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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 <p><a href="#threads">Program Threads</a></p>
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 110                           </div>
 111                         </div>
 112 <p>All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), which is UTC - 4 hours.</p>
 113
 114 <h1><a id="saturday">Saturday, 3/22</a></h1>
 115
 116 <h3>09:00 - 09:45: Registration and breakfast</h3>
 117
 118 <h3>09:45 - 10:45: Opening keynote with Karen Sandler John Sullivan</h3>
 119
 120 <h3>10:45 - 10:55: Break</h3>
 121
 122 <h2>10:55 - 11:40 | Session block 1</h2>
 123
 124 <h3>Fighting surveillance with free software</h3>
 125
 126 <p><em>Holmes Wilson</em> <br />
 127 <strong>Room 123 | Thread: Surveillance</strong> <br />
 128 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>
 129
 130 <h3>Opus, Daala, and free codec updates</h3>
 131
 132 <p><em>Gregory Maxwell, Monty Montgomery</em> <br />
 133 <strong>Room 141 | Thread: Projects</strong> <br />
 134 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>
 135
 136 <h3>Lightning talks session 1</h3>
 137
 138 <p><strong>Room 144</strong> <br />
 139 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.</p>
 140
 141 <h3>11:40 - 11:50: Break</h3>
 142
 143 <h2>11:50 - 12:35: Session block 2</h2>
 144
 145 <h3>An overview of OpenPGP</h3>
 146
 147 <p><em>Paul Tagliamonte</em> <br />
 148 <strong>Room 123 | Thread: Surveillance</strong> <br />
 149 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>
 150
 151 <h3>Get started contributing to MediaWiki</h3>
 152
 153 <p><em>Mark Holmquist</em> <br />
 154 <strong>Room 141 | Thread: Projects</strong> <br />
 155 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>
 156
 157 <h3>Considering the future of copyleft: how will the next generation perceive GPL?</h3>
 158
 159 <p><em>Bradley Kuhn</em> <br />
 160 <strong>Room 155 | Thread: Applied free software</strong> <br />
 161 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>
 162
 163 <h3>Lightning talks session 2</h3>
 164
 165 <p><strong>Room 144</strong> <br />
 166 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.</p>
 167
 168 <h2>12:35 - 13:50: Lunch</h2>
 169
 170 <h2>13:50 - 14:35: Session block 3</h2>
 171
 172 <h3>Your Web apps should talk not just in English, but in español, Kiswahili, 廣州話, and অসমীয়া too</h3>
 173
 174 <p><em>Sucheta Ghoshal</em> <br />
 175 <strong>Room 123 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
 176 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>
 177
 178 <h3>Celebrating one decade of Trisquel GNU/Linux</h3>
 179
 180 <p><em>Ruben Rodriguez Perez</em> <br />
 181 <strong>Room 141 | Thread: Projects</strong> <br />
 182 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>
 183
 184 <h3>Geek knowing: from FAQ to feminism 101</h3>
 185
 186 <p><em>Joseph Reagle</em> <br />
 187 <strong>Room 155 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
 188 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>
 189
 190 <h3>Free Software Directory sprint session 1</h3>
 191
 192 <p><strong>Room 144</strong> <br />
 193 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>
 194
 195 <h3>14:35 - 14:45: Break</h3>
 196
 197 <h2>14:45 - 16:05: Workshop session 1</h2>
 198
 199 <h3>The creeping techno-surveillance state: how can we fight back?</h3>
 200
 201 <p><em>Kade Crockford, Josh Levy</em> <br />
 202 <strong>Room 123 | Thread: Surveillance</strong> <br />
 203 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>
 204
 205 <h3>No more mouse: saving elementary education</h3>
