Anna e só

This keynote celebrates an important milestone 13 years in the making: Outreachy surpassed 1000 interns with its current round of internships! To deliver the celebratory keynote, some of the members of the Outreachy organizers (Anna e só, Karen Sandler and Sage Sharp) will be on stage to reflect on the program's evolution, its successes and the people who have made it possible. We invite all FOSSY attendees to come to the keynote session to celebrate with us!

Other people: Karen Sandler Sage Sharp

The free software movement is not an isolated community—it exists within political, social, and economic systems. Its concepts, models, abstractions were and continue to be built through the cultural lenses of its founders and subsequent creators and maintainers; its structures were inherited from spaces inaccessible for many. To promote true transformation within the free software space, we need to avoid the traps of reductionism and dogmatism by adopting a new approach: systems thinking. We'll examine the problems with conventional thinking in FOSS, discussing how it fails the most vulnerable, and work towards new strategies for change.