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23 09:
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45: Opening Keynote: Richard Stallman
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31 Free software, free hardware, and other things
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48 Preceded by a welcome address from John Sullivan, FSF executive
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74 <a href=
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88 The effort to re-decentralize the web has been under way for a number
89 of years, but what's really happening under the hood? Various projects
90 like Diaspora, GNU social,
91 <a href=
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94 , Friendica Red, and Pump.IO
95 all exist, but not all these projects can talk to each other. How can
96 we fix that? A demo of PyPump will be given, as well as a rundown on
97 the progress of the W3C Social Working Group.
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107 Dr. Hyde and Mr. Jekyll: advocating for free software in nonfree academic contexts
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124 What if the classic horror trope of the good doctor who becomes a
125 monster at night were reversed? Instead of the good Dr. Jekyll
126 transforming into the rampaging Mr. Hyde, advocates of free who work
127 in nonfree environments can feel as if they only get to put on their
128 altruistic persona at night. For academics advocating free software
129 and free culture in particular, libre ethics are often at odds with
130 both administrative structures and expected teaching outcomes. This
131 session explores the struggles of advocating free in both research and
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142 TAFTA, CETA, TISA: traps and threats to Free Software Everywhere
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147 <a href=
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151 <a href=
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165 TAFTA, CETA, and TISA are far-reaching trade agreements posing major
166 threats to online freedom and creating legal uncertainty for all
167 Internet players. They set forth an ever stronger protection of
168 copyright and patents. They 'recycle' the most toxic parts of ACTA,
169 the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement which was rejected
170 in
2012. The presentation focuses on the software aspects of TAFTA,
171 CETA, TISA. We will call for action against these global treaty
172 projects and offer alternative proposals, which favour Free Software
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195 11:
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35: Session Block
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220 This year a robotic certificate authority will start issuing
221 publicly-trusted certificates, at no charge, by the millions. Called
222 Let's Encrypt, this CA is an initiative of several organizations. Our
223 free software and protocol will let sysadmins run a single command to
224 turn on HTTPS on their servers in about a minute, helping eliminate
225 obstacles to activating encryption for every Web server. I'll describe
226 how it all works and give a demo. We need lots of testing and
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237 Attribution revolution -- turning copyright upside-down
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254 Reusing works licensed under free licenses seems pretty simple, but it
255 can often be quite time consuming. One image or a few lines of source
256 code might be okay, but keeping track of the license and attribution
257 of a thousand different pieces, or when quoting from massive data sets
258 such as Wikipedia? Whoah! Don’t we have computers to do that for us!?
259 We do, but there’s no widespread support for including licensing or
260 author information when sharing or reusing digital works. This session
261 will discuss how this should work in a free knowledge environment, and
262 could it be that many problems regarding copyright and
"piracy" in our
263 digital society could be solved with free software?
266 In order to relate effectively to the digital works we see online,
267 attribution (who made or built something) matters. Proper attribution
268 is the start of being able to explore digital works online in their
269 right context. This talk will focus on the philosophical background of
270 why attribution matters, the benefits that free software can bring to
271 the way we work with pieces of art (lolcats and Shakespeare alike),
272 and where we're heading in the future.
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304 09:
45 -
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30: Keynote: Benjamin Mako Hill
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312 Access without empowerment
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329 The free software movement has twin goals: promoting access to
330 software through users' freedom to share, and empowering users by
331 giving them control over their technology. For all our movement's
332 success, we have been much more successful at the former. I will use
333 data from free software and from several related movements to explain
334 why promoting empowerment is systematically more difficult than
335 promoting access and I will explore how our movement might address the
336 second challenge in the future.
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366 Fork and ignore: fighting a GPL violation by coding instead
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383 Typically, GPL enforcement activity involves copyright infringement
384 actions which compel license violators to correct errors in their GPL
385 compliance, defending the policy goals of the GPL: the rights of
386 developers and users to copy, share, modify and redistribute.
389 While traditional enforcement is often undeniably necessary for
390 embedded electronics products, novel approaches to GPL violations are
391 often possible and even superior for more traditional software
395 Recently, Software Freedom Conservancy engaged in an enforcement
396 action whereby, rather than fight the violator in court, we instead
397 provided resources and assistance to a vetted GPL-compliant fork of a
401 This talk discusses which scenarios make this remedy optimal and the
402 lessons learned. The talk includes some licensing and technical
403 content about vetting the licensing information of codebases.
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413 Who did this? Just wait until your father gets home
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430 What's going on in here? Computer parts laying all over the
431 place... screws and ribbon cables scattered cross heaven's half
432 acre. And who left this power supply in the refrigerator? Is that your
433 dad's new impact drive? Don't you dare let me get up in the middle of
434 the night and step on that motherboard in my bare feet. Just what in
435 the name of Michael Dell is going on here?
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