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Arvados: a free software platform for big data science

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Large-scale scientific computing work often runs on clusters with petabytes of attached storage and specialized networking. Arvados is a free software platform to store and analyze large data sets, emphasizing reproducibility and compatibility across deployments. It's licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, with SDKs under the Apache License 2.0. This talk will provide a technical introduction to Arvados, describe how research projects like the Personal Genome Project have used it, and suggest other applications.

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Attribution revolution -- turning copyright upside-down

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Reusing works licensed under free licenses seems pretty simple, but it can often be quite time consuming. One image or a few lines of source code might be okay, but keeping track of the license and attribution of a thousand different pieces, or when quoting from massive data sets such as Wikipedia? Whoah! Don’t we have computers to do that for us!? We do, but there’s no widespread support for including licensing or author information when sharing or reusing digital works. This session will discuss how this should work in a free knowledge environment, and could it be that many problems regarding copyright and "piracy" in our digital society could be solved with free software?

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In order to relate effectively to the digital works we see online, attribution (who made or built something) matters. Proper attribution is the start of being able to explore digital works online in their right context. This talk will focus on the philosophical background of why attribution matters, the benefits that free software can bring to the way we work with pieces of art (lolcats and Shakespeare alike), and where we're heading in the future.

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Browse in privacy and freedom with GNU IceCat

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We will take a look into how most browsers leave you defenseless against attacks on your privacy and freedom -- including remote code execution, fingerprinting, and non-free plugins/add-ons -- and how GNU IceCat can protect you.

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Distributions and the free "cloud"

+ Stefano Zacchiroli +

What role have Free Software distributions played in making free software as popular as it is today? And what has that to do with the so-called "cloud" that seems to be slowly neutralizing all of the achievements made by free software over the past 30 years? How do free software distributions need to evolve in order to become powerful allies in the quest for a free "cloud," one in which users are empowered to the level of control they wish for over their own computing, without having to turn into full fledged DevOps?

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Dr. Hyde and Mr. Jekyll: advocating for free software in nonfree academic contexts

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What if the classic horror trope of the good doctor who becomes a monster at night were reversed? Instead of the good Dr. Jekyll transforming into the rampaging Mr. Hyde, advocates of free who work in nonfree environments can feel as if they only get to put on their altruistic persona at night. For academics advocating free software and free culture in particular, libre ethics are often at odds with both administrative structures and expected teaching outcomes. This session explores the struggles of advocating free in both research and teaching.

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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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Federation and GNU

+ Christopher Webber +

The effort to re-decentralize the web has been under way for a number of years, but what's really happening under the hood? Various projects like Diaspora, GNU Social, GNU MediaGoblin, Friendica Red, and Pump.IO all exist, but not all these projects can talk to each other. How can we fix that? A demo of PyPump will be given, as well as a rundown on the progress of the W3C Social Working Group.

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Fighting surveillance with a free, distributed, and federated net

+ Frank Karlitschek +

The Internet and the World Wide Web were originally designed as distributed and federated networks. In the last few years we've seen a trend to more centralized services like Facebook, Google, Dropbox and others, making censorship, surveillance and espionage very easy.

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The ownCloud community is currently using free software to build a fully federated and distributed network, which makes it easier to guarantee people's basic rights for people to control over their own data (as described in the User Data Manifesto at https://userdatamanifesto.org). Anyone can run an ownCloud server at home or somewhere on the Internet and collaborate and share with everyone else.

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The talk will discuss ownCloud's current and upcoming features, as well as the current problems with surveillance and espionage and strategies to solve them.

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Fork and ignore: fighting a GPL violation by coding instead

+ Bradley Kuhn +

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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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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Free fonts

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In this presentation I will describe the work I have done in the last seven years to publish hundreds of free fonts for writing systems around the world.

