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''This schedule is subject to change as conference plans are finalized.''
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== Social Events ==
  
==Friday, March 22==
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There will be unofficial social events that accompany the LibrePlanet Conference. See [[LibrePlanet:Conference/2013/Social Events|Social Events]] to view the planned events and feel free to add your own.
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== Program Coming Soon ==
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== Schedule (Subject to Change) ==
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===Friday, March 22===
  
 
5:30 - 7:00 PM: '''Evening meet and greet at the FSF offices,''' 51 Franklin St., 5th floor, Boston, MA 02110   
 
5:30 - 7:00 PM: '''Evening meet and greet at the FSF offices,''' 51 Franklin St., 5th floor, Boston, MA 02110   
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Chau Chow City   
 
Chau Chow City   
 
83 Essex St   
 
83 Essex St   
(Parking on street)   
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(At Ping on St)   
 
Boston, MA 02111   
 
Boston, MA 02111   
 
[http://chauchowcity.com/ http://chauchowcity.com/]   
 
[http://chauchowcity.com/ http://chauchowcity.com/]   
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Contact [mailto:libby@fsf.org Libby] to RSVP!
 
Contact [mailto:libby@fsf.org Libby] to RSVP!
  
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===Saturday, March 23===
  
==Saturday, March 23==
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8:15 - Breakfast  <br>
 
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9:00 - Opening Plenary  <br>
===8:15 - Registration and breakfast.===
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10:20 - Sessions  <br>
 
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11:30 - Lunch   <br>
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1:00 - Sessions  <br>
 
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2:20 - Sessions  <br>
===Opening Plenary: Idealism for Community Building by Karen Sandler followed by John Sullivan===
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3:40 - Sessions  <br>
9:00 AM
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5:00 - Evening plenary and Free Software Awards Ceremony   <br>
Lecture Hall A
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6:00 - [[LibrePlanet2013/Social Events|Social Events]]
 
 
It was plastered all over the news: the GNOME project was dead. There were
 
forks. So why, in a tough economy, did GNOME got more donations from
 
individuals in 2012 than in any previous year? Why were its outreach
 
efforts to bring in newcomers more successful? In sum, big ideas on how to
 
make the world a better place through software.
 
 
 
===Saturday Hackathon Begins===
 
 
 
The hackathon will continue for the duration of the conference, with break during plenaries.
 
 
 
===Saturday Morning Sessions===
 
10:20 AM
 
 
 
'''Talk title TBD''' (D)
 
 
 
'''''Kat Walsh'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall A''
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
'''Right to Repair''' (E)
 
 
 
'''''Alison Chaiken and Brian Hickey'''''
 
 
 
''Room 110''
 
 
 
In 2012 Massachusetts voters resoundingly endorsed the principle of
 
control over their own devices when they passed the Right to Repair
 
ballot measure.  "Right to Repair requires automakers to sell the same
 
repair and diagnostic information and tools to independent repair
 
shops, consumers and franchised dealerships."  What are the
 
implications of the Right to Repair movement for consumer choices
 
about automotive software and more broadly, for the right of owners to
 
control the software that runs on their personal electronic devices?
 
2012 brought news about trends like autonomous vehicle operation,
 
usage-based insurance, and broad availability of mass-market vehicles
 
that run Gnu Public Licensed software.  As regulators and lawmakers
 
struggle to catch up, campaigns like Right to Repair offer an
 
opportunity for the free software movement to make common cause with
 
philosophical allies in the automotive small-business and "shade-tree
 
mechanic" communities.   The outcome of upcoming decisions will affect
 
stakeholders ranging from car manufacturers to transportation planners
 
to emergency responders.
 
 
 
'''Free Software and 3D Printing''' (F)
 
 
 
'''''Aeva Palecek'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall D''
 
 
 
Aeva Palecek discusses the current state of Free Software in the
 
context of libre hardware 3D printing - exciting developments,
 
opportunities for further involvement, and areas of concern. The talk will
 
include a demonstration of hardware from Lulzbot - the first libre
 
hardware company to earn the FSF's "Respects Your Freedom" certification.
 
 
 
<br>
 
 
 
===Saturday Afternoon First Sessions===
 
1:00 PM
 
 
 
'''When Free Software Isn't (Practically) Better''' (D)
 
'''''Benjamin Mako Hill'''''
 
''Lecture Hall D''
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
'''Expanding the Tent''' (E)
 
 
 
'''''Deb Nicholson, Jonathan Nadeau, Beth Lynn Eicher'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall A''
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
'''Free Software Communities and the Cloud''' (F)
 
 
 
'''''Dave Neary'''''
 
 
 
''Room 110''
 
 
 
Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a
 
Service, the move to mobile and tablets... in the world of the cloud,
 
the user has less and less visibility into what is happening under the
 
covers of his computing environment.
 
