What: Software Freedom Day Boston When: Saturday, September 15, 2007 Time: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Where: Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02111 (in Boston's Chinatown, near the corner of Harrison and Beach) http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=33+Harrison+Ave.%2C+Chinatown%2C+MA How: Just show up! Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to let us know you're coming. Who: Free Software Foundation (http://fsf.org) Binary Freedom (http://binaryfreedom.info) Boston Free Culture (http://freeculture.org) Software Freedom Day (http://softwarefreedomday.org) "When you turn on your computer, you're making a political statement. If, like most people, your computer boots Microsoft Windows, the statement you're making is that transnational corporations should control access to the most powerful public media that ever existed." -- New Internationalist, November 2006 Join us from 1pm to 5pm on Saturday, September 15, 2007 in Boston's Chinatown to celebrate Software Freedom Day! Let us know that you can come by emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED], and get more up-to-date details at http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Boston_Software_Freedom_Day . We'll have refreshments and there is no charge to attend. Bring your computers and portable music players for help installing and configuring the free GNU/Linux operating system on them, and for following along with the hands-on demos and interactive talks! Wi-fi access is available, and we'll be giving out gNewSense CDs (http://gnewsense.org). If you have a free software or free culture project you want to share with other people, sign up on-site to give a 5-minute "lightning talk". We'll be one node in a network of over 300 events worldwide -- it's not often we get the chance to make that kind of splash. It'll be a great chance to meet other hackers, activists and artists in the area and to make plans for how we can work for freedom on a concrete, local level. Here's the schedule, subject to change. The talks listed next to each other will be simultaneous. 13:00 - 13:30 | Registration, refreshments, meet people, free culture music and video, sign up to give lightning talks 13:30 - 14:00 | Introduction to free software and Software Freedom Day (Joshua Gay and John Sullivan from the FSF) 14:00 - 14:30 | Drupal for nonprofits workshop / Boston Free Culture presentation 14:30 - 14:40 | Break, music, video 14:40 - 15:10 | GNU Image Manipulation Program demo (Ari Pollak, Debian GIMP maintainer) / One Laptop Per Child demo 15:10 - 15:20 | Break, music, video 15:20 - 15:50 | Benjamin "Mako" Hill (FSF board of directors) / OpenOffice demo 15:50 - 16:20 | Six, 5-minute lightning talks 16:20 - 17:00 | Free software installation and assistance (including Rockbox for your portable music player), music, video, & keysigning More information: * http://groups.fsf.org/index.php/Boston_Software_Freedom_Day * http://softwarefreedomday.org * http://freesoftwarefreesociety.org -- John Sullivan Campaigns Manager | Phone: (617)542-5942 x23 | http://badvista.org 51 Franklin Street, 5th Fl. | Fax: (617)542-2652 | http://www.gnu.org Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA | GPG: AE8600B6 | http://www.fsf.org _______________________________________________ Info-member mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-member
