In a world increasingly defined by environmental deregulation, how can free tools and technology alter the ability for communities to be part of the solution? This talk will explore a decade of work where community science and free technology have been used to support people in addressing environmental concerns. Focusing on the work of Public Lab, the talk will take us from the 2010 BP oil disaster through the rapid growth of free technology for environmental monitoring, and take a closer look at the challenges we face going forward with data, hardware, and governance.

30 years after the World Wide Web was created, can we now make it better? How can we ensure that our most important values -- privacy, free speech, and free access to knowledge -- are enshrined in the code itself? In a provocative call to action, entrepreneur and libre Internet advocate Brewster Kahle challenges us to build a better, decentralized Web based on new distributed technologies. Web site content and code could be served peer-to-peer, with decentralized pseudonymous identity, and even payment models. What a world it could be! He lays out a path to creating a new Web that is reliable, private, but still fun -- in order to lock the Web open for good.

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 Fediverse is a collection of decentralized digital, social spaces. Disparate services can interact by using standard protocols such as ActivityPub.
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In Turkey, along the Anatolia, more than 25 languages are spoken. Our organization, ÃzgÃ¼r YazÄ±lÄ±m DerneÄi (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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: Saturday 13:35 - 14:20 : Back Bay Grand -
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Over the last decade, Iâve had the privilege professionally of building and cultivating some free software projects and communities. This isnât a tools talk: this is a talk about the soft skills you have to have to be able to succeed as a leader in an free software project. Iâve learned a ton on this journey; honestly I still am learning, but I have some lessons to share, and hopefully, I can warn attendees about pitfalls that can cause wasted cycles and pain. Topics will include scoping your project, personally-backed versus corporate-backed projects, why empathy and audience is important, celebrations, defeats, successful traits of free software projects, and more.

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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 presentation will provide a summary of current free software tools that can be used in operating a terrestrial or Internet-based community radio station. It will focus primarily on LibreTime, an AGPLv3-licensed radio automation system, and some of the underlying free software components it is built with, including Icecast and Liquidsoap. I will share how LibreTime is used by my community FM station, WCRS-LP, to operate our broadcast using primarily free software, and some of the challenges faced in doing so. I will also share information about some other free software projects, like AzuraCast and Rivendell, to provide overview of the free software landscape for radio stations. My hope is this will serve as a blueprint of inspiration for other people seeking ways of running their radio station using free software. Community media can serve a vital role in informing the public, and free software can play an essential part of this.

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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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The principles of free software encourage and enable free science. This talk will cover one academic's experience with free software in academia. The major takeaway is that the principles of free software make for good science. The talk will cover topics on free software development for research purposes, including dissemination and evaluation, as well as teaching, both for supporting education and for teaching about the tools themselves. I will go over (1) how free software has supported my own research by enabling sharing and integration of multiple research projects; (2) how free software is (or is not) used in the academic literature and the effects on repeatability; and (3) how I integrate free software tools in my own courses.

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We are entering the post-ownership age. In recent years, the Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS) model, which is already dominant in many areas of consumer software, has begun to spread into other aspects of our lives. It will soon be, if it isn't already, possible to live without actually owning possessions. You can now get your clothes, electronics and food -- among many other items -- on subscription, as well as real-world services such as laundry and transport. In time, we are set to see a handful of companies renting you everything you rely on, and that gives them incredible power, not only in terms of your possessions, but also in terms of their ideological control over you and the wider population. This session explores the potential damage of the Life as a Service (LaaS) model, and what free software can do to help.

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Drawing on their work doing privacy workshops, art exhibitions, and free software advocacy, Giselle will discuss community building strategies and heuristics in two seemingly different environments, the US and China. They will examine cultural perspectives, and reflect on those experiences to help us better understand ourselves and how to communicate with others to grow the free software movement.

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: Saturday 10:40 - 11:25 : Patriot -
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How many times have you heard someone say that free software seems insecure, that itâs buggy, that itâs a pain to install or use, or that it just looks unprofessional? We love using and championing free software, but how do we sell it in our work? How do we convince clients that free software is professional, secure, reliable, and useful? And how do we help them learn about the ethical and moral value of free software, and empower them to share that message? In this session, weâll talk through our methods of promoting free software in government digital services projects. Weâll share some wins, some not so successful attempts, and some future initiatives, and talk about how you can make changes at your own organizations. And weâll share our git repo with some playbooks and strategies for those who want to bring this work back to their own companies!

