Dear All, (Here's the first set of events for the group some of us were discussing earlier - they're now released!)
Have you ever thought about how the software we use affects our autonomy and right-to-repair the devices we increasingly rely on? Our privacy? The reproducibility of our research? This January-March (2026) we are hosting a series of events https://ox.ogeer.org/ on various non-technical and technical aspects of free, libre and open source software (FLOSS). Dates, and soon venues, are available on our website https://ox.ogeer.org/. Come along to learn about the practical, legal, and research-related implications of FLOSS, including: * why and how to self-host your FLOSS services https://ox.ogeer.org/event/date-to-be-confirmed-self-hosting-cooking-your-own-service * a guided, social workshop to contribute to FLOSS https://ox.ogeer.org/event/contributhon (via any of bug reporting, triaging, programming, translation, community-building, and so on --- no technical skills needed!) * an introduction to the programmable text editor and wider productivity tool, Emacs https://ox.ogeer.org/event/computing-in-freedom-with-gnu-emacs-protesilaos-stavrou * copyleft and protecting users’ right to repair https://ox.ogeer.org/event/software-freedom-conservancy * teaching high school students research computing https://ox.ogeer.org/event/institute-for-computing-in-research-mark-galassi-and-andrea-bruno * an introduction to a bioinformatics community and code library https://ox.ogeer.org/event/software-engineering-for-bioinformatics-a-bioconductor-perspective-kevin-rue-albrecht There are both in-person events in Oxford and online ones. Everyone is welcome, including students, academics, staff, and people unaffiliated to a University. You are welcome to just turn up (as long as you follow our code of conduct https://ox.ogeer.org/p/code-of-conduct), since no registration is required. To enable broad participation, we have scheduled events on different days on a weekly basis, and at different times --- feel free to join as many as you are able to, and please share this widely! A poster is attached to help with this. If you have any questions, please email [email protected] mailto:[email protected] and [email protected] mailto:[email protected], or look at our website https://ox.ogeer.org/. Kind regards, Oliver Geer (Hertford College, Computer Science and Philosophy) and Laura Fortunato (Magdalen College, Anthropology, Software Freedom Conservancy), with support from others on our mailing list https://web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/foss. Header image https://media.fsfe.org/w/xs29yhLxSP1uKLYkSeoKKp CC-BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/http://MotionEnsemble.de for FSFE https://fsfe.org
OxFLOSS_HT26.pdf
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