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FOSS for Media Makers What is FOSS? Free (Libre) Open Source Software

proprietary vs. free software Free software: community benefit motive open source can modify can redistribute Proprietary software: ● commercial benefit motive ● closed source ● can't modify ● can't redistribute

Free Software “free” - ambiguous “libre” (as in FREE SPEECH) not “gratis” (as in FREE BEER)

You can charge money for free software, that isn't what “free” refers to. But in practice, much free software is free as in beer, also.

Free Software “free software” coined by Richard Stallman (GNU / free software movement), 1983

Freedom to: run the program, for any purpose study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (access to the source code) redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits

Join us now and share the software; You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free. x2 Hoarders may get piles of money, That is true, hackers, that is true. But they cannot help their neighbors; That's not good, hackers, that's not good. When we have enough free software At our call, hackers, at our call, We'll throw out those dirty licenses Ever more, hackers, ever more. Join us now and share the software; You'll be free, hackers, you'll be free. x2 Cover of “The Free Software Song” (Richard Stallman) by the GNU Stallmans from the film “Revolution OS” about the history of the Linux OS

free software vs. open source Free software: ethical motive Free Software Foundation social movement radical roots / idealist Open source software: ● practical motive ● Open Source Initiative ● development methodology ● “business-friendly”

FOSS Licenses Examples GNU General Public License (GPL) BSD-style licenses Mozilla Public License (MPL)

but... they are essentially very similar in practice. therefore: F.O.S.S. Free and Open Source Software

How do FOSS projects work? Project page Code repository Development tracker Demo (if applicable)

Debian Devil Linux Gentoo Red HatSmooth Wall Suse FOSS Operating Systems - Linux etc.

watch 10 minutes of “Revolution OS”

FOSS Web Applications MediaWiki - wiki Wordpress - blog Drupal - CMS Plone - CMS

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FOSS for Media Makers ● Pre-production ● Production ● Post-production ● Distribution

Pre-Production Neo Office – documents, presentations, spreadsheets, databases – Mac Firefox – web browser - X-platform Thunderbird – client - X-platform

Production GIMP – image editor - X-platform Audacity – sound editor - X-platform Hyper Engine AV – video editor - Mac

Other Production Cinelerra – Linux video editor Kino – Linux video editor Blender – Linux Animation Visual Effects

Post-production ffmpegX – video transcoder - Mac Sizzle DVD – DVD authoring - Mac Burn – DVD/VCD burning - Mac

Other Post-production Simple Theora Encoder – Ogg Encoder - Mac Media Coder - Video Encoder – PC avidemux - Video Encoder - Linux

Distribution EngageMedia Azureus Indytorrents EngageMedia Azureus Indytorrents Miro (Democracy) VLC Handbrake

Plumi - Video Sharing Web App

FOSS Multimedia Compilations AV NGO in a box Dynebolic

General FOSS Compilations The Open CD NGO in a box Base Box

FLOSS Manuals

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Advertising revenue - shareholders Streaming - no re-distribution YouTube license - for their re-use Closed software platform Sold to Google - Google ads Donations revenue - producers Download for re-distribution Creative Commons - producer choice Free software platform No sale, community management

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open content licensing system alternative to restrictive copyright “some rights reserved” NOT all rights reserved flexible system to allow choice of licenses

Attribution - if they give you credit Noncommercial - for noncommercial purposes. No Derivative Works - verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it. Share Alike - derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work. You let others copy, distribute and transmit your copyrighted work ONLY:

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