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# We're Better Together: Why Free Software needs cooperative hosting
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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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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: The World Needs Cooperatively-Hosted Free Software
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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As a movement, we have tended to —depth-first, if you would.
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We need to rethink this and in many cases go for breadth-first— covering as many people as possible.
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In other words, as a movement, we need to embrace the principle that everyone should have the most control possible over their own lives.
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Is it available, accessible, usable to all who could benefit from it?
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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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Biography (Please keep this around 100 words.)
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Benjamin lives and works to connect people, ideas, and resources so we all gain the most power possible over their lives.
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A web developer well-established with Drupal and PHP, he has also been enjoying programming projects with Python, with GoLang, and with JavaScript. As a co-founder of Agaric Technology Collective, a worker-owned cooperative, clients he has built for includes universities, corporations, not-for-profit organizations, and grassroots groups. He led 34 authors in writing the 1,100 page Definitive Guide to Drupal 7.
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Benjamin tries to aid struggles for justice and liberty, including as co-founder of People Who Give a Damn.
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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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A Drupal developer for 15 years, he has presented on a wide range of topics from migration and module development to design and contributing to the Drupal community. He has extensive speaking experience in the Drupal world, and has contributed sessions and trainings to many Drupal conferences.
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* DrupalCon Boston (2008) - Knight Foundation panel, http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-and-knight-foundation.html
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* DrupalCon Washington, DC (2009) – Taxonomy
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* DrupalCon Paris (2009) – Taxonomy Everywhere: D7 Core Overhaul and the Expanding Contrib Universe; Paying for the Plumbing (Community, Business development and strategy)
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* DrupalCon Chicago (2011) – When There's Not a Module For That: Building Drupal 7 Modules, https://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/when-there-s-not-module-building-drupal-7-modules.html and Better Registration / Login Workflow, https://chicago2011.drupal.org/coreconv/better-registration-login-workflow.html
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* DrupalCon Denver (2012) – Building Beauty on Deadline: Project Management, Development, Multi-Device Theming, and Deployment When All Hands are On Deck
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* DrupalCon Munich (2012) – RDF
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* Twin Cities Drupal Camp (Minneapolis, 2019) – Shaping Drupal's Future, http://2012.tcdrupal.org/sessions/shaping-drupals-future
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* DrupalCon Portland (2013) – Decision-maker training, http://portland2013.drupal.org/training/drupal-for-decision-makers.html
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* NYC Drupal Summit at United Nations (2014) – Powering Your API with Drupal 8
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* NERD Summit (Amherst, Massachusetts, 2015) – The future is here. What's Drupal got to do with it?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_etsXa2YNk
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* DrupalCon Nashville (2018) – Migration training, https://events.drupal.org/nashville2018/sessions/drupal-8-migrations-example
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* MinneDemo (Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2019)
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* DrupalCon Seattle (2019)
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* Design For Drupal (Boston, 2019); Twin Cities Drupal Camp (Minneapolis, 2019) – How Drupal as a Service Can Save Our Livelihoods and our Lives, https://2019.tcdrupal.org/session/how-drupal-service-can-save-our-livelihoods-and-our-lives
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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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