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''This schedule is subject to change as conference plans are finalized.''
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<p><em>This schedule is subject to change as conference plans are finalized.</em></p>
  
==Friday, March 22==
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<h2>Thursday, March 21</h2>
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<p>[[LibrePlanet:Conference/2013/Informal_dinner_and_drinks_among_the_people_in_town_so_far|Informal dinner and drinks among the people in town so far]]</p>
  
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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<h2>Friday, March 22</h2>
  
7:15 pm: '''Women in Free Software Networking Dinner:'''
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<h3>5:30 - 7:00 PM: Evening meet and greet</h3>
  
Chau Chow City 
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<p><em>FSF offices, 51 Franklin St., 5th floor, Boston, MA 02110</em></p>
83 Essex St
 
(Parking on street) 
 
Boston, MA 02111 
 
[http://chauchowcity.com/ http://chauchowcity.com/
 
  
Contact [mailto:libby@fsf.org Libby] to RSVP!
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<h3>7:15 pm: Women in Free Software Networking Dinner:</h3>
  
==Saturday, March 23==
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<p><em>Chau Chow City 83 Essex St Boston, MA 02111</em> <br />
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Parking on street <br />
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http://chauchowcity.com/ <br />
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Contact [mailto:libby@fsf.org Libby] to RSVP! <br />
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Sponsored by the [http://openinventionnetwork.com Open Invention Network] </p>
  
===8:15 - Registration and breakfast.===
 
  
===Opening Plenary: Idealism for Community Building: Karen Sandler, John Sullivan===
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<h2>Saturday, March 23</h2>
9:00 AM
 
Lecture Hall A
 
  
It was plastered all over the news: the GNOME project was dead. There were
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<h3>8:15 - Registration opens. Breakfast.</h3>
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 Morning Sessions===
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<h3>9:00 - Welcome: John Sullivan. Opening Plenary: Leslie Hawthorn: Negotiation Theory for Geeks</h3>
10:20 AM
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<em>Lecture Hall D</em>
  
'''Talk title TBD: Kat Walsh''' (D) Lecture Hall A
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<h3>10:20 - Sessions</h3>
  
'''Right to Repair: Alison Chaiken and Brian Hickey''' (E) Room 110
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<p><strong>Intro to Free Software: Libby Reinish and Zak Rogoff (D)</strong> <br />
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<em>Lecture Hall A</em>  </p>
  
In 2012 Massachusetts voters resoundingly endorsed the principle of
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<p><strong>Right to Repair: Alison Chaiken and Brian Hickey (E)</strong> <br />
control over their own devices when they passed the Right to Repair
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<em>Room 110</em></p>
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: Aeva Palecek''' (F) Lecture Hall D
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<p><strong>Free Software and 3D Printing: Aeva Palecek (S)</strong> <br />
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<em>Lecture Hall D</em></p>
  
Aeva Palecek discusses the current state of Free Software in the
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<p><strong>Free Software Directory sprint begins (A) (10:20 - 5:00)</strong><br/>
context of libre hardware 3D printing - exciting developments,
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<em>Room 112</em></p>
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.
 
  
===Saturday Afternoon First Sessions===
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<p><strong>Coreboot and Replicant install party begins (A) (10:20 - 5:00)</strong><br/>
1:00 PM
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<em>Room 101b</em></p>
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Check the [[LibrePlanet2013/program/Coreboot Install Party|Coreboot]] and [[LibrePlanet2013/program/Replicant Install Party|Replicant]] pages to verify your devices' compatibility.
  
'''When Free Software Isn't (Practically) Better: Benjamin Mako Hill''' (D)
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<h3>11:30 - Lunch</h3>
Lecture Hall D
 
  
'''Expanding the Tent: Deb Nicholson, Jonathan Nadeau, Beth Lynn Eicher''' (E)
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<h3>1:00 - Sessions</h3>
Lecture Hall A
 
  
Description TBD
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<p><strong>When Free Software Isn't (Practically) Better: Benjamin Mako Hill (D)</strong> <br />
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<em>Lecture Hall D</em>  </p>
  
'''Free Software Communities and the Cloud: Dave Neary''' (F)  
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<p><strong>Expanding the Tent: Deb Nicholson, Jonathan Nadeau, Beth Lynn Eicher (E)</strong> <br />
Room 110
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<em>Lecture Hall A</em>  </p>
  
Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Software as a
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<p><strong>Free Software Communities and the Cloud: Dave Neary (S)</strong> <br />
Service, the move to mobile and tablets... in the world of the cloud,
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<em>Room 110</em>  </p>
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
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<h3>2:20 - Sessions</h3>
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?
 
