From e61f9182d0946bf01ef5f7bdd118f1731e928ad6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zak Rogoff Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 12:08:14 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Updating schedule with times --- 2016/program/generated-bios.html | 455 +++--- 2016/program/generated-sessions.html | 1994 ++++++++++++++++++++------ 2016/speakers.ids | 2 + 2016/speakers.noids | 13 +- 4 files changed, 1831 insertions(+), 633 deletions(-) diff --git a/2016/program/generated-bios.html b/2016/program/generated-bios.html index 3e92e7d7..af7b7526 100755 --- a/2016/program/generated-bios.html +++ b/2016/program/generated-bios.html @@ -297,8 +297,13 @@ document magnification, and DIY woodworking.
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- Richard Fontana is a lawyer at Red Hat. He leads support for Red Hat's engineering and research and development units and is Red Hat's lead counsel for legal issues relating to free software. Richard is also a board director of the Open Source Initiative. -

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- Mike Gerwitz + Richard Fontana

- Mike Gerwitz is a free software hacker and activist with a strong focus on security, privacy, and the Web. He is a volunteer for the GNU -project, an evaluator for software submissions to GNU, and author of GNU ease.js. + Richard Fontana is a lawyer at Red Hat. He leads support for Red Hat's engineering and research and development units and is Red Hat's lead counsel for legal issues relating to free software. Richard is also a board director of the Open Source Initiative.

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- Judy Gichoya + Mike Gerwitz

- Judy is a medical doctor and health informatician who has worked with OpenMRS from its inception. She has contributed as a developer , with over 6 implementations of OpenMRS worldwide and continues to support openMRS leadership regarding strategy and maintenance of partnerships. -

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- Judy brings a fresh look into open source systems for global health, challenging us to rethink systems and organizations as social enterprises that must manage resources efficiently in order to make an impact. + Mike Gerwitz is a free software hacker and activist with a strong focus on security, privacy, and the Web. He is a volunteer for the GNU +project, an evaluator for software submissions to GNU, and author of GNU ease.js.

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- Erin Glass just joined UCSD as Associate Director and Digital Humanities Coordinator of the Center for the Humanities. Prior to her move, she served as a Digital Fellow at The CUNY Graduate Center where she worked on developing software initiatives that fostered collaborative research while protecting user freedom. She is also co-founder of Social Paper, which received a NEH Digital Start-Up grant, and is currently at work on a dissertation which theorizes student writing as a site where political and technical consciousness is forged. + Judy is a medical doctor and health informatician who has worked with OpenMRS from its inception. She has contributed as a developer , with over 6 implementations of OpenMRS worldwide and continues to support openMRS leadership regarding strategy and maintenance of partnerships. +

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+ Judy brings a fresh look into open source systems for global health, challenging us to rethink systems and organizations as social enterprises that must manage resources efficiently in order to make an impact.

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- Shauna Gordon-McKeon + Erin Glass

- Shauna Gordon-McKeon is an independent researcher and developer who focuses on open technologies and communities. She runs a business, Galaxy Rise Consulting, providing web and mobile development and data science services to individuals and organizations. She can often be found using her skills as a writer, public speaker, and teacher to help free software and open science communities more accessible to newcomers. + Erin Glass just joined UCSD as Associate Director and Digital Humanities Coordinator of the Center for the Humanities. Prior to her move, she served as a Digital Fellow at The CUNY Graduate Center where she worked on developing software initiatives that fostered collaborative research while protecting user freedom. She is also co-founder of Social Paper, which received a NEH Digital Start-Up grant, and is currently at work on a dissertation which theorizes student writing as a site where political and technical consciousness is forged.

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- Molly Gott is an organizer and researcher at LittleSis, where she focuses on building teams of activist-researchers doing power analysis research in their communities. Previously, she organized in St. Louis with MORE, an economic and climate justice community organization. At MORE, she led the Power Behind the Police movement research team, which exposed the ties between St. Louis' corporate elite and the region's structural racism. + Shauna Gordon-McKeon is an independent researcher and developer who focuses on open technologies and communities. She runs a business, Galaxy Rise Consulting, providing web and mobile development and data science services to individuals and organizations. She can often be found using her skills as a writer, public speaker, and teacher to help free software and open science communities more accessible to newcomers.

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+ Molly Gott is an organizer and researcher at LittleSis, where she focuses on building teams of activist-researchers doing power analysis research in their communities. Previously, she organized in St. Louis with MORE, an economic and climate justice community organization. At MORE, she led the Power Behind the Police movement research team, which exposed the ties between St. Louis' corporate elite and the region's structural racism. +

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- Jonathan has been involved with the Free Software Movement for ten years, in France and now in Canada. + Bassam is a 3D animator/filmmaker whose 2006 short, Elephants Dream, was the first "open 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. His character, ManCandy, began as an easily animatable test bed for rigging experiments. Multiple iterations have been released to the public, and Bassam demonstrates him in the animated tutorial video + short, The ManCandy FAQ. Under the sign of the urchin, Bassam is continuing to pursue a model of production that invests in commonwealth. He teaches, writes and lectures around the world on free production and free software technique. Raised in Damascus, Bassam trained in the United States as an electrical and software engineer.

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- Matt Lee is a free software hacker, film maker and artist living in Austin, TX. + Jonathan has been involved with the Free Software Movement for ten years, in France and now in Canada.

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- Software engineer, leader of Hypatia Software Organization. Python developer, open source author; MIT licenses everything. FreeBSD enthusiast. + Matt Lee is a free software hacker, film maker and artist living in Austin, TX.

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- Holger Levsen is contributing to Debian since more than 10 years. He founded the DebConf videoteam and created the Debian video archive at video.debian.net, was heavily involved in Debian-Edu and has now shifted has focus on QA and lately security. He maintains piuparts.debian.org and jenkins.debian.net, and on the later he set up reproducible.debian.net which by now is not only testing Debian packages for reproducibility but also coreboot, OpenWrt, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Archlinux and soon Fedora. - - Photo license: - - - Diégo Antolinos-Basso - - - , - - Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License - - . - + Software engineer, leader of Hypatia Software Organization. Python developer, open source author; MIT licenses everything. FreeBSD enthusiast.

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- M. C. is the founder of Transparency Toolkit, a free software project that helps people use open data to expose surveillance and human rights abuses. He is also a Thiel Fellow and an Echoing Green Fellow. Previously, M. C. graduated from Boston University with a degree in civic technology and did research at the MIT Media Lab. + Holger Levsen is contributing to Debian since more than 10 years. He founded the DebConf videoteam and created the Debian video archive at video.debian.net, was heavily involved in Debian-Edu and has now shifted has focus on QA and lately security. He maintains piuparts.debian.org and jenkins.debian.net, and on the later he set up reproducible.debian.net which by now is not only testing Debian packages for reproducibility but also coreboot, OpenWrt, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Archlinux and soon Fedora. + + Photo license: + + + Diégo Antolinos-Basso + + + , + + Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License + + . +

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- Deb Nicholson wants to make the world a better place with technology and social justice for all. After many years of local political organizing, she became an enthusiastic free software activist. She is currently the Community Outreach Director at the Open Invention Network and the Community Manager at GNU MediaGoblin. She also serves on the board at Open Hatch, aka Free Software's Welcoming Committee. + Evan Misshula is the Project Manager for the NYC Tech Talent Pipeline Residency @ Queens College, an adjunct instructor at CUNY John Jay teaching network security and a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in Criminal Justice. He is active in numerous free software meetups in NYC. He is interested in helping marginalized groups (particularly those stigmatized by contact with the criminal justice system) use Free Software to increase social and economic mobility.

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- While working towards a BFA in Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art, Paige developed an interest in programming and a fascination in the complexity of natural systems. After graduation, Paige worked for mesh networking startup, Open Garden which helped to map her interest in natural decentralized systems onto concepts within technology. She previously organized San Francisco's bitcoin meetup and is fascinated by the freeing potential of cryptocurrencies. She currently fills various roles at MaidSafe with a focus on community and communication. + Deb Nicholson wants to make the world a better place with technology and social justice for all. After many years of local political organizing, she became an enthusiastic free software activist. She is currently the Community Outreach Director at the Open Invention Network and the Community Manager at GNU MediaGoblin. She also serves on the board at Open Hatch, aka Free Software's Welcoming Committee.

