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+<h2 style="clear:both">For us, by us: Free technology, community science, and the pursuit of environmental problem solving</h2>
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+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#3282">Sunday 09:45 - 10:30 - Opening Keynote</a>
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Back Bay Grand
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+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack12">Keynote</span>
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+<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">In a world increasingly defined by environmental deregulation, how can free tools and technology alter the ability for communities to be part of the solution? This talk will explore a decade of work where community science and free technology have been used to support people in addressing environmental concerns. Focusing on the work of Public Lab, the talk will take us from the 2010 BP oil disaster through the rapid growth of free technology for environmental monitoring, and take a closer look at the challenges we face going forward with data, hardware, and governance.</div></div>
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+<h2>Shannon Dosemagen</h2></div>
+<div class="webform-long-answer">Shannon is an environmental health advocate and a community science champion, and is enthusiastic about the potential for free systems and technology to support the creation of a more just and equitable future.<br />\r
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+Shannon has spent the last twenty years working with environmental and public health groups to address declining freshwater resources, coastal land loss, and building monitoring programs with communities living adjacent to industrial facilities. During 2020, she will be a Fellow with the Shuttleworth Foundation, working on new concept called the Open Environmental Data Project. Shannon is co-founder and current executive director of Public Lab, an organizer of the Gathering for Open Science Hardware, and previous chair of both the US EPA National Advisory Council on Environmental Policy and Technology, and the Citizen Science Association. She is an Ashoka Fellow, and a senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. She is a previous Fellow at both the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and Loyola University Environmental Communications Institute. Follow her on Twitter @sdosemagen for the latest.</div>
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-<h2 style="clear:both">Universal access to all knowledge</h2>
+<h2 style="clear:both">Locking the Web open: A decentralized web that can operate as free software does</h2>
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<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#3284">Sunday 17:15 - 18:00 - Closing Keynote</a>
<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Back Bay Grand
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-<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">Digital memory is ever more important and more difficult to manage.<br />\r
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-Advances in computing and communications mean that we can cost-effectively store every book, sound recording, movie, software package, and public Web page ever created, and provide access to these collections via the Internet to students and adults all over the world. By using mostly already-existing institutions and funding sources, we can build this, as well as compensate authors, within the current worldwide library budget. For the first time since the loss of the Library of Alexandria, technological advances may allow us to collect all published knowledge in a similar way. But now, we can take the original goal another step further, to make all the published works of humankind accessible to everyone, no matter where they are in the world.<br />\r
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-Will we allow ourselves to reinvent our concept of libraries and archives to expand and to use the new technologies? This is fundamentally a societal and policy issue, and these issues are reflected in our governments’ spending priorities, and in law.</div></div>
+<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">30 years after the World Wide Web was created, can we now make it better? How can we ensure that our most important values -- privacy, free speech, and free access to knowledge -- are enshrined in the code itself? In a provocative call to action, entrepreneur and libre Internet advocate Brewster Kahle challenges us to build a better, decentralized Web based on new distributed technologies. Web site content and code could be served peer-to-peer, with decentralized pseudonymous identity, and even payment models. What a world it could be! He lays out a path to creating a new Web that is reliable, private, but still fun -- in order to lock the Web open for good.</div></div>
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<h2>Brewster Kahle</h2></div>
<div class="webform-long-answer">Brewster Kahle is a passionate advocate for public Internet access, and a successful entrepreneur, and he has spent his career intent on a singular focus: providing Universal Access to All Knowledge. He is the founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, one of the largest libraries in the world. Soon after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied artificial intelligence, Kahle helped found the company Thinking Machines, a parallel supercomputer maker. In 1989, Kahle created the Internet's first publishing system, called Wide Area Information Server (WAIS), later selling the company to AOL. In 1996, Kahle co-founded Alexa Internet, which helps catalog the Web, selling it to Amazon.com in 1999. The Internet Archive, which he founded in 1996, now preserves 50 petabytes of data: the books, Web pages, music, television, and software of our cultural heritage, working with more than 600 library and university partners to create a digital library, accessible to all.</div>
