<p> The world has finally realized that “spying all the time” is too high a price to pay for social networking platforms like Facebook. Now it’s up to the hacker community to respond and build a free software social networking distribution to empower end users and help them reclaim their privacy. Software Freedom Law Center attorney James Vasile will talk about the progress of the “Freedom Box” box project and how the hacker community can get involved. </p>
<p> <strong> James Vasile </strong> is an attorney at the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and a longtime advocate of free software and free culture. He has advised major free software projects like GNOME, Apache, Drupal, and Joomla. Alongside his work at the SFLC, James writes software for the Book Liberator project and produced the last two New York Software Freedom Day celebrations. He serves on the board of several freedom-oriented non-profits and writes about freedom, technology, and community at his blog, Hackervisions.org. </p>