From: Zoe Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 22:01:07 +0000 (-0400) Subject: lightning talks update X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ed6bbe0d0387612d1ae45e829fbb080994e385a6;p=libreplanet-static.git lightning talks update --- diff --git a/2020/includes/generated-bios.html b/2020/includes/generated-bios.html index ade880e2..09cda6bd 100644 --- a/2020/includes/generated-bios.html +++ b/2020/includes/generated-bios.html @@ -22,8 +22,8 @@

Shannon Dosemagen

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Shannon is an environmental health advocate and a community science champion, and is enthusiastic about the potential for free systems and technology to support the creation of a more just and equitable future.
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Shannon is an environmental health advocate and a community science champion, and is enthusiastic about the potential for free systems and technology to support the creation of a more just and equitable future.
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Shannon has spent the last twenty years working with environmental and public health groups to address declining freshwater resources, coastal land loss, and building monitoring programs with communities living adjacent to industrial facilities. During 2020, she will be a Fellow with the Shuttleworth Foundation, working on new concept called the Open Environmental Data Project. Shannon is co-founder and current executive director of Public Lab, an organizer of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware, and previous chair of both the US EPA National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology, and the Citizen Science Association. She is an Ashoka Fellow, and a senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. She is a previous Fellow at both the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and Loyola University Environmental Communications Institute. Follow her on Twitter @sdosemagen for the latest.
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: Keynote
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The future of the free software movement depends upon the work of its youngest members, the developers and community members responsible for carrying on the legacy of its founding ideas. As all of us in the world of free software have something to learn from this generation of newcomers, the FSF will be presenting an interview panel with three rising members of the community: Alyssa Rosenzweig, Panfrost developer and former FSF intern; Taowa, the youngest (non-uploading) Debian Developer in the project's history; and Erin Moon, developer of the Rustodon implementation of ActivityPub.
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The future of the free software movement depends upon the work of its youngest members, the developers and community members responsible for carrying on the legacy of its founding ideas. As all of us in the world of free software have something to learn from this generation of newcomers, the FSF will be presenting an interview panel with three rising members of the community: Alyssa Rosenzweig, Panfrost developer and former FSF intern; Taowa, the youngest (non-uploading) Debian Developer in the project's history; and Erin Moon, developer of the Rustodon implementation of ActivityPub.
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The panel will focus on topics that are crucial to the movement's continuing success and "freeing the future," including keeping our focus on the principles of freedom, making a place for the youngest or historically excluded members of the community, and responding to the rise of surveillance capitalism. The panel will be moderated by Greg Farough, campaigns manager of the FSF.

Alyssa Rosenzweig, Taowa, and Erin Moon

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Alyssa Rosenzweig is a free software hacker working at Collabora. Passionate about freedom at the lowest levels, she leads the Panfrost project to build a free graphics stack for Mali GPUs. She is studying Applied Mathematics at the University of Toronto as a Lester B. Pearson International Scholar. Outside school and software, she likes to make pony puns on XMPP, trot around Toronto, and horse around in the kitchen.
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-Taowa is a (non-uploading) Debian Developer, sysadmin, and free software enthusiast. His interests are in privacy and security tools (and making these accessible to everyone), as well as amateur radio, networking and electronics. Did we mention he's not old enough to vote yet?
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Alyssa Rosenzweig is a free software hacker working at Collabora. Passionate about freedom at the lowest levels, she leads the Panfrost project to build a free graphics stack for Mali GPUs. She is studying Applied Mathematics at the University of Toronto as a Lester B. Pearson International Scholar. Outside school and software, she likes to make pony puns on XMPP, trot around Toronto, and horse around in the kitchen.
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+Taowa is a (non-uploading) Debian Developer, sysadmin, and free software enthusiast. His interests are in privacy and security tools (and making these accessible to everyone), as well as amateur radio, networking and electronics. Did we mention he's not old enough to vote yet?
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Erin Moon is an engineer, student, musician, and very tired. She's used, contributed to, and developed free software since she was a small kid. Over the last three years, her open source work has focused on federated social media software, as a user, contributor, and maintainer. Her other personal work includes digital signal processing research for musical purposes, ROM hacking, operating system development, and electrical hardware engineering.