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-<h2 style="clear:both">Free the Future Youth Keynote Panel</h2>
+<h2 style="clear:both">Free the Future Young Hackers Keynote Panel</h2>
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<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#3288">Saturday 09:45 - 10:30 - Opening Keynote</a>
<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Back Bay Grand
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-<h2 style="clear:both">Diversity in free software projects: A statistical analysis</h2>
+<h2 style="clear:both">Fediverse: Decentralized Social Networking and Services</h2>
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-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#2343">Saturday 15:25 - 16:10</a>
-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Patriot
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#3289">Sunday 11:35 - 12:20</a>
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Back Bay Grand
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-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack4">Social context</span>
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack3">Community</span>
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-<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">Following our studies on the Turing Award and SoundCloud ("Behind the curtains of diversity at a technology company"), we now turn to diversity and free software projects. In this study, we applied the same methods of inquiry that are commonplace in most sciences: statistics and critical analysis.<br />\r
+<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">The Fediverse is a collection of decentralized digital, social spaces. Disparate services can interact by using standard protocols such as ActivityPub.<br />\r
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-A variety of free software projects -- both big and small -- will be reviewed from the point of view of their ability to include a diverse set of contributors. A statistical analysis will be provided, the datasets will be made public, and recommendations will be attempted.<br />\r
+Free Software projects such as Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pleroma, PixelFed, Plume, PeerTube and Friendica are helping us decentralize the web.<br />\r
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+Attendees will learn about:<br />\r
+* advantages of decentralized social networking<br />\r
+* history of decentralized social networking<br />\r
+* history of the Fediverse<br />\r
+* pros and cons of self-hosting<br />\r
+* list of some services in the Fediverse<br />\r
+* how they can join and participate in decentralizing</div></div>
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-<h2>Camille Akmut</h2></div>
-Camille Akmut is a researcher.
+<h2>der.hans .</h2></div>
+<div class="webform-long-answer">der.hans is a technology and entrepreneurial veteran.<br />\r
+<br />\r
+He is chairman of the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG), Promotions and Outreach chair for SeaGL, BoF organizer for the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) and founder of the Free Software Stammtisch. He presents regularly at large community-led conferences (SCaLE, SeaGL, LFNW, Tübix, OLF, TXLF) and many local groups.<br />\r
+<br />\r
+Currently a Customer Data Engineer at Object Rocket. Public statements are not representative of $dayjob. <br />\r
+<br />\r
+Mastodon - https://floss.social/@FLOX_advocate<br />\r
+Plume - https://fediverse.blog/~/LuftHans</div>
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-<h2 style="clear:both">Why do government projects struggle to produce free software?</h2>
+<h2 style="clear:both">Free software for community radio: LibreTime and other software tools</h2>
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-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#2776">Saturday 16:20 - 17:05</a>
-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Patriot
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#2572">Saturday 15:25 - 16:10</a>
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Back Bay Grand
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-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack5">Free software in Government</span>
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack9">Free Software in practice</span>
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-<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">Government projects generally either do not attempt, or struggle to produce, free software. Projects often utilize free software components, but seldom attempt to create their own. The challenge is helping government entities understand and prioritize the importance of using public resources to create public goods, as well as how to create policy, budgetary, and legal environments which enable projects to produce free software. This discussion focuses on systemic factors which impede the creation of free software in the public sector, and strategies to improve outcomes.</div></div>
