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<h2>Keynote speakers</h2>
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- <img class="img-responsive" src="//libreplanet.org/wiki/File:Karensandler.jpg" alt="[ Karen Sandler - Photo ]"/>
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- <h3 id="sandler">Karen Sandler, <small><a href="http://sfconservancy.org/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a> <a href="#sandler"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-link"></span></a></small></h3>
-<p>Karen M. Sandler is Executive Director of Conservancy. She was previously the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. In partnership with the GNOME Foundation, Karen co-organizes the award winning Outreach Program for Women. Prior to taking up this position, Karen was General Counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). She continues to do pro bono legal work with SFLC, the GNOME Foundation and QuestionCopyright.Org. Before joining SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and London. Karen received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Karen received her bachelor’s degree in engineering from The Cooper Union. She is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award and also co-host of the “Free as in Freedom” podcast.</p>
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- <h3 id="hill">Benjamin Mako Hill, <small><a href="http://sfconservancy.org/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a> <a href="#hill"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-link"></span></a></small></h3>
-<p>Benjamin Mako Hill is a social scientist, technologist, and activist. In all three roles, he works to understand why some attempts at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_production"> peer production</a> — like Wikipedia and Linux — build large volunteer communities while the vast majority never attract even a second contributor. He is an Assistant Professor in the <a href="http://www.com.washington.edu">Department of Communication</a> at the <a href="http://www.washington.edu">University of Washington</a>. He is also a faculty affiliate at the <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu">Berkman Center for Internet and Society</a> and an affiliate at the <a href="http://www.iq.harvard.edu">Institute for Quantitative Social Science</a> — both at <a href="http://www.harvard.edu">Harvard University</a>. He has also been a leader, developer, and contributor to the free and open source software community for more than a decade as part of the <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> and <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu</a> projects. He is the author of several best-selling technical books, a member of the <a href="http://www.fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</a> board of directors and an advisor to the <a href="http://www.wikimediafoundation.org">Wikimedia Foundation</a>. Hill has a Masters degree from the <a href="http://www.media.mit.edu">MIT Media Lab</a> and a PhD from MIT in an interdepartmental program between the <a href="http://sloan.mit.edu">Sloan School of Management</a> and the Media Lab.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/sandler.jpg" alt="[ Karen Sandler - Photo ]"/>
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+ <h3 id="sandler">Karen Sandler</h3>
+ <p>Karen M. Sandler is the Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. She is known for her advocacy for free software, particularly in relation to the software on medical devices. Prior to joining Conservancy, she was Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation where she now serves on the Board of Directors. Before that, she was General Counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. Karen co-organizes Outreachy, the award winning Outreach Program for Women, and is an advisor to the Ada Initiative. She is also pro bono counsel to the Free Software Foundation, GNOME and QuestionCopyright.Org. Karen is a recipient of the O'Reilly Open Source Award and co-host of the oggcast, Free as in Freedom.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/stallman.jpg" alt="[ Richard Stallman - Photo ]"/>
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+ <h3 id="stallman">Richard Stallman</h3>
+ <p>Richard is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the <a href="https://gnu.org">GNU operating system</a>, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement Richard also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.</p>
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+ <p>Since the mid-1990s, Richard has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Richard developed a number of widely used software components of GNU, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system.</p>
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+ <p>Richard pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.</p>
+ <p>Richard graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a BA in physics. During his college years, he also worked as a staff hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, learning operating system development by doing it. He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1975. He also developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to start the GNU project. </p>
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- <h3 id="Aouragh">Miriyam Aouragh, Westminster University</h3>
