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The Value of the FOSS Environment
Many times we talk about "Free Software" or "Open Source", but in talking about "Free" we miss the value of the environment. This talk will review the billions of dollars of software and other "intellectual property" that is freely available for use by anyone. Examples will be given of FOSS packages and Cultural archives where people can find software worth many billions of dollars, for gratis. From SourceForge to Wikipedia, from Project Gutenberg to creating your own video and news feed, Free Culture can allow your dream to happen.
Speaker: Jon "Maddog" Hall is the President and CEO of Linux International, he has been dedicated for years to "evangelize" about the advantages of using this operating system. While working at Digital Equipment Corporation, he became interested in Linux and was a key factor so that Linus Torvalds could get the equipment and resources necessary to complete his first port. At the same time, Hall created the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users' Group. During his thirty year career, he has worked for numerous companies and held positions from Programmer to Technical Director of Marketing. In the Linux and Open Source Awards 2006, Hall was honored for his services to the open source community.
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Movement Making
What punk rock, Scouting and the Royal Society can teach us about movement building. Plus: quick, practical thoughts on keeping the open ethos and technology of the web alive for the next 350 years.
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Rainey Reitman: Defending the Free and Uncensored Internet
In the online space, our basic rights to speak and read are under constant threat. Rainey Reitman, activism director of the EFF, will discuss how civil liberties online are under attack and how we can defend them. She’ll specifically talk about how legislative proposals in the United States such as SOPA and cybersecurity proposals could create censorship and surveillance regimes that affect people worldwide. She’ll also outline how online service providers we use daily can become complicit in facilitating surveillance or stifling online speech. Finally, she’ll talk about advocacy efforts to defend free speech, innovation, and individual privacy against corporations and government who would trample on the rights on Internet users.
Speaker: Rainey Reitman leads the activism team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org), a nonprofit civil liberties law firm and advocacy center that focusses on technology issues. In that role, she writes about and orchestrates activism campaigns related to online privacy, government surveillance, software patents, copyright proposals (US and international), and other issues related to tech policy. Recent projects include Global Censorship Chokepoints (https://globalchokepoints.org), a website dedicated to tracking censorship through copyright proposals around the world and coordinating global efforts to combat them, and Defend Innovation (https://defendinnovation.org), a campaign to address the abusive software patent system. Reitman earned her BA from Bard College in Multidisciplinary Studies: Creative Writing, Russian & Gender Studies.
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An endangered species: computer as a universal machine
Computers are universal machines, which you can program to do whatever you want. Meanwhile several IT companies do not this. They want to arbitrarily limit what we as a society can do with those machines. They use technical measures to take away rights from us, which we usually receive when we buy a product. The industry wants to decide what we can do with computers,so tehy can maximise their profits. Do we want to give them those power?
Speaker: Matthias Kirschner (Germany) works for the Free Software Foundation Europe since 2004. He is responsible for several campaigns and working together with politicians, the public administration, and companies. In his weblog "I love it here" and FSFE's monthly newsletter he writes about current developments around Free Software.
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Free Software: Your chance to change the world and how to get there
Free Software is an integral part of a lot of the technology you use every day - maybe even without you realizing it. It has a huge impact on society at large but also on the many thousands of individuals who contribute to Free Software in some way. I want to take you on a ride through the different ways in which people's lifes have been changed by it and more importantly how you can become a part of it no matter your skillset and passion
Speaker: Lydia Pintscher (Germany) is a people geek and cat herder by nature. Among otherthings, she manages KDE's mentoring programs (Google Summer of Code, GoogleCode-in, Season of KDE), is a founding member of KDE's Community Working Group and is a board member of KDE e.V., the non-profit supporting KDE. In her day-job she is doing community ommunications for Wikidata at Wikimedia Deutschland.
