LibrePlanet: Conference/2009/Speakers
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Jeremy Allison, (Samba and Google) is a computer programmer famous for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License. Other contributions include the early versions of the pwdump password cracking utility." (from Wikipedia)
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John W. Eaton, (GNU Octave) is the original author and primary maintainer of GNU Octave.
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Brian Gough, (GNU) is the founder of Network Theory Ltd, a publishing house for free software manuals. The money raised from sales of the books supports the development of more free software and documentation. He is also the maintainer of the GNU Scientific Library, a general-purpose numerical library that is widely used in scientific research.
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Mako Hill, (FSF Board, Debian)"I am a technologist, programmer and free software and free culture activist. I write software, books and articles and currently live in Cambridge, Massachusetts."
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Marc Jones,(Coreboot,) a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) that you find in most of today's computers. He'll be talking about "coreboot: A viable BIOS replacement" covering most aspects of the project and get into specifics about how the free software community can help. He has over 10 years of 0x86 BIOS experience and has been working with coreboot for a year and a half.
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Bradley Kuhn, (Software Freedom Law Center) From 2001 until 2005, he served as FSF's Executive Director, where he led FSF's GPL enforcement efforts, launched the Associate Member program, and authored the Affero GPL. In 2005, he left FSF to join the founding team of SFLC. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola College in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. He is also a director and president of the Software Freedom Conservancy, and a member of the [1] autonomo.us committee], which studies issues of software freedom as they relate to software as a service.
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Mike Linksvayer, (autonomo.us committee) joined Creative Commons as CTO in 2003. Previously he co-founded Bitzi. He has over ten years’ experience as an enterprise software, web, and multimedia developer and consultant and holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
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Alexandre Oliva serves on the board of the Free Software Foundation Latin America, and is a Compiler Engineer at Red Hat. He also spearheads the Linux Libre project which is dedicated to maintaining and publishing a 100% free linux kernel.
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Ciaran O'Riordan, (End Software Patents) has been a free software lobbyist to the European Union institutions since early 2003. From mid 2005 until now, O'Riordan has worked full-time in Brussels for Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). With FSFE he as continued his lobbying work as well as assisting the free software community's participation in policy processes such as those run by the EU (patents, copyright), by ISO (OOXML), and by FSF (GPLv3). He previously worked as a software developer.
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Henry Poole, (FSF board and autonomo.us committee) is an Internet Strategist, has three decades experience in information technology, and over ten years with online communities and commerce. Henry was the first technologist to setup a blog for a member of the US House of Representatives. He co-founded CivicActions LLC in the summer of 2004 to provide network-centric Free and Open Source technology solutions for organizations focused on transforming the world.
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Evan Prodromou, (autonomo.us committee) is a writer and programmer from San Francisco living in Montreal. He is also the founder and CEO of Control Yourself, Inc. which is responsible for the Laconica micro-blogging software used on the identi.ca site.
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Rob Savoye (Gnash) is a long-time GNU/Linux Hacker. He is the primary maintainer of is DejaGnu, the GNU regression testing framework. Current GNU projects in development are GnuAE, a design tool for alternate energy systems, TraceGUI, a user interface for Trace interters, and AbelMon, a power management system for off grid houses. He's been spending quite of bit of time recently on Gnash, (the GNU Flash player) a standalone Flash movie player for embedded devices that's also a Mozilla/Firefox plugin.
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Richard Stallman (FSF) Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system, GNU. Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), GNU Emacs, and various other GNU programs. Stallman currently serves as president of the Free Software Foundation.
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Mark Taylor, (CEO at Sirius) Mark Taylor is perhaps the UK's loudest advocate of Free Software. Best known for successful campaigns around the BBC's iPlayer, Becta and the UK education sector, and getting both the UK Government and main Opposition party to commit to a policy on Free Software. Mark is also the CEO of Sirius Corporation, the UK's flagship Free Software company.
