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So, LibrePlanet happened this weekend.  It’s one of my favorite conferences, and not just because it’s local.  This year Deb Nicholson and I ran a pre-conference workshop for free software projects to improve their usability and new contributor onboarding, hosted by the lovely folks at Bocoup.  According to our participants it was a smashing success.  Deb and I are writing up a guide so that other FOSS conferences can run similar workshops.

Other highlights included: a remote keynote by Edward Snowden, giving a well-received talk on artificial scarcity, and this surprising moment from Karen Sandler’s closing keynote:

Anyway, I’m looking forward to improving my scarcity talk and giving it again, perhaps at Open Source Bridge.  In the mean time, the slides are here.