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David Wilson is a free software developer and video creator residing in thens, Greece. He created the System Crafters channel and community to teach others how to craft their computing experience using free software tools like GNU Emacs and GNU Guix. You can learn more about it at https://systemcrafters.net.


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David Wilson is a free software developer and video creator residing in Athens, Greece. He created the System Crafters channel and community to teach others how to craft their computing experience using free software tools like GNU Emacs and GNU Guix. You can learn more about it at https://systemcrafters.net.


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Hayley Tsukayama (she/her) is associate director of legislative activism at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Her focus is state legislation. She works with EFF's legislative team to craft our positions and public messaging about state bills on EFF issues. She also collaborates with community groups, other policy advocates, and state lawmakers on EFF legislative priorities across the country, including health privacy, surveillance, and right-to-repair. Additionally, she advocates for strong consumer data privacy legislation at the state and national level.


Prior to joining EFF, Hayley spent nearly eight years as a consumer-technology reporter at The Washington Post, writing stories on the industry's largest companies. She is CIPP/US certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. She has an MA in journalism from the University of Missouri and a BA in history from Vassar College.


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Iván Alejandro Ávalos Díaz

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Making a libre movie only with libre software

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I made a movie called "Moria's Race" ( an action film about racing-obsessed little children ). It took me 3 and a half years for only about 28 minutes of stuff. But I did it using free software only ( avoided the temptation of rendering on the GPU even ). And the film is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
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J.Y.Amihud (Blender Dumbass )

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Born in Ukraine. Jewish. Living in Israel. Raised in a religious family. Not religious now. A fighter for freedom of all humans. A fighter against power of any human.


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Johannes Åsgård

I'm Johannes (also known as dolphinana). I'm interested in music and computers. I sometimes compose music and receive positive reactions from it. I like to improvise on piano. As for computers, I like them and I tinker with them sometimes. I have made some attempts to program some games in the past. I'm passionate about free software and I want to contribute to its movement. I try to free the boot firmware on devices when ever possible.


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Get together with other FSF associate members to share your feedback with the FSF. Share your thoughts on the Foundation, the free software movement, and what you want to see more of. This event is organized by Associate Members and notes from the meeting will be shared with FSF staff. To participate in the meeting remotely, jump on the FSF member forum #fsf-members to join the discussion.

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Iván Alejandro Ávalos Díaz

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Leonardo Champion

It analyst with more then fifteen years on the market, hacktivist free software enthusiast, almost a researcher for new technologies but with social responsibility, a defender of freedom of speech, thought, and a fighter for data privacy politics.


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Making a libre movie only with libre software

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Blender Dumbass

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Born in Ukraine. Jewish. Living in Israel. Raised in a religious family. Not religious now. A fighter for freedom of all humans. A fighter against power of any human.


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Fostering and renewing community in a long-lived free software project

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Plone (plone.org) is a 22 year old free software community that has grown around the Python web content management system. The Plone Foundation was established in 2004 to promote and protect the software, but does not direct its development.

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Over the years, the Foundation and the software were led by the cofounders, then by their trusted lieutenants, and then by newer generations of developers and organizers further and further removed from the project's founding. Yet, this community and project have thrived despite the challenges of communicating and continuing to express the original vision and its evolution.

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Find out how we've been able to foster and grow our community, encourage contributors, and maintain decades-long connections around the world.

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T. Kim Nguyen

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Kim is a software developer who discovered Plone in 2003. Impressed by the software, he was amazed not only to realize that the community around the software was comprised of super smart and super welcoming individuals but also that they welcomed his involvement and interest in contributing. Since then, he has tried to return the favor and live up to the expectations, organizing Plone symposia and annual conferences, serving on the Foundation Board, and having his fingers at one time or another in almost every Plone team.


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Ciarán O'Riordan

Senior policy advisor at OFE, Ciarán O’Riordan has been working in Brussels since 2004 with a focus on EU policy and free software. His work in the sector includes copyright and patent policy in the EU, patent policy in the US, and community engagement for the drafting of version 3 of the GNU General Public License. He also brings policy experience from the automotive sector, GDPR, and corporate finance. He studied law at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles. A user of GNU/Linux since 1998, Ciarán worked as a software developer in Dublin before his move to Brussels.


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Seth Patterson

Seth Patterson grew up listening to radio dramas and his mom reading novels from the 1800s. He got his love of writing from his dad, who is an editor. In high school, he completed One Year Adventure Novel. He has been in love with writing fiction ever since.


He studied cybersecurity in college, which taught him how to think like bad guys to defend against them. Thinking like bad guys comes in handy for writing fiction too. He also discovered free software and free culture in college.


