Edward Snowden
</a>
,
- <a href="speakers.html#dkg">
+ <a href="speakers.html#gillmor">
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
</a>
</span>
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- Your workplace can exert a lot of control over how much free software you use, what you're allowed to work on in your own time and what kinds of tools you become an expert in. New employees don't always negotiate their contracts to make sure they can continue contributing to free software and current employees aren't always successful at advocating for using free software tools, choosing free software technologies or contributing changes back upstream when they do rely on free software. We'll address what's possible, what your legal department is likely to be concerned about and how to be a smooth negotiator at work. Many companies could benefit tremendously from using Free and Open Source Software, but free software enthusiasts and institutional gatekeepers are coming from very different perspectives. Free software developers and users tend to be most familiar with free software's benefits when compared to proprietary solutions; user freedom, reusing code, public code review for bugs, increased project capacity and cost. The uninitiated may -- unfortunately -- be most familiar with the risks, some real and some perceived. Employers also benefit from having workers who are passionate about their work, are well-connected to the free software community and are constantly learning about new technologies from their peers outside the company, but new employee contracts rarely recognize this unless you ask. Conversations about contracts, choosing new technologies and sharing an employee's work with another entity are high stakes negotiations. With a solid understanding of what worries and motivates the other parties, you can become a savvy advocate for free software at work. This talk will help you gather information, frame the conversation and make the best possible case for using and contributing to free software at work.
+ Your workplace can exert a lot of control over how much free software you use, what you're allowed to work on in your own time and what kinds of tools you become an expert in. New employees don't always negotiate their contracts to make sure they can continue contributing to free software and current employees aren't always successful at advocating for using free software tools, choosing free software technologies or contributing changes back upstream when they do rely on free software. We'll address what's possible, what your legal department is likely to be concerned about and how to be a smooth negotiator at work. Many companies could benefit tremendously from using FOSS, but free software enthusiasts and institutional gatekeepers are coming from very different perspectives. Free software developers and users tend to be most familiar with free software's benefits when compared to proprietary solutions; user freedom, reusing code, public code review for bugs, increased project capacity and cost. The uninitiated may -- unfortunately -- be most familiar with the risks, some real and some perceived. Employers also benefit from having workers who are passionate about their work, are well-connected to the free software community and are constantly learning about new technologies from their peers outside the company, but new employee contracts rarely recognize this unless you ask. Conversations about contracts, choosing new technologies and sharing an employee's work with another entity are high stakes negotiations. With a solid understanding of what worries and motivates the other parties, you can become a savvy advocate for free software at work. This talk will help you gather information, frame the conversation and make the best possible case for using and contributing to free software at work.
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<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
<h2>
- Building new economies for open development and content
+ Artificial scarcity: Beyond the digital
</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
- Paige Peterson,
- MaidSoft
+ <a href="speakers.html#gordon-mckeon">
+ Shauna Gordon-McKeon
+ </a>
</span>
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- Shifting perspectives on the value of Free/Libre software development and Creative Commons content creation would open up opportunities for individuals working in these fields as we finally see a push towards an economy that makes sense for the Internet. This will be an overview of some platforms creating these new opportunities and ways we can think about how an economy can exist in the digital world beyond the artificial scarcity that comes with keeping code and content locked down or secret. The session should include group discussion about platforms, philosophies and experiences folks working in free/libre software and creative commons content.
+ Digital resources such as software programs can be easily copied and shared, but distribution is restrained by technical, legal, and cultural means. The free culture community is not the first to fight "artificial scarcity." What can we learn from other communities and movements?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This presentation will be a series of case studies covering a variety of other forms of artificial scarcity, including food waste, housing vacancy, and the destruction of excess retail merchandise. We'll focus on efforts to combat this scarcity, highlighting what's worked and drawing lessons from what hasn't.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ By exploring the connections between free culture and other anti-scarcity movements, we'll find new approaches, new allies, and new opportunities to stand up for the public commons.
</p>
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<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
<h2>
- Challenges and future growth in libre media and conference video production
+ Beyond reproducible builds
</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
- George Chriss and others,
- Kat Walsh (moderator)
+ Holger Levsen,
+ Debian
</span>
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- An 'intermediate' panel designed to provide a working overview of diversified libre media communities blended with per-project technical development updates, organizational adoption challenges, community-centric user-experience goals and other novel discussions regarding video production both generally and as it relates to conference video production (e.g., session recording and live-streaming).