 
 
What does it mean to be Free Software if you are not distributing any
 
software? What is the nature of communities for cloud projects like
 
OpenStack? In a cloudy world, can people still hope to control their
 
computing environments? When all our applications are web applications,
 
accessed on a mobile platform like a phone or a tablet, does the concept
 
of Free software make any sense? Will mobile and the cloud kill Free
 
Software?
 
 
 
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===Saturday Afternoon Second Sessions===
 
2:20 PM
 
 
 
'''LibreOffice 4.0: the history''' (D)
 
 
 
'''''Italo Vignoli'''''
 
 
 
''Room 110''
 
 
 
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice were born on September 28, 2010,
 
after several months of incubation, as a fork of OpenOffice.org. The
 
founders were amongst the leaders of the OOo community, and after 10
 
years under the Sun umbrella envisioned a future of independence, with a
 
foundation based on democracy and merithocracy. LibreOffice has been
 
based on OOo source code, and has attracted a large community of
 
developers which is today the third largest for an open source desktop
 
application. Today, LibreOffice is the free office suite of choice for
 
most enterprise migrations, and the de facto standard for Linux
 
distributions.
 
 
 
Outreach Program for Women: Lessons in Collaboration: Marina Zhurakhinskaya (E)
 
Lecture Hall D
 
 
 
'''Title TBD''' (F)
 
 
 
'''''Chris Webber and Evan Prodromou'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall A''
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
<br>
 
 
 
 
 
===Saturday Afternoon Third Sessions===
 
3:40 PM
 
 
 
'''Demystifying Blender: Quick ways to get into 3D Graphics with free software''' (D)
 
 
 
'''''Bassam Kurdali'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall D''
 
 
 
Blender is well known, stunningly feature rich and production tested
 
Free 3D animation program. It has the reputation of being hard to use,
 
so we'll attempt here to ease the learning curve, and introduce some fun
 
– but slightly hidden – easy to use features, that can get you making
 
nice effects quickly while you explore the fundamentals. We'll make
 
some, trees and plants, do some rendering, and cover some of the basics
 
on the way, including where to go on and offline for future reference.
 
 
 
'''Free software for a healthy democracy''' (E)
 
 
 
'''''Remy DeCausemaker and Paul Tagliamonte'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall A''
 
 
 
Speakers from the Sunlight Foundation and the RIT Lab for Technological Literacy will discuss the role Free Software plays in improving access, openness, and transparency of the democratic process, and share stories and favorite projects from their adventures in Civic Hacking.
 
 
 
'''Licensing & compliance: a collective effort''' (F)
 
 
 
'''''Joshua Gay, Bradley Kuhn, Donald Robertson III'''''
 
 
 
''Room 110''
 
 
 
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===Saturday Afternoon Plenary: Richard Stallman followed by the Free Software Awards Ceremony===
 
5:00 PM
 
 
 
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===Saturday Social Events===
 
6:00 PM
 
 
 
There will be unofficial social events that accompany the LibrePlanet Conference. See [[LibrePlanet:Conference/2013/Social Events|Social Events]] to view the planned events and feel free to add your own.
 
 
 
==Sunday, March 24== 
 
 
 
===Breakfast===
 
8:15 AM
 
 
 
9:00 - 5:00 Alternate track: '''[[Upstream University training]]''' (day-long training, space is limited, [http://upstream-university.org/apply/ register in advance])
 
 
 
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===Sunday Hackathon Begins===
 
 
 
The hackathon will continue for the duration of the conference, with break during plenaries.
 
 
 
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==Sunday Morning First Sessions==
 
9:00 AM
 
 
 
'''IPython: tools for the entire lifecycle of research computing''' (D)
 
 
 
'''''Fernando Perez'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall D''
 
 
 
The IPython project (http://ipython.org) provides a rich architecture for
 
interactive computing with.  Its architecture is designed in a
 
language-agnostic way to facilitate interactive computing in any language,
 
allowing users to mix Python with R, Octave, Julia, Ruby, Perl, Bash and more.
 
