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Bdale Garbee

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A contributor to the Free Software community since 1979, Bdale's background -also includes many years of hardware design, Unix internals, and embedded -systems work. He was an early participant in the Debian project, helped port -Debian GNU/Linux to five architectures, served as Debian Project Leader, served as -chairman of the Debian Technical Committee for nearly a decade, and remains -active in the Debian community.

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Altus Metrum, LLC, is a small business Bdale founded with Keith Packard that -designs, builds, and sells completely free hardware and free software avionics -solutions for use in high-powered model rockets.

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For a decade, Bdale served as president of Software in the Public Interest. -He served nearly as long on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation -representing individual affiliates and the developer community. Bdale -currently serves on the boards of the Freedombox Foundation, Linux -Professional Institute, and Aleph Objects. He is also a member of the -Evaluations Committee at the Software Freedom Conservancy, and continues to -speak at GNU/Linux and free software conferences from time to time.

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In 2008, Bdale became the first individual recipient of a Lutece d'Or award -from the Federation Nationale de l'Industrie du Logiciel Libre in France.

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Closing keynote

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A contributor to the free software community since 1979, Bdale's +background also includes many years of hardware design, Unix +internals, and embedded systems work. He was an early participant in +the Debian Project, helped port Debian GNU/Linux to five +architectures, served as Debian Project leader, served as chairman of +the Debian Technical Committee for nearly a decade, and remains active +in the Debian community.

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Altus Metrum, LLC, is a small business Bdale founded with Keith +Packard that designs, builds, and sells completely free hardware and +free software avionics solutions for use in high-powered model +rockets.

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For a decade, Bdale served as president of Software in the Public +Interest. He served nearly as long on the board of directors of the +Linux Foundation, representing individual affiliates and the developer +community. Bdale currently serves on the boards of the FreedomBox +Foundation, Linux Professional Institute, and Aleph Objects. He is +also a member of the Evaluations Committee at the Software Freedom +Conservancy, and continues to speak at GNU/Linux and free software +conferences from time to time.

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In 2008, Bdale became the first individual recipient of a Lutèce d'Or +award from the Fédération Nationale de l'Industrie du Logiciel Libre +in France.

Bdale engages in a wide variety of personal activities. In addition to -high-powered model rocketry and home shop machining, he is widely known for -his contributions to the amateur radio hobby, including packet radio, -weak-signal communications, software-defined radio, and building amateur -satellites.

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By Karen Garbee. This image is licensed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

- +high-powered model rocketry and home shop machining, he is widely +known for his contributions to the amateur radio hobby, including +packet radio, weak-signal communications, software-defined radio, and +building amateur satellites.

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Photo courtesy of Karen Garbee (copyright © CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Tarek Loubani

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Opening keynote (Day 1)

Tarek Loubani is an emergency physician who works in the London Health -Sciences Centre in Canada and Al Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. He is -also a Fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation, where he focuses on -free medical devices. Loubani's work involves gaining -self-sufficiency and local independence for medical systems such as -Gaza's through the use of free techniques.

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By Tarek Loubani. This image is licensed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

- +Sciences Center in Canada and Al Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. He +is also a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation, where he focuses on +free medical devices. Loubani's work involves gaining self-sufficiency +and local independence for medical systems such as Gaza's through the +use of free techniques.

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Photo courtesy of Tarek Loubani (copyright © 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Micky Metts

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Micky is a member of Agaric Design Collective in Boston, a tech co-op in the “free software for community building” movement, using tools like VOIP, -Drupal, and GNU/Linux. She is a liaison between the US Solidarity Economy Network (SEN) -- devoted to ongoing dialogue on building the network -- and the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), the national grassroots organization of 4,000 US worker-owners “building power with national and international partners to advance an agenda for economic justice rooted in community-based, shared ownership.” Agaric’s five Web developers on three continents build applications online, offer international webinars, and host local meetings working with organizations such as Ujima Boston, Resource Generation, CommonGood, and the Greater Boston Chamber of Cooperatives, to raise awareness of cooperative business models and local opportunities.

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As a member of the MayFirst.org leadership committee, Micky works with technical activists to connect people with the information and tools they need to move from being a global network to being a global movement based on solidarity, the needs of a workers’ economy, free software tools that protect our freedoms, and tools for live-conferencing that are adapted so workforces can communicate in native languages from afar. Her four topic areas all converge in her presentations: community building, industry organizing, free software liberation & cooperative development.

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Micky is a member of Drupal, a community based on free software, and she writes about her experience as a contributing author in Ours to Hack and to Own. The book is known as the handbook for the Platform Cooperativism Movement, which was started at the New School in NYC by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider. It is now among the top tech books of 2017 listed by Wired magazine. Micky lives in Boston, MA, USA.

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Photo of Micky Metts by Micky Metts. This image is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license.

