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  | [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Marcin_Biography Marcin Jakubowski]
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| Unhosted (project)
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  | Founder of Open Source Evology. Hacks the Global Village Construction Set. Builds open source tractors and other farm equipment.
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  | [http://www.unhosted.org/ unhosted.org] Unhosted is an open web standard for decentralizing user data. On the unhosted web, data is stored per-user, wherever the user decides.
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| Christina Haralanova
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  | Currently a team member at LabCMO, Previously Managing Director at Internet Rights Bulgaria Foundation; Coordinator and trainer in FOSS at WITT.   Also [http://www.ludost.org/ Women, Geeks, Culture]
 
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  | [http://stallman.org/ Richard Stallman]
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  |[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremie_Miller Jeremie Miller]
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  | President of FSF. GNU Project.
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  | Currently building the Locker Project, TeleHash, and Singly with a focus on personal data + distributed protocols. Helped found Jabber/XMPP, open platforms FTW!
 
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  | [http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Gabriella_Coleman Gabriella Coleman]
 
  | [http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Gabriella_Coleman Gabriella Coleman]
 
  | Gabriella Coleman: Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication
 
  | Gabriella Coleman: Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication
 
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  | [http://craphound.com/bio.php Cory Doctorow]
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  | [http://www.appelbaum.net/ Jacob Appelbaum]
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  | Blogger, Author, Free Culture proponent etc
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  | Ethics enthusiast
 
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Castells Manuel Castells]
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  | [http://www.servalproject.org/ The Serval Project]
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  | Sociologist associated particularly with research into the information society and communications.
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  | Communicate anywhere, any time, without infrastructure or carriers.Communication should be freely available to everyone, because communication is a human right.
 
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochai_Benkler Yochai Benkler]
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  | [http://rushkoff.com/ douglas rushkoff]
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  | '''THE''' keynote speaker to have at FSCONS.
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  | media theorist, author; new book: PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED: 10 Commands for a Digital Age http://www.orbooks.com/our-books/program/
 
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Gardner Sue Gardner]
 
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Gardner Sue Gardner]
 
  | Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
 
  | Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
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| [http://webmink.com/ Simon Phipps]
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| Eclectic geek, campaigning for software freedom and political transparency. Photos & music to protect sanity in the process.
 
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  | [http://isobelsverkstad.blogspot.com/ Isobel Hadley-Kamptz]
 
  | [http://isobelsverkstad.blogspot.com/ Isobel Hadley-Kamptz]
 
  | Writer, freelance columnist, netizen icon
 
  | Writer, freelance columnist, netizen icon
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| [http://blog.locut.us/ Ian Clarke]
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| Entrepreneur and Computer Scientist, grew up in Ireland, currently living in Austin, Texas.
 
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  | [http://farmorgun.blogspot.com/ Farmor Gun]
 
  | [http://farmorgun.blogspot.com/ Farmor Gun]
 
  | Senior blogger and grandmother (blog in Swedish)
 
  | Senior blogger and grandmother (blog in Swedish)
 
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  | [http://www.kb.se/english/about/organization/Research/ Pelle Snickars]
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  | [http://zooko.com/ Zooko]
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  | Head of Research at the Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images. (now a part of National Library of Sweden), Articles (swedish) in SvD "under strecket" are linked from [http://www.slba.se/10forskningochdebatt/forskningochdebatt.html SLBA]. Here is an [http://www.axbom.se/blogg/fredagsbubbel-pellesnickars interesting interview] (swedish).
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  | Technology wizard
 
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Vilks Lars Vilks]
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  | Heidi Grande Røys
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  | Art Theorist
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  | Norwegian minister responsible for the Open Standards policy and the Friprog centre. Has just released a book under a CC licence.
 
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  | Christina Haralanova
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  | [http://swartz.typepad.com/ Oscar Swartz]
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| Currently a team member at LabCMO, Previously Managing Director at Internet Rights Bulgaria Foundation; Coordinator and trainer in FOSS at WITT.  Also [http://www.ludost.org/ Women, Geeks, Culture]
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| IT guru, writer, former entrepreneur (Founded Swedish Free Speech ISP Bahnhof - now hosting Wikileaks).
 
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  | Trudy Barber
 
  | Trudy Barber
 
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| [http://blog.brokep.com Peter Sunde]
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| Flattr founder etc
 
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  | Niva Elkin Koren
 
  | Niva Elkin Koren
 
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| [http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/Marcin_Biography Marcin Jakubowski]
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| Founder of Open Source Ecology. Hacks the Global Village Construction Set. Builds open source tractors and other farm equipment.
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva Vandana Shiva]
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| She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization, and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement.
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| [http://stallman.org/ Richard Stallman]
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| President of FSF. GNU Project.
 
