SOFTWARE FREEDOM FIRST SATURDAY: The Gathering

Start the month with your freedom-loving technical friends. Bring a machine so you can try things.

(Feel free to join our group and RSVP on OpenMeet so we can switch to a Free platform.)

Small Feats (Small is Beautiful Sessions)

Warner Losh @bsdimp - Experience the history of Unix in a PDP-11 Simulator

Explore where Unix began! Recent discoveries in a storeroom at the University of Utah have given us a glimpse at the earliest version of Unix written in C. Warner Losh will give an abbreviated version of his history-of-Unix talk and put this discovery into context. After a quick demo, he’ll show you how to run any of the early editions of Unix for which we have images. You’ll see how many familiar concepts were there at the start, discover how they grew, and learn how to run all of these from the convenience of a container.

• The Unix Heritage Society
• SIMH PDP-11 simulator

Will Dickinson @axcien - Let’s play Xonotic, a Fast, Free, Fun FPS

Xonotic is a fast-paced, free-libre arena shooter born when the Nexuiz community forked the GPL codebase. Will will demo the game live, then throw open the arena: brave, adventurous souls can jump in for a few frags. Pure fun, 100% free software. Consider installing Xonotic beforehand if you’ll want to play.

David L. Willson @DLWillson - OpenCode with OpenRouter and GLM is high quality free software coding assistance

OpenCode is libre, modal, and connects to OpenRouter like butter. Willson works in OpenCode with and on his trusty AI assistant “Chip”. Let him show you modes, sessions, models, and how to connect to OpenRouter. He’ll even give you an API key with a few bucks on it, so you can play with a big, beefy LLM. SFS is value for value

• Pay what we ask: 256 mLTC, 128 uBTC, 32 mXMR, or 16 USD
• Or pay what you choose