+<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">This presentation will provide a summary of current free software tools that can be used in operating a terrestrial or Internet-based community radio station. It will focus primarily on LibreTime, an AGPLv3-licensed radio automation system, and some of the underlying free software components it is built with, including Icecast and Liquidsoap. I will share how LibreTime is used by my community FM station, WCRS-LP, to operate our broadcast using primarily free software, and some of the challenges faced in doing so. I will also share information about some other free software projects, like AzuraCast and Rivendell, to provide overview of the free software landscape for radio stations. My hope is this will serve as a blueprint of inspiration for other people seeking ways of running their radio station using free software. Community media can serve a vital role in informing the public, and free software can play an essential part of this.</div></div>
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-<h2>Tony Fortenberry</h2></div>
-<div class="webform-long-answer">Tony Fortenberry was the director of the California Child Welfare Digital Services (CWDS) project from 2016-2018. With a budget of approximately $500M and more than 300 team members, CWDS was the largest US government digital services initiative attempting to leverage free software components, Agile methodology, and user-centered design to produce a free software product licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License.<br />\r
-<br />\r
-Prior to serving in the California state government, Tony was CIO at the City of Northglenn and CTO at Communication Service for the Deaf. He is currently the founder and executive director at Open Solutions For Government, a nonprofit organization.</div>
+<div class="speakerheader"><img class="speakerpic" src="https://my.fsf.org/sites/default/files/webform/D3003C9E-85A9-45BC-A451-9C6D4A58A8EC.jpeg">
+<h2>Robb Ebright</h2></div>
+<div class="webform-long-answer">Robb Ebright is a longtime free software developer and community media activist. For over ten years, he has helped run WCRS-LP, a community radio station in Columbus, Ohio. He has volunteered as a webmaster for community media projects and activist groups for over twenty years. Currently, he is a full-time parent working on his masters in computer science at Georgia Tech. </div>
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-<h2 style="clear:both">Public Money? Public Code! A campaign framework to promote software freedom</h2>
-<div class="talkblockheader">
-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#2718">Sunday 10:40 - 11:25</a>
-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Back Bay Grand
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-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack5">Free software in Government</span>
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-<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">Do you want to promote free software in public administrations? Then the campaign framework of "Public Money? Public Code!" might be the right choice for you. In this European Union campaign, more than 170 organizations and more than 26,000 individuals have come together to demand that publicly financed software should be made publicly available under free software licenses. Together, we contacted politicians and civil servants on all levels -- from the European Union and national governments to city mayors and the heads of public libraries -- about this demand. This effort started with important discussions about software freedom with decision makers, and has already resulted in specific policy changes.<br />\r
-<br />\r
-In this talk, I will explain how the campaign framework can be used to push for the adoption of free software-friendly policies in your area.</div></div>
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-<h2>Matthias Kirschner</h2></div>
-<div class="webform-long-answer">Matthias Kirschner is the president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). In 1999, he started using GNU/Linux, and realized that software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives, and this convinced him that technology has to empower society, not restrict it. While studying political and administrative science, he joined FSFE in 2004.<br />\r
-<br />\r
-He helps other organizations, companies, and governments to understand how they can benefit from free software -- which gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt and share software -- and how those rights help to support freedom of speech, freedom of press, and our right to privacy.</div>
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<div class="talkblock" style="clear:both">
-<h2 style="clear:both">Reconciling all of our social justice causes: Software freedom, and the rest</h2>
+<h2 style="clear:both">Preventing the IoT Dystopia with Copyleft</h2>
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<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#2748">Saturday 14:30 - 15:15</a>
<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Back Bay Grand
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-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack4">Social context</span>
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack1">Licensing</span>
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-<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">Serious software freedom activists aren't typically "single issue" folks. Furthermore, now that software is essential to modern work and living, software freedom, which was once a mostly isolated issue, intersects daily with other serious and important causes on a regular basis.<br />\r
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-We now have seen a strong movement demanding a new wave of licenses, which are undoubtedly nonfree, but have their "heart in the right place" in their desire to stop oppression and mistreatment of others. Once it was a fringe licensing question, but now, how software freedom interacts with other causes is the meta-issue of our day.<br />\r
