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Revision as of 12:54, 13 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


This schedule is subject to change as conference plans are finalized.

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

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.

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: Libby Reinish and Zak Rogoff (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.

Liberation/Install parties