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Program Sessions

Saturday

09:30 - 09:45 - Welcome Address

Welcome Address by FSF : Back Bay Grand LibrePlanet 2020

09:45 - 10:30 - Opening Keynote

Free the Future Young Hackers Keynote Panel : Back Bay Grand : Keynote Alyssa Rosenzweig, Taowa, and Erin Moon

10:40 - 11:25

Digital painting with Krita on GNU/Linux: cute creature concept-art : Back Bay Grand : Free Software in practice David Revoy

Rented future: The dangerous rise of life as a service : Freedom : Exploring Free Software concepts Lucy Ingham

Transparent code, secure data: Selling free software to the US Government, our bosses, and ourselves : Patriot : Free software in Government Karen Johnson Fen Labalme

11:35 - 12:20

Keeping secrets: What you need to know about encryption : Back Bay Grand : Exploring Free Software concepts DeeDee Lavinder

Field notes from a digital rights activist : Freedom : Social context Giselle Jhunjhnuwala

How to teach students about free software : Patriot : Licensing William Liggett

12:20 - 13:35 - Lunch Break

LUNCH BREAK : LUNCH BREAK

13:35 - 14:20

Lessons learned from cultivating free software projects and communities : Back Bay Grand : Community JJ Asghar

Font Bakery: Gathering font engineering knowledge while improving a large collection of libre fonts : Freedom : Free Software in practice Felipe Sanches

Free software and the environment : Patriot : Social context Ben O'Neill

14:30 - 15:15

Preventing the IoT Dystopia with Copyleft : Back Bay Grand : Licensing Bradley Kuhn

Bicycles as a metaphor for free software : Freedom : Exploring Free Software concepts . Salt

Stewarding technological freedom in agriculture : Patriot : Free Software in practice Michael Stenta Don Blair Jamie Gaehring

15:25 - 16:10

Free software for community radio: LibreTime and other software tools : Back Bay Grand : Free Software in practice Robb Ebright

Free software enables free science : Freedom : Community Paul Gazzillo Joshua Santana

16:20 - 17:05

Platform cooperativism, surveillance capitalism, predictive analysis, and you : Back Bay Grand : Social context Micky Metts Keegan Rankin Chris Thompson

LibreOffice's tenth anniversary: The many faces of a global free software community : Freedom : Free Software in practice Italo Vignoli

17:15 - 18:00 - Closing Keynote

Keynote by FSF and Award Ceremony : Back Bay Grand LibrePlanet 2020

18:00 - 18:15 - Closing remarks

Closing remarks by FSF : Back Bay Grand LibrePlanet 2020

Sunday

09:30 - 09:45 - Welcome Address

Welcome Address by FSF : Back Bay Grand LibrePlanet 2020

09:45 - 10:30 - Opening Keynote

For us, by us: Free technology, community science, and the pursuit of environmental problem solving : Back Bay Grand : Keynote Shannon Dosemagen

10:40 - 11:25

The Gandhian way to freedom and privacy : Freedom : Social context Nishant Sharma

Patents and freedom: Where we stand now : Patriot : Licensing McCoy Smith

11:35 - 12:20

Free software game restoration : Freedom : Exploring Free Software concepts Dennis Payne

Free software for minorities in Turkey in their own languages : Patriot : Social context Özcan Oğuz and Alper Atmaca Alper Atmaca

12:20 - 13:35 - Lunch Break

LUNCH BREAK : LUNCH BREAK and MEMBER MEETING

13:35 - 14:20

Free software and the digital divide : Back Bay Grand : Social context Ryan Fukunaga

GNU Health Embedded: An introduction : Freedom : Free Software in practice Sean O'Brien

How to make more users love free software : Patriot : Community Clarissa Borges

14:30 - 15:15

Fediverse: Decentralized Social Networking and Services : Back Bay Grand : Community der.hans .

Sugar Labs -- Past, Present, and Future : Freedom : Free Software in practice Devin Ulibarri Walter Bender

The importance of free software games : Patriot : Exploring Free Software concepts Lori Nagel

15:25 - 16:10

The Four Free-ums? : Back Bay Grand : Licensing Patrick Masson

Lightning talks : Freedom : LibrePlanet special sessions Libre Planet

Secure Scuttlebutt: Peer-to-peer collaboration and community infrastructure : Patriot : Free Software in practice Charles Lehner

16:20 - 17:05

Community healing: Re-establishing norms, trust, and truth after crises : Back Bay Grand : Community Katheryn Sutter

Public Invention: Free hardware inventions “in the public, for the public” : Patriot : Free Software in practice Robert Read Marc Jones

17:15 - 18:00 - Closing Keynote

Locking the Web open: A decentralized web that can operate as free software does : Back Bay Grand : Keynote Brewster Kahle

18:00 - 18:15 - Closing remarks

Closing remarks by FSF : Back Bay Grand LibrePlanet 2020