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  | Joi Ito
 
  | Joi Ito
 
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva Vandana Shiva]
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| [http://craphound.com/bio.php Cory Doctorow]
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  | She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization, and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement.
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| Blogger, Author, Free Culture proponent etc
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Castells Manuel Castells]
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| Sociologist associated particularly with research into the information society and communications.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochai_Benkler Yochai Benkler]
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| '''THE''' keynote speaker to have at FSCONS.
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| [http://www.kb.se/english/about/organization/Research/ Pelle Snickars]
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  | Head of Research at the Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images. (now a part of National Library of Sweden), Articles (swedish) in SvD "under strecket" are linked from [http://www.slba.se/10forskningochdebatt/forskningochdebatt.html SLBA]. Here is an [http://www.axbom.se/blogg/fredagsbubbel-pellesnickars interesting interview] (swedish).
 
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  | Charles Nesson
 
  | Charles Nesson
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  | John Gilmore
 
  | John Gilmore
 
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| Heidi Grande Røys
 
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  | Franz Nahrada
 
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  | of wired magazine is a good idea for a keynote speaker
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  | of wired magazine is a good idea for a keynote speaker. He wrote a book on Free.
 
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  | Bruce Schneier
 
  | Bruce Schneier

Revision as of 10:38, 17 May 2011

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Proposed keynote speakers

Name Comment
Unhosted (project) unhosted.org Unhosted is an open web standard for decentralizing user data. On the unhosted web, data is stored per-user, wherever the user decides.
Christina Haralanova Currently a team member at LabCMO, Previously Managing Director at Internet Rights Bulgaria Foundation; Coordinator and trainer in FOSS at WITT. Also Women, Geeks, Culture
Jeremie Miller Currently building the Locker Project, TeleHash, and Singly with a focus on personal data + distributed protocols. Helped found Jabber/XMPP, open platforms FTW!
Gabriella Coleman Gabriella Coleman: Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication
Jacob Appelbaum Ethics enthusiast
The Serval Project Communicate anywhere, any time, without infrastructure or carriers.Communication should be freely available to everyone, because communication is a human right.
douglas rushkoff media theorist, author; new book: PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED: 10 Commands for a Digital Age http://www.orbooks.com/our-books/program/
Sue Gardner Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
Simon Phipps Eclectic geek, campaigning for software freedom and political transparency. Photos & music to protect sanity in the process.
Isobel Hadley-Kamptz Writer, freelance columnist, netizen icon
Ian Clarke Entrepreneur and Computer Scientist, grew up in Ireland, currently living in Austin, Texas.
Farmor Gun Senior blogger and grandmother (blog in Swedish)
Zooko Technology wizard
Heidi Grande Røys Norwegian minister responsible for the Open Standards policy and the Friprog centre. Has just released a book under a CC licence.
Oscar Swartz IT guru, writer, former entrepreneur (Founded Swedish Free Speech ISP Bahnhof - now hosting Wikileaks).
Trudy Barber
Peter Sunde Flattr founder etc
Niva Elkin Koren
Marcin Jakubowski Founder of Open Source Ecology. Hacks the Global Village Construction Set. Builds open source tractors and other farm equipment.
Vandana Shiva She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization, and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement.
Richard Stallman President of FSF. GNU Project.
Joi Ito
Cory Doctorow Blogger, Author, Free Culture proponent etc
Manuel Castells Sociologist associated particularly with research into the information society and communications.
Yochai Benkler THE keynote speaker to have at FSCONS.
Pelle Snickars Head of Research at the Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images. (now a part of National Library of Sweden), Articles (swedish) in SvD "under strecket" are linked from SLBA. Here is an interesting interview (swedish).
Charles Nesson One of the coolest law professors in history, currently leading a project to "reify university as a meta player in cyberspace": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nesson
Frederick Noronha Free Software chronicler from Goa, India
Danny O'Brien International Outreach Coordinator of EFF. Started Open Rights Group with Cory Doctorow
Alan Cox Kernel hacker .....
Andrew Morton Kernel hacker
Pippa Buchanan P2P University and more
Benjamin Mako Hill ".. a scholar, technologist, programmer and free software and free culture activist"
Ilkka Tuomi
John Perry Barlow
John Gilmore
Franz Nahrada Global Villages
Alex Rollin works on open source car and is doing a project with Smári on peer-to-peer gratitude based currencies
Marcin Jakubowski http://www.openfarmtech.org
Clay Shirky Author of Here Comes Everybody: On Organizing Without Organizations - http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/
Lawrence Liang Author of Guide to Open Licences and involved in almost everything FSCONS stands for. Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Liang
Charles Leadbeater Author of "We-think: The Power of Mass Creativity" (See his amazing talks on TED and/or youtube)
Chris Anderson of wired magazine is a good idea for a keynote speaker. He wrote a book on Free.
Bruce Schneier Excellent high-profile speaker with a security focus
James Boyle

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