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Today I'm at MIT for the 2005 FSF Associate Member's meeting. The Free Software Foundation is a group that advocates for Free software on legal and technological bases, and they do an amazing job — I encourage you to donate and become a member.

Today's schedule is filled with some pretty interesting talks. This morning we've had a few speeches on the current state of the FSF, its recent new executive director appointment, and some upcoming goals/challenges for Free software. I've never heard Eben Moglen speak before but he gave some really interesting insight while responding to a question from the audience — exploring the intersection of goals in the legal, technological, and financial challenges for freedom. I'm looking forward to his talk later on. Larry Lessig's talk should also be good, and I think with this audience he can assume we know the basics and give a speech that I won't have already heard or read about.

The audience is about 65 people, and they're very engaged in software freedom. Awesome! Time to get back into the classroom.