta
te University engaged 300+ OSS practitioners via focus group discussions\,
interviews\, and surveys. We systematically investigated glue work in OSS
\, examining what it is\, the comprehensive forms it takes\, where it occu
rs\, how contributors can get involved\, how it can be recognized and ackn
owledged\, and its critical impact on contributor experiences and the long
-term sustainability of OSS communities. \n\nWe are here to provide action
able strategies through practical taxonomies that help OSS communities cat
egorize\, trace\, and acknowledge these often invisible efforts\, as well
as to raise awareness of glue work and lower the barriers for more people
to contribute to OSS. We aim to actively shift the Open Source narrative t
o recognize and value these contributions\, fostering a more inclusive and
holistic view of community participation. We are initiating a dedicated G
lue Work OSS community to encourage individuals at all levels of coding ex
perience to step forward\, contribute\, and acknowledge the myriad ways in
which everyone can make a significant impact. Learn more https://gluewor
k.netlify.app/.
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/352/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:363@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Threats to the Open Web / What do we do if or when Firefox dis
appears? / Observability is Broken\n\n<a href="https://pad.sfconservancy.o
rg/p/FOSSY25-ROOM-338">Pad link</a>
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Open
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T152000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:391@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The Kalpa Desktop\, A Desktop for people that just want to get thi
ngs done.
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:278@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shawn W Dunn\nKalpa Desktop is a Plasma desktop deriv
ed from MicroOS\, and Tumbleweed\, providing a immutable system base\, wit
h a containerized workflow\, through distrobox and podman\, and Desktop ap
plications via Flathub.\n\nKalpa grew out of the initial work by Richard B
rown\, with MicroOS Desktop\, but has diverged over the past three years.\
n\nKalpa's focus is on providing users with:\n- A well-tested and current
Plasma-Wayland desktop\n- A minimal installation\, without a bunch of appl
ications you may not want or need\n- Robust stability\, through the use of
atomic updates\, no more broken updates\n- Just a "Damn Good™" basic de
sktop installation\, that's designed to *be* a desktop\, and that's all\n\
nThis presentation will present the current state of the Project\, and exa
mine the future roadmap for Kalpa Desktop.
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/306/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:334@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:328
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:282@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Telecomms for Preppers
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T152500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:356@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Phillip\nSoftware in general\, and telecommunication
in particular\, relies on a sprawling infrastructure of networking\, hosti
ng\, and electrical infrastructure that no single person understand. On th
e other hand\, a key component of mutual aid and disaster preparedness is
the knowledge and tools to provide such services in a context where your i
mmediate community might have to provide some of its own needs. Let's talk
about how you could contribute to that by building communication software
that you can use\, modify\, and fix on your own as much as possible.
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/287/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Making Esoteric Beauty Accessible: Befunge in 2025
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T152500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:311@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robin Brown\nBefunge is a 2-dimensional esoteric prog
ramming language that is stack-based with an emphasis on code being able t
o modify itself at runtime. It was designed to be hard to compile and ente
rtaining. While even the most well-written Befunge looks obfuscated\, with
the right tools we can visualize and make accessible its concepts and str
ange beauty. Join Robin Brown as she teaches the basics of Befunge using n
ew interactive tools and talks briefly about its past and future.
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/316/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:367@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Eleminating CLAs / Right to Repair\n\n<a href="https://pad.sfc
onservancy.org/p/FOSSY25-ROOM-328">Pad link</a>
LOCATION:328
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Making waterfalls in Godot
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:320@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tom Lechner\nCome learn about some ways to display wa
terfalls in the open source Godot game engine! Video game fluid flow is a
complex subject\, and this talk will outline various methods to cheat so t
hat you don't really have to know complex math to make something acceptabl
e. Inspired by a variety of waterfalls in the Pacific Northwest of the USA
\, this talk will discuss custom tooling to generate waterfalls in Godot\,
based on how water would fall down digital terrain\, and how to use other
open source software for art such as Blender\, Krita\, Gimp to polish dif
ferent parts of the scenery.
