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September 20th, 2008 from 10am until 4pm

Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02111

Located in Boston's Chinatown, easily accessible to the Orange and Green T Lines

There is no admission charge for the event, and food and drinks will be served.

Schedule for the Day

  • 10:00 - 10:30 Registration, with coffee and bagels, five player Frozen Bubble will be available all day
  • 10:30 - 11:00 Keynote -- Guerilla Freedom: How I freed public domain books, government archives, and databases -- and how you can too. Aaron Swartz of Watchdog.net

11:00 - 11:50 — Workshop session 1

12:00 - 12:50 — Workshop session 2

1:00 - 2:00 — Lunch

  • 2:00 - 3:00 "Freedom Fry -- Happy Birthday to GNU" and what's going on at the FSF?
  • 3:00 - 3:40 Lightning Talks (Sign up at the event with Matt Lee)
  • 3:40 - 4:00 Announcements

Please RSVP to membership@fsf.org.

Lightning Talks

  1. Cameron Freer / vdash - formal math commons
  2. Martin Owens / LoCo - Website
  3. Mike Cardoza / Overdrive @ libraries
  4. Donald Robertson (FSF Copyright Administrator) / Free Software @ law school
  5. Nate Aune / ClueMapper slides available on slideshare.net
  6. Richard M. Stalman (RMS) / Various Topics
  7. Mako Hill / Revealing Errors
  8. Chris Scmidt / MAPS.
  9. Deb N (FSF Membership) / #GLOFS, aka Glorious Ladies of Free Software