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- <h4>Engaging Nepali kids with Free Software</h4>
+ <h4>Engaging Nepali kids with free software</h4>
<span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#dluhos">Martin Dluhoš</a></span>
- <p>Last year, I spent six months volunteering with a Nepali educational non-profit called Open Learning Exchange, which develops interactive educational activities for OLPC laptops used by students in elementary schools. During my talk, I will share my experience about what free software can do to provide better educational opportunities in these schools that lack resources and governmental support we take for granted.</p>
+ <p>One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is an educational project whose goal is to provide resources to children around the world to be able to learn in a self-directed manner using an inexpensive laptop. Earlier this year, I spent six months in Nepal volunteering for the local educational non-profit OLE Nepal, which employs OLPC laptops to provide better educational opportunities in schools that lack resources and governmental support. Kids from elementary schools chosen for the laptop program get to learn with interactive activities that OLE designed based on Nepali curricula.</p>
+
+ <p>During my stay, I had a few chances to visit some of these schools and witness XOs (OLPC laptops running the free operating system Sugar) in action in the classroom. I will share my observations about the number of ways in which the laptop program is making a meaningful impact on Nepali children's learning. I have seen that free software is not restricted to the West anymore, but is present even in some of the most remote places of the world. Through sharing my experience, I am hoping to expose participants of the conference to a new context in which free software is being encountered by people who have never used a computer before.</p>
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- <h4>Free software for medical imaging: bringing technological independence to hospitals</h4>
- <span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#jodogne">Sebastien Jodogne</a></span>
- <p>In this talk, I will explain the pains behind modern medical imaging, from the perspective of the hospitals. The DICOM standard will be introduced, together with free software supporting this standard. I will then put emphasis on the free software Orthanc, a lightweight, versatile, vendor-neutral archive. Orthanc is conceived as a central, robust building block to bring technological independence to clinical departments, by automating their very specific imaging flows and by creating free gateways between proprietary systems.</p>
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- <div class="session">
- <h4>When copyleft business models go bad... and how Kallithea's community recovered</h4>
+ <h4>Fork and ignore: fighting a GPL violation by coding instead</h4>
<span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#kuhn">Bradley Kuhn</a></span>
- <p>Kallithea is a self-hosted source code management system that exists thanks to a GPL violation and subsequent compliance action by Software Freedom Conservancy. Hear how a copyleft license violation and careful license vetting helped a software development community begin anew, and learn why licensing wonks and release engineers can make a huge impact on the health of a project's community.</p>
+ <p>Typically, GPL enforcement activity involves copyright infringement actions which compel license violators to correct errors in their GPL compliance, defending the policy goals of the GPL: the rights of developers and users to copy, share, modify and redistribute.</p>
+
+ <p>While traditional enforcement is often undeniably necessary for embedded electronics products, novel approaches to GPL violations are often possible and even superior for more traditional software distributions.</p>
+
+ <p>Recently, Software Freedom Conservancy engaged in an enforcement action whereby, rather than fight the violator in court, we instead provided resources and assistance to a vetted GPL-compliant fork of a violating codebase.</p>
+
+ <p>This talk discusses which scenarios make this remedy optimal and the lessons learned. The talk includes some licensing and technical content about vetting the licensing information of codebases.</p>
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<div class="session">
- <h4>Let's encrypt: a free certificate authority to encrypt the entire Web</h4>
+ <h4>Let's encrypt!</h4>
<span class="speakers"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#schoen">Seth Schoen</a></span>
- <p>This year a robotic certificate authority will start issuing publicly-trusted certificates, at no charge, by the millions. Called Let's Encrypt, this CA is an initiative of several organizations. Our free software and open protocol will let sysadmins run a single command to turn on HTTPS on their servers in about a minute, helping eliminate obstacles to activating encryption for every web server. I'll describe how it all works and give a demo. We need lots of testing and integration help!</p>
+ <p>Description coming soon.</p>
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<h4>Librarians fight back: free software solutions for digital privacy</h4>
- <span class="speakers">
April Glaser, <a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#macrina">Alison Macrina</a></span>
+ <span class="speakers">
<a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#glaser">April Glaser</a>, <a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#macrina">Alison Macrina</a></span>
<p>Librarians all over the country are affirming their commitment to digital privacy rights by using and teaching free software tools in their libraries. This initiative -- the Library Freedom Project -- was started by IT librarian Alison Macrina and staff of the ACLU, who have been visiting privacy-loving librarians in different states to show them how freedom of speech and the right to privacy are compromised by digital surveillance, and what new privacy-protecting free software services libraries can offer to shield patrons from unwanted surveillance of their online activity. In this session, organizers from the Library Freedom Project will talk about how the project is unfolding, how developers can support the adoption of free software privacy tools at libraries, and what kinds of relationships need to form for these initiatives to be sustainable.</p>
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+ <img class="img-responsive" src="//static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2015/site/graphics/speakers/glaser.png" alt="[ April Glaser - 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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