Free Culture National conference Cambridge May 26
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[edit] BinaryFreedom 5m presentation
this was done by Chris Fernandez
- BinaryFreedom is the idea of 3 persons very passionated on what we do.
we had one similar vision and we decided to do something about it and try to make a difference.
two years a go we were a GNU/Linux user group.
with time discussion regarding
progressive politics and links to the electronic frontier foundation and the FreeSoftware foundation started to rule the mailing list and most of the times this was related to free software ethics and digital freedoms.
for this we renamed the group with the aim to create a grassroots movement of activists
fighting for freedom on todays digital world.
upon all this our main focus for the project is to raise awareness for the social and technological values of free software.
- Today binary freedom has members from different places in the world, working together on different issues and campaigns and helping different other groups like the FSF and EFF, to create a free information society.
- locally in Boston, we are working on promoting our ideals to regular people and other activist groups with the intention to show them the social benefits of Free Software, our focus group is not tors the technical engineers, but regular people, for this, we approach them with a humanitarian view on how free software is making the world a better place for all us.
- I talked about encouraging the use of GNEWSENSE.
- pointed people to our websites.
- wiki.binaryfreedom.info
- www.binaryfreedom.info
[edit] Free Software Workshop
this was moderated by Jonh Sullivan from the FSF and Chris Fernandez from BinaryFreedom, and Daniel clark helped.
- This was a very interesting workshop with different opinions and some good ideas even do we had our small
disagreements, overall I think everyone understood that the ethical ideals of FreeSoftware are to take serious and in consideration over the technical aspects even do is true that we need the technical part to be working so people will not get a half way product if they decide to run Free Software for the ethical reasons.
- for the minutes of the conversation here is a link:
- I like always hehe started the talk with a topic that for sure will bring a long conversation :-)
Thanks does who attended.
