• Bringing More Women to Free and Open Source Software

  • Palestrante: Karen Sandler
  • Tags: FISL 16
  • Info: This talk will introduce Outreachy (formerly the Outreach Program for Women), outline how the program works and update you on what’s happened recently. Tired of people talking about how there isn’t diversity in free software? Come to this talk and find out how you can help actually
    change things.

• Freedom in My Heart

  • Palestrante: Karen Sandler
  • Tags: FISL 16
  • Info: When Karen discovered she had a life threatening heart condition, the last thing she expected was to have to worry about software. Now, with a heart device implanted in her body, she has come to understand not only how vulnerable medical devices are but how as a society we are making critical choices about all of our software. Karen will talk about how essential free and open source software is and will discuss her professional and personal view of the issues as a patient and as a cyborg lawyer.

• Stand Up for the GPL!

  • Palestrante: Karen Sandler
  • Tags: FISL 16
  • Info: Karen will discuss Conservancy's work on behalf of a coalition of Linux kernel developers, the GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers. She will talk about why community enforcement is so important and how things currently stand in free and open source software compliance. Karen will also discuss Conservancy's work with Christoph Hellwig and the suit against VMware to defend the GNU General Public License.