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52 lines
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# We're Better Together: Why Free Software needs cooperative hosting
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Free software, in part, begins with the premise that those who are most affected by something should have control over it.
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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.
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To reach its liberatory potential, the Free Software movement needs LibreSaaS and an embrace of cooperative principles.
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Free software has always been first and foremost about an ethical imperative: to respect the freedom of people using the software and the right of all people to learn from the shared knowledge embedded in software.
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But this has not been enough, as shown both by the continued vitality of proprietary software and the prevalence of the amoral 'open source' framing in free software.
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One part of this is we need to accept a new, unambiguous name, such as Libre Software, or Liberatory Software.
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The bigger part is living up to such a new name by empracing the need to expand our ethical considerations for software to its real-world impacts.
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Existing Contact: ben@agaric.coop
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Session information
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Session type: presentation
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Session Title
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A brief summary (This description will be printed on the Web site and in the program. Please aim for a maximum of 150 words.)
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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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Biography (Please keep this around 100 words.)
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Please supply us with a photo of yourself for our Web site. [Attached]
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Please list previous presentations you've given. Feel free to include links.
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In person or remote: either
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Speaker release
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Yes (Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0)
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This is a speaker release form, giving permission to the FSF to stream, record, and post a video of your session online. By checking one or more of the above boxes, I agree to the terms of the LibrePlanet Speaker Release.
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Safe Space Policy
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I have read the safe space policy and agree to follow it.
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yes
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