Free Software - Social Movement or Technological Revolution?

Autor(es) Georg C.F. Greve

Macrotema Comunidade, Filosofia e Cultura Livre

Horário 19 de abril, 14:00/14:50, Sala Babbage

Descrição

As the central question for his speech, Georg Greve will explore the question: what is Free Software? Is the collaborative approach, which now finds its way into many areas, basis of a technological revolution? Or can its values of freedom and equality be considered universally applicable across cultures and does Free Software maybe really form a new social movement? And how does this relate to global politics?

Currículos

Georg C.F. Greve

Born 10. March 1973, Dipl.-Physicist Georg Greve has a classic scientific background with an interdisciplinary diploma thesis in nanotechnology at the University of Hamburg.

A software development since his 12th year, Georg Greve came in touch with GNU/Linux and Free Software around 1993 and became European speaker for the GNU Project in 1998. Since this time he has been writing the \"Brave GNU World,\" a monthly column about Free Software, which is published in several magazined as well as the on the internet in up to 10 languages.

In early 2001 Georg Greve initiated the founding of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE, FSF Europe), the construction and coordination of which has kept him busy on European and global level in past years.

Within these activites between technology, politics, society, and economy, Georg Greve was for instance invited as an expert to the \"Commission on Intellectual Property Rights\" of the UK government and participated to the first phase of the United Nations (UN) World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) on behalf of the German coordination circle of Civil Society within the German governmental delegation.