edited carol smith's bio.

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<h2>Cory Doctorow, Electronic Frontier Foundation</h2>
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<p><em>Beyond unfree: The software you can go to jail for talking about</em></p>
<p>Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and
blogger — the co-editor of <a href="http://www.boingboing.net">Boing Boing</a> and the author of many
books, most recently <em>In Real Life</em>, a graphic novel; <em>Information
Doesn't Want to be Free</em>, a book about earning a living in the
Internet age; and <em>Homeland</em>, the award-winning, best-selling sequel
to the 2008 young adult novel <em>Little Brother</em>.</p>
<p>Serving as a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation
on several occasions, he is currently working with them on Apollo
1201, an anti-Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) campaign. He
co-founded the peer-to-peer free software company OpenCola, and serves
on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture
Foundation, the Clarion Foundation, the Metabrainz Foundation and The
Glenn Gould Foundation.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY 4.0</a> and courtesy of Alex Schoenfeldt.</em></p>
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<p><em>When we fight we win: Technology and liberation in Trump’s America</em></p>
<p><a href="https://privacysos.org/blog">Kade Crockford</a> is the Director of the <a href="https://aclum.org/our-work/projects/technology-for-liberty/">Technology for Liberty
Program</a> at the ACLU of Massachusetts. Kade works to protect and
expand core First and Fourth Amendment rights and civil liberties in
the digital 21st century, focusing on how systems of surveillance
control and impact not just society in general but also their primary
targets—people of color, Muslims, immigrants, and dissidents.</p>
<p>The Technology for Liberty Program aims to use our unprecedented
access to information and communication to protect us, from
dystopian monitoring and centralized control, and enrich open
society and individual rights by implementing basic reforms to
ensure our new tools do not create inescapable digital cages
limiting what we see, hear, think, and do. Towards that end, Kade
researches, strategizes, writes, lobbies, and educates the public on
issues ranging from the wars on drugs and terror to warrantless
electronic surveillance.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY 4.0</a> and courtesy of the ACLU of Massachusetts.</em></p>
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<h2>Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset Consulting</h2>
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<p>Sumana Harihareswara first started using GNU/Linux in the late
1990s. Since then, she has contributed to a number of projects
(including GNOME, MediaWiki, Zulip, and GNU Mailman), and become a
leader, speaker, and advocate for free software and communities. From
2014-2015, she served as a member of the Ada Initiative Board of
Directors. She has been a community manager, writer, and project
manager, working with Collabora, GNOME, QuestionCopyright.org, Fog
Creek Software, Behavior, and Salon.com.</p>
<p>As a writer, her work appears on the website of her consultancy,
<a href="https://changeset.nyc/resources.html">Changeset Consulting</a>, as well as her <a href="https://www.harihareswara.net/ces.shtml">personal blog</a>. She has
written for numerous publications, including Crooked Timber, Geek
Feminism, GNOME Journal, Linux World News, Model View Culture, Linux
World News, GNOME Journal, The Recompiler, and Tor.com. In 2009, she
co-edited and co-published the Thoughtcrime Experiments anthology.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY 4.0</a> and courtesy of Parker Higgins.</em></p>
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<p>Richard is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983
he announced the project to develop the <a href="https://www.gnu.org">GNU operating
system</a>, a Unix-like operating system meant to be
entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever
since. With that announcement Richard also launched the Free Software
Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.</p>
<p>Since the mid-1990s, Richard has spent most of his time in political
advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the
movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and
dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Richard developed
a number of widely used software components of GNU, including the
original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger
(gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating
system.</p>
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<p><em>Algorithmic bias: Where it comes from and what to do about it</em></p>
