####################################################################### Call For Participation Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2025 CONFERENCE DATES: Saturday & Sunday 1-2 February 2025 in person in Brussels, Belgium DEVROOM DATE: Saturday 1 February 2025 CfP DEADLINE: Sunday 1 December 2024 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) SPEAKERS NOTIFIED: Friday 6 December 2024 FINALIZED SCHEDULE: Sunday 15 December 2024 The Legal and Policy dev room invites hackers, developers, contributors, lawyers, and decision-makers alike to share their knowledge with the community. We invite you to contribute to our dev room by submitting proposals for 25 or 50 minutes talks or panels about FOSS-related legal or policy topics on intermediate to advanced level (due to the expected audience please do not submit introductory talks). In case you have any questions about how to contribute to the sharing of knowledge in our dev room, please do not hesitate to contact us at <fosdem-legal-policy at faif.us> You can respond to this CfP by going to: https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/cfp on or before December 1, 2024. In addition to the topics we had anticipated this year, the community has specifically asked us to cover specific proposed solutions to LLM-generative-model-related questions, various issues around current regulations (e.g. CRA, AI Act, PLD, DMA), how trademarks have been used as control mechanisms, funding schemes and market incentives for free software, license compliance experiences and strategies, export regulations and tactics, tax exempt status in different countries, and the evolution and decline in fiscal sponsorship. Look at past talks in our DevRoom for inspiration: https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/legal/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/ Diversity Statement ================== The organizers of this DevRoom are committed to increasing the diversity of the free software movement. To that end, our CfP process takes demographic information into account in order to build a program that features as many different voices and perspectives as possible. If you are comfortable doing so, please share any demographic information about yourself in the "Submission Notes". Such disclosure is not mandatory by any means. No Assurance of Acceptance ========================== The organizers (listed below) realize many of our friends and colleagues will respond to this CfP. We welcome submissions from all, but an invitation from any of us to submit is *not* an assurance of acceptance. We typically must make hard decisions. We appreciate the effort you put into crafting your submission to give yourself the best chance of acceptance. Submitting a proposal ==================== * Select the track "Legal and Policy" * Include a title. Shorter and more concise is better! * Include an Abstract of about 500 characters and a full description of any length you wish, but please be concise, clear and descriptive. * Indicate a 25 or 50 minute time slot. We will likely reserve 50 minute time slots for panels. * State that you agree to CC BY-SA-4.0 or CC BY-4.0 licensing of your talk in the "Submission Notes" field. Add a statement such as this: "Should my presentation be scheduled for FOSDEM 2025, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides and any other materials presented under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International license." About the DevRoom Organizers ============================ The co-organizers of the FOSDEM 2025 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom are (in alphabetical order by surname): - Richard Fontana - Principal Commercial Counsel, Red Hat - Matthias Kirschner, President, Free Software Foundation Europe - Bradley M. Kuhn, Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy - Tom Marble, Chief Technology Officer, Informatique, Inc. - Alexander Sander, FSFE Senior Policy Consultant - Karen M. Sandler, Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, Lecturer-In-Law, Columbia Law School You are welcome to contact us all at <fosdem-legal-policy at faif.us> with questions about this CFP #######################################################################