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Edward Snowden

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Edward Snowden is a former intelligence officer who served the CIA, NSA, and DIA for nearly a decade as a subject matter expert on technology and cybersecurity. In 2013, he revealed the NSA was unconstitutionally seizing the private records of billions of individuals who had not been suspected of any wrongdoing, resulting in the largest debate about reforms to US surveillance policy since 1978. Today, he works on methods of enforcing human rights through the application and development of new technologies. He joined the board of Freedom of the Press Foundation in February 2014. Photo license: Screenshot of a Citizen Four by Praxis Films and Laura Poitras, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

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Allison's first geek career was as a research linguist in eastern Africa. But eventually her love of coding seduced her away from natural languages to artificial ones. In over 25 years as a programmer, she has developed everything from games, linguistic analysis tools, websites, and shipping fulfillment, to compilers, database replication systems, deployment automation, mobile apps, and talking smart-home appliances, worked as a language designer, project manager, conference organizer, and editor, been a board member of several free software related non-profit foundations, written three books, and founded a tech publishing company. She collaborates in the Debian, Python, and OpenStack projects, and currently works at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, leading a team of engineers focused on contributing to OpenStack and Python. Photo credit: Cjcollier, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License .

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Karen M. Sandler is the Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy. She is known for her advocacy for free software, particularly in relation to the software on medical devices. Prior to joining Conservancy, she was Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation where she now serves on the Board of Directors. Before that, she was General Counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. Karen co-organizes Outreachy, the award winning Outreach Program for Women. She is also pro bono counsel to the Free Software Foundation, GNOME and QuestionCopyright.Org. Karen is a recipient of the O'Reilly Open Source Award and co-host of the oggcast, Free as in Freedom.

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Richard Stallman

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Richard is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement Richard also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.

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

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Daniel Kahn Gillmor

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Daniel Kahn Gillmor is a technologist with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, and a free software developer. He's a Free Software Foundation member, a member of Debian, a contributor to a wide range of free software projects, and a participant in protocol development standards organizations like the IETF, with an eye toward preserving and improving civil liberties and civil rights through our shared infrastructure. Photo license: Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Emmanuel

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Emmanuel is a Division III student at Hampshire College, studying how technology (especially restrictive technology, like DRM) can affect how individuals share information, learn, remix content, organize, and live their everyday lives. Born and raised in western Massachusetts, they are committed to building a free society, while improving the lives of others with technology. Their latest work can be found at -http://emmanuel.im/.

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Sunil Mohan Adapa

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Sunil Mohan Adapa is a Free Software developer and an independent -software consultant. He is a contributor to the FreedomBox project. In -the past, he has contributed to the IndLinux project and Telugu -localization. He also teaches as guest faculty at IIIT-Hyderabad. -After graduating from IIIT-H in 2003, before becoming an independent -consultant, he has worked at various corporates and at his own startup.

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Tim Ansell

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Tim 'mithro' Ansell is the founder and lead of the TimVideos.us -project a group of projects which aim to drastically reduce the -costs and expertise required for doing recording and live -streaming of conferences, meetings and user groups (Find our more -at https://code.timvideos.us).

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As an FOSS geek with a hardware bent, Tim has dedicated much of -his time and resources towards efforts around free -hardware (including the TimVideos' HDMI2USB project - -https://hdmi2usb.tv). Tim is also heavily involved in both the -Python and Australian FOSS communities though starting PyCon AU -and helping at many Linux.conf.au http://Linux.conf.au -conferences.

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Walter Bender

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Walter Bender is founder of Sugar Labs, a global project that develops educational software used by millions of children. Sugar Labs is a member project of the non-profit foundation Software Freedom Conservancy. In 2006, Bender co-founded the One Laptop per Child, a non-profit association with Nicholas Negroponte and Seymour Papert. As director of the MIT Media Laboratory from 2000 to 2006, Bender led a team of researchers in fields as varied as tangible media to affective computing to lifelong kindergarten. In 1992, Bender founded the MIT News in the Future consortium, which launched the era of digital news. Currently, he is launching a new initiative, the Miami College of Design, a new program for industrial design in the Wynwood section of Miami.

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Brian Callahan

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Brian is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research examines Social Justice at the critical intersections of technology, particularly Free Software, and gender/race/class.

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Mishi Choudhary

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Mishi Choudhary is working with SFLC following the completion of her -fellowship during which she earned her LLM from Columbia Law School and -was a Stone Scholar. Prior to joining forces with SFLC in 2006, she -practiced as a High Court and Supreme Court litigator in New Delhi.

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At SFLC, Mishi is the primary legal representative of many of the -world's most significant free software developers and non-profit -distributors, including Debian, the Apache Software Foundation, and OpenSSL.

