Software Freedom Day 2023 CDC (Paphos, Cyprus)

Organizers

Cyprus Developer Community
Alexandra Mirzutova

Venue

Evagoras Pallikarides Foundation, Paphos—can accommodate about 50-80 people. Same building as JetBrains offices, 3rd floor

Timeline

12:10 opening
12:20 chats, drinks, and pizza
13:00 COSTAS fireside chat: 99 problems with Open Source. Tanya Dadasheva, Michael Bielicki, Roman Shaposhnik

13:45 break, chats, and drinks
14:00 Aleksei on pros & cons of a personal OSS project

14:30 break, chats, and drinks
15:00 Federico on OSS generative AI models

15:45 party on the roof

Format

A meetup with 20-40 minute panels and tech talks (in English), with or without presentations. AMA sessions are also possible.

Registration

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cdc-software-freedom-day-tickets-713596635747?aff=ebdsoporgprofile 

Last minute decisions

If you want to participate as a speaker, our meetup is quite flexible, and you're free to join us and speak up your mind. Any stories about developing/supporting open source, related difficulties and profits are more than welcome! Like how open source helps to evolve technologies and pushes technological progress, how open source projects influence development of proprietary projects, how developers make money on it, how they find energy and time to support projects without profits. Also about indirect influence, which is not so obvious to measure—like Kotlin's influence on JetBrains brand.

Purpose of the event

Let's talk about development of actively maintained open source. There are alternatives to proprietary software, where you don't have to wait for years for updates—you can come and sponsor an update you require in an open source project or add it yourself.

Created by AlexandraMirzuitova on 2023-09-22 15:30:56.