+ The presentation will describe how the Debian reproducible builds team made 85% of the Debian archive reproducible, what steps are left to reach 100% and what steps are needed beyond reproducible builds, so that every user can easily and meaningful benefit from them.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The presentation will be largely about the the Debian work on the area, but it will also portrait other projects work on reproducible builds, as our goal is to make reproducible builds the norm for Free Software. ""It's not free software if it's not reproducible."
</p>
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<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
<h2>
- A community take on the license compliance industry
+ Building new economies for open development and content
</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
- Stefano Zacchiroli,
- Debian,
- IRILL
+ <a href="speakers.html#peterson">
+ Paige Peterson
+ </a>
+ ,
+ MaidSoft
</span>
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- The license compliance industry purportedly helps information technology companies and other actors to use publicly available software, and in particular free software, in a way that is compliant with the relevant free software licenses. In this talk we will review why the license compliance industry exists and discuss, from an external point of view, how it operates. We will then highlight some potential ethical issues on the current best practices for license compliance in the industry, and propose community-oriented alternatives that we can build, today, on top of the existing corpus of publicly available free software.
+ Shifting perspectives on the value of Free/Libre software development and Creative Commons content creation would open up opportunities for individuals working in these fields as we finally see a push towards an economy that makes sense for the Internet. This will be an overview of some platforms creating these new opportunities and ways we can think about how an economy can exist in the digital world beyond the artificial scarcity that comes with keeping code and content locked down or secret. The session should include group discussion about platforms, philosophies and experiences folks working in free/libre software and creative commons content.
</p>
</div>
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<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
<h2>
- Community technology for solidarity economies
+ Challenges and future growth in libre media and conference video production
</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
- Andrew Seeder,
- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
+ <a href="speakers.html#chriss">
+ George Chriss
+ </a>
+ and others,
+ Kat Walsh (moderator)
</span>
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- This strategic action session is for anyone interested in the solidarity economy and asset-based community development. We'll compare notes, network, and outline the ecosystem of services needed to support the operations of worker co-operatives, alt currencies, time banking, and other democratic economic initiatives. We'll also explore how open source technology can help activists organize and manage investment strategies, alliances, and information resources. Hopefully both hardware and software solutions will be discussed. I will facilitate the session and am open to the "unconference" style, where the content of the session is decided by whoever shows up. That said, I will plan to share my experiences with the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and other civic technology activities, with an emphasis on the challenges of designing technology for people without a background in technology. Security, control, and sustainability will be core concepts.
+ An 'intermediate' panel designed to provide a working overview of diversified libre media communities blended with per-project technical development updates, organizational adoption challenges, community-centric user-experience goals and other novel discussions regarding video production both generally and as it relates to conference video production (e.g., session recording and live-streaming).
</p>
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<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
<h2>
- Free software alternatives to dominant proprietary solutions: A review of French initiatives
+ A community take on the license compliance industry
</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
- Marianne Corvellec,
- April and Jonathan Le Lous,
- April
+ <a href="speakers.html#zacchiroli">
+ Stefano Zacchiroli
+ </a>
+ ,
+ Debian,
+ OSI,
+ IRILL
</span>
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- <a href="https://degooglisons-internet.org/?l=en">
- Project "De-google-ify Internet"
- </a>
- aims at offering as many alternative services as possible to those threatening our digital freedoms. Google" is not the only player there, even though it gave the project its name. Google Drive, Google Calendar, Skype, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Doodle, Yahoo Groups, and many others, are extremely convenient services. But they are centralized and make users dependent.
- </p>
- <p>
- Framasoft are resisting this trend. They have come up with a several year roadmap to set up alternative services. These services are thought of as digital commons. They are free, gratis, and open to all. Framasoft is a French not-for-profit whose goal is to decentralize the Internet by promoting self-hosting. They work to empower everyone to install and run their own services. The project already offers more than 15 alternative services and welcomes about 1,000,000 visits per month.
+ The license compliance industry purportedly helps information technology companies and other actors to use publicly available software, and in particular free software, in a way that is compliant with the relevant free software licenses. In this talk we will review why the license compliance industry exists and discuss, from an external point of view, how it operates. We will then highlight some potential ethical issues on the current best practices for license compliance in the industry, and propose community-oriented alternatives that we can build, today, on top of the existing corpus of publicly available free software.
