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09:45 - 10:00 - Welcome

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10:00 - 10:45

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Keynote: Gabriella Coleman

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10:45 - 10:55 - Break

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10:55-11:40

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The battle to free the code at the Department of Defense

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A battle is underway at the US Department of Defense (DoD) to improve the way DoD develops, secures, and deploys software. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is not common reading for most people, but buried within the DoD’s 2,000-page budget authorization is a provision to free source code. The lively history behind this provision is simultaneously frustrating and encouraging, with private industry giants, Congress, and other federal agencies jockeying around the effort to free the code at DoD. Come listen to this important, but perhaps lesser known, chapter of the free software narrative, and learn how a small group of impassioned digital service experts are defying all odds to continue the fight for free software adoption.

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Freedom. Embedded. Vehicles?

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Modern vehicles are nodes on a network with a high degree of autonomy. As they've become more connected, they've incorporated more free software. But the fundamentally proprietary nature of car and truck manufacturers has led to regulatory and compliance issues that have unclear outcomes. The outcomes are increasingly pertinent to software freedom, especially as the use of free software shifts domains from consumer-focused to safety-critical.

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This session will discuss problems around modern vehicles, including:

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Diversity in free software: No longer at square one

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Free software overall remains remarkably undiverse, with the latest GitHub survey finding that only about 3% of contributors are women, but communities that are making an effort to improve diversity are seeing results. Learn about several major efforts over the last seven years that have had an impact: Outreachy, the Ada Initiative, Python community outreach, the Women in Open Source Award sponsored by Red Hat, and a track at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Hear about emerging trends, such as efforts being made to reach people from a broader set of underrepresented backgrounds, and the establishment of paid positions and consulting opportunities for people working to improve diversity and inclusion in free software. You will leave with a good grasp of the history of diversity efforts in free software, and inspiration to connect with at least one of them!

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Introduction to LaTeX

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This is a short introduction to LaTeX, a free software project/ecosystem for document preparation. The presentation is intended for a general audience who have no prior knowledge of LaTeX, but are interested in creating beautiful electronic documents (manual, slides, letters, etc.). We will answer the following questions: When can LaTeX be a good choice? How do you get started with LaTeX? How do you migrate existing non-LaTeX documents (Markdown, OpenDocument, etc.) to LaTeX?

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11:40-11:50 - Break

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11:50-12:35

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FLOSS desktops for kids (workshop)

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+Madeline Hagen, + Dr. Michele McColgan, + Kristopher Navratil, + Patrick Masson +
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Schools discard thousands of computers each year, as hardware moves off of service warranties or is no longer capable of running the latest proprietary software. At the same time, many schools are looking to increase STEM curricula. The availability of surplus equipment and FLOSS software provides a unique opportunity for schools to enhance their technology-based educational programs. Using discarded computers, kids can repair hardware, build a local-area network, install GNU/Linux, install LibreOffice, install GIMP, and even code a bit. The project teaches kids by doing.

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Once their projects are completed, kids can take their computers home, for keeps. For under-served students, where homework is done online and projects are completed via the computer, these rebuilt machines ensure access to education, and provide a source of pride.

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Evolving government policies on the procurement and production of free software

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This presentation will review some of the policies that governments have adopted over the years regarding the production of free software. Historically, the free software community has focused on news items about larger users of free software, including a program in Munich. We now live in a world where everyone uses free software at least some of the time, and a large number of companies, even Microsoft, have even created policies on how they are participating. We are just starting to see governments considering their role in free software beyond consumers. In this talk, we will review some of the existing policies by both national and state governments that are embracing free licensing, and we will look at some recent proposed/enacted policies and laws. We will also briefly discuss the role that copyleft and permissive licenses can play in those policies, and what governments should consider when choosing a license.

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The ethics void

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Medicine, legal, finance, journalism, scientific research -- each of these fields and many others have widely adopted codes of ethics governing the lives of their professionals. Some of these codes may even be enshrined in law. And this is for good reason: these are fields where ethical stumbles can have enormous consequences.

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Software and technology pervade not only through these fields, but through virtually every aspect of our lives. Yet, when compared to other fields, our community leaders and educators have produced an ethics void. At last year's conference, I introduced numerous topics concerning privacy, security, and freedom that raise serious ethical concerns. Join me this year as we consider some of those examples and others in an attempt to derive a code of ethics that compares to each of these other fields, and to consider how leaders and educators should approach ethics within education and guidance.