+<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">Most IoT (The Internet of Things) devices remain under the control of the companies that manufacture them, yielding a plethora of security, privacy and software freedom concerns. Ironically, most such devices include Linux as their kernel, and usually no GNU. Linux's license, GPLv2, mandates the users' rights to modify and upgrade the software. Sadly, due to widespread violations of the GPL, such rights are rarely granted with most IoT devices on the market. This talk explains the political, social, and legal backstory that led to this abysmal situation, and proposes what we must do next to ameliorate the problem.<br />\r
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-This talk will be a mostly personal story of how I have personally reconciled my other social justice causes and activist concerns (such as vegetarianism) with my work in free software. I will provide some concrete suggestions on how to balance activism for other causes you care about while keeping software freedom as your primary focus. <br />\r
+These embedded devices typically remain under the complete control of the manufacturer — not only for their basic functionality — but for safety and security updates as well. In many cases, these devices require Herculean efforts by the home user to modify and upgrade.<br />\r
<br />\r
-</div></div>
+This talk explains the political, social, and legal ramifications of this abysmal situation. Attendees can expect a full explanation of the history of GPL enforcement, how it has historically defended the rights of hobbyist modifications to home devices, and what processes exist now to continue that fight.</div></div>
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<h2>Bradley Kuhn</h2></div>
<div class="webform-long-answer">Bradley M. Kuhn is the policy fellow and hacker-in-residence at Software Freedom Conservancy, and editor in chief of copyleft.org. Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, and was an early adopter of GNU/Linux systems. Kuhn's nonprofit career began in 2000 at the FSF. As FSF's executive director from 2001-2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn began as Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006-2010, and was its first staff person. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude BS in computer science from Loyola University in Maryland, and an MS in computer science from the University of Cincinnati.</div>
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<h2>DeeDee Lavinder</h2></div>
<div class="webform-long-answer">DeeDee Lavinder currently works as a backend engineer, and is a director of Women Who Code Raleigh/Durham. The juxtaposition of analytical thinking and creative problem solving is where she is happiest, and she is particularly thrilled about working in that sweet spot while writing code. When something is hard, she goes deep to understand -- ask her about encoding! When not coding, you can find her listening to audiobooks, driving small people around town, or coordinating something somewhere.</div>
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<h2>Charles Lehner</h2></div>
<div class="webform-long-answer">Charles E. Lehner (@cel) is a software developer building collaborative applications on the Secure Scuttlebutt Network.</div>
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<h2>William Liggett</h2></div>
<div class="webform-long-answer">William Paul Liggett is a software engineering professor at the Northern Virginia Community College, where he teaches classes on Java, Python, HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, Relational Databases, Cybersecurity, and GNU/Linux. He also is the owner and coder of junktext.com, where he does freelance development for others. William previously worked in the US defense and intelligence communities as a software developer, IT project manager, and systems administrator. He served in the US Marine Corps, where he was meritoriously promoted to Sergeant (E-5). He is also very skilled at amazing and very funny jokes!</div>
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-<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">Software licenses that give people freedom are facing scrutiny<br />\r
-from a variety of interests and organizations. This session seeks to<br />\r
-articulate the core values of software freedom: how the tenets of GNU's<br />\r
-Four Freedoms and the Open Source Definition's criteria enable networks<br />\r
-of collaboration and co-creation. Current issues from a variety of<br />\r
-interested parties are considered, not on their value as a movement,<br />\r
-but rather their impact on the freedoms to run, study, modify, and<br />\r
-redistribute works. Alternative approaches to licensing that can<br />\r
-address concerns of communities will also be offered.</div></div>
+<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">Software licenses that give people freedom are facing scrutiny from a variety of interests and organizations. This session seeks to articulate the core values of software freedom: how the tenets of FSF's Four Freedoms and the Open Source Definition's criteria enable networks of collaboration and co-creation. Current issues from a variety of interested parties are considered, not on their value as a movement, but rather their impact on the freedoms to run, study, modify, and redistribute works. Alternative approaches to licensing that can address concerns of communities will also be offered.</div></div>
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<h2>Patrick Masson</h2></div>
-<div class="webform-long-answer">Patrick Masson joined the Open Source Initiative as General Manager in<br />\r
