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<h2>Keynote speakers</h2>

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<h2>Bdale Garbee</h2>
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<p>A contributor to the Free Software community since 1979, Bdale's background
also includes many years of hardware design, Unix internals, and embedded
systems work. He was an early participant in the Debian project, helped port
Debian GNU/Linux to 5 architectures, served as Debian Project Leader, served as
chairman of the Debian Technical Committee for nearly a decade, and remains
active in the Debian community.</p>

<p>Altus Metrum, LLC, is a small business Bdale founded with Keith Packard that
designs, builds, and sells completely free hardware and free software avionics
solutions for use in high-powered model rockets.</p>

<p>For a decade, Bdale served as president of Software in the Public Interest.
He served nearly as long on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation
representing individual affiliates and the developer community. Bdale
currently serves on the boards of the Freedombox Foundation, Linux
Professional Institute, and Aleph Objects. He is also a member of the
Evaluations Committee at the Software Freedom Conservancy, and continues to
speak at GNU/Linux and free software conferences from time to time.</p>

<p>In 2008, Bdale became the first individual recipient of a Lutece d'Or award
from the Federation Nationale de l'Industrie du Logiciel Libre in France.</p>

<p>Bdale engages in a wide variety of personal activities. In addition to
high-powered model rocketry and home shop machining, he is widely known for
his contributions to the amateur radio hobby, including packet radio,
weak-signal communications, software-defined radio, and building amateur
satellites.</p>

<p><em>By Karen Garbee. This image is licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a> license.</em></p>

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<h2>Tarek Loubani</h2>
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<p>Tarek Loubani is an emergency physician who works in the London Health
Sciences Centre in Canada and Al Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. He is
also a Fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation, where he focuses on
free medical devices. Loubani's work involves gaining
self-sufficiency and local independence for medical systems such as
Gaza's through the use of free techniques.</p>

<p><em>By Tarek Loubani. This image is licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a> license.</em></p>

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<h2>Micky Metts</h2>
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<p>Micky is a member of visionary Agaric Design Collective in Boston, a tech co-op in the “free software for community building” movement, using tools like VOIP,
Drupal, and GNU/Linux. She is a liaison between the US Solidarity Economy Network (SEN) -- devoted to ongoing dialogue on building the network -- and US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), the national grassroots organization of 4,000 US worker-owners “building power with national and international partners to advance an agenda for economic justice rooted in community-based, shared ownership.” Agaric’s 5 Web developers on 3 continents build applications online, offer international webinars, and host local meetings working with organizations such as Ujima Boston, Resource Generation, CommonGood, and the Greater Boston Chamber of Cooperatives, to raise awareness of cooperative business models and local opportunities.</p>

<p>As a member of the MayFirst.org leadership committee, Micky works with technical activists to connect people with the information and tools they need to move from being a global network to being a global movement based on solidarity, the needs of a workers’ economy, free software tools that protect our freedoms, and tools for live-conferencing that are adapted so workforces can communicate in native languages from afar. Her four topic areas all converge in her presentations: community building, industry organizing, free software liberation &amp; cooperative development.</p>

<p>Micky is a member of Drupal, a community based on free software, and she writes about her experience as a contributing author in <em>Ours to Hack and to Own</em>. The book is known as the handbook for the Platform Cooperativism Movement, which was started at the New School in NYC by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider. It is now among the top tech books of 2017 listed by <em>Wired</em> magazine. Micky lives in Boston, MA, USA.</p>

<p><em>Photo of Micky Metts by Micky Metts. This image is licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a> license.</em></p>

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<h2>Richard Stallman</h2>
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<p>Since the mid-1990s, Stallman 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 programs that are components of GNU,
including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU
symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various others.</p>

<p><i>Photo of Richard Stallman by Adte.ca. This image is licensed under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a> license.*</i></p><i>
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