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09:00 - 09:45: Registration and Breakfast

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09:45 - 10:00: Welcome to LibrePlanet (Day 1), John Sullivan

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09:45 - 10:00: Welcome to LibrePlanet (Day 1)

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10:00 - 10:45: Keynote, Kade Crockford

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10:00 - 10:45: Opening Keynote

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When we fight we win: Technology and liberation in Trump’s America

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The 21st century techno-surveillance state is the oil that runs the deportation and mass incarceration machines. In Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions' America, it's more important than ever to fight for our core values: freedom, equality, justice, and democracy. That means using your technical skills in the service of liberation, but it also means engaging as an ordinary citizen in the messy work of lobbying and organizing. This talk will lay out some of the greatest challenges we face in 2017, and describe in detail some concrete ways we must unite to fight—not only against the Trump regime's dastardly plans, but also for the future we collectively need to build.

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10:55 - 12:35: Breakout sessions

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10:45 - 10:55: Break

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12:35 - 1:50: Lunch break

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10:55 - 12:35: Session block 1A

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Meet them where they are: Free software and social justice today

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At LibrePlanet, we often talk about how free software intersects with human rights and social justice issues. This talk will review recent technology choices and promotion in other activist communities, discuss how recent changes in politics and technology have motivated these changes, and use these lessons to learn how the free software community can improve its outreach to other advocacy groups. We'll also look at imminent technology developments, and consider where the free software movement can work now to affect change in the future.

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The set of programmers: How math restricts us

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This presentation will open a discussion about how we are introducing new developers to programming. Most textbooks, tutorials, and trainings begin by introducing new developers to mathematics lessons within the language. Many courses on programming require math skills as prerequisites. However, math prowess is not usually an indicator of one's potential programming abilities. Those people who have been told from a young age that they aren't good at math or generally doubt their math skills often feel excluded from the world of programming unnecessarily. +I will pose questions about whether we can be using methods other than math skills to teach programming languages to adult beginners. I propose logic and reasoning skills are more important programming concepts to master to help new developers succeed. Let's change the way we're teaching programming and break down more artificial barriers to entry for becoming a developer.

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Automating a TV channel with free software

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For the last year, Sysnova has been helping a TV channel in Bangladesh to migrate from a soon-to-be discontinued proprietary TV media asset management server, program and ad playout server and news room control system to free alternatives. In the process, free video editing, office suites and desktop operating systems are also being implemented.

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The importance of community-managed infrastructure

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1:50 - 5:15 - Breakout sessions

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11:40 - 11:50: Break

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5:25 - 6:30 - Free Software Awards, Richard Stallman

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11:50 - 12:34: Session block 2A

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Software heritage: Preserving the free software commons

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The Software Commons is the vast body of human knowledge embedded in software source code, that is publicly available and can be freely altered and reused. Free Software constitutes the bulk of it. Sadly we seem to be at increasing risk of losing this precious heritage built by the Free Software community over the paste decades: once popular code hosting sites shut down, tapes of ancient versions of our toolchain (bit-)rot in basements, etc. +The ambitious goal of the Software Heritage project is to contribute to address this risk, by collecting, preserving, and sharing all publicly available software in source code form. Together with its complete VCS development history. Forever, of course. Although still in Beta, Software Heritage has already archived more than 3 billion unique source code files and 700 million unique commits, spanning more than 50 million Free Software projects from major software development hubs, GNU/Linux distributions, and upstream software collections.

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Move fast and break democracy

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Throughout the history of mankind, new tools have transformed our lives, bringing political and social change hard on the heels of technological change. For technologists at the vanguard of these changes, there is a tendency towards optimism, toward innovation for innovation’s sake. “Move fast and break things”, the motto goes. But what if our democracy is the thing that gets broken? This talk discusses the "digital revolution" and its impact on American political culture, with a specific focus on the influence of social media on news and the influence of automation on the economy.

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Turning sensors into signals: Free your IoT from walled gardens with JavaScript

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People are already tired of the over-promise of IoT - the slew of marginally useful products, the overly confusing and crowded developer space, and endless examples of how to turn an LED on and off. +Take a break, step back from the crowd, and come learn how to solve real human problems with that old phone that's collecting dust on your shelf using an open technology, Web and JavaScript. Break away from the walled garden of proprietary solutions.

