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+ <p>The program is still being filled in, so check back for updates. <a href="https://libreplanet.org/2015/program/index.html">See last year's full program</a>.</p>
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+ <h3>The last lighthouse: Free software in dark times
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+ <span class="program-session-speaker"><a href="speakers.html#snowden">Edward Snowden</a>, <a href="speakers.html#dkg">Daniel Kahn Gillmor</a></span>
+ <p>Join NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden (who will appear via a free software video call) and ACLU Technologist Daniel Kahn Gillmor for a discussion about free software, surveillance, power, and control of the future.</p>
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+ <h3>Challenges and future growth in libre media and conference video production</h3>
+ <span class="program-session-speaker">George Chriss and others TBA, Kat Walsh (moderator)</span>
+ <p>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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+ <h3>Building new economies for open development and content</h3>
+ <p>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>
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+ <h3>A community take on the license compliance industry</h3>
+ <p>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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+ <h3>Community technology for solidarity economies</h3>
+ <p>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.
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+ <h3>Free software alternatives to dominant proprietary solutions: A review of French initiatives</h3>
+ <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>
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+ <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>
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+ <h3>The Singularity, the Matrix and the Terminator</h3>
+ <p>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?</p>
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+ <h3>Solving the deployment crisis with GNU Guix</h3>
+ <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>
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+ <h3>Taking back our freedom: Free software for sousveillance</h3>
+ <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>
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+ <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>
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+ <h3>Want to advance free software? Learn to engage and connect with the world</h3>
+ <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, 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>
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+ <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.</p>
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