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Saturday, 3/22

09:00 - 09:45: Registration and breakfast

09:45 - 10:45: Opening keynote with Karen Sandler John Sullivan

10:45 - 10:55: Break

10:55 - 11:40 | Session block 1

Fighting surveillance with free software

Holmes Wilson
Room 123 | Thread: Surveillance
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 and easy to use.

Opus, Daala, and free codec updates

Gregory Maxwell, Monty Montgomery
Room 141 | Thread: Projects
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.

Lightning talks session 1

Room 144
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.

11:40 - 11:50: Break

11:50 - 12:35: Session block 2

An overview of OpenPGP

Paul Tagliamonte
Room 123 | Thread: Surveillance
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.

Get started contributing to MediaWiki

Mark Holmquist
Room 141 | Thread: Projects
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.

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

Bradley Kuhn
Room 155 | Thread: Applied free software
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.

Lightning talks session 2

Room 144
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.

12:35 - 13:50: Lunch

13:50 - 14:35: Session block 3

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

Sucheta Ghoshal
Room 123 | Thread: Movement-building
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.

Celebrating one decade of Trisquel GNU/Linux

Ruben Rodriguez Perez
Room 141 | Thread: Projects
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.

Geek knowing: from FAQ to feminism 101

Joseph Reagle
Room 155 | Thread: Movement-building
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).

Free Software Directory sprint session 1

Room 144
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.

14:35 - 14:45: Break

14:45 - 16:05: Workshop session 1

The creeping techno-surveillance state: how can we fight back?

Kade Crockford, Josh Levy
Room 123 | Thread: Surveillance
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?

No more mouse: saving elementary education

Walter Bender
Room 141 | Thread: Applied free software
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.

Beyond the women in tech talk

ginger coons, Kÿra
Room 155 | Thread: Movement-building

Free Software Directory sprint session 2

Room 144
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.

16:05- 16:15: Break

16:15 - 17:35: Workshop session 2

Update on the circumvention tech community and how to get involved

Carolyn Anhalt, Nick Merrill, Sandra Ordonez, George Rosamond
Room 123 | Thread: Surveillance

Mapping for social justice

Evan Misshula
Room 141 | Thread: Applied free software

Free Software Directory sprint session 3

Room 144
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.

17:35 - 17:45: Break

17:45 - 18:45: Free Software Awards with Eben Moglen and Richard Stallman

Sunday, 3/23

09:00 - 09:45: Registration and breakfast

09:45 - 10:45: Keynote: Jacob Appelbaum (remote from Berlin via Web-cast)

10:45 - 10:55: Break

10:55 - 11:40 | Session block 1

Free your JavaScript

Zachary Wick
Room 123 | Thread: Activism
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.

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

Seth Schoen
Room 141 | Thread: Projects
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.

Building an open digital archive in India: knowledge, access and other issues

Noopur Raval
Room 155 | Thread: Applied free software
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.

Free software messaging meeting session 1

Room 144
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.

11:40 - 11:50: Break

11:50 - 12:35: Session block 2

1984+30: GNU speech to defeat e-newspeak

Alexandre Oliva
Room 123 | Thread: Movement-building
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!

State of the goblin

Christopher Webber
Room 141 | Track: Projects

Distributed free-cultural production and the future of creative economy

Fateh Slavitskaya
Room 155 | Thread: Applied free software

Free software messaging meeting session 2

Room 144
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.

12:35 - 13:50: Lunch

13:50- 14:35: Session block 3

Free software activism: a European perspective and experience

Lionel Allorge, Frederic Couchet
Room 123 | Thread: Activism
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.

Updating Mailman's UI

Máirín Duffy
Room 141 | Thread: Projects
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.

Adventures in hackademia: leveraging free software in the classroom

Remy DeCausemaker
Room 141 | Thread: Applied Free Software
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.

F-Droid sprint session 1

Room 144
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.

14:35 - 14:45: Break

14:45 - 16:05: Workshop session 1

Tracking changes: activists using free software across movements

April Glaser, Libby Reinish
Room 123 | Thread: Activism

Choosing between freedom and security

Matthew Garrett
Room 141, 14:45 - 15:15 | Thread: Surveillance
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 and improve system security?

Diversity outreach

Karen Sandler, Marina Zhurakhinskaya
Room 141, 15:20 - 16:05 | Thread: Movement-building
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.

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

Ezra Glenn, Andy Oram, others
Room 155 | Thread: Surveillance
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.

F-Droid sprint session 2

Room 144
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.

16:05 - 16:15: Break

16:15 - 17:35: Workshop session 2

Lessons in tech activism

Dana Moser, Kendra Moyer, Steve Revilak
Room 123 | Thread: Activism
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.

IT cooperation: accessible, free, and open

Yochai Gal, Emily Lippold-Cheny, Leandro Monk
Room 141 | Thread: Movement-building

Free software and open science

Madeleine Ball, Shauna Gordon-McKeon, Jeffrey Warren
Room 155 | Thread: Applied free software
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.

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?

F-Droid sprint session 3

Room 144
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.

17:35 - 17:45: Break

17:45 - 18:45: Closing keynote: Sue Gardner

Social events

Free Software Foundation open house and cryptoparty

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.

17:00 - 21:00, Friday 3/21
FSF Office
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
Boston, MA 02110

Saturday night party and raffle

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.

19:30 - 23:00, with raffle drawing at 21:30, Saturday, 3/22
Asgard Pub & Restaurant
350 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

Free software community pub night

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.

21:00 - 01:00, Sunday, 3/23
Grendel's Den
89 Winthrop Street
Cambridge MA 02138

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