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A bi-weekly discussion of legal, policy, and other issues in the open source and software freedom community (including occasional interviews) from Brooklyn, New York, USA. Presented by Karen Sandler and Bradley M. Kuhn.

Copyright: © 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, Free as in Freedom. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 USA License.

Latest Episodes:

[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis
format] — Episode 0x1D: Stefano Zacchiroli, Current DPL Nov 29, 2011
Show notes

Karen interviews Stefano Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian Project Leader. Karen and Bradley discuss their thoughts on that interview.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36)

Karen interviewed Stefano Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian Project Leader. (02:59)

Segment 1 (03:58)

Stefano was inspired by a professor at his university to get involved with Free Software, because you can study the sources. (04:50)

DPL reelection is in April each year. (08:40)

Stefano discovered that some Debian derivatives weren't distributing source packages. He's helped them get into compliance, although Stefano hesitates to call it enforcement. (12:40)

Stefano mentioned that many Debian contributors begin contributing upstream to Debian after contributing to derivatives of Debian first. (15:20)

Stefano thinks the adoption of Free Software on the desktop is shrinking, and many users are using proprietary software “cloud” services. (19:00)

Stefano thinks that GPL is not enough to defend our software freedom, and that AGPL can do it but it came a bit late. (20:20)

Stefano is concerned about companies like Google that can reimplement an entire software system merely to avoid copyleft. (20:40)

Segment 2 (21:04)

Bradley mentioned that moving a package to non-free is a powerful tool that Debian has to deal with licensing situations (21:40)

Bradley noted that the Debian ftpmasters make decisions about licensing, but it has not been historically well documented. It seems that fact is now well documented. (27:30)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in MP3 format] — Episode 0x1D: Stefano Zacchiroli, Current DPL Nov 29, 2011
Show notes

Karen interviews Stefano Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian Project Leader. Karen and Bradley discuss their thoughts on that interview.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36)

Karen interviewed Stefano Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian Project Leader. (02:59)

Segment 1 (03:58)

Stefano was inspired by a professor at his university to get involved with Free Software, because you can study the sources. (04:50)

DPL reelection is in April each year. (08:40)

Stefano discovered that some Debian derivatives weren't distributing source packages. He's helped them get into compliance, although Stefano hesitates to call it enforcement. (12:40)

Stefano mentioned that many Debian contributors begin contributing upstream to Debian after contributing to derivatives of Debian first. (15:20)

Stefano thinks the adoption of Free Software on the desktop is shrinking, and many users are using proprietary software “cloud” services. (19:00)

Stefano thinks that GPL is not enough to defend our software freedom, and that AGPL can do it but it came a bit late. (20:20)

Stefano is concerned about companies like Google that can reimplement an entire software system merely to avoid copyleft. (20:40)

Segment 2 (21:04)

Bradley mentioned that moving a package to non-free is a powerful tool that Debian has to deal with licensing situations (21:40)

Bradley noted that the Debian ftpmasters make decisions about licensing, but it has not been historically well documented. It seems that fact is now well documented. (27:30)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis
format] — Episode 0x1C: Adam Dingle of Yorba Nov 11, 2011
Show notes

Karen interviews Adam Dingle of Yorba, and Bradley and Karen briefly discuss the interview.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:33)

The interview is with Adam Dingle of Yorba.
(02:30)

Segment 1 (02:45)

Yorba was founded in January 2009. (04:01)

Yorba applied for 501(c)(3) status nearly two years ago and the application is still pending in the queue (the same delay queue we discussed in Episode 0x13. (28:30)

Adam mentioned Yorba's donation page. (30:13)

Segment 2 (41:08)

Karen mentioned that Yorba's response to the IRS should be published soon. (41:35)

Bradley mentioned Cat Allman's Fundraising 101 talk from OSCON. (43:30)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in MP3 format] — Episode 0x1C: Adam Dingle of Yorba Nov 11, 2011
Show notes

Karen interviews Adam Dingle of Yorba, and Bradley and Karen briefly discuss the interview.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:33)

The interview is with Adam Dingle of Yorba.
(02:30)

