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Meet the FSF staff at FOSDEM 2025

by Miriam Bastian Contributions Published on Jan 21, 2025 09:35 AM
Like every year, on February 1 and 2, 2025, thousands of developers and free software enthusiasts from all over the world will meet up at the annual FOSDEM conference. This year, the FSF will be well-represented and we hope to see you there!
When Feb 01, 2025 06:35 AM to
Feb 02, 2025 11:35 AM
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Zoë Kooyman, Krzysztof Siewicz, Craig Topham, and Miriam Bastian will each give talks at FOSDEM 2025. FOSDEM will be happening in Brussels, Belgium, on February 1 and 2, 2025. No need to register.

Machine learning panel

On Saturday, February 1, 13:30 CEST in room H.1301 (Cornil), executive director Zoë Kooyman will participate in a panel about machine learning together with Julia Ferraioli, Ciarán O'Riordan, and Richard Fontana. The panelists will explore what makes a machine learning model free software.

Managing copyrights in free software projects

On Saturday, February 1, 12:30 CEST, licensing manager Krzysztof Siewicz and copyright & licensing associate Craig Topham will discuss with other panelists how to manage copyrights in free software projects. The panelists will elaborate on the following questions:
1) How to ensure swift enforcement of the GPL?
2) How to protect free software against third party claims, including employers' copyright or patent claims?
3) How to enable swift relicensing or adding additional permissions, while protecting software against appropriation?
4) How to remove any challenges a contributor might encounter with the process?
Room: H.1301 (Cornil)

Free software teaching materials

On Sunday, February 2, 12:30 CEST, program manager Miriam Bastian will present some of the Free Software Foundation's teaching materials for high schools and will share her experience how students usually respond to them, what questions they ask and what topics they are interested in.
Room: UD6.215

FSF's criteria for free machine learning applications

On Sunday, February 2, 11:00 CEST Zoë Kooyman and Krzysztof Siewicz will present major considerations for defining what user freedom means in the rapidly developing field of machine learning, why it is different from defining software freedom, and why it matters. They will talk about: why we use the term Machine Learning over Artificial Intelligence; user freedom, what it means and why it matters; how machine learning applications differ from software when considering user freedom; what kinds of machine learning applications we should take into account when considering the broader issue; what (outside of software) elements of the application need to be considered and explain the FSF's position on it (think training data, model parameters, weights); and how a machine learning application could have ethical reasons to remain nonfree, and how the FSF's criteria deal with this.


We'd be thrilled to meet you at FOSDEM.

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