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Opening keynote (Day 2)

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Micky is a member of the Agaric Design Collective in Boston, a tech +co-op in the “free software for community building” movement, using +tools like VOIP, Drupal, and GNU/Linux. She is a liaison between the +US Solidarity Economy Network (SEN) -- devoted to ongoing dialogue +on building the network -- and the United States Federation of +Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), the national grassroots organization of +4,000 US worker-owners “building power with national and international +partners to advance an agenda for economic justice rooted in +community-based, shared ownership.” Agaric’s five Web developers on +three continents build applications online, offer international +webinars, and host local meetings working with organizations such as +Ujima Boston, Resource Generation, CommonGood, and the Greater Boston +Chamber of Cooperatives, to raise awareness of cooperative business +models and local opportunities.

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As a member of the MayFirst.org leadership committee, Micky works with +technical activists to connect people with the information and tools +they need to move from being a global network to being a global +movement based on solidarity, the needs of a workers’ economy, free +software tools that protect our freedoms, and tools for +live-conferencing that are adapted so workforces can communicate in +native languages from afar. Her four topic areas all converge in her +presentations: community building, industry organizing, free software +liberation, and cooperative development.

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Micky is a member of Drupal, a community based on free software, and +she writes about her experience as a contributing author in Ours +to Hack and to Own. The book is known as the handbook for the +Platform Cooperativism Movement, which was started at the New School +in New York City by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider. It is now +among the top tech books of 2017 listed by Wired +magazine. Micky lives in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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Photo courtesy of Micky Metts (copyright © 2018, CC0 1.0).

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Richard Stallman

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Since the mid-1990s, Richard Stallman, also known as RMS, has spent most of his time in -political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas -of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents -and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Stallman -developed a number of widely used programs that are components of GNU, -including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU -symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various others.

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Photo of Richard Stallman by Adte.ca. This image is licensed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.*

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Richard Stallman founded the free software movement in 1983 when he announced +he would develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating +system meant to consist entirely of free +software. He has been the GNU Project's leader ever since. In +October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.

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Since the mid-1990s, Richard +Stallman, also +known as RMS, has spent most of his time in political advocacy for +free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as +well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous +extension of copyright laws. Before that, Stallman developed a number +of widely used programs that are components of GNU, including the +original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger +(gdb), GNU Emacs, and various others.

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Photo courtesy of Adte.ca (copyright © 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Stefanía Acevedo

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Hackerspace Rancho Electrónico

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Stefanía Acevedo is a philosopher who is interested in collaborative +work and autonomist movements. She currently fundraises for the +Hackerspace Rancho Electrónico, in Mexico City, as part of its +financial committee. She is also a member of CoAA.TV, at which she +assists with production-related tasks.

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Photo courtesy of Stefanía Acevedo (copyright © 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Micah Altman

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DistrictBuilder: Free software for public mapping to revolutionize redistricting

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Dr. Micah Altman is director of research and head/scientist for the +Program on Information Science for the MIT Libraries, at the +Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, he served as a +nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and at Harvard +University as the associate director of the Harvard-MIT Data +Center, archival director of the Henry A. Murray Archive, and senior +research scientist in the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences. +He conducts work primarily in the fields of social science, +information privacy, information science, research methods, and +statistical computation, and on the dissemination, preservation, +reliability and governance of scientific knowledge.

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Isabela Bagueros

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The Tor Project: State of the Onion

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Isabela Bagueros is executive director of the Tor Project.

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Photo courtesy of Isabela Bagueros (copyright © 2019, CC BY 4.0).

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Shaun Carland

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Free APIs: The next generation

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Shaun Carland is an engineer and free software advocate based in +Brooklyn, New York. He believes in the power of narratives, and is +interested in finding effective ways of framing the importance of the +free software movement, in order to forge alliances with developers +and nondevelopers alike. He believes this can be done by talking about +free software in different contexts, such as national security, +freedom of speech, human rights, and global security. In rare moments +when he's not coding, Shaun enjoys playing the piano, traveling the +world, and listening to Radiohead while it rains.

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Photo courtesy of Shaun Carland (copyright © 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Kate Chapman

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OpenStreetMap

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Kate Chapman is technologist, geographer and farmer. She has been involved +in OpenStreetMap in a variety of ways since 2009; initially, she joined to +simply map her own neighborhood. Kate serves as the chairperson of the +OpenStreetMap Foundation. She was a co-founder of the Humanitarian +OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and served as the organization’s first executive +director. Kate serves on the board of the Software Freedom Conservancy, and +has mentored for Outreachy with three different organizations. Currently +Kate works as a senior program manager at the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Photo courtesy of Kate Chapman (copyright © 2016, CC BY 4.0).

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Alex Claffey

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The joy of bug reporting

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Erik Edrosa

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A survey of GNU Guile software

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Erik Edrosa is a free software user and developer from Miami, Florida. +He is a member of the GNU Guile community, where he maintains various +free software projects.