Segment 1 (02:45)

Yorba was founded in January 2009. (04:01)

Yorba applied for 501(c)(3) status nearly two years ago and the application is still pending in the queue (the same delay queue we discussed in Episode 0x13. (28:30)

Adam mentioned Yorba's donation page. (30:13)

Segment 2 (41:08)

Karen mentioned that Yorba's response to the IRS should be published soon. (41:35)

Bradley mentioned Cat Allman's Fundraising 101 talk from OSCON. (43:30)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis
format] — Episode 0x1B: Two Executive Directors Oct 25, 2011
Show notes

Bradley and Karen discuss their jobs, particularly fundraising, and plans for future shows.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36)

The Google Summer of Code Program is large philanthropic program by Google for students to write Free Software in the summer.

Bradley gave a talk about non-profit organizations at the Google SoC Mentor Summit 2011

Karen mentioned the GNOME Women's Outreach Program, which coordinates with the SoC, and the Season of KDE. (09:36)

Conservancy's Amarok, Mercurial and PyPy projects are all currently doing fundraising programs (14:38)

Bradley will give two talks at LinuxCon Europe this week. (15:15)

Karen will attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit. (20:20)

Karen will speak in Latvia later this year. (24:20)

Richard Fontana discussed RMS' quote about Jobs on identi.ca (26:27)

Segment 1 (29:28)

We'll try to record some talks/interviews at upcoming events.

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in MP3 format] — Episode 0x1B: Two Executive Directors Oct 25, 2011
Show notes

Bradley and Karen discuss their jobs, particularly fundraising, and plans for future shows.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36)

The Google Summer of Code Program is large philanthropic program by Google for students to write Free Software in the summer.

Bradley gave a talk about non-profit organizations at the Google SoC Mentor Summit 2011

Karen mentioned the GNOME Women's Outreach Program, which coordinates with the SoC, and the Season of KDE. (09:36)

Conservancy's Amarok, Mercurial and PyPy projects are all currently doing fundraising programs (14:38)

Bradley will give two talks at LinuxCon Europe this week. (15:15)

Karen will attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit. (20:20)

Karen will speak in Latvia later this year. (24:20)

Richard Fontana discussed RMS' quote about Jobs on identi.ca (26:27)

Segment 1 (29:28)

We'll try to record some talks/interviews at upcoming events.

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis
format] — Episode 0x1A: Comments on Jobs Oct 11, 2011
Show notes

Bradley and Karen discuss the various news and comments on Steve Jobs' death and his legacy, and their own thoughts on the issue.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36)

Bradley still hasn't made the blog post he keeps saying he'll make about one year at Conservancy. (01:30

Bradley mentioned the character Cat from Red Dwarf's obsession with “shiny things” in the episode Waiting for God. (20:23)

Segment 1 (21:12)

Karen mentioned Paula Rooney's article Steve Jobs: an open source pioneer? You bet, which Bradley pointed out was a pure link-bait. (21:20)

Bradley mention Andy Rooney has retired (32:10)

Segment 1 (33:40)

Bradley mentioned RMS' comments on Steve Jobs' death (34:09)

Bradley mentioned the gawker article that was critical of Steve Jobs

Bradley mentioned a comment that discussed how RMS' lack of tact can help software freedom. (40:43)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in MP3 format] — Episode 0x1A: Comments on Jobs Oct 11, 2011
Show notes

Bradley and Karen discuss the various news and comments on Steve Jobs' death and his legacy, and their own thoughts on the issue.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36)

Bradley still hasn't made the blog post he keeps saying he'll make about one year at Conservancy. (01:30

Bradley mentioned the character Cat from Red Dwarf's obsession with “shiny things” in the episode Waiting for God. (20:23)

Segment 1 (21:12)

Karen mentioned Paula Rooney's article Steve Jobs: an open source pioneer? You bet, which Bradley pointed out was a pure link-bait. (21:20)

Bradley mention Andy Rooney has retired (32:10)

Segment 1 (33:40)

Bradley mentioned RMS' comments on Steve Jobs' death (34:09)

Bradley mentioned the gawker article that was critical of Steve Jobs

Bradley mentioned a comment that discussed how RMS' lack of tact can help software freedom. (40:43)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis
format] — Episode 0x19: GNOME 3.2 and Other Topics Sep 28, 2011
Show notes

Karen and Bradley discuss the GNOME 3.2 release, Karen interviews Jos Poortvliet, Bradley complains about identi.ca web interface and they discuss together UEFI “secure” boot, and the PyPy Python 3 campaign.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:40)

Bradley wrote a blog post about how GNOME 3 is not for him.