<p>Dr. Ajunwa is a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and an incoming Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Cornell’s ILR School. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University and was previously a practicing attorney. She has published extensively on issues arising in the workplace. Her most recent paper on workplace wellness programs was published by the Harvard Business Review. Her forthcoming article on privacy and discrimination issues regarding the use of big data in the workplace, "Limitless Worker Surveillance," is forthcoming from the California Law Review and was endorsed by the NY Times Editorial Board. Her opinions and commentary on big data issues have been featured in the NY Times, the Guardian, CNN, Bloomberg, and other major media outlets. Her forthcoming book, "The Quantified Worker" will be published by the Cambridge University Press.</p>
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<p><em>A free software portfolio: The importance of free software in computer science</em></p>
<p>Tom Callaway is the Education Outreach team lead at Red Hat, and a Red
Hat employee since 2001. He is a co-author of <em>Raspberry Pi Hacks</em>
(O'Reilly, 2013). Formerly, Tom was the Fedora Engineering Manager,
Fedora Packaging Committee Chair, a Fedora Board Member, and a Fedora
Engineering Steering Committee Member. He maintains over 300 free
software packages in Fedora, and serves on the Software Freedom
Conservancy's Evaluation Committee. In his spare time, he enjoys
gaming, geocaching, pinball, hockey, and science fiction.</p>
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<p><em>Batten down the hatches - A non-technical security workshop for activists</em></p>
<p>Albert Carter is a programmer at MIT CSAIL's Big Data
Initiative. Outside of the office, he works on issues surrounding
environmental activism, bicycles, and rock climbs.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC-BY 3.0</a> and courtesy of Jon Evans.</em></p>
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<p><em>Verifying software freedom with reproducible builds</em>
<em>You, too, can write reproducible software!</em></p>
<p>Vagrant Cascadian is a free software developer involved in the the
Debian project, the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP), and as a
system administrator for an ARM build farm for Reproducible
Builds. You can find Vagrant on social networks such as the OpenPGP
web of trust and the Debian Bug Tracking system!</p>
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<p><em>Rock and roll bands and free software projects: A comparative analysis</em></p>
<p>Pamela S. Chestek is the principal of Chestek Legal in Raleigh, North
Carolina. She counsels creative communities on open source, brand,
marketing and copyright matters. Prior to returning to private
practice, she held in-house positions at footwear, apparel, and high
technology companies and was an adjunct law professor teaching a
course on trademark law and unfair competition. She is a frequent
author of scholarly articles, and her blog, Property, Intangible,
provides analysis of current intellectual property case law. Pam has a
Bachelor of Fine Arts from Penn State and a Juris Doctor from the
Western New England University School of Law. She is admitted to
practice in Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, New
York and North Carolina, and has been certified by the North Carolina
Board of Legal Specialization in Trademark Law.</p>
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<p><em>Algorithmic bias: Where it comes from and what to do about it</em></p>
<p>Geoff A. Cohen, Ph.D. is a Vice President of Digital Forensics in
Stroz Friedberg’s Boston office. He has extensive experience working
with clients on intellectual property matters. Geoff has acted as an
expert in multiple cases in state court, federal court, and the
International Trade Commission (ITC). He has also assisted government
agencies in matters including privacy issues resulting from data
breaches and software asset valuation. His expertise includes software
development practices, mobile platforms, security, and distributed
systems.</p>
<p>Previously, he led the Internet Security &amp; Privacy working group at
the M.I.T. Communications Futures Program, and worked with the
National Academies’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. He
has also worked for Ernst &amp; Young, IBM, and Data General. From
1992-1994, he worked as an analyst in the National Security Division
of the Congressional Budget Office.</p>
<p>He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery’s Public
Policy Council (USACM).</p>
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<p><em>The GNU philosophy: Ethics beyond ethics</em></p>
<p>Marianne Corvellec has been a free software activist with <a href="https://april.org/">April</a>
since 2011, becoming a board member in 2015. Professionally, she
specializes in data science and software engineering. Her community
work includes teaching with <a href="https://software-carpentry.org/">Software Carpentry</a> and <a href="http://www.datacarpentry.org/">Data Carpentry</a>.</p>
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<p><em>Freedom and loathing on the campaign trail '16</em></p>