 206
 207 <p><em>Walter Bender</em> <br />
 208 <strong>Room 141 | Thread: Applied free software</strong> <br />
 209 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>
 210
 211 <h3>Beyond the women in tech talk</h3>
 212
 213 <p><em>ginger coons, Kÿra</em> <br />
 214 <strong>Room 155 | Thread: Movement-building</strong>  </p>
 215
 216 <h3>Free Software Directory sprint session 2</h3>
 217
 218 <p><strong>Room 144</strong> <br />
 219 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>
 220
 221 <h3>16:05- 16:15: Break</h3>
 222
 223 <h2>16:15 - 17:35: Workshop session 2</h2>
 224
 225 <h3>Update on the circumvention tech community and how to get involved</h3>
 226
 227 <p><em>Carolyn Anhalt, Nick Merrill, Sandra Ordonez, George Rosamond</em> <br />
 228 <strong>Room 123 | Thread: Surveillance</strong>  </p>
 229
 230 <h3>Mapping for social justice</h3>
 231
 232 <p><em>Evan Misshula</em> <br />
 233 <strong>Room 141 | Thread: Applied free software</strong>  </p>
 234
 235 <h3>Free Software Directory sprint session 3</h3>
 236
 237 <p><strong>Room 144</strong> <br />
 238 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>
 239
 240 <h3>17:35 - 17:45: Break</h3>
 241
 242 <h3>17:45 - 18:45: Free Software Awards with Eben Moglen and Richard Stallman</h3>
 243
 244 <h1><a id="sunday">Sunday, 3/23</a></h1>
 245
 246 <h3>09:00 - 09:45: Registration and breakfast</h3>
 247
 248 <h3>09:45 - 10:45: Keynote: Jacob Appelbaum (remote from Berlin via Web-cast)</h3>
 249
 250 <h3>10:45 - 10:55: Break</h3>
 251
 252 <h2>10:55 - 11:40 | Session block 1</h2>
 253
 254 <h3>Free your JavaScript</h3>
 255
 256 <p><em>Zachary Wick</em> <br />
 257 <strong>Room 123 | Thread: Activism</strong> <br />
 258 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>
 259
 260 <h3>What does this program do? Reproducible builds, transparency, and freedom</h3>
 261
 262 <p><em>Seth Schoen</em> <br />
 263 <strong>Room 141 | Thread: Projects</strong> <br />
 264 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>
 265
 266 <h3>Building an open digital archive in India: knowledge, access and other issues</h3>
 267
 268 <p><em>Noopur Raval</em> <br />
 269 <strong>Room 155 | Thread: Applied free software</strong> <br />
 270 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>
 271
 272 <h3>Free software messaging meeting session 1</h3>
 273
 274 <p><strong>Room 144</strong> <br />
 275 How does the free software movement present itself externally and internally? Who does our messaging appeal to, and who does it not appeal to? What should our goals be in conversations about free software? Discuss these questions and more in this facilitated roundtable discussion.</p>
 276
 277 <h3>11:40 - 11:50: Break</h3>
 278
 279 <h2>11:50 - 12:35: Session block 2</h2>
 280
 281 <h3>1984+30: GNU speech to defeat e-newspeak</h3>
 282
 283 <p><em>Alexandre Oliva</em> <br />
 284 <strong>Room 123 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
 285 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>
 286
 287 <h3>State of the goblin</h3>
 288
 289 <p><em>Christopher Webber</em> <br />
 290 <strong>Room 141 | Track: Projects</strong>  </p>
 291
 292 <h3>Distributed free-cultural production and the future of creative economy</h3>
 293
 294 <p><em>Fateh Slavitskaya</em> <br />
 295 <strong>Room 155 | Thread: Applied free software</strong>  </p>
 296
 297 <h3>Free software messaging meeting session 2</h3>
 298
 299 <p><strong>Room 144</strong> <br />
