FOSSMeet 2019

The ageless romantic-comedy of the inanimate text in specific order when transformed into electric signals help us recieve, store, interpret, process and create information, it’s creators, it’s users and their freedom.

##Starring:

• Guy Fawkes
• Alan Turing
• Dennis Ritchie
• Richard Mathew Stallman
• Linus Torvalds
• Bill Gates
• Steve Jobs
• Yours truely.

This talk will explain why a lot of things are the way they are in the Free software world. It intends to analyse the past to get a feel for the future.This talk aims to help people (geeks,nerds and common folk alike) connect to the Frees Software Movement and value their freedom and privacy.

Outline

• The Talk begins with Guyfawkes and his act of terrorism.
• Moves to the tragedy of Alan Turing, The Enigma and Christopher.
• Transitions into the Hacker Culture, Unix and the under-rated genius behind it- Dennis Ritchie.
• Pushes foreward into the wierd new printer at MIT and it’s implications.(This is where RMS enters).
• The Gnu and The Penguin.
• Wizards Of Silicon Valley.
• Apache and rise of GNU/Linux.
• Free Software Sucks.
• Free Software Rocks.
• My introduction to FOSS and being a Debian Maintainer.
• Why the movement is as relevant as it was all those Years ago.

Requirements

• Open-Mind.
• Curiosity.
• A Heart.

Speaker bio

I’m an engineering student who spends most of his time editing his dotfiles or advocating for free software. I’m a Debian Maintainer and the lead of The Nexus, SJCET (Github) which is a club that focusses on hardware and software freedom and aims to spread awareness regarding the same.

Links

• Github: https://github.com/avronr
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abraham__raji/
• Twitter : https://twitter.com/avronr
• Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@4br