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Kenote speakers
Invited speakers
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Proposed keynote speakers
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Marcin Jakubowski
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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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Richard Stallman
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President of FSF. GNU Project.
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Gabriella Coleman
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Gabriella Coleman: Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication
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Cory Doctorow
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Blogger, Author, Free Culture proponent etc
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Manuel Castells
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Sociologist associated particularly with research into the information society and communications.
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Yochai Benkler
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THE keynote speaker to have at FSCONS.
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Sue Gardner
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Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz
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Writer, freelance columnist, netizen icon
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Farmor Gun
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Senior blogger and grandmother (blog in Swedish)
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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 SLBA. Here is an interesting interview (swedish).
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Lars Vilks
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Art Theorist
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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 Women, Geeks, Culture
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Trudy Barber
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Niva Elkin Koren
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Joi Ito
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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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Charles Nesson
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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
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Frederick Noronha
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Free Software chronicler from Goa, India
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Danny O'Brien
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International Outreach Coordinator of EFF. Started Open Rights Group with Cory Doctorow
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Alan Cox
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Kernel hacker .....
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Andrew Morton
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Kernel hacker
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Richard Stallman
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Benjamin Mako Hill
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".. a scholar, technologist, programmer and free software and free culture activist"
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Ilkka Tuomi
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John Perry Barlow
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John Gilmore
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Heidi Grande Røys
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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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Franz Nahrada
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Global Villages
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Alex Rollin
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works on open source car and is doing a project with Smári on peer-to-peer gratitude based currencies
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Marcin Jakubowski
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http://www.openfarmtech.org
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Clay Shirky
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Author of Here Comes Everybody: On Organizing Without Organizations - http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/
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Lawrence Liang
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Author of Guide to Open Licences and involved in almost everything FSCONS stands for. Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Liang
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Charles Leadbeater
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Author of "We-think: The Power of Mass Creativity" (See his amazing talks on TED and/or youtube)
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Chris Anderson
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of wired magazine is a good idea for a keynote speaker
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Bruce Schneier
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Excellent high-profile speaker with a security focus
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James Boyle
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Conference and theme speakers
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