<h2>Program</h2>
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<p><span style="color:grey;">Sessions</span> | <a href="speakers.html">Speakers</a> | Separate events: <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/the-0th-spinachcon">SpinachCon</a> and <a href="https://www.fsf.org/events/seminar-on-gpl-enforcement-and-legal-ethics">Legal seminar</a></p>
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<h3>09:00 - 09:45: Registration and breakfast</h3>
-<h2>09:45 - 10:45 Opening Keynote:</h2>
+<h2>09:45 - 10:45 Opening Keynote</h2>
-<h3>Introduction</h3>
+<p><strong>Room 32-123</strong> </p>
-<p><em>John Sullivan</em></p>
+<h3>Welcome</h3>
+
+<p><em>John Sullivan, executive director, Free Software Foundation</em></p>
<h3>Keynote</h3>
-<p><em>Sue Gardner</em></p>
+<p><em>Sue Gardner, outgoing executive director, Wikimedia Foundaiton</em></p>
-<h3>10:45 - 10:55: Break</h3>
+<h3>10:45 - 10:55 | Break</h3>
<h2>10:55 - 11:40 | Session block 1</h2>
<h3>Respects Your Freedom hardware certification</h3>
-<p><em>Joshua Gay</em><br />
-<strong>Room 32-151 | Thread: Applied free software</strong><br>
-The "Respects Your Freedom" computer hardware product certification
+<p><em>Joshua Gay</em> <br />
+<strong>Room 32-151 | Applied free software</strong>
+The "Respects Your Freedom" device certification
program encourages the creation and sale of hardware that will do as
much as possible to respect your freedom and your privacy, and will
-ensure that you have control over your device. Learn about the
-certification process, about the certified products and the companies
-behind them, and learn about our vision and hopes for the future.</p>
+ensure that you have control over the devices you own. Learn about the
+certification process, certified products, the companies behind them, and our vision and hopes for the future.</p>
-<h3>Lightning talks session 1</h3>
+<h3>Lightning talks</h3>
<p><em>Facilitator: Donald Robertson</em> <br />
<strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
-Lightning talks are short presentations given by conference attendees on free software topics they're passionate about. Come to any or all of the three sessions to talk or just listen.</p>
+Lightning talks are short presentations given by conference attendees on free software topics they're passionate about. Come to any or all of the three sessions to talk or just listen. <a href="https://libreplanet.org/2014/lightning">Register to give a talk</a>. If you have slides, bring them on a flash drive before you plan to talk.</p>
-<h3>11:40 - 11:50: Break</h3>
+<h3>11:40 - 11:50 | Break</h3>
<h2>11:50 - 12:35 | Session block 2</h2>
<p><em>Bradley Kuhn</em> <br />
<strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
-Copyleft licenses, particularly the GPL and LGPL, are widely used throughout the free software community. Over the last few years, recent debates have led many to various conclusions about the popularity of copyleft. This talk will discuss where copyleft stands today, how it interacts with the modern free software world, and how copyleft advocates may need to adapt to th future of Free Software licensing.</p>
+Copyleft licenses, particularly the GPL and LGPL, are widely used throughout the free software community. Over the last few years, recent debates have led many to various conclusions about the popularity of copyleft. This talk will discuss where copyleft stands today, how it interacts with the modern free software world, and how copyleft advocates may need to adapt to th future of Free Software licensing.</p>
-<h3>Lightning talks session 2</h3>
+<h3>Lightning talks continued</h3>
<p><em>Facilitator: Donald Robertson</em> <br />
<strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
-Lightning talks are short presentations given by conference attendees on free software topics they're passionate about. Come to any or all of the three sessions to talk or just listen.</p>
+Lightning talks are short presentations given by conference attendees on free software topics they're passionate about. Come to any or all of the three sessions to talk or just listen. <a href="https://libreplanet.org/2014/lightning">Register to give a talk</a>. If you have slides, bring them on a flash drive before you plan to talk.</p>
-<h2>12:35 - 13:50: Lunch</h2>
+<h2>12:35 - 13:50 | Lunch</h2>
<h2>13:50 - 14:35 | Session block 3</h2>
<strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
