Bradley and Karen pull back the curtain and begin the process of
preparing their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone
Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But
Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This episode is the first of
multiple episodes where Bradley and Karen record their preparation
conversations for this keynote address.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36 )

Bradley and Karen discuss the plan to do prep for their FOSDEM keynote
“on air” as part of FaiF broadcasts.

Segment 1 (07:13 )

• Bradley read out the abstract from Bradley
  and Karen's keynote, Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?
  Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary
  Software at FOSDEM 2019. (circa 10:00 )



• This started for Bradley with the HTC Dream, and Karen's struggle
  started with her heart device (10:42 )



• Bradley and Karen discussed how they plan to organize their FOSDEM
  2019 joint keynote.




• Bradley mentioned that if Karen and Bradley recorded an episode of the
  two of them reading Lorem Ipsum that
  listeners would likely still listen. Karen disagreed. (33:05 )

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