Overview

• FLOSS - Freedoms and Open for use
• FLOSS eco system
• Debian - distro & community
• Customizing Debian
• Power & World Peace

Free Software

• Free from some limits
• Choice → Control → Power
• (Lack of choice → Simplicity → Usability)

Free is costly and challenging

FLOSS

• FLOSS == Free/Libre Open Source Software
• Free/Libre: Freedom Fighters wanting to share
• Liberate commons from bounds of competition
• Bind inventions from being used for competition
• Open Source: Business folks wanting to trade
• Liberate competition
• Bind commons

Like "peace": we all want it, but at different cost

FLOSS is World Peace

Floss: Peaceful cooperation between liberators and liberals

FLOSS parts

• Hardware
• Firmware
• Kernel (like "Linux")
• System tools
• Desktop elements
• Applications
• Translations
• Documentation
• Beautification

FLOSS people

• Hardcore technicians
• Simple technicians
• Data organizers
• Designers
• Politicians / Business folks
• Patient users
• Impatient users
• Testers (very patient users)
• Cheerleeders

FLOSS parts and people

Software Development Stream

FLOSS eco system

Software Code Stream

Debian - distro & community

• Distribution
• Community
• Free!

Debian - Universal Operating System

• Generic - choices are exposed to the user
• Mother of other distros
• Social and political project, not only technical - e.g. DFSG
• Strong structure, preferrably flat

Debian packages

• Packages = components
• Mozilla Iceweasel (Firefox): ~3 packages (+ ~70 lang packages)
• OpenOffice.org: ~30 packages (+ ~90 lang packages)
• Debian: ~30.000 packages

Debian - Mentors + sponsoring

• Peer review - many eyes see more bugs
• Education - Debian quality standards
• Ideals transfer - get help on packaging
• debian-mentors mailinglist
• #debian-mentors IRC channel
• http://mentors.debian.net/ site

Debian - derivatives

• Knoppix
• Ubuntu
• BOSS
• SWECHA
• ...

Debian - blends

• Debian Jr
• Debian Med
• Debian Edu
• Debian Science
• Debian EzGo
• BrDesktop
• Debian Accessibility
• Debian Lex
• DebiChem
• Debian GIS
• Debian Multimedia

Debian - future blends

• FreedomBox
• Debian LAN
• BOSS?
• SWECHA?

Power & World Peace

• Evil is an abstract - no person, organization or thing is evil
• Doing nothing → supporting → blindly amplifying
• Power corrupts
• Concentrated/centralized power == bigger risk of abuse

Avoid corruption of power: Engage and Share!

The End

• Me:
• Debian: http://www.debian.org
• Debian Derivatives Census: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census
• This talk: http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/swecha
• Graphics: http://sirireiter.dk/blog/entry/110310/