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Tobias Platen

I'm a free software developer, HDL engineer and passionate VR gamer. I have been using free software for many years, the first time I used GNU software (not knowing about GNUs freedom) was GNUchess for 16 Bit Windows in 1994.


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Neil Plotnick

Nationally recognized, American high school teacher with over two decades of classroom experience. Previously worked for fifteen years in information technology for Ziff-Davis, including PC Week, where he wrote a networking advice column. His book "The IT Professionals Guide" was published by McGraw Hill.


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Wensheng XIE

I am an associate member of the FSF and have been coordinating the GNU website's Simplified Chinese Translation project since 2014.


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Welcome address

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Welcome address
: Jupiter -- in-person
: LibrePlanet special sessions
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For forty years, the free software movement has been driven by a passionate community of hackers who care deeply about user freedom and privacy. Meanwhile, the strategies and tools that other software communities use to organize, promote, and execute projects has changed significantly.

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In this talk, we will discuss how to cultivate a welcoming community that attracts a new generation of passionate users, contributors, and maintainers to free software projects. I will take inspiration from other successful projects to illustrate a human-centered process that streamlines contributions, strengthens maintainership, and creates a feeling of shared ownership for all users.

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Wait. GNU/FSF hosts a forge? What's a forge? Who are these hackers? Will there be a quiz later? In this 30 minute talk we'll answer these questions and raises others as we introduce an often overlooked free software development resource and the "smiling faces" behind it.

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This workshop aims to create an interactive space for free software supporters as well as representatives of community organizations to collaborate and exchange with each others. The participants will share their experiences with working with community organizations. Together, we will brainstorm solutions to bring more technological freedom and independence, privacy and free software collaborative practices into the community sector. I will present the results of a needs assessment postdoctoral project (Fall 2023) in which I interviewed almost 50 Canadian community organizations, listing their technological challenges and needs. We will thinker solutions related to improving community organizations' data management and privacy, collaborative practices, migration to free software platforms, and continuous training.

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Raspberry Pi's liberation progress

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Raspberry Pi's liberation progress
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: Freedom ladder
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This presentation is about Raspberry Pi and the progress on liberating the boot firmware for it. I will talk about why it's important to have free boot firmware on Raspberry Pi and look at its technical details. We will look at the boot firmware librerpi: its status, how it all started and we will also look at its demos.

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It is easy to contribute to GNU

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It is easy to contribute to GNU
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In this presentation, a brief introduction of how I became a Savannah user and began my road to contribute to GNU website translation from 2014. The whole experience is an interesting journey.
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This workshop aims to create an interactive space for free software supporters as well as representatives of community organizations to collaborate and exchange with each others. The participants will share their experiences with working with community organizations. Together, we will brainstorm solutions to bring more technological freedom and independence, privacy and free software collaborative practices into the community sector. I will present the results of a needs assessment postdoctoral project (Fall 2023) in which I interviewed almost 50 Canadian community organizations, listing their technological challenges and needs. We will thinker solutions related to improving community organizations' data management and privacy, collaborative practices, migration to free software platforms, and continuous training.

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Hacking art into a community

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Hacking art into a community
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My love for freedom brought me to free software. Free software came with free licenses, like the GPL, that was used for the RepRap project. I have assimilated a lot from that project, and modifying a 3D printer I realized a coreXY meditation table.

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Break

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Annual FSF associate members meeting

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Annual FSF associate members meeting
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Continued: Annual FSF associate members meeting

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Continued: Annual FSF associate members meeting
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Get together with other FSF associate members to share your feedback with the FSF. Share your thoughts on the Foundation, the free software movement, and what you want to see more of. This event is organized by Associate Members and notes from the meeting will be shared with FSF staff. To participate in the meeting remotely, jump on the FSF member forum #fsf-members to join the discussion.

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GNU@NU: Building a community in education

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GNU@NU: Building a community in education
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Nowadays, proprietary/non-free software has become nearly synonymous with educational establishments. Using software that is "the norm" or "industry standard" forces students to submit to proprietary applications "for the good of their future." Tools for textbook access and homework assignment/submission force students to submit to subscription-based DRM models and forfeit any opportunity to own the knowledge contained within the textbooks. Big name companies, some of which are the biggest proponents of proprietary software, are considered the best on resumes, and students are encouraged to search for jobs at such conglomerates. GNU@NU, Northeastern's free software organization is here to help! We will be holding a discussion on student experiences with free software, as they pertain to anything remotely educational. Come join us to help and learn more!

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"Artificial intelligence": What threat are we talking about?

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"Artificial intelligence": What threat are we talking about?
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Various distinguished and international newspapers are announcing that AI will have a disruptive impact on employment, various governments seem to be partly aware of the impact for better or worse of this technology on society. The Center for AI Safety which aims to "ensure the safe development and use of AI" publishes "Mitigating the risk of extinction caused by AI should be a global priority, along with other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." We will connect the dots between investments in AI and previous investments made by Silicon Valley and try to decipher the trends and risks. Above all, we will reflect on how this relates to those of us who are passionate about sharing, the commons, and free software.