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Most IoT (The Internet of Things) devices remain under the control of the companies that manufacture them, yielding a plethora of security, privacy and software freedom concerns. Ironically, most such devices include Linux as their kernel, and usually no GNU. Linux's license, GPLv2, mandates the users' rights to modify and upgrade the software. Sadly, due to widespread violations of the GPL, such rights are rarely granted with most IoT devices on the market. This talk explains the political, social, and legal backstory that led to this abysmal situation, and proposes what we must do next to ameliorate the problem.
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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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Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) is a technology for decentralized, peer-to-peer, offline-first social media applications based on cryptographic identities. In this session, we will introduce the SSB network and protocol. We will present some of the applications on the network for social networking, games, and code collaboration. We will also look at the values and culture emergent on the SSB network (including the solarpunk aesthetic), how it organizes and funds itself, how it practices diversity and inclusion, and where it may head in the future.

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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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Software licenses that give people freedom are facing scrutiny from a variety of interests and organizations. This session seeks to articulate the core values of software freedom: how the tenets of FSF's Four Freedoms and the Open Source Definition's criteria enable networks of collaboration and co-creation. Current issues from a variety of interested parties are considered, not on their value as a movement, but rather their impact on the freedoms to run, study, modify, and redistribute works. Alternative approaches to licensing that can address concerns of communities will also be offered.

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Our data makes us unique. How can we own our data? Are we more powerful if we align into groups? How do we own the software platforms we use? How does cooperative development work? How do we share work on large projects? Why and how will free software help us in this era of surveillance? There are so many questions, and very little time for us to come up with solutions or responses. The tech industry has all but left free software in the dust, while spreading malware and using disingenuous advertising campaigns. We can find ways to build the future with free software, but we also need to raise awareness. Although free software is not the answer to all of society's problems, it plays a huge role in how much control we have over our own data and our own future as citizens and as workers.

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This talk will explain why free software games with free cultural assets are necessary for the free software movement. I will highlight practical ways that anyone can help improve free software games, regardless of whether we know coding or other skills -- even if you donât know how to code, you can always spread the word about the games that you love! Then, I will conclude with some easy ways for anyone to do a little free software activism every day.

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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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Games are part of our culture, like books and movies. While we have access to some older games via emulators, we are failing to save our free software history. Many developers try to develop a game, and then the game reaches a satisfactory state or the developer just moves on. Finding these games can be hard. Eventually libraries or languages change, and the game no longer runs. This talk will discuss restoring games for future players to enjoy.

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: Sunday 15:25 - 16:10 : Freedom -
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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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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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David Revoy, author of the webcomic Pepper&Carrot, will do a live digital painting performance with Krita from his studio in the south of France. The creation of cute creatures will only be a pretext to highlight some of the best features and hidden treasures of the software Krita. Brushes, transform tools, reference tools and filters will be presented, as well as a list of other features.

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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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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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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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For many years, the existence of software patents, and the threat that certain entities would use them against free software, was an issue of significant concern to the free software community. Since then, there have been many court decisions that have altered the landscape of what may be patented, procedures allowing challenges to patents outside of the court system, industry initiatives to create "patent peace" around parts of the free software world, and changes in the behaviors of certain patent holders once thought to present the greatest threat to free software. This presentation will give an overview, designed for a non-legal audience, of the latest developments, and suggest where the future of patents and free software may be headed.

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Farming is one of humanityâs oldest technologies, and while the principles of free software may only seem relevant to the past 70 years of innovation, farmers have been struggling to keep their technology free for the last 12 millennia. In this session, weâll look at some scenarios of where this truth has been borne out in our work creating free farm management software with farmOS, and deploying free hardware solutions with Edge Collective. These projects have shown us that the principles of free software can and do make a real difference to farming communities, both large and small, across the globe. Whether itâs by preserving the right to repair tractors, sensors and other equipment on their farm, or by enshrining their right to access, store, and share their valuable data when, where, and how they choose, granting farmers with more freedom leads to better outcomes for the communities who rely on them.

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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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Sugar Labs is a community of developers, teachers, and students, all working together on educational free software projects. Everyone learns by doing, contributing, critiquing, and reflecting on their work -- anything from short code created in a visual programming language to a major contribution to a critical project. The Sugar Labs' community has been around and active for more than a decade, it operated as a member organization under the umbrella of Software Freedom Conservancy, and now we are entering an exciting new chapter as its own non-profit. In this talk, we will discuss a little bit of the history of Sugar Labs, what has made it special over the years, and what we expect for the future. We will demonstrate some of our leading learning tools, such as Turtle Blocks, Music Blocks, and the Sugar OS. Lastly, we are open to ideas and questions about our future.

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LibreOffice was announced in 2010, and will celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2020. Over these last ten years, the global community behind this project has grown from a small group of volunteers, mostly based in Europe, to a large and diverse group of free software advocates spanning many countries. This presentation will discuss the challenges faced by the community during this incredible growth, and will provide a better understanding of the community for people who have only followed this evolution through announcements and events.