 300 How does the free software movement present itself externally and internally? Who does our messaging appeal to, and who does it not appeal to? What should our goals be in conversations about free software? Discuss these questions and more in this facilitated roundtable discussion.</p>
 301
 302 <h2>12:35 - 13:50: Lunch</h2>
 303
 304 <h2>13:50- 14:35: Session block 3</h2>
 305
 306 <h3>Free software activism: a European perspective and experience</h3>
 307
 308 <p><em>Lionel Allorge, Frederic Couchet</em> <br />
 309 <strong>Room 123 | Thread: Activism</strong> <br />
 310 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>
 311
 312 <h3>Updating Mailman's UI</h3>
 313
 314 <p><em>Máirín Duffy</em> <br />
 315 <strong>Room 141 | Thread: Projects</strong> <br />
 316 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>
 317
 318 <h3>Adventures in hackademia: leveraging free software in the classroom</h3>
 319
 320 <p><em>Remy DeCausemaker</em> <br />
 321 <strong>Room 141 | Thread: Applied Free Software</strong> <br />
 322 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>
 323
 324 <h3>F-Droid sprint session 1</h3>
 325
 326 <p><strong>Room 144</strong> <br />
 327 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>
 328
 329 <h3>14:35 - 14:45: Break</h3>
 330
 331 <h2>14:45 - 16:05: Workshop session 1</h2>
 332
 333 <h3>Tracking changes: activists using free software across movements</h3>
 334
 335 <p><em>April Glaser, Libby Reinish</em> <br />
 336 <strong>Room 123 | Thread: Activism</strong>  </p>
 337
 338 <h3>Choosing between freedom and security</h3>
 339
 340 <p><em>Matthew Garrett</em> <br />
 341 <strong>Room 141, 14:45 - 15:15 | Thread: Surveillance</strong> <br />
 342 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>
 343
 344 <h3>Diversity outreach</h3>
 345
 346 <p><em>Karen Sandler, Marina Zhurakhinskaya</em> <br />
 347 <strong>Room 141, 15:20 - 16:05 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
 348 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>
 349
 350 <h3>Promoting free software adoption (and creation) in the public sector</h3>
 351
 352 <p><em>Ezra Glenn, Andy Oram, others</em> <br />
 353 <strong>Room 155 | Thread: Surveillance</strong> <br />
 354 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>
 355
 356 <h3>F-Droid sprint session 2</h3>
 357
 358 <p><strong>Room 144</strong> <br />
 359 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>
 360
 361 <h3>16:05 - 16:15: Break</h3>
 362
 363 <h2>16:15 - 17:35: Workshop session 2</h2>
 364
 365 <h3>Lessons in tech activism</h3>
 366
 367 <p><em>Dana Moser, Kendra Moyer, Steve Revilak</em> <br />
 368 <strong>Room 123 | Thread: Activism</strong> <br />
 369 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>
 370
 371 <h3>IT cooperation: accessible, free, and open</h3>
 372
 373 <p><em>Yochai Gal, Emily Lippold-Cheny, Leandro Monk</em> <br />
 374 <strong>Room 141 | Thread: Movement-building</strong>  </p>
 375
 376 <h3>Free software and open science</h3>
 377
 378 <p><em>Madeleine Ball, Shauna Gordon-McKeon, Jeffrey Warren</em> <br />
 379 <strong>Room 155 | Thread: Applied free software</strong> <br />
 380 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>
 381
 382 <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>
 383
 384 <h3>F-Droid sprint session 3</h3>
 385
 386 <p><strong>Room 144</strong> <br />
 387 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>
 388
 389 <h3>17:35 - 17:45: Break</h3>
 390
 391 <h3>17:45 - 18:45: Closing keynote: Sue Gardner</h3>
 392
 393 <h1><a id="threads">Program Threads</a></h1>
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 395 <p><em>LibrePlanet 2014 does not have traditional program tracks.
