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Your Desktop is Free But Where's Your Data?

Date: 9:00am, Thursday, August 12th
Location: Pacific D/H
Topic: Keynote
Presentation: {Slides}

The free and open source software community has successfully create a free software desktop. But now many people are using web applications and storing their data in "the cloud". What does this mean to the free software community? How can we help make sure we keep our data and our freedom and still take advantage of the web and social networking? Come learn 3 easy things you can do today to preserve your freedom on the web

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Stormy Peters, GNOME Foundation

Stormy Peters joined the GNOME Foundation from OpenLogic where she founded and managed their OpenLogic Expert Community. Previously, Stormy worked at Hewlett-Packard (HP) where she founded and managed the Open Source Program Office where she was responsible for HP's open source strategy, policy and business practices. Stormy joined HP as a software engineer in the Unix Development Lab after graduating from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science. Stormy is a frequent keynote speaker on business aspects of Open Source Software at major conferences such as the Open Source Business Conference and the O'Reilly conferences, as well as government organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union. Stormy is involved in GNOME and free and open source software because it is changing the world and the community is full of smart, passionate people!

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