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My presentation in software freedom day 2010. A typical introduction about the
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2. What's SFD?
3. What will we talk about today
4. Some Concepts 5. FOSS in the future 6. A strategic look 7. History of GNU
8. A printer driver ?? 9. What's GNU? Gnu's Not Unix :) 10. A project to stop companies monopoly of our computers. 11. Linux
12. Freax? No thanks, linux is better :) 13. Initially a terminal emulator, thena kernel. 14. Tux, the official mascot. 15. GNU/Linux evolution inthe first 8 years 16. Examples of FOSS
17. Programming languages: C/C++, Ocaml, PHP, Python, Ruby, Lua, .. etc 18. Servers: Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, .. etc 19. End user applications: Firefox, OpenOffice.Org, VLC medial player, etc 20. FOSS is not only in Software
21. OSWD.org (OpenSource Web Designs) 22. OpenCores.org (hardware) 23. Open Cola 24. Open Data ( scientific data) 25. ChemCollective.org 26. Quote
27. Some Concepts
28. BSD 29. GNU tools 30. Linux kernel 31. GNU/Linux 32. GNU OS (GNU/Hurd, Debian GNU/Hurd) 33. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 34. Philosophy
35. Open Source is a development methodology; Free Software is a social movement. 36. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ 37. 4 Freedoms
38. The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. 39. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2). 40. The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this. 41. Licensing
42. GPL: grants the 4 freedoms, with other stuff too. 43. CreativeCommons: where GPL can't be used. 44. Others: BSD license, Apache license, etc. 45. GNU/Linux Distributions
46. Most famous ones currently are:
47. Ubuntu 48. RHEL (RedHat) / CentOS 49. Fedora Currently active arabic distro is Ojuba and Joatha, the discontinued ones are alot, though. 50. FOSS Community & LUG
51. Public recognition in such communities is a big motive for lots of people. 52. LUGs are local communities centered about FOSS, like EGLUG.org (Egypt GNU/Linux Users Group). 53. FOSS communitiesin the Egypt
54. EGLUG.org 55. LinuxAC.org 56. Ubuntu Egypt 57. OSUM 58. FSF arabia, will it happen someday? 59. Quote
60. Future of FOSS
61. Companies jumped in (Google Chrome OS). Embedded systems:
Mobile devices:
62. Quote
63. A Strategic look
64. If we look at the software field without the FOSS, it's already dominated by big players. We can't compete with them cause we don't know the know-how of operating systems, database engines, .. etc. All we can do is some websites and somethings like that, but we can't touch the core technologies. 65. A Strategic look (Cont'd)
66. If we tried to work with proprietary software, we will be salesmen for the big players (For example who creates a website using .net and SQL server, forces his client to buy these licenses). 67. The know-how gives us the ability to enhance the current solutions and even create our own. So we won't be limited to waiting for new releases of proprietary software. 68. We shouldn't be controlled by a certain company/entity. 69. What's in it for me?
70. Developer: very big learning resource, and technologies in continuous development. 71. An enterpruneur / business guy: dramatically lower costs, having better customization, more easy to create your own product or provide your services. 72. Bottom Line
73. You can help, so please contribute. 74. Free Software is a social movement, it's an idea you can apply within your life outside the software prespective. 75. To know more
76. http://fsf.org 77. http://eglug.org 78. Revolution OS: the movie.