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Free software is much better than proprietary software in many ways, but this talk is about how itâs also a more environmentally sustainable model for computing. Free software makes it easy to reuse old machines and prevent excess waste from going into the environment. This can't be done with proprietary software because the manufacturer can force updates that slow the machine down, or they could stop supporting the system altogether. This is not a problem with free software, because the source code can be modified.

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In her keynote, Marleen will explain how Waagâs model of the Public Stack) proposes an alternative way of designing and developing technology. Public Stack advocates for a design of technology with the interests of the public in mind. She will show how the program has been developed over the course of the last four years, and how Waag and its partners apply the model and spread free software awareness in various sectors, including health, media, and government. From building the capacities of citizens, developing critical maker education and the development of data commons and ethical tech like Fairphone.

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We will talk about the dangers and shortcomings of relying on always-online proprietary platforms, through anecdotes from doing long-distance sailing across the Pacific ocean, away from internet connectivity and beyond the shores of the Western world. We will also talk about how we reimagined our software to encourage the reuse, repair and maintenance of existing hardware.

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Building and living a free life isn't easy. Not only do we need to keep reminding ourselves about our reasons for choosing free/libre software, but also about being mindful when choosing the right hardware to run free software on. It's easy to run free software when we have complete control over our hardware, but when the hardware limits or controls what software can be run on it, it also eliminates our ability to choose free software.

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Proprietary software earns sufficient amounts due to its hidden behavior. While it snatches the freedom away from the user, it earns money for the developer and helps them survive. We discuss the characteristics of free software, different business models that may or may not be compatible with it and find solutions to making free software survive independently.

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Software patents are legal instruments designed to curtail the freedom of developers for the sake of multinational companies' interests. Despite the efforts of the free software movement, it is evident that the threat of software patents persists. What is the state of software patents today, and what can we do to block their expanding dominance? This presentation will attempt to explain this complex topic in simple terms. You will also learn how to further fuel the efforts of the FSF's End Software Patents campaign.

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The modern web is filled to the brim with complexity, no shortage of nonfree software, and malware. Many, many people have written and spoken at length on these issues and their implications and negative effects on users' freedom, privacy, and digital autonomy. With the advent of technologies like WebAssembly, the modern day Web browser has effectively become an operating system of its own, along with all the issues and complexities of operating systems and then some. Opening arbitrary websites with a typical Web browser amounts to downloading an executing [mostly nonfree] software on your machine. But is all of this complexity really necessary? Is all of this needed to achieve the web's original purpose, an information system for relaying documents (and now media)? What if there was a way to do away with all of these complexities and go back to the basics?

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Some thoughts on my journey of building Nantucket E-books, an ethical, and freedom-respecting e-book platform, including ensuring compliance with the GNU LibreJS browser extension.

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Replicant is an FSF certified 100% free software Android distribution. Android is very different from GNU/Linux. While Android reuses the Linux kernel (sometimes with huge modifications), it uses almost no other components from GNU/Linux and a lot of the Android code was written from scratch.

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So much of modern popular culture is locked inside streaming-only disservices that it can be difficult to know how to live without their proprietary Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) apps. However if you do a little digging and don't mind a lack of spectacle there's plenty of excellent alternative entertainment you can enjoy without resorting to DRM or piracy.

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One of the defining features of free software distributions in past years has been package management. Package managers, allowing the installation and removal of software with a single action, are undeniably convenient!

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This talk will present TRBot, free software that enables collaborative control of video games over the Internet - a concept started by the infamous Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon in 2014.
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User freedom is directly linked to a free education. Student mobilization and struggle for more freedom in the classroom, especially after the pandemic event, shows how the school community must move to show the dangers and disadvantages of surveillance inside and outside the classroom.

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I will briefly introduce to ANS coding family, which in recent years is replacing Huffman and arithmetic coding in data compressors - currently used e.g. in Linux kernel, default DNA compression, products of Apple, Facebook, Google, and many others like JPEG XL bringing hope to finally replace JPEG after 30 years. While I and many others shared our work to make it free to use, ANS has attracted patent vultures. A few years ago there was unsuccessful attempt by Google, however, now USPTO has granted very general patent to Microsoft for ANS variant used e.g. in JPEG XL.

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: Saturday 17:15 - 18:00 EDT (21:15 UTC) -
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The Time Zone Database (TZDB) is the primary technology for civil timekeeping conventions. It contains the complete history of the worldâs civil time since 1970, and copies of it reside in most of the planetâs cell phones and computers. It has been developed in the open with no use restrictions. TZDB is an example of âlong dataâ: data intended to be used for a long time. Its main challenges come from version and downstream skew, scope and format disagreements, standardization, intellectual property disputes, institutional backing, and politics. I will describe some of the these challenges in TZDBâs evolution.

