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


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LibrePlanet 2009

Audio and slides are now available, and we invite your feedback on the page YourComments (LP09).

This is the page of the Libre Planet 2009 conference, held in Cambridge, MA on March 21st and 22nd, 2009.

On the 2nd day, there were three tracks: Free Network Services, High Priority Projects and LibrePlanet Activism Network. This was organised Open Space Event style. You can see what ended up happening here.

Press kit

If you're doing any publicity about the event, there is a press kit with high-res logos available.

Attending

FSF members attend for no charge. Non-members pay $60 to help us cover the costs of food and coffee, etc. You can pay online now.

Communicating with other conference-goers

Follow conference microblogging with the #lp09 tag and the !libreplanet group at http://identi.ca.

There is a mailing list -- am-meeting -- Associate Membership Meeting Mailing list -- to discuss room sharing and other issues related to the meeting, and the LibrePlanet discussion list for talk about the project as a whole.

Also join us in #libreplanet on the Freenode IRC network.

Who's coming

FSF Staff and Board

Accommodations

Here are some suggestions, but if you've found an even better deal -- come back and post it.

  • Harvard Square Hotel is very close and economical for a Harvard Square hotel. ($179 plus tax of 12.45% per night)

Hostels

These are about 5km from the conference venue, but have prices of $50 or less.

Other hostels a little further out can be found at HostelWorld.com.

Room Sharing with Other Attendees

If you have a hotel room (or an apartment in the area) and want to share with another attendee, please list yourself here.

  • Bradley M. Kuhn likely has a room to split in the Hampton Inn in East Cambridge for Fri, Sat and Sun nights. Find him on #libreplanet on freenode to coordinate.
  • Dennis Kibbe I've booked a private room at the YMCA on Huntington Ave. for Thursday and Friday, but don't have a place for Saturday. Anyone else staying at the Y?

Directions

The 2009 Members Meeting will be held in:

Harvard Science Center which is easily accessible from Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA. The red arrows will bring you in from either of the two northern exits from the Harvard Square T-stop.

http://static.fsf.org/fsforg/img/harvardsquaremapwitharrows.png

Parking suggestions and directions for getting to Harvard as a whole are available on Harvard's web site.

However, if you are driving to the Boston area, your best bet is probably to park in one place (like your hotel) and use public transportation to get around while you are here. Scroll down the page for more information on available public transportation.


Getting to Harvard Square via the MBTA (aka "The T")

  1. Subway: Take the Red Line to the Harvard Square Station, which is a short walk from the campus. You can map out the building's location using its street address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA or looking for it from Harvard Yard.
  2. Bus: Routes #66 (Allston), #71 (Watertown), #73 (Belmont), #68 (MIT East Campus), #69 (Lechmere), #72 (North Cambridge), #74 (Belmont), #76 (Belmont), #77 (Arlington), #78 (Arlmont), #86 (Somerville), #96 (Medford), and #1 (South Boston) all go to Harvard Square.

Airport Information

The closest airport is Boston Logan International Airport (BOS). From any airport terminal, look for signs for the Silver Line T stop. The Silver Line is a subway line that is actually a bus. Take the Silver Line to the South Station stop on the Red line. From there, follow the directions for the subway to Harvard.

Train Information

  1. Amtrak: The closest Amtrak train station is Boston South Station (BOS). If you arrive via train, follow signs to the MBTA or SUBWAY. South Station is also a stop on the T's Red Line. You can take an ALEWIFE train to the Harvard station.
  2. Commuter Rail: Boston's Commuter Rail comes from all directions from towns throughout Eastern Massachusetts. Some trains come into South Station (see above), and others come into North Station. The Commuter Rail North Station is a short, outside walk to the T's Green Line North Station. Exit the Commuter Rail station and follow signs for the Green Line. Take a Green Line train inbound to Park Street, which connects to the Red Line.

Bus Information

  1. Greyhound Bus: Greyhound buses bound for Boston will bring you to South Station. There is a Red Line subway stop at South Station. Take an inbound train (toward Alewife) to Harvard.
  2. Peter Pan: Peter Pan buses will also bring you to South Station.
  3. Chinatown Buses: There are Boston-bound buses from Chinatowns in Baltimore, Washington, New York and Philadelphia. They are usually substantially cheaper than Greyhound or Peter Pan. These buses will also bring you to South Station.

Event schedule

The full schedule is available here.

Saturday, March 21st

  • 9:30-5:30 -- Keynotes include: High Priority Free Software Projects; Freedom for Network Services; LibrePlanet Activism Network; Software Patents.
  • 6:00-9:00 -- Social Event: LibrePlanet Party!

The open conference schedule is on a separate page.

Sunday, March 22nd

Slides

Please add links to presentation materials here.

Other meet ups

OpenPGP Keysigning

It would be good to do one of these again. Let's plan having the keysigning during the break after Evan's talk, currently scheduled for 15:15-15:30

Thursday, March 19th: RMS Speech

RMS is giving a speech in Boston, 6:30pm to 8:00pm - see Copyright vs. Community: supporting artists while respecting freedom and society for full details. You can list yourself here if you are planning on attending:

Thursday, March 19th: After RMS speech

There will be some kind of pub trip after this. Let me (mattl) know if you're interested.

