LibrePlanet

LibrePlanet

LibrePlanet (literally, "Free Planet") is a community project created and supported by the Free Software Foundation. Its objective is the promotion of free software around the world by bringing every year an international conference to local communities[1] and organizations.[2]

History

The project was born in 2006, at a gathering of members associated with the Foundation and the will to organize into geographical groups.

LibrePlanet conference

Logo used for the LibrePlanet conference from 2010-2012 Based on the graphical style of The Haçienda in keeping with the theme of "The Hacienda Must Be Built"

The conference is organized annually by the Free Software Foundation in or around Boston, Massachusetts and staffed by a mixture of foundation staff and community volunteers. The conference replaces the FSF Annual Members Meeting (AMM) which ran around the same time each year.

Each conference has its own theme and a website, t-shirt and posters are produced on this theme. From 2010-2012 the posters closely mimicked the style of flyers from The Haçienda and Factory Records in general, followed by a large party at a nearby bar paid for by members of the Libre.fm and GNU social communities.

The event typically includes a speech from FSF president, Richard Stallman and FSF executive director John Sullivan, as well as members of the wider free software community.

Year Dates Location Themes Prominent events
2009 March 21/22 Harvard Science Center
  • End Software Patents
  • Free Network Services
2010 March 20/21 Harvard Science Center
  • Working Together For Free Software
2011 March 19 Bunker Hill Community College
  • Acting locally for global free software adoption.
  • Single Day conference with a number of local students invited
  • Tor and Rob Savoye win the annual FSF awards
  • Additionally, a special mention was made to honor the memory and contribution of Adrian Hands, who used a morse input device to code and successfully submit a GNOME patch, three days before he died from ALS.
2012 March 24/25 University of Massachusetts, Boston
2013 March 23/24 Cambridge, MA
2014 March 22/23 Cambridge, MA
2015 March 21/22 MIT Stata Center
  • Reglue and Sébastien Jodogne

See also

References

  1. ↑ Wiki.
  2. ↑ Planète Libre 2011.

External links

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