From: Zak Rogoff Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 22:51:09 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Adding a bunch of speaker images and generating the auto-linked sessions file for... X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=88e29b9d2f6b1f8204282b52b444a249334b9c1b;p=libreplanet-static.git Adding a bunch of speaker images and generating the auto-linked sessions file for the first time. Also removing the thing that says the program is under construction, and making the program menu more prominent. --- diff --git a/2016/includes/program-menu.html b/2016/includes/program-menu.html index 43eaf1b2..63ae3b24 100644 --- a/2016/includes/program-menu.html +++ b/2016/includes/program-menu.html @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
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- Edward Snowden is a former intelligence officer who served the CIA, NSA, and DIA for nearly a decade as a subject matter expert on technology and cybersecurity. In 2013, he revealed the NSA was unconstitutionally seizing the private records of billions of individuals who had not been suspected of any wrongdoing, resulting in the largest debate about reforms to US surveillance policy since 1978. Today, he works on methods of enforcing human rights through the application and development of new technologies. He joined the board of Freedom of the Press Foundation in February 2014. + Allison's first geek career was as a research linguist in eastern Africa. But eventually her love of coding seduced her away from natural languages to artificial ones. In over 25 years as a programmer, she has developed everything from games, linguistic analysis tools, websites, and shipping fulfillment, to compilers, database replication systems, deployment automation, mobile apps, and talking smart-home appliances, worked as a language designer, project manager, conference organizer, and editor, been a board member of several free software related non-profit foundations, written three books, and founded a tech publishing company. She collaborates in the Debian, Python, and OpenStack projects, and currently works at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, leading a team of engineers focused on contributing to OpenStack and Python.

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- Scott Dexter is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he has taught since 1998. He has written extensively on free software, including the book, co-authored with philosopher Samir Chopra, Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software. He is particularly interested in getting his students--of extremely diverse backgrounds--hooked on free software. + Molly de Blanc lives in Cambridge, MA. She is the community coordinator for the Open edX Project. In addition to free software, she likes bikes, plants, and playing the bassoon.

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- Richard Fontana is a lawyer at Red Hat. He leads support for Red Hat's engineering and research and development units and is Red Hat's lead counsel for legal issues relating to free software. Richard is also a board director of the Open Source Initiative. + Scott Dexter is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he has taught since 1998. He has written extensively on free software, including the book, co-authored with philosopher Samir Chopra, Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software. He is particularly interested in getting his students--of extremely diverse backgrounds--hooked on free software.

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- Mike Gerwitz is a free software hacker and activist with a strong focus on security, privacy, and the Web. He is a volunteer for the GNU -project, an evaluator for software submissions to GNU, and author of GNU ease.js. + Richard Fontana is a lawyer at Red Hat. He leads support for Red Hat's engineering and research and development units and is Red Hat's lead counsel for legal issues relating to free software. Richard is also a board director of the Open Source Initiative.

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- Judy brings a fresh look into open source systems for global health, challenging us to rethink systems and organizations as social enterprises that must manage resources efficiently in order to make an impact. + Mike Gerwitz is a free software hacker and activist with a strong focus on security, privacy, and the Web. He is a volunteer for the GNU +project, an evaluator for software submissions to GNU, and author of GNU ease.js.

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- Erin Glass just joined UCSD as Associate Director and Digital Humanities Coordinator of the Center for the Humanities. Prior to her move, she served as a Digital Fellow at The CUNY Graduate Center where she worked on developing software initiatives that fostered collaborative research while protecting user freedom. She is also co-founder of Social Paper, which received a NEH Digital Start-Up grant, and is currently at work on a dissertation which theorizes student writing as a site where political and technical consciousness is forged. + Judy is a medical doctor and health informatician who has worked with OpenMRS from its inception. She has contributed as a developer , with over 6 implementations of OpenMRS worldwide and continues to support openMRS leadership regarding strategy and maintenance of partnerships. +

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- Molly Gott is an organizer and researcher at LittleSis, where she focuses on building teams of activist-researchers doing power analysis research in their communities. Previously, she organized in St. Louis with MORE, an economic and climate justice community organization. At MORE, she led the Power Behind the Police movement research team, which exposed the ties between St. Louis' corporate elite and the region's structural racism. + Erin Glass just joined UCSD as Associate Director and Digital Humanities Coordinator of the Center for the Humanities. Prior to her move, she served as a Digital Fellow at The CUNY Graduate Center where she worked on developing software initiatives that fostered collaborative research while protecting user freedom. She is also co-founder of Social Paper, which received a NEH Digital Start-Up grant, and is currently at work on a dissertation which theorizes student writing as a site where political and technical consciousness is forged.

