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| DATE | 2016-01-28 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] and special guest star!!!!
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http://www.fsf.org/news/edward-snowden-will-kick-off-libreplanet-2016-in-cambridge
Anyone ready for a field trip?
Edward Snowden will kick off LibrePlanet 2016 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
by Georgia Young — Published on Jan 27, 2016 01:21 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, USA -- Tuesday, January 26th, 2016 -- The Free
Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that the opening keynote for
LibrePlanet 2016: Fork the System, will be a conversation with National
Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden and American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) Technologist Daniel Kahn Gillmor.
The annual free software conference will kick off at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology's (MIT) Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts
on the morning of Saturday, March 19th with "The last lighthouse: Free
software in dark times", in which Snowden (who will appear via a free
software live video stream) and Daniel Kahn Gillmor will discuss free
software, surveillance, power, and control of the future.
Daiel Kahn Gillmor
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Edward Snowden
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"We're thrilled and honored to be hosting this conversation. Edward
Snowden has ignited desperately needed discussion around the world about
the meaning of privacy, the power of governments and large corporations,
and the impact of secretive technology on our freedom. I can't think of
a more powerful way to launch this year's conference, and I can't wait
to see what great things the LibrePlanet community of activists and
developers will do with the energy," said FSF's executive director John
Sullivan.
Edward Snowden is a former intelligence officer who served the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), NSA, and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
for nearly a decade as a subject matter expert on technology and
cybersecurity. In 2013, he revealed the NSA was unconstitutionally
seizing the private records of billions of individuals who had not been
suspected of any wrongdoing, resulting in the largest debate about
reforms to US surveillance policy since 1978. Today, he works on methods
of enforcing human rights through the application and development of new
technologies. He joined the board of Freedom of the Press Foundation in
February 2014.
Daniel Kahn Gillmor is a technologist with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy
and Technology Project, and a free software developer. He's a Free
Software Foundation Associate member, a member of Debian, a contributor
to a wide range of free software projects, and a participant in protocol
development standards organizations like the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF), with an eye toward preserving and improving civil
liberties and civil rights through our shared infrastructure.
For the third year in a row, LibrePlanet will be held at MIT's Stata
Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 19th and 20th, 2016.
Co-presented by the Free Software Foundation and MIT's Student
Information Processing Board (SIPB), the rest of the LibrePlanet program
will be announced soon.
Registration for LibrePlanet is now open. Admission to the conference is
gratis for FSF members and students.
About the Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting
computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute
computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as
in freedom) software — particularly the GNU operating system and its
GNU/Linux variants — and free documentation for free software. The FSF
also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of
freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org
and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux.
Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at
https://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.
More information about the FSF, as well as important information for
journalists and publishers, is at https://www.fsf.org/press.
Media Contacts
Georgia Young
Program Manager
Free Software Foundation
+1 (617) 542 5942
georgia-at-fsf.org
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