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Mad Price Ball, PhD, is Executive Director of Open Humans Foundation and co-founder of Open Humans. Ball's work is funded by a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship, which supports their vision for applying free principles to change how we share and study human health data. Ball combines advocacy and technology to explore new, participant-centered approaches for health data sharing, research, and citizen science. Their work is multifaceted: they collaborate with diverse research teams and citizen scientists, perform outreach through writing and speaking, and oversee Open Humans technical development and operations.

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Freedom, devices, and health

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D. Joe Anderson holds a PhD in chemistry, has worked in academic IT for for nearly 20 years, and is an adjunct professor in the Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture Minor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Liz Barry

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Organizer, director of community development, and co-founder of Public Lab. My role bridges place-based community organizing and internet-mediated peer production. Check out the highlights of our community's development at https://publiclab.org/wiki/community-development. For my emphasis on culture instead of rules, Will Ward has called me The Enforcer of Norms. Because the acronym for "have you considered sharing back?" (HYCSB) is not so catchy, other members of Public Lab have created these graphics to save me from repeating myself. Fair enough. Feel free to edit my impromptu Talk page, find me on twitter @lizbarry, or check out my Web 1.0 homepage.

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Sharing new strategies for welcoming newcomers into FOSS projects: First-timers-only, list moderation, and more

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Isabela Bagueros, project manager and UX team lead at Tor.

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Wendy Bolm is the COO of CommitChange, and is an activist, writer, and nerd who is passionate about connecting nonprofits with the tools they need to survive an ever-changing technological landscape. Before working for CommitChange, Wendy worked for nonprofits for more than a decade in Florida and New Orleans.

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Engaging nonprofits: Why free software is essential to the social good

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Mad Price Ball is Executive Director of Open Humans Foundation and co-founder of Open Humans. Ball's work is funded by a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship, which supports their vision for applying free principles to change how we share and study human health data. Ball combines advocacy and technology to explore new, participant-centered approaches for health data sharing, research, and citizen science. Their work is multifaceted: they collaborates with diverse research teams and citizen scientists, performs outreach through writing and speaking, and oversees Open Humans technical development and operations.

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Shaun is a software engineer and activist living in Somerville, Massachusetts. Coming from an environmental activist background, he is interested the role that free software can play in protecting democratic institutions and increasing civic participation. In moments of not coding, Shaun enjoys playing piano, rock climbing, and exploring the world.

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Defense through collaboration: The use of free software in preventing proprietary software based virus attacks

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Lothar is a long time member of The Document Foundation and in charge of chairing the certification committee for LibreOffice. In his professional live he is the managing director of a software and service company for Free and Open Source Software mainly on the desktop. He with his company was the first OpenOffice.org migration and service partner in Europe with SUN and he personally have a long track record in migration projects from proprietary to free office suites and in training all aspects of it.

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Sudarshan Chawathe ("Chaw") is an Associate Professor of Computer - Science, and also a Co-operating Associate Professor of Climate Change - Institute, at the University of Maine. He earned his B.Tech. in - Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of - Technology, Kanpur, and his MS and PhD in Computer Science from - Stanford University. His research interests center on data - management in general, with applications to climate studies and - intelligent transportation systems in particular. He has been - using almost exclusively free software since the early 1990s, for - both professional and personal needs. He is working toward being - able to delete that "almost."

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Cecilia Donnelly is a senior consultant who has been working on free software processes, software development, and project management at Open Tech Strategies since 2014. She focuses her work on how governments and non-technical organizations can be involved in free software. Cecilia lives in Minneapolis.

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How GeoNode spread across the globe

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Organizer, director of community development, and co-founder of Public Lab. My role bridges place-based community organizing and internet-mediated peer production. Check out the highlights of our community's development at https://publiclab.org/wiki/community-development. For my emphasis on culture instead of rules, Will Ward has called me The Enforcer of Norms. Because the acronym for "have you considered sharing back?" (HYCSB) is not so catchy, other members of Public Lab have created these graphics (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5u2lhrfdw0daemh/AAC5v1ekZGWiWgDL6z50zWnKa?dl=0) to save me from repeating myself. Fair enough. Feel free to edit my impromptu Talk page (https://publiclab.org/wiki/liz-publiclab), find me on twitter @lizbarry, check out my web 1.0 homepage (https://publiclab.org/profile/lizbarry.net), or go ahead and email me.

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Máirín Duffy is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat and team lead of Fedora's design team. A recipient of the 2016 O'Reilly Open Source Award, she has over a decade of expertise in user experience and design in Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities. Her portfolio includes a range of FLOSS design work including Mailman/Hyperkitty, Anaconda, Spacewalk, virt-manager, GNOME, and projects such as the SELinux and Container coloring books.

