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Revision as of 09:43, 4 March 2013
Contents
- 1 Plenary Speakers
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2 Presenters
- 2.1 Denis Carikli, Replicant
- 2.2 Nico Cesar, Free Software Foundation
- 2.3 Alison Chaiken, http://she-devel.com
- 2.4 ginger coons, Libre Graphics magazine
- 2.5 Loic Dachary, Upstream University
- 2.6 Remy DeCausemaker, RIT Lab for Technological Literacy
- 2.7 Loic Duros, GNU LibreJS
- 2.8 Beth Lynn Eicher, Computer Reach
- 2.9 Matthew Garrett
- 2.10 Joshua Gay, Free Software Foundation
- 2.11 Benjamin Mako Hill
- 2.12 Bradley Kuhn
- 2.13 Bassam Kurdali, Blender
- 2.14 Kӱra, Free Software Foundation
- 2.15 Donald Lobo, CiviCRM
- 2.16 Francois Marier, Mozilla
- 2.17 Deb Nicholson, Open Invention Network
- 2.18 Tim Otten, CiviCRM
- 2.19 Aeva Palacek, Lulzbot
- 2.20 Evan Prodromou, StatusNet
- 2.21 Libby Reinish, Free Software Foundation
- 2.22 Donald Robertson, III, Free Software Foundation
- 2.23 Rubén Rodriguez, Trisquel
- 2.24 Zak Rogoff, Free Software Foundation
- 2.25 Wendy Seltzer, W3C
- 2.26 Paul Tagliamonte, Sunlight Foundation
- 2.27 Italo Vignoli, The Document Foundation
- 2.28 Kat Walsh, Creative Commons
- 2.29 Christopher Webber, GNU MediaGoblin
- 2.30 Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian
- 2.31 Marina Zhurakhinskaya, Outreach Program for Women in GNOME
Plenary Speakers
Leslie Hawthorn, Red Hat
Karen Sandler, GNOME Foundation
Karen M. Sandler is the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. She is known for her advocacy for free software, particularly for software safety on medical devices. Prior to joining GNOME, she was General Counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center. Karen continues to do pro bono legal work with SFLC and serves as an officer of the Software Freedom Conservancy. She is also pro bono General Counsel of QuestionCopyright.org and an advisor to the Ada Initiative. Before joining SFLC, Karen worked as an associate in the corporate departments of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York and Clifford Chance in New York and London. Karen received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2000, where she was a James Kent Scholar and co-founder of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. Karen received her bachelors degree in engineering from The Cooper Union. She is a recipient of the O'Reilly Open Source Award.
Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation
Richard is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement Richard also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.
Since the mid-1990s, Richard has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Richard developed a number of widely used software components of GNU, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system.
Richard pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.
Richard graduated from Harvard in 1974 with a BA in physics. During his college years, he also worked as a staff hacker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, learning operating system development by doing it. He wrote the first extensible Emacs text editor there in 1975. He also developed the AI technique of dependency-directed backtracking, also known as truth maintenance. In January 1984 he resigned from MIT to start the GNU project.
John Sullivan, Free Software Foundation
John started working with GNU Press and the Free Software Foundation in 2003 and then became the FSF's first Campaigns Manager, working on outreach efforts like Defective by Design, BadVista, and PlayOgg. In 2011, John became the Executive Director after four years as Manager of Operations.
His background is mainly in the humanities, with an MFA in Writing and Poetics and a BA in Philosophy, but he has been spending too much time with computers and online communities since the days of the Commodore 64. He's become a dedicated GNU Emacs user after first trying it around 1996, and contributes code to several of its extensions.
Prior to the FSF, John worked as a college debate team instructor for both Harvard and Michigan State University.
Presenters
Denis Carikli, Replicant
Nico Cesar, Free Software Foundation
Alison Chaiken, http://she-devel.com
ginger coons, Libre Graphics magazine
Loic Dachary, Upstream University
Loic Dachary has been involved with the Free Software Movement since 1987, when he started distributing GNU tapes to the general public in France. In 2012 he founded Upstream University, a non-profit with the goal of teaching developers how to contribute easily and efficiently. Dachary volunteers as a developer for April, a grassroots organization promoting Free Software. He maintains April's OpenStack cluster and organizes contributions with agile methods. As President of FSF France, he also provides technical and legal resources to French Free Software developers. His day job is to use and contribute to ceph within OpenStack.
