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SFD NYC Event - Saturday Evening
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