[97] A Briefer History of Open Source (Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez)

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A Briefer History of Open Source (Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez)

Resources
- Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/astrojuanlu/a...
- https://opensource.org/
- https://sfconservancy.org/
- https://wiki.coopcycle.org/en:license
- https://mariadb.com/bsl11/
- https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/2...
- Linux video:    • [94] Intro to the Linux Operating Sys...  

About the Event
This presentation covered a quick history of Open Source, from the beginnings of its precursor, the Free Software movement in the 1980s until the present day. It covers important milestones in the development of Open Source within their historical context, and it concludes with some ideas about post-open source.

Timestamps
00:00 Data Umbrella introduction
03:38 Juan Luis introduction
05:14 Juan Luis begins presentation
06:11 About Juan Luis
07:25 disclaimer
09:20 1979: the rise and fall of hacker culture
11:44 1969: Bell Labs, Unix, C
14:15 1976: Copyright Act (in USA)
17:09 1979: Scribe markup language
18:05 1980-1989: GNU Project and Four Freedoms
18:45 Richard Stallman printer incident at MIT
22:00 Four Freedoms
25:24 Switzerland, CERN
25:55 1990-1998: The Linux bazaar and the Open Source definition
26:20 1991: World Wide Web
27:00 1993: Mosaic: first web browser
27:45 Linux (Ref: video,    • [94] Intro to the Linux Operating Sys...  )
31:11 Python and more (R, Vim, Lua, Java, etc)
33:04 1997: The Cathedral and the Bazaar (an essay)
34:43 Netscape, JavaScript
35:45 1998: Open Source initiative
37:55 The Divide: why open source misses the point of free software
38:55 Digital age and the Big Data Explosion
40:10 dot com bubble
41:15 2001: animosity towards open source
42:00 orgs, Foundations: Apache, Linux, Python Software Foundation, Eclipse
44:04 2003: Google File System
44:45 2005: a new era of collaborative software development (Git, GitHub)
47:08 2011: Why software is eating the world
47:41 2012-2018: what do open source maintainers eat?
48:44 Growth of Python
49:30 open source is not sustainable (OpenSSL, Heartbleed, left-pad)
51:43 Nadia Eghbal, Roads and Bridges
52:17 open source system begins to fragment (licenses)
56:15 2019-2023: Post-open source and the Gen AI volcano
01:00:04 a new kind of open source license
01:00:55 2024: What’s next?
01:04:00 Q: Do you think the open source divide was avoidable?
01:05:36 Q: Are you optimistic about the future of open source in terms of funding?
01:07:45 Q: Web 3 and Blockchain
01:09:25 Q: Can you discuss OSPO’s? (Open Source Program Office)
01:12:30 Q: What do you think of the potential for the UFDA (user friendly developers association) model?

About the Speaker
Juan Luis (he/him/él) works as Product Manager at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, with a focus on Kedro, an open source data science framework. He has a decade of experience as developer advocate, software engineer, and Python trainer in several industries. PSF Fellow since 2017, he has made significant contributions to the PyData stack, published several open-source packages, and organized the first seven PyCons in Spain. Currently he is the lead organizer of the PyData Madrid monthly meetups.

- GitHub: https://github.com/astrojuanlu/
- LinkedIn:   / juanluiscanor  

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