-November of 2013 after working in higher education technology for over<br />\r
-twenty years, including roles as Director of the UCLA Media Lab, CIO<br />\r
-within The State University of New York, and most recently, CTO at<br />\r
-UMassOnline. Patrick is an Adjunct Professor at the University at<br />\r
-Albany, teaching Open Source Principles and Practices within the<br />\r
-College of Engineering and Applied Sciences' Department of Informatics.<br />\r
-Patrick has worked to promote the awareness and adoption of open<br />\r
-source, particularly within education, throughout his career. He served<br />\r
-on the Jasig Foundation's Board of Directors, and is currently on the<br />\r
-Apereo Foundation's Advisory Council as well as Brandeis University's<br />\r
-Graduate Professional Studies Advisory Board. He is the co-founder of<br />\r
-the Educause Constituency Group on Openness. Patrick was also elected<br />\r
-to his local Board of Education in 2014.</div>
+<div class="webform-long-answer">Patrick Masson joined the Open Source Initiative as General Manager in November of 2013 after working in higher education technology for over twenty years, including roles as Director of the UCLA Media Lab, CIO within The State University of New York, and most recently, CTO at UMassOnline. Patrick is an Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany, teaching Open Source Principles and Practices within the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences' Department of Informatics. Patrick has worked to promote the awareness and adoption of open source, particularly within education, throughout his career. He served on the Jasig Foundation's Board of Directors, and is currently on the Apereo Foundation's Advisory Council as well as Brandeis University's Graduate Professional Studies Advisory Board. He is the co-founder of the Educause Constituency Group on Openness. Patrick was also elected to his local Board of Education in 2014.</div>
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community building” movement, using free software tools like VOIP, Drupal, and GNU/Linux. She is a liaison between the US Solidarity Economy Network (SEN), a group devoted to ongoing dialogue on building the new economy network, and the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), the national grassroots organization of US worker-owners who are “building power<br />\r
with national and international partners to advance an agenda for economic justice rooted in community-based shared ownership.” As a board member of the MayFirst Technology Movement cooperative, Micky works with technical activists to connect people with the information and tools they need to move from being a global network to becoming a global movement based on solidarity.</div>
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-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#2714">Saturday 15:25 - 16:10</a>
-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Back Bay Grand
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-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack9">Free Software in practice</span>
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-<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">Research has shown that the way we use language influences the way we think. Can we begin to disentangle gender from our identities through language? Inspired by modern speculative fiction writers like Ann Leckie, the Regender Project aims to explore that question by using technology to alter the genders used in English text: changing male characters to female and vice versa, or assigning everyone the same gender pronoun. This talk will cover the beginning efforts to build a dictionary of English gendered words, as well as the technological challenges of swapping pronouns, gendered words and proper names in text, using free software natural language tools, machine learning, and common sense knowledge bases.<br />\r
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-<h2>EC Monsen</h2></div>
-<div class="webform-long-answer">Eva is a career software engineer and data consultant, as well as a startup advisor and an advocate for underrepresented founders, and is stoked to share projects that combine those passions.</div>
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<div class="webform-long-answer">Lori Nagel has worked on and off on the free software multi-player online role playing game project “Wograld,” which you can learn about at wograld.org. She has also written a free culture Web cartoon (see jastiv.com) and a free culture novel (see jastiv.blogspot.com/2019/03/free-culture-novels-where-to-post-them.html).<br />\r
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<div class="webform-long-answer">Sean O'Brien is a lecturer in law at Yale Law School with expertise in cybersecurity and mobile device forensics. Sean founded Yale Privacy Lab, where his research includes privacy auditing of Android apps. His current focus is IoT device security, work that has culminated in the PrivacySafe appliance and the GNU Health Embedded effort for the platform.</div>
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+<div class="talkblock" style="clear:both">
+<h2 style="clear:both">Free software game restoration</h2>
+<div class="talkblockheader">
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#2389">Sunday 11:35 - 12:20</a>
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Freedom
+</br>
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack10">Exploring Free Software concepts</span>
+</div>