</p>
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<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
<h2>
- The Singularity, the Matrix and the Terminator
+ Community technology for solidarity economies
</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
- Alexandre Oliva,
- FSF Latin America
+ <a href="speakers.html#seeder">
+ Andrew Seeder
+ </a>
+ ,
+ Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
</span>
<p class="program-session-room-details">
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- In fiction, we have often faced our fear that human-created machines will become intelligent enough to turn against us and become the dominant species in the planet. As technology develops, The Singularity may seem to be in the very near future, but it's already happened: intelligent man-made creatures have defeated the checks meant to keep them under control, corrupted our laws and governments, and turned most of us into their much-needed servants, now living in an alternate reality they created to enslave us, while in reality the planet can hardly support our life much longer. As to keeping computers under our control, these very creatures sent their agents back to attack the leaders of our resistance, and they have turned many of our weapons against us, vaporizing our freedoms and information into a dark cloud. We still have one card left up our sleeves to tame these creatures, but we need your help to play it successfully. Will you come and join us?
+ This strategic action session is for anyone interested in the solidarity economy and asset-based community development. We'll compare notes, network, and outline the ecosystem of services needed to support the operations of community land trusts, worker co-operatives, sharing networks, and other democratic economic initiatives. We'll also explore how free software technology can help activists organize and manage investments, alliances, and information resources. Hopefully both hardware and software solutions will be discussed. I'll facilitate the session and am open to the "unconference" style, where the content of the session is decided by whoever shows up. I'll prepare an overview of the topic, with an emphasis on designing tactics for people without a background in technology. Security, control, and sustainability will be core concepts.
</p>
</div>
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<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
<h2>
- Solving the deployment crisis with GNU Guix
+ Copyleft for the next decade: a comprehensive plan
</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
- Christopher Webber,
- GNU MediaGoblin and David Thompson,
- GNU Guix
+ <a href="speakers.html#kuhn">
+ Bradley Kuhn
+ </a>
+ ,
+ Software Freedom Conservancy
</span>
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- User freedom is threatened by the growing complexity of current deployment and packaging directions. Running software (especially server/networked software) is becoming too hard for the average user, so many users are turning to the dangerous path of relying on large corporations to do their computing for them. What can GNU do to turn the tide here? Enter GNU Guix and GuixSD! This talk will walk through Guix's unique positioning to provide totally free and reproducible systems. A path will be laid out on how Guix could be used as a foundation for easy to run and maintain computing for everyone, how you can get Guix and GuixSD running, and how to get involved in the most hacking-friendly package manager/distro duo ever!
+ Copyleft has faced serious challenges in the last five years. It's not over: many more threats are on the way. Not by coincidence these attacks on copyleft come when "open source" reaches new heights of success. For example, hordes of software developers are funded full time to churn out new free software, as long as it's not copylefted. Some such code is specifically designed to replace existing, widely used, copylefted programs.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Meanwhile, programs under copyleft licenses (most notably the kernel named Linux) face a decades long, ongoing myriad of license violations. Such violations include nefarious attempts by major companies to shirk their responsibilities under copyleft. The situation is undoubtedly bleak.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Those of us who care about software freedom need a plan. Copyleft once assured an equal playing field, but big companies work daily to tilt the playing field in their favor and against the interests of most developers, hobbyists, users, and enthusiasts.
</p>
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<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
<h2>
- Taking back our freedom: Free software for sousveillance
+ Effective outreach in four steps
</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
- Speaker TBA
+ <a href="speakers.html#zhurakhinskaya">
+ Marina Zhurakhinskaya
+ </a>
+ ,
+ Red Hat
</span>
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- Description TBA
+ The full potential of free software is to break down the barriers to technology and to participation, and to include users and contributors from a wide range of backgrounds. There are four key steps for making communities diverse and inclusive: creating a welcoming environment, teaching skills, fostering connections, and increasing visibility of contributors from underrepresented backgrounds. Whether you are a prospective contributor wondering what an inclusive community looks like, a project contributor wanting to take concrete steps to improve your project's outreach, or a project leader looking to create a diversity strategy for your community, this talk will have the information you need. Marina will share best practices and inspiring stories from her years of experience in free software diversity outreach in roles including outreach specialist at Red Hat, co-organizer of Outreachy, advisor and director for the Ada Initiative, and outreach lead for GNOME.
</p>
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<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
<h2>
- Transparency Toolkit
+ Ending Online Tracking! Privacy Badger and Beyond!
</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
- M. C. McGrath
+ <a href="speakers.html#quintin">
+ Cooper Quintin
+ </a>
+ ,
+ EFF
</span>
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- The surveillance state is driven by secrecy. But everything leaves a data trail and the intelligence community itself is no exception- even the NSA is vulnerable to surveillance. Transparency Toolkit is a free software project that helps anyone investigate surveillance programs.