<p>Remy DeCausemaker is a Hackademic who studies communities of contributors to help them work together to use their powers for good. He has helped see through a number of firsts for the Free Software Movement: the first Academic Minor in Free/Open Source Software and Free Culture at a university in the United States at RIT, the first Community Action &amp; Impact Lead for the Fedora Linux distro, and most recently, the first FOSS Community Manager for a Presidential Campaign or US National Political Party. He's a career civic hacker who fights for the users, and wears the suit so hackers don't have to.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY 4.0</a>.</em></p>
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<p><em>Aibohphobia and the Reifier's Schadenfreude</em></p>
<p><a href="http://demare.st/">Luke Demarest</a> is a visual artist interested in
free culture, human rights, and language. He is a facilitator at
<a href="http://www.theblackspace.org/">Blackspace</a> and a member at
<a href="http://www.hacdc.org/">HacDC</a>. Previously, he was a web engineer at
<a href="http://www.rosettastone.com/">Rosetta Stone</a>, an artist-in-residence
at the <a href="http://americanunderground.com/">American Underground</a>, and
worked on <a href="http://johncage.org/2012/">John Cage Centennial</a> events as
a principal project manager at the <a href="http://www.mountainlakeworkshop.com/">Mountain Lake
Workshop</a>. He has a BFA from the
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDbgNyPSXYw">School of Visual Arts</a>
at Virginia Tech.</p>
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<p><em>Animated GIF workshop with Gimp </em></p>
<p>Máirín Duffy learned the downside of proprietary software before her career even started: student projects she'd completed her freshman year of college were bitrot by her senior year. She is now a passionate advocate for the use of free software, particularly creative software like Gimp and Inkscape. Máirín uses free software exclusively for her award-winning design work at Red Hat and has taught numerous workshops to share her knowledge at local schools, tech conferences, and community organizations. She is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat's Boston area office and works on the Fedora project.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY 3.0</a>.</em></p>
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<p><em>Text, layout, and calligraphy on the Arabic Web</em></p>
<p>Nick is a traveling web developer and mapmaker. In the past he has
worked with One Laptop per Child, Code for America, the Museum of
Modern Art, and the Asia Foundation. In 2016-17 Nick helped add
right-to-left language support in the OpenStreetMap iD editor.</p>
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<p><em>Civilian Code Conservation Corps: Free software for governments of all sizes</em></p>
<p>Cecilia Donnelly is an open source specialist at <a href="https://opentechstrategies.com">Open Tech
Strategies</a> in Chicago. She has
particular experience with and interest in free software for
non-technical organizations.</p>
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<p><em>The secret life of the bitcoin blockchain</em></p>
<p>Financial activist, digital rights advocate and subversive
technologist. Bitcoin/blockchain payments technology expert and critic
from the non-right-wing minority within the crypto
community. B.Sci. in Theoretical Mathematics. National Science
Foundation merit scholar.</p>
<p>Currently co-producing the Hacktivist Village, a programme inspired by
hacker ethos exploring evolving structures of power within society, in
an art &amp; music gathering setting. Booked RMS to come to speak to his
first music festival crowd at Symbiosis Gathering, who were blown away
by free software philosophy.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY 3.0</a>.</em></p>
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<h2>Christian Fernandez</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Pentesting loves free software</em></p>
<p>Christian Fernandez has a wide range of skills, which he brings to
bear on the problem of cyber security from a number of different
angles: software programmer, systems architect, network engineer,
ethical hacker, and of course cybersecurity specialist.</p>
<p>Starting in 1994, he was associated with the seminal Spanish hacking
collective BBK, where he went by the name ReK2WiLdS or ReK2. Growing
up in Spain, he moved to the US at the age of 28, where he currently
lives and works.</p>
<p>A strong believer in freedom, liberty, and privacy in cyberspace, he
has collaborated with the FSF and Electonic Frontier Foundataion
(EFF), and was the co-creator of Binary Freedom, a digital rights
advocate group which operated between 2004 and 2009.</p>
<p>He has been a FLOSS developer since its early days in 1997, working on
high visibility projects such as the KDE Desktop for the libre
operating system Gnewsense.</p>
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<h2>Mike Gerwitz</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>The surreptitious assault on privacy, security, and freedom</em></p>
<p><a href="https://counterpoint.info">Mike Gerwitz</a> is a free software hacker and activist with a focus
