Software Freedom Day 2012 SFD (NYC, NY)

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Date/Time: Saturday September 15, 7:00 pm- 10:00 pmLocation: 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

• [Mars]
• [Ferko]
• [http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/20.../SFD|HelixOne]
• [http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/20.../SFD|Pharos]

Co-ordinating Organizations

* [http://cfsg.org|CFSG] * [http://nylug.org|NYLUG]* [New York City]

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