Speakers

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Following our studies on the Turing Award and SoundCloud ("Behind the curtains of diversity at a technology company"), we now turn to diversity and free software projects. In this study, we applied the same methods of inquiry that are commonplace in most sciences: statistics and critical analysis.
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-A variety of free software projects -- both big and small -- will be reviewed from the point of view of their ability to include a diverse set of contributors. A statistical analysis will be provided, the datasets will be made public, and recommendations will be attempted.
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Following our studies on the Turing Award and SoundCloud ("Behind the curtains of diversity at a technology company"), we now turn to diversity and free software projects. In this study, we applied the same methods of inquiry that are commonplace in most sciences: statistics and critical analysis.
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+A variety of free software projects -- both big and small -- will be reviewed from the point of view of their ability to include a diverse set of contributors. A statistical analysis will be provided, the datasets will be made public, and recommendations will be attempted.
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: Social context
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In Turkey, along the Anatolia, more than 25 languages are spoken. Our organization, Özgür Yazılım Derneği (Free Software Association of Turkey), wanted to translate our Web site and works to Anatolian languages including Kurdish, Zazaki, Lazuri, and Homshetsi. Through conversations with culture institutes and associations, we learned that Anatolian minorities, who are also enduring repressive assimilation policies, are not able to use their devices with their own languages.
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In Turkey, along the Anatolia, more than 25 languages are spoken. Our organization, Özgür Yazılım Derneği (Free Software Association of Turkey), wanted to translate our Web site and works to Anatolian languages including Kurdish, Zazaki, Lazuri, and Homshetsi. Through conversations with culture institutes and associations, we learned that Anatolian minorities, who are also enduring repressive assimilation policies, are not able to use their devices with their own languages.
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Free software and freedom philosophy gives a ray of hope to Anatolian minorities. We are “freeing the future” by translating and documenting GNU/Linux, GNOME, Firefox, LibrePlanet, and perhaps Android/Replicant to their languages, as well as Wiktionary and Wikisource, to help them keep their languages alive.

Özcan Oğuz and Alper Atmaca

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Özcan Oğuz
-Özcan Oğuz is the president of the Free Software Association (Özgür Yazılım Derneği) in Turkey. Ze started to use computers when ze was 2, in 1999. In 2007, with the Pardus project, ze first encountered free software philosophy and starting from then ze uses exclusively free software in zis devices. Ze graduated from Kadıköy Anadolu High School and Boğaziçi University. From 2016 to 2018, ze was working as publisher and journalist at Çırak mag and Abaküs Kitap. In 2017, ze founded Hackerspace Istanbul in Kadıköy, İstanbul. For three years, ze has been an instructor at Mustafa Akgül Free Software Camps, teaching GNU/Linux system administration.
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-Alper Atmaca
-Born into 56K era and run his clock with potatoes when he was a child.
-Failed to keep time accurately with potatoes and upgraded to solar
-power. Failed again, kept learning and became a part of hacker
-community. Graduated from Law faculty, become a lawyer and applies his
-technological knowledge to law. Strict online privacy advocate, free
-software user/advocate, Hackerspace Istanbul (hs.ist) member and very
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Özcan Oğuz
+Özcan Oğuz is the president of the Free Software Association (Özgür Yazılım Derneği) in Turkey. Ze started to use computers when ze was 2, in 1999. In 2007, with the Pardus project, ze first encountered free software philosophy and starting from then ze uses exclusively free software in zis devices. Ze graduated from Kadıköy Anadolu High School and Boğaziçi University. From 2016 to 2018, ze was working as publisher and journalist at Çırak mag and Abaküs Kitap. In 2017, ze founded Hackerspace Istanbul in Kadıköy, İstanbul. For three years, ze has been an instructor at Mustafa Akgül Free Software Camps, teaching GNU/Linux system administration.
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+Alper Atmaca
+Born into 56K era and run his clock with potatoes when he was a child.
+Failed to keep time accurately with potatoes and upgraded to solar
+power. Failed again, kept learning and became a part of hacker
+community. Graduated from Law faculty, become a lawyer and applies his
+technological knowledge to law. Strict online privacy advocate, free
+software user/advocate, Hackerspace Istanbul (hs.ist) member and very
interested in anything encrypted.
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JJ Asghar

