LibrePlanet: Conference/2009/Schedule
Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, MA, USA - Saturday, March 21st and Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
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Presentations, lightning talks and other events taking place during the LibrePlanet 2009 conference
Contents
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 Open Conference, 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