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In 2010, she founded SFLC.in, since which time she has divided her time -between New York and New Delhi. Under her direction, SFLC.in has become -the premier non-profit organization representing the rights of Internet -users and free software developers in India. She was one of the lead -counsels in the Supreme Court of India's landmark Shreya Singhal v. -Union of India judgment on internet free speech. She is a core volunteer -with the SaveTheInternet.in Net Neutrality coalition that worked on the -Network Neutrality campaign in India. SFLC.in recently won a victory for -Software Patents and FOSS at the Indian Patent office as well. She consults -regularly with the Government of India on issues of internet freedom, -Free and Open Source Software, Software Patents, Privacy and Network -Neutrality.

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As of 2015, Mishi is the only lawyer in the world simultaneously to -appear on briefs in the US and Indian Supreme Courts in the same Term. -She consults with and advises established businesses and startups using -free software in their products and service offerings in the US, Europe, -India, China and Korea. In 2015 she was named one of the Asia Society's -21 young leaders building Asia's future.

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In addition to an LLM, she has an LLB degree and a bachelors degree in -political science from the University of Delhi. Mishi is a member of the -Bar Council of Delhi, licensed to appear before the Supreme Court of -India, all the State High Courts in India, in the State of New York, and -before the Southern District of New York.

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George Chriss

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George Chriss is a technical developer who executes free software-based -solutions in innovative environments, most notably launching -OpenMeetings.org just prior to the first Open Video Conference in 2009. -In previous years George was an Editorial Assistant for ACS Nano and -provided live-streaming assistance at LibrePlanet 2013 and 2015. He's a -self-described hacker on small but notable projects including book -scanning, manual-entry OCR (handwritten documents), high-resolution -document magnification, and DIY woodworking.

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Jes Ciacci

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Member of Sursiendo, Comunicación y Cultura Digital working around the commons and linking activism on land and territory movements with free/libre software and culture spaces with a gender perspective. Concern about surveillance and self-defense strategies. Learning all the time.

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Marianne Corvellec

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Marianne Corvellec has been a Free Software activist with April since 2011. April is an advocacy association which has been promoting and defending Free Software in France and Europe since 1996. Marianne's focus has been on legal and institutional issues.

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Adrien Béraud

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Passionate about distributed networks, Adrien Béraud (OpenDHT Developer and Free-Software Consultant at Savoir-faire Linux) maintains the distributed hash table OpenDHT used for Ring. For Adrien, Ring is more than a communication tool. It is based on the community. Ring belongs to it and strengthens through it.

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Molly de Blanc

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Molly de Blanc lives in Cambridge, MA. She is the community coordinator for the Open edX Project. In addition to free software, she likes bikes, plants, and playing the bassoon.

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Kevin Connor

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Kevin Connor is the director of the Public Accountability Initiative (PAI), -a watchdog research organization focused on corporate and government -accountability. PAI conducts "power research," investigative research that -brings transparency to how power relationships shape policy in the United -States. PAI's research has consistently challenged the role of big money -and corporate power in our democracy, garnering major media attention and -prompting significant accountability measures and reforms. PAI's flagship -project is LittleSis.org (the opposite of Big Brother), an online wiki -database tracking information on powerful people and organizations. Kevin -co-founded PAI and LittleSis.org in 2008. Prior to that, he worked as a -strategic researcher at SEIU and as a freelance corporate accountability -researcher. His freelance projects included an early analysis of the role -played by Wall Street investment banks in causing the subprime crisis.

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Scott Dexter

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Scott Dexter is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he has taught since 1998. He has written extensively on free software, including the book, co-authored with philosopher Samir Chopra, Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software. He is particularly interested in getting his students--of extremely diverse backgrounds--hooked on free software.

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Nima Fatemi

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Nima Fatemi is an Iranian independent security researcher, focused on encryption, anonymity, privacy and censorship circumvention technologies. He is a core member of The Tor Project and the chief technology wizard of Library Freedom Project.

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Richard Fontana

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Richard Fontana is a lawyer at Red Hat. He leads support for Red Hat's engineering and research and development units and is Red Hat's lead counsel for legal issues relating to free software. Richard is also a board director of the Open Source Initiative.

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Mike Gerwitz

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Mike Gerwitz is a free software hacker and activist with a strong focus on security, privacy, and the Web. He is a volunteer for the GNU -project, an evaluator for software submissions to GNU, and author of GNU ease.js.

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Judy Gichoya

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Judy is a medical doctor and health informatician who has worked with OpenMRS from its inception. She has contributed as a developer, with over 6 implementations of OpenMRS worldwide and continues to support OpenMRS leadership regarding strategy and maintenance of partnerships.

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Judy brings a fresh look into free software systems for global health, challenging us to rethink systems and organizations as social enterprises that must manage resources efficiently in order to make an impact.

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Erin Glass

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Erin Glass just joined UCSD as Associate Director and Digital Humanities Coordinator of the Center for the Humanities. Prior to her move, she served as a Digital Fellow at The CUNY Graduate Center where she worked on developing software initiatives that fostered collaborative research while protecting user freedom. She is also co-founder of Social Paper, which received a NEH Digital Start-Up grant, and is currently at work on a dissertation which theorizes student writing as a site where political and technical consciousness is forged.

