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

02:45PM

Break

03:00PM

03:45PM

Coffee, tea, and snack break

04:30PM

05:15PM

Break

05:30PM

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!


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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

10:25AM

Presentation of the Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom

10:45AM

11:30AM

Break

11:45AM

12:30PM

Lunch break (on your own)

02:00PM

02:45PM

Break

03:00PM

Open

Open

03:25PM

Open

Open

03:45PM

Coffee, tea, and snack break

04:30PM

05:15PM

Break

05:30PM

06:15PM

Day End

09:15AM–09:45AM

Breakfast and coffee break


ends 9:45 a.m.

09:45AM–10:25AM


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

10:45AM

11:30AM

Break

11:45AM

12:30PM

Lunch break (on your own)

02:00PM

02:45PM

Break

03:00PM

03:25PM

03:45PM

Coffee, tea, and snack break

04:30PM

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

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.

AI issues - safety, licensing, etc. Pad link

328
ends 2:45 p.m.

How to get people to care about FOSS, exploring different software domains Pad link

329
ends 2:45 p.m.

Music and video games Pad link

333
ends 2:45 p.m.

Whats next for academic Open Source and OSPO / Semantics in Machine Learning Objective Functions Pad link

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.

Eleminating CLAs / Right to Repair Pad link

328
ends 3:45 p.m.

Mesh Networking / How you got started in FOSS Pad link

329
ends 3:45 p.m.

Advances in RSS / Translating C to Rust Pad link

333
ends 3:45 p.m.

Threats to the Open Web / What do we do if or when Firefox disappears? / Observability is Broken Pad link

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.

Copyleft- next / Articulating stakeholders and goals for FOSS licensing Pad link

328
ends 5:15 p.m.

What if git was nice to use? / Community Supporting Safety Pad link

329
ends 5:15 p.m.

FOSS Graphic Design / Rust Firmware Emedded Pad link

333
ends 5:15 p.m.

Decentralization Pad link

338
ends 5:15 p.m.

05:15PM–06:30PM

Closing Remarks


ends 6:30 p.m.

06:30PM

Day End