  
===Saturday Afternoon Second Sessions===
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<p><strong>LibreOffice 4.0: the history: Italo Vignoli (D)</strong> <br />
2:20 PM
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<em>Room 110</em>  </p>
  
'''LibreOffice 4.0: the history: Italo Vignoli''' (D)  
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<p><strong>Outreach Program for Women: Lessons in Collaboration: Marina Zhurakhinskaya (E)</strong> <br />
Room 110
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<em>Lecture Hall D</em>  </p>
  
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice were born on September 28, 2010,
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<p><strong>Federated free software futures: Chris Webber and Evan Prodromou (S)</strong> <br />
after several months of incubation, as a fork of OpenOffice.org. The
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<em>Lecture Hall A</em></p>
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)
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<h3>3:40 - Sessions</h3>
Lecture Hall D
 
  
'''Title TBD: Chris Webber and Evan Prodromou''' (F) Lecture Hall A
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<p><strong>Demystifying Blender: Quick ways to get into 3D Graphics with free software: Bassam Kurdali (D)</strong> <br />
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<em>Lecture Hall D</em>  </p>
  
===Saturday Afternoon Third Sessions===
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<p><strong>Free software for a healthy democracy: Remy DeCausemaker and Paul Tagliamonte (E)</strong> <br />
3:40 PM
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<em>Lecture Hall A</em>  </p>
  
'''Demystifying Blender: Quick ways to get into 3D Graphics with free software: Bassam Kurdali''' (D)  
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<p><strong>Licensing &amp; compliance: a collective effort: Joshua Gay, Bradley Kuhn, Donald Robertson III (S)</strong> <br />
Lecture Hall D
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<em>Room 110</em>  </p>
  
Blender is well known, stunningly feature rich and production tested
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<h3>5:00 - Richard Stallman, Free Software Awards Ceremony</h3>
Free 3D animation program. It has the reputation of being hard to use,
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<em>Lecture Hall D</em>
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: Remy DeCausemaker and Paul Tagliamonte (E)
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<h3>6:00 - Social Events</h3>
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.
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<p>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.</p>
  
'''Licensing & compliance: a collective effort: Joshua Gay, Bradley Kuhn, Donald Robertson III''' (F)
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<h2>Sunday, March 24</h2>
Room 110
 
  
===Saturday Afternoon Plenary: Richard Stallman, Free Software Awards Ceremony===
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<h3>8:15 - Breakfast</h3>
5:00 PM
 
  
===Saturday Social Events===
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<h3>9:00 - Sessions</h3>
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.
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<p><strong>IPython: tools for the entire lifecycle of research computing: Fernando Perez (D)</strong> <br />
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<em>Lecture Hall D</em></p>
  
==Sunday, March 24== 
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<p><strong>Copyright and Internet Architecture: Where Have We Come Since SOPA/PIPA?: Wendy Seltzer (E)</strong> <br />
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<em>Lecture Hall A</em></p>
  
8:15 - Breakfast
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<p><strong>Freedom in your browser: LibreJS and IceCat: Loic Duros (S)</strong> <br />
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<em>Room 110</em></p>
  
9:00 - Sessions
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<p><strong>MediaGoblin Hackathon (A) begins (9:00 - 5:00)</strong><br/>
 +
<em>Room 112</em></p>
  
'''IPython: tools for the entire lifecycle of research computing: Fernando Perez''' (D) Lecture Hall D
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<p><strong>Upstream University Training (A) begins (9:00 - 5:00) (Space is limited - [[Upstream University training|register]] in advance!)</strong><br/>
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<em>Room 109</em></p>
  
