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Justin Dorfman joined us for a special BONUS episode of The Changelog to share some details about Sustain Conference with you. It's a one day conversation for Open Source Software sustainers at GitHub HQ (SF) on June 19, 2017. No keynotes, expo halls or talks. Only discussions about how to get more resources to support digital infrastructure. Plus, we'll be there.

This is a video titled 'Miles Berry talks about Open Source Software for Schools @ BETT 2009'.

Project created as partial fulfillment for doctorate class at Walden University

This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This series of interview segments features Bob Kerr, a highly paid computer systems administrator for Universal Studios in California, who quit his job to return to his native Scotland to give out Free Open Source Software CDs in schools and nearly all of the Scottish libraries. In the first two tapes in Bob's interviews (tapes 042 and 043), Bob explains that he undertook this work because he was concerned about preserving his native Gaelic language and culture. Proprietary vendors, such as Microsoft, could not be counted on to provide applications that would display Gaelic characters; and documents created in those proprietary formats could be lost forever if a vendor such as Microsoft decided that it did not make business sense to support a small language like Gaelic. By contrast, Free Open Source Software could be used by the Scottish government and civil societies to assure that Gaelic language documents could be accessed in perpetuity, due to the fact that no one vendor could control Free Open Source Software programs. Bob says that language is the bearer of culture. Language tells stories, and stories are the memories of who a people are, and what values are dear to them. Using Free Open Source Software could thus help preserve a minority language and culture like Gaelic that was being eroded by its contact with a more dominant language, like English. By giving Free Open Source Software CDs to libraries, Bob was able to effectively create a CD distribution system that covered 80% of Scotland's 5 million people. He then had plans to expand his giveaway program to all of the UK's libraries, effectively making Free Open Source Software available to 56 million people for a very small investment. Segment 001 of Tape 043 has a very funny story in which Bob tells in his own wry Scottish way how a treasurer of a local Pidgeon racing club realized that he, the treasurer, could use OpenOffice.org to place images of pidgeons on the newsletters that he was creating for his pidgeon racing club. Bob's imitation of that treasurer's classically Scottish reserved excitment is priceless and a must-see segment. A few other interesting stories: Bob tells how his library distribution effort would permit people on the outlying British Isles to receive software that they would not be able to download over the Internet, as there was no Internet service to those Isles. Bob talks about his satisfaction in seeing that he was enabling social groups, such as the Pidgeon racing society, to strengthen their social ties by improving their newsletters; and he talks about his plans to get CDs into the hands of 750 high school students. Bob points out that Microsoft at that time did not have a large presence as an employer in Scotland, yet it sold millions of dollars worth of software to the Scotts, which to Bob represented an negative balance of trade that was not in Scotland's best interest. If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at digitaltippingpoint.com. Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_042 and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 001, Bob Kerr You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks for viewing our video!

This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This series of interview segments features Bob Kerr, a highly paid computer systems administrator for Universal Studios in California, who quit his job to return to his native Scotland to give out Free Open Source Software CDs in schools and nearly all of the Scottish libraries. In the first two tapes in Bob's interviews (tapes 042 and 043), Bob explains that he undertook this work because he was concerned about preserving his native Gaelic language and culture. Proprietary vendors, such as Microsoft, could not be counted on to provide applications that would display Gaelic characters; and documents created in those proprietary formats could be lost forever if a vendor such as Microsoft decided that it did not make business sense to support a small language like Gaelic. By contrast, Free Open Source Software could be used by the Scottish government and civil societies to assure that Gaelic language documents could be accessed in perpetuity, due to the fact that no one vendor could control Free Open Source Software programs. Bob says that language is the bearer of culture. Language tells stories, and stories are the memories of who a people are, and what values are dear to them. Using Free Open Source Software could thus help preserve a minority language and culture like Gaelic that was being eroded by its contact with a more dominant language, like English. By giving Free Open Source Software CDs to libraries, Bob was able to effectively create a CD distribution system that covered 80% of Scotland's 5 million people. He then had plans to expand his giveaway program to all of the UK's libraries, effectively making Free Open Source Software available to 56 million people for a very small investment. Segment 001 of Tape 043 has a very funny story in which Bob tells in his own wry Scottish way how a treasurer of a local Pidgeon racing club realized that he, the treasurer, could use OpenOffice.org to place images of pidgeons on the newsletters that he was creating for his pidgeon racing club. Bob's imitation of that treasurer's classically Scottish reserved excitment is priceless and a must-see segment. A few other interesting stories: Bob tells how his library distribution effort would permit people on the outlying British Isles to receive software that they would not be able to download over the Internet, as there was no Internet service to those Isles. Bob talks about his satisfaction in seeing that he was enabling social groups, such as the Pidgeon racing society, to strengthen their social ties by improving their newsletters; and he talks about his plans to get CDs into the hands of 750 high school students. Bob points out that Microsoft at that time did not have a large presence as an employer in Scotland, yet it sold millions of dollars worth of software to the Scotts, which to Bob represented an negative balance of trade that was not in Scotland's best interest. If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at digitaltippingpoint.com. Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_042 and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 003, Bob Kerr You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks for viewing our video!

