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 104
 105 <p><a href="#saturday">Saturday sessions</a></p>
 106 <p><a href="#sunday">Sunday sessions</a></p>
 107 <p><a href="#social">Social events</a></p>
 108
 109                           </div>
 110                         </div>
 111 <p>All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), which is UTC - 4 hours. In room numbers, "32-" refers to MIT Building 32 (the Stata Center), where all conference rooms are located.</p>
 112
 113 <h1><a id="saturday">Saturday, 3/22</a></h1>
 114
 115 <h3>09:00 - 09:45: Registration and breakfast</h3>
 116
 117 <h2>09:45 - 10:45 Opening Keynote</h2>
 118
 119 <h3>Welcome</h3>
 120
 121 <p><em>John Sullivan, executive director, Free Software Foundation</em></p>
 122 <p><strong>Room 32-123</strong>  </p>
 123 <h3>Keynote</h3>
 124
 125 <p><em>Sue Gardner, outgoing executive director, Wikimedia Foundation</em></p>
 126 <p><strong>Room 32-123</strong>  </p>
 127 <h3>10:45 - 10:55 | Break</h3>
 128
 129 <h2>10:55 - 11:40 | Session block 1</h2>
 130
 131 <h3>Fighting surveillance with free software</h3>
 132
 133 <p><em>Holmes Wilson</em> <br />
 134 <strong>Room 32-123 | Thread: Surveillance</strong> <br />
 135 Millions of people have demanded an end to the NSA's mass spying programs. But we can't rely on governments to end government surveillance. Free software and end-to-end crypto is key. To protect the world from bulk spying, we need to make software that's secure <em>and</em> easy to use.</p>
 136
 137 <h3>Opus, Daala, and free codec updates</h3>
 138
 139 <p><em>Gregory Maxwell, Monty Montgomery</em> <br />
 140 <strong>Room 32-141 | Thread: Projects</strong> <br />
 141 An update on the the Xiph.Org Foundation's free codec projects, focusing on the next generation Opus and Daala codecs, and where we plan to go with development and advocacy in the near future.</p>
 142
 143 <h3>Respects Your Freedom hardware certification</h3>
 144
 145 <p><em>Joshua Gay</em> <br />
 146 <strong>Room 32-151 | Applied free software</strong>
 147 The "Respects Your Freedom" device certification
 148 program encourages the creation and sale of hardware that will do as
 149 much as possible to respect your freedom and your privacy, and will
 150 ensure that you have control over the devices you own. Learn about the
 151 certification process, certified products, the companies behind them, and our vision and hopes for the future.</p>
 152
 153 <h3>Lightning talks</h3>
 154
 155 <p><em>Facilitator: Donald Robertson</em> <br />
 156 <strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
 157 Lightning talks are short presentations given by conference attendees on free software topics they're passionate about. Come to any or all of the three sessions to talk or just listen. <a href="https://libreplanet.org/2014/lightning">Register to give a talk</a>. If you have slides, bring them on a flash drive before you plan to talk.</p>
 158
 159 <h3>11:40 - 11:50 | Break</h3>
 160
 161 <h2>11:50 - 12:35 | Session block 2</h2>
 162
 163 <h3>An overview of OpenPGP</h3>
 164
 165 <p><em>Paul Tagliamonte</em> <br />
 166 <strong>Room 32-123 | Thread: Surveillance</strong> <br />
 167 OpenPGP is the standard upon which modern cryptography systems are built upon. The Free Software OpenPGP implementation, GnuPG, is used ubiquitously throughout the free software world, and many people depend on safe and secure communications while using it. This talk will cover the basics of OpenPGP's format, and a very brief overview of how crypto systems, such as GnuPG, encode and send your data. This talk may assume technical knowledge for some parts.</p>
 168
 169 <h3>Get started contributing to MediaWiki</h3>
 170
 171 <p><em>Mark Holmquist</em> <br />
 172 <strong>Room 32-141 | Thread: Projects</strong> <br />
 173 In this session, we'll lay the groundwork for working with the MediaWiki software, a PHP and JavaScript Web application that, through extensions, can be used for a great many purposes. You may be familiar with MediaWiki from Wikipedia, the Free Software Directory, or one of the thousands of other independent wikis that run the software.</p>
 174
 175 <h3>Considering the future of copyleft: how will the next generation perceive GPL?</h3>
 176
 177 <p><em>Bradley Kuhn</em> <br />
 178 <strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
