Contribute to FLOSS projects (non-programmers and programmers welcomed) & #ILoveFS Social - Oliver Geer
This is in-person only.
It's a great time to get involved with and help out the FLOSS communities that develop projects in the interest of everyday people, by everyday people. Whether you want to (or already do!) write code, build communities, translate, report or prioritise bugs, we can teach you to do so. Contribute to FLOSS you are already involved in, software you use on a daily basis (like Zotero, Anki, Thunderbird, or Moodle), or learn about fascinating new FLOSS to contribute to.
This should be a welcoming and social but also collaborative and helpful event. You can also come just for the atmosphere (you may end up contributing in a way you didn't even know was possible), which should be present on this I Love Free Software Day!
Attending
Open to anyone in the city, technical or not, whether a free software expert or newbie.
Just turn up; no registration required!
Venue
Although the event itself will take place in the Computer Science department, please arrive at Oxford e-Research Centre, 7 Keble Road, especially if you have no department access. The organisers will let you through an internal door. Feel free to arrive at any point in the event.
Internet connection:
If you are from any University, you should be able to use Eduroam.
The University IT Services offers Oxford Wireless LAN guest Wi-Fi; if you want to use the Wi-Fi please bring a form of ID with your name, such as a passport, bank card or driving license, and show it to Oliver for login details. This is required by IT Services, I believe for legal reasons; I will write your name down on a piece of paper and keep it on myself or in my room unless IT Services asks to see it, and if they do not will safely dispose of the paper between 28 February and 7 March.
There is OK but not good mobile reception in the venue (my phone on EE reported 50% 4G connection, and just outside the room this dips to such a level that phone calls cannot be made). There are landlines in the department which the risk assessment states can be helpful for calling emergency services (but not anyone else).
Please note that no food and drink other than water is allowed in the room itself, since it is a lecture theatre.
The lecture theatre hosting the workshop is accessible via ramps (no lifts, or stairs, needed). An accessible toilet is roughly 30m from the entrance and 40m from the room, on the same floor. It is described here as "Level 1 - accessible toilet 2" and has a toilet seat height of roughly 45-55cm. More information is on the University's Access Guide website for the room and toilets and the entrance.
There is limited street parking on Keble road, which is pay-and-display. If you have a blue badge it looks like the fee is waived. I (Oliver) wouldn't recommend it for people without accessibility reasons because Oxford's not a very friendly city for cars and cars aren't very friendly for the environment.
If you have any further questions, please contact o@ogeer.org.
Host Bio
Oliver Geer (he/they) is a student in Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He maintains a small-to-medium-sized FLOSS JavaScript library and has done so for 4 years with many issue contributors and 9 other code contributors. He has also made very small contributions to several other projects, like code for KDE Plasma, bug fixing for Mobilizon, and translations for Faircamp. In 2025, he sent the first email to start this series of talks.
Attribution
Cover image CC-BY-SA 4.0 MotionEnsemble.de for FSFE