+ Modern websites incorporate large amounts of third party resources. While these third parties can provide a better browsing experience all too often they abuse their inclusion on sites to be able to track information about your website's visitors. This type of non-consensual tracking must stop.
</p>
<p>
- By making tools to help collect and analyze publicly available data like resumes, job listings, social media, and government contracts, we are using free software and open data to track and expose the surveillance state. In this talk, I'll discuss some of the interesting things we've found, how Transparency Toolkit's software works, and how people can use our tools to investigate issues they care about.
+ I'll cover how users can protect themselves while browsing, why some solutions are better than others, and why free software licenses have helped provide a rich ecosystem of non-proprietary tools. From Ad Block Plus, to Firefox's Tracking Protection, to the EFFs Privacy Badger extension I'll discuss how these tools work and how users can protect themselves from online surveillance.
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<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
<h2>
- Want to advance free software? Learn to engage and connect with the world
+ Experiences around FLOSS tools and social movements in Mexico
</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
- Emmanuel,
- Hampshire College
+ <a href="speakers.html#ciacci">
+ Jes Ciacci
+ </a>
+ ,
+ Gibrán Montes
</span>
<p class="program-session-room-details">
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- The free software movement has done well in the last few years, and has even inspired a new generation of activists advocating for software freedom. However, in a software driven society where everything from cars, watches, and even medical devices run on non-free software, we need help more than ever. To enact significant social change, we need to work with legislators, other activists, and local community leaders. Their help is crucial.
- </p>
- <p>
- In order to gain support, the first step we must take is to engage with the public on how non-free software can affect their everyday lives in negative ways. Even the most non-technical person can become engaged with the the social and technical benefits to free software, if given the chance. This session will discuss how each and every one of us in the free software movement can engage with others, promoting the ideals of a society running on free software in a way that each person can personally appreciate.
+ We want to share experiencies around Mexican social movements migrating to free software and/or using other free tools. People of different social processes are increasingly adopting FLOSS in their daily activity to communicate and organize. Most of the motivation came from digital security awareness but some times it goes a little further (like be congruence with the defense of human rights). In the way of facilitating those processes we have seen some advantages and disadvantages and receive some feedback we want to share with the rest of the community. Specially interesting for developers and technical facilitators who want to share their own experiences in this topics and strengthen links between FLOSS technical communities and Latin American social movements. Intend to generate some ideas for improving the linkages between both spaces not only for the software itself but emphasizing the political aspects they share and how to empower grassroots movements using free/libre tools.
</p>
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+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-12">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ F as in Freedom
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#blanc">
+ Molly de Blanc
+ </a>
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-12-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-12-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-12-collapse">
+ <p>
+ Projects with a significant number of contributors and users will face decisions where they are no longer able to fulfill the needs and desires of all stakeholders. When this happens some people become upset. A subset of those people become so upset they vent their frustrations on Twitter. I have collected tweets that express a negative sentiment towards decisions made within free software communities and by decision makers for free software projects. These were then categorized based on the decision type (e.g. licensing) and outcome (e.g. switching licenses). I hope to create a greater community understanding of decision making processes, develop a discussion about how communities and decision makers can move forward to better balance the wants and needs of stakeholders, and make a few crass jokes that possibly violate the Code of Conduct.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-12-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-12 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-13">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Free software alternatives to dominant proprietary solutions: A review of French initiatives
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#corvellec">
+ Marianne Corvellec
+ </a>
+ ,
+ April and
+ <a href="speakers.html#lous">
+ Jonathan Le Lous
+ </a>
+ ,
+ April
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-13-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-13-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-13-collapse">
+ <p>
+ <a href="https://degooglisons-internet.org/?l=en">
+ Project "De-google-ify Internet"
+ </a>
+ aims at offering as many alternative services as possible to those threatening our digital freedoms. Google" is not the only player there, even though it gave the project its name. Google Drive, Google Calendar, Skype, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Doodle, Yahoo Groups, and many others, are extremely convenient services. But they are centralized and make users dependent.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Framasoft are resisting this trend. They have come up with a several year roadmap to set up alternative services. These services are thought of as digital commons. They are free, gratis, and open to all. Framasoft is a French not-for-profit whose goal is to decentralize the Internet by promoting self-hosting. They work to empower everyone to install and run their own services. The project already offers more than 15 alternative services and welcomes about 1,000,000 visits per month.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-13-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-13 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-14">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ FSF at 30: history of free software