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Shauna Gordon-McKeon

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Shauna Gordon-McKeon is an independent researcher and developer who focuses on free technologies and communities. She runs a business, Galaxy Rise Consulting, providing web and mobile development and data science services to individuals and organizations. She can often be found using her skills as a writer, public speaker, and teacher to help free software and open science communities more accessible to newcomers.

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Sumana Harihareswara

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Sumana Harihareswara, founder of Changeset Consulting, is a FLOSS software contributor, programmer and project manager with over a decade of experience in the software industry. Her past leadership in nonprofit, academia, industry, and volunteer organizations earned her an Open -Source Citizen Award in 2011. She lives in New York City.

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Harihareswara frequently speaks and writes about technology, FLOSS and management; she was keynote speaker at Open Source Bridge in 2012, code4lib in 2014, and Wiki Conference USA in 2014.

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She was most recently Senior Technical Writer and Engineering Community Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation. She has also managed projects at Collabora, GNOME, QuestionCopyright.org, Fog Creek Software, Behavior, and Salon.com. From mid-2014 to early 2015, Harihareswara served as a member of the board of directors of the Ada Initiative. She holds an MS in Technology Management from Columbia University and and a BA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and participated in the Recurse Center in 2013 and 2014.

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Parker Higgins

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Parker Higgins is the Director of Copyright Activism at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in issues at the intersection of freedom of speech and copyright, trademark, and patent law. He previously lived and worked in Berlin, Germany.

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Benjamin Mako Hill

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Benjamin Mako Hill is a social scientist, technologist, and activist. In all three roles, he works to understand why some attempts at peer production — like Wikipedia and GNU/Linux — build large volunteer communities while the vast majority never attract even a second contributor. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. He is also a faculty affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and an affiliate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science — both at Harvard University. He has also been a leader, developer, and contributor to the free software community for more than a decade as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects. He is the author of several best-selling technical books, a member of the Free Software Foundation board of directors and an advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation. Hill has a Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab and a PhD from MIT in an interdepartmental program between the Sloan School of Management and the Media Lab.

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Carl Karsten

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I was on the PyCon 2007 conference committee and the number one complaint -in the post conference survey was that speakers did not provide -presentation files. I set out to solve that problem by recording the video -stream going to the projector. I later discovered how the Debian conference -did their videos: they use software designed to be used by conference -volunteers, and a work flow that makes the best use out of the few hours of -their time. I optimized that process to manage larger events and towards -getting the final videos online in under 24 hours. I created a company -called NextDayVideo and have since produced over 2000 vidoes of primarily -free software conferences.

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Bradley M. Kuhn is the President and Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy, on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and editor-in-chief of copyleft.org. Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various free software projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from 2001 - 2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn was appointed President of Software Freedom Conservancy in April 2006, was Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006 - 2010, and has been a full-time staffer since early 2011. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. Kuhn's Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of free software programming languages. Kuhn received the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2012, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing. Kuhn has a blog, is on pump.io, and co-hosts the audcast, Free as in Freedom.

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Bassam is a 3D animator/filmmaker whose 2006 short, Elephants Dream, was the first "open movie." It established the viability of libre tools in a production environment and set precedent by offering its source data under a permissive license for learning, remixing and re-use. His character, ManCandy, began as an easily animatable test bed for rigging experiments. Multiple iterations have been released to the public, and Bassam demonstrates him in the animated tutorial video + short, The ManCandy FAQ. Under the sign of the urchin, Bassam is continuing to pursue a model of production that invests in commonwealth. He teaches, writes and lectures around the world on free production and free software technique. Raised in Damascus, Bassam trained in the United States as an electrical and software engineer.

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Jonathan Le Lous

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Jonathan has been involved with the Free Software Movement for ten years, in France and now in Canada.

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Matt Lee

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Matt Lee is a free software hacker, film maker and artist living in Austin, TX.

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Lillian Lemmer

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Software engineer, leader of Hypatia Software Organization. Python developer, free software author; MIT licenses everything. FreeBSD enthusiast.

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Holger Levsen is contributing to Debian since more than 10 years. He founded the DebConf videoteam and created the Debian video archive at video.debian.net, was heavily involved in Debian-Edu and has now shifted has focus on QA and lately security. He maintains piuparts.debian.org and jenkins.debian.net, and on the later he set up reproducible.debian.net which by now is not only testing Debian packages for reproducibility but also coreboot, OpenWrt, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Archlinux and soon Fedora. Photo license: Diégo Antolinos-Basso, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Alison Macrina is a librarian, privacy activist, and the founder and -director of the Library Freedom Project. Alison is passionate about -connecting surveillance issues to larger global struggles for justice, -demystifying privacy and security technologies for ordinary users, and -resisting an internet controlled by a handful of intelligence agencies -and giant multinational corporations.

