By Bastien Guerry.

Org-mode is an Emacs mode for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, doing project planning and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system.

In this talk, I'll go through existing core features (the organizer, the exporters, the Babel library) and present examples of real use. I will also list possible contributions (exporters, libraries to interact with online organizers, bug tracking tools, etc.) and mention hard problems to solve, the hardest one being to make Org suitable for collaborative project planning.

Finally, I'll give an overview of Org's history and community, with some ideas on how to sustain this great project.

By Andy Wingo.

I'll start by giving my standard propaganda schtick about guile, and how it can make hacking GNU more like hacking lisp machines. I'll go on like that for about 15 minutes.

In the latter 15 minutes I'll do some live hacking. I think what I'd like to show would be live-hacking a web application through emacs and geiser, in which I show what it's like to hack on a running application, what it's like to hack the web in sxml, how to make new bindings to C functions without restarting the process, things like that.

By Ole Tange.

Demo of what you can do with GNU Parallel - loosely based on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ

By Ralf Wildenhues.

The GNU Autotools provide a source code build system portable to various different environments. This talk reviews some of the recent developments and highlights a few tips and tricks for users.

By Simon Josefsson.

I will talk about the network application security technologies SASL, Kerberos, GSS-API and TLS on a general level. I'll give an overview of the GNU implementations of these protocols. Focus will be on how the protocols and implementations interact with each other, and how you as application writer can use them.

By Karsten Gerloff.

The GNU project to create a Free Software operating system has been a resounding success, giving millions of people around the world the freedom to use, study, share and improve the programs on their computers. "Cloud computing" and software as a service present new challenges for the Free Software movement. As more people every day use computers controlled by someone else, how do we win back our freedom? How do we translate the ideals behind the GNU project into this changing world?

Instead of giving all the answers, the goal of this talk is to get you asking the right questions.

By Matthias Kirschner.

What would you think about a sign on the highway saying “You need a Volkswagen to drive on this road. Contact your Volkswagen dealer for a gratis test drive – Your Government”? When it comes to software that opens PDF files, many public sector organisations do this every day.

With the pdfreaders.org campaign FSFE has turned the spotlight on government organisations who behave in this way, exposing how frequent such advertisements for non-free software are. With the help of activists across Europe, FSFE contacted these organisations and explained them how to improve their websites so that they respect our freedom.

Why did FSFE choose this topic? How was the campaign organised? What has the Belgium's Prime Minister or the German Federal Criminal Police Office replied to our letters? How successful was the campaign?

By Jose E. Marchesi.

GNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, text-based databases called recfiles. The data is stored as a sequence of records, each record containing an arbitrary number of named fields.

The talk will introduce the rec format and how can it be used to store medium sized databases with data integrity. A little demo will follow showing the recutils in action.

I'm the employee of the french Wikimedia chapter¹. I've been involved in the free software movement for the last ten years, and I co-founded OLPC France² back in 2008. My background education is in philosophy and cognitive sciences.

After a few years of contribution to Org-mode, Carsten Dominik invited me to take over maintainance.

Karsten Gerloff is a Free Software activist and analyst. As FSFE's President since June 2009, he leads FSFE's strategy development and execution, as well as the organisation's policy work at the European institutions and the United Nations. He focuses on topics such as Free Software, Open Standards, copyright, patents and competition policy. His central interest is in all aspects of the question of how we as a society manage our knowledge and communication.

Jose E. Marchesi is a long-term GNU activist. In 1999, he founded GNU Spain, and he later assisted in the creation of GNU Italy and GNU Mexico. His experience in GNU software maintainership cover GNU gv (up to 2007), GNU Ghostscript (up to 2006), GNU Ferret, GNU PDF and GNU recutils. He also performs what he calls "random works" in the GNU Project, such as writing internal code and editing Web pages as needed. He develop his professional work in the Space sector, writing software for the European Space Agency.

Simon Josefsson is the GNU maintainer of SASL, Libidn, GSS, Shishi and GnuTLS.

Andy Wingo is the co-maintainer of GNU Guile, the Scheme interpreter.

Ralf Wildenhues is a scientific computing math PhD student who got fed up writing dependency tracking rules in makefiles portable to several systems and compilers, and ended up co-maintaining Automake, Libtool, and the GCC build system.

Ole Tange has worked as Hostmaster for .dk, as a security consultant, as network admin, as site reliablility engineer, as developer and is now working as a bioinformatician. He has worked with UNIX since 1991, GNU/Linux since 1992, and in 1996 he deleted his Microsoft Windows partition. His phone has been running free software since 2008. He has done lots of presentations on security, Free Software, and IT political issues (such as software patents) – both for the general public and to polticians. He is best know as the person behind the original "The Patented Webshop" (http://ole.tange.dk/swpat) illustrating software patents in a typical webshop.

Matthias is FSFE's Fellowship Coordinator and the Coordinator of the German team. After being FSFE's first intern in 2004, he continued to work for FSFE as a volunteer. In 2009 he finished his diploma thesis on "IT coordination in the Superior Federal Administration", and started working full time for FSFE. Amoungst other policy work, Matthias is or was in charge the "I love Free Software" http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/valentine-2010/valentine-2010.en.html campaign, the "Ask your candidates" campaign http://www.fsfe.org/projects/btw09/btw09.en.html for the German Federal Election in 2009, and the Free Software PDF Readers campaign http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.en.html.