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/353/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:377@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Mesh Networking / How you got started in FOSS\n\n<a href="http
s://pad.sfconservancy.org/p/FOSSY25-ROOM-329">Pad link</a>
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Designing for Collaboration: A Toolkit for Open and Inclusive Envi
ronmental Research
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T152000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:393@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cathy Richards\nAs communities worldwide confront urg
ent environmental challenges\, open source technologies and data infrastru
ctures are increasingly central to how we understand\, protect\, and susta
in our environments. Yet\, persistent gaps remain between the development
of open tools\, academic research\, and the practical needs of the communi
ties most affected by environmental issues.\n\nOpen Environmental Data Pro
ject (OEDP) and partners are addressing this gap through the creation of t
he Digital Toolkit for Collaborative Environmental Research. This toolkit\
, grounded in research conducted in 2024\, provides actionable resources f
or open source developers\, socio-environmental researchers\, and communit
y organizations seeking to build and maintain effective\, community-driven
collaborations. By employing a design pattern language approach\, the too
lkit offers concrete solutions and strategies organized around key themes
such as building trust through transparent data practices\, navigating pow
er dynamics in collaborations\, and fostering sustainable models of commun
ity data stewardship. The toolkit emphasizes the FOSS values of openness a
nd transparency by encouraging open access to data and documentation\; it
supports collaboration and inclusivity through community-driven decision-m
aking processes\; and it advances sustainability by promoting reusable\, a
daptable tools that empower all participants to contribute and benefit equ
itably.\n\nThis talk will share lessons learned from OEDP’s work\, highl
ighting how the toolkit translates open infrastructure into inclusive\, pr
actical frameworks that empower communities to use data for local action a
nd advocacy. Attendees will gain insights into how research can inform the
design of open source tools that truly serve community needs\, and how pr
actitioners and researchers can collaborate more effectively to bridge the
gap between theory and practice. The session will also explore the broade
r implications for FOSS communities\, focusing on how participatory approa
ches to tool development and data governance can drive more equitable and
sustainable outcomes in environmental contexts.
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/346/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:316@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:372@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Advances in RSS / Translating C to Rust\n\n<a href="https://pa
d.sfconservancy.org/p/FOSSY25-ROOM-333">Pad link</a>
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Open
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T152000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:388@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:328
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Making P2P apps with Spritely Goblins
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T150000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T152000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:395@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Diana Belle\nThe Spritely Institute has been working
hard on a distributed systems programming library called Goblins\, whose c
leverness simplifies all the difficult parts of getting multiplayer code r
ight. How different is a multiplayer game from a peer-to-peer app\, really
? Let's dive in and I'll show you how to get involved with this emerging t
echnology\, whether in Scheme\, or JavaScript!
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/313/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Open
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T152500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:392@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:How to Hold It Together When It All Falls Apart: Surviving a Toxic
Open Source Project Without Losin
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T152500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:396@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cami Kaos\nI love open source. I always have. I’ve
spent more than a decade building\, managing\, and advocating for open sou
rce communities—through mentorship\, moderation\, DEIB strategy\, suppor
t tickets\, and everything in between. It’s been one of the great loves
of my career. But at some point\, I found myself in a project where the op
enness was performative\, the source of truth was... well\, interpretive\,
and the community slowly\, quietly\, turned toxic.\n\nThis talk isn’t a
revenge arc or a cautionary tale told with pitchforks. It’s a survival
guide—and a personal one. Inspired in part by Pema Chödrön’s When Th
ings Fall Apart\, it’s about finding groundlessness in a place that once
felt solid\, and learning how to stay present and compassionate even when
the community you helped build begins to crumble around you.\n\nWe’ll e
xplore:\n\nThe subtle warning signs of a community in distress\n\nWhat “
toxic” actually looks like in open source (hint: it’s often quiet and
polite)\n\nThe emotional labor of community leadership\, especially when y
ou’re the one holding everything together\n\nHow to create space for you
r own wellbeing while still honoring your values\n\nAnd\, yes—how to beg
in again. How to grieve a project\, rediscover joy\, and fall back in love
with open source\, on your terms.\n\nIf you've ever asked yourself\, “I
s it me? Or is this project slowly draining the life out of me?”—this
talk is for you. Spoiler: It’s not just you. Let’s talk about what hap
pens when things fall apart—and how we hold it together anyway.