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: Sunday 13:35 - 14:20 EDT (17:35 UTC) -
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Despite having previously been dominated by commercial, nonfree software, physical chemistry and chemical engineering research are increasingly performed with free software applications.
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Social media has become a staple of daily life, playing a mayor role in the lives of millions. However, it is highly centralized around a reduced number of platforms that trap their users. Over the years, alternative platforms, specifications and protocols have emerged, proposing a decentralized and federated approach to social media. Therefore, for my bachelorâs degree thesis, I decided to perform research on the matter.

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This interactive talk explores learning components that can be used to promote digital freedom. The wicked problem (c.f. Rittel 1973) of dark patterns and digital tracking will be countered by a pattern-based design approach to generating 'surprising' traces (Goodyear & Retalis 2010, Tunstall 2019, Ricoeur 1988, Stiegler 2018). This approach will be illustrated through examples of learning components that can be used in a variety of contexts, not just in institutionalized learning.

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I would like to explore and expose the history of my motivations as a free software hacktivist, especially what progressively led me to dedicate more time and energy to support free software in the public sector.

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Drawing on a vast array of sources -- including the works of Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, Jean Baudrillard, Sherry Turkle, Olia Lialina, Don Norman, Kenneth Gergen, Alan Kay -- I propose that the history of the GNU General Public License, the GNU Project, and the Free Software Foundation are ripe for integration into a study of the arts and humanities which overcomes decades of corporate and commercial propaganda situating the subject within a groundless, shifting post-modern and post-human landscape lorded over by technological shamans and âgeniusesâ like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.

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Designers brought up on conventional tools end up missing out on the arcane powers of the command line. Pipes, shells, scripts, converters and parsers can be an integral part of a graphic designer's workflow, requiring a shift in expectations from our tools. Likewise, seasoned shell hackers might appreciate ways to connect their flows to create graphic outputs.
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The design of a PowerPC based notebook from scratch is quite a challenge for a group of hobbyists as we are. Making it fully compliant with the Open Hardware principles and based on GNU/Linux is even more complicated. As an example, the availability of fully free software drivers must be carefully checked for every electronic component. This speech will illustrate the reasons and motivations that made us undertake this challenge, and what we are learning from it.

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This presentation is about Haketilo, a browser extension that facilitates replacing Web sites' original bloated, privacy-invading, nonfree Javascript with free, community and user-controlled scripts.

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Teaching others about free software is challenging and often requires continual encouragement to convince another person to appreciate the ideals of the free software movement. This can be a time-consuming process; however, William has a simple strategy to get others onboard faster without the need for lengthy explanations of freedom vs. proprietary comparisons. The solution: baby steps! Start small by recommending a person to use just one free software application instead of a proprietary application they are using currently.

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GNU poke is an interactive editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them. Once a user has defined a structure for binary data (usually matching some file format) she can search, inspect, create, shuffle and modify abstract entities such as ELF relocations, MP3 tags, DWARF expressions, partition table entries, and so on, with primitives resembling simple editing of bitsmand bytes. The program comes with a library of already written descriptions (or "pickles" in poke parlance) for many binary formats.

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There is recent news about another incident at the Web hostâGoDaddy
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Usenet is a worldwide online discussion network that was established in 1980, a decade before the World Wide Web. Unlike Web forums, control of Usenet is not centralized, but is rather distributed across an open federation of independent service providers. This makes the system transparent, robust, resistant to censorship, and most importantly, respectful of users' digital freedoms.

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Proprietary smartphone platforms today are a duopoly (Google's Android and Apple's iOS) that takes away user freedom. Unfortunately, in many relationships today, one is expected to have a smartphone and consequently surrender their freedoms to one of these proprietary software vendors. Sxmo is a simple free software mobile interface that you can hack to fit your needs. It encourages the use of free software throughout with postmarketOS and Alpine Linux. This presentation will go over the system and new developments.

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File transfer between computers is considered by many as a solved problem. However in practice, people end up using third party servers, insecure programs, do tricks like emailing to themselves to access their own files from another computer. In some cases, they need to know IP addresses, account names and passwords to other computers. Here we look at a secure way to transfer information which uses a cryptography protocol called SPAKE2.

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In this talk I will discuss how GNU Jami works and how it is different from other proprietary and free software solutions. Then I will explain how you can convince people you know to use it.

