Conference Schedule
FOSSY 2025 Thursday, July 31, 2025
Conference times are in PDT (UTC-0700). Current talks will be highlighted.
| Room | 327 | 328 | 329 | 333 | 338 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Track | Foss in Daily Life |
Linux Kernel |
Distros |
Open |
Wild Card |
10:15AM |
Registration Open | ||||
01:45PM |
Opening Remarks | ||||
02:00PM |
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02:45PM |
Break |
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03:00PM |
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03:45PM |
Coffee, tea, and snack break | ||||
04:30PM |
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05:15PM |
Break |
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05:30PM |
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07:00PM |
Official Thursday Night Event at Punch Bowl Social 340 SW Morrison St Suite 4305, Portland, OR 97204 Just quick ~15 minute Max ride from PSU. All attendees are invited! | ||||
10:00PM |
Day End | ||||
10:15AM–01:15PM
Registration Open
ends 1:15 p.m.
01:45PM–02:00PM
Opening Remarks
ends 2 p.m.
02:00PM–02:45PM
Foss in Daily Life —
327
ends 2:45 p.m.
Linux Kernel —
328
ends 2:45 p.m.
Distros —
329
ends 2:45 p.m.
Open —
333
ends 2:45 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 2:45 p.m.
02:45PM–03:00PM
Break
ends 3 p.m.
03:00PM–03:45PM
Foss in Daily Life —
327
ends 3:45 p.m.
Linux Kernel —
328
ends 3:45 p.m.
Distros —
329
ends 3:45 p.m.
Open —
333
ends 3:45 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 3:45 p.m.
03:45PM–04:30PM
Coffee, tea, and snack break
ends 4:30 p.m.
04:30PM–05:15PM
Foss in Daily Life —
327
ends 5:15 p.m.
Linux Kernel —
328
ends 5:15 p.m.
Distros —
329
ends 5:15 p.m.
Open —
333
ends 5:15 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 5:15 p.m.
05:15PM–05:30PM
Break
ends 5:30 p.m.
05:30PM–06:15PM
Foss in Daily Life —
327
ends 6:15 p.m.
Linux Kernel —
328
ends 6:15 p.m.
Distros —
329
ends 6:15 p.m.
Open —
333
ends 6:15 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 6:15 p.m.
07:00PM–10:00PM
Official Thursday Night Event at Punch Bowl Social 340 SW Morrison St Suite 4305, Portland, OR 97204 Just quick ~15 minute Max ride from PSU. All attendees are invited!
ends 10 p.m.
10:00PM
Day End
FOSSY 2025 Friday, Aug. 1, 2025
Conference times are in PDT (UTC-0700). Current talks will be highlighted.
| Room | 327 | 328 | 329 | 333 | 338 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Track | Databases |
Supporting User Groups |
FOSS in Education |
Science of Community |
Wild Card |
09:15AM |
Breakfast and coffee break | ||||
09:45AM |
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10:25AM |
Presentation of the Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom | ||||
10:45AM |
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11:30AM |
Break |
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11:45AM |
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12:30PM |
Lunch break (on your own) | ||||
02:00PM |
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02:45PM |
Break |
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03:00PM |
Open |
Open |
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03:25PM |
Open |
Open |
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03:45PM |
Coffee, tea, and snack break | ||||
04:30PM |
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05:15PM |
Break |
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05:30PM |
|||||
06:15PM |
Day End | ||||
09:15AM–09:45AM
Breakfast and coffee break
ends 9:45 a.m.
09:45AM–10:25AM
ends 10:25 a.m.
10:25AM–10:35AM
Presentation of the Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom
ends 10:35 a.m.
10:45AM–11:30AM
Databases —
327
ends 11:30 a.m.
Supporting User Groups —
328
ends 11:30 a.m.
FOSS in Education —
329
ends 11:30 a.m.
Science of Community —
333
ends 11:30 a.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 11:30 a.m.
11:30AM–11:45AM
Break
ends 11:45 a.m.