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- Cooper is a security researcher and programmer at EFF. He has worked on projects such as Privacy Badger, Canary Watch, Ethersheet, and analysis of state sponsored malware. He has also performed security trainings for activists, non profit workers and ordinary folks around the world. He previously worked building websites for non-profits, such as Greenpeace, Adbusters, and the Chelsea Manning Support Network. He also was a co-founder of the Hackbloc hacktivist collective. In his spare time he enjoys playing music and participating in street protests. + FSF Latin America board member. GNU speaker. Free Software Evangelist. Maintainer of GNU Linux-libre, and co-maintainer of the GNU Compiler Collection, GNU binutils and GNU libc. GNU tools engineer at Red Hat Brasil.

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- Over the past 15 years, Guillaume Roguez (Ring Development Director and Free-Software Consultantat - - Savoir-faire Linux - - ) worked on different projects, like porting Blender and Python. He has also developed a deep knowledge in low-level software, multi-medias codecs, real-time constraints, and testing. -Now he leads the - - Ring - - project. He is convinced that Ring is a free tool for everyone on the planet. + While working towards a BFA in Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art, Paige developed an interest in programming and a fascination in the complexity of natural systems. After graduation, Paige worked for mesh networking startup, Open Garden which helped to map her interest in natural decentralized systems onto concepts within technology. She previously organized San Francisco's bitcoin meetup and is fascinated by the freeing potential of cryptocurrencies. She currently fills various roles at MaidSafe with a focus on community and communication.

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- Enrique Rosas studied Information Science in the Polytech National Institute in Mexico, although he is an autodidact of the libre software movement. He likes history, economy and politics. He is part of the core of Mutual Assistance Tech Communities and works as project manager for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Mexico. + Cooper is a security researcher and programmer at EFF. He has worked on projects such as Privacy Badger, Canary Watch, Ethersheet, and analysis of state sponsored malware. He has also performed security trainings for activists, non profit workers and ordinary folks around the world. He previously worked building websites for non-profits, such as Greenpeace, Adbusters, and the Chelsea Manning Support Network. He also was a co-founder of the Hackbloc hacktivist collective. In his spare time he enjoys playing music and participating in street protests.

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- Felipe Sanches is a software freedom activist and developer who became a libre hardware designer when co-funding Metamaquina, a Brazilian 3d printing company. Felipe has contributed to the development of graphics design, CAD and 3D modelling & printing libre software such as Inkscape, OpenSCAD, Pronterface and GNU LibreDWG. He is also a co-founder of Garoa Hacker Clube, the first brazilian hackerspace, and of PoliGNU, the Free Software Studies Group of the engineering school at University of Sao Paulo. -

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- Eric Schultz is an independent software engineer and open source consultant. Most recently he was the Community Manager at prpl Foundation with a particular focus on building the OpenWrt community. Prior to this, Eric worked as Developer Advocate at Outercurve Foundation where he managed and supported the foundation’s 25 open source projects. Eric has collaborated with employees from dozens of companies to create free and open source software that improves lives. 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, cute animals, politics and sports. + Enrique Rosas studied Information Science in the Polytech National Institute in Mexico, although he is an autodidact of the libre software movement. He likes history, economy and politics. He is part of the core of Mutual Assistance Tech Communities and works as project manager for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Mexico.

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- Andrew Seeder is the Data Systems Manager at the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Roxbury, Boston. He is also a consultant for the Smart Chicago Collaborative, sits on the IT Working Group for Boston Ujima, and is a member of the young professionals committee for YMCA's Training, Inc. He helps organize cryptoparties and works with friends on the Boston Meshnet project. Tweet him at @ahseeder. + Felipe Sanches is a software freedom activist and developer who became a libre hardware designer when co-funding Metamaquina, a Brazilian 3d printing company. Felipe has contributed to the development of graphics design, CAD and 3D modelling & printing libre software such as Inkscape, OpenSCAD, Pronterface and GNU LibreDWG. He is also a co-founder of Garoa Hacker Clube, the first brazilian hackerspace, and of PoliGNU, the Free Software Studies Group of the engineering school at University of Sao Paulo. +

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- Matthew Skomarovsky is a co-founder of PAI and the lead engineer of LittleSis.org. Previously he was a creative and technical manager at Billionaires for Bush, a national street theater campaign, and developed web applications for Freelancers Union. + Eric Schultz is an independent software engineer and open source consultant. Most recently he was the Community Manager at prpl Foundation with a particular focus on building the OpenWrt community. Prior to this, Eric worked as Developer Advocate at Outercurve Foundation where he managed and supported the foundation’s 25 open source projects. Eric has collaborated with employees from dozens of companies to create free and open source software that improves lives. 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, cute animals, politics and sports.

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- David Thompson is a professional web developer, core developer for the GNU Guix project, contributor to GNU Guile, functional programming enthusiast, and free software activist. + Andrew Seeder is the Data Systems Manager at the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Roxbury, Boston. He is also a consultant for the Smart Chicago Collaborative, sits on the IT Working Group for Boston Ujima, and is a member of the young professionals committee for YMCA's Training, Inc. He helps organize cryptoparties and works with friends on the Boston Meshnet project. Tweet him at @ahseeder.

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- Christopher Allan Webber is lead developer of the GNU MediaGoblin project, a longtime free culture and free software activist, hacker of various languages (especially Python and various lisps), contributor to GNU Guix, and occasional author to various goblin-themed drawings. + David Thompson is a professional web developer, core developer for the GNU Guix project, contributor to GNU Guile, functional programming enthusiast, and free software activist.

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- Marina Zhurakhinskaya is a Senior Outreach Specialist focused on 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; 244 people have so far participated in the program's paid, remote internships. Marina is a coordinator for GNOME's participation in Google Summer of Code and a creator of GNOME's newcomers tutorial and workshop. She served as a board member at the GNOME Foundation and at the Ada Initiative. Prior to her diversity outreach and community engagement roles, Marina developed software for GNOME. Marina is a recipient of an O'Reilly Open Source Award and of 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. + Luis is an attorney and programmer. Most recently, he was the Senior Director of Community Engagement at the Wikimedia Foundation. Prior to Wikimedia, Luis worked at Greenberg-Traurig, where he represented Google in the Google-Oracle litigation, and at Mozilla, where he led the drafting of version 2.0 of the Mozilla Public License. Before practicing law, he was the bugmaster and a board member of the GNOME Foundation, and worked at Ximian.

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- Advocate for Yourself at Work: Use More Free Software and Keep Contributing to the Community + Yes, the FCC might ban your operating system

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- Your workplace can exert a lot of control over how much free software you use, what you're allowed to work on in your own time and what kinds of tools you become an expert in. New employees don't always negotiate their contracts to make sure they can continue contributing to free software and current employees aren't always successful at advocating for using free software tools, choosing free software technologies or contributing changes back upstream when they do rely on free software. We'll address what's possible, what your legal department is likely to be concerned about and how to be a smooth negotiator at work. Many companies could benefit tremendously from using FOSS, but free software enthusiasts and institutional gatekeepers are coming from very different perspectives. Free software developers and users tend to be most familiar with free software's benefits when compared to proprietary solutions; user freedom, reusing code, public code review for bugs, increased project capacity and cost. The uninitiated may -- unfortunately -- be most familiar with the risks, some real and some perceived. Employers also benefit from having workers who are passionate about their work, are well-connected to the free software community and are constantly learning about new technologies from their peers outside the company, but new employee contracts rarely recognize this unless you ask. Conversations about contracts, choosing new technologies and sharing an employee's work with another entity are high stakes negotiations. With a solid understanding of what worries and motivates the other parties, you can become a savvy advocate for free software at work. This talk will help you gather information, frame the conversation and make the best possible case for using and contributing to free software at work. + What could possibly make thousands of free software advocates, ham +radio operators, researchers and physicians stand together? One +obscure FCC rulemaking proposal on wireless radios. Eric Schultz, one +of the leaders of the Save Wifi Initiative, discusses the details of +the extreme proposals of FCC to control how you use your +devices. You'll learn the history of regulators quietly locking down +wireless radios and how it's unintentionally extending to a lockdown +of the operating systems of devices. Finally, you'll find out some of +the problems with proposed workarounds for the the FCC lock down +proposals.

