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\documentclass[aspectratio=169,t]{beamer}
\input taler-macros
\usepackage{tabto}
\newcommand{\TITLE}{Digital Freedom meets Digital Payments}
\newcommand{\SUB}{\uncover<2->{How GNU Taler will help funding FLOSS}}
%\newcommand{\SUB}{}
\newcommand{\AUTHOR}{Özgür Kesim}
\newcommand{\SPEAKER}{Özgür Kesim}
\newcommand{\INST}{GNU Taler}
\newcommand{\DATE}{NGI Forum 2025}
% Do not edit this part
\title{\TITLE}
\subtitle{\SUB}
\date{\DATE}
\author[\SPEAKER]{\AUTHOR}
\institute{\INST}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[plain]
\maketitle
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[c]{Main Thesis}
{}
Digital Payments via GNU Taler will help strengthen Digital Freedom
\end{frame}
% \begin{frame}{Main Thesis}
% {}
% Anonymous
% \begin{itemize}
% \item payments
% \item subscriptions
% \item donations
% \end{itemize}
% via GNU Taler will increase funding of Digital Freedom significantly.
% \end{frame}
\begin{frame}{Digital Freedom}
{Core Aspects}
\begin{itemize}[<+(1)-| alert@+(1)>]
\item \textbf{Human Rights}\\
{Extension of fundamental rights into digital spaces\\
(privacy, expression, assembly, access to information).}
% The right to privacy, expression, assembly, and access
% to information in the digital realm, without undue
% surveillance or censorship.
\item \textbf{Sovereignty}\\
{Individual and collective self-determination in cyberspace\\
(digital identity, communication, participation, interoperation).}
% Control over one's digital identity, communications,
% and participation in digital society.
\item \textbf{Economic}\\
{Freedom from digital monopolies and rent-seeking\\
(no vendor lock-in, open supply channels).}
% The ability to participate in digital markets without
% being subject to platform lock-in, data extraction,
% or artificial scarcity.
\item \textbf{Technical}\\
{Freedom to run, study, redistribute, and modify \textit{software}\\
(provided by \alert<6->{\textbf{FLOSS---Free/Libre Open Source Software}})}
% Freedom to control one's digital tools and data - The
% ability to use, modify, share, and understand the
% software and hardware that mediates our digital lives.
% This aligns directly with the four freedoms of
% Free Software: run, study, redistribute, and modify.
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\NumTabs{9}
\begin{frame}[c]{Digital Freedom}
\textbf{Strengthening} Digital Freedom includes
\begin{itemize}
\item enabling \tab (creating \& \alert<2->{\textbf<2->{funding}})
\item sustaining \tab (maintaining \& \alert<2->{\textbf<2->{funding}})
\item protecting \tab (legal)
\end{itemize}
the core aspects.
\vfill
\uncover<3>{NGI is actually great at enabling of FLOSS.}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[c]{FLOSS}
{from 20.000ft}
Free/Libre Open Source Software gives users the rights to
run, study, redistribute, and modify it.
\vfill
\pause
We depend on it. FLOSS is \textbf{everywhere}:
Your smartphone, your laptop, in the online services you are using, etc.
% The philosophy of FLOSS represents a radical reimagining of how
% software - and by extension, knowledge - should be created and shared
% in society.
%
% Its impact varies dramatically across stakeholders, creating both
% opportunities and challenges that continue to evolve as our digital
% dependency deepens.
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[c]{The Sustainability Paradox}
{FLOSS Funding Challenges}
The FLOSS model creates a fundamental tension:
\begin{itemize}
\item[$+$] generates enormous value for society and the economy
\item[$-$] \alert{struggles to capture sufficient value to sustain itself}
\end{itemize}
% Funding sources like NGI are emerging - recognition that the
% traditional economic model fails to support the digital infrastructure
% we all depend on.
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[c]{FLOSS Funding}{The Demand Side}
\begin{description}
\item[Well-funded] projects
\uncover<2->{
\begin{itemize}
\item Linux kernel, Kubernetes, major frameworks
\item Corporate backing, multiple revenue streams
\item 1M+ EUR annual budgets, for sure.
\end{itemize}
}
\item[Sustainable] projects
\uncover<3->{
\begin{itemize}
\item Popular tools with some corporate users
\item Mix of donations, contracts, sponsorships
\item 50K-500K EUR annual budgets
\end{itemize}
}
\item[Underfunded]<alert@4-> projects
\uncover<4->{
\begin{itemize}
\item Critical dependencies maintained by volunteers
\item Occasional small donations
\item $<$10K EUR annual budgets
\end{itemize}
}
\end{description}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[c]{Wake up calls}{Underfunding Desasters}
Notable underfunding desasters in the past:
\begin{itemize}
\item OpenSSL
\item xz
\item Log4j
\end{itemize}
\textbf{Note:} all of those were severe \textbf{security incidents}!
(Also problems of governance, individual needs etc.)
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[c]{FLOSS Funding}{The Supply Side}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Large Companies
\item Goverment Grants
\item User Donations
\item Gated Revenue Channels (PlayStore, AppStore)
\item Ad Revenue
\item (Volunteers)
\end{enumerate}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[c]{A word on advertising}
\begin{quote}
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising,
no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.
...
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics,
the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought.
\end{quote}
\uncover<2>{\alert{\small{WhatsApp Blog}%
\footnote<2>{\url{https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t}},
June 18th 2012}}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{GNU Taler}
{privacy preserving digital payment system}
Image, shortform.
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{Main Thesis}
{refined}
Anonymous
\begin{itemize}
\item payments
\item subscriptions
\item donations
\end{itemize}
via GNU Taler will increase funding of FLOSS significantly.
\pause \textbf{Why should that happen!?}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{Why should that happen?}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}[c]{Title of talk in 2030}
{\only<2>{hopefully}}
\pause
\huge\bf
How GNU Taler has strengthened\\
Digital Freedom in the EU
\end{frame}
% This should be last...
\begin{frame}{Acknowledgments}
\begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth} \ \\
{\tiny Funded by the European Union (Project 101135475).}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{../bandera.jpg}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}{0.45\textwidth}
{\tiny Funded by SERI (HEU-Projekt 101135475-TALER).}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.65\textwidth]{../sbfi.jpg}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\vfill
{\tiny
Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only
and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the
European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for
them.
}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
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