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FOSSY 2023, Portland: Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference

54 points by edward 3y ago

thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
What is meant by "the first"? FOSDEM has been around for more than 20 years: https://fosdem.org/2023/about/ https://fosdem.org/2023/about/ FOSDEM 2023 happened in February. The recorded talks and slides are available: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/events/ https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/events/ Previous years recorded talks and slides are also available: https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/events/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/events/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/events/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/events/ Nevertheless, it is good to have more FOSS conferences. Since FOSDEM usually happens in Europe, having a conference in North America is good. Best of luck to FOSSY. I hope they post recorded videos and slides of the talks so that those who cannot attend in person can also participate.
- detaro 3y ago
  the first instance of this conference, which they intend to run yearly.
  - thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
    Ah. That makes sense. Maybe it would be more clear as: "The first annual Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference" Instead of: "The first Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference" Putting "annual" in the title makes that meaning / context more clear to me.
    - Aachen 3y ago
      As if fosdem isn't annual. It would possibly confuse me more tbh. "The first instance of" or so might be more clear but, yeah, the catchiness degrades with every attempt at making it clearer. One might even be lead to think that "Free and Open Source Software Yearly" is not an amazingly unambiguous name to use in a world with fosdem, t-dose, and probably others.
    - pklausler 3y ago
      The word "Yearly" is already in the title. Adding "annual" seems redundant.
    - quadrangle 3y ago
      sounds like post-hoc justification to me, you could have been confused other way But here's a real solution (though I don't think it was a problem needing to be solved): "FOSSY: the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, year 1"
  - phkahler 3y ago
    >> the first instance of this conference, which they intend to run yearly. Yeah but the F is FOSSY stands for First. Either they change the name next year or it doesn't make sense. As someone mentioned Fossdem, the is also the LibreGraphics thing, and perhaps some other smaller ones. The name is IMHO a very poor choice. My suspicion is they actually thought this would be a first of its kind, but that would mean they are not the right people to do this.
    - detaro 3y ago
      > Yeah but the F is FOSSY stands for First It clearly stands for "Free", where do you get that idea?
      - phkahler 3y ago
        Hahha, yes! That was really stupid on my part: >>The first Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference Sure the word "first" is in there but it doesn't even have the capital F like Free.... Bows head in shame....
        chaosharmonic 3y ago
        I've had a similar joke whenever I try to describe patent trolls, about how normally standards-essential patents are expected to be widely accessible, and the terms that satisfy these expectations are typically described as FRAND -- Fair, Reasonable, AND. (...Non-Discriminatory)
- usr1106 3y ago
  Post recorded videos are good. Live streams are better. If I decide to attend a conference remotely I tell it at work and just spend the 2 x 8 hours it takes to watch the streams. Have done it for FOSDEM several times and in recent years technical problems with the streams have been exceptional. If I plan to look at recordings, it somehow mostly never happens. It's easy to postpone. I would not tell at work I have to watch videos.
xrd 3y ago
I'm happy to see this. OSCON was such an amazing conference, and FOSCON was such a lovely complement to it. I recall seeing DHH, Matz and _why all in the same room at free geek. I really hope this recaptures the ethos of open source in a way that feels like it has been somewhat lost.
pantalaimon 3y ago
Still requiring masks & tests is kind of odd in 2023
- anon291 3y ago
  Thanks for calling this out. I live right near by and was on the verge of payment, but I'm not wasting my time with that.
  - waynecochran 3y ago
    Yeah i live not too far away and was thinking of signing up. Thats a deal breaker for me. Seems to go beyond a concern for health into a weird paranoia.
  - 3g0st 3y ago
    In a place where people may be gathering from around the nation or even internationally, i'm not sure what the problem is here, covid or not. I'm sorry that our immunocompromised friends or other at-risk individuals are not important enough for you to change your mind. Panels are always incredibly stuffy and full of odors and other people's coughs and breaths.
    - waynecochran 3y ago
      [flagged]
  - steviedotboston 3y ago
    I don't know about this conference, but some conferences with policies like this don't really bother enforcing them. It's 2023, do they really think they're going to get anything close to 100% compliance with a mask mandate? And what will they do if someone isn't wearing a mask? Most likely just politely ask you to put one on and then walk away. I highly doubt they are going to have some kind of punitive policy in place. Nobody wants to deal with that.
    - ghaff 3y ago
edward 3y ago
I submitted a talk to the wild card track and it was accepted. It's a session I've done at a few other conferences. The title is "Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap".
breakingrules 3y ago
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steviedotboston 3y ago
I attended a conference in Portland in 2022. The conference itself was fine, but Portland was a wreck. There were homeless encampments all over the place, open fires right on the sidewalks, needles and trash all over the place, boarded up buildings right in the middle of downtown. It was just bizarre and I felt pretty uncomfortable unless I was walking with other people. I don't see why anyone would choose Portland as a conference location now. The city is in really bad shape, it's just not the same place it was even just a few years ago.
- angelgonzales 3y ago
  I live here. Do not leave anything in your vehicle or it will be broken into! The springtime brings so much theft and crime from what I’ve personally seen. If you go downtown ~50% of blocks have evidence of recent break-ins. It happened to me a few weeks ago right when the weather was getting warmer, a very apparent rise in crime this season.
  - steviedotboston 3y ago
    When I was there someone pointed out to me that people leave their car windows rolled down when they park downtown to avoid smash and grabs.
- ghaff 3y ago
  Based on what a few people have told me, I'm mildly regretting booking a few days in Portland prior to spending a week out by Mt. Hood. I initially wrote it off as people not familiar with the realities of the downtown areas of a lot of West Coast cities. But it sounds as if Portland may be worse than others.
  - steviedotboston 3y ago
    I went to Portland in 2019 and 2022. The difference was striking. Yeah there were homeless people in 2019 (PNW has kind of always had more homeless people that other parts of the country), but its more than that. It's just total dysfunction from what I saw. Businesses closing, antisocial behavior happening in the open, crimes happening and the police not taking any action. Overall the vibe just seemed pretty depressing.

