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.

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 SwartzofWatchdog.net

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

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

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.

Lightning 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

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