This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This series of interview segments features Bob Kerr, a highly paid computer systems administrator for Universal Studios in California, who quit his job to return to his native Scotland to give out Free Open Source Software CDs in schools and nearly all of the Scottish libraries. In the first two tapes in Bob's interviews (tapes 042 and 043), Bob explains that he undertook this work because he was concerned about preserving his native Gaelic language and culture. Proprietary vendors, such as Microsoft, could not be counted on to provide applications that would display Gaelic characters; and documents created in those proprietary formats could be lost forever if a vendor such as Microsoft decided that it did not make business sense to support a small language like Gaelic. By contrast, Free Open Source Software could be used by the Scottish government and civil societies to assure that Gaelic language documents could be accessed in perpetuity, due to the fact that no one vendor could control Free Open Source Software programs. Bob says that language is the bearer of culture. Language tells stories, and stories are the memories of who a people are, and what values are dear to them. Using Free Open Source Software could thus help preserve a minority language and culture like Gaelic that was being eroded by its contact with a more dominant language, like English. By giving Free Open Source Software CDs to libraries, Bob was able to effectively create a CD distribution system that covered 80% of Scotland's 5 million people. He then had plans to expand his giveaway program to all of the UK's libraries, effectively making Free Open Source Software available to 56 million people for a very small investment. Segment 001 of Tape 043 has a very funny story in which Bob tells in his own wry Scottish way how a treasurer of a local Pidgeon racing club realized that he, the treasurer, could use OpenOffice.org to place images of pidgeons on the newsletters that he was creating for his pidgeon racing club. Bob's imitation of that treasurer's classically Scottish reserved excitment is priceless and a must-see segment. A few other interesting stories: Bob tells how his library distribution effort would permit people on the outlying British Isles to receive software that they would not be able to download over the Internet, as there was no Internet service to those Isles. Bob talks about his satisfaction in seeing that he was enabling social groups, such as the Pidgeon racing society, to strengthen their social ties by improving their newsletters; and he talks about his plans to get CDs into the hands of 750 high school students. Bob points out that Microsoft at that time did not have a large presence as an employer in Scotland, yet it sold millions of dollars worth of software to the Scotts, which to Bob represented an negative balance of trade that was not in Scotland's best interest. If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at digitaltippingpoint.com. Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_043 and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 001, Bob Kerr You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks for viewing our video!

This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments! In this series of 15 interview segments, software engineer Natasha Humphries tells the remarkable story of losing her job as a software engineer to colleagues in Bangalore, India. Natasha, a Stanford grad who has worked for 10 years as a software engineer, was interviewed by the US national news media and called to testify before Congress about her experiences. Her Digital Tipping Point interview focuses on how things might have been different for her if she had been working on a Free Open Source Software project. She says that if she had been able to control the code on which she was working, her employer, Palm One, would not have been able to dismiss her as easily it did, since she would have been able to fork the code and thus give her greater bargaining power in her relationship with her employer. A less enlightened individual might have lashed out at the person who replaced her, but Natasha looks past that knee-jerk reaction. Natasha shows us the connectedness between herself and the colleagues with whom she worked in India. She provides a very moving personal account of a trip to India in which she encounters deep poverty, and she sees that the Indian colleague who replaced her could not do much to increase their wages or improve their working conditions. As long as those software engineers, both in the US and India, could not control the code they created, they could not control their own financial destinies. This footage is shot dark in segments 01 through 1:01 of segment 04 (Tape 157~001-004). Those segments will need to be re-rendered lighter for final use. The audio is really good. After 1:01 of segment 04, the footage is lighter. This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effectsor finish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page. In segment 01 (Tape 157~001), Natasha talks about her work at Palm One in Silicon Valley, California. The job she will discuss primarily in this interview is her position as a senior software quality assurance (QA) engineer at Palm One. She led a small team of sofware QA engineers. She lost many of these engineers over a 3 year period due to lay-offs. The jobs were essentially sent to India. In 2000, Palm One started outsourcing the jobs to San Francisco Bay Area vendors; by 2002, those jobs were being sent to India. She goes into detail as to what her job responsibilities were. Essentially, her job was both technical and managerial in nature. They tracked and squashed software bugs. She was the US interface for the multidisciplinary team. She essentially helped the business and technical people talk to each other. The last product that she worked on was the Tungsten T3. In segment 02 (Tape 157~002), Natasha explains that QA people are the last check of the product to make sure that it will be acceptable when received by the customer. The Tungsten T3 was designed to be easier to read than its predecessors. She goes into detail to explain why it worked like it did. She switches topic and talks about how she got into this job with Palm One. She worked at Apple doing a similar job. She then switches topic again forward in time to Palm One's decision to outsource the jobs to India. Her software project was one of the first to use the Indian team, which happened in August 2002. All of Natasha Humphries' interview segments can be found here: http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_001.ogg (segment 01) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_002.ogg (segment 02) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_003.ogg (segment 03) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_004.ogg (segment 04) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_005.ogg (segment 05) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_006.ogg (segment 06) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_007.ogg (segment 07) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_008.ogg (segment 08) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_009.ogg (segment 09) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_001.ogg (segment 10) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_002.ogg (segment 11) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_003.ogg (segment 12) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_004.ogg (segment 13) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_005.ogg (segment 14) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_006.ogg (segment 15) If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_157 and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 002, Natasha Humphries You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks for viewing our video!

alsadk show u how to use osalt.com to "Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software" Note : this Video in Arabic language :)

This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments! This series of interview segments features anthropologist Gabriella Coleman. You might think that anthropologist are only useful for studying bones of old, forgotten cultures, but you would be wrong. As this series of 10 interview segments shows, we can learn a lot about modern cultures and subcultures from anthropologists. Gabriella is not a computer scientist, but she does a great job of gaining enough computer science knowledge to understand what members of the Free Open Source Software movement are saying to each other. Her interviews are fascinating, because she spends much of her time thinking and talking about how people in the Free Open Source Software movement have created norms and established trust. These are really important issues, for several reasons. First, Free Open Source Software establishes the basic infrastructure for hundreds of billions of dollars in commerce every year. The Internet basically runs on Free Open Source Software, as does Google, Facebook, and most other such businesses. The US National Security Agency relies on GNU-Linux to run its computers, as does the US military. Huge civil bodies such as the City of Munich and the Region of Extremadura, Spain, rely on it. Second, Free Open Source Software is very international, as Gabriella points out, so what we learn from Free Open Source Software about collaboration can help humanity manage our complex international relations more smoothly in other areas as well. In segment 07 (Tape 106~007), Gabriella continues on talking about how the Mozilla Firefox browser is an example the power of a Free Open Source Software project can survive the death of a commercial business that was supporting it. Many of her colleagues at the University of Chicago use Firefox, and so she uses Firefox as an example when explaining to her colleagues what Free Open Source Software is. She found Free Open Source Software "choppy" at first, but now she is astounded at how fast it is growing user-friendly software. She is excited to see what it will be like in 5 years. The growth of user-friendliness is due to the proliferation of the the Internet and PCs. As the Internet as penetrated further into our lives, Free Open Source Software has followed along, and is becoming more important t average users, so more software is written for them. Another reason that many developers are motivated to continue programing with Free Open Source Software is that they started when they were young, sometimes as young as three years old, so the values of Free Open Source Software are deeply engrained in them. In segment 08 (Tape 106~008), Gabriella addresses the issue of the gender gap in Free Open Source Software, in which more men than women are active in developing the software. She believes this phenomenon is attributable to the fact the girls start writing code later in life, perhaps not until they are women, as opposed to boys, who start writing code when they are younger. But she cites Pia Waugh, the President of Linux Australia (with whom the DTP crew had hung out but had not had an opportunity to interview, sadly!) as an example of the growing role of women in Free Open Source Software. Members of the community are also starting to discuss the root causes of this gender gap, which she finds promising. She says that Free Open Source Software is still a subculture, but as it grows, more women will join Free Open Source Software coding efforts. As an example of the subcultural world of Free Open Source Software, she discusses key signing events. She says that these events would seem odd to outsiders, but they are important events to the community, because these events allow people to vouch for the identities of one another, which allows them to manage really really large projects, such as the Debian project. She says that person-to-person events like the FISL conference where this footage was shot is an example of such personal interactions, where tacit knowledge and unspoken understandings are instituted and cultivated. This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effectsor finish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page. http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv105_pa_17_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_005.ogg (segment 01) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv105_pa_17_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_006.ogg (segment 02) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_003.ogg (segment 03) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_004.ogg (segment 04) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_005.ogg (segment 05) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_006.ogg (segment 06) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_007.ogg (segment 07) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_008.ogg (segment 08) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_001.ogg (segment 09) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_002.ogg (segment 10) If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_106 and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 007, Gabriella Coleman You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks for viewing our video!