54 points by edward 3y ago

What is meant by "the first"? FOSDEM has been around for more than 20 years: https://fosdem.org/2023/about/ https://fosdem.org/2023/about/ FOSDEM 2023 happened in February. The recorded talks and slides are available: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/events/ https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/events/ Previous years recorded talks and slides are also available: https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/events/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/events/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/events/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/events/ Nevertheless, it is good to have more FOSS conferences. Since FOSDEM usually happens in Europe, having a conference in North America is good. Best of luck to FOSSY. I hope they post recorded videos and slides of the talks so that those who cannot attend in person can also participate.

detaro 3y ago
the first instance of this conference, which they intend to run yearly.
- thesuperbigfrog 3y ago
  Ah. That makes sense. Maybe it would be more clear as: "The first annual Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference" Instead of: "The first Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference" Putting "annual" in the title makes that meaning / context more clear to me.
  - Aachen 3y ago
    As if fosdem isn't annual. It would possibly confuse me more tbh. "The first instance of" or so might be more clear but, yeah, the catchiness degrades with every attempt at making it clearer. One might even be lead to think that "Free and Open Source Software Yearly" is not an amazingly unambiguous name to use in a world with fosdem, t-dose, and probably others.
  - pklausler 3y ago
    The word "Yearly" is already in the title. Adding "annual" seems redundant.
  - quadrangle 3y ago
    sounds like post-hoc justification to me, you could have been confused other way But here's a real solution (though I don't think it was a problem needing to be solved): "FOSSY: the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, year 1"
- phkahler 3y ago
  >> the first instance of this conference, which they intend to run yearly. Yeah but the F is FOSSY stands for First. Either they change the name next year or it doesn't make sense. As someone mentioned Fossdem, the is also the LibreGraphics thing, and perhaps some other smaller ones. The name is IMHO a very poor choice. My suspicion is they actually thought this would be a first of its kind, but that would mean they are not the right people to do this.
  - detaro 3y ago
    > Yeah but the F is FOSSY stands for First It clearly stands for "Free", where do you get that idea?
    - phkahler 3y ago
      Hahha, yes! That was really stupid on my part: >>The first Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference Sure the word "first" is in there but it doesn't even have the capital F like Free.... Bows head in shame....
      - chaosharmonic 3y ago
        I've had a similar joke whenever I try to describe patent trolls, about how normally standards-essential patents are expected to be widely accessible, and the terms that satisfy these expectations are typically described as FRAND -- Fair, Reasonable, AND. (...Non-Discriminatory)
usr1106 3y ago
Post recorded videos are good. Live streams are better. If I decide to attend a conference remotely I tell it at work and just spend the 2 x 8 hours it takes to watch the streams. Have done it for FOSDEM several times and in recent years technical problems with the streams have been exceptional. If I plan to look at recordings, it somehow mostly never happens. It's easy to postpone. I would not tell at work I have to watch videos.

