@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org oh, FediCon has a venue already?

@julian @bkuhn Yeah, this is the first I've heard of it!

@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.

…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

#Fediverse #Mastodon #FOSSY2026 #FOSSY26

@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!

@julian @evan @bkuhn

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.)

@bkuhn @reiver @evan @ossguy @karen
I wanted to go to FOSSY this year but I'm not keen on crossing the border. Those border patrol guys are especially nasty. Really disrespectful and I don't mean the Canadians.

@reiver @julian @bkuhn let us know if we can help.

@evan

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/
If you are familiar w/ FOSDEM DevRooms, #FOSSY tracks are loosely based on that.

Cc: @reiver @julian

#FOSSY26

@sri

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.