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+# Comments on FaiF 0x22
+
+I have some comments on today's episode of
+Free as in Freedom: [0x22: Elder's Methods of FOSS Activism][faif_0x22].
+Obviously you should listen to it (and add FaiF to your
+favorite podcatcher. You will be the *forth* listener! :) ).
+This oggcast is the first in a series from the
+first [Legal Issues DevRoom][fosdem_legal_issues] at FOSDEM
+which [Karen][kaz], [Bradley][bkuhn], [Richard Fontana][fontana] and
+I organized.
+
+I think Bradley was critical of Ambjörn's talk not enumerating
+all the collaboration that has taken place in the FLOSS
+community. To be fair Ambjörn himself said he had tried
+to enumerate various examples (and has 196 or so pointers
+on his blog ... see the [[Speakers|/fosdem/LegalIssuesDevRoom/Speakers]]
+page for blog links). Karen makes the point that it is
+precisely these sort of events where we can learn about
+activisim across a broad range of our communities.
+
+I appreciate Ambjörn's view that we can develop and
+use various norms and legal tools to help promote
+Internet Freedom generally, but sometimes activism is
+necessary to educate and move public policy (e.g. the
+SOPA protests). Indeed we seem increasingly under threat
+of being limited to walled application gardens or even being
+literally firewalled from the open Internet.
+
+The key takeaway, I believe, is we need to collaborate *more*
+between Free Software, Open Source, Free Culture and
+broader Internet Freedom communities generally.
+In a conversation with [Mike Linksvayer][mike_linksvayer_blog] after
+the DevRoom session we discussed the challenge from a FLOSS
+project level of designing the licensing of software and
+non-software artificacts such that both could evolve
+together over time. This is a tricky issue which involves
+"or later" (plus licensing) versions and software/non-software
+licensing compatibility. We shared the observation -- apropos
+to Ambjörn's talk -- that many humanitarian or otherwise
+public activisim efforts often don't make FLOSS part of their
+agenda (and, in fact, may not even be aware of it).
+We need to do a much better job at this collaboration and
+cross-community education.
+
+As for the logistics of the DevRoom allow my to publicly
+express a *mea culpa*. I have been to FOSDEM before and
+I know how challenging it is to fit "a 20lb conference
+in a 10lb bag" (as [@spot][spot] said). I knew that 30 minute
+sesssions would be short... We had so many great proposals
+that I was happy to hear from as many as possible.
+However it is true that this was ultimately *too* short
+and the format did not adequately allow for Q/A, discussion,
+time to change DevRooms and setup for the next speaker.
+And I especially want to apologize to anyone who was waiting
+outside the DevRoom that I steadfastly refused to let in :-| .
+I didn't want the FOSDEM volunteer organizers to have
+the University withdraw support for future conferences due
+to violating fire codes.
+
+I hope everyone will be able to check out the [[slides and/or
+audio oggcasts|/fosdem/LegalIssuesDevRoom/Speakers]] of
+the talks as they become available. And, yes, we'll hopefully
+get a bigger room and plan for more discussion time
+next year!
+
+[bkuhn]: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog
+[kaz]: http://gnomg.org/
+[fontana]: https://identi.ca/fontana
+[mike_linksvayer_blog]: http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/
+[spot]: https://identi.ca/spot
+[fosdem_legal_issues]: http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/legal_issues_devroom
+[faif_0x22]: http://faif.us/cast/2012/feb/14/0x22/
+
+[[!tag FOSDEM LegalIssues FaiF]]
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