FSCONS Blog

FSCONS is proud to announce our two keynotes for 2011; Christina Haralanova and Richard Stallman.

Christina Haralanova

[caption id="attachment_651" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Christina Haralanova - Photo: Mathias Klang CC-BY-NC"][/caption]Christina Haralanova is a feminist, a Free Software hacktivist and an IT trainer. Since fall 2010, Christina does a PhD in Communication Studies in Concordia University, under the supervision of Leslie Regan-Shade. As a free software hacktivist, Christina has participated actively in the creation of the Free Software Association – Bulgaria (FSA-BG), and is a member of FACIL - pour l'appropriation collective de l'informatique libre (since 2006) and Koumbit (since 2006) in Montreal, Canada. Christina was the Project Leader of the Legal Case Management Software (LCM) (2004-2005), an LPI proctor (2003 – 2005), a SPIP-bg translator.

Richard Stallman

[caption id="attachment_650" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Richard Stallman, Photo: Gisle Hannemyr CC-BY-SA"][/caption]Richard Matthew Stallman is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement Stallman also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.

Keynote dates

Stallman will give his keynote on Saturday November 12, and Christina will give her on Sunday November 13 both on FSCONS 2011.