LibrePlanet: Conference/2010
The LibrePlanet Conference will be held March 19th-21st in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Harvard University Science Center.
Why you should attend:
- Learn about the latest developments with the GNU operating system
- Workshops, presentations and lightning talks from key free software projects
- Participate in group hacking projects or campaign discussions -- bring your laptop
- Learn about practical steps in free software advocacy.
This year we'll also be hosting a GNU Hackers Meeting and a track featuring presentations from women in free software, see increasing women's participation in free software. Plus we will have an address from the GNU project founder and FSF Board president Richard M. Stallman.
We have space for only 250 attendees, so please register soon to secure your place! FSF members attend for free with non-members paying $60 -- so why not become a member? Everyone who attends receives a LibrePlanet 2010 t-shirt.
LibrePlanet aims to deliver a conference that you the attendees want. If you've got something you want to hack on or a workshop you'd like to see or a presentation you would like to give, let us know! You can add your ideas to this wiki page, visit us in #libreplanet on freenode or email us at membership@fsf.org with your proposal.
Contents
Event schedule
Thursday, March 18th (Evening) -- Informal dinner and drinks among the people in town so far, and an initial introduction for GNU maintainers and developers attending the GNU Hackers Meeting.
Friday, March 19th -- Hands-on hacking, bug-squashing, and documentation work on projects which will be announced in advance (please bring a laptop), simultaneous with a full day of GNU Hackers Meeting events and workshops covering free software advocacy
Saturday, March 20th -- Address by RMS, and keynotes from other free software and GNU speakers with presentations on key free software projects
Saturday Evening, March 20th -- The LibrePlanet social
Sunday, March 21st -- Lightning talks and presentations by attendees covering free software projects, practical steps in advocacy and diversity, and a GNU track with maintainers presenting on both their own projects and ideas for improving GNU overall
Who's coming
(RSVP by adding your name here. Ideally, create a user page for yourself using the template.)
Attendees
If you'd rather not be listed here, please RSVP by sending an email to membership@fsf.org instead, thanks!
- Bob Call User:Eight190 (Tyngsborough, MA)
- Deborah Nicholson User:deborah (Boston, MA)
- Richard Stallman
- Peter Brown (Boston, MA)
- Mako Hill (Somerville, MA)
- John Sullivan
- Matt Lee (Boston, MA)
- Brett Smith (Somerville, MA)
- Kelly Hopkins User:thesoprano (Boston, MA)
- Jasimin Huang (Boston, MA)
- Donald Robertson (Watertown, MA)
- Peter Olson (Watertown, MA)
- Danny Clark (User:dclark) (Cambridge, MA)
- Bulent Basaran (bulent at member.fsf.org)
- Craig Andrews
- Jason Woofenden (Cambridge, MA)
- Steve Revilak (Arlington, MA)
- Christine Spang (Cambridge, MA)
- Clara Raubertas (Cambridge, MA)
- Felipe Sanches (São Paulo, SP - Brazil) -- GNU LibreDWG mantainer; Inkscape developer
- Chong Yidong (New Haven, CT) -- GNU Emacs maintainer
- Andrew Lewman
- Jason Self User:Jself (Seattle, WA)
- Gregory Maxwell (Washington DC)
- Kat Walsh (Washington DC)
- Robinson Tryon (VT)
- Bob Vogel (East Lyme, CT)
- Ted Smith (DC)
- Laura Sheys (DC)
- Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva (São Paulo, Brazil) -- GNU LibreDWG maintainer
- Steven DuBois (Fairhaven, MA)
- Will Kahn-Greene (Chelmsford, MA) -- Miro developer
- John Gilmore -- GNU
- Brian Gough (GNU maintainer)
- Christopher Webber (Chicago, IL) -- Creative Commons programmer
- Carol Smith (San Francisco, CA)
- Asheesh Laroia (probably) (former CC programmer; working on openhatch.org) (Philadelphia, PA)
- Joshua Gay
Payment for non-members
The conference is free for members, but costs $60 for non-members. Membership is $120 for the year -- just $60 for students. Join or just pay for the conference.
Communicating with other conference-goers
Follow conference microblogging with the !libreplanet group at http://identi.ca.
Or join us in #libreplanet on the Freenode IRC network.
Directions
We're back in the 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")
- 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.
- 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.
Accommodations
Here are some suggestions, but if you've found an even better deal -- please post it!
- Stay at a cute New England B'n'B like The Irving.
- Harvard Square Hotel is very close and economical for a Harvard Square hotel. ($179 plus tax of 12.45% per night)
- The Charles Hotel is even a smidge closer and has valet parking.
- Directory of local residents renting affordable rooms by the 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
Please say if you're coming for all three days or which days you're coming if you are only joining us for part of the time.
Bulent Basaran coming for three days.
Jason Self User:Jself coming for all three days and is open to sharing for all or just some of the days. Contact info on my user page.
Workshops and Presentations
Ideas for workshops and presentations you would like to deliver
Workshop about how non-profits can solely use free software to promote freedom and save money for their mission. Tor Project or the FSF could talk about how they do this successfully.
or
Ideas for workshops and presentations you would like LibrePlanet to have organized
Hackday
Ideas for Friday's hackday should go here, thanks!
Privacy Key Updating
Free and Open Machine
This should be an on going project to suggest congenial manufacturers, support people starting out, and to provide a path to easy configuration and good performance. Personally, I think FSF should be able to sell a fully configured machine off the shelf.
We should identify components for a machine that would best free us. Last year there was this suggestion: Open Machine
Looking for consensus and expert opinion on the following:
- CPU
- Motherboard and BIOS (someone from CoreBoot interested ?)
- Drives
- Graphics
- Wireless
- Audio components
- Distributions
Edit this page to include your name and email address with your ideas or contact vogelrl at members dot fsf dot org.
Manufacturer participation appreciated.
Sunday's Tracks
Ideas for tracks here
Increasing women's participation in free software