 179 Copyleft licenses, particularly the GPL and LGPL, are widely used throughout the free software community. Over the last few years, recent debates have led many to various conclusions about the popularity of copyleft. This talk will discuss where copyleft stands today, how it interacts with the modern free software world, and how copyleft advocates may need to adapt to th future of Free Software licensing.</p>
 180
 181 <h3>Lightning talks continued</h3>
 182
 183 <p><em>Facilitator: Donald Robertson</em> <br />
 184 <strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
 185 Lightning talks are short presentations given by conference attendees on free software topics they're passionate about. Come to any or all of the three sessions to talk or just listen. <a href="https://libreplanet.org/2014/lightning">Register to give a talk</a>. If you have slides, bring them on a flash drive before you plan to talk.</p>
 186
 187 <h2>12:35 - 13:50 | Lunch</h2>
 188
 189 <h2>13:50 - 14:35 | Session block 3</h2>
 190
 191 <h3>Your Web apps should talk not just in English, but in español, Kiswahili, 廣州話, and অসমীয়া too</h3>
 192
 193 <p><em>Sucheta Ghoshal</em> <br />
 194 <strong>Room 32-123 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
 195 This talk aims to help web developers understand what localization is and why it is important. In this talk I will explain, how MediaWiki/Wikipedia - arguably the biggest and most localized projects on the Internet - handle internationalization, how you can do it for your own apps, via jQuery.i18n (or other frameworks), and I will also talk about TranslateWiki.net, a place for free software projects to get their strings translated.</p>
 196
 197 <h3>Celebrating one decade of Trisquel GNU/Linux</h3>
 198
 199 <p><em>Ruben Rodriguez Perez</em> <br />
 200 <strong>Room 32-141 | Thread: Projects</strong> <br />
 201 This year is the 10th anniversary of the fully free GNU/Linux distribution Trisquel. We will take a sneak peek of the upcoming 7.0 version "Belenos" and unveil plans for the very near future. These plans will include a renewed effort in creating educational software and improved online tools for the community, both for users and developers.</p>
 202
 203 <h3>Geek knowing: from FAQ to feminism 101</h3>
 204
 205 <p><em>Joseph Reagle</em> <br />
 206 <strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
 207 In addition to information sharing and helpfulness, geek culture has a complementary norm obliging others to educate themselves on rudimentary topics. This obligation to know is expressed by way of jargon-laden exhortations such as "check the FAQ"(frequently asked questions) and "RTFM" (read the fucking manual). Additionally, the geek lexicon includes designations of the stature of the knower and the extent of what he or she knows (e.g., "newbie"). Online feminists, especially "geek feminists," are similarly beset by naive or disruptive questions, and demonstrate and further their geekiness through the deployment of the obligation to know, with some interesting differences. For instance, geek feminism includes a term for designating rudimentary (i.e., "101") knowledge, for "derailing" questions, and has novel concerns with respect to stature and extent of knowing (e.g., the Unicorn Law, impostor syndrome, and mansplaining).</p>
 208
 209 <h3>Free Software Directory sprint</h3>
 210
 211 <p><em>Facilitator: Joshua Gay</em> <br />
 212 <strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
 213 Tens of thousands of people visit the Free Software Directory each month to discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions, to providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info. Stop by any or all of the three sessions today to help improve existing entries, add to new ones, or to find out about our latest efforts, such as importing package info from GNU/Linux distributions. No experience required.</p>
 214
 215 <h3>14:35 - 14:45 | Break</h3>
 216
 217 <h2>14:45 - 16:05 | Session block 4</h2>
 218
 219 <h3>The creeping techno-surveillance state: how can we fight back?</h3>
 220
 221 <p><em>Kade Crockford, Josh Levy</em> <br />
 222 <strong>Room 32-123 | Thread: Surveillance</strong> <br />