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Aibohphobia: The Reifier's Schadenfreude

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Hacker? Activist? Neophyte? This shift-of-gears workshop aims to create a relaxed trans-disciplinary environment where all conference goers can create new thought processes around how we use language and art. We'll look at free software ideologies, reasons to use and create free software for art, and look at two programmatically generated 3D printed sculpture series. The sculpture series, created in part with free software and free hardware, explore communication, word play, and digital rights across media. Workshop participants will get to touch, feel, and play with sculptures.

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12:35 - 13:50: Lunch break - Birds of a Feathers

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13:50 - 14:34: Session block 3A

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Patents, copyrights and trademarks: Won't someone please think of the children?

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Patents, copyrights and trademark rights have been growing and expanding in scope and application. In most cases, it seems the original intent of spurring innovation or protecting creators has gotten a bit lost, if not completely inverted. Certainly, there must be a way to support inventors without enabling predators and protect creators without empowering trolls. We need to slay our own monsters, instead of leaving them for the next generation. +If you've ever wondered why a smell can be trademarked or why math can, no... can't, well... maybe gets patented, then this talk is for you. The kids of tomorrow might not want to sample our music or work with our legacy codebases, but they won't thank us for taking the option off the table. There are many entities that are highly invested in endless copyright, creative trademark enforcement or patent maximalism, but what do they want? More importantly, how can they be stopped? It won't be easy, but there are some things you can do. +This talk will cover why it feels so darned difficult to get common sense policies in place. You'll learn about some likely avenues for political disruption, aka lobbying, voting and affecting policy. Consider attending this talk, for the children.

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Technology for direct actions

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This strategic action session follows-up from last year's "Community Technology for Solidarity Economies." This year's session is for anyone interested in activism through non-violent direct actions, such as boycotts, protests, advocacy, and political organizing. We explore how free software technology can empower organizers, with special emphasis on economic democracy initiatives. The session includes a presentation about which technology supports and which technology hinders direct actions. The session ends with an open conversation about how else organizers and technologists might support each other in the future. Please come ready to share ideas and best practices.

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Striking at the roots: An ecological analysis of mass surveillance

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To understand how mass surveillance is allowed to exist, we must recognize it as a form of violence; one of many kinds that are necessary to support and maintain the inequities of capitalism. As free software activists, we must organize to build systems that are capable of not only defending us now, but also strike at the roots by promoting ecological and economic sustainability for the future. Using the Storj project as a case study, we will analyze these power structures and how free software can be used to undermine them.

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Animated GIF workshop with Gimp

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Animated GIFs have become an omnipresent form of art on the internet; respective to their ubiquity there's a limited number of artists creating them. Let's change that! Express yourself via this art form using free software! Mo will cover different types of animated GIFs you can create showcasing some examples, explain how to obtain libre-licensed source content, and walk you through Gimp's animated GIF creation workflow so you can confidently create your own.

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Ansible workshop

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14:35 - 14:45: Break

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14:45 - 15:30: Session block 4A

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Verifying software freedom with reproducible builds

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The Reproducible Builds project aims to move towards a world where binary software can be independently verified, by anyone, as the product of a given source. +Many people interested in Free Software rely on the distributors of binary software to respect their freedoms. +Unfortunately, most software incorporates unintended information into the binaries, resulting in differences in the binaries between consecutive builds. If software normally produces different binaries every time it is built, how can we verify and prove that it is the intended result of the source code? +By incorportating best practices documented by the Reproducible Builds project into software development projects, an independently verifyable chain from the source code to the binaries can be formed. +Once independent verification becomes common practice, people can get back to working with software that respects user freedoms.

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Accessibility, free software and the rights of people with disabilities

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A high level view of accessibility in the context of free software with a focus on issues involving security, privacy and what some activists are doing. It will touch on the technical, legal and software development projects going on today.

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Civilian Code Conservation Corps: Free software for governments of all sizes

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Software purchased and used by our cities, states, and national governments is both a resource to be managed, like our wild places, and an infrastructure to be maintained, like our roads and bridges. These are our collective property and responsibility. +Many governments are afraid of releasing software into public view because of security concerns, lack of support, or contract complications. Education for civil servants and improved oversight for vendors can mitigate these concerns and increase the amount of government-purchased software that is released under a free license.

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Let's encrypt office hours

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Want to encrypt your website? Noah Swartz from EFF will be on hand to help people with installing certificates using Let's Encrypt & EFF's tool Certbot. If you manage a website but haven't set up HTTPS this is your chance. Whether you've never gotten around to trying or have run into problems trying Noah will be available to answer questions and help debug issues. Come by with your computer and get your website converted to HTTPS and learn about how to use Certbot and Let's Encrypt!

