The freenode #live team are excited to announce more confirmed speakers for the freenode #live conference taking place at the At-Bristol Science Centre in Bristol, UK on 28-29th October this year, with plenty more still to be announced.

Among them are

Deb Nicholson (Community Outreach Director for the Open Invention Network, winner of several awards including the O'Reilly Open Source Award)

Karen Sandler (Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, former executive director of the GNOME Foundation)

Matthew Garrett (technologist, programmer, and free software activist - a major contributor to various projects including Linux, GNOME, Debian, Ubuntu and Red Hat. He is a recipient of the Free Software Award from the Free Software Foundation for his work on Secure Boot, UEFI, and the Linux kernel.

Read all the exciting news at https://freenode.net/news/freenode-live-speakers

Do you represent a FOSS or peer-directed project? If so, perhaps you would like to exhibit at the freenode #live conference taking place at At-Bristol Science Centre on 28-29th October this year? Check out https://freenode.net/news/freenode-live-exhibit or drop us a line to exhibit@freenode.live to find out more or to indicate interest!

The next two months could mark a turning point for the Internet as we know it. The FCC is deciding what its future course on Net Neutrality will be. To learn more, and to see how you might make a difference - particularly if you live in the USA - see https://www.battleforthenet.com

We would like to invite everyone to test the new Tor-SASL gateway on our testnet! For further details see https://freenode.net/news/resurrecting-tor

We've made some changes to the way we do things in light of the recent events that some of you have commented on. If you're interested, read more...

We're off to Vegas! Find us in the vendor village at DEFCON25 this weekend, come have a chat, grab some stickers or get your hands on our limited edition freenode t-shirts!

The inaugural freenode #live conference takes place at At-Bristol in Bristol, UK from Saturday 28 to Sunday 29 October 2017. Both days will include talks and workshops, and we look forward to this community-focused gathering.

Tickets are now on sale and there is a special Early Bird price until 31 July and we are also taking submissions for the call for participation.

Read all the exciting details at http://freenode.net/news/freenode-live

We are pleased to announce the first freenode Ask Me Anything (AMA) session, featuring Fedora. It will take place on Wed Jan 25 18:00:00 UTC 2017. You can watch the AMA in #freenode-ama and participate by asking questions in #freenode-ama-questions during the session.
http://freenode.net/news/fedora-ama

Belgium, we're thinking of you! Hoping all our FOSDEM friends and members of the FLOSS community are ok...

It's upgrade all the things day which also means lots of reboots. Remember to connect to chat.freenode.net  and remain calm.