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Neil McGovern is the current Debian Project Leader. He's been a board -member of Software in the Public Interest, Inc and of the Open Rights -Group. An advocate of digital rights, free expression, and the use of -free software in general. Neil is currently the Engineering Manager for -Collabora - a free software consultancy.

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M. C. is the founder of Transparency Toolkit, a free software project that helps people use open data to expose surveillance and human rights abuses. He is also a Thiel Fellow and an Echoing Green Fellow. Previously, M. C. graduated from Boston University with a degree in civic technology and did research at the MIT Media Lab.

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Evan Misshula is the Project Manager for the NYC Tech Talent Pipeline Residency @ Queens College, an adjunct instructor at CUNY John Jay teaching network security and a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in Criminal Justice. He is active in numerous free software meetups in NYC. He is interested in helping marginalized groups (particularly those stigmatized by contact with the criminal justice system) use Free Software to increase social and economic mobility.

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Gibrán Montes

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Libre Software enthusiast, believes in collaborative work and digital freedoms defense. Has worked for many years to encourage the use and appropriation of free technology tools with a digital security approach within the local community and grassroot movements. Mutual Assistance Technical Communities (CTAM) program implementation link-coordinator with HRC Frayba, an iniciative of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and other organizations of the Latin America region to develop and improve their technical-digital skills.

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Deb Nicholson wants to make the world a better place with technology and social justice for all. After many years of local political organizing, she became an enthusiastic free software activist. She is currently the Community Outreach Director at the Open Invention Network and the Community Manager at GNU MediaGoblin. She also serves on the board at Open Hatch, aka Free Software's Welcoming Committee.

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FSF Latin America board member. GNU speaker. Free Software Evangelist. Maintainer of GNU Linux-libre, and co-maintainer of the GNU Compiler Collection, GNU binutils and GNU libc. GNU tools engineer at Red Hat Brasil.

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While working towards a BFA in Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art, Paige developed an interest in programming and a fascination in the complexity of natural systems. After graduation, Paige worked for mesh networking startup, Open Garden which helped to map her interest in natural decentralized systems onto concepts within technology. She previously organized San Francisco's bitcoin meetup and is fascinated by the freeing potential of cryptocurrencies. She currently fills various roles at MaidSafe with a focus on community and communication.

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I've been working on free software media technologies since the year 2000 when I joined the Sydney Linux User Group, implemented free software video content analysis algorithms at work, and joined Xiph to do what we called "Annodex" - annotated and searchable video. Fast forward to 2007, when I organised the first FOMS(http://www.foms-workshop.org/) and managed the team of volunteers at the Australian Linux Conference that would be the first to record and publish the conference talks using Ogg Theora (https://www.linux.org.au/conf/2007/Programme.html). I've since focused on Web standards around video. In 2007, Ogg Theora was going to be the file format for the video element on the Web - well, in the end it didn't, but it drew me in and I've not really let go since - I -went from working on the video element to captions with WebVTT and am now working on WebRTC through rtc.io.

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Cooper Quintin

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Cooper is a security researcher and programmer at EFF. He has worked on projects such as Privacy Badger, Canary Watch, Ethersheet, and analysis of state sponsored malware. He has also performed security trainings for activists, non profit workers and ordinary folks around the world. He previously worked building websites for non-profits, such as Greenpeace, Adbusters, and the Chelsea Manning Support Network. He also was a co-founder of the Hackbloc hacktivist collective. In his spare time he enjoys playing music and participating in street protests.

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Zak Rogoff

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Trained as an engineer, Zak is an activist who cares about technology's role in shaping society and social change. As a campaigns manager for the Free Software Foundation, his goal is to creatively communicate the role of freely licensed software in moving us toward a fair and free society.

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Guillaume Roguez

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What could possibly make thousands of free software advocates, ham -radio operators, researchers and physicians stand together? One -obscure FCC rulemaking proposal on wireless radios. Eric Schultz, one -of the leaders of the Save Wifi Initiative, discusses the details of -the extreme proposals of FCC to control how you use your -devices. You'll learn the history of regulators quietly locking down -wireless radios and how it's unintentionally extending to a lockdown -of the operating systems of devices. Finally, you'll find out some of -the problems with proposed workarounds for the FCC lock down -proposals.

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User freedom is threatened by the growing complexity of current -deployment and packaging directions. Running software (especially -server/networked software) is becoming too hard for the average user, -so many users are turning to the dangerous path of relying on large -corporations to do their computing for them. What can GNU do to turn -the tide here? Enter GNU Guix and GuixSD! This talk will walk -through Guix's unique positioning to provide totally free and -reproducible systems. A path will be laid out on how Guix could be -used as a foundation to run and maintain computing for -everyone, how you can get Guix and GuixSD running, and how to get -involved in the most hacking-friendly package manager/distro duo ever!

