😲…I just realized #FediCon is in the *same* venue as #FOSSY just *3* days before FOSSY starts!
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@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org oh, FediCon has a venue already?
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@evan@cosocial.ca @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org ah, that's just the site from last year.
IIRC last I heard @reiver@mastodon.social was looking at venues at Simon Fraser University.
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…sorry I missed that the year listed on that site was clearly 2025 & it wasn't obviously “archived”.
May I make lemonade out of my inability-to-tell-5-from-6 lemons & suggest that *maaaaybe*, depending in attendee count, perhaps #FediCon can be accommodated en-masse as a Community Track at #FOSSY? I hope you'll all just use the application form to suggest & then discussion can spark from there:
https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/community-tracks/
Cc: @evan @julian
@reiver
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…sorry I missed that the year listed on that site was clearly 2025 & it wasn't obviously “archived”.
May I make lemonade out of my inability-to-tell-5-from-6 lemons & suggest that *maaaaybe*, depending in attendee count, perhaps #FediCon can be accommodated en-masse as a Community Track at #FOSSY? I hope you'll all just use the application form to suggest & then discussion can spark from there:
https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/community-tracks/
Cc: @evan @julian
@reiver
@karen@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org that's a good idea. It would maybe draw additional people who wouldn't normally travel to an AP only conference...
And it'd make planning much easier!
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I have been looking for a venue, but I haven't booked one yet.
(A cousin of mine died recently — so a number of things slowed down a bit recently. Including that.)
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…I just realized #FediCon is in the *same* venue as #FOSSY just *3* days before FOSSY starts!I'm sad we weren't all in touch as maybe together we coulda gotten a better venue deal, but I hope #Fediverse folks going to event will be able stay in Vancouver for FOSSY!
Also, I suspect #SFC would welcome a Fediverse track at FOSSY…
https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/community-tracks/
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Soon, someone should make sure to submit a track proposal. I'm not on the track selection committee so I can't promise acceptance, but I suspect what's called for is a pro forma proposal — noting the success of your event last year & include the attendee count you had from that.
From there, if accepted, someone from #SFC will be in touch on next steps.
https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/community-tracks/
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Have you considered global entry? I mean, every USA government program could disappear soon, but Global Entry is still running & while you have to do an interview w/ CBP, once you have it, typically you do not even need to talk with an agent to enter. Even non-citizens can get it.
It does require your fingerprints & photo to go in federal database (I.e., Palantir gets them), but I was already in that database from 1990s when I taught high school, which requires a federal background check.
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Have you considered global entry? I mean, every USA government program could disappear soon, but Global Entry is still running & while you have to do an interview w/ CBP, once you have it, typically you do not even need to talk with an agent to enter. Even non-citizens can get it.
It does require your fingerprints & photo to go in federal database (I.e., Palantir gets them), but I was already in that database from 1990s when I taught high school, which requires a federal background check.
@bkuhn yeah, we both have global entry. My wife just got it. But I heard they can easily rip it away too. Saw a few posts about it on LinkedIn. You can't really trust these guys either way. Safer to fly in.
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@bkuhn yeah, we both have global entry. My wife just got it. But I heard they can easily rip it away too. Saw a few posts about it on LinkedIn. You can't really trust these guys either way. Safer to fly in.
Yes, people lose Global Entry for (e.g.) showing up to protest ICE actions.
The #Palantir app (that ICE uses) accesses all federal photos. Hence,I don't let TSA photograph me at
security.
Yes, CBP & FBI already have my photo, but if the photos are what is now allowing full information sharing between divisions of #Trump's corporation (er,I mean the federal government), I wanna thwart that.
FWIW, I give a hard time to #ICE & #TSA (but not #CBP & I've not had my Global Entry revoked — yet
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