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Máirín uses a 100% FLOSS design workflow, free formats, and free licenses in her work. She has created and taught FLOSS and design classes at schools and community programs in the greater Boston area, and has mentored numerous Outreachy interns.

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Who cares if the code is free? (UX & FLOSS)

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Matt is an anthropologist who has been collaborating with Mozilla's Open Source Student Network (https://opensource.mozilla.community/) to research the current state of FOSS on college campuses. In addition to his research in free software communities, Matt has planned and executed national and international research projects for a range of clients including Autodesk, Boeing, Google, Honeywell, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to starting his own practice, Matt worked with Effective, an experience design firm. He also spent time as a visiting professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and was co-director of RIT's Open Publishing Lab, an open source research lab. Matt holds a Master's degree in the Social Sciences from University of Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in New Media Publishing from RIT.

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Luis Falcón, M.D., B.Sc, holds a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the California State University (USA) and in Medicine from IUCS, Buenos Aires (Argentina). Dr. Falcón is a social, animal rights, and free software activist. He is the founder of GNU Solidario, a nonprofit organization that delivers Health and Education with Free Software. He is the author of GNU Health, the award winning Free/Libre Health and Hospital Information System. He currently lives in the Canary Islands, Spain.

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Free software as a catalyst for liberation, social justice and social medicine

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Wendy Bolm is the COO of CommitChange and is an activist, writer, and nerd passionate about connecting nonprofits with the tools they need to survive an ever-changing technological landscape. Before working for CommitChange, Wendy worked for nonprofits for more than a decade in Florida and New Orleans.

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Tony Fortenberry has 27 years experience providing technological and organizational strategy. Contributions include Deputy Director at the California Office of Systems Integration (OSI), Executive Leadership Team at Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS), CTO at Communication Service for the Deaf, and CIO at City of Northglenn.

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Tom Callaway works on the Open Source and Standards team in the CTO Office at Red Hat. He has worked full-time on promoting Open Source in Academic communities for the past four years, and has been at Red Hat since 2001.

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Jeremiah C. Foster is a free software user who works with software for cars. Father to Hannah, husband to Annika, he lives in Northwestern Connecticut.

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Shaun is a software engineer and activist living in Somerville. Coming from an environmental activist background, he is interested the role free software can be used to protect democratic institutions and increase civic participation. In moments of not coding, Shaun enjoys playing piano, rock climbing, and exploring the world.

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Mike Gerwitz is a free software hacker and activist with a focus on user privacy and security. He is a GNU maintainer and does various volunteer work for GNU, including software evaluation and administrative tasks. Mike spends much of his free time with his wife and two sons; his remaining free time is spent primarily on hacking, research, volunteer work, and activism.

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Sudarshan Chawathe (""Chaw"") is Associate Professor of Computer Science, and Co-operating Associate Professor of Climate Change Institute, at the University of Maine. He earned his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and his MS and PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. His research interests center on data management in general, with applications to climate studies and intelligent transportation systems in particular. He has been using almost exclusively free software since the early 1990s, for both professional and personal needs. He is working toward being able to delete that "almost."

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Denver is the founder and lead developer of JMP, a free software chat gateway that lets you text and call people using a real phone number without a phone, part of the Soprani.ca family of projects. Denver also works part-time managing the technical side of Software Freedom Conservancy's license compliance work, triaging new reports and verifying complete corresponding source. He previously wrote free software magnetic stripe reader firmware and desktop tools, and has patches accepted into GNU wdiff, Wine, and the kernel named Linux. He has given talks at CopyCamp Toronto, FOSSLC's Summercamp, the Open Video Conference, LinuxCon North America, Texas Linux Fest, DebConf, and Radical Networks.

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In business: Keeping free software sustainable

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der.hans is a Free Software community veteran, presenter and author. He is the founder of the Free Software Stammtisch, BoF organizer for the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) and chairman of the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG).

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As a technology and entrepreneurial veteran, roles have included director of engineering, engineering manager, IS manager, system administrator, community college instructor, developer and DBA.

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After several years as a professional harpist, Morane found a new career path in software engineering. Morane joined the Software Heritage team as an intern in 2017 while finishing a Master's degree in Computer Science at University Pierre et Marie Curie. After a successful internship, she continues her research on the software metadata challenge by building the Semantic Web of FLOSS projects.

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Pathways for discovery of free software

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Cecilia Donnelly is a senior consultant who has been working on free software process, software development and project management at Open Tech Strategies since 2014. She focuses her work on how governments and non-technical organizations can be involved in free software. Cecilia lives in Minneapolis.

