Re: [OSS] FYI[via LIG]: The Code: A Film of FLOSS and the FLO Community

It is an excellent idea. I will introduce this film to VTV and ask my friend
in Ho Chi Minh city to contact HTV.
Chuong

Dear Minh

Could you introduce this film to HTV. Please inform me when you will go to
Hanoi so I can arrange the first meeting of OSS Task Force Group at this
time.
Did you receive the invitation from MOST ?
Cheers,
Chuong

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From: "AD Marshall" <AD.VICE@ParadoxCafe.Net>
To: <chuongtl@itprog.gov.vn>
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 2:52 PM
Subject: [OSS] FYI[via LIG]: The Code: A Film of FLOSS and the FLO Community

> Maybe some folks on this list might have a way to effectively
> introduce this film, "The Code" (full synopsis BeLow), to
> Xunhasaba and/or Fahasa for dubbing (thuye^'t minh), sub-
> titling (phu. dde^`) and domestic distribution.
>
> Perhaps even VTV or HTV contacts could propose and airing.
>
> An excerpt from a synopsis of the film "The Code":
>
> The Code presents the first decade of Linux from 1991 to
> 2001. Besides Torvalds, it includes many of his closest
> allies in development process that is nowadays seen as the
> greatest success story of the Internet culture. Eventually,
> Linux becomes a viable business solution within the computer
> industry.
>
> [The media and public love such stories of resourceful,
> idealistic individuals and communities winning victories
> against forces with far more power, money and established
> dominence.]
>
> An excerpt from Tran Luu Chuong's presentation in Washington,
> Oct.2002, on the Case for FLOSS in e-Government provides the
> guidance for such a strategy:
>
> One Possible OSS strategy - Overall goals:
> ø Disseminate the OSS spirit and principle
> ø Re-training and training
> <...>
>
> [A copy of the specific presentation page, and the rest of TL
> Chuong's persentation, can be accessed via
> http://h0lug.sourceforge.net/00.viet/fl0@vnisbiz/02flohow/tl-
> chuong_infodev/html/img21.html]
>
> Personally, i can't think of many media better than popular
> film for disseminating "the spirit and principle" of an
> alternative subculture to the general public, of any nation --
> just relax and be eduTained...
>
> Even most academics and organizational decision-makers,
> including the people producing and funding "re-training and
> training" programmes, are generally more open to unfamiliar
> alternatives -- especially those apparently very different from
> the status quo -- if they can first *conveniently* gain some
> positive awareness and inter-personal familiarity with the
> characters of the people in the communities proposing such
> alternatives.
>
> Regarding suitability to VietNam's current infoDev needs, it's
> worth noting that this synopsis was posted to the Linux-India-
> General online discussion list by one of the leading pundits
> for Linux in India, Frederick Noronha, "FN", Founder of
> http://www.bytesforall.org.
>
> Apparently enough, FN feels such cinematic public-relations (or
> "advocacy") efforts are still worth promoting even to the more
> IT/IS-informed members of the Linux-India-General community,
> even in the world's leading IT/IS outsourcing nation where
> Linux and FLOSS systems receive regular attention in even the
> nation's mainstream business publications.
>
> (Though, of course, most Indian IT/IS professionals will not
> need the film to be dubbed or sub-titled.)
>
>
> =============================================================
> From: FN <fred@bytesforall.org>
> To: linux-india-general@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [LIG] The Code... a movie about Free Software/ Open
> Source and related issues
> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:49:18 +0530 (IST)
>
> =============================================================
> Synopsis of "The Code", http://www.linuxthemovie.com/
> =============================================================
>
> In 1991, a 20-year old Linus Torvalds, a thin, bespectacled,
> Swedish- speaking Finnish computer science student sends a
> posting to an Internet newsgroup asking for advice on how to
> make a better operating system. His project is a hobby, he
> says, and would never become `big and professional'. But in ten
> years he and his loose alliance of hackers all over the world
> creates an operating system - Linux - that challenges Windows
> 2000 for the server market and is now poised to dominate the
> next generation of handheld and desktop computers. What makes
> Linux different, and deeply troubling for traditional software
> companies, is that no one owns it. Every user is free to adapt
> it in any way they wish, as long as they pass it on to others
> on the same terms.
>
> The Code presents the first decade of Linux from 1991 to 2001.
> Besides Torvalds, it includes many of his closest allies in
> development process, that is nowadays seen as the greatest
> success story of the Internet culture. Eventually, Linux
> becomes a viable business solution within the computer
> industry. Media loves the story of `a single hacker against the
> forces of darkness'. `Linux' becomes a catch phrase. Torvalds
> turns into an international media star. No more a shy nerd, but
> a relaxed, witty media performer par excellence. Linus is a
> Jesus for a politician, respected and adored by both Linux
> enthusiasts, the counter-culture - and the big businessmen. A
> rare combination, this time or any other. But even after all
> this attention Linus Torvalds remains, as a person, an enigma.
> When interviewed in the media, he is always asked the same
> questions and usually giving the same answers too. We think we
> know him, but do we really? Why did he put his code into the
> Net for free, initially? Many can still not understand it.
> Maybe because `given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow',
> giving a way to a better product? Or is there something more to
> it?
>
> The hero of the film is the archetype of our times: the
> programmer. In The Code programming is seen partially as an art
> form. Like artists, programmers will do it even if they do not
> get any money. Through Torvalds and his cohort, following the
> code development process, we get into the mind-set of a
> programmer - and the communication between programmers.
> Operating from his study in San Jose, California, Linus is the
> benevolent dictator among hundreds of Linux developers around
> the world. This room is the centre of their universe.
> Everything goes through Linus, or his right hand man Alan Cox,
> a Welshman. Developers compete in order to get their solutions
> and improvements accepted by Linus. He openly admits that he
> developed only 2 % or 3 % of the code in the beginning, and
> that he built upon the work by earlier programmers, like
> Richard Stallman. Developers are like monks in their virtual
> monastery. Their change of e-mails through the years opens the
> Linux saga in the film like a letter novel. Leadership in Linux
> universe is about getting people to trust enough that they take
> advice, making them to do things because of their own reasons,
> not due to any external pressure. Linus is strict, loyal,
> dictatorial, humble and positive, all at the same time. And
> this is the key to the fulfilment of the collective dream.
> Resembling cybernetics and communism, it would have never been
> built without teamwork, collective responsibility - and
> centralized planning.
>
> Along the way, Microsoft recognizes competition, and throws
> some mccarthyian dirt towards Linux, calling it un-American.
> Regardless of this, Wall Street applauds, and for a brief time
> Linux is the cream of the crop at the stock exchange market.
> What is more important and revolutionary, the Linux phenomenon
> makes a lot of ground in Asia and Africa, where an open source
> code and a free operating system are something concrete, not
> just fancy, elitist idealism. The process started in Europe and
> the United States, but it is bound to be completed somewhere
> else.
>
> The Code is about the human urge to share and exchange, to
> achieve something through collaboration, the profit motive not
> being the dominating factor. Linux and the free software
> movement have showed new ways to make profit in computer
> industry, while raising heated debates on the ethics of
> business and the old issue of freedom of speech. In the end,
> The Code tells a key story of the digital age, a symbolic saga
> about capitalism during the last fin de siècle of the second
> millennium and the early steps of the third one.
>
> Hannu Puttonen
>
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