# LibrePlanet 2012 conference announced: March 24th-25th

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Monday, December 12, 2011 -- The Free
Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the dates for its upcoming
LibrePlanet 2012 conference as March 24th and 25th, 2012, at the
University of Massachusetts, Boston. A call for papers has also been
announced. The conference will include talks from the FSF staff and
board, GNU project contributors, and other members of the global free
software community.

Previous LibrePlanet conferences have featured many free software
luminaries, including FSF president Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen of
the Freedom Box Foundation and Software Freedom Law Center, EFF
co-founder John Gilmore, GNOME Foundation executive director Karen
Sandler, Jeremy Allison of the Samba project, Selena Deckelmann of
PostgreSQL, Máirín Duffy of Fedora, and veteran GNU developer Rob
Savoye.

"At last year's event, I promised we would make this conference bigger
and better than ever before." said Matt Lee, FSF campaigns manager,
"All signs point to us making good on that promise."

The conference is open to the public with purchase of a ticket, but
associate members of the Free Software Foundation can attend as a
benefit of their financial contribution. A goal of one hundred new
associate members has been set in order to fund the conference, and
new and existing members are encouraged to contribute online at
<http://www.fsf.org/associate>.

More information on the conference, including a mailing list for
updates and speaker announcements, is available at
<http://www.fsf.org/events/libreplanet-2012>.

### About the Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to
promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and
redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and
use of free (as in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating
system and its GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free
software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and
political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites,
located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are an important source of information
about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at
<http://donate.fsf.org>. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.

### About Free Software and Open Source

The free software movement's goal is freedom for computer users. Some,
especially corporations, advocate a different viewpoint, known as
"open source," which cites only practical goals such as making
software powerful and reliable, focuses on development models, and
avoids discussion of ethics and freedom. These two viewpoints are
different at the deepest level. For more explanation, see
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html>.

### Media Contacts

Matt Lee
Campaigns Manager
Free Software Foundation
+1 (617) 542 5942 x24
campaigns@fsf....

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