Past Presentations about Snowdrift.coop
Aaron’s first public presentation
Feb 21, 2013 Washtenaw GNU/Linux Users Group:
40MB ogg vorbis audio slides sorry not synced, you’ll have to guess how it lines up with audio, and it was put together quickly last-minute, easy to think of lots of ways to improve; certainly more personal stuff to go with the early narrative
LibrePlanet lightning talk
Aaron gave a lightning talk at LibrePlanet 2014 in Cambridge, MA
No recording was made unfortunately. Notes were:
- Snowdrift dilemma: who’s gonna do it? I might wait to see if others will help, and they wait to see if I’ll do it, and nothing happens!
- Our obstacle is the proprietary software that hurts our freedoms and out-competes FLO
- Kickstarter helps assure CRITICAL MASS but has issues
- other systems don’t solve the dilemma
- We provide sustainability, accountability, and mutual assurance
- Our mechanism: no risk, network effect
- Our system invites others to join so we grow beyond the existing community
- We are a free software project, written in Haskell, our current status…
- 3 classes: team, projects, patrons. We could use your help in any and all of those capacities
Aaron’s session at DebConf 2014
WebM video: Free Software Economics: patronage and crowdfunding
Also, from the DebConf 2014 lightning talks, Aaron’s starts at 15:22 in the video there.
Open Source Bridge 2015
Aaron gave a talk on a broader topic with Snowdrift.coop as a major emphasis: “Bringing non-technical people to the Free/Libre/Open world and why it matters”
Session listing
Video
SCaLE 14x (2016)
Aaron gave a live presentation of GNU/Linux music-making with lots of references to FLO issues and Snowdrift.coop.
FOSDEM 2016
Salt (after being involved for just a couple months) gave a 15-minute presentation introducing Snowdrift.coop (see video link and slides and description)
Aaron as guest on podcasts
- A 2-hour long open-ended chat on the Unformatted Podcast: http://rynothebearded.com/2014/09/mere-exposure-effect/
- A separate Music Manumit Lawcast blog post by Doug Whitfield about the same podcast with Ryno (includes minor extra written comments, .ogg file, torrent option)
- Also was a brief guest again on a later podcast during the crowdfunding campaign.
- Guest on the 29th episode of Radio Free Culture
- Interview for Hacker Public Radio with Lord Drachenblut at SCALE13x: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1747
- Interview for Hacker Public Radio with David Whitman at LinuxFest NW 2015: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1797
- Guest on Music Manumit, Oct 2015
- Guest on Open Source Musicians Podcast #72, Dec 2015 (interview starts at 2:53 after the intro theme song)
- Guest on SustainOSS #198, Sep 2023
LinuxFest NW 2019
Salt & Aaron presentated, video recorded: https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/conferences/2019/program/proposals/333
SeaGL 2019
Aaron presented on Codes of Conduct and Restorative/Transformative Justice, referencing how we’re managing these things at Snowdrift.coop: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2019/program/proposals/706
This talk recording failed. But slides are available: RJ/TJ CoC slides .odp file, RJ/TJ CoC slides .pdf
The ideas from that talk are also partly incorporated into the updated Snowdrift Community Values and are relevant to this newer project outside of Snowdrift: FLO-Conscious-Living.
SeaGL 2021
Aaron, Salt, and Athan did a panel talk, “FLOSS daily — but FLO all the time”. https://seagl.org/archive/2021/floss-daily-but-flo-all-the-time
LibrePlanet 2022
Aaron presented on the overall economics of public goods and FLO with a new framing on the language and concepts: MediaGoblin link FLO economics talk or PeerTube link FLO economics talk.
Here are the assets: FLO-economics slides and FLO-economics script
FOSSY 2023
Aaron adapted the LibrePlanet 2022 ideas with a Snowdrift-introduction emphasis and state-of-the-project. Video: Snowdrift.coop: sustainable funding for FLO projects