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/323/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Open
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T152500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:390@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:328
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:BlueHats: Public servant advocates for software freedom
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T152500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:383@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Downey\nBlueHats is a worldwide community of
public servants (teachers\, researchers and other government workers\, etc
.) who promote FOSS use in\, by\, and for the public sector. BlueHats beli
eve that tax money spent on software development should result in Free Sof
tware\, and they support the principle of "public money\, public code". A
ll public servants around the world are invited to join this movement\, so
come and learn more about the movement and help us spread the word!
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/319/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:From Campus to Network: Creating the UC System-Wide OSPO Initiativ
e
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T152500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:394@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Laura Langdon\nLaura Langdon from the UC OSPO Network
will share lessons learned from the early stages of building a network of
academic OSPOs across the UC system. Representing the team that supports
the six campuses in the UC OSPO Network\, she will discuss both benefits a
nd challenges encountered while developing this first-of-its-kind system-w
ide network. She will explore how her experiences with the network's three
core working groups—sustainability of open source development\, discove
ry of open source work in research\, and education in fostering open sourc
e skills—have shaped her understanding of successful OSPO networks. Laur
a will focus on building community connections and establishing pathways f
or collaboration between institutions. Drawing from her first-hand experie
nce\, Laura will provide practical insights for others looking to establis
h OSPO networks in their institutions.
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/344/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Messaging interoperability with MLS\, MIMI and XMPP
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T152500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:384@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Marvin W.\nXMPP was and still is the major open stand
ard for federated instant messaging\, originally designed to allow bridgin
g between existing networks.\n\nIn recent years\, due to ongoing regulator
y efforts\, a new attempt at interoperability between instant messengers\,
MIMI (More Instant Messaging Interoperability)\, was started at the IETF\
, the internet protocol standardization body. Based on the latest and grea
test end-to-end-encryption standard MLS (Messaging Layer Security) it's me
ant to partially provide what XMPP failed to deliver. This talk will give
an overview on the topics of MLS and MIMI and how it can play together wit
h XMPP.
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/288/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T152500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T154500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:381@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Coffee/tea break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T154500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T163000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:385@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Coffee\, tea\, and snack break
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Coffee/tea break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T154500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T163000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:235@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Coffee\, tea\, and snack break
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Coffee/tea break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T154500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T163000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:238@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Coffee\, tea\, and snack break
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Coffee/tea break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T154500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T163000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:237@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Coffee\, tea\, and snack break
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:359@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Decentralization\n\n<a href="https://pad.sfconservancy.org/p/F
OSSY25-ROOM-338">Pad link</a>
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Adventures in Onboarding: Helping New Users Navigate Federated Ser
vices
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:357@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gideon Mayhak\nTales from the front lines of supporti
ng new users of federated services! We've all been there: you're excited
about a new technology and you want to tell your friends. You've already
gotten into the weeds and you come on a bit too strong. Does your friend
need to know what "XMPP” stands for? Does it matter if they know what a
domain is?\n\nThis talk will be a review of common stumbling blocks for n
ew users\, tips on keeping things simple with your friends and family\, an
d a discussion about how to help people grow into their newfound communiti
es. We’ll also take a closer look at demystifying common terms in the w
orld of XMPP so you’re ready to answer some of the tougher questions in
life\, like\, “What is a Snikket?”\n\nCome learn more about open feder
ated systems and how you can help others join in on the fun!
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/285/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The Cathedral and the Bizarre\, or Dual-Booting for Fun and Prophe
t: Using Linux to Enhance TempleOS
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:312@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Toby Betts\nDual-booting is a useful method to run tw
o operating systems on the same machine. Different OSes might help you har
ness the full potential of your hardware\, or it may be necessary because
of software limitations. It lets you tailor your computing experience to y
our own unique needs. Yet few people run different operating systems from
the same disk partition\, where both OSes coexist in the same place in the
same file system. This talk will outline the steps to combine Linux with
another open source OS known as TempleOS in a very small amount of disk sp
ace\, and how blending them together can create a unique and fun programmi
ng experience.