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Device and personal privacy technology roundup

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Máirín Duffy is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat and team lead of Fedora's design team. A recipient of the 2016 O'Reilly Open Source Award, she has over a decade of expertise in user experience and design in Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities. Máirín uses a 100% FLOSS design workflow, free formats, and free licenses in her work.

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Marc Jones is an attorney and compliance engineer at CivicActions, a software development firm focused on bringing agile and free software best practices to governments and nonprofits. He has previously worked as a Assistant Director of an Information Technology department at the University of Connecticut, was a Systems Architect, and started his legal career at the Software Freedom Law Center.

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Evolving government policies on the procurement and production of free software

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Luis Falcón, M.D., B.Sc., holds a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the California State University (USA) and in Medicine from IUCS, Buenos Aires (Argentina). Dr. Falcón is a social, animal rights, and free software activist. He is the founder of GNU Solidario, a nonprofit organization that delivers Health and Education with Free Software. He is the author of GNU Health, the award winning Free/Libre Health and Hospital Information System. He currently lives in the Canary Islands, Spain.

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Spencer Krum is a Developer Advocate at IBM. He writes python applications to analyze esports, and deploys them on Kubernetes. Before that, he administered the development infrastructure for OpenStack, and wrote a book on Puppet. He lives and works in Minneapolis. He likes cheeseburgers and tennis.

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How to stream with free software

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Tony Fortenberry has 27 years experience providing technological and organizational strategy. Contributions include Deputy Director at California Office of Systems Integration (OSI), Executive Leadership Team at Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS), CTO at Communication Service for the Deaf, and CIO at City of Northglenn.

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Bassam is a 3D generalist filmmaker whose 2006 short, Elephants Dream, was the first "free 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. Bassam is continuing to pursue a model of production that invests in commonwealth. They teach, write and lecture around the world on open production and free software techniques. Raised in Damascus, Bassam trained in the United States as an electrical and software engineer.

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Jeremiah C. Foster is a free software user who works with software for cars. Father to Hannah, husband to Annika, he lives in Northwestern Connecticut.

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Bradley M. Kuhn is the Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy, on the FSF Board of Directors, and editor-in-chief of copyleft.org. Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, as a contributor to various Free Software projects. Kuhn's non-profit career began in 2000 at FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from 2001-2005, Kuhn led GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn was appointed President of Conservancy in April 2006, was Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006-2010, and has been a full-time staffer since 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 received an O'Reilly Open Source Award, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing.

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Nathan Freitas of Guardian Project

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Morgan Gangwere is a student at the University of New Mexico, studying communications. He learned to mumble with computers at a young age, cutting his teeth on Linux, UNIX, and even the occasional homebrew OS. His contributions to free software have included OpenKeychain, LibraryBox, and others. His research has focused on how free software organizations communicate and how their communications are seen outside. He's given talks at IGNITE conferences.

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Currently the Debian Project Leader, Chris is a freelance computer programmer, author of dozens of free projects, and contributor to hundreds of others. Chris has been an official Debian Developer since 2008, and is currently highly active in the Reproducible Builds project, for which he has been awarded a grant from the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative. In his spare time, he is an avid classical musician, reader, and Ironman triathlete. Chris has spoken at numerous conferences, including LinuxCon China, HKOSCon, linux.conf.au, DjangoCon Europe, OSCAL, multiple DebConfs, Software Freedom Kosovo, foss-north, and FOSS'ASIA.

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Mike Gerwitz is a free software hacker and activist with a focus on user privacy and security. He holds various volunteer roles within GNU, including software evaluation and administrative. Mike spends most of his free time with his wife and two sons; his remaining free time is spent primarily on hacking, research, volunteer work, and activism.

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Denver is the founder and lead developer of JMP, a free software chat gateway that lets you text and call people using a real phone number without a phone, part of the Soprani.ca family of projects. Denver also works part-time managing the technical side of Software Freedom Conservancy's license compliance work, triaging new reports and verifying complete corresponding source. He previously wrote free software magnetic stripe reader firmware and desktop tools and has patches accepted into GNU wdiff, Wine, and the kernel named Linux. He has given talks at CopyCamp Toronto, FOSSLC's Summercamp, the Open Video Conference, LinuxCon North America, Texas Linux Fest, DebConf, and Radical Networks.

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Tom Callaway is a Red Hat employee who has been working with academia for about four years now to include FOSS ideas, methods, and tooling (with varying degrees of success).

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After several years as a professional harpist Morane found a new career path in software engineering. Morane joined the Software Heritage team as an intern in 2017 while finishing a Master's degree in Computer Science at University Pierre et Marie Curie. After a successful internship she continues her research on the software metadata challenge by building the Semantic Web of FLOSS projects.