on privacy and security.  He is a <a href="https://github.com/kadtools/kad">GNU</a> maintainer and does various
volunteer work for GNU, including software evaluation and
administrative tasks.  Mike spends much of his free time with his wife
and two sons; his remaining free time is spent primarily on hacking,
research, volunteer work, and activism.  Other hobbies include
caffeine consumption and never-ending home renovations.</p>
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<h2>Denver Gingerich</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>A fully-free cell phone experience, no baseband required</em></p>
<p><a href="http://ossguy.com/">Denver</a> is the founder and lead developer of
<a href="https://jmp.chat/">JMP</a>, a free software chat gateway that lets you
text and call people using a real phone number without a phone, part
of the <a href="http://soprani.ca/">Soprani.ca</a> projects. Denver also works
part-time managing the technical side of Software Freedom
Conservancy's license compliance work, triaging new reports and
verifying complete corresponding source. He has previously written
free software magnetic stripe reader firmware and desktop tools and
has patches accepted into GNU wdiff, Wine, and the kernel named Linux.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/">CC-BY-SA 3.0</a> and courtesy of Christopher Vollick.</em></p>
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<h2>Shauna Gordon-McKeon</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Move fast and break democracy</em></p>
<p>Shauna Gordon-McKeon is an independent researcher and developer who
focuses on free technologies and communities. She runs a business,
Galaxy Rise Consulting, providing web and mobile development and data
science services to individuals and organizations. She can often be
found using her skills as a writer, public speaker, and teacher to
help free software and open science communities more accessible to
newcomers.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY 3.0</a> and courtesy of Nick Taft.</em></p>
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<h2>Ben Green</h2>
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</header>
<p><em>Algorithmic bias: Where it comes from and what to do about it</em></p>
<p>Ben is a PhD Candidate studying Applied Mathematics at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society. His primary areas of study are the uses of data and technology by city governments; the intersection of data, algorithms, and social justice; and the impacts of algorithms and technology on society. Ben is currently on leave for the 2016-2017 academic year on a fellowship to work for the City of Boston Analytics Team.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY 3.0</a>.</em></p>
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<h2>Wm Salt Hale</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Contacts to connections: CRM funneling for FLOSS projects</em></p>
<p><strong>William Hale</strong>, aka <strong>Salt</strong>, is a Seattle local who studies
Technology and Society at the University of Washington (UW) Department
of Communication.</p>
<p>He focuses on Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and Culture;
Hackers, Makers, and Breakers; and Computer-Mediated Communication
using real-time synchronous systems.</p>
<p>William attends, organizes, and speaks worldwide at: conferences,
conventions, events, festivals, and faires; on the topics of
crowdmatching, communication, indieweb, infosec, gnu/linux, music, and
sci-fi/fantasy. He is very approachable and will always be found
wearing a kilt.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/">CC-BY-SA 3.0</a> and courtesy of <a href="https://julieannenoying.com/">Julie Anne Noying</a>.</em></p>
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<h2>Gordon Hall</h2>
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</header>
<p><em>Striking at the roots: An ecological analysis of mass surveillance</em></p>
<p>Gordon Hall is a hacker, activist, and founding member of the
decidedly anarchist <a href="https://counterpoint.info">Counterpoint Hackerspace</a>, a free learning
collective. Notable works include <a href="https://github.com/kadtools/kad">kadtools</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Storj/core">storj</a>, <a href="https://github.com/Storj/kfs">kfs</a>,
and <a href="https://github.com/bookchin/diglet">diglet</a>.</p>
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<h2>Zeeshan Hasan</h2>
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</header>
<p><em>Running a TV channel with free software</em></p>
<p>Zeeshan Hasan is managing director of Sysnova Information Systems, a
free software-based ERP consultancy in Bangladesh.</p>
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<h2>Tiberius Hefflin</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>The monster on the project</em></p>
<p>Tibbs recently graduated from the University of West of Scotland with
a degree in computer security. She has relocated to Portland, OR,
where she evangelizes for privacy and security while doing security
