LibrePlanet:Conference/2009/Schedule

Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, MA, USA - Saturday, March 21st and Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

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LibrePlanet 2009Schedule

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Presentations, lightning talks and other events taking place during the LibrePlanet 2009 conference

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Event Schedule

Saturday, March 21st

This is an Open Space style day. For a fully detailed schedule see here.

• 9:30-5:30 -- Keynotes include talks in three tracks:
  • Track 1: High Priority Free Software Projects;
  • Track 2: Freedom for Network Services;
  • Track 3: LibrePlanet Activism Network; Software Patents.
• 6:00-9:00 -- Social Event: LibrePlanet Party! - see Social Events.

Talks in Lecture Hall A (including recordings/slides)

• 10:00 - 10:10 Welcome -- Peter Brown, FSF executive director
• 10:10 - 10:20 Un-conference Orientation -- Rob Myers and Matt Lee
• 10:20 - 11:20 Jeremy Allison, The Elephant in the Room: Microsoft and Free Software (Slides/Notes)
• 11:20 - 12:00 Mako Hill, Cloud Computing/Software as a Service - defining Freedom for Network Services (Slides/Notes)
• 12:00 - 12:30 Alexandre Oliva, Freeing the kernel and the Linux Libre project (Slides/Notes)
• 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
• 13:30 - 14:30 Panel Update: Toward a LibrePlanet -- Free Software Activism worldwide (Brian Gough, Ryan Bagueros, Bradley Kuhn) (Slides/Notes)
• 14:30 - 15:15 Evan Prodromou, Identi.ca and engineering for free network services (Slides/Notes)
• 15:15 - 15:30 Break
• 15:30 - 16:15 Rob Savoye, Gnash and Cygnal project. (Slides/Notes)
• 16:15 - 16:45 Ciaran O'Riordan, End Software Patents (Slides/Notes)
• 16:45 - 17:30 Richard M. Stallman, Hardware for Free Software and the presentation ceremony of the Free Software Awards

Rooms 109 and 112

• Floss Manuals book sprint
  

This will be a working conference, so please bring a laptop. Participation is not limited to coders and activists; we'll also need folks who can do visual design, write and edit text, and are willing to test-drive stuff or percolate ideas. Basically, everyone!

Social events

• Redline Pub in Harvard Square

Saturday 18:00 - 21:00 -- FSF Social, at Redline pub in Harvard Square - See Social Events.

Sunday, March 22nd

• 9:30-10:00 -- Welcome and Breakfast
• 10:00-11:00 -- Routing for the day
• 11:00-5:00 -- Lunch and OpenConference, feel free to edit the wiki with stuff you are thinking of doing.
• 5:30 -- End of Unconference (with special musical guest, Kat Walsh)

Social events

• Social Events - starting March 19th