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Stephen Jacobs is the Director of the Laboratory for Technological Literacy, and a Professor for the Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture Minor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Madeline Hagen is a sophomore Physics major and Computational Science minor at Siena College. She is a project leader for Urban Scholars teaching students about computer hardware and software. Madeline is also involved in a particle physics analysis at Siena focusing on decays of the top quark.

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D. Joe Anderson is a Professor for the Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture Minor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Stephen Jacobs is the Director of the Laboratory for Technological Literacy and a Professor for the Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture Minor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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Gina Linkins has a long history with and interest in education, having taught both high school biology and environmental science. She has also taught intro to Web technology classes to students ranging from seventh graders to adult learners. She is currently a member of Red Hat's University Outreach team, which exists to help universities incorporate free software into their curriculum. She has spent the past three years working with instructors who are interested in FLOSS; speaking to classes and groups about the importance of FLOSS in education; and developing curricular materials for instructors who want to incorporate FLOSS into their classes.

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Marc Jones is an attorney and compliance engineer at CivicActions, a software development firm focused on bring agile and free software best practices to governments and nonprofits. He has previously worked as a Assistant Director of a Information Technology department at the University of Connecticut, was a Systems Architect, and started his legal career at the Software Freedom Law Center.

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Roan has contributed to MediaWiki for over 10 years, and works as a software engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation. In his spare time, he serves on the Technical Advisory Committee for San Francisco's Open Source Voting System project.

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Aaron Luna is an IT Engineer, a lover of free software, a GNU/Linux user, and is the official ambassador of openSUSE in Mexico. He is a Professor of IT by vocation of the Subsystem of Technological Universities and Polytechnic Universities of the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico. He is the founder of the openSUSE Mexico Community, and the Coordinator of the Development Center of Technological Innovation of Free Software, Labsol State of Mexico (Free Software Lab).

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Spencer Krum is a developer advocate at IBM. He writes Python applications to analyze esports and deploys them on kubernetes. Before that, he administered the development infrastructure for OpenStack and wrote a book on Puppet. He lives and works in Minneapolis. He likes cheeseburgers and tennis.

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Bradley M. Kuhn is the Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy, on the FSF Board of Directors, and editor-in-chief of copyleft.org. Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, as a contributor to various Free Software projects. Kuhn's non-profit career began in 2000 at FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from 2001-2005, Kuhn led GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn was appointed President of Conservancy in April 2006, was Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006-2010, and has been a full-time staffer since 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 received an O'Reilly Open Source Award, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing.

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Bassam is a 3D generalist filmmaker whose 2006 short, Elephants Dream, was the first "free 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. Bassam is continuing to pursue a model of production that invests in commonwealth. They teach, write and lecture around the world on production and free software technique. Raised in Damascus, Bassam trained in the United States as an electrical and software engineer.

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Michael Kwet is lead researcher and co-founder of Yale Privacy Lab, as well as a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He is a Ph.D. candidate at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. His research provides the first look at South Africa's transition to e-education, as well as the influence of the United States on South Africa's digital development.

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Currently the Debian Project Leader, Chris is freelance computer programmer, author of dozens of free projects, and contributor to 100s of others. Chris has been an official Debian Developer since 2008 and is currently highly active in the Reproducible Builds project for which he has been awarded a grant from the Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative. In his spare time he is an avid classical musician, reader and Ironman triathlete. Chris has spoken at numerous conferences, including LinuxCon China, HKOSCon, linux.conf.au, DjangoCon Europe, OSCAL, multiple DebConf's, Software Freedom Kosovo, foss-north & FOSS'ASIA.

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Free software desktops to 2020 and beyond

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After building her own DIY “artificial pancreas,” Dana Lewis helped found the free artificial pancreas movement (known as "OpenAPS"), making safe and effective artificial pancreas technology available (sooner) for people with diabetes around the world. She is also a Principal Investigator for a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded grant project to work to scale patient-led innovation and scientific discovery in more patient communities.

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Micky Metts is an owner of Agaric, a worker-owned technology cooperative. Activist hacker, industry organizer, public speaker, connecter, advisor, and visionary, Micky is a member of the MayFirst People Link Leadership Committee, and is a liaison between the Solidarity Economy Network (SEN) and The United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), with an intention to bring communities together. She is a member of FSF.org and Drupal.org, a community based on free software. She is also a published author, contributing to the book Ours to Hack and to Own. Micky grew up in Weston, CT, and now lives in Boston, MA.

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Chris Thompson

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While Chris has spent more than a little time writing high-performance stored procedures for large databases, he also feels right at home in the Web world, whether the server runs in Zend(PHP), OpenJava, or Mono(C#/.Net), or the client uses Angular.JS, Knockout.JS, or raw JavaScript.

