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Software Freedom Day in Boston a success!!

rek2's picture
Submitted by rek2 on Mon, 2007-09-17 11:49.

Three of the mayor Digital freedom groups around Boston metro(Free Culture Boston, Binary Freedom Boston and the Free Software Foundation) got together for a one day event in Encuentro5 in Chinatown Boston. We got a great
turn out with more than 90 people on our workshops,presentations and such.This was a great
opportunity for social justice groups from the area and hackers to come together and discuss topics
related to digital rights, new projects, philosophy and Free Software.

Our flyer said:

"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

to follow with the program:

# 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

For more information about the event visit the Software Freedom Site

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