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Martha Esperilla

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Hackerspace Rancho Electrónico

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Martha Esperilla is active in the Hackerspace Rancho Electrónico, +where she gives workshops on laptop maintenance and introductions to +free software. She is part of the hackerspace's financial committee +and helps fundraise for it. She is a member of CoAA.TV, where she +performs documentation- and production-related tasks. She also +collaborates in the Cooperativa Tecnológica Tierra Común, an economic +project for the implementation of free software and digital security +in human rights organizations.

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Mary Kate Fain

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Sparking change: What FLOSS can learn from successful social movements

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Mary Kate Fain (M. K.) is a software engineer with a background in +grassroots activism, focusing on animal liberation, feminism, and +software freedom. In 2016, she cofounded Candlewaster Web Collective, +a free software development agency based out of Philly. She currently +serves on the board of Species Revolution, and is an experienced +speaker on a diverse range of topics related to creating effective +social justice movements. She is a writer and editor for Women's Way, +and is currently writing a book on radical feminism. M. K. is a loving +mother to a cat, a chicken, two rats, and about seventy-six houseplants.

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Photo courtesy of PromptWorks, LLC (copyright © 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Fischers Fritz

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Copying files between computers

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Fischers Fritz has been copying files between computers with free +software for fifteen years.

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Nathan Freitas

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The Tor Project: State of the Onion

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Nathan Freitas is founder and director of the Guardian Project, and a core Tor contributor.

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Photo courtesy of Nathan Freitas (copyright © 2018, CC BY 4.0).

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Mike Gerwitz

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Computational symbiosis: Methods that meld mind and machine

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Mike Gerwitz is a free software hacker and activist with a focus on +user privacy and security. He holds various volunteer roles within +GNU, including software evaluation and administrative duties. He has +twenty years of programming experience and his professional duties +range from Web development to compiler construction. He does nearly +all of his computing within the comfort of a terminal using +exclusively free software. Mike spends most of his free time with his +wife and two sons; he spends his remaining free time primarily on +hacking, research, volunteer work, and activism.

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Photo taken by Kori Feener and courtesy of the Free Software Foundation, Inc. (copyright © 2016, CC BY 4.0).

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Gay Gordon-Byrne

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Right to Repair and the DMCA

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Ms. Gordon-Byrne has been the executive director and cofounder of the +Repair Association since 2013, following a long career in enterprise +computing as a software engineer, trader and lessor of new and used +computing equipment as an OEM, business partner, and as an independent +expert in commercial contracts. She is the author of Buying, +Supporting, and Maintaining Software and Equipment, an IT Manager's +Guide to Controlling the Product Lifecycle.

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Shauna Gordon-McKeon

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Governing the software commons

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Shauna Gordon-McKeon is an independent writer, researcher and +developer who specializes in technologies built by and for +communities. She runs Galaxy Rise Consulting, a small business that +provides software development, project management, and research +services.

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Bryan Jones

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Library Freedom Institute: A new hope

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Bryan Neil Jones is a librarian at Nashville Public Library. He is the +recipient of the 2018 Tennessee Library Association Intellectual +Freedom Award for his privacy and technology outreach.

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Photo courtesy of Bryan Jones (copyright © 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Marc Jones

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What do courts think the GPL means (so far)?

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Marc Jones works primarily as in-house legal counsel for CivicActions, +which provides professional services related to free software to +nonprofit and government clients. He also works on the CivicActions +infrastructure team, as a security and compliance officer, and +provides consulting and training services to government procurement +and legal teams. Prior to this, he worked for the State of +Connecticut for seventeen years, eventually as the associate director of an +IT department, and for five years at a boutique law firm that +specializes in free software licensing. He provides pro bono +legal counsel to several prominent free software nonprofits.

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Photo courtesy of Marc Jones (copyright © 2015, CC BY 4.0).

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Frank Karlitschek

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Why I forked my own project and my own company

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Frank Karlitschek started the ownCloud project in 2010, to return +control over the storing and sharing of information to consumers. In +2016, he initiated the Nextcloud project to bring this idea to the +next level. He has been involved with a variety of free software +projects, including having been a board member for the KDE +community. He has spoken at MIT, CERN, and at the ETH, and keynoted at +LinuxCon, Latinoware, Akademy, FOSSASIA, openSUSE Conference, and many +other conferences. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud GmbH, and +is a fellow of Open Forum Europe.

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Photo courtesy of Annette Exner (copyright © 2018, CC0 1.0).

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Chase Kelley

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Modern Emacs IDE

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Chase Kelley has a background in aerospace engineering and currently +works on flight-simulation software. He has primarily used Emacs for +all his programming needs, and hopes to share how useful and fun it is +to program using Emacs. In his free time, he consumes large amounts of +science fiction, anime, and manga.

