The following talks have been released on HackerPublicRadio.Org from the awesome Software Freedom Day Dundee 2009;
What is free software and why is software freedom important? - Arron Finnon
The aim of this talk is to help the audience in understanding and distinguishing what is free software, and helps people understand the definitions of what makes a program free software, highlighting, its differences between its counterparts. Free software doesn't always mean it comes without cost, its free as in freedom. The talk at its heart promises to highlight the importance of why freedom in software is so important to everyone's day to day life.
http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr0502.mp3
Open Source and Business - Robert Ladyman
The talk will cover; why open-source is important and useful for businesses; where it has been widely deployed and in use, without many people realising; how choosing free and open source software can be the best and most useful packages for businesses; And how using open-source software as a bargaining tool for business.
http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr0493.mp3
Podcasting 101, from mic to audience. - Arron Finnon
The aim of this talk is help the audience discover the wonderful world of podcasts, giving tips on good places to find podcasts for all type of interests. In addition it also aims to discuss how people can record, produce and publish their own podcast on little or no budget.
http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr0451.mp3
SSH - (Secure Socket Handler) The Beginners Guide - Kris Findlay
SSH also know as secure socket handler. Allows people to securely transfer files in many ingenious way. but thats not all. control remote machines, run remote applications locally. secure your Internet while using wifi hotspots, and many more great uses. This talk will explain some of the different uses of ssh and some useful examples will be explained
http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr0497.mp3
Basic Introduction to building games in blender - Gary Whitton
The talk will start with a brief introduction to blender describing what it does and how it can be used to make games. They will be a small demonstration of some of the basic game making techniques.
http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr0495.mp3
VoIP and Open Source. A look at H.323 - Andrzej Hajto
The talk will present H.323 VoIP standard and describe some of its open source implementation like GnuGK open source gatekeeper. It will also present H.323 (in)security aspects.
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