LibrePlanet 2014

March 22nd-23rd 2014, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Free software, free society

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Program

Here's a sneak peek at all the good stuff we've got in store for LibrePlanet 2014. Check back soon for session descriptions and the full schedule!

Keynotes

Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation

Eben Moglen, Software Freedom Law Center

Karen Sandler, GNOME Foundation

Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation

Sessions

1984+30: GNU speech to defeat e-newspeak

Alexandre Oliva

Adventures in hackademia: Leveraging humanitarian free software in the classroom

Remy DeCausemaker

Beyond the "women in tech talk": After representation, identity politics

ginger coons, Kÿra, Femke Snelting

Considering the future of copyleft: How will the next generation perceive GPL?

Bradley Kuhn

Distributed free-cultural production and the future of creative economy

Fateh Slavitskaya

Everybody spies

Kade Crockford, Josh Levy

Free software activism : an European perspective and experience

Lionel Allorge, Frederic Couchet

Free software and open science

Shauna Gordon-McKeon

Free your JavaScript

Zach Wick

Get started contributing to MediaWiki

Mark Holmquist

GNU vs. NSA: Using free software to end mass surveillance

Holmes Wilson

IT cooperation: Accessible, free, & open

Yochai Gal, Emily Lippold-Cheny, Leandro Monk

Lessons in tech activism

Dana Moser, Kendra Moyer, Steve Revilak

Mapping for social justice

Evan Misshula

No more mouse: Saving elementary education

Walter Bender

Nuturing non-coders

Molly de Blanc, Deb Nicholson

Opus, Daala, and free codec updates

Gregory Maxwell, Christopher Montgomery

An overview of OpenPGP

Paul Tagliamonte

Promoting free software adoption (and creation) in the public sector

Ezra Glenn, Andy Oram, others

Rethinking art archives

Noopur Raval

State of the Goblin

Christopher Webber

TPP and free software

Maira Sutton

Tracking changes: Activists using free software across movements

April Glaser, Bryan Mercer, Eva Galperin, Emi Kane

Update on the circumvention tech community & how to get involved

Carolyn Anhalt, Nick Merrill, Sandra Ordonez, George Rosamond

Updating Mailman's UI

Máirín Duffy

What does this program do? Reproducible builds, transparency, and freedom

Seth Schoen

Your webapps should talk not just in English, but in español, Kiswahili, 廣州話 and অসমীয়া too.

Sucheta Goshal