El objetivo de este manual es incentivar el uso de un Sistema Linux en PCs de escritorios. Este manual pretende mostrar que se puede tener instalado Linux en su PC de escritorio y sacarle todo el provecho. La guía es meramente orientativa, pero de ninguna manera técnica.

El objetivo de este manual es incentivar el uso de un Sistema Linux en PCs de escritorios. Este manual pretende mostrar que se puede tener instalado Linux en su PC de escritorio y sacarle todo el provecho. La guía es meramente orientativa, pero de ninguna manera técnica.

This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments! This series of 11 interview segments features John William Templeton, a widely published historian, journalist, and business commentator. John is president and executive editor of eAccess Corp. in San Francisco. As editor of the San Jose Business Journal, he helped pioneer coverage of technology industries in the 1980s. His popular book, "Success Secrets of Black Executives," highlighted the pivotal role of African-American technology executives. Since 1999, he has presented the 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology list and published the annual Silicon Ceiling report on equal opportunity in technology. He is an honors graduate in journalism from Howard University, and completed the Minority Science Writers Seminar and the Stanford Professional Publishing Course. John is also a leading historian of African Americans in business, and his Digital Tipping Point interivew connects current efforts by African Americans in Free Open Source Software to the deep history of African Americans in the broader technology field. One of the primary themes that emerge from John's interview is the appeal that Free Open Source Software (FOSS) holds for African American entrepreneurs. He says that FOSS holds the appeal of lowering the barrier for entry of African American innovators creating small to medium businesses, which is where most new jobs are created. He thinks that FOSS appeals to African nations intent on preserving culture and language that would be lost to the predominantly European languages in which proprietary software such as Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. FOSS allows African nations to localize Free Software into the 5,000 small-population languages spoken in Africa, thus preserving the thoughts and cultures of the speakers of those languages. John's experience as an expert witness in the anti-trust trial against Microsoft reminds us of the perils of entrusting culture to a monopoly whose interests are not always parallel to the interests of the users of software. This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effects or finish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page. In segment 04 (Tape 159~001), John talks about the impacts of Microsoft Windows on culture and language. For example, he says that there are 5,000 languages in Africa, but the use of Microsoft Windows forces users to conduct their computing in a major language like English, which degrades the use of their native languages. Free Open Source Software is being used to deploy software in the end users' native language. He says that Free Open Source Software works for these minority languages in Africa because it is not constrained by a business model which requires sales on a massive scale to justify the costs of production and deployment. So, for example, Free Open Source Software can be deployed in use cases as small as 1,000 users, thus preserving the language and culture of those small minority groups. Switching topics, John talks about his participation as an expert witness on education in the Microsoft anti-trust case. His testimony was aimed at showing that Microsoft's proposal to deploy Microsoft Windows would have taken the targeted classrooms backward by essentially dumping general-purpose technology in a setting calling for narrowly-tailored educational needs. Once those computers were in place, it would have been more difficult to obtain the funding for _proper_ technology for those settings because the generalized computers would essentially be thought to have fulfilled a purpose which, in reality, they were _not_ fulfilling, thereby displacing funding for appropriate technology. All of John Templeton's interview segments can be found here: http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_006_007.ogg (segment 01 http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_008.ogg (segment 02) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_009.ogg (segment 03) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_001.ogg (segment 04) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_002.ogg (segment 05) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_003.ogg (segment 06) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_004.ogg (segment 07) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_005.ogg (segment 08) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_006.ogg (segment 09) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_007.ogg (segment 10) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_008.ogg (segment 11) If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_159 and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 001, John Templeton You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks for viewing our video!

