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Free as in Freedom

Episode 0x1B: Two Executive Directors

25 October 2011

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Summary

Bradley and Karen discuss their jobs, particularly fundraising, and plans for future shows. This show was released on Tuesday 25 October 2011; its running time is 00:31:47.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:36)

●The Google Summer of Code Program is large philanthropic program by Google for students to write Free Software in the summer. ●Bradley gave a talk about non-profit organizations at the Google SoC Mentor Summit 2011 ●Karen mentioned the GNOME Women's Outreach Program, which coordinates with the SoC, and the Season of KDE. (09:36) ●Conservancy's Amarok, Mercurial and PyPy projects are all currently doing fundraising programs (14:38) ●Bradley will give two talks at LinuxCon Europe this week. (15:15) ●Karen will attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit. (20:20) ●Karen will speak in Latvia later this year. (24:20) ●Richard Fontana discussed RMS' quote about Jobs on identi.ca (26:27)

Segment 1 (29:28)

●We'll try to record some talks/interviews at upcoming events.

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