blends/talk/swecha/index.html



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
  <meta name="generator" content="pandoc" />
  <meta name="author" content="Jonas Smedegaard" />
  <title>Debian and a healthy Free Software eco system</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection, print"
    href="../../../slidy/slidy.css" />
  <script src="../../../slidy/slidy.js"
    charset="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="slide titlepage">
  <h1 class="title">Debian and a healthy Free Software eco system</h1>
  <p class="author">
Jonas Smedegaard
  </p>
  <p class="date">SWECHA, Hyderabad, October 25th, 2011</p>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="overview">
<h1>Overview</h1>
<ul>
<li>FLOSS - <strong>Free</strong>doms and <strong>Open</strong> for use</li>
<li>FLOSS eco system</li>
<li>Debian - distro &amp; community</li>
<li>Customizing Debian</li>
<li>Power &amp; World Peace</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="floss">
<h1>FLOSS</h1>
<p><strong>FLOSS</strong> == <strong>F</strong>ree/<strong>L</strong>ibre <strong>O</strong>pen <strong>S</strong>ource <strong>S</strong>oftware</p>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="floss---free-software">
<h1>FLOSS - Free Software</h1>
<p>Free/Libre: Freedom Fighters wanting to <strong>share</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Liberate commons from bounds of competition</li>
<li>Bind inventions from being used for competition</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="floss---open-source">
<h1>FLOSS - Open Source</h1>
<p>Open Source: Business folks wanting to <strong>trade</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Liberate competition...</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="floss-1">
<h1>FLOSS</h1>
<p><strong>FLOSS</strong> == <strong>F</strong>ree/<strong>L</strong>ibre <strong>O</strong>pen <strong>S</strong>ource <strong>S</strong>oftware</p>
<p>Floss: Friendly cooperation between liberators and liberals</p>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="floss---more-twists-of-words">
<h1>FLOSS - more twists of words</h1>
<ul>
<li>Free from <strong>some</strong> limits</li>
<li>Choice → Control → Power</li>
<li>(Lack of choice → Simplicity → Usability)</li>
</ul>
<p>Free is <strong>costly</strong> and <strong>challenging</strong></p>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="floss-parts">
<h1>FLOSS parts</h1>
<ul>
<li>Hardware</li>
<li>Firmware</li>
<li>Kernel (like &quot;Linux&quot;)</li>
<li>System tools</li>
<li>Desktop elements</li>
<li>Applications</li>
<li>Translations</li>
<li>Documentation</li>
<li>Beautification</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="floss-people">
<h1>FLOSS people</h1>
<ul>
<li>Hardcore technicians</li>
<li>Simple technicians</li>
<li>Data organizers</li>
<li>Designers</li>
<li>Politicians / Business folks</li>
<li>Patient users</li>
<li>Impatient users</li>
<li>Testers (<strong>very</strong> patient users)</li>
<li>Cheerleeders</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="floss-parts-and-people">
<h1>FLOSS parts and people</h1>
<div class="figure">
<img src="../codestream.png" alt="Software Development Stream" /><p class="caption">Software Development Stream</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="floss-eco-system">
<h1>FLOSS eco system</h1>
<div class="figure">
<img src="../developmentstream.png" alt="Software Code Stream" /><p class="caption">Software Code Stream</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---distro-community">
<h1>Debian - distro &amp; community</h1>
<ul>
<li>Distribution</li>
<li>Community</li>
<li>Free!</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---universal-operating-system">
<h1>Debian - Universal Operating System</h1>
<ul>
<li>Generic - choices are exposed to the user</li>
<li>Mother of other distros</li>
<li>Social and political project, not only technical - e.g. DFSG</li>
<li>Strong structure, preferrably flat</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian-packages">
<h1>Debian packages</h1>
<ul>
<li>Packages = components</li>
<li>Mozilla Iceweasel (Firefox): ~3 packages (+ ~70 lang packages)</li>
<li>OpenOffice.org: ~30 packages (+ ~90 lang packages)</li>
<li>Debian: ~30.000 packages</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---mentors-sponsoring">
<h1>Debian - Mentors + sponsoring</h1>
<ul>
<li>Peer review - many eyes see more bugs</li>
<li>Education - Debian quality standards</li>
<li>Ideals transfer - get help on packaging</li>
<li>debian-mentors mailinglist</li>
<li>#debian-mentors IRC channel</li>
<li>http://mentors.debian.net/ site</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---derivatives">
<h1>Debian - derivatives</h1>
<ul>
<li>Knoppix</li>
<li>Ubuntu</li>
<li>BOSS</li>
<li>SWECHA</li>
<li>...</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---blends">
<h1>Debian - blends</h1>
<ul>
<li>Debian Jr</li>
<li>Debian Med</li>
<li>Debian Edu</li>
<li>Debian Science</li>
<li>Debian EzGo</li>
<li>BrDesktop</li>
<li>Debian Accessibility</li>
<li>Debian Lex</li>
<li>DebiChem</li>
<li>Debian GIS</li>
<li>Debian Multimedia</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="debian---future-blends">
<h1>Debian - future blends</h1>
<ul>
<li>FreedomBox</li>
<li>Debian LAN</li>
<li>BOSS?</li>
<li>SWECHA?</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="power-world-peace">
<h1>Power &amp; World Peace</h1>
<ul>
<li>Evil is an abstract - no person, organization or thing is evil</li>
<li>Doing nothing → supporting → blindly amplifying</li>
<li>Power corrupts</li>
<li>Concentrated/centralized power == bigger <strong>risk</strong> of abuse</li>
</ul>
<p>Avoid corruption of power: <strong>Engage</strong> and <strong>Share</strong>!</p>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="my-trip-to-asia">
<h1>My trip to Asia</h1>
<div class="figure">
<img src="../map.png" alt="Asia trip" /><p class="caption">Asia trip</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section slide level1" id="the-end">
<h1>The End</h1>
<ul>
<li>Me: <script type="text/javascript">
<!--
h='&#106;&#x6f;&#110;&#x65;&#x73;&#46;&#100;&#x6b;';a='&#64;';n='&#100;&#114;';e=n+a+h;
document.write('<a h'+'ref'+'="ma'+'ilto'+':'+e+'">'+'<code>'+e+'</code>'+'<\/'+'a'+'>');
// -->
</script><noscript>&#100;&#114;&#32;&#x61;&#116;&#32;&#106;&#x6f;&#110;&#x65;&#x73;&#32;&#100;&#x6f;&#116;&#32;&#100;&#x6b;</noscript></li>
<li>Debian: <a href="http://www.debian.org"><code class="url">http://www.debian.org</code></a></li>
<li>Debian Derivatives Census: <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census"><code class="url">http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census</code></a></li>
<li>This talk: <a href="http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/swecha"><code class="url">http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/swecha</code></a></li>
<li>Illustrations: <a href="http://sirireiter.dk/blog/entry/110310/"><code class="url">http://sirireiter.dk/blog/entry/110310/</code></a></li>
<li>Asia trip: <a href="http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011"><code class="url">http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011</code></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>