From 3256ecdcf41e98ab456079a195c3eb1c5e440986 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zak Rogoff Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 09:58:25 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Updating schedule --- 2017/program/generated-bios.html | 225 ++++++++++++++++++--------- 2017/program/generated-sessions.html | 74 ++++++--- 2017/speakers.ids | 2 + 3 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-) diff --git a/2017/program/generated-bios.html b/2017/program/generated-bios.html index ea46621e..ac246fb6 100644 --- a/2017/program/generated-bios.html +++ b/2017/program/generated-bios.html @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@

Beyond unfree: The software you can go to jail for talking about

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and -blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of many +blogger — the co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of many books, most recently In Real Life, a graphic novel; Information Doesn't Want to be Free, a book about earning a living in the Internet age; and Homeland, the award-winning, best-selling sequel @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Glenn Gould Foundation.

When we fight we win: Technology and liberation in Trump’s America

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As a writer, her work appears on the website of her consultancy, -Changeset Consulting, as well as her personal blog. She has +Changeset Consulting, as well as her personal blog. She has written for numerous publications, including Crooked Timber, Geek Feminism, GNOME Journal, Linux World News, Model View Culture, Linux World News, GNOME Journal, The Recompiler, and Tor.com. In 2009, she @@ -186,13 +186,22 @@ gaming, geocaching, pinball, hockey, and science fiction.

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Al Carter

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Batten down the hatches - A non-technical security workshop for activists

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Albert Carter is a programmer at MIT CSAIL's Big Data +Initiative. Outside of the office, he works on issues surrounding +environmental activism, bicycles, and rock climbs.

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Máirín Duffy

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Animated GIF Workshop with Gimp

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Animated GIF workshop with Gimp

Máirín Duffy learned the downside of proprietary software before her career even started: student projects she'd completed her freshman year of college were bitrot by her senior year. She is now a passionate advocate for the use of free software, particularly creative software like Gimp and Inkscape. Máirín uses free software exclusively for her award-winning design work at Red Hat and has taught numerous workshops to share her knowledge at local schools, tech conferences, and community organizations. She is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat's Boston area office and works on the Fedora project.

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William attends, organizes, and speaks worldwide at: conferences, conventions, events, festivals, and faires; on the topics of -crowdmatching, communication, indieweb, infosec, linux, music, and +crowdmatching, communication, indieweb, infosec, gnu/linux, music, and sci-fi/fantasy. He is very approachable and will always be found wearing a kilt.

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Tiberius Hefflin

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The monster on the project

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Security, privacy, free software and accessibility

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Helen Jiang

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Machine learning: key battleground for free and open source technology

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Machine learning: Key battleground for free technology

Trained in Mathematics and Statistics, Helen now does research at the intersection of machine learning and security. She has worked on exciting projects and explored many areas of knowledge in management @@ -733,7 +744,7 @@ long-distance running.

Alex Jordan

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Pump.io - the federated, extensible social network

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Pump.io - The federated, extensible social network

AJ Jordan is an 18-year-old programmer and system administrator from Seattle, WA. He's been contributing to free software for several years and in particular is the primary maintainer of the pump.io reference @@ -781,6 +792,19 @@ contribution in firefox in it's about:credits page

Spencer Krum

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Introduction to Ansible

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Spencer (nibalizer) Krum (http://spencerkrum.com) has been sysoping +Linux since 2010. He works for IBM contributing upstream to OpenStack +and Puppet. Spencer is a core contributor to the OpenStack +Infrastructure Project. Spencer coordinates the local DevOps user +group in Portland and volunteers for an ops-training program at +Portland State University called the Braindump. Spencer is a published +author and frequent speaker at technical conferences. Spencer is a +maintainer for the voxpupuli effort(https://voxpupuli.org), which +attempts to bring together a network of Puppet developers, modules, +and infrastructure.

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Deborah Nicholson

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Patents, copyrights and trademarks: won't someone please think of the children?

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Patents, copyrights and trademarks: Won't someone please think of the children?

Patents, copyrights and trademark rights have been growing and expanding in scope and application. In most cases, it seems the original intent of spurring innovation or protecting creators has @@ -1009,7 +1033,29 @@ computing and policy.