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Ansible workshop

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15:30 - 15:40: Break

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15:40 - 16:25: Session block 5A

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The free software movement in the age of Trump

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One sixth of the human race lives under the control of a regime that intends to use the Net to extinguish the very idea of freedom. Pettier despots of every description use computer networks to perfect civil unfreedom on a platform of unfree technology. Illiberal movements are sweeping towards political power in advanced democratic societies, which are also the hubs of surveillance capitalism. The rush to cashless society is replacing the anonymity of the free market with the tracked and monitored control points of a new totalitarian economy. The most powerful man in the world has no respect for freedom of speech or the rule of law. +The free software movement came into existence fighting to prevent a future which is now our present. Ready or not, we have entered a new phase. Training is over. Here's the plan.

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Pump.io - the federated, extensible social network

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Pump.io is a promising project to create a federated social network - think email, where you can have multiple providers that all work together, but for social networking. It stagnated for a while, but the project has recently completed the transfer of governance and code maintenance to the community. This presentation will talk about pump.io's history (right up to its newly-created community governance), its API, and why it's pretty freakin' neat. We'll end with the work that's gone out the door in recent releases, the work that remains, and how you can (should?) get involved. +Attendees will walk out with an understanding of the historical context behind pump.io, an understanding of how the software works on a technical level, and how it fits into wider social web efforts. No prior knowledge necessary, although a basic familiarity with JSON and HTTP will help.

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Freedom and loathing on the campaign trail '16

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Like it or Loathe it, this election was historic--for the candidates, for citizens, and even the Free Software Movement. The creation of DevProgress.us marks the first time that a major national political party or presidential campaign in the United States has officially adopted contribution policies embracing copyleft licenses. Come hear about how hackers and artists from around the world made an impact up and down the ticket, and ways #wewillcontinue.

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Pentesting loves Free Software

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A session describing how and why is possible to do professional security penetration testing solely using free software code and tools. We will be showcasing some of this tools and having a conversation to see how we can make this tools succeed in the field, come up with new ideas and maybe a project we can work on during the year for the intention to promote free software in the redteam security field.

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Reproducible builds workshop

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16:25 - 16:35: Break

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Session block 6A 16:35 - 17:15

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The Lisp machine and GNU

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You may have heard of Stallman and the printer, but much of free software's genesis involves the battle over the soul of the lisp machine. We'll trace Lisp and the Lisp Machine's roots, from its genesis in early hacker culture and the AI labs, to the split that (largely) pushed RMS to found GNU, through its role within and without the free software community. Why did GNU become a "Not Unix", and why not a lisp machine? What about the role of Lisp within GNU, with projects like Emacs, Guile, and Guix? For those who are new to Lisp, there will be a mini-tutorial.

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Lightning Talks

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Free software & the law: A lighthearted trip down memory lane

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Since its beginning, the Free Software community has found novel ways of hacking the law to serve the greater good. Though starting with copyright, as patents and trademarks became increasingly relevant for projects, our leaders and lawyers found it necessary to include specific language in new and updated licenses. +Whether this is your first conference or you've been a part of the FOSS community for decades, come enjoy a lighthearted, informative look at the relationship of Free Software and the Law over the years, plus a glimpse into the legal future of Libre Hardware and the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Rock and roll bands and free software projects: A comparative analysis

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Bands get together, they perform, they make records, members shuffle in and out. They often don't have any kind of formal agreement or legal entity, or sometimes they were put together by a producer who made all the decisions for the band. Then things fall apart, members split off, they have a falling out with the producer, someone thinks they are more deserving because they contributed more, sometimes one or more going forward as the One True Band. Bands have been around a long time, free software not as long. The session will compare the two types of organizations for similarities and differences to see whether there is anything interesting to learn.

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Reproducible builds workshop

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17:25 - 18:10: Free Software Awards, with Richard Stallman

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09:45 - 10:00: Welcome to LibrePlanet (Day 2), Georgia Young

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Welcome to the LibrePlanet (Day 2)

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10:00 - 10:45: Keynote, Cory Doctorow

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Beyond unfree: The software you can go to jail for talking about

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Software has eaten the world, and all too often, that code is a black box — not just designed to be unauditable, but to be illegal to audit, to improve, to reconfigure. Software freedom is human freedom: not because 'information wants to be free,' but because people can't be free in an information age when their information technology is designed to control them.