Segment 1 (07:14)

Karen interviewed Jos Poortvliet

Segment 2 (21:04)

Bradley mentioned Shaun McCance's post to desktop-devel about response bias, which he posted on user survey thread. (25:04)

Karen mentioned that GNOME 3.2 has been released with new features, such as better window resizing. (28:57)

Bradley pointed out that gnats was one of the earliest Free Software bug tracking systems. (30:37)

Segment 3 (31:53)

Bradley mentioned that he feels like the unfrozen caveman lawyer when trying to use identi.ca now. (32:54)

Bradley mentioned Matthew Garrett's blog post about UEFI so-called “secure” booting. (37:36)

PyPy is trying to raise funds to support Python 3 on PyPy. (41:20)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in MP3 format] — Episode 0x19: GNOME 3.2 and Other Topics Sep 28, 2011
Show notes

Karen and Bradley discuss the GNOME 3.2 release, Karen interviews Jos Poortvliet, Bradley complains about identi.ca web interface and they discuss together UEFI “secure” boot, and the PyPy Python 3 campaign.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:40)

Bradley wrote a blog post about how GNOME 3 is not for him.

Segment 1 (07:14)

Karen interviewed Jos Poortvliet

Segment 2 (21:04)

Bradley mentioned Shaun McCance's post to desktop-devel about response bias, which he posted on user survey thread. (25:04)

Karen mentioned that GNOME 3.2 has been released with new features, such as better window resizing. (28:57)

Bradley pointed out that gnats was one of the earliest Free Software bug tracking systems. (30:37)

Segment 3 (31:53)

Bradley mentioned that he feels like the unfrozen caveman lawyer when trying to use identi.ca now. (32:54)

Bradley mentioned Matthew Garrett's blog post about UEFI so-called “secure” booting. (37:36)

PyPy is trying to raise funds to support Python 3 on PyPy. (41:20)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis
format] — Episode 0x18: 12 Years of Compliance: A Historical Perspective Sep 13, 2011
Show notes

Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Bradley's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled 12 Years of FLOSS License Compliance: A Historical Perspective.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36)

Bradley mentioned that time travel requires special verb tenses according to the Douglas Adams' book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. (01:48)

Bradley gave a keynote at Ohio Linux Fest 2011 (01:58)

Segment 1 (05:02)

This segment is a recording of Bradley's OSCON 2011 talk, entitled 12 Years of Copyleft License Compliance: A Historical Perspective. The slides are available on Bradley's website so you can follow along during the talk if you like.

There is a live denting identi.ca thread from Bradley's talk. (03:50)

Bradley wrote a blog post about a minor GPL violation in the Emacs codebase. It has since been fixed.

RMS mentioned the NeXT/Objective C GPL violation in his essay, Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism.

Segment 2 (52:35)

Bradley will be speaking at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2011 and at LinuxCon Europe 2011. (55:05)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in MP3 format] — Episode 0x18: 12 Years of Compliance: A Historical Perspective Sep 13, 2011
Show notes

Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Bradley's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled 12 Years of FLOSS License Compliance: A Historical Perspective.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36)

Bradley mentioned that time travel requires special verb tenses according to the Douglas Adams' book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. (01:48)

Bradley gave a keynote at Ohio Linux Fest 2011 (01:58)

Segment 1 (05:02)

This segment is a recording of Bradley's OSCON 2011 talk, entitled 12 Years of Copyleft License Compliance: A Historical Perspective. The slides are available on Bradley's website so you can follow along during the talk if you like.