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- Artificial scarcity: Beyond the digital + Solving the Deployment Crisis with GNU Guix

- - Shauna Gordon-McKeon + + Christopher Webber + , + GNU MediaGoblin and + + David Thompson + + , + GNU Guix

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- Digital resources such as software programs can be easily copied and shared, but distribution is restrained by technical, legal, and cultural means. The free culture community is not the first to fight "artificial scarcity." What can we learn from other communities and movements? -

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- This presentation will be a series of case studies covering a variety of other forms of artificial scarcity, including food waste, housing vacancy, and the destruction of excess retail merchandise. We'll focus on efforts to combat this scarcity, highlighting what's worked and drawing lessons from what hasn't. -

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- By exploring the connections between free culture and other anti-scarcity movements, we'll find new approaches, new allies, and new opportunities to stand up for the public commons. + User freedom is threatened by the growing complexity of current +deployment and packaging directions. Running software (especially +server/networked software) is becoming too hard for the average user, +so many users are turning to the dangerous path of relying on large +corporations to do their computing for them. What can GNU do to turn +the tide here? Enter GNU Guix and GuixSD! This talk will walk +through Guix's unique positioning to provide totally free and +reproducible systems. A path will be laid out on how Guix could be +used as a foundation for easy to run and maintain computing for +everyone, how you can get Guix and GuixSD running, and how to get +involved in the most hacking-friendly package manager/distro duo ever!

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- Beyond reproducible builds + GNU/Linux and Chill: Free Software on a College Campus

- Holger Levsen, - Debian + + Michaela R. Brown +

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- The presentation will describe how the Debian reproducible builds team made 85% of the Debian archive reproducible, what steps are left to reach 100% and what steps are needed beyond reproducible builds, so that every user can easily and meaningful benefit from them. -

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- The presentation will be largely about the the Debian work on the area, but it will also portrait other projects work on reproducible builds, as our goal is to make reproducible builds the norm for Free Software. ""It's not free software if it's not reproducible." + Being a free software user isn't easy, especially when you're a +college student. I spent a year at a school that taught Visual Basic +as its primary programming language for freshmen and sophomores, where +"Introduction to Programming" was an overview of the Windows OS, and +where most of the professors would only accept papers typed in Times +New Roman -- and I survived. In this session, I'll give students tips +for making it through college while still adhering to the values we +hold as free software users -- including alternative fonts, making a +GNU/Linux live disk for use on public computers, avoiding the "Netflix +and Chill" dilemma, and most importantly, ways to discuss free +software with professors and fellow students. After leaving this +session, students will feel empowered and able to hold their own as +free users in a proprietary campus.

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- Building new economies for open development and content + Libreboot install workshop (all day)

- - Paige Peterson - - , - MaidSoft + Francis Rowe

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- Shifting perspectives on the value of Free/Libre software development and Creative Commons content creation would open up opportunities for individuals working in these fields as we finally see a push towards an economy that makes sense for the Internet. This will be an overview of some platforms creating these new opportunities and ways we can think about how an economy can exist in the digital world beyond the artificial scarcity that comes with keeping code and content locked down or secret. The session should include group discussion about platforms, philosophies and experiences folks working in free/libre software and creative commons content. + 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 +

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+ 11:50 - 12:35: Session Block 2A +

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- Challenges and future growth in libre media and conference video production + Inessential weirdnesses in free software

- - George Chriss + + Sumana Harihareswara - and others, - Kat Walsh (moderator)

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- An 'intermediate' panel designed to provide a working overview of diversified libre media communities blended with per-project technical development updates, organizational adoption challenges, community-centric user-experience goals and other novel discussions regarding video production both generally and as it relates to conference video production (e.g., session recording and live-streaming). + I'll discuss aspects of our behavior and jargon that stop or slow down +some new users and contributors in free software, so that in outreach +efforts, we can be better at bridging the gap. These include git's +terrible UI, our in-person conference structures, and widespread scorn +of and dismissiveness towards team sports, Top 40 music, patriotism, +religion, small talk, and Microsoft Windows. In getting rid of +unnecessary barriers, we need to watch out for disrespectful +oversimplification, so I'll outline ways you can know if one of our +weirdnesses is necessary. And I'll talk about how to mitigate the +effects of an inessential weirdness in your outreach efforts.

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- A community take on the license compliance industry + Stallman, Nussbaum, and Sen: putting "freedom" in context

- - Stefano Zacchiroli + + Luis Villa - , - Debian, - OSI, - IRILL

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+ Our movement rarely talks about freedom with much philosophical +nuance. In this talk, I'll try to put some flesh on the bones of +freedom by giving an introduction to Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's +capability approach, and applying it to software. The capability +approach (sometimes called the human development approach) is a +framework for thinking about human freedom that, since its development +in the early 90s, has been applied across a broad range of +philosophical, economic, and policy problems. Focused on what options +a person has to reach their goals, it is well-suited for understanding +where we succeed - and fail! - at actually freeing people. +

- The license compliance industry purportedly helps information technology companies and other actors to use publicly available software, and in particular free software, in a way that is compliant with the relevant free software licenses. In this talk we will review why the license compliance industry exists and discuss, from an external point of view, how it operates. We will then highlight some potential ethical issues on the current best practices for license compliance in the industry, and propose community-oriented alternatives that we can build, today, on top of the existing corpus of publicly available free software. + Talk attendees should come away with a more nuanced understanding of +software freedom, how to talk about it with others, and where to focus +their coding energy to best increase human freedom.

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- Community technology for solidarity economies + Hardware reverse engineering insights from the MAME project: a path towards free firmware

- - Andrew Seeder + + Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches , - Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative + MAME

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+ The MAME Project's main stated goal is to preserve historical computer +hardware. The strategy for achieving that objective is to inspect the +devices and then to develop emulators for them. While most hardware is +undocumented and relies on proprietary firmware, the MAME development +community has nurtured strong reverse engineering practices since its +origins back in 1997. +

- This strategic action session is for anyone interested in the solidarity economy and asset-based community development. We'll compare notes, network, and outline the ecosystem of services needed to support the operations of community land trusts, worker co-operatives, sharing networks, and other democratic economic initiatives. We'll also explore how free software technology can help activists organize and manage investments, alliances, and information resources. Hopefully both hardware and software solutions will be discussed. I'll facilitate the session and am open to the "unconference" style, where the content of the session is decided by whoever shows up. I'll prepare an overview of the topic, with an emphasis on designing tactics for people without a background in technology. Security, control, and sustainability will be core concepts. + The techniques that we need to master in order to develop new +emulators include reverse engineering procedures that are also very +useful for aiding in the creation of free firmware solutions to +replace the non-free blobs used in a broad variety of daily-use +devices. These skills are also useful for the development of free +drivers for undocumented devices and in the porting of operating +systems and BIOSes to new hardware platforms. We need to strengthen a +community of skillful hardware reverse engineers so that we can solve +the freedom issues denounced by projects such as Linux-Libre and +Libreboot.

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- Copyleft for the next decade: a comprehensive plan + Libreboot install workshop (until 17:00)

- - Bradley Kuhn - - , - Software Freedom Conservancy + Francis Rowe, + Libreboot

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- Copyleft has faced serious challenges in the last five years. It's not over: many more threats are on the way. Not by coincidence these attacks on copyleft come when "open source" reaches new heights of success. For example, hordes of software developers are funded full time to churn out new free software, as long as it's not copylefted. Some such code is specifically designed to replace existing, widely used, copylefted programs. -

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- Meanwhile, programs under copyleft licenses (most notably the kernel named Linux) face a decades long, ongoing myriad of license violations. Such violations include nefarious attempts by major companies to shirk their responsibilities under copyleft. The situation is undoubtedly bleak. + 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!