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Photo courtesy of Chase Kelley (copyright © 2015, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Do Yoon Kim

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GPL enforcement and customer benefits: Evidence from OpenWRT

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Do Yoon Kim is a doctoral candidate in the strategy unit at the +Harvard Business School.

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Chris Lamb

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Redis Labs and the tragedy of the Commons Clause

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Chris Lamb is the current Debian Project leader, and a member of the +board of directors for the Open Source Initiative. He is a freelance +computer programmer, and the author of and/or contributor to countless free +software projects. Chris is also on the core team of the Reproducible +Builds project. In his spare time, he is a passionate classical +musician with a focus on baroque music.

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Photo courtesy of Chris Lamb (copyright © 2018, CC0 1.0).

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Ladar Levison

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Alison Macrina

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The Tor Project: State of the Onion and Library Freedom Institute: A new hope

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Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom +Project. She is also a librarian, Internet activist, and a core +contributor to the Tor Project. Alison is passionate about connecting +surveillance to other issues of injustice, and works to demystify +privacy and security topics for ordinary users.

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Nick Mathewson

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The Tor Project: State of the Onion

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Nick is a cofounder of the Tor Project, and currently leads the team +that maintains Tor.

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Adam Monsen

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Free software for safe and happy chickens

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Adam Monsen is a Seattle native and a free software fanatic. He +cofounded SeaGL (Seattle GNU/Linux Conference). At work, Adam is +senior director of engineering for C-SATS R&D, helping surgeons +provide the best possible care to their patients.

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Photo courtesy of Adam Monsen (copyright © 2011, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Lori Nagel

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The joy of bug reporting

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Lori Nagel has worked on and off on the Multiplayer Online +Role-Playing Game free software project Wograld. She has also written a free culture Web cartoon and a +free culture novel.

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Photo courtesy of Lori Nagel (copyright © 2019, CC BY 2.0 or later).

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Sean O’Brien

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Teaching privacy and security via free software

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Sean is a lecturer in law at Yale Law School with expertise in +cybersecurity, privacy, and mobile device forensics. He is director of +business development at Purism SPC, a company dedicated to digital +privacy and security, and a mentor for the Mozilla Open Leaders +program. Sean founded Yale Privacy Lab in 2017, and is an active +member of MakeHaven, a local nonprofit makerspace, where he implements +FreedomBox GNU/Linux servers.

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Photo courtesy of Sean O'Brien (copyright © 2018, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Alexandre Oliva

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Who's afraid of Spectre and Meltdown?

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Free software evangelist. GNU speaker. Recipient of the FSF's 2016 +Award for the Advancement of Free Software. FSF Latin America board +member. LibrePlanet São Paulo activist. 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 and +AdaCore.

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Eric Olle

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Trauma directors' toolbox: Free software for the visualization, analysis and improvement of trauma care

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Eric Olle has been using R as a mathematical modeling/statistical +software since 2003, and has used it in a range of different projects +(involving antibody arrays, dendritic cell therapy or for early stage +clinical trial, data analysis, etc.). He has worked in the biotech +and pharmaceutical industries and in academia.

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Andrew Oram

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Technical drivers of "cloud" centralization and megacorporate domination

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Andy Oram is a writer and editor at O'Reilly Media. As editor, he +brought to publication O'Reilly's Linux series, the ground-breaking +book Peer-to-Peer, and the best-seller Beautiful Code. +In print, his articles have appeared in The Economist, +Communications of the ACM, Copyright World, the +Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vanguardia +Dossier, and Internet Law and Business. He's presented +talks at conferences including O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, +FISL, FOSDEM, DebConf, and LibrePlanet. He participates in the +Association for Computing Machinery's policy organization, USTPC. He +also writes for various Web sites about health IT and about issues in +computing and policy.

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Photo courtesy of Andrew Oram (copyright © 2018, CC BY 4.0).

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Edward Platt

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Large-scale collaboration with free software

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Edward L. Platt creates technology for communities and communities for +technology. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of +Michigan School of Information, and the maintainer of the Seltzer CRM +hackerspace management tool. Previously, he worked as a staff +researcher at the MIT Center for Civic Media, and in Metro Detroit as +a Web developer and civic technologist. He cofounded and served on the +board for the i3Detroit hackerspace, and has worked at places including +Apple, CERN, and Zimride (now Lyft).

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Photo courtesy of Lorrie LeJeune (copyright © 2014, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Nathan Proctor

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Right to Repair and the DMCA

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Nathan Proctor is the national campaign director for US PIRG's Right +to Repair campaign, where he coordinates Right to Repair campaign +efforts across the country with the Public Interest Network's +affiliates. His fourteen-year advocacy career has included leading +campaigns to close corporate tax loopholes and expand access to early +education. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

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Photo courtesy of Caley McGuane (copyright © CC BY 2.0).

