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= 2009 =
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The Free Software Foundation will be hosting another [http://softwarefreedomday.org Software Freedom Day] event on September 19, 2009 at:
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==Previous Years==
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* [[Event:LibrePlanet/LibrePlanet/9-20-2014 -Event 1|Software Freedom Day in Boston 2014]]
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* [[Boston Software Freedom Day (2013)|Software Freedom Day in Boston 2013]]
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* [[Boston Software Freedom Day (2011)|Software Freedom Day in Boston 2011]]
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* [[Software Freedom Day in Boston (2009)|Software Freedom Day in Boston 2009]]
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* [[Software Freedom Day in Boston 2008]]
  
::: '''[http://www.encuentro5.org/home/ Encuentro 5]''', 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 0211
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Located in Boston's Chinatown, easily accessible to the Orange and Green T Lines
 
 
 
WiFi networks at this site will be open during the conference and are named:
 
* sweetlemon
 
* Belkin_G_Plus_MIMO_3976AE
 
In addition there will be 9 desktop computers running [http://www.fsf.org/news/free-distributions-updates-kongoni-trisquel Trisquel GNU/Linux 3.0 (Dwyn)].
 
 
 
If you have questions, please write us at membership@fsf.org. 
 
 
 
* 10-10:30 Coffee, snacks and registration
 
* 10:30 - 11:00 Updates on FSF Campaigns (our campaign staff)
 
* 11:00 - 11:20 Speaking about the Women in Free Software Summit (Deborah)
 
* 11:20 - 11:50 Walter Bender from Sugar Labs, re: Turtle Art 
 
* 11:50 - 12:10 Hacking Your Blog with Laura Quilter (Blogger and Wikipedia Administrator)
 
* 12:10 - 12:30 Benjamin Mako Hill (FSF Board Member) on Antifeatures
 
* 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
 
* 1:30 - 2:10 Lightning talks (sign up here!)
 
*# Danny Clark "The Quest for a Fully Free Laptop"
 
*# Martin Owens "Free Software Economics"
 
*# Joe Corneli "Towards FAIF math!"
 
*# (sign up now or on site...)
 
*# (sign up now or on site...)
 
*# (sign up now or on site...)
 
*# (sign up now or on site...)
 
 
 
* 2:10 - 3:10 Workshops (concurrent) 
 
** "Future Phone Freedom Workshop" Steve Pomeroy (MIT) and Andres Salomon (Collabora)
 
** "Writing Free Software for the Web" with Matt Lee, Donald Robertson and Deb Nicholson (GNU hackers) 
 
* 3:10 - 3:25 Break
 
* 3:25 - 4:15 Afternoon keynote
 
* 4:15 - 5:00 Campaign action
 
 
 
== About the speakers ==
 
 
 
http://www.olpcnews.com/images/walter-bender-president.jpg
 
 
 
Walter Bender is the founder and executive director of Sugar Labs,
 
whose mission is to produce, distribute, and support the use of the
 
free software Sugar learning platform. Bender is past-president for
 
software and content development of One Laptop per Child, a
 
not-for-profit association that has put free-software education tools
 
into the hands of more than one-million children worldwide. Before
 
taking his leave of absence from MIT,
 
Bender was executive director of the MIT Media Laboratory, where he
 
encouraged the use of the GPL.
 
 
 
 
 
http://lquilter.net/images/LQ-2007-3in.jpg
 
 
 
Laura Quilter is a 5-year information law attorney, a 15-year librarian, and a 20-year geek.  Most recently she has become a parent, and is splitting her time between coding the infant with language, writing about copyright, teaching about intellectual freedom, and geeking about. She's a wikipedia administrator and administers several wordpress blogs and multiple mediawiki installs.
 
 
 
 
 
http://mobile.mit.edu/files/media/images/pic_100px_steve.png
 
 
 
Steve Pomeroy is a mobile telecommunications hacker and free software developer, exploring the new ways that we will be communicating with one another. He studied computer language construction and computer security at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He currently works at the MIT Mobile Experience Lab, designing and developing future interactions with mobile communication devices. 
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.collabora.co.uk/blog/img/dilinger.jpg
 
 
 
Andres Salomon is a Debian developer who focuses (these days) on hardware drivers and systems/kernel level work.  He's currently employed by Collabora Ltd, where he works on phone stacks.  In his free time, he likes to play with music, bees, and haskell.
 
 
 
== Campaign Action Brainstorming ==
 
 
 
Holmes can bottom-line the second and Matt could do the first.  Or... Matt could substitute a Windows7sins related campaign or anything, really.
 
 
 
=== For people with computers ===
 
Defectivebydesign tagging on the PS3 slim and Xbox Elite
 
 
 
* Pass people the link that describes DbD tagging / negative reviews.
 
* They search for the product
 
* They start tagging.
 
 
 
=== For everybody ===
 
 
 
Videographer Dana Moser will be roving the crowd during lunch and afternoon breaks asking a couple simple questions and making videos of your responses. 
 
  
Questions:
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* "What do you do with free software?"
 
* "Why is it important to you?"
 
* "Why do you like free software?"
 
 
 
= 2008 =
 
 
 
[[Software Freedom Day in Boston 2008]]
 
 
 
[[Category:Events]]
 

Latest revision as of 18:16, 21 November 2019

Cambridge, MA

Topic: Software Freedom Day

Presenter: Various

Organizer: LibrePlanet Boston

Date: Saturday, September 20 2014 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Location: Industry Lab

288 Norfolk Street, Cambridge, MA

Description:

Full day of celebrating, sharing and learning about free software. See details here:

Announcement on Meetup.com

Email Will Rico if you'd like to give a lightning talk. We'd love to hear from you!

Previous Years