In addition to information sharing and helpfulness, geek culture has a complementary norm obliging others to educate themselves on rudimentary topics. This obligation to know is expressed by way of jargon-laden exhortations such as "check the FAQ"(frequently asked questions) and "RTFM" (read the fucking manual). Additionally, the geek lexicon includes designations of the stature of the knower and the extent of what he or she knows (e.g., "newbie"). Online feminists, especially "geek feminists," are similarly beset by naive or disruptive questions, and demonstrate and further their geekiness through the deployment of the obligation to know, with some interesting differences. For instance, geek feminism includes a term for designating rudimentary (i.e., "101") knowledge, for "derailing" questions, and has novel concerns with respect to stature and extent of knowing (e.g., the Unicorn Law, impostor syndrome, and mansplaining).</p>
-<h3>Free Software Directory sprint session 1</h3>
+<h3>Free Software Directory sprint</h3>
-<p><strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
+<p><em>Facilitator: Joshua Gay</em> <br />
+<strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
Tens of thousands of people visit the Free Software Directory each month to discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions, to providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info. Stop by any or all of the three sessions today to help improve existing entries, add to new ones, or to find out about our latest efforts, such as importing package info from GNU/Linux distributions. No experience required.</p>
-<h3>14:35 - 14:45: Break</h3>
+<h3>14:35 - 14:45 | Break</h3>
-<h2>14:45 - 16:05: Workshop session 1</h2>
+<h2>14:45 - 16:05 | Session block 4</h2>
<h3>The creeping techno-surveillance state: how can we fight back?</h3>
<h3>Beyond the women in tech talk</h3>
-<p><em>ginger coons, Sara Hendren, Kÿra</em> <br />
+<p><em>ginger coons, Sara Hendren, Kÿra, Marina Zhurakhinskaya</em> <br />
<strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Movement-building</strong> <br />
In the last several years, free software projects and events have made great strides in representing the voices of groups which have previously had almost no voice. The ratio of female presenters at major conferences is on the rise, and nearly every event boasts a talk or panel specifically about the place of women in technology. In this panel, we propose to go further. We ask: what comes after representation? Now that we have found ways to give voice to a second gender in free software, how can we actively and effectively make room for others? With a specific emphasis on race, sexuality and gender beyond the binary, this panel seeks to explore ways of advancing our discussions beyond the simple metrics of representation. We aim to both raise issues and offer tools for thinking further than the mere problem of presence. </p>
-<h3>Free Software Directory sprint session 2</h3>
+<h3>Free Software Directory sprint continued</h3>
-<p><strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
+<p><em>Facilitator: Joshua Gay</em> <br />
+<strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
Tens of thousands of people visit the Free Software Directory each month to discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions, to providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info. Stop by any or all of the three sessions today to help improve existing entries, add to new ones, or to find out about our latest efforts, such as importing package info from GNU/Linux distributions. No experience required.</p>
-<h3>16:05- 16:15: Break</h3>
+<h3>16:05- 16:15 | Break</h3>
-<h2>16:15 - 17:35: Workshop session 2</h2>
+<h2>16:15 - 17:35 | Session block 5</h2>
<h3>Update on the circumvention tech community and how to get involved</h3>
<p>Deb and Molly will lead a discussion on the process of bringing in non-coding contributors. How do you find these folks? And then what can your project do to bring them in and keep them around, happily contributing? We don't have all the answers, but we feel that this is a critical topic for the free software movement's future growth beyond the community of super users. </p>
-<h3>Free Software Directory sprint session 3</h3>
+<h3>Free Software Directory sprint continued</h3>
-<p><strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
+<p><em>Facilitator: Joshua Gay</em> <br />
+<strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
Tens of thousands of people visit the Free Software Directory each month to discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions, to providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info. Stop by any or all of the three sessions today to help improve existing entries, add to new ones, or to find out about our latest efforts, such as importing package info from GNU/Linux distributions. No experience required.</p>
