There's No Place Like Home
How Do We Provide Organizational Homes to FLOSS Communities?
Schedule

Presented by:

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from Software Freedom Conservancy

Bradley M. Kuhn is the Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy and editor-in-chief of copyleft.org. Kuhn's software freedom work began as a volunteer in 1992, as an early adopter of Linux and contributor to various Free Software projects, including Perl. He worked during the 1990s for various companies and taught AP Computer Science in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in 2000 at the Free Software Foundation (FSF). As FSF's Executive Director from 2001–2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn began as Conservancy's primary volunteer from 2006–2010, and became its first staff person in 2011. Kuhn holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. Kuhn received the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2012. Kuhn has a blog and co-hosts the audcast, Free as in Freedom.

Lack of formal structure for Free, Libre and Open Source (FLOSS) projects limits their ability to function. FLOSS initiatives outnumber organizations that can host them. Our community needs a well-organized discussion of how we build organizations that can effectively foster communities that develop, document, create and advocate FLOSS. Let's consider what types of organizational homes we have, what jurisdictional, financial, structural and governance challenges they face, and how we can all work together to make them better.

Date:
2018 April 29 - 08:00
Duration:
45 min
Room:
G-103
Conference:
LinuxFest Northwest 2018
Language:
Track:
Infrastructure
Difficulty:
Easy

Happening at the same time:

  1. Installing and running Moodle for educational uses
    2. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 08:00

    Room:
    CC-235

  2. There's No Place Like Home
    3. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 08:00

    Room:
    G-103

  3. Linux for digital naturalization of the Elderly
    4. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 08:00

    Room:
    CC-115

  4. Securing Docker on the Cheap - Part 3 - Run-time Monitoring
    5. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 08:00

    Room:
    CC-208

  5. DevOps and ElasticSearch
    6. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 08:00

    Room:
    CC-200

  6. RFID Implants - Convenience, Concerns and Misconceptions
    7. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 08:00

    Room:
    CC-114

  7. Automation with Ansible
    8. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 08:00

    Room:
    CC-236

  8. Linux 103: How to try linux at home
    9. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 08:00

    Room:
    CC-202 TUT2

  9. Lessons Learned from Civic Hacking
    10. Start Time:
    2018 April 29 08:00

    Room:
    HC-108