We went to PyCon where we presented a Poster ... ?

We went to PyCon where we presented a Poster. A video was shot very early in the morning. The MediaGoblin command had yet consumed a nice deal of no cost coffee and were talking about dungeons and dragons though waiting for our turn in front of the camera, all of which somewhat explains my dumbfounded response about the "player. " At any rate, I’m joyfull to report that at least 1 of United States is a morning individual so the rest of the video is either energetic and informative. Check out the video about the Poster on YouTube. We are such good connoisseurs of irony that We will be linking to them again after on in this very Post!

Chris Webber and I spoke about Creative Commons four ... ?

Chris Webber and I spoke about Creative Commons four. zero licenses and no cost software/free culture cooperation. You may view our image- only slides (odp; pdf; slideshare) but a recent interview with me and Post about recent developments in MediaGoblin (Webber's project) could be more informative and cover a like ground. We either pre-announced an exciting project that Webber could spam the world about next day and kind of reciprocated for an award FSF granted Creative Commons 3 years ago — the GNU project won the no cost Software Project for the advancement of no cost Culture Social Benefit Award zero, included the sum of 100BTC, which John Sullivan told could be used for the aforementioned exciting project.

“re-evaluate how our infrastructure is organized” paraphrase. ... ?

Eben Moglen's discourse was titled no cost Software's Future Amidst the financial Open Source Wars: How to Turn the Patent Disaster and Compliance effluences to Our advantage, but I think I missed the how to component. Moglen either talked for awhile about IRS scrutiny of no cost software organization 501(c)(3) applications, vaguely hinting at a dormant require to “re-evaluate how our infrastructure is organized” (paraphrase). I will have more to tell about that, but in other Post.

Implementation, given enough wish and resources which ... ?

If software freedom is essential, surely it makes sense to watch for additional mechanisms to promote and protect it. As others have told, licenses are hard to enforce and/or not many persons are interested in doing it, and copyleft may be created irrelevant through individual non-copyleft implementation, given enough wish and resources (which the biggest corporations have), not to mention the vast universe of cases in which There’s no no cost software another, copyleft or not. I leave description and speculation about such mechanisms for a future Post.

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can GPLv3 have done a whole lot not so bad? I appreciate that Diffrent people would've preferred no versioning, or Maybe a conservative versioning which can have achieved Apache2 and after all MPL2 compatibility and were uncontroversial for all GPLv2 licensors to move to. That could have to weighed facing the additional (and controversial, e. g. , anti-Tivoization) measures GPLv3 actually has, and as I told in my previous Post, I think It'll take a long time to be capable to judge how large of an instrumental effect those have toward software freedom. But again, in 2012 previous history cannot be rewritten, although consideration of such hypotheticals can possibly assist United States make improved chances in the future, which is being written now: version four. zero of different Creative Commons licenses are in development (in addition to the somewhat abstract hobby horses listed above, my previous Post may be read as an abstract case for specific CC BY-SA four. zero- >GPLv3 compatibility) and Richard Fontana has simply started drafting Copyleft. the next.

“government” regulatory mechanisms, eg of ability to ... ?

Given present malgovernance of the intellectual commons, common copyright licenses are essential for freedom. They are probably either essential trials for Post-copyright regulation (meant in the broadest sense, included at least “market” and “government” regulatory mechanisms), eg of ability to inspect and modify complete and corresponding source.

Bypassing the “what is copyright ?

I attended and spoke at the FOSDEM 2012 official effluences DevRoom (Update 20120217: slides, forum site Posts) organized by Tom Marble, Bradley Kuhn, Karen Sandler, and Richard Fontana. I knowladge the general idea was to gather persons for advanced discussions of free/libre/open source software official and policy effluences, bypassing the “what is copyright?” panel that seemingly tortures such conferences (I have not noticed, but do not go to several FLOSS conferences; I bet presenters most often receive the answer only superficially correct). I thought the track mostly succeeded (consider this high praise) — presentations did cover contemporary effluences that mostly only persons following FLOSS policy could have heard of, but I wished for simply a bit more that could be news or really provocative to such persons. In component I think 30 minute time slots were to blame — long enough for presenters to belabor background points, not long enough for no substantive discussion. Given only 30 min., I personally probably could have gained from a 15 minute speaking limit, thus being pushed to state only essential points, and leaving a small time for participants to flaw those apart. Yes, I could have imposed that discipline on myself, but didn't think of it till now.

Debian Day Uruguay
Aug ... ?