- <p>Miriyam Aouragh is an activist and anthropologist currently holding a Leverhulme fellowship at Communication and Media Research Institute at Westminster University, UK.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/hill.jpg" alt="[ Benjamin Mako Hill - Photo ]"/>
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+ <h3 id="hill">Benjamin Mako Hill</h3>
+ <p>Benjamin Mako Hill is a social scientist, technologist, and activist. In all three roles, he works to understand why some attempts at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_production">peer production</a> — like Wikipedia and GNU/Linux — build large volunteer communities while the vast majority never attract even a second contributor. He is an Assistant Professor in the <a href="http://www.com.washington.edu">Department of Communication</a> at the <a href="http://www.washington.edu">University of Washington</a>. He is also a faculty affiliate at the <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu">Berkman Center for Internet and Society</a> and an affiliate at the <a href="http://www.iq.harvard.edu">Institute for Quantitative Social Science</a> — both at <a href="http://www.harvard.edu">Harvard University</a>. He has also been a leader, developer, and contributor to the free software community for more than a decade as part of the <a href="http://www.debian.org">Debian</a> and <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu</a> projects. He is the author of several best-selling technical books, a member of the <a href="https://www.fsf.org">Free Software Foundation</a> board of directors and an advisor to the <a href="http://www.wikimediafoundation.org">Wikimedia Foundation</a>. Hill has a Masters degree from the <a href="http://www.media.mit.edu">MIT Media Lab</a> and a PhD from MIT in an interdepartmental program between the <a href="http://sloan.mit.edu">Sloan School of Management</a> and the Media Lab.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/allen.jpg" alt="[ Nicole Allen - Photo ]"/>
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<h3 id="allen">Nicole Allen, SPARC</h3>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/ball.jpg" alt="[ Ellen Ball - Photo ]"/>
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<h3 id="ball">Ellen Ball, Partners in Health</h3>
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- <h3 id="coons">ginger coons, University of Toronto/Libre Graphics magazine</h3>
- <p>ginger "all-lower-case" coons has been variously called a designer, artist, academic-in-training, technician and talker-about-things. When not building, writing, drawing, editing or holding forth, ginger is also PhD candidate in the Critical Making Lab and the Semaphore research cluster in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, studying the movement of born-digital methods to physical production processes through rapid prototyping.</p>
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+ <h3 id="coons">ginger coons, University of Toronto/Libre Graphics magazine</h3>
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<p>ginger "all-lower-case" coons has been variously called a designer, artist, academic-in-training, technician and talker-about-things. When not building, writing, drawing, editing or holding forth, ginger is also PhD candidate in the Critical Making Lab and the Semaphore research cluster in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, studying the movement of born-digital methods to physical production processes through rapid prototyping.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/corvellec.jpg" alt="[ Marianne Corvellec - Photo ]"/>
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<h3 id="corvellec">Marianne Corvellec, April</h3>
- <p>Marianne Corvellec, Free Software activist at April, an association which has been promoting and defending Free Software in France and Europe since 1996.</p>
+ <p>Marianne Corvellec has been a Free Software activist with April since 2011. April is an advocacy association which has been promoting and defending Free Software in France and Europe since 1996. Marianne's focus has been on legal and institutional issues.</p>
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<h3 id="crossland">Dave Crossland, Crafting Type</h3>
- <p>Computers were irresistible to me, growing up in the suburban arcadia of south west England in the 1990s. But being “good with computers” pointed towards the life depicted in Fight Club, so in high school I dropped maths and physics for contemporary art and socio-linguistics.Combining my interests in art and computers eventually led me to the BA Interaction Design programme at Ravensbourne College in London.</p>
-<p>By the time I graduated in 2006, I was fascinated with the potential of software freedom for graphic design and typography. I decided to free fonts.I attended the University of Reading’s MA Typeface Design programme and graduated in 2009. In my thesis I related the history of the software freedom movement to key concepts in type design. My student project “Cantarell” was included in the launch of Google Web Fonts and chosen as the default User Interface font for GNOME 3. 2010-2014 I consulted for Google on the Google Fonts project, commissioning new typefaces designed for the web. I also started the Crafting Type project, which lectures on typeface design with free software around the world. I believe that anyone can learn to draw, that CouchSurfing is the best way to travel, and that Transition Towns is important.</p>
