== Outline ==

1 Introduce myself
** LA connections
** FLOSS connections
** First story in here
2 Ask a few questions:
** How many people here can give a 60-second explanation of what open source software is?
** How many of you can explain the 4 freedoms in the world of software?
*** Say what they are
** "OK, I'll make sure I explain all of these, because they matter, and they matter far beyond technology.  In humans there is an intertwining of technology from our brains and social from our hearts, and just as the printing press brought revolution to the social realm, so does modern technology.  Unprecedented freedoms, literally at your fingertips."
** "It matters that we care for this freedom, this commons.  It is at risk of abuse by people, by businesses, by governments, by any group that can organize against what is clearly a movement."
3 What is FLOSS & four freedoms and why do they matter
** Tell another story
4 Red Hat's mission statement and why it really matters
** (spend some time here?)
** Some examples of us being a catalyst - SELinux, AMQP
*** Xen & the anti-example give us the 100% free virt stack
5 POSSE - an example of that mission in action
** Applying a successful formula derived from FLOSS in to education
** Learning different approaches in that domain
** Methodology - observation + previous knowledge/proof == approach
6 From POSSE to Communities of Practice
** Matt Jadud story, what Greg did with it
** How CoP provides a way to scientifically prove the value of what we've been doing
*** We being Red Hat
*** We being FLOSS communities
7 Free <3 Open <3 Free
** Why the open source way
** How this gives us the connecting way to teach CoP (the science) through the art of (the way)
8 Introduce "The Open Source Way"
** "Our Community Architecture team's way of giving back? More a way of protecting against being eaten by raptors.  It doesn't do us any good to be the only ones who can explain and get things done using these methods.  We also know that as good as we are, we are only four-or-so of us.  As with many other endeavors, it's clear that a free and open community content approach is going to yield better goods, over time.  Not being driven by a commercial imperative, we don't have to acceed to publishing house NC requirements.  If what we get over time is good enough, someone is going to want to make a dead tree version anyway, and MediaWiki + git will track all the contributors so we sort out splitting the royalty checks 108 ways."
9 How it matters to you:
** Involved in communities and trying to explain not only *what* FLOSS is but why it works so well.
** A business needing to gain that extra advantage of open source, the one that is beyond no-cost, where the real value is.
** A student or educator looking for a learning-rich environment that allows you to make your own way, build your CV, learn constantly, and have a good time while making a difference.
** Anyone just sitting out there?