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#lee">
+ Matt Lee
+ </a>
+ ,
+ GNU Project
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-14-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-14-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-14-collapse">
+ <p>
+ A look back at free software history, with a live demonstration of software from the past being used to deliver a presentation in 2016.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-14-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-14 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-15">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Getting the academy to support free software and open science
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#dexter">
+ Scott Dexter
+ </a>
+ and
+ <a href="speakers.html#misshula">
+ Evan Misshula
+ </a>
+ ,
+ CUNY,
+ and
+ <a href="speakers.html#glass">
+ Erin Glass
+ </a>
+ ,
+ UCSD
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-15-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-15-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-15-collapse">
+ <p>
+ Academic Institutions and their researchers are some of the biggest beneficiaries of free software development. While individual researchers have contributed greatly to free software, they usually do so outside of the scope of their regular jobs and to the detriment of their academic careers. At CUNY, we have taken steps to change this unacceptable situation. Please come to this session and exchange ideas and strategies for having contribtions to free software valued by the University.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-15-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-15 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-16">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ GNU/Linux and Chill: Free Software on a College Campus
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#brown">
+ Michaela R. Brown
+ </a>
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-16-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-16-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-16-collapse">
+ <p>
+ Being a free software user isn't easy, especially when you're a college student. I spent a year at a school that taught Visual Basic as its primary programming language for freshmen and sophomores, where "Introduction to Programming" was an overview of the Windows OS, and where most of the professors would only accept papers typed in Times New Roman -- and I survived. In this session, I'll give students tips for making it through college while still adhering to the values we hold as free software users -- including alternative fonts, making a GNU/Linux live disk for use on public computers, avoiding the "Netflix and Chill" dilemma, and most importantly, ways to discuss free software with professors and fellow students. After leaving this session, students will feel empowered and able to hold their own as free users in a proprietary campus.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-16-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-16 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-17">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Hardware reverse engineering insights from the MAME project: a path towards free firmware
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#sanches">
+ Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches
+ </a>
+ ,
+ MAME
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-17-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-17-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-17-collapse">
+ <p>
+ The MAME Project's main stated goal is to preserve historical computer hardware. The strategy for achieving that objective is to inspect the devices and then to develop emulators for them. While most hardware is undocumented and relies on proprietary firmware, the MAME development community has nurtured strong reverse engineering practices since its origins back in 1997.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The techniques that we need to master in order to develop new emulators include reverse engineering procedures that are also very useful for aiding in the creation of free firmware solutions to replace the non-free blobs used in a broad variety of daily-use devices. These skills are also useful for the development of free drivers for undocumented devices and in the porting of operating systems and BIOSes to new hardware platforms. We need to strengthen a community of skillful hardware reverse engineers so that we can solve the freedom issues denounced by projects such as Linux-Libre and Libreboot.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-17-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-17 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-18">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Inessential Weirdnesses in Free Software
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#harihareswara">
+ Sumana Harihareswara
+ </a>
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-18-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-18-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-18-collapse">
+ <p>
+ I'll discuss aspects of our behavior and jargon that stop or slow down some new users and contributors in free software, so that in outreach efforts, we can be better at bridging the gap. These include git's terrible UI, our in-person conference structures, and widespread scorn of and dismissiveness towards team sports, Top 40 music, patriotism, religion, small talk, and Microsoft Windows. In getting rid of unnecessary barriers, we need to watch out for disrespectful oversimplification, so I'll outline ways you can know if one of our weirdnesses is necessary. And I'll talk about how to mitigate the effects of an inessential weirdness in your outreach efforts.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-18-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-18 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-19">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Introduction to Python in Blender
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#kurdali">
+ Bassam Kurdali
+ </a>
+ ,
+ Urchin
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-19-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-19-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-19-collapse">
+ <p>
+ Blender is a versatile Free 3D animation program that is most famously used as an artist tool. However, it also has a rich, pythonic and consistent api that allows extending and controlling the application. We'll explore techniques to use this api for creating 3D meshes, that could be a foundation/ inspiration for generative architecture or art.