 
 
In this talk, I will show how IPython supports all stages in the lifecycle of a
 
scientific idea: individual exploration, collaborative development, large-scale
 
production using parallel resources, publication and education.  In particular,
 
the IPython Notebook provides an environment for "literate computing" with a
 
tight integration of narrative and computation.  These Notebooks are stored an
 
open document format that provides an "executable paper": notebooks can be
 
version controlled, exported to HTML or PDF for publication, and used for
 
teaching.
 
 
 
'''Talk title TBD''' (E)
 
 
 
'''''Wendy Seltzer'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall A''
 
 
 
'''LibreJS''' (F)
 
 
 
'''''Loic Duros'''''
 
 
 
''Room 110''
 
 
 
===Sunday Morning Second Sessions===
 
 
 
10:20 AM
 
 
 
'''Intro to Free Software''' (D)
 
 
 
'''''Speakers TBD'''''
 
 
 
''Room 110''
 
 
 
'''Seeking impact with Free Culture projects''' (E)
 
 
 
'''''ginger coons'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall A''
 
 
 
This talk uses Libre Graphics magazine --an art, design and culture publication produced with Free/Libre software and methods-- as a case study for the discussion of organization, centralization and credibility in Free Culture projects. Covering problems of control, institutional relations and dealing with haters, the presentation will offer an insight into walking the line between collective and company.
 
 
 
'''Debian and GNU''' (F)
 
 
 
'''''Stefano Zacchiroli'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall D''
 
 
 
We have a lot of GNU in Debian (hence our GNU/Linux, GNU/kFreeBSD, and GNU/Hurd names and choices), but how are the two projects otherwise related? In this session we will discuss Debian objectives and peculiarities, and how they related to GNU. We will also cover recent collaboration efforts between the two projects and how we can improve upon them to the betterment of Free Software.
 
 
 
===Lunch===
 
11:30 AM
 
 
 
===Sunday Afternoon First Sessions====
 
1:00 PM
 
 
 
'''The Trisquel project, pushing together to the next level''' (D)
 
 
 
'''''Ruben Rodriguez'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall D''
 
 
 
'''Global communities building free Health IT platforms''' (E)
 
 
 
''''' Michael Downey and Hamish Fraser'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall A''
 
 
 
OpenMRS is a free software platform to manage electronic medical
 
records, originally designed in 2004 for use in the developing world
 
but now used in a variety health care and research environments. The
 
collaborative needs of physicians in Kenya, Haiti, South Africa, and
 
the US all pointed toward a default model of openness if only to “get
 
work done” in the face of the urgent need of better healthcare in
 
these countries. The modular architecture that evolved has led to an
 
active ecosystem of developers and system implementers who are
 
creating specific tools for different health care needs. As a result,
 
the OpenMRS platform is assisting clinicians and researchers in a wide
 
variety of contexts. In this talk, you’ll hear how people are using
 
OpenMRS to manage health information in everything from small clinics
 
to national health care systems.
 
 
 
'''Replicant: addressing Android freedom issues''' (F)
 
 
 
'''''Denis Carikli'''''
 
 
 
''Room 110''
 
 
 
===Sunday Afternoon Second Sessions===
 
2:20
 
 
 
'''Talk title TBD''' (D)
 
 
 
'''''Kira'''''
 
 
 
''Room 110''
 
 
 
Embracing Secure Boot and Rejecting Restricted Boot: Matthew Garrett (E) Lecture Hall D
 
 
 
Microsoft have successfully imposed Secure Boot on broad sections of the
 
PC market, and Restricted Boot continues to be prevelant on mobile
 
devices. How can we ensure that users remain in control of their
 
hardware in order to ensure they remain in control of their software?
 
 
 
'''Passwords suck, but centralized proprietary services are not the answer''' (F)
 
 
 
'''''Francois Marier'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall A''
 
 
 
Passwords are a big problem online and a lot of websites have turned to
 
centralized services to handle logins for them. It's a disturbing trend from
 
a privacy/surveillance point of view, but from a software freedom point of
 
view, it's also turning these proprietary services into core
 
dependencies.
 
 
 
That's why Mozilla is building Persona, a new federated and cross-browser
 
system which makes identity a standard part of the browser. It's simple,
 
privacy-sensitive and entirely free software.
 
