I briefly looked but either I'm blind or it doesn't exist - is there a video of the event anywhere? I'd love to watch the talks.
Side note - if FSF wants its message to reach a wider audience and get more people to care about free software it should really get out of its own bubble. Why wasn't this streamed and archived on YouTube? Yes, this is a rhetoric question - I know perfectly why. My point here is - and let me make a colorful analogy:
If you're, say, a Scientology missionary, what the hell is the point of preaching inside of your own church, to people who are already Scientologists? If you want to be an effective missionary you go out where the non-believers are, and you don't immediately tell people about Xenu, the planetary ruler from 70 million years ago, or else they'll immediately dismiss you and think you're batshit crazy. You ease them in step-by-step.
FSF puts ideological purity as an absolute number one (e.g. recommend Trisquel GNU/Linux, which is pretty much unusable on most machines for normal people), and they refuse to spread the message on platforms where non-free-software people are (e.g. YouTube), and then we're all surprised that the free software movement is dying, and non-copyleft licenses are dominating (although, yes, there are other reasons for that too).
> you don't immediately tell people about Xenu, the planetary ruler from 70 million years ago
What is fsf’s equivalent of Xenu that they shouldn’t tell you about up front? I want to say you should need to be at least level 3 at fsf before learning about rms.
They could as easily put the video on some of the OSS solutions as that. Or they could self host. They do not value effective advocacy for their ideas.
I do not see the FSF as an effective organization today.
Damned if you do - damned if you don't. It's the dilemma all counter-culturists struggle with. Greta Thunberg famously sail to climate conferences: "She is an ideological purist! She don't convince everyday people!" If she had flown instead: "She is such a hypocrite! She doesn't live what she preaches!"
It's important to spread the word to those who haven't yet hurd the good gnus.
ay ay, herd the gnus!
Just be grateful South Park hasn't done an episode about the FSF and RMS (yet)!