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@ -11,11 +11,9 @@ Session Title: Embracing the Freeing Potential of Free Software
A brief summary (This description will be printed on the Web site and in the program. Please aim for a maximum of 150 words.)
Free software, in part, begins with the premise that those who are most affected by something should have control over it. As a movement, we need to embrace the principle that everyone should have the most control possible over their own lives.
Free software, in part, begins with the premise that those who are most affected by something should have control over it. Your software should answer to you, not to anyone else. As a movement, we need to embrace the principle that everyone should have the most control possible over their own lives. We must embrace the need to expand our ethical considerations for software to its real-world impacts.
To reach its liberatory potential, the free software movement needs LibreSaaS and an embrace of cooperative principles.
We need to rethink this and in many cases go for breadth-first— covering as many people as possible, impacting as many lives as possible. There may never have been a time of more awareness of the dangers posed to us by proprietary software and unaccountable services, but we still need to meet people more than halfway.
There may never have been a time of more awareness of the dangers posed to us by proprietary software and unaccountable services, but we still need to meet people more than halfway. To reach its liberatory potential, the free software movement needs to embrace cooperative principles, in development and in hosting. This session will cover some of the ways we can do that, with specific examples like mayfirst.coop, coopcycle.org, meet.coop, and social.coop.
Abstract (This is a more elaborate explanation than the summary for the committee to understand your proposal. Please limit this to 300 words.)
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This is a fairly narrow view of how software can and does affect us. This session is a detailed call to zoom out and think strategically as a movement how software can give people more control over their lives, not merely how people can have more control over our software.
As a movement, we have tended to —depth-first, if you would. Do I understand and control the program I am running, the dependencies it relies on, and hardware it runs on? This is important and good!
As a movement, we have tended to focus on full individual freedom regarding their own software— depth-first, if you would. Do I understand and control the program I am running, the dependencies it relies on, and hardware it runs on? This is important and good!
We need to rethink this and in many cases go for breadth-first— covering as many people as possible, impacting as many lives as possible. There may never have been a time of more awareness of the dangers posed to us by proprietary software and unaccountable services, but we still need to meet people more than halfway.
We need to rethink this and in many cases go for breadth-first— covering as many people as possible, increasing freedom for as many lives as possible. There may never have been a time of more awareness of the dangers posed to us by proprietary software and unaccountable services, but we still need to meet people more than halfway.
We need to embrace the principle that everyone should have the most control possible over their own lives. How then, does software fit into that? Being free in itself is only part of the way free software can be truly freeing. What does the software do? Is it available, accessible, usable to all who could benefit from it?
To reach its liberatory potential, the free software movement needs to embrace cooperative principles: one person one vote, member economic participation which should include users, and educating and benefiting our communities.
It is not someone else's computer if we own it collectively. This isn't far from the early days of Free Software, when computing power was a shared resource.
We also need to cooperatively host free software when hosting it is the most practical way for people to use and benefit from free software. It is not someone else's computer if we own it collectively. This isn't far from the early days of free software, when computing power was a shared resource.
We must embrace the need to expand our ethical considerations for software to its real-world impacts.
We must embrace the freeing potential of free software and expand our ethical considerations for software to its real-world impacts. To reach its liberatory potential, the free software movement can adopt cooperative principles, in development and in hosting. This session will cover some of the ways we can do that, with specific examples like social.coop, coopcycle.org, mayfirst.coop, and meet.coop.
Biography (Please keep this around 100 words.)