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Ryan Prior

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Security by and for free software

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Ryan is a hacker, technical educator, writer, and free software +activist. He joined Conjur, which was acquired by CyberArk in 2017, to +create developer tools that enhance security. Since then, he has +continued to deliver new technologies and media for Conjur users and +developers. Previously, Ryan had research internships with Ecere +Corporation and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he +pursued better ways to help people understand and interact with +computer-mediated systems like code and digital music.

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Accessibility in front-end environments

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Daniel Ramsayer is an accessibility and access advocate and programmer +specializing in front-end environments. He is working on providing +greater resources and giving more talks about the intersections +between the fields of accessibility, education, and programming. He +hails from Portlandia, Oregon.

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Photo courtesy of Daniel Evans (copyright © 2018, CC0 1.0).

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Srishti Sethi

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Sharing global opportunities for new developers in the Wikipedia community

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Srishti Sethi is a Wikimedia Foundation developer advocate, supporting +the organization's efforts to engage volunteer developers in Wikimedia +software projects and to grow the technical community. She designs and +implements programs for onboarding volunteers in Wikimedia technical +spaces, produces and organizes technical documentation to instruct +them on how to contribute to Wikimedia projects, defines and +implements developer outreach strategies to help make the Wikimedia +community more inclusive, and coordinates Wikimedia's participation in +mentoring programs like Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Prior to +this, Srishti was a student researcher at the MIT Media Lab, +contributing to the development of online learning platforms.

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Building network equipment and a business with free software and liberated hardware

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Nishant Sharma is a mechanical engineer by education, and has been +making a living from free software since 2003. He has made some +contribution to Debian Installer L10n, OpenStreetMap, and OpenWrt +projects. In 2010, he started the free software company Unmukti +Technology (pronounced Oon-mOokti and meaning "deliverance" in +Sanskrit). Unmukti Technology builds network equipment using free +software with liberated hardware, and provides services over them to +small- and medium-sized businesses in India. It is currently in the +process of building routers, access points, NAS, and home gateways for +home users.

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The secret battle of encryption algorithms

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Amanda Sopkin is a full-stack software engineer for the rentals team +at Zillow, working to make the process of renting better for renters +and property managers. In addition to working as a software engineer, +she attends hackathons as a coach for Major League Hacking, to help +students have a great experience at the events they attend. She has +spoken about mathematics and software engineering at PyCon, DevSum +Sweden, HackCon, SeaGL, and various hackathons around the +country. Amanda holds a degree in mathematics and computer science +from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Free software in the 3D-printing community

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Chris Thierauf is a student of computer science at the Wentworth +Institute of Technology. As a passionate tinkerer, he spends a lot of +time writing code, playing with 3D printers, and using free +software/hardware in his research.

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The future of computing and why you should care

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Todd Weaver, digital rights activist and founder of Purism, SPC, is +deeply devoted to solving the issues of convenience in products rooted +in the values of free software.

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The Tor Project: State of the Onion

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Steph is communications director of the Tor Project.

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A contributor to the free software community since 1979, Bdale's -background also includes many years of hardware design, Unix -internals, and embedded systems work. He was an early participant in -the Debian Project, helped port Debian GNU/Linux to five -architectures, served as Debian Project leader, served as chairman of -the Debian Technical Committee for nearly a decade, and remains active -in the Debian community.

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Altus Metrum, LLC, is a small business Bdale founded with Keith -Packard that designs, builds, and sells completely free hardware and -free software avionics solutions for use in high-powered model -rockets.

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For a decade, Bdale served as president of Software in the Public -Interest. He served nearly as long on the board of directors of the -Linux Foundation, representing individual affiliates and the developer -community. Bdale currently serves on the boards of the FreedomBox -Foundation, Linux Professional Institute, and Aleph Objects. He is -also a member of the Evaluations Committee at the Software Freedom -Conservancy, and continues to speak at GNU/Linux and free software -conferences from time to time.

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In 2008, Bdale became the first individual recipient of a Lutèce d'Or -award from the Fédération Nationale de l'Industrie du Logiciel Libre -in France.

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Bdale engages in a wide variety of personal activities. In addition to -high-powered model rocketry and home shop machining, he is widely -known for his contributions to the amateur radio hobby, including -packet radio, weak-signal communications, software-defined radio, and -building amateur satellites.

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Tarek Loubani is an emergency physician who works in the London Health -Sciences Center in Canada and Al Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. He -is also a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation, where he focuses on -free medical devices. Loubani's work involves gaining self-sufficiency -and local independence for medical systems such as Gaza's through the -use of free techniques.