assurance work for Portland General Electric. She is passionate about
encouraging small children to take the plunge into STEM and about
laughing at cats on the internet.</p>
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<h2>Joey Hess</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Securely backing up GnuPG private keys...to the cloud‽</em></p>
<p>Joey has been developing free software for 20 years. He is best known
for his long involvement in the Debian project, where he led the
development of the Debian Installer, and created Debian tools like
alien, debhelper, debconf, and pristine-tar. Outside the Debian
project, Joey's best known free software projects include git-annex,
ikiwiki, and etckeeper. He lately uses Haskell for most projects.</p>
<p>Joey lives deep in the woods in the Appalachian mountains of
Tennessee, subsisting on solar power and communicating largely through
git pull and push over a dialup modem line.</p>
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<h2>Chris Hofstader</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Security, privacy, free software and accessibility</em></p>
<p>Chris Hofstader is the former director of access technology for Free
Software Foundation. He has worked in the accessibility field
professionally for 18 years and now serves as an activist on
disability and technology related issues. Chris writes one of the most
popular independent blogs in the accessibility field
(www.hofstader.com) and is considered one of the leading experts and
most notable critics in the field.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY 3.0</a> and courtesy of Chris Hofstader.</em></p>
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<hgroup>
<h2>Helen Jiang</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Machine learning: Key battleground for free technology</em></p>
<p>Trained in Mathematics and Statistics, Helen now does research at the
intersection of machine learning and security. She has worked on
exciting projects and explored many areas of knowledge in management
consulting, tech start-ups, and non-profits. When not writing code,
building/breaking things, and pondering on FLOSS, she enjoys learning
new languages (both the spoken and the programming kind), fencing, and
long-distance running.</p>
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<h2>Alex Jordan</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Pump.io - The federated, extensible social network</em></p>
<p>AJ Jordan is an 18-year-old programmer and system administrator from
Seattle, WA. He's been contributing to free software for several years
and in particular is the primary maintainer of the pump.io reference
implementation, as well as a comaintainer of prism-break.org.  He
self-hosts almost every internet service he uses, and is passionate
about security, privacy, good UX, and freedom. In his spare time he
enjoys photography and poetry.  He is currently living in New York
City attending the <a href="https://recurse.com">Recurse Center</a> over his gap
year before attending college in the fall.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY 4.0</a> and courtesy of Laura Welland.</em></p>
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<h2>Rabimba Karanjai</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Turning sensors into signals: Free your IoT from walled gardens with JavaScript</em></p>
<p>Full Time Graduate Researcher, part time hacker and FOSS enthusiast I
used to write code for IBM Watson and do a bunch of other things at
their lab . At present crawling my way towards a PhD at RICE
University.</p>
<p>I contribute with Mozilla in WebVR,Security and Emerging Technologies
team and also a Mozilla TechSpeaker. Have been recognized for the
contribution in firefox in it's about:credits page</p>
<p><em>Creative Commons Attribution 3.0</em></p>
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<h2>Spencer Krum</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Introduction to Ansible</em></p>
<p>Spencer (nibalizer) Krum (<a href="http://spencerkrum.com">http://spencerkrum.com</a>) has been sysoping
Linux since 2010. He works for IBM contributing upstream to OpenStack
and Puppet. Spencer is a core contributor to the OpenStack
Infrastructure Project. Spencer coordinates the local DevOps user
group in Portland and volunteers for an ops-training program at
Portland State University called the Braindump. Spencer is a published
author and frequent speaker at technical conferences. Spencer is a
maintainer for the voxpupuli effort(<a href="https://voxpupuli.org">https://voxpupuli.org</a>), which
attempts to bring together a network of Puppet developers, modules,
and infrastructure.</p>
<p>Spencer lives and works in Portland, Oregon where he enjoys tennis,
cheeseburgers and StarCraft II.</p>
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<h2>Bradley Kuhn</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Understanding the complexity of copyleft defense</em></p>
<p>Bradley M. Kuhn is the Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom
Conservancy, on FSF's Board of Directors &amp; editor-in-chief of
