If you’re interested in free software — and free network services in particular — and should try to join me in Boston for the weekend of March 21st and 22nd.
The FSF is organizing its annual members meeting again. This year the model is very different. For a start, the audience isn’t limited to FSF members and the conference is not just about FSF projects and work.
Instead, the meeting has been rebranded LibrePlanet and has been broken up into a two-day event that is going to talk about and then try to tackle some of the biggest problems facing the world of free and open source software. Saturday March 21st will feature a series of talks about major issues facing free software. Sunday March 22nd will be focused on an unconference attempt to tackle and explore several of the key themes or tracks: network services, high priority projects, and the nascent LibrePlanet activism network.
I’ll be focused on the track around free network services which I’m helping organize in part through Autonomo.us. For more information on that angle, please take a look at my blog post over at Autonomo.us. We’re going to have a great group of people at the track and I’m excited by the idea that that we’ll be able to make some real progress on the issues.
I encourage anyone who thinks they might be able to make it to consider doing so. There are details including travel, location, hotel information and much more on the event web page and wiki (login is required to RSVP). Please spread the word!