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Karsten Gerloff
Karsten Gerloff
Contact
- Mobile: +49 176 9690 4298
- gerloff@fsfe.org (public key)
About Karsten Gerloff
Karsten Gerloff is a Free Software activist, focusing on tech
policy and digital rights. He served as FSFE's president from 2009
to 2015.
Presentations
- All watched
over by machines of loving grace?" - Talk summary by
Michael Kerrisk for LWN.net. November
14, 2012.
- Free
Software in the public sector: Getting it right & getting
value (OKFestival, Helsinki, Finland. Sept. 18, 2012
- more to come
- Software patents: The battle for Free Software's soul (Vigo, Spain, Sept. 9, 2011)
- How software
patents are delaying the future (Panel organised by
European Patent Office, World Computer Congress, Amsterdam,
Sept. 25, 2012
Selected Publications
- Neu und doch nur Mittelmaß: Die "Open
Source"-Strategie der EU-Kommission. irights.info, May 4,
2015.
- Input
to the European Commission: Considerations on Updating the
European Commission's Open Source Strategy. [pdf]
- Public Procurement: Free Software's Wild Frontier. In: Shane Coughlan
(ed.): Thoughts on Open Innovation. Essays on Open Innovation from
leading thinkers in the field. OpenForumAcademy, 2013. Available for
download
(PDF, 320 kB).
- Software, Power, Control. In: Kaitlyn Braybrooke, Jussi
Nissilä (eds.): The Open Book. The Finnish Institute in London,
2013. Available for download
(PDF, 5.7 MB). Greek translation.
- UK
takes huge step forward on Open Standards (November 1, 2012)
- The
European Commission's locked-in syndrome (June 2011).
- Interview with Groklaw on EU vs Microsoft antitrust case (the "Samba case"), May 31 2011
- Assessing
the new European Interoperability Framework (December 17, 2010)
- Free your IT-Business in Africa!
ict@innovation Training Handbook on Advanced African FOSS Business
Models
(June 2010)
ict@innovation (ed.)
Overall editor and curriculum developer
-
Document Freedom Day: Passion and politics (March 2010)
- EIFv2 - Tracking the loss of interoperability
Karsten Gerloff, Hugo Roy (2010)
-
FLOSSInclude
Free/Libre/Open Source Software: International Co-operation development Roadmap. D3.4 Preliminary Requirements Reportand D1.2 List of Problem Areas
Gerloff, Ghosh et al (2009)
-
Study on the effect on the development of the information society of
European public bodies making their own software available as open
source. Final report. (January 2008)
Rishab A. Ghosh, Rüdiger Glott, Karsten Gerloff, Patrice Emmanuel
Schmitz, Kamini Aisola, Abdelkrim Boujraf
-
Inside Views: The Development Agenda Of Free Software
(Ghosh/Gerloff, February 2007)
-
Access to Knowledge in a Network Society. A Cultural Sciences Perspective on the Discussion on a Development
Agenda for the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
Gerloff (2006). Masters' thesis. (LaTeX source)
Case studies
Videos
- Power and Freedom (download) at the TEDx event in Eutropolis (you need bittorrent to download this file; alternatively, you can watch in on YouTube).
Further information about Karsten Gerloff
About Karsten Gerloff