This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments! This series of 11 interview segments features John William Templeton, a widely published historian, journalist, and business commentator. John is president and executive editor of eAccess Corp. in San Francisco. As editor of the San Jose Business Journal, he helped pioneer coverage of technology industries in the 1980s. His popular book, "Success Secrets of Black Executives," highlighted the pivotal role of African-American technology executives. Since 1999, he has presented the 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology list and published the annual Silicon Ceiling report on equal opportunity in technology. He is an honors graduate in journalism from Howard University, and completed the Minority Science Writers Seminar and the Stanford Professional Publishing Course. John is also a leading historian of African Americans in business, and his Digital Tipping Point interivew connects current efforts by African Americans in Free Open Source Software to the deep history of African Americans in the broader technology field. One of the primary themes that emerge from John's interview is the appeal that Free Open Source Software (FOSS) holds for African American entrepreneurs. He says that FOSS holds the appeal of lowering the barrier for entry of African American innovators creating small to medium businesses, which is where most new jobs are created. He thinks that FOSS appeals to African nations intent on preserving culture and language that would be lost to the predominantly European languages in which proprietary software such as Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. FOSS allows African nations to localize Free Software into the 5,000 small-population languages spoken in Africa, thus preserving the thoughts and cultures of the speakers of those languages. John's experience as an expert witness in the anti-trust trial against Microsoft reminds us of the perils of entrusting culture to a monopoly whose interests are not always parallel to the interests of the users of software. This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effects or finish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page. In segment 04 (Tape 159~001), John talks about the impacts of Microsoft Windows on culture and language. For example, he says that there are 5,000 languages in Africa, but the use of Microsoft Windows forces users to conduct their computing in a major language like English, which degrades the use of their native languages. Free Open Source Software is being used to deploy software in the end users' native language. He says that Free Open Source Software works for these minority languages in Africa because it is not constrained by a business model which requires sales on a massive scale to justify the costs of production and deployment. So, for example, Free Open Source Software can be deployed in use cases as small as 1,000 users, thus preserving the language and culture of those small minority groups. Switching topics, John talks about his participation as an expert witness on education in the Microsoft anti-trust case. His testimony was aimed at showing that Microsoft's proposal to deploy Microsoft Windows would have taken the targeted classrooms backward by essentially dumping general-purpose technology in a setting calling for narrowly-tailored educational needs. Once those computers were in place, it would have been more difficult to obtain the funding for _proper_ technology for those settings because the generalized computers would essentially be thought to have fulfilled a purpose which, in reality, they were _not_ fulfilling, thereby displacing funding for appropriate technology. All of John Templeton's interview segments can be found here: http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_006_007.ogg (segment 01 http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_008.ogg (segment 02) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_009.ogg (segment 03) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_001.ogg (segment 04) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_002.ogg (segment 05) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_003.ogg (segment 06) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_004.ogg (segment 07) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_005.ogg (segment 08) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_006.ogg (segment 09) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_007.ogg (segment 10) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv159_sf_02_john_templeton_historian_008.ogg (segment 11) If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_159 and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 001, John Templeton You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks for viewing our video!

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Premier Texas LinuxFest 2010. This talk is about 5 acronyms, and tells 5 stories about the intersection of Open Source Software and Education that are important to Red Hat. 1. The Humanitarian FOSS Project (HFOSS) 2. Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects (UCOSP) 3. Teaching Open Source (TOS) 4. Professors' Open Source Summer Experience (POSSE) 5. Sugar on a Stick (SoaS)

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. I will save listener feedback for the next show. There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is the second of two panel recordings I captured at Balticon 44 . The panel was titled, "Free Yourself: Open Source Software for Everyday Use". My co-panelists were Brad Smith and none other than Eric Raymond. I found ESR to be especially fascinating on this panel, with some thought provoking ideas and fun stories.

This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This interview features Ricardo Mireles, founder of Academia Avance, a public charter school in Los Angeles. Ricardo spends most of his interview explaining that computer techonology is a process, not just a product, and that in most of the places where Free Open Source Software is gaining popularity, it is winning because it allows the users to control that process. As an example, he cites Munich, Brazil, and Extremadura, Spain. He tells the story of an instance in which he needed to get some IT work done for his corporate employer and had to contract with a programmer in Argentina and a development team in Denmark, because that's where the expertise was located. his interview was shot in a storage closet off of a huge public meeting hall at the Desktop Linux Summit at the San Diego County Fairgounds. The storage closet was located immediately next to a busy public restroom, and so you might hear occasional muted flushing in the background. This is our raw "source code" folks! The final version might be a lot different. We like to think that the flushing ads a sense of stark realism and authenticity to our work. If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at digitaltippingpoint.com. Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_041 and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 001, Ricardo Mireless You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks for viewing our video!

This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments! This series of interview segments features anthropologist Gabriella Coleman. You might think that anthropologist are only useful for studying bones of old, forgotten cultures, but you would be wrong. As this series of 10 interview segments shows, we can learn a lot about modern cultures and subcultures from anthropologists. Gabriella is not a computer scientist, but she does a great job of gaining enough computer science knowledge to understand what members of the Free Open Source Software movement are saying to each other. Her interviews are fascinating, because she spends much of her time thinking and talking about how people in the Free Open Source Software movement have created norms and established trust. These are really important issues, for several reasons. First, Free Open Source Software establishes the basic infrastructure for hundreds of billions of dollars in commerce every year. The Internet basically runs on Free Open Source Software, as does Google, Facebook, and most other such businesses. The US National Security Agency relies on GNU-Linux to run its computers, as does the US military. Huge civil bodies such as the City of Munich and the Region of Extremadura, Spain, rely on it. Second, Free Open Source Software is very international, as Gabriella points out, so what we learn from Free Open Source Software about collaboration can help humanity manage our complex international relations more smoothly in other areas as well. Segments 01 and 02 of Gabriella's interview didn't turn out well due to poor lighting and background noise, and so we covered the topics from those two segments again here in segments 03 and 04. In segment 03 (Tape 106~003), Gabriella explains that she is an anthropologist from the University of Chicago, who traveled to Porto Alegre, Brazil, to attend both the Debian developers conference and the immediately subsequent FISL conference that took place in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It was her 5th or 6th conference. She feels that these conferences are important for the Free Software Movement, because it allows users, developers, and enthusiasts to come together to reinvigorate their traditions. In segment 04 (Tape 106~004), she says that members of the Free Open Source Software movement like coming to conferences because they can speak personally with some of the leaders of the movement, such as Jon Maddog Hall, whom the DTP crew interviewed about the same time as Gabriella's interview. She has been conducting her research for 4 or 5 years at these conferences. People come to these conferences to learn technical skills, but also to establish personal ties with other members of the community. These in-person meetings are still very important despite the fact that the members of the Free Open Source Software movement spent a lot of time with each other on-line. She says that the Free Open Source Software movement is very international. People exchange important knowledge about their home cultures, in addition to creating the norms of the Free Open Source Software culture. Later in segment 04, she says that FOSS has extended the ideas of the hacker culture as described in Steven Levy's book, "Hackers", which was a study of the MIT hacker culture out of which Richard Stallman grew. The hackers expressed their culture through sharing code. They saw computers as a way to create beauty and society. Gabriella continues on with this topic in segment 05. This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effectsor finish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page. http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv105_pa_17_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_005.ogg (segment 01) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv105_pa_17_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_006.ogg (segment 02) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_003.ogg (segment 03) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_004.ogg (segment 04) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_005.ogg (segment 05) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_006.ogg (segment 06) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_007.ogg (segment 07) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv106_pa_18_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_008.ogg (segment 08) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_001.ogg (segment 09) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv107_pa_19_gabriella_coleman_foss_anthropol_002.ogg (segment 10) If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_106 and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 003, Gabriella Coleman You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks for viewing our video!

