As a birthday present to myself I wanted to attend the Libre Planet Conference this year. I was excited for the speaker lineup which included Sue Garner, Karen Sandler, Eben Moglen, Jeffrey Warren and Richard Stallman.
I went to a talk about the PGP protocol, which later inspired me to make my pgp song, Love Letters. I was also pleased to meet Seth Schoen and April Glaser of the EFF. Another talk that I also really enjoyed was Jeffry Warren of Public Lab’s talk. Here is the description
In this panel, activists at the intersection of open science and free software will discuss how the two movements can learn from each other and work together. How do free software and open science differ in their approaches to shared goals of communal knowledge? What technical barriers to open science exist, and how can free software advocates help? How can open science projects build free software communities?
https://libreplanet.org/2014/program/sessions.html
I really admire how public lab tries to engage with the community at large and have always had good experiences interacting with them.
The part I had the most fun with was the F-Droid sprint facilitated by William Theaker of the FSF. He walked me through adding an app into the F-Droid repo and using git, which was no small task (the git part that is!).
