<section class="program-session" id="day-1-timeslot-2-session-1">
<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
-<h2>The last lighthouse: Free software in dark times</h2>
+<h2>The last lighthouse: free software in dark times</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
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
+used as a foundation 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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<section class="program-session" id="day-1-timeslot-4-session-3">
<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
-<h2>GNU/Linux and chill: Free software on a college campus</h2>
+<h2>GNU/Linux and chill: free software on a college campus</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
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<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
+devices and then 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>
<section class="program-session" id="day-1-timeslot-8-session-3">
<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
-<h2>Loomio: Creating a world where anyone, anywhere can participate in decisions that affect them</h2>
+<h2>Loomio: creating a world where anyone, anywhere can participate in decisions that affect them</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
<section class="program-session" id="day-1-timeslot-10-session-1">
<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
-<h2>The state of free: Revising the High Priority Projects list</h2>
+<h2>The state of free: revising the High Priority Projects list</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
- Benjamin Mako Hill,
+<a href="speakers.html#hill">Benjamin Mako Hill</a>,
<a href="speakers.html#sandler">Karen Sandler</a>,
<a href="speakers.html#zacchiroli">Stefano Zacchiroli</a>
</span>
</button>
</p>
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-<p>The FSF High-Priority Projects List guides volunteers and supporters
+<p>The FSF High Priority Projects List guides volunteers and supporters
to projects where their skills can be utilized, whether they be in
coding, graphic design, writing, or activism.</p>
<p>Members of the committee convened to revise the list will give an
<section class="program-session" id="day-1-timeslot-10-session-3">
<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
-<h2>LittleSis: Mapping the powers that be</h2>
+<h2>LittleSis: mapping the powers that be</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
<section class="program-session" id="day-1-timeslot-12-session-1">
<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
-<h2>Free/Libre alternatives to GAFAM's Internet: A review of French initiatives</h2>
+<h2>Free/Libre alternatives to GAFAM's Internet: a review of French initiatives</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
technology freely, but also by fighting back against threats to civil
liberties like the USA PATRIOT Act and National Security Letters. In
the post-Snowden era, libraries have taken this activism further and are
-teaching FOSS privacy-enhancing technologies to their patrons in free
+teaching FLOSS privacy-enhancing technologies to their patrons in free
computer classes, and installing these tools on library PCs. Nima Fatemi
and Alison Macrina of Library Freedom Project will talk about how LFP
-kickstarted this movement of radical crypto-librarians, and how FOSS
+kickstarted this movement of radical crypto-librarians, and how FLOSS
tools like Tor Browser, Signal, OTR, GPG, and Tails are being deployed
and taught in libraries to an overwhelmingly positive reception. Nima
and Alison will also discuss LFP's newest project, bringing Tor exit
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>
+<p>The presentation will be largely about the Debian work on the
+area, but it will also portray 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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<section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-4-session-4">
<section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-6-session-4">
<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
-<h2>LibreBoot: Free your BIOS today!</h2>
+<h2>Libreboot: free your BIOS today!</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
<section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-8-session-1">
<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
-<h2>Advocate for yourself at work: Use more free software and keep contributing to the community</h2>
+<h2>Advocate for yourself at work: use more free software and keep contributing to the community</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
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
+using FLOSS, 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
<section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-10-session-3">
<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
-<h2>Artificial scarcity: Beyond the digital</h2>
+<h2>Artificial scarcity: beyond the digital</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
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
+and strategies for having contributions to free software valued by the
University.</p>
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<section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-12-session-2">
<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
-<h2>Taking back our freedom: Free software for sousveillance</h2>
+<h2>Taking back our freedom: free software for sousveillance</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
<section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-12-session-3">
<header class="program-session-header">
<hgroup>
-<h2>Trans Code: Free software as model & critique of diversity by transgender hackers</h2>
+<h2>Trans Code: free software as model & critique of diversity by transgender hackers</h2>
</hgroup>
</header>
<span class="program-session-speaker">
</p>
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<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>
+software from the past being used to deliver a presentation in 2016</p>
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<section class="program-session" id="day-2-timeslot-14-session-3">
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<p>We have a unique opportunity to make our voices heard at this LibrePlanet. At 18:45 (immediately after the day's closing keynote), we'll be publicly demonstrating against a proposal by Hollywood and major software companies to weave DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) into Web standards.</p>
<p><strong>Read more about the demonstration in the <a href="https://libreplanet.org/2016/program/social.html#demonstration">Social & Community Events section</a>.</strong> You do not need to attend this session to attend the demonstration.</p>
-<p>The session will start with an overview of the campaign's history, by organizers centrally involved in the effort to stop the proposal. There will be materials on hand to make signs for the demonstration, and volunteer signup and training for two roles: marshaling the demonstration and flyering the W3C meeting in shifts leading up to the demonstration. <strong>Please attend this session if you'd like to volunteer.</strong></p>
+<p>The session will start with an overview of the campaign's history, by organizers centrally involved in the effort to stop the proposal. There will be materials on hand to make signs for the demonstration, and volunteer signup and training for two roles: marshaling the demonstration and flyering a meeting of the W3C standards body in shifts leading up to the demonstration. <strong>Please attend this session if you'd like to volunteer.</strong></p>
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