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At the Free Software Foundation's members meeting that I recently attended, I was able to grab FSF board member Henri Poole.  I caught Henri right after he gave his talk, "Hollywood and Free Software."  I don't know about you but "Free Software" and "Hollywood" are not words that I often see in the same sentence.

My interview with Henri (6:31)  Listen (Mp3)    Listen (ogg)

Who is Henri?

• FSF board member since 2002
• Co-founder of CivicActions which, among other things, is working on Peter Gabriel's Witness project, creating the WITNESS video hub.
  
• A Berkeleyite who began hacking code as teenager in Oklahoma
• The former head of Mandrake Soft.
  
• The former Director of Technology for Dennis Kucinich's US Presidential campaign.

Some of the topics we tackle:

• The writers strike and how it provided for a receptive audience
  
• Meeting up with 15 members of the writers guild at the house of the writer of Schindler's List
• The birth of "Virtual Artists": entertainment and software writers coming together to enlighten the world through a new form of story telling.
  
• Matching the technology with the strategic direction
• Looking for management, funding and what the next few months holds.
  

Pau for now...