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It's real! Free Software has been changing Mexico

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The use of free software in the research and development of technology in the educational field is essential for a better society with more solid values. Mexico has initiated the development and use of free software, thanks to the creation of free software labs in higher education institutions. In this talk, we will discuss the creation of these labs, and the positive impact it has generated.

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12:35-13:35 - Lunch

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13:35-14:20

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FLOSS desktops for kids (workshop) (con't)

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Continued from previous block.

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A usability study of the GPL

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We want software creators to use the GPL and its cousin licenses. We also know that people make mistakes in the process, or don’t even try because they’ve heard it’s "too complicated." Just as we do when we develop software, we would do well to study these failures and use them as opportunities to improve the usability of the GPL. This talk aims to start that process by identifying some known problems and considering some possible solutions. (None of these solutions are a new version of the license!)

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Sustaining free software for the long run: What we've tried, what comes next

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Our movement often talks about freedom as measured at a single point in time: is this code, right now, free? This session will analyze freedom as an ongoing challenge: how do we build code, development communities, and developer economies that empower the freedom of users and developers in the long run? As part of this challenge, we'll look at the culture, economics, and engineering of software freedom through a sustainability lens, and talk about how thoughtful structure can enable user and developer freedom.

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Child Welfare Digital Services

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California Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) is one of the largest and most progressive state government technology projects in the United States. CWDS is developing a suite of digital services Web applications to provide case management, facilities licensing, and related capabilities to social services practitioners who assure the safety, permanency, and well-being of children at risk. CWDS demonstrates the viability of solutions researched, designed, and developed by public employees. Applications developed by CWDS are free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL). This presentation describes why CWDS chose free software, how the project is helping to modernize government processes such as procurement, recruiting, legal services, and the utilization of agile methodology, and how other projects can leverage CWDS software, methodology, and lessons learned.

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14:20-14:30 - Break

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14:30-15:15

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Browsing the free software commons

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The ambition of the Software Heritage project is to collect, preserve, +and share the entire body of free software that is published on the +Internet in source code form, together with its development history.

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Since its public announcement in 2016, the project has assembled the +largest collection of freely available software source code for about 4 +billion unique source code files and 900 million commits, coming from +more than 60 million projects.

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Initially focused on the collection and preservation goals -- which were at +the time urgent, due to the recurrent disappearances of development +forges -- Software Heritage has since rolled out several mechanisms to +peruse its archive, making progress on the sharing goal.

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In this talk, we will review the status of the Software Heritage project, +emphasizing how users and developers can, today, benefit from the +availability of a great public library of source code.

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Free Software as a catalyst for liberation, social justice, and social medicine

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In this non-technical session, I will talk about the philosophical aspects of GNU Health as a social project. I will discuss implementations in places around the world, including Argentina, Cameroon, and Laos, and the different actors involved, including governments, academia, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

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Finally, we will talk about the community, ethics, risks, challenges, and ways to keep these projects healthy and sustainable in the long term.

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You think you're not a target? A tale of three developers...

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If you develop or distribute software of any kind, you are vulnerable to whole categories of attacks upon yourself or your loved ones. This includes blackmail, extortion or "just" simple malware injection! By targeting software developers such as yourself, malicious actors, including nefarious governments, can infect and attack thousands -- if not millions -- of end users.

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How can we prevent these disasters? The idea behind reproducible builds is to allow verification that no flaws have been introduced during build processes; this prevents against the installation of backdoor-introducing malware on developers' machines, ensuring attempts at extortion and other forms of subterfuge are quickly uncovered and thus ultimately futile.

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Through a story of three different developers, this talk will engage you on this growing threat to you, and how it affects everyone involved in the production lifecycle of software development, as well as how reproducible builds can help prevent against it.

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LibreOffice certification for FSF members

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The FSF and The Document Foundation have worked together to offer LibreOffice Certification to FSF Members, for developers, migrators and trainers. This session will provide all of the relevant information about LibreOffice Certification, in order to make it easier for FSF Members to apply and prepare for the certification review.

