From 9dadfb4461487b8e5ae0dbc98cc6ac9c3b05ee57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zak Rogoff Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:31:06 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Updating Rowe bio and both session descriptions. --- 2015/program/index.html | 32 +++++++++++++++++++------------- 2015/program/speakers.html | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/2015/program/index.html b/2015/program/index.html index c25aaae6..bfd0b6d5 100755 --- a/2015/program/index.html +++ b/2015/program/index.html @@ -110,7 +110,10 @@

Libreboot: free your BIOS today

Room 32-155 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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Libreboot is a free (libre) BIOS/UEFI replacement for your computer. Based on coreboot, the aim is to distribute low-level boot firmware that is 100% free software. The project is aimed at users, attempting to make coreboot as easy to use as possible.

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The work done by the libreboot project (and it's upstream, coreboot) is extremely important. Many people are using a free operating system, but most of them are relying on proprietary boot firmware to start their machine. Libreboot exists to provide a distribution of coreboot that is entirely free software, with the same goals as the GNU project and others in providing users the means to achieve freedom in their computing.

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This talk goes into detail about the history of libreboot, how the project is run, how libreboot works and ways in which you can begin using libreboot today. The project is also in need of contributors; part of the talk will go into detail on this.

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More information about the libreboot project can be found at http://libreboot.org/

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09:00 - 09:45: Registration and breakfast

09:45 - 10:30: Keynote: Benjamin Mako Hill

Access without empowerment

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The free software movement has twin goals: promoting access to software through users' freedom to share, and empowering users by giving them control over their technology. For all our movement's success, we have been much more successful at the former. I will use data from free software and from several related movements to explain why promoting empowerment is systematically more difficult than promoting access and I will explore how our movement might address the second challenge in the future.

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LibreBoot flashing (until 17:40)

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Libreboot installation workshop (until 17:40)

Room 32-144 Facilitator: Francis Rowe -

Bring your X60 or X200 and get assistance flashing it with Libreboot, from the Libreboot maintainer and other knowledgeable people. Make sure everything is backed up first!

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Bring your ThinkPad X60, X200 or R400 and get assistance flashing it with http://libreboot.org/, from the Libreboot maintainer and other knowledgeable people. Make sure everything is backed up first!

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Other hardware is also supported. The full list can be found at http://libreboot.org/gitdocs/hcl/index.html#supported_list

14:20 - 14:30: Break

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LibreBoot flashing (until 17:40)

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Libreboot installation workshop (until 17:40)

Room 32-144 Francis Rowe

Description above.

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LibreBoot flashing (until 17:40)

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Libreboot installation workshop (until 17:40)

Room 32-144 Francis Rowe

Description above.

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Rock your Emacs

Room 32-141 Ben Sturmfels -

Do you love Emacs, but have never understood the strange code with lots of brackets? You're missing out on one of the great joys of Emacs — customizing it to work exactly the way you want. It turns out that Emacs is a full Lisp code interpreter, so once you know a little Emacs Lisp, almost anything is possible.

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Do you love Emacs, but have never understood the strange code with lots of brackets? You're missing out on one of the great joys of Emacs — customising it to work exactly the way you want. It turns out that Emacs is little more than an interpreter for Lisp code interpreter, and once you know a little Emacs Lisp, almost anything is possible.

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After attending this tutorial, you will know how to: -

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LibreBoot flashing (continued)

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Libreboot installation workshop (continued)

Room 32-144 Francis Rowe

Description above.

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Francis Rowe, Libreboot

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I run the libreboot project, a free firmware distribution based on the coreboot project. I also run gluglug.

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Francis is the lead maintainer behind the libreboot project, free boot firmware that replaces the proprietary BIOS or UEFI firmware on supported hardware. Based on coreboot, the aim of libreboot is to provide users with boot firmware that is 100% free software.

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He also runs the Gluglug, a company that sells computers with libreboot and Trisquel GNU/Linux pre-installed.

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More information about libreboot can be found at http://libreboot.org/

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Ben Sturmfels

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Ben is a software engineer and free software activist from Ballarat, Australia. He organises Free Software Melbourne, leads the End Software Patents Australia campaign, rides bikes, flies kites and grows vegetables.

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Ben Sturmfels is a software engineer and free software activist from Ballarat, Australia. He organises Free Software Melbourne and leads the End Software Patents Australia campaign.

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