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Micky is a member of the Agaric Design Collective in Boston, a tech -co-op in the “free software for community building” movement, using -tools like VOIP, Drupal, and GNU/Linux. She is a liaison between the -US Solidarity Economy Network (SEN) -- devoted to ongoing dialogue -on building the network -- and the United States Federation of -Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), the national grassroots organization of -4,000 US worker-owners “building power with national and international -partners to advance an agenda for economic justice rooted in -community-based, shared ownership.” Agaric’s five Web developers on -three continents build applications online, offer international -webinars, and host local meetings working with organizations such as -Ujima Boston, Resource Generation, CommonGood, and the Greater Boston -Chamber of Cooperatives, to raise awareness of cooperative business -models and local opportunities.

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As a member of the MayFirst.org leadership committee, Micky works with -technical activists to connect people with the information and tools -they need to move from being a global network to being a global -movement based on solidarity, the needs of a workers’ economy, free -software tools that protect our freedoms, and tools for -live-conferencing that are adapted so workforces can communicate in -native languages from afar. Her four topic areas all converge in her -presentations: community building, industry organizing, free software -liberation, and cooperative development.

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Micky is a member of Drupal, a community based on free software, and -she writes about her experience as a contributing author in Ours -to Hack and to Own. The book is known as the handbook for the -Platform Cooperativism Movement, which was started at the New School -in New York City by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider. It is now -among the top tech books of 2017 listed by Wired -magazine. Micky lives in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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Richard Stallman founded the free software movement in 1983 when he announced -he would develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating -system meant to consist entirely of free -software. He has been the GNU Project's leader ever since. In -October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.

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Since the mid-1990s, Richard -Stallman, also -known as RMS, has spent most of his time in political advocacy for -free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as -well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous -extension of copyright laws. Before that, Stallman developed a number -of widely used programs that are components of GNU, including the -original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger -(gdb), GNU Emacs, and various others.

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Hackerspace Rancho Electrónico

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Stefanía Acevedo is a philosopher who is interested in collaborative -work and autonomist movements. She currently fundraises for the -Hackerspace Rancho Electrónico, in Mexico City, as part of its -financial committee. She is also a member of CoAA.TV, at which she -assists with production-related tasks.

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DistrictBuilder: Free software for public mapping to revolutionize redistricting

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Dr. Micah Altman is director of research and head/scientist for the -Program on Information Science for the MIT Libraries, at the -Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, he served as a -nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and at Harvard -University as the associate director of the Harvard-MIT Data -Center, archival director of the Henry A. Murray Archive, and senior -research scientist in the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences. -He conducts work primarily in the fields of social science, -information privacy, information science, research methods, and -statistical computation, and on the dissemination, preservation, -reliability and governance of scientific knowledge.

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The Tor Project: State of the Onion

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Isabela Bagueros is executive director of the Tor Project.

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Free APIs: The next generation

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Shaun Carland is an engineer and free software advocate based in -Brooklyn, New York. He believes in the power of narratives, and is -interested in finding effective ways of framing the importance of the -free software movement, in order to forge alliances with developers -and nondevelopers alike. He believes this can be done by talking about -free software in different contexts, such as national security, -freedom of speech, human rights, and global security. In rare moments -when he's not coding, Shaun enjoys playing the piano, traveling the -world, and listening to Radiohead while it rains.

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OpenStreetMap

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Kate Chapman is technologist, geographer and farmer. She has been involved -in OpenStreetMap in a variety of ways since 2009; initially, she joined to -simply map her own neighborhood. Kate serves as the chairperson of the -OpenStreetMap Foundation. She was a co-founder of the Humanitarian -OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and served as the organization’s first executive -director. Kate serves on the board of the Software Freedom Conservancy, and -has mentored for Outreachy with three different organizations. Currently -Kate works as a senior program manager at the Wikimedia Foundation.

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A survey of GNU Guile software

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Erik Edrosa is a free software user and developer from Miami, Florida. -He is a member of the GNU Guile community, where he maintains various -free software projects.

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Hackerspace Rancho Electrónico

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Martha Esperilla is active in the Hackerspace Rancho Electrónico, -where she gives workshops on laptop maintenance and introductions to -free software. She is part of the hackerspace's financial committee -and helps fundraise for it. She is a member of CoAA.TV, where she -performs documentation- and production-related tasks. She also -collaborates in the Cooperativa Tecnológica Tierra Común, an economic -project for the implementation of free software and digital security -in human rights organizations.

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Sparking change: What FLOSS can learn from successful social movements

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Mary Kate Fain (M. K.) is a software engineer with a background in -grassroots activism, focusing on animal liberation, feminism, and -software freedom. In 2016, she cofounded Candlewaster Web Collective, -a free software development agency based out of Philly. She currently -serves on the board of Species Revolution, and is an experienced -speaker on a diverse range of topics related to creating effective -social justice movements. She is a writer and editor for Women's Way, -and is currently writing a book on radical feminism. M. K. is a loving -mother to a cat, a chicken, two rats, and about seventy-six houseplants.

