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Evan Prodromou's Libre Planet keynote on engineering for free network services

March 31, 2009 in conferences, podcast by Mike Linksvayer | No comments

Another podcast lite — audio recording of Evan Prodromou’s Libre Planet keynote on engineering for free network services based on his years of experience developing free software and in particular the free network service identi.ca, the laconica software that service runs, and the OpenMicroBlogging federation protocol the software implements. Announced after the conference, see Evan’s post on status.net for where he’s taking the service. Very exciting stuff!

To whet your appetite for the podcast I’ll highlight probably the two least obvious or most controversial points Evan made:

  • Smart data reduces the need for smart code, thus supports user autonomy. Put another way (from Evan microblogging a later conference rather than this talk, but it fits), metadata democratizes data. On that note watch for more exciting stuff being done with RDFa all the time.
  • Build free network services in PHP/MySQL. This is painful for many to hear, but if you want your code to be deployed by people on their own servers (or their own $5/month or less shared hosting account — the key being they control the code running the application in either case), PHP and MySQL are far easier for users to deal with than cooler stacks that require installing additional software in the typical case.

Listen and see notes and slides for more.

Mako Hill's Libre Planet keynote on free network services

March 30, 2009 in conferences, podcast by Mike Linksvayer | 1 comment

Benjamin Mako Hill gave a keynote at Libre Planet outlining progress on defining free network services since last year’s FSF member meeting, primarily the launch of Autonomo.us’ Franklin Street Statement, and an update on discussions within the FSF on network services.

See slides and notes from the talk and listen to an audio recording.

Continuing in the tradition of Bradley Kuhn posting a conference keynote in the podcast category of this blog, I’ll post this and perhaps others from Libre Planet one at a time as podcasts (or podcast lites — we’ve had only two fully produced Autonomo.us podcast episodes so far).

This recording is in format. Hopefully your podcatcher knows how to deal with that. [Update: works just fine in .]

With Software as a Service, Is Only the Network Luddite Free?

December 23, 2008 in podcast by bkuhn | 1 comment

I gave the keynote speech at 2008 Plone Conference in October entitled With Software is a Service, Is Only the Network Luddite Free?. I recorded the audio of it, but had, until now, failed to put it up anywhere. I’ve finally released the audio as part of Episode 0×03 of the Software Freedom Law Show (available as ogg and mp3). The slides from the talk are browsable online and I have of course released the source code of the slides as well.

Autonomo.us Podcast Episode 2: Interview with Jimmy Wales of Wikia

November 3, 2008 in podcast by evan | No comments

I’m proud to announce the second episode of the autonomo.us podcast. In Episode 2: Interview with Jimmy Wales of Wikia, we discuss:

  • Richard Stallman’s quotes in a recent article in the Guardian
  • our efforts to make our own Web site a Free Service
  • our interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about Wikia Search, his company’s project to create a Free Network Service for Web search.
The episode is about 53:30 minutes long, and alternative formats are available at the Internet Archive. It includes these musical samples: I had a great time making this podcast with Mako, Brett, and Bradley, and I think we all appreciate the participation of Jimmy Wales in this recording. We recorded on October 18th — one month after our previous recording — but it took me the last couple of weeks to find time to learn Audacity well enough to slice-and-dice this episode and stick in theme music and bumpers and level out the voices and all that jazz. Fun stuff, glad I know it know — and glad we have such great Free Software at our disposal for making recordings like this.

Please comment here or on the Podcast wiki page. I’m looking forward to more exciting podcast recordings in the coming months.

First Autonomous Podcast

October 1, 2008 in podcast by Benjamin Mako Hill | 3 comments

About a week ago, on September 18, a subset of the of the folks behind this blog (Evan Prodromou, Bradley Kuhn, Luis Villa, Henry Poole, Mike Linksvayer, and myself, Benjamin Mako Hill) got together for a phone call to mark the the six-month anniversary of the meeting that brought us together to talk about software freedom and network services and that eventually led to the the Autonomo.us blog.

Although our conversation was reflective and unstructured, we left the recorder rolling. I’ve gone ahead and put that recording up, essentially unedited, for anyone that anyone who’d like to listen in on what we had to say to each other.

One concerete outcome of our conversation was a decision to do these types of podcasts more in the future. We’ll invite guests who are active and involved in thinking about and taking action on issues related to software freedom and network services, we’ll get hear from them, and we’ll talk to them about the issues as a group.

We hope our next one to be up in less than a month with a guest that’s still to be finalized. You can listen to or download the first podcast in OGG vorbis format now.