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JJ works on the IBM cloud as a developer advocate. He’s focusing on the IBM Kubernetes service, trying to help companies and users have a successful onboarding to the Cloud Native ecosystem.
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JJ works on the IBM cloud as a developer advocate. He’s focusing on the IBM Kubernetes service, trying to help companies and users have a successful onboarding to the Cloud Native ecosystem.
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He lives and grew up in Austin, Texas. He enjoys a good strong stout, a hoppy IPA, and Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, and Factorio. He’s a member of the Church of Emacs, though he jumps into Vim on remote machines. He usually chooses Ubuntu over CentOS, but secretly wants FreeBSD everywhere. He’s always trying to become a better Ruby developer, but experiments with Go, Python, and only when he has to, Node. A father and husband, if he’s not trying to automate his job away, he’s always trying to convince his daughters to “be button makers, not button pushers.”
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: Community
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In the free software ecosystem most users end up being someone who has a technological background. Meanwhile, many regular software users stick to proprietary solutions.
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In the free software ecosystem most users end up being someone who has a technological background. Meanwhile, many regular software users stick to proprietary solutions.
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This talk covers the love story between free software and usability and how easily we can improve the user experience on our products by running usability tests along different stages of the development cycle. Further, we will learn how to run these tests on our own, while commenting on experiences running usability tests on GNOME. We also discuss how to create ways for the community to start contributing.

Clarissa Borges

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Clarissa Borges is a Software Engineering student at the University of Brasília, where she learned to love free software. She always loved designing software architectures, programming, and automating tasks. But knowing all of this was not enough, because the whole point of creating software for her was to ease people's lives, and she didn't know how to make her software more usable.
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-At this point, Clarissa heard about Outreachy and found a Usability Research project to GNOME. This was the perfect occasion to contribute to a software she has been using for so many years and learn how to improve usability on software products. From December 2018 to March 2019, she worked running usability tests to some important GNOME programs, such as Settings, Notes, Nautilus/ Files, Calendar and Gedit.
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Clarissa Borges is a Software Engineering student at the University of Brasília, where she learned to love free software. She always loved designing software architectures, programming, and automating tasks. But knowing all of this was not enough, because the whole point of creating software for her was to ease people's lives, and she didn't know how to make her software more usable.
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+At this point, Clarissa heard about Outreachy and found a Usability Research project to GNOME. This was the perfect occasion to contribute to a software she has been using for so many years and learn how to improve usability on software products. From December 2018 to March 2019, she worked running usability tests to some important GNOME programs, such as Settings, Notes, Nautilus/ Files, Calendar and Gedit.
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After the internship, she wanted to help GNOME with frequent usability tests contributions. To archieve that, she has been working on her undergraduate thesis to find a solution to facilitate to non-technical people to contribute with usability tests. She has also been contributing to GNOME, encouraging people to become contributors and being active on GNOME's Brazilian community.
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Tony Fortenberry

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Tony Fortenberry was the director of the California Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) project from 2016-2018. With a budget of approximately $500M and more than 300 team members, CWDS was the largest US government digital services initiative attempting to leverage free software components, Agile methodology, and user-centered design to produce a free software product licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License.
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Tony Fortenberry was the director of the California Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) project from 2016-2018. With a budget of approximately $500M and more than 300 team members, CWDS was the largest US government digital services initiative attempting to leverage free software components, Agile methodology, and user-centered design to produce a free software product licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License.
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Prior to serving in the California state government, Tony was CIO at the City of Northglenn and CTO at Communication Service for the Deaf. He is currently the founder and executive director at Open Solutions For Government, a nonprofit organization.
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Free Geek Toronto is a nonprofit organization that seeks out unwanted electronics donations for reuse, primarily using free software. Our model focuses on building digital inclusion by accessible technology while also providing skills building and employment opportunities to community members facing barriers to participation. This also reduces the waste that ends up in landfills, and helps combat the problem of lack of access to personal computing devices, which is necessary to close the digital divide.
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-This presentation focuses on the positives, challenges, and ongoing conversation around using free software to bridge the digital divide, specifically on barriers to entry regarding the level of digital literacy required to complete daily tasks using free software, involving people in the circular economy model of technology reuse, and what possible solutions exist or can be developed.
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Free Geek Toronto is a nonprofit organization that seeks out unwanted electronics donations for reuse, primarily using free software. Our model focuses on building digital inclusion by accessible technology while also providing skills building and employment opportunities to community members facing barriers to participation. This also reduces the waste that ends up in landfills, and helps combat the problem of lack of access to personal computing devices, which is necessary to close the digital divide.
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+This presentation focuses on the positives, challenges, and ongoing conversation around using free software to bridge the digital divide, specifically on barriers to entry regarding the level of digital literacy required to complete daily tasks using free software, involving people in the circular economy model of technology reuse, and what possible solutions exist or can be developed.

