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Slides: Free culture, free software: making free software work for cultural heritage organizations

In this talk, Jennie Rose Halperin discusses the fact that cultural heritage organizations in the United States rely almost entirely on proprietary software and many refuse to believe that the systems they choose directly impact their long term success as largely grant-funded organizations.

The session explores the options for free software in the cultural heritage space and inspires participants to work with organizations to help make the transition. It also talks about the pros and cons of working with free software in the cultural heritage space and touches on many of the issues that professionals face while making the transition. The session ends with future-state imagining to dream up how we can better support new projects in free software for cultural heritage as well as invite people into already existing communities.

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This talk was presented at LibrePlanet.

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LibrePlanet is the Free Software Foundation's annual conference. The FSF campaigns for free/libre software, meaning it respects users' freedom and community. We believe that users are entitled to this; all software should be free.

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We do not advocate "open source".

That term was coined to reject our views. It refers to similar practices, but usually presented solely as advantageous, without talking of right and wrong.

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Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 by announcing development of the free operating system, GNU. By 1992, GNU was nearly operational; one major essential component was lacking, the kernel.

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In 1992, Torvalds freed the kernel Linux, which filled the last gap in GNU. Since then, the combined GNU/Linux system has run in millions of computers. Nowadays you can buy a new computer with a totally free GNU/Linux system preinstalled.

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The views of the speaker may not represent the Free Software Foundation. The Foundation supports the free software cause and freedom to share, and basic freedoms in the digital domain, but has no position on other political issues.