Audio is up from the luncheon talk I did at the Berkman last October. I’m always surprised by how thin my voice sounds on recordings.
Thanks to Amar Ashar for passing me the link.
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Yakkety
I will be vacationing in Amsterdam from April 6th through 12th. On the 5th, I’m slated to deliver a keynote at Joomla!Day The Netherlands 2008. If anybody wants to meet up, let me know.
Replicating Free Software’s Success
On April 2, I will be talking to ShefLUG at Sheffield Hallam University in England. My plane lands in Manchester on the first, if anybody wants to meet up.
My topic:
The Free Software movement has proven itself in every imaginable way. We have quality software on servers, desktops and in embedded systems. Free Software is used in homes, offices, retail and in manufacturing. Everywhere from back rooms to classrooms and boardrooms. We’ve spawned new business models and changed the economics of old ones. The challenges that are left will be met and soon.
Such has been the success of free software that we have spawned entire other movements. From Creative Commons to open hardware to open science, everybody wants to replicate Free Software’s achievements in new media. Even further, there are people fighting for values that, while beloved in the Free Software world, are not protected by the Free Software society. Values like privacy and data portability between web services. Each of these attempts borrows from Free Software’s history. This talk looks at what is being taken, what is being left, and why. It’s an inquiry into the future, as we ask how to nurture these nascent movements.