Open Source
Unitarian
First Unitarian Society January 4, 2015 matthewtift.com
Today
Free Software
Examples
UU Connections
Matthew Tift
Member, Lake Fellowship (Shorewood, MN)
Senior Developer, Lullabot
Host, Hacking Culture
Ph.D., Musicology
Terminology
"Open Source Software"
"Free Software"
"FLOSS"
Matthew's Kind of People
All Kinds of People
Free Software gives us control
Free Software respects our freedom
Four essential freedoms
The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose
The freedom to study how the program works
The freedom to redistribute copies
The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions
What can you do with free software?
These Slides
Similarities
UU & FLOSS
Decentralization
"We have no kings or presidents. We believe in rough consensus and running code."
Openness
"Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept."
Independent Invention
There is no One True Way
Tolerance
Follow our principles and you are welcome to participate
Hope
We will get to a better state in the end by each playing our small part
How to support free software
Photo by The UpTake
Instead of Internet Explorer or Safari
Instead of Outlook or Apple Mail
Instead of Word or Excel
Instead of Windows