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Implementing electronic medical record systems in rural Haiti​

+ Ellen Ball, Michael Seaton +

Partners In Health (PIH) designed, developed and implemented a point-of-care electronic medical records (EMR) system at University Hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti. The sophisticated system improves efficiency at the tertiary teaching hospital and ultimately delivers a higher level of care to patients. The EMR was built upon the strong code base of OpenMRS, the global community of developers, varied implementations by PIH in five countries, and many other superb implementations around the world. This project improved user experience, brought all improvements back to the free software community, provided great tools for new implementations, and advanced OpenMRS to the next level.

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Free software at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

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The first African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), founded in 2003 in Cape Town, offers a free, world-class master's diploma to talented students from across Africa. Underpinning AIMS's computing infrastructure is free software: Python, Octave, Maxima, R, and SAGE, all running on GNU/Linux. I will describe how free software became so embedded in AIMS's DNA as well as its ethical and practical benefits. With AIMS centers now being founded in Senegal, Ghana, Cameroon, and Tanzania, these benefits are spreading widely across Africa.

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GNU Health: improving public health care with free software

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Health must be a non-negotiable, universal right. We'll talk about the role of health informatics in the public health system, especially in primary health care (PHC). We will discuss the risks of proprietary systems and the importance of embracing free software.

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We'll show examples of adoption of GNU Health in the public health sector, like the case of the Jamaican government, which chose GNU Health at a national level, to achieve our motto: "Freedom and Equity in Health Care."

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Growing and sustaining a global, freed Internet

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An overview of the SAFE Internet and how the built-in cryptocurrency ecosystem sustains its decentralized structure and the development of free software. The SAFE Network will replace dependence on servers for secure storage and computation with a decentralized, autonomous network of individuals providing these resources. The network also provides a means for developers to focus on building resourceful applications for the network without dependence on raising capital or serving advertisements.

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We can finally realize what a completely freed and distributed Internet looks like, and the innovation and equality it enables.

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Growing your free software project

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Many free software projects are interested in growing their user and contributor bases, but it can be hard to know where to start. This workshop will go over some key first steps to growing a friendly and diverse community, such as: + +

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After an introductory presentation, the audience will break out into groups and work on activities designed to make taking these steps as easy as possible. Individuals will have the opportunity to try out multiple activities. Those who do not currently have a free software project to contribute to will be paired with those who do, and can learn these useful skills to apply in the future.

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At the end of the workshop, there will be a wrap-up presentation which will also briefly cover a wide range of additional tools, tips, and resources for growing and diversifying your community.

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Let's encrypt!

+ Seth Schoen +

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Let's first get things done!

+ Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting +

The current distance between those who organize their activism to develop “technical infrastructures” and those who bring their struggles becomes especially evident in the pragmatic spirit of getting things done. "Radical" activists may turn to services provided by Fortune 500 companies, while alternative tech initiatives sustained by a select (visionary and male) few may remain insistent on crypto with 9-lives. Through a close study of digital self-defense campaign sites, we want to pause to explore other modes of collaboration.

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Librarians fight back: free software solutions for digital privacy

+ April Glaser, Alison Macrina +

Librarians all over the country are affirming their commitment to digital privacy rights by using and teaching free software tools in their libraries. This initiative -- the Library Freedom Project -- was started by IT librarian Alison Macrina and staff of the ACLU, who have been visiting privacy-loving librarians in different states to show them how freedom of speech and the right to privacy are compromised by digital surveillance, and what new privacy-protecting free software services libraries can offer to shield patrons from unwanted surveillance of their online activity. In this session, organizers from the Library Freedom Project will talk about how the project is unfolding, how developers can support the adoption of free software privacy tools at libraries, and what kinds of relationships need to form for these initiatives to be sustainable.

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Libreboot: free your BIOS today

+ Francis Rowe +

Libreboot is free boot firmware, based on the coreboot project, intended as a free BIOS/UEFI replacement for your computer. The project was started to spearhead a campaign for a fully free system, where every piece of software in the machine is free.

