Good Enough Ancestor: Software Freedom as Civic Care across Generations by Audrey Tang
Recorded Events - FLOxford
The Next FLOSS Frontier? by Gareth Smith
22 May 2026, 65 min
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Good Enough Ancestor: Software Freedom as Civic Care across Generations by Audrey Tang
22 May 2026, 8 min
Computing in Freedom with GNU Emacs by Protesilaos Stavrou
22 May 2026, 54 min
Software Engineering for Bioinformatics: A Bioconductor Perspective by Kevin Rue-Albrecht
22 May 2026, 48 min
Teaching High School Students Research Computing by Andrea Bruno and Mark Galassi, Institute for Computing in Research
22 May 2026, 49 min
Self-Hosting: Cooking your own Service by Yong-Ho Shin
22 May 2026, 35 min
00:00 / 07:56
The Next FLOSS Frontier? by Gareth Smith
22 May 2026, 65 min
Current video (2 of 6) in Recorded Events - FLOxford
Good Enough Ancestor: Software Freedom as Civic Care across Generations by Audrey Tang
22 May 2026, 8 min
Computing in Freedom with GNU Emacs by Protesilaos Stavrou
22 May 2026, 54 min
Software Engineering for Bioinformatics: A Bioconductor Perspective by Kevin Rue-Albrecht
22 May 2026, 48 min
Teaching High School Students Research Computing by Andrea Bruno and Mark Galassi, Institute for Computing in Research
22 May 2026, 49 min
Self-Hosting: Cooking your own Service by Yong-Ho Shin
22 May 2026, 35 min
Most of the talk: only in the transcript due to a technical issue.
00:00 Q&A: Does making AI systems more modifiable enable malicious uses? (start cut off)
06:52 Why "Good Enough Ancestor"
Tang discusses how the Free Software movement is foundational to her theory of care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance — and how she and Caroline Green are putting this theory into practice, with principles for AI systems at the local Institute for Ethics in AI.