Individual presentations

Presentations are typically 45 minutes in length. This is an opportunity to talk about your software project, organizing effort, licensing knowledge, or just something you've learned from using free software, with time for discussion. Describe your proposal, your background, how it relates to the conference theme, and what you hope participants will gain from your presentation.

Panels

Panels are typically 1 ½ hours long and are composed of three or more people who want to engage deeply with a particular question, challenge, or theme. Describe your proposal, how it relates to the conference theme, and what you hope participants will gain from your presentation. We encourage you to propose a full list of panelists from diverse backgrounds. In addition to you own biography, please use the "Presenter bio(s)" field to include biographical and contact information for each panelist and indicate whether you have approached them about participating in your panel. If accepted, we will work with you and connect you with similar proposals. In some cases we may combine proposals or add speakers to a proposed panel.

Workshops

Workshops are generally 1 ½ hours long and are submitted by one or more people who have an intersectional, interactive presentation to share. Workshops take many formats – from software or hardware demonstrations, to workshops for new contributors, to skillshares and tutorials. If you are submitting a proposal for a workshop, please describe the goals and take-aways for the session. In addition to you own biography, please use the "Presenter bio(s)" field to include biographical and contact information for each panelist and indicate whether you have approached them about participating in your workshop.

Strategic Action Sessions

Strategic action sessions are generally 1 ½ hours long and provide a space for activists to learn from each other’s organizing work and share strategies, successes, and challenges. Examples of strategy sessions might include: starting a local user group, discussing how to message free software to political activists, sharing PR best practices to promote free software, among others.

Would you like to participate in the conference in other ways – by framing and moderating a panel; facilitating a caucus space; sharing media-making skills, or blogging about the conference? Please let us know about the community-building skills you have to share!

Identity and demographics

LibrePlanet is committed to increasing the diversity of the free software movement, and to making the diversity that already exists more visible. To that end, our CFS process takes demographic information into account in order to build a program that features as many different voices and perspectives as possible.

We ask you to please share any demographic information about yourself that you are comfortable sharing. We have provided a "How do you self-identify?" text field to allow you to self-identify in any way you wish, in addition to or instead of using the checkboxes below.

Your proposal will not be judged negatively if you decline to answer any of the following questions.

Social identities to write in the optional "How do you self-identify?" field may include race, ethnicity, age, class background, ability/disability, national origin/citizenship status, gender, sexuality, religion/spiritual practice, geography/regional affiliations, education, types of work, etc.

Miscellaneous

We are unable to provide honorariums or speaker's fees to presenters at LibrePlanet. However, presenters are eligible to apply for travel scholarships which may fund or partially fund transportation and hotel expenses.