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- Based in Providence, RI, MJ Kaplan supports strategy and growth for Loomio, with a focus on the US. MJ joined Loomio in 2014 after spending 2013 as Ian Axford Fulbright Fellow researching social enterprise start-ups in New Zealand where Loomio is based. MJ is Adjunct Professor at Brown University, where she teaches an action learning class in social enterprise and organizational strategy. MJ founded Kaplan Consulting in 2000, a national firm focused on strategic alignment and partnerships. MJ was a consultant for the Institute for Conservation Leadership for over 20 years, supporting environmental agencies in board and leadership development, strategy and collaboration. MJ was honored as The Outstanding Mentor for the 2011 RI Business Women Awards. In 2012, MJ traveled to Guatemala with Leading Women to contribute support for Amigos de Santa Cruz, a rural center working on micro-enterprise. MJ is trustee of Commerce Rhode Island and Social Enterprise Greenhouse. MJ earned her M.Ed. from Harvard University and B.A. Brown University. + Shauna Gordon-McKeon is an independent researcher and developer who focuses on open technologies and communities. She runs a business, Galaxy Rise Consulting, providing web and mobile development and data science services to individuals and organizations. She can often be found using her skills as a writer, public speaker, and teacher to help free software and open science communities more accessible to newcomers.

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- Bassam is a 3D animator/filmmaker whose 2006 short, Elephants Dream, was the first "open movie." It established the viability of libre tools in a production environment and set precedent by offering its source data under a permissive license for learning, remixing and re-use. His character, ManCandy, began as an easily animatable test bed for rigging experiments. Multiple iterations have been released to the public, and Bassam demonstrates him in the animated tutorial video + short, The ManCandy FAQ. Under the sign of the urchin, Bassam is continuing to pursue a model of production that invests in commonwealth. He teaches, writes and lectures around the world on free production and free software technique. Raised in Damascus, Bassam trained in the United States as an electrical and software engineer. + Molly Gott is an organizer and researcher at LittleSis, where she focuses on building teams of activist-researchers doing power analysis research in their communities. Previously, she organized in St. Louis with MORE, an economic and climate justice community organization. At MORE, she led the Power Behind the Police movement research team, which exposed the ties between St. Louis' corporate elite and the region's structural racism.

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- Jonathan has been involved with the Free Software Movement for ten years, in France and now in Canada. + Sumana Harihareswara, founder of + + Changeset Consulting + + , is a FLOSS software contributor, programmer and project manager with over a decade of experience in the software industry. Her past leadership in nonprofit, academia, industry, and volunteer organizations earned her an + + Open +Source Citizen Award + + in 2011. She lives in New York City. +

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- Software engineer, leader of Hypatia Software Organization. Python developer, open source author; MIT licenses everything. FreeBSD enthusiast. + Based in Providence, RI, MJ Kaplan supports strategy and growth for Loomio, with a focus on the US. MJ joined Loomio in 2014 after spending 2013 as Ian Axford Fulbright Fellow researching social enterprise start-ups in New Zealand where Loomio is based. MJ is Adjunct Professor at Brown University, where she teaches an action learning class in social enterprise and organizational strategy. MJ founded Kaplan Consulting in 2000, a national firm focused on strategic alignment and partnerships. MJ was a consultant for the Institute for Conservation Leadership for over 20 years, supporting environmental agencies in board and leadership development, strategy and collaboration. MJ was honored as The Outstanding Mentor for the 2011 RI Business Women Awards. In 2012, MJ traveled to Guatemala with Leading Women to contribute support for Amigos de Santa Cruz, a rural center working on micro-enterprise. MJ is trustee of Commerce Rhode Island and Social Enterprise Greenhouse. MJ earned her M.Ed. from Harvard University and B.A. Brown University.

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- Evan Misshula is the Project Manager for the NYC Tech Talent Pipeline Residency @ Queens College, an adjunct instructor at CUNY John Jay teaching network security and a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in Criminal Justice. He is active in numerous free software meetups in NYC. He is interested in helping marginalized groups (particularly those stigmatized by contact with the criminal justice system) use Free Software to increase social and economic mobility. + Bassam is a 3D animator/filmmaker whose 2006 short, Elephants Dream, was the first "open movie." It established the viability of libre tools in a production environment and set precedent by offering its source data under a permissive license for learning, remixing and re-use. His character, ManCandy, began as an easily animatable test bed for rigging experiments. Multiple iterations have been released to the public, and Bassam demonstrates him in the animated tutorial video + short, The ManCandy FAQ. Under the sign of the urchin, Bassam is continuing to pursue a model of production that invests in commonwealth. He teaches, writes and lectures around the world on free production and free software technique. Raised in Damascus, Bassam trained in the United States as an electrical and software engineer.

