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"The first instance of" or so might be more clear but, yeah, the catchiness degrades with every attempt at making it clearer. One might even be lead to think that "Free and Open Source Software Yearly" is not an amazingly unambiguous name to use in a world with fosdem, t-dose, and probably others.

The word "Yearly" is already in the title. Adding "annual" seems redundant.

sounds like post-hoc justification to me, you could have been confused other way

But here's a real solution (though I don't think it was a problem needing to be solved):

"FOSSY: the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, year 1"

>> the first instance of this conference, which they intend to run yearly.

Yeah but the F is FOSSY stands for First. Either they change the name next year or it doesn't make sense.

As someone mentioned Fossdem, the is also the LibreGraphics thing, and perhaps some other smaller ones.

The name is IMHO a very poor choice. My suspicion is they actually thought this would be a first of its kind, but that would mean they are not the right people to do this.

> Yeah but the F is FOSSY stands for First

It clearly stands for "Free", where do you get that idea?

Hahha, yes! That was really stupid on my part:

>>The first Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference

Sure the word "first" is in there but it doesn't even have the capital F like Free....

Bows head in shame....

I've had a similar joke whenever I try to describe patent trolls, about how normally standards-essential patents are expected to be widely accessible, and the terms that satisfy these expectations are typically described as FRAND -- Fair, Reasonable, AND.

(...Non-Discriminatory)

Post recorded videos are good.

Live streams are better. If I decide to attend a conference remotely I tell it at work and just spend the 2 x 8 hours it takes to watch the streams. Have done it for FOSDEM several times and in recent years technical problems with the streams have been exceptional.

If I plan to look at recordings, it somehow mostly never happens. It's easy to postpone. I would not tell at work I have to watch videos.

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