copyleft.org. Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement in
1992 as a volunteer developer &amp; early adopter of GNU/Linux. He worked
during the 1990s as a system administrator &amp; software
developer. Kuhn's charity career began in 2000 at FSF. As FSF's
Executive Director from 2001–2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement,
launched its Associate Member program &amp; invented Affero GPL. Since
2006, Kuhn has worked with Conservancy in various volunteer &amp; staff
roles.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY 4.0</a>.</em></p>
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<h2>Bassam Kurdali</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Procedural 3D animation in Blender</em></p>
<p>Bassam is a 3D generalist filmmaker whose 2006 short, Elephants Dream,
was the first ‘open movie’. It established the viability of libre
tools in a production environment and set precedent by offering its
source data under a permissive license for learning, remixing and
re-use. Bassam is continuing to pursue a model of production that
invests in commonwealth. They teach, write and lecture around the
world on open production and free software technique. Raised in
Damascus, Bassam trained in the United States as an electrical and
software engineer.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY 3.0</a> and courtesy of Fateh Slavitsky.</em></p>
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<hgroup>
<h2>Ximin Luo</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>You, too, can write reproducible software!</em></p>
<p>Ximin Luo is a Debian Developer working for the Reproducible Builds project. In his spare time he also plays with Haskell, OCaml, Rust, cryptography, and secure and decentralized communications protocols.</p>
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<h2>Tom Marble</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Fixing trust on the Internet</em></p>
<p>Tom Marble is the founder of Informatique, Inc., a consultancy which
leverages his hardware, software and intellectual property background
for client projects as diverse as telematics for electric vehicles,
probabilistic modeling, temporal planning visualization, autonomous
cyber defense, and multiplayer online gaming.</p>
<p>Marble is committed to increasing diversity in technology by
organizing ClojureBridge, a weekend workshop for women to learn the
Clojure programming language. He has also been a long time contributor
to the Debian project by participating on the Java Team.</p>
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<h2>Micky Metts</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>A role for free software in movements, communities, and platform cooperativism</em></p>
<p>Micky Metts is a member of Agaric, a worker-owned tech
cooperative. Known as an activist hacker, industry organizer, public
speaker , author, connector, advisor, and visionary. Micky acts as a
liaison between the Solidarity Economy Network (SEN) and The United
States Federation of Worker Cooperatives, with an intention to bring
communities together. A member of FSF.org and Drupal.org, a community
based on free software, Micky grew up in Weston, CT, and now lives in
Boston, MA, with long-time partner John M. Crisman.</p>
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<h2>Eben Moglen</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>The free software movement in the age of Trump</em></p>
<p>Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center. Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's leading free software developers. He earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his “long, dark period” in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School since 1987 and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Virginia. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society. Professor Moglen is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States Supreme Court.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY 3.0</a>.</em></p>
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<h2>Deborah Nicholson</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Patents, copyrights and trademarks: Won't someone please think of the children?</em></p>
<p>Patents, copyrights and trademark rights have been growing and
expanding in scope and application. In most cases, it seems the
original intent of spurring innovation or protecting creators has
gotten a bit lost, if not completely inverted. Certainly, there must
be a way to support inventors without enabling predators and protect
creators without empowering trolls. We need to slay our own monsters,
instead of leaving them for the next generation.</p>
<p>If you've ever wondered why a smell can be trademarked or why math
can, no... can't, well... maybe gets patented, then this talk is for
you. The kids of tomorrow might not want to sample our music or work
with our legacy codebases, but they won't thank us for taking the
option off the table. There are many entities that are highly invested
in endless copyright, creative trademark enforcement or patent