Ryan Fukunaga

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Ryan is the executive director of Free Geek Toronto, an employment social enterprise focused on increasing digital inclusion in Toronto through the reuse of electronic equipment. Working here has allowed Ryan to focus on his interests in capacity building, fostering a DIY/hacker/maker
-ethos, environmental stewardship, and building technological resiliency for marginalized communities.
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-For the past five years, he has also been the project lead of Digital Storytelling Toronto, an initiative aimed at increasing digital literacy through storytelling in community and nonprofit organizations. Through this work, he has completed projects with the University of Toronto Scarborough, Brock University, East Scarborough Storefront, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.
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Ryan is the executive director of Free Geek Toronto, an employment social enterprise focused on increasing digital inclusion in Toronto through the reuse of electronic equipment. Working here has allowed Ryan to focus on his interests in capacity building, fostering a DIY/hacker/maker
+ethos, environmental stewardship, and building technological resiliency for marginalized communities.
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+For the past five years, he has also been the project lead of Digital Storytelling Toronto, an initiative aimed at increasing digital literacy through storytelling in community and nonprofit organizations. Through this work, he has completed projects with the University of Toronto Scarborough, Brock University, East Scarborough Storefront, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.
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Ryan holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Windsor, along with years of experience managing small business IT infrastructure.
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Karen Johnson

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Karen Johnson is curious, self-motivated, and addicted to learning. She keeps software systems healthy, and is constantly looking for ways to automate, standardize, and improve the way they work. She is known for tackling hard problems and coming up with creative, repeatable solutions.
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-Karen studied art history at Bard College, but soon fell in love with technology systems (especially GNU/Linux) -- so she followed her heart and became a tech nerd. She’s also a darn good tango dancer, and an enthusiastic reader of science fiction.
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-This talk will be co-presented with Fen Labalme, who loves to create solutions for problems before they arise. His current mission is to empower better government by delivering free software security and compliance solutions that improve upon previous proprietary systems. He’s also working on automating the ATO process, making it easier for agencies to do business securely. He applies over twenty years of IT experience (and a relentless sense of humor) to mentor CivicActions engineers in creating modern, secure systems for clients.
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Karen Johnson is curious, self-motivated, and addicted to learning. She keeps software systems healthy, and is constantly looking for ways to automate, standardize, and improve the way they work. She is known for tackling hard problems and coming up with creative, repeatable solutions.
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+Karen studied art history at Bard College, but soon fell in love with technology systems (especially GNU/Linux) -- so she followed her heart and became a tech nerd. She’s also a darn good tango dancer, and an enthusiastic reader of science fiction.
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+This talk will be co-presented with Fen Labalme, who loves to create solutions for problems before they arise. His current mission is to empower better government by delivering free software security and compliance solutions that improve upon previous proprietary systems. He’s also working on automating the ATO process, making it easier for agencies to do business securely. He applies over twenty years of IT experience (and a relentless sense of humor) to mentor CivicActions engineers in creating modern, secure systems for clients.
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Fen is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) and a long-time advocate of handling information wisely. His computer science and electrical engineering thesis at MIT presaged the privacy concerns facing today’s Internet and social media platforms. His close-knit family enjoys traveling to historic locations, campaigning for a greener Earth, and playing/cheering at hockey games.
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: Licensing
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In the last few years, a lot of companies have claimed that free software licenses are bad for business, or that it's not possible to build a successful startup and company around free software. This talk explains why this is fundamentally wrong, and that it’s absolutely possible to build a working startup and company on top of a free software product. We will discuss how companies like Red Hat, SUSE, and Nextcloud all manage to have 100% free software products, which include big contributor communities, but are still able to pay developers and grow.
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In the last few years, a lot of companies have claimed that free software licenses are bad for business, or that it's not possible to build a successful startup and company around free software. This talk explains why this is fundamentally wrong, and that it’s absolutely possible to build a working startup and company on top of a free software product. We will discuss how companies like Red Hat, SUSE, and Nextcloud all manage to have 100% free software products, which include big contributor communities, but are still able to pay developers and grow.
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: Free software in Government
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Do you want to promote free software in public administrations? Then the campaign framework of "Public Money? Public Code!" might be the right choice for you. In this European Union campaign, more than 170 organizations and more than 26,000 individuals have come together to demand that publicly financed software should be made publicly available under free software licenses. Together, we contacted politicians and civil servants on all levels -- from the European Union and national governments to city mayors and the heads of public libraries -- about this demand. This effort started with important discussions about software freedom with decision makers, and has already resulted in specific policy changes.
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Do you want to promote free software in public administrations? Then the campaign framework of "Public Money? Public Code!" might be the right choice for you. In this European Union campaign, more than 170 organizations and more than 26,000 individuals have come together to demand that publicly financed software should be made publicly available under free software licenses. Together, we contacted politicians and civil servants on all levels -- from the European Union and national governments to city mayors and the heads of public libraries -- about this demand. This effort started with important discussions about software freedom with decision makers, and has already resulted in specific policy changes.
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In this talk, I will explain how the campaign framework can be used to push for the adoption of free software-friendly policies in your area.

