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+Episode: 815
+Title: HPR0815: Software Freedom Day Dundee 2011
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0815/hpr0815.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-08 02:56:54
+
+---
+
+.
+Hello, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Ken Fumman and I'm just Mr Train
+here at Oddcamp 11
+but that's no reason not to do an interview
+and we've got one of our own Chris Finley
+and he's here to talk to us about
+Software Freedom Day and Dundee
+What is Software Freedom Day?
+Software Freedom Day for us is a chance to introduce free software to people
+that don't normally come along to these events like Oddcamp and things like that
+and also necessarily know what free software is
+and so we try to introduce them to that in an easy manner
+with some light introduction talks through a morning
+and not just to do with Linux itself
+but to do Windows free software
+alternatives to a proprietary software that are free, things like that
+and what would make somebody come to that event if they're not going to go to Oddcamp?
+It's a million local event
+so people locally will come around to a local event
+The event's Software Freedom Day is not a single one event in our own location
+it's held worldwide
+and lots of different people do different things for it
+even if it's just passing out CDs or doing a series of talks like we've been doing
+and it happens every year on this 17th of September this year
+That's Saturday's the month
+Where's it going to be held and Dundee?
+We're holding it at the Hanema Clear Centre
+and above the student Abertace Students Union on Bell Street
+so your target audience, I guess, would be students for the main general community in Dundee?
+Preferably our target would be the general community
+It happens to be, last year it was arranged at the same day as Open House Day
+which some places open up their own buildings for the public to come in and have a look around
+which quite time coincides quite nicely
+so you get a lot of people coming in who wouldn't normally have come in
+and they've not actually come in for software freedom day
+but they walk in the door as a few people around
+and we introduce it to them and they're very receptive
+Excellent, I was in a taxi last night as you do
+The taxi driver just couldn't get his head around
+the fact that people would write software for no cost and give it to the community
+How do you, people are so ingrained in paying for software
+and how do you convince them that this is good?
+How do you get the whole concept of software freedom across to them?
+One thing we tried to do is make sure that they realized that
+although the software, people have a very big stigma that
+there's nothing in this life comes for free
+and they're right enough, it doesn't come for free
+and free software doesn't mean free either
+The cost of free software is getting involved in the community
+and giving back to the community
+The moral obligation that's there, that's the cost we have
+So we tried to introduce them and say that this software here
+we can talk to people about it if you need help with it
+help support from it, there's people around the communities around
+that will help more than happy to help you
+do these things
+whether it be business or professional use
+We're also introducing the actually already use free software
+you know things like Mozilla Firefox
+a lot of people picking up open office now as an alternative to
+some of the proprietary ones
+I suppose you have different hooks for different how far down people are
+on a particular software track
+Of course, yeah definitely
+I mean you're going to deal with people in a business
+want software for different reasons than someone who's sitting at home
+doing the software
+I mean one of the things we try to do is
+address all those different areas whichever level
+I mean training has always been an issue for businesses
+and they always worry that the cost of swapping to an open office
+that the training is the big cost
+and they're worried about that
+although there's no licensing cost
+but what we found is open office
+looking lower like the older version of office
+makes it a lot easier
+because the new version confuses them
+and they don't have to retrain it anyway
+as far as persuading them that it is okay
+and it's good software
+we show them at live and action
+we've got demos, live demos running all day
+with different open office, Firefox, and different music,
+media inputs
+we also do a virtualization
+on which to teach for businesses
+that virtualization is something they can do
+very good
+and what sort of people come in during the day?
+we've had a lot of different people coming in during the day
+including people from all age groups
+from 13, 14
+to all the way up to 70, 80, 90
+all very receptive to it
+actually found a lot of the older crowd
+found it easier to understand what we were talking about
+because they didn't have the pre-cursor of using
+the pre-conception of how
+you have to pay for it
+and the pre-conception of how
+something should already work
+people transitioning from
+say macOS or windows
+already have a pre-idear of how
+they manage to achieve what they want to achieve
+and when you introduce something like
+the Linux desktop
+but it'll be no more KDE or that
+they find out
+where's this button?
+why's this button now here?
+and we kind of try and say
+look here we'll show you how it is
+it's just easy to use
+it just takes a little bit of time
+to do not learn the risks
+of becoming the support person
+for somebody if
+yes definitely yes
+and sports very big key
+and that is part of it
+and I think we do get people
+coming back to us time and time again
+looking for questions
+and support
+and the best thing to do is to try
+and give them some support
+in a way that they learn themselves
+so instead of directly showing
+somebody exactly what they need to do
+to do something
+you kind of lead them through it
+and actually get them to do
+they actually fix it
+and they find they learn better
+that way
+and can then teach
+someone else to do that
+yeah a lot of
+a lot of education
+involved
+very much more than just
+handling a CD
+so what would you advise if somebody
+is living somewhere
+and felt that they wanted to do
+something for self
+or a freaking day?
+I think if
+it's anybody could do
+something for self
+and be it
+there's a great CD called
+the Open CD
+it has like open office
+it's got, I think, Firefox
+and the floor
+are really good
+open source applications
+all in one CD
+both for Windows
+and for Linux
+and you can easily
+burn a copy of that
+burn a few copies of that
+home
+go out, hand it out to people
+in the street
+tell about it
+promote it that way
+people are a bit
+suspect of
+especially self-burned
+CDs and viruses
+and all the rest
+you'd be surprisingly
+no, I don't think
+they are
+in a really sad
+and a really sad
+it's quite
+important people
+you hand somebody something
+it's free, great
+and it's quite
+you'd think they'd
+be more suspect
+but I think the general
+people don't
+have this whole
+idea of security
+they don't realise
+as much
+there are as
+problems with these
+it can be problems
+in these things
+and they're quite
+respected
+I mean there was a good
+story or well-back
+in a school in America
+where a kid was doing
+exactly that
+he was handing out
+CDs
+during the school
+and he got
+the teacher pulled him
+aside, took him to the
+headmaster's office
+and tried to get him
+suspended from school
+so he was selling CD
+they said
+I'm not selling them
+they're free
+it's illegal
+which of course
+wasn't true
+it was all open-source
+software to perfectly
+redistribute
+but that's an
+education thing I guess
+yes
+and just because the teachers
+doesn't mean they can't
+learn
+but one thing I always
+want to make sure
+with people
+understand is that there is
+a big community
+behind it
+and a big community
+of people
+willing to help
+willing to spend a lot
+of time
+ensuring people what to do
+another good thing
+we do as well
+if you're
+into open-source
+software
+in season
+and handout
+magazines
+drop them off
+and places
+we'll obviously handle that
+sometimes
+fought
+passing
+the
+advice people to go to if they're interested. If you find it, find it more information
+to suffer freedom days, be at the suffer of freedom days site which is sufferofreedomday.org.
+Don't worry, they'll obviously we're at a train station here waiting for a train so the
+link will be in the show notes for this episode.
+We've been planning the event for quite a while now, for the last two or three months we've already started planning.
+This year we have, I think, up to possibly 13 talks planned this year.
+It's starting, as I say, initially starting on the what is sufferofreedomday and myself
+doing a talk on what is Android when it's coming from and what it's about.
+And then we move further into more technical talks as the evening goes on which things like
+the last year we had how to hack voice over IP and how the security issues with protocol for that.
+This is a bit technical, but we had things in my open street map as well and we've even had
+talks on Blender for doing our own 3D software and I work really well.
+Yeah, excellent. Well, thanks very much for the talk and look forward to hearing more about
+the event after the show, feel free to send us over some talks for syndicate Thursday.
+Okay, thank you very much Chris.
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