LP schedule

Markdown structure

Overall structure:

## Day 1

### Timeslot 1

#### Session 1

#### Session 2

...

### Timeslot 2

#### Session 1

#### Session 2

...

## Day 2

### Timeslot 1

#### Session 1

#### Session 2

...

Level two heading (##) format:

## Saturday, March 19

...

## Sunday, March 20

Level three heading (###) format:

### 09:00 - 09:45: Registration and Breakfast

### 09:45 - 10:45: Opening Keynote

...

### 10:55 - 11:40: Session Block 1A

Session structure:

#### Fork and ignore: fighting a GPL violation by coding instead

[Bradley Kuhn][kuhn], [Karen Sandler][sandler]

Room 32-155

https://libre.planet/fork-and-ignore.webm

Typically, GPL enforcement activity involves copyright infringement
actions which compel license violators to correct errors in their
GPL compliance, defending the policy goals of the GPL: the rights of
developers and users to copy, share, modify and redistribute.

While traditional enforcement is often undeniably necessary for
embedded electronics products, novel approaches to GPL violations
are often possible and even superior for more traditional software
distributions.

Recently, [Software Freedom Conservancy][sfc] engaged in an
enforcement action whereby, rather than fight the violator in court,
we instead provided resources and assistance to a vetted
GPL-compliant fork of a violating codebase.

This talk discusses which scenarios make this remedy optimal and the
lessons learned. The talk includes some licensing and technical
content about vetting the licensing information of codebases.

[kuhn]: https://libreplanet.org/YEAR/path/to/speakers.html#kuhn
[sandler]: https://libreplanet.org/YEAR/path/to/speakers.html#sandler
[sfc]: https://sfconservancy.org/

Sample: https://notabug.org/rsd/lpschedule-generator/raw/master/tests/files/lp-sch.md

Auto-linking speaker names

Speakers in the schedule MD can be auto-linked to speakers’ page by marking them up like this [John Hacker]()

The script converts:

• [John Hacker]() to <a href="speakers.html#hacker">John Hacker</a> if John Hacker’s bio is available in the speakers’ page.

• [John Hacker]() to John Hacker if John Hacker’s bio is not available in the speakers’ page. In this case, the script also appends John Hacker name in the speakers.noids file.

  The speakers.noids file contains a list of speakers who were auto-linked in the schedule MD but who’s bio is not (yet) available in the speakers’ page.

For auto-linking speakers, the script uses the speakers.ids file; this file is written to the disk after generating the the speakers’ page from MD. Generate the speakers’ page before generating the schedule page for auto-linking to work.

Sample: https://notabug.org/rsd/lpschedule-generator/raw/master/tests/files/lp-sessions-autolink.md

Special cases

Speaker TBA

When the speaker information for a session is not yet available put SpeakerTBA as the placeholder in the line that usually contains the speaker information; the rendered HTML will not have speaker information for sessions that have SpeakerTBA.

Room TBA

When a room for a session is not yet available put RoomTBA as the placeholder in the line that usually contains the room number; the rendered HTML will not have the room number for sessions that have RoomTBA.

Video TBA

When the video for a session is not yet available put VideoTBA as the placeholder in the line that usually contains the URL for the video; the rendered HTML will not have the video link for sessions that have VideoTBA.

Description TBA

When the description for session is not yet available put DescTBA as the placeholder; the rendered HTML will not have the description for sessions that have DescTBA.

Sample: https://notabug.org/rsd/lpschedule-generator/raw/master/tests/files/lp-sch-tba.md

Sessions only schedule

It is possible to have a sessions only schedule. To do this, at the beginning of the markdown document:

• Add a level two heading (##) with one or more whitespaces.

• Add a level three heading (###) with one or more whitespaces.

Sessions only sample: https://notabug.org/rsd/lpschedule-generator/raw/master/tests/files/lp-sch-sessions-only.md

Single session time slot

If a time slot contains only one session (like a Keynote), then session heading/title can be omitted:

### 9:00 - 10:45: Opening Keynote - Beyond unfree...

[Cory Doctorow][doctorow]

Room 32-123

https://libre.planet/doctorow-beyond-unfree

Software has eaten the world...

Generate HTML from Markdown

$ lps_gen -sc path/to/lp-sch.md > path/to/program-schedule.html

or:

$ lps_gen --schedule path/to/lp-sch.md > path/to/program-schedule.html

iCal export

The --ical switch enables iCal export while generating LP schedule:

$ lps_gen -sc --ical 2016 path/to/lp-schedule.md > path/to/program-schedule.html

The year of the conference must be given as an argument to the --ical switch.

If you run into issues, ask for help.

Next, you might want to look at the LP speakers section or the General section.