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15:15-15:25 - Break

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15:25-16:10

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F-Droid & Exodus

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Free software in academia

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This panel will offer a well-rounded discussion on various ways to incorporate free software into university curricula and scholarly projects, as well as ways to promote further engagement between scholars and the free software community. The panel will explore how free software fits into both computer science programs, such as the Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture Minors at RIT, and into digital humanities projects. What are the barriers to free software in academia? How does terminology cloud the issue? How do we promote the ethics of "free as in freedom" when the draw to many academics is "free as in beer"? How do free software and free culture interact in digital humanities and humanitarian projects?

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Music blocks (workshop)

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Music Blocks is a visual programming language for exploring musical +concepts. It was developed by Walter Bender (SugarLabs) and Devin +Ulibarri (New England Conservatory), along with contributions from +countless youth from all over the world.

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Bring a laptop to this hands-on workshop, and engage yourself in coding +while having fun with music. Walter and Devin will be on site to guide +you through what Music Blocks has to offer, and to help you with any +questions you may have.

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This workshop will be kid-friendly, for years 7 and up. It is recommended +that you bring your laptop with Chromium and/or Firefox pre-installed, as +well as your own earbuds or headphones. Some laptops and peripherals may +be provided, but there is no guarantee. Adults are allowed too, but the +coordinators will prioritize kids in attendance.

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16:10-16:20 - Break

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State of the copyleft union

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The license-importance divide seems almost generational: the older generation cares about licenses, and the younger generation does not. Yet, the historical focus on licensing in FLOSS, while occasionally prone to pedantry to a degree only developers can love, stemmed from serious governance considerations regarding how community members interact.

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Copyleft was invented to solve the many problems of project governance, assuring the rights of users and creating equal footing for all contributors. The licensing infrastructure today also has increased in complexity, with proprietary relicensing business models, excessive use of CLAs, and tricky clauses on top of existing licenses.

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Given this climate, how do we understand if copyleft is succeeding? This talk explores historical motivations and modern reactions to these licensing matters, and digs into understanding how policies have impacted Free Software communities for both good and ill.

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Practical, verifiable software freedom with GuixSD

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GuixSD is a GNU/Linux distribution built from the ground up to empower users to exercise the four freedoms they've been granted by free software. In this talk, you will learn how GuixSD makes it easy to inspect source code, share source code and binaries and even entire system configurations, verify that binaries were built from the source they claim, customize software packages, and experiment without fear of breaking your system.

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Music blocks (workshop) (con't)

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A wee server for the home

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On the surface, this presentation is about setting up a small, inexpensive, low-power server for the home. However, it uses that objective as an excuse to delve deeper into some technical issues, as well as to reflect upon the effect of free software on the relationship between computers and humans. It will answer the obvious questions about such a server: the whats, whys, hows, etc. It will share experiences with hardware and software for services such as shared file systems, backups, printing, Jabber/XMPP, music, and more. But it will also sneak in some deeper technical excursions enabled by free software, such as the preferred way, and reasons, to write random data prior to setting up encrypted storage. It will also include some personal observations on the experiential differences between using free and non-free software, especially those relating to enjoyment and to learning and teaching, formal and informal.

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17:05-17:15 - Break

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17:15-18:15

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Keynote: Richard Stallman and Free Software Awards

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Sunday, March 25th

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10:00 - 10:45

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Keynote: Seth Schoen

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10:45 - 10:55 - Break

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Standardizing network freedom

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ActivityPub is a federated social network protocol used to connect +together decentralized Web sites running software such as Mastodon, +Kroeg, and soon, MediaGoblin. How does ActivityPub work? What is the +future of the standard and related work? What are Decentralized +Identifiers, Capabilities, the "Web Of Trust," and why should you +care? What are the lessons learned about standardization processes +themselves, what roles and responsibilities should standards +organizations play, and how can we make sure they have the right +incentive structures?

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Who cares if code is free? UX and free software

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Free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) has become synonymous with a shockingly poor user experience (UX). If we really want software freedom to become ubiquitous and accessible to all, we're going to have to up our UX game. You'll learn why FLOSS UX is important, how the UX design process works, pitfalls to avoid that are specific to UX in a FLOSS context, and tips for how to work effectively with designers and how to recruit them to FLOSS projects. Let's fix this!

