Jeffrey McGuire  
  
Room: stage C  
  
Making a case for open source that even “the suits” will love&nbsp;
 
 If you think open source and business don’t go well together, you’re wrong.
 
 The Four Freedoms that define&nbsp;Open Source – the freedom to use, study, modify, and distribute your software – are not just some kind of digital-hippy philosophy. Enterprise businesses are rapidly adopting open source because goals like profit and growth can go hand-in-hand with open source values and practices like trust and sharing. In fact, they multiply each other.
 
 In this session, I will show you why and how open source is the star player on today’s digital business dream-team. Stories and real world examples in this presentation will help explain to the most hard-boiled "suit" that open source software can help the bottom line, hiring, retention, winning RFPs, and more.


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Civic Tech – of the people, by the people and for the people

**motto**

During its nearly eight year history, re:publica has developed into Europe’s largest social media conference, with 5 000 participants in the last year, and has had the privilege of welcoming many of the digital society’s most important leading minds to its stages. Since its inception, the digital society has faced continuous changes – but never have these changes been so palpable as since whistle-blower Edward Snowden’s revelations during the summer of 2013.

re:publica 2014’s motto INTO THE WILD highlights various points of departure for solutions in the internet of the near future. When algorithms turn us transparent and controllable through predictability, perhaps we have to become more unpredictable; dissolving old structures, veering from the well-trodden path in favour of chaos and irrationality, heading INTO THE WILD. Yet this begs the questions: how will we navigate and find one another? How can one whisper into the global net and, in particular, with whom? Will those calling for a free and unrestricted internet not have to face being ever more vigilant and controlling of those who may partake and those who must stay out?

While the omni-surveilled net may have become draughty it will continue to protect its vital interests, learn to sidestep and manoeuvre and continue to develop. During the build-up to re:publica 2014, we will extend INTO THE WILD in search of unexpected technical solutions, surprising impulses stemming from business and politics and look forward to new, unbridled internet culture.

We are happy to announce the most exciting re:publica to date, happening from 6 – 8 May at STATION BERLIN.  

 Not despite, but distinctly because nothing is as it once seemed.


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