LibrePlanet:Conference/2015/Lightning Talks

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10:55 - 12:35 on Saturday, 3/21 | Room 32-144 | Facilitator: Donald Robertson

Lightning talks are five-minute presentations given by conference attendees on free software topics they're passionate about.

If you would like to give a talk, please add a title, short description and (optionally) your name to the time slot you'd like below. You'll also be able to sign up at the conference, if there are spots remaining.

Please make sure your lightning talks are about free software-related issues and projects, and don't advocate proprietary software or Services as a Software Substitute (SaaSS). There are many conferences focused on "open source," but we're proud that people come to LibrePlanet to be part of the free software movement. In your presentations, please use the term "free software" rather than "open source" to help us keep LibrePlanet focused on computer user freedom as an ethical social movement. We appreciate it, and your audience will too.

To ensure a conference that's safe and fun for everyone, we take our anti-harassment policy very seriously. We'd appreciate it if you looked it over before planning your presentation.

You're welcome to bring a slide deck, as long as it works without requiring proprietary software. We recommend PDF or the .odp format readable by LibreOffice Impress. If you are using slides, please bring them to the lightning talk facilitator before you plan to talk, to save time during the presentations. The lightning talks won't be streamed. If you'd like to suggest a topic, but not necessarily give a talk, you're welcome to make a suggestion on the Discussion area for this page.

Our tips for an awesome lightning talk:

• Be as selective as possible with what you cover. (In our experience, a 5-minute talk cannot cover what a 15-minute talk covers and still be effective.)
• Use a large, reader-friendly font for all your slides.
• Keep your number of slides low and take care not to visually overload them.

Sign up!

To sign up, please sign in to this wiki or make an account with the links in the upper right of this Web page, then click Edit and add you talk title and your name (optional) to an unclaimed time slot.

Session 1: 10:55 - 11:40

• 10:55 - 11:10: Introductions, giving slides to facilitator

• Talk 1 title: gniibe distributed Hanoi protocol (GDHP)
  • Speaker name: Niibe Yutaka
  • Short description: GDHP is a protocol among three persons. This can be an ice breaker in free software gatherings. It can be an alternative to key signing party of OpenPGP (for non-GPG users). We played GDHP in mini-Debian conf in Beijing, LinuxTag in Karlsrue, GNU/Linux Conference in Tokyo, etc., but I forgot exporting it to U.S. Let's play GDHP in Boston!

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• Talk 5 title: ProteanOS: Liberating Embedded Systems
  • Speaker name: Patrick "P. J." McDermott (Libiquity)
  • Short description: ProteanOS is a fully-free BusyBox/Linux-libre distribution configurable for a wide variety of embedded applications. In this talk, the lead developer of ProteanOS will introduce the project, describe its status, and discuss its goals.

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Session 2: 11:50 - 12:35

• Talk 1 title: Running cryptoparties with free software
  • Speaker name: Steve Revilak
  • Short description: Massachusetts Pirate Party Quartermaster Steve Revilak will talk about the group's initiative to host one cryptoparty a month, the renewed interest in secure and private digital communications, and the important role free software plays in making this possible.

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• Talk 5 title:Increasing Access to Justice with BuildaCase: A Free & Easy Evidence Collection App
  • Speaker name: Jacinta S. Ritchie
  • Short description: Proposed marriage of computer science, law, and public safety to create a free and easy to use evidence collection app. Intended areas of advancement include specialized applications for reporting (1) rape, sexual violence, and domestic violence, (2) sources of environmental contamination, and (3) basic civil tort claims. This free and easy to use evidence collection app has the potential to greatly increase access to justice while also taking advantage of technology to support and improve the legal process.

• Talk 6 title: Hacking the free/libre/open economy with Snowdrift.coop
  • Speaker name: Aaron Wolf
  • Short description: Brief description of the Snowdrift.coop vision and status. Our ambitious platform aims to solve the fundamental public-goods dilemmas facing software and cultural freedom. If everyone always gets the results, how can we get everyone to chip in to get the work done in the first place? Getting our solution in place means facing the dilemmas ourselves for now.

• 12:25 - 12:35: Wrap up

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