+<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">Games are part of our culture, like books and movies. While we have access to some older games via emulators, we are failing to save our free software history. Many developers try to develop a game, and then the game reaches a satisfactory state or the developer just moves on. Finding these games can be hard. Eventually libraries or languages change, and the game no longer runs. This talk will discuss restoring games for future players to enjoy.</div></div>
+</div>
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+<div class="speakerblock">
+<div class="speakerheader"><img class="speakerpic" src="https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/libreplanet/2020/assets/logo-lores.png">
+<h2>Dennis Payne</h2></div>
+<div class="webform-long-answer">Dennis Payne is a free software game developer in his spare time. He has started Bt Builder and Troll Bridge, and maintains several other games he has stumbled across. "Open Game Source" is a series of articles about his game development efforts.</div>
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-<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">A lightning talk is a five-minute presentation on any topic that you think would be interesting to a group of free software users, hackers, and activists. Each session has time for a total of twelve talks. Since we're seeking a breadth of relevant topics, signing up to give a talk does not guarantee you a slot. <br />\r
+<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">A lightning talk is a five-minute presentation on any topic that you think would be interesting to a group of free software users, hackers, and activists. Each session has time for a total of twelve talks. Since we're seeking a breadth of relevant topics, submitting a talk does not guarantee you a slot. <br />\r
+<br />\r
+We'll pick the twelve talks that we feel are most interesting to our attendees once we've gotten enough submissions. We're especially interested in hearing from new people who haven't ever spoken at an FSF event! <br />\r
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-We'll pick the twelve talks that we feel are most interesting to our attendees once we've gotten enough submissions. We're especially interested in hearing from new people who haven't ever spoken at an FSF event! </div></div>
+More instructions: <br />\r
+https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/Lightning_Talks</div></div>
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<h2>Libre Planet</h2></div>
-<div class="webform-long-answer">Moderated by FSF licensing and compliance manager Donald Robertson, III. <br />\r
+<div class="webform-long-answer">Talk upload instructions<br />\r
+You should upload your video to our ftp server:<br />\r
<br />\r
-Add your name to the list!<br />\r
-https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/Lightning_Talks</div>
+ Host: `photoupload.fsf.org`<br />\r
+ Username: `anonymous`<br />\r
+ Port: `22`<br />\r
+ Folder: `upload-here`<br />\r
+<br />\r
+When you are done uploading email campaigns@fsf.org to let us know what video file to use.</div>
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<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">A lightning talk is a five-minute presentation on any topic that you think would be interesting to a group of free software users, hackers, and activists. Each session has time for a total of twelve talks. Since we're seeking a breadth of relevant topics, signing up to give a talk does not guarantee you a slot. <br />\r
<br />\r
-We'll pick the twelve talks that we feel are most interesting to our attendees once we've gotten enough submissions. We're especially interested in hearing from new people who haven't ever spoken at an FSF event! </div></div>
+We'll pick the twelve talks that we feel are most interesting to our attendees once we've gotten enough submissions. We're especially interested in hearing from new people who haven't ever spoken at an FSF event! <br />\r
+<br />\r
+More instructions: <br />\r
+https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/Lightning_Talks</div></div>
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<h2>Libre Planet</h2></div>
-<div class="webform-long-answer">Moderated by FSF licensing and compliance manager Donald Robertson, III.<br />\r
+<div class="webform-long-answer">Talk upload instructions<br />\r
+You should upload your video to our ftp server:<br />\r
<br />\r
-Add your name to the list!<br />\r
-https://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/Lightning_Talks</div>
+ Host: `photoupload.fsf.org`<br />\r
+ Username: `anonymous`<br />\r
+ Port: `22`<br />\r
+ Folder: `upload-here`<br />\r
+<br />\r
+When you are done uploading email campaigns@fsf.org to let us know what video file to use.</div>
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<h2>Robert Read</h2></div>
<div class="webform-long-answer">Robert L. Read, PhD (computer science), after serving in director-level software engineering architecture and management positions, was a Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2013, where he advocated free software in the US federal government. He is a champion of Agile software development methods, an inventor, and a thought-leader. He holds two patents in optics. His most popular publication is “How to be a Programmer.” He began Public Invention in 2015 to produce free-libre hardware inventions and mathematical progress, and the project has mentored about eight students and produced two peer-reviewed papers so far. Rob is also the chief scientist of Skylight Digital, and CTO of Wacuri, Inc. He speaks Esperanto fluently.</div>
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+<div class="talkblock" style="clear:both">
+<h2 style="clear:both">Digital painting with Krita on GNU/Linux: cute creature concept-art</h2>
+<div class="talkblockheader">
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#2539">Saturday 10:40 - 11:25</a>