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Copying files between computers

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Fischers Fritz has been copying files between computers with free -software for fifteen years.

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Nathan Freitas

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The Tor Project: State of the Onion

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Nathan Freitas is founder and director of the Guardian Project, and a core Tor contributor.

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Computational symbiosis: Methods that meld mind and machine

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Mike Gerwitz is a free software hacker and activist with a focus on -user privacy and security. He holds various volunteer roles within -GNU, including software evaluation and administrative duties. He has -twenty years of programming experience and his professional duties -range from Web development to compiler construction. He does nearly -all of his computing within the comfort of a terminal using -exclusively free software. Mike spends most of his free time with his -wife and two sons; he spends his remaining free time primarily on -hacking, research, volunteer work, and activism.

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Right to Repair and the DMCA

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Ms. Gordon-Byrne has been the executive director and cofounder of the -Repair Association since 2013, following a long career in enterprise -computing as a software engineer, trader and lessor of new and used -computing equipment as an OEM, business partner, and as an independent -expert in commercial contracts. She is the author of Buying, -Supporting, and Maintaining Software and Equipment, an IT Manager's -Guide to Controlling the Product Lifecycle.

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Governing the software commons

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Shauna Gordon-McKeon is an independent writer, researcher and -developer who specializes in technologies built by and for -communities. She runs Galaxy Rise Consulting, a small business that -provides software development, project management, and research -services.

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Library Freedom Institute: A new hope

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Bryan Neil Jones is a librarian at Nashville Public Library. He is the -recipient of the 2018 Tennessee Library Association Intellectual -Freedom Award for his privacy and technology outreach.

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What do courts think the GPL means (so far)?

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Marc Jones works primarily as in-house legal counsel for CivicActions, -which provides professional services related to free software to -nonprofit and government clients. He also works on the CivicActions -infrastructure team, as a security and compliance officer, and -provides consulting and training services to government procurement -and legal teams. Prior to this, he worked for the State of -Connecticut for seventeen years, eventually as the associate director of an -IT department, and for five years at a boutique law firm that -specializes in free software licensing. He provides pro bono -legal counsel to several prominent free software nonprofits.

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Why I forked my own project and my own company

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Frank Karlitschek started the ownCloud project in 2010, to return -control over the storing and sharing of information to consumers. In -2016, he initiated the Nextcloud project to bring this idea to the -next level. He has been involved with a variety of free software -projects, including having been a board member for the KDE -community. He has spoken at MIT, CERN, and at the ETH, and keynoted at -LinuxCon, Latinoware, Akademy, FOSSASIA, openSUSE Conference, and many -other conferences. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud GmbH, and -is a fellow of Open Forum Europe.

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Modern Emacs IDE

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Chase Kelley has a background in aerospace engineering and currently -works on flight-simulation software. He has primarily used Emacs for -all his programming needs, and hopes to share how useful and fun it is -to program using Emacs. In his free time, he consumes large amounts of -science fiction, anime, and manga.

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GPL enforcement and customer benefits: Evidence from OpenWRT

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Do Yoon Kim is a doctoral candidate in the strategy unit at the -Harvard Business School.

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Redis Labs and the tragedy of the Commons Clause

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Chris Lamb is the current Debian Project leader, and a member of the -board of directors for the Open Source Initiative. He is a freelance -computer programmer, and the author of and/or contributor to countless free -software projects. Chris is also on the core team of the Reproducible -Builds project. In his spare time, he is a passionate classical -musician with a focus on baroque music.

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The Tor Project: State of the Onion and Library Freedom Institute: A new hope

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Alison Macrina is the founder and director of the Library Freedom -Project. She is also a librarian, Internet activist, and a core -contributor to the Tor Project. Alison is passionate about connecting -surveillance to other issues of injustice, and works to demystify -privacy and security topics for ordinary users.

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Nick is a cofounder of the Tor Project, and currently leads the team -that maintains Tor.

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Free software for safe and happy chickens

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Adam Monsen is a Seattle native and a free software fanatic. He -cofounded SeaGL (Seattle GNU/Linux Conference). At work, Adam is -senior director of engineering for C-SATS R&D, helping surgeons -provide the best possible care to their patients.

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The joy of bug reporting

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Lori Nagel has worked on and off on the Multiplayer Online -Role-Playing Game free software project Wograld. She has also written a free culture Web cartoon and a -free culture novel.

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Teaching privacy and security via free software

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Sean is a lecturer in law at Yale Law School with expertise in -cybersecurity, privacy, and mobile device forensics. He is director of -business development at Purism SPC, a company dedicated to digital -privacy and security, and a mentor for the Mozilla Open Leaders -program. Sean founded Yale Privacy Lab in 2017, and is an active -member of MakeHaven, a local nonprofit makerspace, where he implements -FreedomBox GNU/Linux servers.