- Those of us who care about software freedom need a plan. Copyleft once assured an equal playing field, but big companies work daily to tilt the playing field in their favor and against the interests of most developers, hobbyists, users, and enthusiasts. + Other hardware is also supported. The full list can be found at + + http://libreboot.org/gitdocs/hcl/index.html#supported_list +

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- Effective outreach in four steps + Copyleft for the next decade: a comprehensive plan

- - Marina Zhurakhinskaya + + Bradley Kuhn , - Red Hat + Software Freedom Conservancy

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+ Copyleft has faced serious challenges in the last five years. It's not +over: many more threats are on the way. Not by coincidence these +attacks on copyleft come when "open source" reaches new heights of +success. For example, hordes of software developers are funded full +time to churn out new free software, as long as it's not +copylefted. Some such code is specifically designed to replace +existing, widely used, copylefted programs. +

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+ Meanwhile, programs under copyleft licenses (most notably the kernel +named Linux) face a decades long, ongoing myriad of license +violations. Such violations include nefarious attempts by major +companies to shirk their responsibilities under copyleft. The +situation is undoubtedly bleak. +

- The full potential of free software is to break down the barriers to technology and to participation, and to include users and contributors from a wide range of backgrounds. There are four key steps for making communities diverse and inclusive: creating a welcoming environment, teaching skills, fostering connections, and increasing visibility of contributors from underrepresented backgrounds. Whether you are a prospective contributor wondering what an inclusive community looks like, a project contributor wanting to take concrete steps to improve your project's outreach, or a project leader looking to create a diversity strategy for your community, this talk will have the information you need. Marina will share best practices and inspiring stories from her years of experience in free software diversity outreach in roles including outreach specialist at Red Hat, co-organizer of Outreachy, advisor and director for the Ada Initiative, and outreach lead for GNOME. + Those of us who care about software freedom need a plan. Copyleft once +assured an equal playing field, but big companies work daily to tilt +the playing field in their favor and against the interests of most +developers, hobbyists, users, and enthusiasts.

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- Ending Online Tracking! Privacy Badger and Beyond! + Experiences around FLOSS tools and social movements in Mexico

- - Cooper Quintin + + Jes Ciacci , - EFF + + Gibrán Montes +

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- Modern websites incorporate large amounts of third party resources. While these third parties can provide a better browsing experience all too often they abuse their inclusion on sites to be able to track information about your website's visitors. This type of non-consensual tracking must stop. -

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- I'll cover how users can protect themselves while browsing, why some solutions are better than others, and why free software licenses have helped provide a rich ecosystem of non-proprietary tools. From Ad Block Plus, to Firefox's Tracking Protection, to the EFFs Privacy Badger extension I'll discuss how these tools work and how users can protect themselves from online surveillance. + We want to share experiencies around Mexican social movements +migrating to free software and/or using other free tools. People of +different social processes are increasingly adopting FLOSS in their +daily activity to communicate and organize. Most of the motivation +came from digital security awareness but some times it goes a little +further (like be congruence with the defense of human rights). In the +way of facilitating those processes we have seen some advantages and +disadvantages and receive some feedback we want to share with the rest +of the community. Specially interesting for developers and technical +facilitators who want to share their own experiences in this topics +and strengthen links between FLOSS technical communities and Latin +American social movements. Intend to generate some ideas for improving +the linkages between both spaces not only for the software itself but +emphasizing the political aspects they share and how to empower +grassroots movements using free/libre tools.

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- Experiences around FLOSS tools and social movements in Mexico + Loomio: Creating a world where anyone, anywhere can participate in decisions that affect them

- - Jes Ciacci + + MJ Kaplan , - Gibrán Montes + Loomio

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- We want to share experiencies around Mexican social movements migrating to free software and/or using other free tools. People of different social processes are increasingly adopting FLOSS in their daily activity to communicate and organize. Most of the motivation came from digital security awareness but some times it goes a little further (like be congruence with the defense of human rights). In the way of facilitating those processes we have seen some advantages and disadvantages and receive some feedback we want to share with the rest of the community. Specially interesting for developers and technical facilitators who want to share their own experiences in this topics and strengthen links between FLOSS technical communities and Latin American social movements. Intend to generate some ideas for improving the linkages between both spaces not only for the software itself but emphasizing the political aspects they share and how to empower grassroots movements using free/libre tools. + Loomio is free software that we created after experiencing the +transformative potential of participatory decision making, and its +limitations, during the Occupy movement in New Zealand. Scaling is +impossible if people have to be in the same place at the same time so +we developed software that allows online groups to be inclusive and +fast, enabling deliberative discussion that taps the collective +intelligence of the group while moving actively to shared agreement +and action. Loomio is free to maximize access and inclusion, knowing +that people who are on the margins of power are the least likely to +have a voice. This session will engage participants in how Loomio +works -- in fact they can sign up ahead of time to inform the session! +I'll share lessons and challenges from cases across the 95 countries +where citizen activists and workers are experimenting with better, +fast platforms to collaborate. Participants will be inspired to use +Loomio to support their groups.

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- F as in Freedom + Libreboot install workshop (until 17:00)

- - Molly de Blanc - + Francis Rowe

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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! +

- Projects with a significant number of contributors and users will face decisions where they are no longer able to fulfill the needs and desires of all stakeholders. When this happens some people become upset. A subset of those people become so upset they vent their frustrations on Twitter. I have collected tweets that express a negative sentiment towards decisions made within free software communities and by decision makers for free software projects. These were then categorized based on the decision type (e.g. licensing) and outcome (e.g. switching licenses). I hope to create a greater community understanding of decision making processes, develop a discussion about how communities and decision makers can move forward to better balance the wants and needs of stakeholders, and make a few crass jokes that possibly violate the Code of Conduct. + Other hardware is also supported. The full list can be found at + + http://libreboot.org/gitdocs/hcl/index.html#supported_list +

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+ 14:45 - 16:05: Session Block 4A +

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- Free software alternatives to dominant proprietary solutions: A review of French initiatives + The state of free: Revising the High Priority Projects list

- - Marianne Corvellec + Benjamin Mako Hill, + + Karen Sandler , - April and - - Jonathan Le Lous + + Stefano Zacchiroli , - April + ginger coons

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- - Project "De-google-ify Internet" - - aims at offering as many alternative services as possible to those threatening our digital freedoms. Google" is not the only player there, even though it gave the project its name. Google Drive, Google Calendar, Skype, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Doodle, Yahoo Groups, and many others, are extremely convenient services. But they are centralized and make users dependent. + The FSF High-Priority Projects List guides volunteers and supporters +to projects where their skills can be utilized, whether they be in +coding, graphic design, writing, or activism.

- Framasoft are resisting this trend. They have come up with a several year roadmap to set up alternative services. These services are thought of as digital commons. They are free, gratis, and open to all. Framasoft is a French not-for-profit whose goal is to decentralize the Internet by promoting self-hosting. They work to empower everyone to install and run their own services. The project already offers more than 15 alternative services and welcomes about 1,000,000 visits per month. + Members of the committee convened to revise the list will give an +update on the review process so far, including some examples of +suggestions received as part of the call for public feedback, and will +invite audience discussion.

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- FSF at 30: history of free software + Community technology for solidarity economies

- - Matt Lee + + Andrew Seeder , - GNU Project + Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative

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- A look back at free software history, with a live demonstration of software from the past being used to deliver a presentation in 2016. + This strategic action session is for anyone interested in the +solidarity economy and asset-based community development. We'll +compare notes, network, and outline the ecosystem of services needed +to support the operations of community land trusts, worker +co-operatives, sharing networks, and other democratic economic +initiatives. We'll also explore how free software technology can help +activists organize and manage investments, alliances, and information +resources. Hopefully both hardware and software solutions will be +discussed. I'll facilitate the session and am open to the +"unconference" style, where the content of the session is decided by +whoever shows up. I'll prepare an overview of the topic, with an +emphasis on designing tactics for people without a background in +technology. Security, control, and sustainability will be core +concepts.