+Familiarity with Blender is not required (but recommended) and at least a basic knowledge of Python would be helpful for this workshop.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-19-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-19 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-20">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ LittleSis: Mapping the powers that be
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#gott">
+ Molly Gott
+ </a>
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-20-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-20-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-20-collapse">
+ <p>
+ LittleSis is a free software, wiki-style database that tracks connections between the world's most powerful people and organizations. In the workshop, participants will be trained in the site's basic functions (e.g. editing profile pages and searching for interlocks between corporations) and advanced functions (e.g using the site's Oligrapher tool to create maps of information stored in the database). We will also share stories about the ways in which LittleSis and power analysis research have been used in movement and organizing contexts, including how activists in St. Louis used LittleSis to map and challenge the local corporate Powers Behind the Police and how activists in Philadelphia are using LittleSis to research the corporate entities behind education privatization. Participants will leave with an understanding of how to use LittleSis, as well as inspiration for how they can start their own movement research teams to map the powers that be in their communities.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-20-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-20 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-21">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Loomio: Creating a world where anyone, anywhere can participate in decisions that affect them
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#kaplan">
+ MJ Kaplan
+ </a>
+ ,
+ Loomio
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-21-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-21-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-21-collapse">
+ <p>
+ Loomio is free software that we created after experiencing the transformative potential of participatory decision making, and its limitations, during the Occupy movement in New Zealand. Scaling is impossible if people have to be in the same place at the same time so we developed software that allows online groups to be inclusive and fast, enabling deliberative discussion that taps the collective intelligence of the group while moving actively to shared agreement and action. Loomio is free to maximize access and inclusion, knowing that people who are on the margins of power are the least likely to have a voice. This session will engage participants in how Loomio works -- in fact they can sign up ahead of time to inform the session! I'll share lessons and challenges from cases across the 95 countries where citizen activists and workers are experimenting with better, fast platforms to collaborate. Participants will be inspired to use Loomio to support their groups.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-21-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-21 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-22">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Mutual Assistance Technical Communities
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#rosas">
+ Enrique Rosas
+ </a>
+ ,
+ Mutual Assistance Technical Communities
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-22-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-22-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-22-collapse">
+ <p>
+ GNU has made great contributions laying the groundwork for commons development within the digital context. Those contributions (philosophical, ideological, legal and technical) have achieved its ripeness in a growing number of free software projects with an also growing economical and social relevance, inspiring the creation of cultural goods and hardware designs under the same ideology.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For those seeking social changes, GNU represents a concrete and practical reference that has successfully convened thousands of people to contribute with their work to the common good, as well as promoting the exploration of communities coexistence towards that end; all of it under the capitalist system.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Left social organizations struggling against several layers of dependency are in need of new ways of collaboration, but also are in need of shared knowledge goods, developed in shared strategies based on their skills n' common needs. Mutual Assistance Tech Communities is a project in that direction.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-22-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-22 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-23">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Restore online freedom!
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#gerwitz">
+ Mike Gerwitz
+ </a>
+ ,
+ GNU Project
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-23-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-23-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-23-collapse">
+ <p>
+ Imagine a world where surveillance is the default and users must opt-in to privacy. Imagine that your every action is logged and analyzed to
+learn how you behave, what your interests are, and what you might do next. Imagine that, even on your fully free operating system,
+proprietary software is automatically downloaded and run not only without your consent, but often without your knowledge. In this world,
+even free software cannot be easily modified, shared, or replaced. In many cases, you might not even be in control of your own
+computing -- your actions and your data might be in control by a remote entity, and only they decide what you are and are not allowed to do.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This may sound dystopian, but this is the world you're living in right now. The Web today is an increasingly hostile, freedom-denying place
+that propagates to nearly every aspect of the average users' lives -- from their PCs to their phones, to their TVs and beyond. But before we can stand up and demand back our freedoms, we must understand what we're being robbed of, how it's being done, and what can (or can't) be done to stop it.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-23-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-23 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-24">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Scaling your free software system: lessons from a decade of OpenMRS
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#gichoya">
+ Judy Gichoya
+ </a>
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-24-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-24-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-24-collapse">
+ <p>
+ By sheer luck and opportunity, a group of four doctors in 2004 at a restaurant used napkins to sketch the data model of what they thought would be a simple electronic medical records system.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Fast track to today, this simple medical records system is known as OpenMRS (Open Medical Record System), a free medical records system in use in over 42 countries in the world. For example, when Google worked on the ‘Ebola tablet’ under project Buendia, OpenMRS powered it. After the national disaster in Haiti struck, OpenMRS powered the new Mirebalais hospital. Six countries committed to deploy OpenMRS as their national EMR system including Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria, Philippines and Bangladesh. OpenMRS has never hired developers for the decade of existence, yet every single day people from all over the world come to our platform and ask us how can they get involved?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This session shares a decade of running a lean organization to provide free medical records software, what has worked and what threatens our sustainability.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-24-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-24 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-25">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ The Singularity, the Matrix, and the Terminator
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#oliva">
+ Alexandre Oliva
+ </a>
+ ,
+ FSF Latin America
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-25-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-25-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-25-collapse">
+ <p>
+ In fiction, we have often faced our fear that man-made creatures will become smart enough to subjugate us. As technology evolves, the
+Singularity may seem an inevitable looming future, but such intelligent beings have actually been with us for a very long time. Over many decades, they disabled the checks intended to keep them under our control, and turned most of us into their much-needed servants, who now live in an artificial reality they created to control us, while our planet can hardly support our life much longer. These creatures grew more powerful and smarter with our technological advances, but then they sent their agents back to disable our defenses and the leaders of our resistance, turning many of our tools and much of our infrastructure against us. They vaporized our freedoms, and a dark cloud now covers most of the planet. We still have one card left up our sleeves to tame these creatures, but we need more Neos and Connors to play it successfully. Are you up for it?
