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== 2009 ==
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The Free Software Foundation will be hosting another [http://softwarefreedomday.org Software Freedom Day] event on September 19, 2009 at:
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==Previous Years==
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* [[Event:LibrePlanet/LibrePlanet/9-20-2014 -Event 1|Software Freedom Day in Boston 2014]]
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* [[Boston Software Freedom Day (2013)|Software Freedom Day in Boston 2013]]
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* [[Boston Software Freedom Day (2011)|Software Freedom Day in Boston 2011]]
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* [[Software Freedom Day in Boston (2009)|Software Freedom Day in Boston 2009]]
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* [[Software Freedom Day in Boston 2008]]
  
  [http://www.encuentro5.org/home/ Encuentro 5], 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02111
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Located in Boston's Chinatown, easily accessible to the Orange and Green T Lines
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If you have questions, please write us at membership@fsf.org. 
 
 
 
  * 10-10:30 Coffee, snacks and registration
 
  * 10:30 - 11:00 Updates on FSF Campaigns (our campaign staff)
 
  * 11:00 - 11:20 Women in Free Software Summit (Deborah)
 
  * 11:20 - 11:50 Walter Bender from Sugar Labs, re: Turtle Art 
 
  * 11:50 - 12:10 Hacking Your Blog with Laura Quilter (Blogger and Wikipedia Administrator)
 
  * 12:10 - 12:30 Benjamin Mako Hill (FSF Board Member) on Antifeatures
 
  * 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
 
  * 1:30 - 2:10 Lightning talks (sign up here!)
 
    1. Danny Clark "The Quest for a Fully Free Laptop"
 
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  * 2:10 - 3:10 Workshops (concurrent) 
 
    "Future Phone Freedom Workshop" Steve Pomeroy (Mobile Researcher at the MIT Mobile Experience Lab) and Andres Salomon (Collabora)
 
    "Writing Free Software for the Web" with Matt Lee, Donald Robertson and Deb Nicholson (GNU hackers) 
 
  * 3:10 - 3:25 Break
 
  * 3:25 - 4:15 Afternoon keynote
 
  * 4:15 - 5:00 Campaign action
 
 
 
==About the speakers==
 
 
 
[[image:http://www.olpcnews.com/images/walter-bender-president.jpg]]
 
 
 
Walter Bender is the founder and executive director of Sugar Labs,
 
whose mission is to produce, distribute, and support the use of the
 
free software Sugar learning platform. Bender is past-president for
 
software and content development of One Laptop per Child, a
 
not-for-profit association that has put free-software education tools
 
into the hands of more than one-million children worldwide. Before
 
taking his leave of absence from MIT,
 
Bender was executive director of the MIT Media Laboratory, where he
 
encouraged the use of the GPL.
 
 
 
 
 
[[image:http://lquilter.net/images/LQ-2007-3in.jpg]]
 
 
 
Laura Quilter is a 5-year information law attorney, a 15-year librarian, and a 20-year geek.  Most recently she has become a parent, and is splitting her time between coding the infant with language, writing about copyright, teaching about intellectual freedom, and geeking about. She's a wikipedia administrator and administers several wordpress blogs and multiple mediawiki installs.
 
 
 
== Campaign Actions ==
 
=== For people with computers ===
 
Defectivebydesign tagging on the PS3 slim and Xbox Elite
 
 
 
* Pass people the link that describes DbD tagging / negative reviews.
 
* They search for the product
 
* They start tagging.
 
 
 
=== For everybody ===
 
"What do you do with free software?" "Why is it important to you?" video mini-interview. 
 
 
 
* Pass questions on to Dana Moser, he does videos
 
* Give Dana our ffmpeg2theora parameters
 
* We post videos with a blog post, then send an email inviting others to submit videos to tinyvid.tv
 
 
 
== 2008 ==
 
 
 
[[Software Freedom Day in Boston 2008]]
 
 
 
[[Category:Event]]
 

Latest revision as of 19:16, 21 November 2019

Cambridge, MA

Topic: Software Freedom Day

Presenter: Various

Organizer: LibrePlanet Boston

Date: Saturday, September 20 2014 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Location: Industry Lab

288 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, MA

Description:

Full day of celebrating, sharing and learning about free software. See details here:

Announcement on Meetup.com

Email Will Rico if you'd like to give a lightning talk. We'd love to hear from you!

Previous Years