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Wikidata: implementation and integration of Wikipedia´s next big thing
This presentation gives an overview of the planned software architecture of Wikidata and how it ties in Wikipedia. We want to explain how we are going to address the many technical and conceptual challenges that arise from the complexity and scale of the data. See ttp://wmde.org/MetaWikidata
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Record. Mix. Master: professional audio production with Free Software
You are interested in doing professional audio editing on studio level using only Free Software? Using real-life examples, this presentation will show you how to do so. From the recording of tracks, to an overview about the most important effect plugins, mastering, up to the creation of the final CD production, ready to send to the CD pressing-plant: Invaluable know-how for any independent musician - and those who're planning to become one.
Speaker: Peter Bubestinger has studied Media-Computer-Science at the technical university in Vienna and has over 15 years experience as musician and audio-engineer - in the studio as well as live. He was working in a recording studio for more than 6 years and has been active as recording-engineer for several CD productions. In 2010, he created an album with the band XBloome, created exclusively with Free Software, which was then featured on FM4, a very popular radio station in Austria.
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Bitcoin: money backed by code and maths, not laws and politics
From the experiments of hackers searching for an incorruptible monetary system, bitcoin was born. A decentralised digital cash system in which the currency is backed by mathematics and hard cryptography, rather than laws and police ensures a mathematical efficiency driven by free ideals and extreme low costs in the international transfer of wealth borderlessly through cyberspace. All functioning without a central entity. With the recent anger towards past mistaken financial decisions, many question the fabric of ideals that govern national economic policies. Bitcoin is the perfect conduit for building this new economy with democratic money free from rules and regulations. Free from control of the monetary supply.
Speaker: Amir Taaki has developed free software for 10 years for the projects Crystal Space, Blender and Bitcoin. He is the founder and operator of the largest Bitcoin exchange in Europe: Intersango.com, and created one of the two full-Bitcoin implementations (libbitcoin). He has been involved with activism, squatting and social centres. Turning empty houses into community centres of knowledge, curiousity and learning.
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YearofOpenSource.net
Sam Muirhead will be presenting his Campus Party survival kit, providing you with open source solutions to get you through 6 days of questionable personal hygiene and general over-stimulation. We'll be tweaking a tent to better suit our needs, and trying to solve the age-old problem of keeping chocolate out of keyboards. Forgot your toothbrush? We've got you covered. These occasionally useful and somewhat ridiculous solutions are to get people thinking about how to adapt the ideas of the open source movement to any purpose, user, or in this case, event.
Speaker: Sam Muirhead is a Mac-using technological neanderthal who should not be allowed near a soldering iron. But he's also a writer and filmmaker who is hurling himself into a Year of Open Source – abandoning the world of proprietary products to track down, hack and develop open source projects to address all his daily needs, from cutting videos to chopping onions.The basic project proposal is up on www.yearofopensource.net, the project will start August 01.
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Why Free Software needs Network Neutrality
When most people think about network neutrality, they think of Internet service providers messing up with ports and BitTorrent connections. But what if you were missing part of the picture: what if freedom of speech and innovation needed more than our restricted definitions of network neutrality? The future of the Internet and the future of Free Software depend on our capacity to answer these questions.
We can seize this opportunity to make Free Software more relevant than ever in our digital society!
Speaker: Hugo Roy is a Free Software hacktivist at Free Software Foundation Europe and a law student. He is currently working as "Legal Liberator" with Unhosted on a new project code-named: "Terms of Service; Didn'tRead!". He is often referred to as a Zappa Freak.
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Free your Android: Reclaim your phone
Regain control of your Android device and your data! This presentation will give you all the information necessary to achieve this by running (almost) exclusively Free Software on your phone. It will cover the Android operating system, an alternative market and the apps. In these areas, a lot has been achieved, but there are more challenges ahead. Many ways to help will be presented, so we can make phone liberation effortless and free the last few apps necessary for freedom phones to thrive.
Keynote: Torsten Grote studied Philosophy and Computer Science. He is a long time freedom activist within the Free Software Foundation Europe and initiated the Free Your Android Campaign. Civil rights and control over our own devices and data are some of the topics he fights for.
