LibrePlanet: Conference/2013/Program
March 23rd-24th 2013 in Cambridge, MA
With some events on the evening of Friday the 22nd
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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.
- Open-source science: Jalview and friends - sequence analysis for all! -- Jim Procter