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Free software legislation: How we win

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Free software legislation: How we win
: Jupiter -- in-person
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In many contexts, including cybersecurity and AI, governments around the world are working on legislation to regulate the distribution of software. The presentation will look at how we've addressed external problems in the past. The ones we won, the ones we lost. It will look at a year of work on the EU Cyber Resilience Act. First, a short look at its substance, because the US and other regions are already working on something similar. Second, a longer look at the campaign itself: coalition building, why policy can't be worked on like software, and how to find and keep allies.

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Exploring free software entrepreneurship: Navigating the opportunities and obstacles

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Exploring free software entrepreneurship: Navigating the opportunities and obstacles
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Free software entrepreneurship offers a wealth of opportunities, from reduced barriers to entry to community collaboration and market expansion; however, it comes with its set of obstacles, including monetization challenges, licensing complexities, competition, community management, and ongoing maintenance. How to establish a successful free software business by empowering customers with freedom, self-sustenance, and complete control, and at the same time explore business opportunities.

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Empowering youth in the digital age: A path to success

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Empowering youth in the digital age: A path to success
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In this presentation we try to show the work that we do in our hackerspace taking out of the social risk kids and youngsters and showing them how a healthy use of the internet and technology can bring new horizons not only to adult life , but constructing a career trough the knowing about programming, robotics, free software, and cyber security. Also teaching then how to protect their selves and their data online.

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Walled gardens of freedom

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: Free software in practice
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The primary computer for over half of humanity is the smartphone. Nearly all of these devices run some proprietary locked-down derivations of free operating systems that restrict, in various ways, the software that can be run. The resulting "walled garden" app stores that dominate these platforms are naturally biased against free software in favor of profit-making app ventures. Does this mean that free software is impossible to create – and sustain – in this environment? The premise of this talk is that the answer must be no. But it is an uphill battle. I will outline a model of an oasis of free software that can grow and thrive within these walled-garden environments, and how a small global community can sustain a collection of digital public goods that may benefit billions of people, with minimal ongoing cost, for generations to come.

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Digital freedom as a moral imperative for authors

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Digital freedom as a moral imperative for authors
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The companies that produce the most libre works are companies with proprietary business models, while many useful libre projects struggle to find funding, up to the point of ending up with no maintenance, bought by proprietary producers or transitioning to proprietary licensing models.

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Writing free culture fantasy with free software

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Writing free culture fantasy with free software
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The collaborative spirit of the free software and hacker movements lends itself to writing fiction as well. I write free culture fantasy stories with free software tools. Crafting characters and settings that can be used freely by other authors and artists promotes creativity and is a useful way of teaching people about the principles of freedom.

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Since I use plain text and a Git-based workflow, anyone can freely read, modify, and share my stories. They can learn from edits I have made or propose improvements. Plain text formats like Markdown and Shanty make writings portable across most computers.

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Keynote by FSF and awards ceremony

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Keynote by FSF and awards ceremony
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Building bridges and plugging in
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Technology policy, and advocacy around it, used to be largely considered in its own silo. Those days are over. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been lucky to work with advocates in many spaces, including criminal justice, reproductive justice, and worker rights to advocate for change. As technology becomes an integral part of more areas of our daily life, a cross-disciplinary advocacy mindset becomes more necessary to nurture. We will discuss lessons EFF has learned from building these partnerships. We'll highlight how valuable it is for "tech people" to be more involved in modern community movements. We'll also talk about how we can bring skills honed in the free software advocacy community to other areas of policy. Ultimately, the goal is not only to think about how to diversify the free software movement—it's also to expand people's definition of what "counts" as "their" issue.

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Set up your local currency with free software!
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Taler is a project that develops free software infrastructure for payments. It respects the privacy of buyers while making the income of merchants transparent. Taler does not use the blockchain and it is not a new currency. Instead, it is a building block to deploy bearer-based electronic payments that share some of the properties of traditional cash.

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Making a libre movie only with libre software

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Making a libre movie only with libre software
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Taler is a project that develops free software infrastructure for payments. It respects the privacy of buyers while making the income of merchants transparent. Taler does not use the blockchain and it is not a new currency. Instead, it is a building block to deploy bearer-based electronic payments that share some of the properties of traditional cash.

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This workshop will cover the design details and talk about the current implementation using GNU Taler: a free software, privacy focused and online payment which is built with some properties of cash.
https://taler.net/en/

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Resurrecting Software Freedom Day
: Neptune -- online
: Social context
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Software Freedom Day has been a rather niche event, but inside the FOSS community it was a household brand a decade ago. While it has been on the decline over the last 10 years, today the event is more important than ever in the movement to further Software Freedom. In this talk, I will explain why.

