Listen to Audio from Free Software and Open Source Symposium at York U
by team indyishYork University in Toronto recently hosted Seneca’s 5th Annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium which took place October 26-27 at York University. Here at Indyish, we were busy doing our thing in Montreal and wish we could have caught it, but luckily the’ve made all the presentations available under a Creative Commons license. Probably because the Senior Software Engineer of the Creative Commons was there.
Presenters included:
Mike Shaver, Co-founder, Mozilla Project
Chris Blizzard, Red Hat, Inc.
Steve Hayman, Apple
Louis Suarez-Potts, Community Manager and Community Lead, OpenOffice.org
Nat Friedman, Vice President, Linux Desktop, Novell
Plus many more..
Listen to all the audio recordings here (in mp3, avi, or ogm, ogg)
How can you resist listening to talks with titles like these? You can’t.
-Why Drupal Can Kick Your CMS’ Ass
-Pure Data: An Open Source Programming Language for Artists
-Curious George and the $100 Million Supercomputer
-The Social Logic of Freedom: OpenOffice.org
And keynote presentations such as:
-Monkeys, Desktops and Dictionaries: The Mechanics of the Revolution
-The selling of Linux and Open Source : Do we suck at this or what?
Check out their archive of articles and links here.
Oh, and here’s an article on retrocausality just for kicks. Backward time? Yeah I’ll check it out. Yesterday. Ok bad joke. But you giggled. Or you will.
Thanks to John for links.
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Published on: November 6th, 2006
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Heh, I wish I had that much power over licensing of content. In reality, they deserve tons of credit for making the decision to license everything before I even signed on to speak.
Posted on November 7th, 2006 at 12:33 pm [permalink]
hey thanks for finding our site! wish i could have been at the conference
Posted on November 7th, 2006 at 1:39 pm [permalink]
Wish I could have gone too!
It’s worth clarifying that the symposium decided to license all audio through creative commons and files only became active as each speaker approved.
In my post I wanted to highlight how your work helped enable the possibility of the conference licensing it in this way, though they ultimately made the decision to use the creative commons.
Thanks for pointing to the active role that groups have in choosing their licensing model as this often goes unmentioned and therefore seems impossible.
Posted on November 7th, 2006 at 1:41 pm [permalink]