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Deadline for submissions: 21:00 UTC (17:00 Eastern time) on Friday, November 22, 2013
This year, the theme of LibrePlanet is "Free Software, Free Society." How can free software protect journalists, whistleblowers, activists, and regular computer users from government and corporate surveillance? How can free software, or free software values like copyleft, community development, and transparency, be used by people fighting to create free societies around the world? What challenges are standing between us and our goal of free software ubiquity? With your help, we'll tackle these questions and more at LibrePlanet 2014.
LibrePlanet 2014 will be held thirty years after the GNU System was launched. This is the perfect opportunity to take stock of where we've been and where we're headed as a community. We're looking for session proposals that embody the grassroot spirit of free software by:
The most successful proposals will:
There is also a place on the proposal form to indicate if you would like to participate in the conference in other ways in addition to your session – by framing and moderating a panel; facilitating a caucus space; sharing media-making skills; or blogging about the conference. Please let us know about the community-building skills you have to share!