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/324/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:373@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:FOSS Graphic Design / Rust Firmware Emedded\n\n<a href="https:
//pad.sfconservancy.org/p/FOSSY25-ROOM-333">Pad link</a>
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:I Didn't Know Postgres Could Do That!
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:313@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robert Treat\nPostgreSQL is often thought of as "The
Database for DBAs"\, but what more\nand more developers are finding out is
that what makes Postgres "The\nWorlds Most Advanced Open Source Database"
is its wide array of\nfeatures\, many of which are really geared towards
users who want to\nbuild applications on top of Postgres.\n\nIn this talk\
, we'll look at some of the features in Postgres you may not\nhave seen in
other database systems\, and talk about how you can make use\nof those fe
atures in your applications. Queries\, indexing\, data types\,\nand more w
ill all be up for discussion as we show you examples of just\nwhat Postgre
s can do.
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/366/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:301@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:343@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Effects of Political Polarization on FOSS Communitites / Gover
nance\, Cooperatives\, etc.\n\n<a href="https://pad.sfconservancy.org/p/FO
SSY25-ROOM-327">Pad link</a>
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:A Hyperscaler’s operating system strategy: working with CentOS a
nd Fedora
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:279@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michel Lind\nWhen an organization's Linux deployment
gets large enough\, a curious emergent property appears - the incentives s
tart to favor developing in-house Linux expertise\, as opposed to outsourc
ing operating systems support to external vendors.\n\nAt the same time\, g
iven the scale involved\, such organizations tend to prefer having a stabl
e base to build on - thus the appeal of slower-moving enterprise distribut
ions\, except with in-house customizations on top.\n\nIn this talk we are
going to discuss some of the choices we made at Meta for our Linux fleet\,
and the thought process behind that. We hope that organizations in a simi
lar situation can benefit from our experience\, and that community members
whose interests are aligned can benefit from our contributions and consid
er participating in the community projects we are involved in.
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/308/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:317@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Mobile Gaming with FOSS
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:283@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Edward Ly\nMobile gaming is an industry that is rapid
ly growing to the point where it is now more popular (and profitable) than
PC and console gaming combined. Yet\, much of the well-known efforts to s
upport gaming on Linux (e.g. emulators\, compatibility layers\, gaming-foc
used distributions) remains within the PC and console gaming spaces. This
talk will briefly explain the state of mobile gaming today\, as well as wh
y and how FOSS game development should expand into the mobile sector. Whet
her you are a gamer or a developer (no matter your skill level)\, come joi
n us to learn about the best mobile games you haven't heard yet or even ho
w to get started developing one yourself!
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/311/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The Subtle Art of Lying with Statistics
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:321@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dave McAllister\n"Lies\, damned lies and statistics."
While true\, only statistics allow you to lie to yourself.\n\nLet's explo
re how statistics can sometimes trick us into believing something untrue.
This isn't always done intentionally\; we mislead ourselves without realiz
ing it. We'll look at how focusing solely on recent events\, choosing spec
ific data to look at\, and making assumptions about the size of a group ca
n lead us to the wrong conclusions. We'll show examples of how graphs and
numbers can be used in misleading ways. The presentation aims to teach you
to look at statistics more critically\, understand their limits\, and avo
id fooling yourself with numbers.