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- Getting the academy to support free software and open science + LittleSis: Mapping the powers that be

- - Scott Dexter + + Molly Gott and - - Evan Misshula - - , - CUNY, - and - - Erin Glass + + Matthew Skomarovsky , - UCSD + LittleSis

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- Academic Institutions and their researchers are some of the biggest beneficiaries of free software development. While individual researchers have contributed greatly to free software, they usually do so outside of the scope of their regular jobs and to the detriment of their academic careers. At CUNY, we have taken steps to change this unacceptable situation. Please come to this session and exchange ideas and strategies for having contribtions to free software valued by the University. + LittleSis is a free software, wiki-style database that tracks +connections between the world's most powerful people and +organizations. In the workshop, participants will be trained in the +site's basic functions (e.g. editing profile pages and searching for +interlocks between corporations) and advanced functions (e.g using the +site's Oligrapher tool to create maps of information stored in the +database). We will also share stories about the ways in which +LittleSis and power analysis research have been used in movement and +organizing contexts, including how activists in St. Louis used +LittleSis to map and challenge the local corporate Powers Behind the +Police and how activists in Philadelphia are using LittleSis to +research the corporate entities behind education +privatization. Participants will leave with an understanding of how to +use LittleSis, as well as inspiration for how they can start their own +movement research teams to map the powers that be in their +communities.

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- GNU/Linux and Chill: Free Software on a College Campus + Libreboot install workshop (until 17:00)

- - Michaela R. Brown - + Francis Rowe

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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! +

- Being a free software user isn't easy, especially when you're a college student. I spent a year at a school that taught Visual Basic as its primary programming language for freshmen and sophomores, where "Introduction to Programming" was an overview of the Windows OS, and where most of the professors would only accept papers typed in Times New Roman -- and I survived. In this session, I'll give students tips for making it through college while still adhering to the values we hold as free software users -- including alternative fonts, making a GNU/Linux live disk for use on public computers, avoiding the "Netflix and Chill" dilemma, and most importantly, ways to discuss free software with professors and fellow students. After leaving this session, students will feel empowered and able to hold their own as free users in a proprietary campus. + Other hardware is also supported. The full list can be found at + + http://libreboot.org/gitdocs/hcl/index.html#supported_list +

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+ 16:15 - 17:00: Session Block 5A +

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- Hardware reverse engineering insights from the MAME project: a path towards free firmware + Free software alternatives to dominant proprietary solutions: A review of French initiatives

- - Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches + + Marianne Corvellec , - MAME + April and + + Jonathan Le Lous + + , + April

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- The MAME Project's main stated goal is to preserve historical computer hardware. The strategy for achieving that objective is to inspect the devices and then to develop emulators for them. While most hardware is undocumented and relies on proprietary firmware, the MAME development community has nurtured strong reverse engineering practices since its origins back in 1997. + + Project "De-google-ify +Internet" + + aims at offering +as many alternative services as possible to those threatening our +digital freedoms. Google" is not the only player there, even though it +gave the project its name. Google Drive, Google Calendar, Skype, +Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Doodle, Yahoo Groups, and many +others, are extremely convenient services. But they are centralized +and make users dependent.

- The techniques that we need to master in order to develop new emulators include reverse engineering procedures that are also very useful for aiding in the creation of free firmware solutions to replace the non-free blobs used in a broad variety of daily-use devices. These skills are also useful for the development of free drivers for undocumented devices and in the porting of operating systems and BIOSes to new hardware platforms. We need to strengthen a community of skillful hardware reverse engineers so that we can solve the freedom issues denounced by projects such as Linux-Libre and Libreboot. + Framasoft are resisting this trend. They have come up with a several +year roadmap to set up alternative services. These services are +thought of as digital commons. They are free, gratis, and open to +all. Framasoft is a French not-for-profit whose goal is to +decentralize the Internet by promoting self-hosting. They work to +empower everyone to install and run their own services. The project +already offers more than 15 alternative services and welcomes about +1,000,000 visits per month. #### End online tracking! Privacy Badger +and beyond

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- Inessential Weirdnesses in Free Software + Ending Online Tracking! Privacy Badger and Beyond!

- - Sumana Harihareswara + + Cooper Quintin + , + EFF

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+ Modern websites incorporate large amounts of third party resources. While these third parties can provide a better browsing experience all too often they abuse their inclusion on sites to be able to track information about your website's visitors. This type of non-consensual tracking must stop. +

- I'll discuss aspects of our behavior and jargon that stop or slow down some new users and contributors in free software, so that in outreach efforts, we can be better at bridging the gap. These include git's terrible UI, our in-person conference structures, and widespread scorn of and dismissiveness towards team sports, Top 40 music, patriotism, religion, small talk, and Microsoft Windows. In getting rid of unnecessary barriers, we need to watch out for disrespectful oversimplification, so I'll outline ways you can know if one of our weirdnesses is necessary. And I'll talk about how to mitigate the effects of an inessential weirdness in your outreach efforts. + I'll cover how users can protect themselves while browsing, why some +solutions are better than others, and why free software licenses have +helped provide a rich ecosystem of non-proprietary tools. From Ad +Block Plus, to Firefox's Tracking Protection, to the EFFs Privacy +Badger extension I'll discuss how these tools work and how users can +protect themselves from online surveillance.

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- Introduction to Python in Blender + F as in Freedom

- - Bassam Kurdali + + Molly de Blanc - , - Urchin

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- Blender is a versatile Free 3D animation program that is most famously used as an artist tool. However, it also has a rich, pythonic and consistent api that allows extending and controlling the application. We'll explore techniques to use this api for creating 3D meshes, that could be a foundation/ inspiration for generative architecture or art. -Familiarity with Blender is not required (but recommended) and at least a basic knowledge of Python would be helpful for this workshop. + Projects with a significant number of contributors and users will face +decisions where they are no longer able to fulfill the needs and +desires of all stakeholders. When this happens some people become +upset. A subset of those people become so upset they vent their +frustrations on Twitter. I have collected tweets that express a +negative sentiment towards decisions made within free software +communities and by decision makers for free software projects. These +were then categorized based on the decision type (e.g. licensing) and +outcome (e.g. switching licenses). I hope to create a greater +community understanding of decision making processes, develop a +discussion about how communities and decision makers can move forward +to better balance the wants and needs of stakeholders, and make a few +crass jokes that possibly violate the Code of Conduct.

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- LittleSis: Mapping the powers that be + Libreboot install workshop

- - Molly Gott - + Francis Rowe

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- LittleSis is a free software, wiki-style database that tracks connections between the world's most powerful people and organizations. In the workshop, participants will be trained in the site's basic functions (e.g. editing profile pages and searching for interlocks between corporations) and advanced functions (e.g using the site's Oligrapher tool to create maps of information stored in the database). We will also share stories about the ways in which LittleSis and power analysis research have been used in movement and organizing contexts, including how activists in St. Louis used LittleSis to map and challenge the local corporate Powers Behind the Police and how activists in Philadelphia are using LittleSis to research the corporate entities behind education privatization. Participants will leave with an understanding of how to use LittleSis, as well as inspiration for how they can start their own movement research teams to map the powers that be in their communities. + 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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- Loomio: Creating a world where anyone, anywhere can participate in decisions that affect them + Library Freedom Project

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+ Scaling your free software system: lessons from a decade of OpenMRS +

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+ + + Judy Gichoya + + +

+ + Room 32-141 + + +

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- Loomio is free software that we created after experiencing the transformative potential of participatory decision making, and its limitations, during the Occupy movement in New Zealand. Scaling is impossible if people have to be in the same place at the same time so we developed software that allows online groups to be inclusive and fast, enabling deliberative discussion that taps the collective intelligence of the group while moving actively to shared agreement and action. Loomio is free to maximize access and inclusion, knowing that people who are on the margins of power are the least likely to have a voice. This session will engage participants in how Loomio works -- in fact they can sign up ahead of time to inform the session! I'll share lessons and challenges from cases across the 95 countries where citizen activists and workers are experimenting with better, fast platforms to collaborate. Participants will be inspired to use Loomio to support their groups. + By sheer luck and opportunity, a group of four doctors in 2004 at a +restaurant used napkins to sketch the data model of what they thought +would be a simple electronic medical records system. +

+

+ Fast track to today, this simple medical records system is known as +OpenMRS (Open Medical Record System), a free medical records system in +use in over 42 countries in the world. For example, when Google worked +on the ‘Ebola tablet’ under project Buendia, OpenMRS powered it. After +the national disaster in Haiti struck, OpenMRS powered the new +Mirebalais hospital. Six countries committed to deploy OpenMRS as +their national EMR system including Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria, +Philippines and Bangladesh. OpenMRS has never hired developers for the +decade of existence, yet every single day people from all over the +world come to our platform and ask us how can they get involved? +

+

+ This session shares a decade of running a lean organization to provide +free medical records software, what has worked and what threatens our +sustainability.

