Plone Conference 2006 featured over 45 outstanding talks, tutorials and workshops.  But none were more inspiring and important than Eben Moglen's keynote address, "Software and Community in the Early 21st Century."

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In front of a standing-room-only crowd of over 350 Plone users and developers, Eben delivered an inspiring and wide-ranging talk that traced the connections between the free software movement, the One Laptop Per Child project, and the past three hundred years of modern industrial economic development, and placed our work into the larger context of the ongoing journey towards freedom and equality for all people. 

As many Plone community members know, Eben Moglen is Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School, and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation He was instrumental in helping to create the Plone Foundation, and is currently working on Version 3 of the GPL, an important open source license.