I am a committee member in an infosec-focused student society, and I am going to be doing a talk next Wednesday. This is to be called “Brave GNU World” and (as the name suggests) it’s about FOSS and the free software movement.

We’ve had some fairly dry talks and some quite fantastic ones over the years, and I want this to be the latter (my previous attempts have been successful), so I plan to focus on some of the more entertaining details; but I will get the whole picture across in any case.

So, does anyone have any suggestions or ideas?

  • Antiochus@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    No suggestions, but I’m in a very similar boat. I’ll soon have the opportunity to do some lectures and workshops on FOSS, self-hosting, etc. But I have no idea how to explain to normal people why doing this stuff is important, or how to make that explanation engaging.

    I just listened to the first episode of The Lockdown Podcast by Ray Heffer and I thought he did a fantastic job of hooking the audience with a fun story before getting into the real content.