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Lights! Camera! Action!<\/p>\n

Todd Spangler at Variety writes: Automattic\u2019s \u2018Code for the People\u2019 Documentary Is a Rallying Cry for Users to Fight for the Open Internet<\/a>, from the NYC premiere last week.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking forward to the San Francisco premiere of the documentary<\/a>, and then tomorrow everyone can stream it for free on codeforthepeople.com<\/a>! Appearances by Anne McCarthy<\/a>, Beau Lebens<\/a>, Eric Binnion<\/a>, Ian Stewart<\/a>, Marjorie Asturias<\/a>, Mary Hubbard<\/a>, Mat\u00edas Ventura<\/a>, Matthew Miller, Paolo Belcastro<\/a>, and Paul Maiorana<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We need to tell the story of Open Source in as many ways and places as possible. It\u2019s never been more critical. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Film is new to us, and it\u2019s funny how quickly things change: There\u2019s a segment with a few \u201cOpenAI not open\u201d sound bites, but to their credit, they have been releasing open-weight models (Safeguard is particularly interesting)<\/a>. That said, the top open-weight models are all from China<\/a>, save for Nvidia\u2019s Nemotron<\/a>, in ~12th place. <\/p>\n

When I went to the first WordCamps in Beijing<\/a> and Shanghai<\/a> in 2009, it was a very different time. They were the biggest in the world at the time! I don\u2019t think you could take photos in Tiananmen Square as freely as I did then<\/a>; now to visit I think you need an appointment, ID checks, and security checks. <\/p>\n

Even during WordCamp, it felt like the freedom of Open Source was in high demand, but it also created a lot of fear. I found out later that one of the student volunteers who helped their professor organize everything had been taken in for hours of questioning following the event.<\/p>\n

On that trip, I saw how fine-grained the Great Firewall could be when individual posts (IIRC, about bad milk from a factory harming babies) wouldn\u2019t load, but the rest of the site would. WordPress.com had been totally blocked, taking about a quarter of our traffic at the time<\/a>, but behind the Firewall, Open Source continued to thrive and grow, and now the frontier open models are being driven by China in a way I never would have predicted!<\/p>\n

Once you\u2019ve had a taste of freedom, it\u2019s hard to go back.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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