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Civic Hacking
Programming is a superpower because in a world increasingly controlled by code you can author the way things work. But with superpowers come super responsibilities. Being able to change the world for the better also implies that not doing it is a kind of negligence.
Unfortunately most programmers don't know that the tools to make things better are there in their hands. During this workshop we will talk about how you can improve the world by opening up data, building cool things and working together with government. We will discuss both technological as social and political hacks.
Speaker: Alper Çugun is a designer and engineer active in the field of open data and civic hacking. As a core member of Hack de Overheid (nl) he has helped change the Netherlands into one of Europe's leading countries in this field and he's looking forward to change the rest.
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The FSFs - Fighting for your freedom, since 1985
Why should I care about the European Parliament or the United Nations, when I am just interested in software? What do politicians in Europe think about Free Software? How can we make sure to be able to use Free Software in schools and universities? Is Free Software legally safe and how can you stop governments from promoting non-free software? Since 1985 the Free Software movement is working that society has more control over their computers. So nobody can control what you can do with your computers and what you cannot do. FSFE wants you to be able to use your software for any purpose, to study the source code, to share it with others, and to improve it. Some people do not want you to do this.
Learn which battles we won, what we learnt out of mistakes from the past, what activities we are currently involved, how you can get involved, and discuss the upcoming challenges.
Speaker: Matthias Kirschner (Germany) works for the Free Software Foundation Europe since 2004. He is responsible for several campaigns and working together with politicians, the public administration, and companies. In his weblog "I love it here" and FSFE's monthly newsletter he writes about current developments around Free Software.
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freifunk.net
freifunk.net and the future of wireless mesh networking. A forecast of free wireless community networks after an exciting decade of local and global activities.
Speaker: Juergen Neumann (DE) is a Berlin based entrepreneur and senior consultant for ICT strategy and implementation at http://www.econauten.de who has worked for major German and international companies and non-profit projects for more than two decades. In 2002 he co-founded http://www.freifunk.net, a non-profit campaign to spread knowledge about open wireless networks. In 2007 he started the Open Hardware Initiative which in 2008 organized the first Open Technology Summit in Taiwan. Recently he is trying to ramp up the Open Source Hardware and Design Aliance http://www.ohanda.org and is lobbying for more open licensing models for the radio spectrum at http://openspectrum.eu. Finally he co-founded http://freigeist.biz where he is exploring the obstacles of open innovation.
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What lies ahead for HTML5?
HTML5 is considered the white hope for a bright crossplatform future. Wooga worked on this vision and on an HTML5 mobile game with a team of dedicated developers for over a year.
This talk will recall the story Pocket Island and Wooga’s decision to stop its commercial development and release an open-source version of the game. The team will give rich insights into the state of HTML5 for mobile games and call for the HTML5 community to start creating the next generation of Pocket Island. License-wise, the open source project has an MIT license and the art assets are under a Creative Commons Non-Commerical license.
Read more: http://www.wooga.com/2012/06/woogas-html5-adventure/
The talk will be an interesting contribution for engineers (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript) and game design students, as well as young people interested in new forms of media and media consumption. What makes it special, is that the workshop is the first step into hands-on game designing. The attendees are able to start developing right away, since the game is already free for download and development.
Participants: Horia is UI Developer at Wooga and has taken part in the project building up Wooga’s first HTML5 game. Sina is in charge of Communications at Wooga.
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P2PU
P2PU.org is a platform that stimulates open and peer-led learning. But P2PU.org more than just a platform; it is an open lab for social learning. P2PU.org's infrastructure is a open source (Lernanta) and is extendable, hackable, malleable and customizable. It is run by a community that is passionate about peer learning and openness, and thrives on experimentation. The final aim is to turn these experiments into great learning experiences for lots of people. A large, dynamic and adventurous community has grown up around the plaform and lab, and this community is what allows us to create these learning experiments. In this talk I will give you a short introduction into what p2pu is and invite everybody to start hacking education.
