Location(s) Cambridge, MA | Most recent 19-20 March 2016 | |
Frequency Annually, usually during late March Inaugurated LibrePlanet Conference 2009 Founder Free Software Foundation Previous event LibrePlanet 2016 Conference | ||
LibrePlanet (literally, "Free Planet") is a community project created and supported by the Free Software Foundation. Its objective is the promotion of free software around the world by bringing every year an international conference to local communities and organizations.
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History
The project was born in 2006, at a gathering of members associated with the Foundation and the will to organize into geographical groups.
LibrePlanet conference
The conference is organized annually by the Free Software Foundation in or around Boston, Massachusetts and staffed by a mixture of foundation staff and community volunteers. The conference replaces the FSF Annual Members Meeting (AMM) which ran around the same time each year.
Each conference has its own theme and a website. The event typically includes a speech from FSF president, Richard Stallman and FSF executive director John Sullivan, as well as members of the wider free software community.
Edward Snowden spoke at the convention in 2016.