Free (Software) for the Holidays

Date and Time

Wednesday, December 05, 2012 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Location

MIT Building E-51, Room 151

Summary

BLU Desktop SIG

Abstract

As the holidays approach, let's celebrate free & open source software, and the community it fosters. This is going to be a casual meeting, followed by an optional group dinner at a local pub. But don't let “casual” fool you into thinking, it won't be valuable.

Come to the meeting with the name of a favorite free (as in freedom) software application that you'd like to share with the group. Learn which other free (as in freedom) software programs you're fellow hackers find useful.

There's a lot of good FOSS (free and open source software) available, but even with Google, Ubuntu's Software Center, and websites like the Free Software Directory (http://directory.fsf.org), [directory.fsf.org] there are some really great programs that fly under the radar. Human, face-to-face communication is still often the best way to share and learn.

In the spirit of giving, I'll also present 3 ways we can give back to the free software community and support the work that's going into the free software we benefit from and love.