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The bad news is that educational technology has largely failed to -deliver on its promise. Its focus on efficiency rather than on learning -has resulted in a further reinforcement of education as a system of -instruction to curricula rather than one of student-driven construction -of knowledge.

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I'll discuss aspects of our behavior and jargon that stop or slow down -some new users and contributors in free software, so that in outreach -efforts, we can be better at bridging the gap. These include git's -terrible UI, our in-person conference structures, and widespread scorn -of and dismissiveness towards team sports, Top 40 music, patriotism, -religion, small talk, and Microsoft Windows. In getting rid of -unnecessary barriers, we need to watch out for disrespectful -oversimplification, so I'll outline ways you can know if one of our -weirdnesses is necessary. And I'll talk about how to mitigate the -effects of an inessential weirdness in your outreach efforts.

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Our movement rarely talks about freedom with much philosophical -nuance. In this talk, I'll try to put some flesh on the bones of -freedom by giving an introduction to Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's -capability approach, and applying it to software. The capability -approach (sometimes called the human development approach) is a -framework for thinking about human freedom that, since its development -in the early 90s, has been applied across a broad range of -philosophical, economic, and policy problems. Focused on what options -a person has to reach their goals, it is well-suited for understanding -where we succeed - and fail! - at actually freeing people.

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The MAME Project's main stated goal is to preserve historical computer -hardware. The strategy for achieving that objective is to inspect the -devices and then develop emulators for them. While most hardware is -undocumented and relies on proprietary firmware, the MAME development -community has nurtured strong reverse engineering practices since its -origins back in 1997.

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The techniques that we need to master in order to develop new -emulators include reverse engineering procedures that are also very -useful for aiding in the creation of free firmware solutions to -replace the non-free blobs used in a broad variety of daily-use -devices. These skills are also useful for the development of free -drivers for undocumented devices and in the porting of operating -systems and BIOSes to new hardware platforms. We need to strengthen a -community of skillful hardware reverse engineers so that we can solve -the freedom issues denounced by projects such as Linux-Libre and -Libreboot.

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Copyleft has faced serious challenges in the last five years. It's not -over: many more threats are on the way. Not by coincidence these -attacks on copyleft come when "open source" reaches new heights of -success. For example, hordes of software developers are funded full -time to churn out new free software, as long as it's not -copylefted. Some such code is specifically designed to replace -existing, widely used, copylefted programs.

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We want to share experiencies around Mexican social movements -migrating to free software and/or using other free tools. People of -different social processes are increasingly adopting FLOSS in their -daily activity to communicate and organize. Most of the motivation -came from digital security awareness but some times it goes a little -further (like be congruence with the defense of human rights). In the -way of facilitating those processes we have seen some advantages and -disadvantages and receive some feedback we want to share with the rest -of the community. Specially interesting for developers and technical -facilitators who want to share their own experiences in this topics -and strengthen links between FLOSS technical communities and Latin -American social movements. Intend to generate some ideas for improving -the linkages between both spaces not only for the software itself but -emphasizing the political aspects they share and how to empower -grassroots movements using free/libre tools.

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Patents, copyright and trademarks are sometimes conflated, and can all -limit your freedoms to control your computing and lives. For right, we -have an answer - copyleft. Patents are being fought on a number of -fronts, and work continues. However, trademarks can also seriously -hinder progress as well.

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Due to some specific clauses in the implementation of trademarks, it's -hard to allow people to use the 'brand' without the potential for losing -it. We need an easy and understood way of bringing the freedoms the GPL -ensures to this third leg of intellectual property law.

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The FSF High Priority Projects List guides volunteers and supporters -to projects where their skills can be utilized, whether they be in -coding, graphic design, writing, or activism.

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This strategic action session is for anyone interested in the -solidarity economy and asset-based community development. We'll -compare notes, network, and outline the ecosystem of services needed -to support the operations of community land trusts, worker -co-operatives, sharing networks, and other democratic economic -initiatives. We'll also explore how free software technology can help -activists organize and manage investments, alliances, and information -resources. Hopefully both hardware and software solutions will be -discussed. I'll facilitate the session and am open to the -"unconference" style, where the content of the session is decided by -whoever shows up. I'll prepare an overview of the topic, with an -emphasis on designing tactics for people without a background in -technology. Security, control, and sustainability will be core -concepts.

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Project "De-google-ify -Internet" aims at offering -as many alternative services as possible to those threatening our -digital freedoms. Google is not the only player there, even though it -gave the project its name. Google Drive, Google Calendar, Skype, -Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Doodle, Yahoo Groups, and many -others, are extremely convenient services. But they are centralized -and make users dependent.

