Morgan Lemmer-Webber, Tom Callaway, Stephen Jacobs and D. Joe Anderson

This panel will offer a well-rounded discussion on various ways to incorporate free software into university curricula and scholarly projects, as well as ways to promote further engagement between scholars and the free software community. The panel will explore how free software fits into both computer science programs, such as the Free and Open Source Software and Free Culture Minors at RIT, and into digital humanities projects. What are the barriers to free software in academia? How does terminology cloud the issue? How do we promote the ethics of "free as in freedom" when the draw to many academics is "free as in beer"? How do free software and free culture interact in digital humanities and humanitarian projects?

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The current EU Copyright Reform proposal puts pressure on platforms to monitor and filter all content, including uploaded free and open-source software, for copyright infringement (Article 13), proposes a new 20-year license for news snippets (Article 11), and limits who can access datasets -- including open data (Article 3). Any of these would be terrible outcomes. Let's demand better copyright reform!

In this session, we will tackle the following questions:
- What's happening with the EU Copyright Reform?
- How will Articles 11, 13 + 3 affect the Internet experience in Europe?
- How will the proposed reform affect the FLOSS ecosystem in Europe? The rest of the world?
- Why is this happening?
- What are key organizations doing about it, and what can you do about it?

Note: The EU Copyright Reform restrictions can also be applied to non-EU citizens, therefore everybody regardless of citizenship is encouraged to participate in the session.

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Gordon Hall

There is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer and, as it turns out, that "someone else" is not your friend. We have been working tirelessly to take the cloud and bring it back down to the people, so that we can ensure it is equipped with the security, privacy, and potential for ecological sustainability that we all deserve. Gordon will be discussing how Storj Labs built their free software distributed object storage platform for developers with Node.js and demonstrating the tools that were developed to make it possible. He will cover implementations of Storj and how they have redefined what's possible in sustainable technology that respects the rights of all users.

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Christopher Webber

You may have heard of Stallman and the printer, but much of free software's genesis involves the battle over the soul of the lisp machine. We'll trace Lisp and the Lisp Machine's roots, from its genesis in early hacker culture and the AI labs, to the split that (largely) pushed RMS to found GNU, through its role within and without the free software community. Why did GNU become a "Not Unix", and why not a lisp machine? What about the role of Lisp within GNU, with projects like Emacs, Guile, and Guix? For those who are new to Lisp, there will be a mini-tutorial.

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Kade Crockford

The 21st century techno-surveillance state is the oil that runs the deportation and mass incarceration machines. In Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions' America, it's more important than ever to fight for our core values: freedom, equality, justice, and democracy. That means using your technical skills in the service of liberation, but it also means engaging as an ordinary citizen in the messy work of lobbying and organizing. This talk will lay out some of the greatest challenges we face in 2017, and describe in detail some concrete ways we must unite to fight—not only against the Trump regime's dastardly plans, but also for the future we collectively need to build.

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Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches, software freedom activist

The MAME Project's main stated goal is to preserve historical computer hardware. The strategy for achieving that objective is to inspect the devices and then develop emulators for them. While most hardware is undocumented and relies on proprietary firmware, the MAME development community has nurtured strong reverse engineering practices since its origins back in 1997.

The techniques that we need to master in order to develop new emulators include reverse engineering procedures that are also very useful for aiding in the creation of free firmware solutions to replace the non-free blobs used in a broad variety of daily-use devices. These skills are also useful for the development of free drivers for undocumented devices and in the porting of operating systems and BIOSes to new hardware platforms. We need to strengthen a community of skillful hardware reverse engineers so that we can solve the freedom issues denounced by projects such as Linux-Libre and Libreboot.

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Libreplanet 2016, Edward Snowden in conversation with Daniel Kahn Gillmor

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Holger Levsen, Debian Project

This presentation describes how the Debian reproducible builds team made 85% of the Debian archive reproducible, what steps are left to reach 100% and what steps are needed beyond reproducible builds, so that every user can easily and meaningful benefit from them.

This presentation is largely about the Debian work on the area, but it also portrays other projects work on reproducible builds, as our goal is to make reproducible builds the norm for free software: "It's not free software if it's not reproducible."

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Eric Schultz

What could possibly make thousands of free software advocates, ham radio operators, researchers and physicians stand together? One obscure FCC rulemaking proposal on wireless radios. Eric Schultz, one of the leaders of the Save Wifi Initiative, discusses the details of the extreme proposals of FCC to control how you use your devices. You'll learn the history of regulators quietly locking down wireless radios and how it's unintentionally extending to a lockdown of the operating systems of devices. Finally, you'll find out some of the problems with proposed workarounds for the FCC lock down proposals.

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By: Richard Stallman
Language: English
Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes
Date: Jan 29, 2016
Location: Auditorium D0.03, Campus Etterbeek, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Ixelles, Belgium (FOSDEM Fringe)
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)

Cooper Quintin, EFF

Modern websites incorporate large amounts of third party resources. While these third parties can provide a better browsing experience all too often they abuse their inclusion on sites to be able to track information about your website's visitors. This type of non-consensual tracking must stop.

This talk covers how users can protect themselves while browsing, why some solutions are better than others, and why free software licenses have helped provide a rich ecosystem of non-proprietary tools. From Ad Block Plus, to Firefox's Tracking Protection, to the EFFs Privacy Badger extension, the talk discusses how these tools work and how users can protect themselves from online surveillance.

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Sunil Mohan Adapa, FreedomBox and Mishi Choudhary, Software Freedom Law Center

FreedomBox is a personal server with a free software stack running the Universal OS that hosts on demand applications such as file sharing, shared calendaring, instant messaging, secure voice conference calling, blog and wiki. Unlike proprietary service platforms, FreedomBox software guarantees its users' rights, and works only for them, an indispensable attribute in the post-Snowden world.

The session demonstrates important applications of FreedomBox with the goal to engage the listeners into using, building and contributing to FreedomBox.

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By: Richard Stallman
Location: New York, NY - Butler Library, room 523, Columbia University
Date: Oct 17, 2014
Language: English
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)

By: Richard Stallman
Language: English
Duration: 2 hours 14 minutes
Date: Feb 08, 2016
Location: ImpactHub Colab, Sihlquai 131, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland
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By: Richard Stallman
Language: English
Duration: 2 hours 31 minutes
Date: Apr 11, 2016
Location: National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

By: Richard Stallman
Location: Athens, GA - The University of Georgia Chapel, North Campus, Broad Street
Date: Oct 14, 2014
Language: English
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)

By: Richard Stallman
Location: Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
License: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0