 223 The government is tracking who you call and when. Snoops are reading your emails. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are working with companies you've never heard of to compile deep, secret profiles of millions of us, sell the data, and make billions. We're being surveilled from all sides. This panel will address practical responses to the creeping techno-surveillance state. How are individuals and communities responding when so many of our private details are being hoovered up, in secret and for secret purposes? What are the best practices for navigating the spy-infested waters of the Internet? We've reached a point in which opting-out is no longer an option. Instead, we must arm ourselves with new digital habits, policy solutions and grassroots pressure to protect our digital rights. The NSA, the defense establishment, and Silicon Valley are incredibly powerful. How can we possibly fight back? What are the policy solutions that will roll back the laws that enable government spying and hold companies accountable when they collude in these programs or go too far with their own corporate surveillance practices? How can individuals work with others to pressure Congress, governmental agencies, and Internet companies to do the right thing and protect our privacy?</p>
 224
 225 <h3>No more mouse: saving elementary education</h3>
 226
 227 <p><em>Walter Bender</em> <br />
 228 <strong>Room 32-141 | Thread: Applied free software</strong> <br />
 229 The lack of a mouse and the presence of "the mouse" are having a detrimental impact on global elementary education. The rush to adopt tablets is putting passive tools of consumption into the hands of young learners at a time in their development when "making" is paramount. The "Disneyification" of media further erodes the opportunity for personal expression by young learners. In this panel we will characterize these threats and discuss strategies for combating them.</p>
 230
 231 <h3>Beyond the women in tech talk</h3>
 232
 233 <p><em>ginger coons, Sara Hendren, Kÿra, Marina Zhurakhinskaya</em> <br />
 234 <strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
 235 In the last several years, free software projects and events have made great strides in representing the voices of groups which have previously had almost no voice. The ratio of female presenters at major conferences is on the rise, and nearly every event boasts a talk or panel specifically about the place of women in technology. In this panel, we propose to go further. We ask: what comes after representation? Now that we have found ways to give voice to a second gender in free software, how can we actively and effectively make room for others? With a specific emphasis on race, sexuality and gender beyond the binary, this panel seeks to explore ways of advancing our discussions beyond the simple metrics of representation. We aim to both raise issues and offer tools for thinking further than the mere problem of presence. </p>
 236
 237 <h3>Free Software Directory sprint continued</h3>
 238
 239 <p><em>Facilitator: Joshua Gay</em> <br />
 240 <strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
 241 Tens of thousands of people visit the Free Software Directory each month to discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions, to providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info. Stop by any or all of the three sessions today to help improve existing entries, add to new ones, or to find out about our latest efforts, such as importing package info from GNU/Linux distributions. No experience required.</p>
 242
 243 <h3>16:05- 16:15 | Break</h3>
 244
 245 <h2>16:15 - 17:35 | Session block 5</h2>
 246
 247 <h3>Update on the circumvention tech community and how to get involved</h3>
 248
 249 <p><em>Carolyn Anhalt, Nick Merrill, Sandra Ordonez, George Rosamond</em> <br />
 250 <strong>Room 32-123 | Thread: Surveillance</strong> <br />
 251 The Circumvention Tech community is behind the creation of various free software anti-surveillance and anti-censorship tools, with Tor being the most well known. It also includes organizations that help journalists, activists, and citizens understand different strategies and tactics they can use to protect and empower themselves online. Hear from key voices about: where and why these technologies are used, and current challenges in the space; who makes up the circumvention tech community, and how it compares to other free software communities; how to get involved, with an intro into key community gathering points, like Techno Activism 3rd Monday and Noisy Square; and a case study on how to make the space sustainable.</p>
