Notices by Karen Sandler (karen@floss.social), page 2

Big news on the Vizio case - the court rejected Vizio's arguments in their summary judgment motion. The decision cuts to the core of the case, with clear and conclusive language. Now on to *our* motion for summary adjudication...

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/jan/03/vizio-sj-rejected/

Friends, if you follow me you probably understand why #softwarefreedom is important and maybe also are a @conservancy Sustainer. Part of the reason we are able to do so much (GPL enforcement! @outreachy FOSS advocacy! Fiscal sponsorship!) is because we spend our time actually doing the work, and little time on fundraising and marketing. If you're not a Sustainer, would you become one now? If you are, can you ask a friend to sign up? <3

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

Cracking jokes about it being Cyborg Monday will never get old! Support software freedom for your future cyborg self! #CyborgsUnite https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

Zoom now wants you to focus on Section 10 of their ToS which they've changed today to say they won't use your calls and other data to train their AI models. Instead, focus on Section 15. Zoom (like most Big Tech ToSs) can change those terms at any time. They laughably say you should "regularly check" their legal pages for those notices and if you don't but keep using the services you've agreed to the changes. These services are unethically deployed technology at their most fundamental level.

Totally tearing up over the celebrations of 1000 interns across the globe, organized by @outreachy alums and mentors! Here's Omotola's write up of the Nigeria celebration! Loving all of the photos, especially the group pic

https://medium.com/@omotolaEO/june-2023-milestone-celebration-and-open-source-festival-d9eedb4fc7d1

Don't forget that the deadline to submit a track to FOSSY is this Sunday! I'm so excited at how this is shaping up, we'd love for you to be a part of it!

https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/community-tracks/

@christi3k Not yet! We're working on it and actively reaching out to other conferences to hear what they did and how it worked out (and how they budgeted for what they did - we're just getting started with sponsors) but we also wanted to give ample time for input from track organizers. If there are items in a covid policy that would essential for you to run a track or if you just have a strong recommendation, we would be so grateful for you to note that in the proposal.

@akkana Yes, this is just the tip of the iceberg. We're seeing more and more implants that rely on proprietary software to function and more and more of the startups that make this tech going out of business, leaving patients who rely on that software simply out of luck, often with debilitating conditions that could be relieved but for an update of the software on devices that are already implanted! Poignant examples of why we need #SoftwareFreedom for tech we rely on.

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-03810-5/index.html

It's end of year giving season, so I'm once again donating to the Dana Farber Jimmy Fund in memory of the wonderful Marina Zhurakhinskaya. Please heed Marina's advice and get genetic screening for breast cancer markers.

https://danafarber.jimmyfund.org/site/Donation2?df_id=2101&mfc_pref=T&2101.donation=form1

Congratulations to the 65 interns accepted to the December 2022 #Outreachy internship cohort!!!

https://www.outreachy.org/alums/2022-12/

Wow, both the number of people I now follow on the fediverse and the output generally of those people has dramatically increased over the last week! I have to stop looking, too much work to do... it was so much easier for ideological reasons to ignore the birdsite! #heartwarming

I'm not new to the fediverse but I am new to floss.social so here's my #introduction!

I'm a tech nerd turned lawyer turned executive director of Software Freedom Conservancy and co-organizer of Outreachy.

I have a heart device I got at a young age due to a hereditary condition and have experienced the consequences of living with technology that's designed primarily without your use case in mind. We need the right to fix and improve the techn we rely on, so I'm all about #softwarefreedom.