0x2F: OSCON and GUADEC 2012

<p> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x2F_OSCON-GUADEC.ogg"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in Ogg/Vorbis format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_ogg_button.png"/></a> <a href="https://faif.us/cast-media/FaiF_0x2F_OSCON-GUADEC.mp3"><img alt="[Direct download of cast in MP3 format]" src="https://faif.us/static/img/cast/audio_mp3_button.png"/></a> </p> <p> <p>Karen and Bradley discuss <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012">OSCON</a> and <a href="http://www.guadec.org/">GUADEC</a>. </p> <h3>Show Notes:</h3> <h4>Segment 0 (00:36)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley represents FSF on the <a href="https://live.gnome.org/AdvisoryBoard">GNOME Advisory Board</a>. (02:20)</li> <li>Bradley points out it's very dangerous when you can buy voting rights of a 501(c)(3) by paying money, such as the structure of OSI. Karen notes that contribution-based membership works very well for GNOME. (03:50)</li> <li>Bradley is concerned about the future of OSI's license list now that votes in OSI are for sale. (04:30)</li> <li>Bradley received an <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012/public/schedule/detail/25039">O'Reilly Open Source Award at OSCON 2012</a>. Bradley blogged <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/07/23/award.html">an acceptance speech for the award</a>. (08:50)</li> <li><a href="http://www.python.org/community/awards/frank-willison/">The Python award</a> and the <a href="http://www.perl.org/advocacy/white_camel/">Perl White Camel award</a> is also given at OSCON. (12:35)</li> <li>Karen mentioned <a href="http://flossfoundations.org/">FLOSS Foundations</a>, and asked if there was a meeting at OSCON. Bradley mentioned it had been primarily rolled into Jono Bacon's CLS conference. (15:10)</li> </ul> <h4>Segment 1 (17:56)</h4> <ul> <li>Bradley wrote in a post about the GUADEC 2010 conference to note how welcoming the community was. Karen described GUADEC 2012 as very similar in nature. (21:25)</li> <li>Karen mentioned her husband Mike had a similar reaction to GUADEC 2012 that Bradley had to GUADEC 2010. (23:50)</li> </ul> <hr width="80%"/> <p>Send feedback and comments on the cast to <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</a>. You can keep in touch with <a href="https://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a> on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by <a href="http://identi.ca/conservancy">following Conservancy on identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/conservancy">and Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Free as in Freedom is produced by <a href="http://danlynch.org/blog/">Dan Lynch</a> of <a href="http://danlynch.org/">danlynch.org</a>. Theme music written and performed by <a href="http://www.miketarantino.com">Mike Tarantino</a> with <a href="http://www.charliepaxson.com">Charlie Paxson</a> on drums.</p> <p><a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" hspace=10 /></a> The content of <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">this audcast</span>, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>. </p>