LibrePlanet: Conference/2013/Program

Revision as of 17:09, 12 March 2013

March 23rd-24th 2013 in Cambridge, MA

With some events on the evening of Friday the 22nd

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.

Schedule (Subject to Change)

Friday, March 22

5:30 - 7:00 PM: Evening meet and greet

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 Boston, MA 02111
Parking on street
http://chauchowcity.com/
Contact Libby to RSVP!

Saturday, March 23

8:15 - Registration opens. Breakfast.

9:00 - Opening Plenary: Karen Sandler: Idealism for Community Building, John Sullivan.
Lecture Hall A

10:20 - Sessions

Talk title TBD: Kat Walsh (D)
Lecture Hall A

Right to Repair: Alison Chaiken and Brian Hickey (E)
Room 110

Free Software and 3D Printing: Aeva Palecek (F)
Lecture Hall D

11:30 - Lunch

1:00 - Sessions

When Free Software Isn't (Practically) Better: Benjamin Mako Hill (D)
Lecture Hall D

Expanding the Tent: Deb Nicholson, Jonathan Nadeau, Beth Lynn Eicher (E)
Lecture Hall A

Free Software Communities and the Cloud: Dave Neary (F)
Room 110

2:20 - Sessions

LibreOffice 4.0: the history: Italo Vignoli (D)
Room 110

Outreach Program for Women: Lessons in Collaboration: Marina Zhurakhinskaya (E)
Lecture Hall D

Federated free software futures: Chris Webber and Evan Prodromou (F)
Lecture Hall A

3:40 - Sessions

Demystifying Blender: Quick ways to get into 3D Graphics with free software: Bassam Kurdali (D)
Lecture Hall D

Free software for a healthy democracy: Remy DeCausemaker and Paul Tagliamonte (E)
Lecture Hall A

Licensing & compliance: a collective effort: Joshua Gay, Bradley Kuhn, Donald Robertson III (F)
Room 110

5:00 - Richard Stallman, Free Software Awards Ceremony

6:00 - Social Events

Sunday, March 24

8:15 - Breakfast

9:00 - Sessions

IPython: tools for the entire lifecycle of research computing: Fernando Perez (D)
Lecture Hall D

Talk title TBD: Wendy Seltzer (E)
Lecture Hall A

LibreJS: Loic Duros (F)
Room 110

10:20 - Sessions

Intro to Free Software(D)
Room 110

Seeking impact with free culture projects: ginger coons (E)
Lecture Hall A

Debian and GNU: Stefano Zacchiroli (F)
Lecture Hall D

11:30 - Lunch

1:00 - Sessions

The Trisquel project, pushing together to the next level. Ruben Rodriguez (D)
Lecture Hall D

Global communities building free Health IT platforms. Michael Downey and Hamish Fraser (E)
Lecture Hall A

Replicant: addressing Android freedom issues: Denis Carikli (F)
Room 110

2:20 - Sessions

Talk title TBD: Kxra (D)
Room 110

Embracing Secure Boot and Rejecting Restricted Boot: Matthew Garrett (E)
Lecture Hall D

Passwords suck, but centralized proprietary services are not the answer: Francois Marier (F)
Lecture Hall A

3:40 - Sessions

Freedom to Organize Online: The CiviCRM Story (So Far). Donald Lobo and Tim Otten (D)
Lecture Hall A

Servers: The Libre Frontier. Ward, Nico, Martin (E)
Lecture Hall D

5:00 - Closing Plenary: Leslie Hawthorn: Negotiation Theory for Geeks

Lecture Hall A

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.

Open-source science: Jalview and friends - sequence analysis for all! -- Jim Procter