The IPython project (http://ipython.org) provides a rich architecture for
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<h3>10:20 - Sessions</h3>
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
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<p><strong>Creative Commons and Wikimedia: Designing Systems to Support Free Knowledge: Kat Walsh (D)</strong> <br />
scientific idea: individual exploration, collaborative development, large-scale
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<em>Room 110</em></p>
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: Wendy Seltzer''' (E) Lecture Hall A
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<p><strong>Seeking impact with free culture projects: ginger coons (E)</strong> <br />
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<em>Lecture Hall A</em> </p>
  
'''LibreJS: Loic Duros''' (F) Room 110
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<p><strong>Debian and GNU: Stefano Zacchiroli (S)</strong> <br />
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<em>Lecture Hall D</em></p>
  
10:20 - Sessions
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<h3>11:30 - Lunch</h3>
  
'''Intro to Free Software''' (D) Room 110
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<h3>1:00 - Sessions</h3>
  
'''Seeking impact with Free Culture projects: ginger coons''' (E) Lecture Hall A
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<p><strong>The Trisquel project, pushing together to the next level: Ruben Rodriguez (D)</strong> <br />
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<em>Lecture Hall D</em></p>
  
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.
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<p><strong>Global communities building free Health IT platforms: Michael Downey and Hamish Fraser (E)</strong> <br />
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<em>Lecture Hall A</em></p>
  
'''Debian and GNU: Stefano Zacchiroli''' (F) Lecture Hall D
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<p><strong>Replicant: addressing Android freedom issues: Denis Carikli (S)</strong> <br />
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<em>Room 110</em></p>
  
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.
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<p><strong>Lightning talks (1:00 - 3:00)</strong><br/>
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<em>Room 101b</em><br/>
  
11:30 - Lunch
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Click [[LibrePlanet:Conference/2013/Lightning talks|here]] to sign up to give a lightning talk.</p>
  
1:00 - Sessions
 
  
'''The Trisquel project, pushing together to the next level: Ruben Rodriguez''' (D) Lecture Hall D
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<h3>2:20 - Sessions</h3>
  
'''Global communities building free Health IT platforms. Michael Downey and Hamish Fraser''' (E) Lecture Hall A
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<p><strong>Defective by Design: Kxra (D)</strong> <br />
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<em>Room 110</em></p>
  
OpenMRS is a free software platform to manage electronic medical
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<p><strong>Embracing Secure Boot and Rejecting Restricted Boot: Matthew Garrett (E)</strong> <br />
records, originally designed in 2004 for use in the developing world
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<em>Lecture Hall D</em></p>
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: Denis Carikli''' (F) Room 110
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<p><strong>Passwords suck, but centralized proprietary services are not the answer: Francois Marier (S)</strong> <br />
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<em>Lecture Hall A</em></p>
  
2:20 - Sessions
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<h3>3:40 - Sessions</h3>
  
'''Talk title TBD: Kxra''' (D) Room 110
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<p><strong>Freedom to Organize Online: The CiviCRM Story (So Far): Donald Lobo and Tim Otten (E)</strong> <br />
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<em>Lecture Hall A</em></p>
  
Embracing Secure Boot and Rejecting Restricted Boot: Matthew Garrett (E) Lecture Hall D
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<p><strong>Servers: The Libre Frontier: Ward Vandewege, Nico Cesar, Martin Dluhos (S)</strong> <br />
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<em>Lecture Hall D</em></p>
  
Microsoft have successfully imposed Secure Boot on broad sections of the
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<p><strong>Beyond Illustration: an Introduction to Inkscape and its Ecosystem: Emily Dirsh (D)</strong> <br />
PC market, and Restricted Boot continues to be prevelant on mobile
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<em>Room 110</em></p>
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: Francois Marier''' (F) Lecture Hall A
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<h3>5:00 - <strong>Closing Plenary: Karen Sandler: Idealism for Community Building</strong></h3>
  
Passwords are a big problem online and a lot of websites have turned to
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<p><em>Lecture Hall A</em></p>
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.
 
