From: Zak Rogoff Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:09:16 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Updating speakers to newest version. X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=067551f3e10744bf4083da94fa8d4997fc021403;p=libreplanet-static.git Updating speakers to newest version. --- diff --git a/2014/program/speakers.html b/2014/program/speakers.html index 3063fb5c..b3ba29ec 100644 --- a/2014/program/speakers.html +++ b/2014/program/speakers.html @@ -179,14 +179,14 @@

Yochai Gal is a co-founder of TechCollective, a worker-owned IT firm in San Francisco, CA, and also of its second chapter in Boston, MA. He is also a former board member of the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives, an affiliate body of the Federation of Worker Cooperatives. His expertise is in cooperative business operations, systems administration, data recovery, and general IT.

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Joshua Gay, Free Software Foundation

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Joshua Gay, licensing and compliance manager of the FSF, is a programmer and activist whose interests revolve around technology, government, education, and computer-user freedom. He is currently an affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; he serves on the board of directors of Securing Change, a non-profit security consulting firm; he is the technical strategy adviser to The Murninghan Post, an organization dedicated to reforming corporate structures and capital markets; and he is on the advisory board of the Accessible Computing Foundation.

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Matthew Garrett, Nebula

Matthew Garrett is a cloud security developer and free software contributor.

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Joshua Gay, Free Software Foundation

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Joshua Gay, licensing and compliance manager of the FSF, is a programmer and activist whose interests revolve around technology, government, education, and computer-user freedom. He is currently an affiliate of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; he serves on the board of directors of Securing Change, a non-profit security consulting firm; he is the technical strategy adviser to The Murninghan Post, an organization dedicated to reforming corporate structures and capital markets; and he is on the advisory board of the Accessible Computing Foundation.

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Sucheta Ghoshal, Wikimedia Foundation

Sucheta Ghoshal has been engaged with MediaWiki development for a long time now -- writing code for Wikipedia mostly in JavaScript and PHP. She is working as an associate software engineer in the Language Engineering Team of the Wikimedia Foundation. She was also an OPW intern with the Wikimedia Foundation, and is now volunteering as a mentor for the same program.

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Anna's passion is the promotion of independent media for social justice. As the technical and trainer director at Prometheus Radio Project, she has helped dozens of groups to apply for low power FM radio licenses using RFree, free software developed by PRP. Past projects include, Flujos-Vivos, a live CD based on the Debian GNU/Linux and oriented toward the publication and transmission of audio on the Internet.

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Gregory Maxwell

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Jordan McCarthy, Open Technology Institute

Jordan's work as an associate technologist at the Open Technology Institute is guided by the principle that information technologies should be crafted to support global social progress, not the other way around. Jordan is a member of the Commotion Wireless development team, and currently coordinates development on the project's GNU/Linux client. He provides both user-facing and back-end technical support for OTI and several of its affiliates, with a focus on improving operational security through user-focused training and needs assessment. Jordan also serves as one of the system administrators for M-Lab, the global research platform that allows researches to conduct free, open research on bandwidth availability and reliability around the world. Jordan has a decade of experience in technical education, writing, and system administration, predominantly in higher educational contexts. He has also volunteered with a number of progressive organizations and initiatives, including Fight for the Future, Access Now, and several smaller groups focused on promoting digital literacy and inclusion. His past research has focused on the social, psychological, and political implications of emergent habits and norms surrounding digital technologies, and explored how those practices might nudged in directions that make them more conducive to thoughtful discourse and global justice.

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Monty Montgomery is a founder and the current Executive Director of the Xiph.Org Foundation, author of CDParanoia, Ogg, and the Vorbis audio codec, and contributor to numerous free digital media software projects. In addition to his programming work, Monty is known for his technically accessible articles about digital media, and appears in the Xiph.Org videos "A Digital Media Primer for Geeks" and "Digital Show and Tell."

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Dana Moser

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Kendra Moyer

Kendra Moyer is a Michigan native who received an M.A. in Communications and Theater Arts Management from Eastern Michigan University, and has since worked in arts and non-profit organizations in both Michigan and Massachusetts. After joining the Media and IT Teams at Occupy Boston, she decided to become more active in sharing the message of free software with political organizations, free speech advocates, and under-represented communities.

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Kÿra is an activist within, and critic of, the free software and free culture movements. As a student, aspiring hacker, second generation hoppa, and trans femminine cyborg, Kÿra is committed to free software and free culture as a matter of POC empowerment, disability justice, decolonization, queer liberation, prison abolition, and the destabilization of patriarchy. They challenge the mainstream narratives advancing free software and free culture without consideration for racial and gender oppression.

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