+ <p>Computers were irresistible to me, growing up in the suburbia of southwest England in the 1990s. But being “good with computers” pointed towards the life depicted in Office Space, so in high school I dropped maths and physics for contemporary art and socio-linguistics. Combining my interests in art and computers eventually led me to graphic design at college. I decided to free fonts.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/deblanc.jpg" alt="[ Molly de Blanc - Photo ]"/>
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- <h3 id="deblanc">Molly de Blanc, MollyGive</h3>
- <p>Molly de Blanc lives in Somerville, MA, works in open education, and could probably code her way out of a paper bag.</p>
+ <h3 id="de-blanc">Molly de Blanc</h3>
+ <p>Molly de Blanc likes free culture, education, science, and software. She runs a lightning talk series in Somerville, MA.</p>
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<h3 id="dluhos">Martin Dluhoš, Charles University</h3>
- <p>I originally come from the Czech Republic. While in high school, I became curious about the idea of liberal arts education and ended up enrolling in a liberals arts college in the Midwest called Grinnell. I vaguely heard about Linux somewhere before, but had never used any GNU/Linux distribution myself. As I learned about the free software universe from my professors, I became excited about the opportunity to try new software legally, look under its hood, as well as to show it to others and demonstrate it on their own computers. Later on, my interest in GNU/Linux lead me to an internship at the Free Software Foundation in summer 2011.</p>
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-<p>After Google Summer of Code interlude at Puppet Labs in Portland, I returned to Boston to rejoin the sysadmin team at the FSF upon my college graduation. After about a year, I eventually decided to bid farewell to the east coast to explore the world a little. While in Boston, I was fortunate to meet a few people involved with education project One Laptop Per Child who inspired me to contribute as well. At OLPC summit in San Francisco last fall, I decided to volunteer with a Nepali non-profit OLE Nepal, which has been running the laptop program in schools mainly in rural areas of the country for a few years. I spent six months in OLE's Kathmandu office, where I primarily worked on a system that processed and visualized usage data gathered from the laptops at Nepali schools.</p>
+ <p>After graduating with a CS degree from a small liberal arts college in Iowa, Martin worked for a year as a sysadmin at the FSF. In 2013, he decided to embark on a six-month volunteering project in Nepal, where he worked with a local educational non-profit Open Learning Exchange affiliated with One Laptop Per Child. Nowadays, he is back home in the Czech Republic taking more CS courses at Charles University in Prague and contemplating what education means.</p>
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-<p>From Nepal, I headed back home to the Czech Republic after living abroad for nearly six years. This summer, I enrolled in a two-year CS Masters program at Charles University in Prague, currently majoring in software engineering.</p>
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+ <h3 id="jodogne">Sebastien Jodogne, Orthanc</h3>
+ <p>Sébastien holds a PhD. degree in Computer Science from the University of Liège (Belgium). His research work was acknowledged by the IBM Belgium Award in 2002. Between 2006 and 2011, he implemented high-performance image analysis software for machine vision, CCTV and broadcasting. Since 2011, he has been working as a medical imaging engineer at the University Hospital of Liège, where he develops the free software Orthanc for medical imaging. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning and software engineering.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/falcon.png" alt="[ Luis Falcón - Photo ]"/>
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+ <h3 id="glaser">April Glaser, Library Freedom Project</h3>
+ <p>April Glaser works with the Library Freedom Project to help organize around a range of digital rights issues in libraries. Previously she worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Technology Institute, and Prometheus Radio Project. April continues to work directly with community organizations interested in promoting free speech, privacy, and innovation in digital spaces, with a current focus on a privacy-conscious mesh networking project in Oakland, CA.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/gordon-mckeon.png" alt="[ Shauna Gordon-McKeon - Photo ]"/>
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- <h3 id="gurses">Seda Gurses, New York University</h3>
+ <h3 id="gurses">Seda Gürses, New York University</h3>
<p>I am a post-doctoral research at NYU working on privacy, surveillance, requirements engineering and PETs. I am also a member of the arts collective Constant VZW and Alternatif Bilisim Dernegi, an association based in Turkey working on digital rights.</p>
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- <h3 id="gurses">Jennie Rose Halperin, Mozilla</h3>
+ <h3 id="halperin">Jennie Rose Halperin, Mozilla</h3>
<p>Jennie Rose Halperin is a Project Manager and Researcher for the Community Building Team at the Mozilla Corporation. Her work focuses on building healthy digital communities and communities of practice on the Open Web. Jennie's work for Supporting Cultural Heritage Open Source Systems (SCHOSS) through LYRASIS has focused on community and governance in cultural heritage and free software.</p>