Matthias Kirschner

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Matthias Kirschner is the president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). In 1999, he started using GNU/Linux, and realized that software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives, and this convinced him that technology has to empower society, not restrict it. While studying political and administrative science, he joined FSFE in 2004.
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Matthias Kirschner is the president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). In 1999, he started using GNU/Linux, and realized that software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives, and this convinced him that technology has to empower society, not restrict it. While studying political and administrative science, he joined FSFE in 2004.
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He helps other organizations, companies, and governments to understand how they can benefit from free software -- which gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt and share software -- and how those rights help to support freedom of speech, freedom of press, and our right to privacy.
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: Social context
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Serious software freedom activists aren't typically "single issue" folks. Furthermore, now that software is essential to modern work and living, software freedom, which was once a mostly isolated issue, intersects daily with other serious and important causes on a regular basis.
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-We now have seen a strong movement demanding a new wave of licenses, which are undoubtedly nonfree, but have their "heart in the right place" in their desire to stop oppression and mistreatment of others. Once it was a fringe licensing question, but now, how software freedom interacts with other causes is the meta-issue of our day.
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-This talk will be a mostly personal story of how I have personally reconciled my other social justice causes and activist concerns (such as vegetarianism) with my work in free software. I will provide some concrete suggestions on how to balance activism for other causes you care about while keeping software freedom as your primary focus.
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Serious software freedom activists aren't typically "single issue" folks. Furthermore, now that software is essential to modern work and living, software freedom, which was once a mostly isolated issue, intersects daily with other serious and important causes on a regular basis.
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+We now have seen a strong movement demanding a new wave of licenses, which are undoubtedly nonfree, but have their "heart in the right place" in their desire to stop oppression and mistreatment of others. Once it was a fringe licensing question, but now, how software freedom interacts with other causes is the meta-issue of our day.
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+This talk will be a mostly personal story of how I have personally reconciled my other social justice causes and activist concerns (such as vegetarianism) with my work in free software. I will provide some concrete suggestions on how to balance activism for other causes you care about while keeping software freedom as your primary focus.
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: Exploring Free Software concepts
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From ciphers to cybersecurity, encryption is all around us. We rely on digital security while we bank, shop, and communicate. At the core of that security lies encryption. As developers, we use some form of encryption in our work every day. Maybe we are storing or sending data online, implementing authentication protocols, or protecting our customers' payment information.
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From ciphers to cybersecurity, encryption is all around us. We rely on digital security while we bank, shop, and communicate. At the core of that security lies encryption. As developers, we use some form of encryption in our work every day. Maybe we are storing or sending data online, implementing authentication protocols, or protecting our customers' payment information.
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This talk will cover the basics of a topic extensive enough to spend years studying. What is encryption? How does it work? Why is it important? You can expect to come away with a solid understanding of the foundational concepts of encryption. We will also take a little bit of time to peek into the future of encryption, where things are getting exciting!
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: Licensing
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As most free software advocates know, it can be very difficult to explain the central concepts to people who have never heard of these ideas before. If you introduce too many things at once, people tend to tune you out from being overwhelmed, and then they don't really appreciate the benefits of free software.
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As most free software advocates know, it can be very difficult to explain the central concepts to people who have never heard of these ideas before. If you introduce too many things at once, people tend to tune you out from being overwhelmed, and then they don't really appreciate the benefits of free software.
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This presentation will explain effective strategies to teach the next generation what free software is, how it differs from proprietary software, and how licenses like the GPL and BSD 3-Clause have similar goals yet different legal implementations. William has been teaching (and grading) his college students on these concepts, and he will show you how to do the same for your students or your friends. Foundational legal concepts like copyright, patents, and trademarks will be clarified, as well as how to break down the main software license categories: copyleft (strong/weak), permissive, and proprietary.
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Micky Metts