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Projects with a significant number of contributors and users will face -decisions where they are no longer able to fulfill the needs and -desires of all stakeholders. When this happens some people become -upset. A subset of those people become so upset they vent their -frustrations on Twitter. I have collected tweets that express a -negative sentiment towards decisions made within free software -communities and by decision makers for free software projects. These -were then categorized based on the decision type (e.g. licensing) and -outcome (e.g. switching licenses). I hope to create a greater -community understanding of decision making processes, develop a -discussion about how communities and decision makers can move forward -to better balance the wants and needs of stakeholders, and make a few -crass jokes that possibly violate the Code of Conduct.

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Librarians have long been defenders of democratic ideals like free -speech and privacy, not only providing access to information and -technology freely, but also by fighting back against threats to civil -liberties like the USA PATRIOT Act and National Security Letters. In -the post-Snowden era, libraries have taken this activism further and are -teaching FLOSS privacy-enhancing technologies to their patrons in free -computer classes, and installing these tools on library PCs. Nima Fatemi -and Alison Macrina of Library Freedom Project will talk about how LFP -kickstarted this movement of radical crypto-librarians, and how FLOSS -tools like Tor Browser, Signal, OTR, GPG, and Tails are being deployed -and taught in libraries to an overwhelmingly positive reception. Nima -and Alison will also discuss LFP's newest project, bringing Tor exit -relays into libraries, what happened when the Department of Homeland -Security tried to shut down that project at a small New Hampshire -library – and how the local and global community fought back and won.

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Scaling your free software system: lessons from a decade of OpenMRS | Recording or slides available

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By sheer luck and opportunity, a group of four doctors in 2004 at a -restaurant used napkins to sketch the data model of what they thought -would be a simple electronic medical records system.

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Fast track to today, this simple medical records system is known as -OpenMRS (Open Medical Record System), a free medical records system in -use in over 42 countries in the world. For example, when Google worked -on the ‘Ebola tablet’ under project Buendia, OpenMRS powered it. After -the national disaster in Haiti struck, OpenMRS powered the new -Mirebalais hospital. Six countries committed to deploy OpenMRS as -their national EMR system including Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria, -Philippines and Bangladesh. OpenMRS has never hired developers for the -decade of existence, yet every single day people from all over the -world come to our platform and ask us how can they get involved?

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This session shares a decade of running a lean organization to provide -free medical records software, what has worked and what threatens our -sustainability.

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The presentation will describe how the Debian reproducible builds team -made 85% of the Debian archive reproducible, what steps are left to -reach 100% and what steps are needed beyond reproducible builds, so -that every user can easily and meaningful benefit from them.

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The presentation will be largely about the Debian work on the -area, but it will also portray other projects work on reproducible -builds, as our goal is to make reproducible builds the norm for free -software: "It's not free software if it's not reproducible."

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Want to advance free software? Learn to engage and connect with others | Recording or slides available

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The free software movement has done well in the last few years, and -has even inspired a new generation of activists advocating for -software freedom. However, in a software-driven society where -everything from cars, watches, and even medical devices run on -non-free software, the free software community has its work cut out -for it. In order to enact significant social change, we need to work -with legislators, other activists, and local community leaders. Their -help is crucial.

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How do we connect our community to other groups? In order to gain -support, the first step we must take is to engage with the public on -how non-free software can affect their everyday lives negatively. Even -the most non-technical person can become engaged with the social and -technical benefits to free software, if given the chance. This session -will discuss how each and every one of us in the free software -movement can engage with others, promoting the ideals of a society -running on free software in a way that each person can personally -appreciate.

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Will there be a next great Copyright Act?

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The first day of LibrePlanet 2016 marks the third anniversary of -Register of Copyright's emphatic call for a comprehensive rewrite of -the United States Copyright Act -- the first such effort -since 1976. Congress has taken up the charge, holding dozens of -hearings and floating multiple bills. Meanwhile, trade negotiations -and extralegal agreements have changed the state of play. Where does -it all stand, and what can activists looking for common sense reform -do next? This session will describe recent progress and the lay of the -land on copyright terms, the public domain, DRM laws, policy -laundering, fair use, and more topics of immediate interest to the -free software community. It will describe activism efforts underway to -defend the rights of the public as legislation gets proposed. Finally, -it will foolishly attempt to predict the future. Will we see a Next -Great Copyright Act?

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Effective outreach in four steps | Recording or slides available

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The full potential of free software is to break down the barriers to -technology and to participation, and to include users and contributors -from a wide range of backgrounds. There are four key steps for making -communities diverse and inclusive: creating a welcoming environment, -teaching skills, fostering connections, and increasing visibility of -contributors from underrepresented backgrounds. Whether you are a -prospective contributor wondering what an inclusive community looks -like, a project contributor wanting to take concrete steps to improve -your project's outreach, or a project leader looking to create a -diversity strategy for your community, this talk will have the -information you need. Marina will share best practices and inspiring -stories from her years of experience in free software diversity -outreach in roles including outreach specialist at Red Hat, -co-organizer of Outreachy, advisor and director for the Ada -Initiative, and outreach lead for GNOME.