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In a world in which we are surrounded by proprietary surveillance hardware and software, it's now called resistance to live in liberty. Not only the device manufacturers, but also people around us are forcing us to use proprietary software. Within these circumstances, we are trying to liberate every single device that we are using one by one. For one, we can free personal devices by setting up a home server (which is obviously running on free/libre hardware), we can host personal Web sites and run online services by ourselves. In this session, we will share our experiences on this process, discuss the benefits and the costs of this lifestyle, and share brief suggestions to attendees who want to liberate and self-host their tech.

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Technology continues to change since the first talk on free software game restoration. Changes in libraries and languages break games. Games slip from distributions as they no longer run. Web sites disappear causing the source code to be hard to find or lost altogether. This talk returns with more games restored to working state.

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Unfortunately many VR games are nonfree software that only runs on Windows or the Oculus Quest. As an owner of a Talos II, I want to play Libre VR games, so I started porting existing free software such as the SlimeVR-Server to POSIX and Monado. This was the beginning of the LibreVR Project.

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An introductory dive into the state of the art of Virtual Reality and video game making tools in the free software world, and their potential as a tool for treatment of "lazy eye" and other visual conditions.

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What if a website that you use everyday suddenly makes a change that you are not comfortable with? You either put up with it or stop using it. But what if there was another server of the same service that you could simply switch to? Like your Internet's ISP? That would be cool, right? Federated server software makes such kind of decentralization possible, allowing users across different independent instances to communicate with each other. A lot of services that we commonly use in our daily lives have FOSS alternatives that support federation. Many are already using them and you should too if you aren't already. Let's have glance at some of the privacy-respecting options that we can use instead of those offered by Big-Tech.

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The classic version of the Internet Protocol, IPv4, supports only about 4.2 billion of the numeric addresses used to identify computers.

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An overview of how GNU Emacs allows us to live in freedom both in moral and practical terms, as seen from the perspective of a non-programmer. Specific use cases are generalized into philosophical insights such as the ethos of sharing know-how and the community aspect of freedom.

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Lightning talks are five-minute presentations given by conference attendees on free software topics they're passionate about.

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This presentation will argue for the moral necessity of the GNU Project's "four software freedoms." This piece will be predominantly philosophical, and will not contain much technical computer information.

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Right to Repair now has support from the Biden administration and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and progress is being made in Europe, Australia, and Canada. Hear from the rabble-rouser in chief on the latest in the fight for hardware independence and the ongoing effort to legalize everything from tractor to ventilator repair.

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Many free projects use OpenPGP encryption or signatures for various important tasks, like defining membership, authenticating participation, asserting identity over a vote, etc. The Web-of-Trust upon which its operation is based is a model many of us hold dear, allowing for a decentralized way to assign trust to the identity of a given person.
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There are four categories of economic goods: private goods, club goods, commons, and public goods. Free software programs are public goods, and they don't fit our market economy which relies on scarcity and exclusion.

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The fight for our Right to Repair our stuff has gained momentum, but we canât stop at parts and manuals â we need software access, too. This is obvious to farmers with tractors locked down in âlimp modeâ at harvest time and iPhone repair shops that canât dismiss annoying warnings. Manufacturers are hiding more and more repairs behind software locks. Weâre fighting them every step of the way, from state legislatures to GPL enforcement lawsuits. When repair professionals and device owners donât have access to the software they need to complete a repair, theyâve got slim choices: Admit defeat and send the thing to recycling? Hack your way through it? Join the fight for the Right to Repair?
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As the political stakes of digital technology become increasingly apparent, itâs clear that an ethical approach to software use and development is more important than ever. While a number of organizations and advocates are doing important work to advance ethical forms of software practice, we continue to miss one of the key sites where software habits and expectations are reinforced and normalized at scale, that is, institutions of education.
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The biggest problem that faces the Fediverse right now is the same one that faces a lot of other free-software initiatives. Not mindshare, not features, but one of contribution: how do we encourage people to contribute, how do we make it easier to contribute, and how do we ensure our efforts are coordinated towards what is most needed for the ecosystem? This presentation will focus on lessons Iâve learned over the years in my involvement, lessons learned from the recent Twitter exodus, and how this ties back to the importance of organization.

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WorldVistA EHR is a slightly modified version of the Department of Veterans Affairs Electronic Health Record, VistA. VistA is currently in the process of being replaced by Oracle Cerner by the VA, but implementation of the new system is currently on hold because it is not preforming up to expectations. Meanwhile, VistA is in use in many places internationally, with the largest implementation in the country of Jordan. The largest implementation in the U.S. is at Central Regional Hospital, a state mental health hospital in North Carolina. It will fall upon the free software community to keep this comprehensive free software EHR available in the future.

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Jami is free/libre software for universal communication that respects the freedoms and privacy of its users. An official GNU package, Jami is an end-to-end encrypted secure and distributed communication tool for calling, conferencing, messaging, and file transfer. Jami has end-user applications across multiple operating systems and platforms, as well as multiple APIs and a plugin system for building upon and extending Jami as a framework for secure and private communication.