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/314/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:A Multi-Campus Survey of Open Source Contributors at the Universit
y of California
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:341@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Virginia Scarlett\nOnce considered a radical experime
nt\, open source is now ubiquitous in the modern technology landscape\, an
d appears to be here to stay. In the technology industry\, the Open Source
Program Office (OSPO) is a common way to centralize a company’s open so
urce strategy\, knowledge\, and diligence. Meanwhile\, OSPOs are just begi
nning to take root in academia. This shift reflects the increased recognit
ion by universities and other organizations that academic open source cont
ributions are valuable\, numerous\, and worth sustaining. While guidance f
or university OSPOs is emerging\, many questions remain about how academic
support staff and their partners can best support their university’s st
rategic priorities and their community’s needs.\n\nThe University of Cal
ifornia (UC) OSPO Network is a groundbreaking project to establish a highl
y collaborative network of OSPOs at UC campuses. We in the UC OSPO Network
are working to develop infrastructure for open source education\, discove
ry\, and sustainability at UC by pooling our resources and knowledge. To d
evelop our strategic priorities and to assess the state of UC open source\
, we conducted a survey in April 2025 of more than 180 UC-affiliated open
source contributors. This survey reveals common challenges faced by open s
ource contributors\, as well as potential remedies to those challenges. In
addition to soliciting contributor perspectives\, the survey also solicit
ed contributors’ GitHub usernames\, which we are now using to analyze UC
open source repositories and their characteristics. Our survey will infor
m other UC OSPO network projects\, promote community among open source ent
husiasts at UC\, and serve as a template that other universities may draw
from. This study will shed light on how and why academics contribute to op
en source projects\, as well as some of the barriers that might be holding
them back.
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/334/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:335@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:328
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Linux kernel test automation with kdevops
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:252@2025.fossy.us
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Luis Chamberlain\nWe have a slew of ways to test the
Linux kernel: selftests\, kunit\, and then we have a slew of subsystem spe
cific tests. Intel 0-day has also done a fantastic job at helping find bug
s. So has syzkaller. Some subsystems like filesystems and memory managemen
t have really complex test frameworks though and have falling behind in au
tomation. Is it possible to automate testing of complex subsystems? Should
we? And what are the implications if we're successful?\n\nTo provide pers
pective\, it takes roughly 10 years to stabilize a new Linux filesystem. B
ut can we do better? The kdevops project was started with the goal of firs
t of addressing automation of testing of complex subsystems such as filesy
stems to help reduce the amount of time it takes to stabilize new filesyst
ems or new filesystem features. The project aimed at supporting local virt
ualization\, bare metal\, and all cloud provider support. Seven years late
r since the project got started\, with the help of a lot of community coll
aboration the project is now integral part not only of testing pipelines b
ut also development workflows. The kdevops project now enables continuous
integration for different subsystems starting with:\n\n * Linux modules\n
* Linux radix tree\n * Linux filesystems: xfs\, btrfs\, ext4\n * Linux
network filesystems: NFS\n * Linux selftests\n\nA dashboard of results i
s now also updated automatically based on automatic tests: https://kdevops
.org\n\nWhat have we learned from all this effort so far? And what lies ah
ead for the roadmap? If you want to contribute and help how do you do that
?
LOCATION:328
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/301/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Observing Postgres in action using OpenTelemetry
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:289@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Basil Bourque\nWhile debugging in development\, or tr
oubleshooting in production\, we need to monitor the conditions and behavi
or of the various components in our systems. One of those components is th
e database server. We need to look inside the black box that is our databa
se server.\n\nMuch progress has been made in instrumenting\, generating\,
collecting\, and exporting telemetry data (metrics\, logs\, and traces) to
help us analyze our software systems’ performance and behavior. While v
arious proprietary and open-source products have advanced this field of ob
servability\, the industry has recognized the need to create a single coll
ection of APIs\, SDKs\, and tools that can work in a vendor-neutral manner
across the many implementations. The open-source community-driven project
OpenTelementry is that solution.\n\nNow Postgres has gained support for O
penTelemetry. Let's look at how observability works\, and how Postgres use
s OpenTelemetry to provide the operations data that DBAs\, SysAdmins\, and
developers need.