maximalism, but what do they want? More importantly, how can they be
stopped? It won't be easy, but there are some things you can do.</p>
<p>This talk will cover why it feels so darned difficult to get common
sense policies in place. You'll learn about some likely avenues for
political disruption, aka lobbying, voting and affecting
policy. Consider attending this talk, for the children.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY 4.0</a> and courtesy of Ernie Kim.</em></p>
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<hgroup>
<h2>Alexandre Oliva</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>The post-truth Santa Claus and the concealed present</em></p>
<p>FSF Latin America board member. LibrePlanet São Paulo activist. GNU
speaker. Free Software evangelist. Maintainer of GNU Linux-libre, and
co-maintainer of the GNU Compiler Collection, GNU binutils and GNU
libc. GNU tools engineer at Red Hat Brasil.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY 3.0</a> and courtesy of Islene C. Garcia.</em></p>
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<h2>Andrew Oram</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Algorithmic bias: Where it comes from and what to do about it</em></p>
<p>Andy Oram is a writer and editor at O'Reilly Media. As editor, he
brought to publication O'Reilly's Linux series, the ground-breaking
book <em>Peer-to-Peer</em>, and the best-seller <em>Beautiful Code</em>. In print,
his articles have appeared in <em>The Economist</em>, <em>Communications of the
ACM</em>, <em>Copyright World</em>, the <em>Journal of Information Technology &amp;
Politics</em>, <em>Vanguardia Dossier</em>, and <em>Internet Law and
Business</em>. Conferences where he has presented talks include O'Reilly's
Open Source Convention, FISL (Brazil), FOSDEM, and DebConf. He also
participated in a panel about free software in government at the 2014
LibrePlanet conference. Andy participates in several groups in the
Association for Computing Machinery policy organization, USACM. He
also writes for various web sites about health IT and about issues in
computing and policy.</p>
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<h2>Conor Schaefer</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>SecureDrop: Leaking safely to modern news organizations</em></p>
<p>Conor Schaefer is the Senior DevOps Engineer for Freedom of the Press
Foundation, specializing in automation and deployment for the
SecureDrop platform. He has taught computer literacy and IT
certification courses for the underprivileged, and worked as a GNU/Linux
sysadmin and developer for academic researchers.</p>
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<h2>Michael Scherer</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>The importance of community-managed infrastructure</em></p>
<p>Michael Scherer works on the Open Source and Standards team at Red
hat, focusing on infrastructure issues. He lives in Paris, and he
often speaks at events and gives tutorials to help free software
communities.</p>
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<h2>Eric Schultz</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Will the FCC still ban your operating system? (Maybe.)</em></p>
<p>Eric Schultz is an independent software engineer and free software
consultant. Currently, he is the Community Manager at prpl Foundation
with a particular focus on building the OpenWrt community. Prior to
this, Eric worked as Developer Advocate at Outercurve Foundation where
he managed and supported the foundation’s 25 free software
projects. Eric has collaborated with employees from dozens of
companies to create free software that improves lives. He has a
passion for the promise and reality of free software, with a focus on
empowering individuals, particularly in marginalized groups, with more
control over their everyday lives. Eric lives in Appleton, Wisconsin
where outside of work he enjoys developing free software, watching the
Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Bucks, and tweeting about technology,
politics, sports and his Yorkie, Penelope.</p>
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<h2>Andrew Seeder</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Technology for direct actions</em></p>
<p>Andrew Seeder is an organizer at the <a href="https://www.dsni.org">Dudley Street Neighborhood
Initiative in Roxbury</a>. He is on the Technology
Working Group for the <a href="https://bostonujimaproject.com">Boston Ujima
Project</a>. He helps run
<a href="https://cryptoparty.in/boston">cryptoparties</a>. He is building Boston
Meshnet with friends. Tweet him at
<a href="https://twitter.com/ahseeder">@ahseeder</a>. 3B48 B4BE F922 B906.</p>
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<h2>Mustafa Shameem</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Prospects for free software and free culture in the workplace</em></p>
<p>Mustafa Shameem is a developer turned management/technology consultant
advising Fortune 500 financial firms on strategy, project management,
and software delivery. Additionally, he's an advocate for FOSS (Free
and Open-Source Software), free culture, and cooperative, democratic