 
 
===Sunday Afternoon Third Sessions===
 
3:40 PM
 
 
 
'''Freedom to Organize Online: The CiviCRM Story (So Far)''' (D)
 
 
 
'''''Donald Lobo and Tim Otten'''''
 
 
 
''Lecture Hall A''
 
 
 
'''Servers: The Libre Frontier''' (E)
 
 
 
'''''Ward, Nico, Martin'''''
 
  
''Lecture Hall D''
 
  
==Closing Plenary: Negotiation Theory for Geeks: Leslie Hawthorne==
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===Sunday, March 24=== 
''Lecture Hall A''
 
5:00 PM
 
  
The best free software hackers are great at the "soft skills" related to hacking - resolving conflict, gathering support around a direction for the project, and understanding what the user *really* wants when filing a bug report. Every feature request and implementation discussion, bug report and mailing list thread is a negotiation.
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8:15 - Breakfast  <br>
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9:00 - Sessions  <br>
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10:20 - Sessions  <br>
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11:30 - Lunch  <br>
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1:00 - Sessions  <br>
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2:20 - Sessions  <br>
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3:40 - Sessions  <br>
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5:00 - Closing plenary <br> 
  
There is a well established, common sense, very effective way to think of negotiations which will help you improve as a developer, and make your project better at the same time, from the Harvard Negotiation Project. In this talk, Leslie Hawthorn will provide an overview of negotiation theory and pointers to further resources. She will also explore the importance of *both* empathy and transparency in our communications as we look to make our free software project communities most successful.
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9:00 - 5:00 alternate track: '''[[Upstream University training]]''' (day-long training, space is limited, [http://upstream-university.org/apply/ register in advance])
  
While Leslie owns many a D10 and D20, there will be no role playing exercises included as part this presentation.  
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'''There will be a Hackathon and a book sprint in action throughout the entire conference.'''
  
 
== Suggestions for lightning talk topics ==
 
== Suggestions for lightning talk topics ==

Revision as of 16:49, 12 March 2013

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March 23rd-24th 2013 in Cambridge, MA

With some events on the evening of Friday the 22nd

About | Full Program (PDF) | Photos | Video | Speakers | Schedule | Session descriptions | Transportation and lodging | Anti-harassment policy


Social Events

There will be unofficial social events that accompany the LibrePlanet Conference. See Social Events to view the planned events and feel free to add your own.


Program Coming Soon

Schedule (Subject to Change)

Friday, March 22

5:30 - 7:00 PM: Evening meet and greet at the FSF offices, 51 Franklin St., 5th floor, Boston, MA 02110

7:15 pm: Women in Free Software Networking Dinner:

Chau Chow City 83 Essex St (At Ping on St) Boston, MA 02111 http://chauchowcity.com/

Contact Libby to RSVP!

Saturday, March 23

8:15 - Breakfast
9:00 - Opening Plenary
10:20 - Sessions
11:30 - Lunch
1:00 - Sessions
2:20 - Sessions
3:40 - Sessions
5:00 - Evening plenary and Free Software Awards Ceremony
6:00 - Social Events


Sunday, March 24

8:15 - Breakfast
9:00 - Sessions
10:20 - Sessions
11:30 - Lunch
1:00 - Sessions
2:20 - Sessions
3:40 - Sessions
5:00 - Closing plenary

9:00 - 5:00 alternate track: Upstream University training (day-long training, space is limited, register in advance)

There will be a Hackathon and a book sprint in action throughout the entire conference.

Suggestions for lightning talk topics

Lightning talks are short presentations given by conference attendees on free software topics they're passionate about. If you would like to give a talk, please add a bullet here, along with your name (optional). You're also welcome to suggest topics for others to talk about.

  • FRDCSA: free software a.i./social software: multi-agent logics, computational semantics, and sequences of increasingly complete theorem provers in the service of social causes -- Andrew Dougherty
  • Free gaming on GNU/Linux: The LibrePlanet Gaming Collective and beyond --Mtraceur 18:51, 23 January 2013 (EST)
  • Integrating Etherpad Lite with MediaWiki (the EtherEditor Extension Talk) --Mtraceur 18:51, 23 January 2013 (EST)
  • Wikipedia, VisualEditor, and Parsoid: Making the sum of human knowledge editable by humans --Mtraceur 14:06, 6 March 2013 (EST)
  • Embedded licensing metadata in digital works -- Jonas Öberg
  • Coreboot: What you need to know about it. This talk has to take place before the coreboot install party. Its purpose is to give enough background to the people wanting coreboot to be installed on their computer(why coreboot, how to reflash,how to edit the variables etc...). -- Denis Carikli

Theme, Making Free Software Full Time: If your full time occupation is contributing to the software freedom movement full time, please give a lightening talk about how the revenue that pays your wages is generated.

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