From 360e41b23546a990770f3bdb5b5d3980c92cf6c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zak Rogoff Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 12:51:44 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Adding a whole bunch of new speaker and session info/headshots as per ticket 987523. My recent commits have all been on that ticket, but I hadn't been lumping them together until now. --- 2015/program/index.html | 26 ++++++++++++-------------- 2015/program/speakers.html | 24 ++++++++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/2015/program/index.html b/2015/program/index.html index 99831970..6a7047ca 100755 --- a/2015/program/index.html +++ b/2015/program/index.html @@ -63,11 +63,9 @@ Contents
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Engaging Nepali kids with free software

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Engaging Nepali kids with Free Software

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One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is an educational project whose goal is to provide resources to children around the world to be able to learn in a self-directed manner using an inexpensive laptop. Earlier this year, I spent six months in Nepal volunteering for the local educational non-profit OLE Nepal, which employs OLPC laptops to provide better educational opportunities in schools that lack resources and governmental support. Kids from elementary schools chosen for the laptop program get to learn with interactive activities that OLE designed based on Nepali curricula.

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During my stay, I had a few chances to visit some of these schools and witness XOs (OLPC laptops running the free operating system Sugar) in action in the classroom. I will share my observations about the number of ways in which the laptop program is making a meaningful impact on Nepali children's learning. I have seen that free software is not restricted to the West anymore, but is present even in some of the most remote places of the world. Through sharing my experience, I am hoping to expose participants of the conference to a new context in which free software is being encountered by people who have never used a computer before.

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Last year, I spent six months volunteering with a Nepali educational non-profit called Open Learning Exchange, which develops interactive educational activities for OLPC laptops used by students in elementary schools. During my talk, I will share my experience about what free software can do to provide better educational opportunities in these schools that lack resources and governmental support we take for granted.

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Fork and ignore: fighting a GPL violation by coding instead

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Typically, GPL enforcement activity involves copyright infringement actions which compel license violators to correct errors in their GPL compliance, defending the policy goals of the GPL: the rights of developers and users to copy, share, modify and redistribute.

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While traditional enforcement is often undeniably necessary for embedded electronics products, novel approaches to GPL violations are often possible and even superior for more traditional software distributions.

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Recently, Software Freedom Conservancy engaged in an enforcement action whereby, rather than fight the violator in court, we instead provided resources and assistance to a vetted GPL-compliant fork of a violating codebase.

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Free software for medical imaging: bringing technological independence to hospitals

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In this talk, I will explain the pains behind modern medical imaging, from the perspective of the hospitals. The DICOM standard will be introduced, together with free software supporting this standard. I will then put emphasis on the free software Orthanc, a lightweight, versatile, vendor-neutral archive. Orthanc is conceived as a central, robust building block to bring technological independence to clinical departments, by automating their very specific imaging flows and by creating free gateways between proprietary systems.

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This talk discusses which scenarios make this remedy optimal and the lessons learned. The talk includes some licensing and technical content about vetting the licensing information of codebases.

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When copyleft business models go bad... and how Kallithea's community recovered

+ Bradley Kuhn +

Kallithea is a self-hosted source code management system that exists thanks to a GPL violation and subsequent compliance action by Software Freedom Conservancy. Hear how a copyleft license violation and careful license vetting helped a software development community begin anew, and learn why licensing wonks and release engineers can make a huge impact on the health of a project's community.

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Let's encrypt!

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Let's encrypt: a free certificate authority to encrypt the entire Web

Seth Schoen -

Description coming soon.

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This year a robotic certificate authority will start issuing publicly-trusted certificates, at no charge, by the millions. Called Let's Encrypt, this CA is an initiative of several organizations. Our free software and open protocol will let sysadmins run a single command to turn on HTTPS on their servers in about a minute, helping eliminate obstacles to activating encryption for every web server. I'll describe how it all works and give a demo. We need lots of testing and integration help!