 396 Instead, we've woven thematic “threads” throughout the program.</em></p>
 397
 398 <p><strong>Surveillance:</strong>  If we want to defang surveillance programs like PRISM, we need to stop using centralized systems and come together to build an Internet that's decentralized, trustworthy, and free "as in freedom." The sessions in this thread cover everything from technical to legislative approaches to protecting ourselves and others from surveillance.  </p>
 399
 400 <ul>
 401 <li>Choosing between freedom and security  </li>
 402 <li>GNU vs. NSA  </li>
 403 <li>OpenPGP  </li>
 404 <li>Everybody spies  </li>
 405 <li>Circumvention tech  </li>
 406 </ul>
 407
 408 <p><strong>Applied free software:</strong> What are some of the ways that free software is being used in other fields and disciplines? From the halls of academia, to the arts, from board rooms, to Occupy Wall Street, free software is everywhere!   </p>
 409
 410 <ul>
 411 <li>Adventures in hackademia: Leveraging humanitarian free software in the classroom  </li>
 412 <li>No more mouse: Saving elementary education  </li>
 413 <li>Promoting free software adoption (and creation) in the public sector  </li>
 414 <li>Free software and open science  </li>
 415 <li>Mapping for social justice    </li>
 416 <li>Rethinking art archives  </li>
 417 <li>Distributed free-cultural production and the future of creative economy   </li>
 418 </ul>
 419
 420 <p><strong>Projects:</strong> Learn what your favorite free software projects are up to, or get exposed to new ones! These sessions are for people who want to learn more about a specific free software project.</p>
 421
 422 <ul>
 423 <li>Trisquel: ten years  </li>
 424 <li>What does this program do?        </li>
 425 <li>Opus, Daala, and free codec updates  </li>
 426 <li>State of the Goblin   </li>
 427 <li>Updating Mailman's UI </li>
 428 <li>Get started contributing to MediaWiki  </li>
 429 </ul>
 430
 431 <p><strong>Activism</strong>: How is free software being used for social change, and how are people advocating for free software adoption? If you're an organizer or want to learn more about advocating for free software, these sessions are for you.</p>
 432
 433 <ul>
 434 <li>Free software activism: a European perspective  </li>
 435 <li>Tracking changes  </li>
 436 <li>Lessons in tech activism   </li>
 437 <li>Free your JavaScript   </li>
 438 </ul>
 439
 440 <p><strong>Movement building:</strong> For free software to become ubiquitous, we have to build a strong free software movement, one where everyone has access, feels welcome, and has an opportunity to take leadership. These sessions focus on ways to strengthen our movement.  </p>
 441
 442 <ul>
 443 <li>1984+30: GNU speech to defeat e-newspeak   </li>
 444 <li>Considering the future of copyleft: how will the next generation perceive GPL?  </li>
 445 <li>Diversity outreach  </li>
 446 <li>IT cooperation: accessible, free, &amp; open   </li>
 447 <li>Beyond the "women in tech talk": after representation, identity politics   </li>
 448 <li>Geek knowing: from FAQ to feminism 101   </li>
 449 <li>Nurturing non-coders  </li>
 450 <li>Your webapps should talk not just in English, but in español, Kiswahili, 廣州話 and অসমীয়া too</li>
 451
 452 <h1><a id="social">Social events</a></h1>
 453
 454 <h3>Free Software Foundation open house and cryptoparty</h3>
 455
 456 <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>
 457
 458 <p><strong>17:00 - 21:00, Friday 3/21</strong> <br />
 459 <strong>FSF Office</strong> <br />
 460 <strong>51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</strong> <br />
 461 <strong>Boston, MA 02110</strong>  </p>
 462
 463 <h3>Saturday night party and raffle</h3>
 464
 465 <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>
 466
 467 <p><strong>19:30 - 23:00, with raffle drawing at 21:30, Saturday, 3/22</strong> <br />
 468 <strong><a href="http://www.classicirish.com/asgard-home.php">Asgard Pub &amp; Restaurant</a></strong> <br />
 469 <strong>350 Massachusetts Avenue</strong> <br />
 470 <strong>Cambridge, MA 02139</strong>  </p>
 471
 472 <h3>Free software community pub night</h3>
 473
 474 <p>For as long as anyone can remember, the Boston-area free software community has been gathering on Sunday night at Grendel's Den. Join us at this local institution, which offers reasonable prices on good food and beer, in a quirky and cozy atmosphere.</p>
 475
 476 <p><strong>21:00 - 01:00, Sunday, 3/23</strong> <br />
 477 <strong><a href="http://www.grendelsden.com/">Grendel's Den</a></strong> <br />
 478 <strong>89 Winthrop Street</strong> <br />
 479 <strong>Cambridge MA 02138</strong>  </p>
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