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10:55 - 11:40: Session block 1B

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Free software for free culture

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Contacts to connections: CRM funneling for FLOSS projects

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Do you have a pile of sticky notes and a folder full of spreadsheets with contacts? Have you ever had a donor approached by two people trying to gather the same information? +As an organization or project grows, it often becomes hard to keep track of the various community members, donors, and volunteers who are connected. An answer to this is the often used sales tool, a contact relationship manager (CRM). +You will learn about a non-sales focused tool, CiviCRM and see how it can be combined with Discourse and various Drupal forms to clean up and funnel your contact data.

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The surreptitious assault on privacy, security, and freedom

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Privacy, security, and personal freedom: each of these essential rights are being surreptitiously assaulted by governments, corporations, and ill-minded individuals that are spying and preying upon us with unprecedented frequency and breadth. +This talk will survey the most pressing issues of today, including topics of government surveillance and espionage; advertisers and data analytics; IoT; policy and the crypto wars; the Web, "cloud", and centralization; vehicles; societal pressures and complacency; and more. +Attendees will be presented with an overview of mitigations and dozens of resources.

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Text, layout, and calligraphy on the Arabic Web

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In this workshop, you will learn principles of internationalization to support Arabic and other right-to-left languages. The focus will be on practical examples where you can adapt CSS and JavaScript to support both languages. Some of the real examples will include: the OpenStreetMap iD editor, right-to-left text in the HTML5 Canvas, a calligraphy editor, and use of the zero-width-join character to stylize Arabic text.

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11:40 - 11:50: Break

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5:25 - 6:10 - Keynote, Sumana Harihareswara

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11:50 - 12:35: Session block 2B

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Birds of a Feather

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A free software portfolio: The importance of free software in computer science

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As Free Software becomes more widespread in technology solutions across all industries, there is demand for workers who not only have experience with Free Software tools, but also for those who can help organizations to become involved in those communities. Companies are increasingly looking to take the leap from consumer to contributor, but they are often unsure how to actually proceed. I will discuss the idea of exposing students to the ideas and tools that Free Software depends on, with the explicit goal of enabling students to build a technology portfolio that helps them to stand out and teaches them how to work collaboratively and transparently. There are some success stories to tell, but I hope that this talk will inspire other educators to incorporate Free Software concepts into their standard curriculum.

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Secure Drop

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Machine learning: Key battleground for free and open source technology

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Machine learning (ML) research has a long and still prevalent legacy of using proprietary technology. As ML becomes more and more popular with industry-scale large applications, many new and powerful proprietary pushes have been trying to enter different parts of the ML application stack. We need to be prepared for the challenges of keeping free and open source technology in ML, and the challenges come from both the legacy side and the new proprietary push side. However, ML is still overlooked in our conversations about free and open technology, although many open source alternatives have made ways into ML research, development, and industry applications. In this session, we will first have a quick glimpse at the history ML stack in research, development, and applications, then explore ML's proprietary legacy and its status quo. Then we will look at where the proprietary army is coming (again) while we were not looking. To conclude, we will discuss strategies about what we can do as - a community and as individuals - to keep ML research and development free and open. Audience will walk away with the big picture of many floating pieces in current ML development and applications, and will also learn about less-explored historical context of ML development, its influence on the potential future of free and open source technology in ML, and some action recipes to keep ML free and open. Your thoughts, questions, and further discussions are also cordially welcome!

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Algorithmic bias: Where it comes from and what to do about it

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Algorithms are the new boogie men when it comes to social control and institutional discrimination. Recent research suggests a somewhat counter-intuitive approach to ameliorating bias. One must not be blind to race, gender, and other demographic categories that experience discrimination--on the contrary, one must actively monitor these factors. +In this panel, each panelist will present his or her views for a few minutes, leaving ample time for comments and questions from the audience. This format worked very well for the LibrePlanet 2014 session, “Promoting free software adoption (and creation) in the public sector”, where audience involvement was passionate and well-informed.

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The post-truth Santa Claus and the concealed present

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Prospects for free software and free culture in the workplace

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One avenue for advancing free software and free culture is the workplace. It's the one place where we spend a substantial (if not the majority) of our time, have potential access to large audiences, funds, and resources. +The talk explores free software, free culture, and the prospects for both in the workplace. Questions explored include: What kind of workplaces are amenable to FOSS? What is the impact of the current economic trends (increasing job insecurity, short work tenure, stagnating wages, and increasing hours worked)? How is FOSS leveraged in environments where workers have limited control or agency? What is the impact of wide scale adoption and intensifying of 'stick' models of employee management in place of cooperative models?

