Denmark to Brazil: Free software for societies of control or free communities

How does free software help to connect traditional communities?

In our next meetup Carsten Agger (@agger_modspil (https://twitter.com/agger_modspil)) will explain the contrasts of helping to build the Danish government's infrastructure and the Baobáxia project, a collaborative system that currently connects about 30 traditional communities (quilombos and indigenous villages) in Brazil.

Baobáxia (https://github.com/RedeMocambos/baobaxia) is an excellent example of a project that integrates free software and free technology and traditional communities.

He'll talk about the values of free software and how to make sure that the values we seek in free communities and, generally, in free societies, are reflected in the software that we write.

https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/2/6/d/f/600_464709951.jpeg Cartens has a MSc in physics and computer science and has been employed as a developer since 1996. He has spent many years coding proprietary software in C/C++, but changed to free software focusing on Apache, Linux and Python and various web frameworks in 2009.