xrd 3y ago

I'm happy to see this. OSCON was such an amazing conference, and FOSCON was such a lovely complement to it. I recall seeing DHH, Matz and _why all in the same room at free geek. I really hope this recaptures the ethos of open source in a way that feels like it has been somewhat lost.

pantalaimon 3y ago

Still requiring masks & tests is kind of odd in 2023

anon291 3y ago
Thanks for calling this out. I live right near by and was on the verge of payment, but I'm not wasting my time with that.
- waynecochran 3y ago
  Yeah i live not too far away and was thinking of signing up. Thats a deal breaker for me. Seems to go beyond a concern for health into a weird paranoia.
- 3g0st 3y ago
  In a place where people may be gathering from around the nation or even internationally, i'm not sure what the problem is here, covid or not. I'm sorry that our immunocompromised friends or other at-risk individuals are not important enough for you to change your mind. Panels are always incredibly stuffy and full of odors and other people's coughs and breaths.
  - waynecochran 3y ago
    [flagged]
- steviedotboston 3y ago
  I don't know about this conference, but some conferences with policies like this don't really bother enforcing them. It's 2023, do they really think they're going to get anything close to 100% compliance with a mask mandate? And what will they do if someone isn't wearing a mask? Most likely just politely ask you to put one on and then walk away. I highly doubt they are going to have some kind of punitive policy in place. Nobody wants to deal with that.
  - ghaff 3y ago

edward 3y ago

I submitted a talk to the wild card track and it was accepted. It's a session I've done at a few other conferences. The title is "Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap".

breakingrules 3y ago

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steviedotboston 3y ago

I attended a conference in Portland in 2022. The conference itself was fine, but Portland was a wreck. There were homeless encampments all over the place, open fires right on the sidewalks, needles and trash all over the place, boarded up buildings right in the middle of downtown. It was just bizarre and I felt pretty uncomfortable unless I was walking with other people. I don't see why anyone would choose Portland as a conference location now. The city is in really bad shape, it's just not the same place it was even just a few years ago.

angelgonzales 3y ago
I live here. Do not leave anything in your vehicle or it will be broken into! The springtime brings so much theft and crime from what I’ve personally seen. If you go downtown ~50% of blocks have evidence of recent break-ins. It happened to me a few weeks ago right when the weather was getting warmer, a very apparent rise in crime this season.
- steviedotboston 3y ago
  When I was there someone pointed out to me that people leave their car windows rolled down when they park downtown to avoid smash and grabs.
ghaff 3y ago
Based on what a few people have told me, I'm mildly regretting booking a few days in Portland prior to spending a week out by Mt. Hood. I initially wrote it off as people not familiar with the realities of the downtown areas of a lot of West Coast cities. But it sounds as if Portland may be worse than others.
- steviedotboston 3y ago
  I went to Portland in 2019 and 2022. The difference was striking. Yeah there were homeless people in 2019 (PNW has kind of always had more homeless people that other parts of the country), but its more than that. It's just total dysfunction from what I saw. Businesses closing, antisocial behavior happening in the open, crimes happening and the police not taking any action. Overall the vibe just seemed pretty depressing.