 252
 253 <h3>Mapping for social justice</h3>
 254
 255 <p><em>Evan Misshula</em> <br />
 256 <strong>Room 32-141 | Thread: Applied free software</strong> <br />
 257 Web and static map making to highlight inequality and injustice. Tools covered include R -maptools, leaflet.js, d3.js, Tilemill, postgres/postgis, and Open Street map.</p>
 258
 259 <h3>Nurturing non-coders</h3>
 260
 261 <p><em>Molly de Blanc, Deb Nicholson</em> <br />
 262 <strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
 263 Free software projects need coders, but they also need good writers for documentation, press releases, and blogging; experts on outreach, fundraising, and volunteer management; and friendly packs of translators. A lot of projects don't have these people, and when they do show up, they don't always stick around.</p>
 264
 265 <p>Deb and Molly will lead a discussion on the process of bringing in non-coding contributors. How do you find these folks? And then what can your project do to bring them in and keep them around, happily contributing? We don't have all the answers, but we feel that this is a critical topic for the free software movement's future growth beyond the community of super users. </p>
 266
 267 <h3>Free Software Directory sprint continued</h3>
 268
 269 <p><em>Facilitator: Joshua Gay</em> <br />
 270 <strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
 271 Tens of thousands of people visit the Free Software Directory each month to discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions, to providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info. Stop by any or all of the three sessions today to help improve existing entries, add to new ones, or to find out about our latest efforts, such as importing package info from GNU/Linux distributions. No experience required.</p>
 272
 273 <h3>17:35 - 17:45 | Break</h3>
 274
 275 <h2>17:45 - 18:45 | Keynote &amp; Free Software Awards</h2>
 276
 277 <h3>Current issues in freedom: patents, surveillance, etc.</h3>
 278
 279 <p><em>Eben Moglen</em> <br />
 280 <strong>Room 32-123</strong></p>
 281
 282 <p>The free software movement has never seen a time like this before. We are at a turning point in the struggle over patenting software. Edward Snowden has shown the world why unfree technology imperils political liberty, but we are challenged by the need to cure the Internet of the harm done by the <em>de facto</em> coalition of government spies and data-miners. Our legal and political initiatives may succeed on an unprecedented scale, but we face new and more complex problems as well.</p>
 283
 284 <h3>Free Software Awards</h3>
 285
 286 <p><em>Richard Stallman</em> <br />
 287 <strong>Room 32-123</strong></p>
 288
 289 <h1><a id="sunday">Sunday, 3/23</a></h1>
 290
 291 <h3>09:00 - 09:45 | Registration and breakfast</h3>
 292
 293 <h2>09:45 - 10:45 Keynote</h2>
 294
 295 <h3>Free software for freedom, surveillance and you</h3>
 296
 297 <p><em>Jacob Appelbaum</em> <br />
 298 <strong>Room 32-123 (remote from Berlin via Web-cast)</strong>  </p>
 299
 300 <h3>10:45 - 10:55 | Break</h3>
 301
 302 <h2>10:55 - 11:40 | Session block 6</h2>
 303
 304 <h3>Free your JavaScript</h3>
 305
 306 <p><em>Zachary Wick</em> <br />
 307 <strong>Room 32-123 | Thread: Activism</strong> <br />
 308 This talk will focus on how to write, validate, and release freely licensed JavaScript. Writing and releasing your JavaScript under a free license helps your users avoid "The JavaScript Trap." This talk will also demonstrate how developers and webmasters can use GNU LibreJS to ensure that their users don't have to give up their computing freedom to use the websites that they are responsible for.</p>
 309
 310 <h3>What does this program do? Reproducible builds, transparency, and freedom</h3>
 311
 312 <p><em>Seth Schoen</em> <br />
 313 <strong>Room 32-141 | Thread: Projects</strong> <br />
 314 Today we often use binaries that someone claims were built from particular source code, but we usually have no way to check that the source and binaries we've been actually given correspond to one another. We rely on someone's say-so, and they might be wrong! Software developers and the infrastructure used to create and distribute software are significant targets of attack. We need ways to give everybody meaningful assurances about the provenance and integrity of the software they use.</p>
