LibrePlanet:Conference/2014/Conference brainstorm

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Topic ideas

• GNU Hurd! Perhaps one of the lead developers can speak about the current status and how the community can contribute to the project.
• A session or discussion involving the Electronic Frontier Foundation and/or Fight for the Future (which seems Boston based).
• Free access to information and privacy concerns as it relates to online public libraries such as the Digital Public Library (dp.la), Open Library (https://openlibrary.org/) and the Internet Archive (https://archive.org). Recently, the Open Library and Internet Archive moved to support https (https://blog.archive.org/2013/10/25/reader-privacy-at-the-internet-archive/). It would be great if the DPLA could commit to doing likewise (if they haven't already).
• Relationship between FLOSS and the Open Hardware/Maker Space communities, perhaps in collaboration with Artisan's Asylum of Somerville?
• Relationship between FLOSS and voting machines that cannot be easily hacked, perhaps in collaboration with osdv.org?
• Relationship between FLOSS and charitable efforts, perhaps in collaboration with the Developers for Good meetup out of New York?
• Relationship between FLOSS and local monopoly pricing of broadband internet connections, and government violation of the Bill of Rights, perhaps in collaboration with occupyhere.org and with http://www.whoismcafee.com/future-tense-d-central/
• Free Software and Politics: The different uses and campaigns that political activists can run and conduct

Speaker ideas

• Alison Chaiken
• Eben Moglen
• Chris Montgomery
• Jay Sulzberger
• John McAfee
• Bruce Schneier

Other suggestions

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