Going Linux #429 · Using Open Source Software to get a new job

This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This series of interview segments features Bob Kerr, a highly paid computer systems administrator for Universal Studios in California, who quit his job to return to his native Scotland to give out Free Open Source Software CDs in schools and nearly all of the Scottish libraries. In the first two tapes in Bob's interviews (tapes 042 and 043), Bob explains that he undertook this work because he was concerned about preserving his native Gaelic language and culture. Proprietary vendors, such as Microsoft, could not be counted on to provide applications that would display Gaelic characters; and documents created in those proprietary formats could be lost forever if a vendor such as Microsoft decided that it did not make business sense to support a small language like Gaelic. By contrast, Free Open Source Software could be used by the Scottish government and civil societies to assure that Gaelic language documents could be accessed in perpetuity, due to the fact that no one vendor could control Free Open Source Software programs. Bob says that language is the bearer of culture. Language tells stories, and stories are the memories of who a people are, and what values are dear to them. Using Free Open Source Software could thus help preserve a minority language and culture like Gaelic that was being eroded by its contact with a more dominant language, like English. By giving Free Open Source Software CDs to libraries, Bob was able to effectively create a CD distribution system that covered 80% of Scotland's 5 million people. He then had plans to expand his giveaway program to all of the UK's libraries, effectively making Free Open Source Software available to 56 million people for a very small investment. Segment 001 of Tape 043 has a very funny story in which Bob tells in his own wry Scottish way how a treasurer of a local Pidgeon racing club realized that he, the treasurer, could use OpenOffice.org to place images of pidgeons on the newsletters that he was creating for his pidgeon racing club. Bob's imitation of that treasurer's classically Scottish reserved excitment is priceless and a must-see segment. A few other interesting stories: Bob tells how his library distribution effort would permit people on the outlying British Isles to receive software that they would not be able to download over the Internet, as there was no Internet service to those Isles. Bob talks about his satisfaction in seeing that he was enabling social groups, such as the Pidgeon racing society, to strengthen their social ties by improving their newsletters; and he talks about his plans to get CDs into the hands of 750 high school students. Bob points out that Microsoft at that time did not have a large presence as an employer in Scotland, yet it sold millions of dollars worth of software to the Scotts, which to Bob represented an negative balance of trade that was not in Scotland's best interest. If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at digitaltippingpoint.com. Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_042 and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 004, Bob Kerr You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks for viewing our video!

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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. This series of interview segments features Bob Kerr, a highly paid computer systems administrator for Universal Studios in California, who quit his job to return to his native Scotland to give out Free Open Source Software CDs in schools and nearly all of the Scottish libraries. In the first two tapes in Bob's interviews (tapes 042 and 043), Bob explains that he undertook this work because he was concerned about preserving his native Gaelic language and culture. Proprietary vendors, such as Microsoft, could not be counted on to provide applications that would display Gaelic characters; and documents created in those proprietary formats could be lost forever if a vendor such as Microsoft decided that it did not make business sense to support a small language like Gaelic. By contrast, Free Open Source Software could be used by the Scottish government and civil societies to assure that Gaelic language documents could be accessed in perpetuity, due to the fact that no one vendor could control Free Open Source Software programs. Bob says that language is the bearer of culture. Language tells stories, and stories are the memories of who a people are, and what values are dear to them. Using Free Open Source Software could thus help preserve a minority language and culture like Gaelic that was being eroded by its contact with a more dominant language, like English. By giving Free Open Source Software CDs to libraries, Bob was able to effectively create a CD distribution system that covered 80% of Scotland's 5 million people. He then had plans to expand his giveaway program to all of the UK's libraries, effectively making Free Open Source Software available to 56 million people for a very small investment. Segment 001 of Tape 043 has a very funny story in which Bob tells in his own wry Scottish way how a treasurer of a local Pidgeon racing club realized that he, the treasurer, could use OpenOffice.org to place images of pidgeons on the newsletters that he was creating for his pidgeon racing club. Bob's imitation of that treasurer's classically Scottish reserved excitment is priceless and a must-see segment. A few other interesting stories: Bob tells how his library distribution effort would permit people on the outlying British Isles to receive software that they would not be able to download over the Internet, as there was no Internet service to those Isles. Bob talks about his satisfaction in seeing that he was enabling social groups, such as the Pidgeon racing society, to strengthen their social ties by improving their newsletters; and he talks about his plans to get CDs into the hands of 750 high school students. Bob points out that Microsoft at that time did not have a large presence as an employer in Scotland, yet it sold millions of dollars worth of software to the Scotts, which to Bob represented an negative balance of trade that was not in Scotland's best interest. If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at digitaltippingpoint.com. Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_042 and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 002, Bob Kerr You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks for viewing our video!

