[Fsfe-uk] Fwd: [Sheflug] James Vasile - Replicating the Success of Free Software - 2nd April 2008

[Tim Dobson]

Sorry it's a bit late to mention this- it's tonight.
But if anyones in the north and can make it - see you there!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Richard Ibbotson <address@hidden>
Date: 19 Mar 2008 12:20
Subject: [Sheflug] James Vasile - Replicating the Success of Free
Software - 2nd April 2008
To: address@hidden




            Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend.

        Our next meeting will on Wednesday 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 inquiry 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



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 Richard

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