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The "FRA Law", ECHELON and Onyx all raise questions about privacy on the Internet and the necessity of darknets, onion routing via TOR, and other techniques for protecting citizens rights online. This is being amplified by the introduction of data retention directives and other means of policing the Internet. While governments are said to promote an inclusive global agenda, with the Internet as one of its key components, their actions are in many ways contradictory and seem to move more in the direction of stifling innovation and discouraging openness. What can we as citizens do to protect our rights, and how can we increase the competency of governments to make informed decisions?
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Free Software is a multi-faceted topic with at least a hundred different aspects. Coming from technology to policy, this theme will highlight technical and innovative applications licensed as Free Software, and move in the direction of Free Software in education and Free Software policies.
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== Strategy ==
 
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Which topics do we want covered? How many speakers are there room for?
 
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:You can count for maybe around 5-7 speakers, depending on the needs of the other themes as well. Check with the SL team and allocate some :) --[[User:Jonas|jonas]] 11:40, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 
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== Potential speakers ==
 
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Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, Patrik Fältström, Joakim Jardenberg ("makten och öppenheten"), Peter Krantz (opengov.se), Pelle Snickars.
 
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Henrik Moltke might be interested. Working now for Mozilla Drumbeat, which seems relevant. Interested in attending if something can be done outside of FSCONS as well to promote Drumbeat to non-believers - the unusual suspects.
 
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* Patrik Fältstörm - Contacted
 
  
 
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There's room in this for 2x30 and 3x45.
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There's room in this for 4x30 and 3x45.

Revision as of 11:39, 11 August 2010

Description

Free Software is a multi-faceted topic with at least a hundred different aspects. Coming from technology to policy, this theme will highlight technical and innovative applications licensed as Free Software, and move in the direction of Free Software in education and Free Software policies.


Speakers

Speakers

Travel details
Name Contact person Title Abstract Biography Arrival Departure Accommodation Budget Scheduling Status
Daniel Stenberg Jonas Öberg High performance multi-protocol applications with libcurl With Jonas Saturday AM Sunday PM 6 Nov @ 14.15 (Room 2) OK
Ole Tange Jonas Öberg GNU Parallel With Jonas Sunday 10:00 Sunday 19:00 None needed 7 Nov @ 11.30 (Room 3) OK
Mathias Friman Jonas Öberg Building a swedish Linux for Schools organization 45+ OK
Salve J. Nilsen Jonas Öberg Kaizendo: Customizable school books With Jonas 6 Nov @ 10.00 (Room 2) OK
Björn Lundell Jonas Öberg Public sector ICT procurement: what is shaping practice in Sweden? 45 min OK
Per Andersson Jonas Öberg Packaging for Debian using Git 45 min+ OK

There's room in this for 4x30 and 3x45.

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