There will be vegetarians, and it will be in a bar.

Hardware Freedom

Thu night in Harvard Square - Charlie's Kitchen and Tanjore.

There will probably be an informal coreboot / people who do low-level hardware / software hacking gathering - Marc Jones, a leading coreboot developer, and Ward Vandewege, coreboot developer and FSF Sys Admin (who will not be in town for the main conference, hence the scheduling), will be in town; some current and former OLPC XO hackers may also be attending.

If you are interested in attending, or helping with some coreboot hacking around this time, please email sysadmin-volunteers@gnu.org with your availability (note we are happy to have people to just come and talk, you don't need to volunteer for us; but do note that the conversation will mostly be of a highly technical nature).

If you are not able to attend in person, please still email saying you would be interested in participating if we get some kind of remote call-in, for example via Muji, set up. (Note: sjoerd in #telepathy on freenode has offered to help us debug any Muji problems we run into - we prefer this to other solutions as Muji in the long term may fulfill our High Priority Free Software Projects list "Free software replacement for Skype" project - note "Muji" used to be called "Mingle".)

Feel free to list yourself here in addition to emailing sysadmin-volunteers@gnu.org:

  • User:dclark
  • User:ward
  • User:peabo here to learn; last time I did any BIOS hacking was for original IBM PC where the ROM was documented in a looseleaf binder and later some interfacing to the Phoenix BIOS.

Friday night, March 20th: Boston/Cambridge DentEvent

"Dent Events" are meetups of users of Identica and people interested in Free Network Services, open standards for social software, and general social media issues. We'll be having a dentevent at Tommy Doyle's, a pub on Harvard Square, at 7PM. Everyone coming to LP09 is welcome; look for Evan's Identi.ca T-shirt.

Friday night, March 20th: Pre-Conference Dinner

Interested in getting together with people on Friday night? List yourself here!

A lot of people seem to be interested but nobody is willing to declare a place and time. At 6:00 I'm going to just say that I'm showing up at 7:00 to whatever has the most votes. I will update the wiki to what that is at 6:00, but won't be checking it again after that.

I'm going to be at Fajitas and 'Ritas by Boston Commons at 7:00. I know I said I'd do the highest votes, but I don't have a car and TJ Scallyhwaggle's wasn't really easy to get to by T. Hope somebody else shows up, I'll be wearing a sandman T-Shirt, if that'll help identify me.

Votes

  • Chinatown: 0
  • Legal Seafood: 0
  • Bertucci's: 0
  • Mai Thai (Downtown Crossing) (Vegan): 0
  • Grasshopper (Allston) (Only Vegetarian/Vegan): 0
  • Otherside (Back Bay) (Vegan): 0
  • Bukowski (Back Bay) (Vegan): 0
  • Mary Chung's (Central) (Vegan): 0
  • Charlie's (Harvard) (Vegan): 0
  • TJ Scallywaggles (Vegan): 2
  • Fajitas and 'Ritas: 1
  • Fire and Ice: 0

Meat/Fish

  • User:Gooserid - prefer someplace fairly quiet, where conversation possible w/o screaming. Also prefer NON-vegetarian, low-carb friendly food options.
  • User:peabo
  • User:deborah - I've got a lot to do here, so people should plan dinner without me.
  • Colin Williams - Another option is Fajitas and 'Ritas. It's fairly laid back, easy to get to, and since you're constructing your food vegan/vegetarian is possible. Or we could try Fire and Ice, which has the same benefits. Regardless of where we eat, we also need to establish a time, 7 seems like a reasonable time to start dinner.

Vegetarian

  • Bradley M. Kuhn - I would prefer not to go to a bar. I am also vegetarian.

Vegan

Good vegan options include Mai Thai (Downtown Crossing), Grasshopper (Allston), Otherside (Back Bay), Bukowski (Back Bay), Mary Chung's (Central), Charlie's (Harvard), TJ Scallywaggles (Allston -- can't handle many people but tasty vegan pizza) or any of the Thai or Indian places in Harvard Square.

Otherside, Bukowski and Charlie's have a bar atmosphere.

Both Grasshopper and TJ Scallywaggles seem to be vegan/vegetarian only. I also noticed that TJ Scallywaggle's and Grasshopper don't really seem T-friendly, not sure these are viable options.

Not specified

  • User:dpatrick - I'm going to the DentEvent
  • User:ciaran, maybe
  • User:bjg
  • User:oliva, having dinner with my hosts tonight, see you tomorrow
  • Jason Stover
  • Ryan Bagueros - I get in Friday afternoon and, aside from a convenient visit with a client we have in Boston, I've got nothing else to do besides get geeky. I also prefer somewhere that allows for conversation but have no suggestions, being relatively unfamiliar with Boston.
  • Richard Fontana
  • Bridget Brimacombe

Ladies' meet-up?

I was wondering if any of the ladies who are attending would like to meet up either at lunchtime on Friday or right after the conference on Sunday? Ping me if you are interested User:deborah or freedeb on freenode, I'm usually in #libreplanet and #fsf

Travel and Ridesharing

Map by OpenStreetMap, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License.

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