SharedUniverse.net

Title:

Software Freedom in an Online World: Identity Management and Data and
Service Portability

Description:

As no-cost proprietary service providers on the internet proliferate
and their adoption increases, it is important for Free Software
advocates to understand the new challenges to Software Freedom.
A background of the economic, social, privacy, and ethical issues will be given.
Details of new trends, movements, and projects will be described
to explain what is happening and how to get involved.

Session Type:

45 Minute Conference Session

Abstract:

The issues of Software Freedom are changing as we move from using Free
Software to using no-cost proprietary online services. We will review
a variety of background issues.

• Economic Issues: fixed and variable costs, an economy of ownership vs. an economy of sharing
• Social and Privacy Issues: managing personal data, use of proprietary online services as an extension of life in the real world
• Ethical Issues: social networks and EULA's, the balance of power, examples

Then we will explore trends and recommendations in Identity Management
and Identity Aggregation, Data Portability, Service Portability, and
Free Community-Supported Services.

• Liberty Alliance, Shibboleth, SAML, OpenID
• Assertions about data ownership, privacy, and data portability
• http://www.dataportability.org, APML, microformats, RSS, RDF, OPML, OAuth
• Service Isolation, and the challenge of integration
• The imperative to develop a Free Software stack of virtual world services
• http://www.shareduniverse.net