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Take control of your communication with Ring! | Recording or slides available

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Do you know Ring? It's a free software for -real-time communication. Developed by Savoir-faire -Linux and a community of -contributors, it operates in peer-to-peer - so without a central -server. Communication is -tightly coupled to the sense of liberty. Ring let users keep control -of their exchanges.

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It allows you to make audio or video calls, and to send messages - in -confidence and safely. Currently in an alpha version, Ring is even -more than that! Available on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, and Android, -it can be associated with a conventional phone service, integrated -with any connected device, and adapted to the specific needs of -users. It is a combination of technologies and innovations opening all -kinds of perspectives for everyone!

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During this presentation, you will understand how Ring is built to -respect privacy and how you can use it. You will also discover why it -is an essential tool for the future and how Ring defends freedom.

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Libreboot: free your BIOS today!

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Libreboot - free software BIOS replacement (boot firmware), based on -coreboot, for laptops and servers, and x86 (Intel/AMD) and ARM hardware.

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Libreboot is a free software BIOS replacement (boot firmware), based -on coreboot, for Intel, AMD and ARM based systems. Backed by the Free -Software Foundation, the aim of the Libreboot project is to provide -individuals and companies with an escape from proprietary firmware in -their computing. Libreboot is also being reviewed for entry as an -official component of the GNU system.

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Boot firmware is the low-level software that runs when you turn your -computer on, which initializes the hardware and starts a bootloader -for your operating system. Libreboot currently supports laptops and -servers, on x86 (Intel and AMD) and ARM (Rockchip RK3288), with more -hardware support on the horizon. The purpose of this talk is to -describe the history of the project, why it started, why it's -important, where it's going and, most importantly, to tell people how -they can get involved.

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Leah also runs the Minifree (formerly Gluglug) at -https://minifree.org/, a company that sells computers with libreboot -and Trisquel GNU/Linux pre-installed.

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Advocate for yourself at work: use more free software and keep contributing to the community | Recording or slides available

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Your workplace can exert a lot of control over how much free software -you use, what you're allowed to work on in your own time and what -kinds of tools you become an expert in. New employees don't always -negotiate their contracts to make sure they can continue contributing -to free software and current employees aren't always successful at -advocating for using free software tools, choosing free software -technologies or contributing changes back upstream when they do rely -on free software. We'll address what's possible, what your legal -department is likely to be concerned about and how to be a smooth -negotiator at work. Many companies could benefit tremendously from -using FLOSS, but free software enthusiasts and institutional -gatekeepers are coming from very different perspectives. Free software -developers and users tend to be most familiar with free software's -benefits when compared to proprietary solutions; user freedom, reusing -code, public code review for bugs, increased project capacity and -cost. The uninitiated may -- unfortunately -- be most familiar with -the risks, some real and some perceived. Employers also benefit from -having workers who are passionate about their work, are well-connected -to the free software community and are constantly learning about new -technologies from their peers outside the company, but new employee -contracts rarely recognize this unless you ask. Conversations about -contracts, choosing new technologies and sharing an employee's work -with another entity are high stakes negotiations. With a solid -understanding of what worries and motivates the other parties, you can -become a savvy advocate for free software at work. This talk will help -you gather information, frame the conversation and make the best -possible case for using and contributing to free software at work.

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The Singularity, the Matrix, and the Terminator | Recording or slides available

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In fiction, we have often faced our fear that man-made creatures will -become smart enough to subjugate us. As technology evolves, the -Singularity may seem an inevitable looming future, but such -intelligent beings have actually been with us for a very long -time. Over many decades, they disabled the checks intended to keep -them under our control, and turned most of us into their much-needed -servants, who now live in an artificial reality they created to -control us, while our planet can hardly support our life much -longer. These creatures grew more powerful and smarter with our -technological advances, but then they sent their agents back to -disable our defenses and the leaders of our resistance, turning many -of our tools and much of our infrastructure against us. They vaporized -our freedoms, and a dark cloud now covers most of the planet. We still -have one card left up our sleeves to tame these creatures, but we need -more Neos and Connors to play it successfully. Are you up for it?

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Restore online freedom! | Recording or slides available

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Imagine a world where surveillance is the default and users must opt-in to privacy. Imagine that your every action is logged and analyzed to learn how you behave, what your interests are, and what you might do next. Imagine that, even on your fully free operating system, proprietary software is automatically downloaded and run not only without your consent, but often without your knowledge. In this world, even free software cannot be easily modified, shared, or replaced. In many cases, you might not even be in control of your own computing -- your actions and your data might be in control by a remote entity, and only they decide what you are and are not allowed to do.

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This may sound dystopian, but this is the world you're living in right now. The Web today is an increasingly hostile, freedom-denying place that propagates to nearly every aspect of the average users' lives -- from their PCs to their phones, to their TVs and beyond. But before we can stand up and demand back our freedoms, we must understand what we're being robbed of, how it's being done, and what can (or can't) be done to stop it.