11:45AM–12:30PM
Databases —
327
ends 12:30 p.m.
Supporting User Groups —
328
ends 12:30 p.m.
FOSS in Education —
329
ends 12:30 p.m.
Science of Community —
333
ends 12:30 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 12:30 p.m.
12:30PM–02:00PM
Lunch break (on your own)
ends 2 p.m.
02:00PM–02:45PM
Databases —
327
ends 2:45 p.m.
Supporting User Groups —
328
ends 2:45 p.m.
FOSS in Education —
329
ends 2:45 p.m.
Science of Community —
333
ends 2:45 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 2:45 p.m.
02:45PM–03:00PM
Break
ends 3 p.m.
03:00PM–03:20PM
Databases —
327
ends 3:20 p.m.
Open
Supporting User Groups —
328
ends 3:20 p.m.
Open
FOSS in Education —
329
ends 3:20 p.m.
Science of Community —
333
ends 3:20 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 3:20 p.m.
03:25PM–03:45PM
Databases —
327
ends 3:45 p.m.
Open
Supporting User Groups —
328
ends 3:45 p.m.
Open
FOSS in Education —
329
ends 3:45 p.m.
Science of Community —
333
ends 3:45 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 3:45 p.m.
03:45PM–04:30PM
Coffee, tea, and snack break
ends 4:30 p.m.
04:30PM–05:15PM
Databases —
327
ends 5:15 p.m.
Supporting User Groups —
328
ends 5:15 p.m.
FOSS in Education —
329
ends 5:15 p.m.
Science of Community —
333
ends 5:15 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 5:15 p.m.
05:15PM–05:30PM
Break
ends 5:30 p.m.
05:30PM–06:15PM
Databases —
327
ends 6:15 p.m.
Supporting User Groups —
328
ends 6:15 p.m.
FOSS in Education —
329
ends 6:15 p.m.
Science of Community —
333
ends 6:15 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 6:15 p.m.
06:15PM
Day End
FOSSY 2025 Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025
Conference times are in PDT (UTC-0700). Current talks will be highlighted.
| Room | 327 | 328 | 329 | 333 | 338 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Track | XMPP |
Legal |
FOSS in Education |
Science of Community |
Wild Card |
09:15AM |
Breakfast and coffee break | ||||
09:45AM |
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10:45AM |
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11:30AM |
Break |
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11:45AM |
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12:30PM |
Lunch break (on your own) | ||||
02:00PM |
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02:45PM |
Break |
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03:00PM |
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03:25PM |
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03:45PM |
Coffee, tea, and snack break | ||||
04:30PM |
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05:15PM |
Break |
||||
05:30PM |
|||||
06:15PM |
Day End | ||||
09:15AM–09:45AM
Breakfast and coffee break
ends 9:45 a.m.
09:45AM–10:30AM
ends 10:30 a.m.
10:45AM–11:30AM
XMPP —
327
ends 11:30 a.m.
Legal —
328
ends 11:30 a.m.
FOSS in Education —
329
ends 11:30 a.m.
Science of Community —
333
ends 11:30 a.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 11:30 a.m.
11:30AM–11:45AM
Break
ends 11:45 a.m.
11:45AM–12:30PM
XMPP —
327
ends 12:30 p.m.
Legal —
328
ends 12:30 p.m.
FOSS in Education —
329
ends 12:30 p.m.
Science of Community —
333
ends 12:30 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 12:30 p.m.
12:30PM–02:00PM
Lunch break (on your own)
ends 2 p.m.
02:00PM–02:45PM
XMPP —
327
ends 2:45 p.m.
Legal —
328
ends 2:45 p.m.
FOSS in Education —
329
ends 2:45 p.m.
Science of Community —
333
ends 2:45 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 2:45 p.m.
02:45PM–03:00PM
Break
ends 3 p.m.
03:00PM–03:25PM
XMPP —
327
ends 3:25 p.m.
Legal —
328
ends 3:45 p.m.
FOSS in Education —
329
ends 3:45 p.m.
