We are thrilled to announce that the Open Source UoM team has been entrusted with organizing FOSSCOMM 2024
This prestigious event will take place at the University of Macedonia - Thessaloniki, Greece (map) on November 9th and 10th, 2024. 
FOSSCOMM (Free and Open Source Software Communities Meeting) is an annual conference that gathers enthusiasts, developers, and advocates of open-source software. The conference serves as a vital platform for sharing knowledge, networking, and promoting the principles of open collaboration and innovation. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a variety of sessions, workshops, and discussions led by experts in the field. 
We are proud to share that the official website for FOSSCOMM 2024 has been developed by members of the Open Source UOM team. For more details about the event, including the schedule, speakers, and registration information, please visit the site.We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Macedonia in November for what promises to be an inspiring and enriching experience. 
Sincerely,
Open Source UoM
https://2024.fosscomm.gr/
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Call for papers
Submit your request here for a talk you would like to give on the days of the conference.
The FOSSCOMM 2024 organizing committee invites the free and open-source communities, as well as any interested parties, to submit their proposals for talks and workshops. The official language of the conference is Greek, but we also accept talks in English. The deadline for submission is 15 September, so that the conference program can be published in time.
Key topics
The main themes of the conference include topics that the organizing committee felt resonated with the audience and could provide interesting talks. If you would like to give a presentation that you feel does not fit into the existing themes, you can suggest a new theme via the submission form or submit your presentation as a “lightning strike” (see below). Presentations will be 30 minutes max and it is advisable to allow 5 minutes for questions. The workshops do not have a predefined duration and scheduling will be done in consultation with the organization after declaring your preference on the platform.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Community Networks
- DevOps
- Open Art
- Open Data
- Open Hardware
- Open Media
- Programming Languages
- Science
- Social / Policies / Legal
- Space
- System Software
- Security
- Web / Mobile technologies
- Metaverse / Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality
Submit your proposal here: https://2024.fosscomm.gr/call-for-papers/
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Announcement of Keynote Speaker for FOSSCOMM 2024: Frank Karlitschek
Frank Karlitschek is a long time open source contributor and former board member of the KDE e.V. He founded Nextcloud in 2016 to create a fully open source and decentralized alternative to big centralized cloud companies. Frank was an invited expert at the W3C to help to create the ActivityPub standard. Frank has spoken at MIT, CERN, Harvard and ETH and keynoted LinuxCon, Latinoware, FOSSASIA, Campus Party and many other conferences. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud GmbH. He is also a fellow of Open Forum Europe and an advisor to the United Nations regarding Open Source. Frank won the European SFS Free Software Award 2023 and the Acteurs du Libre European Award 2023.
# Topic: The AI revolution: Navigating Challenges and Crafting Ethical Solutions for Open Source Software
Register here to watch the talk and other very interesting ones.
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Announcement of Keynote Speaker for FOSSCOMM 2024: Diomidis Spinellis
Diomidis Spinellis is a Professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. His research interests include software engineering, IT security, and cloud systems engineering. He has written two award-winning, widely-translated books: “Code Reading ” and “Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective ”. In 2016 he published the book Effective Debugging: 66 Specific Ways to Debug Software and Systems. Dr. Spinellis has also published more than 300 technical papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings, which have received more than 10000 citations.
He served for a decade as a member of the IEEE Software editorial board, authoring the regular “Tools of the Trade” column, and as the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief over the period 2015–2018. He has contributed code that ships with Apple’s macOS and BSD Unix and is the developer of CScout, UMLGraph , dgsh , and other open-source software packages, libraries, and tools. He holds an MEng in Software Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science, both from Imperial College London. Dr. Spinellis has served as an elected member of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (2013–2015), and is a senior member of the ACM and the IEEE.
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