{"id":4338,"date":"2011-05-02T17:08:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T00:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:53:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:53:30","slug":"keynoting-at-fosscon-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2011\/05\/keynoting-at-fosscon-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynoting at Fosscon in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I was approached by the organizers of <a href=\"http:\/\/fosscon.org\/\">Fosscon<\/a>, taking place in Philadelphia this year, and asked if I would be interested in doing the keynote. It requires a flight across the country, but Philadelphia is my old home and I was delighted by the opportunity!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/fosscon.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/052011\/fosscon_banner_med.png\" alt=\"Fosscon\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So on Saturday July 23rd I&#8217;ll be giving the Keynote at Fosscon with a FOSS involvement talk I&#8217;m calling <em>&#8220;Making a Difference for Millions: Getting Involved with FOSS&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The title of the talk is inspired by work I see every day where individuals in the FOSS community submit a patch that changes default behavior for an application and literally makes a difference for millions of users. In addition to the framework of the talk, which will discuss the plethora of places one can get involved, I&#8217;m really going to focus on some of the may ways that contributing is satisfying and beneficial, even if the contributions are made sheerly on a volunteer basis.<\/p>\n<p>Registration to Fosscon is free, but there is also a $25 &#8220;Fosscon supporter&#8221; ticket that includes a gift bag. More details about the conference and registration information can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/fosscon.org\">fosscon.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I was approached by the organizers of Fosscon, taking place in Philadelphia this year, and asked if I would be interested in doing the keynote. It requires a flight across the country, but Philadelphia is my old home and I was delighted by the opportunity! So on Saturday July 23rd I&#8217;ll be giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,37,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-philadelphia","category-tech","category-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12163,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions\/12163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}