We're sorry but this page doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.
Feedback

Learning From the Big Failures To Improve FOSS Advocacy and Adoption

00:00

Formal Metadata

Title
Learning From the Big Failures To Improve FOSS Advocacy and Adoption
Subtitle
How Are Big Companies Benefiting So Much from FOSS, and Individuals So Little?
Title of Series
Number of Parts
542
Author
Contributors
License
CC Attribution 2.0 Belgium:
You are free to use, adapt and copy, distribute and transmit the work or content in adapted or unchanged form for any legal purpose as long as the work is attributed to the author in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
Identifiers
Publisher
Release Date
Language

Content Metadata

Subject Area
Genre
Abstract
After thirty years of FOSS advocacy, issue and problems in approach have begun to emerge. Strategic mistakes in approach to new technologies has often led to large areas of software endeavor to remain proprietary. While for-profit companies have been rewarded with great efficiency benefits and other perks from their adoption of FOSS, rarely do these benefits trickle down to consumers and end-users in their daily computing lives. This talk examines our past mistakes in advocacy and activism, and considers what to do next. Since its advent in the late 1980s, the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community now has more than thirty years of experience in strategies for advocacy and encouraging adoption of FOSS. Results have, unfortunately, been mixed. While corporate adoption by for-profit companies has led to a boon and integration of FOSS into most corporate practices, the true promise of software rights and freedoms — the ability of individual hobbyist and consumers to participate on equal footing with the largest software producers in the world — mostly eludes our community. This talk examines the wins, losses and challenges that FOSS advocacy has faced in the last thirty years. We'll explore how failures to foresee both web application deployment and the advent of advertising-based app-oriented software deployment led to serious strategic errors in advocacy and focus of attention. Many of these problems remain difficult to address, and only frank discussion among activists will reveal new approaches to continue a vibrant FOSS community into the next generation.
Latent class modelRow (database)Compact CassetteRow (database)Reading (process)Symbol tableArmMusical ensembleHand fanHacker (term)Open sourceSoftwareExtension (kinesiology)MereologyProcess (computing)Medical imagingPower (physics)Axiom of choiceDirection (geometry)Decision theoryQuicksortPoint (geometry)PasswordConservation lawPhysical systemElectric generatorSlide ruleSoftware testingMultiplication signInheritance (object-oriented programming)Figurate numberUniverse (mathematics)Event horizonDifferent (Kate Ryan album)TrailAuditory maskingWordComputer animation
Row (database)View (database)NoiseIRIS-THecke operatorInformation managementComputer iconSoftwareFreewareSlide ruleSelf-organizationQuicksortWordCoalitionNP-hardBuildingRight angleNumberDifferent (Kate Ryan album)Process (computing)Equaliser (mathematics)BlogMultiplication signSoftware developerFigurate numberMathematicsRule of inferenceCompact CassetteGoodness of fitPower (physics)Dynamical systemCausalityRadical (chemistry)Group actionTape driveLattice (order)Type theoryLine (geometry)Maxima and minimaMedical imagingPerspective (visual)Range (statistics)Computer animation
Digital rights managementStudent's t-testInstallation artPhysical systemDigital rights managementSoftwareFreewareRow (database)Connected spaceDistribution (mathematics)Connectivity (graph theory)InternetworkingEqualiser (mathematics)MereologyMultiplication signTime travelSource codeOpen sourceSoftware industryRight angleBlogCoalitionPower (physics)Chemical equationVulnerability (computing)Standard deviationProcess (computing)Figurate numberUniverse (mathematics)FlagDigital video recorderBroadcasting (networking)Associative propertyNormal (geometry)Mobile appSoftware developerImage resolutionWritingMultiplicationComputer animation
Row (database)Gamma functionDigital rights managementSoftwareGroup actionMultiplication signMereologyCodeCoalitionLine (geometry)Process (computing)Interactive televisionBuildingQuicksortAnalytic continuationTape driveSoftware developerOpen sourcePhysical systemMusical ensembleSpacetimeMathematicsFigurate numberOpen setFreewareWeb pageGoodness of fitWordPoint (geometry)PlastikkarteComputer hardwarePower (physics)Chemical equationOffice suiteProduct (business)TrailWhiteboardComputer animation
EmailInfinityArithmetic meanComputer networkFAQView (database)User interfaceService (economics)CASE <Informatik>SoftwareFreewareDifferent (Kate Ryan album)Group actionView (database)Reflection (mathematics)MassSoftware developerPoint (geometry)Endliche ModelltheorieBinary codeDigital rights managementCoalitionMereologyCodeSelf-organizationOcean currentState of matterQuicksortArithmetic meanBefehlsprozessorFocus (optics)Virtual machineLogic gatePower (physics)Multiplication signDecision theoryAddress spaceClassical physicsHexagonOpen sourceFitness functionPhysical systemWindowElectric generatorEuler anglesFamilyComputer animation
Web pageColor managementGamma functionMaxima and minimaPhysical systemProcess (computing)Sinc functionMultiplication signPoint cloudGoodness of fitSoftwareProjective planeExterior algebraSound effectPlastikkarteState of matterPoint (geometry)CybersexOrder of magnitudeSoftware developerMachine visionPower (physics)DigitizingSurface of revolutionBuildingRegulator geneTwitterHTTP cookieOpen sourceCodeProduct (business)PlanningRight angleExtension (kinesiology)Group actionSheaf (mathematics)Direction (geometry)Computer fileEmailView (database)PressureMathematicsAxiom of choiceLine (geometry)Video gameSelf-organizationCoalitionExpert systemMereologyTerm (mathematics)Computer animation
Program flowchart
Transcript: English(auto-generated)