-<p>A Community Superstar, super facilitator, Wikipedian, and Webmaker Mentor, her work explores free software, open access, and open standards in cultural spaces. At Mozilla, she engages with diverse international communities to develop their impact through sustained contribution, recognition, and meaningful projects.</p>
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<p>A Community Superstar, super facilitator, Wikipedian, and Webmaker Mentor, her work explores free software, open access, and open standards in cultural spaces. At Mozilla, she engages with diverse international communities to develop their impact through sustained contribution, recognition, and meaningful projects.</p>
-<p>Prior to Mozilla, she worked in academic libraries, archives, and museums, curation, and digital scholarship in the United States and Germany. She graduated from Barnard College and received her Masters in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. You can find her on the Internet at http://jennierosehalperin.me. She tweets @little_wow.</p>
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<p>Prior to Mozilla, she worked in academic libraries, archives, and museums, curation, and digital scholarship in the United States and Germany. She graduated from Barnard College and received her Masters in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. You can find her on the Internet at http://jennierosehalperin.me. She tweets @little_wow.</p>
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+ <h3 id="hickerson">Andrea Hickerson</h3>
+ <p>Andrea Hickerson is an Assistant Professor of Journalism in the School of Communication at RIT. She is the co-founder of the Digital Journalism Incubator, funded by a grant from the Knight Foundation, which supports experiments in collaborative multimedia journalism. </p>
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<h3 id="kuhn">Bradley Kuhn, Software Freedom Conservancy</h3>
- <p>Bradley M. Kuhn is President and Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from 2001-2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. From 2005-2010, Kuhn worked as the Policy Analyst and Technology Director of the Software Freedom Law Center. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. His Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of Free Software languages. Kuhn has a blog at <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/">http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/</a> , a microblog at <a href="http://identi.ca/bkuhn/">http://identi.ca/bkuhn/</a>, and co-hosts the audcast, Free as in Freedom at <a href="http://faif.us/">http://faif.us/</a>.</p>
+ <p>Bradley M. Kuhn is President and Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy, on Free Software Foundation's Board of Directors, and editor-in-chief of copyleft.org. Kuhn was FSF's Executive Director from 2001-2005, where he led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented Affero GPL. Kuhn was appointed Conservancy's President in April 2006, volunteered from 2006-2010, and has been on staff since 2011. Kuhn holds a B.S from Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. from the University of Cincinnati.</p>
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<h3 id="kurdali">Bassam Kurdali, Urchin</h3>
- <p>Bassam is a 3D animator/filmmaker whose 2006 short, Elephants Dream, was the first ‘open movie’. It established the viability of libre tools in a production environment and set precedent by offering its source data under a permissive license for learning, remixing and re-use. His character, ManCandy, began as an easily animatable test bed for rigging experiments. Multiple iterations have been released to the public, and Bassam demonstrates him in the animated tutorial video + short, The ManCandy FAQ. Under the sign of the urchin, Bassam is continuing to pursue a model of production that invests in commonwealth. He teaches, writes and lectures around the world on open production and free software technique. Raised in Damascus, Bassam trained in the United States as an electrical and software engineer.</p>
+ <p>Bassam is a 3D animator/filmmaker whose 2006 short, Elephants Dream, was the first "open movie." It established the viability of libre tools in a production environment and set precedent by offering its source data under a permissive license for learning, remixing and re-use. His character, ManCandy, began as an easily animatable test bed for rigging experiments. Multiple iterations have been released to the public, and Bassam demonstrates him in the animated tutorial video + short, The ManCandy FAQ. Under the sign of the urchin, Bassam is continuing to pursue a model of production that invests in commonwealth. He teaches, writes and lectures around the world on free production and free software technique. Raised in Damascus, Bassam trained in the United States as an electrical and software engineer.</p>
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- <h3 id="le-lou">Jonathan Le Lou, April</h3>
+ <h3 id="le-lous">Jonathan Le Lous, April</h3>
<p>Jonathan has been involved with the Free Software Movement for ten years, in France and now in Canada.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/nicholson.jpg" alt="[ Deb Nicholson - Photo ]"/>
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<h3 id="nicholson">Deb Nicholson, OpenHatch</h3>
