The call for sessions for LibrePlanet 2024: Cultivating
Community, the sixteenth edition of the Free Software Foundation's
(FSF) conference on ethical technology and user freedom, is open.
Submit your session today and join us for two days full of fun free
software talks, discussions, and workshops. We look forward to reading
your session proposals.
About the conference
LibrePlanet provides an opportunity for activists, hackers, law
professionals, artists, educators, students, developers, policymakers,
tinkerers, and anyone looking for technology that respects the users
freedom to come together in order to discuss current issues in
technology and ethics. Newcomers are always welcome, be it as a
speaker or as an attendee.
The conference will be held in March 2024 in the Boston area (exact
venue TBD). LibrePlanet 2024 will be an in-person event but
remote attendees will be able to watch the livestream and ask
questions on IRC. General registration, exhibitor registration, and
sponsoring packages will follow soon.
The theme for LibrePlanet 2024 is "Cultivating Community." The focus
is on further growing the free software movement, mobilizing from the
grassroots, and building a stronger community in the process. We will
ask ourselves: How can we be a welcoming community, one that attracts
newcomers, as well as continue to be a lasting home to all the
wonderful people who already belong to it?
Call for sessions
Submit your session today! Submissions are being accepted
through Wednesday, October 25, 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC).
To access the submission form, you will need to
create an account at my.fsf.org.
The LibrePlanet committee is looking for talks, discussions, and
workshops for all ages and experience levels. As always, we welcome
any talk related to free software that fits one of the following
tracks: licensing, security, community, social context, hardware,
freedom ladder, free software documentation, free software in
government, education, or practice, workshops, or talks that explore
free software concepts. Ideally, sessions should explore the theme
"Cultivating Community." For example, your session could:
Show ways of effectively organizing community, increasing diversity,
facilitating the participation of volunteers, or encouraging users
to contribute to your project;
Share how you climb the freedom ladder, where you struggle to
integrate free software in your daily life, and where you've already
succeeded;
Explore the theme through broader spheres of education, licensing,
medicine, government, business, art, social movements, fostering
diversity, or improving accessibility;
Tell the world about your free software or free hardware project
with a focus on how you invite newcomers to participate or attract
new users;
Present free software like chat platforms or forums that enable
participation;
Host a workshop on how to use a free software tool, how to hack, or
how to start building your own free software project;
Lead a hack session.
If you're looking for inspiration, check out last year's conference
website and session videos. All session proposals will be
reviewed by a community committee representing a wide range of
expertise.
LibrePlanet 2024: Cultivating Community will mostly feature in-person
sessions as in-person sessions allow for a high quality of interaction
and are more popular among our audience. However, we will consider
applications for remote sessions, too, with the intent of integrating
high-quality sessions into the schedule. Please decide upon applying
whether you would like to speak on site in the Boston area or
remotely. If you need financial assistance to travel to Boston, please
select the respective option upon applying.
Call for sessions office hours
If you have any questions, comments, ideas, if you would like to be
part of the LibrePlanet 2024 committee, if you need help with your
session proposal, or if you would like to just socialize, please come
meet with us in our LibrePlanet hour on IRC.
These sessions will be held bi-weekly on Thursdays, starting September
21 from 13:00 to 14:00 EDT (17:00 - 18:00 UTC) in the #libreplanet
channel of the Libera.Chat IRC network.
