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The LibrePlanet Conference will be held March 19th-21st in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Harvard University Science Center.
 
The LibrePlanet Conference will be held March 19th-21st in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Harvard University Science Center.
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* Learn about practical steps in free software advocacy.
 
* Learn about practical steps in free software advocacy.
  
This year we'll also be hosting a [[LibrePlanet2010/GNUHackersMeeting|GNU Hackers Meeting]] and a track featuring presentations from women in free software, see [http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Womenscaucus/index 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.  
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This year we'll also be hosting a [[LibrePlanet2010/GNUHackersMeeting|GNU Hackers Meeting]] and a [[http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Womenscaucus/index increasing women's participation in free software|track featuring presentations from women in free software]]. Plus we will have an address from the GNU project founder and FSF Board president Richard M. Stallman.  
  
If you would like to propose a workshop, presentation or lighting talk about a free software project you are involed in we will be accepting proposals until January 31st. Please add your proposal under Workshops and Presentations below as well as sending mail to membership@fsf.org.
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We have space for only 250 attendees, so please register soon to secure your place! **[http://fsf.org/join|FSF associate members] attend for free** with non-members paying $60 -- so why not become a member?
  
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.
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Everyone who attends will also receive 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.
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## Conference information
  
== Event schedule ==
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* [[LibrePlanet2010/Schedule|Schedule]]
 
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* **[[LibrePlanet2010/Attendees|Attendees]]**
Thursday, March 18th (Evening) -- Informal dinner and drinks among the
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* [https://my.fsf.org/payment/libre_planet Payment for non-members]
people in town so far, and an initial introduction for GNU maintainers
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* [[LibrePlanet2010/Communication|Microblogging and IRC chat]]
and developers attending the GNU Hackers Meeting.
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* [[LibrePlanet2010/Directions|How to get to LibrePlanet 2010]]
 
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* [[LibrePlanet2010/PublicTransit|Public Transit to the conference]]
Friday, March 19th -- Hands-on hacking, bug-squashing, and documentation
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* [[LibrePlanet2010/Accomodation|Where to stay? Hotels and hostel information]]
work on projects which will be announced in advance (please bring a
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* [[LibrePlanet2010/RoomSharing|Room sharing]]
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
 
 
 
 
 
'''([http://groups.fsf.org/index.php?title=LibrePlanet2010&action=edit&section=2 RSVP by adding your name here]. Ideally, create a user page for yourself using the [[Template:User|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)
 
# [[User:johns|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)
 
# [http://pobox.com/~dclark Danny Clark] ([[User:dclark]]) ([http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=People%27s%20Republic%20of%20Cambridge Cambridge, MA])
 
# Bulent Basaran (bulent at member.fsf.org)
 
# [[User:candrews|Craig Andrews]]
 
# [http://jasonwoof.com/ Jason Woofenden] (Cambridge, MA)
 
# Steve Revilak (Arlington, MA)
 
# Christine Spang (Cambridge, MA)
 
# Clara Raubertas (Cambridge, MA)
 
# Felipe Sanches (São Paulo, SP - Brazil) -- GNU [http://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg LibreDWG] mantainer; [http://inkscape.org/ 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)
 
# [[User:Qubit|Robinson Tryon]] (VT)
 
# Bob Vogel (East Lyme, CT)
 
# [[User:teddks|Ted Smith]] (DC)
 
# Laura Sheys (DC)
 
# [[User:pitanga | Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva]] (São Paulo, Brazil) -- GNU [http://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg LibreDWG] maintainer
 
# [[User:sdubois|Steven DuBois]] (Fairhaven, MA)
 
# [http://bluesock.org/~willg/ Will Kahn-Greene] (Chelmsford, MA) -- [http://getmiro.com/ 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)
 