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- Mutual Assistance Technical Communities + Beyond reproducible builds

- - Enrique Rosas + + Holger Levsen , - Mutual Assistance Technical Communities + Debian

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- GNU has made great contributions laying the groundwork for commons development within the digital context. Those contributions (philosophical, ideological, legal and technical) have achieved its ripeness in a growing number of free software projects with an also growing economical and social relevance, inspiring the creation of cultural goods and hardware designs under the same ideology. + The presentation will describe how the Debian reproducible builds team +made 85% of the Debian archive reproducible, what steps are left to +reach 100% and what steps are needed beyond reproducible builds, so +that every user can easily and meaningful benefit from them.

- For those seeking social changes, GNU represents a concrete and practical reference that has successfully convened thousands of people to contribute with their work to the common good, as well as promoting the exploration of communities coexistence towards that end; all of it under the capitalist system. + The presentation will be largely about the the Debian work on the +area, but it will also portrait other projects work on reproducible +builds, as our goal is to make reproducible builds the norm for Free +Software. ""It's not free software if it's not reproducible." +

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+ Want to advance free software? Learn to engage and connect with others +

+
+
+ + + Emmanuel + + , + Hampshire College + +

+ + Room 32-144 + + +

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+

+ The free software movement has done well in the last few years, and +has even inspired a new generation of activists advocating for +software freedom. However, in a software-driven society where +everything from cars, watches, and even medical devices run on +non-free software, the free software community has its work cut out +for it. In order to enact significant social change, we need to work +with legislators, other activists, and local community leaders. Their +help is crucial.

- Left social organizations struggling against several layers of dependency are in need of new ways of collaboration, but also are in need of shared knowledge goods, developed in shared strategies based on their skills n' common needs. Mutual Assistance Tech Communities is a project in that direction. + How do we connect our community to other groups? In order to gain +support, the first step we must take is to engage with the public on +how non-free software can affect their everyday lives negatively. Even +the most non-technical person can become engaged with the social and +technical benefits to free software, if given the chance. This session +will discuss how each and every one of us in the free software +movement can engage with others, promoting the ideals of a society +running on free software in a way that each person can personally +appreciate.

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+ 11:25 - 11:35: Break +

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+ 11:35 - 12:20: Session Block 2B +

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- Restore online freedom! + Will there be a next great Copyright Act?

- - Mike Gerwitz + + Parker Higgins , - GNU Project + EFF

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- Imagine a world where surveillance is the default and users must opt-in to privacy. Imagine that your every action is logged and analyzed to -learn how you behave, what your interests are, and what you might do next. Imagine that, even on your fully free operating system, -proprietary software is automatically downloaded and run not only without your consent, but often without your knowledge. In this world, -even free software cannot be easily modified, shared, or replaced. In many cases, you might not even be in control of your own -computing -- your actions and your data might be in control by a remote entity, and only they decide what you are and are not allowed to do. + The first day of LibrePlanet 2016 marks the third anniversary of +Register of Copyright's emphatic call for a comprehensive rewrite of +the United States Copyright Act -- the first such effort +since 1976. Congress has taken up the charge, holding dozens of +hearings and floating multiple bills. Meanwhile, trade negotiations +and extralegal agreements have changed the state of play. Where does +it all stand, and what can activists looking for common sense reform +do next? This session will describe recent progress and the lay of the +land on copyright terms, the public domain, DRM laws, policy +laundering, fair use, and more topics of immediate interest to the +free software community. It will describe activism efforts underway to +defend the rights of the public as legislation gets proposed. Finally, +it will foolishly attempt to predict the future. Will we see a Next +Great Copyright Act?

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+ Effective outreach in four steps +

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+ + + Marina Zhurakhinskaya + + , + Red Hat + +

+ + Room 32-141 + + +

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- This may sound dystopian, but this is the world you're living in right now. The Web today is an increasingly hostile, freedom-denying place -that propagates to nearly every aspect of the average users' lives -- from their PCs to their phones, to their TVs and beyond. But before we can stand up and demand back our freedoms, we must understand what we're being robbed of, how it's being done, and what can (or can't) be done to stop it. + The full potential of free software is to break down the barriers to +technology and to participation, and to include users and contributors +from a wide range of backgrounds. There are four key steps for making +communities diverse and inclusive: creating a welcoming environment, +teaching skills, fostering connections, and increasing visibility of +contributors from underrepresented backgrounds. Whether you are a +prospective contributor wondering what an inclusive community looks +like, a project contributor wanting to take concrete steps to improve +your project's outreach, or a project leader looking to create a +diversity strategy for your community, this talk will have the +information you need. Marina will share best practices and inspiring +stories from her years of experience in free software diversity +outreach in roles including outreach specialist at Red Hat, +co-organizer of Outreachy, advisor and director for the Ada +Initiative, and outreach lead for GNOME.

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- Scaling your free software system: lessons from a decade of OpenMRS + Take control of your communication with Ring!

- - Judy Gichoya + + Adrien Béraud + and + + Guillaume Roguez + + , + Savoir-faire Linux + +

+ + Room 32-155 + + +

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+

+ Do you know + + Ring + + ? It's a free software for +real-time communication. Developed by + + Savoir-faire +Linux + + and a community of +contributors, it operates in peer-to-peer - so + + without a central +server + + . Communication is +tightly coupled to the sense of liberty. Ring let users keep control +of their exchanges. +

+

+ It allows you to make audio or video calls, and to send messages - in +confidence and safely. Currently in an alpha version, Ring is even +more than that! Available on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, and Android, +it can be associated with a conventional phone service, integrated +with any connected device, and adapted to the specific needs of +users. It is a combination of technologies and innovations opening all +kinds of perspectives for everyone! +

+

+ During this presentation, you will understand how Ring is built to +respect privacy and how you can use it. You will also discover why it +is an essential tool for the future and how Ring defends freedom. +

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+ LibreBoot: Free Your BIOS Today! +

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+ + Francis Rowe

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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. +

- By sheer luck and opportunity, a group of four doctors in 2004 at a restaurant used napkins to sketch the data model of what they thought would be a simple electronic medical records system. + The work done by the libreboot project (and its 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.

