All right, we're going to start one more time.
Yeah.
Hey, everybody.
Welcome to Phasm 2020.
Six.
That was even better this second time.
Welcome to the Legal and Policy Devroom.
I'm Karen Stamler.
I'm the Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy.
Hi, Matthias Kirchner.
The President of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
I think so.
I'm the Policy Program Manager of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
Richard Fontana.
I'm a lawyer.
I'm perfectly current on a policy fellow at the Software Freedom Conservancy.
And I will mention Tom Marble, who was one of the co-founders of this Devroom.
He had a last minute a reason he could not be here with us.
But he has done so much work for this Devroom.
And we want to just acknowledge that he's not able to join us this year.
And actually, I mean, he is here with us because there's also a lot of work in the background with publishing the video.
So he will be online and making sure that then all the videos go online.
Is he actually awake?
It's like two a.m. in his time zone.
Well, yeah, we just thank you all for coming.
I want to mention a logistical thing to start.
There are some air meters for CO2 levels.
It's a good proxy reading for how good the air is.
There's one in the back at that pole.
There's one right here and there's one up front.
They're already reading relatively bad air.
And I got COVID last year at Fazem.
Such that I missed my own keynote at Fazem last year due to COVID.
Gabriel and I speak her also got COVID at Fazem.
I really encourage you to wear masks if you're not speaking or asking your question in a session.
We have masks at the SFC booth.
I forgot to bring some over earlier, but I'll bring some and they'll be here by the afternoon.
If you don't have a mask, but you can also go over there.
I've seen booth in K and get one.
What's that?
Why we are at safety measures.
So in case anything happens, please leave the building quietly and slowly together with all of us.
And yeah, so that's one thing here from the organizers.
We're extremely excited about the content that we have lined up for today.
You can see the schedule online.
If you have any questions or need anything over the course of the day, don't hesitate.
And what we know that you're going to be leaving and other people will be coming.
But definitely let us know if we can help you.
We have a cancellation for one of our sessions later today, which is sad, but also exciting because that means we have a free slot.
And we can do it with whatever we all want to do.
So we've put up a feedback form.
It's linked from the Fazem website or you can just go to sfc.ngo slash idea.
And there's a little next cloud form and you can fill it out.
Just suggest a topic.
And if there's anybody here who you think would be good to speak on it, who you know is that Fazem and around.
And you can get them to come.
Let us know.
Otherwise, we already have some suggestions from people.
So, or you can just write it on a piece of paper and give it to one of us.
And we're excited for that.
It's a half hour session.
And we already have quite a few good ideas.
So, but we would rather talk about whatever it is you all want to hear.
So definitely let us know and we'll put together a panel or a fishbowl or whatever session seems the best for that topic.
It was a session by Sebastian Stick.
So we have most of the day for you to get your suggestions and try to get your suggestions in by like.
One or two this afternoon so that we have time to grab gather people and frantically message them and get them here.
One quick feedback for us.
Who of you was already before at Fazem?
Okay, who was already before in this death room?
It was like three quarters of the room had been to Fazem before and maybe about half had been to the legal and policy devroom.
And for whom is it the first time?
Oh.
Well, that comes.
So, one third to one half.
Yeah.
Very good.
That's also good for all of us speaker.
So I want to thank everybody for my core organizers.
I did virtually nothing to help organize as usual, but I am here all day to help.
So there is that.
And I thank all my core organizers for actually doing all the work and appreciate it.
That they tolerate how busy I am from November to January.
I want to introduce our next speaker.
Our first speaker Gabriel from the FSF Europe.
Historically and traditionally we have designed the devroom to be more complex topics.
On legal and policy.
We've gotten a lot of feedback over the years that we have that many people do need in introduction.
Many people want to hear the basics.
And so we decided this was absolutely the perfect speaker to be the person to give you the introduction to legal and policy issues in free software and help understand how the legal issues in free software are to relate.
So with that, I'd like to invite Gabriel up to the stage.
We have to start?
Nope.
We have to wait till the start time.
I thought we were like over.
Gabriel, you're not allowed to come up yet.
I am so sorry.
Yeah.
Well, Karen has more stuff to tell you.
No, we have more things to answer.
But we try to stick to the schedule because of the people who are participating remotely will tune in at the right time.
And as Bradley said, what's good about this first talk is it will give people a grounding and then we have more advanced talks later.
We want to remind you that there is a code of conduct.
And again, as I said before, if anything happens that you want to reach out to us about whether it's a code of conduct issue or anything else, anything that you feel that is a challenge or making you uncomfortable.
Definitely feel free to reach out to any of us.