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This session will demonstrate the current status of 3NWeb protocols and client using Trisquel GNU/Linux and RYF hardware. 3NWeb use cases include encrypted messaging and storage. The protocols can be run over anonymous Free Software networks such as Tor and are agnostic in regard to addressing. For example, nodes can be communicated with via .onion hidden services or IPFS namespaces.

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The RISC-V architecture and ecosystem have undergone tremendous growth recently. We will take a look at the current state of RISC-V and its current deployment footprint. We'll discuss where RISC-V may be headed and the role it may play in completely open and free datacenter servers, tablets, and cellphones. We will review the emergence of the ARM architecture and how in may be an important stepping stone to a free computing platform. We'll discuss the differences between the ARM licensing model and the X86_64 architecture licensing model as well as the role of ARM processors in cell phones and cloud datacenters (such as AWS). Finally, we'll take a brief look at some options for starting RISC-V free and open hardware development for both experienced FPGA programmers and newbies. We'll explain options including physical RISC-V processors, FPGAs, and software emulation.

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The computers we use run different type of software. Many people know about applications (like VLC or LibreOffice) or operating systems (like GNU/Linux or Android).
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In their pursuit to turn a beautiful document publishing system into a modern web browsers have become incredibly complex, to the extent that it becomes impractical to exercise your software freedoms to study, modify, share, & share your modifications. Even once all dominant engines are nominally free software.

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Free software is used in almost all mission critical agricultural equipment: GPS guidance, vehicle ECUs, touch screen displays. In this talk, I will demonstrate how much free software is used to maintain the food supply chain, as we know it and the importance of keeping free software in these processes. Secondly, the importance of upholding the four essential freedoms that are already in use by major agriculture companies, hardware makers, inventors most importantly, the users, farmers.

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There is a great challenge around payment for building platforms and working on free software projects. Sometimes a client will pay for development and other times there are unfunded projects that are built for community use by volunteers. What are some good business models that financially support the developers? Is an infrastructure needed to support payment for working on free software projects? Could OpenCollective be a path for sponsoring multiple development projects for teams of developers?

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In safety-critical software, mistakes and errors can be lethal. Recent accidents with the Boeing 737 Max Aircraft illustrate the failure of proprietary software required to have undergone careful review following the F.A.A.'s DO-178x certification process. Governments and the people they represent must strongly consider requiring free software to be used for safety-critical code implementations. Free software offers transparency and a much higher level of review than what is possible with proprietary software.

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Seeking dialogue for the expansion of horizons, the communication will present a case study around a system made to assist in the record of hybrid items, such as books that have handwritten dedication, for example, or items with diffuse or multiple definition boundaries, like handwritten correspondence, as they can represent a challenge for custoding institution because they own the potential to elucidate intersubjective intricacies by revealing relationships that individuals establish with their time.

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Trademarks provide a proprietary association of goods with an image or rhetoric. The free licensing of trademarks enables the identification of free works with free trademarks and the inclusion of proprietary trademarks only under the developers' permission. This conditional permission allows revenue channels for developers as well as the establishment of quality stamps.

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While code generating AI systems like CoPilot have emerged as a powerful tool for professional developers, there are growing legal and ethical concerns around the development of these models. Questions have been raised as to whether these AI models respect current free software licenses---both for model training and generation---and what the social impact of this technology is on the free software community.

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CHATONS is a collective initiated by Framasoft in 2016 that gathers organizations proposing free, ethical and decentralized online services in order to allow Internet users to quickly find alternatives to the services offered by the Web giants. During this talk, Angie (the collective coordinator) will present the collective's objectives, it's governance and the actions the community has taken.

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The Nym mixnet is a new privacy infrastructure for an anonymous overlay software to resist mass surveillance. Like a VPN, it is compatible with generic internet apps. In contrast to a VPN and Tor, even a global passive adversary that has a "Godâs eye view" cannot determine who sent a message over Nym to whom. We will review the design and codebase, and demonstrate its usage for use-cases such as e-mail and instant messaging, as well as how to run your own mix mode on GNU/Linux to provision privacy - and freedom - for others.

