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El Correo Libre Issue 93
The FOSSi Foundation is storming into 2026 with planning underway for not one but two major events designed to celebrate the free and open source silicon ecosystem around the world: Down Underflow, our first Australian conference, and Latch-Up 2026.
Down Underflow 2026 Is Go!
The FOSSi Foundation's inagural Antipodean conference, Down Underflow, will be held on Saturday February 28th in Sydney, Australia.
Join us for Latch-Up 2026 at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada
The FOSSi Foundation is proud to announce Latch-Up 2026, a conference dedicated to free and open-source silicon to be held over the weekend of May 1-3 at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