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Micky is a worker/owner of Agaric (agaric.coop) and a member of the “free software for
-community building” movement, using free software tools like VOIP, Drupal, and GNU/Linux. She is a liaison between the US Solidarity Economy Network (SEN), a group devoted to ongoing dialogue on building the new economy network, and the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), the national grassroots organization of US worker-owners who are “building power
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Micky is a worker/owner of Agaric (agaric.coop) and a member of the “free software for
+community building” movement, using free software tools like VOIP, Drupal, and GNU/Linux. She is a liaison between the US Solidarity Economy Network (SEN), a group devoted to ongoing dialogue on building the new economy network, and the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), the national grassroots organization of US worker-owners who are “building power
with national and international partners to advance an agenda for economic justice rooted in community-based shared ownership.” As a board member of the MayFirst Technology Movement cooperative, Micky works with technical activists to connect people with the information and tools they need to move from being a global network to becoming a global movement based on solidarity.
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Lori Nagel

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Lori Nagel has worked on and off on the free software multi-player online role playing game project “Wograld,” which you can learn about at wograld.org. She has also written a free culture Web cartoon (see jastiv.com) and a free culture novel (see jastiv.blogspot.com/2019/03/free-culture-novels-where-to-post-them.html).
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Lori Nagel has worked on and off on the free software multi-player online role playing game project “Wograld,” which you can learn about at wograld.org. She has also written a free culture Web cartoon (see jastiv.com) and a free culture novel (see jastiv.blogspot.com/2019/03/free-culture-novels-where-to-post-them.html).
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: Free Software in practice
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The GNU Health software suite is a libre health and hospital information system with a strong focus on public health. This talk focuses on recent updates to GNU Health Embedded, a version of GNU Health that is being updated as a 100% libre software and hardware platform. It will be tailored for pocket-sized computers, and is currently being developed by PrivacySafe for the Beagleboard.org BeagleBone AI hardware.
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The GNU Health software suite is a libre health and hospital information system with a strong focus on public health. This talk focuses on recent updates to GNU Health Embedded, a version of GNU Health that is being updated as a 100% libre software and hardware platform. It will be tailored for pocket-sized computers, and is currently being developed by PrivacySafe for the Beagleboard.org BeagleBone AI hardware.
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This shift includes an increased focus on privacy and security, allowing GNU Health to be deployed in a myriad of environments with servers that are, optionally, accessible via the Tor network. This talk will dive into the details of the GNU Health Embedded development effort, and explores user scenarios for the platform.
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Lightning talks

-: Sunday 15:25 - 16:10 +: Sunday 15:25 - 16:10 and Sunday 16:20 - 17:05 : Freedom
: LibrePlanet special sessions
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A lightning talk is a five-minute presentation on any topic that you think would be interesting to a group of free software users, hackers, and activists. Each session has time for a total of twelve talks. Since we're seeking a breadth of relevant topics, signing up to give a talk does not guarantee you a slot.
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-We'll pick the twelve talks that we feel are most interesting to our attendees once we've gotten enough submissions. We're especially interested in hearing from new people who haven't ever spoken at an FSF event!
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A lightning talk is a five-minute presentation on any topic that you think would be interesting to a group of free software users, hackers, and activists. Each session has time for a total of twelve talks. Since we're seeking a breadth of relevant topics, submitting a talk does not guarantee you a slot.
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+We'll pick the twelve talks that we feel are most interesting to our attendees once we've gotten enough submissions. We're especially interested in hearing from new people who haven't ever spoken at an FSF event!
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+More instructions:
+https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/Lightning_Talks

Libre Planet

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Moderated by FSF licensing and compliance manager Donald Robertson, III.
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Lightning talks

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A lightning talk is a five-minute presentation on any topic that you think would be interesting to a group of free software users, hackers, and activists. Each session has time for a total of twelve talks. Since we're seeking a breadth of relevant topics, signing up to give a talk does not guarantee you a slot.
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Libre Planet