 315
 316 <h3>Building an open digital archive in India: knowledge, access and other issues</h3>
 317
 318 <p><em>Noopur Raval</em> <br />
 319 <strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Applied free software</strong> <br />
 320 This session will discuss two case studies that involve archiving different kinds of cultural information resources in the Indian context using free software and the challenges therein. It will also discuss the possibility of collaborating and licensing issues faced in India.</p>
 321
 322 <h3>Free software messaging</h3>
 323
 324 <p><em>Deb Nicholson, Karen Sandler, Chris Webber</em> <br />
 325 <strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
 326 Following up on last year's session, we will talk about ways to explain software freedom and more generally advocate for the cause with various audiences. We'll brainstorm specific ideas and talk about organizational approaches going forward. No prior experience is necessary to join this session, especially since a little enthusiasm can go a long way in helping to get the word out!</p>
 327
 328 <h3>11:40 - 11:50 | Break</h3>
 329
 330 <h2>11:50 - 12:35 | Session block 7</h2>
 331
 332 <h3>1984+30: GNU speech to defeat e-newspeak</h3>
 333
 334 <p><em>Alexandre Oliva</em> <br />
 335 <strong>Room 32-123 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
 336 In Orwell's 1984, Newspeak had its vocabulary reduced so that subversive ideas could not be expressed. Likewise, user-programmable general-purpose computers are losing ground to ones that don't let users express the computations they wish to perform, unless they are available in exclusive appstores. Unable to program, users lose the freedom to improve software, and even the notion that they could! Failing to realize the importance of essential software freedoms, they fail to demand them! That's double plus unGNU! Let's fix it!</p>
 337
 338 <h3>State of the goblin</h3>
 339
 340 <p><em>Christopher Webber</em> <br />
 341 <strong>Room 32-141 | Track: Projects</strong> <br />
 342 Christopher Allan Webber of GNU MediaGoblin discusses the past, present, and future of free network services. Issues of network freedom have gained much attention over the last six years, and increasingly so both within and outside of the software freedom communities. Progress has been made, but present adoption shows we have a ways to go.</p>
 343
 344 <p>What opportunities and challenges face free network services? Ranging from licensing decisions, technical choices, protocols, deployment configuration, and how we message ourselves, many components inform the past, present, and future of this field. Join Christopher Allan Webber of GNU MediaGoblin in talking about what can be done so that network freedom can be something that everyone can feasibly enjoy.</p>
 345
 346 <h3>Distributed free-cultural production and the future of creative economy</h3>
 347
 348 <p><em>Fateh Slavitskaya</em> <br />
 349 <strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Applied free software</strong> <br />
 350 A field report from the Urchin animated film studio and libre media group, proposing a development path that unites federated publishing with decentralized production. It responds to the problem of free software tools and free culture as marginal zones, and asks how we can implement advantages of the libre modality without merely imitating the topography of the restrictive commercial world. More broadly, it considers how we can galvanize a distinct ecology to re-seed the internet (and global policy) according to the conventions of freedom, if we can create a compellingly attractive use case for them. This talk touches on Blender, MediaGoblin, Krita, Inkscape, Gimp, Pitivi, Ardour, and issues of funding in both software and the arts.</p>
 351
 352 <h3>Free software messaging meeting continued</h3>
 353
 354 <p><em>Deb Nicholson, Karen Sandler, Chris Webber</em> <br />
 355 <strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
 356 Following up on last year's session, we will talk about ways to explain software freedom and more generally advocate for the cause with various audiences. We'll brainstorm specific ideas and talk about organizational approaches going forward. No prior experience is necessary to join this session, especially since a little enthusiasm can go a long way in helping to get the word out!</p>