Science of Community —
333
ends 3:45 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 3:25 p.m.
03:25PM–03:45PM
XMPP —
327
ends 3:45 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 3:45 p.m.
03:45PM–04:30PM
Coffee, tea, and snack break
ends 4:30 p.m.
04:30PM–05:15PM
XMPP —
327
ends 5:15 p.m.
Legal —
328
ends 5:15 p.m.
FOSS in Education —
329
ends 5:15 p.m.
Science of Community —
333
ends 5:15 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 5:15 p.m.
05:15PM–05:30PM
Break
ends 5:30 p.m.
05:30PM–06:15PM
XMPP —
327
ends 6:15 p.m.
Legal —
328
ends 6:15 p.m.
FOSS in Education —
329
ends 6:15 p.m.
Science of Community —
333
ends 6:15 p.m.
Wild Card —
338
ends 6:15 p.m.
06:15PM
Day End
FOSSY 2025 Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025
Conference times are in PDT (UTC-0700). Current talks will be highlighted.
| Room | 327 | 328 | 329 | 333 | 338 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
09:15AM |
Breakfast and coffee break | ||||
09:45AM |
|||||
10:30AM |
|||||
12:30PM |
Lunch break (on your own) | ||||
01:45PM |
|||||
02:00PM |
Setting goals and spending money / Meta-crisis / Coordination problem Pad link | AI issues - safety, licensing, etc. Pad link | How to get people to care about FOSS, exploring different software domains Pad link | Music and video games Pad link | Whats next for academic Open Source and OSPO / Semantics in Machine Learning Objective Functions Pad link |
02:45PM |
Break |
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03:00PM |
Names are hard! What is a better word than "upstream" for distros? / What it takes to build strong teams / Building better collaborators Pad link | Eleminating CLAs / Right to Repair Pad link | Mesh Networking / How you got started in FOSS Pad link | Advances in RSS / Translating C to Rust Pad link | Threats to the Open Web / What do we do if or when Firefox disappears? / Observability is Broken Pad link |
03:45PM |
Coffee, tea, and snack break | ||||
04:30PM |
Effects of Political Polarization on FOSS Communitites / Governance, Cooperatives, etc. Pad link | Copyleft- next / Articulating stakeholders and goals for FOSS licensing Pad link | What if git was nice to use? / Community Supporting Safety Pad link | FOSS Graphic Design / Rust Firmware Emedded Pad link | Decentralization Pad link |
05:15PM |
Closing Remarks | ||||
06:30PM |
Day End | ||||
09:15AM–09:45AM
Breakfast and coffee break
ends 9:45 a.m.
09:45AM–10:30AM
ends 10:30 a.m.
10:30AM–12:30PM
ends 12:30 p.m.
12:30PM–01:45PM
Lunch break (on your own)
ends 1:45 p.m.
01:45PM–02:00PM
ends 2 p.m.
02:00PM–02:45PM
Setting goals and spending money / Meta-crisis / Coordination problem Pad link
327
ends 2:45 p.m.
328
ends 2:45 p.m.
329
ends 2:45 p.m.
333
ends 2:45 p.m.
338
ends 2:45 p.m.
02:45PM–03:00PM
Break
ends 3 p.m.
03:00PM–03:45PM
Names are hard! What is a better word than "upstream" for distros? / What it takes to build strong teams / Building better collaborators Pad link
327
ends 3:45 p.m.
328
ends 3:45 p.m.
329
ends 3:45 p.m.
333
ends 3:45 p.m.
338
ends 3:45 p.m.
03:45PM–04:30PM
Coffee, tea, and snack break
ends 4:30 p.m.
04:30PM–05:15PM
Effects of Political Polarization on FOSS Communitites / Governance, Cooperatives, etc. Pad link
327
ends 5:15 p.m.
328
ends 5:15 p.m.
329
ends 5:15 p.m.
333
ends 5:15 p.m.
338
ends 5:15 p.m.
05:15PM–06:30PM
Closing Remarks
ends 6:30 p.m.
06:30PM
Day End