Debian Day Uruguay
Aug. 24th, 2006|06:43 pm





mood
|happyAfter some days of thinking what could I do, I finally decided to go to spend one. five day in Uruguay to attend to Debian Day organized by Debian-uy. The journey was quite long (~7 hours) for being so near to Montevideo. some can rest, some others did not :-( behind the boat we still had four hours on a bus. When we arrived we had some coffee though waited Debian-uy persons to pick United States. We finally got picked and took United States to the Instituto Tecnico Superior where Debian Day was going to take area. The event was more that what I have expected on sum of persons, especially motive was the 1.st "big" event organized by this group. There was a hacklab where persons can attend with their computers and receive Debian installed, they either provided persons copies of Debian CDs (some persons got the Sarge DVDs that remained from DebianDay-mx), hacking area, and But surely somewhere to receive "mate". The talks were quite nice in general, some where general no cost software and some others specifically about Debian. I signed keys with not many persons. The atmosphere was good. Thanks all Debian-uy for the receiving United States. On the way to Rodrigo's home, we found drummers playing along the street with gigantic flags and persons dancing all around. merely awesome to found 1 of those non-tourist events.

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What came out?

So. What came out? What stuck? What do I trust now?
1. Hoarding a pile of your past achievements is simply dumb. do not do it. Set them no cost, brother!
2. Posting my images internet allows me to share my passion with a far-away wider audience. Do this. much.
3. My past images (as much as I can love them)  are simply a bread-crumb trail which shows how I have learnt the craft. Our best images are till now to be taken. let us go take them.
4. I licence images that I share in this way (ie my entire Flickr collection now), with 1 of the several smart Creative Commons licenses. Share freely for Non-Commercial with NC.  Let them go. They will be okay. Stop hanging onto the past. you are not so bad than that. Go make more astonishing pictures.
5. I do not share client photo's internet.

Sustainable curriculum. FullMarks ... ?

The idea of universal access to Studies, education, and culture is created probabble by the world wide web, but our official and social systems do not forever let that idea to be realized. Copyright was created long before the emergence of the world wide web, and may make it difficult to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and Post to the Web. The default setting of copyright statute requests all of these actions to have explicit permission, granted in advance, whether you are an artist, teacher, scientist, librarian, policymaker, or simply a normal user. To achieve the vision of universal access, somebody needed to offer a no cost, common, and standardized infrastructure that creates a balance among the reality of the world wide web and the reality of copyright laws. That is simply where Creative Commons comes in.

Destination,”
justified ... ?

OSS/FS is widely used by world wide web- based firms.
Google
uses over six, 000 GNU/Linux servers.
Yahoo! is increasing
its yet- massive use of OSS/FS. yahoo.com proves It’s the
“World's many trafficked world wide web destination, ”
justified based on Nielsen/NetRatings of August 2002.
Yahoo had 201 million extraordinary users, 93 million active registered users,
over 4500 servers, and over one. five billion pageviews a day.
Yahoo noted that OSS/FS yet runs their business
(e. g. , Perl, Apache, freeBSD, and gcc), and they've recently decided to
move from their proprietary in-house languages to PHP (an OSS/FS language).
Afilias has switched the registration database for
the . org world wide web domain
from the proprietary Oracle to the OSS/FS PostgreSQL database program;
. org is the 5.th biggest top-level domain, with more than two. four million
registered domain names.

Someone’s
software ... ?

One interesting case is the “General common License” (GPL),
the many collectively OSS/FS license.
Software covered by the GPL may be modified, and the modified code can
be used in home without obligations.
If you release that modified software, you
must embrace an tender for the source code below the same GPL license.
Basically, the GPL creates a consortium; someone may use and
modify the program, but someone who releases the program (modified or not)
must satisfy the limitations in the GPL that distract the program
and it's derivatives from coming proprietary.
Since the GPL is a official document, it may be difficult for some to knowladge.
Here is 1 not so much official summary
(Posted on Slashdot):

This software contains the intellectual property of many persons.
Intellectual property is a valuable resource, and you can't expect
to be capable to use somebody else's intellectual property
in your own job for no cost.

Many businesses and an individual are willing to
trade their intellectual property in convert for a thing of value;
usually cash. An an example, in return for a amount of cash,
you may be granted the right to incorporate code from someone's
software program in to your own.

Development,
application ... ?

"Like another projects, we would not be incorporating new code from
David Dawes in to the Xfree86 codebase used in OpenBSD. All such
changes have to be skipped, rewritten, or you may keep in touch the
Xfree86 group and area your own efforts to repair this defect, " de
Raadt told in a Posting on the openbsd-misc mailing list.

OpenNetworks iConnect 625 router - discussion
here. ... ?

Brendan Scott wrote about using the Australian Trade Practices play out to
enforce GPL compliance in his Posting
LA Linux Australia money essential official Research
on no cost Software Compliance, based in component on what I had discovered about
the software in the OpenNetworks iConnect 625 router - discussion
here.

Jolitzes
free-software ... ?

several forum site systems let authors to append no cost- form tags to a Post, along with (or rather of) placing the Post in to categories. An an example, a Post can display that it was tagged with baseball and tickets. every of those tags is most often a web link major to an index page listing all of the Posts matched with that tag. The forum site can have a sidebar listing all the tags in use on that forum site, with every tag major to an index page. To reclassify a Post, an author edits it's list of tags. All connections among Posts are automatically tracked and updated by the forum site software; There’s no require to relocate the page inside a complex hierarchy of categories.