The Journal of Information Technology and Politics will host JITP 2010: Politics of Open Source on May 6 & 7, 2010 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The conference will also stream live via the conference website. The Politics of Open Source is an interdisciplinary conference that examines the politics associated with the Free/Libre and Open Source Software Movement. The conference features two keynote lectures. The first is by Eric von Hippel, Professor and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Dr. Von Hippel’s keynote, “Democratizing Innovation” will discuss the development and impact of democratized innovation systems.
The Free Software Foundation will certainly claim that, just by calling it “The Politics of Open Source”, sides have been taken, since whether “Open Source” or “Free Software” is chosen as the term has political implications.
Not really. The FSF knows that Open Source is a broad term that encompass Free Software too. Under this context, this is just the main topic of the conference, not the JITP taking sides.
Of course they have already managed to associate politics with open source, and also managed to spread that ridiculous “Libre software” concept to the general public. Wait for some ridiculous sociologist studies soon claiming some nonsense about a “revolutionary libre movement” and “crowdsourcing” and whatever crap.
An Open Source conference that uses Silverlight to stream content.
I’m surprised I can view the website on firefox.
Well i tried to Install the required Microsoft Media Codecs package, 4 attempts, all failed, 30 minutes plus. The site stalls and nothing happens. I am using latest Ubuntu 10.04 and I do have the latest Moonlight XPI.
Yes I’d say it is odd, to have an OpenSource conference, use Proprietary software like Silverlight and an OpenSource user in Linux cannot view the streaming content.
Somehow I find this situation extremely awkward.