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Moderated by FSF licensing and compliance manager Donald Robertson, III.
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-Add your name to the list!
-https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/Lightning_Talks
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Talk upload instructions
+You should upload your video to our ftp server:
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+ Host: `photoupload.fsf.org`
+ Username: `anonymous`
+ Port: `22`
+ Folder: `upload-here`
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+There are many ftp programs, the easiest we know if is Filezilla. Here are instructions for that.
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+Install Filezilla. If you are using GNU/Linux, you can install with a command
+like `apt-get install filezilla`. Otherwise, you can download the client from here: <https://filezilla-project.org/>
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+Connecting - Open filezilla
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+In the "host" field near the top of the window, enter "photoupload.fsf.org"
+Click "Quickconnect"
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+* When the window that says that the host key is unknown, select the check box next to "Always trust this host", then click OK.
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+You should now be connected.
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+* Drag and drop video file you want to upload from the left hand file
+tree into the upload-here folder in the right side pane.
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+When you are done uploading email campaigns@fsf.org to let us know what video file to use.
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: Free Software in practice -
Public Invention is a new nonprofit that hopes to create a movement to help humanity by bringing the values that power the free software movement to hardware and math. The basic tactic is to form teams of inventors that work publicly, in the light, with free licenses.
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Public Invention is a new nonprofit that hopes to create a movement to help humanity by bringing the values that power the free software movement to hardware and math. The basic tactic is to form teams of inventors that work publicly, in the light, with free licenses.
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This talk will be accompanied by a demonstration of physical devices that embody the public-invention project-based approach. These projects will be explained as a motivation of our intellectual property policies and specific operating practices. We will briefly touch on the six most advanced projects supported by Public Invention, and briefly mention some of the forty invention ideas that have been donated to Public Invention to develop and build. We will place Public Invention in a historic context, discuss the mission, and explain our vision for the future: a world where inventing “in the public, for the public” is the norm.
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: Exploring Free Software concepts
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While riding from Seattle to Bellingham, from my biking community to my GNU/Linux community, I considered just how freeing each transition had been. Historically, biking has been associated with many things including health, happiness, and feminism. What about free software?
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-During the next 45 minutes, we will explore the free engineering, grassroots innovation, hands-on learning, hidden dangers, bright horizons, and overall rad routes that both free software and bicycles cover mile by mile, together.
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-This ride through history, including the past, present, and future, will leave both free software and cycling enthusiasts with a deeper understanding of what it is that "sparks joy" within members of each group.
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While riding from Seattle to Bellingham, from my biking community to my GNU/Linux community, I considered just how freeing each transition had been. Historically, biking has been associated with many things including health, happiness, and feminism. What about free software?
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+During the next 45 minutes, we will explore the free engineering, grassroots innovation, hands-on learning, hidden dangers, bright horizons, and overall rad routes that both free software and bicycles cover mile by mile, together.
+
+This ride through history, including the past, present, and future, will leave both free software and cycling enthusiasts with a deeper understanding of what it is that "sparks joy" within members of each group.
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Join me in an exploration of excitement, engineering, and freedom as we take this journey on two-wheeled, self-powered transportation and transformation!
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: Free Software in practice
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Typography is a complex topic, and there are there are plenty of ways that a digital font can malfunction. Font Bakery aspires to become the ultimate font checking tool. To reach that goal, the project is structured as a collaborative compilation of font engineering knowledge and best practices.
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Typography is a complex topic, and there are there are plenty of ways that a digital font can malfunction. Font Bakery aspires to become the ultimate font checking tool. To reach that goal, the project is structured as a collaborative compilation of font engineering knowledge and best practices.
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This talk will discuss the challenges in gathering font engineering knowledge, and compiling it in a manner that is both effective for the implementation of automated quality checks, and simple and easy to grasp for type designers. We'll also share insights into git-based workflows for the development of libre fonts.
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: Social context
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The time is ripe to build a strong case for individual self-hosting, backed up by community-hosted public network services with mutual trust among members. In this talk, I will build a strong case for individual self-hosting backed up by community-hosted public network services by drawing parallels to Mahatma Gandhi's "Charkha Movement," in which the traditional spinning wheel became a powerful symbol of self-sufficiency and freedom. We will need a similar approach within our communities in order to truly own our devices and networks, and reclaim our right to privacy.
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The time is ripe to build a strong case for individual self-hosting, backed up by community-hosted public network services with mutual trust among members. In this talk, I will build a strong case for individual self-hosting backed up by community-hosted public network services by drawing parallels to Mahatma Gandhi's "Charkha Movement," in which the traditional spinning wheel became a powerful symbol of self-sufficiency and freedom. We will need a similar approach within our communities in order to truly own our devices and networks, and reclaim our right to privacy.