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Chris was excited to join Agaric because: "It's a gift to be brought into a group working on building great sites, while simultaneously promoting and using solutions that benefit both our clients and our community. Agaric has clear perception of the concepts of our digital freedom, and I'm grateful to help them spread those observations through my contributions."

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Chris spends weekends with his children, or else can be found riding a mountain bike through wooded areas, and sometimes sharing a public meal with friends. One of Chris's current goals is to build a "tiny house" using recycled materials.

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Connecting communities with schools and free tools (workshop)

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Gina Likins has a long history with and interest in education, having taught both high school biology and environmental science. She has also taught intro to web technology classes to students ranging from seventh graders to adult learners. She is currently a member of Red Hat's University Outreach team, which exists to help universities incorporate free software into their curriculum. She has spent the past three years working with instructors who are interested in FOSS; speaking to classes and groups about the importance of FOSS in education; and developing curricular materials for instructors who want to incorporate FOSS into their classes.

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Sean O'Brien

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Aaron Luna

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Sean O'Brien is head technologist and co-founder of Yale Privacy Lab, and board member of makerspace MakeHaven. He is a Free Software advocate and digital security trainer, facilitating "Citizen FOSS: What Snowden Knew" and "Cyber Freedom & Security" at Yale Law School. Sean is a proud resident of New Haven, Connecticut, where he lives with a phenomenal wife on a growing urban homestead. Most people know him as the friendly neighborhood geek.

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F-droid and Exodus

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Michael Kwet

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Michael Kwet is lead researcher and co-founder of Yale Privacy Lab, as well as a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He is a PhD candidate at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. His research provides the first look at South Africa's transition to e-education, as well as the influence of the United States on South Africa's digital development.

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F-Droid and Exodus

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IT Engineer and free software advocate, GNU/Linux user, Aaron Luna is the official ambassador of openSUSE in Mexico. Professor of Information Technology by vocation of the Subsystem of Technological +Universities and Polytechnic Universities of the Secretariat of Public Education of Mexico. He is founder of the openSUSE Mexico community and coordinator of the Development Center of Technological Innovation +of Free Software, Labsol - State of Mexico (Free Software Lab). Speaker at free software events.

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Brett Smith

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Patrick Masson

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Brett Smith is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Software Freedom -Conservancy. He works on a variety of the organization’s programs, -including project membership, outreach, and non-profit accounting. Over -the years, he’s held a variety of advocacy and technical roles in free -software. In the past he’s been a developer and product manager at free -software bioinformatics startup Curoverse; a system administrator at -the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); and a license compliance engineer -at the Free Software Foundation.

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A usability survey of the GPL

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Patrick Masson is currently the General Manager at the Open Source Initiative and an Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, teaching Open Source Principles and Practices. Patrick also serves on his local school district's Board of Education.

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Connor Solver

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A newcomer’s perspective on & patches for the free software movement

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Dr. Michele McColgan is an Asst. Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Siena College. She is the founder of Siena's STEM Enrichment Program and summer STEM Camps, as well as the Director of the Urban Scholars program where hands-on, project-based activities and gaming teach real-world science and math to middle school students.

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Nick Mathewson

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Noah was most recently a Staff Technologist on the Tech Projects team at the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, working on software the EFF produces and maintains, including but not limited to Privacy Badger and Certbot.

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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 San Francisco with his family of twitterbots.

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Roguelikes and free software

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Nick Mathewson, one of the founders of the Tor Project

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Eric Schultz

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Neil McGovern

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Eric Schultz is Lead Developer at CommitChange, and committer to CommitChange.org. Prior to joining CommitChange, he was the Community Manager at prpl Foundation, with a particular focus on building the OpenWrt community, where he served on the FCC committee regulating Wi-Fi. Eric also worked as Developer Advocate at Outercurve Foundation, where he managed and supported the foundation's 25 free software projects. 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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A long-term contributor to Free Software, Neil McGovern has held posts on the boards of Software in the Public Interest, Open Rights Group and served a term as the Debian Project Leader. Neil currently works as the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation.

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David Thompson

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Micky Metts

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David Thompson is a professional software developer from Massachusetts with years of experience in Web development and DevOps. He is a GNU Guix core developer and an occasional GNU Guile contributor, and maintains several of his own free software projects.

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Practical, verifiable software freedom with GuixSD

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Micky Metts is an owner of Agaric, a worker-owned technology cooperative. Activist Hacker – Industry Organizer – Public Speaker – Connector – Advisor and Visionary. Micky is a member of the MayFirst People Link Leadership Committee and is a liaison between the Solidarity Economy Network (SEN) and The United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), with an intention to bring communities together. Micky is also a founding member of a cohort that is building a New Boston Public High School based in cooperative learning - BoCoLab. She is a member of FSF.org and Drupal.org, a community based on free software. She is a published author contributing to the book, "Ours to Hack and to Own,” one of the top technology books of 2017 in Wired magazine. Micky grew up in Weston, CT, and now lives in Boston, MA.

