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FSF annual meeting -- Libre Planet 2009 conference
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Matt Lee
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Feb 04, 2009 11:13 AM
The 2009 FSF annual meeting, also known as the Libre Planet 2009 conference.
LibrePlanet will cover a range of free software activism topics, with an
Open Space
style effort to make progress on engineering for
Free Network Services
and the
High Priority Software Projects
.  The event will be held at the Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, MA on March 21st and 22nd, 2009.
Photos of the conference
First LibrePlanet was a resounding success!
Audio/slides posted below!
Photo by
Jacob Rus
, map by
OpenStreetMap
, both licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License
Event schedule
Lecture Hall A
9:30 - 10:00 Breakfast and registration
10:00 - 10:10
Welcome -- Peter Brown, FSF executive director
10:10 - 10:20
Un-conference Orientation -- Rob Myers and Matt Lee
10:20 - 11:20
Jeremy Allison, The Elephant in the Room: Microsoft and Free Software
Slides/Notes
11:20 - 12:00
Mako Hill, Cloud Computing/Software as a Service - defining Freedom for Network Services
Slides/Notes
12:00 - 12:30
Alexandre Oliva, Freeing the kernel and the Linux Libre project
Slides/Notes
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Panel Update: Toward a LibrePlanet -- Free Software Activism worldwide (Brian Gough, Ryan Bagueros, Bradley Kuhn)
Slides/Notes
14:30 - 15:15
Evan Prodromou, Identi.ca and engineering for free network services
Slides/Notes
15:15 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:15
Rob Savoye, Gnash and Cygnal project.
Slides/Notes
16:15 - 16:45
Ciaran O'Riordan, End Software Patents
Slides/Notes
16:45 - 17:30
Richard M. Stallman, Hardware for Free Software and the presentation ceremony of the Free Software Awards
Rooms 109 and 112
Floss Manuals book sprint
Redline Pub in Harvard Square
Saturday 18:00 - 21:00 -- FSF Social, at Redline pub in Harvard Square
Sunday, March 22nd
9:30-10:00 -- Welcome and Breakfast
10:00-11:00 -- Routing for the day
11:00-5:00 -- Lunch and
Open Conference
, feel free to edit the wiki with stuff you are thinking of doing.
5:30 --
End of Unconference (with special musical guest, Kat Walsh)
Room 113 and 112 Floss Manuals
This will be a working conference, so
please bring a laptop
. Participation is not limited to coders and activists; we'll also need folks who can do visual design, write and edit text, and are willing to test-drive stuff or percolate ideas. Basically, everyone!
Hotel information
directions
and more can be found on
the Libre Planet wiki
. Please add yourself to the list of attendees if you are planning to come to the event.
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