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SecureDrop: Leaking safely to modern news organizations

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Conor Schaefer is the Senior DevOps Engineer for Freedom of the Press +Foundation, specializing in automation and deployment for the +SecureDrop platform. He has taught computer literacy and IT +certification courses for the underprivileged, and worked as a GNU/Linux +sysadmin and developer for academic researchers.

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Will the FCC still ban your operating system? (Maybe.)

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Eric Schultz is an independent software engineer and free software +consultant. Currently, he is the Community Manager at prpl Foundation +with a particular focus on building the OpenWrt community. Prior to +this, Eric worked as Developer Advocate at Outercurve Foundation where +he managed and supported the foundation’s 25 free software +projects. Eric has collaborated with employees from dozens of +companies to create free software that improves lives. He has a +passion for the promise and reality of free software, with a focus on +empowering individuals, particularly in marginalized groups, with more +control over their everyday lives. Eric lives in Appleton, Wisconsin +where outside of work he enjoys developing free software, watching the +Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Bucks, and tweeting about technology, +politics, sports and his Yorkie, Penelope.

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Let's encrypt office hours

Noah is a Staff Technologist on the Tech Projects team. He works on the various software the EFF produces and maintains, including but not limited to Privacy Badger and Certbot. Noah also works on the security and training materials that EFF uses to teach people about internet security and privacy.

Before joining EFF Noah was a researcher at the MIT Media Lab as well as a free software/culture advocate. Noah is an avid conference organizer and has organized events such as the Roguelike Celebration, LineConf, and the Stupid Shit That Nobody Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon. He lives in the Mission District of San Francisco with his family of twitterbots.

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Free software & the law: A lighthearted trip down memory laney

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Free software & the law: A lighthearted trip down memory laney

Robinson has over a decade of experience in FOSS development, organization, & outreach, with an emphasis on Serious Games, productivity, & Higher Ed.

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The Lisp Machine and GNU

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The Lisp machine and GNU

Lead developer of GNU MediaGoblin, Guile and Guix enthusiast, free software and free culture activist. Works on the ActivityPub federation standard, and way too many other things.

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You, too, can write reproducible software!

Valerie Young is Debian contributor who became involved in the Reproducible Builds through Outreachy. She also serves the Free Software Community from her position on the board of directors of Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

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diff --git a/2017/program/generated-sessions.html b/2017/program/generated-sessions.html index 490b90cf..71ae4a4b 100644 --- a/2017/program/generated-sessions.html +++ b/2017/program/generated-sessions.html @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Kade Crockford

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One of the main benefits of free software is the inherent distribution of power among the members of community. Yet, one of the backbones of a free software project, the infrastructure, is often controlled by only a few people, a situation which causes all kind of issues on a philosophical as well as practical level. -However, thanks to the rise of the movement of configuration as code in the last years, great progress have been made on that front. -The first part of this talk will show how the modern methods can be used to empower community and increase the transparency of what is going on at an infrastructure level, and why it matter for resilience to security. Then we will examine practical concerns often raised by system administrators, and the various way to complement transparency to nurture a community caring about the project infrastructure.

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One of the main benefits of free software is the inherent distribution of power among the members of community. Yet, one of the backbones of a free software project, the infrastructure, is often controlled by only a few people, a situation which causes all kind of issues on a philosophical as well as practical level.

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However, thanks to the rise of the movement of configuration as code in the last years, great progress have been made on that front.

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The first part of this talk will show how the modern methods can be used to empower community and increase the transparency of what is going on at an infrastructure level, and why it matter for resilience to security. Then we will examine practical concerns often raised by system administrators, and the various way to complement transparency to nurture a community caring about the project infrastructure.

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Security and Operations Workshop

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Security and operations workshop

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It's 2017 and the trolls are out in force. Come here for an easy and approachable workshop on securing your accounts and personal information.

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We'll be examining and protecting from threats through the lens of past and ongoing security failures. Want to prevent your emails from showing up on Anthony Weiner's personal computer? Want to prevent your photos from appearing in the next fappening? Or just want to find out John Podesta's secret to creamy risotto... Along with his primary password?

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This workshop might be for you.

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Topics we'll cover include secure communications, password management, encryption, and mitigating additional operational threats.