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Kat Thornton is a Postdoctoral Fellow supported by the Council on Library and Information Resources, working as a digital conservator in the Digital Preservation department of Yale University Libraries for a two-year term. Kat has been a volunteer contributor to the Wikidata project since 2013.

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Pathways for discovery of free software

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Kristopher Navratil is a Technology Educator at Maple Hill Middle School in Castleton On Hudson, NY. He is also the creator of the "Open Source Computer Club," as well as the "Maker Club" in his school.

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Sean O'Brien

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Devin Ulibarri isone of the main developers and visionaries for the -visual programming language Music Blocks, and is teaching "Learn -Music and Coding" classes at both the YMCA Malden and YWCA Malden as part of -projects supported by the Malden Cultural Council and the City of -Boston. He is co-founder of Free Computer Labs, an organization that -brings free software to the community in the form of free computers to -schools that need them, as well as classes on everyday free software -computing for adults. Devin is a professional musician, chairing the -guitar department for the Preparatory School and School of Continuing -Education at New England Conservatory.

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Music Blocks workshop for kids and their parents (workshop)

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Engaging young people: How to include positive youth participation in our free software community

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Sean O'Brien is a cybersecurity researcher at Yale Privacy Lab and board member of makerspace MakeHaven. He has set up FreedomBox for both organizations. Sean is a Free Software activist and digital security trainer, facilitating "Citizen FOSS: What Snowden Knew" and "Cyber Freedom & Security" at Yale Law School. He is a proud resident of New Haven, Connecticut, where he lives with a phenomenal wife on a growing +urban homestead.

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Walter Bender

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Eric Schultz

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Music blocks workshop for kids and their parents (workshop)

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Eric Schultz is Lead Developer at CommitChange and committer to CommitChange.org. Prior to joining CommitChange, he was the Community Manager at prpl Foundation with a particular focus on building the OpenWrt community where he served on the FCC committee regulating Wifi. Eric also worked as Developer Advocate at Outercurve Foundation where he managed and supported the foundation's 25 free software projects. 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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Italo Vignoli

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Brett Smith

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Italo Vignoli is a founder and a team member of The Document Foundation, focused on marketing, communications, and media relations. He is a spokesman for the project, which he represents at conferences around the world. In 2014, he founded Associazione LibreItalia, a not-for-profit association of the Italian LibreOffice community. In 2016, he has been elected to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board of directors. Italo has been advocating free software since 2004, when he entered the OpenOffice community to handle marketing and media relations worldwide. He is a communications consultant with over thirty years of experience in the field of high technologies, a member of Ferpi (the Italian Association of Public Relation Professionals), and a visiting professor of high tech marketing, public speaking, and public relations in universities and post-graduate courses. Italo has a Degree in Humanities at the University of Milan, and Masters Degrees in Marketing, Public Relations, and Journalism at different US and Italian universities.

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LibreOffice certification for FSF members

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Brett Smith is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Software Freedom Conservancy. He works on a variety of the organization’s programs, including project membership, outreach, and non-profit accounting. Over the years he’s held a variety of advocacy and technical roles in free software. In the past he’s been a developer and product manager at free software bioinformatics startup Curoverse; a system administration at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C); and a license compliance engineer at the Free Software Foundation.

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Luis Villa

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Connor Solver

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Luis is an attorney, programmer, and entrepreneur, who has been involved in free software his entire career. He is currently the co-founder of Tidelift. Previous roles include Senior Director of Community Engagement at the Wikimedia Foundation; legal fellow at Mozilla, where he led the drafting of version 2.0 of the Mozilla Public License; and associate at Greenberg Traurig, where he represented Google in the Google-Oracle case. Before practicing law, he was the bugmaster and a board member of the GNOME Foundation, and worked at Ximian. He also briefly maintained a GPL-licensed Lego Mindstorms operating system.

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Sustaining free software for the long run: What we've tried, what comes next

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Mariah Villarreal

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Chris Thompson

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Mariah started her career as an informal educator, community organizer, and researcher over five years ago within the maker education, free software, and experiential learning communities. She is passionate about supporting and developing inclusive learning environments which respect each learner's agency, especially for at-risk and underserved youth. She has served as the Libre Learn Lab Director since its founding in 2014. Mariah holds a BA in International Relations with a focus on social justice and development from St. Mary's University in her hometown, San Antonio, Texas. As an active advocate for experiential learning, Mariah has a deep appreciation for Apprentice Learning's mission to prepare youth for their futures and to nurture their dreams.

