*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 721 Broadway
(between 8th Street & Washington Place.)
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 Vasile 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)
& others as well as short 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*
Forest Mars
--
"In theory, theory and practice are exactly the same.
In practice, they're completely different."
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