<div class="session">
<h3>Libreboot: free your BIOS today</h3>
<span class="label label-default">Room 32-155</span> <span class="session-speaker"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#rowe">Francis Rowe</a></span>
- <p>Libreboot is free boot firmware, based on the coreboot project, intended as a free BIOS/UEFI replacement for your computer. The project was started to spearhead a campaign for a fully free system, where every piece of software in the machine is free.</p>
+ <p>Libreboot is a free (libre) BIOS/UEFI replacement for your computer. Based on coreboot, the aim is to distribute low-level boot firmware that is 100% free software. The project is aimed at users, attempting to make coreboot as easy to use as possible.</p>
+ <p>The work done by the libreboot project (and it's upstream, coreboot) is extremely important. Many people are using a free operating system, but most of them are relying on proprietary boot firmware to start their machine. Libreboot exists to provide a distribution of coreboot that is entirely free software, with the same goals as the GNU project and others in providing users the means to achieve freedom in their computing.</p>
+ <p>This talk goes into detail about the history of libreboot, how the project is run, how libreboot works and ways in which you can begin using libreboot today. The project is also in need of contributors; part of the talk will go into detail on this.</p>
+ <p>More information about the libreboot project can be found at <a href="http://libreboot.org/">http://libreboot.org/</a></p>
</div>
<div class="session">
<h2><small>09:00 - 09:45: Registration and breakfast</small></h2>
<h2>09:45 - 10:30: Keynote: Benjamin Mako Hill</h2><div class="session"><h3>Access without empowerment</h3>
- <span class="label label-default">Room 32-123</span> <span class="session-speaker"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#hill">Benjamin Mako Hill</a></span>
+ <span class="label label-default">Room 32-123</span> <span ><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#hill" class="session-speaker">Benjamin Mako Hill</a></a>
<p>The free software movement has twin goals: promoting access to software through users' freedom to share, and empowering users by giving them control over their technology. For all our movement's success, we have been much more successful at the former. I will use data from free software and from several related movements to explain why promoting empowerment is systematically more difficult than promoting access and I will explore how our movement might address the second challenge in the future.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="session">
- <h3 id="libreboot-flashing">LibreBoot flashing (until 17:40)</h3>
+ <h3 id="libreboot-flashing">Libreboot installation workshop (until 17:40)</h3>
<span class="label label-default">Room 32-144</span> Facilitator: <span class="session-speaker"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#rowe">Francis Rowe</a></span>
- <p>Bring your X60 or X200 and get assistance flashing it with <a href="http://www.libreboot.org/">Libreboot</a>, from the Libreboot maintainer and other knowledgeable people. Make sure everything is backed up first!</p>
+ <p>Bring your ThinkPad X60, X200 or R400 and get assistance flashing it with <a href="http://libreboot.org/">http://libreboot.org/</a>, from the Libreboot maintainer and other knowledgeable people. Make sure everything is backed up first!</p>
+ <p>Other hardware is also supported. The full list can be found at <a href="http://libreboot.org/gitdocs/hcl/index.html#supported_list">http://libreboot.org/gitdocs/hcl/index.html#supported_list</a></p>
</div>
<h2><small>14:20 - 14:30: Break</small></h2>
</div>
<div class="session">
- <h3>LibreBoot flashing (until 17:40)</h3>
+ <h3>Libreboot installation workshop (until 17:40)</h3>
<span class="label label-default">Room 32-144</span> <span class="session-speaker"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#rowe">Francis Rowe</a></span>
<p><a href="#libreboot-flashing">Description above.</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="session">
- <h3>LibreBoot flashing (until 17:40)</h3>
+ <h3>Libreboot installation workshop (until 17:40)</h3>
<span class="label label-default">Room 32-144</span> <span class="session-speaker"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#rowe">Francis Rowe</a></span>
<p><a href="#libreboot-flashing">Description above.</a></p>
</div>
<div class="session">
<h3>Rock your Emacs</h3>
<span class="label label-default">Room 32-141</span> <span class="session-speaker"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#sturmfels">Ben Sturmfels</a></span>
- <p>Do you love Emacs, but have never understood the strange code with lots of brackets? You're missing out on one of the great joys of Emacs — customizing it to work exactly the way you want. It turns out that Emacs is a full Lisp code interpreter, so once you know a little Emacs Lisp, almost anything is possible.</p>
+ <p>Do you love Emacs, but have never understood the strange code with lots of brackets? You're missing out on one of the great joys of Emacs — customising it to work exactly the way you want. It turns out that Emacs is little more than an interpreter for Lisp code interpreter, and once you know a little Emacs Lisp, almost anything is possible.</p>
- <p>After attending this tutorial, you will know how to:
- <ul>
+ <p>After attending this tutorial, you will know how to:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>make persistent customisations to your Emacs</li>
<li>read basic Emacs Lisp code</li>
<li>modify Emacs Lisp code as well as writing your own</li>
- <li>make persistent customizations to your Emacs</li>
+ <li>customise behaviour for distinct modes</li>
<li>bind your favourite commands to keys</li>
- <li>answer your own questions with the amazing help system</li>
+ <li>answer your own questions with the amazing documentation system</li>
<li>use built-in Emacs Lisp development tools like the debugger</li>
+ <li>write your own reusable modules for Emacs customisations</li>
</ul>
- Programming experience is helpful but not required. Bring your Emacs and type along.</p>
+ <p>This workshop will be enjoyed most if you already have a little programming experience.</p>
</div>
<div class="session">
</div>
<div class="session">
- <h3>LibreBoot flashing (continued)</h3>
+ <h3>Libreboot installation workshop (continued)</h3>
<span class="label label-default">Room 32-144</span> <span class="session-speaker"><a href="/2015/program/speakers.html#rowe">Francis Rowe</a></span>
<p><a href="#libreboot-flashing">Description above.</a></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-10 col-sm-9 col-xs-8">
<h3 id="rowe">Francis Rowe, Libreboot</h3>
- <p>I run the libreboot project, a free firmware distribution based on the coreboot project. I also run gluglug.</p>
+ <p>Francis is the lead maintainer behind the libreboot project, free boot firmware that replaces the proprietary BIOS or UEFI firmware on supported hardware. Based on coreboot, the aim of libreboot is to provide users with boot firmware that is 100% free software.</p>
+
+ <p>He also runs the Gluglug, a company that sells computers with libreboot and Trisquel GNU/Linux pre-installed.</p>
+
+ <p>More information about libreboot can be found at <a href="http://libreboot.org/">http://libreboot.org/</a></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-10 col-sm-9 col-xs-8">
<h3 id="sturmfels">Ben Sturmfels</h3>
- <p>Ben is a software engineer and free software activist from Ballarat, Australia. He organises Free Software Melbourne, leads the End Software Patents Australia campaign, rides bikes, flies kites and grows vegetables.</p>
+ <p>Ben Sturmfels is a software engineer and free software activist from Ballarat, Australia. He organises Free Software Melbourne and leads the End Software Patents Australia campaign.</p>
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