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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 06:41:42 JST Software Freedom Conservancy SFC's DMCA exemptions granted in triennial Library of Congress hearing! Continuing exemptions for jailbreaking routers + smart TVs, FOSS license investigation, and medical devices. We are so proud to stand up for digital rights. To read more about our advocacy for digital freedom, read here: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/oct/31/success-in-2024-dmca-exemptions/ -
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 23:30:10 JST Software Freedom Conservancy Our Director of Compliance is testifying tomorrow about Software Right to Repair for the DMCA in front of the Copyright Office. Supporting other Right to Repair organizations, and talking about the needs for copyleft and support of repairing our software.
If you want to tune in at 2:30 PM ET you can find more information here under the "Register to Watch Public Hearings": https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2024/ (warning, required use of proprietary software to view the hearing).In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink Attachments
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 09:23:43 JST Software Freedom Conservancy @philip Yes! We'll be publishing more information on how to volunteer soon :) In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink -
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 18:45:56 JST Software Freedom Conservancy FOSSY is happening again in Portland, OR! Join us August 1-4th 2024 at Portland State University to celebrate and build community around software freedom.
We are so excited to host another conference and hear from *YOU* about what kinds of tracks and programming you want to see this year. Check out our announcement for more information about submitting to run a track.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/mar/28/fossy-2024/In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink Attachments
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 22:12:48 JST Software Freedom Conservancy Ready for our Policy Fellow and Hacker in Residence Bradley M. Kuhn's main track talk titled "Copyleft and the GPL: Finding the Path Forward to Defend our Software Right to Repair"! In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink Attachments
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 07:22:32 JST Software Freedom Conservancy The state court judge rejected Vizio's arguments. The decision says SFC's claim is not preempted by copyright law and that consumers like us have standing to enforce the #GPL as third-party beneficiaries to the GPL! Now on to our Summary Adjudication movement...
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/dec/11/response-to-bigtech-arguments-copyright-office/In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink Attachments
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 02:16:13 JST Software Freedom Conservancy Our Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn will be on the FTC round table discussion discussion "Creative Economy and Generative AI" tomorrow. He's joining a panel of artists, policy makers, union organizers and other activists as the one to represent the FOSS and greater software communities. You can watch the webcast at 19:00 UTC: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events/2023/10/creative-economy-generative-ai In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink Attachments
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 07:48:18 JST Software Freedom Conservancy @clacke @michelin @josh Not yet, but we're in the process of trying to set it. We'll make an announcement when we're locked in! In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink -
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 22:59:40 JST Software Freedom Conservancy The FOSSY videos are up! Check out our blog post for more information here: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/sep/14/fossy-videos/
Thanks to all our speakers, AV team, volunteers and sponsors for making FOSSY happen. We can't wait to do it again next year!In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink Attachments
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 16:03:32 JST Software Freedom Conservancy In his #FOSSY 2023 talk, @spot goes above and beyond to comply with our “disclose all proprietary software before mentioning it in presentation”, & creates a slide of all the proprietary software at AWS that he knows about. spot notes: “this slide is also to remind us all when we think #FOSS is winning, how many fronts we still have so much work to do.” In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink Attachments
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jul-2023 16:02:32 JST Software Freedom Conservancy Pono from @conservancy talks about how he used free software to plan his wedding at #FOSSY
No room for proprietary software here!In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink Attachments
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 01:34:17 JST Software Freedom Conservancy It's the last day of #FOSSY 😭
We are so thrilled with how many of you came out and celebrated software freedom, community building and an introspective look at our communities.
Our final keynote today at 9:30 local time will host @karen @sphakos @anna talking about Outreachy and their 1000th intern!In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink -
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 09:26:57 JST Software Freedom Conservancy At #FOSSY, Denver Gingerich explains cultural changes needed to improve acceptance of those who make abnormal but important choices for their privacy & software rights. Denver posed with his preferred “phone” — which generates no e-waste (it's compostable!) & does not have the typical anti-features most modern phones have. In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink Attachments
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Mar-2023 03:58:44 JST Software Freedom Conservancy Our Director of Compliance Denver Gingerich talks about his farming background and calls on John Deere to resolve its outstanding #GPL and LGPL violations, across all lines of its farm equipment. Farmers deserve the right they are owed to repair their tools. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-violations/ In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink Attachments
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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Mar-2023 03:57:26 JST Software Freedom Conservancy The Community Call for Tracks for our new conference FOSSY ends this Sunday March 19th. Be sure to submit before midnight and be on the look out in the coming weeks for which tracks we've selected!
https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/community-tracks/In conversation from social.sfconservancy.org permalink Attachments