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The future of the right to repair and free software

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Education and the future of software freedom

-: Sunday 17:20 - 18:05 EDT (21:20 UTC) +: Saturday 11:55 - 12:40 EDT (15:55 UTC)
: Jupiter -- in-person
: Keynote
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The fight for our Right to Repair our stuff has gained momentum, but we can’t stop at parts and manuals — we need software access, too. This is obvious to farmers with tractors locked down in “limp mode” at harvest time and iPhone repair shops that can’t dismiss annoying warnings. Manufacturers are hiding more and more repairs behind software locks. We’re fighting them every step of the way, from state legislatures to GPL enforcement lawsuits. When repair professionals and device owners don’t have access to the software they need to complete a repair, they’ve got slim choices: Admit defeat and send the thing to recycling? Hack your way through it? Join the fight for the Right to Repair?
-We’re winning that fight, and manufacturers are on their back foot like never before. The first-ever digital repair bill passed in New York in December. Despite the ways the New York bill got narrowed by lobbyists, we’re excited that it will require manufacturers to provide access to whatever software is necessary to complete a repair. Meanwhile, the European Union has passed several repair reforms. France now requires manufacturers to post repair scores at the point of sale. And the Software Freedom Conservancy got a federal court to agree that individual consumers should have the right to the source code of anything operating under the GPL. Oh yeah, and Sick Codes showed off Doom running on a Deere tractor at DefCon. Manufacturers with unjust repair practices, watch out!
-Free software would give us the freedom to repair the brains of all our software-enabled devices. But without it, we need research to keep manufacturers honest. Exploits like Sick Codes’s Deere jailbreak help call attention to the vulnerability of security through obscurity, which is always the way manufacturers defend proprietary software and unjust repair practices. Other hacks, like ChuxMan’s hack of his washing machine firmware, point to places where manufacturers are letting consumers down.
-Free software and the Right to Repair movement share a heart: When you buy something, you should own it. You should have the right to open it, look inside it, examine what makes it tick—and maybe even make it tick in a new way.

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As the political stakes of digital technology become increasingly apparent, it’s clear that an ethical approach to software use and development is more important than ever. While a number of organizations and advocates are doing important work to advance ethical forms of software practice, we continue to miss one of the key sites where software habits and expectations are reinforced and normalized at scale, that is, institutions of education.
+In this talk, I will discuss the inadvertent role higher education plays in teaching students to passively accept broad forms of digital surveillance and control through its use of popular educational technologies like learning management systems, word processing software, and test taking tools, and how this submission leads to the broader mass helplessness in the face of current technological struggles. Starting with my chance encounter with free software as a humanities graduate student, I will highlight a range of promising contemporary examples of experiments in higher education that push against exploitative trends in educational technology and expose students to the differentiating value and possibility of software freedom. As we chart the course of the future of software, these examples shine light on the importance of educational institutions in the struggle for software freedom and the urgent need for broader community support to help sustain and encourage these precarious endeavors.

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Elizabeth Chamberlain

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Dr. Elizabeth Chamberlain is Director of Sustainability at iFixit, which is the free repair manual for everything, with over 90,000 guides for fixing everything from tractors to toasters. Liz advocates for the Right to Repair around the world, supporting lawmakers, conducting repair research, and working to make sure environmental standards reflect repair best practices. Her writing on repair has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and The Atlantic.


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Erin Rose Glass

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Erin Rose Glass is a researcher and educator who has worked across universities, community colleges, academic libraries, and industry to promote technical literacy focused on ethics, user governance, and community values. She has co-founded a variety of community-driven ed tech initiatives that center ethics and user freedom, including Social Paper, a platform for socializing student writing funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and KNIT, a digital commons shared between UC San Diego and the San Diego Community College District. Her research publications focus on the intellectual and political stakes of digital infrastructure related to education and research, including her dissertation, Software of the Oppressed: Reprogramming the Invisible Discipline, which examines the history of ed tech in higher education through Paulo Freire’s philosophy of critical pedagogy. More recently, she led the Developer Education team at DigitalOcean before joining Chainguard, a start up focused on software supply chain security. She lives in California with her family and pack of fluffy creatures, big and small.


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Education and the future of software freedom

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The future of the right to repair and free software

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: Jupiter -- in-person
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As the political stakes of digital technology become increasingly apparent, it’s clear that an ethical approach to software use and development is more important than ever. While a number of organizations and advocates are doing important work to advance ethical forms of software practice, we continue to miss one of the key sites where software habits and expectations are reinforced and normalized at scale, that is, institutions of education.
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The fight for our Right to Repair our stuff has gained momentum, but we can’t stop at parts and manuals — we need software access, too. This is obvious to farmers with tractors locked down in “limp mode” at harvest time and iPhone repair shops that can’t dismiss annoying warnings. Manufacturers are hiding more and more repairs behind software locks. We’re fighting them every step of the way, from state legislatures to GPL enforcement lawsuits. When repair professionals and device owners don’t have access to the software they need to complete a repair, they’ve got slim choices: Admit defeat and send the thing to recycling? Hack your way through it? Join the fight for the Right to Repair?
+We’re winning that fight, and manufacturers are on their back foot like never before. The first-ever digital repair bill passed in New York in December. Despite the ways the New York bill got narrowed by lobbyists, we’re excited that it will require manufacturers to provide access to whatever software is necessary to complete a repair. Meanwhile, the European Union has passed several repair reforms. France now requires manufacturers to post repair scores at the point of sale. And the Software Freedom Conservancy got a federal court to agree that individual consumers should have the right to the source code of anything operating under the GPL. Oh yeah, and Sick Codes showed off Doom running on a Deere tractor at DefCon. Manufacturers with unjust repair practices, watch out!
+Free software would give us the freedom to repair the brains of all our software-enabled devices. But without it, we need research to keep manufacturers honest. Exploits like Sick Codes’s Deere jailbreak help call attention to the vulnerability of security through obscurity, which is always the way manufacturers defend proprietary software and unjust repair practices. Other hacks, like ChuxMan’s hack of his washing machine firmware, point to places where manufacturers are letting consumers down.
+Free software and the Right to Repair movement share a heart: When you buy something, you should own it. You should have the right to open it, look inside it, examine what makes it tick—and maybe even make it tick in a new way.