  
3:40 - Sessions
 
  
'''Freedom to Organize Online: The CiviCRM Story (So Far). Donald Lobo and Tim Otten''' (D) Lecture Hall A
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The (D) (E) (S) and (A) are tracks.
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* D = Discover Free Software
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* E = Expand & Defend Free Software
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* S = Strengthen Free Software
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* A = Advance Free Software
  
'''Servers: The Libre Frontier. Ward, Nico, Martin''' (E) Lecture Hall D
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== Lightning talks ==
 
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Have moved to [[LibrePlanet:Conference/2013/Lightning talks|here]].
5:00 - '''Closing Plenary: Negotiation Theory for Geeks: Leslie Hawthorne''' Lecture Hall A
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
While Leslie owns many a D10 and D20, there will be no role playing exercises included as part this presentation.
 
 
 
9:00 - 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.
 
 
 
* 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 -- [[User:aindilis|Andrew Dougherty]]
 
* Free gaming on GNU/Linux: The LibrePlanet Gaming Collective and beyond --[[User:Mtraceur|Mtraceur]] 18:51, 23 January 2013 (EST)
 
* Integrating Etherpad Lite with MediaWiki (the [https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherEditor EtherEditor] Extension Talk) --[[User:Mtraceur|Mtraceur]] 18:51, 23 January 2013 (EST)
 
* Wikipedia, VisualEditor, and Parsoid: Making the sum of human knowledge editable by humans --[[User:Mtraceur|Mtraceur]] 14:06, 6 March 2013 (EST)
 
* Embedded licensing metadata in digital works -- [[User:jonasob|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...). -- [[User:GNUtoo2|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: [http://www.jalview.org Jalview] and friends - sequence analysis for all! -- [[User:riffraff|Jim Procter]]
 
 
 
== Liberation/Install parties ==
 
* [[LibrePlanet2013/program/Replicant_Install_Party|Replicant]]
 
* [[LibrePlanet2013/program/Coreboot_Install_Party|Coreboot]]
 

Latest revision as of 15:25, 23 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.

Thursday, March 21

Informal dinner and drinks among the people in town so far

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!
Sponsored by the Open Invention Network


Saturday, March 23

8:15 - Registration opens. Breakfast.

9:00 - Welcome: John Sullivan. Opening Plenary: Leslie Hawthorn: Negotiation Theory for Geeks

Lecture Hall D

10:20 - Sessions

Intro to Free Software: Libby Reinish and Zak Rogoff (D)
Lecture Hall A

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

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

Free Software Directory sprint begins (A) (10:20 - 5:00)
Room 112

Coreboot and Replicant install party begins (A) (10:20 - 5:00)
Room 101b

Check the Coreboot and Replicant pages to verify your devices' compatibility.

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 (S)
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 (S)
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 (S)
Room 110

5:00 - Richard Stallman, Free Software Awards Ceremony

Lecture Hall D

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

Copyright and Internet Architecture: Where Have We Come Since SOPA/PIPA?: Wendy Seltzer (E)
Lecture Hall A

Freedom in your browser: LibreJS and IceCat: Loic Duros (S)
Room 110

MediaGoblin Hackathon (A) begins (9:00 - 5:00)
Room 112

Upstream University Training (A) begins (9:00 - 5:00) (Space is limited - register in advance!)
Room 109

10:20 - Sessions

Creative Commons and Wikimedia: Designing Systems to Support Free Knowledge: Kat Walsh (D)
Room 110

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

Debian and GNU: Stefano Zacchiroli (S)
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 (S)
Room 110

Lightning talks (1:00 - 3:00)
Room 101b
Click here to sign up to give a lightning talk.


2:20 - Sessions

Defective by Design: 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 (S)
Lecture Hall A

3:40 - Sessions

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

Servers: The Libre Frontier: Ward Vandewege, Nico Cesar, Martin Dluhos (S)
Lecture Hall D

Beyond Illustration: an Introduction to Inkscape and its Ecosystem: Emily Dirsh (D)
Room 110

5:00 - Closing Plenary: Karen Sandler: Idealism for Community Building

Lecture Hall A


The (D) (E) (S) and (A) are tracks.

  • D = Discover Free Software
  • E = Expand & Defend Free Software
  • S = Strengthen Free Software
  • A = Advance Free Software

Lightning talks

Have moved to here.