Presented by: Flávio Lisboa

Master in Studies of Science, Technology and Society (UTFPR). System development analyst in SERPRO, a state-owned IT enterprise. Professor of disciplines on software development. Author of "PHP Web Development with Laminas". Frequent speaker at the PHP Conference Brazil.

Description:

Today's social media users are locked into proprietary platforms, under the control of a few large corporations. Users are not customers, but a product to be sold to advertisers. These companies have little reason to care about fostering healthy discussion, only to keep advertisers happy. But there is another model for social media. Federated social networks began with Usenet, a distributed system of discussion forums invented a decade before the World Wide Web. Since then, projects such as Mastodon and Diaspora have used open standards and common communication protocols to give users power to choose their own social media experience. What lessons can we learn from Usenet? What does it get right, and what could it do better? And does Usenet still have a place on the modern Internet?

• *Paper "Use and Production of FLOSS in Brazilian Government: an Wide Survey". ttps://doi.org/10.5753/latinoware.2021.19899 http://doi.org/10.5753/latinoware.2021.19899 *
• Paper (in Spanish) "The Effectiveness of Brazilian Government Initiatives for Free and Open Source Software". https://doi.org/10.24215/23143924e047 https://doi.org/10.24215/23143924e047
• Paper "FLOSS and digital inclusion in Brazil: a literature review" . https://doi.org/10.5753/latinoware.2022.228036 https://doi.org/10.5753/latinoware.2022.228036
• Source code of flossgoverno, web application used to tabulate the research data. https://github.com/fgsl/flossgoverno https://github.com/fgsl/flossgoverno
• Dissertation (in Portuguese) "Production of free software by a state-owned information technology enterprise: a study case on the perspective of social technology" https://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/3907 https://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/3907

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