This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments! In this series of 15 interview segments, software engineer Natasha Humphries tells the remarkable story of losing her job as a software engineer to colleagues in Bangalore, India. Natasha, a Stanford grad who has worked for 10 years as a software engineer, was interviewed by the US national news media and called to testify before Congress about her experiences. Her Digital Tipping Point interview focuses on how things might have been different for her if she had been working on a Free Open Source Software project. She says that if she had been able to control the code on which she was working, her employer, Palm One, would not have been able to dismiss her as easily it did, since she would have been able to fork the code and thus give her greater bargaining power in her relationship with her employer. A less enlightened individual might have lashed out at the person who replaced her, but Natasha looks past that knee-jerk reaction. Natasha shows us the connectedness between herself and the colleagues with whom she worked in India. She provides a very moving personal account of a trip to India in which she encounters deep poverty, and she sees that the Indian colleague who replaced her could not do much to increase their wages or improve their working conditions. As long as those software engineers, both in the US and India, could not control the code they created, they could not control their own financial destinies. This footage is shot dark in segments 01 through 1:01 of segment 04 (Tape 157~001-004). Those segments will need to be re-rendered lighter for final use. The audio is really good. After 1:01 of segment 04, the footage is lighter. This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effectsor finish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page. In segment 05 (Tape 157~005), Natasha says that this experience of being locked out of this proprietary software project for Palm One was not as devastating for her as it might have been for other people, because she has a relatively diversified background. She says that Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is also good for women and minorities because it lowers the barriers to entry into various different jobs, because it is a meritocracy. If you have the skills, you can get the job. Free Open Source Software is transparent, so it lets you get the skills you need to compete for jobs. Managers tend to hire people who are like them, both in terms of personality and race. Free Open Source Software can open doors for people who have skills but might not have earned a Microsoft certification, for example. And FOSS also balances the employee's relationship with the employer, giving a bit more power to the employee than he or she had before, because FOSS allows the employee to have greater control over the code. In segment 06 (Tape 157~006), Natasha says that the employee's power to fork the code gives them the ability to leave a company and take the code with them and develop it elsewhere. She thinks that she would have had more leverage with Palm One if she had been working on Free Open Source Software (FOSS). Palm One owned the code, so she could not take her work with her when she left. The FOSS community decides what code to advance, not just the companies. She was expendable because the code was closed. After she transfered her knowledge to the colleagues she was training, she was no longer needed. If she had been working on a FOSS project, she would have had more leverage with Palm One. This is particulary true when you have software engineers in the US earning $75,000.00 US to $125.000.00 US per year competing with people in India earning $2.00 US to $4.00 US per hour. In segment 07 (Tape 157~007), Natasha says that her counterpart in India was paid $4.00 US per hour. New graduates from technical institutes earn $2.00 per hour. She says that differential is not sustainable for workers in the US. She says that it is incorrect, though, for US workers to blame the people in India. She thinks that they are just on the other side of the power imbalance. The real blame needs to be placed on the corporation that is causing this power imbalance, says Natasha. She thinks that Free Open Source Software could help raise the conditions for the people of India, which could bring them into greater parity with the US. By creating new idustries, using Free Open Source Software, Indian innovators will be able to normalize earnings ratios with the US, restoring balance. Toward the end of this segment, she switches topic and starts talking about the effect of globalization on Indians such as her colleagues. Her thought is continued in the next segment. All of Natasha Humphries' interview segments can be found here: http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_001.ogg (segment 01) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_002.ogg (segment 02) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_003.ogg (segment 03) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_004.ogg (segment 04) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_005.ogg (segment 05) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_006.ogg (segment 06) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_007.ogg (segment 07) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_008.ogg (segment 08) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv157_sf_01_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_009.ogg (segment 09) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_001.ogg (segment 10) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_002.ogg (segment 11) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_003.ogg (segment 12) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_004.ogg (segment 13) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_005.ogg (segment 14) http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv158_sf_02_natasha_humphreys_palm_one_006.ogg (segment 15) If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_157 and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 005, Natasha Humphries You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks for viewing our video!

This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. We at the DTP are not Microsoft-haters. And yet it is important to remember that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Right now, in 2008, Microsoft still has too much power over the desktop software market. And this interview with Sterling Ball reminds us about what can happen when one company has too much power. Sterling Ball is the owner of the Ernie Ball company, a family-owned business that makes and sells high quality guitar strings, pics, and other musically-related stuff. Sterling's company made an innocent mistake in moving hard drives from one computer to another, and they were raided by the local sheriff's department when the Business Software Alliance (BSA) claimed that Ernie Ball was committing software piracy. Sterling became so honked off at Microsoft that he decided to switch to Linux. In these interviews, Sterling talks not so much about the raid, which he doesn't like to discuss and only mentions in passing. Instead, Sterling talks about the benefits to his company in using Free Open Source Software. He was a Microsoft fan, but after the raid, he says, he focused on IT in a way that he never previously did, and found that he had options. In the last of the videos, he laughs at the fact that he was invited to speak at Linux World in San Francisco in front of a banner saying, "Living in a Microsoft-free world." Ultimately, he wants people to understand that his decision was motivated mostly by business factors, not spite against Microsoft. In this particular segment, Sterling says [summary needed] If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at [email protected]. Your work will be credited and posted on this page. The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt at digitaltippingpoint.com. Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_259 and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 006, Sterling Ball You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here: http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks for viewing our video!

This thesis explores the application of traditional survivability analysis to the open source software (OSS) development process. It postulates that combat systems face potential threats from cyber warfare professionals aiming to manipulate software embedded in the systems. The research highlights current Department of Defense (DOD) interest in OSS, and explains a method for evaluating the capability of OSS programs to withstand cyber warfare attacks. Survivability concepts are demonstrated in a scenario involving an adversary inserting malicious code into the source repository of FlightGear, an open source flight simulator. Analysis is conducted on five open source programs to illustrate commonality in the evaluation process. It is determined that survivability analysis is a feasible method for OSS software evaluation, and could be used as a tool to compare OSS alternatives.

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Open source software and programming libraries have dramatically changed the way software is developed. Leveraging open source as a part of the software development process drives down both development time and cost while increasing software quality. The defining question for most companies is no longer, 'Should we use open source?', but rather, 'How can we accelerate our adoption of open source while doing so safely?' This session presents an overall view of the entire software development value chain from programmer to customer -- including in-house developers, off-shore developers, open source contributors and others along the way -- and identifies best practices for each stop that will allow companies to accelerate their ability to utilize open source while making sure they are managing the process effectively. This session will explore best practices in the areas of: Aligning open source usage with corporate culture and business goals Processes and policies around the software development process Acquiring code developed by outsourced or off-shore partners Understanding license obligations in the finished product or project How to plan and manage the overall process effectively