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Nicole Allen, SPARC

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Martin Dluhoš, Charles University

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I originally come from the Czech Republic. While in high school, I became curious about the idea of liberal arts education and ended up enrolling in a liberals arts college in the Midwest called Grinnell. I vaguely heard about GNU/Linux somewhere before, but had never used any distribution myself. As I learned about the free software universe from my professors, I became excited about the opportunity to try new software legally, look under its hood, as well as to show it to others and demonstrate it on their own computers. Later on, my interest in GNU/Linux lead me to an internship at the Free Software Foundation in summer 2011.

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After Google Summer of Code interlude at Puppet Labs in Portland, I returned to Boston to rejoin the sysadmin team at the FSF upon my college graduation. After about a year, I eventually decided to bid farewell to the east coast to explore the world a little. While in Boston, I was fortunate to meet a few people involved with education project One Laptop Per Child who inspired me to contribute as well. At OLPC summit in San Francisco last fall, I decided to volunteer with a Nepali non-profit OLE Nepal, which has been running the laptop program in schools mainly in rural areas of the country for a few years. I spent six months in OLE's Kathmandu office, where I primarily worked on a system that processed and visualized usage data gathered from the laptops at Nepali schools.

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After graduating with a CS degree from a small liberal arts college in Iowa, I worked for a year as a sysadmin at the FSF. In 2013, I decided to embark on a six-month volunteering project in Nepal, where I worked with a local educational non-profit Open Learning Exchange affiliated with One Laptop Per Child. Nowadays, I am back home in the Czech Republic taking more CS courses at Charles University in Prague and contemplating what education means.

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From Nepal, I headed back home to the Czech Republic after living abroad for nearly six years. This summer, I enrolled in a two-year CS Masters program at Charles University in Prague, currently majoring in software engineering.

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Sebastien Jodogne, Orthanc

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Sébastien holds a PhD. degree in Computer Science from the University of Liège (Belgium). His research work was acknowledged by the IBM Belgium Award in 2002. Between 2006 and 2011, he implemented high-performance image analysis software for machine vision, CCTV and broadcasting. Since 2011, he has been working as a medical imaging engineer at the University Hospital of Liège, where he develops the free software Orthanc for medical imaging. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning and software engineering.

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Bradley Kuhn, Software Freedom Conservancy

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Bradley M. Kuhn is the President and Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). 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 the FSF's executive director from 2001 to 2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its associate member program, and invented the Affero GPL. From 2005-2010, Kuhn worked as the policy analyst and technology director of the Software Freedom Law Center. 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. His Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of free software languages. Kuhn has a blog at http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/ , a microblog at http://identi.ca/bkuhn/, and co-hosts the audcast Free as in Freedom at http://faif.us/.

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Bradley M. Kuhn is President and Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy, on Free Software Foundation's Board of Directors, and editor-in-chief of copyleft.org. Kuhn was FSF's Executive Director from 2001-2005, where he led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented Affero GPL. Kuhn was appointed Conservancy's President in April 2006, volunteered from 2006-2010, and has been on staff since 2011. Kuhn holds a B.S from Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. from the University of Cincinnati.

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Seth Schoen, Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Seth Schoen has worked at EFF over a decade, creating the Staff Technologist position and helping other technologists understand the civil liberties implications of their work, EFF staff better understand technology related to EFF's legal work, and the public understand what products they use really do. He helped create the LNX-BBC live CD and has researched phenomena including laser printer forensic tracking codes, ISP packet spoofing, and key recovery from computer RAM after a computer has been turned off. He has testified before the U.S. Copyright Office, U.S. Sentencing Commission, and in several courts.

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Seth Schoen is Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. As the first-ever staff technologist at EFF, he helps EFF's staff and the public understand the technologies they use. He works on technology research and development to protect users' freedom and privacy.

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Seth has been working on the Let's Encrypt project with EFF, the University of Michigan, Mozilla, and our other partners for several years, and is thrilled to see it poised to launch publicly.

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