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Journalist and Open Source advocate Bryan Lunduke has been reporting extensively on the W3C and the EME DRM controversy (discussed previously on Soylent) over the past months. Today, he has announced that he has submitted an application to join the W3C, and was approved. He will be attempting to crowdfund the application fees, and intends to act as a representative for the open source community and to push for greater transparency in the W3C process.
Transcript from the video (@3:30):
I've put in my application; my application this morning was accepted; and once I get all the signed paperwork back to them and pay them my membership fees I will be a member of the W3C, and I will begin to take part in various W3C planning activities and discussions. I feel like there is a real opportunity here for someone from the free and open source world -- I know there's already Open Source advocates internally at the W3C, but I feel like we need someone who purely represents the public, with no corporate backing whatsoever...in order to properly represent the needs of the people...who don't necessarily like the direction the W3C has gone in recent days (and months and years).
Does this matter? Can one guy with a crowdfunded membership and no corporate donors to please actually bring about change in an organization like the W3C? Or is this just throwing money at the people causing all the problems in the first place?
(Apologies for the YouTube links, but I can't find this information elsewhere at the moment.)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by coolgopher on Sunday October 01 2017, @05:44AM (6 children)
Didn't EFF already resign from the W3C? Not to disparage this guy, but if the EFF couldn't make their voice heard, what chance does he have?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by d(++)b on Sunday October 01 2017, @06:58AM
Yes and none.
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Sunday October 01 2017, @09:12AM (2 children)
He's pulling a second Lunduke.
It seems the [linuxfoundation.org] first [slashdot.org]** one is 404-forgotten [thepowerbase.com]
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** greensite warning: apologies for it, this was where I got it the first time (Feb 2013), I couldn't find any other references.
The linked message explains briefly what happened. Below, without the links in the comment:
If my memory serves, the story actually continues with him "retracting" the published source code. Whatever he released didn't create too much interest in OSS movement for anyone to continue.
The Linux tycoon [github.com] has 1 fork and one contributor.
One other software "involved" in the stunt is "Illumination Software Creator - a tool for visually designing and developing software". The history part on Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] shows some details on the "saga"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Sunday October 01 2017, @11:02AM
Some other oldies (some of them on about 10th page on Google search)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @06:09PM
And yet certain segments of the community seems to hold him in high regard, in particular the "new guard"...
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday October 02 2017, @12:37PM (1 child)
Yeah, Lunduke did mention that in the video...and essentially the point he made was that the EFF is a political organization and therefore has to be a bit more diplomatic. Lunduke's got no problem publishing a video calling someone a fuckin moron if he thinks it's true.
Which may not be very effective at *fixing* anything, but it could certainly be therapeutic to watch... :)
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Monday October 02 2017, @11:41PM
Yeah diplomacy doesn't work with nutcases. I mean, just look at how Kim Jong-iforgetwhich is faring with Trump.