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The collaborative spirit of the free software and hacker movements lends itself to writing fiction as well. I write free culture fantasy stories with free software tools. Crafting characters and settings that can be used freely by other authors and artists promotes creativity and is a useful way of teaching people about the principles of freedom.

Since I use plain text and a Git-based workflow, anyone can freely read, modify, and share my stories. They can learn from edits I have made or propose improvements. Plain text formats like Markdown and Shanty make writings portable across most computers.

We can create a storytelling community that allows cross-pollination between creators and disciplines (e.g., novels, songs, and video games) and changes us from consumers to creators.

Presented by: Seth Patterson

Seth Patterson grew up listening to radio dramas and his mom reading novels from the 1800s. He got his love of writing from his dad, who is an editor. In high school, he completed One Year Adventure Novel. He has been in love with writing fiction ever since.

He studied cybersecurity in college, which taught him how to think like bad guys to defend against them. Thinking like bad guys comes in handy for writing fiction too. He also discovered free software and free culture in college.

Seth writes free culture fiction, using tools like Nano and Markdown.

Among the founders of the project Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook, presenter and ambassador of the project. President of the association Power Progress Community which deals with the promotion and dissemination of free software and libre hardware. Responsible in humanist forums of the area "Technology for improving the living conditions of mankind". By profession, Software architect with free software tools.

Presented by: Roberto Innocenti

Among the founders of the project Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook, presenter and ambassador of the project. President of the association Power Progress Community which deals with the promotion and dissemination of free software and libre hardware. Responsible in humanist forums of the area "Technology for improving the living conditions of mankind". By profession, Software architect with free software tools.

Let's see what the Debian Brazil Community has been doing for Debian and free software in Brazil, meet our group and I will show the events and activities organized by us.

Presented by: I'm a Debian developer contributing with packaging free software, and translating Debian to Portuguese. I'm a free software enthusiast and I have been organizing free software events for many years. I was one of main organizers of DebConf19 - The Debian Conference in 2019 in Curitiba - Brazil. I have been working as systems administration engineer at Collabora. I’m a member of the Debian Brazil Community.

Marco Calegaro

Free software hacker.

100% believer in the "Free Software, Free Society" motto.

Presented by: Marco Calegaro

Free software hacker.

100% believer in the "Free Software, Free Society" motto.

This presentation is about Raspberry Pi and the progress on liberating the boot firmware for it. I will talk about why it's important to have free boot firmware on Raspberry Pi and look at its technical details. We will look at the boot firmware librerpi: its status, how it all started and we will also look at its demos.

Presented by: Johannes Åsgård

I'm Johannes (also known as dolphinana). I'm interested in music and computers. I sometimes compose music and receive positive reactions from it. I like to improvise on piano. As for computers, I like them and I tinker with them sometimes. I have made some attempts to program some games in the past. I'm passionate about free software and I want to contribute to its movement. I try to free the boot firmware on devices when ever possible.

In 2020, we had free graphics drivers for all major hardware. Enter "Apple Silicon", stage left. The new Macs shipped an in-house GPU with proprietary drivers, no public specs, and no native support for free operating systems. Even worse, the vendor's drivers are not conformant to any industry standard, forcing free software developers to waste time porting their graphics code to run inside the walled garden. What do we do? Reverse-engineer the hardware, of course. Once we dissect the architecture, we can build our own graphics stack, protect software freedom, and beat the big guy with our conformant OpenGL® 4.6 support. In this talk, we'll zoom in on this peculiar GPU and what it means for the fight for free software.

Presented by: Alyssa Rosenzweig

Alyssa Rosenzweig is the graphics witch behind the reverse-engineered drivers for the Apple GPU. She previously led Panfrost, the free drivers for Arm Mali GPUs powering devices like the Pinebook Pro. She graduated in 2023 with a Computer Science degree from the University of Toronto and now writes free software full-time.