Foocorp Talk - make art 2009

• founded at the end of 2008

• Matt Lee, Rob Myers, Mark Cousens, Liam Smith, Chloe Phillips, Mark Stephenson and Sally Jenkinson.

• a team of volunteers from the free software community

• Free Culture, Free Software, Free Society

• Inspiration (Factory, GNU)

• Problem (non-free software and culture)

• Solution (copyleft, distributed systems)

• Implementation (LAMP, distributed dev.)

• Projects (libre.fm, daisycha.in)

• Implications (forking culture)

Inspiration

0 The freedom to run the program, for any purpose

1 The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish. access to the source code is a precondition for this.

2 The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor.

3 The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

The Four Freedoms

The Problem

The Solution

Implementation

Projects

Project started April 1st 2009

August 2009- ten thousand users- ten million scrobbles

December 2009- twenty thousand users- twenty million scrobbles

Implications

CommonsOpenGift economy

“Freedom” of corporations or projects“Freedom” to remove freedom

Individual Freedom

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Come and help take libre.fm and daisycha.in further! Contact us via theaddresses on the previous slide.

Photographs, logos and network topography diagram (slide 24)copyright their rightsholders.

Original diagrams copyright Rob Myers, licenced under theCreative Commons Attribution Sharealike Unported 3.0 licence.