https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/97157a3d-aa1f-430d-a7af-5dab66b3a52e with recent real-world examples Free and Open Source software has revolutionized the Software Industry and nearly all other areas of human endeavor, but until now its reach into actual governance at the municipal citizen level has not been very deep. Initiatives like Code for America have encountered challenges driving acceptance for FOSS alternatives to proprietary software for citizen governance. At the same time the gap between citizen need and cities’ capabilities as widened. But several new projects are aiming to change this state of affairs to help empower citizens and improve municipal services worldwide through adoption of FOSS. Learn about these efforts and how you can get involved. Speaker: Danese Cooper, Track: Community and Ethics, Room: K.1.105 (La Fontaine), When: Saturday 1 February 2020, 10:00–10:50 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2020 event page, Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “How FOSS could revolutionize municipal government” by Danese Cooper, FOSDEM 2020. Original recording: 2020/K.1.105/municipal_government.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:11:20 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/97157a3d-aa1f-430d-a7af-5dab66b3a52e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.