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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Thanks Rick <BR>
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That would be great to read your presentation .... And thank you for the ideas. I have to get things to print (programme overview) by the 3rd week in August, so I am hoping we could have a panel confirmed by then and a title (which could be broad enough to allow some flexibility) ???<BR>
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Many thanks <BR>
Donna <BR>
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On 19/7/10 14:19, "Rick Moynihan" <rick.moynihan@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>This sounds like an interesting idea and a great opportunity to engage<BR>
with the public. I should point out that though I'd love to be<BR>
involved, I can't commit to anything right now; as it's quite likely I<BR>
won't be primarily in Dundee come October.<BR>
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Donna, you mentioned a Digital Dundee Debate... what are your thoughts<BR>
(broadly) on what should be included there. If you start with your<BR>
ideas, maybe others can chip in and follow your lead.<BR>
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On 19 July 2010 12:57, Holford-Lovell, Donna<BR>
<d.holford-lovell@abertay.ac.uk> wrote:<BR>
> What would be an ideal debate? What do the public need to know in order to make more informed decisions?<BR>
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Presumably this is in reference to the open source debate? In my mind<BR>
the main principle underlying this (whichever way you want to cut it)<BR>
is one I've spoken about before: Freedom & Control. This talk was<BR>
intended to be a catalyst to discussion on such issues (with a punchy<BR>
emotional bias towards Free/Open). On the two occaisions I have given<BR>
this talk, it did prompt reasonable discussion and debate of the<BR>
issues (though it was slightly one sided - given the LUG's audience).<BR>
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I would suggest one format, would be a brief presentation outlining<BR>
the forms of freedom and control... the intertwined yin/yang<BR>
relationship between them both and that freedom itself can be control,<BR>
and control can be freedom... then how too much freedom can become its<BR>
opposite (oppression)) etc...<BR>
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On this basis, you can discuss open source vs free software... or open<BR>
vs proprietary... drm etc...<BR>
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I'd love to offer my original presentation as a starter for 10 - but I<BR>
likely wont be able to give it on the day. Though others on this list<BR>
have seen it, and I'm sure would be able to fork it for the same or<BR>
similar purpose; and deliver it on the day as a means of posing the<BR>
questions to a panel and audience.<BR>
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I suspect the presentation might require some rejigging, and it would<BR>
be improved by updating with more current examples. In the spirit of<BR>
FLOSS; I will post the full text of the speech, and slides online<BR>
under a creative commons share alike with attribution license;<BR>
allowing it to be modified for any purpose.<BR>
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(When I get home I'll post the text of the speech to this thread so<BR>
you can all see what you think)<BR>
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R.<BR>
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