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- Deb Nicholson wants to make the world a better place with technology and social justice for all. After many years of local political organizing, she became an enthusiastic free software activist. She is currently the Community Outreach Director at the Open Invention Network and the Community Manager at GNU MediaGoblin. She also serves on the board at Open Hatch, aka Free Software's Welcoming Committee. + Jonathan has been involved with the Free Software Movement for ten years, in France and now in Canada.

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- FSF Latin America board member. GNU speaker. Free Software Evangelist. Maintainer of GNU Linux-libre, and co-maintainer of the GNU Compiler Collection, GNU binutils and GNU libc. GNU tools engineer at Red Hat Brasil. + Matt Lee is a free software hacker, film maker and artist living in Austin, TX.

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- While working towards a BFA in Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art, Paige developed an interest in programming and a fascination in the complexity of natural systems. After graduation, Paige worked for mesh networking startup, Open Garden which helped to map her interest in natural decentralized systems onto concepts within technology. She previously organized San Francisco's bitcoin meetup and is fascinated by the freeing potential of cryptocurrencies. She currently fills various roles at MaidSafe with a focus on community and communication. + Software engineer, leader of Hypatia Software Organization. Python developer, open source author; MIT licenses everything. FreeBSD enthusiast.

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- Eric Schultz is an independent software engineer and open source consultant. Most recently he was the Community Manager at prpl Foundation with a particular focus on building the OpenWrt community. Prior to this, Eric worked as Developer Advocate at Outercurve Foundation where he managed and supported the foundation’s 25 open source projects. Eric has collaborated with employees from dozens of companies to create free and open source software that improves lives. He has a passion for the promise and reality of free software, with a focus on empowering individuals, particularly in marginalized groups, with more control over their everyday lives. Eric lives in Appleton, Wisconsin where outside of work he enjoys developing free software, watching the Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Bucks, and tweeting about technology, cute animals, politics and sports. + Holger Levsen is contributing to Debian since more than 10 years. He founded the DebConf videoteam and created the Debian video archive at video.debian.net, was heavily involved in Debian-Edu and has now shifted has focus on QA and lately security. He maintains piuparts.debian.org and jenkins.debian.net, and on the later he set up reproducible.debian.net which by now is not only testing Debian packages for reproducibility but also coreboot, OpenWrt, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Archlinux and soon Fedora.

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- Andrew Seeder is the Data Systems Manager at the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Roxbury, Boston. He is also a consultant for the Smart Chicago Collaborative, sits on the IT Working Group for Boston Ujima, and is a member of the young professionals committee for YMCA's Training, Inc. He helps organize cryptoparties and works with friends on the Boston Meshnet project. Tweet him at @ahseeder. + M. C. is the founder of Transparency Toolkit, a free software project that helps people use open data to expose surveillance and human rights abuses. He is also a Thiel Fellow and an Echoing Green Fellow. Previously, M. C. graduated from Boston University with a degree in civic technology and did research at the MIT Media Lab.

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- Matthew Skomarovsky is a co-founder of PAI and the lead engineer of LittleSis.org. Previously he was a creative and technical manager at Billionaires for Bush, a national street theater campaign, and developed web applications for Freelancers Union. + Evan Misshula is the Project Manager for the NYC Tech Talent Pipeline Residency @ Queens College, an adjunct instructor at CUNY John Jay teaching network security and a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in Criminal Justice. He is active in numerous free software meetups in NYC. He is interested in helping marginalized groups (particularly those stigmatized by contact with the criminal justice system) use Free Software to increase social and economic mobility.

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- David Thompson is an FSF alumnus and Guile Scheme hacker. David works on system deployment tools for Guix, develops a functional reactive game engine called Sly (it's cool, you should check it out!), and is frequently found nose-deep in his copy of SICP. He lives in the Boston area. + Deb Nicholson wants to make the world a better place with technology and social justice for all. After many years of local political organizing, she became an enthusiastic free software activist. She is currently the Community Outreach Director at the Open Invention Network and the Community Manager at GNU MediaGoblin. She also serves on the board at Open Hatch, aka Free Software's Welcoming Committee.