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/294/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:368@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Copyleft- next / Articulating stakeholders and goals for FOSS
licensing\n\n<a href="https://pad.sfconservancy.org/p/FOSSY25-ROOM-328">Pa
d link</a>
LOCATION:328
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Unconference
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:378@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:What if git was nice to use? / Community Supporting Safety\n\n
<a href="https://pad.sfconservancy.org/p/FOSSY25-ROOM-329">Pad link</a>
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Agile/Scrum for Open Source Community Projects
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:351@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tess Gadwa\nWhen Agile/Scrum is adapted effectively f
or FOSS\, it holds significant advantages over the "benevolent dictator" m
odel -- both in inclusivity and in building morale and participation.\n\nT
he talk assumes:\n\n- Primarily online contributors\n- A mix of paid and v
olunteer team members\n- Contributors at a range of skill levels\n- Contr
ibutors in non-coding roles (documentation\, design\, and user research) a
s well as development roles\n\nIt would build on lessons learned from Givi
ng Map (givingmap.org) a grant-funded applied data visualization initiativ
e that ran from 2020-21. However\, these best practices can be applicable
to a broad range of projects.
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/356/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:It's all about the ecosystem!
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:295@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ben Ford\nYou may or may not remember Steve Ballmer's
famous "developers\, developers\, developers" cheer from the late 90's\,
but Microsoft has known something for a very long time that some OSS compa
nies might learn from. When a tool or product exists in order to run third
-party content -- that third-party content is the real value of your tool
because without that content\, there's no reason to buy the product.\n\nCo
mmercially supported open source projects often lose track of this real va
lue. And all too often\, they learn that hard fact after community-hostile
decisions decimate their ecosystem. SaltStack learned this the hard way\,
so did Hashi\, Chef\, Redis\, and others.\n\nI'd like to talk about the i
dea that the ecosystem is the product and the thing that you build and sel
l only exists to support it. It's a subtle but important shift in mindset
that I think helps keep focus on what's really important\, and I'm using i
t to help direct the projects that I'm working on now.I\n\n\nSlide deck ca
n be viewed here: https://binford2k.github.io/all_about_ecosystem/
LOCATION:333
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/351/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T163000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T171500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:330@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
LOCATION:328
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T171500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T173000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:258@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T171500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T173000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:256@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Opening Remarks
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T171500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250803T183000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:228@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Closing Remarks
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Break
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T171500
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250801T173000
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:257@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:No description
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:How do you solve a problem like iOS?
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T181500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:358@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stephen Paul Weber\nThe user experience of those trap
ped in the Apple ecosystem has for years been a problem for the open sourc
e XMPP community. Not many community developers use that ecosystem\, and s
o little development and testing goes towards it. After all we want to use
freedomware operating systems on all our devices!\n\nYet it remains an is
sue because\, as a communications network\, many people have friends and f
amily they wish to connect with who use Apple devices. Not having a good\,
freedom-respecting solution for those people means they often feel pulled
towards proprietary walled gardens instead in order to be able to communi
cate.\n\nI have been working on this problem for some time and will detail
my approach using standard technologies to close most of this gap without
any Apple devices at all\, the benefits of an extensible standard like XM
PP on achieving this\, and how this might help other communities as well.
LOCATION:327
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/284/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:The big-endian RISC-V Linux Adventure
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T181500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:260@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ben Dooks\nThe latest RISC-V ISA specification allows
for runtime configuration of the data endian between little and big. Sinc
e no one had done this before\, we decided to investigate how difficult it
would be to get an prototype Linux implementation running in big endian o
n an emulated RISC-V system such as under QEMU.\n\nThe talk goes from the
description of the new ISA feature\, our initial analysis and the modifica
tions to software such as the Linux kernel\, QEMU and OpenSBI that where n
eeded. This then goes into the issues that we found and how to fix them.
This includes kvm and how that works with mixed endian kvm instances\, and
the modifications to kvmtool to make this work.\n\nWe conclude with how t
he project went\, what we published and a call to arms to continue testing
and fixing outstanding issues.