Nishant Sharma

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Nishant Sharma is a free software and libre hardware entrepreneur. He is a mechanical engineer by education, and has been making a living from free software since 2003.
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-He is co-founder and tech lead at Unmukti Technology, in India, where he works on building network equipment including SD-WAN gateways, VPN appliances, firewalls, access points, home edge computing gateways, etc. These devices are branded as Hopbox. He also worked for DeepRoot GNU/Linux, an Indian VSAT, and a Pan-European ISP, before founding Unmukti in 2010.
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-Nishant was lead translator for Debian Installer l10n to Hindi during 2006-07, and a OpenStreetMap volunteer mapper. He actively contributes to the OpenWrt project and its packages.
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Nishant Sharma is a free software and libre hardware entrepreneur. He is a mechanical engineer by education, and has been making a living from free software since 2003.
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+He is co-founder and tech lead at Unmukti Technology, in India, where he works on building network equipment including SD-WAN gateways, VPN appliances, firewalls, access points, home edge computing gateways, etc. These devices are branded as Hopbox. He also worked for DeepRoot GNU/Linux, an Indian VSAT, and a Pan-European ISP, before founding Unmukti in 2010.
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+Nishant was lead translator for Debian Installer l10n to Hindi during 2006-07, and a OpenStreetMap volunteer mapper. He actively contributes to the OpenWrt project and its packages.
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These days, he tries to build awareness for building network equipment and self-hosting among students and enterprise decision makers.
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Michael Stenta

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Michael Stenta is the founder and lead developer of farmOS, a free software farm planning and record-keeping system.
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-This session will feature two additional panelists:
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-* Jamie Gaehring has worked on farms and at farmers' markets for most of the last two decades, and today, builds frontend software for farmers with farmOS.
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-* Don Blair builds free software-compatible hardware systems for agriculture in collaboration with farmers and researchers.
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Michael Stenta is the founder and lead developer of farmOS, a free software farm planning and record-keeping system.
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+This session will feature two additional panelists:
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+* Jamie Gaehring has worked on farms and at farmers' markets for most of the last two decades, and today, builds frontend software for farmers with farmOS.
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+* Don Blair builds free software-compatible hardware systems for agriculture in collaboration with farmers and researchers.
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All three presenters are members of the Gathering for Open Ag Tech (GOAT / goatech.org).
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: Community
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Free software comprises a commons shared and coordinated voluntarily by users, developers, and others. If we think of free software participants as a self-governing community, they need paths toward setting their own expectations and standards, evaluating facts, and developing trust between them. Those are three interrelated but different kinds of processes. When one of these processes is disrupted, we rely on the others. When all three are disrupted, crises can spiral. Each may need to change, be reconfirmed, or left as an open question.
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Free software comprises a commons shared and coordinated voluntarily by users, developers, and others. If we think of free software participants as a self-governing community, they need paths toward setting their own expectations and standards, evaluating facts, and developing trust between them. Those are three interrelated but different kinds of processes. When one of these processes is disrupted, we rely on the others. When all three are disrupted, crises can spiral. Each may need to change, be reconfirmed, or left as an open question.
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In this talk, we'll explore practical approaches for community leaders, moderators, and contributors, as well as concepts of deliberative democracy from Habermas' theory of communicative action.
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Devin Ulibarri

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Devin is co-creator of Music Blocks, a visual programming language for music created with Walter Bender as a SugarLabs project. He is co-founder and president of MAP Family Learning Center, which seeks to improve child development by offering high-quality classes in music, art, and programming. Devin is former chair of guitar for prep and continuing ed at New England Conservatory. Devin serves as co-admin and faculty for Boston GuitarFest, a prestigious festival directed by renowned guitarist Eliot Fisk.
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Devin is co-creator of Music Blocks, a visual programming language for music created with Walter Bender as a SugarLabs project. He is co-founder and president of MAP Family Learning Center, which seeks to improve child development by offering high-quality classes in music, art, and programming. Devin is former chair of guitar for prep and continuing ed at New England Conservatory. Devin serves as co-admin and faculty for Boston GuitarFest, a prestigious festival directed by renowned guitarist Eliot Fisk.
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SugarLabs founder Walter Bender will be co-hosting this presentation.
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: Licensing -
Creative Commons is proud to empower free media. We recognize the invaluable role free software plays in the creation, collaboration, and dissemination of free media. In this session, Timid Robot shares Creative Commons’ efforts to create and contribute to free software and the communities that sustain it.
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Creative Commons is proud to empower free media. We recognize the invaluable role free software plays in the creation, collaboration, and dissemination of free media. In this session, Timid Robot shares Creative Commons’ efforts to create and contribute to free software and the communities that sustain it.
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In this talk, they will introduce Creative Commons and the general concept of the commons (globally-accessible public commons of knowledge and culture); explore the relationship between free media (the commons) and free software; and promote free software governed by Creative Commons.