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Understanding the complexity of copyleft defense

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The fundamental mechanism defending software freedom is copyleft, embodied in GPL. GPL, however, functions only through upholding it — via GPL enforcement. For some, enforcement has for 30 years been a regular activity, but most projects don't enforce: they live with regular violations. Today, even under the Community Principles of GPL Enforcement, GPL enforcement is regularly criticized and questioned. The complex landscape is now impenetrable for developers who merely wish their code to remain forever free. This talk provides basic history and background information on the topic.

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The monster on the project

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Abusive behavior can have profound effects on personal relationships but it can also make open source contributing and office life miserable. For those stuck in a team with co workers who exhibit toxic behavior, going to work every day can feel like going to a battlefield. Knowing how to identify and how to respond to unreasonable behavior is vital. In this talk we will look at the ways we can improve our office and FOSS communities by recognizing, managing and gracefully removing this toxic behavior.

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Fixing trust on the Internet

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The challenge with centralized network services isn't just +that users may not have Software Freedom: data matters too. This talk +explores the contours of trust on the Internet in the context of +verifying network services and how we might craft solutions that match +the spirit of the four freedoms. We need an application level API that +allows us to corroborate trust assertions and increase (or decrease) our +confidence in the assertions based on our transitive trust network. +Before choosing to use a network service, users need confidence that the +service is Free software, provides the complete and corresponding +source, can be built reproducibly and that such builds were verified by +people those users trust. To bring Software Freedom to network services +users we must create a new trust model for the Internet that manages +identity, authentication and assertions at the application level for the +Free software services we write and share. We can build it!

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A fully-free cell phone experience, no baseband required

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Free software users have been able to use laptops with fully-free software for several years now. However, using a cell phone in the same way is still impossible due to the non-free baseband firmware present in all cellular devices on the market today. But does the cell phone experience even require a baseband? +In this session, Denver will describe how to achieve much of the cell phone experience (especially voice and SMS/MMS) using existing free software, as well as strategies for surpassing the range and reach of emergency calling and data on the cellular network.

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A role for free software in movements, communities and platform cooperativism

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Steps and concrete solutions for anyone - specifically non-programmers, wanting to learn how to build things with free software, starting with Drupal. If you are a coder, I will reveal ways that you can get involved building things, if you are not a coder you will learn about the large network that exists around this topic.

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16:35 - 17:15: Session block 6B

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Secret life of the bitcoin blockchain

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The GNU philosophy: Ethics beyond ethics

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Ethics is at the root of Free Software. In a philosophical perspective where ethics is operational rather than moral, we argue that the ethics of Free Software goes beyond ethics. It is morality. The ever-present concern for self-respect, autonomy and, of course, freedom makes Free Software akin to historical philosophical movements (humanism, Enlightenment, existentialism). Besides, the Free Software Movement contribute their principles (such as transparency) and practices (such as cryptography) to support whistleblowers, journalists, and activists. Similarities with other social movements let us derive existing and possible coalitions.

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Will the FCC still ban your operating system? (Maybe.)

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Last year, we thought the FCC was going to ban our operating system. Has anything changed? As it turns out, plenty. Eric Schultz, one of the leaders of the Save Wifi Initiative, highlights the changing interests by the FCC on free software. He’ll also discuss his efforts participating as part of the FCC’s Technical Advisory Council, Software Configurable Radio sub-group to advocate for software freedom. Finally, Eric will detail specific ways in which we can educate regulators on the benefits of free software-based wireless and protect user freedom.

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Securely backing up GPG private keys… to the cloud?

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Imagine a world in which GnuPG was not hard to use, and was used widely. +Users exchange encrypted email, gpg sign comments on websites, make encrypted +backups, and so on. +What happens, in that world, when a user's gpg private key gets deleted? The only backup is encrypted with the lost private key. Catch 22. +We're not in that world, and so we don't often worry about this problem. +But solving the gpg key backup problem seems a necessary step in the +path toward that world. +Keysafe is an attempt at taking that step, backing up to the cloud. Can +that possibly be secure? Come and find out.

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Lessons, myths, and lenses: What I wish I'd known in 1998

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+ +Sumana Harihareswara + +

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As a teenager arriving at university in the fall of 1998, Sumana +Harihareswara was about to meet the free software movement and dive in. +Free software taught her engineering principles and political truths. It +snuck myths into her head that she'd have to take several years to scrub +out. And it gave her lenses, models for understanding the world, that +she would reuse in her work, relationships, and activism. For the first +time, Harihareswara sums up this two-decade diff into what she wishes +she could tell her younger self.

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