- Fast track to today, this simple medical records system is known as OpenMRS (Open Medical Record System), a free medical records system in use in over 42 countries in the world. For example, when Google worked on the ‘Ebola tablet’ under project Buendia, OpenMRS powered it. After the national disaster in Haiti struck, OpenMRS powered the new Mirebalais hospital. Six countries committed to deploy OpenMRS as their national EMR system including Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Nigeria, Philippines and Bangladesh. OpenMRS has never hired developers for the decade of existence, yet every single day people from all over the world come to our platform and ask us how can they get involved? + 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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+ 12:20 - 13:35: Lunch +

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+ 13:35 - 14:20: Session Block 3B +

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+ Advocate for yourself at work: Use more free software and keep contributing to the community +

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+ + + Deb Nicholson + + , + Open Invention Network and + + Richard Fontana + + , + Red Hat + +

+ + Room 32-123 + + +

+

- This session shares a decade of running a lean organization to provide free medical records software, what has worked and what threatens our sustainability. + Your workplace can exert a lot of control over how much free software +you use, what you're allowed to work on in your own time and what +kinds of tools you become an expert in. New employees don't always +negotiate their contracts to make sure they can continue contributing +to free software and current employees aren't always successful at +advocating for using free software tools, choosing free software +technologies or contributing changes back upstream when they do rely +on free software. We'll address what's possible, what your legal +department is likely to be concerned about and how to be a smooth +negotiator at work. Many companies could benefit tremendously from +using FOSS, but free software enthusiasts and institutional +gatekeepers are coming from very different perspectives. Free software +developers and users tend to be most familiar with free software's +benefits when compared to proprietary solutions; user freedom, reusing +code, public code review for bugs, increased project capacity and +cost. The uninitiated may -- unfortunately -- be most familiar with +the risks, some real and some perceived. Employers also benefit from +having workers who are passionate about their work, are well-connected +to the free software community and are constantly learning about new +technologies from their peers outside the company, but new employee +contracts rarely recognize this unless you ask. Conversations about +contracts, choosing new technologies and sharing an employee's work +with another entity are high stakes negotiations. With a solid +understanding of what worries and motivates the other parties, you can +become a savvy advocate for free software at work. This talk will help +you gather information, frame the conversation and make the best +possible case for using and contributing to free software at work.

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- In fiction, we have often faced our fear that man-made creatures will become smart enough to subjugate us. As technology evolves, the -Singularity may seem an inevitable looming future, but such intelligent beings have actually been with us for a very long time. Over many decades, they disabled the checks intended to keep them under our control, and turned most of us into their much-needed servants, who now live in an artificial reality they created to control us, while our planet can hardly support our life much longer. These creatures grew more powerful and smarter with our technological advances, but then they sent their agents back to disable our defenses and the leaders of our resistance, turning many of our tools and much of our infrastructure against us. They vaporized our freedoms, and a dark cloud now covers most of the planet. We still have one card left up our sleeves to tame these creatures, but we need more Neos and Connors to play it successfully. Are you up for it? + In fiction, we have often faced our fear that man-made creatures will +become smart enough to subjugate us. As technology evolves, the +Singularity may seem an inevitable looming future, but such +intelligent beings have actually been with us for a very long +time. Over many decades, they disabled the checks intended to keep +them under our control, and turned most of us into their much-needed +servants, who now live in an artificial reality they created to +control us, while our planet can hardly support our life much +longer. These creatures grew more powerful and smarter with our +technological advances, but then they sent their agents back to +disable our defenses and the leaders of our resistance, turning many +of our tools and much of our infrastructure against us. They vaporized +our freedoms, and a dark cloud now covers most of the planet. We still +have one card left up our sleeves to tame these creatures, but we need +more Neos and Connors to play it successfully. Are you up for it?

- +

- -
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- Solving the deployment crisis with GNU Guix + Restore online freedom!

- - Christopher Webber + + Mike Gerwitz , - GNU MediaGoblin and - - David Thompson + GNU Project + +

+ + Room 32-155 + + +

+
+

+ Imagine a world where surveillance is the default and users must opt-in to privacy. Imagine that your every action is logged and analyzed to +learn how you behave, what your interests are, and what you might do next. Imagine that, even on your fully free operating system, +proprietary software is automatically downloaded and run not only without your consent, but often without your knowledge. In this world, +even free software cannot be easily modified, shared, or replaced. In many cases, you might not even be in control of your own +computing -- your actions and your data might be in control by a remote entity, and only they decide what you are and are not allowed to do. +

+

+ This may sound dystopian, but this is the world you're living in right +now. The Web today is an increasingly hostile, freedom-denying place +that propagates to nearly every aspect of the average users' lives -- +from their PCs to their phones, to their TVs and beyond. But before we +can stand up and demand back our freedoms, we must understand what +we're being robbed of, how it's being done, and what can (or can't) be +done to stop it. +

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+ Lightning talks (until 15:15) +

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+ + Moderated by Donald Robertson, + FSF + +

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+ 14:20 - 14:30: Break +

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+ 14:30 - 15:15: Session Block 4B +

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+ Freedombox +

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+ Challenges and future growth in libre media and conference video production +

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+ George Chriss - , - GNU Guix + and others, + Kat Walsh (moderator)

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- User freedom is threatened by the growing complexity of current deployment and packaging directions. Running software (especially server/networked software) is becoming too hard for the average user, so many users are turning to the dangerous path of relying on large corporations to do their computing for them. What can GNU do to turn the tide here? Enter GNU Guix and GuixSD! This talk will walk through Guix's unique positioning to provide totally free and reproducible systems. A path will be laid out on how Guix could be used as a foundation for easy to run and maintain computing for everyone, how you can get Guix and GuixSD running, and how to get involved in the most hacking-friendly package manager/distro duo ever! + An 'intermediate' panel designed to provide a working overview of +diversified libre media communities blended with per-project technical +development updates, organizational adoption challenges, +community-centric user-experience goals and other novel discussions +regarding video production both generally and as it relates to +conference video production (e.g., session recording and +live-streaming).

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- Stallman, Nussbaum, and Sen: putting "freedom" in context + Artificial scarcity: Beyond the digital

- - Luis Villa + + Shauna Gordon-McKeon

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- Our movement rarely talks about freedom with much philosophical -nuance. In this talk, I'll try to put some flesh on the bones of -freedom by giving an introduction to Amartya Sen and Martha -Nussbaum's capability approach, and applying it to software. The -capability approach (sometimes called the human development approach) -is a framework for thinking about human freedom that, since its -development in the early 90s, has been applied across a broad range of -philosophical, economic, and policy problems. Focused on what options -a person has to reach their goals, it is well-suited for understanding -where we succeed - and fail! - at actually freeing people. + Digital resources such as software programs can be easily copied and +shared, but distribution is restrained by technical, legal, and +cultural means. The free culture community is not the first to fight +"artificial scarcity." What can we learn from other communities and +movements?

- Talk attendees should come away with a more nuanced understanding of -software freedom, how to talk about it with others, and where to focus -their coding energy to best increase human freedom. + This presentation will be a series of case studies covering a variety +of other forms of artificial scarcity, including food waste, housing +vacancy, and the destruction of excess retail merchandise. We'll focus +on efforts to combat this scarcity, highlighting what's worked and +drawing lessons from what hasn't. +

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+ By exploring the connections between free culture and other +anti-scarcity movements, we'll find new approaches, new allies, and +new opportunities to stand up for the public commons.

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- Take control of your communication with Ring! + Lightning talks (continued)

- - Adrien Béraud + Moderated by Donald Robertson, + FSF + +

+ + Room 32-144 + + +

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+ 15:15 - 15:25: Break +

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+ 15:25 - 16:45: Session Block 5B +

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+ Getting the academy to support free software and open science +

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+ Scott Dexter and - - Guillaume Roguez + + Evan Misshula , - Savoir-faire Linux + CUNY, + and + + Erin Glass + + , + UCSD

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- Do you know - - Ring - - ? It's a free software for real-time communication. Developed by - - Savoir-faire Linux - - and a community of contributors, it operates in peer-to-peer - so - - without a central server - - . Communication is tightly coupled to the sense of liberty. Ring let users keep control of their exchanges. -

+

- It allows to make audio or video calls, and to send messages - in confidence and safely. Currently in an alpha version, Ring is even more than that! Available on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, and Android, it can be associated with a conventional phone service, integrated with any connected device, and adapted to the specific needs of users. It is a combination of technologies and innovations opening all kinds of perspectives for everyone! -

-

- During this presentation, you will understand how Ring is built to respect privacy and how you can use it. You will also discover why it is an essential tool for the future and how Ring defends freedom. + Academic Institutions and their researchers are some of the biggest +beneficiaries of free software development. While individual +researchers have contributed greatly to free software, they usually do +so outside of the scope of their regular jobs and to the detriment of +their academic careers. At CUNY, we have taken steps to change this +unacceptable situation. Please come to this session and exchange ideas +and strategies for having contribtions to free software valued by the +University.

