PKI used to be reserved to ‘Big Corp’ and ‘.gov’, but the open source tools have matured over the years and are now available for everyone. In this presentation we want to show how PKI works and how you could benefit from it.

• When is Public Key Infrastructure useful and when should it be avoided?
• What is Public Key Infrastructure and how does it work?

We will demonstrate how certificates can be used in common applications like

• Firefox: SSL client authentication to an Apache web server
• Thunderbird: SMIME email signing and encryption
• OpenVPN: Authentication in a virtual private network
• Ant: Codesigning jar-files

Openmoko
Openmoko™ is a project dedicated to delivering mobile phones with an open source software stack. Openmoko is currently selling the Neo FreeRunner phone to advanced users and will start selling it to the general public as soon as the software is more developed.
The Openmoko stack, which includes a full X server, allows users and developers to transform mobile hardware platforms into unique products. Our license gives developers and users freedom to cosmetically customize their device or radically remix it; change the wallpaper or rebuild the entire house! It grants them the freedom, for example, to transform a phone into a medical device or point of sale device or the freedom to simply install their own favourite software. Beyond freeing the software on our devices we have also released our CAD files under Creative Commons. And at LinuxWorld 2008, we announced the release of the schematics for our products.

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FSCONS 2008
FSCONS 2008 is the first among many Free Society conferences that bridges the gap between free software and cultural freedom. Co-arranged by Free Software Foundation Europe, Creative Commons and Wikimedia Sverige, FSCONS 2008 is already a landmark event in bringing the different movements working for digital freedom together.
More than just a series of presentations, FSCONS 2008 is a cross-cultural meeting place where grass root organisations, companies, academics, cultural workers and hackers come together in a united effort to discuss and liberate all aspects of digital culture.

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Fredrik, Jonsson who’s presenting Ubuntu Deployment for Your Enterprise at FSCONS has been interviewed .

Ubuntu and Debian have a very tight relationship, probably more tightly than any other Debian based distribution has upstream

Ubuntu is a community driven distribution, no doubts about that!

Jeremiah speaks about Perl, Debian, Ubuntu, rpms, debs, his "favorite speakers to have a ts FSCONS " and tons of other stuff.

I discuss initiatives to curtail free communications. I put the development in a broader cultural context where I see the Internet as undermining old authorities and hierarchies. The established powers respond by waging unwinnable wars against imagined enemies and ill-defined groups: “terrorists”, “pirates” and “pedophiles”. We should all think of “freedom-based” responses to cope with the cultural angst that the Internet apparently leads to for the old world authorities. We don’t have to - and should not! - abolish free communications. Techniques adopted by the state include surveillance of traffic, content filtering, data retention, criminal and civil (sue for damages) means of attacking Internet users and ISPs, even border searches of laptops. The most Orwellian law of them all was passed by the Swedish parliament on June 18, 2008. All Internet and phone traffic that passes the border of Sweden will be copied to the state “secret service” for analysis. “Lex Orwell” led to unprecedented protests from bloggers and activists. This finally spilled over to old media and the political establishment was put under serious pressure. At the time of the conference we might now the final outcome of this popular uprising. There is a possibility that the law will be overturned. I will cover this development.

John will talk about new models for music & the music business, which hinge on open licensing, transparency, and the new ways that music is actually consumed & shared

John Buckman is founder of Magnatune, a Berkeley, California-based record label he founded in 2003 and which is known for its commercial application of Creative Commons licensing and overtly artist-friendly business practices. Buckman’s methods include forming non-exclusive agreements with musicians, sharing profits equally with them, and allowing them to retain full rights to their own music. This approach is sometimes referred to as “fair trade music.” An accomplished software programmer, Buckman is also thought to be the first to use the term open music, a term derived from the open source software community, in which he has been active. It refers to music that is shareable, available in “source code” form (individual tracks), permits certain forms of derivative works (i.e. remixes), and is made available at no cost for non-commercial use. Since founding Magnatune, Buckman has signed more than 250 recording artists across multiple genres. In August 2006, he launched the non-profit BookMooch, an online community for the exchange of used books, which—in combination with his work with Magnatune—has established Buckman as a prominent figure in the Free Culture movement.

The talk about OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an introduction to the subject of free maps in general and the OpenStreetMaps in particular. OpenStreetMap has in a very short time come up as one of the largest providers of free content anywhere. The talk will answer questions such as:

• How is the project organized?
• What tools are used to create the contents?
• How can I start to contribute to OSM?
• How can I use the raw data to create new interesting maps?

Andreas started using free software when he was about 14. By then he had been trying to teach himself programming for almost 7 years. Getting access to source-code that actually did something rather than the pretty lame examples of cash-register programs found in library books was a real novelty, so he dug in and started trying out various modifications of his own. Some of them got accepted upstream, but most of them were dropped on the floor, although with helpful comments which slowly made him a better programmer.