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)