-<h3>17:35 - 17:45: Break</h3>
+<h3>17:35 - 17:45 | Break</h3>
+
+<h2>17:45 - 18:45 | Keynote & Free Software Awards</h2>
+
+<h3>Current issues in freedom: patents, surveillance, etc.</h3>
-<h3>17:45 - 18:45: Free Software Awards</h3>
+<p><em>Eben Moglen</em> <br />
+<strong>Room 32-123</strong></p>
-<p><em>Eben Moglen, Richard Stallman</em></p>
+<p>The free software movement has never seen a time like this before. We are at a turning point in the struggle over patenting software. Edward Snowden has shown the world why unfree technology imperils political liberty, but we are challenged by the need to cure the Internet of the harm done by the <em>de facto</em> coalition of government spies and data-miners. Our legal and political initiatives may succeed on an unprecedented scale, but we face new and more complex problems as well.</p>
+
+<h3>Free Software Awards</h3>
+
+<p><em>Richard Stallman</em> <br />
+<strong>Room 32-123</strong></p>
<h1><a id="sunday">Sunday, 3/23</a></h1>
-<h3>09:00 - 09:45: Registration and breakfast</h3>
+<h3>09:00 - 09:45 | Registration and breakfast</h3>
-<h3>09:45 - 10:45 Keynote: Free Software for freedom, surveillance and you</h3>
+<h2>09:45 - 10:45 Keynote</h2>
-<p><em>Jacob Appelbaum (remote from Berlin via Web-cast)</em></p>
+<h3>Free software for freedom, surveillance and you</h3>
-<h3>10:45 - 10:55: Break</h3>
+<p><em>Jacob Appelbaum</em> <br />
+<strong>Room 32-123 (remote from Berlin via Web-cast)</strong> </p>
-<h2>10:55 - 11:40 | Session block 1</h2>
+<h3>10:45 - 10:55 | Break</h3>
+
+<h2>10:55 - 11:40 | Session block 6</h2>
<h3>Free your JavaScript</h3>
<strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Applied free software</strong> <br />
This session will discuss two case studies that involve archiving different kinds of cultural information resources in the Indian context using free software and the challenges therein. It will also discuss the possibility of collaborating and licensing issues faced in India.</p>
-<h3>Free software messaging meeting session 1</h3>
+<h3>Free software messaging</h3>
-<p><strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
+<p><em>Deb Nicholson, Karen Sandler, Chris Webber</em> <br />
+<strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
Following up on last year's session, we will talk about ways to explain software freedom and more generally advocate for the cause with various audiences. We'll brainstorm specific ideas and talk about organizational approaches going forward. No prior experience is necessary to join this session, especially since a little enthusiasm can go a long way in helping to get the word out!</p>
-<h3>11:40 - 11:50: Break</h3>
+<h3>11:40 - 11:50 | Break</h3>
-<h2>11:50 - 12:35 | Session block 2</h2>
+<h2>11:50 - 12:35 | Session block 7</h2>
<h3>1984+30: GNU speech to defeat e-newspeak</h3>
<strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Applied free software</strong> <br />
A field report from the Urchin animated film studio and libre media group, proposing a development path that unites federated publishing with decentralized production. It responds to the problem of free software tools and free culture as marginal zones, and asks how we can implement advantages of the libre modality without merely imitating the topography of the restrictive commercial world. More broadly, it considers how we can galvanize a distinct ecology to re-seed the internet (and global policy) according to the conventions of freedom, if we can create a compellingly attractive use case for them. This talk touches on Blender, MediaGoblin, Krita, Inkscape, Gimp, Pitivi, Ardour, and issues of funding in both software and the arts.</p>
-<h3>Free software messaging meeting session 2</h3>
+<h3>Free software messaging meeting continued</h3>
-<p><strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
+<p><em>Deb Nicholson, Karen Sandler, Chris Webber</em> <br />
+<strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
Following up on last year's session, we will talk about ways to explain software freedom and more generally advocate for the cause with various audiences. We'll brainstorm specific ideas and talk about organizational approaches going forward. No prior experience is necessary to join this session, especially since a little enthusiasm can go a long way in helping to get the word out!</p>
-<h2>12:35 - 13:50: Lunch</h2>
+<h2>12:35 - 13:50 | Lunch</h2>
