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CALNAME:GeekBeacon Fest
NAME:GeekBeacon Fest
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: csgeek .\, Nixie Pixel\n\nOpening Remarks for GBF
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SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Welcome to GeekBeaconFest
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Daliah Saper\n\nIn her presentation\, Daliah will dis
 cuss a slew of legal issues software developers face\, including:\n\n-Key
  provisions in a software licensing agreement\n\n-The different protectio
 ns afforded software developers by trademark and copyright law\n\n– Open 
 source licensing benefits and pitfalls\n\n– Issues related to outsourcing
  and utilizing 1099 contractors
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DTSTART:20220218T190000Z
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SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Protect Your Code-Key Legal Considerations for Software Developers
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wm Salt Hale\n\nSustainably funding public goods is h
 ard\, just ask your local government. We know that free software\, journa
 lism\, research\, and similar efforts benefit everyone\, whether or not u
 sers contribute to its creation. How then can we reach the world of every
 one working on what they love while making a livable wage? At Snowdrift.c
 oop\, we have been working on concept called 'crowdmatching' that creates
  a network effect through mutual assurance to fund the commons.
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DTSTART:20220218T200000Z
LOCATION:MainTrack
SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Making dollars and sense of public goods funding
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Johnny Wu\n\nHandshake is a decentralized DNS project
  aiming to replace Certificate Authorities with a blockchain-based root o
 f trust.
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DTSTART:20220218T210000Z
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SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Decentralizing the Internet with Handshake (HNS)
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: d h\n\nThe Fediverse is a collection of decentralized
 \, digital\, and social spaces.\nDisparate services can interact by using
  standard protocols such as those from ActivityPub.\n\nFree Software proj
 ects such as Mastodon\, Nextcloud\, Pleroma\, PixelFed\, Plume\, PeerTube
  and Friendica are helping us decentralize the web.\nMost offer hosted so
 lutions.\nAll enable us to self-host.\n\nAttendees will learn about:\n\n*
  advantages of decentralized social networking\n* history of the Fedivers
 e and decentralized social networking\n* pros and cons of self-hosting\n*
  data ownership\n* list of some services in the Fediverse\n* how they can
  join and participate in decentralizing the web
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DTSTART:20220218T220000Z
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SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Fediverse: Decentralized Social Networking and Services
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Gracey\n\nAs an industry\, we tend to focus on
  which tools will help us be more efficient in our work. This has been go
 od (especially when lowering the barrier to entry!) but misses a lot of w
 here our pain actually comes from. \n\nIn this talk\, I will provide an a
 rgument about why we should also focus time on building empathy for other
 s as well as some resources on how to improve.
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DTSTART:20220218T230000Z
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SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:DevOps should be about building empathy instead of building tools
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: d h\, Daliah Saper\, Matt Farina\, Nixie Pixel\, Pan
 el Discussion\, Sean O'Brien\n\nPanel Discussion regarding data ownership
  and privacy\, usability of the fediverse (see: https://fediverse.party/ 
 ) and other audience submitted topics.
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DTSTART:20220219T000000Z
LOCATION:MainTrack
SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Privacy and Data Ownership Panel
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ilkka Pirttimaa\n\nHow open data helps blind people
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DTSTART:20220219T190000Z
LOCATION:MainTrack
SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Painting a picture of the world through sound - BlindSquare
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paul Lemm\n\nPaul\, Justin\, Thaddeus and the Ebon sk
 y team will give an overview of their company and a demonstration of thei
 r Sable development platform that allows non-coders to create audio based
  games for the blind community.
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DTSTART:20220219T200000Z
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SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Ebon Sky Studios developing audio games - games for the blind comm
 unity
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Brian Fairbanks\n\nCurrent methods of making a game a
 ccessible are afterthoughts and external to the game - they are through t
 he use of often over-designed User Interface systems. They are often \nTh
 e next phase of accessibility in gaming will be done through design\, in 
 an internal manner.  I am creating games built around the concept of full
  accessibility - including complete blindness - through targeted and inte
 ntional design.
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DTSTART:20220219T210000Z
LOCATION:MainTrack
SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Accessibility By Design
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Colleen Coyne\n\n15 minutes discussing what EA is and
  reviewing the website\; 15 minutes to take questions.
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DTSTART:20220219T220000Z
LOCATION:MainTrack
SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:What is Emotions Anonymous?
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Anthony Bean\, Dom Esposito\, Malik Forté\, Mark Wat
 son\, Nixie Pixel\n\nA pre-recorded panel about creator burnout.
DTEND:20220219T230000Z
DTSTAMP:20260403T204546Z
DTSTART:20220219T223000Z
LOCATION:MainTrack
SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Creator Mental Health Roundtable
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Anthony Bean\n\nWe will discuss the concept of geek t
 herapy\, how it is used by professionals\, and what others can do with it
  to help themselves in times of need
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DTSTART:20220219T230000Z
LOCATION:MainTrack
SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Harnessing Geek Therapy For Our Benefit
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Geoff Shearer\n\nThis session focuses on establishing
  healthy habits and boundaries for sustained success in fintech and crypt
 o\, utilizing Spoon Theory as shared ground for discussion.
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DTSTART:20220220T000000Z
LOCATION:MainTrack
SEQUENCE:329020
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Save a Spoon: Setting Healthy Boundaries in FinTech
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