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<h3 id="oberg">Jonas Öberg, Commons Machinery</h3>
<p>Jonas is a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow where he works on enabling a persistent link between digital works and their metadata, to automate the process of attribution and making it easier for people to use digital works, especially those licensed under free licenses.</p>
-<p>Prior to working with the Shuttleworth Foundation, he was the Regional Coordinator for Creative Commons in Europe, lecturer in Software Engineering at the University of Gothenburg and co-founded the Free Software Foundation Europe where he also served as vice president for seven years.</p>
+
<p>Prior to working with the Shuttleworth Foundation, he was the Regional Coordinator for Creative Commons in Europe, lecturer in Software Engineering at the University of Gothenburg and co-founded the Free Software Foundation Europe where he also served as vice president for seven years.</p>
-<p>When he needs to avoid computers and technology, he's renovating a 19th century house in northern Sweden.</p>
+
<p>When he needs to avoid computers and technology, he's renovating a 19th century house in northern Sweden.</p>
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<img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/owens.jpg" alt="[ Erika Owens - Photo ]"/>
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<h3 id="peterson">Paige Peterson, MaidSafe</h3>
- <p>Paige believes that technology and society have a lot to gain from watching and understanding natural systems. In building infrastructure based on the decentralized and autonomous themes found in nature, we inherently find more sustainable models and processes. She is excited about the future with a private, secure and free Internet.</p>
+ <p>Paige currently works out of San Francisco for MaidSafe doing web development and US communication management and co-organizes bi-monthly events for one of the largest bitcoin meetups in the world. She previously worked for Open Garden doing community management and graduated from MassArt with an MFA in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) program in '10. She believes that by understanding the evolution of natural systems, we can build more sustainable and secure technologies.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/quilter.png" alt="[ Laura Quilter - Photo ]"/>
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<h3 id="quilter">Laura Quilter, UMass Amherst</h3>
- <p>Laura Quilter is the Copyright and Information Policy Librarian at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Libraries. Laura has a M.S. in Library and Information Science (University of Kentucky, 1993) and a J.D. (UC Berkeley School of Law, 2003). </p>
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-<p>She has taught as an adjunct professor at Simmons College, and at the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law. She has consulted with libraries and non-profits on copyright, privacy, and other technology law concerns. She has also worked as a librarian and assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has lectured and taught courses to a wide variety of audiences. </p>
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-<p>Laura's research interests include copyright, tensions within teaching and scholarly communication, and more broadly, human rights concerns within information law and policy, including privacy, access to knowledge, and intellectual freedom. </p>
+<p>I'm Laura Quilter, the Copyright and Information Policy Librarian and attorney at the UMass Amherst Libraries. I educate the campus community on copyright and related matters, through workshops and consultations. I believe that individuals can understand enough about copyright to answer their own questions in most instances. I support sharing, and the free and open access to information. I study and work to eliminate abuses of copyright.</p>
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<h3 id="rocha">Jara Rocha, Bau School of Design</h3>
- <p>Jara Rocha is a cultural mediator and a core member of GReDiTS/Objetologías research group at Bau School of Design in Barcelona, Spain.</p>
+ <p>Jara Rocha is a cultural mediator, developing projects at the intersection of digital humanities, free culture and design. Her main research questions have to do with the materialities of present cultures, and are conceived through two fundamental gestures: critical thinking and speculative doing. She started the Gender and Technology group at Medialab-Prado and curated the project 404: School Not Found at Intermediae, both based in Madrid. She is a core member of GReDiTS/Objetologías research group at Bau School of Design in Barcelona, where she lives and teaches since 2013.</p>
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<h3 id="rodriguez-perez">Ruben Rodriguez Perez, GNU, Trisquel</h3>
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<img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/rowe.jpg" alt="[ Francis Rowe - Photo ]"/>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/schoen.jpg" alt="[ Seth Schoen - Photo ]"/>
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<h3 id="schoen">Seth Schoen, Electronic Frontier Foundation</h3>