 357
 358 <h2>12:35 - 13:50 | Lunch</h2>
 359
 360 <h2>13:50- 14:35 | Session block 8</h2>
 361
 362 <h3>Free software activism: a European perspective and experience</h3>
 363
 364 <p><em>Lionel Allorge, Frederic Couchet</em> <br />
 365 <strong>Room 32-123 | Thread: Activism</strong> <br />
 366 For a long time, hackers have been creating a lot of free software. Each free software project is an important contribution to ensure that all software users have the freedom to control their computers. Free software use has been increasing, but impediments to its development still exist today. From copyright threats to patents, including treacherous computing, bundled sales of computer with software, FUD, and threats to net neutrality, the causes for concern are numerous. Free software cannot develop fully without a benevolent political and legislative environment. That is where April plays a crucial role in France and Europe, along with allied organizations. Its actions, thanks  to its volunteers and its staff, are precious for everyone who produces and/or use free software. It is the organization's small contribution to the free software movement. We will present April, how it operates, the current European issues they are working on, and future perspectives and share strategies, successes, and challenges.</p>
 367
 368 <h3>Updating Mailman's UI</h3>
 369
 370 <p><em>Máirín Duffy</em> <br />
 371 <strong>Room 32-141 | Thread: Projects</strong> <br />
 372 As part of the Mailman 3 project, the Hyperkitty mail archiver will be introducing a new user interface for browsing mailing lists and we're hoping it'll improve the ability of free software projects to communicate effectively. Learn more about the new interface, its design, and our progress, including a report on OPW intern Karen Tang's work with the Hyperkitty UI.</p>
 373
 374 <h3>Adventures in hackademia: leveraging free software in the classroom</h3>
 375
 376 <p><em>Remy DeCausemaker</em> <br />
 377 <strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Applied Free Software</strong> <br />
 378 This session will cover the curriculum, methodology, and contributions made for and by the students of the Humanitarian Free/Open Source Software Development course at Rochester Institute of Technology in Upstate New York. This is the gateway course for a newly minted, first-of-its-kind, academic minor in Free/Open Source Software and Free Culture. Course materials are licensed CC-BY-SA, source code is available online, and patches are always welcome.</p>
 379
 380 <h3>F-Droid sprint</h3>
 381
 382 <p><em>Facilitator: William Theaker</em> <br />
 383 <strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
 384 F-Droid is an easily-installable catalogue of free software applications for Android and Replicant devices. Stop any or all of the three sessions to improve existing entries and add new ones, and make it easier for people to install free software on their mobile devices. No experience required.</p>
 385
 386 <h3>14:35 - 14:45 | Break</h3>
 387
 388 <h2>14:45 - 16:05 | Session block 9</h2>
 389
 390 <h3>Tracking changes: activists using free software across movements</h3>
 391
 392 <p><em>April Glaser, Ana Martina, Libby Reinish, Dan Staples</em> <br />
 393 <strong>Room 32-123 | Thread: Activism</strong> <br />
 394 For years, activists have been using free software tools in their efforts to organize and build movements. Bringing together organizers from the media justice and digital rights movements, which all rely on the use of free software in their advocacy and essential communications, this panel explores the centrality of technology to all projects of social change. We will question how activists use free software and how the adoption of free software has helped or impeded networking efforts.</p>
 395
 396 <h3>Choosing between freedom and security</h3>
 397
 398 <p><em>Matthew Garrett</em> <br />
 399 <strong>Room 32-141, 14:45 - 15:15 | Thread: Surveillance</strong> <br />
 400 2013 taught us that our computers are less secure than we'd hoped. What is the role of free software in improving our security? Does improving security mean compromising our freedoms? Or can we simultaneously increase user freedom <em>and</em> improve system security?</p>