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Erin Rose Glass

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Erin Rose Glass is a researcher and educator who has worked across universities, community colleges, academic libraries, and industry to promote technical literacy focused on ethics, user governance, and community values. She has co-founded a variety of community-driven ed tech initiatives that center ethics and user freedom, including Social Paper, a platform for socializing student writing funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and KNIT, a digital commons shared between UC San Diego and the San Diego Community College District. Her research publications focus on the intellectual and political stakes of digital infrastructure related to education and research, including her dissertation, Software of the Oppressed: Reprogramming the Invisible Discipline, which examines the history of ed tech in higher education through Paulo Freire’s philosophy of critical pedagogy. More recently, she led the Developer Education team at DigitalOcean before joining Chainguard, a start up focused on software supply chain security. She lives in California with her family and pack of fluffy creatures, big and small.


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WorldVistA EHR is a slightly modified version of the Department of Veterans Affairs Electronic Health Record, VistA. VistA is currently in the process of being replaced by Oracle Cerner by the VA, but implementation of the new system is currently on hold because it is not preforming up to expectations. Meanwhile, VistA is in use in many places internationally, with the largest implementation in the country of Jordan. The largest implementation in the U.S. is at Central Regional Hospital, a state mental health hospital in North Carolina. It will fall upon the free software community to keep this comprehensive free software EHR available in the future.

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Nancy Anthracite

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Nancy Anthracite, MD is an internal medicine physician working in an occupational health clinic as her occupation and president of WorldVistA as her volunteer avocation. She became aware of VistA and devoted to keeping VistA free software since 1999 and is surrounded by like-minded volunteers with the same goal. She became CMO of WorldVistA in 2007 and president in 2009.


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The RISC-V architecture and ecosystem have undergone tremendous growth recently. We will take a look at the current state of RISC-V and its current deployment footprint. We'll discuss where RISC-V may be headed and the role it may play in completely open and free datacenter servers, tablets, and cellphones. We will review the emergence of the ARM architecture and how in may be an important stepping stone to a free computing platform. We'll discuss the differences between the ARM licensing model and the X86_64 architecture licensing model as well as the role of ARM processors in cell phones and cloud datacenters (such as AWS). Finally, we'll take a brief look at some options for starting RISC-V free and open hardware development for both experienced FPGA programmers and newbies. We'll explain options including physical RISC-V processors, FPGAs, and software emulation.

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Victor Brennen is a free software developer, free documentation writer (including a Linux Documentation Project Contributor), and a cryptography and computer security specialist. He has worked for MIT for almost two decades and is one of the people that helped start ProtonMail (first 10 employees). He also helped start a VSAT communications company in Iraq and Afghanistan. Brennen was a member of the MIT (CSAIL) 2014 RobotX Autonomous Marine Vehicle Challenge (1st place winners).


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Kurt Keville is a systems administrator and GNU/ Linux cluster manager at MIT ORCD. As part of his job, he works with students and post-docs to implement, optimize, and tune compute intensive production codes on the MIT clusters and Supercomputers. He supports a number of packages on Supercloud and maintains the MIT Debian RISC-V build farm. He also works with students to develop computer processor designs that can be validated, tested, and eventually worked into a synthesized product at a chip fab.


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Alex is a free software developer that has been writing GPL licensed software for more than 25 years. Most of his development work was in academic environments. However, he also developed cryptography software as part of the Cypherpunks movement in the 1990's and has extensive experience in computer security. Alex has been a systems administrator at MIT for over 15 years working with MIT Libraries and groups including CSAIL and W3C. Alex also helped start ProtonMail, serving as one of its first ten employees and its first infrastructure administrator and security officer. He developed an interest in libre hardware while working on autonomous robotic drone hardware at CSAIL.


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Kurt Keville is an MIT research scientist, systems administrator, and cluster manager at the MIT Office of Research Computing and Data (ORCD). Kurt has a master's degree in electrical engineering from MIT. He previously worked on low power and performance per watt dense super computing clusters. He supports a number of packages on Supercloud. He also maintains the MIT Debian RISC-V build farm. He is a frequent speaker at the Boston Linux User's group on the topics of libre software, emerging hardware, and GPU based super computing and CUDA programming.


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Adrian is passionate about helping people be empowered by computers through custom software development work. It’s not enough for Adrian to create something that works - he must know why it works! Adrian graduated from Victoria University of Wellington in 2017 with a degree in Computer Science. His education in computing began long before that, having learned his first programming language at age 10. For his hobbies Adrian enjoys illustrating how software can be better through his personal projects, reviewing audioshows, and is always keen for a game of Catan.


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