Watch LibrePlanet live this weekend

I've been really happy to see the changes that I think are needed in relationship to free software going mainstream. Some of it is just being discussed and acknowledged now and other stuff is actually happening. Trisquel for instance is switching to an LTS + backports system.

While the overall message hasn't really changed at all the acknowledgement of our own communities failings and/or at least a change in the landscape is really exciting. While it doesn't solve the problem its a start to solving it.

Richard Stallman for instance talked about our failings to get manufacturers to cooperate. While he isn't saying to abandon those efforts or to abandon reverse engineering efforts he is acknowledging the problem is too big to actually solve this way. We need to change how we think abut solving these problems. Instead of utilizing stock hardware for instance we need to start focusing on building our own hardware. It may not be cheap or easy. However it will hopefully lead us to a point where users can at least get free software friendly systems. And we aren't talking just about the ability to run a 100% free OS here. We are talking about a completely free system without microcode, binary blobs, or a non-free BIOS.

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On 2013-03-27 16:39, Andrew Roffey wrote:
> On 28/03/13 00:16, Darksoul71 wrote:
>> Is there any ETA when the videos of the sessions will be
>> published ? I am currious to see RMS and Ruben's speech.
>
> I'm not sure where, but I read somewhere that the videos are being
> processed at the moment and will be published soon!
>
> I am also looking forward to seeing them.
>

http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2013/Live

"And if you can't tune into the livestream, don't worry. We'll make
video of the sessions available on http://libreplanet.org/2013 in the
days after the conference. "

F.

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I don't know about you, but playing back the original ogg resulted in a horrible playback experiences for me.
Neither Firefox, nor Chromium or VLC were able to skip through the video without loss in audio sync. I decided to upload the video to Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr0ao8QYcb0

Feel free to skip forward to something like 25 minutes for the speech of Ruben.

The OGV works fine on my weak netbook (which cannot play back 720P videos other than YouTube without dropping audio sync). You probably need a newer video player (e.g. mplayer2 or VLC).

I inquired with someone working at the FSF along with another email I sent although the person I asked isn't in charge of it and didn't know either.

'soon' cannot mean >2months in this context, thats just wrong.

General expectation is, within few days(<1week). Like, Ruben's speech was out on 27th Mar & Matthew Garrett's on 24th Mar.

Months of delay only means few new people will watch it, and that existing Libre fans would be annoyed due to prolonged waiting.

If Ruben's speech is added to LibrePlanet's LibreConf2013 page as an 'unofficial release', it might set things rolling.