There is a live denting identi.ca thread from Bradley's talk. (03:50)

Bradley wrote a blog post about a minor GPL violation in the Emacs codebase. It has since been fixed.

RMS mentioned the NeXT/Objective C GPL violation in his essay, Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism.

Segment 2 (52:35)

Bradley will be speaking at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2011 and at LinuxCon Europe 2011. (55:05)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis
format] — Episode 0x17: Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful Aug 30, 2011
Show notes

Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Richard Fontana's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful.

Note: this show and the slides from Richard Fontana are licensed under CC-By-SA-3.0 USA. This will be the new license of the show for this and future episodes.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:34)

This show is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful. (03:13)

Segment 1 (03:34)

Richard Fontana has made his slides from his talk available on his website.

Bradley live-dented Fontana's talk from OSCON.

Richard Fontana references Michael Meeks' essay, Some thoughts on Copyright Assignment (29:55)

Segment 2 (45:17)

Bradley and Karen were on a panel discussion on copyright assignment at Desktop Summit. (45:33)

Bradley mentioned that Mark Shuttleworth's obsession with cadence had a similar weird effect on a different debate. (58:30)

Karen has done some pro bono work for PubPat, and also Question Copyright (01:01:30)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in MP3 format] — Episode 0x17: Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful Aug 30, 2011
Show notes

Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Richard Fontana's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful.

Note: this show and the slides from Richard Fontana are licensed under CC-By-SA-3.0 USA. This will be the new license of the show for this and future episodes.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:34)

This show is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful. (03:13)

Segment 1 (03:34)

Richard Fontana has made his slides from his talk available on his website.

Bradley live-dented Fontana's talk from OSCON.

Richard Fontana references Michael Meeks' essay, Some thoughts on Copyright Assignment (29:55)

Segment 2 (45:17)

Bradley and Karen were on a panel discussion on copyright assignment at Desktop Summit. (45:33)

Bradley mentioned that Mark Shuttleworth's obsession with cadence had a similar weird effect on a different debate. (58:30)

Karen has done some pro bono work for PubPat, and also Question Copyright (01:01:30)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis
format] — Episode 0x16: Legal Basics for Developers Aug 16, 2011
Show notes

Bradley and Karen play and comment on a talk recording of Aaron Williamson's and Karen's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Legal Basics for Developers.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:33)

Bradley mentioned the birthday attack when explaining to Karen how likely it might be that the number of the show might match the number of the day. (01:38)

This show is a recording of Aaron and Karen's OSCON 2011 talk, Legal Basics for Developers. (02:20)

Segment 1 (05:53)

The slides for the Legal Basics for Developers are available to follow along with the recording (05:53)

Segment 2 (49:36)

Richard Fontana gave at a talk at OSCON as well, which was recorded, and Karen and Bradley have asked for his permission to play it. (50:45)

Bradley asked folks to ping Richard on identi.ca to ask him to allow us to use his audio on the oggcast. (51:05)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in MP3 format] — Episode 0x16: Legal Basics for Developers Aug 16, 2011
Show notes

Bradley and Karen play and comment on a talk recording of Aaron Williamson's and Karen's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Legal Basics for Developers.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:33)

Bradley mentioned the birthday attack when explaining to Karen how likely it might be that the number of the show might match the number of the day. (01:38)

This show is a recording of Aaron and Karen's OSCON 2011 talk, Legal Basics for Developers. (02:20)

Segment 1 (05:53)

The slides for the Legal Basics for Developers are available to follow along with the recording (05:53)

Segment 2 (49:36)

Richard Fontana gave at a talk at OSCON as well, which was recorded, and Karen and Bradley have asked for his permission to play it. (50:45)

Bradley asked folks to ping Richard on identi.ca to ask him to allow us to use his audio on the oggcast. (51:05)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis
format] — Episode 0x15: Karen Keynotes OSCON Aug 02, 2011
Show notes

Karen and Bradley discuss Karen's OSCON keynote and her 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Award, as well as other happenings from OSCON.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:35)