 401
 402 <h3>Diversity outreach</h3>
 403
 404 <p><em>Karen Sandler, Marina Zhurakhinskaya</em> <br />
 405 <strong>Room 32-141, 15:20 - 16:05 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
 406 Since 2010, the GNOME Foundation's Outreach Program for Women has provided 130 women with an opportunity to participate in remote internships with twenty three free software organizations. It has helped participants become established free software contributors and has made a deep impact on the communities that have participated. We'll present what currently makes the program successful and will seek input from the audience about how the program can be expanded to offer opportunities to other underrepresented people, in addition to women.</p>
 407
 408 <h3>Promoting free software adoption (and creation) in the public sector</h3>
 409
 410 <p><em>Ezra Glenn, Andy Oram</em> <br />
 411 <strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Applied free software</strong> <br />
 412 The session will present an overview of the "natural fit" between free software and the values of government agencies in a democracy (transparency; openness; participation and empowerment; cost-savings; collaboration), and then proceed to discuss recent successes -- and persistent challenges -- in the campaign to get public-sector organizations to adopt, accommodate -- and ideally support and create -- free software tools and open standards.</p>
 413
 414 <h3>F-Droid sprint continued</h3>
 415
 416 <p><em>Facilitator: William Theaker</em> <br />
 417 <strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
 418 F-Droid is an easily-installable catalogue of free software applications for Android and Replicant devices. Stop any or all of the three sessions to improve existing entries and add new ones, and make it easier for people to install free software on their mobile devices. No experience required.</p>
 419
 420 <h3>16:05 - 16:15 | Break</h3>
 421
 422 <h2>16:15 - 17:35 | Session block 10</h2>
 423
 424 <h3>Lessons in tech activism</h3>
 425
 426 <p><em>Dana Moser, Kendra Moyer, Steve Revilak</em> <br />
 427 <strong>Room 32-123 | Thread: Activism</strong> <br />
 428 This session will be devoted to tech activism. We'll talk about activism to promote free software, some types of activism you can do with free software, and some of the challenges involved in getting activist groups to adopt free software.</p>
 429
 430 <h3>IT cooperation: accessible, free, and open</h3>
 431
 432 <p><em>Yochai Gal, Emily Lippold Cheney, Leandro Monk</em> <br />
 433 <strong>Room 32-141 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
 434 This session will introduce you to the philosophy and practice of cooperation, which can help you to live out the principles of free software as a consumer and worker in the tech sector. We will give an overview on the cooperative model and movement, how it relates to the free software philosophy, and provide real ways for you to begin connecting free software to cooperation -- from democratizing your workplace to cross-movement coordination. Voices from different perspectives within the free software and cooperative movements are represented in the slate of presenters, which ensures that we will be equipped to answer your questions and/or point you to additional resources. </p>
 435
 436 <h3>Free software and open science</h3>
 437
 438 <p><em>Madeleine Ball, Shauna Gordon-McKeon, Jeffrey Warren</em> <br />
 439 <strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Applied free software</strong> <br />
 440 The open science movement is a grassroots and growing effort to make science publicly accessible. While securing open access to published results is the most well known open science issue, activists are also working towards: breaking down the barriers between scientist and non-scientist through participatory research and citizen science; opening up the data and methods of published studies to allow reproducible results and meta-analysis; and highlighting the importance of contributions beyond patents and papers, such as the creation of free hardware and free software tools.</p>
 441