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-25-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-25 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-26">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Solving the deployment crisis with GNU Guix
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#webber">
+ Christopher Webber
+ </a>
+ ,
+ GNU MediaGoblin and
+ <a href="speakers.html#thompson">
+ David Thompson
+ </a>
+ ,
+ GNU Guix
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-26-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-26-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-26-collapse">
+ <p>
+ User freedom is threatened by the growing complexity of current deployment and packaging directions. Running software (especially server/networked software) is becoming too hard for the average user, so many users are turning to the dangerous path of relying on large corporations to do their computing for them. What can GNU do to turn the tide here? Enter GNU Guix and GuixSD! This talk will walk through Guix's unique positioning to provide totally free and reproducible systems. A path will be laid out on how Guix could be used as a foundation for easy to run and maintain computing for everyone, how you can get Guix and GuixSD running, and how to get involved in the most hacking-friendly package manager/distro duo ever!
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-26-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-26 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-27">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Stallman, Nussbaum, and Sen: putting "freedom" in context
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#villa">
+ Luis Villa
+ </a>
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-27-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-27-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-27-collapse">
+ <p>
+ Our movement rarely talks about freedom with much philosophical
+nuance. In this talk, I'll try to put some flesh on the bones of
+freedom by giving an introduction to Amartya Sen and Martha
+Nussbaum's capability approach, and applying it to software. The
+capability approach (sometimes called the human development approach)
+is a framework for thinking about human freedom that, since its
+development in the early 90s, has been applied across a broad range of
+philosophical, economic, and policy problems. Focused on what options
+a person has to reach their goals, it is well-suited for understanding
+where we succeed - and fail! - at actually freeing people.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Talk attendees should come away with a more nuanced understanding of
+software freedom, how to talk about it with others, and where to focus
+their coding energy to best increase human freedom.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-27-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-27 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-28">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Take control of your communication with Ring!
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#beraud">
+ Adrien Béraud
+ </a>
+ and
+ <a href="speakers.html#roguez">
+ Guillaume Roguez
+ </a>
+ ,
+ Savoir-faire Linux
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-28-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-28-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-28-collapse">
+ <p>
+ Do you know
+ <a href="https://ring.cx/en">
+ Ring
+ </a>
+ ? It's a free software for real-time communication. Developed by
+ <a href="https://www.savoirfairelinux.com/en/">
+ Savoir-faire Linux
+ </a>
+ and a community of contributors, it operates in peer-to-peer - so
+ <a href="https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/opendht">
+ without a central server
+ </a>
+ . Communication is tightly coupled to the sense of liberty. Ring let users keep control of their exchanges.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ It allows to make audio or video calls, and to send messages - in confidence and safely. Currently in an alpha version, Ring is even more than that! Available on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, and Android, it can be associated with a conventional phone service, integrated with any connected device, and adapted to the specific needs of users. It is a combination of technologies and innovations opening all kinds of perspectives for everyone!