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Lightning talks are short presentations given by conference attendees on free software topics they're passionate about. Come to talk, or just to listen to people from all corners of the free software community.

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Decentralizing the Internet with FreedomBox | Recording or slides available

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FreedomBox is a personal server with a free software stack running the -Universal OS that hosts on demand applications such as file sharing, -shared calendaring, instant messaging, secure voice conference calling, -blog and wiki. Unlike proprietary service platforms, FreedomBox -software guarantees its users' rights, and works only for them, an -indispensable attribute in the post-Snowden world.

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The session demonstrates important applications of FreedomBox with the -goal to engage the listeners into using, building and contributing to -FreedomBox.

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Building new economies for open development and content | Recording or slides available

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Shifting perspectives on the value of Free/Libre software development -and Creative Commons content creation would open up opportunities for -individuals working in these fields as we finally see a push towards -an economy that makes sense for the Internet. This will be an overview -of some platforms creating these new opportunities and ways we can -think about how an economy can exist in the digital world beyond the -artificial scarcity that comes with keeping code and content locked -down or secret. The session should include group discussion about -platforms, philosophies and experiences folks working in free/libre -software and creative commons content.

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Digital resources such as software programs can be easily copied and -shared, but distribution is restrained by technical, legal, and -cultural means. The free culture community is not the first to fight -"artificial scarcity." What can we learn from other communities and -movements?

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This presentation will be a series of case studies covering a variety -of other forms of artificial scarcity, including food waste, housing -vacancy, and the destruction of excess retail merchandise. We'll focus -on efforts to combat this scarcity, highlighting what's worked and -drawing lessons from what hasn't.

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By exploring the connections between free culture and other -anti-scarcity movements, we'll find new approaches, new allies, and -new opportunities to stand up for the public commons.

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Getting the academy to support free software and open science | Recording or slides available

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Academic Institutions and their researchers are some of the biggest -beneficiaries of free software development. While individual -researchers have contributed greatly to free software, they usually do -so outside of the scope of their regular jobs and to the detriment of -their academic careers. At CUNY, we have taken steps to change this -unacceptable situation. Please come to this session and exchange ideas -and strategies for having contributions to free software valued by the -University.

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Taking back our freedom: free software for sousveillance | Recording or slides available

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The surveillance state is driven by secrecy. But everything leaves a -data trail and the intelligence community itself is no exception -- -even the NSA is vulnerable to surveillance. Transparency Toolkit is a -free software project that helps anyone investigate surveillance -programs.

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By making tools to help collect and analyze publicly available data -like resumes, job listings, social media, and government contracts, we -are using free software and open data to track and expose the -surveillance state. In this talk, I'll discuss some of the interesting -things we've found, how Transparency Toolkit's software works, and how -people can use our tools to investigate issues they care about.

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Trans Code: free software as model & critique of diversity by transgender hackers | Recording or slides available

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Gender and racial diversity initiatives have been an important social -force in the free software movement in the last several years. These -social justice campaigns have been successful: see for example -PyCon. However, those further marginalized, such as transgender -hackers, may not feel properly included in these initiatives. They -have turned to free software as a model for their own liberation as -well as a way to critique the culture of the status quo and mainstream -diversity initiatives.

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This talk, co-given by a trans hacker and an anthropologist, -highlights how free software offers powerful models and critiques of -the lack of gender diversity in the free software movement by -retelling several ethnographic stories of a free software project led -by and comprised of trans women.

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By presenting these ethnographic stories we wish to springboard with -the audience a conversation of the value of challenges from below to -diversity initiatives in free software and the tech industry at large.

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Blender is a versatile Free 3D animation program that is most famously -used as an artist tool. However, it also has a rich, pythonic and -consistent api that allows extending and controlling the -application. We'll explore techniques to use this api for creating 3D -meshes, that could be a foundation/ inspiration for generative -architecture or art.

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The license compliance industry purportedly helps information -technology companies and other actors to use publicly available -software, and in particular free software, in a way that is compliant -with the relevant free software licenses. In this talk we will review -why the license compliance industry exists and discuss, from an -external point of view, how it operates. We will then highlight some -potential ethical issues on the current best practices for license -compliance in the industry, and propose community-oriented -alternatives that we can build, today, on top of the existing corpus -of publicly available free software.

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An 'intermediate' panel designed to provide a working overview of -diversified libre media communities blended with per-project technical -development updates, organizational adoption challenges, -community-centric user-experience goals and other novel discussions -regarding video production both generally and as it relates to -conference video production (e.g., session recording and -live-streaming).

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Through our Defective by Design campaign, the Free Software Foundation is organizing against a proposal by Hollywood and major software companies to weave DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) into Web standards. The campaign is coming to a head this year, as the proposed restriction standards near a final decision by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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