The 2024 edition of the Balkan Computer Congress will take place on 20-22 September in Novi Sad, Serbia. Started in 2013, the BalCCon gathers the local hacker community diving in a wide variety of subjects. Organised by the Linux User group from Novi Sad, the conference features three days of talks, presentation and informal events.

While the full schedule is still to be published, we already can recommend a couple sessions that we believe could be interesting to the OSOR community: 

Protecting web applications with FOSS: fladnaG (Max); Talk45, 

Doing with free open-source software what could cost a lot, and benchmarking solutions to find the best fit.

“Ethics Based Openwashing in the AI Licensing Domain”: Niharika Singhal; Talk30
The persistent surge of AI models is witnessing novel ways of licensing them. This talk explains the recent proliferation of licenses that supposedly call themselves as open but levy additional behavioral restrictions for AI models, based on ethical considerations. This presentation seeks to emphasize how the proliferation of licenses with behavioral restrictions for AI models may impinge on software freedom and cause obstruction to a more distributed control over AI technologies and how openness in AI can be preserved by safeguarding software freedom.