And maybe while was still half time for the last years.
Oh, yeah, I see that there's one question.
One second.
One one thing we for the last years also tried to include all of the feedback from the community here for our next schedules.
And so this now the start of this year's first term.
But we would like to encourage you to provide us feedback and things that you were missing this year or things that you would like to see for next year.
And tell us about that because we would be very interested to further improve it and make sure that we provide.
So improvements over all those years.
And that's also one thing.
Bradley might have not done that much this year.
But for the previous decade for this deaf room is establishing this as one of the institutions or foster.
Well, you can also have one year where you're doing a little bit less.
But yes, I see there was one question.
So I will quickly go over there.
Is it possible to turn the light off above the presentation?
The power of we software.
Thanks for that feature request.
Merged.
Have any other questions about the day before we begin.
Does anyone have any questions about the two for begins.
Otherwise maybe we'll take a quick few minute break before we start anybody have anything else that we want to say.
I do want to second what Matthias was saying we definitely want your feedback every year.
We iterate on this room and we make a different we've done some really wild things some of the years to try a completely new formats.
We had a year where we did all debates and we have people sign up to debate teams as if it were like an American secondary school.
Good situation.
Anything is on the table.
We really want to make sure that the content is useful to you all and that it stays interesting.
Obviously the top state interesting because they're new every year.
But really anything that you think of that you're like, you know, I would really appreciate it if they did this particular thing that would be fine.
So also one of the things we will say at the end but since we have this awkward amount of time that I didn't know we had.
We really encourage people who have not spoken on a legal and policy topic before to submit to this bedroom next year.
Most of our speakers who are now regular speakers in our bedroom who are regular speakers on these kinds of topics.
They were a first time speaker at some point in this bedroom.
And we believe fundamentally that people who spend most of their time doing development and documentation and free software project management and community coordination.
Also know a tremendous amount about these issues.
We actually are very suspicious of lawyers presenting proposing talks in this room because we believe that the community understands the policies that they need and can talk about the issues that are concerned about.
So if a topic excites you this year that you hear about that you think you have something to say, please submit a talk next year.
And I think maybe the last point before I will switch the slides, but four of the people on the stage here work for a charitable organization.
And I mean the topic of free software is something that is getting more and more important and relevant and there is more and more demand of the work.
NGO is not profits are doing in this area, so that's not the fourth intervention here at the FSV.
We would like to get 25 new supporters at this first because we have been here 25 years.
The SFC I don't know if you also have a similar you also have promotion.
There are other free software organizations here who also depend a lot on the donations of others.
So please check them out and support them with a donation so that we and others can continue the work for free software.
Executive director to executive director you're right.
So we at SFC of software freedom conservancy have a match challenge that we have just through just through the day after for them to reach and we have to raise $26000 is where we are at now.
And Tracy our operations manager is sitting at the stand like lowering the number as donations come in.
So that would be very exciting if we were able to actually make that.
The last thing I wanted to say is I'm going to add another field to the next cloud form about the feedback.
If there's anything that you want to share for next year.
Again, that's SFC dot NGO slash idea and it's on the page for the 430 talk along with a QR code.
So feel free to use that.
And since we we we we didn't intend to make Richard feel bad that he works for a full profit corporation, but I want to know if that Richard we did not intend that it was not an intention.
But I'm sure it is a long standing community member has volunteered for so many different things not just this Debra organization committee.
And I want to note that he has not promoted his employer and he made me carefully you did not mention your employer when you introduced yourself, which I think was very cool of you to not promote your employer just to be a community member.
Yeah, I used to do that, but but yeah, I here I'm just a community member so.
But I've been coming here for a long time and I really love it.
Are we at.
We have one more minute.
So unfortunately because of my misunderstanding of the time differential that apparently I was living in.
But I promise you I am in consensus reality and now I know what time it is.
I will now redo the introduction of Gabriel for the recording.
We made a decision this year to have.
What is it now for what when when am I allowed to introduce this man please.
I don't need to be a stickler, but if anybody is working like watching at home, they're not going to tune in until 445 and the intro is a different recording generally.
Then the talk and we want to give our full respect to Gabriel because he's awesome.
Every meeting at the software freedom conservancy we all arrived one minute early and we sit there and wait for Karen who arrives two minutes late.
So I don't.
Okay, Karen's occasionally early. It's true.
So I think now I have made it to 1045 made it and I have allowed you have a is that is is your watch using NTP is that actually sink to a real.
Okay.
So we.
We have the crowd of plot.
Where? I can't see it.
I'm not going to say anything more till somebody tells me I'm allowed to introduce Gabriel.
Time's up.