LOCATION:328
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/302/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Reversing Metcalfe's Law: undermining the software-service–indus
trial complex with .zip files
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T181500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:304@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nathan Willis\nPortability and data sovereignty are o
ften touted as critical principles for ensuring user privacy in the age of
always-connected Internet services: the ability to archive and export you
r information ensures that you cannot be held captive by a provider that f
alls short on ethics or security. The tricky bit comes when users attempt
to unpack this exported data and put it to proper use. This talk examines
the free-software tools available to access common exported data sets and
addresses the complexities faced when re-purposing account data or transfo
rming it for use in free systems. Emphasis is placed on how desktop Linux
distributions and server-side free-software networks could provide a bette
r and more integrated experience. Datasets examined include email\, messag
ing\, media\, bookmarks and favorites from discussion forums\, geolocation
history\, health records\, contacts and calendars\, and social media post
s.
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/320/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:open source for fun and profit
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250731T181500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:322@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Milo Oien-Rochat\nLearn how to convince your employer
to open source internal projects and how to effectively contribute to ope
n source projects while at work. I will share examples of open sourced pro
jects and contributions to existing projects from my work at 3M Company.\n
\nThis talk will cover exciting topics such as.\n* Employee contracts\n* F
ind/set up an open source watering hole\n* Do your homework/arrive with a
plan\n* Your attorney is a person too\n* Pro/con lists\n* The odds are in
your favor\n* Get good at Git\n* Remove sensitive data (like email address
es) from git repos\n* Make friends in IT\n* Set a trend make a friend
LOCATION:338
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/321/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Recipe for Discovery: Building the UC Open Source Repository Brows
er From Scratch
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T173000
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20250802T181500
DTSTAMP:20260223T173351Z
UID:336@2025.fossy.us
CATEGORIES:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Juanita Gomez\nThe University of California’s netwo
rk of Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) launched last year\, bringing to
gether six campuses (UC Santa Cruz\, Berkeley\, Davis\, Los Angeles\, Sant
a Barbara\, and San Diego) to support open source research\, promote susta
inability\, and establish best practices within academic environments. A k
ey challenge in this effort is identifying and connecting open source proj
ects across the system. Despite UC’s significant contributions to open s
ource\, there is no centralized way to track these efforts\, making it dif
ficult for researchers to find relevant projects\, for institutions to ass
ess impact\, and for the broader community to engage with UC’s open sour
ce work. To address this\, the UC OSPO Network is developing the UC Open S
ource Repository Browser (UC ORB)\, a discovery tool designed to map and c
lassify UC’s open source projects. This talk will explore the process of
building the UC ORB\, from leveraging the GitHub API for data collection
to integrating automated discovery with targeted outreach to the academic
community. We will discuss the challenges of repository identification\, c
ompare similar approaches\, and share lessons learned throughout the proce
ss.
LOCATION:329
URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/357/
END:VEVENT
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
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SUMMARY:DevOps is a Foreign Language (or Why There Are No Junior SREs)
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joshua Lee\nDevOps has a notoriously steep learning c
urve. Getting started in the field can feel like being dropped in a foreig
n country without the ability to understand *anything* about the language.
\n\nA language is more than just the syntax and semantic rules of the wor
ds themselves. It also encompasses the shared culture of the speakers. Wit
h the proliferation of programming languages as well as the deeply held cu
ltural beliefs of the community\, it's easy to see that learning DevOps is
like trying to learn a foreign language.\n\nI will review five foundation
al hypotheses from the field of Second Language Acquisition and relate the
se hypotheses back to the world of DevOps. DevOps practitioners\, trainers
\, tool builders\, and learners should all come away with useful insights
to apply to their practice.
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URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/297/
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
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SUMMARY:Building AI applications with Open-source database - PostgreSQL
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gauri\nCurious about how to build AI applications wit
h the tools you already know and love? This beginner-friendly session will
show you how PostgreSQL can be the backbone of your AI workloads. We’ll
break down key concepts like vector embeddings\, vector search\, and Retr
ieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in a simple\, easy-to-understand way. The
n\, we’ll dive into how PostgreSQL’s native features and extensions ma
ke it easy to store\, search\, and scale AI data — no special infrastruc
ture needed.\nBest of all\, you'll see everything come to life through a h
ands-on\, step-by-step demo where we’ll build a complete\, Generative AI
application powered entirely by PostgreSQL.