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How to stream with Free Software

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OBS Studio is a FLOSS application that puts you in the director's chair for live streaming or recording. It is built as an application to help video game or creative streamers share their computer screens with a live audience, but its power goes well beyond that. Anyone who is using their computer to tell a story can benefit from the professional touch that OBS can provide. It can manage multiple capture devices, independently combine captured window areas, and overlay text and graphics. In this presentation, I'll show you what this software can do, and what you can do with it. A simple example: presenters often like to include their social media handle on their slides. When the presenter goes to the terminal, this isn't displayed. If the presenter uses OBS studio to control the projector display, OBS studio can trivially be configured to overlay anything.

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GNOME to 2020 and beyond

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One of the amazing things about the GNOME project is how it brings +people together, both by bringing new developers into free software +for the first time, and by fostering cooperation and interoperability +between different free software components. The "year of the free +software desktop" may not be in the next twelve months, but for those +that use GNOME, we can work together to ensure that software freedoms +are accessible by all. This talk will have a look at some of the +challenges that GNOME and free software desktops face at the moment, a +brief look into a possible future if we aren't vigilant, and how we +can meet those challenges head-on and thrive.

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Device and personal privacy technology roundup

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Educational technology as a site for teaching software freedom

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Commit Change

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State of the Onion

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The Tor Project has been hard at work this year building free software +to fight surveillance and censorship across the globe. Join a handful of +Tor contributors at this panel, and learn all about the state of the +onion. We'll talk about how we're adding new security features like +browser sandboxing, improving support for mobile devices, deploying the +next generation of onion services, making Tor more usable, lowering our +network overhead, making our software more maintainable, and growing our +community with new outreach initiatives. We'll also share some of what +you can expect from Tor in the coming year, and we're eager to hear +questions from our community, too.

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Photogrammetry with free software (workshop)

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In this session, we will reconstruct a real 3D object using a camera and free software!

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Photogrammetry is the reconstruction of 3D information about objects from a photograph or multiple photographs -- like 3D scanning but with cameras. While closed source tools to do this are quite well marketed and hyped, it might come as a surprise that we can accomplish similar results with free software. The workshop will go over some of these tools, and their use and installation, and participants should be able to go home and do the same with their own computers and cameras. Some familiarity with command line tools, software installation, and 3D graphics might help, but the workshop should be understandable to people with any level of technical ability.

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Connecting communities with schools and free tools (workshop)

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Problem: schools and communities rarely work on deeply interrelated projects that will benefit both the school and the people of the community.

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Solution: mentoring students to engage members of their community to cooperatively develop platforms and applications using free software, such as the Drupal content management system. Inclusion of community members in early development will introduce people to the myriad of careers, disciplines, and skills necessary to build in self-sustainability, cooperatively.

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Pathways for discovery of free software

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Software dependencies. Software citation. Scientific reproducibility. Preservation of legacy software. These phrases bring to mind times we need to communicate about free software. From people who write software to people who organize and provide documentation of software, to end users searching for software, we all need to unambiguously refer to software in its complexity.

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We are representing two different initiatives actively building the semantic web of free software by sourcing software metadata, and creating mappings and links to software artifacts. Morane is the metadata lead for Software Heritage, an initiative striving to become the Alexandria Library of software by collecting all publicly available software in source code form, together with its development history. Kat is metadata lead for Wikidata for Digital Preservation, a collaboration between the Wikidata community and the digital preservation community. Together, we are working to ensure that our approaches to solve the software metadata challenge are interoperable.

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Freedom, devices, and health

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When it comes to health, freedom is literally visceral. How do the principles of freedom apply to the devices used for medicine, health, and wellness? Moderated by Mad Price Ball, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, this panel introduces leaders that bridge industry, community, and individual experiences. Rachel Kalmar (Berkman Klein Center), uses her experience with sensors and wearables to confront how devices and their data interact with a larger ecosystem. Dana Lewis (OpenAPS) connects us to health communities, and her work with the Nightscout project and patient-led efforts in type 1 diabetes. Karen Sandler (Software Freedom Conservancy) shares her experience as an individual with a device close to her heart: a defibrillator she uses, as a matter of life or death -- and she cannot get the source code to it. Join us to learn about how freedom matters for devices in health.

