freenode #live is a community-focused live event designed to build and strengthen relationships between Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers and users. freenode live seeks to raise awareness of and promote FOSS alternatives to proprietary software. Facilitating face-to-face interaction, creative workshops, talks and think tanks, freenode #live will bring developers and users together in a nurturing and dynamic environment stimulating the free exchange of ideas and information while fostering cross-project collaboration and dialogue for innovation.

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Saturday, 3rd November 2018

Sessions
09:00

Opening Remarks

09:15

Opening Keynote - What can Free Software learn from classical music?

Chris Lamb

10:00

Libreboot: Free your BIOS today!

Leah Rowe

10:40

Making electronics

Kaspar Emanuel

11:20

Struck entropy! Finding true randomness from sensor data

Daniel Thompson

12:00

UserLAnd - Use Linux Anywhere

Corbin Champion

12:40

Lunch

13:45

In conversation... (with Doc Searls and Simon Phipps)

Doc Searls, Simon Phipps

14:30

How can free communication tools win?

John Sullivan

15:10

Beyond karma: Rewarding & incentivizing participation from volunteer contributors

Danica Sergison

15:50

CGI:IRC - A retrospective

David Leadbeater

16:30

openSUSE Kubic - the container platform by openSUSE

Sarah Julia Kriesch

17:10

Closing Keynote - Interactive chat and the future of software freedom

Bradley Kuhn

19:00

Social Event

Sunday, 4th November 2018

Sessions
09:00

Opening Keynote - So, now what? Or, everything I ever needed to know I learned from Ben Elton.

Leslie Hawthorn

09:45

Open Source as a Business: Strategy, Struggle & Success

Philipp Krenn

10:25

Intro to Identity Management

José Antonio Rey

11:05

GNU Emacs for all

Sachin Patil

11:45

Customer Focused Product Security - a Meltdown/Spectre story

Clifford Perry

12:25

Lunch

13:30

Keynote - What the death and resurrection of Linux Journal taught me about the FOSS community

Kyle Rankin

14:15

Configuration Management at its peak with Foreman!

Rahul Bajaj

14:55

The cost of good open source software: a case study

Amir Montazery

15:35

Heroes, not superheroes: or what the openSUSE admins would prefer not to tell you

Christian Boltz

16:15

Free Software desktops to 2025 and beyond!

Neil McGovern

17:00

Closing Keynote - Four ways to spread the four freedoms

VM Brasseur