forms of workplace organization. He currently works for EY as a
Manager in Banking Technology Solution Delivery practice.</p>
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<h2>Brett Smith</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Meet them where they are: Free software and social justice today</em></p>
<p>Brett Smith is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Software
Freedom Conservancy. He works on a variety of the organization's
programs, including project membership, outreach, and non-profit
accounting. Over the years he's held a variety of advocacy and
technical roles in free software. In the past he's been a developer
and product manager at free software bioinformatics startup Curoverse;
a system administration at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); and a
license compliance engineer at the FSF.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC-BY 3.0</a>.</em></p>
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<h2>Carol Smith</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>The set of programmers: How math restricts us</em></p>
<p>Carol Smith is a director of the Open Source Initiative. She has worked as 
an Education Partnership Program Manager at GitHub. Before GitHub, she 
managed the Google Summer of Code program for 6 years and worked at 
Google for over 10 years. She has a degree in Journalism from 
California State University, Northridge, and is a cook, 
cyclist, and horseback rider.</p>
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<img alt="[ Noah Swarz - Photo ]" class="img-responsive" src="https://my.fsf.org/sites/default/files/webform/hacker.jpg"/>
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<h2>Noah Swartz</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Let's encrypt office hours</em></p>
<p>Noah is a Staff Technologist on the Tech Projects team. He works on the various software the EFF produces and maintains, including but not limited to Privacy Badger and Certbot. Noah also works on the security and training materials that EFF uses to teach people about internet security and privacy.</p>
<p>Before joining EFF Noah was a researcher at the MIT Media Lab as well as a free software/culture advocate. Noah is an avid conference organizer and has organized events such as the Roguelike Celebration, LineConf, and the Stupid Shit That Nobody Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon. He lives in the Mission District of San Francisco with his family of twitterbots.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY 3.0</a>.</em></p>
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<h2>Robinson Tryon</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Free software &amp; the law: A lighthearted trip down memory laney</em></p>
<p>Robinson has over a decade of experience in FOSS development,
organization, &amp; outreach, with an emphasis on Serious Games,
productivity, &amp; Higher Ed.</p>
<p>Currently the Director of FOSS Strategy at the LOT Network, he was
Senior QA Engineer for The Document Foundation (TDF), Senior Developer
At the Interactive Media Lab at the Geisel School of Medicine, &amp;
technical consultant at Tiltfactor Game Lab for Digital Humanities at
Dartmouth College.</p>
<p>Robinson is a regular speaker at FOSS/Tech confs in US &amp; Europe &amp;
serves on the Engineering Steering Committee for TDF.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY 4.0</a>.</em></p>
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<h2>Christopher Webber</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>The Lisp machine and GNU</em></p>
<p>Lead developer of GNU MediaGoblin, Guile and Guix enthusiast, free software and free culture activist. Works on the ActivityPub federation standard, and way too many other things.</p>
<p><em>Photo under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC-BY 4.0</a>.</em></p>
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<hgroup>
<h2>Valerie Young</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>You, too, can write reproducible software!</em></p>
<p>Valerie Young is Debian contributor who became involved in the Reproducible Builds through Outreachy. She also serves the Free Software Community from her position on the board of directors of Software in the Public Interest, Inc.</p>
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<h2>Stefano Zacchiroli</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<p><em>Software heritage: Preserving the free software commons</em></p>
<p>Stefano Zacchiroli is Associate Professor of Computer Science at
University Paris Diderot, on leave at Inria. His research interests
span formal methods, software preservation, and free software
engineering. He is co-founder and current CTO of the Software Heritage
project. He is an official member of the Debian Project since 2001,
where he was elected to serve as Debian Project Leader for three terms
in a row over from 2010-2013. He is a Board Director of the Open
Source Initiative (OSI) and recipient of the 2015 O'Reilly Open Source
Award.</p>
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