FOSS Backstage 2026

Shauna Gordon-McKeon

Shauna Gordon-McKeon is a writer, programmer and consultant who works at the intersection of technology and governance. She specializes in working with open communities (think open source software, open science, and open government) to collaboratively build and nourish a rich commons. You can find her work at relational-tech.com.


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Relational Tech


Session

03-17
15:50
30min
Free as in Friendship
Shauna Gordon-McKeon

"It's free as in speech, not free as in beer." But is 'free speech' the kind of freedom FOSS projects should aim for? Should we instead focus on positive freedoms—not just the right, but the ability to achieve our aims? This talk argues for the latter, and charts a course for how to do so, drawing from the psychology framework of intersubjectivity.

Governance & Community
Room Wintergarten