Meeting Twelve

1. Project Review

2. Revolution OS - we will watch this in class

3. About Free and Open Societies. Please read this: http://brewster.kahle.org/2014/05/13/creating-free-and-open-societies/

4. From "This American Life" podcasts around patents. Do spend time listening to these (or at least read the transscripts):

     a) Part 1: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack from July 2011 (transcript)

     b) Part 2: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/when-patents-attack-part-two from May 2013 (transcript)

5. Using github/bitbucket for all of your workflow

6. About Net Neutrality - why you should be concerned.

Closing thoughts:

a)  Open Standards, Data, Source, Hardware, Currency etc are critical for the success of society

b)  Cryptography is very critical

c)  Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) has to be guarded against.

Thank You!