Hi all,

just letting you all know that this year’s LAC will be hosted in Maynooth, in June 18-20. 
See https://lac26.mucs.club/ for all details and the calls. It would be fantastic to see contributions
from this community to the LAC. Our own Steven Yi is one of the keynotes, so you
might want to check out his talk.

This year’s theme is LLMs and FLOSS:

## Large-language models and Free/Libre/open source software.

"I am not comfortable contributing to a project that extensively uses AI."
  - from a post found in a pull request to a github repository.

This year's LAC theme explores questions relating to the (sometimes
uneasy) relationships that may emerge between LLMs and FLOSS. This
of course has many dimensions, from the purely technical, through
to the practical, and finally to the ethical. As code repositories such
as github roll out support for third-party and their own LLM agents,
this is an area that needs vigorous discussion and assessment. It is
probably not a good idea to ignore it, as it is unlikely to go away.
It may be possible to formulate a position from the LAC community,
which we might carry forward for further consideration in other forums.
Even if such a thing cannot exist, it is still important that we put
forward our ideas in relation to this issue. Therefore, it makes good
sense to invite contributions to this theme and make it a central
point of discussion at the LAC.

- The LAC2026 organising team.
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great to see this conference hosted in maynooth, and looking forward to 
the discussion about the main subject --- which is really necessary to 
have ...
	joachim

On 13/01/2026 11:41, vlz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> just letting you all know that this year’s LAC will be hosted in Maynooth, in June 18-20.
> See https://lac26.mucs.club/ for all details and the calls. It would be fantastic to see contributions
> from this community to the LAC. Our own Steven Yi is one of the keynotes, so you
> might want to check out his talk.
> 
> This year’s theme is LLMs and FLOSS:
> 
> ## Large-language models and Free/Libre/open source software.
> 
> "I am not comfortable contributing to a project that extensively uses AI."
>    - from a post found in a pull request to a github repository.
> 
> This year's LAC theme explores questions relating to the (sometimes
> uneasy) relationships that may emerge between LLMs and FLOSS. This
> of course has many dimensions, from the purely technical, through
> to the practical, and finally to the ethical. As code repositories such
> as github roll out support for third-party and their own LLM agents,
> this is an area that needs vigorous discussion and assessment. It is
> probably not a good idea to ignore it, as it is unlikely to go away.
> It may be possible to formulate a position from the LAC community,
> which we might carry forward for further consideration in other forums.
> Even if such a thing cannot exist, it is still important that we put
> forward our ideas in relation to this issue. Therefore, it makes good
> sense to invite contributions to this theme and make it a central
> point of discussion at the LAC.
> 
> - The LAC2026 organising team.
> Csound mailing list
> Csound@listserv.heanet.ie
> https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CSOUND
> Send bugs reports to
>          https://github.com/csound/csound/issues
> Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here

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