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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.
-== Program Coming Soon ==
 == Schedule (Subject to Change) ==
+<h2>Friday, March 22</h2>
-===Friday, March 22===
+<h3>5:30 - 7:00 PM: Evening meet and greet</h3>
-:30 - 7:00 PM: '''Evening meet and greet at the FSF offices,''' 51 Franklin St., 5th floor, Boston, MA 02110
-:15 pm: '''Women in Free Software Networking Dinner:'''
+<p><em>FSF offices, 51 Franklin St., 5th floor, Boston, MA 02110</em></p>
-Chau Chow City
+<h3>7:15 pm: Women in Free Software Networking Dinner:</h3>
-Essex St
-(At Ping on St)
-Boston, MA 02111
-[http://chauchowcity.com/ http://chauchowcity.com/]
-Contact [mailto:libby@fsf.org Libby] to RSVP!
+<p><em>Chau Chow City 83 Essex St Boston, MA 02111</em> <br />
+Parking on street <br />
+http://chauchowcity.com/ <br />
+Contact Libby to RSVP!  </p>
+<h2>Saturday, March 23</h2>
-<h2>LibrePlanet 2013 Schedule</h2>
+<h3>8:15 - Registration opens. Breakfast.</h3>
-<h3>Friday, March 22</h3>
+<p><strong>9:00 - Opening Plenary: Karen Sandler: Idealism for Community Building, John Sullivan.</strong> <br />
-<p>5:30- 7:00pm - Evening meet and greet at the FSF offices, 51 Franklin St., 5th floor, Boston, MA 02110</p>
-<p>7:00pm -  Unofficial group dinners</p>
-<h3>Saturday, March 23</h3>
-<p>8:15 - Registration opens. Breakfast.</p>
-<p>9:00 - <strong>Opening Plenary: Karen Sandler: Idealism for Community Building, John Sullivan.</strong> <br />
 <em>Lecture Hall A</em></p>
-<p>10:20 - Sessions</p>
+<h3>10:20 - Sessions</h3>
 <p><strong>Talk title TBD: Kat Walsh (D)</strong> <br />
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 <em>Lecture Hall D</em></p>
-<p>11:30 - Lunch</p>
+<h3>11:30 - Lunch</h3>
-<p>1:00 - Sessions</p>
+<h3>1:00 - Sessions</h3>
 <p><strong>When Free Software Isn't (Practically) Better: Benjamin Mako Hill (D)</strong> <br />
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 <em>Room 110</em>  </p>
-<p>2:20 - Sessions</p>
+<h3>2:20 - Sessions</h3>
 <p><strong>LibreOffice 4.0: the history: Italo Vignoli (D)</strong> <br />
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 <em>Lecture Hall D</em>  </p>
-<p><strong>TBD: Chris Webber and Evan Prodromou (F)</strong> <br />
+<p><strong>Federated free software futures: Chris Webber and Evan Prodromou (F)</strong> <br />
 <em>Lecture Hall A</em></p>
-<p>3:40 - Sessions</p>
+<h3>3:40 - Sessions</h3>
 <p><strong>Demystifying Blender: Quick ways to get into 3D Graphics with free software: Bassam Kurdali (D)</strong> <br />
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 <em>Room 110</em>  </p>
-<p>5:00 - Richard Stallman, Free Software Awards Ceremony</p>
+<h3>5:00 - Richard Stallman, Free Software Awards Ceremony</h3>
-<p>6:00 - Social Events</p>
+<h3>6:00 - Social Events</h3>
-<h3>Sunday, March 24</h3>
+<h2>Sunday, March 24</h2>
-<p>8:15 - Breakfast  </p>
+<h3>8:15 - Breakfast</h3>
-<p>9:00 - Sessions  </p>
+<h3>9:00 - Sessions</h3>
 <p><strong>IPython: tools for the entire lifecycle of research computing: Fernando Perez (D)</strong> <br />
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 <em>Room 110</em></p>
-<p>10:20 - Sessions</p>
+<h3>10:20 - Sessions</h3>
 <p><strong>Intro to Free Software(D)</strong> <br />
 <em>Room 110</em></p>
-<p><strong>seeking impact with Free Culture projects: ginger coons (E)</strong> <br />
+<p><strong>Seeking impact with free culture projects: ginger coons (E)</strong> <br />
 <em>Lecture Hall A</em> </p>
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 <em>Lecture Hall D</em></p>
-<p>11:30 - Lunch</p>
+<h3>11:30 - Lunch</h3>
-<p>1:00 - Sessions</p>
+<h3>1:00 - Sessions</h3>
 <p><strong>The Trisquel project, pushing together to the next level. Ruben Rodriguez (D)</strong> <br />
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 <em>Room 110</em></p>
-<p>2:20 - Sessions</p>
+<h3>2:20 - Sessions</h3>
 <p><strong>Talk title TBD: Kxra (D)</strong> <br />
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 <em>Lecture Hall A</em></p>
-<p>3:40 - Sessions</p>
+<h3>3:40 - Sessions</h3>
 <p><strong>Freedom to Organize Online: The CiviCRM Story (So Far). Donald Lobo and Tim Otten (D)</strong> <br />
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 <em>Lecture Hall D</em></p>
-<p>5:00 - <strong>Closing Plenary: Leslie Hawthorn: Negotiation Theory for Geeks</strong> <br />
+<h3>5:00 - <strong>Closing Plenary: Leslie Hawthorn: Negotiation Theory for Geeks</strong></h3>
-<em>Lecture Hall A</em></p>
+<p><em>Lecture Hall A</em></p>
-<p>9:00 - 5:00 <strong>Alternate Track: Upstream University training (day-long training, space is limited, register in advance)</strong>  </p>
+<h3>9:00 - 5:00 <strong>Alternate Track: Upstream University training (day-long training, space is limited, register in advance)</strong></h3>
 <p>There will be a Hackathon and a book sprint in action throughout the entire conference. </p>
-===Saturday, March 23===
-:15 - Breakfast  <br>
-:00 - Opening Plenary   <br>
-:20 - Sessions   <br>
-:30 - Lunch   <br>
-:00 - Sessions   <br>
-:20 - Sessions   <br>
-:40 - Sessions   <br>
-:00 - Evening plenary and Free Software Awards Ceremony   <br>
-:00 - [[LibrePlanet2013/Social Events|Social Events]]
-===Sunday, March 24===
-:15 - Breakfast   <br>
-:00 - Sessions   <br>
-:20 - Sessions   <br>
-:30 - Lunch   <br>
-:00 - Sessions   <br>
-:20 - Sessions   <br>
-:40 - Sessions   <br>
-:00 - Closing plenary <br>
-:00 - 5:00 alternate track: '''[[Upstream University training]]''' (day-long training, space is limited, [http://upstream-university.org/apply/ 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.

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LibrePlanet: Conference/2013/Program

Revision as of 17:09, 12 March 2013

March 23rd-24th 2013 in Cambridge, MA

With some events on the evening of Friday the 22nd

Social Events

Schedule (Subject to Change)

Friday, March 22

5:30 - 7:00 PM: Evening meet and greet

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

Saturday, March 23

8:15 - Registration opens. Breakfast.

10:20 - Sessions

11:30 - Lunch

1:00 - Sessions

2:20 - Sessions

3:40 - Sessions

5:00 - Richard Stallman, 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: Leslie Hawthorn: Negotiation Theory for Geeks

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

Suggestions for lightning talk topics

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