 442 <p>In this panel, activists at the intersection of open science and free software will discuss how the two movements can learn from each other and work together. How do free software and open science differ in their approaches to shared goals of communal knowledge?  What technical barriers to open science exist, and how can free software advocates help?  How can open science projects build free software communities?</p>
 443
 444 <h3>F-Droid sprint continued</h3>
 445
 446 <p><em>Facilitator: William Theaker</em> <br />
 447 <strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
 448 F-Droid is an easily-installable catalogue of free software applications for Android and Replicant devices. Stop any or all of the three sessions to improve existing entries and add new ones, and make it easier for people to install free software on their mobile devices. No experience required.</p>
 449
 450 <h3>17:35 - 17:45 | Break</h3>
 451
 452 <h2>17:45 - 18:45 | Closing Keynote</h2>
 453
 454 <h3>We can't all be cyborg lawyers: how messaging may be our most important obstacle</h3>
 455
 456 <p><em>Karen Sandler</em> <br />
 457 <strong>Room 32-123</strong> <br />
 458 Explaining the importance of free software and its ideology to new audiences has always been a challenge. Karen will discuss the challenges inherent in free software messaging and why it's so important to win the allies we need going forward. She will share what she's learned from recent experiences in the GNOME and free software communities generally, and discuss strategies that could take our movement to the next level.</p>
 459
 460 <h2><a id="social">Social events</a></h2>
 461
 462 <h3>Free Software Foundation open house and cryptoparty</h3>
 463
 464 <p>Mingle at the FSF office before the conference with speakers and other attendees. Refreshments will be served. FSF campaigns managers Libby Reinish and Zak Rogoff will lead an optional cryptoparty during the open house. Please bring your laptop and a USB drive if you'd like to participate.</p>
 465
 466 <p><strong>17:00 - 19:30, Friday 3/21</strong> <br />
 467 <strong>FSF Office</strong> <br />
 468 <strong>51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</strong> <br />
 469 <strong>Boston, MA 02110</strong>  </p>
 470
 471 <h3>Women's dinner</h3>
 472
 473 <p>There will be an unofficial women's dinner (for people who identify as women) before LibrePlanet again this year. It will be held at Chau Chow City, a restaurant in Boston's Chinatown within easy walking distance of the FSF's office. Chau Chow City has plenty of vegetarian and vegan options, isn't too pricey, and has a full bar.</p>
 474
 475 <p><strong>19:45, Friday, 3/21</strong> <br />
 476 <strong><a href="http://chauchowcity.com">Chau Chow City Restaurant</a></strong> <br />
 477 <strong>83 Essex St</strong> <br />
 478 <strong>Boston, MA 02111</strong></p>
 479
 480 <p>Please feel free to share this with any other free software/free culture-interested folks who identify as women, whether they are attending LibrePlanet or not. Please <a href="mailto:info@fsf.org">RSVP</a> with "RSVP Women's Dinner" in the subject line to let us know that you're coming (and how many other women you will bring) so that we can make sure the restaurant is ready for us. </p>
 481
 482 <h3>Saturday night party and raffle</h3>
 483
 484 <p>A social with food and drinks available, including plenty of vegan options. Meet new people from the free software movement, reconnect with friends from previous LibrePlanet conferences, and win free software prizes in the raffle.</p>
 485
 486 <p><strong>19:30 - 23:00, with raffle drawing at 21:00, Saturday, 3/22</strong> <br />
 487 <strong><a href="http://www.classicirish.com/asgard-home.php">Asgard Pub &amp; Restaurant</a></strong> <br />
 488 <strong>350 Massachusetts Avenue</strong> <br />
 489 <strong>Cambridge, MA 02139</strong>  </p>
 490
 491 <h3>Free software community pub night</h3>
 492 <p><em>Ages 21+</em></p>
 493 <p>For as long as anyone can remember, the Boston-area free software community has been gathering on Sunday night at Grendel's Den in Harvard Square. Join us at this local institution, which offers reasonable prices on good food and beer in a quirky and cozy atmosphere.</p>
 494
 495 <p><strong>21:00 - 01:00, Sunday, 3/23</strong> <br />
 496 <strong><a href="http://www.grendelsden.com/">Grendel's Den</a></strong> <br />
 497 <strong>89 Winthrop Street</strong> <br />
 498 <strong>Cambridge MA 02138</strong>  </p>
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