-<h2>13:50- 14:35 | Session block 3</h2>
+<h2>13:50- 14:35 | Session block 8</h2>
<h3>Free software activism: a European perspective and experience</h3>
<strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Applied Free Software</strong> <br />
This session will cover the curriculum, methodology, and contributions made for and by the students of the Humanitarian Free/Open Source Software Development course at Rochester Institute of Technology in Upstate New York. This is the gateway course for a newly minted, first-of-its-kind, academic minor in Free/Open Source Software and Free Culture. Course materials are licensed CC-BY-SA, source code is available online, and patches are always welcome.</p>
-<h3>F-Droid sprint session 1</h3>
+<h3>F-Droid sprint</h3>
-<p><strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
+<p><em>Facilitator: William Theaker</em> <br />
+<strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
F-Droid is an easily-installable catalogue of free software applications for Android and Replicant devices. Stop any or all of the three sessions to improve existing entries and add new ones, and make it easier for people to install free software on their mobile devices. No experience required.</p>
-<h3>14:35 - 14:45: Break</h3>
+<h3>14:35 - 14:45 | Break</h3>
-<h2>14:45 - 16:05: Workshop session 1</h2>
+<h2>14:45 - 16:05 | Session block 9</h2>
<h3>Tracking changes: activists using free software across movements</h3>
-<p><em>April Glaser, Ana Martina, Libby Reinish</em> <br />
+<p><em>April Glaser, Ana Martina, Libby Reinish, Dan Staples</em> <br />
<strong>Room 32-123 | Thread: Activism</strong> <br />
For years, activists have been using free software tools in their efforts to organize and build movements. Bringing together organizers from the media justice and digital rights movements, which all rely on the use of free software in their advocacy and essential communications, this panel explores the centrality of technology to all projects of social change. We will question how activists use free software and how the adoption of free software has helped or impeded networking efforts.</p>
<h3>Promoting free software adoption (and creation) in the public sector</h3>
-<p><em>Ezra Glenn, Andy Oram, others</em> <br />
+<p><em>Ezra Glenn, Andy Oram</em> <br />
<strong>Room 32-155 | Thread: Applied free software</strong> <br />
The session will present an overview of the "natural fit" between free software and the values of government agencies in a democracy (transparency; openness; participation and empowerment; cost-savings; collaboration), and then proceed to discuss recent successes -- and persistent challenges -- in the campaign to get public-sector organizations to adopt, accommodate -- and ideally support and create -- free software tools and open standards.</p>
-<h3>F-Droid sprint session 2</h3>
+<h3>F-Droid sprint continued</h3>
-<p><strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
+<p><em>Facilitator: William Theaker</em> <br />
+<strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
F-Droid is an easily-installable catalogue of free software applications for Android and Replicant devices. Stop any or all of the three sessions to improve existing entries and add new ones, and make it easier for people to install free software on their mobile devices. No experience required.</p>
-<h3>16:05 - 16:15: Break</h3>
+<h3>16:05 - 16:15 | Break</h3>
-<h2>16:15 - 17:35: Workshop session 2</h2>
+<h2>16:15 - 17:35 | Session block 10</h2>
<h3>Lessons in tech activism</h3>
<p>In this panel, activists at the intersection of open science and free software will discuss how the two movements can learn from each other and work together. How do free software and open science differ in their approaches to shared goals of communal knowledge? What technical barriers to open science exist, and how can free software advocates help? How can open science projects build free software communities?</p>
-<h3>F-Droid sprint session 3</h3>
+<h3>F-Droid sprint continued</h3>
-<p><strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
+<p><em>Facilitator: William Theaker</em> <br />
+<strong>Room 32-144</strong> <br />
F-Droid is an easily-installable catalogue of free software applications for Android and Replicant devices. Stop any or all of the three sessions to improve existing entries and add new ones, and make it easier for people to install free software on their mobile devices. No experience required.</p>
-<h3>17:35 - 17:45: Break</h3>
+<h3>17:35 - 17:45 | Break</h3>