Bradley and Karen just returned from the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (OSCON). (00:45)

Karen received one of the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Awards. (Video of the award ceremony is online.) (03:05)

Karen now has a blog called GNOMG. (05:03)

Karen's wrote a blog post about winning the 2011 Open Source Award. (03:47)

Karen now has a redirector to her blog via gnomg.org. (05:42)

Listener Michael Dexter let Bradley stay at his house for part of the time of OSCON, and Bradley later shared a room with listener Richard Fontana. (06:40)

Segment 1 (10:22)

Karen keynoted at OSCON, entitled Software Freedom: From my Heart to the Desktop. (10:22)

Bradley had a live-denting thread of Karen's keynote at OSCON 2011.

Karen's 2011 OSCON keynote is available YouTube. You can also hear the audio on the show itself, but if you prefer video, use the preceding link. If you watch instead of listen, just skip the audio in the oggcast up to Segment 2 below:

Segment 2 (24:49)

Bradley mentioned conferences can be ephemeral on his blog about GUADEC 2010. (28:25)

Bradley and Karen are about to go to the Desktop Summit. (29:15)

Bradley, Michael Meeks and Mark Shuttleworth will be on a panel on copyright assignment moderated by Karen. (29:25)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in MP3 format] — Episode 0x15: Karen Keynotes OSCON Aug 02, 2011
Show notes

Karen and Bradley discuss Karen's OSCON keynote and her 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Award, as well as other happenings from OSCON.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:35)

Bradley and Karen just returned from the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention (OSCON). (00:45)

Karen received one of the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source Awards. (Video of the award ceremony is online.) (03:05)

Karen now has a blog called GNOMG. (05:03)

Karen's wrote a blog post about winning the 2011 Open Source Award. (03:47)

Karen now has a redirector to her blog via gnomg.org. (05:42)

Listener Michael Dexter let Bradley stay at his house for part of the time of OSCON, and Bradley later shared a room with listener Richard Fontana. (06:40)

Segment 1 (10:22)

Karen keynoted at OSCON, entitled Software Freedom: From my Heart to the Desktop. (10:22)

Bradley had a live-denting thread of Karen's keynote at OSCON 2011.

Karen's 2011 OSCON keynote is available YouTube. You can also hear the audio on the show itself, but if you prefer video, use the preceding link. If you watch instead of listen, just skip the audio in the oggcast up to Segment 2 below:

Segment 2 (24:49)

Bradley mentioned conferences can be ephemeral on his blog about GUADEC 2010. (28:25)

Bradley and Karen are about to go to the Desktop Summit. (29:15)

Bradley, Michael Meeks and Mark Shuttleworth will be on a panel on copyright assignment moderated by Karen. (29:25)

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Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

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format] — Episode 0x14: Free as in FOAM Jul 19, 2011
Show notes

Karen and Bradley briefly discuss and play Bradley's keynote at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM Conference.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:38)

Bradley spoke at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM workshop. (01:42)

Segment 1 (03:20)

Follow along with Bradley's slides from his talk at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM Workshop (03:22)

The sources for the slides is available.

Segment 2 (53:12)

Karen and Bradley discussed the talk.

Bill Gates' arrest in New Mexico (Bradley incorrectly said Nevada) is discussed in Gates' Wikipedia entry. (55:20)

Bradley mentioned the made-for-TV movie The Pirates of Silicon Valley. (56:26)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

[Direct download of cast in MP3 format] — Episode 0x14: Free as in FOAM Jul 19, 2011
Show notes

Karen and Bradley briefly discuss and play Bradley's keynote at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM Conference.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:38)

Bradley spoke at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM workshop. (01:42)

Segment 1 (03:20)

Follow along with Bradley's slides from his talk at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM Workshop (03:22)

The sources for the slides is available.

Segment 2 (53:12)

Karen and Bradley discussed the talk.

Bill Gates' arrest in New Mexico (Bradley incorrectly said Nevada) is discussed in Gates' Wikipedia entry. (55:20)

Bradley mentioned the made-for-TV movie The Pirates of Silicon Valley. (56:26)

Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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