FreedomHEC (a
play
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on
WinHEC
The Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) is a series of technical conferences and workshops, where Microsoft elaborates on its hardware plans for Windows devices.
The WinHEC from 1992 to 2008, which stood for Windows Hardware Engineerin ...
) was an "
unconference
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" for
computer hardware engineers and
device driver developers that ran from 2006 to 2012. It focused on making computer hardware interoperate with
free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...
and
open source operating system
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Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also i ...
s, especially
Linux
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.
The idea of FreedomHEC “unconference” was first proposed by writer
Don Marti
Don Marti is a writer and advocate for free and open source software, writing for '' LinuxWorld'' and '' Linux Today''.
Marti was educated at New York University, receiving a master's degrees in science and environmental reporting.
He co-founde ...
on a Linux-related mailing list.
The first FreedomHEC conference was held May 26–27, 2006, in
Seattle
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and was attended by around 30 people. The second was held May 18–19, 2007 in
Los Angeles
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. These two events were scheduled immediately after WinHEC—and in the same city—to make it easier for developers to attend both.
The third FreedomHEC was held November 20–21, 2008, in Taipei, Taiwan. The fourth was held June 10–11, 2009, in Taipei.
The fourth and last FreedomHEC conference was held on June 12–13, 2012, again in Taipei.
References
External links
*
FreedomHEC 2007 wikiFreedomHEC Taipei
Free-software conferences
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