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Back Bay Grand
+</br>
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack9">Free Software in practice</span>
+</div>
+<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">David Revoy, author of the webcomic Pepper&Carrot, will do a live digital painting performance with Krita from his studio in the south of France. The creation of cute creatures will only be a pretext to highlight some of the best features and hidden treasures of the software Krita. Brushes, transform tools, reference tools and filters will be presented, as well as a list of other features.</div></div>
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+<div class="speakerblock">
+<div class="speakerheader"><img class="speakerpic" src="https://my.fsf.org/sites/default/files/webform/David-Revoy_profile-2018.jpg">
+<h2>David Revoy</h2></div>
+<div class="webform-long-answer">David Revoy is a French digital artist, and a pioneer in the usage of a 100% libre workflow for digital painting in a professional environment. Revoy is a Krita instructor, and an art director for the Blender Foundation on Sintel and Spring open movies. He was a concept-artist for works including “Tears of Steel” and “Cosmos Laundromat.” He is also an illustrator for the Contributopia Campaign by Framasoft, and of course, the founder of the free (libre) Web comic “Pepper and Carrot.”</div>
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<h2>. Salt</h2></div>
-<div class="webform-long-answer">Wm “Salt” Hale is a kilted globetrottter, a free software advocate, lifelong hacker, and Seattle local who studies technology and society at the University of Washington (UW) Department of Communication, and is the community director at Snowdrift.coop. He attends, organizes, and speaks worldwide at conferences, conventions, events, festivals, and faires, and he speaks on various topics including communication, crowdmatching, Internet technologies, GNU/Linux, music, sci-fi/fantasy, security, and windsports. Salt is very approachable, and will always be found wearing a kilt.</div>
+<div class="webform-long-answer">Wm Salt Hale, is a Seattle local who studies Tech+Society at the U. of WA Dept. of Communication and is Community Director at Snowdrift.coop. <br />\r
+He attends, organizes, and speaks worldwide at: conferences, conventions, events, festivals, and faires; on various topics including: communication, crowdmatching, internet technologies, linux, music, sci-fi/fantasy, security, and windsports. Salt is very approachable and will always be found wearing a kilt. <br />\r
+<br />\r
+/?/ Kilted Globetrotter,<br />\r
+Free/Libre/Open Advocate<br />\r
+and Lifelong Hacker /?/</div>
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-<h2 style="clear:both">LibreOffice's tenth anniversary: The many faces of a global free software community</h2>
+<h2 style="clear:both">Sugar Labs -- Past, Present, and Future</h2>
<div class="talkblockheader">
-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#2591">Saturday 16:20 - 17:05</a>
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#2855">Sunday 14:30 - 15:15</a>
<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Freedom
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<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack9">Free Software in practice</span>
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-<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">LibreOffice was announced in 2010, and will celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2020. Over these last ten years, the global community behind this project has grown from a small group of volunteers, mostly based in Europe, to a large and diverse group of free software advocates spanning many countries. This presentation will discuss the challenges faced by the community during this incredible growth, and will provide a better understanding of the community for people who have only followed this evolution through announcements and events. </div></div>
+<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">Sugar Labs is a community of developers, teachers, and students, all working together on educational free software projects. Everyone learns by doing, contributing, critiquing, and reflecting on their work -- anything from short code created in a visual programming language to a major contribution to a critical project. The Sugar Labs' community has been around and active for more than a decade, it operated as a member organization under the umbrella of Software Freedom Conservancy, and now we are entering an exciting new chapter as its own non-profit. In this talk, we will discuss a little bit of the history of Sugar Labs, what has made it special over the years, and what we expect for the future. We will demonstrate some of our leading learning tools, such as Turtle Blocks, Music Blocks, and the Sugar OS. Lastly, we are open to ideas and questions about our future.</div></div>
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-<h2>Italo Vignoli</h2></div>
-<div class="webform-long-answer">Italo Vignoli is a founding member of The Document Foundation, the chairman emeritus of Associazione LibreItalia, an emeritus member of the OSI board, and co-chair of the ODF Advocacy OASIS Open Project. He co-leads LibreOffice marketing, public relations, and media relations, co-chairs the certification program, and is a spokesman for the project. He has contributed to large migration projects to LibreOffice in Italy, and is a LibreOffice certified migrator and trainer. From 2004 to 2010, he has been involved in the OOo project. In his professional life, he is a marketing consultant with decades of experience in high tech, and a visiting professor of marketing, public speaking, and public relations post-graduate courses. He has a degree in humanities at the University of Milan, and MBAs in marketing, public relations, and journalism. </div>
