Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2013

Ones to think about

We'll pick 4 of these. The Ben-o-meter marks which one Ben thinks would be the best.

Schulze Voting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method This is the fairest method of voting yet devised.

Talk would discuss:

• how is it fair?
• why we should use it.
• why we shouldn't use it.

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~legrand/rbvote/calc.html

Ben-o-meter: 2/10

econsensus

https://econsensus.org/ - this is a site by associates of Mike's. I can't get it to do anything useful - how do I create a proposal???

Ben-o-meter: 6/10 (if I can get it do anything)

bitcoins

A discussion of a new type of client: Electrum. Is it secure? Is it a good idea?

We would demonstrate a bitcoin transaction.

• http://electrum.org/
• http://www.bitvisitor.com/ - free bitcoins for us to play with
• http://bitcoin.org/

Ben-o-meter: 9/10

anarchy and free software

How is free software anarchist? To what degree does it kick frickin' ass?

Suggestions, roll this into the anarchy and free software one.

Ben-o-meter: 6/10

locals currency

John C will come and talk about network software that runs electronic-credit based local currency schemes. Like the LETS scheme brought into the 20th centuary.

Ben-o-meter: 7/10

tails

A look at the progress of The Amnesic Incognito Live System since last year's bookfair: https://tails.boum.org/

Ben-o-meter: 5/10

Oracle's take over of Sun, 2 years on

Oracle, from a free software perspective at the least, are the archetypical evil corporation. They took over both hardware and software parts of Sun Microsystems on January 27, 2010. A shockwave of resignations and software forks proceeded. Sun owned a number pieces of widely used software including:

• MySQL - a database
• Java - a programming language
• OpenOffice.org - an office suite

Oracle have progressively closed the doors on these bits of software. We'll look at the free software movements response this, and what it means for the future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_acquisition_by_Oracle

Ben-o-meter: 6/10

barncamp

We WILL do a section on Barncamp.