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The four freedoms encompass the rights to use, modify, copy, and redistribute modified copies. Yet most software users have no intention of ever modifying software, let alone redistributing modified copies of their software. So why should these freedoms be of any concern to them? Over the past three decades, the number of users has increased by several orders of magnitude. Proprietary software has become the predominant form of software, to the extent that many ordinary users are surprised when they learn that a particular piece of software is free rather than proprietary. While this is a significant negative development, the widespread adoption of software by less technically oriented people presents a unique opportunity: it means that nearly everyone in the developed world has a personal stake in the future of software freedom.
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"Open science" is a movement that promotes the freedom to share knowledge and data in science. Its recent success largely depends on our ability to reproduce and then improve on existing research products. It is about ensuring that researchers have sufficient access to information and the necessary tools for analysis. This movement goes hand in hand with the free software movement, as it has the potential to revolutionize sciences by providing powerful tools for data analysis, modeling, and visualization. I would like to focus my talk on the connection and missing links between free software and open science, particularly in environmental and data sciences. The talk is devoted to raising awareness and promoting conversations on how we can better advance sciences with free software and knowledge sharing.

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The freedom-granting power of GPL derives from the way it situates the electronic computer within the long-standing human institution of the court of law. It is this human side of the equation â not the technical side â which needed addressing in order to stake-out and claim the ground within which users have been liberated.

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A panel of people who care about software freedom, and have have somewhat recently gone through a job search. They will discuss and share their experience, offer some advice, and involve the audience.

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In this session, I hope to share with you some of the exciting ways data can be used to show the impact that free software is making on the world. From Git commit histories to lists of OpenWRT compatible devices, I share some sources of data, how to analyze that data, and more interesting work by others in this field.

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The famous inventor Zangemann lives in a huge villa high above the city. Adults and children alike love his inventions and are desperate to have them. But then something happens: when Zangemann wants to take another close-up look at his inventions during a walk through the city, a child hits him in the shin with the skateboard. That hurts! Enraged, the inventor makes a momentous decision... The clever girl Ada sees through what is going on. Together with her friends, she forges a plan.

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This presentation is about the use and production of free/libre software by organizations of the Brazilian federal government after some years of public policies to promote the use of free software.

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Today's social media users are locked into proprietary platforms, under the control of a few large corporations. Users are not customers, but a product to be sold to advertisers. These companies have little reason to care about fostering healthy discussion, only to keep advertisers happy. But there is another model for social media. Federated social networks began with Usenet, a distributed system of discussion forums invented a decade before the World Wide Web. Since then, projects such as Mastodon and Diaspora have used open standards and common communication protocols to give users power to choose their own social media experience. What lessons can we learn from Usenet? What does it get right, and what could it do better? And does Usenet still have a place on the modern Internet?

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If we look to email as an example, free software made a revolution that is still strong today. Thanks to the protocol definition, the software and the communities around it are able to setup, run and help each other. GNU Taler is a protocol and software that promotes the same revolution in payment methods, where people can participate freely to generate an essential infrastructure for today's society. In this talk we are going to introduce how it works, which are the main components, we will navigate a demonstration and answer why it is different in comparison with other digital payment systems. We will end the session with a roadmap and a guide to join in and contribute.

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Outdoor sports are enjoyed by many people but access is restricted by regulations. Unlike most countries where I live mapping activities are forbidden by state. The lack of accurately made topographical maps led many years of mine and fellow outdoor lovers wander around in the wilderness blindly. Dangerously depending on poorly made, inaccurate drawings of the field to circumvent the law or inaccessible, expensive and non-free mapping devices and software. Finally being fed up by this fact, I decided to seek the answer if free software and knowledge can liberate people's navigation.

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This talk gives on overview of creating and using libre software to collect language data in Africa. The software has been deployed at https://tuvutepamoja.africa. The challenges and opportunities that libre software presents for countries in Africa undergoing digitization will be discussed.

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Warpforge is a new tool for building software in a reproducible and collaborative way. It emphasizes predictable environments, and produces this by creating a controlled environment populated entirely by materials identified by cryptographic hash. All the build information is designed to be complete, be serializable, and also easily be shared. Communicating build (and *re*build) information to friends and colleagues is easy. Within this system, we produce a new suite of packages and build instructions which are reproducible, and produce binaries which can easily be consumed in any linux system.

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The hardest part about promoting the free software philosophy is getting people interested enough in the conversation to listen even if they aren't already excited about technology topics. However, most people use software today, yet have complaints and fears about it.

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: Saturday 10:55 - 11:40 EDT (14:55 UTC) -
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: Jupiter -- in-person -
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: Education

I'd like to share a fun piece of software I've been working on. A collaboration between Columbia University's Center for Teaching and Learning, and professor Drew Youngren, we've put together a 3D visual calculus environment for classroom use. Experimenting and playing around is the best way to learn new things, and we hope to facilitate that with this free software we've created.