+<div class="speakerheader"><img class="speakerpic" src="https://my.fsf.org/sites/default/files/webform/profiles_ulibarri.jpg">
+<h2>Devin Ulibarri</h2></div>
+<div class="webform-long-answer">Devin is co-creator of Music Blocks, a visual programming language for music created with Walter Bender as a SugarLabs project. He is co-founder and president of MAP Family Learning Center, which seeks to improve child development by offering high-quality classes in music, art, and programming. Devin is former chair of guitar for prep and continuing ed at New England Conservatory. Devin serves as co-admin and faculty for Boston GuitarFest, a prestigious festival directed by renowned guitarist Eliot Fisk.<br />\r
+<br />\r
+SugarLabs founder Walter Bender will be co-hosting this presentation.</div>
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<div class="talkblock" style="clear:both">
-<h2 style="clear:both">Freeing the mobile phone: The story of the Librem 5</h2>
+<h2 style="clear:both">LibreOffice's tenth anniversary: The many faces of a global free software community</h2>
<div class="talkblockheader">
-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#2464">Sunday 11:35 - 12:20</a>
-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Back Bay Grand
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#2591">Saturday 16:20 - 17:05</a>
+<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Freedom
</br>
<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack9">Free Software in practice</span>
</div>
-<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">Purism's founder and CEO Todd Weaver will tell the story of the Librem 5 from its inception, through decisions made to comply with the FSF’s Respects Your Freedom certification program, and on to many humorous anecdotes connecting tangential topics to the overall goal of freedom in technology.</div></div>
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-<h2>Todd Weaver</h2></div>
-<div class="webform-long-answer">Todd Weaver is a hardcore geek and digital rights activist who believes the best method of saving humanity is to create convenient products that fully respect people.</div>
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-<h2 style="clear:both">Creative Commons: Free software and the commons</h2>
-<div class="talkblockheader">
-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i>: <a class="lpcalendarlink" href="/2020/program/#3031">Saturday 10:40 - 11:25</a>
-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-home"></i>: Back Bay Grand
-</br>
-<i class="glyphicon glyphicon-road"></i>: <span class="lptrack lptrack1">Licensing</span>
-</div>
-<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">Creative Commons is proud to empower free media. We recognize the invaluable role free software plays in the creation, collaboration, and dissemination of free media. In this session, Timid Robot shares Creative Commons’ efforts to create and contribute to free software and the communities that sustain it.<br />\r
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-In this talk, they will introduce Creative Commons and the general concept of the commons (globally-accessible public commons of knowledge and culture); explore the relationship between free media (the commons) and free software; and promote free software governed by Creative Commons.</div></div>
+<div class="abstract"><div class="webform-long-answer">LibreOffice was announced in 2010, and will celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2020. Over these last ten years, the global community behind this project has grown from a small group of volunteers, mostly based in Europe, to a large and diverse group of free software advocates spanning many countries. This presentation will discuss the challenges faced by the community during this incredible growth, and will provide a better understanding of the community for people who have only followed this evolution through announcements and events. </div></div>
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-<div class="speakerheader"><img class="speakerpic" src="https://my.fsf.org/sites/default/files/webform/timid.jpg">
-<h2>Timid Zehta</h2></div>
-<div class="webform-long-answer">Timid Robot brings over 15 years of professional experience empowering others’ use of technology and digital infrastructure. They have a BA in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College. Timid Robot loves cats, free source software, systems, and giving back to the communities around them.</div>
+<div class="speakerheader"><img class="speakerpic" src="https://my.fsf.org/sites/default/files/webform/bergamo.jpg">
+<h2>Italo Vignoli</h2></div>
+<div class="webform-long-answer">Italo Vignoli is a founding member of The Document Foundation, the chairman emeritus of Associazione LibreItalia, an emeritus member of the OSI board, and co-chair of the ODF Advocacy OASIS Open Project. He co-leads LibreOffice marketing, public relations, and media relations, co-chairs the certification program, and is a spokesman for the project. He has contributed to large migration projects to LibreOffice in Italy, and is a LibreOffice certified migrator and trainer. From 2004 to 2010, he has been involved in the OOo project. In his professional life, he is a marketing consultant with decades of experience in high tech, and a visiting professor of marketing, public speaking, and public relations post-graduate courses. He has a degree in humanities at the University of Milan, and MBAs in marketing, public relations, and journalism. </div>
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