[FOSDEM] CfP: Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2025

[Tom Marble]

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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
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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
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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
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* 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
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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

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