The 5th annual Software Freedom Day NYC will take place on Saturday September 15, 2012 from 6:30-10:00 pm.
The New York celebratory event will be held this year at ITP, NYU's school for the Interactive Telecommunications Program, located at 7*21 Broadway (between 8th Street & Washington Place).* (If you are really into wiki action, you can also join us earlier at 3pm for a 'Wikipedia Takes Manhattan' photo-walk starting at Bowling Green Park: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan) * As in previous years this will be a celebration of the merits and successes of free software, with food & drinks ("free as in beer!") and a short program of speakers. This is also a "hack friendly" event; we will have 2 large breakout rooms so bring your laptop to demonstrate a project you're working on or engage in informal collaboration. At 8:00 pm there will be a short program including presentations. Scheduled speakers include: - James Vasille of the Software Freedom Law Center on "Free Software vs Censorship and Surveillance" - "Wikipedia Takes Manhattan” -- presented by Wikimedia NYC (following up on this afternoon’s photo-walk departing Bowling Green at 3pm, and arriving at ITP at 7pm) - Jon Stanley on the Fedora project - Occupy <3s Open Source -- presented by TechOps of the NYCGA (NYC General Assembly) *There will also be sh*ort talks on other free software projects and distributions. After this program there will be a reception, including a key signing. For full event information please see the official announcement and wiki page at: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/USA/NY/NYC#preview <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/USA/NY/NYC#preview> For more information about Software Freedom Day see the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Day Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/messages/41292002/ *
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