LibrePlanet:Conference/2013/Program

March 23rd-24th 2013 in Cambridge, MA

With some events on the evening of Friday the 22nd

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This schedule is subject to change as conference plans are finalized.

Friday, March 22

5:30 - 7:00 PM: Evening meet and greet at the FSF offices, 51 Franklin St., 5th floor, Boston, MA 02110

7:15 pm: Women in Free Software Networking Dinner:

Chau Chow City 83 Essex St (Parking on street) Boston, MA 02111 http://chauchowcity.com/

Contact Libby to RSVP!

This schedule is subject to change.

Saturday, March 23

8:15 - Registration opens. Breakfast.

9:00 - Opening Plenary: Karen Sandler: Idealism for Community Building, John Sullivan. Lecture Hall A

10:20 - Sessions

• Talk title TBD: Kat Walsh (D) Lecture Hall A

• Right to Repair: Alison Chaiken and Brian Hickey (E) Room 110

• Free Software and 3D Printing: Aeva Palecek (F) Lecture Hall D

10:20 - Saturday Hackathon Begins The hackathon will continue until the Saturday closing plenary.

11:30 - Lunch 1:00 - Sessions

• When Free Software Isn't (Practically) Better: Benjamin Mako Hill (D)

Lecture Hall D

• Expanding the Tent: Deb Nicholson, Jonathan Nadeau, Beth Lynn Eicher (E)

Lecture Hall A

• Free Software Communities and the Cloud: Dave Neary (F)

Room 110

2:20 - Sessions

• LibreOffice 4.0: the history: Italo Vignoli (D)

Room 110

• Outreach Program for Women: Lessons in Collaboration: Marina Zhurakhinskaya (E)

Lecture Hall D

• Title TBD: Chris Webber and Evan Prodromou (F) Lecture Hall A

3:40 - Sessions

• Demystifying Blender: Quick ways to get into 3D Graphics with free software: Bassam Kurdali (D)

Lecture Hall D

• Free software for a healthy democracy: Remy DeCausemaker and Paul Tagliamonte (E)

Lecture Hall A

• Licensing & compliance: a collective effort: Joshua Gay, Bradley Kuhn, Donald Robertson III (F)

Room 110

5:00 - Richard Stallman, Free Software Awards Ceremony

6:00 - Social Events

Sunday, March 24

8:15 - Breakfast

9:00 - Sessions

• IPython: tools for the entire lifecycle of research computing: Fernando Perez (D) Lecture Hall D

• Talk title TBD: Wendy Seltzer (E) Lecture Hall A

• LibreJS: Loic Duros (F) Room 110

9:00 - Sunday Hackathon Begins The hackathon will continue until the Sunday closing plenary.

10:20 - Sessions

• Intro to Free Software(D) Room 110

• Seeking impact with Free Culture projects: ginger coons (E) Lecture Hall A

• Debian and GNU: Stefano Zacchiroli (F) Lecture Hall D

11:30 - Lunch

1:00 - Sessions

• The Trisquel project, pushing together to the next level. Ruben Rodriguez (D) Lecture Hall D

• Global communities building free Health IT platforms. Michael Downey and Hamish Fraser (E) Lecture Hall A

• Replicant: addressing Android freedom issues: Denis Carikli (F) Room 110

2:20 - Sessions

• Title TBD: Kira (D) Room 110

• Embracing Secure Boot and Rejecting Restricted Boot: Matthew Garrett (E) Lecture Hall D

• Passwords suck, but centralized proprietary services are not the answer: Francois Marier (F) Lecture Hall A

3:40 - Sessions

• Freedom to Organize Online: The CiviCRM Story (So Far). Donald Lobo and Tim Otten (D) Lecture Hall A

• Servers: The Libre Frontier. Ward, Nico, Martin (E) Lecture Hall D

• 5:00 - Closing Plenary: Leslie Hawthorn: Negotiation Theory for Geeks Lecture Hall A

• 9:00 - 5:00 Alternate Track: Upstream University training (day-long training, space is limited, register in advance)

Liberation/Install parties

• Replicant
• Coreboot