# [[User:Josh|Joshua Gay]]
 
# Sarah Adelaida McIntire (Amherst, Ma)
 
# [[User:Rejon|Jon Phillips]] (SF/Beijing) -- http://status.net
 
# Dennis Kibbe [[User:dennisk]] (Phoenix, AZ)
 
# [[User:rek2|Chris Fernandez]] (Boston, Ma) -- http://binaryfreedom.info -- http://cfernandez.binaryfreedom.info
 
# Karl Fogel (New York, NY) -- http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel
 
# Arthur Torrey [[User:Gooserid]] (North Billerica, MA)
 
# Giuseppe Scrivano (GNU maintainer)
 
# [[User:jwe|John W. Eaton]] (GNU Octave maintainer)
 
# [http://tieguy.org Luis Villa] (San Francisco) -- IAAL
 
# Kurt B. Kaiser (Wolfeboro, NH)
 
# [http://semanticlifescience.wordpress.com/ Konstantinos (Ntino) Krampis] (Rockville,MD)
 
# Matthew Craig (Rye, NH)
 
# [http://blogs.gnome.org/marina Marina Zhurakhinskaya] (Cambridge, MA) - GNOME Shell developer
 
# Hannah Wallach (Amherst, MA) - Debian Women, GNOME WSOP 
 
# Karen Sandler (NY) - Software Freedom Law Center 
 
# Leslie Hawthorn - Google
 
# [http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Walter Bender] (MA)
 
# William Fielder (Rock Hall, MD)
 
# Jiaxing Zhang (Boston, MA)
 
# [[User:rh|Rich Hilliard]] ([http://progfree.org League for Programming Freedom])
 
# Scott Walck (Annville, PA)
 
# David Sugar (GNU Maintainer)
 
# [http://ebb.org/bkuhn Bradley M. Kuhn]
 
# Ward Vandewege (Somerville, MA)
 
# Eric Blossom (GNU Radio Maintainer)
 
# Anand Babu Periasamy ([http://www.unlocksmith.org GNU Maintainer, FSF-India Board Member])
 
# [[User:mcornick|Mark Cornick]] (Greenbelt, MD)
 
# [[User:Marlyn | Marlyn Tadros]] - New England Institute of Art (Brookline, MA)
 
# Stephen Rudolfi - New England Institute of Art (Brookline, MA)
 
# Jessica Waldrip - New England Institute of Art (Brookline, MA)
 
# [[User:SelenaDe | Selena Deckelmann]], (Portland, OR)
 
# [http://www.openoffice.org/lspintro.html Louis Suarez-Potts] Toronto
 
# [http://mairin.wordpress.com Máirín Duffy] (Somerville, MA) - Red Hat / Fedora Interaction Designer
 
# Rita Nagel (Team member of free software project wograld)
 
# Arthur Nagel (Linux user for Engineering Resolutions)
 
# Lori Nagel (Creator of free software game project wograld on sourceforge)
 
# Alex Claffey (Lead developer of free software game wograld)
 
# David Lamy (Logic Programming Research)
 
# Ben Weissmann (Watertown, MA)
 
# [[User:Kormoc|Rob Smith]] (Seattle, WA)
 
# [[User:kinnerc|Doc Kinne]] - Astronomical Technologist, [http://www.aavso.org AAVSO] (Somerville, MA)
 
# Matt Kraai (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
==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. [http://www.fsf.org/jf Join] or [https://my.fsf.org/payment/libre_planet just pay for the conference].
 
 
 
== Communicating with other conference-goers ==
 
 
 
Follow conference microblogging with the [http://identi.ca/group/libreplanet !libreplanet group] at http://identi.ca.
 
 
 
Or join us in #libreplanet on the Freenode IRC network. 
 
 
 
== Directions ==
 
 
 
We're back in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Science_Center 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 [http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~scdiroff/Science_Center_2.jpg 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 [http://www.cambridgeinns.com/irving/ like The Irving.]
 
 
 
* [http://www.yelp.com/biz/harvard-square-hotel-cambridge Harvard Square Hotel] is very close and economical for a Harvard Square hotel.  ($179 plus tax of 12.45% per night)
 
 
 
* [http://www.yelp.com/biz/charles-hotel-cambridge The Charles Hotel] is even a smidge closer and has valet parking.
 
 
 
* Directory of local residents renting [http://www.airbnb.com/travel/boston/ma affordable rooms by the night.]
 
 
 
===Hostels===
 
These are about 5km from the conference venue, but have prices of $50 or less.
 
 
 
* [http://www.hostelworld.com/availability.php/HIBostonDowntown-Boston-1852 H.I. Boston Downtown]
 
* [http://www.hostelworld.com/availability.php/BerkeleyResidenceYWCA-Boston-7191 YMCA, Berkley Residence]
 
* [http://www.hostelworld.com/availability.php/YMCAofGreaterBoston-Boston-1801 YMCA of Greater Boston]
 
 
 
Other hostels a little further out can be found at [http://www.hostelworld.com 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:Jself|user]] page.
 
 
 
==Workshops and Presentations==
 
 
 
We will be accepting presentation proposals until January 31st. Please add your presentation title here and send a short descriptive text to membership@fsf.org.
 
 
 
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!
 
 
 
[http://www.fsf.org/associate/fsf-privacy-key.html FSF Privacy Key] Updating
 
 
 
Three ideas for [http://autonomo.us autonomo.us related] hacking ( [[User:Bkuhn|Bkuhn]] 23:34, 20 January 2010 (UTC) ):
 
* a truly distributed url shortener.  It's a simple idea.  CouchDB backend.  each site replicates the other.  So, if you have foo.ba and bar.ba, you can make foo.ba/SHORT1, which will also be bar.ba/foo.ba/SHORT1, which won't be the same as bar.ba/SHORT1.  In other words, URLs are all short and unique, but they can be verified and recovered from another site.
 
* A yocto-reader backend.  (yocto-reader is a Google Reader clone.  The front-end GUI is basically done but it has no backend.)
 
* Use status.net notices as a blog commentor system.  A blog post links to a conversation on identica, which are the comments for that blog post.  What needs writing is javascript to embed the identica posts onto the blog site so that it's semi-seamless.
 
 
 
If you are interested in hacking on these things, contact bkuhn or the autonomous list.
 
 
 
== 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:
 
[http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Talk:Project_Suggestion_for_an_Open_Machine_%28LP09%29 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
 

Revision as of 13:23, 8 February 2010


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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 [increasing women's participation in free software|track featuring presentations from women 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! **associate members attend for free** with non-members paying $60 -- so why not become a member?

Everyone who attends will also receive a LibrePlanet 2010 t-shirt.

    1. Conference information