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Dear Ruben Safir,

We're sorry for the delay in publishing the videos from LibrePlanet
2021 -- we faced some unexpected challenges immediately after the
event. But they're here now! We're incredibly proud of the
two-day, all-online conference, which was a showcase for the
efforts of the free software community, with talks ranging from
technical how-tos to personal reflections on activism. If you missed
the conference when it happened, we encourage you to watch and share
the recordings -- these are wildly talented and dedicated people who
fight every day for a freer world, generously sharing their time and
insights to advance ideals that are bigger than any of us as
individuals.

We’re proud to be able to share those accomplishments and insights
with you through the videos of the LibrePlanet 2021 conference talks
released today on our GNU MediaGoblin and PeerTube
pages. These talks explore many of the important facets of the fight
for free software, including:

• Building, strengthening, and creating justice within free software
  organizations: “The challenges of change for values-centered
  nonprofits” with Luis Villa and Katherine Maher; “Lessons
  Framasoft has learned” with Pouhiou Noénaute; “Building
  equitable free software communities for all” with Karen Johnson;




• New and useful free software programs to meet current needs:
  “Jami and how it empowers users” with Amin Bandali; “Ingestum:
  A libre NLP document ingestion library” with Walter Bender,
  Martín Abente Lahaye, and Juan Pablo Ugarte; “Plom: Paperless Open
  Marking” with Victoria Schuster, Dryden Wiebe, and Vala
  Vakilian; “Introduction to CiviCRM” with Coleman Watts;




• Protecting users from surveillance: “Technopolice: One year of
  activism against surveillance technologies” with Edlira Nano
  and Guinness; “Usable security for end-users: How Tor improves
  usability without compromising user privacy” with Antonela
  Debiasi; “SecureDrop Workstation: Handling unsafe documents
  safely” with Conor Schaefer; “An information theoretic model
  of privacy and security metrics” with Bill Budington;




• Software in education: “The state of software in schools and what
  to do about it” with Mariah Villarreal; “Bridging the digital
  divide in education with free software and hardware” with
  Sripath Roy Koganti; “Remote education: My children's freedom and
  privacy at stake” with Javier Sepulveda Sanchis; “Gamifying
  education the libre way” with Giselle Jhunjhnuwala & Charlie
  Koch;




• Hardware and networks: “Right to Repair” with Kyle Wiens;
  “Does your GPU work with free graphics drivers?” with Free
  Software Award winner Alyssa Rosenzweig; “Freeing networks where we
  need freedom most” with Alper Atmaca & Özcan O?uz; “Free/libre
  solutions to address the shortage of ventilators” with Robert
  Read and Marc Jones;




• Bringing new users into the world of free software: “Adopting
  free software ideals” with Mike Gerwitz; “How to make more
  users love free software: Double the love, double the freedom”
  with Clarissa Borges;




• Using free software for design: “Manufactura Independente: 10
  years of designing in the libre” with Manufactura Independente;
  “How to free the imagination” with David Revoy; “Libre
  designers do exist (and survive)” with Maria Leandro;




• The importance of free software to other social movements:
  “Beyond ‘learning to code’: How Tech Learning Collective merges IT
  training with emancipatory political action” with the Tech
  Learning Collective; and “Labor movements and the free software
  community” with Amanda Sopkin.

If you missed the last keynote address on Sunday, by Nathan
Freitas, founder of the Guardian Project, we urge you to go back and
watch it – Nathan’s talk was a highly personal and very fun narrative
of his journey as an activist, with a lot of show-and-tell of favorite
books and old technology. It’s both entertaining and inspiring, and a
definite must-see.

You can also watch Richard Stallman's talk, "Unjust computing clamps
down". For more context around his FSF board announcement, see
the follow-up statement from the FSF's board of directors.

We’re so grateful for the participation of all of our speakers and
attendees, and we hope that next year, in person or online or both,
we’ll come together again to learn, discuss, debate, and celebrate the
fight for software freedom. Every new user or programmer who adopts
free software is a victory, but we’ve got a long way to go before all
software is free, and we’ll only reach that goal together.

In solidarity,

The LibrePlanet team

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