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Free software evangelist. GNU speaker. Recipient of the FSF's 2016 -Award for the Advancement of Free Software. FSF Latin America board -member. LibrePlanet São Paulo activist. 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 and -AdaCore.

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Trauma directors' toolbox: Free software for the visualization, analysis and improvement of trauma care

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Eric Olle has been using R as a mathematical modeling/statistical -software since 2003, and has used it in a range of different projects -(involving antibody arrays, dendritic cell therapy or for early stage -clinical trial, data analysis, etc.). He has worked in the biotech -and pharmaceutical industries and in academia.

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Technical drivers of "cloud" centralization and megacorporate domination

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Andy Oram is a writer and editor at O'Reilly Media. As editor, he -brought to publication O'Reilly's Linux series, the ground-breaking -book Peer-to-Peer, and the best-seller Beautiful Code. -In print, his articles have appeared in The Economist, -Communications of the ACM, Copyright World, the -Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vanguardia -Dossier, and Internet Law and Business. He's presented -talks at conferences including O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, -FISL, FOSDEM, DebConf, and LibrePlanet. He participates in the -Association for Computing Machinery's policy organization, USTPC. He -also writes for various Web sites about health IT and about issues in -computing and policy.

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Large-scale collaboration with free software

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Edward L. Platt creates technology for communities and communities for -technology. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of -Michigan School of Information, and the maintainer of the Seltzer CRM -hackerspace management tool. Previously, he worked as a staff -researcher at the MIT Center for Civic Media, and in Metro Detroit as -a Web developer and civic technologist. He cofounded and served on the -board for the i3Detroit hackerspace, and has worked at places including -Apple, CERN, and Zimride (now Lyft).

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Nathan Proctor is the national campaign director for US PIRG's Right -to Repair campaign, where he coordinates Right to Repair campaign -efforts across the country with the Public Interest Network's -affiliates. His fourteen-year advocacy career has included leading -campaigns to close corporate tax loopholes and expand access to early -education. He lives in Arlington, Massachusetts.

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Ryan is a hacker, technical educator, writer, and free software -activist. He joined Conjur, which was acquired by CyberArk in 2017, to -create developer tools that enhance security. Since then, he has -continued to deliver new technologies and media for Conjur users and -developers. Previously, Ryan had research internships with Ecere -Corporation and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where he -pursued better ways to help people understand and interact with -computer-mediated systems like code and digital music.

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Daniel Ramsayer is an accessibility and access advocate and programmer -specializing in front-end environments. He is working on providing -greater resources and giving more talks about the intersections -between the fields of accessibility, education, and programming. He -hails from Portlandia, Oregon.

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Sharing global opportunities for new developers in the Wikipedia community

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Srishti Sethi is a Wikimedia Foundation developer advocate, supporting -the organization's efforts to engage volunteer developers in Wikimedia -software projects and to grow the technical community. She designs and -implements programs for onboarding volunteers in Wikimedia technical -spaces, produces and organizes technical documentation to instruct -them on how to contribute to Wikimedia projects, defines and -implements developer outreach strategies to help make the Wikimedia -community more inclusive, and coordinates Wikimedia's participation in -mentoring programs like Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Prior to -this, Srishti was a student researcher at the MIT Media Lab, -contributing to the development of online learning platforms.

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Building network equipment and a business with free software and liberated hardware

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Nishant Sharma is a mechanical engineer by education, and has been -making a living from free software since 2003. He has made some -contribution to Debian Installer L10n, OpenStreetMap, and OpenWrt -projects. In 2010, he started the free software company Unmukti -Technology (pronounced Oon-mOokti and meaning "deliverance" in -Sanskrit). Unmukti Technology builds network equipment using free -software with liberated hardware, and provides services over them to -small- and medium-sized businesses in India. It is currently in the -process of building routers, access points, NAS, and home gateways for -home users.

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The secret battle of encryption algorithms

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Amanda Sopkin is a full-stack software engineer for the rentals team -at Zillow, working to make the process of renting better for renters -and property managers. In addition to working as a software engineer, -she attends hackathons as a coach for Major League Hacking, to help -students have a great experience at the events they attend. She has -spoken about mathematics and software engineering at PyCon, DevSum -Sweden, HackCon, SeaGL, and various hackathons around the -country. Amanda holds a degree in mathematics and computer science -from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Meta-rules for codes of conduct: Communicating about the commons

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Free software in the 3D-printing community

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Chris Thierauf is a student of computer science at the Wentworth -Institute of Technology. As a passionate tinkerer, he spends a lot of -time writing code, playing with 3D printers, and using free -software/hardware in his research.

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The future of computing and why you should care

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Todd Weaver, digital rights activist and founder of Purism, SPC, is -deeply devoted to solving the issues of convenience in products rooted -in the values of free software.

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Large-scale collaboration with free software

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The Tor Project: State of the Onion

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Steph is communications director of the Tor Project.

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