-<h3>17:45 - 18:45 Closing Keynote: We can't all be cyborg lawyers: how messaging may be our most important obstacle</h3>
+<h2>17:45 - 18:45 | Closing Keynote</h2>
-<p><em>Karen Sandler</em>
+<h3>We can't all be cyborg lawyers: how messaging may be our most important obstacle</h3>
+
+<p><em>Karen Sandler</em> <br />
+<strong>Room 32-123</strong> <br />
Explaining the importance of free software and its ideology to new audiences has always been a challenge. Karen will discuss the challenges inherent in free software messaging and why it's so important to win the allies we need going forward. She will share what she's learned from recent experiences in the GNOME and free software communities generally, and discuss strategies that could take our movement to the next level.</p>
-<h1><a id="social">Social events</a></h1>
+<h2><a id="social">Social events</a></h2>
<h3>Free Software Foundation open house and cryptoparty</h3>
-<p>Mingle at the FSF office before the conference with speakers and other attendees. Refreshments will be served. FSF staff and volunteers will lead an optional cryptoparty during the open house. Please bring your laptop and a USB drive if you'd like to participate.</p>
+<p>Mingle at the FSF office before the conference with speakers and other attendees. Refreshments will be served. FSF campaigns managers Libby Reinish and Zak Rogoff will lead an optional cryptoparty during the open house. Please bring your laptop and a USB drive if you'd like to participate.</p>
-<!--<p><strong>17:00 - 21:00, Friday 3/21</strong> <br />-->
-<strong>Friday evening, times TBA</strong><br>
+<p><strong>17:00 - 19:30, Friday 3/21</strong> <br />
<strong>FSF Office</strong> <br />
<strong>51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor</strong> <br />
<strong>Boston, MA 02110</strong> </p>
-<h3>Saturday night party and <!--raffle-->fundraiser</h3>
+<h3>Women's dinner</h3>
+
+<p>There will be an unofficial women's dinner (for people who identify as women) before LibrePlanet again this year. It will be held at <a href="http://chauchowcity.com">Chau Chow City</a>, a restaurant in Boston's Chinatown within easy walking distance of the FSF's office. Chau Chow City has plenty of vegetarian and vegan options, isn't too pricey, and has a full bar.</p>
+
+<p><strong>19:45, Friday, 3/21</strong>
+<strong>Chau Chow City Restaurant</strong>
+<strong>83 Essex St</strong>
+<strong>Boston, MA 02111</strong></p>
+
+<p>Please feel free to share this with any other free software/free culture-interested folks who identify as women, whether they are attending LibrePlanet or not. Please <a href="mailto:info@fsf.org">RSVP</a> with "RSVP Women's Dinner" in the subject line to let us know that you're coming (and how many other women you will bring) so that we can make sure the restaurant is ready for us. </p>
+
+<h3>Saturday night party and raffle</h3>
-<p>A social with food and drinks available, including plenty of vegan options. Meet new people from the free software movement and reconnect with friends from previous LibrePlanet conferences<!--, and win free software prizes in the raffle-->.</p>
+<p>A social with food and drinks available, including plenty of vegan options. Meet new people from the free software movement, reconnect with friends from previous LibrePlanet conferences, and win free software prizes in the raffle.</p>
-<p><strong>19:30 - 23:00, <!--with raffle drawing at 21:30, -->Saturday, 3/22</strong> <br />
+<p><strong>19:30 - 23:00, with raffle drawing at 21:00, Saturday, 3/22</strong> <br />
<strong><a href="http://www.classicirish.com/asgard-home.php">Asgard Pub & Restaurant</a></strong> <br />
<strong>350 Massachusetts Avenue</strong> <br />
<strong>Cambridge, MA 02139</strong> </p>
<h3>Free software community pub night</h3>
-<p>For as long as anyone can remember, the Boston-area free software community has been gathering on Sunday night at Grendel's Den. Join us at this local institution, which offers reasonable prices on good food and beer, in a quirky and cozy atmosphere.</p>
+<p>For as long as anyone can remember, the Boston-area free software community has been gathering on Sunday night at Grendel's Den in Harvard Square. Join us at this local institution, which offers reasonable prices on good food and beer in a quirky and cozy atmosphere.</p>
-<p><strong>21:00 until late, Sunday, 3/23 </strong> <br />
+<p><strong>21:00 - 01:00, Sunday, 3/23</strong> <br />
<strong><a href="http://www.grendelsden.com/">Grendel's Den</a></strong> <br />
<strong>89 Winthrop Street</strong> <br />
<strong>Cambridge MA 02138</strong> </p>
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