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Schooling in the free software sandbox: new directions in K-12 education

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The last few years have seen an explosion among pop cultural messages that “coding” for kids is cool. We have witnessed the rise of coding bootcamps, coding MOOCs, and proprietary coding environments. Yet, these developments often fail to recognize how programming literacy can be used to realize more fundamental educational goals. In this session, we discuss the essential role of free software in cultivating educational values, and the challenges that must be overcome to make this vision a reality.

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Shared values: journalism and free software

+ Remy DeCausemaker, Andrea Hickerson, Erika Owens +

Free software and journalism have a long and rich history of informing one another and the Web at large. These communities share many values: transparency, objectivity, skepticism, and dogged pursuit of solutions, particularly ones that help improve our understanding of and access to the world. We'll talk about what these values look like in newsrooms (including the coding side of news) and where there are opportunities for these groups to learn from and reinforce these common values. Journalism drives a huge portion of what we read on the Web, so let's chat about the values that drive both that reporting and development work.

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Some people worth listening to: a mollydb production

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This session of curated lightning talks brings new speakers up to the podium. Free software users and enthusiasts, hackers, and interesting parties will be giving ten-minute talks on a variety of topics relating to technology, the law, their lives in free software, community, contribution and other relevant topics.

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Style or substance? Free software is totally the 80's

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The free software community is smart and forward-looking, but sometimes it can be hard to see the big picture when you're part of it. Often the easy choice isn't the best. We've been hearing about this constantly from the DevOps community: "Build systems that don't fail spectacularly in the middle of the night!" Of course, those robust systems are a little harder to build and take a bit more planning to set up. But when you consider "other people's systems" there is no question that the hard work should be done because it will make things better in the long run. The trick is looking at your own systems with that same long-range perspective.

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The culture of the 1980's is often depicted as an obsession with neon clothing, valley girl idioms and synthpop. That's an unfortunately shallow portrayal when you consider that the artists and activists of the 1980's were pushing back against the cultural norms portrayed in mass media. They were challenging boundaries about who gets to participate in the creation of art and embracing new technologies to share their ideas. How will our current era of increased free software production and adoption be remembered? Will it be all unconferences and penguin swag or will we be remembered for how we changed the world?

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Applying a long-range perspective to the continued growth and success of the world-wide free software movement isn't easy. It will take time and probably money. Can we step outside of our own history and make sure that the community is setting a course for the place we want to end up?

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TAFTA, CETA, TISA: traps and threats to Free Software Everywhere

+ Marianne Corvellec +

TAFTA, CETA, and TISA are far-reaching trade agreements which represent major threats to online freedom and create legal uncertainty for all Internet players. They set forth an ever stronger protection of copyright, patents, and trademarks. They are negotiated by unelected officials in a complete lack of transparency. They are found to "recycle" the most toxic parts of ACTA, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement which was rejected by the European Parliament in 2012. This rejection followed the demands of European and international organizations and citizens, who campaigned and demonstrated massively against ACTA.

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It takes a benevolent political and legislative environment to get Free Software Everywhere. We should remain vigilant and realize the traps and threats posed by these trade agreements. Our presentation will focus on the software aspects of TAFTA, CETA, and TISA. We will call for action against these global treaty projects and offer alternative proposals which favor Free Software Everywhere.

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TPP, TTIP, WTF: trade agreements and their threat to hacking and free software

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How copyright terms in secret international deals threaten free software.

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What did we learn in school today?: an OPW retrospective

+ Sucheta Ghoshal +

I took part in the Outreach Program for Women as an intern in 2013, and became a mentor for the same program in 2014. This talk intends to voice my experience with the GNOME initiative, as well as my thoughts and concerns around the program as a student, a mentor, and a professional in the free software domain, and as an earnest observer of the chaos that is formally called "The Internet." With a focus on the Why, the What and the How of the Gender Gap in free software, the talk ventures answers to those, as conveyed by the OPW initiative.

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Will it blend?

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A whirlwind introduction to working with Blender, the free (as in freedom) 3D animation suite. We'll do fun introductory animation with flowers, and also take a look at the Python API for the more technically minded.

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