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Panel: Charles Max Wood Aimee Knight Corey House Joe Eames Special Guests:  In this episode, JavaScript Jabber speaks with Dirk Hohndel about Open Source Software. Dirk is the Chief Open Source Officer at VMWare and has been working with open source for over 20 years. Dirk duties as the Chief Open Source Officer is to engage with the open source community and help promote the development between the community, companies, and customers. Dirk provides historical facts about open sources to current processes. The discussion covers vision and technological advances with languages, security, and worries of using open source software, view/consumption and burnout on maintaining a project. This is a great episode to learn about more different avenues of Open Source. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: ? What does the Chief Open Source Officer do? ? What is really different and has stayed the same in open source? ? Technological advances ? Good engineering and looking ahead or forward ? 100 million lines of code running a car… ? This is in everything.. ? Production environments ? Security ? Bugs in the software and the security issues ? Scaling and paying attention ? Where should we be worried about open source ? Notation and data sets ? Write maintainable software ? How does VMWare think about open source? ? View and Consumption of open source ? The burnout of open source projects - how to resolve this abandonment ? To much work to maintain open source  - not a money issue ? Scaling the team workload not the money ? Contribution and giving back ? Companies who do and don’t welcome open source ? What to do to make a project open source? ? Adopting an API ? And much more! Links: ? @_drikhh ? VMWare ? Drikhh - everywhere! ? https://github.com/dirkhh Picks: Aimee ? De Contact  ? Dodow  Dirk ? Track This Critical Thinking Charles ? Nicholas Zakas - Books  Corey ? Fun Fun Function Show Joe ? Dice Forge ? Concept of empathy    

Our own Devin Breen and Mark Lewis discussed Securing Open Source Software with the Chairman of Iron Bank at USAF Platform One Zachary Burke at AWS Summit Washington, DC. The topic includes: Securing Open Source Software, Secure Minimal Containers, and Software Security Scanning. Amazing news! Ubuntu containers are now available in Iron Bank! Contact us here to learn more: https://ubuntu.com/gov #containers #zerotrust #zerodistance #soss #opensource"

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The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends On Productive Friction And Dynamic Specialization by John Hagel and John Seely Brown http://amzn.to/1SfyZ4W Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath http://amzn.to/1kJvE3d --- 5 Aug 2014 Audio: - http://opensource.com/business/14/8/interview-michael-tiemann-red-hat - http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1622 CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION SHAREALIKE BRYAN BEHRENSHAUSEN Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pulguita/2868868306 CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION SHAREALIKE PAULA REY --- 12m10s "I got a tremendous amount of push-back from people who basically said: 'In our capitalist environment, you cannot be successful if you cannot exclude competitors from the marketplace.' ..you cannot be successful if you cannot force customers into a trap; basically. And I really did not believe that because I saw so much potential gain for the industry to be able to move forward without impediments. To my mind, any business who's success depended on slowing things down was just a bad idea. But it was very much counter the prevailing wisdom." 14m02s "If we are more expert in being able to adapt this software faster, apply it to a wider range of problems, etc, etc, we can help move to the next field faster, then we should be able to write a ticket based on the value that's opened by that."

This article is from Frontiers in Neuroscience , volume 7 . Abstract Depth intracranial electrodes (IEs) placement is one of the most used procedures to identify the epileptogenic zone (EZ) in surgical treatment of drug resistant epilepsy patients, about 20–30% of this population. IEs localization is therefore a critical issue defining the EZ and its relation with eloquent functional areas. That information is then used to target the resective surgery and has great potential to affect outcome. We designed a methodological procedure intended to avoid the need for highly specialized medical resources and reduce time to identify the anatomical location of IEs, during the first instances of intracranial EEG recordings. This workflow is based on established open source software; 3D Slicer and Freesurfer that uses MRI and Post-implant CT fusion for the localization of IEs and its relation with automatic labeled surrounding cortex. To test this hypothesis we assessed the time elapsed between the surgical implantation process and the final anatomical localization of IEs by means of our proposed method compared against traditional visual analysis of raw post-implant imaging in two groups of patients. All IEs were identified in the first 24 H (6–24 H) of implantation using our method in 4 patients of the first group. For the control group; all IEs were identified by experts with an overall time range of 36 h to 3 days using traditional visual analysis. It included (7 patients), 3 patients implanted with IEs and the same 4 patients from the first group. Time to localization was restrained in this group by the specialized personnel and the image quality available. To validate our method; we trained two inexperienced operators to assess the position of IEs contacts on four patients (5 IEs) using the proposed method. We quantified the discrepancies between operators and we also assessed the efficiency of our method to define the EZ comparing the findings against the results of traditional analysis.

This article is from Frontiers in Neuroinformatics , volume 7 . Abstract Morphometric analysis of neurons and brain tissue is relevant to the study of neuron circuitry development during the first phases of brain growth or for probing the link between microstructural morphology and degenerative diseases. As neural imaging techniques become ever more sophisticated, so does the amount and complexity of data generated. The NEuronMOrphological analysis tool NEMO was purposely developed to handle and process large numbers of optical microscopy image files of neurons in culture or slices in order to automatically run batch routines, store data and apply multivariate classification and feature extraction using 3-way principal component analysis (PCA). Here we describe the software's main features, underlining the differences between NEMO and other commercial and non-commercial image processing tools, and show an example of how NEMO can be used to classify neurons from wild-type mice and from animal models of autism.

https://media.ccc.de/v/2019-209-challenge-blob-free-mainline-open-source-software-on-a-single-board-computer-sbc-arm64-foss-efi- Dondon teilt seine Erfahrungen mit dem SBC und geht im Vortrag auf die Erstellung eines Debian-Systems mit mainline Kernel und mainline u-boot ein. Der Bootvorgang wird ausführlich erläutert. Es soll eine Diskussion entstehen inwieweit bereits proproietäre Systeme und Binary-Blobs ausgeschlossen werden konnten und künftig möglichst vollständig substituiert werden können. Dondon shares his expirience with a SBC (single board computer) and speaks about the installation of a pure debian system with mainline kernel und mainline u-boot. The booting sequence will be described in detail. The presentation will be followed by a discussion propritary systems and binary blobs can be eliminated and replaced with opensource software and hardware in the future. dondon https://talks.mrmcd.net/2019/talk/BTUCFG/ Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G8ur1a6DgE Uploader: media.ccc.de

This research analyzes complex networks in open-source software at the inter-package level, where package dependencies often span across projects and between development groups. We review complex networks identified at ``lower'' levels of abstraction, and then formulate a description of interacting software components at the package level, a relatively ``high'' level of abstraction. By mining open-source software repositories from two sources, we empirically show that the coupling of modules at this granularity creates a small-world and scale-free network in both instances.

