Software Freedom Day in Boston 2008
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September 20th, 2008 from 10am until 4pm
Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02111
Located in Boston's Chinatown, easily accessible to the Orange and Green T Lines
There is no admission charge for the event, and food and drinks will be served.
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Schedule for the Day
- 10:00 - 10:30 Registration, with coffee and bagels, five player Frozen Bubble will be available all day
- 10:30 - 11:00 Keynote -- Guerilla Freedom: How I freed public domain books, government archives, and databases -- and how you can too. Aaron Swartz of Watchdog.net
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11:00 - 11:50 — Workshop session 1
- Track A = FLOSS Graphics with Máirín Duffy
- Track B = Creating open and powerful website using Plone with Nate Aune and Aaron VanDerlip
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12:00 - 12:50 — Workshop session 2
- Track A = Free your small mobile devices with Mako Hill and John Sullivan
- Track B = Free 3D with Blender with Bassam Kurdali
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1:00 - 2:00 — Lunch
- 2:00 - 3:00 "Freedom Fry -- Happy Birthday to GNU" and what's going on at the FSF?
- 3:00 - 3:40 Lightning Talks (Sign up at the event with Matt Lee)
- 3:40 - 4:00 Announcements
Please RSVP to membership@fsf.org.
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Lighting Talks
- Cameron Freer / vdash - formal math commons
- Martin Owens / LoCo - Website
- Mike Cardoza / Overdrive @ libraries
- Donald Robertson (FSF Copyright Administrator) / Free Software @ law school
- Nate Aune / ClueMapper slides available on slideshare.net
- Richard M. Stalman (RMS) / Various Topics
- Mako Hill / Revealing Errors
- Chris Scmidt / MAPS.
- Deb N (FSF Membership) / #GLOFS, aka Glorious Ladies of Free Software