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Software enshittification or freedom? It's not a hard choice!

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Software enshittification or freedom? It's not a hard choice!
: Jupiter -- in-person
: Exploring free software concepts
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Nonfree software subjugates users. That's wrong enough, but such power is now used to wrong users even harder. The easier it is for third parties to impose on a user their choice of software version the more they can twiddle the software's behavior to best serve themselves and enshittify the user's computing. This holds for dominant (nonfree) operating systems for workstations and mobiles, with their mandatory updates, but users become even more vulnerable to enshittification by using web apps downloaded at every use from somebody else's servers, by doing their computing through somebody else's services, and by using remotely controlled and remotely mediated smartIoT devices and appliances. Even when using software that's not updated automatically on their own computers, users (and their upstream distributors) may be persuaded to adopt enshittif(ied/ying?) versions, including CPU microcode and firmware for system initialization and for peripheral devices. Is using free software enough to escape?

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Empowering Africa: Free software as a solution to Big Tech dominance

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Empowering Africa: Free software as a solution to Big Tech dominance
: Saturn -- in-person
: Licensing
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Join me in a transformative exploration of free software's role in empowering communities and fostering change. As a law graduate, software developer, community leader, teacher, and business owner, I bring a unique perspective to the intersection of law, technology, and social impact. I'll delve into the legal intricacies of free software, sharing insights into licenses and intellectual property rights. Through real-world examples, I'll showcase the pivotal role of free software in education, entrepreneurship, and social good initiatives. Together, we'll discuss strategies for building inclusive tech communities, ensuring privacy, and harnessing free software for positive societal change. Let's embark on a journey to harness the power of free software for a better, more equitable world.

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Gaming on a Talos II: How I avoid using Steam

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Gaming on a Talos II: How I avoid using Steam
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: Free software in practice
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It is well known that Valve distributes non-free DRMed games via their Steam Platform, including many VR games. As a gamer who cares about freedom, I avoid those games. Since my computer is based on the FSF certified Talos II Mainboard and POWER9 CPU, I'm technically unable to install those non-free games and the Steam Client Software. Instead I go for Freedom-To-Play games, included in many GNU/Linux distributions. (in some cases even SteamOS without having to use Steam). I'll also improve existing "open source" games and make them truly freedom respecting. This does not mean that those games have to be gratis, I think of a way to enable users to pay for Freedom-To-Play games using Taler.

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Lichess: Free chess for everyone forever

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Lichess: Free chess for everyone forever
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: Free software in practice
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Lichess.org is the second biggest chess website in the world with more than 5 million chess games played everyday. Our code is 100% free software, and contains no ads or trackers. Furthermore, it has a strict, and permanent philosophy against paywalls. Users will never pay for access to any feature, or access to any part of the site forever, no exceptions. We’re also not looking for investors and never will be. It is not a small hobby project. We’re one of the largest free software website in the world. How do we pay for it all? It’s easy, our community takes care of everything.

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AccessKit: A shared accessibility glue layer for the whole community

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AccessKit: A shared accessibility glue layer for the whole community
: Jupiter -- in-person
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In non-web applications, accessibility has long been confined to only a handful of the largest, most well-resourced UI toolkits, leaving a large proportion of free software inaccessible to disabled people. AccessKit aims to solve this problem by providing an accessibility abstraction and glue layer that can be reused by many toolkits across programming languages. Our aim is to do for accessibility what libraries such as SDL have done for graphics, input, and windowing. This talk will cover what we've accomplished so far, what's next, and how the community can help.

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Free software praxis: Removing limitations

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Free software praxis: Removing limitations
: Saturn -- in-person
: Freedom ladder
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Using OpenProject as an example, this talk explores how to delve into a completely alien codebase written in a language that you've never used to make changes that you want. This is a practical use of software freedom.

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GNU/Linux in the high school classroom
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Learn how I use GNU/Linux in my classroom. See how students use the Command Line Interface (CLI) to perform network exploration tasks. Lessons on Bash and Python coding will also be discussed. There will also be examination of emerging trends in high school computer science.

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: Neptune -- online
: Security
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Your data are essential to your life, your agency, and your future. Come learn how to save, serve, and safely share your data at home with a smorgasbord of free software. I'll cover rapid setup and basic use of tools such as Traefik, Nextcloud, Wallabag, Jellyfin, and more. With these powerful and private services at your disposal, you can collaboratively edit documents in realtime online, stream music and video, and future-proof your digital assets.

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Closing notes
: Jupiter -- in-person
: LibrePlanet special sessions
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