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| DATE | 2016-03-12 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] LibrePlanet
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LibrePlanet free software conference coming to MIT in one week, March 19-20
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, USA -- Friday, March 11th, 2016 -- In just
one week, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and MIT's Student
Information Processing Board (SIPB) are once again teaming up to bring
the LibrePlanet free software conference to Cambridge, March 19-20,
2016, at the Stata Center at MIT. LibrePlanet is an annual conference
for people who care about their digital freedoms, bringing together
software developers, policy experts, activists, and computer users to
learn skills, share accomplishments, and tackle challenges facing the
free software movement.
LibrePlanet 2016 will feature sessions for all ages and experience
levels, and a promotional video for the event has just been released.
Organized around the theme "Fork the System", the conference's sessions
will examine how free software creates the opportunity of a new path for
its users, allows developers to fight the restrictions of a system
dominated by proprietary software by creating free replacements, and is
the foundation of a philosophy of freedom, sharing, and change. Keynote
speakers include NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in conversation with
the ACLU's Daniel Kahn Gillmor; Open Source Initiative board president
Allison Randal; Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman; and
Software Freedom Conservancy executive director Karen Sandler.
This year's LibrePlanet conference will feature over 40 sessions, such
as Yes, the FCC might ban your operating system, Trans Code: Free
software as model & critique of diversity by transgender hackers, and
Ending Online Tracking! Privacy Badger and Beyond!, as well as a
hands-on workshop showing participants how to use the free software 3-D
animation program Blender and a Libreboot install workshop.
"This year's LibrePlanet conference will be our biggest ever, and it's
not hard to see why," said Georgia Young, program manager at the Free
Software Foundation. "From the conversation with Edward Snowden, to
strategy sessions aimed at helping activists use free software in their
social change work, to talks encouraging free software advocacy in
school and your workplace, the conference offers intriguing ways for
anybody to Fork the System."
Due to high demand, advance registration is closed. Attendees may
register in person at the event.
About LibrePlanet
LibrePlanet is the annual conference of the Free Software Foundation,
and is co-produced by the Student Information Processing Board. What was
once a small gathering of FSF members has grown into a larger event for
anyone with an interest in the values of software freedom. LibrePlanet
is always gratis for associate members of the FSF. To sign up for
announcements about LibrePlanet 2016, visit
https://www.libreplanet.org/2016.
LibrePlanet 2015 was held at MIT from March 21-22, 2015. Over 350
attendees from all over the world came together for conversations,
demonstrations, and keynotes centered around the theme of "Free Software
Everywhere." You can watch videos from past conferences at
http://media.libreplanet.org.
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 Contact
Georgia Young Program Manager
Free Software Foundation
+1 (617) 542 5942
campaigns-at-fsf.org
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