- <p>Seth Schoen has worked at EFF over a decade, creating the Staff Technologist position and helping other technologists understand the civil liberties implications of their work, EFF staff better understand technology related to EFF's legal work, and the public understand what products they use really do. He helped create the LNX-BBC live CD and has researched phenomena including laser printer forensic tracking codes, ISP packet spoofing, and key recovery from computer RAM after a computer has been turned off. He has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Sentencing Commission, and in several courts.</p>
+ <p>Seth Schoen is Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. As the first-ever staff technologist at EFF, he helps EFF's staff and the public understand the technologies they use. He works on technology research and development to protect users' freedom and privacy.</p>
+
+ <p>Seth has been working on the Let's Encrypt project with EFF, the University of Michigan, Mozilla, and our other partners for several years, and is thrilled to see it poised to launch publicly.</p>
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<h3 id="seaton">Michael Seaton, Partners In Health</h3>
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- <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/smith.jpg" alt="[ Brett Smith - Photo ]"/>
+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/starks.png" alt="[ Ken Starks - Photo ]"/>
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- <h3 id="smith">Brett Smith, Curoverse/Arvados</h3>
- <p>Brett Smith has been working with free software for his entire career, starting with college employment as the FSF's shipping manager and Richard Stallman's speaking organizer. Since then, he's been a software engineer, a system administrator, and the FSF's license compliance engineer. Right now he gets paid to develop Arvados full-time. He also holds an Extra class amateur radio license, and uses it to help communications teams at local events like the Boston Marathon.</p>
+ <h3 id="starks">Ken Starks, Reglue</h3>
+ <p>"Daddy, how does a computer work?" That simple six-word question led Ken down a path that not only changed his life, but the lives of hundreds of others. Since 2005, Ken and his organization has taken in broken or decommissioned computers, refurbished them, and then placed them into the homes of financially disadvantaged kids in Texas. Everything Reglue does is anchored on one simple premise: a child's exposure to technology should never be predicated on the ability to afford it.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/smith.jpg" alt="[ Brett Smith - Photo ]"/>
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- <h3 id="snelting">Femke Snelting</h3>
- <p>Femke Snelting is an artist and designer, member of the Brussels based association for arts and media Constant, and teaching at the Piet Zwart Institute Media Design in Rotterdam and Ecole de Recherche Graphique (erg) in Brussels, Belgium.</p>
+ <h3 id="smith">Brett Smith, Curoverse/Arvados</h3>
+ <p>Brett Smith has been working with free software for his entire career, starting with college employment as the FSF's shipping manager and Richard Stallman's speaking organizer. Since then, he's been a software engineer, a system administrator, and the FSF's license compliance engineer. Right now he gets paid to develop Arvados full-time. He also holds an Extra class amateur radio license, and uses it to help communications teams at local events like the Boston Marathon.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/sturmfels.jpg" alt="[ Ben Sturmfels - Photo ]"/>
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<h3 id="sturmfels">Ben Sturmfels</h3>
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+ <h3 id="tryon">Robinson Tryon, The Document Foundation</h3>
+ <p>Robinson is a Free Software evangelist employed as QA Engineer for The Document Foundation (TDF), the German non-profit behind LibreOffice and the Document Liberation Project, and as volunteer coordinator of LibreOffice community outreach and education in the US. When he's not speaking about LibreOffice or poking at code, you may find him tinkering in his basement, growing beans and hops in his garden, brewing beer in his kitchen, roasting something over the fire, or floating around a lake somewhere.</p>
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+ <h3 id="vandewege">Ward Vandewege, Arvados</h3>
+ <p>Ward Vandewege started his career as a systems administrator and software developer, with a focus on free software. Ward currently leads the engineering and operations teams at Curoverse. He is also responsible for designing, building, and operating the computer clusters for the Personal Genome Project (PGP). Before Curoverse, Ward was at the FSF where he served as senior systems administrator and eventually as CTO.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/webber.png" alt="[ Christopher Webber - Photo ]"/>
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- <h3 id="zacchiroli">Stefano Zacchiroli, >Debian, IRILL</h3>
+ <h3 id="zacchiroli">Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian, IRILL</h3>
<p>Associate Professor of Computer Science at University Paris Diderot. His research interests span formal methods and their applications to Quality Assurance in Free Software distributions. He has been an official member of the Debian Project since 2001, taking care of many tasks from package maintenance to distribution-wide Quality Assurance. He has been elected to serve as Debian Project Leader for 3 terms in a row, over the period 2010-2013. He is a Board Director of the Open Source Initiative.</p>
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