Speaker: Niels Sprong is a founding volunteer at p2pu.org and previously worked for the United Nations University Open Courseware project. He holds Master degrees in sociology of science and technology and environmental sciences and currently works on everything he likes.
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Uncensorable, Untraceable Search Engines for Freedom of Information
Search portals in the web are vital decision tools for knowledge and cultural values of people. Free content should be accessible with free search. Instead of going through a centralized server that acts as a gatekeeper, keeps logs of your searches and directs you to selected information, your own self-made search engine can deliver information with no censorship, and no tracking.
In this talk, search use-cases like a project search, file search (with attached downloader), faceted search with user-defined categories, social search and peer-to-peer search are explained and demonstrated. You will be familiarized with search engine technology in general and different software modules which can be used to create amazing search portals with unusual but useful functions in just some minutes.
Michael Christen, free software and open data enthusiast, is one of the developers and the project maintainer of the YaCy Search Engine project. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science (Dipl. Inf.) degree. In the last years he worked as a search engine freelance consultant mainly for educational and cultural facilities.
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Seeks
Conventional websearch is a solitary and locked place. Searchers are forced to interact with remote proprietary black boxes with no possible feedback, and are isolated from each others. There's an estimated billion queries issued everyday by several hundred millions of users. Those queries are grounded into real life events and activities common to many searchers. However, users cannot share their experience and build the results together. Seeks develops a decentralized architecture for enabling collaborative websearch.
Pablo Joubert obtained his Master in telecommunications and networks from the University of Grenoble. Pablo is deeply involved in several active communities around free software. With Ubuntu-fr he’s administrating the largest French free softwar community. Pablo has a recognized talent in community management as well as system administration.
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How The Internet Gives The Power Back to the People. Real Actions and What Can We do Next
Kul Takanao Wadhwa is the longtime "All-Purpose Ninja" at the Wikimedia Foundation and currently leads Wikipedia's biggest growth area in mobile. Kul focuses on using technology to empower people, working with global communities, especially in the developing world, to give them access to knowledge and information. He is a thought leader on technology, community and society, and and has been a frequent speaker at various events all over the world, at Universities, start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Also an entrepreneur, Kul has founded and advised many start-up companies over the years, and had his share of failures as well. At the moment, he's also the co-founder of Collabkit (www.collabkit.org), which is a platform that allows kids to collaboratively create free and open educational content, and the co-founder of Ayoudo (www.ayoudo.com), which allows communities to connect to each other to provide help and services. Kul has undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University. He also has an extensive collection of plastic food and makes a killer caipirinha.
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Open Cities
Introduction and short presentation of Open Cities Project
Nadine Barthel (Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Technologie und Forschung Berlin)
Open Cities is an European Project that transfers methods of Open Innovation to the public sector and addresses developers with its challenges that call for new innovative services, solutions and apps.
Open Data Platforms in Berlin, Germany and Europe, and how developers can work with them
Ina Schieferdecker/ Jens Klessmann (Fraunhofer-Institut für Offene Kommunikationssysteme FOKUS Berlin)
The Fraunhofer Institute has developed Open Data platforms for administrations in Berlin, Germany and Europe. They present the platforms structure and give hints to developers on how to use the data for apps.
Open Innovation in Amsterdam/ the Netherlands
Frank Kresin/ Ivonne Jansen-Dings (Waag Society Amsterdam)
The Waag Society is a global pioneer in using methods of Open Innovation and will present their experiences with projects in the Netherlands and how they worked with developers.
LivingLabs globally/ in Europe/ in Barcelona
Esteve Almirall (ESADE Barcelona and Founder ENOLL Network)
Esteve is for years active in the fields of Living Labs and has founded the ENOLL Network. He will present his global experiences as well as Open Cities activities in Living Labs.
