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| DATE | 2015-03-24 |
| FROM | Rick Moen
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] LIU Proposed Space
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Quoting Ruben Safir (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com):
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:31:44AM -0400, einker wrote:
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> > Check out this URL
> > http://news.mlh.io/your-first-hackathon-10-07-2013
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> Is that what you want to do? I'm passing on the closed software..
>
> If I want to get my name in a newspaper, I can jump off a bridge. The
> object here is to serve the membership and promote Free Software in real
> life usage.
One sad bit of news I heard at the 13th annual SCALE conference: Most
of the open hardware people and companies ihe 'Maker' movement have sold
out, over time. I attended a keynote presentation by Red Hat engineer
Ruth Suehle, who has noticed the collapse, from one year to the next, of
most _real_ commitment to hackability at Maker Fairs, conferences, and
_Make Magazine_. The same guys who talk one year about totally open
hardware one year, the next they're making excuses for going proprietary
and turning into just another vendor:
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x/presentations/makers-next-frontier-open-source
http://rsuehle.fedorapeople.org/scale%20keynote.pdf
She does have some hope that this will get turned around, over time.
Video of Suehle's presentation is very likely to be included in the You
Tube clips from the La Jolla Ballroom of the Sunday February 22, 2015
sessions. Suehle's bit was 10-11am.
https://www.youtube.com/user/socallinuxexpo
(Hey, Ruben, you were sad that you couldn't fly out to SCALE, but you
can see much of it via YouTube clips. Yr. welcome.)
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