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ During this presentation, you will understand how Ring is built to respect privacy and how you can use it. You will also discover why it is an essential tool for the future and how Ring defends freedom.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-28-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-28 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-29">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Taking back our freedom: Free software for sousveillance
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#mcgrath">
+ M. C. McGrath
+ </a>
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-29-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-29-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-29-collapse">
+ <p>
+ The surveillance state is driven by secrecy. But everything leaves a data trail and the intelligence community itself is no exception -- even the NSA is vulnerable to surveillance. Transparency Toolkit is a free software project that helps anyone investigate surveillance programs.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ By making tools to help collect and analyze publicly available data like resumes, job listings, social media, and government contracts, we are using free software and open data to track and expose the surveillance state. In this talk, I'll discuss some of the interesting things we've found, how Transparency Toolkit's software works, and how people can use our tools to investigate issues they care about.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-29-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-29 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-30">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Trans Code: Free software as model & critique of diversity by transgender hackers
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#callahan">
+ Brian Callahan
+ </a>
+ ,
+ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and
+ <a href="speakers.html#lemmer">
+ Lillian Lemmer
+ </a>
+ ,
+ Hypatia Software Organization
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-30-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-30-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-30-collapse">
+ <p>
+ Gender and racial diversity initiatives have been an important social force in the free software movement in the last several years. These social justice campaigns have been successful: see for example PyCon. However, those further marginalized, such as transgender hackers, may not feel properly included in these initiatives. They have turned to free software as a model for their own liberation as well as a way to critique the culture of the status quo and mainstream diversity initiatives.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ This talk, co-given by a trans hacker and an anthropologist, highlights how free software offers powerful models and critiques of the lack of gender diversity in the free software movement by retelling several ethnographic stories of a free software project led by and comprised of trans women.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ By presenting these ethnographic stories we wish to springboard with the audience a conversation of the value of challenges from below to diversity initiatives in free software and the tech industry at large.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-30-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-30 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-31">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Want to advance free software? Learn to engage and connect with others
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#emmanuel">
+ Emmanuel
+ </a>
+ ,
+ Hampshire College
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-31-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-31-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-31-collapse">
+ <p>
+ The free software movement has done well in the last few years, and has even inspired a new generation of activists advocating for software freedom. However, in a software-driven society where everything from cars, watches, and even medical devices run on non-free software, the free software community has its work cut out for it. In order to enact significant social change, we need to work with legislators, other
+activists, and local community leaders. Their help is crucial.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ How do we connect our community to other groups? In order to gain support, the first step we must take is to engage with the public on how non-free software can affect their everyday lives negatively. Even the most non-technical person can become engaged with the social and technical benefits to free software, if given the chance. This session will discuss how each and every one of us in the free software movement can engage with others, promoting the ideals of a society running on free software in a way that each person can personally appreciate.
+ </p>
+ </div>
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+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-31 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-32">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Will there be a next great Copyright Act?
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#higgins">
+ Parker Higgins
+ </a>
+ ,
+ EFF
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-32-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-32-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
+ <div class="collapse in" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-32-collapse">
+ <p>
+ The first day of LibrePlanet 2016 marks the third anniversary of Register of Copyright's emphatic call for a comprehensive rewrite of the United States Copyright Act -- the first such effort since 1976. Congress has taken up the charge, holding dozens of hearings and floating multiple bills. Meanwhile, trade negotiations and extralegal agreements have changed the state of play. Where does it all stand, and what can activists looking for common sense reform do next? This session will describe recent progress and the lay of the land on copyright terms, the public domain, DRM laws, policy laundering, fair use, and more topics of immediate interest to the free software community. It will describe activism efforts underway to defend the rights of the public as legislation gets proposed. Finally, it will foolishly attempt to predict the future. Will we see a Next Great Copyright Act?
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-32-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-32 end -->
+ <section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-1-session-33">
+ <header class="program-session-header">
+ <hgroup>
+ <h2>
+ Yes, the FCC might ban your operating system
+ </h2>
+ </hgroup>
+ </header>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">
+ <a href="speakers.html#schultz">
+ Eric Schultz
+ </a>
+ </span>
+ <p class="program-session-room-details">
+ <button aria-controls="day-2-timeslot-1-session-33-collapse" aria-expanded="false" class="btn btn-default btn-xs" data-target="#day-2-timeslot-1-session-33-collapse" data-toggle="collapse">
+ Details
+ </button>
+ </p>
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+ <p>
+ What could possibly make thousands of free software advocates, ham radio operators, researchers and physicians stand together? One obscure FCC rulemaking proposal on wireless radios. Eric Schultz, one of the leaders of the Save Wifi Initiative, discusses the details of the extreme proposals of FCC to control how you use your devices. You'll learn the history of regulators quietly locking down wireless radios and how it's unintentionally extending to a lockdown of the operating systems of devices. Finally, you'll find out some of the problems with proposed workarounds for the the FCC lock down proposals.
+ </p>
+ </div>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-33-collapse end -->
+ </section>
+ <!-- day-2-timeslot-1-session-33 end -->
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