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-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Free video: Cory Doctorow on how you got here Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:55:58 -0800 From: Rachel Roumeliotis, O'Reilly Media oreilly@post.oreilly.com
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You may be passionate about open source software or FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) or you may simply be focused on getting your work done. Either way, according to Cory Doctorow, novelist, activist, journalist, and blogger, when you use open source software the work you do today is giving shape to the open source software of the future.
That's quite a responsibility—and a privilege. Cory explains what he means, and more important, what this means for the world at large. We invite you to listen to his thought-provoking keynote from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention last year, /How you got here/. You'll learn about the practical side of using open source as well as enduring benefits that you may not have imagined. And Cory's a brilliant speaker.
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Here's another recent talk by Doctorow that's 30 minutes in length: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duG55M8t0sc
Always worth revisiting are these two classics: /The coming war on general-purpose computing/ http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
and /The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing/ http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
Coming up, he'll probably talk for an entire hour when he gives a keynote at LibrePlanet 2017 on March 26. http://www.fsf.org/news/libreplanet-2017-keynote-announcement-author-and-tec...
I'm going to be live-streaming this at local hackerspace Skullspace that morning, guests will be welcome. http://skullspace.ca
Mark Jenkins
p.s. The end of owner-controlled computing may be fast-arriving in the hardware market for new equipment. The folks behind the TALOS crowdfunding campaign have been pointing this out in their updates:
https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/ https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-secure-workstatio... https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/op_twbx86.php
Retrocomputing and motherboard repair knowledge may become very critical skills for survival of owner-controlled computing in the coming decades under worse case scenarios.
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Mark Jenkins