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URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/354/
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
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SUMMARY:Plausible Slop: Generative AI and Open Source Cybersecurity
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Kaylea Champion\nDespite speculation that the ris
e of consumer-grade generative AI tools would trigger the development of m
ore advanced cybersecurity attacks\, a more grounded view observes that in
stead these synthetic text generating tools are eroding the social model o
f open source cybersecurity through the low-effort extrusion of 'plausible
slop': potentially significant and well-formed but ultimately erroneous a
nd unwanted text. The presence of plausible slop in newcomer contributions
in the form of bug and security reports to open source software packages
requires substantial time commitment from scarce experts. These experts ar
e caught in a double bind: their role dictates that they sort through what
is truly dangerous and what is nonsense\, and they are charged with both
welcoming problem reports from newcomers while also setting strong norms a
gainst inauthentic reports. In this talk\, I report on my effort so far in
vestigating plausible slop\, connect this challenge to previous historical
challenges\, suggest avenues towards solutions\, and seek community feedb
ack to shape next steps.
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URL:http://2025.fossy.us/schedule/presentation/348/
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SUMMARY:The Future of Fixing Technology
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Denver Gingerich\nComputers and the internet had the
potential to neutralize existing power structures and bring true equality
in access to knowledge and the ability to control technology to the masses
. While some power structures have changed\, new ones have emerged that t
hreaten to undo the very fabric of modern society. These new power struct
ures promote misinformation\, put control of technology in the hands of an
elite few\, and prevent the masses from customizing or improving the devi
ces that they rely on to communicate with the rest of the world.\n\nIn the
early days of the internet\, there was a feeling of excitement about its
endless possibilities. There was a sense that it could indeed give us unf
ettered access to the best information available\, and we could use that t
o improve our technology and our lives. However\, events like the Eternal
September and many less defined epochs showed that the internet on its ow
n could not maintain its utopic promise. We needed a plan\, a way of stan
ding up to power structures and other influences\, one that put critical t
hinking\, cultural sensitivity\, and user agency at the forefront.\n\nThe
future of fixing our technology and adapting it to each of our individual
unique needs and preferences could go a few different ways. In this talk\
, we'll explore the history of fixing our technology\, where we're at now\
, and what it will take to make this individualized technology future a re
ality.\n\nAmong other topics\, we'll discuss "the plan" for getting there\
, laying out a few concrete steps that we'll need to take to get where we
want to go. Along the way we'll talk about how power structures get disma
ntled and rebuilt through technological change\, and how we can collective
ly temper the seemingly inevitable swings between different factions of th
e wealthy elite controlling technology relied upon and available to the ma
sses\, so that we eventually approach the asymptote of actual freedom and
agency in the computing realities of the average user.
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Talk
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SUMMARY:RAGtime with Postgres: AI Power with pgvector and Retrieval-Augmen
ted Generation
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jimmy Angelakos\nRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
is a powerful paradigm in application development with AI. In this talk\,
we'll demonstrate how to leverage PostgreSQL with pgvector to combine the
strengths of vector similarity search with Large Language Models (LLMs).\
n\nAs the speaker is a Postgres nerd (not an AI expert)\, we'll explain in
simple terms how to dip your toes into AI while leveraging our favorite d
atabase -- from the perspective of a database person learning to work with
these new tools.\n\nWe'll walk through: \n\n- How to use pgvector to stor
e and search vector embeddings (and what those are)\n- How to connect thes
e capabilities with AI LLMs to build intelligent applications. \n- Some pr
actical tips for implementation\, including configuration\, indexing strat
egies\, and scaling considerations\n- How to reduce dependency on expensiv
e external AI services by using open-source models while maintaining contr
ol over costs and infrastructure\n\nTo demonstrate these concepts in actio
n\, we'll look at a real-world example of building a developer assistance
system that helps teams understand their codebase.
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SUMMARY:FOSSY 2025: Social Event
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DESCRIPTION:Official Thursday Night Event at Punch Bowl Social\n\n340 SW M
orrison St Suite 4305\, Portland\, OR 97204\nJust quick ~15 minute Max rid
e from PSU. All attendees are invited!
URL:http://2025.fossy.us
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