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Revision as of 16:19, 8 September 2009
2009
The Free Software Foundation will be hosting another Software Freedom Day event on September 19, 2009 at:
Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02111
Located in Boston's Chinatown, easily accessible to the Orange and Green T Lines
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 Women in Free Software Summit (Deborah) * 11:20 - 11:50 Walter Bender from Sugar Labs * 11:50 - 12:10 TBA * 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 on location for one of seven slots!) * 2:10 - 3:10 Workshops (concurrent) "Future Phone Freedom Workshop" Steve Pomeroy (Mobile Researcher at the MIT Mobile Experience Lab) 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
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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.