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Engaging young people: How to include positive youth participation in our free software community

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Chris Thompson is a member of Agaric and has worked in a variety of technical leadership roles for over the past two decades (and some), after first discovering his talent for programming while hacking BASIC programs at the age of 12. He returned to programming as a career - his first programming position utilizing Visual Basic - where he proved himself capable of tackling some of the most challenging obstacles. While Chris has spent more than a little time writing high-performance stored procedures for large databases, he also feels right at home in the web world; Whether the server runs in Zend(PHP), OpenJava, or Mono(C#/.Net) and the client uses Angular.JS, Knockout.JS, or raw JavaScript.

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David Thompson

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The creator of GrassrootsMapping.org and co-founder and Research Director for Public Lab, Jeffrey Warren designs mapping and civic science tools, and professionally flies balloons and kites. He created the vector-mapping framework Cartagen and orthorectification tool MapKnitter, as well as spectral database and toolkit Spectral Workbench.

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He is Vice President of the board of the Open Source Hardware Association, on the board of the alternative education nonprofit Parts and Crafts in Somerville, MA, and an advocate of free software, hardware, and data. He co-founded Vestal Design, a graphic/interaction design, and directed the Cut & Paste Labs project, a year-long series of workshops on free tools and Web design in 2006-7 with Diego Rotalde.

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Sharing new strategies for welcoming newcomers into FLOSS projects: first-timers-only, list moderation, and more

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David Thompson is a professional software developer from Massachusetts with years of experience in web development and DevOps. He is a GNU Guix core developer, an occasional GNU Guile contributor, and maintains several of his own free software projects.

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Christopher Lemmer Webber

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Kat Thornton

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Christopher Lemmer Webber is co-editor of the ActivityPub specification, co-founder of GNU MediaGoblin, and co-chair of the Social Community Group. They have had a long history in free software and free culture advocacy, working at organizations such as Creative Commons and the Participatory Culture Foundation, and volunteering on many projects, including GNU projects such as Guile and Guix.

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Standardizing network freedom

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Kat Thornton is a Postdoctoral Fellow supported by the Council on Library and Information Resources working as a digital conservator in the Digital Preservation department of Yale University Libraries for a two-year term. Kat has been a volunteer contributor to the Wikidata project since 2013.

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Gunnar Wolf

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Devin Ulibarri

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Gunnar has been a free software enthusiast, user, advocate, and developer for over twenty years. He is a Debian Developer since 2003, and founded several free software conferences and events in Mexico and Latin America, including Congreso Nacional de Software Libre. He is an academic at the Economics Research Institute, UNAM, and a professor at the Engineering Faculty, UNAM.

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Curated Web-of-trust keyrings for free software projects: A case study on Debian's experience

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Devin Ulibarri, one of the main developers and visionaries for the visual programming language Music Blocks, is teaching classes for "Learn Music and Coding" at both the YMCA Malden and YWCA Malden as part of projects supported by the Malden Cultural Council and the City of Boston. He is co-founder of Free Computer Labs, an organization that brings free software to the community in the form of free computers to schools that need them as well as classes everyday free software computing for adults. Devin is a professional musician, chairing the guitar department for the Preparatory School and School of Continuing Education at New England Conservatory.

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Sharon Woods

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Luis Villa

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Sharon Woods is the General Counsel for the Defense Digital Service (DDS) at the US Department of Defense (DoD). The mission of DDS, whose Director reports to the Secretary of Defense, is to transform the way the DoD builds, buys, and deploys digital services and supporting technologies. Ms. Woods provides legal counsel and bureaucracy hacking expertise for a team of private sector technologists turned federal employees working on high impact challenges at the Pentagon. Prior to joining DoD, she was an acquisition attorney for the US Department of the Navy, specializing in information technology acquisitions. She holds a law degree from the Washington College of Law at American University, and a bachelors from Johns Hopkins University. She is an avid chess player and Star Trek fan, and relaxes to heavy metal.

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The battle to free the code at the Department of Defense

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Luis is an attorney, programmer, and entrepreneur, who has been involved in free software his entire career. He is currently the co-founder of Tidelift. Previous roles include Senior Director of Community Engagement at the Wikimedia Foundation; legal fellow at Mozilla, where he led the drafting of version 2.0 of the Mozilla Public License; and associate at Greenberg Traurig, where he represented Google in the Google-Oracle case. Before practicing law, he was the bugmaster and a board member of the GNOME Foundation, and worked at Ximian. He also briefly maintained a GPL-licensed Lego Mindstorms operating system.

