11 - People and Companies from FLOSS
Free and Open Source Software history is full of personalities that have contributed to shape the world we live in. In this activity a group of students (3 students) select a company or person with a strong history in FOSS and detail their contributions in a 20 minutes presentation followed by a 10 minutes guided discussion.
All presentations will be open to the general public. After presenting students can create a PR with the skill FLOSS research and upload a PDF of their presentations to the docs/presentations/2025/ folder.
You can accept one of the suggestions below or propose a different one. Send me your choice by E-mail:
- RedHat
- Canonical and Ubuntu
- The Debian project
- Richard Stallman and the FSF (Free Software Foundation)
- Linus Torvalds and Linux
- Eric Raymond (Cathedral and Bazaar)
- Larry Wall and Perl
- Mozilla
The following presentation slots are available on a first-come first-served queue.
- 11/05: 3 slots available (first, second, third)
Agenda
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