FAQ

Q: What is the license for freeseer?
A: freeseer is licensed under the GPLv3 license. Copyright is held by an incorporated non-profit called FOSSLC that exists to support open source communities, businesses, and help people learn skills with open source.

Q: Is freeseer easy to use?
A: You may have a tiny bit of work to ensure all the dependencies are installed. After that, freeseer is extremely easy to use. Click to start recording, click to stop. You can edit the title and speaker names manually from the gui or popular them ahead of time through a text file so you don’t have to rush during the event.

Q: Why did we create freeseer?
A: Read the history.

Q: Why did you call it freeseer?
A: We let the community name it and freeseer won. See the poll.

Q: How can we get involved?
A: There are plenty of ways to get involved.

• Report and/or fix an issue with the documentation.
• Test the software and report any problems.
• Help us develop the code.
• Use freeseer to record your open source event
• Tell someone that might be interested about freeseer
• Suggest ways we can improve freeseer such as making it easier to use, add a new feature, or make it more robust.

Q: How to install freeseer on Windows?
A: We’re working on the windows port right now (April 2011). It should be ready later this summer. See issue 22 for details.

Q: How do you run freeseer on Arch Linux with Python 3?
A: We don’t support Python 3 just yet. You can work around this by doing the following:

Install Python 2 as follows. “sudo pacman -S python2” And then replace #!/usr/bin/python with #!/usr/bin/python2 in each of the files. Eventually we’ll get to porting to Python3. Certainly if there was a way to do so and remaining backwards compatible, we’d do so but we’re not there yet.