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<h4>Arvados: a free software platform for big data science</h4>
- <span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#smith">Brett Smith</a>, Ward Vandewege</span>
+ <span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#smith">Brett Smith</a>, <a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#vandewege">Ward Vandewege</a></span>
<p>Large-scale scientific computing work often runs on clusters with petabytes of attached storage and specialized networking. Arvados is a free software platform to store and analyze large data sets, emphasizing reproducibility and compatibility across deployments. It's licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, with SDKs under the Apache License 2.0. This talk will provide a technical introduction to Arvados, describe how research projects like the Personal Genome Project have used it, and suggest other applications.</p>
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- <h4>Free culture, free software: making FOSS work for cultural heritage organizations</h4>
+ <h4>Free culture, free software: making free software work for cultural heritage organizations</h4>
<span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#halperin">Jennie Rose Halperin</a></span>
<p>Cultural heritage organizations rely almost entirely on proprietary software and many refuse to believe that the systems they choose directly impact their long term success as largely grant-funded organizations.</p>
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<h4>Free fonts</h4>
<span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#crossland">Dave Crossland</a></span>
- <p>In this presentation I will describe the work I have done in the last seven years to publish hundreds of free fonts for writing systems around the world.</p>
+<p>Fonts are not software, but they ought to be free for the same reasons as software and encyclopedias. I've spent the last ten years as a software freedom activist working on fonts, and I'll show you how I got started, where I'm going, and some of the hundreds of free fonts I've commissioned for writing systems around the world along the way.</p>
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<h4>Let's first get things done!</h4>
- <span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#aouragh">Miriyam Aouragh</a>, <a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#gurses">Seda Gürses</a>, <a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#rocha">Jara Rocha</a>, <a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#snelting">Femke Snelting</a></span>
+ <span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#buyukakyol">Baris Buyukakyol</a>, <a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#gurses">Seda Gürses</a>, <a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#mater">Isik Mater</a>, <a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#rocha">Jara Rocha</a>, <a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#yilmaz">Orkut Murat Yilmaz</a></span>
<p>The current distance between those who organize their activism to develop “technical infrastructures” and those who bring their struggles becomes especially evident in the pragmatic spirit of getting things done. "Radical" activists may turn to services provided by Fortune 500 companies, while alternative tech initiatives sustained by a select (visionary and male) few may remain insistent on crypto with 9-lives. Through a close study of digital self-defense campaign sites, we want to pause to explore other modes of collaboration.</p>
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<h4>Shared values: journalism and free software</h4>
- <span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#decausemaker">Remy DeCausemaker</a>,
Andrea Hickerson, <a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#owens">Erika Owens</a></span>
+ <span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#decausemaker">Remy DeCausemaker</a>,
<a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#hickerson">Andrea Hickerson</a>, <a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#owens">Erika Owens</a></span>
<p>Free software and journalism have a long and rich history of informing one another and the Web at large. These communities share many values: transparency, objectivity, skepticism, and dogged pursuit of solutions, particularly ones that help improve our understanding of and access to the world. We'll talk about what these values look like in newsrooms (including the coding side of news) and where there are opportunities for these groups to learn from and reinforce these common values. Journalism drives a huge portion of what we read on the Web, so let's chat about the values that drive both that reporting and development work.</p>
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- <h4>Some people worth listening to: a mollydb production</h4>
+ <h4>Some people worth listening to: lightning talks</h4>
<span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#de-blanc">Molly de Blanc</a></span>
- <p>This session of curated lightning talks brings new speakers up to the podium. Free software users and enthusiasts, hackers, and interesting parties will be giving ten-minute talks on a variety of topics relating to technology, the law, their lives in free software, community, contribution and other relevant topics.</p>
+ <p>This session of curated lightning talks will bring new speakers to the podium as well as familiar faces talking about non-familiar topics. These talks will be brief overviews of broader topics or a deeper take on a very narrow topic. Each talk will be ten minutes (including time for questions), with a time at the end to engage individual speakers.</p>
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<h4>TAFTA, CETA, TISA: traps and threats to Free Software Everywhere</h4>
<span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#corvellec">Marianne Corvellec</a>, <a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#le-lous">Jonathan Le Lous</a></span>
- <p>TAFTA, CETA, and TISA are far-reaching trade agreements which represent major threats to online freedom and create legal uncertainty for all Internet players. They set forth an ever stronger protection of copyright, patents, and trademarks. They are negotiated by unelected officials in a complete lack of transparency. They are found to "recycle" the most toxic parts of ACTA, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement which was rejected by the European Parliament in 2012. This rejection followed the demands of European and international organizations and citizens, who campaigned and demonstrated massively against ACTA.</p>
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- <p>It takes a benevolent political and legislative environment to get Free Software Everywhere. We should remain vigilant and realize the traps and threats posed by these trade agreements. Our presentation will focus on the software aspects of TAFTA, CETA, and TISA. We will call for action against these global treaty projects and offer alternative proposals which favor Free Software Everywhere.</p>
+<p>TAFTA, CETA, and TISA are far-reaching trade agreements posing major threats to online freedom and creating legal uncertainty for all Internet players. They set forth an ever stronger protection of copyright and patents. They 'recycle' the most toxic parts of ACTA, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement which was rejected in 2012. The presentation focuses on the software aspects of TAFTA, CETA, TISA. We will call for action against these global treaty projects and offer alternative proposals, which favour Free Software Everywhere.</p>
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<p>New research techniques like data mining have highlighted the shortcomings in "free" (as in beer) licensing of academic research, and the benefits of "libre" licensing that permits true scholarly engagement with data and scholarship. These challenges apply equally in the education sphere, where teachers often need to manipulate resources and not simply distribute them. We will survey what is sometimes called the "open movement" in academia, which incorporates open access, open education, and open data. How are researchers and educators grappling with these challenges, and what can they learn from the free software movement?</p>
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+ <h4>Who did this? Just wait until your father gets home</h4>
+ <span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#starks">Ken Starks</a></span>
+ <p>What's going on in here? Computer parts laying all over the place... screws and ribbon cables scattered across heaven's half acre. And who left this power supply in the refrigerator? Is that your dad's new impact drive? Don't you dare let me get up in the middle of the night and step on that motherboard in my bare feet. Just what in the name of Michael Dell is going on here?</p>
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<h4>Will it blend?</h4>
<span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#kurdali">Bassam Kurdali</a></span>
- <p>A whirlwind introduction to working with Blender, the free (as in freedom) 3D animation suite. We'll do fun introductory animation with flowers, and also take a look at the Python API for the more technically minded.</p>
+ <p>Blender is the free 3D Animation Software used to make this year's FSF 30'th anniversary video. This session is lead by the maker of the video, and aims to provide a fun introduction to using blender. We'll cover the basics, partially using files from the video, and introduce various aspects of the software - rendering, animation and a bit about the Python api. Bring a laptop with a copy of blender from your distro or from blender.org!</p>
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