[Wylug-announce] James Vasile - Replicating the Success of Free Software - 2nd April 2008

[Richard Ibbotson]

	  Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend.

      	Our next meeting will on Saturday the 2nd of April.


			Sheffield Hallam University
			Room 7140
			Stoddart Building
			City Campus,
			Howard Street,
			Sheffield
			S1 1WB

	http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/marketing/tour/stoddart.html
			http://www.shu.ac.uk/visit/

		Start at 7 p.m.  Finish 9 p.m.

The next meeting will be on the evening of the 2nd of April.  James 
Vasile from the Software Freedom Law Center  will give a talk 
entitled "Replicating the Success of Free Software".  The Free 
Software movement has proven itself in every imaginable way. We have 
quality software on servers, desktops and in embedded systems. Free 
Software is used in homes, offices, retail and in manufacturing. 
Everywhere from back rooms to classrooms and boardrooms.  We've 
spawned new business models and changed the economics of old ones.  
The challenges that are left will be met and soon.

Such has been the success of free software that we have spawned 
entire other movements. From Creative Commons to open hardware to 
open science, everybody wants to replicate Free Software's 
achievements in new media.  Even further, there are people fighting 
for values that, while beloved in the Free Software world, are not 
protected by the Free Software society. Values like privacy and data 
portability between web services.  Each of these attempts borrows 
from Free Software's history.  This talk looks at what is being 
taken, what is being left, and why.  It's an enquiry into the future, 
as we ask how to nurture these nascent movements.

James Vasile holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from Columbia Law School, 
where he was a member of the law review and a Stone Scholar. He also 
has a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from 
Fordham University. He spent several years in the litigation 
department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore where he worked on a range of 
cases and dealt with a variety of new media issues. James has also 
contributed code and documentation to numerous FOSS software 
projects. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

	http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/
	http://www.nylug.org/meetings/index.shtml?20071100


-- 
Richard
www.sheflug.org.uk