In the dark days of October 2014 an unprecedented Ebola epidemic wrecked havoc across Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. In Sierra Leone, the health system was only weeks away from total collapse due to an inability to manage or pay health workers across the country and the world braced for the unchecked spread of the disease throughout west Africa. In the face of apocalyptic scenario, a company made up of local hackers took on the unprecedented challenge of building, implementing and running a huge Management Information System and Mobile payments system to keep the health system from collapsing. This talk will show how this was achieved with Open Source Software, second hand laptops, hacked voter registration machines, second hand smartphones and some very smart and determined young people used to achieving great things with none of the resources we take for granted. We salute them. Salton Arthur Massally, Harold Valentine Mac-Saidu, Francis Banguara, Emerson Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPxCUzGGDKc Uploader: media.ccc.de

Lauren McCarthy joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss her work on p5.js, contributions and culture, her before and after take on open source, her path to becoming a maintainer, how p5.js gets new contributors, how they keep them around, and why design isn't better represented in open source.

In this episode we talk with Varun Badhwar, Founder and CEO of Endor Labs. Show host: Sean Falconer

Paul Warren https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30341/view_talk http://openradio.net.au/index.php/Main_Page#LCA_2016_Geelong

Matthew Hiltner https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30139/view_talk Intel uses feedback from manufacturing test to continuously improve product yields and drive cost savings. Open source software plays an important role in this process, as its flexibility and transparency allow rapid innovation in manufacturing test development. This presentation explores the use of open source software as part of system-level test for silicon components. By using open and well-understood customer-like workloads, Intel is able to effectively identify manufacturing defects. More importantly, key workloads that expose abnormal failure rates are integrated into more directed test environments, such as a test of a chip before it is even packaged. The presentation will then focus on the cost impact of late defect detection, and how open source software specifically enables earlier detection. Techniques such as execution recording and CPU state insertion by PSMI, RTOS-like execution of directed workloads within NMISR will be described. The presentation ends by describing previous (and ongoing) challenges working in a closed-source environment, and how key learnings have dramatically increased awareness and appreciation of open source software within a decidedly hardware-centric field.

Matthew Hiltner https://linux.conf.au/schedule/30139/view_talk Intel uses feedback from manufacturing test to continuously improve product yields and drive cost savings. Open source software plays an important role in this process, as its flexibility and transparency allow rapid innovation in manufacturing test development. This presentation explores the use of open source software as part of system-level test for silicon components. By using open and well-understood customer-like workloads, Intel is able to effectively identify manufacturing defects. More importantly, key workloads that expose abnormal failure rates are integrated into more directed test environments, such as a test of a chip before it is even packaged. The presentation will then focus on the cost impact of late defect detection, and how open source software specifically enables earlier detection. Techniques such as execution recording and CPU state insertion by PSMI, RTOS-like execution of directed workloads within NMISR will be described. The presentation ends by describing previous (and ongoing) challenges working in a closed-source environment, and how key learnings have dramatically increased awareness and appreciation of open source software within a decidedly hardware-centric field.

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ubports-installer_0.8.8-beta_win.exe - installer for Windows , The Ubuntu Touch OS ,  free and open source software , ubuntu-touch.io , UBports Community https://ubuntu-touch.io/get-ubuntu-touch   Features of the Ubuntu Touch Operating System The Ubuntu Touch OS is developed and maintained by the UBports Community, a group of volunteers and passionate people from all around the world. We believe that everyone should be free to use, study, share and improve all of our software without restrictions. Every line of source-code we create is distributed under free and open source software licenses endorsed by the Free Software Foundation or the Open Source Initiative .

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Long duration space travel to Mars or to an asteroid will expose astronauts to extended periods of reduced gravity. Since gravity is not present to aid loading, astronauts will use resistive and aerobic exercise regimes for the duration of the space flight to minimize the loss of bone density, muscle mass and aerobic capacity that occurs during exposure to a reduced gravity environment. Unlike the International Space Station (ISS), the area available for an exercise device in the next generation of spacecraft is limited. Therefore, compact resistance exercise device prototypes are being developed. The NASA Digital Astronaut Project (DAP) is supporting the Advanced Exercise Concepts (AEC) Project, Exercise Physiology and Countermeasures (ExPC) project and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) funded researchers by developing computational models of exercising with these new advanced exercise device concepts. To perform validation of these models and to support the Advanced Exercise Concepts Project, several candidate devices have been flown onboard NASAs Reduced Gravity Aircraft. In terrestrial laboratories, researchers typically have available to them motion capture systems for the measurement of subject kinematics. Onboard the parabolic flight aircraft it is not practical to utilize the traditional motion capture systems due to the large working volume they require and their relatively high replacement cost if damaged. To support measuring kinematics on board parabolic aircraft, a motion capture system is being developed utilizing open source computer vision code with commercial off the shelf (COTS) video camera hardware. While the systems accuracy is lower than lab setups, it provides a means to produce quantitative comparison motion capture kinematic data. Additionally, data such as required exercise volume for small spaces such as the Orion capsule can be determined. METHODS: OpenCV is an open source computer vision library that provides the ability to perform multi-camera 3 dimensional reconstruction. Utilizing OpenCV, via the Python programming language, a set of tools has been developed to perform motion capture in confined spaces using commercial cameras. Four Sony Video Cameras were intrinsically calibrated prior to flight. Intrinsic calibration provides a set of camera specific parameters to remove geometric distortion of the lens and sensor (specific to each individual camera). A set of high contrast markers were placed on the exercising subject (safety also necessitated that they be soft in case they become detached during parabolic flight); small yarn balls were used. Extrinsic calibration, the determination of camera location and orientation parameters, is performed using fixed landmark markers shared by the camera scenes. Additionally a wand calibration, the sweeping of the camera scenes simultaneously, was also performed. Techniques have been developed to perform intrinsic calibration, extrinsic calibration, isolation of the markers in the scene, calculation of marker 2D centroids, and 3D reconstruction from multiple cameras. These methods have been tested in the laboratory side-by-side comparison to a traditional motion capture system and also on a parabolic flight.

Nintendo Open Source Software source code distribution: Super NES Classic Edition

Nintendo Open Source Software source code distribution: Super NES Classic Edition