{"id":1665,"date":"2015-02-12T13:50:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T18:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2015-02-12T13:50:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T18:50:04","slug":"guest-of-honor-aral-balkan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/?p=1665","title":{"rendered":"Guest of Honor: Aral Balkan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very excited announce <b><a href=\"http:\/\/aralbalkan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aral Balkan<\/a><\/b>, founder and lead designer of <a href=\"http:\/\/ind.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ind.ie<\/a>, as our <b>Guest of Honor<\/b>! Aral thinks we are paying too much for our free software, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ldhHkVjLe7A\" target=\"_blank\">saying<\/a>, &#8220;Free is a lie because it is a concealed barter,&#8221; and &#8220;The cost of free is our human rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Along with creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/ind.ie\/about\/manifesto\/\" target=\"_blank\">manifesto<\/a> for experience-based, privacy respecting open source design, the company is working on a free open source social network client called <a href=\"https:\/\/ind.ie\/about\/vision\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heartbeat<\/a>, with the idea that it will be the core of a peer-to-peer consumer platform that lets you share what you want without becoming a monetized statistic of the &#8220;free&#8221; business model.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ldhHkVjLe7A\" target=\"_blank\">Aral says<\/a>, &#8220;Traditional free and open source organizations are unequipped to provide the solutions we need in the post-Snowden world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aral will be a keynote speaker on one evening during Penguicon; security specialist and Guest of Honor Emeritus <b>Bruce Schneier<\/b> will deliver a keynote speech on the other evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very excited announce Aral Balkan, founder and lead designer of Ind.ie, as our Guest of Honor! Aral thinks we are paying too much for our free software, saying, &#8220;Free is a lie because it is a concealed barter,&#8221; and &#8220;The cost of free is our human rights.&#8221; Along with creating a manifesto for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,17],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-goh","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.penguicon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}