Add abstract for LibrePlanet 2022

It has to be about under 150 words, so it'll need to be trimmed down a
bit.

Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>

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+Title: Replicant: Struggle for independence
+
+Replicant is an FSF certified 100% free software Android
+distribution.
+
+Android is very different from GNU/Linux. While Android reuses the
+Linux kernel (sometimes with huge modifications), it uses almost no
+other components from GNU/Linux and a lot of the Android code was
+written from scratch.
+
+In GNU/Linux and Android, not all the device drivers[1] are inside the
+Linux kernel. For instance in GNU/Linux part part of the Graphic card
+drivers run outside of the Linux kernel[2][3].
+
+In Android the non-kernel drivers are implemented as "hardware
+abstraction libraries". They also enable smartphones and tablets
+manufacturers to ship Linux kernels with modifications that are
+incompatible with GNU/Linux or to support new hardware features not
+yet supported in GNU/Linux.
+
+Since Replicant was created in 2010, most of the work consisted in
+reusing an Android distribution[5] and to replace or avoiding the
+nonfree hardware abstraction libraries it was using to make specific
+smartphones and tablet work.
+
+These distributions also reused the modified Linux kernels provided by
+the smartphones and tablets manufacturers.
+
+The Replicant project has now completely changed focus and wants to
+get rid of the dependency over vendor kernels and base its work on top
+of the official Linux kernel.
+
+In order to be accessible to people with less technical background,
+this talk will first explain the hardware architecture of smartphones
+and Android (more clearly that this summary that has to be under
+characters) and will then talk about the directions taken by the
+Replicant project.
+
+Attendee will also be able to ask questions .
+
+[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_driver
+[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_card
+[3]The mesa project provides
+[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(computer_graphics)
+[5]Replicant has been based on Google's Android and then on
+   CyanogenMod and LineageOS (two Android community distributions).