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Molly de Blanc I am a free software activist who likes communities, policy, and how free software can help people. I work at the Free Software Foundation as a campaigns manager. In my free time, I serve on the board of the Open Source Initiative, organize events, ride a bike, cook vegetarian food, climb, and drink coffee. I live in Somerville, MA with a cat named Bash. While I have blue hair, he does not. Accepted Talks: All ages: How to build a movement Deborah Nicholson and Molly de Blanc want the free software movement to keep growing and one facet of successful movement building is embracing a multi-generational community. The good news is that there is no age requirement for using, promoting and contributing to free software. The bad news is that we aren’t always doing a great job of facilitating a diverse, inter-generational movement. We’ll take a look at what we’re currently doing to bring in young people, how we are treating older people in our communities and where there is room for improvement. Using examples from other movements and inter-generational communities, we’ll identify tactics that aren’t being used to build the free software community and see what we can collectively port over. We plan to inspire the audience to find ways to recruit and retain young people, inspire older people to participate and maintain an unbroken thread of free software conservatorship. This session is accessible to anyone with a general knowledge of what free software is, and that open contribution communities power many free software projects. Freedom Embedded: Devices that Respect Users and Communities GNU and Linux are now embedded in more kinds of hardware than ever, but nearly always only by requiring proprietary bits. The world’s most popular tablets and phones are based on a free core system loaded with nonfree software on top. We are at risk of free software being used primarily as a delivery vehicle to lower the cost of getting proprietary products to market. How do we get the freedom we all want, and what is the market for that? The Free Software Foundation has a certification program called “Respects Your Freedom” (RYF) that awards a certification mark to hardware meeting a set of free software standards (fsf.org/ryf). Embedded and IoT devices are a major target for the future of this program. RYF has already made significant gains, especially over the last few years, certifying USB wifi adapters, 3D printers, home wifi routers, and earlier generation laptops. A growing number of small companies are competing on the basis of the certification, and crowdfunding campaigns are citing meeting the standards as a key project goal. Even bigger things are planned, and most involve the embedded world. Get updates on what’s in store, learn what it takes to get your product certified, hear about the impact of certification so far and the community that has formed around the program, and discuss possible improvements to the standards. Can we turn our current “free software invisible under the hood” reality into a reality where consumers can go into a store or shop online and find clearly marked products that fully respect their freedom?