This year's LibrePlanet: Living Liberation is now only a month
away, and we are getting ready to present another fantastic event to
you. Registration opened just a few weeks ago and, today, we're
sharing all of our confirmed talks with you, so that you can
start planning the sessions you won't want to miss on March 19 and 20!
We look forward to welcoming free software enthusiasts, activists,
tinkerers, and newcomers from all over the world to the online
conference.
This is the third edition to be held exclusively online, and this year
we are exploring the theme "Living Liberation." Whether you have been
using free software for years, write your own programs, or have only
just started your journey to freedom, every day you have the chance to
say "no" to the abuses of proprietary software, big or small, and in
doing so choose to live liberated.
Besides our opening keynote, Marleen Stikker, and our Sunday
opening keynote Hundred Rabbits, we have a schedule chock full of
carefully selected talks by both regulars and newcomers. The schedule
also holds the ceremony for the annual Free Software Awards of
2021, and a third keynote, to be filled by the FSF. Invitations to the
associate member meeting will be sent out separately.
We know you won't be able to see every single one of the sessions, but
make sure to put these highlights on your list for attending live, or
for later, when we publish the sessions in podcast and video form.
Anjadev Momi is taking a stand against the duopoly of
proprietary smartphone platforms (e.g. Google's Android and Apple's
iOS) today in Sxmo: freedom on mobile devices through simplicity
and hackability. Sxmo is a simple free software mobile interface
that you can hack to fit your needs.
LibrePlanet newcomer Greta Goetz will use her talk Retracing
digital freedom as pattern learning for life to illustrate a
variety of different course components that could be introduced to
model steps towards digital freedom.
Former FSF chief technology officer Ruben Rodriguez Perez is
giving an introductory dive into Virtual Reality in his Hacking my
brain: Free Virtual Reality implementations and their potential for
therapeutic use.
Philosopher and GNU Emacs contributor Protesilaos Stavrou will
be demonstrating how Emacs enables him to work and compute in
freedom. In Living in freedom with GNU Emacs he shares his story
of coming to the free software movement as a non-programmer, only to
end up a mainstay of the Emacs community through his blog posts,
videos, and patches to the program.
And there is more -- so much more -- goodness in this year's
line-up. You can also already submit your prerecorded lightning
talk by uploading it to our server.
No registration is necessary to access the event. However,
registration helps us prepare for the event, and it provides you
with some benefits! It is very useful in anticipating the amount of
server space we need, or as we plan the number of volunteers we need
for things like moderation.
We will continue to make minor changes and additions to the schedule
as preparations continue, but you'll find no workshops in the schedule
this year. But not to worry, we had a record number of workshop
submissions, and to make sure we get the most out of all sessions, and
are able to offer it to more people, we decided to do a series of
LibrePlanet workshops after the conference.
Volunteer
The LibrePlanet 2022 team is working hard to create an interactive,
fun, and social experience for the fully free event by using multiple
channels, like IRC, Jitsi, and BigBlueButton. If you want to help the
organization of the event by volunteering at the event, or use your
bug-fixing skills to fix up our fully free conference space
LibreAdventure, then you can go to our issue tracker, and get
involved!
Seeking sponsors
LibrePlanet cannot exist without the support of the community. If
you or your company would like to sponsor or exhibit at
LibrePlanet, have a look at this year's prospectus, and
email [email protected] for more information.
Your support will help sustain, energize, and inspire the free
software community. Sponsoring provides you, and your organization,
with a unique opportunity to demonstrate commitment to free software
and engage with hundreds of legal and policy experts, developers,
students, activists, free software and technology enthusiasts, and
potential employees via our virtual exhibitor hall.
You don't have to wait to start discussing sessions and ideas around
LibrePlanet -- join the discussion mailing list, the IRC
channel at #libreplanet, and the wiki community
now. Finally, we hope you'll help us spread the word about LibrePlanet
2022: please blog or microblog to let people know that you'll be
there, using the hashtag #libreplanet.
