“Year of the Upgrade”. FSF Annual Associate Member Meeting, Saturday March 24

Mar 21st, 2007 | By Chris | Category: Blog, Chris, Education, Law, Software

“Year of the Upgrade”. Annual Associate Member Meeting, Saturday March 24.

The full schedule of speakers and details for attendees and registration is published at
http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2007.

“Year of the upgrade”

09:15-10:00 Breakfast, registration and gpg key signing
10:00-10:25 Peter Brown, Executive Director - “Libre Planet”
10:25-10:50 John Sullivan, Program Administrator - “BadVista and the Campaign for Free Software Adoption”
10:50-11:05 Justin Baugh, Senior System Administrator - “Hardware Free from Restrictions”
11:05-11:20 Joshua Ginsberg, Senior System Administrator - “FSF Systems Administration”
11:20-11:35 Break
11:35-12:10 Brett Smith, Licensing Engineer - “Compliance and GPLv3”
12:10-12:50 Richard Stallman, President - “Free Software and Software Patents”
12:50-13:50 Lunch and mini-rockbox installfast
13:50-14:40 Gerald Sussman, Director - “Robust Design”
14:40-15:20 Eben Moglen, General Counsel - “After GPLv3”
15:20-16:00 Board members panel and Q&A “Year of the Upgrade”
16:00-16:15 Break
16:15-17:30 Members Forum - including a presentation by Mako Hill - “Defining free culture”
17:30-17:50 Free Software Awards Ceremony
19:00 Dinner at the Middle East ($)

Read this essay.
The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth: My Story of Unlearning - Benjamin “Mako” Hill

Read Writings and Publications by Benjamin Mako Hill.

Here’s the Recordings from the 2006 Associate Member Meeting. Here’s the part I was interested in “Moving the fight for free software into the mainstream”.

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