Remy DeCausemaker, RIT Lab for Technological Literacy
Loic Duros, GNU LibreJS
Beth Lynn Eicher, Computer Reach
Matthew Garrett
Joshua Gay, Free Software Foundation
Joshua works with Donald in our licensing and compliance team, and has twice previously worked with the FSF as a campaigns manager. He is a programmer and activist whose interests revolve around technology, government, education, and computer user-freedom.
Benjamin Mako Hill
Bradley Kuhn
Bassam Kurdali, Blender
Bassam is a 3D animator/filmmaker whose 2006 short, Elephants Dream, was the first ‘open movie’. It established the viability of libre tools in a production environment and set precedent by offering its source data under a permissive license for learning, remixing and re-use. His character, ManCandy, began as an easily animatable test bed for rigging experiments. Multiple iterations have been released to the public, and Bassam demonstrates him in the animated tutorial video + short, The ManCandy FAQ. Under the sign of the urchin, Bassam is continuing to pursue a model of production that invests in commonwealth. He teaches, writes and lectures around the world on open production and free software technique. Raised in Damascus, Bassam trained in the United States as an electrical and software engineer.
Kӱra, Free Software Foundation
Kira is on the campaigns team working primarily on Defective by Design. Kira is a student at Hampshire College concentrating on the intersection of feminism with free software and free culture. They view the importance of free software through a lens of social justice as a way to work against ableism, racism, classism, and (hetero/cis)sexism. Kira also serves on Students for Free Culture's Board of Directors as their webmaster and technology director.
Donald Lobo, CiviCRM
Francois Marier, Mozilla
Francois is a software engineer on the Mozilla Identity team where he fights for the free Web by building alternatives to centralized proprietary silos. A long time Debian developer, Francois contributes to several free software projects. He is also a licensing volunteer for the FSF and leads the development of Libravatar.org . You can follow him on Identi.ca (@fmarier) or on his ikiwiki blog: http://feeding.cloud.geek.NZ .
Deb Nicholson, Open Invention Network
Deb Nicholson works at the intersection of technology and social justice. She is the Community Outreach Director at the Open Invention Network and the Community Manager at Media Goblin. She also serves on the board at Open Hatch, a non-profit dedicated to matching prospective free software contributors with communities, tools and education and is an Advisor to The Ada Initiative, an organization supporting women in open technology and culture. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tim Otten, CiviCRM
Aeva Palacek, Lulzbot
Evan Prodromou, StatusNet
Libby Reinish, Free Software Foundation
Libby's job is to inspire people to use free software and put pressure on companies that violate user freedom. She is a justice organizer who believes in the power of appropriate technology to transform communities. Before joining the FSF, Libby worked to build community radio stations with the Prometheus Radio Project and advocated for better media policy at Free Press.
Donald Robertson, III, Free Software Foundation
Donald is our copyright administrator in addition to doing licensing and compliance work with Joshua. Donald is a graduate of the New England School of Law and interned for the Hon. William G. Young at the federal district courthouse in Boston. Donald was previously the managing editor of the New England Law Review and wrote and published An Open Definition: Derivative Works of Software and the Free and Open Source Movement, 42 New.
Rubén Rodriguez, Trisquel
Zak Rogoff, Free Software Foundation
Zak is an activist and programmer. He wants to get people to think about software's potential to make our society more just and democratic. His degree is in robotics engineering, but most of his paid work has been as a campaigns manager.
When he's not working or commuting to work, Zak likes to wax philosophical about video games, cook veg food, play with animals and ride bikes with his friends.
Wendy Seltzer, W3C
Paul Tagliamonte, Sunlight Foundation
Italo Vignoli, The Document Foundation
Italo Vignoli is one of the founders and a member of the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation, with responsibility for marketing and communication. He is also an international spokesman for the project. From September 2004 to the end of 2010 he has been a member of the OpenOffice marketing project. He is also a member of Assoli, the Italian association of Free Software advocates, and a strenuous supporter of software freedom.