Right to repair advocate Elizabeth Chamberlain to keynote FSF's LibrePlanet
Elizabeth Chamberlain is director of sustainability at iFixit and a passionate advocate of the right to repair. iFixit sells repair parts and publishes gratis repair guides for electronic devices such as smartphones, tractors, and toasters on their Web site. With these, iFixit is helping thousands of people repair their devices every day instead of throwing them away.
Chamberlain will keynote LibrePlanet 2023, the fifteenth edition of the FSF's annual conference on ethical technology and user freedom. Regarding her talk, titled "The future of the right to repair and free software," she says, "Free software and the right to repair are founded on so many of the same principles: We should have the right to learn how our things work. If we want to train up a new generation of technological innovators, we've got to make sure they can get into the guts and brains of their devices. That's why we need both free software and the right to repair to chart our course to a freer future."
Miriam Bastian, program manager for the FSF, says that the FSF is "honored to host Elizabeth as a keynote at LibrePlanet 2023. The right to repair and free software are two sides of the same coin, both indispensable if we want to stop our climate from collapsing and both imperative to our freedom. Elizabeth's keynote therefore fits perfectly in this year's theme 'Charting the Course'."
This year's conference schedule features talks and workshops from a wide and international range of community members, including a keynote by software freedom in education advocate Erin Rose Glass. "We try hard to find speakers and keynotes who represent different views and passions," says Bastian. The conference's video archive contains talks recorded throughout the conference's history, including keynote talks by Edward Snowden and Cory Doctorow. Thousands of people have attended LibrePlanet over the years, both in person and remotely. Each year, the conference has welcomed visitors from as many as fifteen countries, with many more joining online.
About LibrePlanet
LibrePlanet is the annual conference of the FSF. Over the last decade, LibrePlanet has blossomed from a small gathering of FSF associate members into a vibrant multi-day event that attracts a broad audience of people who are interested in the values of software freedom. LibrePlanet 2023 is the fifteenth edition and will be held on March 18 and 19, 2023 both online and in person at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. To receive announcements about LibrePlanet 2023, visit https://libreplanet.org/conference and sign up for the email updates.
Registration for LibrePlanet: "Charting the Course" is open. Attendance is free of charge to FSF associate members and students.
For information on how your company or organization can sponsor LibrePlanet or have a table in the lively and centrally located exhibit hall, see this year's sponsoring prospectus, or email campaigns@fsf.org.
About the Free Software Foundation
The FSF, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at https://www.fsf.org and https://www.gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at https://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.
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