Tag Archives: Open source
Free Culture topics in News from around the world. February.
Free Culture news around the world: United States: Restating the obvious with facts. The Coverity Scan: 2011 Open Source Integrity Report, which can be found here, highlights how Open Source code is of higher quality than Proprietary software. The average density of defects per one thousand lines of code for Open Source software is 0.64, …
Entrepreneurship position paper or open source business models
Open source business models An interesting presentation at the Digital Commons 2011 covered a fundamental question, who funds and how to fund open source projects? This question is central to the Entepreneurship position paper which will be presented to the EU commission during the SFC conference 2012. This issue is very important considering that often …
Bitcoin – What is it?
At it’s most fundemental level, Bitcoin is a digital currency. However, it is also an open-source project, transaction network, and client software. without getting into the specifics, I’d like to focus on the application of Bitcoin as a currency. If you would like more details about the inner workings of Bitcoin, there is a list …
An overview of Students for Free Culture
SFC has traditionally been a chapter based movement, with a registered socity or chapter in multiple universities. The movement has held a number of local events and three national conferences. The latest events can be found here. The conferences have been in Berkely, Washington DC and NYU. The themes of the conferences were remix culture, …
Students for Free Culture local events
Students for Free Culture has traditionally been a multi chapter organization active in local events across the different universities and a national event, aimed at bringing all the parts together to network and reflect at a global level on the status of copyright policies and network neutrality. These events all gravitate around open policies, using …
What is Free Culture
As a way to better explain what the Students for Free Culture movement is about, the following videos have been selected to provide further information on what we believe in. There is a really strong connection between Free Culture and Creative Commons licensing. This link is explored, in depth through this video series:
Hello World!
This seems like a fitting way to introduce the Students for Free Culture – Europe website, let me know what you think of the design because content is yet to come. We are planning a conference for February or March of 2012 (this mostly depends on venue and speaker availability). Take a look around the …
