= Team NYC = Date/Time: Saturday September 15, 7:00 pm- 10:00 pm Location: ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU) 721 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 = Event Summary = * Similar to previous years, an evening of socializing with snacks and drinks, including a short program of speakers and presentations with large breakout rooms available for collaboration and sharing. = Full Event Description = The 5th annual Software Freedom Day NYC will take place on Saturday September 15, 2012 from 6:30-10:00 pm. The New York celebratory event will be held this year at ITP, NYU's school for the Interactive Telecommunications Program, located at 721 Broadway (between 8th Street & Washington Place.) As in previous years this will be a celebration of the merits and successes of free software, with food & drinks and a short program of speakers. This is also a "hack friendly" event; we will have 2 large breakout rooms so bring your laptop to demonstrate a project you're working on or engage in informal collaboration. At 8:00 pm there will be a short program including presentations. Scheduled speakers include: * James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center on "Free Software vs Censorship and Surveillance" * "Wikipedia Takes Manhattan” -- presented by Wikimedia NYC (following up on this afternoon’s photo-walk departing Bowling Green at 3pm, and arriving at ITP at 7pm) * Jon Stanley on the Fedora project * Occupy <3s Open Source -- presented by TechOps of the NYCGA (NYC General Assembly) as well as short talks on other free software projects and distributions. After this program there will be a reception, including a key signing. For full event information please see the official announcement at http://cfsg.org/Software-Freedom-Day-2012 For more information about Software Freedom Day see the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Day == Participants == * [[http://www.softwarefreedom.org/|SFLC]] * [[http://cfsg.org|CFSG]] * [[http://isoc-ny.org|ISOC-NY]] == Speakers == * James Vasile ([[http://www.softwarefreedom.org|SFLC]]) * John Stanley ([[http://fedoraproject.org|Fedora]]) * Others TBC (to be confirmed) == Wikimedia Photo Awards == * As part of the program will be announcing "winners" of the Wikimedia Commons photo hunt contest, held all that day. == Organizers == * [[http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/USA/NY/NYC/SFD|Forest Mars]] * [[http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/USA/NY/NYC/SFD|Horst Ferko]] * [[http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/USA/NY/NYC/SFD|HelixOne]] * [[http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2012/USA/NY/NYC/SFD|Pharos]] == Co-ordinating Organizations == * [[http://cfsg.org|CFSG]] * [[http://nylug.org|NYLUG]] * [[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_New_York_City|Wikimedia New York City]] ---- CategoryTeam2012