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| 2 | author: bigpresh | |
| 3 | date: 2017-08-23 22:00:00+00:00 | |
| 4 | slug: freenode-live-speakers | |
| 5 | title: freenode #live - more confirmed speakers | |
| 6 | category: community | |
| 7 | category: general | |
| 8 | category: freenode | |
| 9 | --- | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | The freenode #live team are excited to announce more confirmed speakers | |
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12 | for the [freenode #live conference](https://freenode.live/conference/fn-live17) |
| 13 | taking place at the At-Bristol Science Centre in Bristol, UK on 28-29th October | |
| 14 | this year, with plenty more still to be announced. | |
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15 | |
| 16 | Of the variety of speakers, talks and workshops we've had submitted, we're | |
| 17 | pleased to announce the following confirmed lineup: | |
| 18 | ||
| 19 | ### Keynote speakers | |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | - Deb Nicholson (Community Outreach Director for the Open Invention Network, | |
| 22 | winner of several awards including the O'Reilly Open Source Award) | |
| 23 | - Karen Sandler (Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, former | |
| 24 | executive director of the GNOME Foundation) | |
| 25 | - Matthew Garrett (technologist, programmer, and free software activist - a | |
| 26 | major contributor to various projects including Linux, GNOME, Debian, Ubuntu | |
| 27 | and Red Hat. He is a recipient of the Free Software Award from the Free | |
| 28 | Software Foundation for his work on Secure Boot, UEFI, and the Linux kernel. | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | ### Confirmed talks | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | - James Wheare (founder of IRCCloud) | |
| 33 | - Christopher Baines (Debian packager, OSM contributor) | |
| 34 | - Kaspar Emanuel (freelance electronic design engineer and software | |
| 35 | developer working on projects ranging from musical instruments to robots to | |
| 36 | Braille displays) | |
| 37 | - Nathan Handler (freenode staff member, Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux | |
| 38 | Developer, Site Reliability Engineer at Yelp) | |
| 39 | - Errietta Kostala (Perl developer at FairFX London, keen open source | |
| 40 | contributor including Mozilla) | |
| 41 | - Maxigas (postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and a | |
| 42 | fellow at Central European University) | |
| 43 | - Michael Walker (working on a Ph.D, open source contributor, started Arch Hurd | |
| 44 | distribution, author of Déjà Fu Haskell concurrent testing library) | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | ## More to come... | |
| 47 | ||
| 48 | Another 12+ talks yet to be confirmed will be announced soon, plus workshops on | |
| 49 | various topics. | |
| 50 | ||
| 51 | ||
| 52 | # Get your tickets now! | |
| 53 | ||
| 54 | Want to watch these talks and/or take part in these workshops? Get your | |
| 55 | [tickets](https://freenode.live/conference/fn-live17/tickets) now to ensure you | |
| 56 | have the chance to experience these and the other speakers and workshops to be | |
| 57 | announced soon! | |
| 58 | ||
| 59 | # Exhibit your project or sponsor the event | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | If you represent a FOSS project and would like to exhibit, please contact us - | |
| 62 | FOSS projects exhibit for free, and it's a great way to meet your current users | |
| 63 | and attract others! | |
| 64 | ||
| 65 | Corporate sponsors are very much welcomed also, with a variety of sponsorship | |
| 66 | packages available providing different exposure levels to a FOSS-centered, | |
| 67 | technical audience - get a warm fuzzy feeling by supporting the community | |
| 68 | which most likely contributed in no small way to the success of your business! | |
| 69 | ||
| 70 | For any questions, please feel free to email us - 2017-team@freenode.live - or | |
| 71 | join us in #live on freenode! | |
| 72 | ||
| 73 | We look forward to seeing you there. |