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0x2F: OSCON and GUADEC 2012

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Karen and Bradley discuss OSCON and GUADEC.

Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
  • Bradley represents FSF on the GNOME Advisory
    • Board. (02:20)
  • Bradley points out it's very dangerous when you can buy voting
    • rights of a 501(c)(3) by paying money, such as the structure of OSI.
    Karen notes that contribution-based membership works very well for
    GNOME. (03:50)
  • Bradley is concerned about the future of OSI's license list now
    • that votes in OSI are for sale. (04:30)
  • Bradley received an O'Reilly
    • Open Source Award at OSCON 2012. Bradley blogged an acceptance
    speech for the award. (08:50)
  • The
    • Python award and the Perl White Camel
    award is also given at OSCON. (12:35)
  • Karen mentioned FLOSS
    • Foundations, and asked if there was a meeting at OSCON. Bradley
    mentioned it had been primarily rolled into Jono Bacon's CLS
    conference. (15:10)
    Segment 1 (17:56)
    • Bradley wrote in a post about the GUADEC 2010 conference to note
      • how welcoming the community was. Karen described GUADEC 2012 as very
      similar in nature. (21:25)
    • Karen mentioned her husband Mike had a similar reaction to GUADEC
      • 2012 that Bradley had to GUADEC 2010. (23:50)

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