Debian choudhary biography books
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Program Speakers
Emmanuel is a Division III student at Hampshire College, studying how technology (especially restrictive technology, like DRM) can affect how individuals share information, learn, remix content, organize, and live their everyday lives. Born and raised in western Massachusetts, they are committed to building a free society, while improving the lives of others with technology. Their latest work can be found at http://emmanuel.im/.
Sunil Mohan Adapa is a Free Software developer and an independent software consultant. He is a contributor to the FreedomBox project. In the past, he has contributed to the IndLinux project and Telugu localization. He also teaches as guest faculty at IIIT-Hyderabad. After graduating from IIIT-H in 2003, before becoming an independent consultant, he has worked at various corporates and at his own startup.
Tim 'mithro' Ansell is the founder and lead of the TimVideos.us project a group of projects which aim to drastically r
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Meet Mishi Choudhary, the only lawyer to appear in Indian and US Supreme Courts during the same term
Digital rights activist Mishi Choudhary who has been leading the fight to preserve net neutrality also balances a flourishing law career on both sides of the world.
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I pose the query to Mishi herself, seeking her opinion on why her profession attracts much prejudice and is generally perceived as an unbeco
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Past Engagements
FOSS Law: Where We Are, Where We Are Going
As we begin our second decade of working as counselors and advocates for software freedom, SFLC invites counsel, developers, enterprise users and other members of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities to join us at a free conference exploring legal issues surrounding FOSS, present and future, held at Columbia Law School on Friday, October 31, 2014.
Martin Fink, CTO of Hewlett-Packard, will offer a keynote address on “Free Software and the Machine.” Professor Eben Moglen, SFLC’s founder and Executive Director, will speak on “Software Freedom in the Age of ‘Cloud to Mobile’: The Next Ten Years.” SFLC Legal Director Mishi Choudhary and her team will discuss current issues in patent law, copyleft compliance, and the ongoing utmaning to tax-exempt non-profit organization for FOSS communities. We will consider technical as well as legal changes—including memristor-based computing, disposable computers, and the econ