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Connecting communities with schools and free tools (workshop) (con't)

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In business: Keeping free software sustainable

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Starting a business is a big decision, and choosing to share its results with the world is perhaps bigger still. Denver started JMP early last year, and faced this very choice, deciding to release all of JMP's code as free software and to charge money to use the instance he runs. In this session, Denver will describe why he chose to build a free software business, and will discuss the details of the business model he arrived at, alongside other business models for free software companies.

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Few contributors are paid to work on free software today, and far fewer are paid by non-profit organizations (or even by small businesses). It is imperative for us to explore how we can sell free software, especially through non-profits and small businesses, so we can bring freedom to more people and, just as importantly, build sustainable futures for our contributors.

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Sharing strategies for welcoming newcomers into FOSS projects: First-timers-only, list moderation, and more

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Since early 2016, Public Lab has worked to make our free software projects more welcoming and inclusive, and to grow our software contributor community in diversity and size. We have learned from and incorporated strategies from other communities like the Hoodie Project, SpinachCon, and FirstTimersOnly.com, and shared our own ideas, and this session will cover a range of principles and strategies that have emerged across a number of separate efforts in different FLOSS projects. Topics will include: 1) friendliness, 2) Codes of Conduct, 3) first-timers-only issues, 4) welcoming pages, 5) social media outreach, 6) code modularity, 7) ladders of participation, 8) continuous integration, 9) friendly bots, and 10) evaluation.

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Defense through collaboration: The use of free software in preventing proprietary software based virus attacks

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In the summer of 2017, software powering the critical infrastructure of Ukraine came to a grinding halt after the country was hit with a surgically precise targeted cyber attack. A malware virus called NotPetya irreversibly encrypted the files of hundreds of thousands of computers. The impact was devastating: the Chernobyl radiation moderating system was shut down, governmental institutions lost access to critical data, and the total damage was estimated to cost over $100 million. This example, among others, points to an increasing weaponization of vulnerabilities in proprietary software to accomplish these attacks.

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This session explores the ways in which proprietary software acts as a catalyst for the spread of cyber attacks, and will explore the use of free software and how it can be used to build resilient, virus-resistant digital infrastructure.

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What college students do and don't know about free software

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Given the rapid growth of free software, it seems reasonable that free software communities might expect undergraduate students in Computer Science or Software Engineering programs would graduate with an understanding of free software and the ability to make project contributions. However, many students are not being taught core tools and concepts such as licenses, version control, and issue trackers as part of their degree program. This presentation will summarize the results of recent field research on the state of undergraduate education about free software; discuss the gap between undergraduate computing education and community expectations; and explore both the reasons for the gap and approaches to bridging it.

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Curated Web-of-Trust keyrings for free software projects: A case study on Debian's experience

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The Debian project has used a cryptographic keyring for most of its authentication for over twenty years. Recently, we have taken on the study of the social implications that can be learned from how it's shaped, and its inner movements. Our aim is not just to document, but to understand what it means. We don't want to keep it as an academic-only exercise. I want to share some of our insights in this session.

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This should also be a opportunity to invite other projects to follow Debian in not only loosely using OpenPGP, but in constituting a true Curated Web-of-Trust keyring. This talk should serve as documentation and motivation towards what this means, exploring which policies we follow, and part of our rationale to it.

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How GeoNode spread across the globe

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GeoNode, a free software platform for building and sharing maps, has grown from an experimental project implemented after one disaster, to a public good currently in use in dozens of locations around the globe. The Global Facility for Disaster Resilience and Readiness (GFDRR) contributed to this growth in multiple ways. This session presents an overview of the history of GeoNode as a case study of institutional investment in a free software project. GeoNode has helped people across the world own their own data and respond to disasters.

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Engaging young people: How to include positive youth participation in our free software community

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Engaging youth by meeting in their space in a respectful and encouraging +manner is critical to achieving youth participation within the free +software movement. Many opportunities to engage young people within +their communities already exist across the globe, so let's explore how +we can contribute in ways that are fun, engaging, empowering, and +memorable.

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Boston-based Mariah Villarreal and Devin Ulibarri have been working in +their respective fields to empower youth with free software and free +culture. Mariah and Devin will present some of their fieldwork, and will discuss the challenges and opportunities that teaching libre +technology to youth provides. Mariah and Devin will also highlight how +this branch of activism fits into the larger software freedom advocacy +landscape.

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