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: Sunday 10:00 - 10:45 EDT (14:00 UTC) -
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: Neptune -- online -
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: Security

The Web is used daily by billions. Even so, users are not protected from many threats by default. This presentation will introduce JShelter, a Webextension that helps in returning the browser to users. JShelter builds on top of previous Web privacy and security research. JShelter focuses on fingerprinting prevention, limitations of rich Web APIs, prevention of attacks connected to timing, and learning information about the computer, the browser, the user, and surrounding physical environment and location. JShelter provides a fingerprinting report and other feedback that can be used by future security research. Thousands of users around the world use the extension every day.

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: Saturday 15:25 - 16:10 EDT (19:25 UTC) -
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: Neptune -- online -
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: Licensing

The FSF's Licensing and Compliance Lab helps hundreds of people each year by answering their licensing questions with the help of a team of licensing volunteers. This talk will be an overview of what the Licensing and Compliance Lab does and what licensing volunteers do within it. We will cover the kinds of questions volunteers answer and volunteers will share what volunteering for the Compliance Lab is like.

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: Sunday 16:20 - 17:05 EDT (20:20 UTC) -
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: Jupiter -- in-person -
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: Social context

Farmers large and small in the U.S. are being crushed under the thumb of âBigAgâ equipment makers whose late model farm machinery combines sensors, always-on Internet connections, software and Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) to vacuum up and monetize proprietary farm data, while simultaneously preventing farmers from being able to service and repair their own equipment. Farmers who own late model equipment today are required to patronize âauthorizedâ technicians at the expense of independent repair and are forced to pay astronomical prices for even routine maintenance. Whatâs needed is a way to free farmers from the grip of these monopolies with free software and usurious OEM-operated software ecosystems. This panel will bring together experts on farming and farm equipment, embedded device security and policy (e.g. right to repair) to discuss ways to liberate farmers with free software.

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: Sunday 15:25 - 16:10 EDT (19:25 UTC) -
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: Jupiter -- in-person -
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: Free Software in practice

A recap of the progress and challenges of making Trisquel GNU/Linux 11 "Aramo", adding support for ARM and Power architectures, keeping the console installer, packaging of key components, and more.

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: Saturday 16:20 - 17:05 EDT (20:20 UTC) -
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: Jupiter -- in-person -
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: Community

This talk will begin by shining some light on the vastness of Wikipedia's technology landscape and the technical community behind it, supporting the development of projects in many different areas to set the room for understanding the need and role of developer advocacy for such a large community. It will then focus on the developer advocacy's role in engaging the technical community behind Wikipedia and its sister projects, for example, through dedicated FOSS outreach, mentoring programs and events, awards and ceremonies for developer recognition, grants and partnerships, community metrics and health, platforms and services, developer portal, and more. Through this talk, the audience will gain insights into what a good return on investment means for such initiatives in nonprofit organizations and gather new ideas for building stronger developer communities.

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: Sunday 11:55 - 12:40 EDT (15:55 UTC) -
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: Saturn -- in-person -
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: Free Software in practice

Puerto Rico is a beautiful place. One that is suffering. The calamities do not cease. Some were man-made, like financial bankruptcy. Others have been earthquakes and hurricanes. Compared to most states, Puerto Rico is facing extreme conditions. Life is tough. For many here, these are the end of times. Puerto Ricans live in austerity and hyper-inflation. We have food shortages as well as power and water outages. Our roads and bridges are crumbling with each major rainfall. Can free software help? I propose a new application of free software. An application to help human beings to stay alive. To stay alive people need access to information and resources. They need to know how to provide food, water, and shelter; or where to find them. They need pioneer skills to live off of the land. The need to connect and reconnect. They need Life 0.01.

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: Saturday 16:20 - 17:05 EDT (20:20 UTC) -
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: Saturn -- in-person -
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: Community

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: Saturday 15:25 - 16:10 EDT (19:25 UTC) -
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: Saturn -- in-person -
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: Community

Free software needs free tools! Weâre making software development collaboration and hosting websites (a.k.a forges) talk to each other using shared protocols, hopefully allowing the free software community to create a decentralized network of self-hosted forge websites powered by fully free software, and whose UX design is geared towards filling human needs rather than company profits. Weâll explore this vision, talk about (and see) our latest development progress, examine the challenges, and present our roadmap for realizing this dream.

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: Sunday 16:20 - 17:05 EDT (20:20 UTC) -
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: Neptune -- online -
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: Education

This presentation will show off how I (a non-programmer) introduced my young son to computers and software freedom with plain old command-line stuff and programming basics, instead of Internet and fancy video games. He loved it, and I hope you will too. `cowsay -e LL just say no to proprietary software`

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- LP Workshop (480p)
+ LP Workshop (480p)

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- LP Workshop (Ogg)
+ LP Workshop (Ogg)

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- LP Workshop (480p)
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- LP Workshop (Ogg)
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SUNDAY 10:40 - 12:10

SOCIAL EVENTS

Friday night