LibrePlanet: Conference/2014/Conference brainstorm

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Theme ideas

Please add your new ideas, add variations on existing idea you like more, and express your like or dislike of existing ideas by adding a "+" or "-" next to them.

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Your ideas don't have to be polished or complete; just put down what's in your head. The other sections of this page are good places to look for inspiration. Last year's theme was "Commit Change" which you can read about at http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2013/About . Our goal for a theme is that it be expressable as a short, punchy phrase so that it can be the sub-title of the conference (as in LibrePlanet 2014: [theme]) and be broad enough that it can encompass the variety of things that go on at LibrePlanet.

• Grass root (with root in monospaced font) | +
• Free Software, Free Society | +++
• Streaming Stories | +
• Community Stories
• Free Software Generations
• Going above and beyond
• Decolonizing free software
• All Together Now | -
• Skillshare | +
• 30 years
• Going above and Beyond
• Streaming
• Building Community | -
• Free Software Stories (what are some more active ways of saying this?)
  • Share? Shout? Add? Contribute? Document?
  • Share your story / Tell your story
  • Your free software story
• Software freedom for whom?

Ideas for Conference goals and objectives

Some of the items that have been added thus far are not punchy taglines, they are goals or objectives for the conference. This shows that LibrePlanet supporters are interested in contributing more than a tagline! That's great. Let's continue to elaborate on that. TODO: if there is a better place on the wiki for this, move these there and link to it. Meantime, here are the goals/objectives (pulled from the taglines section).

• Why free software alone is not enough for software user freedom
• Which users get what types of freedom from what aspects of which pieces of software and web services?
• Moving past our current liberal ideology towards a politics of liberation
• Adjusting our messaging/behavior accordingly
• Encouraging women to use GNU/Linux
• Getting more users using distributed social networks
• Software Freedom as a new Natural Law for this digital age.
  • It is easy to imagine a near future world where every experience you have is in some way influenced by software. If/when that happens, she who controls software controls lives. It is vital that we share our own intimate understanding of the importance of software with the rest of society. Personally I feel that if the magnitude of influence that software already has on our lives were better understood by the general public, we'd already have laws in place that mandate use of free software for many common purposes (for example, communication infrastructure!).
• Increasing use of Free Software in business and government
  • Each of the following spend fortunes on Windows licensing AND they experienced reduced productivity in return. They also become less attractive workplaces to developers who prefer to work in and run their code on sensible platforms. This self-reinforcing system of lame must stop if we ever hope to restore these institutions to their former positions of respect. ... ;)
    • State governments
    • City governments
    • County governments
    • Unions
    • Small businesses
    • Big businesses
    • Non-profits [ Are non-profits more likely to use FOSS? Less likely? What effect do free (as in beer) licenses to proprietary OSes, office suites, etc.. have on FOSS adoption by non-profits?]

Speaker ideas

• Alison Chaiken
• Eben Moglen