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- Christopher Allan Webber is co-founder of MediaGoblin, longtime free software and free culture advocate, Creative Commons alumnus, and occasional Guix contributor. You can frequently find him nose-deep in some emacs buffer making ascii art or maybe something more important than that. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin. + FSF Latin America board member. GNU speaker. Free Software Evangelist. Maintainer of GNU Linux-libre, and co-maintainer of the GNU Compiler Collection, GNU binutils and GNU libc. GNU tools engineer at Red Hat Brasil.

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- Marina Zhurakhinskaya is a Senior Outreach Specialist focused on community diversity and inclusion at Red Hat. She co-organizes Outreachy, a mentorship and internships program that helps people from groups underrepresented in free software get involved; 244 people have so far participated in the program's paid, remote internships. Marina is a coordinator for GNOME's participation in Google Summer of Code and a creator of GNOME's newcomers tutorial and workshop. She served as a board member at the GNOME Foundation and at the Ada Initiative. Prior to her diversity outreach and community engagement roles, Marina developed software for GNOME. Marina is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award and of a GNOME Foundation Contributor of the Year Award "the Pants". She is a co-recipient of the Free Software Foundation Award for Projects of Social Benefit on behalf of the Outreach Program for Women. + While working towards a BFA in Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art, Paige developed an interest in programming and a fascination in the complexity of natural systems. After graduation, Paige worked for mesh networking startup, Open Garden which helped to map her interest in natural decentralized systems onto concepts within technology. She previously organized San Francisco's bitcoin meetup and is fascinated by the freeing potential of cryptocurrencies. She currently fills various roles at MaidSafe with a focus on community and communication.

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- Free software alternatives to dominant proprietary solutions: A review of French initiatives + Ending Online Tracking! Privacy Badger and Beyond!

- Marianne Corvellec, - April and Jonathan Le Lous, - April + + Cooper Quintin + + , + EFF

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+ By sheer luck and opportunity, a group of four doctors in 2004 at a restaurant used napkins to sketch the data model of what they thought would be a simple electronic medical records system. +

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+ Fast track to today, this simple medical records system is known as OpenMRS (Open Medical Record System), a free medical records system in use in over 42 countries in the world. For example, when Google worked on the ‘Ebola tablet’ under project Buendia, OpenMRS powered it. After the national disaster in Haiti struck, OpenMRS powered the new Mirebalais hospital. Six countries committed to deploy OpenMRS as their national EMR system including Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria, Philippines and Bangladesh. OpenMRS has never hired developers for the decade of existence, yet every single day people from all over the world come to our platform and ask us how can they get involved? +

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+ This session shares a decade of running a lean organization to provide free medical records software, what has worked and what threatens our sustainability. +

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+ In fiction, we have often faced our fear that man-made creatures will become smart enough to subjugate us. As technology evolves, the +Singularity may seem an inevitable looming future, but such intelligent beings have actually been with us for a very long time. Over many decades, they disabled the checks intended to keep them under our control, and turned most of us into their much-needed servants, who now live in an artificial reality they created to control us, while our planet can hardly support our life much longer. These creatures grew more powerful and smarter with our technological advances, but then they sent their agents back to disable our defenses and the leaders of our resistance, turning many of our tools and much of our infrastructure against us. They vaporized our freedoms, and a dark cloud now covers most of the planet. We still have one card left up our sleeves to tame these creatures, but we need more Neos and Connors to play it successfully. Are you up for it? +

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+ Solving the deployment crisis with GNU Guix +

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+ User freedom is threatened by the growing complexity of current deployment and packaging directions. Running software (especially server/networked software) is becoming too hard for the average user, so many users are turning to the dangerous path of relying on large corporations to do their computing for them. What can GNU do to turn 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 everyone, how you can get Guix and GuixSD running, and how to get involved in the most hacking-friendly package manager/distro duo ever! +

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What could possibly make thousands of free software advocates, ham radio operators, researchers and physicians stand together? One obscure FCC rulemaking proposal on wireless radios. Eric Schultz, one of the leaders of the Save Wifi Initiative, discusses the details of the extreme proposals of FCC to control how you use your devices. You'll learn the history of regulators quietly locking down wireless radios and how it's unintentionally extending to a lockdown of the operating systems of devices. Finally, you'll find out some of the problems with proposed workarounds for the the FCC lock down proposals.

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