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11:50 - 12:35: Session block 2A

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Security and operations workshop

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It's 2017 and the trolls are out in force. Come here for an easy and approachable workshop on securing your accounts and personal information.

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We'll be examining and protecting from threats through the lens of past and ongoing security failures. Want to prevent your emails from showing up on Anthony Weiner's personal computer? Want to prevent your photos from appearing in the next fappening? Or just want to find out John Podesta's secret to creamy risotto... Along with his primary password?

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This workshop might be for you.

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13:50 - 14:35: Session block 3A

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To understand how mass surveillance is allowed to exist, we must recognize it as a form of violence; one of many kinds that are necessary to support and maintain the inequities of capitalism. As free software activists, we must organize to build systems that are capable of not only defending us now, but also strike at the roots by promoting ecological and economic sustainability for the future. Using the Storj project as a case study, we will analyze these power structures and how free software can be used to undermine them.

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There is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer and, as it turns out, that "someone else" is not your friend. We have been working tirelessly to take the cloud and bring it back down to the people, so that we can ensure it is equipped with the security, privacy, and potential for ecological sustainability that we all deserve. Gordon will be discussing how Storj Labs built their free software distributed object storage platform for developers with Node.js and demonstrating the tools that were developed to make it possible. He will cover implementations of Storj and how they have redefined what's possible in sustainable technology that respects the rights of all users.

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Introduction to Ansible

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Software purchased and used by our cities, states, and national governments is both a resource to be managed, like our wild places, and an infrastructure to be maintained, like our roads and bridges. These are our collective property and responsibility. -Many governments are afraid of releasing software into public view because of security concerns, lack of support, or contract complications. Education for civil servants and improved oversight for vendors can mitigate these concerns and increase the amount of government-purchased software that is released under a free license.

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Software purchased and used by our cities, states, and national governments is both a resource to be managed, like our wild places, and an infrastructure to be maintained, like our roads and bridges. These are our collective property and responsibility.

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Many governments are afraid of releasing software into public view because of security concerns, lack of support, or contract complications. Education for civil servants and improved oversight for vendors can mitigate these concerns and increase the amount of government-purchased software that is released under a free license.

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Introduction to Ansible

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Pump.io - the federated, extensible social network

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Pump.io - The federated, extensible social network

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Pentesting loves Free Software

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Pentesting loves free software

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Announcement of the 2017 Free Software Awards

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SecureDrop: leaking safely to modern news organizations

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SecureDrop: Leaking safely to modern news organizations

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Algorithms are the new boogie men when it comes to social control and institutional discrimination. Recent research suggests a somewhat counter-intuitive approach to ameliorating bias. One must not be blind to race, gender, and other demographic categories that experience discrimination--on the contrary, one must actively monitor these factors. -In this panel, each panelist will present his or her views for a few minutes, leaving ample time for comments and questions from the audience. This format worked very well for the LibrePlanet 2014 session, “Promoting free software adoption (and creation) in the public sector”, where audience involvement was passionate and well-informed.

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Algorithms are the new boogie men in social control and institutional discrimination. There is bias and lack of accountability in the algorithms that determine who gets hired for a job, who can get a loan, who qualifies for insurance, and even who goes to jail.

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Sharing the source code implementing algorithms isn’t enough. Bias may be built into algorithms: for instance, an algorithm using actual random stops and arrests could recommend harsh treatment for blacks, as they are targeted more frequently by cops.

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Research suggests a counter-intuitive approach to ameliorating bias. One must not be blind to demographic categories who experience discrimination--instead one must actively monitor these factors.

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Panelists will present their views for a few minutes, then taking comments and questions from the audience.

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diff --git a/2017/speakers.ids b/2017/speakers.ids index 2df6f7ca..1666874b 100644 --- a/2017/speakers.ids +++ b/2017/speakers.ids @@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ "Deborah Nicholson": "nicholson", "Alexandre Oliva": "oliva", "Andrew Oram": "oram", + "Conor Schaefer": "schaefer", "Michael Scherer": "scherer", + "Eric Schultz": "schultz", "Andrew Seeder": "seeder", "Mustafa Shameem": "shameem", "Brett Smith": "smith", -- 2.25.1