LibrePlanet: Conference/2009

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

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LibrePlanet 2009

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

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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.

• FSF adds speakers for LibrePlanet conference on GNU/Linux: March 21st-22nd
• FSF announces annual meeting March 21-22: The LibrePlanet 2009 conference

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

• Attendees
• Speakers

FSF Staff and Board

• Richard Stallman
• Peter Brown (Boston, MA)
• Hal Abelson
• Gerry Sussman
• Henry Poole (CA)
• Mako Hill (Somerville, MA)
• Geoffrey Knauth
• 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)
• Deborah Nicholson User:deborah (Boston, MA)
• Ciaran O'Riordan

Accommodations

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

• Save 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.

• H.I. Boston Downtown
• YMCA, Berkley Residence
• YMCA of Greater Boston

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?

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

• 9:30-5:30 -- Keynote followed by Open Space-style conference. See Sunday's results here

Slides

Please add links to presentation materials here.

• Ciaran O'Riordan: End Software Patents, speakers notes

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

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