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- The surveillance state is driven by secrecy. But everything leaves a data trail and the intelligence community itself is no exception -- even the NSA is vulnerable to surveillance. Transparency Toolkit is a free software project that helps anyone investigate surveillance programs. + The surveillance state is driven by secrecy. But everything leaves a +data trail and the intelligence community itself is no exception -- +even the NSA is vulnerable to surveillance. Transparency Toolkit is a +free software project that helps anyone investigate surveillance +programs.

- By making tools to help collect and analyze publicly available data like resumes, job listings, social media, and government contracts, we are using free software and open data to track and expose the surveillance state. In this talk, I'll discuss some of the interesting things we've found, how Transparency Toolkit's software works, and how people can use our tools to investigate issues they care about. + By making tools to help collect and analyze publicly available data +like resumes, job listings, social media, and government contracts, we +are using free software and open data to track and expose the +surveillance state. In this talk, I'll discuss some of the interesting +things we've found, how Transparency Toolkit's software works, and how +people can use our tools to investigate issues they care about.

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- Gender and racial diversity initiatives have been an important social force in the free software movement in the last several years. These social justice campaigns have been successful: see for example PyCon. However, those further marginalized, such as transgender hackers, may not feel properly included in these initiatives. They have turned to free software as a model for their own liberation as well as a way to critique the culture of the status quo and mainstream diversity initiatives. + Gender and racial diversity initiatives have been an important social +force in the free software movement in the last several years. These +social justice campaigns have been successful: see for example +PyCon. However, those further marginalized, such as transgender +hackers, may not feel properly included in these initiatives. They +have turned to free software as a model for their own liberation as +well as a way to critique the culture of the status quo and mainstream +diversity initiatives.

- This talk, co-given by a trans hacker and an anthropologist, highlights how free software offers powerful models and critiques of the lack of gender diversity in the free software movement by retelling several ethnographic stories of a free software project led by and comprised of trans women. + This talk, co-given by a trans hacker and an anthropologist, +highlights how free software offers powerful models and critiques of +the lack of gender diversity in the free software movement by +retelling several ethnographic stories of a free software project led +by and comprised of trans women.

- By presenting these ethnographic stories we wish to springboard with the audience a conversation of the value of challenges from below to diversity initiatives in free software and the tech industry at large. + By presenting these ethnographic stories we wish to springboard with +the audience a conversation of the value of challenges from below to +diversity initiatives in free software and the tech industry at large.

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- Want to advance free software? Learn to engage and connect with others + Introduction to Python in Blender

- - Emmanuel + + Bassam Kurdali , - Hampshire College + Urchin

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- The free software movement has done well in the last few years, and has even inspired a new generation of activists advocating for software freedom. However, in a software-driven society where everything from cars, watches, and even medical devices run on non-free software, the free software community has its work cut out for it. In order to enact significant social change, we need to work with legislators, other -activists, and local community leaders. Their help is crucial. + Blender is a versatile Free 3D animation program that is most famously +used as an artist tool. However, it also has a rich, pythonic and +consistent api that allows extending and controlling the +application. We'll explore techniques to use this api for creating 3D +meshes, that could be a foundation/ inspiration for generative +architecture or art.

- How do we connect our community to other groups? In order to gain support, the first step we must take is to engage with the public on how non-free software can affect their everyday lives negatively. Even the most non-technical person can become engaged with the social and technical benefits to free software, if given the chance. This session will discuss how each and every one of us in the free software movement can engage with others, promoting the ideals of a society running on free software in a way that each person can personally appreciate. + Familiarity with Blender is not required (but recommended) and at +least a basic knowledge of Python would be helpful for this workshop.

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+ 16:55 - 17:40: Session Block 6B +

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- Will there be a next great Copyright Act? + A community take on the license compliance industry

- - Parker Higgins + + Stefano Zacchiroli , - EFF + Debian, + OSI, + IRILL

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- The first day of LibrePlanet 2016 marks the third anniversary of Register of Copyright's emphatic call for a comprehensive rewrite of the United States Copyright Act -- the first such effort since 1976. Congress has taken up the charge, holding dozens of hearings and floating multiple bills. Meanwhile, trade negotiations and extralegal agreements have changed the state of play. Where does it all stand, and what can activists looking for common sense reform do next? This session will describe recent progress and the lay of the land on copyright terms, the public domain, DRM laws, policy laundering, fair use, and more topics of immediate interest to the free software community. It will describe activism efforts underway to defend the rights of the public as legislation gets proposed. Finally, it will foolishly attempt to predict the future. Will we see a Next Great Copyright Act? + The license compliance industry purportedly helps information +technology companies and other actors to use publicly available +software, and in particular free software, in a way that is compliant +with the relevant free software licenses. In this talk we will review +why the license compliance industry exists and discuss, from an +external point of view, how it operates. We will then highlight some +potential ethical issues on the current best practices for license +compliance in the industry, and propose community-oriented +alternatives that we can build, today, on top of the existing corpus +of publicly available free software.

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- Yes, the FCC might ban your operating system + FSF at 30: history of free software

- - Eric Schultz + + Matt Lee + + , + GNU Project + +

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+ A look back at free software history, with a live demonstration of +software from the past being used to deliver a presentation in 2016. +

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+ Building new economies for open development and content +

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+ + + Paige Peterson + , + MaidSafe + +

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+ Shifting perspectives on the value of Free/Libre software development +and Creative Commons content creation would open up opportunities for +individuals working in these fields as we finally see a push towards +an economy that makes sense for the Internet. This will be an overview +of some platforms creating these new opportunities and ways we can +think about how an economy can exist in the digital world beyond the +artificial scarcity that comes with keeping code and content locked +down or secret. The session should include group discussion about +platforms, philosophies and experiences folks working in free/libre +software and creative commons content. +

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- What could possibly make thousands of free software advocates, ham radio operators, researchers and physicians stand together? One obscure FCC rulemaking proposal on wireless radios. Eric Schultz, one of the leaders of the Save Wifi Initiative, discusses the details of the extreme proposals of FCC to control how you use your devices. You'll learn the history of regulators quietly locking down wireless radios and how it's unintentionally extending to a lockdown of the operating systems of devices. Finally, you'll find out some of the problems with proposed workarounds for the the FCC lock down proposals. + Get up to speed on the latest developments in the Free Software Foundation's campaign to + + keep DRM out of Web standards + + . Materials will be provided to make signs for the evening's demonstration.

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diff --git a/2016/speakers.ids b/2016/speakers.ids index 0f4d303f..db19769b 100644 --- a/2016/speakers.ids +++ b/2016/speakers.ids @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ "Adrien Béraud": "beraud", "Molly de Blanc": "blanc", "Scott Dexter": "dexter", + "Nima Fatemi": "fatemi", "Richard Fontana": "fontana", "Mike Gerwitz": "gerwitz", "Judy Gichoya": "gichoya", @@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ "Matt Lee": "lee", "Lillian Lemmer": "lemmer", "Holger Levsen": "levsen", + "Alison Macrina": "macrina", "M. C. McGrath": "mcgrath", "Evan Misshula": "misshula", "Gibrán Montes": "montes", diff --git a/2016/speakers.noids b/2016/speakers.noids index 4fafa09b..67e24eed 100644 --- a/2016/speakers.noids +++ b/2016/speakers.noids @@ -1,3 +1,14 @@ [ - "Kat Walsh" + "Francis Rowe", + "Francis Rowe", + "Francis Rowe", + "Benjamin Mako Hill", + "ginger coons", + "Francis Rowe", + "Francis Rowe", + "Francis Rowe", + "Donald Robertson", + "Kat Walsh", + "Donald Robertson", + "Zak Rogoff" ] \ No newline at end of file -- 2.25.1