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## ORConf, the sunshine edition
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The FOSSi Foundation is proud to announce the 11th installment of ORConf, a conference dedicated to free and open source silicon to be held over the weekend of Friday September 12 to Sunday September 14 in [Valencia, Spain](#venue).
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The FOSSi Foundation is proud to announce the 11th installment of ORConf, a conference dedicated to free and open source silicon to be held over the weekend of Friday September 12 to Sunday September 14 in [Valencia, Spain](#venue). It is also the 10th birthday of FOSSi Foundation, which was incorporated in ORConf 2015 in Geneva.
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ORConf is a weekend of presentations and networking for the open source silicon community. Browse through previous installments of ORConf [here](https://fossi-foundation.org/events/archive).
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### Sunday: Unconference and workshops
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On Sunday we will have an unconference and workshops to have more time for focused discussions.
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Even though the exact schedule and topics to talk about will be created together at the event, you can expect in-depth discussions with key stakeholders in Free and Open Source Silicon Projects, demo sessions, hackathrons, and more.
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Even though the exact schedule and topics to talk about will be created together at the event, you can expect in-depth discussions with key stakeholders in Free and Open Source Silicon Projects, demo sessions, hackathons, and more.
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Already booked for this year in a discussion round on sustainability and long-levity of results (tools, IP, etc.) coming out of publicly funded projects.
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#### Community Building for Publicly Funded Projects
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Many open source projects originated from an academic or industrial research environment. Over the last years we see an increasing interest from funding agencies in open source EDA tools, open source design IP and open PDKs. One of the challenges of such projects is to build sustainable communities around the project results.
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In this workshop we want to discuss experiences from publicly funded projects and jointly formulate goals and guidelines that can be useful.
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Contact: [Stefan Wallentowitz](mailto:stefan@fossi-foundation.org)
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#### Ideas for other unconference and workshops?
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For exampe, at last year's ORConf we had fantastic sessions on
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What deep-dives will we have at ORConf?
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It's up to all of us!
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Feel free to submit your ideas ahead of ORConf or propose them throughout the conference.
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## Venue
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ORConf 2025 will be held at in Valencia, Spain at the School of Informatics (ETSINF) of the Universitat Politècnica de València.

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