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Stefano Zacchiroli

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Jeffrey Warren

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Stefano Zacchiroli is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at -University Paris Diderot, on leave at Inria. His research interests include -formal methods, software preservation, and free software -engineering. He is co-founder and current CTO of the Software Heritage -project. He is an official member of the Debian Project since 2001, -where he was elected to serve as Debian Project Leader for 3 terms in a -row over the period 2010-2013. He is a former Board Director of the Open -Source Initiative (OSI), and recipient of the 2015 O'Reilly Open Source -Award.

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Browsing the free software commons

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The creator of GrassrootsMapping.org http://grassrootsmapping.org"/ and co-founder and Research Director for Public Lab, Jeffrey Warren designs mapping and civic science tools and professionally flies balloons and kites. Notable software he has created include the vector-mapping framework Cartagen http://cartagen.org/ and orthorectification tool MapKnitterhttp://mapknitter.org/, as well as open spectral database and toolkit Spectral Workbench http://spectralworkbench.org/.

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He served from 2015–17 as Vice President of the board http://www.oshwa.org/2013/09/10/welcome-new-oshwa-board-members/" of the Open Source Hardware Association http://www.oshwa.org/", is on the board of alternative education program Parts and Crafts http://partsandcrafts.org/ in Somerville MA, and an advocate of free software, hardware, and data. He co-founded Vestal Design, a graphic/interaction design firm in 2004, and directed the Cut&Paste Labs project, a year-long series of workshops on open source tools and web design in 2006-7 with Lima designer Diego Rotalde.

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Alick Tao Zhao

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Christopher Lemmer Webber

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Alick is a PhD student in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. He started to use GNU/Linux in 2009, and has been a free software contributor/advocate shortly after. He started to use LaTeX around 2010, and has presented about it on several occasions. He authors the beamerthemetamu package, and contributed to the ThuThesis package on CTAN.

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A short introduction to LaTeX

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Christopher Lemmer Webber is co-editor of the ActivityPub specification, co-founder of GNU MediaGoblin, and co-chair of the Social Community Group. They have had a long history in free software and free culture advocacy, working at organizations such as Creative Commons and the Participatory Culture Foundation and volunteering on many projects, including GNU projects such as Guile and Guix.

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Marina Zhurakhinskaya

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Marina Zhurakhinskaya is a Senior Outreach Specialist focused on free software community diversity and inclusion at Red Hat. She co-organizes Outreachy, a mentorship and internships program that helps people from groups underrepresented in free software get involved; 407 people have so far participated in the program's paid remote internships. Prior to her diversity outreach role, Marina worked on community engagement and on software development for GNOME. She served as a board member at the GNOME Foundation and at the Ada Initiative. Marina is a recipient of a Silver Stevie award in the "Women Helping Women" category, an O'Reilly Open Source Award, and a GNOME Foundation Contributor of the Year Award, "the Pants." She is a co-recipient of the Free Software Foundation Award for Projects of Social Benefit on behalf of the Outreach Program for Women.

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Diversity in free software: no longer at square one

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Sharon Woods is the General Counsel for the Defense Digital Service (DDS) at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The mission of DDS, whose Director reports to the Secretary of Defense, is to transform the way the DoD builds, buys, and deploys digital services and supporting technologies. Ms. Woods provides legal counsel and bureaucracy hacking expertise for a team of private sector technologists turned federal employees working on high impact challenges at the Pentagon. Prior to joining DoD, she was an acquisition attorney for the U.S. Department of the Navy, specializing in information technology acquisitions. She holds a law degree from the Washington College of Law, American University and bachelors from Johns Hopkins University. She is an avid chess player and Star Trek fan and relaxes to heavy metal.

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Stefano Zacchiroli

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Stefano Zacchiroli is Associate Professor of Computer Science at University Paris Diderot on leave at Inria. His research interests span formal methods, software preservation, and free software engineering. He is co-founder and current CTO of the Software Heritage project. He is an official member of the Debian Project since 2001, where he was elected to serve as Debian Project Leader for 3 terms in a row over the period 2010-2013. He is a former Board Director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and recipient of the 2015 O'Reilly Open Source Award.

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Alick Tao Zhao

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Alick is a PhD student in Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. He started to use GNU/Linux in 2009, and has been a free software contributor/advocate shortly after. He started to use LaTeX around 2010 and has presented about it on several occasions. He authors the beamerthemetamu package and contributed to the ThuThesis package on CTAN.

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Steph Whited, communications director at Tor.

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Gunnar is a free Software enthusiast, user, advocate and developer for over twenty years. He is a Debian Developer since 2003 and founder of several Free Software conferences and events in Mexico and Latin America. He is an academic at the Economics Research Institute, UNAM, and a professor at the Engineering Faculty, UNAM.

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